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BULLETIN   OF   YALE   UNIVERSITY 

OBITUARY  RECORD 

OF 

YALE  GRADUATES 


1915-1920 


V, 


NEW  HAVEN 
PUBLISHED  BY  THE  UNIVERSITY 

SIXTEENTH  SERIES    •  AUGUST,  1920   •  NUMBER  ELEVEN 


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BULLETIN  OF  YALE  UNIVERSITY 

Entered  as  second-class  matter,  August  30,  1906,  at  the 
post-office  at  New  Haven,  Conn.,  under  the  Act  of  Congress 
of  July  16,  1894. 

Acceptance  for  mailing  at  the  special  rate  of  postage  pro- 
vided for  in  Section  1 103,  Act  of  October  3,  1917,  authorized 
August  12,  191 8. 

The  Bulletin,  which  is  issued  semi-monthly,  includes: 

1 .  The  University  Catalogue. 

2.  The  Reports  of  the  President  and  Treasurer. 

3.  The  Catalogues  of  the  several  Schools. 

4.  The  Alumni  Directory  and  the  Quinquennial  Catalogue. 

5.  The  Obituary  Record. 


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OBITUARY  RECORD 

or 

GRADUATES  OF  YALE  DNIYERSITY 

Deceased  during  the  year  ending 
JULY  U   191G 


INCLUDING  THE   RECORD    OF  A   FEW  WHO    DIED    PREVIOUSLY 
HITHERTO    UNREPORTED 


[No.  I  of  the  Seventh  Printed  Series,  and  No.  75  of  the  whole  Record.    The 
present  Series  consists  of  five  numbers,] 


OBITUARY   RECORD 

OF 

GRADUATES  OF  YALE  UNIVERSITY 

Deceased  during  the  year  ending 
July  i,  1916, 

Including  the  Record  of  a  few  who  died  previously,  hitherto  unreported 

[No.  I  of  the  Seventh  Printed  Series,  and  No.  75  of  the  whole  Record. 
The  present  Series  consists  of  five  numbers] 


I 


YALE  COLLEGE 

(academical  department) 

David  Fisher  Atwater,  B.A.   1839 

Born  October  29,  1817,  in  North  Branford,  Conn. 
Died  May  2,  1916,  in  Springfield,  Mass. 

David  Fisher  Atwater,  a  descendant  of  David  Atwater, 
who  came  to  New  Haven  Colony  in  June,  1637,  i'^  the  ship 
Rector,  was  born  October  29,  1817,  in  North  Branford, 
Conn.,  where  his  father,  Rev.  Charles  Atwater  (B.A.  1805), 
held  the  pastorate  of  the  Congregational  Church.  His 
mother  was  Mary,  daughter  of  Miles  and  Abigail  Ann 
(Beach)  Merwin  and  sister  of  Rev.  Samuel  Merwin,  a 
graduate  of  the  College  in  1802;  two  years  after  the  death 
of  Mr.  Atwater  in  1825,  she  was  married  to  Mr.  Abijah 
Fisher. 

His  preparatory  training  was  received  at  the  Wilton  Acad- 
emy in  Wilton,  Conn.,  and  in  1835  he  entered  Yale,  grad- 
uating from  the  College  four  years  later.  He  took  the 
degree  of  Doctor  of  Medicine  at  Yale  in  1842,  after  spend- 
ing two  years  in  the  Medical  Department  and  serving  for  a 
time  as  assistant  physician  at  Bellevue  Hospital  in  New 
York  City. 


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He  then  opened  an  office  in  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.,  and  built 
up  a  large  practice.  For  several  years,  he  served  as  health 
officer,  and,  during  the  cholera  epidemic  of  1848,  he  had 
charge  of  the  hospital  for  the  insane  at  Flatbush.  He  was 
at  one  time  surgeon  of  the  Sixty-fourth  Regiment,  New 
York  State  Infantry.  He  served  on  the  Board  of  Alder- 
men, and  was  a  charter  member  of  the  American  Medical 
Association,  the  New  England  Society  of  Brooklyn,  the 
Society  for  the  Improvement  of  the  Condition  of  the  Poor, 
and  of  the  Church  of  the  Pilgrims  of  Brooklyn.  In  1853, 
on  account  of  impaired  health,  he  moved  to  Cleveland,  Ohio, 
and  gave  his  attention  to  the  care  of  property  in  that  city, 
where  he  was  an  elder  in  the  First  Presbyterian  Church. 
Returning  to  the  East  in  1864,  he  settled  at  Bridgeport, 
Conn.  During  his  residence  of  nineteen  years  there,  he 
was  a  director  of  the  Bridgeport  National  Bank  and  of  the 
Public  Library.  Since  1883,  his  home  had  been  in  Spring- 
field, Mass.,  and  for  a  long  time  he  was  an  active  worker 
in  the  South  Congregational  Church,  being  its  auditor  for 
a  number  of  years.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Connecticut 
Valley  Congregational  Club. 

Dr.  Atwater  had  had  the  distinction  of  being  the  oldest 
graduate  of  both  the  College  and  the  School  of  Medicine 
since  191 1.  He  had  continued  various  activities  up  to 
within  a  short  time  of  his  death,  which  occurred  at  his  home 
on  May  2,  1916.  Until  recently.  Dr.  Atwater  took  his  daily 
walk,  and  read  the  papers.  His  faculties  never  failed.  He 
was  buried  in  Peabody  Cemetery  at  Springfield. 

He  was  married  in  Sharon,  Conn.,  September  14,  1848, 
to  Sarah  A.,  daughter  of  Dr.  John  Sears  and  Almira 
(Gould)  Sears  and  a  direct  descendant  of  Elder  Brewster 
and  Governor  Bradford  of  Plymouth  Colony.  Her  death 
occurred  February  13,  1910.  Their  two  children, — Mary 
Merwin  and  Charles  Brewster,  the  latter  a  non-graduate 
member  of  the  College  Class  of  1879, — survive.  Dr. 
Atwater  was  a  nephew  of  Rev.  Jeremiah  Atwater  (B.A. 
1793),  first  president  of  both  Middlebury  College  and  Dick- 
inson College,  whose  sons,  William  and  John  Phelps,  grad- 
uated from  the  College  in  1827  and  1834,  respectively,  the 
latter  being  also  a  graduate  of  the  School  of  Medicine  in 
1837.  He  was  related  to  Rev.  Dr.  Lyman  Hotchkiss 
Atwater  (B.A.  183 1)  and  Wyllys  Atwater  (B.A.  1843). 


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George  Slocum  Folger  Savage,  B.A.  1844 

Born  June  29,  1817,  in  Upper  Middletown  (now  Cromwell),  Conn. 
Died  August  6,  1915,  in  Chicago,  111. 

George  Slocum  Folger  Savage,  son  of  Absalom  Savage, 
a  sea  captain,  and  Sarah  (Wilcox)  Savage,  was  born  in 
Upper  Middletown  (now  Cromwell),  Conn.,  June  29,  1817. 
He  received  his  preparatory  training  at  the  academy  at 
Cromwell,  and  in  1840  entered  Yale  as  a  member  of  the 
Class  of  1844. 

In  the  fall  after  his  graduation  from  the  College,  he 
entered  Andover  Theological  Seminary,  but  after  a  year 
returned  to  New  Haven,  and  completed  his  theological 
studies  at  Yale.  On  September  28,  1847,  he  was  ordained  at 
Middletown,  Conn.,  as  a  home  missionary  of  the  Congrega- 
tional Church,  and  the  following  day  left  for  the  West  to 
engage  in  missionary  work  under  the  auspices  of  the  Amer- 
ican Home  Missionary  Society.  He  became  pastor  of  the 
Congregational  Church  at  St.  Charles,  111.,  the  following 
November,  and  continued  there  for  the  next  twelve  years. 
During  part  of  that  time,  he  served  as  corresponding  editor 
for  the  Prairie  Herald  and  the  Congregatiomil  Herald.  In 
i860,  having  accepted  a  position  with  the  American  Tract 
Society  as  secretary  for  the  West,  he  removed  to  Chicago, 
111.,  where  he  had  since  made  his  home.  He  severed  his 
connection  with  that  organization  in  1870,  and  became 
Western  secretary  for  the  Congregational  Publishing 
Society.  Two  years  later,  he  accepted  an  appointment  as 
financial  secretary  of  the  Chicago  Theological  Seminary,  a 
position  which  he  held  until  1886.  Since  that  time,  he  had 
held  no  salaried  position. 

From  its  inception  in  1854  until  1903,  he  had  served  as 
secretary  and  a  director  of  the  Seminary.  The  degree  of 
Doctor  of  Divinity  was  conferred  upon  him  by  Grinnell 
College  in  1870  and  by  Chicago  Theological  Seminary  in 
1903.  Since  1850,  he  had  been  a  trustee  of  Beloit  College. 
Dr.  Savage  was  a  corporate  member  of  the  American  Board 
of  Commissioners  for  Foreign  Missions.  He  was  one  of 
the  founders  of  the  New  West  Education  Commission, 
which  did  such  excellent  work  through  its  schools  among 
the  Mormons,  and  a  faithful  supporter  of  it  until  it  was 
absorbed  by  the  Education  Society  of  Boston.    In  1868,  he 


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became  an  associate  editor  of  the  Congregational  Reviezv, 
which,  after  the  great  fire  of  1871,  was  merged  with  the 
New  Englander.  During  the  Civil  War,  he  was  made  a 
member  of  the  Sanitary  Commission,  and  served  as  an 
unofficial  chaplain. 

Dr.  Savage  died  at  his  home  in  Chicago,  August  6,  19 15, 
after  a  gradual  failure  of  strength,  due  to  old  age.  He  was 
buried  in  Graceland  Cemetery  in  that  city. 

His  first  marriage  took  place  in  Cromwell,  September  28, 
1847,  to  Elizabeth  Prudden.  She  died  in  March,  1886,  and 
on  February  7,  1888,  he  was  married  in  Chicago  to  Mrs. 
Margaret  Gordon  (Russell)  Hyde,  daughter  of  Andrew 
and  Margaret  (Gordon)  Russell  and  widow  of  Rev. 
James  Thomas  Hyde,  D.D.  (B.A.  1847).  She  survives 
him.    Dr.  Savage  had  no  children. 


John  Edmands,  B.A.   1847 

Born  February  i,  1820,  in  Framingham,  Mass. 
Died  October  18,  1915,  in  Philadelphia,  Pa. 

John  Edmands  was  the  son  of  Jonathan  Edmands,  a 
farmer,  and  Lucy  (Nourse)  Edmands  and  a  direct  descend- 
ant of  Walter  Edmands,  who  came  from  England  to  Con- 
cord, Mass.,  in  1639.  H^  was  born  February  i,  1820,  in 
Framingham,  Mass.,  where  his  ancestors  had  settled  in  1748, 
and  received  his  preparatory  training  at  Phillips  Academy, 
Andover.  Before  entering  Yale  in  1843,  he  was  for  a  time 
employed  as  a  carpenter.  He  had  charge  of  the  Brothers 
in  Unity  library  in  Senior  year,  was  graduated  with  Phi 
Beta  Kappa  rank,  and  spoke  at  Commencement. 

From  graduation  until  1856,  with  the  exception  of  the 
year  1848-49,  which  he  spent  as  teacher  of  English  in  the 
district  school  at  Rocky  Mount,  N.  C,  he  remained  at  Yale, 
studying  theology  and  serving  as  an  assistant  in  the  College 
Library.  In  1847,  he  published  "Subjects  for  Debate,  with 
References  to  the  Authorities."  His  home  had  been  in 
Philadelphia,  Pa.,  since  1856,  when  he  assumed  charge  of 
the  Mercantile  Library  in  that  city.  During  his  forty-five 
years  of  active  service  there,  he  acquired  a  wide  reputation 
as  a  book  expert,  and  devised  systems  of  classification  and 
a  numbering  scheme  for  libraries  which  have  been  put  in 


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use  all  over  the  country.  He  prepared  bibliographies  of 
"Junius"  and  "Dies  Irae,"  as  well  as  a  number  of  others, 
and  compiled  a  list  of  historical  prose  fiction  which,  at  the 
time  of  its  publication,  was  more  complete  than  any  pre- 
vious list.  Besides  contributing  extensively  to  various  publi- 
cations, including  the  Library  Journal,  he  edited  for  a 
number  of  years  the  Bulletin  of  the  Mercantile  Library. 
He  was  made  librarian  emeritus  in  1901,  but  continued  to 
visit  the  library  regularly  and  to  retain  his  interest  in  it. 
He  was  one  of  the  original  members  of  the  American 
Library  Association,  and  one  of  its  first  vice  presidents, 
and  also  served  as  head  of  the  Association  of  Pennsylvania 
Librarians  for  some  years.  In  1861,  he  aided  in  organizing 
the  Central  Congregational  Church  of  Philadelphia,  and 
had  since  been  active  in  its  work,  serving  as  its  clerk,  and 
as  a  deacon,  from  1861  to  191 5. 

Mr.  Edmands  died  at  his  home  in  Philadelphia,  October 
18,  191 5.  His  death  followed  an  illness  of  several  months' 
duration,  and  was  due  to  apoplexy.  He  was  buried  in 
Edgell  Grove  Cemetery  in  his  native  town.  Only  a  few 
weeks  before  his  last  illness,  Mr.  Edmands  completed  the 
manuscript  of  "The  Evolution  of  Congregationalism," 
which  is  soon  to  be  published.  It  is  thought  that  the  work 
entailed  in  preparing  this  at  his  advanced  age  had  much  tc 
do  with  his  severe  illness. 

He  was  married  in  Collinsville,  Conn.,  August  i,  1854, 
to  Abigail  Jane  Lloyd,  who  died  January  28,  1883.  0» 
June  17,  1889,  he  married  in  Boston,  Mass.,  Ellen  Elizabeth 
Metcalf,  whose  death  occurred  on  July  i,  1892.  His  third 
wife  was  Clarinda  Augusta,  daughter  of  Eliphalet  and 
Sarah  D.  Roberts,  to  whom  he  was  married  August  23, 
1893,  in  Philadelphia.  Mrs.  Edmands  survives  her  husband. 
He  had  no  children. 


Timothy  Dwight,  B.A.   1849 

Born  November  16,  1828,  in  Norwich,  Conn. 
Died  May  26,  1916,  in  New  Haven,  Conn. 

Timothy  Dwight  was  born  November  16,  1828,  in  Nor- 
wich, Conn.,  the  son  of  James  Dwight,  whose  father,  Tim- 
othy Dwight    (B.A.    1769),   served   as   president   of   Yale 


6  YALE  COLLEGE 

College  from  1795  to  181 7.  He  was  the  grandson  of  Major 
Timothy  Dwight,  a  graduate  of  the  College  in  1744,  and 
Mary  (Edwards)  Dwight,  the  latter's  father  being  Rev 
Jonathan  Edwards  (B.A.  1720),  the  third  president  of 
Princeton  University.  His  mother  was  Susan,  daughter 
of  John  McLaren  Breed  (B.A.  1768),  by  his  second  wife, 
Rebecca  (Walker)  Breed,  who  was  the  daughter  of  Rob- 
ert Walker  (B.A.  1730),  a  judge  of  the  Superior  Court  of 
Connecticut. 

Timothy  Dwight  entered  Yale  in  1845,  ^"^  during  his 
undergraduate  course  received  prizes  in  mathematics  and 
Latin,  and  was  a  member  of  Phi  Beta  Kappa.  As  the  Clark 
Scholar,  he  spent  the  period  from  1849  to  185 1  in  gradu- 
ate work  at  Yale,  in  the  fall  of  the  latter  year  entering 
the  Theological  Department,  where  he  studied  for  two 
years.  He  served  as  a  tutor  in  the  College  from  185 1  to 
1855,  and  then  went  abroad  to  continue  his  studies  at  the 
Universities  of  Bonn  and  Berlin. 

Returning  to  America  in  July,  1858,  he  became  profes- 
sor of  sacred  literature  at  Yale  at  the  opening  of  the  next 
college  year.  His  work  in  the  Divinity  School  continued 
until  1886,  when  he  was  elected  president  of  Yale  College. 
Yale  had  begun  to  develop  the  departments  of  professional 
study — particularly  of  theology  and  medicine — at  the 
beginning  of  the  nineteenth  century  during  the  adminis- 
tration of  the  elder  President  Dwight,  and  the  institution, 
long  a  University  in  fact,  became  one  in  name  at  the 
inauguration  of  the  younger  Dwight.  During  the  thirteen 
years  of  his  presidency,  from  1886  to  1899,  the  University 
began  that  rapid  development  in  scope,  in  numbers  of  stu- 
dents and  faculty,  in  material  prosperity,  and  in  national 
influence  which  it  has  continued  to  so  remarkable  a  degree 
to  the  present  day. 

Dr.  Dwight  was  licensed  to  preach  May  22,  1855,  and 
ordained  to  the  ministry  of  the  Congregational  Church  six 
years  later.  In  1869,  Chicago  Theological  Seminary  con- 
ferred the  honorary  degree  of  Doctor  of  Divinity  upon 
him,  and .  Yale  honored  him  with  a  similar  degree  in 
1886.  He  also  received  the  degree  of  LL.D.  from  Harvard 
in  1886  and  from  Princeton  in  1888.  He  was  an  associate 
member  of  the  American  Academy  of  Arts  and  Sciences 
and  an  honorary  member  of  the  Society  of  the  Cincinnati. 
Dr.  Dwight  was  a  member  of  the  American  committee  for 


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1849  7 

the  revision  of  the  English  version  of  the  Bible,  and  for  a 
number  of  years  he  was  one  of  the  editors  of  the  New 
Englander.  He  had  contributed  extensively  to  various 
publications  on  theological  and  educational  subjects.  In 
1886,  he  translated  and  edited,  with  additional  notes, 
Godet's  "Commentary  on  the  Gospel  of  John,"  and  he 
had  also  edited  several  of  Meyer's  commentaries,  includ- 
ing those  on  Romans,  on  several  other  PauHne  Epistles, 
on  Hebrews,  and  on  the  Epistles  of  James,  Peter,  John,  and 
Jude.  He  was  the  author  of  "Thoughts  of  and  for  the 
Inner  Life"  (1899),  and  in  1903  published  "Memories 
of  Yale  Life  and  Men."  He  served  as  Secretary  of  the 
Class  of  1849  continuously  from  graduation  until  his  death, 
which  occurred,  without  warning,  at  his  home  in  New 
Haven,  May  26,  1916,  as  the  result  of  infirmities  incident 
to  his  advanced  age.  Burial  was  in  Grove  Street  Ceme- 
tery, New  Haven. 

He  was  married  in  that  city,  December  31,  1866,  to  Jane 
Wakeman,  daughter  of  Roger  Sherman  Skinner,  who 
graduated  from  the  College  in  1813,  and  Mary  Lockwood 
(DeForest)  Skinner.  She  survives  him  with  thbir  son, 
Winthrop  Edwards  (B.A.  1893,  Ph.D.  1895,  LL.B.  1896). 
Their  daughter,  Helen  Rood,  died  October  16,  1909.  John 
Breed  Dwight,  a  graduate  of  the  College  in  1840,  and 
James  McLaren  Breed  Dwight  (B.A.  1846,  LL.B.  Colum- 
bia 1861)  were  brothers  of  Dr.  Dwight.  He  was  a  cousin 
of  Theodore  Dwight  Woolsey  (B.A.  1820),  for  twenty-five 
years  president  of  Yale. 


Edward  Dafydd  Morris,  B.A.   1849 

Born  October  31,  1825,  in  Utica,  N,  Y, 
Died  November  21,  1915,  in  Columbus,  Ohio 

Edward  Dafydd  Morris,  son  of  David  Edward  and  Ann 
(Lewis)  Morris,  was  born  October  31,  1825,  in  Utica,  N.  Y. 
He  was  of  pure  Welsh  stock,  his  father  having  come  from 
Wales  in  181 5.     The  Lewises  came  a  generation  earlier. 

His  preparatory  training  was  received  partly  at  Whites- 
town  Seminary,  near  Utica,  and  partly  by  his  own  work  at 
home.  He  was  admitted  to  the  Sophomore  Class  at  Yale  in 
1846.     He  served  as  president  of  Brothers  in  Unity,  and 


8  YALE   COLLEGE 

was  an  editor  of  the  Yale  Literary  Magazine  and  a  member 
of  Phi  Beta  Kappa.  During  his  Senior  year,  he  made 
speeches  in  the  towns  about  New  Haven  for  the  Free  Soil 
Party. 

After  taking  his  degree,  he  entered  Auburn  Theological 
Seminary,  was  graduated  there  in  1852,  his  ordination 
occurring  soon  afterwards,  and  during  the  next  three 
years  he  held  the  pastorate  of  the  Second  Presbyterian 
Church  of  Auburn.  From  1855  until  1867,  he  served  as 
pastor  of  the  Second  Presbyterian  Church  of  Columbus, 
Ohio.  During  his  residence  in  that  city,  he  was  appointed 
a  trustee  of  Western  Reserve  University,  and  also  of  Lane 
Theological  Seminary  of  Cincinnati.  In  January,  1868,  he 
was  made  professor  of  ecclesiastical  history  and  church 
polity,  and  later  professor  of  theology,  in  the  latter  institu- 
tion, where  he  remained  for  the  next  thirty  years.  When  he 
retired,  in  1898,  he  returned  to  his  earlier  home  in  Colum- 
bus, and,  while  his  strength  lasted,  continued  his  writing. 
He  was  at  all  times  interested  in  the  affairs  of  the  Presby- 
terian Church,  and  was  often  a  delegate  to  Synods  and 
General  Assemblies,  serving  on  many  committees,  and  in 
1875  holding  the  office  of  moderator.  He  was  several  times 
an  American  delegate  to  the  Pan-Presbyterian  Council,  and 
was  influential  in  arranging  the  terms  of  union  of  the  Old 
School  and  New  School  branches  of  the  Church  and  in 
securing  the  admission  of  the  Cumberland  Presbyterian 
Church  to  the  general  body.  He  wrote  much  for  religious 
papers,  especially  for  the  Evangelist  and  the  Independent, 
and  published  several  volumes  on  ecclesiastical  and  theo- 
logical subjects,  the  most  important  being  on  the  Theology 
of  the  Westminster  Symbols.  He  received  the  degree  of 
D.D.  from  Hamilton  College  in  1863  and  in  1885  that  of 
LL.D.  from  Maryville.  He  had  made  several  trips  to 
Europe. 

Dr.  Morris  died  at  his  home  in  Columbus,  November  21, 
191 5,  after  an  illness  of  some  weeks  due  to  the  infirmities 
of  age.    Burial  was  in  Columbus. 

He  was  married  on  July  29,  1852,  in  Fair  Haven,  Conn., 
to  Frances  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Dan  and  Frances  (Rowe) 
Parmelee  of  Fair  Haven,  who  died  February  3,  1866. 
They  had  four  children:  Edward  Parmelee,  a  gradu- 
ate of  Yale  in  the  College  Class  of  1874,  who  received  the 
honorary  degrees  of  M.A.  and  L.H.D.  from  Williams  in 


1849-1850  9 

1885  and  1904,  respectively,  and  that  of  Litt.D.  from  Har- 
vard in  1909;  a  child  who  died  in  infancy;  David  Ellis 
(B.A.  Cornell  1879),  and  Henry  Nelson,  who  graduated 
from  Western  Reserve  with  the  degree  of  B.A.  in  1882. 
On  March  26,  1867,  Dr.  Morris  was  married  in  Tallmadge, 
Ohio,  to  Mary  Bryan,  daughter  of  Calvin  Treat.  Her  death 
occurred  April  28,  1893.  Two  children  were  born  to  them : 
Elizabeth  Parmelee  and  Woodbury  Treat  (B.A.  Williams 
1892). 


Benjamin  Jason  Horton,  B.A.   1850 

Born  February  13,  1831,  in  New  York  City 
Died  January  14,  1916,  in  Lawrence,  Kans. 

Benjamin  Jason  Horton,  son  of  Nicholas  Townsend  Hor- 
ton, a  manufacturer  of  grates  and  mantels,  and  Sarah  (Van- 
Orden)  Horton,  was  born  in  New  York  City,  February  13, 
183 1.  He  was  descended  from  Barnabas  Horton,  who  came 
to  Long  Island  from  England  on  the  Swallow  in  1635.  His 
boyhood  was  spent  in  Cincinnati,  Ohio,  to  which  place  his 
family  had  moved  soon  after  his  birth,  and  he  was  prepared 
for  college  at  the  Woodward  High  School  in  that  city. 
Before  joining  the  Class  of  1850  at  Yale  as  a  Sophomore, 
he  attended  for  several  years  the  Baptist  Theological  Semi- 
nary at  Covington,  Ky. 

He  was  graduated  from  Yale  with  Phi  Beta  Kappa  rank, 
and  the  next  year  taught  at  a  private  school  at  Pass  Chris- 
tian, Miss.  After  completing  the  course  in  the  Cincinnati 
Law  School,  he  studied  law  for  a  year  and  a  half  in  the 
office  of  Mr.  Timothy  Walker  in  Cincinnati.  His  final  prep- 
aration for  the  law  was  received  at  the  Harvard  Law 
School,  where  he  spent  a  few  months  in  the  autumn  of  1853. 
Soon  after  his  admission  to  the  bar  in  January,  1854,  he 
formed  a  partnership  with  Mr.  Ebenezer  Newton  in  Cin- 
cinnati, which  continued  for  about  two  years.  In  1862,  he 
entered  the  army  as  first  lieutenant  of  the  Twenty-fourth 
Regiment,  Ohio  Volunteer  Infantry,  of  which  he  afterwards 
became  captain.  Being  severely  wounded  at  the  battle  of 
Stone  River,  December  31,  1862,  when  he  suffered  the  loss 
of  one  leg,  he  was  compelled  to  give  up  military  service. 
He  then  resumed  practice  independently  in  Cincinnati,  and 


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in  the  fall  of  1863  was  elected  clerk  of  the  Court  of  Com- 
mon Pleas  of  Hamilton  County.  Seven  years  later,  he 
removed  to  Lawrence,  Kans.,  which  had  since  been  his 
home  and  where  he  continued  in  the  practice  of  his  profes- 
sion until  his  retirement  in  1910.  During  President  Har- 
rison's term  of  office,  he  was  appointed  to  negotiate  with 
certain  Indian  tribes  for  the  settlement  of  conflicting  land 
claims.  He  had  also  held  various  offices  in  Douglas  County, 
including  those  of  register  of  deeds  and  probate  judge. 

His  death  occurred  in  Lawrence,  January  14,  1916,  after 
an  illness  of  two  weeks  due  to  congestion  of  the  kidneys. 
He  was  buried  in  Oak  Hill  Cemetery  at  Lawrence. 

Mr.  Horton  was  married  in  Cincinnati,  April  8,  1858,  to 
Sarah  Virginia,  daughter  of  Walker  Meredith  and  Eva 
(Ammen)  Yeatman,  who  survives  him.  Their  children 
were:  Walker  Yeatman,  who  died  in  1863;  Eva  Ammen; 
Alice  Yeatman;  Richard  Scott;  Thomas  Yeatman,  and 
Benjamin  Jason. 


Everett  Wade  Bedinger,  B.A.   185 1 

Born  September  8,  1830,  in  Kenton  County,  Ky. 
Died  March  6,  1916,  in  Anchorage,  Ky. 

Everett  Wade  Bedinger  was  born  in  Kenton  County, 
Kentucky,  September  8,  1830,  the  son  of  Benjamin  Franklin 
Bedinger  (M.D.  University  of  Pennsylvania  1819)  and 
Sarah  Everett  (Wade)  Bedinger.  He  was  the  great-grand- 
son of  Henry  and  Magdalena  (Schlegal)  Bedinger,  who 
came  in  1737  from  Germany  to  York  County,  Pennsylvania, 
twenty-five  years  later  settling  at  Shepherdstown,  W.  Va. 
His  grandfather,  George  Michael  Bedinger,  a  Virginian  by 
birth,  served  in  the  Revolution,  ranking  as  a  major  at  its 
close,  and  afterwards  removed  to  Kentucky,  where  he  was 
elected  to  the  State  Legislature;  he  also  served  as  a  Con- 
gressman from  1803  to  1807.  His  mother  was  the  daughter 
of  David  Everett  Wade,  who  went  from  New  Jersey  to 
Fort  Washington  (now  Cincinnati),  Ohio,  in  1788,  and  built 
one  of  the  first  houses  erected  outside  of  the  fort,  and  Mary 
(Jones)  Wade. 

Everett  Bedinger  passed  his  boyhood  in  Cincinnati,  Cov- 
ington, Ky.,  and  Richwood,  Ky.,  and  before  entering  Yale 


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as  a  Sophomore  in  1848,  studied  in  the  preparatory  depart- 
ment of  Cincinnati  College,  at  Miami  University,  and  in  the 
school  of  B.  B.  Sayre  at  Frankfort,  Ky.  He  received  Dis- 
pute appointments  in  both  Junior  and  Senior  years  in 
college. 

On  account  of  illness,  he  was  absent  during  much  of  the 
last  year  of  his  course,  and,  after  receiving  his  degree  pri- 
vately, took  up  the  management  of  his  father's  farm  in 
Kenton  County.  Later,  he  was  successfully  engaged  in 
farming  in  Boone  County  in  the  same  state,  and  through 
his  activities  in  church  and  Sunday  school  work  at  this  time 
was  led  to  enter  the  ministry.  He  studied  at  the  Theological 
Seminary  at  Danville,  Ky.,  and  in  April,  1858,  was  elected 
a  commissioner  to  the  General  Assembly  and  licensed  to 
preach  by  the  Ebenezer  Presbytery,  his  ordination  occurring 
the  following  year.  His  first  churches  were  in  Richwood, 
Burlington,  and  Paris,  Ky.,  but  his  pastoral  duties  were 
interrupted  by  the  Civil  War,  during  which  he  preached  to 
soldiers  and  in  various  communities  as  opportunity  afforded. 
From  1865  to  1867,  Dr.  Bedinger  gave  his  time  to  reorgan- 
ization work  among  several  churches  which  had  been  left 
without  pastors  during  the  war,  and,  in  the  autumn  of  1867, 
accepted  the  charge  of  the  Presbyterian  Church  at  Shep- 
herdstown,  W.  Va.,  where  he  remained  until  early  in  1870, 
at  that  time  going  to  Boone  County,  Kentucky,  to  become 
pastor  of  the  churches  at  Florence  and  Richwood.  Eight 
years  later,  he  was  chosen  to  fill  the  pastorate  of  the 
Anchorage  (Ky.)  Presbyterian  Church,  at  the  same  time 
becoming  chaplain  and  a  teacher  in  the  Bellewood  Seminary 
and  in  the  Kentucky  Presbyterian  Normal  School.  Dr. 
Bedinger's  influence  here  was  very  strong,  and,  in  1889, 
he  was  called  upon  to  take  charge  of  the  evangelistic  work 
of  the  Synod  of  Kentucky.  He  rendered  valuable  service 
in  this  direction  until  his  death,  and  for  a  long  time  was 
treasurer  of  the  Evangelistic  Fund.  In  1883,  he  received 
the  honorary  degree  of  D.D.  from  King's  College  at  Bristol, 
Tenn. 

Dr.  Bedinger  died  at  his  home  in  Anchorage,  March  6, 
1916,  and  was  buried  in  Richwood,  Ky. 

On  June  i,  1852,  he  was  married  in  Charlestown,  Va., 
to  his  second  cousin,  Sarah  Eleanor,  daughter  of  William 
and  Virginia  (Bedinger)  Lucas  of  Jefferson  County,  Vir- 
ginia, by  whom  he  had  seven  children, — two  daughters  and 


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five  sons.  Mrs.  Bedinger  died  July  7,  1867,  and  on  March 
16,  1869,  his  marriage  to  Anna  Moore,  daughter  of  Conrad 
BeUnger  and  Maria  VanDoren  (Voorhees)  Bilmyer  took 
place  at  Shepherdstown.  Five  daughters  and  two  sons  were 
born  to  them.  His  widow  and  twelve  of  his  children  survive 
him. 


William  Taylor  Harlow,  B.A.   185 1 

Born  October  3,  1828,  in  Shrewsbury,  Mass. 
Died  December  i,  1915,  in  Worcester,  Mass. 

William  Taylor  Harlow,  son  of  Gideon  and  Harriet 
(Howe)  Harlow,  was  born  October  3,  1828,  in  Shrews- 
bury, Mass.  His  father,  a  farmer,  was  the  son  of  Thomas 
and  Thankful  (Banister)  Harlow  and  a  descendant  of  Ser- 
geant William  Harlow,  who  came  to  this  country  from 
England  about  1630.  His  ancestry  also  included  six  May- 
flozver  pilgrims, — Richard  Warren  ;  John  Alden ;  Priscilla 
Mullens;  William  and  Alice  Mullens,  and  Governor  Wil- 
liam Bradford, — as  well  as  three  passengers  of  the  Fortune, 
and  five  of  the  Ann.  Ancestors  of  his  mother  were  among 
the  earHest  settlers  of  the  town  of  Shrewsbury.  His  four 
great-grandfathers,  and  one  grandfather,  served  in  the 
Revolutionary  War. 

He  was  prepared  for  Yale,  with  the  exception  of  a  single 
term  spent  at  Monson  Academy  in  Monson,  Mass.,  entirely 
through  his  own  efforts,  and  joined  the  Class  of  1851  at 
the  beginning  of  its  Sophomore  year.  He  received  a  second 
prize  for  excellence  in  the  mathematics  of  that  year. 

Before  completing  his  college  course,  he  had  taken  up  the 
study  of  law,  and,  in  1851,  entered  the  law  offices  of  Judge 
Benjamin  F.  Thomas  and  Dwight  Foster  (B.A.  1848)  in 
Worcester,  Mass.,  where  he  continued  his  preparation.  In 
March,  1853,  he  was  admitted  to  the  bar,  after  which  he 
opened  an  office  in  Worcester.  A  year  later,  he  removed 
to  the  town  of  Spencer,  where  he  practiced  until  August, 
1861,  when  he  entered  the  United  States  Army  as  a  first 
lieutenant  in  the  Twenty-first  Regiment,  Massachusetts 
Volunteer  Militia.  He  took  part  in  several  engagements, 
and  on  July  29,  1862,  was  promoted  to  be  captain,  later 
receiving  a  commission  as  major  of  the  Fifty-seventh  Regi- 


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ment,  which  he  assisted  in  recruiting.  In  1863,  he  was 
mustered  out  of  service,  being  incapacitated  by  malaria, 
contracted  in  the  field,  and  resumed  practice  in  Worcester. 
Two  years  later,  he  went  to  California  with  a  view  to  select- 
ing a  place  for  permanent  settlement,  but  in  1867  he  gave 
up  that  plan,  as  the  climate  did  not  agree  with  him,  and 
returned  to  Worcester.  His  health  did  not  permit  him  to 
engage  in  any  business  for  nearly  two  years,  but  in  the 
spring  of  1869  he  was  appointed  United  States  assessor  of 
internal  revenue  for  the  eighth  Massachusetts  district,  an 
office  which  he  held  until  its  abolishment  four  years  later. 
He  was  appointed  assistant  clerk  of  courts  of  Worcester 
County  in  1877,  and,  by  successive  reappointments,  held 
that  office  until  he  retired  at  the  age  of  seventy-five.  From 
1873  to  1878,  he  was  a  member  of  the  Worcester  School 
Board;  he  had  served  as  a  director  of  the  Free  Public 
Library,  and  was  a  member  of  the  First  Unitarian  Church 
and  a  companion  of  the  Military  Order  of  the  Loyal  Legion. 
He  had  had  a  number  of  articles  and  stories  published 
anonymously  in  magazines  and  newspapers.  While  living 
in  Spencer,  he  served  as  a  member  of  the  School  Board. 

Major  Harlow's  death  occurred  at  his  home  in  Worcester, 
December  i,  1915,  and  was  due  to  valvular  heart  disease. 
When  a  boy  of  seventeen  he  had  suffered  from  this  disease, 
but  had  not  again  been  troubled  by  it  until  three  years 
before  his  death,  when  it  returned.  He  was  not  forced  to 
give  up  all  activities,  however,  and  his  mind  was  keen  until 
the  last.  He  was  buried  in  Mountain  View  Cemetery  in  his 
native  town. 

He  was  married  in  Spencer,  Mass.,  May  28,  1863,  to 
Jeannette,  daughter  of  Lewis  and  Maria  (Stearns)  Bemis. 
Mrs.  Harlow  died  in  Worcester  on  January  11,  1901.  A 
daughter,  Margaret,  and  a  son,  Frederick  Bemis  (B.A. 
Amherst  1885),  survive.  A  third  child,  Gideon,  died  in 
infancy.  Mrs.  Harlow's  brother,  Frederick  A.  Bemis, 
entered  Yale,  and  studied  one  year  with  the  Class  of  1855; 
he  was  killed  at  the  battle  of  Chantilly,  September  i,  1862. 


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David  Perry  Temple,  B.A.   185 1 

Born  June  30,  1825,  in  Framingham,  Mass. 
Died  February  11,  1916,  in  Chittenango,  N.  Y. 

David  Perry  Temple,  son  of  John  Temple,  a  farmer,  who 
served  as  captain  of  an  artillery  company  in  the  War  of 
1812,  was  born  in  Framingham,  Mass.,  June  30,  1825.  His 
father  was  the  son  of  Josiah  Temple,  who  was  wounded 
during  the  battle  of  Lexington,  April  19,  1775,  and  Eliza- 
beth (Pitts)  Temple  and  a  descendant  of  Robert  Temple, 
who  settled  at  Saco,  Maine,  and  was  killed  by  Indians  in 
1676.  His  mother  was  Abigail,  daughter  of  Elisha  Johnson 
of  Southboro,  Mass. 

He  received  his  early  education  at  the  Framingham  Acad- 
emy, and  was  graduated  from  Yale  in  1851.  For  several 
years  after  taking  his  degree,  Mr.  Temple  taught  in  New 
York  City,  Wilton,  Conn.,  and  Portland,  Maine.  In  1859, 
he  went  to  Minnesota,  becoming  one  of  the  earliest  settlers 
in  Houston  County,  where  he  engaged  in  farming.  He 
served  as  superintendent  of  the  schools  of  that  county  from 
1 86 1  to  1870,  and  was  also  elected  county  commissioner  in 
1861.  He  became  a  member  of  the  Minnesota  State  Senate 
in  1866,  and  served  one  term.  He  was  chairman  of  the 
Senate  Committee  on  Education,  and  assisted  materially  in 
changing  the  old-fashioned  methods  of  managing  schools 
to  more  modern  ones.  In  1874,  he  removed  to  York,  Nebr., 
where  he  entered  the  lumber  business.  He  was  deputy 
county  treasurer  for  a  number  of  years,  and  also  held  the 
office  of  councilman  for  the  second  ward.  He  went  to 
Meriden,  Iowa,  in  1884,  and  was  there  president  of  the 
Board  of  Education.  He  was  in  the  lumber  business  there 
also.  In  1889,  he  removed  to  Colorado  Springs,  Colo.,  and 
thence  to  Provo  City,  Utah,  living  in  the  latter  place  for  a 
few  years.  Wherever  he  went,  he  was  active  in  the  Presby- 
terian Church,  of  which  he  was  an  ordained  elder. 

Since  1894,  his  home  had  been  at  Chittenango,  N.  Y., 
where  he  had  been  too  feeble  to  engage  in  any  business,  but 
kept  up  his  interest  in  his  church  and  current  events  to  the 
last,  and  was  an  entertaining  conversationalist.  He  was  ill 
only  two  weeks,  his  death  occurring  at  Chittenango,  Feb- 
ruary II,  1916,  as  the  result  of  senility.  Buriaf  was  in 
Edgell  Grove  Cemetery  in  his  native  town. 


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He  was  married  April  3,  1877,  in  Lansing,  Iowa,  to 
Eleanor,  daughter  of  Edwin  and  Polly  (Abbott)  Hazeltine, 
who  died  on  October  10,  1886.  They  had  two  children: 
Ruth,  whose  death  occurred  August  22,  1879,  and  Helen 
Julia  (Mrs.  Clarence  A.  Waterbury  of  Chittenango) ,  who 
survives. 


Lynde  Alexander  Catlin,  B.A.   1853 

Born  October  31,  1833,  in  New  York  City 
Died  October  23,  191 5,  in  South  Woodstock,  Conn. 

Lynde  Alexander  Catlin,  who  was  born  in  New  York 
City,  October  31,  1833,  was  the  son  of  Charles  Taylor  Cat- 
lin (B.A.  1822,  M.A.  Columbia  1828),  whose  parents  were 
Lynde  Catlin,  a  graduate  of  Yale  in  1786,  and  Helen  Mar- 
garet (Kip)  Catlin.  His  mother  was  Lucy  Ann,  daughter 
of  Elias  Hasket  Derby,  2d,  and  Lucy  (Brown)  Derby. 
Receiving  his  preparatory  training  in  Brooklyn  and  at  a 
school  in  Port  Jervis,  N.  J.,  he  entered  Yale  with  the  Class 
of  1853. 

In  the  spring  of  1854,  he  became  connected  with  the 
Illinois  Central  Railroad  Company,  and  continued  with 
them  for  many  years,  at  first  holding  the  position  of  clerk, 
later  that  of  cashier,  and  finally  that  of  secretary  of  the 
company.  His  home  was  in  Brooklyn  from  1845  to  1884, 
and  he  served  for  a  long  time  as  treasurer  of  the  Church  of 
the  Incarnation  (Protestant  Episcopal)  in  that  place.  Since 
his  retirement  from  business  in  1884,  he  had  lived  in  South 
Woodstock,  Conn.,  engaged  in  farming.  During  the  period 
from  1890  ta  1902,  he  served  as  judge  of  probate  for  the 
town,  and  he  had  also  been  a  trustee  and  vice  president  of 
the  Day-Kimball  Hospital  and  a  trustee  of  Woodstock 
Academy  and  the  Putnam  Savings  Bank.  He  had  for  a 
number  of  years  attended  St.  Philip's  Church  in  Putnam, 
Conn.,  and  had  been  one  of  its  wardens.  He  had  made 
several  trips  to  Europe.  For  some  years,  he  served  as 
Assistant  Secretary  of  the  Class  of  1853. 

His  death,  which  was  due  to  apoplexy,  occurred  at  his 
home  in  South  Woodstock,  October  23,  191=^.  Burial  was 
in  the  family  plot  in  Greenwood  Cemetery,  Brooklyn. 


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Mr.  Catlin  was  unmarried.  He  was  a  brother  of  Charles 
Taylor  Catlin,  a  graduate  of  the  College  in  1856,  Hasket 
Derby  Catlin  (B.A.  1859),  and  of  Arnold  Welles  Catlin, 
who  received  the  degree  of  B.A.  at  Yale  in  1862  and  that 
of  M.D.  from  the  University  of  Pennsylvania  three  years 
later.  His  uncle,  John  Mortimer  Catlin,  graduated  from 
the  College  in  1820,  and  several  other  relatives  have 
attended  Yale,  including  his  nephews,  Rt.  Rev.  Sidney 
Catlin  Partridge  (B.A.  1880)  and  Reginald  W.  Catlin 
(B.A.  1908). 


George  Washburn  Smalley,  B.A.   1853 

Born  June  4,  1833,  in  Franklin,  Mass. 
Died  April  4,  1916,  in  London,  England 

George  Washburn  Smalley,  son  of  Rev.  Elam  Smalley 
and  Louisa  Jane  (Washburn)  Smalley,  was  born  June  4, 
1833,  in  Franklin,  Mass.  His  early  education  was  received 
in  Worcester,  Mass.,  to  which  place  his  family  had  removed 
in  his  childhood,  and  in  1849  he  entered  Yale,  being  gradu- 
ated four  years  later.  In  Freshman  year,  a  first  prize  for 
excellence  in  the  translation  of  Latin  into  English  was 
awarded  to  him. 

On  leaving  college,  he  took  up  the  study  of  law  in  the, 
office  of  George  F.  Hoar  (B.A.  Harvard  1846,  LL.B.  Har- 
vard 1849,  LL.D.  Yale  1885)  in  Worcester,  continuing 
his  work  in  1854-55  at  the  Harvard  Law  School,  and  dur- 
ing the  next  year  in  Boston.  In  September,  1856,  he  was 
admitted  to  the  bar,  and  became  associated  in  practice  with 
his  uncle,  W.  R.  P.  Washburn,  their  offices  being  in  Bos- 
ton. Just  before  the  outbreak  of  the  Civil  War,  Mr. 
Smalley  went  South  for  his  health.  His  connection  with 
the  New  York  Tribune,  which  continued  for  many  years, 
was  begun  at  this  time,  when  he  wrote  a  series  of  letters 
on  the  Negro  question.  During  the  first  year  of  the  war, 
he  was  at  the  front  as  a  correspondent  for  The  Tribune. 
In  October,  1862,  he  returned  to  New  York  as  a  member 
of  its  editorial  staff.  He  went  to  Europe  in  1866,  and 
wrote  his  impressions  on  the  Austro-Prussian  War,  and 
the  next  year  was  sent  by  his  paper  to  London  as  foreign 
correspondent.    The  London  correspondent  was  at  that  time 


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a  comparatively  unknown  factor  in  the  making  of  an 
American  newspaper,  and  Mr.  Smalley's  advent  was  speed- 
ily followed  by  a  radical  change  in  the  news-collecting 
methods  of  both  the  American  and  English  press.  As  a 
war  correspondent  in  the  Franco-Prussian  War,  he  prac- 
tically established  the  use  of  the  telegraph  in  sending  news- 
paper accounts  of  battles.  His  journalistic  duties,  in  the 
field  of  politics,  art,  literature,  and  the  drama,  kept  him 
closely  in  touch  with  persons  of  note,  and  his  letters  in 
The  Tribune,  published  over  his  initials,  attracted  wide- 
spread attention.  In  1895,  he  returned  to  this  country,  and 
for  eleven  years  served  as  the  American  correspondent  of 
the  London  Times.  Since  his  retirement  from  active 
journalism  in  1906,  he  had  lived  in  London,  where  he  died 
April  4,  1916. 

In  1868,  Mr.  Smalley  compiled  the  speeches  of  John 
Bright,  but  made  no  other  literary  attempts  aside  from  his 
regular  work  until  1890,  when  he  published  "London  Let- 
ters." Five  years  later,  his  book,  ''Studies  of  Men," 
appeared,  and  was  followed  in  1909  by  "The  Life  of  Sir 
Sidney  Waterlow,  Bart."  He  was  also  the  author  of 
"Anglo-American  Memories,"  one  volume  of  which  was 
published  in  191 1,  and  the  other  in  1912.  He  was  the 
United  States  commissioner  at  the  Paris  Exposition  of 
1878. 

Mr.  Smalley  was  married  December  25,  1862,  to  Phoebe 
Garnaut,  an  adopted  daughter  of  Wendell  Phillips  (B.A. 
Harvard  183 1,  LL.B.  Harvard  1834),  the  noted  abolition- 
ist. They  had  five  children :  Eleanor ;  Phillips,  who  studied 
law  at  Harvard  from  1887  to  1889;  Evelyn;  Ida,  and 
Emerson. 


William  Henry  Fenii,  B.A.   1854 

Born  March  i,  1834,  in  Charleston,  S.  C 
Died  March  11,  1916,  in  Daytona,  Fla. 

William  Henry  Fenn,  son  of  Joel  William  Fenn,  whose 
parents  were  William  and  Mary  (Hurlbut)  Fenn,  was  born 
March  i,  1834,  in  Charleston,  S.  C  The  founder  of  the 
Fenn  family  in  this  country  was  Benjamin  Fenn,  who  came 
from  England  in  1630,  settling  at  Dorchester,  Mass.     His 


l8  YALE  COLLEGE 

mother  was  Mary  Burden,  daughter  of  Thomas  and  Ann 
EHza  (Berwick)  Legare  and  a  descendant  of  Solomon 
Legare,  who  emigrated  to  America  from  New  Rochelle, 
France,  in  1696.  John  Berwick  Legare  (B.A.  181 5)  was 
her  eldest  brother,  and  she  was  a  cousin  of  John  Bassnett 
Legare,  also  a  graduate  of  the  College  in  18 15. 

William  Fenn's  preparatory  training  was  received  at 
Phillips  (Andover)  Academy,  and  in  his  Sophomore  and 
Junior  years  at  Yale  he  held  the  scholarship  founded  in 
1846.  The  next  year,  the  Clark  Scholarship  was  awarded 
to  him;  he  was  the  recipient  of  several  prizes  in  English 
and  Latin  composition,  and,  in  Senior  year,  of  the  DeForest 
medal,  and  was  elected  to  Phi  Beta  Kappa. 

In  the  fall  following  his  graduation,  after  three  months 
spent  in  travel,  he  returned  to  Phillips  Academy,  and  for 
a  year  taught  Latin  and  Greek  there.  He  was  then  engaged 
in  teaching  in  New  York  City  until  1856,  when  he  entered 
Andover  Theological  Seminary.  Graduating  from  that 
institution  two  years  later,  he  was  ordained  to  the  Congre- 
gational ministry  February  10,  1859,  and  spent  the  next 
seven  years  as  pastor  of  the  Franklin  Street  Church  of 
Manchester,  N.  H.  He  was  called  to  the  High  Street  Con- 
gregational Church  of  Portland,  Maine,  in  1866,  and  taking 
up  his  work  early  in  the  summer,  spent  the  rest  of  his  active 
ministry  there,  although  he  received  calls  to  several  other 
churches.  Being  made  pastor  emeritus  in  1904,  he  con- 
tinued to  live  in  Portland  and  to  take  an  active  part  in  the 
life  of  the  city  as  long  as  his  health  permitted.  Dr.  Fenn 
was  a  corporator  and  for  many  years  a  member  of  the 
executive  board  of  the  American  Board  of  Commissioners 
for  Foreign  Missions.  In  1890,  he  was  made  a  trustee  of 
Bangor  Theological  Seminary,  and  served  in  that  capacity 
until  his  death.  In  1874,  Yale  conferred  the  honorary 
degree  of  D.D.  upon  him.  He  was  one  of  the  most  active 
members  of  the  Portland  Benevolent  Society.  He  had 
traveled  abroad  extensively. 

For  a  long  time,  he  had  been  in  the  habit  of  spending  the 
winter  in  the  South,  having  a  house  at  Daytona,  Fla.,  where 
he  died  March  11,  1916,  after  a  Hngering  illness  due  to 
paralysis.  His  body  was  taken  to  Portland  for  burial  in 
Evergreen  Cemetery. 

His  marriage  took  place  on  April  10,  1862,  in  New  York 
City  to  Hannah  Thornton,  daughter  of  John  A.  and  Nancy 


1854-1856  19 

Goffe  McGaw  of  Bedford,  N.  H.  They  had  no  children. 
Mrs.  Fenn's  death  occurred  December  15,  191 5.  Dr.  Fenn's 
nephew,  Charles  W.  Fenn,  graduated  from  the  Scientific 
School  in  1875;  he  died  in  May,  1916,  and  a  sketch  of  his 
life  is  given  on  another  page  of  this  volume. 


James  Otis  Denniston,  B.A.   1856 

Born  December  14,  1835,  in  Washingtonville,  N.  Y. 
Died  November  12,  1915,  in  New  York  City 

James  Otis  Denniston,  one  of  the  eleven  children  of 
Robert  and  Mary  (Scott)  Denniston,  was  born  December 
14,  1835,  in  Washingtonville,  N.  Y.,  which  had  long  been 
the  family  home.  His  father,  a  graduate  of  Union  College 
in  1820,  was  prominent  in  politics  in  New  York  .State,  and 
had  served  in  both  the  Senate  and  Assembly,  and  as  state 
comptroller.  His  mother's  parents  were  William  and  Mary 
(Mather)  Scott.  The  son  received  his  preparatory  train- 
ing at  his  home,  and  was  graduated  from  Yale  in  1856, 
receiving  a  Dispute  appointment  at  Commencement. 

After  leaving  college,  he  studied  law  in  the  office  of  the 
late  Eugene  A.  Brewster  of  Newburgh,  N.  Y.,  and,  being 
admitted  to  the  bar  in  1858,  practiced  for  the  next  three 
years  in  New  York  City,  where  for  a  time  he  was  in  the 
office  of  Brown,  Hall  &  Vanderpoel.  In  1861,  he  decided 
to  give  up  the  law  and  study  for  the  ministry,  and  in  the 
fall  of  that  year  entered  Union  Theological  Seminary  in 
New  York  City.  In  the  summer  of  1862,  while  at  home,  he 
assisted  in  organizing  Company  G  of  the  One  Hundred 
and  Twenty-fourth  New  York  Volunteers,  and  in  Septem- 
ber accompanied  it  to  the  front  as  first  lieutenant.  He  was 
wounded  at  Gettysburg,  and  a  few  months  later  resigned, 
holding  at  the  time  a  captain's  commission.  Upon  his  return 
to  New  York,  he  resumed  his  studies  at  Union  Seminary^ 
where,  with  the  exception  of  a  few  months  in  1864  spent 
in  the  service  of  the  Sanitary  Commission,  he  continued 
until  his  graduation  in  1865.  During  the  summer  of  that 
year,  he  supplied  a  pulpit  at  Ludlow,  Vt.,  after  which  he 
spent  a  year  abroad  in  study  at  Berlin,  Dresden,  and  Halle. 
In  the  succeeding  years,  he  served  as  pastor  of  Presbyterian 
churches  at   Fishkill,   N.   Y.,   Matawan,   N.   J.,   Erie,   Pa., 


20  YALE    COLLEGE 

Kingston,  N.  Y.,  and  at  Wappinger's  Falls,  N.  Y.  Owing 
to  ill  health,  he  spent  the  two  years  from  1883  to  1885  at 
Newburgh  without  pastoral  charge,  but  in  1885  he  was  able 
to  accept  a  call  to  the  Cooperstown  (N.  Y.)  Presbyterian 
Church,  where  he  preached  for  eleven  years.  His  next 
church  was  at  State  College,  Pa.,  and  he  remained  there 
until  his  retirement  from  the  active  ministry  in  1906.  Since 
then,  Mr.  Denniston  had  spent  much  of  his  time  in  New 
York  City,  and  his  death  occurred  in  that  city,  November 
12,  1915,  after  an  illness  of  only  a  few  hours  resulting  from 
cerebral  hemorrhage.  His  body  was  taken  to  Washington- 
ville  for  burial. 

Mr.  Denniston  was  a  life  member  and  a  director  of  the 
American  Bible  Society.  He  was  married  in  Fishkill,  N.  Y., 
June  3,  1869,  to  Margaret  C,  daughter  of  Epenetus  and 
Margaret  (Walsh)  Crosby,  who  died  less  than  two  months 
before  her  husband.  Their  only  child,  Mary,  survives. 
Two  of  Mr.  Denniston's  brothers — William  Scott  and 
Henry  Martyn — received  the  degree  of  B.A.  from  Yale, 
being  members  of  the  Classes  of  1853  and  1862,  respec- 
tively. The  former  graduated  from  the  College  of  Physi- 
cians and  Surgeons  in  1856,  and  died  six  years  later,  of 
typhoid  fever,  contracted  as  a  volunteer  surgeon  in  the 
Army  of  the  Potomac.  The  latter  entered  the  pay  corps 
of  the  United  States  Army,  and  was  retired  with  the  rank 
of  rear  admiral,  for  w^ar  service,  on  reaching  the  age  of 
sixty-two;  in  1892,  Yale  gave  him  an  honorary  M.A.  Mr. 
Denniston  was  a  cousin,  in  the  fourth  generation,  of  John 
Denniston,  who  received  the  degree  of  B.A.  at  Yale  in 
1807. 

Jeptha  Garrard,  B.A.   1858 

Born  April  21,  1836,  in  Cincinnati,  Ohio 
Died  December  16,  191 5,  in  Cincinnati,  Ohio 

Jeptha  Garrard  was  born  April  21,  1836,  in  Cincinnati, 
Ohio,  his  parents  being  Jeptha  Dudley  Garrard,  a  lawyer, 
who  graduated  from  Transylvania  University  in  1821,  and 
Sarah  Bella  (Ludlow)  Garrard.  He  received  his  prepara- 
tion for  college  in  Northampton,  Mass.,  at  the  school  con- 
ducted by  Lewis  J.  Dudley  (B.A.  1838,  LL.B.  1847).  In 
Sophomore  year  at  college,  he  was  awarded  a  first  prize  in 


1856-I858  21 

declamation  and  a  third  prize  in  English  composition,  and 
he  also  received  several  prizes  in  the  debates  of  Linonia, 
of  which  he  was  president  in  his  Senior  year. 

After  graduating  from  Yale,  he  studied  for  a  year  in 
the  Cincinnati  Law  School,  taking  the  degree  of  LL.B. 
there  in  1859.  He  immediately  entered  upon  the  practice 
of  his  profession  in  Cincinnati.  About  1880,  he  began  to 
devote  most  of  his  attention  to  patent  cases,  and  he  con- 
tinued to  specialize  in  that  direction  for  several  years. 

In  September,  1861,  he  was  appointed  captain  of  the 
Sixth  Independent  Company  of  Ohio  Cavalry,  which 
became  Company  L,  Third  New  York  Cavalry,  of  which, 
in  the  fall  of  the  following  year,  he  was  made  major.  He 
served  from  December,  1863,  until  his  withdrawal  from  the 
Service,  April  25,  1865,  as  colonel  of  the  First  United  States 
Colored  Cavalry.  He  was  appointed  brevet  brigadier  gen- 
eral in  March,  1865.  He  served  as  president  of  the  Cin- 
cinnati Board  of  Park  Commissioners  from  March,  1891, 
to  October,  1893.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Military  Order 
of  the  Loyal  Legion,  of  the  Sons  of  the  Revolution,  and  of 
Central  Christian  Church  of  Cincinnati. 

His  death  occurred  suddenly  in  that  city,  December  16, 
191 5,  as  the  result  of  an  attack  of  angina  pectoris.  He  was 
buried  in  Spring  Grove  Cemetery. 

On  October  4,  1864,  he  was  married  in  Auburn,  N.  Y., 
to  Anna,  daughter  of  Jehu  and  Louisa  J.  (Vanderheyden) 
Knapp.  Mrs.  Garrard  died  May  19,  1887.  They  had  no 
children. 


Edward  Dromgoole  Grant,  B.A.   1858 

Born  February  12,  1836,  in  Brunswick  County,  Va. 
Died  November  19,  1915,  in  Farmington,  Conn. 

Edward  Dromgoole  Grant,  whose  parents  were  James 
Harris  and  Rebecca  Walton  (Sims)  Grant,  was  born  Feb- 
ruary 12,  1836,  in  Brunswick  County,  Virginia.  Entering 
Yale  from  Phillips  Academy,  Exeter,  N.  H.,  in  1853,  he 
remained  as  a  member  of  the  Class  of  1857  until  November, 
1854,  when  he  left  college.  He  joined  the  Class  with  which 
he  was  graduated  at  the  beginning  of  its  Sophomore  year. 
He  belonged  to  Linonia,  and  received  a  Colloquy  appoint- 
ment Junior  year. 


2  2  YALE    COLLEGE 

He  began  the  study  of  law  in  Chicago  after  his  gradua- 
tion, and,  having  been  admitted  to  the  bar  in  November, 
i860,  practiced  there  for  about  a  year.  In  1861,  he  went  to 
Michigan,  and  bought  a  farm  about  five  miles  from  Grand 
Rapids,  where  he  was  located  until  December,  1865.  From 
June,  1866,  until  the  autumn  of  1871,  he  lived  at  Spencer- 
port,  N.  Y.,  engaged  in  farming.  The  next  two  years  were 
spent  in  the  nursery  business  in  Topeka,  Kans.,  after  which 
he  was  for  some  time  in  the  employ  of  Mr.  William  A. 
Heermance,  a  produce  commission  dealer,  in  New  York 
City.  In  May,  1876,  he  became  a  member  of  the  real  estate 
firm  of  S.  B.  Goodale  &  Company  in  that  city,  continuing 
that  connection  until  his  retirement  seventeen  years  later. 

For  a  time  thereafter,  he  lived  in  Margaretville,  N.  Y., 
but  since  1904  he  had  made  his  home  at  Farmington,  Conn., 
where  he  died  on  November  19,  191 5.  His  health  had  been 
poor  for  a  long  time.  Mr.  Grant  belonged  to  the  Congrega- 
tional Church. 

His  marriage  took  place  in  New  Haven,  Conn.,  March 
24,  1863,  to  Jennie  Eliza,  daughter  of  Addison  and  Ann 
(Hogeboom)  Porter  and  sister  of  John  Addison  Porter 
(B.A.  1842,  M.D.  1855),  who  survives  him  without  chil- 
dren. Mr.  Grant's  two  ne])hews,  the  late  John  Addison 
Porter  and  Edgar  Sheffield  Porter,  both  attended  Yale,  the 
former  taking  the  degree  of  B.A.  in  1878,  and  the  latter 
being  a  non-graduate  member  of  the  Class  of  1880  in 
the  Scientific  School. 


Horace  Neide,  B.A.   1858 

Born  December  21,  1837,  in  Covcntryville,  Pa. 
Died  December  3,  1915,  in  Philadelphia,  Pa. 

Horace  Neide  was  born  in  Covcntryville,  Pa.,  December 
21,  1837,  the  son  of  Joseph  Neide,  a  graduate  of  Dickinson 
College.  His  mother  was  Rebecca,  daughter  of  Samuel  and 
Martha  (Ball)  Shafer  of  Covcntryville.  He  spent  his  early 
life  at  Pottstown,  Pa.,  starting  his  schooling  at  The  Hill 
School,  and  later  studied  at  the  Bolmer  School  in  West 
Chester.  He  then  went  to  Williston  Seminary,  Easthamp- 
ton,  Mass.,  where  he  finished  his  preparation  for  Yale. 


1858  23 

Beginning  the  study  of  law  at  Yale  in  the  fall  of  1858,  he 
continued  it  with  Mr.  Peter  McCall  in  Philadelphia,  At  the 
outbreak  of  the  Civil  War,  he  enlisted,  being  chosen  second 
lieutenant  of  the  Pennsylvania  Reserve  Infantry  in  May, 

1861.  The  following  December,  he  was  made  first  lieuten- 
ant ;  a  few  months  later,  was  promoted  to  be  captain,  and  in 
August,  1862,  became  major.    He  resigned  on  November  24, 

1862,  but  in  June  of  the  following  year  reentered  the  Serv- 
ice as  captain  in  the  Veteran  Reserve  Corps.  He  was  pro- 
moted to  be  major  December  4,  1863,  and  lieutenant  colonel 
in  June,  1864,  and  when  he  was  mustered  out  of  volunteer 
service  in  June,  1867,  ranked  as  a  brevet  brigadier  general. 
In  1866,  he  entered  the  Regular  Army,  with  which  he 
remained  until  April  4,  1893,  when  he  was  retired  at  his 
own  request,  having  served  over  thirty  years  and  not  then 
being  of  the  age  to  be  retired  by  law.  After  his  retirement, 
he  lived  in  Philadelphia  until  his  death,  which  occurred  at 
his  home  on  December  3,  191 5,  from  complications  result- 
ing from  a  severe  attack  of  bronchitis.  He  was  buried  in 
Edgewood  Cemetery  at  Pottstown. 

General  Neide  was  a  member  of  the  Pennsylvania  Com- 
mandery  of  the  Military  Order  of  the  Loyal  Legion.  About 
two  months  before  his  death,  he  was  elected  one  of  the  vice 
presidents  of  the  Yale  Alumni  Association  of  Philadelphia. 

He  was  married  in  Philadelphia,  March  19,  1863,  to 
Mary  M.,  daughter  of  John  Richard  and  Rebecca  (Robin- 
son) Jones  of  Doylestown,  Pa.  She  died  August  17,  1870, 
in  Indianapolis,  Ind.,  and  is  also  buried  in  Edgewood  Ceme- 
tery. General  Neide  is  survived  by  one  daughter,  Blanche 
Elizabeth.  He  was  a  brother  of  Carroll  Neide,  a  non-grad- 
uate member  of  the  College  Class  of  1863. 


Luther  Hills  Peirce,  B.A.   1858 

Born  June  4,  1837,  in  Bangor,  Maine 
Died  October  20,  1915,  in  Chicago,  111. 

Luther  Hills  Peirce,  son  of  Waldo  Treat  and  Hannah 
Jane  (Hills)  Peirce,  was  born  in  Bangor,  Maine,  June  4, 
1837.  His  preparation  for  college  was  received  at  Gen- 
eral Russell's  Collegiate  and  Commercial  Institute  in  New 


24  YALE    COLLEGE 

Haven,  Conn.,  and  he  entered  Yale  in  1854,  being  gradu- 
ated four  years  later. 

He  was  associated  with  his  brother  in  the  lumber,  ship- 
ping, and  commission  business  in  Bangor  from  1858  to 
i860,  but  in  May,  1861,  entered  the  Union  Army  as  quarter- 
master sergeant  of  the  Second  Maine  Infantry,  being 
appointed  captain  and  assistant  quartermaster  of  volunteers 
six  months  later.  He  served  in  the  Army  until  August, 
1858,  holding  appointment  after  the  close  of  the  Civil  War 
as  brevet  major  and  brevet  lieutenant  colonel,  and,  finally, 
as  chief  quartermaster  of  the  Fourth  Military  District. 
In  1868,  he  entered  the  real  estate  business  in  Chicago,  111., 
becoming  a  member  of  his  father-in-law's  firm  of  J.  H. 
Rees  &  Company,  the  name  of  which  was  later  changed  to 
Rees,  Peirce  &  Company.  For  some  years  previous  to  his 
death,  Mr.  Peirce  conducted  the  business  under  his  own 
name.  He  had  mining  interests  in  Colorado,  and  was  a 
member  of  the  lumber  firm  of  Hilliard,  Peirce  &  Company 
of  Chicago. 

By  the  will  of  Mr.  Peirce,  who  died  at  his  home  in  Chi- 
cago, October  20,  191 5,  a  bequest  amounting  to  about 
$27,000  was  made  to  Yale. 

His  marriage  took  place  in  Chicago,  June  20,  1866,  to 
Helen  Caroline,  an  adopted  daughter  of  James  H.  and 
Harriet  F.  Rees,  whose  death  occurred  on  December  15, 
191 1.  They  had  two  children, — a  son,  Charles  Bowman, 
and  a  daughter,  Clara  Marriner. 


Homer  George  Newton,  B.A.   1859 

Born  October  25,  1835,  in  Sherburne,  N.  Y. 
Died  October  11,  1915,  in  Sherburne,  N.  Y. 

Homer  George  Newton,  son  of  William  Newton,  a 
farmer  and  contractor,  whose  parents  were  Asahel  Newton, 
who  served  as  a  private  in  a  Connecticut  regiment  in  the 
Revolution,  and  Versalle  (Booth)  Newton,  was  born  in 
Sherburne,  N.  Y.,  October  25,  1835.  His  mother  was  Lois, 
daughter  of  Richard  and  Mercy  (Sage)  Butler,  grand- 
daughter of  Solomon  Sage,  and  a  descendant  of  Governor 
Robert  Treat.  He  was  fitted  for  college  at  the  Hopkins 
Grammar  School  in  New  Haven,  and  at  Yale  was  awarded 


1858-1859  25 

a  third  prize  for  declamation  in  Sophomore  Year,  received 
Oration  appointments  and  an  election  to  Phi  Beta  Kappa, 
and  spoke  at  Commencement.  He  was  a  member  of  Lino- 
nia,  and  served  as  a  Class  deacon. 

In  the  fall  of  1861,  after  a  year  spent  at  home,  during 
which  he  read  anatomy,  he  began  the  study  of  medicine  at 
New  York  University,  where  he  received  the  degree  of 
M.D.  two  years  later.  During  the  Civil  War,  he  served  for 
over  a  year  as  assistant  surgeon  in  the  One  Hundred  and 
Thirty-first  Regiment,  New  York  Volunteers.  He  spent  the 
winter  of  1865  studying  in  New  York  City,  and  in  the  fol- 
lowing spring  began  practice  in  Brooklyn.  In  1868,  he 
formed  a  partnership  with  Dr.  Arthur  Mathewson  (B.A. 
1858,  M.D.  New  York  University  1861)  for  the  practice  of 
ophthalmic  and  aural  medicine.  The  following  year,  they 
published  a  translation  of  a  German  work  on  diseases  of  the 
ear.  In  1868,  with  Dr.  Cornelius  R.  Agnew,  who  received 
from  Columbia  the  degree  of  B.A.  in  1849  ^^^^^  that  of  M.D. 
in  1852,  they  were  associated  in  the  establishment  of  the 
Brooklyn  Eye  and  Ear  Hospital,  where  they  served  as 
assistant  surgeons  until  Dr.  Agnew,  with  his  colleague,  D. 
B.  St.  John  Roosa  (B.A.  i860,  M.D.  New  York  University 
i860)  withdrew  to  establish  the  Manhattan  Eye  and  Ear 
Hospital,  at  which  time  they  were  made  surgeons.  Dr. 
Newton  went  abroad  in  November,  1869,  and  attended 
clinics  at  the  ophthalmic  hospitals  in  London  and  studied  in 
Berlin  and  Vienna,  upon  his  return  a  year  later  resuming 
his  practice  in  Brooklyn. 

His  health  failed  in  1874,  and  in  the  spring  he  went  to 
California.  After  spending  a  short  time  in  Los  Angeles, 
he  and  his  wife  joined  the  Indiana  Colony,  which  was  the 
beginning  of  the  city  of  Pasadena,  and  took  an  active  part 
in  its  development.  Dr.  Newton  was  one  of  the  organizers 
of  the  Pasadena  Presbyterian  church,  and  was  chosen  one 
of  its  elders.  In  1877,  he  returned  to  Sherburne,  and  for 
the  next  two  years  was  employed  as  a  clerk  in  the  National 
Bank  at  Norwich,  N.  Y.  His  health  again  forced  him  to 
seek  an  out-of-door  life,  and  he  was  then  engaged  in  agri- 
cultural pursuits  until  the  spring  of  1883,  when  he  became 
cashier  of  the  Sherburne  National  Bank.  After  five  years, 
he  was  again  compelled  to  give  up  nearly  all  activities, 
although  he  continued  as  vice  president  of  the  bank  until 
his  death,  which  occurred,  from  infirmities  incident  to  his 


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years,  at  his  home  in  Sherburne,  October  ii,  1915.  He  was 
buried  in  Sherburne.  Since  1908,  he  had  been  totally  blind. 
By  his  will,  a  bequest  of  one  thousand  dollars  was  made  to 
Yale-in-China, 

He  was  married  in  Sherburne,  November  i,  1869,  to 
Anna  Grace,  daughter  of  Joshua  and  Anna  Pratt.  They 
had  no  children.  Isaac  Sprague  Newton  (B.A.  1848)  and 
Hubert  Anson  Newton  (B.A.  1850)  were  brothers  of  Dr. 
Newton.  His  nephews,  Howard  Dunlap  Newton,  I.  Bur- 
kett  Newton,  William  Lewis  Newton,  and  Edward  Payson 
Newton,  graduated  from  the  College  in  1879,  1883,  1893, 
and  1897,  respectively. 


Joseph  Tabor  Tatuni-,  B.A.   1859 

Born  August  7,  1837,  in  St.  Louis,  Mo. 
Died  January  8,  1916,  in  Los  Angeles,  Gal. 

It  has  been  impossible  to  secure  the  desired  information 
for  an  obituary  sketch  of  Mr.  Tatum  in  time  for  publica- 
tion in  this  volume.  A  sketch  will  appear  in  a  subsequent 
issue  of  the  Obituary  Record. 


Henry  Winn,  B.A.   1859 

Born  December  8,  1837,  in  Whitingham,  Vt. 
Died  January  24,  1916,  in  Maiden,  Mass. 

Henry  Winn  was  born  in  Whitingham,  Vt.,  December  8, 
1837,  the  son  of  Reuben  Winn,  who  served  for  a  number 
of  years  in  the  State  Senate  of  Vermont,  and  a  descendant 
of  Edward  Winn,  who  came  to  this  country  from  England 
in  1635  ^^^  settled  at  Woburn,  Mass.  His  mother  was 
Betsey,  daughter  of  Capt.  Samuel  Parker.  He  was  fitted 
for  college  at  the  Shelburne  Falls  (Mass.)  Academy,  and 
at  Yale  belonged  to  the  Nautilus  Boat  Club,  Linonia,  and 
Phi  Beta  Kappa,  and  received  Oration  appointments. 

During  the  year  following  his  graduation,  he  taught  at 
the  high  school  in  Worcester,  Mass.,  at  the  same  time 
studying  in  the  law  office  of  Dwight  Foster  (B.A.  1848). 
He  was  registered  in  the  Harvard  Law  School  from  i860 


i859  27 

to  1862,  and  after  his  admission  to  the  bar  acted  for  a  year 
as  assistant  to  the  attorney  general  of  Massachusetts.  In 
1861,  he  went  to  Washington,  D.  C,  to  accept  an  appoint- 
ment as  clerk  to  the  Committee  on  Foreign  Relations  of 
the  Senate.  On  his  return  to  Boston,  he  resumed  his  duties 
at  the  State  House,  and  at  this  time  drafted  the  savings 
bank  tax  act,  which  was  the  foundation  of  the  corporation 
tax  system  of  the  state.  He  served  for  ten  months  in  the 
Civil  War  as  major  of  the  Fifty-second  Massachusetts 
Regiment,  which  he  had  organized.  Returning  to  Massa- 
chusetts in  1863,  he  was  for  twelve  years  engaged  in  manu- 
facturing locks  at  Shelburne  Falls,  at  first  with  the  Yale 
Lock  Company  and  afterwards  with  the  Winn  Lock  Com- 
pany. In  1875,  he  gave  up  that  business,  and  resumed  the 
practice  of  law  in  Shelburne  Falls.  He  was  elected  to  the 
Massachusetts  House  of  Representatives  in  1876,  and  two 
years  later  became  a  state  senator,  serving  in  the  latter  capa- 
city for  two  years.  During  his  terms  in  the  House  and 
Senate,  he  was  very  active,  proposing  many  measures  and 
serving  on  many  committees. 

In  the  later  years  of  his  life,  he  resided  at  Maiden,  while 
having  a  law  office  in  Boston.  In  1892,  he  was  elected 
mayor  of  Maiden,  and  served  in  that  capacity  for  one  term. 
He  was  nominated  to  Congress  on  the  Democratic  ticket 
from  the  seventh  district  of  Massachusetts  in  1900,  but  was 
not  elected.  He  had  contributed  extensively  to  the  press, 
especially  on  the  subject  of  reform  in  taxation,  and  was 
the  author  of  ^'Property  in  Land:  An  Essay  on  the  New 
Crusade"  (1888),  an  important  essay  on  Multiple-Standard 
Money,  and  many  other  monographs  on  economic  subjects 
and  taxation.  On  account  of  his  highly-developed  execu- 
tive ability,  he  was  several  times  called  upon  to  aid  in 
reorganizing  business  concerns  which  were  on  the  point  of 
failure. 

Mr.  Winn's  death  occurred  January  24,  1916,  at  his  home 
in  Maiden,  after  a  brief  illness  following  a  slight  paralytic 
shock  suffered  some  time  previously.  He  was  buried  at 
North  Adams,  Mass. 

He  was  married  November  24,  1865,  to  Madelene, 
daughter  of  Linus  Yale,  Jr.,  and  Katharine  (Brooks)  Yale, 
from  whom  he  was  afterwards  divorced.  Their  elder  son, 
Philip  Henry,  who  studied  at  the  Massachusetts  Institute 
of  Technology  from  1884  to  1886,  survives,  but  the  younger, 


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Sydney  Yale  (M.D.  Harvard  1894)  died  in  November, 
191 5.  On  November  30,  1880,  Mr.  Winn  was  married  a 
second  time  to  Julia  Eva,  daughter  of  Orlando  Merrill. 
Her  death  occurred  June  27,  1908. 


Arthur  Williams  Wright,  B.A.   1859 

Born  September  8,  1836,  in  Lebanon,  Conn. 
Died  December  19,  191S,  in  New  Haven,  Conn. 

Arthur  Williams  Wright  was  born  September  8,  1836, 
in  Lebanon,  Conn.,  where  his  father,  Jesse  Wright,  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Connecticut  House  of  Representatives  in  1839, 
served  as  justice  of  the  peace,  selectman,  and  member  of 
the  School  Board.  His  paternal  grandparents  were  Jesse 
and  Mehitable  (Clark)  Wright.  Samuel  Wright,  who 
came  in  1639  from  Essex,  England,  to  Springfield,  Mass., 
where  he  was  made  the  first  deacon  in  the  Congregational 
Church,  was  his  earliest  American  ancestor.  His  mother 
was  Harriet,  daughter  of  William  and  Lydia  (Loomis) 
Williams  and  a  descendant  of  Robert  Williams,  who  came 
to  this  country  from  England  in  1637,  settling  at  Roxbury, 
Mass. 

He  received  his  early  education  in  his  native  town,  and 
later  attended  Bacon  Academy  at  Colchester,  Conn.,  the 
principal  of  which  was  William  Kinne  (B.A.  -1848),  at 
whose  private  school  in  Canterbury  his  preparation  for  col- 
lege was  completed.  At  Yale,  he  received  numerous  prizes 
in  Latin  and  mathematics  and,  in  Senior  year,  the  Clark 
premium  for  the  solution  of  problems  in  practical  astron- 
omy. His  appointments  were  High  Orations,  and  he  was 
a  member  of  Phi  Beta  Kappa,  and  spoke  at  Junior  Exhibi- 
tion and  at  Commencement.  He  served  on  the  Class  Com- 
mittee for  Presentation  Day,  and  belonged  to  several 
musical  organizations  and  to  Linonia. 

After  graduation,  he  continued  his  studies  in  mathematics, 
mineralogy,  botany,  and  modern  languages  at  Yale,  taking 
his  Ph.D.  in  1861,  and  during  this  period,  he  served  as  an 
assistant  in  the  Yale  College  Library,  and,  from  i860  to 
1863,  as  librarian  of  Linonia.  For  a  few  months  in  i860, 
he  also  taught  at  General  Russell's  Collegiate  and  Commer- 
cial Institute.    He  was  on  the  staff  of  revisers  of  the  1864 


i859  29 

edition  of  Webster's  Dictionary,  for  which  he  also  prepared 
articles  on  Orthography  and  the  Rules  for  Spelling 
Certain  Classes  of  Words.  (He  assisted  also  in  the  com- 
l)ilation  of  the  edition  of  the  dictionary  published  twenty- 
six  years  later.) 

In  1863,  he  became  a  tutor  at  Yale,  serving  until  1866 
in  the  Latin  department  and  for  the  next  two  years  in  that 
of  natural  philosophy.  During  1867-68,  he  held  as  well  an 
instructorship  in  physics  in  the  Scientific  School.  He 
studied  abroad,  at  Heidelberg  and  Berlin,  the  following 
year,  and  in  the  fall  of  1869  took  up  his  work  as  professor 
of  physics  and  chemistry  at  Williams  College,  to  which 
chair  he  had  been  appointed  in  1868.  In  1872,  he  returned 
to  Yale  as  professor  of  molecular  physics  and  chemistry. 
In  1887,  the  title  of  his  professorship  was  changed  to  that 
of  experimental  physics,  which  he  held  until  his  retirement 
in  1906,  when  he  was  made  professor  emeritus.  The  first 
Sloane  Physics  Laboratory  was  built  after  his  plans  and 
under  his  supervision  in  1882-83,  and  thereafter  he  held  his 
classes  there. 

From  1881  to  1886,  he  was  one  of  the  consulting  special- 
ists of  the  United  States  Signal  Service,  and  in  1887  he 
served  upon  the  Annual  Assay  Commission  to  test  the 
weight  and  fineness  of  the  gold  and  silver  coins  at  the  mint 
at  Philadelphia,  being  chairman  of  the  committee  on  weigh- 
ing and  preparing  its  report.  His  method  of  applying  the 
cathode  discharge  in  vacuo  to  the  production  of  metallic 
films  upon  glass  and  other  materials,  forming  brilliant  mir- 
rors, which  he  originated  in  1877,  has  since  been  exten- 
sively used.  He  was  a  member  of  the  party  sent  out  by 
the  United  States  Naval  Observatory  in  the  summer  of 
1878,  under  Professor  Asaph  Hall,  and  stationed  at  La- 
Junta,  Colo.,  to  observe  the  total  eclipse  of  the  sun.  He 
made  successful  observations  of  the  polarization  of  the  solar 
corona,  obtaining  for  the  first  time  measurements  of  its 
mount,  and  the  results  of  his  investigations  were  later  pub- 
lished. In  1876,  he  observed  for  the  first  time  the  occur- 
rence of  gases  in  stony  meteorites,  and  analyzed  them  as 
those  of  iron  meteorites,  investigated  their  spectra,  and  the 
relation  of  these  to  the  spectra  of  comets.  On  the  discovery 
of  the  rays  called  X-rays  by  Professor  Roentgen  in  1895, 
he  repeated  his  experiments,  and  was  the  first  in  America  to 
obtain  definite  results,  making  many  experimental  investiga- 


30  YALE  COLLEGE 

tions,  the  results  of  which  were  announced  in  papers  read 
before  the  National  Academy  of  Sciences,  and  published 
in  various  journals,  especially  The  American  Journal  of 
Science.  Several  other  investigations  formed  the  subjects 
of  memoirs  contributed  to  the  same  journal  and  elsewhere, 
and  he  had  published  many  other  scientific  articles.  He 
was  the  author  of  a  number  of  biographical  memoirs, 
including  several  of  both  the  elder  and  younger  Benjamin 
Silliman.  He  was  a  member  of  the  New  Haven  Colony 
Historical  Society,  a  Fellow  of  the  Royal  Astronomical 
Society  of  Great  Britain  and  of  the  American  Association 
for  the  Advancement  of  Science,  and  a  member  of  many 
other  learned  societies.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Church 
of  Christ  in  Yale  College  from  1855  until  his  death. 

While  a  tutor  at  Yale,  Professor  Wright  had  studied  law 
and  been  admitted  to  the  bar,  but  he  had  never  practiced. 
From  1859  to  1869,  and  also  for  the  last  six  years  before 
his  death,  he  served  as  Secretary  of  the  Class  of  1859,  and 
he  had  edited  both  its  Triennial  Record  and  the  Class 
Record  published  in  1914. 

Professor  Wright's  death  occurred  December  19,  191 5, 
at  his  home  in  New  Haven,  Conn.,  after  an  illness  of  about 
two  months  due  to  infirmities  incident  to  his  advanced  age. 
Interment  was  in  Grove  Street  Cemetery. 

He  was  married  in  New  Haven,  October  6,  1875,  to  Susan 
Forbes,  daughter  of  Professor  Benjamin  Silliman  (B.A. 
1837,  M.D.  Medical  College  of  South  Carolina  1849,  LL.D. 
Jefferson  Medical  College  1884)  and  Susan  Huldah 
(Forbes)  Silliman  and  sister  of  Benjamin  Silliman,  who 
received  the  degree  of  B.A.  at  Yale  in  1870.  Her  death 
occurred  on  February  17,  1890.  They  had  four  children: 
Susan  Silliman,  who  married  Winchester  Bennett  (Ph.B. 
1897);  Edith  (died  January  17,  1881)  ;  Arthur  Silliman, 
and  Dorothea  Silliman,  the  wife  of  Edwin  Pugsley,  a 
graduate  of  the  College  in  1908  and  of  the  Massachusetts 
Institute  of  Technology  in  191 1.  Professor  Wright's  half- 
brother,  Edwin  Wright,  took  the  degree  of  B.A.  at  Yale  in 
1844,  and  his  brother,  Alexander  Hamilton  Wright,  was  a 
member  of  the  Class  of  1863,  and  three  years  after  his 
graduation  from  Yale  received  his  LL.B.  at  George  Wash- 
ington University.  He  was  a  brother-in-law  of  William  R. 
Belknap  (Ph.B.  1869),  whose  son,  William,  was  graduated 
from  the  College  in  1908;    of  Robert  Kelly,  who  received 


i859  31 

the  degree  of  B.A.  at  Yale  in  1870  and  that  of  LL.B.  at 
Columbia  in  1873,  and  who  had  three  sons, — Robert  (B.A. 
1896),  William,  a  non-graduate  member  of  the  Class  of 
1897  S.,  and  Trumbull  (Ph.B.  1900);  and  of  William  A. 
Rogers  (Ph.B.  1874),  whose  son,  William  Silliman,  was 
graduated  from  the  College  in  1910.  His  half-sister,  Ange- 
iine,  who  attended  a  course  of  lectures  at  Yale  in  1849, 
married  Julian  Vail  Pettis  (B.A.  1836). 


Edwin  Henry  Yundt,  B.A.   1859 

Born  January  8,  1838,  in  Blue  Ball,  Pa. 
Died  October  6,  191 5,  in  Blue  Ball,  Pa. 

Edwin  Henry  Yundt  was  born  January  8,  1838,  in  Blue 
Ball,  Lancaster  County,  Pa.,  the  son  of  Henry  and  Maria 
Magdalena  (Kinzer)  Yundt.  His  ancestors  were  farmers 
and  large  landowners,  and  came  to  Lancaster  County  very 
early — on  the  paternal  side  in  1749  from  Switzerland,  and 
on  the  maternal  side  in  1726  from  Germany.  They  took 
up  the  rich  limestone  lands  in  Lancaster  County,  and  some 
of  their  descendants  still  occupy  them,  or  portions  of  them. 

He  attended  the  Moravian  School  at  Lititz,  Pa.,  and  the 
West  Chester  (Pa.)  Academy,  before  entering  Yale,  where 
he  belonged  to  Linonia,  was  one  of  the  Cochleaureati  for 
the  Wooden  Spoon  Exhibition  and  a  member  of  the  Class 
Committee  for  Presentation  Day,  and  received  Dispute 
appointments. 

After  graduation,  he  studied  law  under  his  cousin,  Isaac 
Ellmaker  Hiester  (B.A.  1842),  in  Lancaster,  Pa.,  where  he 
was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  September,  1861.  He  practiced 
there  until  1878,  when,  owing  to  an  impaired  nervous  con- 
dition, he  retired.  Soon  afterwards,  he  returned  to  the  place 
of  his  birth,  where  he  built  a  home  and  remained  until  his 
death,  which  occurred  October  6,  191 5,  being  directly  due 
to  hardening  of  the  arteries.  Burial  was  in  Bergstrasse 
Cemetery,  near  Ephrata,  in  Lancaster  County. 

He  had  never  married,  and  since  his  retirement  had  led 
a  secluded  life,  devoting  much  time  to  reading  English  and 
German  literature.  Of  his  seven  sisters  and  two  brothers, 
one  brother,  Horace  Archibald  Yundt  (B.A.  Franklin  and 
Marshall   1859),  who  held  a  captain's  commission  in  the 


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Civil  War,  and  three  sisters  survive  him.  His  younger 
brother,  Winfield  Scott  Yundt,  graduated  at  Jefferson  Medi- 
cal College  in  1866,  and  served  four  years  in  the  Army  as 
a  surgeon  during  the  Civil  War.  W.  Brooke  Dunwoody 
(B.A.  191 1,  M.F.  1916)  is  a  grand-nephew  of  Mr.  Yundt. 
In  1878,  Mr.  Yundt  declined  the  nomination  for  president 
judge  of  the  courts  of  Lancaster  County.  For  five  years  he 
served  as  editor  of  the  Lancaster  Bar. 


Francis  Delafield,  B.A.   i860 

Born  August  3,  1841,  in  New  York  City 
Died  July  17,  1915,  in  Noroton,  Conn. 

Francis  Delafield  was  born  in  New  York  City,  August  3, 
1841.  He  was  the  son  of  Dr.  Edward  Delafield  by  his 
second  marriage  to  Julia,  daughter  of  Col.  NicoU  Floyd 
and  Mary  (Gelston)  Floyd.  His  paternal  grandparents 
were  John  Delafield,  who  came  to  this  country  from  Oxford- 
shire, England,  in  1783,  and  Ann  (Hallett)  Delafield.  His 
father  graduated  from  Yale  College  in  1812,  and  after 
taking  his  medical  degree  at  Columbia  in  1816,  practiced  his 
profession  in  New  York  City  for  many  years ;  he  was  one 
of  the  founders  of  the  New  York  Eye  and  Ear  Infirmary, 
Roosevelt  Hospital,  and  the  College  of  Physicians  and  Sur- 
geons, of  which  latter  he  was  president  from  1858  until 
his  death  in  1875. 

Francis  Delafield  was  fitted  for  college  in  private  schools 
in  New  York  City,  and  at  Yale  received  a  Dissertation 
appointment  in  Junior  year  and  an  Oration  at  Commence- 
ment, and  was  a  member  of  Phi  Beta  Kappa. 

In  1863,  he  was  graduated  from  the  College  of  Physicians 
and  Surgeons  at  Columbia,  and  then  for  some  months  con- 
tinued his  medical  studies  abroad, — in  Paris,  Berlin,  and 
London.  Upon  his  return  to  this  country  in  1865,  he  took 
up  the  practice  of  his  profession  in  New  York  City,  at  the 
same  time  continuing  his  investigations  in  pathology.  He 
was  the  founder  of  the  first  pathological  laboratory  in  this 
country.  His  writings  upon  pathological  subjects  are 
accepted  as  standard  authorities.  His  first  important  liter- 
ary work,  "A  Handbook  of  Post-Mortem  Examination 
and  Morbid  Anatomy,"   which  appeared  in  1872,  was  later 


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rewritten  and  i^reatly  enlare^ed,  in  collaboration  with  T. 
Mitchell  PriKkien  (Ph.B.  1872,  M.D.  1875),  beini^  pub- 
lished in  1885,  under  the  title,  "A  Handbook  of  Pathological 
Anatomy  and  Histology."  This  is  now  in  general  use  as 
a  textbook  in  medical  colleges,  and  as  a  book  of  reference 
by  many  practitioners.  In  1878,  appeared  his  "Manual  of 
Physical  Diagnosis,"  and  his  book,  "Diseases  of  the  Kid- 
neys," was  written  in  1895.  Another  achievement  was  his 
classification  of  the  group  of  diseases  generally  treated 
under  pulmonary  consumption.  Probably  his  most  impor- 
tant contribution  to  the  field  of  medical  science  was  "Studies 
in  Pathological  Anatomy,"  published  in  1882,  and  covering 
a  long  period  of  research.  Since  1868,  when  he  became  a 
lecturer  on  pathological  anatomy  in  the  College  of  Physi- 
cians and  Surgeons,  Dr.  Delafield  had  been  a  member  of 
the  Faculty  of  Columbia  University.  In  1875,  he  was 
appointed  adjunct  professor  of  medicine  under  Professor 
Alonzo  Clark  (B.A.  Williams  1828,  M.D.  Columbia  1833), 
and  upon  the  latter's  retirement  in  1882  was  elected  his 
successor,  as  professor  of  pathology  and  the  practice  of 
medicine,  being  made  professor  emeritus  in  1901.  For  a 
number  of  years,  he  was  attached  to  the  staff  of  Bellevue 
Hospital,  at  first  as  a  member  of  the  house  staff,  later  as 
attending  physician,  and  finally  as  consulting  physician.  He 
had  served  also  as  pathologist  and  attending  physician  to 
Roosevelt  Hospital  and  as  surgeon  to  the  New  York  Eye 
and  Ear  Infirmary.  In  1890,  he  was  honored  with  the 
degree  of  LL.D.  from  Yale,  and,  in  1904,  Columbia  con- 
ferred a  similar  degree  upon  him.  He  held  membership  in 
the  New  York  County  Medical  Society,  the  New  York 
Academy  of  Medicine,  the  Pathological  Society,  and  the 
Association  of  American  Physicians,  being  the  first  presi- 
dent of  the  latter  organization.  He  belonged  to  many 
organizations,  including  the  Century  Club  and  the  St. 
Nicholas  Society,  and  was  a  member  of  Grace  Church. 

Dr.  Delafield's  death  occurred  July  17,  1915,  in  Noroton, 
Conn.,  where  he  was  visiting  his  sister.  For  some  time  he 
had  been  in  poor  health,  and  a  week  before  his  death  suf- 
fered an  attack  of  apoplexy.  Burial  was  in  Grace  Church 
Cemetery  at  Jamaica,  Long  Island. 

He  was  married  January  17,  1870,  to  Katharine,  daugh- 
ter of  General  Henry  VanRensselaer  and  Elisabeth  Ray 
(King)  VanRensselaer,  who  died  in  1901.     They  had  three 


34  YALE    COLLEGE 

daughters,  Elisabeth  Ray,  JuHa  Floyd  (Mrs.  Frederic  V.  S. 
Crosby),  and  Cornelia  VanRensselaer,  and  a  son,  Edward 
Henry,  all  of  whom  survive.  The  son  is  a  member  of  the 
College  Class  of  1902.  Dr.  Delafield's  uncle,  Joseph  Dela- 
field,  received  the  degree  of  B.A.  at  Yale  in  1808. 


William  Edward  Foster,  B.A.   i860 

Born  June  4,  1839,  in  New  Haven,  Conn. 
Died  August  25,  1915,  in  Buffalo,  N.  Y. 

William  Edward  Foster  was  born  in  New  Haven,  Conn., 
June  4,  1839,  his  father  being  Eleazer  Kingsbury  Foster, 
a  graduate  of  Yale  College  in  the  Class  of  1834,  who 
practiced  as  a  lawyer  in  New  Haven  for  a  number  of  years, 
representing  that  city  in  the  General  Assembly  for  several 
terms,  and  serving  later  as  judge  of  probate,  state's  attorney 
for  New  Haven  County,  and  register  in  bankruptcy.  He 
was  the  son  of  Eleazer  Foster  (B.A.  1802),  by  his  wife, 
Mary  (Pierpont)  Foster,  who  was  a  great-granddaughter 
of  Rev.  James  Pierpont,  a  member  of  Yale's  first  board  of 
trustees,  and  a  descendant  of  Jacob  Heminway  (B.A.  1704). 
William  E.  Foster's  mother  was  Mary,  daughter  of  Wil- 
liam Collins  and  Sarah  Smith  (King)  Codrington  of 
Jamaica,  West  Indies. 

In  Sophomore  year  at  college,  he  was  awarded  a  first 
prize  for  excellence  in  declamation  and  a  first  prize  in  the 
Linonia  debate,  and  he  received  a  Colloquy  appointment 
Junior  year  and  a  Dispute  at  Commencement,  when  he  was 
one  of  the  speakers. 

He  began  the  study  of  law  directly  after  graduation,  at 
first  in  Auburn,  N.  Y.,  and  later  in  his  father's  ofiice  in 
New  Haven.  In  the  spring  of  1861,  he  accepted  a  commis- 
sion on  the  staff  of  the  quartermaster  general  of  Con- 
necticut, which  he  resigned  in  July,  1862,  to  become  a 
paymaster  in  the  Navy.  At  that  time,  he  was  assigned  to 
duty  on  the  Memphis,  on  which  he  served  until  the  close 
of  the  Civil  War.  On  returning  to  his  native  town,  he 
again  took  up  his  law  studies,  and  was  soon  admitted  to  the 
bar  in  New  Haven. 

Not  long  afterwards,  he  went  to  Florida,  remaining  at 
St.  Augustine  until  June,  1868.     From  November  of  that 


i860  35 

year  until  March,  1870,  he  was  located  in  Lynchburg,  Va., 
as  editor  and  part  owner  of  the  Daily  Republican.  Since 
that  time,  he  had  been  engaged  in  the  editorial  conduct  of 
the  Buffalo  (N.  Y.)  Commercial  Advertiser,  at  first  as  asso- 
ciate editor  and,  from  1878,  as  editor-in-chief.  In  191 1,  he 
retired  from  active  newspaper  work,  although  still  retaining 
his  position  as  managing  editor. 

Mr.  Foster  belonged  to  Trinity  Church  (Protestant 
Episcopal)  of  Buffalo  and  to  the  Military  Order  of  the 
Loyal  Legion.  In  1905,  he  was  elected  president  of  the 
Yale  Alumni  Association  of  Buffalo,  and  served  in  that 
capacity  for  three  years. 

His  death  occurred  in  Buffalo  on  August  25,  191 5,  fol- 
lowing an  illness  of  three  years  due  to  paralysis.  Interment 
was  in  Forest  Lawn  Cemetery  in  that  city.  He  was  married 
in  New  Haven,  August  14,  1862,  to  Sarah  Elyot,  daughter 
of  Frederic  Joel  Betts,  a  graduate  of  Williams  College  in 
1 82 1,  and  Mary  Ward  (Scoville)  Betts  and  sister  of 
Frederic  H.  Betts  (B.A.  1864,  LL.B.  Columbia  1866)  and 
C.  Wyllys  Betts  (B.A.  1867,  LL.B.  Columbia  1869).  Of 
their  three  children,  the  son,  Frederic  Betts,  died  in  1888, 
when  fifteen  years  of  age,  and  the  older  daughter,  May 
Husted,  in  1890,  at  the  age  of  nineteen.  The  other  daugh- 
ter, Louise  Holbrook,  is  the  wife  of  Mr.  Albert  Steele 
Thompson  of  Buffalo.  Mr.  Foster's  two  brothers  were 
graduated  at  Yale,  Eleazer  Kingsbury  in  the  College  Class 
of  1863,  and  John  Pierrepont  Codrington  with  the  degree 
of  B.A.  in  1869,  M.D.  in  1875,  and  Honorary  M.A.  in  1909. 
The  latter's  sons  are  Allen  Evarts  Foster  (B.A.  1906,  LL.B. 
Harvard  1909)  and  William  Edward  Foster,  2d  (Ph.B. 
1907). 

Lucius  Hopkins  Higgins,  B.A.   i860 

Born  July  4,  1832,  in  Southington,  Conn. 
Died  January  25,  1916,  in  West  Hartford,  Conn. 


I 


Lucius  Hopkins  Higgins,  son  of  Timothy  Higgins,  a 
tanner,  was  born  in  Southington,  Conn.,  July  4,  1832,  his 
paternal  grandparents  being  Timothy  and  Hannah  (Allen) 
Higgins.  His  mother  was  Jennette,  daughter  of  Elisha 
and  Laura  (Hopkins)  Carter.  His  preparatory  training 
was  received  at  the  schools  in  Plantsville,   Conn.,  and   at 


36  YALE    COLLEGE 

the  Monson  (Mass.)  Academy.  He  entered  Yale  in  1857, 
from  Amherst  College,  where  he  had  spent  part  of  Fresh- 
man year. 

After  his  graduation  in  i860,  he  entered  the  Yale  Theo- 
logical Department,  but  left  a  year  later  to  continue  his 
studies  for  the  ministry  at  Andover  Theological  Seminary. 
He  was  graduated  there  in  1863,  and,  in  June,  1866,  after 
spending  the  intervening  period  at  New  Haven,  engaged  in 
study  and  occasional  preaching,  was  ordained  and  installed 
as  pastor  of  the  Congregational  Church  at  Lanark,  111. 
There  he  remained  for  a  little  over  eight  years,  resigning 
in  1874  on  account  of  poor  health.  In  September  of  that 
year,  he  returned  to  New  Haven,  Conn.,  and  the  following 
March  accepted  a  call  to  the  Huntington  (Conn.)  Congre- 
gational Church.  His  next  charge  was  at  Mount  Carmel, 
Conn.,  where  he  went  in  October,  1881.  Seven  years  later, 
he  became  pastor  of  the  Congregational  Church  at  Hanover, 
Conn.  In  December,  1900,  he  resigned  from  that  pastorate, 
and  had  since  lived  quietly  in  West  Hartford,  Conn.  He 
preached  occasionally,  but  gave  most  of  his  time  to  writing 
and  study. 

His  death  occurred  at  his  home  on  January  25,  1916, 
from  acute  Bright's  disease,  after  a  lingering  illness. 
Burial  was  in  Grove  Street  Cemetery,  New  Haven. 

Mr.  Higgins  was  married  September  3,  1863,  in  that 
city  to  Louise  Young,  daughter  of  Isaiah  Aurelius  and 
Nancy  Blakeslee.  She  survives  him  with  six  children: 
Edwin  Aurelius;  Jennette  Carter,  who  is  the  wife  of  Fred 
M.  Preston  of  Pine  Castle,  Fla. ;  Henry  Dewitte;  Mary 
Edwards  (Mrs.  J.  F.  Russell  of  Los  Angeles,  Cal.)  ;  Gould 
Shelton  (M.D.  1901),  and  David  Winne.  Their  youngest 
child.  Homer  Blakeslee,  died  in  childhood. 


Charles  Henry  Vandyne,  B.A.   i860 

Born  February  8,  1838,  in  New  York  City 
Died  December  28,  191 5,  in  New  York  City 

Charles  Henry  Vandyne,  son  of  Henry  and  Emily  G. 
(Mead)  Vandyne,  was  born  in  New  York  City,  February 
8,  1838.  He  joined  the  Class  of  i860  at  Yale  in  the  second 
term  of  Freshman  year.     In  Sophomore  and  Senior  years. 


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he  was  awarded  first  prizes  in  mathematics,  and  his  scholar- 
ship appointments  were  a  Dispute  Junior  year  and  a  Dis- 
sertation at  Commencement. 

After  spending  a  few  months  in  the  fall  of  i860  at  the 
theological  seminary  of  the  Protestant  Episcopal  Church 
located  near  Alexandria,  Va.,  he  returned  to  New  York  City 
to  complete  his  preparation  for  the  ministry  at  the  General 
Theological  Seminary.  He  was  ordained  to  the  priesthood 
in  August,  1862,  and  soon  afterwards  placed  in  charge  of 
a  mission  church  among  the  poor  in  the  city  of  Chicago. 
In  1872,  he  was  called  to  St.  Matthew's  Church,  Sunbury, 
Pa.,  and  served  there  for  a  year.  He  was  then  rector  succes- 
sively of  churches  at  Waukegan,  111.,  Fonda,  N.  Y.,  and  East 
New  Market,  Md.  His  last  parish  was  that  of  St.  Mary's  at 
Pocomoke  City,  that  state,  from  which  he  resigned  in  1897. 
After  that  time,  he  lived  with  a  sister  in  New  York  City, 
where  he  died  suddenly  December  28,  191 5.  Although  the 
condition  of  his  health  had  not  allowed  him  to  continue  in 
the  active  ministry,  he  had  been  able  to  write  somewhat  for 
the  press  and  magazines. 

He  was  married  August  2,  1867,  to  Helen,  daughter  of 
Isaac  N.  Marselis,  who  received  the  degree  of  M.D.  from 
the  University  of  Pennsylvania  in  1825.  Mrs.  Vandyne's 
death  occurred  June  29,  1895.  They  had  one  son,  who  died 
in  infancy. 

Henry  Rees  Durfee,  B.A.   1861 

Born  October  5,  1840,  in  Palmyra,  N.  Y. 
Died  December  24,  1915,  in  Palmyra,  N.  Y. 

Henry  Rees  Durfee,  son  of  Bailey  Durfee,  whose  father, 
Lemuel  Durfee,  served  as  a  private  in  the  Revolutionary 
War  and  afterwards  settled  in  northeastern  New  York, 
was  born  in  Palmyra,  N.  Y.,  October  5,  1840.  His  mother 
was  Abigail  A.,  daughter  of  William  and  Abigail  Rees. 
Through  his  father,  he  was  descended  from  Thomas  Dur- 
fee, a  Huguenot,  who  came  from  England  to  America  in 
1660  and  settled  at  Portsmouth,  R.  I.  His  maternal  grand- 
parents emigrated  from  Wales  about  1805.  Receiving  his 
preparatory  education  at  the  Palmyra  Classical  Union 
School,   he   entered   Yale    in    1858   as   a    Sophomore.     He 


38  YALE   COLLEGE 

received  Oration  appointments  and  an  election  to  Phi  Beta 
Kappa. 

After  studying  during  1861-62  in  the  office  of  Judge 
Theron  R.  Strong  at  Rochester,  N.  Y.,  he  entered  the 
Albany  Law  School,  where  he  received  the  degree  of  LL.B. 
in  1863.  He  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  December  of  that 
year,  but  owing  to  the  death  of  his  father  soon  afterwards, 
was  compelled  to  take  charge  of  his  business,  and  was  not 
able  to  open  an  office  of  his  own  until  1868.  From  that  time, 
he  practiced  at  Palmyra,  since  1902  being  associated  with 
Mr.  J.  Francis  Lines  as  a  member  of  the  firm  of  Durfee  & 
Lines. 

His  death  occurred  at  his  home  in  Palmyra,  December  24, 
1915,  as  the  result  of  a  complication  of  ailments.  For 
several  years  he  had  suffered  from  rheumatism.  He  was 
buried  in  the  local  cemetery. 

Besides  being  a  member  of  the  New  York  State  Bar 
Association,  he  was,  during  1913-1914,  president  of  the 
Wayne  County  Association.  He  was  prominent  in  political 
affairs,  and  for  many  years  wielded  a  large  political  influ- 
ence, taking  part  in  almost  all  the  Republican  conventions 
of  the  county  and  district.  He  was  a  member  of  the  New 
York  Assembly  of  1871,  and  from  1885  until  1889  served 
as  supervisor  of  the  town  of  Palmyra,  in  1888  being 
appointed  chairman  of  the  Board  of  Supervisors  of  the 
county.  He  was  elected  a  member  of  the  New  York  Con- 
stitutional Convention  which  met  in  1894,  and  took  an  active 
part  in  the  deliberations  of  that  body.  He  frequently  spoke 
at  political  gatherings  and  on  public  occasions,  and  had 
written  a  few  articles  for  the  press.  For  eighteen  years,  he 
was  a  member  of  the  Palmyra  Board  of  Education,  serving 
for  the  last  five  years  of  this  period  as  its  chairman.  After 
holding  the  position  of  treasurer  of  the  Globe  Manufactur- 
ing Company  for  a  long  time,  he  was  made  president,  and 
he  was  also,  from  1899  until  1906,  president  of  the  Peerless 
Printing  Press  Company.  He  had  been  actively  interested 
in  farming,  and  in  recent  years  had  added  to  the  lands  which 
had  been  in  the  family  for  more  than  a  century.  He  was 
a  member  of  the  Western  Palmyra  Presbyterian  Church  of 
Palmyra.  He  was  a  charter  member  of  the  American 
Scenic  and  Historic  Preservation  Society  and  a  member  of 
the  Wayne  County  auxiliary  committee  of  the  State 
Charities  Aid  Association. 


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Mr.  Durfee  was  married  June  6,  1872,  in  New  York 
City  to  Mary  G.,  daughter  of  Charles  B.  and  Mary  Gibbs 
(Coffin)  Hatch,  who  survives  him.    They  had  no  children. 


Milton  Frost,  B.A.  1861 

Born  July  26,  1840,  in  Croton,  N.  Y. 
Died  December  6,  1915,  in  Peekskill,  N.  Y. 

Milton  Frost,  son  of  John  Wright  and  Phebe  (Cocks) 
Frost,  was  born  in  Croton,  N.  Y.,  July  26,  1840.  His 
father,  a  survivor  of  the  War  of  1812,  was  engaged  in  busi- 
ness as  a  manufacturer  of  brick;  was  supervisor  of  the 
town  of  Cortland,  in  Westchester  County,  New  York,  for 
twelve  years,  and  represented  his  district  in  the  Assembly 
of  the  State  of  New  York  in  183 1.  He  was  the  son  of 
Joel  and  Martha  (Wright)  Frost,  his  father  being  a  mem- 
ber of  the  New  York  Assembly  during  the  period  from 
1806  to  1808;  surrogate  and  county  judge  for  Putnam 
County,  New  York,  from  18 13  to  1821 ;  in  1821,  a  member 
of  the  convention  which  revised  the  New  York  State  con- 
stitution ;  and  the  representative  of  Putnam  and  West- 
chester counties  in  the  United  States  Congress  from  1823 
to  1825.  He  was  a  descendant  of  William  Frost,  who  was 
living  in  Southold,  Long  Island,  as  early  as  1655,  and 
Rebecca,  daughter  of  Nicholas  and  Anne  (Beaupre) 
Wright  Frost.  Many  historians  claim  that  when  Capt. 
John  Underbill,  in  1633,  purchased  from  the  Indians  that 
part  of  Oyster  Bay  known  as  Matinecock,  William  Frost 
and  his  brother,  John,  were  associated  with  him.  Milton 
Frost's  maternal  grandparents  were  Adonijah  and  Mary 
(Haight)   Cocks,  of  Cortland. 

I  He  entered  Yale  in  1857  from  the  Peekskill  (N.  Y.) 
Military  Academy,  and  took  his  degree  four  years  later. 
He  then  read  law  in  the  office  of  Edward  Wells  (B.A. 
1839)  of  Peekskill,  and  was  in  due  time  admitted  to  the 
bar.  Taking  up  his  residence  in  Peekskill,  he  taught  Latin 
for  some  years  in  the  Peekskill  Military  Academy.  On 
April  17,  1863,  he  was  appointed  collector  of  internal 
revenue  at  Peekskill,  and  held  the  position  until  the  Peeks- 
kill  office  was  discontinued,  in  1870,  by  reason  of  the  aboli- 
tion of  the  war  taxes  for  which  it  had  been  established. 


40  YALE    COLLEGE 

During  the  two  years  following,  he  edited  the  Peekskill 
Messenger,  the  Republican  newspaper  of  the  town.  In 
1873,  he  became  connected  with  the  law  department  of  the 
Equitable  Life  Assurance  Company  of  New  York,  continu- 
ing in  this  relation  about  ten  years.  From  1885  to  1900, 
he  was  associated  with  his  brother,  Orrin  Frost,  in  the 
manufacture  of  Hudson  River  brick.  In  the  latter  year,  this 
business  was  discontinued.  From  this  time  on,  failing 
health  brought  about  a  gradual  lessening  of  activity. 

Mr.  Frost  was  a  member  of  the  Second  Presbyterian 
Church  of  Peekskill,  and  held  the  office  of  ruling  elder  in 
the  church  from  June,  1876,  till  the  close  of  his  life.  In 
this  position,  he  served  as  clerk  of  the  session  from  1886 
to  191 5.  He  was  assistant  superintendent  of  the  Sunday 
school  from  1874  to  1877,  and  superintendent  from  1877  to 
1887,  with  the  exception  of  one  year. 

His  death  occurred  December  6,  191 5,  at  his  home  in 
Peekskill,  after  an  illness  of  two  months.  He  was  buried 
in  Hillside  Cemetery  in  that  city. 

He  was  married  in  Peekskill,  July  20,  1864,  to  Julia 
Montgomery,  daughter  of  Albert  and  Emma  Louise  (Has- 
sert)  Wells  and  sister  of  Henry  Albert  Wells  (B.A.  1858). 
Mrs.  Frost  died  July  19,  1883.  Their  oldest  child,  John 
Wells,  died  May  5,  1885.  Two  daughters,  Emma  Mont- 
gomery and  Anne  Milton  (Mrs.  Thomas  Chalmers  Straus), 
and  a  son,  Henry  Laurence,  all  living  in  Peekskill,  survive 
him. 


Harvey  Sheldon  Kitchel,  B.A.   1861 

Born  August  12,  1839,  at  Plymouth  Hollow  (now  Thomaston),  Conn. 
Died  October  12,  1915,  in  Bethlehem,  Pa. 

Harvey  Sheldon  Kitchel  was  born  at  Plymouth  Hollow 
(now  Thomaston),  Conn.,  August  12,  1839.  He  was  the 
oldest  of  the  six  sons  of  Rev.  Harvey  Denison  Kitchel  and 
Ann  Smith  (Sheldon)  Kitchel  and  the  grandson  of  Jonathan 
Kitchel,  a  non-graduate  member  of  the  Class  of  1809  at 
Middlebury  College,  and  Caroline  (Holley)  Kitchel.  His 
mother's  parents  were  David  and  Jerusha  (Smith)  Sheldon. 
His  father  received  the  degree  of  B.A.  from  Middlebury 
College  in    1835,  and   later   studied   theology   at   Andover 


I 


I  I86I  41 

Theological  Seminary  and  at  Yale;  after  serving  in  the 
Congregational  ministry  for  twenty-eight  years,  he  became 
in  1866  president  of  Middlebury  College,  and  continued  in 
that  office  until  1873 ;  Middlebury  conferred  the  honorary 
degree  of  D.D.  upon  him  in  1858,  and  Yale  that  of  M.A. 
seven  years  later. 

After  studying  with  his  father,  Harvey  Sheldon  Kitchel 
completed  his  preparatory  training  at  Phillips  Academy, 
Andover,  Mass.,  in  1857.  He  entered  Yale  as  a  resident  of 
Detroit,  Mich.,  and  in  Sophomore  year  was  awarded  a 
Berkeley  premium  for  excellence  in  Latin  composition.  He 
received  Oration  appointments  in  Junior  and  Senior  years, 
and  was  elected  to  Phi  Beta  Kappa. 

From  the  fall  of  1861  until  1866,  he  resided  at  Williams- 
port,  Pa.,  at  first  while  serving  as  assistant  to  the  superin- 
tendent of  the  Catawissa  Railway  Company,  later  when 
employed  in  the  engineering  department  of  the  Pennsylvania 
Northern  Central  Railway,  and  then  while  engaged  in  sur- 
veying a  new  route  for  the  Atlantic  &  Great  Western  Rail- 
road. In  March,  1866,  he  moved  to  South  Bethlehem,  Pa., 
and  entered  the  service  of  the  Lehigh  Valley  Railroad,  with 
which  company  he  remained  for  more  than  thirty  years  as 
chief  clerk. 

He  changed  his  residence  in  1904  to  Bethlehem,  just 
across  the  Lehigh  River,  and  died  there  October  12,  191 5, 
after  a  brief  illness  from  pneumonia.  Burial  was  in  Niskey 
Hill  Cemetery  in  that  town. 

Mr.  Kitchel  was  a  member  of  the  Church  of  the  Nativity 
of  South  Bethlehem,  and  for  over  thirty  years  had  acted  as 
assistant  treasurer  of  the  Board  of  Missions  of  the  Protes- 
tant Episcopal  Diocese  of  Bethlehem.  Since  1900,  he  had 
served  as  assistant  treasurer  of  Lehigh  University. 

He  was  married  November  17,  1870,  in  South  Bethlehem 
to  Elizabeth  Kent,  daughter  of  William  and  Elizabeth  Kent 
(Sayre)  Reed  and  great-granddaughter  of  Solomon  Reed 
(B.A.  1775),  whose  father,  Solomon  Reed,  graduated  at 
Harvard  in  1739.  Mrs.  Kitchel  survives  her  husband  with 
four  children:  Robert  Reed,  who  received  the  degree  of 
M.E.  at  Lehigh  in  1892;  Anna  Sheldon  (B.A.  Smith  1895), 
now  Mrs.  John  Archibald  Bole  of  Wallkill,  N.  Y. ;  Harriet 
Tyrrell,  a  graduate  of  Smith  in  1905,  and  Margaret  Sheaffe. 
One  son,  Harvey  Denison,  died  in  1878,  a  daughter,  Gladys, 
in  1890,  and  another  son,  William  Sayre,  in   1896.     Mr. 


42  YALE    COLLEGE 

Kitchel  was  a  brother  of  Rev.  Cornelius  Ladd  Kitchel  (B.A. 
1862,  B.D.  1867)  ;  Courtney  Smith  Kitchel,  who  received 
the  degree  of  B.A.  at  Yale  in  1865  and  that  of  LL.B.  at 
the  Albany  Law  School  the  following  year,  and  Luther  Hart 
Kitchel,  a  member  of  the  College  Class  of  186.7,  who  took 
the  degree  of  M.D.  from  the  University  of  Buffalo  several 
years  after  his  graduation  from  Yale.  Another  brother, 
Stanley  Rice  Kitchel,  received  the  B.A.  degree  at  Williams 
in  1876,  having  previously  spent  some  time  as  a  member  of 
the  Class  of  1876  at  Middlebury.  Three  of  his  nephews  are 
also  graduates  of  Yale:  William  L.  Kitchel  (B.A.  1892, 
LL.B.  1895);  Cornelius  P.  Kitchel  (B.A.  1897,  LL.B. 
1901),  and  Allan  F.  Kitchel  (B.A.  1909). 


Lorenzo  Sears,  B.A.   1861 

Born  April  18,  1838,  in  Searsville,  Mass. 
Died  February  29,  1916,  in  Providence,  R.  I. 

Lorenzo  Sears,  son  of  Nathan  and  Cordelia  (Morton) 
Sears,  was  born  in  Searsville,  Mass.,  a  part  of  the  township 
of  Williamsburg,  April  18,  1838.  Through  his  father  he 
was  descended  from  Richard  Sears,  who  came  to  America 
in  1632 ;  his  earliest  maternal  ancestor  in  this  country  was 
George  Morton,  who  emigrated  from  England  and  whose 
son,  Nathaniel,  was  the  early  historian  of  Plymouth  Colony. 
He  was  also  a  descendant  of  Elder  Brewster,  Stephen  Hop- 
kins, and  Richard  Warren  of  the  Mayflozver  company.  He 
was  fitted  for  college  at  Williston  Seminary,  Easthampton, 
Mass.,  and  took  his  Freshman  year  at  Yale  with  the  Class 
of  i860.  He  joined  the  Class  with  which  he  was  graduated 
at  the  beginning  of  Sophomore  year. 

Upon  taking  his  degree,  he  entered  the  General  Theo- 
logical Seminary  of  the  Protestant  Episcopal  Church  in 
New  York  City,  and  was  graduated  there  in  June,  1864. 
Early  in  the  following  July,  he  was  ordained  as  deacon, 
and  in  October  took  charge  of  St.  Mark's  Church  at  Mystic, 
Conn.,  where  he  remained  for  a  year  and  a  half,  having  been 
ordained  to  the  priesthood  in  1865.  From  June,  1866,  until 
November,  1869,  he  served  as  rector  of  St.  Bartholomew's 
Church,  Providence,  R.  I.     His  next  parish  was  that  of 


i86i  43 

Grace  Church  at  Manchester,  N.  H.,  and  during  his  rector- 
ship of  sixteen  years  there  he  was  a  member  of  the  Stand- 
ing Committee  of  the  Diocese  of  New  Hampshire,  secretary 
and  treasurer  of  the  Diocesan  Board  of  Missions,  examin- 
ing chaplain  to  the  bishop,  and  deputy  to  the  General 
Convention. 

He  had  spent  much  time  in  the  study  of  rhetoric  and 
English  literature,  and  in  1885  left  the  ministry  (although 
continuing  to  preach  occasionally),  and  for  the  next  three 
years  held  the  professorship  of  rhetoric  and  English  litera- 
ture at  the  University  of  Vermont,  where  he  served  also 
as  librarian.  In  1890,  he  went  to  Brown  University  to 
accept  an  appointment  as  associate  professor  of  rhetoric. 
Five  years  later,  he  was  transferred  to  the  associate  profes- 
sorship of  American  literature,  and  acted  in  that  capacity 
until  1906,  when  he  resigned  to  devote  himself  to  literary 
work.  Among  his  books  are  "The  History  of  Oratory 
from  the  Age  of  Pericles  to  the  Present  Time"  (1896), 
**The  Occasional  Address :  Its  Literature  and  Composition" 
(1897),  "American  Literature  in  Its  Colonial  and  National 
Periods"  (1902),  "Wendell  Phillips,  Orator  and  Agitator" 
(1909),  "John  Hancock,  the  Picturesque  Patriot"  (1912), 
and  "John  Hay,  Author  and  Statesman"  (1914).  He  left 
in  manuscript  "Major  Joseph  Hawley  [B.A.  1742],  the 
Counsellor  of  Boston  Patriots"  and  "Rhode  Island's  Story," 
both  of  which  are  to  be  published.  In  1901,  he  wrote  the 
historical  introduction  to  the  "Library  of  Modern  Elo- 
quence." Professor  Sears  had  read  papers  before  various 
organizations,  and  was  a  frequent  contributor  to  periodicals. 
He  was  a  member  of  the  Authors  Club  of  London.  Trinity 
College  conferred  the  honorary  degree  of  M.A.  upon  him 
in  1887  and  that  of  L.H.D.  five  years  later. 

His  death  occurred  at  his  home  in  Providence,  February 
29,  19 16,  as  the  result  of  an  attack  of  pneumonia.  He  was 
buried  in  Swan  Point  Cemetery  in  that  city. 

Professor  Sears  was  married  in  Providence,  January  2, 
1866,  to  Adeline  A.,  daughter  of  James  T.  and  Sophie 
(Knight)  Harris,  who  survives  him  with  a  daughter,  Sophie 
Harris.    Another  daughter,  Sophie  Knight,  died  in  infancy. 


44  YALE    COLLEGE 


Charles  Thompson  Stanton,  B.A.   1861 

Born  November  30,  1839,  in  Stonington,  Conn. 
Died  November  26,  1915,  in  Stonington,  Conn. 

Charles  Thompson  Stanton  was  born  November  30,  1839, 
in  Stonington,  Conn.,  the  son  of  Charles  Thompson  Stanton, 
a  direct  descendant  of  John  Alden  and  Priscilla  Mullens, 
and  Nancy  Lord  (Palmer)  Stanton.  His  mother  was 
descended  from  Walter  Palmer  and  his  father  from  Thomas 
Stanton,  both  early  settlers  of  the  town  of  Stonington.  His 
uncle,  Capt.  Nathaniel  B.  Palmer,  was  the  discoverer  of 
Palmer's  Land  in  the  Antarctic  Circle. 

He  entered  Yale  in  1857,  having  been  fitted  for  college 
under  Dr.  David  Hart,  and  graduated  with  the  Class  of 
1861.  He  was  a  member  of  Linonia,  and  served  on  the 
Wooden  Spoon  Committee.  He  belonged  to  the  Nereid 
Boat  Club,  was  commodore  of  the  Yale  Navy,  and  rowed 
on  the  crew  of  1859,  the  first  Yale  crew  to  beat  Harvard, 
every  member  of  which  subsequently  served  with  distinction 
as  an  officer  in  the  Union  Army.  His  scholarship  appoint- 
ments were  a  Dispute  in  Junior  year  and  a  Colloquy  at 
Commencement. 

After  graduation,  Mr.  Stanton  spent  a  year  at  home,  and 
then,  in  the  summer  of  1862,  personally  recruited  Company 
E  of  the  Twenty-first  Connecticut  Volunteers,  and  was 
commissioned  captain  and  later  major.  He  was  wounded 
at  Drury's  Blufif,  May  16,  1864,  and  later  was  brevetted 
lieutenant  colonel  for  distinguished  bravery  on  the  field  of 
battle.  After  the  war,  he  interested  himself  in  the  organiza- 
tion of  the  National  Guard,  and  served  as  adjutant  general 
for  Connecticut  during  Governor  Hawley's  term  of  office. 
From  1869  to  1885,  he  was  engaged  in  sugar  raising  in 
Louisiana,  not  far  from  New  Orleans.  Returning  to  Con- 
necticut, he  was,  in  1891,  appointed  collector  of  the  port  of 
Stonington  (for  many  years  a  shipping  center  of  impor- 
tance), which  office  he  filled,  with  the  exception  of  the 
period  of  President  Cleveland's  administration,  until  its 
abolishment  in  191 3.  Colonel  Stanton  had  always  taken  a 
deep  interest  and  active  part  in  all  civic  and  church  affairs, 
and  was  long  a  member  of  the  official  board  of  the  Second 
Congregational  Church  of  Stonington,  of  which  he  had 
been  senior  deacon  for  the  past  twelve  years. 


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He  had  suffered  from  heart  trouble  for  some  time,  but 
his  death  at  his  home  in  Stonington,  November  26,  191 5, 
was  unexpected.  He  was  buried  in  the  cemetery  in  that 
town. 

He  had  never  married.  Two  of  his  three  surviving 
sisters  married  Yale  men — one  being  the  wife  of  Edward 
F.  Finney  (Ph.B.  1868)  and  the  other  of  the  late  George 
A.  Adee  (B.A.  1867,  LL.B.  Columbia  1870),  whose  sons 
were  George  Townsend  Adee  (B.A.  1895)  and  Charles 
Stanton  Adee,  a  non-graduate  member  of  the  Class  of  1897. 


Henry  Samuel  Barnum,  B.A.   1862 

Born  August  13,  1837,  in  Stratford,  Conn, 
Died  December  10,  1915,  in  Verona,  N.  J. 

Henry  Samuel  Barnum  was  born  August  13,  1837,  in 
Stratford,  Conn.,  the  son  of  Samuel  Barnum,  a  mechanic, 
and  Harriet  (Curtis)  Barnum.  His  father  was  the  son  of 
Mathew  and  Mary  (Starr)  Barnum  and  a  descendant  of 
Thomas  Barnum,  who  came  to  this  country  from  England 
about  1645  and  a  number  of  years  later  settled  at  Danbury, 
Conn.  His  mother,  whose  parents  were  Isaac  Jackson  and 
Charity  (Booth)  Curtis,  was  descended  from  William 
Curtis,  an  Englishman,  who  settled  at  Stratford  in  1639. 

His  preparatory  training  was  received  at  Stratford  Acad- 
emy, and  before  entering  Yale  in  1858,  he  spent  three  years 
as  clerk  in  the  store  of  his  uncle,  Mr.  M.  S.  Barnum,  at 
Farrandsville,  Pa.  He  received  Oration  appointments  in 
college,  ranking  seventh  in  his  Class  at  graduation,  and  was 
a  member  of  Brothers  in  Unity  and  of  Phi  Beta  Kappa. 

He  entered  Auburn  Theological  Seminary  in  1864,  having 
taught  during  the  two  previous  years  in  Guilford,  Conn., 
and  in  Poughkeepsie,  N.  Y.  He  preached  each  summer  of 
his  Seminary  course,  and  in  July,  1867,  directly  after  his 
graduation,  sailed  -for  Turkey  as  a  missionary  under  the 
American  Board  of  Commissioners  for  Foreign  Missions. 
Until  1872,  he  was  stationed  at  Harpoot  in  Asia  Minor, 
reached  by  a  horseback  journey  of  three  hundred  and  sixty 
miles  from  Samsun  on  the  Black  Sea,  and  during  this 
period,  while  learning  the  Armenian  language,  he  taught 


46  YALE    COLLEGE 

in  the  theological  seminary  and  did  much  work  among  the 
villagers.  He  joined  with  two  missionary  colleagues  in  1872 
in  establishing  a  new  station  in  the  city  of  Van,  where  he 
worked  steadily  until  his  return  to  America  in  1883.  His 
furlough  was  spent  in  visiting,  teaching,  and  preaching, 
principally  at  Gladstone,  N.  Dak.  He  went  back  to  Turkey 
in  the  latter  part  of  1884.  His  work  from  that  time  was 
chieflfy  carried  on  at  Constantinople,  and  largely  through 
the  press.  For  many  years,  he  edited  a  paper  in  the  Arme- 
nian and  Turkish  languages,  and  he  was  the  author  of  a 
commentary  in  the  former  tongue  on  several  of  the  epistles 
of  St.  Paul.  In  191 5,  the  complications  of  war  obliged  his 
paper  to  suspend  publication,  and  after  spending  some 
months  in  teaching  at  a  girls'  school,  he  returned  to 
America.  Other  journeys  to  this  country  had  been  made 
by  Mr.  Barnum  in  1897,  1907,  and  1912,  and  in  1898  Yale 
had  conferred  the  honorary  degree  of  Doctor  of  Divinity 
upon  him. 

His  death  occurred  in  Verona,  N.  J.,  December  10,  1915, 
after  an  illness  of  six  days  due  to  pneumonia.  He  was 
buried  in  Union  Cemetery  at  Stratford. 

Dr.  Barnum  was  first  married  May  22,  1867,  in  Guilford 
to  Lucretia  Linsley  Parker,  who  died  December  31  of  the 
same  year.  On  March  10,  1869,  he  was  married  in  Norwalk, 
Conn.,  to  Helen,  daughter  of  George  and  Caroline  (Louns- 
bury)  Randle.  Her  death  occurred  January  31,  1914,  and 
on  November  3,  191 5,  Dr.  Barnum's  third  marriage  took 
place  in  Verona,  N.  J.,  to  Mrs.  Christine  Curtis  Fish,  daugh- 
ter of  Sidney  and  Christana  (Demarest)  Curtis  and  widow 
of  George  Fish,  who  survives  him.  By  his  first  marriage, 
Dr.  Barnum  had  a  daughter,  who  died  shortly  after  birth. 
Five  children  by  his  second  marriage  died  before  reaching 
maturity — George  Scott  in  1875 ;  Clara  Louise  in  1877,  and 
Harriet  Starr,  Sarah  Randle,  and  Helen  Curtis,  all  in 
December,  1881.  One  son  by  this  marriage — Harry  Hunt- 
ington (B.A.  Amherst  1900,  M.A.  University  of  Chicago 
1909) — is  living. 


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John  Phelps  Taylor,  B.A.   1862 

Born  April  6,  1841,  in  Andover,  Mass. 
Died  September  13,  1915,  in  Andover,  Mass. 

John  Phelps  Taylor  was  born  April  6,  1841,  in  Andover, 
Mass.,  his  father,  Rev.  John  Lord  Taylor,  D.D.  (B.A. 
1835),  ^^  that  time  holding  the  pastorate  of  the  South 
Church  in  that  town.  Dr.  Taylor,  who  was  later  identified 
with  Andover  Theological  Seminary,  as  treasurer  and  a 
professor,  was  the  son  of  John  and  Anna  (Beardsley) 
Taylor.  He  married  Caroline  Lord,  daughter  of  Col. 
Epaphras  Lord  Phelps  and  Elizabeth  (Holkins)  Phelps  and 
a  descendant  of  William  Phelps,  who  came  to  this  country 
from  Tewsbury,  England,  landing  at  Nantasket  (Hull), 
May  30,  1630,  and  later  settling  at  East  Windsor,  Conn-. ;  of 
Thomas  Lord  of  Hartford,  Conn. ;  and  of  Peter  Bulkeley, 
the  earliest  minister  at  Concord,  Mass. 

The  son  entered  Yale  from  Phillips  Academy,  Andover, 
being  valedictorian  of  both  his  preparatory  school  and  col- 
lege classes.  He  held  the  Woolsey  and  Clark  scholarships 
at  Yale,  received  several  prizes  in  Latin  and  English  com- 
position and  in  declamation  and  an  election  to  Phi  Beta 
Kappa,  and  was  on  the  editorial  board  of  the  Yale  Literary 
Magazine. 

In  the  fall  after  his  graduation,  Mr.  Taylor  returned  to 
New  Haven,  and  for  a  year  was  engaged  in  reading  history, 
giving  private  instruction,  and  serving  as  librarian  of  Lin- 
onia.  In  1865,  after  two  years  of  European  travel  and 
study,  he  entered  Andover  Theological  Seminary,  where  he 
was  graduated  in  1868.  During  his  Seminary  course,  he 
spent  six  months  in  Europe  and  the  Holy  Land,  and,  in 
1866-67,  taught  at  Phillips  Academy.  Being  ordained  at 
Middletown,  Conn.,  November  12,  1868,  he  held  for  the  next 
six  years  the  pastorate  of  the  South  Congregational  Church 
of  that  place.  From  1874  to  1876,  he  was  in  charge  of  the 
United  Congregational  Church  at  Newport,  R.  I.  The  year 
of  1877  he  spent  in  Andover,  studying  Hebrew.  He 
accepted  a  call  to  New  London,  Conn.,  in  1878,  and  for  the 
next  five  years  served  as  pastor  of  the  Second  Congrega- 
tional Church. 

From  1883  until  1899,  Mr.  Taylor  was  the  Taylor  profes- 
sor of  Biblical  theology  at  Andover  Theological  Seminary, 


48  YALE    COLLEGE 

his  subjects  being  in  reality  Biblical  history  and  Oriental 
archaeology.  With  his  colleagues,  he  had  served  as  preacher 
at  the  Seminary  Chapel,  and  during  the  life  of  the  Andover 
Review,  he  was  responsible  for  its  "Archaeological  Notes." 
In  1885,  he  was  lecturer  on  Egyptology  at  the  Peabody 
Institute  in  Baltimore.  From  1882  to  1892,  he  was  a  direc- 
tor of  the  American  Oriental  Society,  and  since  the  latter 
year  he  had  been  a  trustee  of  Abbot  Academy  at  Andover. 
He  had  taken  a  deep  interest  in  local  history  and  town 
affairs,  being  a  generous  supporter  of  Andover's  varied 
philanthropies.  At  the  time  of  the  Two  Hundred  and 
Fiftieth  Anniversary  of  Andover,  he  was  a  member  of  the 
general  committee  of  fifteen  which  had  charge  of  the  cele- 
bration. Middlebury  College  conferred  the  honorary  degree 
of  D.D.  upon  Professor  Taylor  in  1897.  He  was  one  of 
the  first  members  of  the  Boston  Yale  Club. 

After  his  retirement,  he  devoted  himself  to  study  and 
travel  and  to  the  interests  of  Phillips  Academy,  of  whose 
General  Alumni  Association  he  was  president  in  1912-13. 
Since  January,  191 5,  his  health  had  been  failing,  and  he 
died  in  Andover,  September  13  of  that  year,  shortly  after 
returning  from  Watch  Hill,  R.  I.,  where  he  had  passed  the 
summer.    Burial  was  in  Evergreen  Cemetery,  New  Haven. 

Professor  Taylor  was  married  in  New  Haven,  October 
14,  1868,  to  Antoinette,  daughter  of  Nathan  Fenn  and  Emily 
Grace  (Isbell)  Hall,  both  descendants  of  the  first  settlers 
of  Milford,  Conn.     She  survives  him  without  children. 


Frederick  Jones  Barnard,  B.A.   1863 

Born  August  24,  1841,  in  Worcester,  Mass. 
Died  October  11,  1915,  in  Worcester,  Mass. 

Frederick  Jones  Barnard  was  born  in  Worcester,  Mass., 
August  24,  1 84 1,  the  son  of  Ebenezer  Lovell  and  Caro- 
line (Sweetser)  Barnard.  He  received  his  preparation  for 
college  in  his  native  town.  His  scholarship  appointments 
at  Yale  were  a  Dissertation  in  Junior  year  and  a  Dispute 
the  following  year.  He  spoke  at  Junior  Exhibition  and  at 
Commencement,  and  was  a  member  of  Phi  Beta  Kappa. 

After  spending  some  time  in  Worcester  studying  law  in 
the  office  of  Mr.  Peter  C.  Bacon  and  several  months  in  the 


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field  as  a  member  of  Company  F,  Sixtieth  Massachusetts 
Infantry,  Mr.  Barnard  entered  the  Harvard  Law  School, 
where  he  was  graduated  with  the  degree  of  LL.B.  in  i866. 
From  that  time  until  the  failure  of  his  health,  he  practiced 
law  in  Worcester,  for  some  years  being  connected  with  the 
firm  of  Bacon  &  Aldrich.  He  served  as  register  in  bank- 
ruptcy for  a  time,  resuming  his  private  practice  upon  the 
abolishment  of  that  office. 

Mr.  Barnard  died  October  ii,  1915,  in  Worcester,  Mass., 
after  a  prolonged  illness  resulting  from  a  series  of  apoplec- 
tic shocks,  and  was  buried  in  Rural  Cemetery. 

He  was  married  in  May,  1875,  to  Anna  Colburn,  daugh- 
ter of  Rev.  Burritt  Augustus  Smith,  a  graduate  of  the 
College  in  1843,  ^^^^  Mary  G.  (Colburn)  Smith  and  half- 
sister  of  Herbert  A.  Smith  (B.A.  1889,  Ph.D.  1897).  Four 
children  were  born  to  them :  Ruth  Colburn  (Mrs.  Alexander 
Bowler);  Frederick  Jones,  who  died  in  infancy;  Anna 
Dawes,  and  Frederick  Merriman,  a  graduate  of  Harvard 
with  the  degree  of  B.A.  in  1910. 


Cyrus  West  Francis,  B.A.   1863 

Born  June  17,  1838,  in  Newington,  Conn. 
Died  June  12,  1916,  in  Hartford,  Conn. 

Cyrus  West  Francis,  whose  parents  were  Cyrus  Francis, 
a  farmer,  and  Nancy  Dor  ranee  (Pratt)  Francis,  was  born 
in  Newington  (then  a  part  of  Wethersfield),  Conn.,  June  17, 
1838.  Through  his  father,  who  was  the  son  of  Major 
Justus  Francis  and  Mary  (Belden)  Francis,  he  was 
descended  from  Robert  Francis,  who  came  to  this  country 
between  1640  and  1660  and  settled  at  Wethersfield.  The 
most  important  and  influential  of  the  Connecticut  members 
of  this  family  was  probably  Major  Francis,  who  served  in 
the  Revolutionary  War.  He  was  born  in  1750,  and  died 
in  1827. 

Entering  Yale  College  in  1859,  from  Dummer  Academy, 
South  Byfield,  Mass.,  where  he  was  valedictorian  of  his 
class,  Cyrus  W.  Francis  received  a  third  prize  in  English 
composition  in  Sophomore  year.  Oration  appointments,  and 
an  election  to  Phi  Beta  Kappa.  He  was  an  editor  of  the  Yale 
Literary  Magazine  and  a  deacon  in  the  College  Church. 


50  YALE  COLLEGE 

He  began  his  preparation  for  the  ministry  in  the  Theo- 
logical Department  at  Yale  in  the  fall  after  receiving  his 
Bachelor's  degree,  took  the  full  divinity  course  and  also 
a  fourth  year,  and  in  1867  was  graduated  with  the  degree 
of  B.D. 

He  served  in  the  Christian  Commission  two  terms  in 
1864-65,  was  licensed  to  preach  May  30,  1865,  and  ordained 
as  a  missionary  September  12,  1867.  Early  in  the  follow- 
ing month,  he  left  for  Atlanta,  Ga.,  where,  under  the 
auspices  of  the  American  Missionary  Association,  he  was 
engaged  in  educational  and  religious  work  among  the 
Negroes.  In  March,  1869,  he  was  installed  as  pastor  of  the 
First  Congregational  Church  of  Atlanta,  but  resigned  that 
charge  four  years  later  because  of  the  illness  of  his  wife, 
with  whom  he  spent  several  months  in  California,  where 
she  died.  He  returned  to  Georgia  in  September,  1873,  to 
accept  the  professorship  of  systematic  theology  in  Atlanta 
University,  of  which  he  was  one  of  the  trustees  for  the 
twenty-seven  years  following  the  date  of  its  charter  in  1867. 
He  was  transferred  to  the  professorship  of  ethics  and  Chris- 
tian evidences  in  1874,  and  held  that  chair  until  June,  1894. 
For  thirteen  years,  he  also  served  as  librarian  there,  and 
for  twenty  years  was  in  charge  of  the  religious  interests 
of  the  institution  as  pastor  of  the  College  Church. 
For  a  year,  he  served  as  acting  president.  In  his  work 
in  Georgia,  Mr.  Francis  was  intimately  associated  with 
two  of  his  classmates  of  the  Class  of  1863,  Edmund  A. 
Ware,  the  first  president  of  Atlanta  University,  and  Horace 
Bumstead,  its  second  president;  and  also,  from  his  child- 
hood, with  the  third  and  present  president,  son  of  the  first, 
Edward  T.  Ware  (B.A.  1897),  at  whose  ordination  to  the 
ministry  he  oflficiated. 

After  leaving  Atlanta  in  1894,  he  became,  in  1895,  pastor 
of  the  Congregational  Church  at  Brookfield,  Conn.,  con- 
tinuing there  until  1904.  The  remainder  of  his  life  was 
passed  in  Hartford,  Conn.,  the  condition  of  his  health  being 
such  that  he  was  unable  to  engage  in  the  active  work  of 
the  ministry.  He  died  in  that  city,  June  12,  1916,  as  the 
result  of  arterio  sclerosis.  Burial  was  in  the  Newington 
Cemetery.  Mr.  Francis  was  at  his  death  a  member  of  the 
Fourth  Congregational  Church  of  Hartford,  of  which  he 
was  at  one  time  a  deacon. 


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He  was  married  in  New  Haven,  Conn.,  September  24, 
1867,  to  Hattie  Minor,  whose  death  occurred  April  22, 
1873.  On  January  31,  1894,  his  second  marriage  took 
place  in  Fall  River,  Mass.,  to  Ida  F.,  daughter  of  Joseph 
Church  and  Susan  (Gunn)  Terry,  who  survives  him  with 
two  sons, — Dwight  Terry,  now  a  cadet  at  the  West  Point 
Military  Academy,  and  Alfred  West,  a  member  of  the  Class 
of  191 7  at  the  Worcester  Polytechnic  Institute. 


Edward  Brodie  Glasgow,  B.A.   1863 

Born  March  9,  1843,  in  Philadelphia,  Pa. 
Died  October  15,  1915,  in  Philadelphia,  Pa. 

Edward  Brodie  Glasgow,  son  of  William  and  Mary 
(Brodie)  Glasgow,  was  born  in  Philadelphia,  Pa.,  March 
9,  1843.  His  parents  removed  to  Warminster,  Pa.,  in  that 
year,  and  he  was  brought  up  on  a  farm  there.  He  was 
fitted  for  college  at  the  Tennant  School,  in  the  neighboring 
town  of  Hartsville,  and  entered  Yale  as  a  Sophomore  in 
i860.  He  was  graduated  in  1863  with  Phi  Beta  Kappa 
rank,  having  received  Oration  appointments. 

The  first  few  years  after  taking  his  degree  he  spent  in 
teaching — at  first  at  the  Pennsylvania  Military  Academy, 
then  at  the  Eaglewood  Military  Academy,  and  finally  at  the 
Highland  Military  Academy  at  Worcester,  Mass.,  of  which 
he  was  commandant  for  several  years.  During  this  period, 
he  studied  law,  and,  having  completed  his  course  at  the 
Columbia  Law  School,  was  in  1870  admitted  to  the  bar. 
Shortly  afterwards,  a  difficulty  with  his  eyes  developed,  and 
he  was  obliged  to  spend  about  fifteen  months  at  his  home  in 
Warminster.  Returning  to  Worcester,  he  engaged  in  the 
practice  of  law.  In  1876,  he  was  appointed  an  inspector 
in  the  state  militia,  receiving  a  commission  as  lieutenant 
colonel.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Massachusetts  House  of 
Representatives  in  1889  and  1890,  and  in  1892  was  chosen 
as  a  presidential  elector,  serving  as  secretary  of  the  elec- 
toral college  at  its  session  the  following  January.  He  was 
a  trustee  of  the  Worcester  Free  Public  Library,  and  had 
served  on  the  School  Board  and  as  secretary  of  the 
Worcester  Indian  Rights  Association  and  the  Worcester  Art 
Society.     He  belonged  to  the  Massachusetts  Civil  Service 


52  YALE    COLLEGE 

Association,  and  at  one  time  held  office  as  secretary  of  the 
Yale  Alumni  Association  of  Western  Massachusetts.  He 
attended  the  Second  Unitarian  Church  in  Worcester,  and 
was  a  life  member  of  the  American  Unitarian  Association. 
He  had  written  somewhat  for  the  press,  and  was  the  author 
of  a  sketch  of  the  history  of  Worcester. 

In  the  fall  of  191 5,  Mr.  Glasgow  went  to  Philadelphia, 
as  his  mental  condition  had  become  such  that  it  was  thought 
best  for  him  to  be  with  relatives  there,  and  he  took  his  life 
in  that  city  on  October  15.     He  was  unmarried. 


Charles  Upham  Shepard,  B.A.   1863 

Born  October  4,  1842,  in  New  Haven,  Conn. 
Died  July  4,  1915,  in  Summerville,  S.  C. 

Charles  Upham  Shepard  was  born  in  New  Haven,  Conn., 
on  October  4,  1842,  being  the  only  son  of  Charles  Upham 
and  Harriet  (Taylor)  Shepard  and  a  descendant  of  Thomas 
Shepard,  who  came  to  this  country  from  England  early  in 
the  seventeenth  century,  settling  at  Maiden,  Mass.  His 
father,  a  graduate  of  Amherst  in  1824,  received  an  honorary 
M.D.  from  Dartmouth  in  1836  and  an  LL.D.  from  Amherst 
in  1857.  From  1830  to  1847,  he  served  as  a  lecturer  in 
chemistry  at  Yale,  where  he  had  previously  held  an  appoint- 
ment for  several  years  as  assistant  in  chemistry,  and  he 
later  was  a  full  professor  on  the  Faculties  of  Amherst  and 
the  Medical  College  of  South  Carolina,  and  served  as  state 
chemist  of  Connecticut  and  South  Carolina.  He  was  best 
known  as  a  geologist  and  mineralogist.  He  was  the  author 
of  an  early  text  book,  was  associated  with  James  Gates 
Percival  (B.A.  181 5,  M.D.  1820)  in  a  geological  survey  of 
Connecticut,  and  had  one  of  the  largest  collections  of  min- 
erals and  meteorites  in  the  country,  part  of  which  remains 
on  exhibition  at  the  United  States  National  Museum.  He 
was  the  son  of  Rev.  Mase  Shepard,  D.D.,  and  a  first  cousin 
of  Ralph  Waldo  Emerson. 

Charles  U.  Shepard,  Jr.,  prepared  for  college  at  Skinner's 
School  in  New  Haven,  and  later  at  Phillips  Academy, 
Andover,  Mass.,  from  which  he  graduated  in  1859.  He 
entered  Yale  that  same  year,  and  immediately  after  gradu- 


i863  '  53 

ating  went  abroad,  and  for  the  next  four  years  devoted  him- 
self to  the  study  of  medicine  and  fjhysiological  chemistry, 
receiving  the  degree  of  M.D.,  with  honors,  from  the  Uni- 
versity of  Gottingen  in  1867.  While  still  a  student,  he 
served  with  distinction  as  a  volunteer  surgeon  in  the 
Hanoverian  Army  in  the  Austro-Prussian  War  of  1866. 
He  was  in  charge  of  a  field  hospital,  and  worked  under  fire. 
Dr.  Shepard  was  offered  the  decoration  of  the  Second  Class 
of  the  Order  of  the  Red  Eagle,  which  was,  however, 
declined,  following  his  father's  example  in  refusing  Euro- 
pean decorations. 

While  abroad.  Dr.  Shepard  published,  in  collaboration 
with  Professor  George  Meissner,  "The  Origin  of  Hippuric 
Acid  in  the  Animal  Organism."  He  returned  to  America 
in  1867,  going  to  Charleston,  S.  C,  to  accept  the  position 
of  assistant  professor  of  chemistry  in  the  Medical  College 
of  South  Carolina,  succeeding  his  father,  where  he  con- 
tinued until  1885,  having  been  raised  to  a  full  professorship 
in  1870. 

The  development  of  the  phosphate  industry  in  the  state, 
founded  by  his  father,  turned  his  attention  from  animal  to 
vegetable  chemistry.  He  was  never  connected  directly  with 
any  of  the  industrial  concerns  springing  out  of  the  growth 
of  this  industry,  preferring  to  refrain  from  making  any 
particular  attachments  of  this  kind  for  fear  that  they  might 
interfere  with  his  larger  usefulness  to  the  phosphate  indus- 
try generally.  His  work  in  the  phosphate  beds  began 
shortly  after  his  retirement  from  the  Faculty  of  the  Medical 
College.  He  established  the  first  complete  laboratory  (.the 
present  Shepard  Laboratory  of  Charleston)  to  be  used  for 
the  upbuilding  of  the  phosphate  industry.  He  explored  the 
phosphate  beds  of  all  the  South  Carolina  rivers  producing 
this  rock,  and  made  the  map  of  the  phosphate  regions  of 
the  state  which  is  now  used  by  the  United  States  Govern- 
ment, and  furnished  by  it  as  authoritative.  He  examined 
during  his  services  in  behalf  of  this  industry  practically  all 
phosphate  deposits  in  the  state.  Dr.  Shepard's  work  in  this 
region  spread  his  reputation  abroad,  and  he  spent  a  number 
of  years  in  doing  similar  work  in  Europe,  becoming  widely 
known  in  the  countries  of  that  continent.  At  times,  he  made 
investigations  of  phosphate  deposits  in  Canada. 

Since  about  1890,  he  had  been  chiefly  interested  in  the 
production  of   tea,   being  the   first  person   to   successfully 


54  YALE    COLLEGE 

engage  in  this  industry  in  the  United  States.  His  efforts 
in  this  direction  aroused  interest  all  over  the  country,  and 
his  plantation,  "Pinehurst,"  at  Summerville,  S.  C,  had 
become  widely  known,  both  on  account  of  the  tea  farm  and 
its  beautiful  gardens.  Dr.  Shepard  was  gradually  enabled 
to  raise  and  sell  between  10,000  and  15,000  pounds  of  tea 
annually.  He  had  written  extensively  on  the  possibilities  of 
raising  tea  in  this  country,  and  many  of  his  articles  were 
printed  in  magazines  and  newspapers.  He  had  also,  since 
about  1889,  been  largely  identified  with  the  exploitation  and 
development  of  the  Florida  hard  rock  industry.  Dr.  Shep- 
ard's  aid  had  been  given  to  the  betterment  of  conditions 
among  the  poor-whites  and  Negroes  in  the  community;  he 
was  a  supporter  of  the  Shepard  School  at  St.  Barnabas' 
Mission  for  the  former,  and  the  Pinehurst  School  for  the 
latter.  He  had  served  for  many  years  as  senior  warden  of 
St.  Paul's  Protestant  Episcopal  Church  at  Summerville. 

He  died  on  his  plantation,  "Pinehurst,"  on  July  4,  1915. 
The  interment  was  with  his  wife's  family  in  Greenwood 
Cemetery  in  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 

His  marriage  took  place  in  Brooklyn,  on  January  17, 
1872,  to  Ellen,  daughter  of  James  Humphrey,  a  member  of 
Congress,  and  Urania  (Battell)  Humphrey,  who  died  on 
February  25,  1874.  One  child,  a  girl,  died  in  infancy.  Mrs. 
Shepard  was  the  niece  of  Joseph  Battell,  after  whom  the 
Battell  Chapel  at  Yale  is  named,  and  she  was  the  sister  of 
the  first  wife  of  Clarence  Deming  (B.A.  1872).  In  her 
memory.  Dr.  Shepard  gave  the  altar  window  to  the  Chapel 
of  .  the  Congregational  Church  at  Norfolk,  Conn.  Dr. 
Shepard  had  two  sisters,  one,  Harriet  Silliman  Shepard, 
marrying  the  late  John  W.  DeForest,  the  historian  and 
novelist,  upon  whom  Amherst  conferred  an  honorary  M.A. 
in  1859,  and  who  served  as  major  of  volunteers  during  the 
Civil  War.  Their  son  was  Louis  Shepard  DeForest  (B.A. 
1879),  who  received  the  degree  of  M.D.  from  the  Univer- 
sity of  Jena  in  1885  and  that  of  M.A.  from  Yale  in  1891. 
The  other  sister,  Fanny  Boltwood  Shepard,  married  the 
late  Charles  Pinkney  James,  LL.D.  (B.A.  Harvard  1838), 
justice  of  the  Supreme  Court  of  the  District  of  Columbia. 


i863  55 


Hamilton  Wallis,  B.A.  1863 

Born  November  25,  1842,  in  New  York  City 
Died  April  i,  1916,  in  Orange,  N.  J. 

Hamilton  Wallis,  son  of  Alexander  Hamilton  and  Eliza- 
beth (Geib)  Wallis,  was  born  November  25,  1842,  in  New 
York  City,  being  a  descendant  of  Joseph  Wallis,  who  came 
from  London  to  New  York  about  1776.  His  paternal 
grandparents  were  John  and  Mary  Ann  (Geib)  Wallis,  and 
his  mother,  a  cousin  of  her  husband,  was  the  daughter  of 
John  and  Margaret  (Lawrence)  Geib.  The  founder  of  the 
Geib  family  in  this  country  was  John  Geib,  who  emigrated 
from  Germany  about  1800  and  settled  in  New  York  City. 

When  Hamilton  Wallis  was  four  years  of  age,  his  family 
moved  to  Jersey  City,  N.  J.,  and  he  received  his  early  educa- 
tion in  the  public  schools  of  that  city,  later  attending  a 
school  at  Bloomfield,  N.  J.,  and  the  Hasbrouck  Institute  in 
Jersey  City.  His  final  preparation  for  Yale  was  made 
under  Rev.  Samuel  Jones  in  Bridgeport,  Conn.  In  college, 
he  belonged  to  Linonia,  and  was  one  of  the  founders  of  the 
Glyuna  Boat  Club,  being  its  second  captain. 

In  the  fall  after  his  graduation  from  Yale,  he  took  up 
the  study  of  law  at  Columbia  University,  where  he  received 
an  LL.B.  in  1865.  He  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  May  of 
that  year,  and  then  spent  about  six  months  in  the  office  of 
Marsh,  Coe  &  Wallis  in  New  York  City  and  a  longer 
period  in  that  of  Scudder  &  Carter.  In  1866,  he 
formed,  with  William  G.  Wilson  (B.A.  Harvard  1862, 
LL.B.  Harvard  1864),  the  firm  of  Wilson.  &  Wallis,  with 
offices  in  New  York  City.  He  practiced  under  this  name 
until  the  death  of  his  fatiier  in  1879,  when  their  two  firms 
were  consolidated  under  the  name  of  Marsh,  Wilson  & 
Wallis.  In  1888,  on  the  retirement  of  Mr.  Marsh,  the  old 
title  of  Wilson  &  Wallis  was  resumed,  continuing  until 
1905,  when  Mr.  Wallis  retired  from  practice.  Since  that 
time,  he  had  lived  on  his  farm  at  Colchester,  Conn.,  his 
home  having  previously  been  in  East  Orange,  N.  J. 

In  addition  to  his  professional  interests  in  New  York, 
Mr.  Wallis  was  a  member  of  the  Jersey  City  firm  of  Wallis, 
Edwards  &  Bumstead,  his  associates  being  William  D. 
Edwards  (B.A.  New  York  University  1875,  LL.B.  Colum- 
bia   1878)    and   Mr.    William   G.    Bumstead.     For   twenty 


56  YALE  COLLEGE 

years,  he  was  one  of  the  trustees  of  the  Brick  Presbyterian 
Church  of  East  Orange,  serving  during  most  of  that  time 
as  president  of  the  board.  He  was  prominent  in  Masonic 
circles,  and  in  1879  and  1880  held  the  office  of  grand  master 
of  Masons  in  New  Jersey.  In  1879,  he  was  appointed  a 
director  of  the  First  National  Bank  of  Jersey  City,  succeed- 
ing his  father,  its  former  president,  and  he  was  also  a 
director  of  the  United  Electrical  Company  of  New  Jersey, 
and  of  the  Jersey  City  Gas  Light  Company  (in  which  he 
served  successively  as  vice  president  and  president),  the 
Peoples  Gas  Light  Company  of  Jersey  City,  and  the  Hudson 
County  Gas  Light  Company  of  Hoboken,  N.  J.,  in  1899 
being  chosen,  on  the  merger  of  the  three  last-named  cor- 
porations, a  director  of  the  Hudson  County  Gas  Company. 
He  was  several  times  a  candidate  for  local  office,  and  fifteen 
years  ago  served  as  excise  commissioner  of  East  Orange. 
Mr.  Wallis  was  for  several  years  before  his  death  agent  for 
his  Class  of  the  Alumni  University  Fund,  and  while  he  had 
this  office  a  greater  proportion  of  the  living  members  of 
the  Class  were  contributors  to  the  Fund  than  of  any  earlier 
Class  and  many  later  ones. 

His  death  occurred  April  i,  1916,  in  the  Memorial  Hos- 
pital at  Orange,  N.  J.,  following  an  operation  for  malignant 
tumor,  and  he  was  buried  in  Rosedale  Cemetery,  East 
Orange. 

On  October  13,  1868,  Mr.  Wallis  was  married  to  Alice, 
daughter  of  Nathaniel  and  Emeline  (Graham)  Waldron  of 
Philadelphia,  Pa.,  who  died  December  9,  1899.  By  this 
marriage,  there  were  four  children:  Emeline  Waldron 
(Mrs.  James  Carr  Dunn  of  London,  England)  ;  Alexander 
Hamilton,  who  in  1895,  two  years  after  his  graduation  from 
Yale  College,  received  the  degree  of  LL.B,  at  the  New 
York  Law  School;  Nathaniel  Waldron  (B.A.  1897),  and 
Chnton  Geib,  a  graduate  of  the  Scientific  School  in  1897. 
Mrs.  Wallis'  nephew,  W.  Durrie  Waldron,  graduated  from 
the  College  in  1903,  receiving  an  LL.B.  from  the  New  York 
Law  School  in  1905.  Mr.  Wallis  was  married  a  second 
time,  June  29,  1905,  in  East  Orange  to  Josephine  Bell, 
daughter  of  Alfred  W.  and  Helen  (Graves)  Taylor,  by 
whom  he  had  a  son,  John,  and  a  daughter,  Helen  Elizabeth. 
Mrs.  Wallis  and  all  of  his  children  survive. 


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Orson  Gregory  Dibble,  B.A.   1864 

Born  October  28,  1840,  in  Cortland,  N.  Y. 
Died  November  24,  1915,  in  Pompey,  N.  Y. 

Orson  Gregory  Dibble,  son  of  Horace  Dibble,  was  born 
in  Cortland,  N.  Y.,  October  28,  1840.  His  mother  was 
Emaline  A.,  daughter  of  Ichabod  and  Rachel  (Seward) 
Scranton.  He  joined  the  Class  of  1864  at  Yale  in  its  Sopho- 
more year,  having  prepared  at  Cortland  Academy.  He 
received  Oration  appointments,  was  elected  to  Phi  Beta 
Kappa,  and  was  one  of  the  Commencement  speakers. 

In  1868,  after  serving  for  several  years  as  principal  of 
Pompey  Academy,  he  took  up  the  study  of  medicine  at  New 
York  University,  from  which  he  was  graduated  with  the 
degree  of  M.D.  in  1869.  He  was  then  for  a  time  located 
at  McGrawville,  N.  Y.,  but  in  1870  removed  to  Pompey, 
where  he  practiced  his  profession,  and,  for  fifteen  years, 
served  as  health  officer.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Central 
New  York  Medical  Association,  the  Onondaga  County 
Medical  Association,  and  the  New  York  State  Medical 
Society. 

Since  1904,  Dr.  Dibble  had  suffered  from  paralysis,  which 
prevented  him  from  attending  to  his  practice,  and  finally 
caused  his  death  at  his  home  in  Pompey  on  November  24, 
191 5.    He  was  buried  in  the  Cortland  Rural  Cemetery. 

His  marriage  took  place  on  October  20,  1875,  in  Pompey 
to  Francis  A.,  daughter  of  Orlin  Jarvis  and  Sophronia 
Wheaton.  Mrs.  Dibble  died  July  29,  1898.  They  had  no 
children. 


Theodore  Weld  Hopkins,  B.A.   1864 

Born  January  6,  1841,  in  Cincinnati,  Ohio 
Died  January  23,  1916,  in  Rochester,  N.  Y. 

Theodore  Weld  Hopkins,  son  of  Augustus  Hopkins,  a 
business  man,  and  Mary  Cook  (Sumner)  Hopkins,  was 
born  in  Cincinnati,  Ohio,  January  6,  1841.  He  entered  the 
preparatory  department  at  Oberlin  in  1851,  remaining  six 
years,  and  then  from  1858  until  i860  studied  in  the  College 


58  YALE    COLLEGE 

there.  The  next  two  years  he  spent  in  private  study,  giving 
most  of  his  time  to  music,  and  in  the  fall  of  1862  he  joined 
the  Class  of  1864  at  Yale,  where  he  was  a  member  of  Lin- 
onia,  the  Varuna  Boat  Club,  and  Phi  Beta  Kappa ;  in  Senior 
year  he  received  a  High  Oration  appointment. 

Oberlin  granted  him  the  degree  of  B.A.  the  year  follow- 
ing his  graduation  from  Yale.  During  1864-65,  he  taught 
in  General  Russell's  Collegiate  and  Commercial  Institute 
in  New  Haven  and  at  the  Providence  Conference  Sem- 
inary at  East  Greenwich,  R.  I.  He  then  served  for 
five  years  as  assistant  principal  of  the  Central  High  School 
in  Cleveland,  Ohio.  In  1870,  he  entered  Rochester  Theo- 
logical Seminary,  where  he  was  graduated  in  1873.  For 
the  next  seven  years,  he  held  the  professorship  of  ecclesias- 
tical history  at  Chicago  Congregational  Theological  Semi- 
nary. During  this  period,  he  found  time  aside  from  his 
school  work  to  organize  the  Lawndale  Congregational 
Church  (now  known  as  the  Millard  Avenue  Church)  in 
Chicago,  and  was  ordained  to  the  Congregational  ministry 
on  the  occasion  of  the  recognition  of  the  church.  In  1873, 
he  had  been  licensed  to  preach  by  the  Rochester  Presbytery, 
and  in  1880  returned  to  Rochester,  where  from  that  time 
until  1887  he  served  as  pastor  of  the  Central  Presbyterian 
Church.  This  was  his  only  pastorate,  but  during  the  suc- 
ceeding years,  while  devoting  his  attention  chiefly  to  literary 
work  and  teaching,  he  preached  almost  continually  as  stated 
supply  for  various  churches.  He  served  as  acting  professor 
of  church  history  at  Rochester  Theological  Seminary  dur- 
ing the  year  of  1889-90,  and  from  1893  until  1895  was 
professor  of  ecclesiastical  history  and  church  polity  at 
Auburn  Theological  Seminary. 

His  death,  which  was  due  to  an  acute  attack  of  nephritis, 
occurred  at  his  home  in  Rochester,  January  23,  1916,  after 
an  illness  of  a  week.  He  had  for  years  been  a  suflferer  from 
arterio  sclerosis  and  nephritis.  He  was  buried  in  Mount 
Hope  Cemetery  in  Rochester,  For  some  time,  the  condition 
of  his  health  had  forced  him  into  complete  retirement,  and 
had  not  allowed  him  to  engage  in  any  work  except  writing. 
Among  the  articles  of  which  Professor  Hopkins  was  the 
author  were  several  on  the  Doctrine  of  Inspiration,  Com- 
parative Religion,  and  the  Development  of  Doctrine.  He 
organized  the  first  society  of  the  Young  People's  Society 
of  Christian  Endeavor  in  the  state  of  New  York  at  the 


i864  59 

Central    Presbyterian    Church,    where   he    also    founded   a 
branch  of  St.  Paul's  Brotherhood. 

He  had  never  married.     He  is  survived  by  a  sister,  with 
whom  he  had  made  his  home  for  a  long  time. 


William  Gaylord  Peck,  B.A.   1864 

Born  March  12,  1841,  in  Boston,  Mass. 
Died  June  18,  1916,  in  Arlington,  Mass. 

William  Gaylord  Peck  was  born  March  12,  1841,  in  Bos- 
ton, Mass.,  the  son  of  Abel  Gaylord  Peck,  whose  parents 
were  Sylvester  and  Angeline  (Ives)  Peck.  His  mother 
was  Eliza  Ann,  daughter  of  John  and  Persis  Boles. 

He  entered  Yale  from  Phillips  (Andover)  Academy, 
became  a  member  of  the  Varuna  Boat  Club  and  Brothers 
in  Unity  and  an  editor  of  the  Yale  Literary  Magazine,  and 
received  a  Colloquy  appointment  in  Junior  year  and  a  Dis- 
pute at  Commencement. 

Mr.  Peck  entered  the  real  estate  and  brokerage  business 
in  Boston  on  leaving  collfege,  soon  being  admitted  to  partner- 
ship with  his  father.  The  name  of  the  firm  was  then  A.  G. 
Peck  &  Son,  and  after  his  father's  death,  Mr.  Peck  con- 
ducted the  business  himself.  His  home  had  been  in  Arling- 
ton (formerly  West  Cambridge)  since  boyhood,  and  in 
1873  he  was  made  a  trustee  of  the  Arlington  Five  Cents 
Savings  Bank,  of  which  he  was  afterwards  vice  president, 
and,  for  thirty-five  years,  president.  He  was  a  member  of 
the  Board  of  Selectmen  of  Arlington  from  1874  to  1877,  of 
the  Board  of  Water  Commissioners  from  1878  to  1880,  and 
chairman  of  the  Board  of  Commissioners  of  the  Sinking 
Fund  from  1874.  He  had  also  been  president  and  a  director 
of  the  Chelsea  Gas  Light  Company,  a  director  of  the  North 
American  Insurance  Company  and  the  Fourth  Atlantic 
National  Bank  of  Boston,  and  of  the  Boston  Ice  Company. 

Mr.  Peck  had  been  actively  interested  in  politics  for  many 
years,  and  was  at  one  time  a  member  of  the  Republican 
State  Committee,  being  sent  as  a  delegate  to  various  Repub- 
lican conventions.  In  1877,  he  was  elected  to  the  Massachu- 
setts House  of  Representatives,  and  served  until  1880, 
being  chairman  of  the  Joint  Committee  on  Education.     He 


6o  YALE    COLLEGE 

was  a  member  of  the  Pleasant  Street  Congregational  Church 
of  Arlington. 

He  died  at  his  home  in  that  town,  June  i8,  1916,  after 
an  illness  of  several  weeks,  and  was  buried  in  Mount 
Auburn  Cemetery. 

On  October  22,  1878,  he  was  married  in  Arlington  to 
Anna  Maria,  daughter  of  Henry  D.  and  Maria  D.  Newell, 
whose  death  occurred  September  12,  1884.  Their  two  chil- 
dren,— Chester  Gaylord  and  Lilian  Newell  (Mrs.  William 
D.  Elwell  of  Arlington), — survive. 


John  Campbell  Brown,  B.A.   1865 

Born  July  17,  1843,  in  Pittsburgh,  Pa. 
Died  December  27,  1915,  in  Pittsburgh,  Pa. 

John  Campbell  Brown  was  the  son  of  John  Brown,  a 
capitalist,  whose  parents  were  James  and  Rachel  (Camp- 
bell) Brown.  His  mother  was  Rebecca  W.,  daughter  of 
Nathaniel  and  Mary  (Jones)  Plummer.  Born  in  Pittsburgh, 
Pa.,  July  17,  1843,  he  attended  the  Ormond  School  in  that 
city  until  1856,  when  he  matriculated  at  the  Western  Uni- 
versity of  Pennsylvania  (now  the  University  of  Pittsburgh). 
He  came  to  Yale  in  1861,  and  was  a  member  of  the  Glyuna 
Boat  Club,  Linonia,  and  the  Wooden  Spoon  Committee. 

Returning  to  Pittsburgh  after  graduation,  he  took  up  the 
real  estate  business,  in  1866  becoming  a  member  of  the 
firm  of  John  C.  Brown  &  Company.  Since  1882,  he  had 
been  connected  with  the  Sheriff's  Office  of  Allegheny 
County,  and  at  the  time  of  his  death  held  the  position  of 
clerk  of  real  estate. 

He  died,  from  heart  disease,  December  27,  191 5,  at  Pitts- 
burgh, and  was  buried  in  Allegheny  Cemetery  in  that  city. 

He  was  unmarried.  His  brother,  James  Plummer,  gradu- 
ated from  the  College  in  1862  and  from  the  Harvard  Law 
School  in  1864. 


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James  Wesley  Cooper,  B.A.   1865 

Born  October  6,  1842,  in  New  Haven,  Conn. 
Died  March  16,  1916,  in  New  York  City 

James  Wesley  Cooper  was  the  son  of  James  Ford  Cooper, 
a  carriage  manufacturer,  and  Cornelia  (Walkley)  Cooper, 
and  was  born  October  6,  1842,  in  New  Haven,  Conn.,  where 
he  was  prepared  for  college  at  the  Hopkins  Grammar 
School.  His  father  was  the  son  of  Timothy  and  Sarah 
(Ford)  Cooper  and  a  descendant  of  Timothy  Ford,  who 
came  to  this  country  from  England  in  1639.  Through  his 
mother,  who  was  the  daughter  of  Joel  and  Sybil  (Austin) 
Walkley,  he  was  descended  from  Richard  Walkley.  At 
Yale,  he  was  a  member  of  Linonia  and  the  Beethoven 
Society,  and  received  a  Dispute  appointment  in  Junior  year, 
in  the  latter  part  of  which  he  withdrew  to  accept  a  com- 
mission as  assistant  adjutant  general  of  Connecticut  with 
the  rank  of  captain.  On  petition  of  his  classmates,  the 
degree  of  B.A.,  with  enrollment  in  the  Class  of  1865,  was 
voted  to  him  by  the  Yale  Corporation  in  1879,  because  of 
the  fact  that  he  had  seen  service  in  the  Civil  War. 

In  1868,  Mr.  Cooper  was  graduated  from  Andover  Theo- 
logical Seminary,  and,  following  his  ordination  to  the  Con- 
gregational ministry  in  September  of  that  year,  he  served 
for  three  years  as  pastor  of  the  Congregational  Church  at 
Rockport,  Mass.  He  held  the  pastorate  of  the  Lockport 
(N.  Y.)  Congregational  Church  from  1871  to  1878,  and  in 
the  latter  year  accepted  a  call  to  the  South  Congregational 
Church  of  New  Britain,  Conn.  He  held  that  charge  for 
the  next  twenty-five  years,  and  during  his  pastorate  the 
church  membership  increased  until  it  became  one  of  the 
largest  in  the  state.  In  1903,  he  resigned  to  become  senior 
corresponding  secretary  of  the  American  Missionary  Asso- 
ciation, with  headquarters  in  New  York  City.  For  the  next 
seven  years,  while  directing  the  home  mission  work  of  the 
Congregational  Church  in  America,  he.  traveled  extensively 
in  the  interests  of  the  association.  He  was  made  one  of  its 
vice  presidents  upon  his  retirement  in  1910,  and  held  that 
office  until  two  years  ago.  For  the  past  six  years,  he  had 
made  his  home  at  Hartford,  Conn.,  and  had  given  most  of 
his  time  to  writing  on  theological  subjects,  although  he  con- 
tinued to  preach  occasionally. 


62  YALE  COLLEGE 

From  1884  tintil  191 4,  Dr.  Cooper  was  a  corporate  mem- 
ber of  the  American  Board  of  Commissioners  for  Foreign 
Missions,  and  in  1891  he  was  sent  as  a  delegate  to  the 
International  Council  of  Congregational  Churches  at  Lon- 
don. From  1878  to  1888,  he  acted  as  chaplain  of  the 
First  Regiment,  Connecticut  National  Guard.  He  was  a 
member  of  the  Governor's  Staff  Association,  Dr.  Cooper 
had  served  as  a  Fellow  of  Yale  University  since  1885,  being 
also  a  member  of  the  Prudential  Committee.  He  was  a 
trustee  of  Hampton  Institute,  Piedmont  College,  Atlanta 
Theological  Seminary,  Fisk  University,  Talladega  College, 
Tougaloo  University,  Straight  University,  and  Tillotson 
College.  In  1886,  Olivet  College  conferred  the  honorary 
degree  of  D.D.  upon  him. 

Dr.  Cooper's  death  occurred  very  suddenly,  from  heart 
trouble,  March  16,  1916,  in  New  York  City,  where  he  was 
staying  for  a  few  days.  His  body  was  taken  to  New  Britain 
for  burial  in  Fairview  Cemetery. 

He  was  married  August  13,  1868,  in  Manchester,  Conn., 
to  Ellen  M.,  daughter  of  Elisha  Edgerton  and  Charlotte 
Day  (Spencer)  Hilliard,  who  survives  him.  He  leaves  also 
his  two  sons:  Elisha  Hilliard  (B.A.  1892)  and  James 
Earnest,  who  received  the  degree  of  B.A.  at  Yale  in  1895 
and  that  of  LL.B.  at  Harvard  three  years  later. 


Charles  Hemmenway  Adams,  B.A.   1866 

Born  September  26,  1845,  in  Fairfield,  Conn. 
Died  August  28,  1915,  in  Derby,  Conn, 

Charles  Hemmenway  Adams  was  the  son  of  Rev.  Charles 
Robert  Adams  and  Mary  (Scott)  Adams,  and  was  born 
September  26,  1845,  in  Fairfield,  Conn.,  where  his  father, 
a  clergyman  in  the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church,  was 
preaching  as  a  member  of  the  New  York  East  Conference. 
The  family  removed  to  Chicago  in  his  boyhood,  and  he  was 
fitted  for  college  at  the  Chicago  High  School.  Before 
entering  Yale  as  a  Sophomore  in  1863,  he  spent  a  year  at 
Asbury,  a  small  Western  college.  He  received  two  first 
prizes  for  excellence  in  English  composition  while  a  Sopho- 
more, and  in  1865  was  awarded  the  Lit  medal ;   his  appoint- 


1865-1867  63 

merits  were  Orations,  and  he  was  elected  to  membership  in 
Phi  Beta  Kappa,  and  also  belonged  to  Brothers  in  Unity. 

Immediately  after  graduation,  Mr.  Adams  took  up  news- 
paper work,  and  for  a  year  was  on  the  staff  of  the  New 
York  Evening  Post.  In  1867,  he  accepted  a  position  on  the 
Hartford  (Conn.)  Courant,  after  which  he  was  for  a  year 
on  the  staff  of  the  Troy  (N.  Y.)  Times,  and  for  six  on  the 
Springfield  Republican.  From  1876  to  1881,  he  was  again 
located  in  New  York  City,  as  a  member  of  the  reportorial 
staff  of  the  Sun,  but  in  1881,  he  returned  to  Hartford  as  an 
editorial  writer  for  the  Courant.  Although  he  retired  from 
that  position  in  March,  1914,  on  account  of  poor  health, 
he  had  continued  to  make  occasional  editorial  contributions 
to  the  Courant  until  a  few  weeks  before  his  death. 

He  died  suddenly,  from  heart  trouble,  August  28,  191 5, 
in  Derby,  Conn.,  at  the  home  of  his  sister,  with  whom  he 
had  lived  for  some  time.  Burial  was  in  Oak  Cliff  Cemetery 
in  that  town. 

He  had  never  married.  Donald  A.  Hallock,  a  non-gradu- 
ate member  of  the  Class  of  1909  in  the  Scientific  School, 
is  a  nephew.  The  latter's  sister  married  Samuel  J.  Hammitt 
(Ph.B.  1909). 


Henry  Beach  Beard,  B.A.   1867 

Born  January  25,  1843,  in  Huntington,  Conn. 
Died  July  9,  1915,  in  Minneapolis,  Minn. 

Henry  Beach  Beard  was  born  on  January  25,  1843,  i^i 
Huntington,  Conn.,  his  parents  being  James  Beard,  a 
farmer,  and  Caroline  (Wood)  Beard.  His  paternal  ances- 
tors came  from  England  to  this  country  in  1640,  and  settled 
in  Stratford,  Conn.  Entering  Yale  from  Easton  Academy 
in  1862,  he  spent  two  years  with  the  Class  of  1866,  and 
then,  after  an  absence  of  a  year,  completed  his  course  with 
the  Class  of  1867.    He  was  a  member  of  Brothers  in  Unity. 

Most  of  his  life  since  graduation  had  been  spent  in  the 
real  estate  and  life  insurance  business  in  Minneapolis, 
Minn.,  to  which  place  he  had  moved  in  1869.  He  was 
known  as  the  father  of  the  lake-boulevard  system  of  that 
city. 


64  YALE  COLLEGE 

Mr.  Beard  was  ordained  as  a  minister  of  the  Congrega- 
tional Church  in  1876  at  Little  Valley,  N.  J.,  having 
received  his  theological  training  at  Yale.  Although  giving 
the  greater  part  of  his  time  to  his  business  interests,  he 
had  throughout  his  life  devoted  his  attention  to  quite  an 
extent  to  the  work  of  the  ministry,  supplying  various 
churches  as  occasion  arose.  For  many  years,  he  was  a 
member  of  the  Plymouth  Congregational  Church  of  Minne- 
apolis, later  being  identified  with  the  affairs  of  the  Lowry 
Hill  Congregational  Church,  which  he  had  assisted  in 
building  up  from  a  Sunday  school  mission. 

His  death  occurred  at  his  home  in  Minneapolis,  July  9, 
191 5,  as  the  result  of  sciatica.  He  was  buried  in  Lake- 
wood  Cemetery  in  that  city. 

He  was  married  in  New  Haven,  Conn.,  June  23,  1869, 
to  Sarah  R.,  daughter  of  William  S.  and  Nancy  (Vaughan) 
Read,  who  survives  him.  They  had  four  children:  a  son 
who  died  in  infancy;  Harry  S.  (died  September  10,  1872)  ; 
William  S.,  who  survives,  and  Minnie  B.,  who  died  October 
3,  1908. 


Peter  Brynberg-  Porter,  B.A.   1867 

Born  January  17,  1845,  in  Wilmington,  Del. 
Died  August  6,  191 5,  in  New  York  City 

Peter  Brynberg  Porter  was  born  January  17,  1845,  ^1^ 
Wilmington,  Del.,  where  he  received  part  of  his  preparation 
for  college  at  the  Delaware  Military  Academy.  He  had 
also  studied  with  private  tutors  in  that  city  and  in  Phila- 
delphia, Pa.  His  father  was  Peter  Brynberg  Porter,  a 
publisher  and  bookseller  of  Wilmington,  and  the  son  of 
Robert  Porter,  who  had  married  Ann,  daughter  of  Peter 
Brynberg,  whose  ancestors  were  am.ong  the  original  settlers 
in  Delaware,  having  emigrated  from  Sweden  in  1638.  His 
mother  was  Elizabeth  Deacon,  daughter  of  Thomas  Canby 
Alrich  and  a  descendant  of  Jacob  Alrich,  who  came  to 
America  in  1655  as  the  first  governor  of  the  Dutch  colonies 
on  the  Delaware. 

He  joined  the  Class  of  1867  at  the  beginning  of  Sopho- 
more year.  The  following  year,  he  received  an  Oration 
appointment,  and  he  spoke  at  Junior  Exhibition  and  at  Com- 


1867-1868  65 

mcncement,  his  appointment  in  Senior  year  being  a  Dis- 
sertation.    He  was  a  member  of  Phi  Beta  Kappa. 

Following  his  graduation  from  Yale,  he  entered  the  Uni- 
versity of  Pennsylvania,  where  in  1869  he  received  the 
degree  of  M.D.  He  was  president  of  his  Class  there.  He 
then  began  a  two-year  service  as  resident  physician  at  the 
Philadelphia  Hospital.  Since  1871,  he  had  practiced  in 
New  York  City,  where  he  had  served  as  attending  physician 
to  the  DeMilt  and  Northeastern  Dispensaries,  the  New  York 
Free  Dispensary  for  Sick  Children,  and  the  New  York 
Infant  Asylum.  He  was  also  for  a  time  the  New  York  cor- 
respondent for  the  Medical  News  of  Philadelphia,  and  in 
1885  was  elected  recording  secretary  of  the  New  York 
County  Medical  Association,  in  that  year  being  also  chosen 
editor  of  Gaillard's  Medical  Journal.  For  many  years,  he 
was  New  York  editor  of  the  Boston  Medical  and  Surgical 
Journal,  and  in  1913  he  was  elected  a  member  of  the  edi- 
torial board  of  the  Nezi}  York  Medical  Journal.  Since  its 
organization  in  1899,  Dr.  Porter  had  served  as  recording 
secretary  of  the  Medical  Association  of  the  Greater  City  of 
New  York  and  as  editor  of  its  Transactions,  and  he  had 
also  edited  the  Transactions  of  the  American  Therapeutic 
Society.  He  had  at  times  contributed  to  other  medical 
journals,  and  had  read  original  poems  on  the  occasion  of 
several  patriotic  celebrations.  He  belonged  to  the  New 
York  Academy  of  Medicine. 

Dr.  Porter's  death  occurred  on  August  6,  191 5,  in  St. 
Mark's  Hospital,  New  York  City,  after  an  illness  of  one 
week  due  to  heart  trouble.  He  was  cremated,  his  ashes 
being  interred  in  the  Wilmington  Cemetery. 

He  was  unmarried.  A  brother,  Thomas  Alrich  Porter, 
was  a  non-graduate  member  of  the  College  Class  of  1864. 


Beach  Hill,  B.A.   1868 

Born  August  26,  1839,  in  Easton,  Conn. 
Died  March  31,  1916,  in  Bridgeport,  Conn. 

Beach  Hill,  who  was  born  August  26,  1839,  in  Easton, 
Conn.,  was  the  son  of  Edward  Hill,  a  merchant,  and  Cor- 
nelia (Beach)  Hill.  His  father,  a  descendant  of  William 
Hill,  who  came  to  America  from  England  in   1632,  was 


66  YALE  COLLEGE 

the  son  of  Seth  and  Cynthia  (Banks)  Hill.  His  mother's 
father  was  Ambrose  Beach. 

His  preparation  for  college  was  received  at  the  academy 
in  his  native  town,  and  in  1859  he  entered  Yale  as  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Class  of  1863.  At  the  end  of  the  second  term 
of  Sophomore  year,  he  withdrew,  and,  after  teaching  for 
a  while  at  Newtown,  Conn.,  enlisted  in  the  Twenty-third 
Connecticut  Volunteer  Infantry,  serving  in  Louisiana  until 
mustered  out  of  service.  In  September,  1865,  he  returned 
to  Yale,  and  completed  his  course  with  the  Class  of  1868, 
graduating  with  a  Dispute  stand. 

He  had  absented  himself  during  a  part  of  Senior  year  to 
take  charge  of  Newtown  Academy,  and  after  receiving  his 
degree,  served  for  four  years  as  its  principal.  Returning 
to  Easton  Academy  as  principal  in  1872,  he  was  connected 
with  that  institution  for  two  years,  and  then  purchased  a 
farm  at  Trumbull,  Conn.,  where  for  four  years  he  con- 
ducted a  boarding  and  day  school.  He  rented  his  farm  in 
1879,  and  went  to  Bridgeport,  there  becoming  principal  of 
a  private  high  school,  but  returned  to  Trumbull  six  years 
later,  and  devoted  the  rest  of  his  life  to  teaching  and  farm- 
ing. Mr.  Hill  was  a  member  of  the  Baptist  Church  at 
Stepney,  Conn.,  and  taught  a  Bible  class  there  for  many 
years. 

He  died  in  the  Bridgeport  (Conn.)  Hospital,  March  31, 
1 91 6,  as  the  result  of  a  cancer.  Burial  was  in  the  cemetery 
at  Stepney. 

On  February  3,  1869,  he  was  married  in  that  town  to 
Mary,  daughter  of  Eli  and  Sarah.  (Lord)  Leavenworth,  by 
whom  he  had  four  children:  Ina,  who  died  in  infancy; 
Edith  May;  Bertha  (died  March  14,  1877),  and  Wallace 
Leavenworth.    Mrs.  Hill  died  January  18,  1903. 


Frank  Moore,  B.A.   1868 

Born  September  6,  1845,  in  St.  Clair,  Mich. 
Died  July  12,  1915,  in  St.  Clair,  Mich. 

Frank  Moore,  son  of  Reuben  and  Margaret  Trigallous 
(Riddle)  Moore,  was  born  in  St.  Clair,  Mich.,  September 
6,  1845.  His  father  went  from  Manchester,  N.  H.,  to 
Michigan  about  1840.    He  was  a  lumberman,  one  of  the  first 


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settlers  in  the  region  known  as  "Yankee  Street,"  north  of 
St.  Clair.  Joseph  Moore,  his  father,  Samuel  Moore,  his 
grandfather,  and  John  Goffe,  his  great-grandfather,  were 
all  in  the  Revolution.  Entering  Yale  in  1863  from  Willis- 
ton  Seminary  at  Easthampton,  Mass.,  Frank  Moore  spent 
Freshman  year  and  a  part  of  Sophomore  year  with  the  Class 
of  1867,  but  joined  the  Class  with  which  he  was  graduated 
at  the  beginning  of  its  Sophomore  year.  He  received  a 
prize  in  declamation  that  year,  was  given  a  Dispute  appoint- 
ment both  in  Junior  year  and  at  Commencement,  and 
belonged  to  Linonia,  of  which  he  was  chosen  vice  president 
in  Senior  year. 

He  spent  the  first  six  months  after  graduation  in  a  law 
office  in  Detroit,  Mich.,  and  then  became  a  bookkeeper  for 
the  H.  W.  Sage  Lumber  Company  in  Toledo,  Ohio. 
Removing  to  Detroit  in  187 1,  he  entered  the  lumber  busi- 
ness there,  later  being  similarly  engaged  in  Saginaw.  He 
returned  to  St.  Clair  in  1875,  and  for  the  next  ten  years 
was  engaged  in  farming.  In  1879,  ^^  purchased  the  St. 
Clair  Republican,  a  weekly  paper,  of  which  he  continued 
as  editor  and  publisher  until  1895.  From  1887  up  to  the 
time  of  his  death,  he  held  the  office  of  secretary  and  treas- 
urer of  the  Diamond  Crystal  Salt  Company  of  St.  Clair. 
Mr.  Moore  served  as  postmaster  of  that  city  from  1881 
until  1886,  and  again  from  1890  until  1894.  He  was  a 
member  of  the  Michigan  Legislature  in  1899- 1900  and 
again  in  1901-02.  He  belonged  to  the  First  Congregational 
Church  of  St.  Clair. 

Since  about  1913,  he  had  been  in  poor  health,  and  was 
confined  to  his  bed  for  the  last  two  months  before  his  death, 
which  occurred,  from  arterio  sclerosis,  at  his  home  in  'St. 
Clair,  July  12,  191 5.  Burial  was  in  Hillside  Cemetery  in 
that  place. 

On  June  11,  1873,  ^^  was  married  in  Toledo  to  Emily 
Sprague,  daughter  of  William  Elias  and  Laura  Comfort 
(Canfield)  Parmelee.  Mrs.  Moore,  who  died  in  Castile, 
N.  Y.,  June  20,  1898,  was  a  non-graduate  member  of  the 
Class  of  1867  at  Mount  Holyoke  College.  Their  four  chil- 
dren,— Laura  (B.A.  University  of  Michigan  1899)  ;  Frank- 
lin; Margaret  Elizabeth  (now  Mrs.  Henry  Jones  Phelps 
of  Detroit),  a  non-graduate  member  of  the  Class  of  1901 
at  Olivet  College,  and  Emily  Comfort,  who  graduated  in 
1908  from  Wellesley  College, — survive. 


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Samuel  Parry,  B.A.   1868 

Born  March  29,  1845,  in  Lambertville,  N.  J. 
Died  September  9,  1915,  in  Somerville,  N,  J. 

Samuel  Parry,  son  of  Samuel  Parry,  a  miller,  and  Selinda 
(VanSyckel)  Parry,  was  born  in  Lambertville,  N.  J., 
March  29,  1845,  ^^^  family  removing  to  Clinton,  N.  J., 
when  he  was  two  years  of  age.  His  earliest  paternal  ances- 
tor in  this  country  came,  with  his  family,  from  Wales  at 
the  end  of  the  seventeenth  century,  and  settled  in  the  Wil- 
liam Penn  colony  near  Philadelphia.  His  mother  was  of 
Dutch  descent,  her  people  coming  to  Long  Island  in  1653 
and  later  extending  over  into  New  Jersey.  Entering  Yale 
in  1864  from  the  Blairstown  (N.  J.)  Presbyterial  Academy, 
Samuel  Parry  received  an  Oration  appointment  in  Junior 
year  and  a  Dissertation  Senior  year,  and  was  elected  to  Phi 
Beta  Kappa.  He  rowed  in  the  Varuna  shell  in  the  harbor 
races  in  his  Sophomore  year,  and  was  commodore  of  the 
Yale  Navy  and  stroke  oar  of  the  University  Crew  in  1868. 

After  a  year  spent  in  teaching  at  the  academy  at  Blairs- 
town, he  entered  Princeton  Theological  Seminary,  where 
he  studied  for  the  next  two  years.  His  theological  course 
was  completed  at  Union  Theological  Seminary,  from  which 
he  was  graduated  in  1872.  He  was  ordained  to  the  ministry 
of  the  Presbyterian  Church  on  April  30,  1873,  after  he  had 
spent  a  year  at  home,  engaged  in  post-graduate  study.  The 
entire  course  of  his  active  ministry,  covering  a  period  of 
thirty-three  years,  was  spent  as  pastor  of  the  Pluckamin 
Presbyterian  Church  at  Pluckemin,  N.  J.  Since  his  retire- 
ment in  1906,  he  had  made  his  home  in  Somerville,  N.  J., 
where  he  died  suddenly,  September  9,  191 5,  from  heart 
failure,  brought  on  by  diabetes.  He  was  buried  in  the  new 
cemetery  in  Somerville. 

During  the  last  few  years,  he  taught  a  men's  Bible  class 
at  the  First  Reformed  Church  in  Somerville,  preached 
occasionally,  and  took  an  active  part  in  the  work  at  the 
chapel  in  East  Somerville.  His  attention  since  his  retire- 
ment had  been  largely  given  to  historical  studies.  He  held 
the  office  of  stated  clerk  of  the  Presbytery  of  Elizabeth 
from  1888  until  his  death,  and  represented  the  Presbytery 
three  times  in  the  General  Assembly  from  the  state  of  New 
Jersey.     He  served  for  several  years  as  secretary  of  the 


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Raritan  Ministerial  Association,  and,  from  its  organization 
until  19 1 2,  as  secretary  of  the  Inter-Church  Federation  of 
Somerset  County.  On  March  12,  1901,  on  the  fiftieth  anni- 
versary of  its  organization,  he  delivered  an  historical  dis- 
course in  the  Pluckamin  Presbyterian  Church. 

His  marriage  took  place  in  Somerville,  December  i,  1875, 
to  Harriet  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Rev.  Dr.  Frederick  Frel- 
inghuysen  Cornell  (B.A.  Princeton  1825)  and  Elizabeth 
Clock  (Bell)  Cornell,  by  whom  he  had  one  son,  Samuel 
Cornell,  who  died  shortly  after  birth.  Mrs.  Parry  survives 
her  husband. 


Francis  Eugene  Seagrave,  B.A.   1868 

Born  November  5,  1843,  in  Bellingham,  Mass. 
Died  May  19,  1916,  in  Toledo,  Ohio 

Francis  Eugene  Seagrave,  a  descendant  in  the  fifth  gen- 
eration of  Capt.  Edward  Seagrave,  who  commanded  a 
company  of  infantry  from  Uxbridge,  Mass.,  during  the 
Revolutionary  War,  was  born  November  5,  1843,  i^  I^^^- 
lingham,  Mass.  His  earliest  ancestor  in  this  country  was 
Edward  Seagrave,  who  came  from  England  in  1725,  and 
settled  at  Uxbridge.  His  father,  John  Seagrave,  a  mason, 
was  the  son  of  John  and  Mary  (Scott)  Seagrave.  His 
mother  was  Almena,  daughter  of  Ziba  Ross,  who  served 
in  the  American  Army  during  the  War  of  1812,  and  Nancy 
(Munyon)  Ross. 

He  passed  his  boyhood  in  Uxbridge,  and  received  his 
preparation  for  college  at  Phillips  Academy,  Andover.  At 
Yale,  he  belonged  to  Linonia,  being  its  president  in  Senior 
year,  was  a  member  of  Phi  Beta  Kappa,  and  received 
Oration  appointments.  During  his  Senior  year,  he  was 
selected  by  -the  Faculty  to  reorganize  the  schools  of  the 
state  of  Florida.  He  was  in  Florida  several  months,  and 
upon  his  return  North,  resumed  his  place  in  his  Class, 
graduating  with  honors  in  1868. 

Mr.  Seagrave  served  as  principal  of  the  Toledo  (Ohio) 
High  School  for  the  first  three  years  after  his  graduation. 
In  1 87 1,  he  formed,  with  James  Raymer,  the  banking  firm 
of  Raymer  &  Seagrave,  the  name  of  which  was  changed  to 
Raymer,  Seagrave  &  Company  two  years  afterwards,  on 


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the  admission  of  Mr.  Seagrave's  brother,  Orville  B.  Sea- 
grave,  to  membership.  The  firm  was  dissolved  in  Decem- 
ber, 1884,  and  early  in  the  next  year  Mr.  Seagrave  and  his 
brother  opened  offices  in  Toledo,  Boston,  and  Uxbridge 
under  the  name  of  Seagrave  Brothers.  This  connection 
was  continued  until  the  death  of  Mr.  O.  B.  Seagrave  in 
1886.  After  that  time,  Mr.  Seagrave  gave  his  attention  to 
the  other  business  enterprises  in  which  he  had  for  a  long 
time  been  interested.  In  the  early  seventies,  he  built  the 
first  street  railway  in  Toledo,  and  some  thirty  years  later 
built  the  Toledo  &  Western  Railway,  of  which  he  was  from 
1 901  to  1903  secretary  and  treasurer.  For  the  next  three 
years,  he  held  the  office  of  president  of  the  Toledo  &  Chi- 
cago Interurban  Railway  Company.  He  also  built  two 
electric  roads  in  Indiana — the  Indianapolis  &  New  Castle 
Railway  and  the  Toledo  &  Chicago  Interurban.  Since  1907, 
he  had  not  been  actively  engaged  in  construction  work,  but 
had  given  most  of  his  interest  to  mining  operations  in 
Colorado. 

His  death  occurred  unexpectedly  May  19,  1916,  at  his 
home  in  Toledo,  as  the  result  of  an  attack  of  acute  indiges- 
tion.   Burial  was  in  Woodlawn  Cemetery  in  that  city. 

Mr.  Seagrave  was  married  in  Toledo,  July  i,  1869,  to 
Charlotte  C.  Lee  of  Norwich,  Conn.,  daughter  of  Lyman 
W.  and  Mary  (Miner)  Lee.  She  died  December  6,  1912. 
Four  children  survive:  Mary  Almena,  the  wife  of  Rodell 
D.  Murray  of  Toledo;  Jessie  Lee;  Lillian  Miner,  who 
married  Ralph  M.  Chapman  of  Toledo,  and  Walter  Howard 
(Ph.B.  1904,  LL.B.  Western  Reserve  1907).  A  son,  Harry 
Wentworth,  died  in  1884. 


Sheldon  Thompson  Viele,  B.A.   1868 

Born  January  4,  1847,  in  Buffalo,  N.  Y.' 
Died  May  12,  1916,  in  Buffalo,  N.  Y. 

Sheldon  Thompson  Viele  was  born  in  Buffalo,  N.  Y., 
January  4,  1847,  being  a  descendant  of  Pieter  Cornelison 
Viele,  whose  father,  Cornelis  Volkertszen,  who  came  from 
Holland  to  New  York  early  in  the  seventeenth  century,  had 
adopted  the  occupational  name  "Velius,"  meaning  sail- 
maker,  according  to  one  explanation  of  the  family  name. 


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Henry  Knickerbocker  Viele,  his  father,  practiced  his  pro- 
fession as  a  lawyer  in  Albany  and  Buffalo  for  many  years, 
and  served  during  the  Civil  War  as  colonel  of  the  Ninety- 
fourth  Regiment,  New  York  Volunteers ;  he  was  the  son  of 
John  Ludovicus  Viele,  who  was  a  member  of  the  New  York 
State  Senate  in  1822  and  from  1826  to  1829,  and  who  was 
appointed  on  February  6,  1832,  a  regent  of  the  University 
of  the  State  of  New  York,  and  Catalina  (Knickerbocker) 
Viele,  the  latter  being  the  granddaughter  of  Col.  John 
Knickerbocker,  who  served  both  in  the  French  War  and  in 
the  Revolution.  Sheldon  Viele's  mother  was  Laetitia  Porter, 
daughter  of  Sheldon  Thompson,  one  of  the  founders  of  the 
lake  transportation  industry  and  the  first  mayor  of  Buffalo 
elected  by  the  people,  and  Catherine  (Barton)  Thompson. 
Through  her,  he  was  descended  from  Jabez  Thompson,  an 
officer  in  the  French  War,  who  was  killed  in  the  Revolution, 
while  serving  as  a  colonel,  and  from  Anthony  Thompson, 
who  came  with  Theophilus  Eaton  and  Rev.  John  Davenport 
from  England  to  New  Haven  Colony  in  1637. 

He  entered  Yale  from  the  Walnut  Hill  School,  Geneva, 
N.  Y.,  and  in  Sophomore  year  took  composition  prizes  and 
a  special  prize  for  a  poem.  He  wrote  the  Colloquy  for  the 
Wooden  Spoon  exhibition  and  the  parting  ode  for  Presenta- 
tion Day. 

After  graduation,  he  began  the  study  of  law  in  the  office 
of  E.  C.  Sprague  (B.A.  Harvard  1843,  LL.D.  Harvard 
1892)  of  Buffalo,  and  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  November, 
1869.  In  May,  1871,  after  a  clerkship  of  two  years,  he 
began  a  practice  which  continued  until  his  death,  being  asso- 
ciated for  some  years  after  1887  with  Willis  O.  Chapin, 
who  received  an  honorary  M.A.  from  Hobart  College  in 
1906,  under  the  firm  name  of  Viele  &  Chapin.  In  1908,  Mr. 
Viele's  older  son  became  his  law  partner,  but  for  the  past 
five  years  he  had  practiced  independently. 

In  February,  1880,  he  was  awarded  a  prize  of  two  hun- 
dred and  fifty  dollars  by  the  New  York  State  Bar  Associa- 
tion for  one  of  the  two  best  essays  on  the  subject:  "Is  the 
Common  Law  a  Proper  Subject  for  Codification?"  He  was 
chosen  secretary  of  the  earliest  district  established  in  the 
country  by  the  first  Charity  Organization  Society,  and  was 
a  trustee  of  that  society  from  its  incorporation  until  1908. 
He  was  also  active  in  the  reform  of  the  Civil  Service,  being 
on  the  executive  committee  of  the  Buffalo  association  from 


72  YALE    COLLEGE 

its  organization.  In  1906,  Governor  Higgins  appointed 
him  a  state  lunacy  commissioner;  Governor  Hughes  reap- 
pointed him  the  next  year,  and  he  performed  excellent 
service  in  that  capacity  until  superseded  by  a  personal 
friend  of  Governor  Dix.  In  1885,  he  bore  the  principal  part 
in  founding  the  Yale  Association  of  Buffalo,  and  he  was 
its  president  in  1895-96.  In  1894,  he  had  a  large  share  in 
the  establishment  of  the  University  Club  of  Buffalo,  of 
which  he  was  the  first  president.  He  was  a  vestryman  of 
St.  Paul's  Protestant  Episcopal  Church  from  1891  until  his 
death,  and  had  at  various  times  been  vice  president  for 
Buffalo  of  the  Holland  Society  of  New  York,  a  curator  of 
the  Buffalo  Library,  a  director  of  the  Buffalo  Club,  dean 
of  the  Saturn  Club,  president  of  the  Buffalo  Association  of 
the  Sons  of  the  Revolution,  and  a  trustee  of  St.  Margaret's 
School  in  Buffalo.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Military  Order 
of  the  Loyal  Legion  and  of  the  Society  of  Colonial  Wars. 
He  was  the  author  of  a  "Memoir  of  Sheldon  Thompson" 
and  of  "A  Glimpse  of  Holland  in  1888,"  being  an  account 
of  the  visit  of  the  Holland  Society,  and  of  papers  on  "State 
Legislation  and  Charity  Organization"  in  the  Albany  Law 
Journal,  on  "The  Democratic  Principle  of  Civil  Service 
Reform"  in  a  printed  collection  of  papers  read  before  a 
Buffalo  political  association,  and  on  "The  Yale  Alumni 
Association  of  Western  New  York"  in  the  University 
Magazine  for  1896,  besides  addresses  before  the  New  York 
State  Bar  Association  and  other  bodies. 

Mr.  Viele  died  May  12,  1916,  at  his  home  in  Buffalo  after 
a  brief  illness.  The  immediate  cause  of  his  death  was  pneu- 
monia, but  he  had  never  entirely  recovered  from  injuries 
received  in  an  automobile  accident  over  a  year  earlier. 
Burial  was  in  Forest  Lawn  Cemetery,  Buffalo. 

He  was  married  in  Buffalo,  June  5,  1877,  to  Anna  Porter, 
daughter  of  Ebenezer  Pearson  and  Sarah  Frances  (Prince) 
Dorr,  who  survives  him  with  two  sons,  Dorr  (B.A.  1902, 
LL.B.  University  of  Buffalo  1904)  and  Sheldon  Knicker- 
bocker, a  graduate  of  the  College  in  1916,  and  three  daugh- 
ters, Grace,  who  received  the  degree  of  B.L.  at  Smith 
College  in  1901,  Anna,  and  Laetitia. 


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Theodore  Philander  Prudden,  B.A.   1869 

Born  March  14,  1847,  in  Middlebury,  Conn. 
Died  November  9,   1915,  in   Brooklinc,  Mass. 

Theodore  Philander  Prudden  was  a  descendant  of  Rev. 
Peter  Prudden,  leader  of  the  group  which  founded  the 
town  of  Milford,  Conn.,  in  1639,  and  Johanna  Boyce  of 
Edgeton,  Yorkshire,  England.  He  was  born  March  14, 
1847,  i^  Middlebury,  Conn.,  his  father  being  Rev.  George 
Peter  Prudden  (B.A.  1835),  who,  after  studying  from  1837 
to  1839  in  the  Yale  School  of  Religion,  served  for  a  number 
of  years  in  the  Congregational  ministry.  His  mother  was 
Eliza  Ann,  daughter  of  Ebenezer  and  Sally  (Mitchell) 
Johnson.  Pie  entered  Yale  from  Hopkins  Grammar  vSchool, 
New  Haven,  in  1865,  and  received  Colloquy  scholarship 
appointments  in  both  Junior  and  Senior  years. 

During  the  year  following  his  graduation,  he  was  princi- 
pal of  the  high  school  in  Branford,  Conn.  He  then  entered 
the  Yale  School  of  Religion,  receiving  at  the  end  of  his 
course  in  1873  the  degree  of  B.D.  The  following  year  and 
a  half  was  spent  in  European  travel,  with  special  studies  in 
Germany.  He  was  ordained  pastor  of  the  Plymouth  Con- 
gregational Church,  Lansing,  Mich.,  on  December  20,  1874, 
and  continued  there  until  1885,  when  he  took  charge  of  the 
Leavitt  Street  Congregational  Church  in  Chicago,  111.,  where 
he  remained  for  nine  years.  Both  of  these  pastorates  were 
notable  for  his  success  in  developing  from  small  beginnings 
large  and  flourishing  organizations,  with  new  and  com- 
modious edifices.  Dr.  Prudden  was  a  fearless  thinker  and 
a  thorough  student,  who  gave  careful  preparation  to  his 
pulpit  work.  In  1894,  he  was  called  to  the  Second  Congre- 
gational Church  of  Newton  at  West  Newton,  Mass.,  which 
he  served  for  thirteen  years,  retiring  in  1907. 

Since  his  resignation  from  that  charge,  he  had  constantly 
preached  in  various  churches  in  New  England,  giving  also 
much  attention  to  study  and  out-door  exercise.  The  stress 
of  a  long  and  active  career  made  itself  felt  at  last  in  the 
gradually  failing  functions  of  the  heart,  and  for  the  last 
few  years  of  his  life  his  health  was  poor.  His  death 
occurred  November  9,  19 15,  at  his  home  in  Brookline, 
Mass.,  where  he  had  lived  for  six  years.  He  was  buried  in 
Evergreen  Cemetery  at  New  Haven,  Conn. 


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In  1890,  the  honorary  degree  of  D.D.  was  conferred  upon 
him  by  IlHnois  College.  He  was  the  author  of  "Twenty 
Years  of  the  History  of  the  Plymouth  Church,  Lansing, 
Mich."  (1874),  "Christianity  and  the  Natural  Sciences" 
(1875),  and  of  "Facts  about  the  Bible"  and  "Congre- 
tionalism :  What  it  is,"  both  carefully  compiled  catechisms 
for  the  use  of  young  people,  appearing  in  1906  and  1909. 

Dr.  Prudden  was  married  October  24,  1877,  in  Hartford, 
Conn.,  to  Harriette  Collins,  daughter  of  Roderick  and  Sarah 
Ann  (Pierson)  Terry  and  sister  of  his  classmate,  Henry 
Taylor  Terry.  She  died  on  January  28,  1886,  and  on  Octo- 
ber 20,  1887,  he  was  married  in  Quincy,  111.,  to  Margaret 
Hunter,  daughter  of  Lorenzo  and  Margaret  (Benedict) 
Bull,  who  survives  him.  Six  children  were  born  to  them: 
George  Gold,  who  died  at  the  age  of  four ;  Theodore  Mitch- 
ell, a  graduate  of  the  Scientific  School  in  1913;  Elinor; 
Lillian  Margaret;  Edith,  and  Elizabeth  Bull.  Dr.  Prudden 
had  no  children  by  his  first  marriage.  His  brother,  T. 
Mitchell  Prudden,  took  the  degree  of  Ph.B.  at  Yale  in  1872 
and  that  of  M.D.  in  1875,  being  honored  with  the  degree 
of  Doctor  of  Laws  in  1897,  and  his  sister,  Lillian  Eliza 
Prudden,  graduated  from  Vassar  in  1875. 


Aaron  Smith  Thomas,  B.A.   1869 

Born  March  26,  1847,  in  Wickford,  R.  I. 
Died  October  22,  191 5,  in  New  York  City 

Aaron  Smith  Thomas  was  the  son  of  Allen  Mason 
Thomas,  a  merchant,  whose  parents  were  Richard  and  Polly 
(Nichols)  Thomas,  and  was  born  in  Wickford,  R.  L,  March 
26,  1847.  He  was  descended  from  John  Thomas,  who 
came  to  America  in  1662,  having  been  driven  from  Wales 
by  the  "Act  of  Conformity,"  and  settled  in  Swansea,  Mass. 
His  great-grandfather,  Samuel  Thomas,  held  a  captain's 
commission  in  the  Revolutionary  War.  His  mother  was 
Charlotte  Proctor,  daughter  of  Elisha  Philips  and  Hannah 
(Peck)  Smith  and  a  descendant  of  Governor  Arnold  of 
Rhode  Island.  He  received  his  preparation  for  college  at 
the  Hopkins  Grammar  School  in  New  Haven,  and  entered 
with  the  Class  of  1869  as  a  Fresliman.    He  received  a  Dis- 


i869  75 

sertation  appointment  in  Junior  year  and  a  Dispute  at 
Commencement,  and  was  a  member  of  Phi  Beta  Kappa. 

For  a  few  months  after  his  graduation,  he  traveled  in 
Florida  and  Georgia,  and  then  entered  the  employ  of  S.  C. 
Kinsley,  Son  &  Company,  shoe  merchants  of  Providence, 
as  a  clerk.  Mr.  Thomas  went  to  New  York  City  in  1877, 
there  engaging  in  business  as  a  manufacturer  of  infants' 
shoes  under  the  name  of  Thomas  &  Company.  The  busi- 
ness of  this  concern  had  since  1880  been  conducted  in 
Brooklyn.  He  retired  as  its  head  in  1906,  and  since  that 
time  had  been  special  partner  in  the  brokerage  firm  of 
Clement  &  Whitney  of  New  York  City. 

He  had  served  as  a  vestryman  of  St.  Paul's  Protestant 
Episcopal  Church  of  Wickford  and  as  a  vestryman  and 
treasurer  of  Christ  Church,  New  York.  He  was  vice  presi- 
dent of  the  Laymen's  Christian  Federation,  and  a  member 
of  the  Brotherhood  of  St.  Andrew,  the  Sons  of  the  Ameri- 
can Revolution,  and  the  New  England  Society.  He  was 
a  director  of  the  Mount  Morris  Bank,  the  Williamsburg 
Savings  Bank,  and  the  New  England  Butt  Company  of 
Providence.  At  the  time  of  his  death  he  was  Secretary  of 
the  Class  of  1869,  having  held  that  office  for  several  years. 

He  died  October  22,  191 5,  at  his  home  in  New  York 
City,  after  an  illness  of  a  year  and  a  half  due  to  carcinoma. 
Burial  was  in  Elmgrove  Cemetery  in  his  native  town. 

His  marriage  took  place  on  May  24,  1883,  in  New  York 
City,  to  Clara  Louise  Hubbard,  daughter  of  Abner  D.  and 
Eliza  (Hunnewell)  Jones,  who  survives  him  with  their  two 
sons,  Clarence  Proctor  (B.A.  191 1,  M.D.  Columbia  1915), 
and  Winthrop  Gordon.  Mr.  Thomas  was  a  brother  of 
Elisha  Smith  Thomas  (B.A.  1858,  Honorary  D.D.  1887)  ; 
Nathaniel  P.  S.  Thomas,  a  graduate  of  Yale  College  in 
1868  and  of  the  Columbia  Law  School  in  1870,  and  Allen 
Mason  Thomas,  who  took  the  degree  of  Ph.B.  at  Yale  in 
1877  and  that  of  M.D.  at  Columbia  in  1880.  Allen  T. 
Clement  (B.A.  1903),  Waldo  P.  Clement,  Jr.  (B.A.  1908), 
and  Harold  R.  Talbot,  who  studied  in  the  Sheffield  Scientific 
School  from  1898  to  1901,  but  did  not  graduate,  are 
nephews. 


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Walter  Rogers  Beach,  B.A.   1870 

Born  September  i,  1847,  in  Milford,  Conn. 
Died  December  27,  1915,  in  Mount  Vernon,  N.  Y. 

Walter  Rogers  Beach  was  the  son  of  Dennis  Beach,  a 
prominent  drygoods  merchant  of  New  York  City,  whose 
parents  were  Samuel  and  Charlotte  (Rogers)  Beach.  His 
mother  was  Maria,  daughter  of  David  and  Mary  (Smith) 
Clark  of  Milford,  Conn.  His  earliest  ancestors  in  this 
country  were  among  the  original  "planters"  of  Milford 
Colony  in  1639  (founded  by  members  of  the  New  Haven 
Colony),  among  them  being  John  Rogers,  Thomas  Beach, 
a  native  of  Derbyshire,  England,  and  George  Clark.  He 
was  also  a  lineal  descendant  of  Gov.  Robert  Treat,  of  Rev. 
Samuel  Andrew,  a  founder,  and  one  of  the  early  rectors  of 
Yale,  and  of  Capt.  Samuel  Bryan  Smith  and  Sergeant  Lan- 
day  Beach,  both  officers  who  rendered  distinguished  services 
in  the  American  Revolution. 

Born  in  Milford,  Conn.,  September  i,  1847,  tie  was  fitted 
for  college  at  Phillips  Academy,  Andover,  Mass.,  and 
entered  Yale  in  1866.  He  belonged  to  Linonia,  received 
a  Dissertation  appointment  in  Senior  year,  was  elected  to 
Phi  Beta  Kappa,  and  served  as  a  Class  historian.  Although 
too  young  to  serve  in  the  Civil  War,  he  had  three  brothers 
engaged  on  the  Union  side,  J.  Norton,  George  M.,  and 
Dennis,  the  latter  of  whom  served  through  the  entire  war. 

For  a  year  after  graduation,  he  taught  classics  and  mathe- 
matics in  the  Stamford  Military  Institute  at  Stamford, 
Conn.,  but  in  the  fall  of  1871  he  entered  the  Columbia  Uni- 
versity Law  School.  He  was  graduated  there  as  a  Bachelor 
of  Laws  iv  1873,  and  soon  afterwards  was  admitted  to  the 
New  York  Bar.  He  then  began  the  general  practice  of 
his  profession  in  New  York  City,  where,  from  1875  until 
about  1885,  he  was  a  member  of  the  firm  of  Norris  &  Beach. 
From  the  dissolution  of  this  partnership  until  1913,  he 
continued  alone,  in  that  year  retiring  from  practice  on 
account  of  ill  health.  He  made  a  special  study  of  corpora- 
tion law,  wills,  and  trusts,  and  was  counsel  for  a  number  of 
large  companies  and  estates. 

His  residence  was  in  New  York  City  until  1909,  when  he 
removed  to  Mount  Vernon,  N.  Y.,  where  he  died  December 


1870  77 

27,  1915-     His  death  was  due  to  hardening  of  the  arteries. 
Interment  was  in  his  native  town. 

Mr.  Beach  was  married  in  Washington,  D.  C,  July  25, 
1907,  to  Anna  Bodell,  daughter  of  Robert  Henry  and  Mary 
Oh  via  (Simpson)  Yeatman,  who  survives  him.  They  had 
no  children.  Three  brothers,  none  of  whom  is  now  living, 
attended  Yale:  William,  who  spent  some  time  with  the 
Class  of  1852,  Ferdinand,  who  received  the  degree  of  B.A. 
in  i860  and  that  of  M.D.  in  1864,  and  Dennis,  a  non- 
graduate  member  of  the  Class  of  1869. 


Robert  Kelly,  B.A.   1870 

Born  December  26,  1848,  in  New  York  City 
Died  January  6,  1916,  in  Superior,  Wis. 

Robert  Kelly  was  born  December  26,  1848,  in  New  York 
City,  his  parents  being  Robert  and  Arietta  A.  (Hutton) 
Kelly.  His  father,  who  was  the  son  of  Robert  and  Mar- 
garet (Shannon)  Kelly,  received  the  degree  of  B.A.  at 
Columbia  in  1826  and  an  honorary  LL.D.  from  the  Uni- 
versity of  Rochester  in  1852;  after  his  retirement  from 
business  he  was  active  in  literary  pursuits  and  philanthropic 
enterprises,  at  the  time  of  his  death  being  president  of  the 
Board  of  Education  of  New  York  City  and  president  of  the 
board  of  trustees  of  the  University  of  Rochester,  a  regent 
of  the  University  of  the  State  of  New  York,  and  chamber- 
lain of  New  York  City.  His  mother  was  the  daughter  of 
George  and  Elizabeth  (Smedes)  Hutton  and  a  descendant 
of  George  Hutton,  who  came  to  America  from  England  and 
settled  in  New  York,  and  of  Domini  Mancius,  who  came 
to  Kingston,  N.  Y.,  from  Holland. 

He  was  fitted  for  Yale  at  the  Dwight  School  in  New  York 
City,  and  received  Colloquy  appointments  in  Junior  and 
Senior  years  in  college,  where  he  belonged  to  Brothers  in 
Unity. 

He  took  up  the  study  of  law  at  Columbia  in  the  fall  of 
1870,  at  the  same  time  entering  the  office  of  his  uncle,  Wil- 
liam Kelly,  in  New  York  City.  He  went  abroad  in  the 
spring  of  1871,  returning  in  the  fall  with  the  intention  of 
continuing  his  law  course,  but  had  to  return  to  England 


78  YALE    COLLEGE 

almost  at  once  with  an  uncle  who  was  in  poor  health.  He 
completed  his  work  for  his  degree  in  1873,  being  admitted 
to  the  bar  in  June  of  that  year.  He  practiced  for  only  a 
very  brief  period,  giving  his  attention  instead  to  the 
development  of  iron  and  copper  companies  in  Pennsylvania, 
Ohio,  and  Arizona.  In  1886,  when  the  failure  of  a  number 
of  these  companies  occurred,  he  removed  to  Hastings-on- 
Hudson,  N.  Y.,  where  he  made  his  home  until  1892,  during 
the  last  four  years  holding  the  position  of  superintendent 
of  industries  of  the  New  York  House  of  Refuge.  From 
1892  until  1896,  he  was  business  manager  of  the  West 
Superior  Iron  &  Steel  Company  at  West  Superior,  Wis.  In 
the  latter  year,  Mr.  Kelly  became  general  manager  of  the 
Land  &  River  Improvement  Company,  and  served  in  that 
capacity  until  his  death.  He  was  also  the  resident  manager 
of  the  United  States  Cast  Iron  Pipe  &  Foundry  Company 
and  vice  president  of  the  First  National  Bank.  In  1896,  he 
spent  six  months  at  Punxsutawney,  Pa.,  supervising  the 
construction  of  a  blast  furnace  for  the  Punxsutawney  Iron 
Company.  Since  1899,  he  had  been  a  member  of  the  Supe- 
rior Park  Commission.  At  the  time  of  his  death,  he  was 
greatly  interested  in  the  construction  of  a  building  for  the 
Y.  M.  C.  A.  at  Superior.  He  attended  the  Pilgrim  Con- 
gregational Church  of  that  city. 

Mr.  Kelly  died  at  his  home  in  Superior,  January  6,  1916, 
after  a  week's  illness  from  pneumonia.  His  body  was  taken 
to  Rhinebeck,  N.  Y.,  for  burial. 

He  was  married  September  25,  1873,  in  New  Haven, 
Conn.,  to  Mabel  McClellan,  daughter  of  Professor  Ben- 
jamin Silliman  (B.A.  1837)  ^^^  Susan  Huldah  (Forbes) 
Silliman  and  sister  of  his  classmate,  Benjamin  Silliman. 
She  survives  him  with  five  children:  Robert  (B.A.  1896)  ; 
WilHam,  a  non-graduate  member  of  the  Class  of  1897  S., 
who  graduated  from  West  Point  in  1899;  Mabel  (Mrs, 
Philip  Glezen  Stratton  of  Superior)  ;  Faith,  who  married 
James  Madison  Kennedy,  a  graduate  of  the  College  in  1907, 
and  Eleanor  Rogers.  Their  third  son,  Trumbull,  died  in 
November,  1900,  five  months  after  his  graduation  from  the 
Scientific  School,  and  a  daughter.  Arietta,  at  the  age  of 
three  years.  Mr.  Kelly  was  a  brother  of  William  Kelly 
(B.A.  1874,  E.M.  Columbia  1877)  and  a  brother-in-law  of 
Arthur  Williams  Wright  (B.A.  1859,  Ph.D.  1861),  a  sketch 
of  whose  life  appears  elsewhere  in  the  present  volume;   of 


1870  79 

William  R.  Belknap,  who  graduated  from  the  Scientific 
School  in  1869,  and  of  William  A.  Rogers  (Ph.B.  1874). 
William  Belknap  and  William  S.  Rogers,  graduates  of  the 
College  in  1908  and  1910,  respectively,  are  his  nephews. 


Frank  Vincent,  B.A.  1870 

Born  April  2,  1848,  in  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 
Died  June  20,  1916,  in  Woodstock,  N.  Y. 

Frank  Vincent,  son  of  Frank  and  Harriet  (Barns) 
Vincent,  was  born  in  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.,  April  2^  1848.  He 
received  his  early  education  in  the  Peekskill  (N.  Y.)  Mili- 
tary Academy,  and  entered  Yale  with  the  Class  of  1870, 
but  owing  to  ill  health  left  at  the  end  of  the  second  term 
of  Freshman  year.  He  returned  in  the  fall  of  1867,  but  was 
again  compelled  to  discontinue  his  studies  after  a  short 
period.  He  was  a  member  of  Brothers  in  Unity.  In  1875, 
Yale  conferred  the  honorary  degree  of  M.A.  upon  him,  and 
he  was  later  enrolled  with  his  Class. 

His  life  was  devoted  to  travel  and  to  literary  pursuits. 
He  is  said  to  be  the  first  man  to  have  made  a  systematic 
tour  of  the  world.  He  made  explorations  into  Indo- 
China,  Lapland,  Brazil,  the  Congo  Free  State,  Micronesia, 
and  Melanesia — the  Fiji,  Solomon,  Gilbert,  Marshall,  and 
Ladrone  islands, — Papua  or  New  Guinea,  and  Borneo.  Of 
all  his  discoveries,  that  of  the  ruins  of  Cambodia  attracted 
the  most  attention.  On  his  tours,  he  collected  many  rare 
articles  of  artistic  and  industrial  interest,  and  some  years 
ago  presented  to  the  Metropolitan  Museum  of  Art  a  valu- 
able collection  of  Indo-Chinese  antiquities.  Among  the 
books  of  which  he  was  the  author  were:  "The  Land  of 
the  White  Elephant"  (1874)  ;  "Through  and  Through  the 
Tropics"  (1876);  "Norsk,  Lapp  and  Finn"  (1881)  ; 
"Actual  Africa"  (1895),  and  "The  Animal  World"  (1897). 
He  was  widely  read,  having,  in  fact,  in  1905  fulfilled  a 
resolve  made  at  the  age  of  seventeen  to  systematically 
survey  the  entire  field  of  literature,  science,  and  art  in  all 
nations,  ancient  and  modern,  confining  himself,  however,  to 
the  famous  standard  and  epoch-making  books.  In  recogni- 
tion of  his  work  as  an  explorer  and  writer,  Mr,  Vincent 
had  been  made  an  honorary  member  of  twenty-six  scientific 


BfO  YALE    COLLEGE 

and  literary  societies  in  this  country  and  abroad,  and  had 
received  decorations  from  sovereigns  and  governments  in 
Europe,  Asia,  Africa,  and  South  America. 

In  recent  years,  Mr.  Vincent  had  made  his  home  in  New 
York  City.  He  died  in  Woodstock,  N.  Y.,  June  20,  1916, 
after  a  short  ilhiess,  and  was  buried  in  Sleepy  Hollow 
Cemetery  at  Tarrytown,  N.  Y. 

He  was  married  June  3,  1909,  to  a  distant  cousin,  Harriet 
S.  Vincent,  who  survives  him  without  children. 


Edgar  David  Coonley,  B.A.   187 1 

Born  July  12,  1844,  in  Greenville,  N.  Y. 
Died  February  9,  1916,  in  Port  Richmond,  N.  Y. 

Edgar  David  Coonley,  son  of  Frederick  Coonley,  a 
farmer,  and  Eliza  (Griffen)  Coonley  and  grandson  of  Jacob 
and  Elizabeth  (Ham)  Coonley,  was  born  in  Greenville, 
N.  Y.,  July  12,  1844.  On  the  paternal  side,  he  was  of 
German  descent,  his  ancestors  having  settled  in  Dutchess 
County,  New  York,  in  1760,  His  mother's  parents  were 
Henry  and  Mary  (Mosher)  Griffen.  Members  of  the 
Griffen  family  came  from  England  to  America  in  1653. 

In  the  fall  of  1864,  having  spent  the  first  twenty  years  of 
his  life  on  his  father's  farm,  he  enlisted  in  the  Ninety-first 
Regiment,  New  York  Volunteers,  and  was  sent  to  Balti- 
more, Md.,  where  he  remained  until  the  Civil  War  ended, 
doing  provost  marshal  duty,  but  seeing  no  actual  service. 
After  his  discharge,  he  entered  the  Hudson  River  Institute, 
Claverack,  N.  Y.,  where  he  studied  for  nearly  two  years  in 
preparation  for  his  entrance  to  Yale.  He  received  Dispute 
appointments  in  Junior  and  Senior  years  in  college,  where 
he  was  for  two  years  a  member  of  the  University  Crew. 

After  staying  at  home  for  some  time  following  his  gradu- 
ation, Mr.  Coonley  spent  four  years  in  teaching, — during 
1871-72  at  Coxsackie,  N.  Y.,  the  next  year  at  Greenville, 
and  from  1873  to  1875  at  Claverack.  He  then  took  up  the 
study  of  medicine  at  the  College  of  Physicians  and  Sur- 
geons, making  his  home  at  Rahway,  N.  J.  After  his  grad- 
uation from  Columbia  in  1877,  he  moved  to  Mariner 
Harbor,  N.  Y.,  where  he  practiced  for  thirteen  years. 


1870-1871  8 1 

Since  that  time  he  had  resided  at  Port  Richmond,  N.  Y., 
where  he  died  February  9,  1916.  His  health  began  to  fail 
in  1902  after  an  automobile  accident  resulting  in  internal 
injuries  and  a  fracture  of  his  left  shoulder  and  elbow,  and 
in  the  hope  of  recovering  his  customary  strength  and 
energy  he  bought  a  small  place  in  Greenville,  where  he  spent 
the  summer  during  the  last  few  years  of  his  life.  In  the 
spring  of  19 13,  he  contracted  pneumonia,  principally  due  to 
his  over-worked  condition,  and  from  that  illness  he  never 
fully  recovered.  For  the  last  three  years  of  his  life,  he  was 
obliged  to  practically  retire  from  the  active  work  of  his 
profession.  In  the  search  of  health,  he  spent  one  summer 
in  Maine,  the  following  winter  in  the  South,  and  the  winter 
of  1914  in  southern  California,  where  he  became  very  ill 
with  heart  trouble,  and  was  brought  home  in  the  fall  entirely 
unconscious. 

Dr.  Coonley  was  a  trustee  of  Grace  Methodist  Episcopal 
Church  of  Port  Richmond.  He  was  married  January  2, 
1873,  in  Warwick,  N.  Y.,  to  Amelia,  daughter  of  Thomas  E. 
and  Mary  Ellen  (Booth)  Durland.  She  survives  him  with 
three  children:  Frederick  (B. A.  1896,  M.D.  1900);  Mary 
Ellen,  who  graduated  from  Wellesley  in  1899  and  who  was 
married  in  1906  to  William  Standish  Gaylord,  a  graduate 
of  Yale  with  the  degree  of  B.A.  in  1896,  and  Carl,  a  non- 
graduate  member  of  the  Sheffield  Class  of  1904.  Dr. 
Coonley  was  a  second  cousin  of  Oscar  S.  Pulman,  Jr.  (B.A. 
1900,  Ph.D.  1903). 


Isaac  Henry  Ford,  B.A.   1871 

Born  October  30,  1845,  in  North  East,  Md. 
Died  February  26,  1916,  in  Washing-ton,  D.  C. 

Isaac  Henry  Ford  was  born  at  North  East,  Cecil  County, 
Md.,  October  30,  1845,  being  one  of  the  eleven  children  of 
John  and  Elizabeth  (Simpers)  Ford.  His  father,  a  mer- 
chant, farmer,  and  local  preacher  in  the  Methodist  Episcopal 
Church,  was  descended  on  the  paternal  side  from  Richard 
Ford,  who  came  to  this  country  from  England  in  the  seven- 
teenth century  and  settled  on  the  Elk  River  in  Cecil  County ; 
Charles  Ford,  the  latter's  son,  served  in  the  militia  of  Lord 
Baltimore  and  of  King  George  III  in  Cecil  County  and  on 


82  YALE    COLLEGE 

the  frontier  in  the  French  and  Indian  wars.  On  the  mater- 
nal side,  Mr.  Ford  traced  his  descent  from  Francis 
Mauldin,  who  came  from  Wales  in  1684,  receiving  an 
original  land  grant  of  fifteen  hundred  acres  in  Maryland, 
where,  in  1721,  he  was  commissioner  of  Bohemia  Manor 
and  justice  of  the  court  of  Cecil  County.  Other  ancestors 
were  Capt.  John  Ford,  an  officer  in  the  Revolution,  whose 
wife  was  Millicent  (Hyland)  Ford,  great-granddaughter 
of  Col.  John  Hyland,  who  resigned  his  commission  in  the 
English  Army  and  emigrated  to  America  about  1664,  taking 
up  a  large  grant  in  Cecil  County,  and  Charles  Tilden  Ford, 
who,  with  three  of  his  brothers,  was  in  arms  against  the 
British  in  1812.  Isaac  Ford's  mother  was  of  English  origin, 
her  paternal  ancestor,  John  Simpers,  having  come  about 
1697  from  Liverpool  to  Port  Deposit,  Md.  She  was  the 
daughter  of  John  Simpers,  2d,  and  Margaret  (Crouch) 
Simpers  and  the  granddaughter  of  John  and  Martha  (Nash) 
Simpers. 

He  spent  his  youth  at  North  East,  Md.,  assisting  with  the 
work  on  his  father's  farms  and  attending  public  and  private 
schools.  He  received  his  preparatory  training  at  the  Fort 
Edward  (N.  Y.)  Collegiate  Institute  and  at  the  Connecticut 
Literary  Institution  at  Suffield.  In  college,  he  was  com- 
modore of  the  Yale  Navy  and  a  member  of  the  Wooden 
Spoon  Committee.  He  received  the  degree  of  LL.B.  from 
the  School  of  Law  in  1873,  two  years  after  his  graduation 
from  the  College,  being  awarded  at  the  same  time  the 
Jewell  prize  for  an  essay  on  Legal  Fictions.  Throughout 
his  law  course,  he  was  on  the  staff  of  the  New  Haven 
Palladium. 

From  October,  1873,  until  1892,  he  was  engaged  in  the 
practice  of  his  profession  at  Washington,  D.  C.,  having 
been  admitted  to  the  city  courts,  and  subsequently  to  the 
United  States  Court  of  Claims  and  the  Supreme  Court  of 
the  United  States.  From  1892  to  1899,  he  resided  in  North 
East,  superintending  and  taking  part  in  his  farming  opera- 
tions. His  brother,  Charles,  having  died  in  April,  1899, 
and  having  made  Mr.  Ford  his  executor,  he  returned  to 
Washington  and  continued  his  business, — that  of  real  estate 
and  the  manufacturing  of  bricks, — tmtil  1908,  when,  after 
having  modernized  the  family  home  at  North  East,  he  made 
it  his  home,  residing  in  Washington  only  during  the  winter 
months. 


i87i  83 

Among  the  organizations  of  which  Mr.  Ford  was  a  mem- 
ber were  the  American  Academy  of  PoHtical  and  Social 
Science,  the  Sons  of  the  American  Revolution,  and  the 
Maryland  Historical  Society.  In  The  Patriotic  Marylander 
for  June,  191 5,  is  published  an  article  by  him,  entitled 
"Early  Cecil."  He  was  a  liberal  contributor  to  the  Metho- 
dist Episcopal  Church  at  North  East,  but  was  not  a  mem- 
ber. In  1896,  he  served  as  a  member  of  the  Committee  of 
Public  Safety  of  Cecil  County.  He  took  part  in  several 
political  campaigns,  being  a  candidate  for  the  Legislature 
in  1896,  and  for  twelve  years  served  as  president  of  the 
Fifth  District  Republican  Club.  In  191 1,  he  was  again  a 
candidate  for  the  Legislature,  and  in  19 12  a  candidate  for 
presidential  elector.  He  was  active  in  the  affairs  of  the 
Yale  Alumni  Association  of  Washington,  at  one  time  serv- 
ing on  its  executive  committee,  and  was  the  last  surviving 
charter  member. 

His  death  occurred  at  his  residence  in  Washington,  Feb- 
ruary 26,  1916,  after  an  illness  of  several  months  due  to 
cirrhosis  of  the  liver.  Burial  was  in  the  Methodist  Episcopal 
Cemetery  in  his  native  town.  To  the  Maryland  Historical 
Society  and  the  Maryland  Society  of  the  Daughters  of  the 
American  Revolution,  Mr.  Ford  left  legacies. 

He  was  unmarried,  and  is  survived  by  a  sister.  Miss 
Sarali  Mauldin  Ford,  who  studied  at  Wesleyan  Female 
College,  Wilmington,  Del.,  in  1865-66.  Two  of  Mr.  Ford's 
brothers,  Samuel  Ford  and  Wilbur  Fisk  Ford,  attended 
Dickinson  College. 


Cortlandt  Wood,  B.A.   1871 

Born  May  17,  1850,  in  Plainfield,  Conn. 
Died  January  17,  1916,  in  Boston,  Mass. 

Cortlandt  Wood  was  born  May  17,  1850,  in  Plainfield, 
Conn.,  the  son  of  Darius  Wood,  whose  parents  were  Levi 
and  Sarah  (Randall)  Wood.  His  mother  was  Clarinda 
Eleanor,  daughter  of  Samuel  and  Alice  Eleanor  (Guild) 
Burlingame.  Receiving  his  preparatory  training  at  Phillips 
Academy,  Andover,  Mass.,  he  entered  Yale  in  the  fall  of 
1867,  and  was  graduated  four  years  later. 


84  YALE    COLLEGE 

An  attack  of  typhoid  fever  kept  him  from  taking  up  the 
study  of  the  law,  which  he  had  decided  to  enter  as  a  pro- 
fession, until  December,  1871,  when  he  entered  the  law 
office  of  Bacon  &  Aldrich  in  Worcester,  Mass.  He  con- 
tinued there  for  about  a  year,  completing  his  studies  at 
Boston  University  in  1873,  when  he  received  the  degree 
of  LL.B.  He  then  opened  a  law  office  at  Webster,  Mass., 
which  was  his  home  during  his  college  course  and  where 
his  father  was  engaged  in  business  as  a  merchant.  With 
the  exception  of  six  months  in  Europe  in  1876,  he  practiced 
there  until  1881,  when  he  went  to  Watertown,  S.  Dak.  In 
addition  to  practicing  law  in  that  town,  he  represented  a 
large  Scottish  loan  company. 

In  1896,  he  returned  from  the  Northwest,  and  had  since 
made  his  home  in  Boston,  Mass.,  engaged  in  the  practice 
of  his  profession.  He  died  in  that  city,  after  a  long  period 
of  ill  health,  January  17,  1916,  from  pneumonia,  which  fol- 
lowed an  attack  of  grippe.  His  body  was  cremated.  Mr. 
Wood  had  never  married. 


Clarence  Degrand  Ashley,  B.A.   1873 

Born  July  4,  185 1,  in  Boston,  Mass. 
Died  January  26,  1916,  in  New  York  City 

Clarence  Degrand  Ashley  was  born  in  Boston,  Mass., 
July  4,  1 85 1.  He  was  the  son  of  Ossian  Doolittle  Ashley, 
who  conducted  a  banking  business  in  New  York  City  and 
who,  when  the  Civil  War  broke  out,  volunteered  and 
became  colonel  of  the  Thirty-seventh  New  York  Regiment 
(now  the  Seventy-first).  After  the  war,  he  turned  his 
attention  to  railroads,  and  later  became  president  of  the 
Wabash  Railway  Company.  His  father  was  Lucius  Doo- 
little, son  of  Benjamin  Doolittle,  who  served  in  the  Revolu- 
tion, and  a  descendant  of  Rev.  Benjamin  DooHttle  (B.A. 
1716)  ;  his  mother,  Seraph  (Ashley)  Doolittle,  was  the 
daughter  of  Major  Daniel  Ashley  of  the  Revolutionary 
Army,  whose  father  was  Col.  Samuel  Ashley,  one  of  the 
original  grantees  of  Winchester,  N.  H.,  who  traced  his 
lineage  back  to  the  English  family  of  Ashleys  of  whom 
Lord  Ashley,  later  the  Earl  of  Shaftesbury,  was  a  noted 


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member;  by  a  family  arrangement,  their  children  were 
called  by  the  mother's  name.  Clarence  D.  Ashley's  mother 
was  Harriet  Amelia,  daughter  of  Joseph  and  Hai;riet 
(Pierce)  Nash,  the  latter's  parents  being  Abraham  and 
Lois  (Davenport)  Pierce. 

In  1858,  his  family  removed  to  New  York  City,  and  he 
attended  private  schools  in  that  city,  entering  Phillips  Acad- 
emy, Andover,  Mass.,  in  1866.  In  college,  he  played  on 
the  football  team  that  defeated  Columbia,  and  served  on 
the  Senior  Promenade  Committee. 

The  first  two  years  after  graduation  he  spent  in  New 
York  City,  gaining  business  experience  in  a  banker's  office 
and  also  giving  some  time  to  tutoring.  He  went  abroad 
in  the  summer  of  1875,  and  after  giving  his  attention  to  the 
study  of  German  for  a  while,  studied  law  and  history  for 
two  years  at  the  University  of  Berlin.  Mr.  Ashley  returned 
to  New  York  in  July,  1878,  and  the  following  fall  entered 
the  Columbia  Law  School,  where  he  received  the  degree 
of  LL.B.  in  1880.  During  his  course,  he  was  in  the  law 
office  of  Scudder  &  Carter  in  New  York,  and  upon  his 
admission  to  the  bar  he  formed  a  partnership  with  William 
A.  Keener  (B.A.  Emory  1874,  LL.B.  Harvard  1877),  who 
later  became  dean  of  the  Columbia  Law  School.  The 
partnership  continued  until  June,  1883,  and  then,  after  four 
years  of  independent  practice,  Mr.  Ashley  became  a  mem- 
ber of  the  firm  of  Dixon,  Williams  &  Ashley,  in  which  his 
associates  were  Edward  H.  Dixon  (LL.B.  Columbia  1873) 
and  Mornay  Williams,  a  graduate  of  that  institution  with 
the  degrees  of  B.A.  and  LL.B.  in  1878  and  1880,  respec- 
tively. Many  years  later,  he  became  a  member  of  the 
firm  of  Ashley,  Emley  &  Rubine. 

Mr.  Ashley  was  keenly  interested  in  the  problems  and 
methods  of  legal  education,  and  was  himself  a  teacher  of 
marked  ability,  bringing  to  such  work  his  heart-whole 
interest.  He  never  left  any  point  in  doubt,  and  insisted  on 
clear  thinking.  When  he  met  Abner  C.  Thomas  (later 
judge  of  the  Surrogate's  Court  in  New  York),  and  found 
him  eager  to  establish  a  night  school  for  the  study  of  law, 
Mr.  Ashley  threw  himself  into  the  plan  with  zest,  and 
together  he  and  Judge  Thomas  organized  the  Metropolis 
Law  School  in  1891,  Mr.  Ashley  becoming  a  member  of 
the  Faculty,  and  one  of  its  trustees.  The  School  was  a 
pronounced  success,  and  was  one  of  the  first  institutions 


86  YALE    COLLEGE 

to  adopt  the  so-called  Langdell  or  Case  System  of  teaching 
law — a  method  now  almost  universal.  It  was  at  this  time 
that  Mr.  Ashley  began  to  specialize  on  the  Law  of  Con- 
tracts, and  prepared  his  first  book  on  Cases  for  the  use  of 
his  classes.  Among  the  first  graduates  of  the  School  was 
Frank  H.  Sommer,  who  has  been  chosen  by  New  York 
University  to  succeed  Mr.  Ashley  as  dean  of  its  Law  School. 

In  1895,  the  Metropolis  was  consolidated  with  the  New 
York  University  Law  School,  and  Mr.  Ashley  was  made 
professor  of  law  and  vice  dean  of  the  Faculty  in  charge 
of  the  evening  division.  The  following  year,  he  became 
dean  with  full  charge  of  the  Law  School.  At  this  time, 
he  gave  up  the  practice  of  law  and  devoted  all  his  energy 
to  the  school  and  the  problem  of  legal  education.  To  Mr. 
Ashley  must  be  given  the  credit  of  establishing  evening 
legal  education  in  New  York  City  and  maintaining  it  upon 
a  high  and  permanent  basis  in  spite  of  much  opposition. 
One  of  the  notable  features  of  the  New  York  University 
Law  School  under  Mr.  Ashley's  deanship  was  the  admis- 
sion of  women  to  all  classes  on  equal  terms  with  men. 
From  1899  to  1909,  he  served  as  non-resident  lecturer  on 
law  at  Bryn  Mawr  College. 

Mr.  Ashley  made  a  thorough  study  of  the  Law  of  Con- 
tracts, and  was  a  recognized  authority  on  the  subject.  His 
book,  "The  Law  of  Contracts,"  published  in  191 1  was 
widely  reviewed,  and  has  caused  much  discussion.  In  some 
respects  his  views  differed  from  those  of  Langdell  and 
other  authorities,  and  he  was  in  constant  correspondence 
with  all  the  best-known  students  on  the  subject,  such  as 
Pollock  of  England,  one  of  the  authors  of  Pollock  and 
Maitland's  "History  of  English  Law."  Mr.  Ashley  was 
a  constant  contributor  to  the  Harvard  Law  Reviezv,  the 
Yale  Law  Review,  the  Columbia  Law  Review  and  many 
others  throughout  the  country.  In  1895,  New  York  Uni- 
versity conferred  an  honorary  LL.M.  upon  him  and  eight 
years  later  that  of  J.D.,  and  he  also  held  the  degree  of 
Doctor  of  Laws,  received  at  Miami  in  1898.  Dean  Ashley 
was  a  member  of  the  New  York  City  Bar  Association,  and 
for  many  years  served  upon  its  legislative  committee.  He 
belonged  also  to  the  New  York  State  Bar  Association,  the 
New  York  County  Lawyers  Association,  and  the  American 
Bar  Association.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Century  Club 
and  the  New  England  vSociety. 


i873  87 

His  death,  due  to  a  blood  clot  which  reached  the  heart, 
occurred  suddenly,  January  26,  1916,  at  his  home  in  New 
York  City.    He  was  buried  in  Woodlawn  Cemetery. 

Mr.  Ashley  was  married  in  Geneva,  Switzerland,  August 
12,  1880,  to  Isabella  Heyward,  daughter  of  Daniel  C.  Ripley 
and  Sarah  (Trumbull)  Ripley,  a  direct  descendant  of 
Jonathan  Trumbull.  She  survives  him  with  two  children, 
Edith  Heyward  and  Mabel  Pierce.  The  former  is  a  non- 
graduate  member  of  the  Class  of  1905  at  Bryn  Mawr 
College,  while  the  latter  took  the  degree  of  B.A.  there  in 
1910. 


Solomon  Carrington  Minor,  B.A.   1873 

Born  June  4,  1850,  in  Waterbury,  Conn. 
Died  June  16,  1916,  in  New  York  City 

Solomon  Carrington  Minor  was  born  in  Waterbury, 
Conn.,  June  4,  1850.  His  father,  Solomon  Benedict  Minor, 
was  interested  in  various  mercantile  and  manufacturing 
enterprises  in  Waterbury,  where  he  served  as  town  clerk 
from  1841  to  1847 ;  he  was  descended  from  Thomas  Minor, 
who  came  to  New  England  in  John  Winthrop's  company 
in  1630,  and  from  Capt.  John  Minor,  a  man  prominent  in 
the  early  history  of  Woodbury,  Conn.  Through  his  descent 
from  Capt.  Matthew  Minor  of  Woodbury,  he  was  related 
to  Matthew  Minor  (B.A.  1801)-,  whose  son,  Samuel,  gradu- 
ated from  the  College  in  1844.  His  mother  was  Cynthia 
Adeline,  daughter  of  Solomon  and  Cynthia  (Cook) 
Carrington. 

Before  entering  Yale  in  1868,  he  attended  the  Water- 
bury High  School,  Williston  Academy  at  Williston,  Vt., 
Parker  Academy  in  Woodbury,  and  Phillips-Andover.  He 
withdrew  from  college  at  the  end  of  Sophomore  year  on 
account  of  ill  health,  but  returned  in  the  fall  of  1871,  com- 
pleting his  work  with  the  Class  of  1873. 

Until  1889,  Mr.  Minor  was  engaged  in  teaching,  being 
principal  successively  of  the  Naugatuck  (Conn.)  High 
School,  the  grammar  school  at  Union  City,  a  part  of  the 
town  of  Naugatuck,  and  of  the  Greeneville  Schools  of  Nor- 
wich, Conn.,  his  period  of  service  in  the  latter  place  cov- 
ering twelve  and  a  half  years. 


88  YALE    COLLEGE 

In  the  fall  of  1889,  he  turned  his  attention  to  the  study 
of  medicine,  and  in  1892  was  graduated  from  New  York 
University  with  the  degree  of  M.D.  He  stood  at  the  head 
of  his  Class,  and  in  a  competitive  contest,  was  selected  to 
deliver  the  valedictory  address.  After  serving  an  interne- 
ship  on  the  surgical  staff  of  Bellevue  Hospital,  New  York 
City,  he  opened  offices  in  that  city,  where  he  continued  in 
practice  until  his  death,  although  in  the  past  few  years 
he  had,  because  of  ill  health,  been  compelled  to  gradually 
relinquish  the  more  arduous  duties  of  his  profession.  He 
was  a  member  of  the  Charity  Organization  Society  of 
New  York  City  and  of  several  medical  organizations,  in 
1909  being  chosen  president  of  the  Bronx  Medical  Asso- 
ciation. In  1899,  he  was  ordained  a  deacon  in  the  Catholic 
Apostolic  Church,  and  served  in  that  capacity  until  his 
death. 

Dr.  Minor  died  at  Lincoln  Hospital,  New  York  City, 
June  16,  1916,  from  a  complication  of  diseases.  Burial 
was  in  Riverside  Cemetery,  Waterbury. 

He  was  married  June  30,  1877,  in  Union  City  to  Florence 
Anna,  daughter  of  William  S.  and  Lurissa  Jane  (Carlton) 
Kelly,  who  died  September  22,  191 1.  They  had  three 
children:  Arthur  Carlton,  whose  death  occurred  in  1884; 
Walter  Theodore,  who  died  in  1883,  and  Mabel  Theodora, 
who  survives.  He  leaves  also  three  sisters,  two  of  whom, 
Emily  Terry  Minor  and  Mary  Root  Minor,  are  members  of 
the  Mount  Holyoke  Class  of  1880,  although  the  latter  did 
not  receive  a  degree  there.    • 


James  Adam  Robson,  B.A.   1873 

Born  January  i,  1851,  in  Gorham,  N.  Y. 
Died  February  i,  1916,  in  Gorham,  N.  Y. 

James  Adam  Robson  was  born  January  i,  1851,  in 
Gorham,  N.  Y.,  his  father  being  John  Robson,  a  farmer, 
who  represented  Ontario  County  in  the  State  Assembly 
of  1879;  the  latter's  parents  were  James  and  Anne  (Hes- 
lope)  Robson,  and  he  was  descended  from  John  Robson, 
who  came  to  Gorham  from  England  in  1816.  His  mother 
was  Isabella,  daughter  of  Adam  and  Jane  (Heslope)  Telfer 
of  Telfer,  Ontario,  Canada. 


i873  89 

He  was  fitted  for  Yale  at  the  Cananclaigua  (N.  Y.) 
Academy,  and  in  college  received  High  Oration  appoint- 
ments and  an  election  to  Phi  Beta  Kappa. 

Mr.  Robson  entered  the  Columbia  Law  School  in  1874, 
having  spent  the  previous  year  at  his  home.  He  received 
his  LL.B.  in  1876,  and  in  October  of  that  year  took  up 
practice  in  Canandaigua,  where  he  followed  his  profession 
as  a  lawyer  until  his  appointment  as  a  justice  of  the 
Supreme  Court  of  New  York  State  in  1903.  The  next 
year,  he  was  elected  to  that  office,  being  designated  as  a 
justice  of  the  appellate  division  and  assigned  to  the  fourth 
department,  and,  by  reappointment,  continued  on  the  bench 
until  his  death  at  the  family  home  at  Gorham,  N.  Y.,  Febru- 
ary I,  1916,  after  a  six  weeks'  illness  from  cirrhosis  of  the 
liver.    He  was  buried  in  Gorham. 

Judge  Robson  was  a  trustee  of  the  Clifton  Springs 
(N.  Y.)  Sanitarium.  He  was  unmarried,  and  is  survived 
by  four  sisters. 


William  Henry  Whittaker,  B.A.   1873 

Born  August  11,  1853,  in  Covington,  Ky. 
Died  November  5,  1915,  in  Cincinnati,  Ohio 

William  Henry  Whittaker  was  born  in  Covington,  Ky., 
August  II,  1853,  the  son  of  James  Whittaker,  a  merchant. 
His  mother  was  Olivia,  daughter  of  Dr.  James  Lyon  and 
Mary  Lyon  of  Frederick  City,  Md.  Receiving  his  prepara- 
tory training  at  the  Hughes  High  School  in  Cincinnati, 
Ohio,  in  1869  he  entered  Yale,  where  he  received  a  Dis- 
sertation Junior  and  a  Dispute  Senior  appointment. 

He  spent  the  two  years  after  graduation  as  a  reporter 
for  the  Cincinnati  Enquirer,  but  in  1875  he  went  to  Chi- 
cago, 111.,  where,  while  reading  law  in  the  offices  of  Pad- 
dock &  Ide  and  attending  the  Union  College  of  Law,  he 
worked  on  the  Evening  Post  and  the  Times.  He  was  sent 
to  Europe  in  July,  1877,  ^s  a  correspondent  for  the  Cin- 
cinnati Enquirer,  remaining  until  September  of  the  follow- 
ing year,  and  during  this  period  he  studied  law  for  nine 
months  at  the  University  of  Heidelberg,  and  visited  other 
parts  of  Germany,  as  well  as  Italy  and  Switzerland.  Since 
his  return  to  Cincinnati  in  the  fall  of  1878,  he  had  prac- 


QO  YALE    COLLEGE 

ticed  in  that  city.  He  was  appointed  assistant  corporation 
counsel  in  January,  1891,  and  served  in  that  capacity  for 
the  next  six  years.  He  was  considered  an  authority  on 
bankruptcy  law,  and  had  been  referee  in  bankruptcy  for 
Hamilton  County  since  1898.  His  writings  on  subjects 
connected  with  his  profession  had  been  numerous,  and 
included  "The  Annotated  Ohio  Code  of  Civil  Procedure," 
"The  Annotated  Ohio  Probate  Code,"  "The  Ohio  Code  of 
Evidence,"  and  "Forms  of  Pleading  under  the  Codes  of 
Civil  Procedure,"  the  latter  being  published  in  two  volumes. 
For  a  time,  he  edited  the  Weekly  Law  Bulletin. 

He  belonged  to  the  Methodist  Church  of  Avondale,  Cin- 
cinnati. Since  1910,  he  had  served  as  professor  of  torts  at 
the  Young  Men's  Christian  Association  Law  School,  and 
while  delivering  a  lecture  to  a  class  on  the  evening  of 
November  5,  191 5,  suffered  an  attack  of  heart  failure,  and 
died  almost  instantly.  He  was  buried  in  Spring  Grove 
Cemetery  in  Cincinnati. 

He  was  married  in  Camden,  Ohio,  August  17,  1893,  to 
Carrie  A.,  daughter  of  Benjamin  F.  and  Nancy  M.  Gardner, 
by  whom  he  is  survived.  They  had  one  son,  William 
Russell,  who  died  on  January  19,  1902.  Mr.  Whittaker's 
nephews,  James  M.  and  Wallace  S.  Whittaker,  are  gradu- 
ates of  Yale,  the  former  being  a  member  of  the  College 
Class  of  1909  and  the  latter  of  the  Sheffield  Class  of  1914. 
They  are  sons  of  his  brother,  James  T.  Whittaker  (B.A. 
Miami  1863,  M.D.  University  of  Pennsylvania  1866). 
Another  brother,  Horace  S.  Whittaker,  graduated  from 
Miami  in  1868. 


Frank  Wade  Foster,  B.A.   1874 

Born  October  30,  1852,  in  Bibb  County,  Ga. 
Died  November  25,  1914,  in  Atlanta,  Ga. 

Frank  Wade  Foster  was  born  October  30,  1852,  in  Bibb 
County,  Georgia,  the  son  of  Albert  Gallatin  Foster,  an  attor- 
ney at  law,  and  Caroline  (Colbert)  Foster.  Through  his 
father,  whose  parents  were  Arthur  and  Hannah  (Johnson) 
Foster,  he  was  descended  from  Revolutionary  stock,  his 
earliest  American  ancestors  having  settled  in  North  Caro- 
lina.    His   mother   was    the    daughter   of    Frederick    and 


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Temperance  (Powers)  Colbert  and  a  descendant  of  Major 
John  Powers,  who  emigrated  from  Ireland  to  Georgia  and 
served  as  an  officer  under  Washington. 

He  was  fitted  for  college  at  Phillips  (Andover)  Acad- 
emy, and  at  Yale  was  for  two  years  a  member  of  the 
University  Baseball  Team. 

Mr.  Foster  returned  to  his  native  state  after  graduating, 
and  for  six  months  managed  a  plantation  near  Macon.  In 
January,  1875,  he  was  appointed  a  deputy  collector  of 
internal  revenue,  and  while  serving  in  this  capacity  for  the 
next  five  years  made  his  headquarters  successively  at  Mill- 
edgeville.  Savannah,  and  at  Augusta.  On  September  i, 
1880,  he  entered  'the  cotton  commission  business  in  Augusta 
under  the  firm  name  of  McCord  &  Foster.  Three  years 
later,  his  partner  retired,  and  until  April,  1887,  Mr.  Foster 
continued  the  business  alone.  At  that  time,  he  formed,  with 
Mr.  Joshua  Doughty  the  firm  of  Foster  &  Doughty,  which 
was  merged  five  years  afterwards  with  the  Augusta  Cotton 
&  Compress  Company.  On  the  liquidation  of  this  cor- 
poration in  1899,  Mr.  Foster  settled  in  Buckhead,  Ga.  For 
seven  years,  he  was  manager  of  the  Buckhead  Ginning  & 
Milling  Company,  but  after  1906  gave  his  whole  attention 
to  farming.  While  living  in  Augusta,  he  served  as  a  mem- 
ber of  the  City  Council  for  one  term  (1895)  and  for  several 
years  as  president  of  the  Commercial  Club. 

His  death  occurred  November  25,  1914,  in  Atlanta,  Ga., 
after  a  prolonged  illness  due  to  Bright's  disease.  He  was 
buried  in  Madison,  Ga. 

He  was  married  in  Augusta,  February  2,  1882,  to  Mary 
Clanton,    daughter    of    William    J.    and    Anne    (Clanton) 
Vason,  who  survives  him  with  their  daughter,  Annie  Clan 
ton  (Foster)  Leggett,  of  New  York  City. 


William  Nimick  Frew,  B.A.   1876 

Born  July  10,  1854,  in  Pittsburgh,  Pa. 
Died  October  28,  1915,  in  Pittsburgh,  Pa. 

William  Nimick  Frew,  son  of  William  Frew,  was  born 
July  10,  1854,  in  Pittsburgh,  Pa.,  being  a  descendant  of 
Samuel  Frew,  who  came  to  America  from  Ireland  about 
1800   and   settled   in   Western    Pennsylvania.      His    father 


92  YALE    COLLEGE 

was  one  of  the  pioneers  in  the  oil  business  in  that  part  of 
the  country.  He  served  as  a  major  in  the  Pennsylvania 
Reserves  during  the  Civil  War,  and  was  active  in  hospital 
work,  the  early  undertakings  of  the  Young  Men's  Chris- 
tian Association,  and  in  the  philanthropic  movements  of 
his  day.  William  N.  Frew's  mother,  Martha  E.  (Long) 
Frew,  was  of  old  Quaker  stock. 

Before  entering  Yale,  he  attended  Newell's  Academy,  the 
Western  University  of  Pennsylvania  (now  the  University 
of  Pittsburgh),  and  Phillips  Academy,  Andover,  Mass.  In 
his  Junior  year  in  college,  he  served  on  the  Class  Supper 
Committee. 

He  took  up  the  law  as  a  profession  after  graduation, 
receiving  his  preparation  in  the  office  of  Hampton  &  Dal- 
zell  of  Pittsburgh  and  at  Columbia  University,  where  he 
studied  during  1876-77.  In  April,  1879,  he  was  admitted 
to  the  bar  of  Allegheny  County,  and  immediately  began 
practice  in  Pittsburgh,  where  he  attained  remarkable 
success. 

Through  his  friendship  with  Mr.  Andrew  Carnegie, 
Mr.  Frew  became  a  director  of  the  Pittsburgh,  Bessemer 
&  Lake  Erie  Railroad  Company,  the  Iron  City  National 
Bank,  the  City  Deposit  Bank,  the  Union  Trust  Company, 
the  Mellon  National  Bank,  the  Union  Savings  Bank,  and 
the  Western  Insurance  Company.  With  Mr.  Carnegie's 
retirement  from  the  steel  business,  and  the  inauguration  of 
his  philanthropic  activities,  he  prevailed  on  Mr.  Frew  prac- 
tically to  surrender  his  entire  law  practice,  which  had  then 
become  very  lucrative,  and  to  take  up  his  charitable  enter- 
prises. In  consequence,  Mr.  Frew  was  looked  upon  as  one 
of  the  founders  of  the  great  Carnegie  Library  and  Insti- 
tute of  Pittsburgh,  in  which  he  was  for  many  years  the 
president  of  the  board  of  trustees.  He  was  also  a  director 
of  the  Carnegie  Technical  School  Commission,  a  trustee 
of  the  Carnegie  Institution  at  Washington,  the  Carnegie 
Hero  Fund  Commission,  and  of  the  Pennsylvania  College 
for  Women,  serving  for  some  time  as  secretary  of  the  board 
of  the  latter,  and  was  a  member  of  the  Pennsylvania  State 
Library  Commission  for  a  long  time.  For  four  years,  end- 
ing with  April,  1889,  he  was  a  member  of  the  Select  Council 
of  the  city  of  Pittsburgh,  and  from  1897  to  1902  was  presi- 
dent of  the  Pittsburgh  Orchestra.  He  was  a  member  of 
the  East  Liberty  Presbyterian  Church.     In  1912,  the  Uni- 


1876  93 

versity  of  Pittsburgh  conferred  the  honorary  degree  of 
LL.D.  upon  him. 

Mr.  Frew  died  at  his  home  in  Pittsburgh,  October  28, 
191 5,  and  was  buried  in  the  Allegheny  Cemetery  in  that 
city.  In  March,  1914,  he  sustained  a  fall,  from  the  effects 
of  which  he  never  fully  recovered,  and  he  had  been  con- 
fined to  his  bed  for  a  year  prior  to  his  death. 

He  was  married  January  13,  1881,  at  Pittsburgh,  to 
Emily  Wick,  daughter  of  George  A.  and  S^rah  Lippincott 
Berry,  who  survives  him  with  their  three  children:  Wil- 
liam, who  was  graduated  at  Yale  in  the  College  Class  of 
1903  and  from  the  University  of  Pittsburgh  with  the 
degree  of  LL.B.  in  1906;  Margarita,  who  was  married  in 
December,  1906,  to  Rufus  Story  Rowland  (B.A.  1906)  ; 
and  Virginia,  who  is  the  wife  of  Mr.  Thruston  Wright. 


Durbin  Home,  B.A.   1876 

Born  July  15,  1854,  in  Pittsburgh,  Pa. 
Died  May  12,  1916,  in  Pittsburgh,  Pa. 

Durbin  Home  was  born  in  Pittsburgh,  Pa.,  July  15,  1854, 
his  father  being  Joseph  Home,  son  of  John  and  Cather- 
ine (Otto)  Home  and  a  descendant  of  Henry  Home,  who 
came  to  America  in  1779  from  Bavaria,  settling  at  Bedford, 
Pa.,  and  who  served  as  a  cavalry  officer  in  Washington's 
army  during  the  Revolution.  His  mother  was  Mary  Eliza- 
beth, daughter  of  John  and  Susan  B.  (Wolff)  Shea. 
Through  her,  he  was  descended  from  George  Michael 
Wolff,  who  came  to  this  country  from  Germany  in  1739. 

Durbin  Home  was  prepared  for  Yale  at  Newell's  Acad- 
emy in  Pittsburgh  and  at  the  Hopkins  Grammar  School  in 
New  Haven,  and  while  in  college  sang  on  the  University 
Glee  Club,  and  was  a  member  of  the  Junior  Promenade 
Committee. 

Upon  graduating,  he  entered  the  dry  goods  business  with 
his  father,  who  was  then  head  of  the  firm  of  Joseph  Home 
&  Company.  In  1901,  the  firm  Was  incorporated  as  the 
Joseph  Home  Company,  and  he  was  made  president.  He 
continued  in  that  capacity  until  November,  1915,  when  he 
retired  on  account  of  failing  health.     His  death  occurred 


94  YALE    COLLEGE 

May  12,  1916,  at  his  home  in  Pittsburgh  as  the  result  of 
arterio  sclerosis,  and  he  was  buried  in  Allegheny  Cemetery 
in  that  city. 

For  a  number  of  years,  Mr.  Home  was  a  director  of  the 
Union  National  Bank  of  Pittsburgh  and  of  the  Fidelity 
Title  &  Trust  Company.  He  was  a  trustee  of  the  Carne- 
gie Institute  of  Pittsburgh  from  1905  to  1910,  and  president 
of  the  board  of  trustees  of  Allegheny  College  from  1900  to 
1908.  He  was  also  a  trustee  of  Christ  Methodist  Episcopal 
Church  of  Pittsburgh  and  a  member  of  the  Sons  of  the 
American  Revolution. 

He  was  married  in  Cincinnati,  Ohio,  May  11,  1882,  to 
Mary  Tweed,  daughter  of  Alexander  Hugh  and  Laura 
Clarissa  (VanDyke)  Andrews  and  sister  of  his  classmate, 
Frank  VanDyke  Andrews.  She  survives  him  with  one 
son,  Joseph,  who  received  the  degree  of  B.A.  at  Yale  in 
191 1.  Their  elder  son,  Durbin,  died  in  1892.  Mr.  Home's 
nephews,  Joseph  H.  Holmes  and  Nathaniel  Holmes,  2d, 
graduated  from  the  College  in  1904  and  1908,  respectively. 


William  Waldo  Hyde,  B.A.   1876 

Born  March  25,  1854,  in  Tolland,  Conn. 
Died  October  30,  1915,  in  Hartford,  Conn. 

William  Waldo  Hyde,  the  son  of  Alvan  Pinney  Hyde, 
who  graduated  from  Yale  with  the  degree  of  B.A.  in  1845, 
was  born  in  Tolland,  Conn.,  March  25,  1854.  His  mother 
was  Frances  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Loren  Pinckney  and 
Frances  Elizabeth  (Eldridge)  Waldo.  He  was  prepared 
for  college  at  the  Hartford  (Conn.)  Public  High  School, 
and  entering  Yale  in  1872,  in  his  Sophomore  year  received 
two  second  prizes  for  excellence  in  English  composition, 
the  following  year  was  given  a  Junior  Exhibition  prize,  and 
in  Senior  year  was  awarded  an  English  composition  prize. 
His  appointments  were  Philosophical  Orations,  he  ranked 
fourth  in  his  Class  at  graduation,  when  he  was  one  of  the 
Commencement  speakers,  and  was  a  member  of  Phi  Beta 
Kappa.  He  sang  on  the  Class  Glee  Club,  and  was  on  the 
Class  Supper  Committee,  an  editor  of  the  Yale  Literary 
Magazine  in  Senior  year,  and  a  member  of  Chi  Delta  Theta. 


1876  95 

After  leaving  Yale,  Mr.  Hyde  entered  upon  the  study  of 
law  in  Hartford  in  the  offices  of  the  firm  of  Waldo,  Hubbard 
&  Hyde,  of  which  the  members  were  his  grandfather, 
Judge  Waldo,  Gov.  Richard  Dudley  Hubbard  (B.A.  1839), 
and  his  father.  He  remained  there  until  1877,  and  then 
went  to  the  Boston  University  Law  School  for  a  year's 
study.  Upon  his  return  to  Hartford,  he  became  connected 
with  his  father's  firm,  the  name  of  which  was  changed  in 
1881,  after  the  death  of  Judge  Waldo  and  when  Mr.  Hyde 
himself  was  taken  into  partnership,  to  Hubbard,  Hyde  & 
Gross.  Three  years  later  the  firm  became  known  as  Hyde, 
Gross  &  Hyde,  but  since  1894  its  business  had  been  con- 
ducted under  the  name  of  Gross,  Hyde  &  Shipman,  Mr. 
Hyde's  associates  being  his  son,  Alvan  Waldo  (B.A.  1902)  ; 
Charles  E.  Gross,  of  the  Class  of  1869,  Arthur  L.  Ship- 
man,  who  received  the  degrees  of  B.A.  and  LL.B.  at  Yale 
in  1886  and  1888,  respectively,  and  Charles  Welles  Gross 
(B.A.  1898,  LL.B.  Harvard  1901).  For  many  years,  Mr. 
Hyde  had  been  a  member  of  the  Bar  Examining  Com- 
mittee of  the  State  of  Connecticut,  and  at  the  time  of  his 
death  he  was  vice  president  of  the  State  Bar  Association. 

Although  he  had  attained  a  position  of  the  first  eminence 
in  the  Connecticut  Bar,  the  practice  of  his  profession  had 
not  absorbed  Mr.  Hyde's  entire  interest.  From  1885  to 
1891,  he  was  a  member  of  the  Board  of  School  Visitors  of 
Hartford,  and  during  that  period  was  acting  school  visitor. 
He  had  also  served  on  the  Board  of  Health,  and  for  several 
years  was  a  member  of  the  Board  of  Street  Commissioners 
of  Hartford,  for  some  time  being  president  of  the  latter. 
In  May,  1901,  he  was  appointed  corporation  counsel  for 
the  city,  a  position  which  he  held  for  two  years.  On  April 
4,  1892,  he  was  elected  mayor  of  Hartford  on  the  Demo- 
cratic ticket,  and  served  in  that  capacity  for  two  years. 
At  the  time  of  the  change  in  management  of  the  New  York, 
New  Haven  &  Hartford  Railroad  Company  in  1914,  Mr. 
Hyde  was  selected  as  one  of  the  five  trustees  appointed  to 
manage  the  trolley  systems  that  had  been  separated  from 
the  railroad  company's  management,  and  was  acting  as  such 
at  the  time  of  his  death.  He  was  a  director  of  the  Mercan- 
tile National  and  the  Dime  Savings  banks  of  Hartford,  and 
of  the  American  School  for  the  Deaf  and  Dumb  and  the 
Hartford  Library  Association,  and  was  a  trustee  of  the 
Connecticut  Hospital  for  the  Insane  at  Middletown.     He 


g6  YALE   COLLEGE 

was  a  member  of  the  Society  of  Mayflower  Descendants, 
the  Society  of  Colonial  Wars,  and  the  Sons  of  the  Ameri- 
can Revolution.    He  had  taken  several  trips  abroad. 

Mr.  Hyde's  death  occurred  very  suddenly  October  30, 
191 5,  in  Hartford,  after  an  operation  for  obstruction  of 
the  bowels.  He  was  buried  in  Cedar  Hill  Cemetery  in 
Hartford. 

He  was  married  in  that  city,  December  i,  1877,  to  Helen 
Eliza,  daughter  of  George  Wheeler  and  Eliza  Whiting 
Watson,  who  survives  him.  Two  children  were  born  to 
them :  Elizabeth  and  Alvan  Waldo.  The  son,  after  gradu- 
ating from  Yale  College  in  1902,  entered  the  Harvard  Law 
School,  where  he  received  the  degree  of  LL.B.  in  1905. 
Mr.  Hyde's  brother,  Frank  Eldridge,  graduated  from  the 
College  in  1879  and  from  the  School  of  Law  two  years 
later. 


Herbert  Stanley  Youn^,  B.A.  1876 

Born  December  7,  1853.  in  Sterling,  Conn. 
Died  January  5,  1916,  in  Norwich,  Conn. 

Herbert  Stanley  Young,  son  of  William  Potter  and  Laura 
Anthony  (Hill)  Young,  was  born  in  Sterling,  Conn., 
December  7,  1853.  His  paternal  grandparents  were  Wil- 
liam Potter  and  Mary  (Perkins)  Young.  His  mother  was 
the  daughter  of  Sheldon  and  Mercy  (Waterman)  Hill.  He 
was  prepared  for  Yale  at  the  Norwich  (Conn.)  Free  Acad- 
emy, and  received  Dispute  appointments  in  Junior  and 
Senior  years. 

During  the  first  three  years  after  his  graduation,  Mr. 
Young  taught  at  the  Antiion  (N.  Y.)  Grammar  School 
and  at  the  Columbia  Grammar  School  in  New  York  City. 
In  1879,  he  entered  the  employ  of  a  wholesale  drug  house 
of  New  York  City,  but  a  year  later  resumed  teaching  at 
Plainfield,  N.  J.  From  1884  until  1889,  he  was  principal 
of  the  New  Milford  (Conn.)  High  School.  He  then  organ- 
ized and  took  charge  of  the  Wheeler  School,  a  private 
preparatory  school  at  North  Stonington,  Conn.,  but  resigned 
that  position  in  June,  1898,  to  engage  in  the  manufacture 
of  proprietary  medicines.  From  1898  to  1901,  he  was  town 
auditor  of  North  Stonington,  and  he  also  served  as  justice 


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of  the  peace  for  several  years.  He  had  been  a  delegate 
to  various  state  and  senatorial  conventions.  His  church 
membership  was  begun  when  he  united  with  the  Church  of 
Christ  in  Yale  University,  and  he  later  served  for  a  number 
of  years  as  deacon  of  the  Congregational  Church  at  North 
Stonington.  At  the  time  of  his  death,  he  was  a  member 
of  the  Congregational  Church  of  Norwichtown,  to  which 
place  he  had  removed  in  1903,  and  where  he  afterwards 
conducted  a  general  merchandise  business,  serving  also  as 
postmaster. 

He  died  at  his  home  in  Norwich,  January  5,  1916,  of 
endocarditis  and  chronic  nephritis.  Interment  was  in  Rix- 
town  Cemetery  in  Griswold,  Conn. 

Mr.  Young's  marriage  took  place  December  24,  1884,  In 
Preston,  Conn.,  to  Louise  J.,  daughter  of  William  P.  and 
Mary  A.  (Latham)  Witter,  who  survives  him.  They  had 
no  children. 


Webster  Merrifield,  B.A.  1877 

Born  July  27,  1852,  in  Williamsville,  Vt. 
Died  January  22,  1916,  in  Pasadena,  Gal. 

Webster  Merrifield  was  born  July  27,  1852,  In  Williams- 
ville, Vt.,  his  parents  being  John  Adams  Merrifield,  a 
farmer,  and  Louisa  (Williams)  Merrifield.  Ancestors  of 
his  father,  who  was  the  son  of  Ichabod  and  Elizabeth 
(Morse)  Merrifield,  came  to  this  country  from  England 
between  1635  and  1650.  His  mother's  parents  were  Wil- 
liam Hastings  and  Abigail  (Robinson)  WiUiams. 

His  preparation  for  Yale,  begun  at  Powers  Institute, 
Bernardston,  Mass.,  was  completed  in  1872  at  Wesleyan 
Academy,  Wilbraham,  Mass.,  and  after  teaching  for  a  year 
at  Colfax,  Ind.,  he  entered  Yale  In  1873  ^s  a  Freshman. 
Although  dependent  largely  on  his  own  resources  through- 
out his  college  course,  he  maintained  a  high  rank  in  scholar- 
ship, receiving  several  prizes  in  English  composition, 
Oration  appointments,  and  an  election  to  Phi  Beta  Kappa. 
In  Senior  year,  he  was  on  the  editorial  board  of  the  Record, 
and  he  was  a  member  of  the  Class  Picture  and  Class  Ivy 
committees. 


98  YALE   COLLEGE 

After  teaching  for  two  years  following  his  graduation  at 
Siglar's  Preparatory  School,  Newburgh,  N.  Y.,  he  returned 
to  Yale  as  a  tutor,  remaining  until  1883.  In  1879,  he  had 
read  law  for  a  few  months  at  Grand  Forks,  N.  Dak.,  serv- 
ing also  for  a  brief  period  as  justice  of  the  peace  and 
postmaster,  and  the  year  of  1883-84  was  spent  in  farming 
near  Jamestown,  N.  Dak.  In  1884,  he  accepted  the  profes- 
sorship of  Latin  and  Greek  at  the  University  of  North 
Dakota  at  Grand  Forks,  where  for  a  while  he  also  served 
as  secretary  of  the  Faculty,  and  librarian.  Seven  years 
later,  he  was  made  professor  of  political  and  social  science, 
at  the  same  time  being  elected  president  of  the  University. 
During  his  administration  of  eighteen  years,  the  number  of 
students  at  the  University  increased  from  seventy-nine  to 
upwards  of  one  thousand,  and  seven  separate  departments 
for  professional  and  other  studies  were  established.  He 
became  a  recognized  leader  in  educational  circles  in  the 
West,  and  was  an  influential  member  of  the  National  Asso- 
ciation of  State  University  Presidents. 

In  1909,  chiefly  on  account  of  his  health,  he  resigned  as 
president  of  the  University,  and  since  that  time  had  made 
his  home  on  San  Rafael  Heights  in  Pasadena,  Gal.,  where 
he  died  suddenly,  January  22,  1916,  as  the  result  of  angina 
pectoris,  from  which  he  had  suffered  for  some  time.  He 
was  buried  in  Mountain  View  Gemetery,  Pasadena. 

During  his  residence  in  Galifornia,  Dr.  Merrifield  was 
very  active  in  philanthropic  and  educational  work,  being  a 
director  of  the  Pasadena  Young  Men's  Ghristian  Associa- 
tion and  first  vice  president  of  the  Galifornia  State  Young 
Men's  Ghristian  Association,  a  director  of  the  Pasadena 
Public  Health  League,  and  a  trustee  of  Occidental  GoUege 
in  Los  Angeles.  He  was  a  member  of  the  American  Eco- 
nomic Association  and  the  American  Academy  of  Political 
Science.  He  had  delivered  many  addresses  on  educational, 
economic,  sociological,  and  other  subjects,  and  had  written 
extensively  for  the  press  and  periodicals.  In  1892,  Yale 
conferred  the  honorary  degree  of  Master  of  Arts  upon  him, 
and  in  1909  he  received  the  degree  of  LL.D.  from  the  Uni- 
versity of  North  Dakota.  At  his  Twenty-five  Year  Reun- 
ion, he  spoke  for  the  Glass  of  1877  at  the  general  meeting 
of  alumni.  He  had  traveled  much  abroad,  and,  in  recent 
years,  was  in  the  habit  of  spending  several  weeks  annually 
at  Bad-Neuheim,  Germany. 


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Dr.  Merrifield  was  married  in  Newburgh,  N.  Y.,  on  June 
26,  1902,  to  Mrs.  Elizabeth  McBride  Bull,  who  survives 
him.  He  leaves  also  two  step-daughters,  Clara  Bull  (B.A. 
Vassar  1912)  and  Mrs.  Thomas  Donald  Campbell  (Eliza- 
beth Bull),  and  a  step-son,  Daniel  F.  Bull  (M.E.  Univer- 
sity of  North  Dakota  1906).  A  nephew,  Samuel  A. 
Merrifield,  is  a  non-graduate  member  of  the  College  Class 
of  1914. 


Edwin  Austin  Benton,  B.A.  1878 

Born  January  2,  1857,  in  Bhamdum,  Mount  Lebanon,  Syria 
Died  July  6,  191 5,  in  Anoka,  Minn. 

Edwin  Austin  Benton  was  born  at  Bhamdum,  Mount 
Lebanon,  Syria,  January  2,  1857,  the  son  of  Rev.  William 
Austin  Benton,  who  studied  at  Williams  College  for  two 
years,  entering  Yale  as  a  Junior  in  1841.  After  taking  his 
degree  in  1843,  he  served  for  a  long  time  in  Syria  as  a 
missionary  under  the  American  Board  of  Commissioners 
for  Foreign  Missions.  His  parents  were  Azariah  and 
Presenda  (Ladd)  Benton,  and  he  was  descended  from 
Andrew  Benton,  who  came  to  this  country  from  England 
in  1639.  The  maiden  name  of  his  wife  was  Loanza  Gould- 
ing;  she  was  the  daughter  of  Joel  and  Anna  (Howe) 
Goulding. 

His  family  coming  to  this  country  from  Syria  in  1869, 
Edwin  Benton  lived  until  he  was  sixteen  years  of  age  at 
Tolland,  Conn.,  and  was  prepared  for  college  at  Monson 
Academy.     At  Yale,  he  belonged  to  Linonia. 

During  part  of  the  year  after  taking  his  degree,  he  was 
at  the  Harvard  Divinity  School,  and  he  later  studied  the- 
ology at  Union  Theological  Seminary.  Not  long  after 
leaving  the  Seminary,  a  mental  disorder  developed,  probably 
as  a  result  of  a  fall  from  a  horse  in  his  childhood,  and  he 
had  passed  the  remainder  of  his  life  in  sanitariums.  For 
more  than  thirty  years  he  had  been  an  inmate  of  the  Anoka 
State  Asylum  at  Anoka,  Minn.,  where  he  died  July  6,  1915- 
Burial  was  in  the  Anoka  Cemetery. 

Mr.  Benton  was  not  married.  He  is  survived  by  two 
sisters,  one  of  whom,  Mary  Lathrop  Benton,  is  dean  of 
women  at  Carleton  College.    His  brothers,  Charles  William 


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and  George  Henry  Benton,  graduates  of  the  College  in 
1874  and  1875,  respectively,  are  both  deceased.  In  1897, 
the  elder  received  the  honorary  degree  of  M.A.  from  Yale 
and  that  of  Litt.D.  from  the  University  of  Pittsburgh. 


James  Briggs  McEwan,  B.A.  1878 

Born  February  7,  1855,  in  Albany,  N.  Y. 
Died  December  27,  1915,  in  Albany,  N.  Y. 

James  Briggs  McEwan  was  the  son  of  John  McEwan, 
and  was  born  February  7,  1855,  in  Albany,  N.  Y.  His 
mother  was  Agnes  Gordon,  daughter  of  James  and  Janet 
(Stevens)  Lauder.  He  received  his  early  education  in 
Albany,  and,  after  spending  two  years  as  a  bookkeeper  for 
his  brother,  William,  graduated  from  the  local  high  school. 
Entering  Yale  in  1874,  he  received  Dispute  appointments 
in  Junior  and  Senior  years,  was  a  member  of  the  Senior 
Class  Supper  Committee,  and  took  second  place  in  the 
Senior  race  in  the  spring  games. 

Immediately  after  graduation,  he  entered  business  with 
his  brother  in  Albany  as  a  member  of  the  firm  of  the  Wil- 
liam McEwan  Coal  Company.  He  was  a  Republican,  and 
since  1897  had  taken  an  active  part  in  politics.  From  1897 
until  1902,  he  was  a  member  of  the  State  Assembly,  and 
for  the  next  four  years  served  as  a  state  senator.  He 
devoted  his  attention  to  private  aifairs  from  1906  to  1908, 
but,  being  appointed  postmaster  of  Albany  by  President 
Roosevelt  in  the  latter  year,  served  in  that  capacity  until 
his  nomination  for  mayor  in  the  fall  of  1909.  He  was 
elected,  and  during  his  two  terms  as  mayor  directed  the 
start  of  the  river  front  development  and  many  other 
important  public  works. 

Failing  health  necessitated  his  retirement  to  private  life 
at  the  expiration  of  his  second  term,  and  since  then  he  had 
been  confined  to  his  home,  where  he  died  December  27, 
1915.    He  was  buried  in  the  Rural  Cemetery,  Albany. 

Mr.  McEwan  was  at  the  head  of  several  Masonic  bodies, 
and  had  served  as  president  of  the  Albany  County  and  City 
Republican  clubs.  In  1905,  he  spent  six  months  in  Hart- 
ford, Conn.,  devoting  his  time  to  the  study  of  medicine. 


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He  was  married  April  21,  1898,  in  Albany  to  Emma 
Smith,  daughter  of  Charles  and  Anna  L.  (Borst)  McClure. 
She  died  on  June  12,  1901,  and  on  December  6,  1902,  his 
marriage  took  place  in  Albany  to  her  sister,  Mrs.  Jennie 
(McClure)  Manning,  widow  of  Nathaniel  Manning,  who 
survives  him. 


Charles  Herbert  Shaw,  B.A.  1878 

Born  November  28,  1855,  in  Portland,  Maine 
Died  August  16,  1915,  in  New  Haven,  Conn. 

Charles  Herbert  Shaw  was  born  in  Portland,  Maine, 
November  28,  1855,  ^^^  son  of  Joseph  Sargent  Shaw,  who 
was  later  engaged  as  a  merchant  in  New  York  City.  His 
mother  was  Margaret  Ann,  daughter  of  John  and  Jane 
(Ewing)  Sloan.  His  father's  parents  were  Rev.  Sargent 
Shaw,  whose  ancestors  came  to  this  country  from  England 
about  1634,  settling  in  Cambridge,  Mass.,  and  Susanna 
(Swett)  Shaw.  Before  coming  to  Yale,  he  studied  at  the 
Mount  Washington  Collegiate  Institute  in  New  York  City, 
at  the  College  of  the  City  of  New  York,  and  under  a  private 
tutor.  In  college  he  was  a  member  of  Linonia,  and  con- 
tributed several  articles  to  the  Yale  Literary  Magazine. 

As  the  W.  W.  DeForest  Scholar,  he  spent  the  year  fol- 
lowing his  graduation  in  post-graduate  work  at  Yale.  He 
went  abroad  in  1880,  and  studied  during  the  next  three 
years  at  the  Universities  of  Berlin  and  Heidelberg.  Upon 
his  return  to  the  United  States,  he  entered  the  Columbia 
Law  School,  where  he  received  the  degree  of  Bachelor  of 
Laws  in  1885.  He  then  began  practice  in  New  York  City, 
being  associated  with  Frank  Cunningham  (B.A.  1883, 
LL.B.  Columbia  1885)  until  1909,  when  he  entered  the  law 
division  of  the  Customs  House,  remaining  there  for  five 
years. 

In  September,  1914,  he  suffered  a  stroke  of  paralysis,  and 
his  health  was  very  poor  up  to  the  time  of  his  death,  which 
occurred  August  16,  191 5,  in  New  Haven,  Conn.,  where 
he  had  come  a  few  weeks  before  with  the  intention  of 
undertaking  work  at  the  University  Library.  His  body  was 
taken  to  New  York  for  burial  in  Woodlawn  Cemetery.    Mr. 


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Shaw  made  a  bequest  of  five  thousand  dollars  to  Yale  in 
his  will. 

He  had  traveled  extensively,  both  in  this  country  and 
abroad,  and  belonged  to  the  Association  of  the  Bar  of  the 
City  of  New  York  and  the  New  York  Zoological  Society. 
He  was  much  interested  in  the  work  of  the  Boys'  Club,  and 
had  served  as  a  director  in  several  manufacturing  com- 
panies. He  assisted  in  editing  the  Decennial  Record  of  the 
Class  of  1878.     He  had  never  married. 


Edwin  Cooper  Haynie,  B.A.   1879 

Born  June  27,   1856,  in   Salem,  111. 
Died  March  16,  IQ16,  in  St.  Paul,  Minn. 

Edwin  Cooper  Haynie  was  born  June  27,  1856,  in  Salem, 
111.  His  father,  Isham  Nicholas  Haynie,  was  the  son  of 
William  and  Elizabeth  (Bailey)  Haynie.  A  graduate  of 
the  University  of  Louisville,  he  served  as  a  lieutenant  in 
the  Mexican  War  and  as  colonel  of  the  Forty-eighth  Illinois 
Infantry  in  the  Civil  War,  at  the  close  of  which  he  ranked 
as  a  brigadier  general ;  for  several  years,  he  held  office  as 
judge  of  the  District  Court  for  southern  Illinois,  was  adju- 
tant general  of  Illinois  from  1865  to  1868,  and  was  also  at 
one  time  a  state  senator.  His  people  came  to  Salem,  111., 
from  Norfolk,  Va.  Edwin  Haynie's  mother  was  Elizabeth 
Ann,  daughter  of  Thomas  and  Josephine  (Fils)  Cooper. 
She  was  of  English  descent,  her  earliest  American  ancestors 
having  settled  in  Fairfield,  111. 

He  entered  Yale  from  Phillips  (Andover)  Academy,  and 
in  college  belonged  to  Linonia,  and  served  on  the  Class  Ivy 
Committee. 

He  was  graduated  from  the  Yale  School  of  Law  in  1881, 
and  after  spending  the  next  year  in  practice  in  Springfield, 
111.,  removed  to  St.  Paul,  Minn.,  which  had  since  been  his 
home.  From  1883  to  1893,  he  was  engaged  as  a  wholesale 
dealer  in  fur,  being  a  member  of  the  firm  of  Matheny, 
Haynie  &  Company.  In  the  latter  year,  he  entered  the 
casualty  insurance  business,  and  continued  in  that  line  until 
illness  compelled  his  retirement  in  1914,  having  been  for 
a  long  time  general  agent  for  Minnesota  of  the  Travelers 
Insurance  Company  of  Hartford,  Conn.,  the  Union  Casualty 


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Company  of  St.  Louis,  and  the  Metropolitan  Casualty 
Insurance  Company  of  New  York.  He  was  also  a  director 
of  the  First  National  Bank  of  Springfield,  111.,  and  was  a 
member  of  the  Church  of  the  Messiah  (Protestant  Episco- 
pal) of  St.  Paul. 

Mr.  Haynie's  death  occurred  at  his  home  in  that  city, 
March  16,  1916,  after  a  lingering  illness  due  to  Bright's 
disease.  Burial  was  in  Oakridge  Cemetery  at  Springfield, 
where  he  lived  during  his  boyhood. 

He  was  married  in  New  Haven,  Conn.,  September  14, 
1881,  to  Minnie  Pierpont,  daughter  of  Lucius  Willoughby 
and  Elizabeth  (Shepard)  Hall,  who  survives  him  with 
their  four  children:  Ethel  Corinth  (Mrs.  Arthur  Hobart 
Warner  of  Denver,  Colo.)  ;  Donald  Parker,  a  graduate  of 
the  College  in  1906;  Elizabeth  Mercedes,  who  married  Mr. 
Frederic  Harry  of  Denver,  and  Marguerite  Pierpont. 


Edwin  Carrington  Ward,  B.A.   1880 

Born  January  9,  1858,  in  Farmington,  Conn. 
Died  July  28,  1915,  in  Bay  Shore,  N.  Y. 

Edwin  Carrington  Ward  was  born  in  Farmington,  Conn., 
January  9,  1858,  the  son  of  Augustus  Ward,  a  merchant 
and  farmer,  and  Susan  (Cowles)  Ward.  On  the  paternal 
side,  he  was  descended  from  Andrew  Ward,  who  came 
about  1635  from  England  to  Fairfield,  Conn.,  as  Lord  High 
Commissioner,  and  who  was  one  of  the  founders  of  Stam- 
ford and  Wethersfield,  Conn.  Other  ancestors  of  his 
father  were  the  Shepards,  a  Connecticut  family  prominent 
in  the  eighteenth  century;  Amos  Shepard,  his  great-grand- 
father, was  in  one  of  the  companies  that  participated  in  the 
siege  of  Yorktown.  His  mother,  who  was  the  daughter 
of  Seth  and  Susan  (Whitman)  Cowles,  was  a  descendant 
of  Elijah  Cowles  (B.A.  1826)  whose  ancestors  settled  in 
Farmington  in  1638,  and  of  John  Whitman,  who  settled 
in  Weymouth,  Mass.,  sometime  prior  to  1638,  and  of  Wil- 
liam Whitman,  who  is  credited  with  having  saved  Oregon, 
Washington,  and  the  Northwest  Territory  to  the  United 
States,  and  after  whom  Whitman  College  was  named. 

He  received  his  preparatory  training  at  the  Hartford 
(Conn.)  Public  High  School,  and  in  college  was  given  Dis- 


I04  YALE   COLLEGE 

pute  appointments.  After  taking  his  B.A.  in  1880,  he 
entered  the  Yale  School  of  Law,  from  which  he  was 
graduated  in  1882. 

Since  the  fall  of  that  year,  he  had  practiced  law  in  New 
York  City  and  Brooklyn,  making  his  home  in  Brooklyn. 
He  was  for  a  time  associated  with  his  older  brother  and 
later  with  his  classmate,  John  A.  Amundson,  but  since  1891 
he  had  practiced  alone.  In  1882  and  1883,  Mr.  Ward  pur- 
sued special  courses  in  law  at  Columbia.  He  published 
"A  Book  of  1,500  Legal  Questions"  in  1885,  and  two 
years  later,  in  conjunction  with  Robert  W.  Bonynge  (B.A. 
College  of  the  City  of  New  York  1882,  LL.B.  Columbia 
1885),  he  wrote  "1,500  Questions  Answered." 

He  belonged  to  the  First  Presbyterian  Chu'-ch  of  Brook- 
lyn, and  always  took  an  active  part  in  all  movements  for 
the  welfare  of  the  community  in  which  he  lived.  For 
several  years,  he  served  as  secretary  of  the  board  of  direc- 
tors of  the  old  Brooklyn  Academy  of  Music,  and  was  after- 
wards, until  his  death,  secretary  of  the  new  Academy.  He 
was  a  member  of  the  Sons  of  the  Revolution. 

Mr.  Ward's  death  occurred  July  28,  191 5,  at  his  summer 
home  at  Bay  Shore,  Long  Island,  of  arterio  sclerosis,  after 
an  illness  of  a  year.  He  was  buried  in  Greenwood  Cemetery 
in  Brooklyn. 

On  December  23,  1895,  he  was  married  in  Brooklyn  to 
Marion  Louette,  daughter  of  Rev.  Lewis  Emmons  Matson 
(B.  A.  1857)  and  Helen  Maria  (Flanders)  Matson.  She 
survives  him  with  their  four  children:  Helen,  Kenneth, 
Winifred,  and  Frederic  Augustus.  His  sons  are  preparing 
for  Yale.  Mr.  Ward  was  a  brother  of  Frederic  Aus'ustus 
Ward  (B.A.  1862,  LL.B.  Columbia  1864)  and  of  Hubert 
Cowles  Ward,  a  graduate  of  the  Scientific  School  in  1862. 


John  Clarke  Smith,  B.A.   1881 

Born  August  4,  1858,  in  Waterbury,  Conn. 
Died  July  31,  1915,  in  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 

John  Clarke  Smith  was  born  in  Waterbury,  Conn., 
August  4,  1858,  the  son  of  John  Edward  and  Lucy  Ann 
(Clarke)  Smith  and  a  descendant  of  John  Smith,  who  came 
from  England  in  1640  and  settled  in  Milford,  Conn.     His 


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father  was  president  and  a  director  of  the  Smith  &  Griggs 
Manufacturing  Company  of  Waterbury,  and  served  also 
as  a  director  in  several  other  manufacturing  concerns. 
The  son  entered  Yale  in  1877  from  the  Hopkins  Grammar 
School  in  New  Haven,  and  took  his  degree  with  the  Class. 

From  graduation,  Mr.  Smith  had  been  connected  with  the 
Waterbury  Button  Company,  at  first  in  Waterbury,  but 
since  1883  in  New  York  City,  where  he  held  the  position 
of  manager  of  the  company's  store.  He  was  unmarried, 
and  made  his  home  in  Brooklyn.  In  1883,  he  spent  several 
months  abroad. 

His  death  occurred  in  the  Long  Island  College  Hospital, 
Brooklyn,  July  31,  191 5,  being  due  to  typhoid  fever.  He 
was  buried  in  River  Side  Cemetery,  Waterbury. 

His  brother,  Ralph  Hebert,  graduated  from  the  Sheffield 
Scientific  School  in  1888,  and  his  only  sister  married  Carl 
E.  Munger  (Ph.B.  1880,  M.D.  Columbia  1883). 


George  Martin  Wallace,  B.A.   1881 

Born  April  11,  1855,  in  North  Haven,  Conn. 
Died  June  19,  1916,  in  New  Haven,  Conn. 

George  Martin  Wallace  was  born  in  North  Haven,  Conn., 
April  II,  1855,  the  son  of  Robert  Wallace,  a  manufacturer 
and  inventor  of  Wallingford,  Conn.,  where  he  estabHshed 
the  firm  of  R.  Wallace  &  Sons  Company.  He  was  the 
grandson  of  James  and  Urania  (Williams)  Wallace  and 
the  great-grandson  of  James  Wallace,  who  came  from  Scot- 
land in  1730  and  settled  at  Blandford,  Mass.  In  that  town, 
the  latter  set  up  the  first  silk  loom  brought  to  this  country; 
a  valuable  collection  of  books  which  he  also  brought  to 
America  with  him  was  divided  at  his  death  among  several 
towns  in  Massachusetts.  The  mother  of  George  Wallace 
was  Harriet  Louisa  (Moulthrop)  Wallace.  She  was  also  of 
an  old  North  Haven  family,  her  parents  being  Martin  and 
Unice  (Jacobs)  Moulthrop. 

Before  entering  Yale  in  1877,  he  studied  in  the  public 
schools  of  Wallingford,  at  Hopkins  Grammar  School  in 
New  Haven,  and  at  the  Hudson  River  Institute  at  Clave- 
rack,  N.  Y.  His  scholarship  appointments  in  college  were 
Orations. 


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In  the  fall  of  1882,  after  a  year  of  foreign  travel  and 
study,  he  began  his  preparation  for  a  legal  career  in  the 
Yale  School  of  Law.  He  received  the  degree  of  LL.B.  in 
1884,  and  for  the  next  six  years  practiced  in  New  Haven 
and  Wallingford.  During  this  period,  he  was  a  member 
of  the  Connecticut  Legislature,  and  prosecuting  attorney 
for  the  borough  of  Wallingford.  In  January,  1891,  he 
temporarily  gave  up  practice,  and  went  to  Chicago,  111.,  as 
manager  for  the  R.  Wallace  &  Sons  Manufacturing  Com- 
pany, continuing  in  that  position  for  four  years.  He 
returned  to  New  Haven  in  1896,  and  had  since  followed 
his  profession  as  a  lawyer  in  that  city.  He  frequently  wrote 
articles  on  political  subjects  for  newspapers  and  periodicals, 
and,  in  1906,  was  a  candidate  for  Congress  on  the  Demo- 
cratic ticket,  but  was  defeated.  He  was  a  Congrega- 
tionalist,  being  a  member  of  Center  Church,  New  Haven, 
and  belonged  to  the  New  Haven  Chamber  of  Commerce, 
the  Connecticut  Academy  of  Arts  and  Sciences,  and  the 
American  Economic  Society.  He  had  traveled  extensively 
in  this  country  and  in  Europe,  Mexico,  Central  America, 
and  Canada. 

Mr.  Wallace  died,  by  his  own  hand,  at  his  home  in  New 
Haven,  June  19,  1916.  Burial  was  in  In  Memoriam  Ceme- 
tery in  Wallingford. 

His  marriage  took  place  December  27,  1882,  in  Flushing, 
N.  Y.,  to  Annie  Jane,  daughter  of  John  and  Margaret  Lee, 
who  survives  him  with  four  children:  Margaret  Lee,  who 
studied  in  the  Yale  School  of  Music  during  1906-07;  Katha- 
rine Lee;  Malcolm  Lee,  a  graduate  of  the  College  in  1915, 
and  Donald  Lee.  Another  son,  Robert  Lee,  died  in  infancy. 
Mr.  Wallace  was  the  uncle  of  Charles  D.  and  Robert  W. 
Morris,  both  members  of  the  College  Class  of  1892;  of 
Clifford  W.  and  John  W.  Leavenworth,  graduates  of  the 
Scientific  School  in  1891  and  1905,  respectively,  and  of 
Robert  and  Floyd  Wallace,  the  former  of  whom  received 
the  degree  of  Ph.B.  at  Yale  in  1907  and  the  latter  that  of 
B.A,  in  1909. 


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Carlton  Alexander  Foote,  B.A.  1882 

Born  January  lo,  1859,  in  New  Haven,  Conn. 
Died  June  9,  1916,  in  New  York  City 

Carlton  Alexander  Foote  was  born  in  New  Haven,  Conn., 
January  10,  1859,  the  son  of  Alexander  Foote,  a  merchant, 
whose  parents  were  Warham  Williams  and  Lucinda  (Harri- 
son) Foote,  and  a  descendant  of  Nathaniel  Foote,  who 
married  Elizabeth  Deming  in  England  about  161 5  and 
became  one  of  the  first  settlers  of  Wethersfield,  Conn.  His 
mother  was  Sarah  Amelia,  daughter  of  Stephen  and  Cather- 
ine (Wright)  Kelsey.  She  was  descended  from  Benjamin 
Wright,  who  came  from  England  to  Madison,  Conn.,  in 
1660.  Another  ancestor  on  the  paternal  side  was  Rev.  War- 
ham  Williams  (B.A.  1745),  who  served  as  a  Fellow  of 
Yale  from  1769  until  1788  and  as  secretary  of  the  Cor- 
poration from  1770  to  1776. 

He  received  his  preparatory  training  in  New  Haven,  in 
the  high  school  and  under  a  private  tutor.  In  Freshman 
year  at  Yale,  he  was  awarded  a  Berkeley  premium  of  the 
first  grade  in  Latin  composition.  His  scholarship  appoint- 
ments were  Dissertations. 

Mr.  Foote  taught  at  the  Bishop  Scott  Grammar  School 
in  Portland,  Ore.,  from  1882  to  1884,  and  then  returned 
to  Yale  for  two  years  of  post-graduate  study  as  the  Earned 
Scholar.  In  1887,  he  went  to  Atchison,  Kans.,  to  take 
charge  of  the  Atchison  Latin  School.  He  continued  there 
until  June,-  1896,  and  then  taught  for  two  years  at  the 
Irving  School  in  New  York  City.  He  was  afterwards 
engaged  in  private  tutoring  for  several  years,  but  since 
1902,  had  been  an  instructor  in  Latin  at  the  DeWitt  Clinton 
High  School  in  New  York  City.  The  degree  of  M.A.  in 
course  was  given  to  him  by  Yale  in  1902. 

His  death  occurred  suddenly  June  9,  1916,  at  his  resi- 
dence in  New  York,  as  the  result  of  heart  disease.  Burial 
was  in  Evergreen  Cemetery,  New  Haven. 

Mr.  Foote  was  unmarried.  Surviving  him  are  a  sister 
and  a  brother. 


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Charles  Burnell  Hawkes,  B.A.  1882 

Born  April  24,  1859,  in  Portland,  Maine 
Died  March  13,  1916,  in  New  York  City 

Charles  Burnell  Hawkes,  who  was  born  April  24,  1859, 
in  Portland,  Maine,  was  the  son  of  Charles  Morrell  Hawkes. 
Adams  Hawkes,  the  founder  of  the  family  in  this  country, 
was  an  English  Quaker,  who  first  settled  in  Saugus,  Mass., 
in  1630.  The  mother  of  Charles  B.  Hawkes  was  Susan 
Annette,  daughter  of  William  Whitney  and  granddaughter 
of  Sir  Thomas  Whitehead,  of  Wellington's  staff  at  Water- 
loo. She  was  of  Puritan  ancestry,  being  a  descendant  of 
John  and  Eleanor  Whitney,  who  came  to  Watertown, 
Mass.,  in  June,  1635. 

He  received  his  preparatory  training  at  the  Portland 
High  School  and  at  Hopkins  Grammar  School,  New  Haven, 
and  before  joining  the  Class  of  1882  as  a  Junior,  spent 
some  time  with  the  Class  of  1881. 

Mr.  Hawkes  was  graduated  from  the  Yale  School  of 
Law  the  year  after  receiving  his  BA.  From  1883  to  1886, 
he  was  engaged  in  practice  at  Topeka,  Kans.,  but  in  the 
latter  year  returned  to  New  Haven,  where  he  followed  his 
profession  for  three  years.  He  opened  an  office  in  New 
York  City  in  1889,  and  spent  the  rest  of  his  life  in  practice 
there.  In  1887,  after  a  year  of  graduate  work,  he  was 
granted  the  degree  of  M.L.  at  Yale. 

Mr.  Hawkes  had  suffered  from  a  nervous  disorder  for 
some  time,  as  a  result  of  which  he  lost  his  life  at  his  home 
in  New  York  City  on  March  13,  1916.  Interment  was  in 
Evergreen  Cemetery,  New  Haven. 

He  was  married  in  New  York  City,  January  21,  1890,  to 
Julia  A.  Burrell,  who  survives  him  without  children.  He 
was  a  brother  of  William  Whitney  Hawkes,  a  graduate  of 
the  College  in  1879  and  of  the  School  of  Medicine  in  1881, 
Samuel  Newhall  Hawkes  (B.A.  1883,  LL.B.  1885),  and  of 
the  late  George  Pickard  Hawkes,  who  received  the  degrees 
of  B.A.  and  LL.B.  at  Yale  in  1891  and  1894,  respectively. 
A  sister,  Susanna  Whitney  Hawkes  (B.A.  Wellesley  1887), 
also  survives. 


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Charles  Rogers  Cor  with,  B.A.  1883 

Born  February  13,  i860,  in  Galena,  111. 
Died  December  8,  191 5,  in  Chicago,  111. 

Charles  Rogers  Corwith,  son  of  Henry  Corwith,  a  pioneer 
in  the  lead  industry  in  Galena,  111.,  and  Isabelle  (Soulard) 
Corwith,  was  born  in  Galena,  February  13,  i860.  He  pre- 
pared for  Yale  at  Phillips  Academy,  Andover,  Mass.,  and 
in  college  played  on  the  Freshman  Football  Team,  took  part 
in  track  athletics,  served  as  secretary  and  treasurer  of  the 
Athletic  Association  in  Junior  year,  and  received  a  Collo- 
quy appointment  at  Commencement. 

Since  graduation,  he  had  been  in  the  real  estate  and  loan 
business  in  Chicago,  111.,  and  after  his  father's  death  in 
1888,  managed  his  estate.  He  was  an  associate  member  of 
the  Chicago  Real  Estate  Board  and  the  Stock  Exchange. 
He  belonged  to  the  First  Presbyterian  Church  of  Chicago, 
and  had  served  since  1896  as  a  trustee  of  the  Chicago 
Orphan  Asylum. 

Mr.  Corwith's  death,  which  was  due  to  hemorrhage  of 
the  brain,  occurred,  after  a  brief  illness,  at  his  home  in 
Chicago,  December  8,  191 5.  He  was  buried  in  Greenwood 
Cemetery  in  his  native  town.  He  had  never  married.  Sur- 
viving him  are  his  mother,  three  sisters,  and  a  brother. 
The  latter,  John  White  Corwith,  graduated  from  Yale  with 
the  degree  of  B.A.  in  1890. 


Charles  William  Harkness,  B.A.   1883 

Born  December  17,  i860,  in  Monroeville,  Ohio 
Died  May  i,  1916,  in  New  York  City- 
Charles  William  Harkness  was  born  in  Monroeville,  Ohio, 
December  17,  i860,  the  son  of  Stephen  Vanderburg  and 
Anna  M.  (Richardson)  Harkness.  His  father,  a  descend- 
ant of  William  Harkness,  who  came  to  America  from  Scot- 
land in  1710,  was  the  son  of  David  and  Martha  (Cook) 
Harkness.  His  maternal  grandparents  were  James  and 
Anna  M.   (Rauck)  Richardson. 

Charles   Harkness   received   his   preparation   for   college 
at  the  Brooks  School  at  Cleveland,  and  first  entered  Yale 


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in  1878.  He  joined  the  Class  with  which  he  was  gradu- 
ated in  its  Freshman  year. 

For  two  and  a  half  years  after  taking  his  degree,  he 
studied  in  the  Columbia  Law  School.  He  lived  in  Cleve- 
land for  the  next  three  years,  but  since  1891  his  home  had 
been  in  New  York.  In  addition  to  the  management  of 
the  Harkness  estate,  with  which  he  had  been  occupied  since 
the  death  of  his  father,  who  was  associated  with  the  Stand- 
ard Oil  Company  from  its  early  inception,  he  was  a  direc- 
tor in  the  Southern  Pacific  Company,  the  Chicago, 
Milwaukee  &  St.  Paul  Railway,  the  Baltimore  &  Ohio 
Railroad,  and  the  Tilden  Iron  Mining  Company.  He  took 
an  active  interest  in  St.  Bartholomew's  Clinic  of  New 
York.  Mr.  Harkness  usually  spent  the  summer  near  Madi- 
son, N.  J.,  where  he  had  a  large  country  estate.  He  had 
been  greatly  interested  in  yachting  for  a  number  of  years, 
and  was  the  owner  of  the  ocean-going  steam  yacht,  Agawa. 

Mr.  Harkness  had  been  seriously  ill  since  the  fall  of 
I9I5>  when  he  suffered  an  attack  of  auto-intoxication,  fol- 
lowed by  the  grippe.  After  spending  part  of  the  winter 
at  St.  Augustine,  Fla.,  he  returned  to  his  home  in  New 
York  City,  where  he  died  May  i,  1916.  Burial  was  in 
Woodlawn  Cemetery  in  New  York.  The  sum  of  $500,000 
is  left  to  the  University  by  the  will  of  Mr.  Harkness. 

He  was  married  May  27,  1896,  in  Philadelphia,  Pa.,'  to 
Mary,  daughter  of  WilHam  Grey  and  Sarah  Wells  (Bush- 
nell)  Warden  and  sister  of  Clarence  Arthur  Warden 
(Ph.B.  1899,  LL.B.  University  of  Pennsylvania  1902). 
She  survives  him  without  children.  His  mother  and  a 
brother,  Edward  Stephen  Harkness  (B.A.  1897),  are  also 
living.  He  was  a  cousin  of  William  L.  Harkness,  a  grad- 
uate of  the  College  in  1881. 


Jonathan  Barnes,  B.A.  1885 

Born  July  31,  1864,  in  Darien,  Conn. 
Died  March  4,  1916,  in  Springfield,  Mass. 

Jonathan  Barnes,  son  of  Jonathan  Ebenezer  and  Emily 
Hart  (Wells)  Barnes,  was  born  July  31,  1864,  in  Darien, 
Conn.,  where  his  father,  who  died  two  years  later,  was  at 
the  time  serving  as  pastor  of  the  Congregational  Church. 


I883-I885  III 

Mr.  Barnes  received  the  degree  of  B.A.  at  Wesleyan  in 
1848,  and  studied  theology  at  Yale  from  1850  to  1853. 

Jonathan  Barnes  entered  college  from  the  high  school  in 
Springfield,  Mass.,  where  he  passed  his  boyhood.  In  his 
Freshman  year  at  Yale,  he  was  awarded  a  Berkeley  pre- 
mium of  the  first  grade,  and  as  a  Senior  was  given  the  Scott 
prize  in  German.  He  was  elected  to  Phi  Beta  Kappa, 
received  Philosophical  Oration  appointments,  and  ranked 
fifth  in  his  Class  at  graduation.  He  was  a  member  of  the 
Class  Day  Committee. 

After  taking  his  degree,  he  returned  to  Springfield,  and 
began  the  study  of  law  in  the  office  of  his  uncle,  Gideon 
Wells  (B.A.  1858).  He  was  admitted  to  the  bar  of  Hamp- 
den County  in  March,  1888,  and  entered  the  Yale  School  of 
Law  the  next  fall,  but  left  three  months  later  to  accept  a 
partnership  with  his  uncle  and  William  Wallace  McClench 
(B.A.  Tufts  1875).  That  connection  was  continued  until 
1893,  since  which  time  Mr.  Barnes  had  practiced  independ- 
ently. He  was  ranked  among  the  leading  attorneys  of 
Springfield,  and  was  especially  in  demand  as  an  auditor 
and  special  master  in  difficult  cases.  He  was  trustee  of 
several  large  estates,  and  at  one  time  was  attorney  for  the 
Springfield  Street  Railway  Company.  He  had  served  as 
a  director  of  the  Springfield  Board  of  Trade  and  of  the 
Y.  M.  C.  A. ;  was  at  one  time  president  of  the  Yale  Alumni 
Association  of  Central  and  Western  Massachusetts  and  its 
representative  on  the  Alumni  Advisory  Board,  and,  since 
1889,  had  been  clerk  of  the  South  Congregational  Church, 
in  whose  Sunday  school  work  he  had  once  taken  an  active 
part.  He  was  especially  interested  in  the  proposed  dredg- 
ing of  the  Connecticut  River  and  the  possibilities  of  the 
commercial  use  of  the  river  if  made  navigable.  For  twenty 
years,  he  had  been  president  of  the  Springfield  Canoe  Club. 
During  1895-96,  he  was  a  member  of  the  Republican  City 
Committee,  and  he  had  also  served  as  a  delegate  to  one  of 
the  state  conventions. 

Mr.  Barnes  died  in  Springfield  on  March  4,  1916, 
after  a  month's  illness  due  to  Bright's  disease.  His  body 
was  cremated.  He  made  a  bequest  of  $1,000  to  Yale  in 
his  will  to  be  reckoned  as  a  contribution  to  the  principal  of 
the  Alumni  University  Fund  from  the  Class  of  1885. 

He  had  not  married.  His  Yale  relatives  included 
Jonathan  Barnes,  a  graduate  of  the  College  in   1784,  the 


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latter's  three  sons,  Jonathan  (B.A.  1810),  Julius  Steele 
(B.A.  1815,  M.D.  1818),  and  Josiah  (B.A.  1825,  M.D.  Uni- 
versity of  Pennsylvania  1829),  and  his  grandsons,  Lewis 
Barnes,  who  received  the  degree  of  B.A.  from  Yale  in  1847 
and  that  of  M.D.  from  the  University  of  Buffalo  in  1850, 
and  Edwin  Randolph  Barnes  (B.A.  i860,  M.D.  Long  Island 
College  Hospital  1865). 


Ernest  Howard  Hunter,  B.A.  1885 

Born  September  i,  1864,  in  London,  England 
Died  January  22,  1916,  in  Philadelphia,  Pa. 

Ernest  Howard  Hunter  was  born  in  London,  England, 
September  i,  1864,  the  son  of  Robert  and  Sarah  (Barton) 
Hunter.  His  father,  whose  parents  were  James  and  Eliza- 
beth Hunter,  studied  from  1842  to  1845  in  the  Medical 
College  of  Geneva,  N.  Y.,  and  after  taking  his  medical 
degree  from  New  York  University  in  1846,  continued  his 
work  abroad.  He  practiced  in  London  and  Chicago,  acquir- 
ing a  world-wide  reputation,  and,  as  the  result  of  exhaus- 
tive study,  formulated  the  theory  of  the  local  origin  of 
consumption.  James  Hunter,  whose  ancestry  was  derived 
from  the  Long  Calderwood  branch  of  Hunters  of  Hunters- 
ton,  to  which  also  belonged  John  and  William  Hunter,  two 
of  the  most  famous  surgeons  and  anatomists  of  their 
century,  was  an  English  Army  surgeon,  who,  subsequent  to 
his  retirement  from  service  in  1827,  removed  to  Canada, 
where  he  became  prominent  both  in  his  profession  and  in 
politics;  he  settled  in  New  York  City  after  1837.  An 
ancestor  was  Robert  Hunter,  colonial  governor  of  Virginia 
from  1707  to  1 7 10,  of  New  York  and  East  and  West  Jersey 
for  the  next  nine  years,  and  of  Jamaica  from  1727  until  his 
death  in  1734. 

Ernest  Hunter  was  fitted  for  Yale  at  the  South  Division 
and  Central  High  schools  in  Chicago,  and  received  a  Col- 
loquy appointment  in  Junior  year,  at  the  end  of  which  he 
withdrew  from  college.  The  degree  of  B.A.  as  of  the  Class 
of  1885  was  conferred  upon  him  by  the  University  in  19 10. 

His  training  for  the  law,  first  taken  up  in  Chicago  in 
1884  in  the  office  of  Mr.  Emory  A.  Storrs,  was  completed 
at  the  Law  School  of  the  University  of  Pennsylvania  in 


i885  113 

1887,  when  he  received  an  LL.B.  He  was  admitted  to  the 
bar  in  Philadelphia  in  that  year,  and  from  the  beginning 
of  his  legal  career  specialized  in  patent  cases.  During  his 
course  at  the  University  of  Pennsylvania,  he  studied  in  the 
office  of  his  brother,  Rudolph  Melville  Hunter  (M.E.  Poly- 
technic College  of  the  State  of  Pennsylvania  1878),  a 
patent  solicitor  and  expert,  and  an  inventor,  and  from  1887 
to  1913  was  associated  in  practice  with  him.  In  July,  1913, 
he  withdrew  from  this  association,  and  continued  his  prac- 
tice alone.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Law  Association  of 
Philadelphia,  and  an  Episcopalian,  being  a  communicant 
of  St.  Clement's  Church. 

Mr.  Hunter  had  suffered  from  tuberculosis  since  1908, 
but  was  able  to  attend  to  his  professional  affairs  until  within 
a  few  weeks  of  his  death,  which  occurred  January  22,  1916, 
at  his  home  in  Philadelphia.  He  was  buried  in  West  Laurel 
Hill  Cemetery  in  that  city. 

Lie  was  married  in  Phoenixville,  Pa.,  June  24,  1891,  to 
Mary  Scull,  daughter  of  Paul  Scull  and  Keturah  (Kraemer) 
Reeves.  She  survives  him  with  six  children:  Robert,  a 
graduate  of  the  College  in  191 5;  Paul  Reeves  Howard; 
Katherine  Reeves;  Alfred  Reeves;  Barton  Howard,  and 
Mary.  Three  other  children, — Ernest  Howard,  Jr. ;  Sarah, 
and  Morgan  Edwin  Orby, — died  in  infancy. 


Edward  Bunnell  Phelps,  B.A.  1885 

Born  July  26,  1863,  in  New  Haven,  Conn. 
Died  July  24,  1915,  in  New  York  City 

Edward  Bunnell  Phelps  was  born  July  26,  1863,  in  New 
Haven,  Conn.,  and  was  prepared  for  Yale  at  the  Hill- 
house  High  School  in  that  city.  His  parents  were  Alfred 
William  Phelps,  a  builder,  who  represented  New  Haven 
in  the  State  Legislature  of  1867-68,  and  Mary  A.  (Bun- 
nell) Phelps.  He  was  seventh  in  descent  from  William 
Phelps,  who,  coming  from  England  in  1630,  became  promi- 
nent in  the  affairs  of  Connecticut  Colony,  being  one  of 
the  magistrates  who  in  1639  drafted  the  constitution  for 
Windsor,  Wethersfield,  and  Hartford. 

At  Yale,  he  had  been  college  reporter  for  the  Morning 
News,  and  after  taking  his  degree  he  spent  nine  years  in 


114  YALE    COLLEGE 

newspaper  work,  at  first  on  the  staff  of  the  New  Haven 
Palladium  and  then  in  New  York  City,  where  he  served 
in  various  capacities  on  several  papers.  In  1894,  he  estab- 
lished a  magazine  known  as  Thrift,  a  monthly  publication 
devoted  to  the  interests  of  insurance.  The  name  of  this 
magazine  was  in  1902  changed  to  The  American  Under- 
writer, becoming  in  1902  The  American  Underwriter 
Magazine  and  Insurance  Review.  As  the  editor  of  this 
magazine  and  the  head  of  the  Thrift  Ptiblishing  Company, 
Mr.  Phelps  became  widely  known  as  an  authority  on  insur- 
ance subjects,  and  was  often  called  upon  to  speak  before 
organizations  or  to  prepare  articles  and  reports  for  publica- 
tion in  magazines.  He  was  the  author  of  "War  Risks" 
(1898),  "A  Decade  without  a  Parallel  in  the  History  of 
American  Insurance"  (1905),  "American  Mortality  Statis- 
tics for  the  Nine  Years,  1900-1908"  (1910),  "The  Relation 
of  Women's  Work  and  Infant  Mortality"  (1910),  "The 
Mortality  of  Alcohol"  (1911),  "Workmen's  Compensa- 
tion; A  Study  of  Its  Probable  Cost  to  the  Community" 
(1912),  and  many  others.  For  a  number  of  years,  he  was 
engaged  in  compiling  a  cyclopaedia  dealing  with  the  world's 
best  clubs.  In  1909,  he  ran  for  a  short  time  the  insurance 
section  of  The  Financier  of  New  York.  During  1892-93, 
he  served  as  corresponding  secretary  of  the  New  York 
Press  Club,  and  in  1892  was  one  of  its  delegates  to  the  con- 
vention of  the  International  League  of  Press  Clubs.  In 
January,  1912,  he  was  the  delegate  of  the  American  Statis- 
tical Association  to  the  convention  of  the  National  Civic 
Federation  at  Washington.  Mr.  Phelps  belonged  to  the 
Empire  State  Society,  the  Sons  of  the  American  Revolu- 
tion, the  New  York  Genealogical  and  Biographical  Society, 
and  the  Sons  of  Colonial  Wars.  He  was  a  Fellow  of  the 
American  Statistical  Association  and  the  Royal  Statistical 
Association  of  London  and  a  member  of  the  American 
Academy  of  Political  and  Social  Science,  the  American 
Economic  Association,  the  American  Sociological  Society, 
and  the  American  Association  for  the  Study  and  Prevention 
of  Infant  Mortahty.  In  1902,  he  took  the  degree  of  M.A. 
in  course  at  Yale. 

He  died,  as  the  result  of  an  attack  of  acute  indigestion, 
July  24,  19 1 5,  at  his  home  in  New  York  City,  and  was 
buried  in  Maple  Grove  Cemetery  at  Kew  Gardens,  Long 
Island. 


i885  115 

His  marriage  took  place  in  New  York  City,  April  12, 
1897,  to  Mrs.  Blanche  Louise  Lewis  (Norton)  Dey,  daugh- 
ter of  William  Condon  and  Sarah  (Milne)  Norton  and 
widow  of  C.  W.  Dey.  She  survives  him,  as  does  a  step- 
son, Howard  Norton  Dey. 


Joseph  Hendley  Townsend,  B.A.   1885 

Born  January  18,  1862,  in  New  Haven,  Conn. 
Died  January  7,  1916,  in  New  Haven,  Conn. 

Joseph  Hendley  Townsend,  the  son  of  John  and  Harriet 
Esther  (Sears)  Townsend,  was  born  on  January  18,  1862, 
in  New  Haven,  Conn.,  where  members  of  his  family  have 
lived  since  1739.  His  father  was  the  son  of  James  Webster 
and  Rachel  (Mansfield)  Townsend  and  a  descendant  of 
Thomas  Townsend,  who  emigrated  from  London,  England, 
in  1637  and  settled  in  Lynn,  Mass.  His  mother  was  the 
daughter  of  Elisha  and  Esther  (Hendley)  Sears  of  Middle- 
town,  Conn. 

At  the  Hillhouse  High  School  in  New  Haven,  he  obtained 
his  preparation  for  college,  and  graduated  from  Yale  in 
1885  with  a  Colloquy  appointment.  The  following  fall,  he 
entered  the  Medical  Department  of  Yale  University,  from 
which  he  graduated  in  1887,  receiving  the  Campbell  prize 
for  the  best  examination  in  obstetrics. 

After  serving  for  a  year  and  a  half  on  the  house  staff 
of  the  New  IJaven  Hospital,  he  commenced  practice  in 
New  Haven,  where  he  continued  to  reside  until  his  death. 
He  served  on  the  staff  of  the  New  Haven  Dispensary  from 
1 89 1  to  1894,  and  was  also  connected  with  the  teaching  staff 
of  the  Medical  Department  of  the  University, — first  in  1891 
and  1892  as  assistant  in  clinical  medicine,  from  1892  to 
1894  as  demonstrator  of  obstetrics,  being  the  first  to  receive 
that  appointment,  and  from  191 1  to  1915  as  lecturer  on 
hygiene. 

After  serving  for  several  years  on  the  Board  of  Health 
of  the  city  of  New  Haven,  he  was  appointed  by  Governor 
McLean,  in  1901,  a  member  of  the  State  Board  of  Health 
of  Connecticut,  of  which  he  was  elected  secretary  and 
executive  officer  in  March,  1906,  an  office  which  he  held  at 
his  death.    He  enlisted  as  a  private  in   "The  Grays,"  Com- 


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YALE   COLLEGE 


pany  F,  Second  Connecticut  Infantry,  July  i,  1891 ;  was 
appointed  first  lieutenant,  assistant  surgeon,  September  15, 
1892;  major,  surgeon.  Second  Connecticut  Infantry,  June 
II,  1896;  and  chief  surgeon,  Sanitary  Troops,  Connecticut 
National  Guard,  March  25,  191 1.  In  token  of  respect  to 
his  memory,  the  Adjutant  General,  by  order  of  the  Gover- 
nor, ordered  that  the  national  flag  be  displayed  at  half 
mast  on  all  state  armories  until  2:00  p.  m.  on  the  day  of 
his  funeral.  Dr.  Townsend  served  for  many  years  as  a 
member  of  the  Board  of  United  States  Examining  Surgeons 
for  pensions.  He  was  a  member  of  the  New  Haven  Medi- 
cal Association,  of  which  he  was  secretary  for  four  years 
(1893-1896)  and  president  for  the  two  years  of  1897  and 
1898;  of  the  New  Haven  County  Medical  Association, 
of  which  he  was  clerk  for  nine  years,  1892-1901,  and  presi- 
dent in  1903;  of  the  Connecticut  State  Medical  Society, 
of  which,  at  his  death,  he  was  treasurer,  having  been  elected 
annually  since  1905  ;  of  the  American  Medical  Association ; 
the  American  Public  Health  Association,  and  the  Associa- 
tion of  Military  Surgeons.  He  was  also  a  member  of  the 
Sons  of  the  American  Revolution.  He  was  a  Congrega- 
tionalist,  having  been  a  member  of  United  Church  in  New 
Haven  for  many  years.  In  politics  he  was  a  loyal 
Republican. 

Dr.  Townsend  died  at  his  home  on  January  7,  1916,  of 
pneumonia,  following  influenza,  after  an  illness  of  a  week, 
and  was  buried  in  the  Grove  Street  Cemetery,  New  Haven. 

He  was  married  in  New  York  City,  April  28,  1896,  to 
Mrs.  Bertha  (Goodyear)  Bradley,  the  daughter  of  General 
Ellsworth  D.  S.  Goodyear  and  Sarah  A.  (Bishop)  Good- 
year, of  North  Haven,  Conn.  He  is  survived  by  Mrs. 
Townsend  and  a  step-daughter,  Barbara  Bradley  (B.A. 
Mt.  Holyoke  1912). 

Henry  Semple  Ames,  B.A.   1886 

Born  March  4,  186.3,  in  St.  Louis,  Mo. 
Died  January  16,  1916,  in  St.  Louis,  Mo. 

Henry  Semple  Ames  was  born  in  St.  Louis,  Mo.,  March 
4,  1863,  being  the  son  of  Edgar  Ames,  a  graduate  of  the 
University  of  Cincinnati,  and  Lucy  Virginia  (Semple) 
Ames.    His  preparation,  for  Yale,  begun  at  Smith  Academy 


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In  St.  Louis,  was  completed  by  four  years  of  study  abroad — 
in  Hanover,  Germany,  and  Paris,  France.  He  received  an 
Oration  appointment  in  Junior  year  and  a  Dissertation  at 
Commencement,  and  in  Junior  year  served  as  secretary  of 
the  University  Boat  Club  and  of  the  University  Club. 

He  entered  the  St.  Louis  Law  School  after  graduation, 
and  in  1888,  on  receiving  his  LL.B.,  delivered  the  Com- 
mencement oration.  The  next  year  was  spent  in  graduate 
work  in  law  there,  and  at  the  same  time  he  was  engaged 
in  the  management  of  his  father's  estate.  In  1898,  he 
became  connected  with  the  Mississippi  Valley  Trust  Com- 
pany as  assistant  trust  officer,  nine  years  later  was  made 
assistant  executive  officer,  and  at  the  time  of  his  death  was 
a  vice  president  and  a  director  and  member  of  its  executive 
committee.  He  was  an  expert  in  railroad  finance  and  con- 
struction, and  rendered  important  services  of  this  nature 
to  the  company.  He  also  held  the  position  of  manager  of 
the  Ames  Realty  Company  from  1889  until  his  death,  which 
occurred  January  16,  1916,  at  his  home  in  St.  Louis,  as  the 
result  of  a  brief  illness  from  bronchial  pneumonia,  com- 
plicated by  heart  trouble. 

Mr.  Ames,  who  was  unmarried,  resided  with  his  mother, 
by  whom  he  is  survived.  He  also  leaves  a  brother,  Edgar 
(B.A.  1890),  and  two  sisters. 


John  Christopher  Schwab,  B.A.   1886 

Born  April  i,  1865,  in  New  York  City- 
Died  January  12,  1916,  in  New  Haven,  Conn. 

John  Christopher  Schwab,  son  of  Gustav  Schwab,  of  the 
firm  of  Oelrichs  &  Company,  was  born  April  i,  1865,  in 
New  York  City,  being  named  for  his  great-grandfather,  a 
privy  counsellor  of  Stuttgart,  Germany.  His  paternal 
grandparents  were  Gustav  Schwab,  a  German  poet  of  note, 
and  Sophie  (Gmelin)  Schwab.  His  mother  was  Catherine 
Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Laurence  Henry  and  Henrietta 
Margaretta  (Meier)  vonPost.  Through  her,  he  was 
descended  from  Heinrich  Melchior  Muhlenberg,  the  chief 
founder  of  the  Lutheran  Church  in  America. 

He  was  fitted  for  Yale  under  private  tutors  and  at  Gib- 
bons' and  Beach's  School  in  New  York  City.     He  received 


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several  prizes  in  English  and  Latin  composition,  High  Ora- 
tion appointments,  and  was  a  member  of  Phi  Beta  Kappa 
in  college.  As  a  Sophomore,  he  sang  on  his  Class  Glee 
Club,  and  the  next  year  he  was  a  member  of  the  Second 
Glee  Club.  He  was  an  editor  of  the  Couramt  in  Senior 
year. 

He  remained  at  Yale  for  a  year  of  post-graduate  study 
in  political  economy  after  taking  the  degree  of  B.A.  in 
1886,  and  during  this  period  was  also  an  instructor  in 
German  at  the  Hopkins  Grammar  School.  In  July,  1887, 
he  went  to  Europe,  and  after  spending  the  summer  in 
travel,  entered  the  University  of  Berlin.  His  studies  for 
the  degree  of  Doctor  of  Philosophy  were  completed  at  the 
University  of  Gottingen  in  1889,  and  he  then  returned  to 
the  United  States  and  spent  some  time  in  historical  research 
in  the  libraries  of  New  York  City.  He  had  received  an 
M.A.  in  course  at  Yale  in  1888.  In  the  fall  of  1890,  he 
took  up  his  work  as  lecturer  in  political  economy  at  the 
University,  being  made  an  instructor  in  that  department  in 
the  following  year.  He  was  promoted  to  an  assistant  pro- 
fessorship in  1893,  and  to  a  full  professorship  five  years 
afterwards. 

In  1905,  after  seven  years  of  service  in  that  capacity. 
Professor  Schwab  was  chosen  University  librarian,  and 
the  remainder  of  his  life  was  devoted  to  the  upbuilding  of 
the  Library.  A  member  of  the  University  Council  since  his 
appointment  as  librarian,  he  had  served  for  some  years  on 
the  Council's  Committee  on  Publications,  in  connection  with 
the  work  of  the  University  Press. 

In  1 901,  he  supervised  the  arrangements  for  the  Yale 
Bicentennial  as  chairman  of  the  committee  in  charge  of  the 
celebration.  He  was  a  frequent  contributor  to  historical 
journals  and  magazines,  and  at  one  time  was  editor  of  the 
Yale  Review'.  ''The  Finances  of  the  Confederate  States  of 
America,"  published  by  Professor  Schwab  in  1901,  is  con- 
sidered a  valuable  addition  in  the  field  of  economic  history. 
He  was  elected  Secretary  of  the  Yale  Class  of  1886  in  1905, 
and  held  that  office  until  his  death.  To  the  work  of  civic 
betterment  in  New  Haven,  Professor  Schwab  gave  much  of 
his  attention,  and  at  the  time  of  his  death  he  was  serving  as 
secretary  and  treasurer  of  the  social  settlement  known  as 
Lov^ell  House.     He  was  also  president  of  the  Model  Hous- 


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ing  Association  of  New  Haven.  He  was  on  the  board  of 
trustees  of  the  New  Haven  Public  Library  and  a  member 
of  St.  Paul's  Protestant  Episcopal  Church,  of  whose  Sun- 
day school  he  was  at  one  time  superintendent,  and  for 
several  years  served  in  Company  F,  Second  Regiment, 
Connecticut  National  Guard.  He  was  a  trustee  of  Mount 
Holyoke  College,  and  in  19 13  was  on  the  committee  which 
arranged  the  pageant  held  in  celebration  of  the  seventy-fifth 
anniversary  of  its  founding.  He  was  a  member  of  the 
American  and  British  Economic  associations,  the  Con- 
necticut Academy  of  Arts  and  Sciences,  the  American 
Library  Association,  and  of  the  Century  Club  of  New  York. 
In  191 1,  he  received  from  Muhlenberg  College  the  honorary 
degree  of  LL.D. 

Professor  Schwab's  death  occurred  unexpectedly  at  his 
home  in  New  Haven,  January  12,  1916,  after  a  brief  illness 
from  pneumonia.  He  was  buried  in  Grove  Street  Cemetery 
in  that  city. 

On  October  5,  1893,  he  was  married  in  New  Haven  to 
Edith  Aurelia,  daughter  of  Samuel  Sparks  Fisher,  upon 
whom  Yale  conferred  an  honorary  degree  in  185 1,  and 
Aurelia  Safford  (Crossette)  Fisher.  She  survives  him  with 
their  two  children :  Katharine  Fisher,  a  student  at  Vassar, 
and  Norman  vonPost.  He  leaves  also  two  brothers  and 
three  sisters,  one  of  the  latter  being  the  widow  of  Henry 
Charles  White  (B.A.  1881,  LL.B.  1883,  M.L.  1884). 
Another  brother,  Laurence  Henry,  graduated  from  the  Col- 
lege in  1878.  Gustav  Schwab  (B.A.  1902)  and  Laurence 
vonPost  Schwab  (B.A.  191 3)  are  nephews. 


Victor  Bush  Caldwell,  B.A.  1887 

Born  February  14,  1864,  in  Omaha,  Nebr. 
Died  December  26,  191S,  in  Omaha,  Nebr. 

Victor  Bush  Caldwell,  one  of  the  four  children  of  Smith 
Samuel  and  Henrietta  McGrath  (Bush)  Caldwell,  was  born 
in  Omaha,  Nebr.,  February  14,  1864.  His  father,  the  son 
of  Joseph  Caldwell,  who  was  graduated  from  the  University 
of  North  Carolina,  and  the  grandson  of  Samuel  Harker 
Caldwell,   was   a  graduate   of  Union   College   and   of   the 


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Albany  Law  School,  and  for  many  years  was  senior  partner 
in  the  banking  house  of  Caldwell,  Hamilton  &  Company, 
which  subsequently  became  the  United  States  National 
Bank  of  Omaha.  The  earliest  member  of  the  Caldwell 
family  to  settle  in  this  country  was  John  Caldwell,  who 
came  from  Ireland  to  Pennsylvania  in  1760,  later  going  to 
North  Carolina.  Victor  Caldwell's  mother  was  the  daugh- 
ter of  Jabin  Strong  and  Eliza  (DePui)  Bush,  her  ancestors 
being  among  the  first  white  settlers  in  the  Chenango  Valley 
in  New  York,  having  emigrated  from  Holland.  He  attended 
the  Racine  (Wis.)  Grammar  School  and  Phillips  Academy, 
Andover,  Mass.,  before  entering  Yale  in  1883. 

Since  graduating,  he  had  been  connected  with  the  United 
States  National  Bank  of  Omaha,  and  at  the  time  of  his 
death  was  serving  as  its  president,  having  been  elected  to 
that  office  in  191 5.  He  was  also  vice  president  of  the 
United  States  Trust  Company,  a  director  of  the  Union 
Stock  Yards  Company  and  the  Douglas  Hotel  Company, 
of  Omaha,  and  president  of  J.  W.  Hugus  &  Company,  a 
mercantile  and  banking  house  of  Colorado.  From  191 1  to 
1913,  he  was  a  member  of  the  executive  council  of  the 
American  Bankers  Association,  and  he  had  also  held  the 
office  of  president  of  the  Omaha  Clearing  House  Associa- 
tion. For  several  years  previous  to  his  death,  Mr.  Caldwell 
represented  the  Yale  Alumni  Association  of  Nebraska  on 
the  Alumni  Advisory  Board.  He  had  served  on  several 
charitable  and  public  boards,  and,  since  1905,  had  been 
junior  warden  of  All  Saints'  Protestant  Episcopal  Church. 

His  death,  which  was  due  to  an  attack  of  acute  Bright's 
disease,  complicated  by  asthma  and  heart  trouble,  occurred 
in  Omaha,  December  26,  1915.  He  was  buried  in  Prospect 
Hill  Cemetery,  that  city. 

He  was  married  in  Pasadena,  Cal.,  October  10,  1888,  to 
Nellie  Rees,  daughter  of  John  W.  and  Annetta  Olivia 
(Rees)  Hugus.  She  survives  him  with  their  four  sons: 
John  Hugus  (B.A.  1912,  LL.B.  Creighton  University  1913)  ; 
Victor  Bush,  Jr.,  a  member  of  the  Class  of  1916;  Jabin 
Bush,  and  David  Rees. 


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Sanford  Ellsworth  Cobb,  B.A.  1887 

Born  February  ii,  1866,  in  Tarrytown,  N.  Y. 
Died  July  11,  1915,  in  Pasadena,  Cal. 

Sanford  Ellsworth  Cobb  was  born  at  Tarrytown,  N.  Y., 
February  11,  1866,  the  son  of  Rev.  Henry  Nitchie  Cobb 
(B.A.  1855,  D.D.  Rutgers  1878),  who  served  for  several 
years  after  his  graduation  from  Union  Theological  Semi- 
nary in  1857  as  a  missionary  in  Persia,  and,  from  1883  to 
1910,  as  corresponding  secretary  of  the  Board  of  Foreign 
Missions  of  the  Reformed  Church  in  America.  Dr.  Cobb 
was  the  son  of  Sanford  and  Sophia  Lewis  (Nitchie)  Cobb 
and  a  descendant  of  Henry  Cobb,  who  came  from  England 
in  1629  and  was  for  many  years  deputy  to  the  general 
court  of  Plymouth  Colony;  his  ancestors  also  included 
John  Howland  and  John  Tilley,  signers  of  the  Mayflower 
compact,  and  Rev.  James  Noyes,  one  of  the  founders  of 
Yale  College.  Sanford  E.  Cobb's  mother,  who  was  Matilda 
Emeline,  daughter  of  Matthew  Thomas  and  Maria  (Suy- 
dam)  VanZandt,  for  twenty-three  years  edited  the  Mission 
Gleaner.  Through  her,  he  was  descended  from  Jan  Van- 
Santen,  who  settled  in  Albany  in  1693,  having  emigrated 
from  Holland. 

He  was  fitted  for  Yale  at  the  Seymour  Smith  Institute, 
Pine  Plains,  N.  Y.,  and  at  Phillips  (Andover)  Academy. 
He  received  a  Dispute  appointment  in  Junior  year  and  a 
Colloquy  at  Commencement. 

For  twenty-three  years  following  his  graduation,  Mr. 
Cobb  was  connected  with  the  Atlantic  Mutual  Insurance 
Company  of  New  York,  a  marine  insurance  company,  but 
in  1910  he  was  compelled  by  ill  health  to  resign  his  office  as- 
second  vice  president  of  the  company  and  retire  from  active 
work. 

The  remainder  of  his  life  was  spent  at  Lamanda  Park, 
near  Pasadena,  Cal.,  and  his  death  occurred  in  Pasadena, 
July  II,  1915,  after  a  brief  illness  from  pneumonia.  Inter- 
ment was  in  Mountain  View  Cemetery  in  that  city. 

While  in  the  East,  he  lived  at  East  Orange,  N.  J.,  where 
he  was  a  trustee  of  the  Central  Presbyterian  Church  and  a 
member  of  the  Young  Men's  Christian  Association.  He 
belonged  to  the  New  England  Society,  the  American  Geo- 
graphical Society,  and  the  Life  Saving  Benevolent  Asso- 


122  YALE    COLLEGE 

elation,  and  had  held  various  offices  in  the  Yale  Alumni 
Association  of  Essex  County.  For  four  years,  he  served  in 
the  First  Battalion,  New  York  Naval  MiHtia,  which  he 
assisted  in  organizing. 

On  September  6,  1905,  he  was  married  in  Los  Angeles, 
Cal.,  to  Margaret  Brown,  daughter  of  Dr.  Archibald  Lyle 
MacLeish  and  Grace  Helen  (Peffers)  MacLeish,  who  sur- 
vives him  with  four  children:  Sanford,  Henry  VanZandt, 
Helen  Evertson,  and  Margaret  MacLeish.  His  uncles, 
Oliver  Ellsworth  Cobb  and  Sanford  Hoadley  Cobb,  gradu- 
ated from  the  College  in  1853  and  1858,  respectively. 


Francis  Cochrane,  B.A.   1887 

Born  January  13,  1863,  in  Coxsackie,  N.  Y. 
Died  February  14,  1916,  in  New  York  City 

Francis  Cochrane  was  born  January  13,  1863,  in  Cox- 
sackie, N.  Y.,  where  his  father,  Francis  Cochrane,  was 
engaged  in  farming  for  over  sixty  years.  The  latter  was 
the  son  of  John  R.  Cochrane,  who  came  to  this  country 
from  Ireland  in  1824,  and  settled  in  Vermont.  His  mother 
was  Barbara,  daughter  of  Aaron  L  and  Helena  (Whitbeck) 
VanSchaick ;  her  ancestors  came  from  Holland  to  Coxsackie 
two  hundred  years  ago. 

The  son  attended  Claverack  Academy  and  the  Hudson 
River  Institute  at  Claverack,  N.  Y.,  and  entered  Y'ale  from 
Williston  Seminary,  Easthampton,  Mass.  In  his  Sophomore 
year,  he  received  a  first  prize  for  declamation. 

During  the  first  two  years  after  graduation,  while  taking 
^p  the  study  of  law,  he  taught  at  Hudson  Academy.  He 
was  admitted  to  the  bar  of  New  York  State  in  1889,  and 
then  served  for  two  years  as  a  clerk  in  the  law  office  of 
Waldo  Grant  Morse,  a  non-graduate  member  of  the  Class 
of  1881  at  the  University  of  Rochester,  in  New  York  City. 
In  1898,  after  teaching  at  the  Episcopal  Academy  at  Chesh- 
ire, Conn.,  and  at  the  Drisler  School  in  New  York  and 
being  for  a  time  engaged  in  private  tutoring,  he  again 
became  associated  with  Mr.  Morse  in  practice,  and  had 
since  followed  his  profession  in  New  York  City.  For  some 
years,  his  summer  home  had  been  at  Hudson,  N.  Y.  In 
1895,  he  took  a  short  trip  through  the  Netherlands.     He 


i887  123 

was  a  member  of  the  Dutch  Reformed  Church.  In  1899 
and  1900,  he  served  as  vice  president  of  the  Repubhcan 
Club  of  the  thirteenth  assembly  district  of  New  York.  He 
belonged  to  the  New  York  County  Lawyers  Association  and 
the  New  York  State  Bar  Association. 

Mr.  Cochrane  died  February  14,  1916,  at  the  Roosevelt 
Hospital  in  New  York  City,  after  an  illness  of  about  a 
week  which  followed  an  operation  for  appendicitis.  Burial 
was  in  Hudson  City  Cemetery  at  Hudson. 

On  October  30,  1902,  he  was  married  in  Hudson  to 
Frances  Rice,  daughter  of  James  Charles  and  Cornelia 
(Moseley)  Rogerson.  Mrs.  Cochrane,  who  survives  her 
husband,  graduated  from  Smith  College  in  1891.  Two 
daughters,  Cornelia  Rogerson  and  Frances  Barbara,  are 
also  living.  Mr.  Cochrane  was  a  brother  of  Aaron  Van- 
Schaick  Cochrane  (B.A.  1879)  whose  son,  Francis  Aaron, 
graduated  from  the  Scientific  School  in  1914. 


Thomas  Norwood  Penrose,  B.A.   1887 

Born  March  26,  1864,  in  Philadelphia,  Pa. 
Died  December   17,  1915,  in  Bryn  Mawr,  Pa. 

Thomas  Norwood  Penrose  was  born  in  Philadelphia,  Pa., 
March  26,  1864,  the  son  of  Thomas  Neall  Penrose  and  a 
descendant  of  Thomas  Penrose,  who  came  to  America  from 
England  in  1698  and  settled  at  Philadelphia.  His  father 
attended  the  Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy,  received 
the  degree  of  M.D.  from  the  University  of  Pennsylvania  in 
1858,  later  taking  that  of  Ph.D. ;  he  served  as  an  officer  in 
the  Medical  Corps  of  the  United  States  Navy  from  the 
outbreak  of  the  Civil  War  until  his  death. 

He  was  fitted  for  Yale  at  the  Episcopal  Academy  in 
Philadelphia,  and  received  Dispute  scholarship  appointments 
in  Junior  and  Senior  years. 

Two  years  after  his  graduation  from  Yale,  he  received 
the  degree  of  LL.B.  from  Columbia,  and  was  admitted  to 
the  New  York  Bar.  Subsequently,  he  took  a  course  cover- 
ing one  year  in  the  School  of  Mines  at  Columbia,  and  later, 
after  a  number  of  years  during  which  he  was  not  engaged 
in  any  business,  he  became  connected  with  the  law  depart- 
ment of  the  Lawyers  Title  Insurance  &  Trust  Company  of 


124  YALE    COLLEGE 

New  York.  His  home  was  at  Wayne,  Pa.,  during  the  latter 
part  of  his  life.  For  some  years,  he  had  suffered  severely 
from  rheumatism,  and  he  died  at  the  Bryn  Mawr  (Pa.) 
Hospital,  December  17,  1915.  Mr.  Penrose  was  not 
married. 


George  Barber  Fowler,  B.A.  1888 

Born  June  25,  1867,  in  Thompsonville,  Conn. 
Died  November  23,  1915,  in  Detroit,  Mich. 

George  Barber  Fowler  was  born  in  Thompsonville,  Conn., 
June  25,  1867,  his  father  being  Royal  Augustus  Fowler, 
a  merchant,  who  served  as  a  quartermaster  during  the  Civil 
War  and,  in  1867,  as  a  member  of  the  Connecticut  Legisla- 
ture. His  mother  was  Ellen  Hannah,  daughter  of  George 
Harvey  and  Silena  (Henry)  Barber.  He  entered  Yale 
from  the  Hartford  (Conn.)  Public  High  School  in  1884, 
sang  on  the  Glee  Club,  and,  in  his  Senior  year,  was  financial 
manager  of  the  Record.  He  received  Dispute  appoint- 
ments, and  spoke  at  Junior  Exhibition. 

After  serving  during  the  summer  of  1888  as  a  reporter 
on  the  staff  of  the  Springfield  (Mass.)  Union,  he  entered 
the  law  office  of  Briscoe  &  Andrews  in  Hartford.  In  the 
autumn  of  1889,  he  returned  to  New  Haven  to  continue  his 
studies  in  the  School  of  Law,  from  which  he  was  graduated 
with  the  degree  of  LL.B.  cum  laude  the  next  summer. 
Upon  his  admission  to  the  bar,  he  began  to  practice  in  Hart- 
ford as  junior  member  of  the  firm  of  Briscoe  &  Fowler. 
His  home  at  that  time  was  at  Thompsonville,  where  he 
served  during  a  part  of  1891  and  1892  as  town  clerk  and 
treasurer,  filling  a  vacancy  caused  by  death.  In  1899, 
he  moved  to  Detroit,  Mich.,  and  the  next  year  became  a 
member  of  the  law  firm  of  McDonald  &  Fowler,  being 
associated  with  Charles  S.  McDonald,  a  non-graduate  of  the 
University  of  Michigan.  This  connection  was  discontinued 
in  191 1,  and  since  that  time  Mr.  Fowler  had  practiced  alone. 
He  was  a  director  in  the  McCreery  Engineering  Company 
of  Detroit  and  Toledo  (of  which  he  had  also  served  as 
president  from  1906  to  May,  1908),  the  Scotten-Dillon 
Company,  the  Woodbridge  Building  Company,  and  the 
Lenawee  County  Gas  &  Electric  Company,  being  also  secre- 


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tary  and  treasurer  of  the  last-named  company.  With 
James  P.  Andrews  (B.A.  1877,  LL.B.  1879),  ^^  was  the 
author  of  the  "Revised  Index  Digest  of  the  Connecticut 
Law  Reports." 

His  death  occurred  at  his  home  in  Detroit,  November  23, 
191 5,  after  an  ihness  of  several  months  resulting  from 
cancer.     Burial  was  in  Woodlawn  Cemetery  in  that  city. 

He  was  married  in  Detroit,  May  18,  1899,  to  Grace  Mary, 
daughter  of  Delos  Louis  and  Mary  M.  Filer.  She  died  on 
June  5,  1912.  Of  their  two  children,  the  daughter,  Barbara, 
died  at  the  age  of  six  months,  while  the  son,  Delos  Royal, 
survives. 


Otis  King  Hutchinson,  B.A.  1890 

Born  October  25,  1868,  in  Chicago,  111. 
Died  March  26,   1916 

It  has  been  impossible  to  secure  the  desired  information 
for  an  obituary  sketch  of  Mr.  Hutchinson  in  time  for  pub- 
lication in  this  volume.  A  sketch  will  appear  in  a  subse- 
quent issue  of  the  Obituary  Record. 


John  Howard  Sherwood,  B.A.  1890 

Born  September  i,  1869,  at  Cornwall-on-Hudson,  N.  Y. 
Died  January  25,  191 5,  in  Englewood,  N.  J. 

John  Howard  Sherwood,  one  of  the  four  children  of 
John  D.  and  Emmeline  Catherine  (Zimmerman  nee  Dunn) 
Sherwood,  was  born  September  i,  1869,  at  Cornwall-on- 
Hudson,  N.  Y.,  being  the  grandson  of  Thomas  and  Ruth 
(DuBois)  Sherwood.  His  father,  a  graduate  of  the  Col- 
lege in  1839,  practiced  law  for  a  number  of  years,  and 
served  as  a  colonel  on  the  staff  of  Gen.  James  S.  Wads- 
worth  during  the  Civil  War.  His  mother's  parents  were 
Charles  and  Polly  Dunn. 

He  entered  Yale  from  the  Englewood  (N.  J.)  Classical 
School,  and  in  Junior  year  was  given  an  Oration  appoint- 
ment, receiving  a  Dissertation  at  Commencement. 


126  YALE    COLLEGE 

Soon  after  graduation,  Mr.  Sherwood  took  a  position  in 
the  pubhshing  department  of  the  New  York  Evening  Post, 
with  which  he  was  connected  until  September,  1897.  He 
was  then  for  ten  years  employed  in  the  business  depart- 
ment of  the  New  York  Commercial  Advertiser  (later  The 
Globe).  In  1907,  he  entered  the  banking  and  brokerage 
business  in  New  York  as  cashier  with  the  firm  of  Jewett 
Brothers,  retaining  that  connection  until  May,  1913.  In  the 
fall  of  1914,  after  spending  the  intervening  period  at  his 
home  in  Englewood,  he  began  work  for  the  Crowell  Pub- 
lishing Company  in  New  York,  where  he  was  until  his 
death,  which  occurred  January  25,  191 5,  at  his  mother's 
home  in  Englewood,  as  the  result  of  heart  trouble,  from 
which  he  had  suffered  for  some  little  time.  Interment  was 
in  Brookside  Cemetery,  Englewood. 

Mr.  Sherwood  was  not  married.  He  was  a  member  of 
the  Presbyterian  Church  in  Englewood. 


Gouverneur  Calhoun,  B.A.  1891 

Born  September  11,  1868,  in  Chicago,  111. 
Died  May  15,  1916,  in  St.  Louis,  Mo. 

Gouverneur  Calhoun  was  born  September  11,  1868,  in 
Chicago,  111.,  the  son  of  John  B.  Calhoun,  the  first  treasurer 
in  Illinois  of  the  Illinois  Central  Railroad  Company.  He 
entered  Yale  from  the  Hyde  Park  High  School,  Chicago, 
in  1886,  but  left  the  Class  of  1890  at  the  end  of  Sophomore 
year,  joining  the  Class  with  which  he  was  graduated  the 
next  fall.  He  was  captain  of  the  University  Baseball  Team 
for  two  years  in  succession,  each  year  winning  the  cham- 
pionship, and  an  editor  of  the  Record  in  Senior  year. 

From  November,  1891,  to  June,  1893,  Mr.  Calhoun  had 
a  position  in  the  superintendent's  office  of  the  Lake  Shore 
&  Michigan  Southern  Railway,  and  for  the  next  five  months 
was  in  charge  of  the  American  Telephone  &  Telegraph 
Company's  exhibit  at  the  World's  Fair.  He  was  then 
appointed  district  superintendent  of  the  American  Tele- 
phone &  Telegraph  Company  at  Cincinnati,  Ohio,  later 
being  transferred  to  Indianapolis,  Ind.  Since  1898,  he  had 
made  his  headquarters  in  St.  Louis,  Mo.,  at  first  holding 
the  position  of  district  superintendent  and  afterwards,  until 


1890-1891  .  127 

his  death,  that  of  commercial  representative.  Mr.  Calhoun 
enjoyed  a  wide  reputation  as  an  after-dinner  speaker  at 
college  and  other  social  gatherings,  and,  upon  the  opening 
of  new  telephone  exchanges  in  various  cities,  often  made 
addresses  over  the  long-distance  telephone  to  the  guests 
assembled  at  the  dedication.  He  served  a  few  years  ago 
as  president  of  the  Yale  Alumni  Association  of  St.  Louis, 
having  always  taken  a  prominent  part  in  the  affairs  of  that 
organization. 

His  death  occurred  at  his  home  in  St.  Louis,  May  15, 
19 16,  after  an  illness  of  two  weeks  due  to  acute  rheuma- 
tism, complicated  by  heart  trouble. 

Mr.  Calhoun  was  married  in  St.  Louis,  April  30,  1902,  to 
Felicia  Eakin,  daughter  of  Frederick  Newton  Judson 
(B.A.  1866,  LL.B.  Washington  University  1871)  and  Jane 
W.  (Eakin)  Judson  and  granddaughter  of  Frederick  Joseph 
Judson,  a  graduate  of  the  College  in  1824  and  of  the  School 
of  Medicine  in  1829.  She  survives  him  without  children. 
Mr.  Calhoun  is  also  survived  by  his  sister,  the  wife  of 
Henry  Burrall  Mason  (B.A.  1870,  LL.B.  Columbia  1874). 


Ernest  Chadwick,  B.A.   1891 

Born  March  21,  1868,  in  Old  Lyme,  Conn. 
Died  May  4,  1916,  in  Old  Lyme,  Conn. 

Ernest  Chadwick  was  born  March  21,  1868,  in  Old  Lyme, 
Conn.,  his  father  being  Daniel  Chadwick  (B.A.  1845),  one 
of  the  foremost  lawyers  of  his  day  in  Connecticut,  where 
he  served  as  United  States  district  attorney,  state  senator, 
and,  ex  officio,  as  a  member  of  the  Yale  Corporation.  He 
was  the  grandson  of  Daniel  and  Nancy  (Waite)  Chadwick, 
the  latter  being  the  sister  of  Henry  Matson  Waite  (B.A. 
1809,  LL.D.  1855),  a  chief  justice  of  the  Supreme  Court 
of  Connecticut,  and  a  descendant  of  Thomas  Waite,  who 
emigrated  to  America  from  Sudbury,  England.  The 
founder  of  the  Chadwick  family  in  this  country  Was  Charles 
Chadwick,  who  came  from  England  in  1630  to  Watertown, 
Mass.,  and  was  a  member  of  the  Colonial  Legislature  from 
1657  to  1659  ;  the  family  home  has  been  at  Old  Lyme  since 
1681.  Ernest  Chadwick's  mother  was  Ellen,  daughter  of 
Enoch  and  Clarissa   (Dutton)    Noyes.     She  was  a  direct 


128  .  YALE    COLLEGE 

descendant  of  Rev.  James  Noyes  of  Choulderton,  Wiltshire, 
England,  the  first  minister  at  Newbury,  Mass.,  whose  son, 
Rev.  Moses  Noyes,  first  pastor  of  the  Congregational 
Church  in  Lyme  (1666-1726),  was  a  trustee  of  Yale  College 
from  1703  to  1729,  and  who  was  a  brother  of  Rev.  James 
Noyes,  one  of  the  founders  of  Yale.  Elder  William 
Brewster  of  the  Mayflower  and  Nathaniel  Lynde,  first 
treasurer  of  the  College,  were  also  ancestors.  Among  his 
many  Yale  relatives  were  his  cousins,  Morrison  Remick 
Waite  (B.A,  1837),  chief  justice  of  the  United  States 
Supreme  Court,  and  Judge  Richard  Waite  (B.A.  1853)  ;  an 
uncle  by  marriage,  Rev.  David  S.  Brainerd  (B.A.  1834),  a 
Fellow  of  the  Corporation,  and  Dr.  John  Noyes  (B.A. 
1753),  a  surgeon  in  the  Revolutionary  Army  and  a  member 
of  the  Order  of  the  Cincinnati. 

He  entered  Yale  in  1887  from  the  Black  Hall  School  in 
his  native  town,  being  graduated  four  years  later.  In  1893, 
he  received  the  degree  of  LL.B.  from  the  New  York  Law 
School,  and  was  then  admitted  to  the  New  York  Bar.  For 
a  time,  he  was  in  the  office  of  Piatt  &  Bowers  in  New  York 
City,  but  since  1895  he  had  followed  his  profession  in  New 
London,  Conn.  In  December,  1899,  he  was  appointed 
prosecuting  agent  for  New  London  County,  and  since  then 
had  practiced  quite  extensively  in  the  state  courts.  He  was 
a  member  of  the  First  Church  of  Christ  (Congregational) 
of  Old  Lyme. 

His  home  had  been  at  Old  Lyme  since  birth,  and  he  died 
there  May  4,  1916,  after  an  illness  of  three  months,  due  to 
septic  endocarditis.     Burial  was  in  the  local  cemetery. 

On  April  18,  1899,  he  was  married  in  Brooklyn,  N.  Y., 
to  Gertrude  E.,  daughter  of  Albert  Baxter  and  Mary 
(Rowden)  King  and  sister. of  A.  Rowden  King,  a  graduate 
of  the  College  in  1906.  She  survives  him  with  two  sons, 
Guy  Mavesyn  and  Daniel.  His  brother,  Charles  Noyes 
Chadwick  (B.A.  1870),  received  the  honorary  degree  of 
M.A.  from  Yale  in  1897.  The  latter's  sons,  Charles  and 
George  Brewster,  graduated  from  the  University  with  the 
degrees  of  B.A.  in  1897  and  1903,  respectively.  Mr.  Chad- 
wick's  only  surviving  sister  is  the  wife  of  Elford  Parry 
Trowbridge  (B.A.  1887). 


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Rufus  Macqueen  Gibbs,  B.A.  1893 

Born  December  i,  1871,  in  New  Orleans,  La. 
Died  February  5,  1916,  in  Baltimore,  Md. 

Rufus  Macqueen  Gibbs,  son  of  John  Sears  and  Helen 
(Macqueen)  Gibbs,  was  born  in  New  Orleans,  La.,  Decem- 
ber I,  187 1.  His  father's  parents  were  Rufus  and  Adeline 
(Sears)  Gibbs,  and  his  mother  was  the  daughter  of  Peter 
and  Sara  (Sullivan)  Macqueen.  He  prepared  for  Yale  at 
the  Carey  School  in  Baltimore  and  at  St.  Paul's  School, 
Concord,  N.  H.  In  Freshman  year  at  Yale,  he  was  awarded 
one  of  the  Berkeley  premiums ;  he  contributed  numerous 
poems  to  the  College  papers,  and  in  Senior  year  served  on 
the  Courant  board  and  was  elected  to  Chi  Delta  Theta;  he 
was  chosen  Class  Poet,  and  wrote  the  Class  Day  poem  and 
later  others  for  the  various  Class  reunions. 

After  spending  the  first  year  following  his  graduation  on 
the  staff  of  the  University  Magazine  of  New  York  City,  Mr. 
Gibbs  returned  to  Baltimore,  and  entered  his  father's  busi- 
ness, the  Gibbs  Preserving  Company,  as  vice  president. 
Eight  years  later,  he  was  made  president,  and  served  in  that- 
capacity  until  his  death.  Lie  had  also  been  president  of  the 
Canned  Goods  Exchange  of  Baltimore,  and  was  a  director 
of  the  Maryland  Trust  Company.  From  1913  to  1915,  he 
served  as  president  of  the  Board  of  Trade  of  Baltimore. 
He  was  a  vestryman  of  Christ  Protestant  Episcopal  Church, 
and  shortly  before  his  death  had  been  instrumental  in  organ- 
izing a  men's  club  in  connection  with  it.  He  had  taken  an 
active  part  in  public  affairs,  being  vice  president  of  the 
Maryland  League  for  Defense  and  a  member  of  the  board 
of  managers  of  the  Maryland  School  for  Boys. 

His  death,  which  was  unexpected,  occurred  in  Baltimore, 
February  5, 1916,  and  followed  an  operation  for  the  removal 
of  a  tumor  at  the  base  of  the  brain.  He  was  buried  in 
Loudon  Park  Cemetery  at  Baltimore. 

He  was  married  in  New  York  City,  April  20,  1898,  to 
Cornelia  Noyes,  daughter  of  James  F.  and  Harriet  (Noyes) 
Andrews,  who  survives  him  with  four  children:  Helen 
Macqueen,  Harriet  Constance,  Frederick  Andrews,  and 
Marian  Hungerford. 


130  YALE    COLLEGE 


Ralph  Longenecker,  B.A.   1894 

Born  October  6,  1873,  in  Bedford,  Pa. 
Died  March  i,  1916,  in  Philadelphia,  Pa. 

Ralph  Longenecker  was  born  October  6,  1873,  i"  Bedford, 
Pa.,  being  one  of  three  children  of  Jacob  H.  Longenecker, 
a  graduate  of  the  Albany  Law  School  in  1866,  who  served 
as  adjutant  in  the  One  Hundred  and  First  Regiment,  Penn- 
sylvania Volunteers,  during  the  Civil  War  and  later  was 
judge  of  the  sixteenth  judicial  district  of  Pennsylvania, 
and  Rebecca  (Russell)  Longenecker.  The  founder  of  the 
American  branch  of  the  Longenecker  family,  Ulrich  Longe- 
necker, came  to  Chester  County,  Pennsylvania,  in  1733  from 
Switzerland.  Through  his  mother,  who  was  the  daughter 
of  Samuel  Lypn  and  Nancy  (Reamer)  Russell,  Ralph 
Longenecker  was  of  Scotch-Irish  descent,  an  ancestor 
being  James  Russell,  who  settled  in  Menallen  Township, 
York  County  (now  Adams  County),  Pennsylvania. 

He  was  prepared  for  Yale  at  the  Blair  Presbyterial  Acad- 
emy, Blairstown,  N.  J.,  and  in  his  Junior  year  received  a 
Dispute  appointment,  being  given  a  Colloquy  at  Commence- 
ment. 

After  studying  law  for  a  while  in  his  native  town  follow- 
ing his  graduation,  he  completed  his  course  at  the  Pitts- 
burgh Law  School  in  1897.  He  was  honor  man  in  his 
Class  there,  and  in  June,  1897,  was  admitted  to  the  bar 
of  Allegheny  County,  having  the  highest  standing  of  any 
of  the  candidates  admitted  at  that  time.  From  1897  until 
1902,  he  served  as  an  instructor  at  the  Pittsburgh  Law 
School.  His  first  professional  connection  was  with  the  firm 
of  McClung  &  Evans,  and  after  its  dissolution,  by  the 
election  of  Mr.  John  A.  Evans  to  the  bench,  he  was  for  a 
time  associated  with  the  senior  partner,  Mr.  William  H. 
McClung.  Later,  he  had  offices  with  Messrs.  Edwin  S. 
Craig,  L.  M.  Plumer,  and  Edward  B.  Scull,  practicing  on 
his  own  account.  In  1903,  he  became  solicitor  for  the  Iron 
City  Trust  Company,  giving  up  that  connection  in  1906 
to  enter  the  firm  of  Gordon  &  Smith,  which  was  organized 
at  that  time  and  with  which  he  continued  until  his  death, 
his  associates  being  George  Breed  Gordon  (LL.B.  Columbia 
1883)  ;     William    Watson    Smith    (B.A.    Princeton    1892, 


1894  13^ 

LL.B.  Pittsburgh  1896);  Allen  T.  C.  Gordon  (LL.B. 
George  Washington  1901),  and  Alexander  Black  (B.S. 
Princeton  1902,  LL.B.  Pittsburgh  1905). 

Mr.  Longenecker  was  an  active  member  of  the  Shadyside 
Presbyterian  Church.  He  died  March  i,  1916,  at  the 
Orthopaedic  Hospital  in  Philadelphia,  where  he  had  gone 
for  treatment  ior  congestion  of  the  arteries  of  the  brain, 
which  followed  a  severe  attack  of  the  grippe.  Burial  was 
in  the  Homewood  Cemetery  at  Pittsburgh. 

On  October  30,  1902,  he  was  married  in  that  city  to 
Grace  Chambers,  daughter  of  James  Smith  and  Emma 
(Chambers)  Humbird  and  sister  of  John  C.  Humbird,  a 
non-graduate  member  of  the  Sheffield  Class  of  1901.  Mrs. 
Longenecker's  sister  is  the  wife  of  Southard  Play  (Ph.B. 
1901).  Besides  his  wife,  Mr.  Longenecker  is  survived  by 
four  children — Catherine,  Eleanor,  Ralph,  Jr.,  and  John 
Russell — his  parents,  and  two  brothers,  one  of  the  latter 
being  Samuel  Russell  Longenecker,  who  studied  in  the  Col- 
lege during  1 890-1 891. 


Daniel  O'Day,  B.A.   1894 

Born  March  11,  1870,  in  Titusville,  Pa. 
Died  May  31,  1916,  in  Rye,  N,  Y. 

Daniel  O'Day,  one  of  the  eleven  children  of  Daniel  and 
Louise  (Newell)  O'Day,  was  born  March  11,  1870,  in 
Titusville,  Pa.  His  father  came  to  this  country  from  Ire- 
land in  1842,  and  became  vice  president  of  the  National 
Transit  Company  of  the  Standard  Oil  Company.  His 
mother  was  the  daughter  of  Anthony  and  Mary  (Burke) 
Newell ;  her  family  also  came  to  America  from  Ireland  in 
1842,  settling  at  Boston,  Mass. 

His  preparatory  training  was  received  at  Canisius  College 
in  Buffalo,  N.  Y.,  and  before  entering  Yale  in  1890  he  spent 
five  years  at  Georgetown  University,  Washington,  D.  C. 
He  left  the  Yale  Class  of  1894  at  the  end  of  Junior  year, 
but  in  1906  was  given  his  degree  and  enrolled  with  the 
Class. 

Until  1909,  Mr.  O'Day  was  employed  by  the  Standard 
Oil  Company,  and  since  that  time  he  had  been  associated 
with  his  brother,  Charles  O'Day,  as  a  producer  of  crude  oil. 


132  YALE   COLLEGE 

at  the  time  of  his  death  being  treasurer  of  the  Venango  Oil 
&  Land  Company.  He  was  interested  in  many  corporations 
operating  in  West  Virginia  and  Pennsylvania.  Mr.  O'Day 
was  a  member  of  the  Church  of  the  Resurrection,  Rye, 
N.  Y. 

He  had  lived  in  Rye  for  about  fifteen  years,  and  died 
there  at  his  home,  May  31,  1916.  He  had  been  ill  for 
several  months  following  an  attack  of  pneumonia,  but  was 
believed  to  be  recovering,  when  heart  trouble  developed, 
causing  his  death.  Burial  was  in  Kensico  Cemetery  at 
Kensico,  N.  Y. 

He  was  married  in  New  York  City,  May  i,  1900,  to 
Caroline  Love,  daughter  of  J.  and  Elia  Goodwin  of  Savan- 
nah, Ga.  She  survives  him  with  their  daughter,  Elia 
Warren,  and  their  two  sons,  Daniel,  Jr.,  and  Charles. 


Arthur  Bumstead,  B.A.  1895 

Born  February  9,  1873,  in  Minneapolis,  Minn. 
Died  August  18,  1915,  in  Rochester,  Minn. 

Arthur  Bumstead  was  born  in  Minneapolis,  Minn.,  Feb- 
ruary 9,  1873,  being  the  oldest  child  of  Rev.  Horace  Bum- 
stead (B.A.  1863,  D.D.  New  York  University  1881),  who 
served  as  a  major  in  the  Civil  War;  was  from  1875 
professor  in,  and  from  1888  to  1907  president  of,  Atlanta 
University,  and  is  now  engaged  in  religious  and  philan- 
thropic work,  and  Anna  (Hoit)  Bumstead.  His  paternal 
grandparents  were  Josiah  Freeman  and  Lucy  Douglas 
(Willis)  Bumstead,  and  through  them  he  was  a  descendant 
of  Thomas  Bumstead  and  George  Willis,  both  of  whom 
settled  in  New  England  in  the  seventeenth  century.  His 
mother  was  the  daughter  of  Albert  Gallatin  Hoit  (B.A. 
Dartmouth  1829),  a  portrait  painter  of  Boston,  and  Susan 
Ann  (Hanson)  Hoit  and  a  descendant  of  John  Hoyt  and 
Thomas  Hanson,  both  of  whom,  also,  settled  in  New 
England  in  the  seventeenth  century. 

Before  entering  Yale  as  a  Freshman  in  1891,  he  studied 
at  Atlanta  University  and  at  Phillips  (Andover)  Academy. 
In  Sophomore  year,  he  was  awarded  a  second  prize  in 
English  composition,  the  next  year  was  given  a  Dissertation 


1894-1895  133 

appointment,  and  at  Commencement  received  an  Oration 
appointment  and  two-year  honors  in  ancient  languages. 

During  the  five  years  following  his  graduation,  interrupted 
somewhat  by  teaching  engagements,  he  studied  Biblical 
literature  and  languages  in  the  Graduate  Schools  of  the 
University  of  Chicago  and  Yale,  and  in  1900  received  the 
degree  of  Ph.D.  from  Yale.  From  1896  to  1898,  Mr. 
Bumstead  served  as  an  instructor  in  Greek,  Biblical  litera- 
ture, and  philosophy  at  Atlanta  University.  In  1901,  he 
became  an  instructor  in  classics  at  the  Mercersburg  (Pa.) 
Academy,  and  the  next  year  accepted  a  position  as  principal 
of  the  high  school  at  Sterling,  Mass. 

Owing  to  impaired  health,  he  spent  the  summer  of  1905 
in  England.  On  his  return  to  America,  he  entered  the 
advertising  field,  after  a  thorough  preparation  for  this  work 
by  private  study  and  through  several  correspondence 
schools.  From  1906  to  191 1,  he  was  located  in  Kansas 
City,  Mo.  His  first  connection  was  with  the  editorial  staff 
of  the  Advertiser's  Magazine,  and  he  afterwards  held  a 
position  on  the  Board  of  Public  Welfare  under  the  Kansas 
City  municipal  government.  He  removed  to  Winnipeg, 
Manitoba,  Canada,  in  191 1,  and  until  the  outbreak  of  the 
European  War  was  engaged  in  publicity  work  for  the 
International  Securities  Company  in  their  affiliation  with 
the  Grand  Trunk  Pacific  Railway  and  in  editorial  work 
for  the  Dominion  Magazine.  He  was  a  frequent  contribu- 
tor to  other  periodicals  on  general  topics  of  the  day. 

He  was  originally  a  Congregationalist,  but  after  his 
removal  to  the  West  connected  himself  with  the  Disciples 
of  Christ,  and  was  active  in  the  churches  of  that  order  in 
the  cities  of  his  later  residence.  He  was  a  member  of  the 
Society  of  Biblical  Literature  and  Exegesis  and  of  the 
Religious  Education  Association. 

In  March,  19 15,  Mr.  Bumstead  went  to  Minneapolis, 
Minn.  His  health  had  been  for  some  time  declining,  and 
he  sought  relief  at  the  Mayo  Brothers'  Hospital  in  Roches- 
ter, Minn.  A  serious  surgical  operation  was  promising 
good  results,  when  pneumonia  developed,  and  he  died  on 
August  18,  191 5.  Burial  was  in  the  family  lot  in  Forest 
Hills  Cemetery,  Boston. 

He  was  married  on  July  19,  1902,  in  Hoboken,  N.  J.,  to 
Miss  Alice  Ward.  They  had  two  children:  Donald 
Douglas,  born  in  New  York  City,  May  7,  1903,  and  Marion, 


134  YALE    COLLEGE 

born  December  13,  1907,  in  Kansas  City,  Mo.,  where  she 
died  November  19,  1909.  One  of  Mr.  Bumstead's  two  sur- 
viving brothers,  Albert  Hoit,  studied  at  the  Worcester  Poly- 
technic Institute  and  at  Harvard,  and  the  other,  Ralph 
Willis,  took  his  B.A.  at  Yale  in  1903.  His  great-uncles, 
Nathaniel  Parker  Willis  and  Richard  Storrs  Willis,  and  his 
uncle,  Nathaniel  Willis  Bumstead,  graduated  from  the  Col- 
lege in  1827,  1841,  and  1855,  respectively.  His  second 
cousin,  Henry  A.  Bumstead  (B.A.  Johns  Hopkins  1891), 
of  the  present  Yale  Faculty,  received  the  degree  of  Ph.D. 
from  Yale  in  1897.  ^r.  Bumstead's  only  sister  (wife  of 
Lieut.  H.  R.  Jarvis  of  the  Royal  Field  Artillery,  now  serv- 
ing with  the  British  Army  in  France)  is  a  graduate,  in 
191 3,  of  the  Massachusetts  Normal  Art  School. 


Georg-e  Eli  Butler,  B.A.   1895 

Born  December  10,  1871,  in  Worthington,  Mass. 
Died  January  31,  1916,  in  Meriden,  Conn, 

George  Eli  Butler,  son  of  Edwin  Howell  Butler,  a  farmer, 
and  Maria  L.  (Brown)  Butler,  was  born  December  10, 
1871,  in  Worthington,  Mass.  He  entered  Yale  from  the 
Meriden  (Conn.)  High  School  in  1891,  his  home  at  that 
time  being  at  Kensington,  Conn.,  and  in  his  Senior  year 
was  given  a  Dispute  appointment. 

Since  graduation,  with  the  exception  of  the  winter  of 
1899,  during  which  he  worked  in  the  cost  department  of  the 
Russell  &  Erwin  Manufacturing  Company  of  New  Britain, 
Conn.,  Mr.  Butler  had  been  engaged  in  farming.  For  about 
five  years,  he  lived  on  the  home  farm  at  Kensington,  which 
he  had  purchased  in  1900.  In  1905,  he  removed  to  Meri- 
den, where  he  had  since  made  his  home,  his  farm  being 
known  as  "Fircrest,"  and  where  he  died  January  31,  1916. 

His  marriage  took  place  in  Philadelphia,  Pa.,  June  18, 
1898,  to  Margaret  Amelia,  daughter  of  John  Lewis  and 
Amelia  VanTine.  She  survives  him  with  five  children: 
Helen  VanTine,  Margaret  Juliet,  Edwin  Stewart,  Ruth 
Isabel,  and  Marion  Charlotte.  Their  third  daughter,  Doro- 
thy Marie,  died  November  5,  1906.  Mr.  Butler  was  a  half- 
brother  of  Joel  Ives  Butler  (Ph.B.  1897,  M.D.  Johns 
Hopkins  1901)  and  of  Albert  Norton  Butler  (B.A.  1900). 


i895  135 

(A  sketch  of  the  latter's  life  is  given  elsewhere  in  this 
volume.)  His  cousin,  Eli  Ives  Butler,  and  his  brother-in- 
law,  Walter  E.  Crittenden,  graduated  from  the  College  in 
1898  and  1900,  respectively. 


Benjamin  Stickney  Cable,  B.A.  1895 

Born  September  24,  1872,  in  Rock  Island,  III. 
Died  September  27,   191 5,  near  Ipswich,  Mass. 

Benjamin  Stickney  Cable,  son  of  Ransom  Read  Cable, 
for  many  years  president  of  the  Chicago,  Rock  Island  & 
Pacific  Railway,  and  Josephine  (Stickney)  Cable,  was  born 
September  24,  1872,  in  Rock  Island,  111.  His  father  was 
the  son  of  Hiram  and  Rachael  (Henry)  Cable,  and  was 
descended  from  John  Cable  (or  Cabell),  who  came  to  this 
country  from  Buckfastleigh,  England,  in  163 1  and  settled 
in  Massachusetts.  Through  his  mother,  whose  parents  were 
Benjamin  and  Sarah  Jane  (Powers)  Stickney,  he  was  a 
descendant,  in  the  tenth  generation,  of  William  Stickney, 
who  emigrated  to  Massachusetts  from  England  in  1638. 

He  was  prepared  for  Yale  at  the  Harvard  School,  Chi- 
cago, and  at  Phillips  Exeter  Academy,  and  in  college 
was  a  member  of  the  University  Club,  secretary  and 
treasurer  of  the  Intercollegiate  Football  Association  in 
1894,  and  president  of  the  University  Football  Association 
in  Senior  year. 

Mr.  Cable  spent  the  summer  after  graduation  abroad, 
upon  his  return  to  America  entering  the  Columbia  Law 
School,  where  he  received  the  degree  of  LL.B.  in  1898. 
In  November,  1899,  after  a  brief  connection  with  the  firm 
of  Lowden,  Estabrook  &  Davis  of  Chicago,  he  joined  the 
law  department  of  the  Chicago,  Rock  Island  &  Pacific 
Railway.  He  was  made  general  attorney  for  the  road 
in  1907,  and  held  that  position  for  the  next  two  years.  On 
November  30,  1909,  he  was  appointed  assistant  secretary 
of  commerce  and  labor,  and  served  in  that  capacity  until 
the  close  of  President  Taft's  administration.  After  a  period 
of  foreign  travel,  he  resumed  the  practice  of  his  profession 
in  Chicago  in  October,  1914. 

Mr.  Cable  died  near  Ipswich,  Mass.,  September  27,  1915, 
as  the  result  of  injuries  received  in  an  automobile  accident. 


136  YALE  COLLEGE 

His  ashes  were  buried  in  Chippianock  Cemetery  at  Rock 
Island,  In  his  memory,  there  has  been  estabUshed  at  Yale 
a  fund  of  $20,000,  the  income  of  which  is  to  be  used  for 
the  care  and  beautifying  of  the  College  Campus  and  of 
the  surrounding  streets. 

At  the  time  of  his  death,  he  was  president  of  the  United 
Charities  of  Chicago,  having  been  elected  to  that  office  in 
April,  1915.    He  was  unmarried. 


Fred  Sylvester  Tyler,  B.A.  1895 

Born  June  15,  1868,  in  Hammonton,  N.  J. 
Died  March  15,  1916,  in  Framingham,  Mass. 

Fred  Sylvester  Tyler  was  born  June  15,  1868,  in  Ham- 
monton, N.  J.,  where  his  father,  Samuel  H.  Tyler,  a 
farmer,  served  as  a  trustee  of  the  public  schools  for  some 
years.  His  mother  was  Elizabeth  A.,  daughter  of  Charles 
A.  Sylvester.  He  was  fitted  for  college  at  Phillips  Acad- 
emy, Exeter,  N.  H.,  and  in  Junior  and  Senior  years  at  Yale 
received  Colloquy  appointments. 

He  spent  the  first  year  after  his  graduation  at  the  Har- 
vard Medical  School,  holding  at  this  time  the  David 
Williams  Cheever  Scholarship.  He  was  obliged  to  give  up 
his  course  there  in  1896,  but  eight  years  later,  after  being 
engaged  in  various  lines  of  work  in  Massachusetts, 
returned  to  Harvard,  and  spent  two  additional  years  in  the 
study  of  medicine.  Since  that  time,  Mr.  Tyler  had  given 
his  attention  to  the  stock  market  at  Boston,  making  his 
home  in  Roxbury. 

He  died  in  Framingham,  Mass.,  March  15,  1916,  after  an 
illness  of  a  year  due  to  an  apoplectic  shock  and  Bright's 
disease,  and  was  buried  in  Pine  Grove  Cemetery  at 
Westboro,  Mass. 

Mr.  Tyler  was  not  married.  His  cousin,  Walter  Alden 
Barrows,  graduated  from  the  College  in  1891.  He  is 
survived  by  two  brothers  and  a  sister. 


1895-1896  137 


Estey  Fuller  Dayton,  B.A.   1896 

Born  March  7,  1873,  in  Torrington,  Conn. 
Died  December  13,  191S,  in  New  York  City 

Estey  Fuller  Dayton,  one  of  the  four  children  of  Arvid 
Dayton,  an  organ  builder  and  inventor,  and  Urania  Hannah 
(Marsh)  Dayton,  was  born  in  Torrington,  Conn.,  March  7, 
1873.  The  first  of  the  Dayton  family  to  emigrate  to  this 
country  settled  in  Southampton,  Long  Island,  in  1639,  com- 
ing from  England.  His  father  was  the  son  of  Jonah  and 
Mary  Policy  (Flint)  Dayton.  His  mother's  parents  were 
Riverius  Chauncy  and  Eunice  (Camp)  Marsh.  Her  earliest 
American  ancestors  came  from  England  in  the  seventeenth 
century. 

He  was  fitted  for  Yale  at  the  Torrington  High  School, 
and  in  college  was  vice  president  of  the  Yale  Chess  Club, 
and  received  a  First  Colloquy  appointment  and  two-year 
honors  in  philosophy  at  Commencement. 

Mr.  Dayton  had  planned  to  continue  his  studies  at  Yale 
after  taking  his  Bachelor's  degree,  but  an  attack  of  typhoid 
fever  which  kept  him  at  his  home  in  Torrington  for  many 
months  following  his  graduation  caused  him  to  abandon  the 
idea.  In  the  spring  of  1897,  he  took  a  position  as  an  archi- 
tectural draftsman  with  the  firm  of  Ackerman  &  Ross  in 
New  York  City,  where  he  had  since  made  his  home.  In 
1899,  he  became  a  teacher  in  one  of  the  city  public  schools, 
but  in  January,  1900,  resigned  to  enter  the  New  York 
office  of  the  Fred  Macey  Company,  manufacturers  of  office 
and  library  furniture,  of  Grand  Rapids,  Mich.  About  six- 
teen months  later,  he  formed  a  connection  with  the  Library 
Bureau,  with  which  he  continued  until  January,  1907,  when 
he  was  made  assistant  manager  of  the  Wabash  Cabinet 
Company  of  New  York.  After  serving  in  that  capacity  for 
two  years,  he  opened  a  business  of  his  own, — the  Dayton 
Manufacturing  Company  (the  name  wa-s  afterwards 
changed  to  the  Dayton  Index  &  Manufacturing  Com- 
pany),— and  had  since  been  interested  in  the  manufacture 
of  business  systems  and  equipment.  In  1913,  Mr.  Dayton 
patented  a  card  index  system  known  as  "Visindex,"  which 
was  put  into  use  by  many  concerns  in  New  York  and  else- 
where, and  is  now  being  handled  by  the  Library  Bureau, 


138  YALE    COLLEGE 

and  shortly  before  his  death  he  perfected  another  form  of 
card  index. 

He  died  in  St.  Luke's  Hospital,  New  York,  December 
13,  1915,  after  a  brief  illness  from  pneumonia,  and  was 
buried  in  Hillside  Cemetery  at  Torrington. 

On  December  30,  1900,  Mr.  Dayton  was  married  in  New 
York  City  to  Lucie  Pinckney,  daughter  of  William  Benja- 
min and  Charlotte  Ellen  (Pinckney)  Lodge.  She  sur- 
vives him  with  six  children :  Cedric  Lodge ;  Helen  Marsh  ; 
Urania  Bartlett;  Laura  Pendleton;  Alfred  Camp,  and 
Esther  Latimer.  Their  second  son,  Malcolm  Pinckney, 
died  on  December  19,  1908. 


Carlos  Clayton  Heard,  B.A.   1896 

Born  July  5,  1875,  in  Biddeford,  Maine 
Died  January  31,  1915,  in  Biddeford,  Maine 

Carlos  Clayton  Heard  was  born  July  5,  1875,  in  Bidde- 
ford, Maine,  the  son  of  Carlos  Heard,  a  merchant,  who  has 
taken  a  prominent  part  in  the  affairs  of  that  city,  having 
been  an  alderman  in  1868,  representative  in  the  Legislature 
of  1879-80,  street  commissioner  from  1887  to  1889,  mayor 
in  1896  and  1897,  and  city  treasurer  during  1898-99.  His 
earliest  American  ancestor  on  the  side  of  his  father,  whose 
parents  were  James  and  Eunice  (McKenney)  Heard,  was 
John  Heard,  who  came  from  England  in  1636  and  settled 
in  what  is  now  Dover,  N.  H.  His  mother  was  Harriet 
Alberta,  daughter  of  Cyrus  K.  and  Harriet  (Graves)  Lunt. 

The  first  two  years  after  his  graduation  from  Yale,  which 
he  had  entered  from  the  Biddeford  High  School,  were 
spent  in  the  wholesale  and  retail  hardware  business  in  his 
native  town.  In  1898,  he  took  up  the  study  of  law  with 
Nathaniel  B.  Walker  (LL.B.  1877),  and  was  admitted  to 
the  bar  three  years  later.  He  was  for  a  long  time  associated 
with  Mr.  Walker  in  practice,  under  the  name  of  Heard  & 
Walker,  biit  for  several  years  had  practiced  independently. 
He  was  counsel  for  the  Biddeford  Savings  Bank,  of  which 
his  father  is  president,  and  local  counsel  for  several  large 
companies.  He  belonged  to  the  York  County  Bar  Asso- 
ciation, and  received  the  degree  of  LL.M.  from  the  Uni- 
versity of  Maine  in   1908.     In   1914,  he  was  elected  city 


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1896  139 

solicitor  of -Biddeford  on  the  Democratic  ticket,  and  held 
that  office  until  his  death.  He  served  for  nearly  sixteen 
years,  beginning  March,  1899,  as  a  member  of  the  Board 
of  Assessors  of  Taxes,  for  ten  years  being  chairman  of  the 
board.  In  1900,  he  was  chosen  secretary  of  the  Citizens' 
Executive  Committee,  and  served  in  that  capacity  for  a 
year.  He  v^^as  prominent  in  Masonry,  was  president  of  the 
Association  of  the  Descendants  of  John  Heard,  and 
attended  the  Foss  Street  Methodist  Church  of  Biddeford. 

His  death  occurred  at  his  home  in  that  city,  January  31, 
191 5,  afte^  an  illness  of  five  months  due  to  lung  trouble 
and  complications.  He  was  buried  in  Laurel  Hill  Cemetery 
at  Saco,  Maine. 

He  was  married  in  Biddeford,  July  15,  1903,  to  Mrs. 
Isabella  Falconer  (Paterson)  Bardsley  of  Saco,  daughter 
of  George  F.  and  Jeannette  MacGregor  Paterson  and  widow 
of  William  T.  Bardsley.  They  had  no  children.  Mr.  Heard 
is  survived  by  his  father,  his  widow,  and  two  sisters. 


John  Chamberlain  HolHster,  B.A.  1896 

Born  March  27,  1873,  in  Grand  Rapids,  Mich. 
Died  May  6,   1916,  in   Pasadena,  Gal. 

John  Chamberlain  HolHster,  son  of  Harvey  James  and 
Martha  (Clay)  HolHster,  was  born  in  Grand  Rapids,  Mich., 
March  27,  1873.  His  father,  who  for  a  number  of  years 
was  connected  with  the  First  National  Bank  of  Grand 
Rapids,  was  the  son  of  John  Bentley  and  Mary  (Chamber- 
lain) HolHster.  In  1642,  members  of  the  family  came  from 
Glastonbury,  England,  and  settled  in  Wethersfield,  Conn. 
His  mother's  parents  were  George  and  Sarah  B.  (Goodhue) 
Clay. 

He  was  fitted  for  Yale  at  the  Boston  (Mass.)  Latin 
School,  and  in  college  sang  on  the  Freshman  Glee  Club  and 
on  the  Apollo  Glee  and  Banjo  Club,  was  treasurer  of  the 
Y.  M.  C.  A.  in  Senior  year,  and  received  Dispute 
appointments. 

He  had  chosen  medicine  as  his  life  work,  and  after  his 
graduation  from  Yale  began  his  preparation  at  North- 
western University,  taking  his  medical  degree  there  in  1900. 
He  then  spent  an  interneship  of  two  years  in  St.  Luke's 


14°  YALE    COLLEGE 

Hospital,  Chicago,  111.,  and  afterwards  traveled  in  Japan 
and  China.  On  his  return  to  Chicago,  he  became  assistant 
to  Lewis  L.  McArthur  (M.D.  Rush  Medical  College  1880), 
and  was  thereafter  engaged  in  surgical  work.  Individu- 
ally, and  in  collaboration  with  Dr.  McArthur,  he  published 
a  number  of  articles  showing  the  results  of  experiments 
made  by  them  in  the  direction  of  opsonins  and  the  value  of 
vaccines  in  surgery.  He  served  as  an  associate  surgeon  at 
St.  Luke's  Hospital,  and  taught  in  the  Medical  School  of 
Northwestern  University  during  this  period.  He  went  to 
Europe  in  1906,  and  studied  for  several  months  in  Berlin 
and  London.  In  1909,  he  began  an  independent  practice  in 
Chicago,  but  soon  afterwards  his  health  broke  down,  largely 
through  overwork,  and  he  went  to  California,  where  the 
remainder  of  his  life  was  spent.  In  December,  1910,  after 
a  period  of  rest  in  Pasadena,  he  established  offices  in  Los 
Angeles,  and  became  an  instructor  in  the  Medical  School 
of  the  University  of  Southern  California,  also  having 
charge  of  a  gynecological  dispensary  and  a  college  clinic 
at  the  County  Hospital. 

Early  in  19 14,  he  became  associated  with  a  Dr.  McBride 
as  a  specialist  in  medical  gynecology  and  andrology.  His 
health  completely  failed  not  long  afterwards,  and  he  died 
May  6,  1916,  at  his  home  in  Pasadena,  following  an  attack 
of  pneumonia. 

Dr.  Hollister  was  married  in  St.  Paul,  Minn.,  May  17, 
1902,  to  Jane,  daughter  of  Capt.  Edgar  Campbell  Bowen, 
U.  S.  A.,  now  retired,  and  Minerva  Lydia  (Simpson) 
Bowen,  who  survives  him  with  their  two  children :  Isabel 
and  John  Chamberlain,  Jr.  A  brother,  George  Clay  Hol- 
lister, was  also  a  member  of  the  Class  of  1896,  and  another 
brother,  Clay  Harvey  Hollister,  graduated  from  Amherst  in 
1886. 


Clarence  Winter,  B.A.   1897 

Born  February  19,  1874,  in  Columbus,  Ind. 
Died  December  14,  1915,  in  Philadelphia,  Pa. 

Clarence  Winter,  son  of  Ferdinand  and  Mary  (Keyes) 
Winter,  was  born  in  Columbus,  Ind.,  February  19,  1874. 
His  father  was  the  son  of  Charles  H.  and  Elizabeth  (Cobb) 


1896-1898  141 

Winter  and  a  descendent  of  Samuel  C.  West.  His  maternal 
grandfather  was  John  Lane  Keyes.  He  was  fitted  for  col- 
lege at  the  Boys'  Classical  School  in  Indianapolis,  Ind.,  and 
at  Phillips  Academy,  Andover,  Mass.  He  entered  Yale  in 
1893,  and  received  a  Second  Colloquy  appointment  at 
Commencement. 

After  graduation,  he  took  up  the  study  of  law  with  his 
father  in  Indianapolis,  and,  being  admitted  to  the  bar  in 
1898,  practiced  in  partnership  with  him  until  1902.  He 
moved  to  New  York  City  in  that  year,  and  had  since  been 
associated  with  his  brother,  Keyes  Winter  (B.A.  1900),  as 
a  member  of  the  law  firm  of  Winter  &  Winter. 

Mr.  Winter  died  by  his  own  hand,  December  14,  1915,  in 
Philadelphia,  Pa.,  where  he  had  gone  on  a  business  trip. 
His  body  was  taken  to  Indianapolis  for  burial  in  Crown 
Hill  Cemetery. 

He  was  married  in  that  city,  November  21,  1900,  to 
Margaret,  daughter  of  Jason  and  Ada  (Smith)  Carey. 
She  survives  him  with  their  two  children,  Margaret  Carey 
and  Ferdinand,  2d. 


Jacob  Burnet  Burnet,  B.A.  1898 

Born  November  10,  1876,  in  Cincinnati,  Ohio 
Died  June  4,  1915,  in  New  York  City- 
Jacob  Burnet  Burnet  was  born  in  Cincinnati,  Ohio, 
November  10,  1876.  His  father,  Jacob  Staats  Burnet, 
graduated  from  Yale  College  in  1857,  and,  after  studying 
in  the  Cincinnati  Law  School,  practiced  his  profession  in 
Cincinnati  for  many  years ;  he  was  the  son  of  Robert  Wal- 
lace and  Margaret  (Groesbeck)  Burnet,  the  grandson  of 
Jacob  Burnet,  a  United  States  senator  and  justice  of  the 
Supreme  Court  of  Ohio,  and  the  great-grandson  of  William 
Burnet,  surgeon  general  of  the  Continental  Army  in  the 
Revolution  and  an  original  member  of  the  Order  of  the 
Cincinnati.  Jacob  B.  Burnet's  mother  was  Annie,  daughter 
of  William  and  Mary  (Payne)  Stubbs  of  Chester,  England. 
He  was  fitted  for  college  at  the  Franklin  School  in  Cin- 
cinnati, and  in  Sophomore  year  at  Yale  was  a  member  of 
the  Gymnastic  Team.     He  was  given  a  Colloquy  appoint- 


142  YALE   COLLEGE 

ment  in  Junior  year  and  at  Commencement,  receiving  also 
one-year  honors  in  political  science  and  law. 

In  1901,  after  three  years  of  study,  Mr.  Burnet  was 
graduated  from  the  Harvard  Law  School  with  the  degree 
of  LL.B.  He  was  admitted  to  the  New  York  Bar  in  the 
spring  of  1902,  and  until  1905  was  in  the  law  office  of 
Dittenhoefer,  Gerber  &  James  of  New  York  City.  From 
that  time  until  his  death,  he  conducted  an  independent  prac- 
tice in  New  York.  He  was  a  member  of  Mount  Auburn 
Church  (Presbyterian)  of  Cincinnati. 

He  died  June  4,  191 5,  in  New  York  City,  and  was  buried 
in  River  Bend  Cemetery  at  Watch  Hill,  R.  I. 

Mr.  Burnet  was  unmarried.  Surviving  him  are  two 
brothers,  Robert  Wallace  (B.A.  1897)  and  Harold,  a  gradu- 
ate of  Harvard  in  1902,  and  two  sisters,  one  of  whom  is  the 
wife  of  Dudley  Phelps  (B.A.  1883,  LL.B.  Columbia  1885). 


Henry  Baldwin  Cogswell,  B.A.  1898 

Born  January  11,  1877,  in  Windsor,  Conn. 
Died  July  28,   1915,  in   Bridgeport,   Conn. 

Henry  Baldwin  Cogswell  was  born  in  Windsor,  Conn., 
January  11,  1877,  the  son  of  Richard  Baldwin  and  Lucy 
Maria  (Alexander)  Cogswell.  His  father,  a  clerk  with  the 
New  York,  New  Haven  &  Hartford  Railroad  Company, 
was  the  son  of  Edwin  Lawrence  and  Sarah  Clark  (Law- 
rence) Cogswell  and  a  descendant  of  John  Cogswell,  who 
came  to  America  from  England  in  1635  and  settled  at 
Ipswich,  Mass.  Through  his  mother,  whose  parents  were 
Henry  and  Clarissa  Maria  (Breckenridge)  Alexander,  he 
was  descended  from  Samuel  Alexander,  who  was  living  in 
Stoughton,  Mass.,  as  early  as  1732.  His  Revolutionary 
ancestors  included  Benjamin  Cogswell,  Josiah  Lawrence, 
and  Samuel  Patchin. 

He  was  fitted  for  college  at  the  high  school  in  Bridgeport, 
Conn.,  to  which  place  his  family  had  moved  in  1880,  and  in 
Junior  year  at  Yale  received  a  Dissertation  appointment, 
obtaining  a  First  Dispute  at  Commencement. 

Mr.  Cogswell  spent  the  first  year  after  graduation  as  a 
clerk  in  the  employ  of  the  American  Graphophone  Company 
of  Bridgeport,  in  1899  becoming  a  traveling  salesman  for 


1898-1899  M3 

R.  G.  Dun  &  Company.  At  first,  he  made  his  headquarters 
in  Worcester,  and  afterwards  in  Boston,  his  territory  being 
Massachusetts,  New  Hampshire,  and  Vermont. 

In  January,  1912,  his  health  failed,  and  from  that  time 
he  was  unable  to  engage  in  any  business.  The  remainder 
of  his  life  was  spent  in  Bridgeport  and  Boston.  He  died 
in  Bridgeport,  July  28,  1915,  the  immediate  cause  of  his 
death  being  an  abscess  of  the  lung.  Burial  was  in  Moun- 
tain Grove  Cemetery  in  that  city. 

Mr.  Cogswell  was  married  May  4,  1909,  in  Allston, 
Mass.,  to  Freda  Louise,  daughter  of  Fred  Howard  Stone. 
They  had  no  children.  Besides  his  wife,  he  is  survived  by 
his  father,  a  brother,  and  a  sister. 


Horace  Byron  Warner,  B.A.  1899 

Born  March  24,   1876,  in  Penfield,  N.  Y. 
Died  October  21,  1915,  in  Rochester,  N.  Y. 

Horace  Byron  Warner  was  the  son  of  Henry  Warner,  a 
farmer  and  fruit  grower  of  Penfield,  N.  Y.,  and  Maria 
Lucy  (Strowger)  Warner,  and  was  born  in  Penfield,  March 
24,  1876.  He  received  his  early  education  in  the  schools  of 
the  neighboring  town  of  Fairport,  and  in  1895  entered  Yale. 
He  received  Colloquy  scholarship  appointments  in  Junior 
year  and  at  Commencement. 

In  the  fall  after  his  graduation  from  the  College,  he 
returned  to  New  Haven  to  take  up  the  study  of  law,  but 
the  death  of  his  brother  called  him  home  in  a  short  time, 
and  soon  afterwards  he  went  to  Newton,  111.,  to  look  after 
the  fruit  evaporating  business  in  which  his  brother  had  been 
engaged.  Early  in  1901,  he  resumed  the  study  of  law  in 
the  office  of  John  VanVoorhis  &  Sons  in  Rochester,  N.  Y. 
In  April,  1905,  he  became  managing  clerk  for  the  law  firm 
of  Barhite  &  Bly  in  that  city,  two  months  later  being 
admitted  to  the  New  York  Bar.  In  February,  1907,  he 
opened  an  office  in  Rochester  for  the  general  practice  of 
the  law,  but  after  about  two  months  he  was  compelled  by 
illness  to  give  up  his  practice  until  the  following  year.  In 
1903,  he  was  appointed  justice  of  the  peace  of  the  town  of 
Penfield,  in  1904  being  elected  for  a  term  of  two  years,  and 
in  1913  he  was  elected  to  the  New  York  Assembly  from 


144  YALE  COLLEGE 

Monroe  County  on  the  Progressive  ticket.  The  next  year 
he  was  defeated  for  reelection.  Mr.  Warner  had  been  an 
officer  in  several  fraternal  organizations.  He  attended  the 
Methodist  Church,  but  was  not  a  member. 

His  death,  which  was  due  to  septic  poisoning,  occurred 
October  21,  1915,  in  Rochester.  His  body  was  taken  to 
Penfield  for  burial  in  Oakland  Cemetery. 

Mr.  Warner  was  not  married.  He  is  survived  by  his 
parents  and  two  sisters,  all  of  whom  live  in  Penfield.  His 
cousin,  Irving  H.  Warner,  graduated  from  Yale  with  the 
degree  of  B.A.  in  1903. 


Albert  Norton  Butler,  B.A.  1900 

Born  April  7,  1877,  in  Berlin,  Conn. 
Died  September  28,  1915,  in  Monterey,  Mass, 

Albert  Norton  Butler  was  born  on  April  7,  1877,  in 
Berlin,  Conn.,  the  son  of  Edwin  Howell  Butler,  a  farmer, 
and  Harriet  Isabel  (Norton)  Butler.  His  preparation  for 
college  was  received  in  the  schools  of  Meriden,  Conn., 
and  at  the  Hillhouse  High  School  in  New  Haven.  He 
entered  Yale  with  the  College  Class  of  1899,  but  left  in 
Freshman  year  on  account  of  illness,  joining  the  Class  with 
which  he  took  his  degree  the  next  fall.  He  was  a  member 
of  the  Track  Team,  being  one  of  the  last  men  to  win  his 
Y  in  the  mile  walk,  and  received  Oration  appointments  in 
Junior  and  Senior  years. 

For  a  few  months  after  graduation,  he  worked  for  the 
New  Haven  Dairy  Company,  but  in  the  fall  of  1900 
returned  to  Meriden,  where  he  had  since  been  engaged  in 
the  lumber  and  real  estate  business,  and  in  farming.  At 
the  time  of  his  death,  he  was  head  of  the  Butler  &  Klein 
Company,  real  estate  dealers.  He  was  active  in  various 
movements  for  the  public  welfare,  and  belonged  to  the  First 
Congregational  Church  of  Meriden. 

On  September  28,  191 5,  Mr.  Butler  was  drowned  in  Lake 
.Garfield  at  Monterey,  Mass.  He  had  started  alone  to  row- 
across  the  lake,  and,  being  heavily  clothed,  was  unable  to 
cope  with  the  heavy  wind  and  thick  weeds,  and  was  thrown 
into  the  water.  Burial  was  in  Walnut  Grove  Cemetery  in 
Meriden. 


1899-1900  ^45 

He  was  married  in  Waterbury,  Conn.,  May  20,  1903,  to 
Amy  Louise,  daughter  of  Jay  Hiscox  and  Bertha  (Piatt) 
Hart.  Mrs.  Butler  survives  her  husband  without  children. 
His  brother,  Joel  Ives  Butler,  graduated  from  the  Sheffield 
Scientific  School  in  1897  and  from  the  Johns  Hopkins 
Medical  School  in  1901.  An  account  of  the  Hfe  of  his 
half-brother,  George  Eli  Butler  (B.A.  1895),  appears  else- 
where in  this  volume.  Mr.  Butler  was  a  cousin  of  Eli  Ives 
Butler  (B.A.  1898)  and  a  brother-in-law  of  Walter  E. 
Crittenden  (B.A.  1900). 


•  Norman  Geor,^e  Conner,  B.A.  1900 

Born  December  18,  1879,  in  West  Bradford  Township,  Pa. 
Died  March  24,   1916,   in  San  Francisco,  Cal. 

Norman  George  Conner,  son  of  Hayes  Conner,  a  farmer, 
whose  parents  were  Banner  and  Katharine  (McCorkle) 
Conner,  was  born  in  West  Bradford  Township,  Pa.,  Decem- 
ber 18,  1879.  His  mother  was  Elizabeth  Benner,  daughter 
of  Aquila  and  Jeannette  (Benner)  Thomas  and  sister  of 
Isaac  Thomas,  a  graduate  of  the  College  in  1881.  Her 
ancestors  came  from  Wales  to  America  in  the  latter  part 
of  the  seventeenth  century,  and  settled  in  Queen  Anne 
County,  Maryland.  His  maternal  uncle,  Leonard  R. 
Thomas,  was  a  member  of  the  Ninety-seventh  Regiment, 
Pennsylvania  Volunteers,  from  September,  1861,  until 
August,  1865,  being  mustered  out  of  service  as  a  brevet 
major. 

His  preparation  for  Yale,  which  he  entered  in  1896,  was 
received  in  the  public  schools  of  Marshallton,  Pa.,  and  at  the 
Hillhouse  High  School  in  New  Haven.  He  received  Ora- 
tion appointments  in  Junior  year  and  at  Commencement. 
During  the  Spanish  War,  he  served  with  the  First  Regiment, 
Connecticut  National  Guard. 

He  spent  about  a  year  at  home  after  leaving  college, 
engaged  in  farming,  but  left  this  country  in  the  early  fall  of 
1901  to  enter  the  service  of  the  Philippine  Government  as 
a  teacher  in  the  Bureau  of  Education.  He  taught  English 
for  one  or  two  years,  and  then  served  as  a  supervisor  of 
teachers  in  various  places  until  June,  1904,  when  he  was 
promoted  to  a  division  superintendency  and  assigned  to  the 


146  YALI-:    COLLEGE 

province  of  Nueva  Vizcaya  on  the  island  of  Luzon.  He 
was  later  made  acting  governor  of  that  province.  In  1910, 
he  was  appointed  lieutenant  governor  of  the  sub-province 
of  Apayao,  Northern  District  of  the  Philippine  Islands,  and 
served  in  that  capacity  until  the  summer  of  191 5,  when  he 
suffered  a  severe  attack  of  pyaemia.  When  his  condition 
had  somewhat  improved,  he  was  sent  home  on  sick  leave. 
On  reaching  San  Francisco  in  October,  he  had  a  relapse, 
and  died  in  the  Letterman  General  Hospital  in  that  city, 
March  24,  19 16.  Burial  was  in  Bradford  Cemetery  at 
Marshallton. 

Before  he  left  the  Philippines,  Mr.  Conner  had  brought 
peace  conditions  to  such  a  point  in  the  province  of  Apayao 
that  they  now  compare  favorably  with  those  obtaining  in 
any  part  of  the  Islands.  Almost  single-handed,  he  intro- 
duced order  into  a  very  wild  and  disturbed  province,  and 
did  much  in  the  way  of  introducing  civilization  among  the 
mountain  people  and  promoting  their  welfare. 

Mr.  Conner,  who  was  unmarried,  is  survived  by  a  sister 
and  three  brothers,  one  of  whom  served  in  Company  T, 
vSixth  Regiment,  National  Guard  of  Pennsylvania,  in  the 
Spanish-American  War.  A  cousin,  Walter  Scott  Thomas, 
graduated  from  the  Sheffield  Scientific  School  in  1899. 


William  fivarts  Tracy,  B.A.   1900 

Born  September  24,  1878,  in  Plainfield,  N.  J. 
Died  February  19,  1916,  in  Helena,  Mont. 

William  Evarts  Tracy  was  born  September  24,  1878,  in 
Plainfield,  N.  J.,  the  son  of  Jeremiah  Evarts  Tracy,  a 
retired  lawyer,  who  received  the  degree  of  LL.B.  at  Yale 
in  1857.  Mr.  Tracy  served  for  two  terms  as  president  of 
the  Plainfield  Common  Council  and  for  twenty-five  years 
as  a  director  of  the  Plainfield  Public  Library.  He  is  a 
descendant  of  Stephen  Tracy,  who  in  1663  came  to  Plym- 
outh from  England,  later  moving  to  Duxbury,  Mass.,  and 
the  son  of  Ebenezer  Carter  Tracy  (B.A.  Dartmouth  1819, 
Andover  Theological  Seminary  1822)  and  Martha  Sherman 
(Evarts)  Tracy.  The  latter's  parents  were  Jeremiah  Evarts 
(B.A.  1802)  and  Mehitabel,  daughter  of  Roger  Sherman, 


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1900  147 

treasurer  of  Yale  College  from  1765  to  1776,  a  signer  of 
the  Declaration  of  Independence,  and  a  member  of  the 
Continental  Congress.  William  Evarts  Tracy's  mother  was 
Martha  Sherman,  daughter  of  Rev.  David  Greene  (B.A. 
1821,  Andover  Theological  Seminary  1826)  and  Maty 
(Evarts)  Greene,  the  latter  being  the  eldest  daughter  of 
Jeremiah  Evarts,  whose  mother  was  the  daughter  of  Timo- 
thy Todd  (B.A.  1747)  and  whose  sons,  John  Jay  Evarts  and 
William  Maxwell  Evarts,  graduated  from  the  College  in 
1832  and  1837,  respectively. 

Preparing  for  college  at  Leal's  School  for  Boys  in  Plain- 
field,  he  entered  Yale  in  1896.  He  divided  the  prize  for 
the  best  examination  for  admission  of  candidates  from 
Plainfield,  and  in  both  Junior  and  Senior  years  was  given 
Dispute  appointments. 

In  1904,  he  received  the  degree  of  E.M.  from  Columbia 
University,  and  was  then  for  about  ten  years  connected  with 
the  Liberty  Bell  Mining  Company  of  Telluride,  Colo.  His 
death  occurred  suddenly  February  19,  19 16,  in  Helena, 
Mont.,  where  he  had  gone  two  weeks  before  to  take  a 
position  with  the  Anaconda  Copper  Company. 

Mr.  Tracy  was  not  married.  Besides  his  father,  he  is 
survived  by  five  sisters  and  two  brothers, — Howard  Crosby 
(B.A.  1887,  LL.B.  Columbia  1889)  and  Evarts,  who  grad- 
uated from  the  College  in  1890.  Another  brother,  Robert 
Storer,  who  received  the  degree  of  B.A.  at  Yale  in  1893 
and  that  of  M.D.  at  the  College  of  Physicians  and  Surgeons 
in  1896,  was  drowned  at  Saranac  Lake  in  1899.  Mr.  Tracy 
was  a  nephew  of  Dr.  Roger  Sherman  Tracy,  who  graduated 
from  the  College  in  1862  and  from  the  College  of  Physi- 
cians and  Surgeons  at  Columbia  in  1868,  and  of  Jeremiah 
Evarts  Greene  (B.A.  1853)  and  a  second  cousin  of  Charles 
Butler  Evarts,  a  non-graduate  member  of  the  Class  of  1866; 
Allen  W.  Evarts  (B.A.  1869)  ;  Sherman  Evarts,  who 
received  his  B.A.  at  Yale  in  1881,  and  of  Maxwell  Evarts, 
a  graduate  of  Yale  in  the  College  Class  of  1884. 


148  YALE    COLLEGE 


Harold  Chappell,  B.A.   1901 

Born  September  27,  1879,  in  New  London,  Conn. 
Died  September  30,  1915,  in  Sierra  Madre,  Cal. 

Harold  Chappell  was  born  in  New  London,  Conn.,  Sep- 
tember 27,  1879,  being  one  of  the  seven  children  of  Frank 
Huntington  Chappell,  president  of  the  Thames  Tow  Boat 
Company  of  that  city,  and  Catherine  Gertrude  (Bishop) 
Chappell.  His  great-great-grandfather  was  Gen.  Jedediah 
Hutington,  who  served  as  aide-de-camp  to  Washington  dur- 
ing the  War  of  the  Revolution.  He  was  fitted  for  Yale  at 
the  Bulkeley  School  in  New  London,  and  in  college  served 
on  the  Junior  Promenade  Committee,  and  played  on  the 
University  Banjo  and  Mandolin  Clubs  in  his  Junior  and 
Senior  years. 

Not  long  after  his  graduation,  he  entered  the  employ  of 
the  Thames  Tow  Boat  Company,  of  which  in  1902  he  became 
superintendent.  In  1904,  it  was  found  that  he  had  devel- 
oped tuberculosis,  and  in  April  of  that  year  he  was  forced 
to  go  West.  For  about  two  years,  he  cared  for  his  health, 
and  in  the  spring  of  1906  he  returned  to  New  London, 
being  for  a  time  in  the  office  of  his  father's  firm.  The  fol- 
lowing February,  Mr.  Chappell  was  again  compelled  to 
seek  a  more  favorable  climate,  and  since  then  he  had  lived 
in  the  West.  He  worked*  for  the  Colorado  Automobile 
Company  in  Denver  for  a  while  and  later  for  Mr.  F.  W. 
Berger,  the  superintendent  of  an  ore  mine.  Since  1912,  he 
had  been  in  California,  and  he  died  at  Sierra  Madre,  that 
state,  September  30,  19 15.  His  body  was  brought  to  New 
London,  and  buried  in  Cedar  Grove  Cemetery. 

He  served  as  Secretary  of  the  Class  of  1901  for  a  time 
after  graduation.  He  belonged  to  St.  James'  Protestant 
Episcopal  Church  of  New  London.  He  was  not  married. 
One  of  his  brothers,  Donald  Chappell,  graduated  from  the 
College  in  1900,  and  Frank  V.  Chappell  (Ph.B.  1898)  and 
George  S.  Chappell  (B.A.  1899)  are  cousins.  A  sister  is 
the  wife  of  Carl  R.  Schultz  (Ph.B.  1897). 


1901-1903  149 


Barton  Talcott  Doudg-e,  B.A.  1901 

Born  September  20,  1879,  in  New  York  City 
Died  February  24,  1916,  in  New  York  City 

It  has  been  impossible  to  secure  the  desired  information 
for  an  obituary  sketch  of  Mr.  Doudge  in  time  for  publica- 
tion in  this  volume.  A  sketch  will  appear  in  a  subsequent 
issue  of  the  Obituary  Record. 


Henry  Sayrs  McAuley,  B.A.  1901 

Born  November  20,  1879,  in  Chicago,  111. 
Died  June,   1916,   in   Missoula,   Mont. 

It  has  been  impossible  to  secure  the  desired  information 
for  an  obituary  sketch  of  Mr.  McAuley  in  time  for  publica- 
tion in  this  volume.  A  sketch  will  appear  in  a  subsequent 
issue  of  the  Obituary  Record. 


Charles  Hitchcock,  Jr.,  B.A.  1903 

Born  August  25,  1881,  at  Narragansett  Pier,  R.  I. 
Died  February  17,  1916,  in  New  York  City 

Charles  Hitchcock,  Jr.,  was  born  August  25,  i88r,  at 
Narragansett  Pier,  R.  I.,  the  son  of  Charles  Hitchcock 
(Ph.B.  Brown  1869,  M.D.  Columbia  1872),  now  a  prac- 
ticing physician  in  New  York  City.  He  was  a  descendant 
of  Matthias  Hitchcock,  who  came  to  this  country  from 
England  in  1635,  settling  at  New  Haven,  Conn.,  four  years 
later,  and  the  grandson  of  Charles  and  Olivia  George 
(Cowell)  Hitchcock.  Judge  Samuel  J.  Hitchcock,  his 
great-grandfather,  graduated  from  the  College  in  1809, 
receiving  the  degree  of  LL.D.  in  1842;   he  was  one  of  the 


150  YALE   COLLEGE 

founders  of  the  Yale  School  of  Law.  The  mother  of 
Charles  Hitchcock,  Jr.,  was  Frances,  daughter  of  David 
and  Anna  (Welsh)  Lapsley.  Through  her,  he  was 
descended  from  David  Lapsley,  who  came  to  America  from 
Ireland  in  1750  and  settled  in  Pennsylvania.  Another 
ancestor  was  David  Howell  (B.A.  Princeton  1766),  who 
was  given  honorary  degrees  by  Yale,  Princeton,  and  Brown. 
He  was  a  professor  in  the  latter  institution,  a  member  of 
the  Continental  Congress,  and  a  judge  of  the  Supreme 
Court  and  of  the  United  States  District  Court  of  Rhode 
Island. 

Charles  Hitchcock,  Jr.,  was  fitted  for  Yale  at  the  Pom- 
fret  (Conn.)  School.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Freshman 
Football  Team  until  disabled,  and  throughout  his  college 
course  was  a  member  of  the  University  Golf  Team,  captain- 
ing it  for  two  years.  He  won  his  Y,  was  the  University 
golf  champion  three  times  and  the  winner  of  the  Inter- 
collegiate Golf  Tournament  in  Junior  year.  He  played  on 
the  University  Hockey  Team  in  Junior  and  Senior  years, 
and  was  captain  in  1902-03.  His  Junior  appointment  was 
a  Second  Colloquy. 

On  graduating,  he  became  a  broker  in  New  York  City. 
His  first  connection  was  with  Lohrke,  Rosen  &  Company, 
but  in  1906  he  left  their  office,  and  went  on  the  curb.  In 
1907,  he  formed  the  firm  of  Hitchcock,  Cameron  &  Com- 
pany in  the  New  York  Curb  Association.  That  partner- 
ship being  dissolved  in  1909,  Mr.  Hitchcock  was  for  the 
next  five  years  a  partner  in  Pendergast,  Hale  &  Company, 
as  floor  member  of  the  New  York  Stock  Exchange.  From 
1914  until  his  death,  he  conducted  an  independent  brokerage 
business. 

Mr.  Hitchcock's  ability  as  an  amateur  golf-player  was 
recognized  throughout  the  country  by  his  success  in  many 
matches  on  Eastern  and  Middle  Western  links.  He  was  a 
member  of  the  Episcopal  Church. 

He  died  February  17,  1916,  at  his  home  in  New  York 
City,  after  a  brief  illness  from  pneumonia,  and  was  buried 
in  Woodlawn  Cemetery. 

He  was  married  in  February,  1909,  in  New  York  to  Mrs. 
Helena  Caroline  (Janssen)  Walker.  She  survives  him 
with  their  son,  Charles,  3d. 


1903-1904  151 

Bronson  Mills  Warren,  B.A.   1904 

Born  January  8,  1883,  in  Bridgeport,  Conn. 
Died  December  17,  1915,  in  Bridgeport,  Conn. 

Bronson  Mills  Warren,  son  of  Tracy  Bronson  and  Clara 
Arabella  (Mills)  Warren,  was  born  in  Bridgeport,  Conn., 
January  8,  1883.  His  father  was  the  son  of  David  Hard 
and  Louisa  (Bronson)  Warren  and  a  descendant  of  Richard 
Warren,  who  came  to  this  country  with  the  Mayflower 
company ;  he  is  at  present  an  insurance  agent  in  Bridgeport, 
where  he  served  as  alderman  during  1883  and  1884  and  as 
city  treasurer  in  1885.  His  mother's  parents  were  John 
FrankHn  and  Sarah  Rumsey  (Dudley)  Mills.  He  was 
fitted  for  Yale  at  the  Taft  School,  Watertown,  Conn,,  and 
in  college  was  a  member  of  the  Cross-Country  and  Track 
squads  in  Freshman  year  and  of  the  University  Football 
Squad  in  Junior  year.  He  received  High  Oration  appoint- 
ments and  an  election  to  Phi  Beta  Kappa. 

Two  months  after  graduation,  he  began  work  for  the 
International  Silver  Company  in  Bridgeport,  but  in  October 
left  them  to  enter  the  employ  of  the  American  Tube  & 
Stamping  Company.  The  following  April,  he  became  con- 
nected with  the  B.  D.  Pierce,  Jr.,  Company,  with  which  he 
continued  as  superintendent  until  June,  1906,  when  he 
accepted  a  similar  position  at  the  plant  of  the  Derby  Rubber 
Company  at  Derby,  Conn.  At  the  time  of  his  death,  he 
had  been  for  several  years  business  manager  of  the  Con- 
necticut Trap  Rock  Quarries,  Inc.,  of  New  Plaven.  He 
was  a  veteran  of  the  New  Haven  Grays,  and  belonged  to 
St.  John's  Protestant  Episcopal  Church  of  Bridgeport. 

Mr.  Warren's  death  occurred,  from  pneumonia,  after  an 
illness  of  only  four  days,  on  December  17,  1915,  at  his 
home  in  Bridgeport.  He  was  buried  in  Brooklawn  Cemetery 
in  that  city. 

He  was  married  in  Bridgeport,  April  20,  1909,  to  Pauline 
Benedict,  daughter  of  Edward  Wallace  and  Alice  Martha 
(Benedict)  Downs.  She  survives  him  with  their  two 
daughters,  Alice  Mills  and  Dorothy  Downs.  He  leaves 
also  his  father,  a  sister,  and  two  brothers,  John  Mills  (Ph.B. 
1896),  and  Harvey  Tracy,  who  graduated  from  the  College 
in  1910.  Charles  H.  Warren,  a  member  of  the  Sheffield 
Class  of  1896,  was  a  cousin. 


152  YALE   COLLEGE 


Thomas  Leonard  Shevlin,  B.A.   1906 

Born  March  i,  1883,  in  Muskegon,  Mich. 
Died  December  29,  191S,  in  Minneapolis,  Minn. 

Thomas  Leonard  Shevlin  was  born  in  Muskegon,  Mich., 
March  i,  1883,  the  son  of  Thomas  H.  Shevlin.  His  mother 
was  the  daughter  of  Stephen  C.  Hall.  He  was  fitted  for 
Yale  at  The  Hill  School  in  Pottstown,  Pa.,  and  in  the  first 
term  of  his  Freshman  year  made  a  first  division  stand.  He 
received  First  Colloquy  appointments  in  Junior  year  and  at 
Commencement.  In  Senior  year,  he  was  captain  of  the 
University  Football  Team,  of  which  he  had  been  a  member 
throughout  his  course.  While  a  Freshman,  he  played  on 
the  University  Baseball  Team,  and  he  was  a  member  of 
the  Track  Team  for  all  four  years,  winning  a  number  of 
events  in  the  hammer-throw  in  the  various  intercollegiate 
meets.     He  belonged  to  the  University  Club. 

After  a  year  spent  in  the  woods  of  the  Northwest  study- 
ing lumber  methods,  Mr.  Shevlin  went  into  the  office  of 
Shevlin,  Carpenter  &  Company  in  Minneapolis  as  his 
father's  assistant.  The  name  of  the  company  was  later 
changed  to  the  Shevlin,  Carpenter  &  Clarke  Company,  and 
of  this  company  he  became  secretary  in  1909.  He  was 
later  made  vice  president,  and  about  1912  succeeded  his 
father  as  head  of  his  various  lumber  interests  in  the  North- 
west, which  were  then  organized  under  the  name  of  the 
Shevlin  Company  as  a  holding  company  for  the  family. 
Among  the  companies  of  which  he  thus  became  president 
were  the  Shevlin-Hixon  Company  of  Bend,  Ore.,  the 
Crookston  Lumber  Company,  the  Tremont  Land  Company, 
the  Land,  Log  &  Lumber  Company,  the  Libby  Lumber 
Company,  the  Corona  Lumber  Company,  and  the  Fargo 
Lumber  Company.  He  was  a  director  in  the  First  & 
Security  National  Bank  of  Minneapolis. 

Twice  since  graduation — in  1910  and  1915 — Mr.  Shevlin 
returned  to  New  Haven  as  emergency  coach  to  reorganize 
the  Football  Team.  In  1910,  he  was  successful  in  making 
the  Team  the  winner  of  the  Yale-Harvard-Princeton  series, 
and  in  the  fall  of  191 5  succeeded  in  building  up  a  team 
which,  although  defeated  by  Harvard,  won  the  Princeton 
game.  Mr.  Shevlin  went  to  California  for  a  short  rest  at 
the  close  of  the  football  season  in  191 5,  and  shortly  after 


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returning  to  his  home  in  Minneapolis  was  taken  ill  with 
pneumonia,  from  which  he  died  on  December  29.  He  was 
buried  in  the  family  mausoleum  in  Lakewood  Cemetery  in 
Minneapolis.  A  small  volume  in  his  memory  has  been 
published  by  the  members  of  the  University  Football  Team 
of  1915  and  friends. 

He  was  married  February  i,  1909,  in  Louisville,  Ky.,  to 
Elizabeth  Brannin,  daughter  of  Brannin  and  Brite 
(McDonald)  Sherley,  who  survives  him  with  a  daughter, 
Elizabeth  Brite,  and  a  son,  Thomas  Henry.  One  of  his 
sisters  is  the  wife  of  David  D.  Tenney,  a  non-graduate 
member  of  the  College  Class  of  1900.  Mr.  Shevlin  was  a 
member  of  the  Roman  Catholic  Church. 


John  Elbert  Shirk,  B.A.   1907 

Born  February  17,  1884,  in  Tipton,  Ind. 
Died  December   10,  1915,  in  Chicago,  111. 

John  Elbert  Shirk,  son  of  Elbert  Hamilton  and  Nannie 
(Roberts)  Shirk,  was  born  in  Tipton,  Ind.,  February  17, 
1884.  He  received  his  preparatory  education  at  Worcester 
Academy,  and  spent  the  year  of  1902-03  at  the  University 
of  Michigan,  entering  Yale  as  a  Freshman  in  1903.  His 
scholarship  appointments  were  a  First  Colloquy  in  Junior 
year  and  a  First  Dispute  at  Commencement. 

Mr.  Shirk  returned  to  his  home  in  Tipton  upon  gradua- 
tion, and  took  up  the  business  interests  of  his  father,  who 
had  been  president  of  the  First  National  Bank  of  Tipton, 
besides  holding  a  large  acreage  in  farm  lands.  He  was  for 
a  time  connected  with  the  First  National  Bank,  serving  as 
its  assistant  cashier  from  1909  to  191 1.  Since  that  time, 
he  had  given  his  attention  to  the  affairs  of  the  Royal  Can- 
ning Company  in  Tipton,  of  which  he  was  president  and 
owner.  He  did  a  great  deal  for  charity,  without  its  being 
publicly  known. 

Mr.  Shirk  died  December  10,  1915,  in  St.  Luke's  Hospital, 
Chicago,  111.,  where  he  had  gone  to  receive  treatment  for 
stomach  trouble.  A  few  days  before,  aii  operation  was 
performed  with  apparent  success,  but  a  sudden  relapse 
necessitating  a  second  operation  was  more  than  his  condi- 


154  YALE    COLLl'.CE 

tion  could  stand,  and  heart  failure  caused  his  death.    Inter- 
ment was  in  Crown  Hill  Cemetery,  Indianapolis. 

He  was  married  in  Richmond,  Ind.,  April  17,  191 2,  to 
Juliet  Robinson,  daughter  of  Samuel  Edward  and  Sue 
(Robinson)  Swayne.  She  survives  him,  as  do  his  mother 
and  a  sister. 


.    Charles  Patrick  McKiernan,  B.A.   1909 

Born  February  13,  1887,  in  Naiigatuck,  Conn. 
Died  May  28,  1916,  in  Chung-king,  China 

Charles  Patrick  McKiernan  was  born  February  13,  1887, 
in  Naugatuck,  Conn.,  the  son  of  Thomas  F.  McKiernan,  a 
policeman,  and  Bridget  (Braziel)  McKiernan.  His  pater- 
nal grandparents  were  Peter  McKiernan,  who  settled  in 
Connecticut  about  1840,  and  Elizabeth  (McLoughlin) 
McKiernan,  and  his  mother  was  the  daughter  of  Patrick 
and  Mary  Agnes  (Murray)  Braziel.  His  grand-uncle, 
Thomas  McKiernan,  and  two  cousins  of  his  father's, 
Thomas  McKiernan  and  Thomas  Tracy,  served  as  Union 
soldiers  in  the  Civil  War,  the  latter  being  killed  at  the 
battle  of  Gettysburg. 

He  was  prepared  for  college  at  the  Naugatuck  High 
School,  and  in  Freshman  year  at  Yale  received  a  Berkeley 
premium  of  the  second  grade  in  Latin  composition.  He 
was  given  a  Second  Colloquy  appointment  at  Commence- 
ment. 

While  teaching  in'  Public  School  81  in  New  York  City 
during  the  first  year  after  his  graduation,  Mr.  McKiernan 
took  examinations  for  the  Civil  Service,  and  in  September, 
1910,  received  an  appointment  as  clerk.  He  resigned  that 
position  March  14,  191 1,  and  entered  the  Diplomatic  Service 
as  a  student  interpreter  in  China.  In  May  of  that  year,  he 
sailed  for  China,  where  he  began  to  study  Chinese,  soon 
becoming  interpreter  in  the  American  Legation  at  Peking. 
From  June,  1913,  to  December  i,  1914,  he  was  stationed  at 
Shanghai  as  deputy  consul  general  and  interpreter,  then 
being  transferred  to  Mukden,  Manchuria.  He  was,  how- 
ever, detained  at  Shanghai  for  several  weeks,  then  being 
sent  to  Tientsin,  where  the  following  month  he  was  pro- 
moted to  be  vice  consul.     On  December  18,  191 5,  he  was 


1907-1909  ^55 

made  vice  consul  and  interpreter  at  Chung-king,  where  he 
died  May  28,  1916,  from  smallpox.  His  death  prevented 
him  from  entering  upon  his  duties  as  vice  consul  and 
interpreter  at  Canton,  to  which  post  he  had  been  appointed 
on  April  17. 

Mr.  McKiernan  was  unmarried.  Surviving  him  are  his 
mother,  two  sisters,  and  two  brothers.  He  was  a  member 
of  the  Roman  Catholic  Church. 


Karl  Eugene  Murchey,  B.A.   1909 

Born  November  20,  1886,  in  Beloit,  Wis. 
Died  February  27,  1916,  in  Detroit,  Mich. 

Karl  Eugene  Murchey,  son  of  David  Lawrence  and  Mary 
J.  (Nestor)  Murchey,  was  born  November  20,  1886,  in 
Beloit,  Wis.  He  entered  Yale  from  the  Central  High  School 
in  Detroit,  Mich.,  which  had  been  his  home  since  1894,  and 
in  Freshman  year  was  awarded  a  McLaughlin  prize,  a 
Benjamin  F.  Barge  mathematical  prize,  and  a  Berkeley 
premium  for  excellence  in  Latin  composition,  all  of  the 
first  grade.  The  next  year,  he  was  given  honors  in  English 
composition  and  the  first  Lucius  F.  Robinson  Latin  prize. 
He  held  a  Learned  Scholarship  for  three  years,  and  was 
one  of  the  Woolsey  Scholars  for  two,  received  Philosophical 
Oration  appointments,  and  was  a  member  of  Phi  Beta 
Kappa.     Pie  had  contributed  to  the  Lit  and  Courant. 

He  spent  the  first  year  after  graduation  on  the  stafT  of 
the  News-Herald,  a  mining  journal  of  Cobalt,  Ontario, 
Canada.  In  1910,  he  returned  to  Detroit  to  accept  the  posi- 
tion of  financial  editor  of  the  Times;  while  serving  in  this 
capacity,  he  was  made  secretary  of  the  National  Vigilance 
Committee  of  the  Associated  Advertising  Clubs  of  America, 
and  compiled  his  experiences  with  fraudulent  advertisers 
into  a  lecture  in  the  campaign  against  fraudulent  advertis- 
ing, which  resulted  in  fraudulent  advertising  laws  in  a 
number  of  states.  In  1912  and  1913,  he  was  a  reporter  on 
special  assignments  for  the  Detroit  Free  Press.  Since  Jan- 
uary, 1914,  he  had  taught  English  in  the  Cass  Technical 
High  School  in  Detroit,  at  the  same  time  acting  as  advertis- 
ing and  office  manager  for  the  real  estate  firm  of  Paterson 
Brothers  &  Company. 


156  YALE    COLLEGE 

He  died  February  2J,  1916,  in  Detroit,  as  the  result  of 
injuries  received  in  an  automobile  accident  the  previous 
evening,  and  was  buried  in  Evergreen  Cemetery.  The  acci- 
dent followed  a  dinner  given  at  Grosse  Pointe  by  Mr. 
Benjamin  F.  Mortensen  in  honor  of  Mr.  Murchey,  who 
had  accepted  the  managership  of  Mr.  Mortensen's  real 
estate  and  insurance  business. 

During  the  three  years  of  his  newspaper  work  in  Detroit, 
Mr.  Murchey  served  as  executive  secretary  of  the  Detroit 
Stock  Exchange.  He  wrote  a  series  of  essays  for  Detroit 
Saturday  Night  and  several  lectures  for  the  publication  of 
the  National  School  Association.  Mr.  Murchey's  lectures 
were  used  in  the  text  books  of  the  University  of  Wisconsin. 
He  also  wrote  the  chapters  on  English  in  the  new  text  books 
prepared  by  the  head  of  the  Northwestern  High  Schools, 
Detroit.  His  last  lecture  was  given  on  the- day  of  his  deatli, 
on  "City  Influence  on  High  School  English."  He  belonged 
to  the  First  Congregational  Church  of  Detroit,  and  was  an 
honorary  member  of  the  Board  of  Commerce. 

On  September  25,  1912,  he  was  married  in  Detroit  to 
Hope,  daughter  of  Mrs.  Harry  Grantier  Neville  of  Los 
Angeles,  Cal.,  who  survives  him.  He  had  no  children.  He 
leaves  one  brother. 


Roland  Adelbert  Spitzer,  B.A.   1909 

Born  September  21,  1885,  in  Toledo,  Ohio 
Died  May  20,  1916,  in  Toledo,  Ohio 

Roland  Adelbert  Spitzer,  who  was  the  youngest  son  of 
Adelbert  L.  and  Sarah  E.  (Strong)  Spitzer,  was  born  in 
Toledo,  Ohio,  September  21,  1885.  He  was  the  grandson 
of  Garrett  and  Mary  (Branch)  Spitzer  and  a  descendant 
of  Ernestus  DeSpitzer,  who  came  to  this  country  in  1709 
from  France,  where  he  had  spent  four  years  after  leaving 
Germany;  in  France,  the  latter  had  adopted  the  prefix 
"De,"  but  his  children  later  dropped  it.  Through  his 
mother,  whose  parents  were  Lyman  W.  and  Ruth  (Dix) 
Strong,  Roland  Spitzer  was  descended  from  Elder  John 
Strong,  who  emigrated  to  America  in  1630  from  England, 
settling  at  Dorchester,  Mass. 


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1909-1914  157 

He  was  fitted  for  college  at  the  Toledo  Central  High 
School  and  at  the  Hotchkiss  School  at  Lakeville,  Conn., 
and  first  entered  Yale  in  1904,  joining  the  Class  of  1909  at 
the  beginning  of  its  Freshman  year.  He  was  a  member  of 
the  University  Track  and  Cross-Country  teams,  being  cap- 
tain of  the  latter  for  three  years ;  in  1908,  he  went  to  Eng- 
land as  a  member  of  the  Olympic  team,  and  he  was  also  on 
the  University  Relay  Team  in  1908  and  1909.  He  belonged 
to  the  University  Club,  and  served  on  the  Class  Picture 
Committee. 

Returning  to  Toledo  after  graduation,  he  became  a  clerk 
in  the  bond  house  of  Spitzer,  Rorich  &  Company,  composed 
of  his  father,  his  older  brother,  and  Mr.  N.  C.  Rorich.  He 
was  made  assistant  sales  manager  in  1913,  and  served  in 
that  capacity  until  his  death.  Since  1914,  he  had  also  been 
treasurer  of  the  Spitzer  Building  Company,  of  which  his 
father  is  president. 

Mr.  Spitzer  was  a  junior  vestryman  of  Trinity  Protestant 
Episcopal  Church,  and  was  actively  identified  with  the  Boy 
Scout  movement  in  Toledo,  holding  the  office  of  deputy 
scout  commissioner.  He  also  held  the  office  of  assistant 
treasurer  of  the  Toledo  Country  Club. 

He  died  at  his  home  in  that  city.  May  20,  1916,  after  an 
illness  of  several  months  due  to  stomach  and  intestinal 
trouble.  Burial  was  in  the  family  mausoleum  in  Woodlawn 
Cemetery,  Toledo. 

On  June  7,  191 1,  Mr.  Spitzer  was  married  in  Toledo  to 
Natalie,  daughter  of  Frederick  J.  and  Ida  (Stone) 
Reynolds,  who  survives  him  with  their  two  children,  Philip 
Adelbert  and  Frederick  Reynolds.  His  two  brothers,  Carl 
Bovee  and  Lyman,  graduated  from  the  College  in  1899  and 
1902,  respectively. 


Walter  Grant  Dickey,  B.A.   19 14 

Born  December  13,  1891,  in  Independence,  Mo. 
Died  November  9,  191 5,  in  Colorado  Springs,  Colo. 

Walter  Grant  Dickey,  one  of  the  five  children  of  Walter 
Simpson  and  Katherine  Letitia  (McMullen)  Dickey,  was 
born  in  Independence,  Mo.,  December  13,  1891.  His  for- 
bears on  the  paternal  side  came  from  Ireland,  where  his 


158  YALE    COLLEGE 

great-great-grandfather,  Nathaniel  Dickey,  was  a  convert 
and  contemporary  of  John  Wesley,  the  founder  of 
Methodism.  Nathaniel  Dickey  was  one  of  the  famous 
thirty-two  stewards  and  leaders  who  were  expelled  from  the 
Society  hecause  they  twice  petitioned  the  Conference  for 
lay  representation  and  the  right  to  have  the  sacrament  and 
baptism  administered  by  their  own  preachers.  His  father's 
maternal  ancestors  came  over  in  the  Mayflozver,  some  of 
their  descendants  serving  in  the  Revolution.  His  mother's 
father,  James  McMullen,  came  from  Ireland  to  America, 
and  was  a  senator  in  Canada  for  several  years,  having 
served  as  a  member  of  Parliament  for  more  than  a  quarter 
of  a  century. 

After  attending  the  Central  High  School  in  Kansas  City, 
Mo.,  for  three  years,  he  entered  Phillips  Academy  at 
Andover,  Mass.,  from  which  he  was  graduated  in  1910. 
Entering  Yale  the  same  year,  he  completed  the  four-year 
course  in  three  years,  taking  his  B.A.  in  19 13,  but  being 
enrolled  with  the  Class  of  1914.  He  received  honors  in 
Freshman  year,  and  was  given  High  Oration  appointments 
and  Senior  honors  in  French.  He  was  a  member  of  the 
Freshman  Glee  Club,  and  was  secretary  of  the  Bethany  Mis- 
sion in  1912-13,  a  work  in  which  he  was  active  throughout 
his  college  course.  He  took  an  active  interest  in  athletics, 
playing  right  fullback  on  the  University  Soccer  Team,  of 
which  he  was  captain  in  1913,  and  was  also  a  member  of 
the  Class  Hockey  Team. 

After  leaving  college,  he  visited  a  number  of  clay  manu- 
facturing plants  in  England  and  on  the  Continent,  as  well  as 
in  this  country,  after  which  he  became  connected  with  the 
W.  S.  Dickey  Clay  Manufacturing  Company  of  Kansas 
City,  of  which  his  father  is  the  owner. 

He  was  married  to  Belle  Hartman,  daughter  of  James 
White  Waddell  of  Higginsville,  Mo.,  on  June  11,  191 3.  A 
son.  Grant  Waddell,  died  at  the  age  of  three  months,  on 
October  2,  191 5,  and  as  the  result  of  his  death,  Mr.  Dickey 
suffered  a  nervous  breakdown.  This,  with  other  complica- 
tions, caused  his  death  on  November  9,  191 5,  in  Colorado 
Springs,  Colo.,  where  he  had  gone  to  recuperate.  Burial 
was  in  Forest  Hill  Cemetery  in  Kansas  City.  Besides  his 
wife,  he  leaves  his  parents,  two  brothers,  and  two  sisters. 
One  of  the  brothers,  William  Laurence  Dickey,  graduated 
from  the  Sheffield  Scientific  School  with  the  Class  of  1916. 


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Geoffrey  Lee  Safford,  B.A.   1914 

Born  April  4,  1893,  in  Brooklyn,  N.  Y, 
Died  February  6,  1916,  in  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 

Geoffrey  Lee  Safford  was  born  in  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.,  April 
4,  1893,  the  son  of  Philo  Perry  Safford  (BA.  Oberlin  1885, 
LL.B.  Columbia  1888),  who  was  for  a  long  time  previous 
to  his  death  in  February,  1914,  engaged  in  the  practice  of 
law  in  New  York  City.  His  mother  is  Christabel,  daugh- 
ter of  Samuel  Henry  Lee,  who  took  the  degree  of  BA.  at 
Yale  in  1858,  and  Emma  Chloe  (Carter)  Lee  and  sister  of 
Gerald  Stanley  Lee  (BA.  Middlebury  1885),  a  non-gradu- 
ate member  of  the  Class  of  1888  in  the  Yale  School  of 
Religion;  after  studying  for  several  years  at  Oberlin  Col- 
lege, she  entered  Wellesley,  where  she  received  the  degree 
of  B.A.  in  1888.  The  son  was  fitted  for  Yale  at  St. 
Bernard's  School,  New  York  City,  and  at  the  Hotchkiss 
School,  Lakeville,  Conn.  In  college,  he  was  on  the  Track 
and  Cross-Country  teams  in  Junior  year,  and  received 
honors  Freshman  year  and  Oration  appointments  in  Junior 
year  and  at  Commencement. 

In  the  fall  after  his  graduation,  he  became  a  member  of 
the  faculty  at  Lake  Forest  Academy,  Lake  Forest,  111.,  and 
taught  Latin  and  Greek  there  until  the  latter  part  of  Jan- 
uary, 1 91 6.  At  that  time  he  came  East,  owing  to  the  con- 
dition of  his  health,  and  died  in  Brooklyn  on  February  6, 
1916,  as  the  result  of  serious  abdominal  complications.  He 
was  buried  in  Riverside  Cemetery  at  Pleasant  Valley, 
Conn. 

Mr.  Safford  was  not  married.  He  was  a  member  of 
the  South  Congregational  Church  of  Springfield,  Mass. 
Surviving  him  are  his  mother,  sister,  and  two  younger 
brothers.  He  was  a  second  cousin  of  Walter  F.  Carter 
(B.A.  1895,  LL.B.  Columbia  1898),  and  of  John  H.  Safford, 
who  graduated  from  the  College  in  1904. 


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Louis  Peck  Morehouse,  Ph.B.   1856 

Born  March  30,   1835,  in  New  Haven,  Conn. 
Died  March  18,  1916,  in  Los  Angeles,  Cal. 

Louis  Peck  Morehouse  was  born  in  New  Haven,  Conn., 
March  30,  1835,  the  son  of  Louis  Peck  Morehouse,  a  sign 
painter,  whose  parents  were  Daniel  and  Sarah  (Peck) 
Morehouse.  He  was  a  descendant  of  Thomas  Morehouse, 
who  came  to  this  country  in  1640  from  England  and  settled 
at  Stamford,  Conn.,  and  of  Gershom  Morehouse,  Jr.,  who 
served  as  a  captain  in  the  First  Connecticut  Battalion  during 
the  Revolutionary  War.  His  mother  was  Harriet  Augusta, 
daughter  of  Jabez  and  Catherine  (Lord)  Brown.  Her 
earliest  American  ancestor  was  Francis  Brown,  one  of  the 
prospecting  company  which  came  with  Governor  Eaton  to 
Quinnipiac  about  1637. 

He  received  his  early  schooling  in  public  and  private 
schools  in  New  Haven,  and  before  entering  Yale  in  1854, 
taught  in  Mr.  Lovell's  School  in  that  city  and  also  at  Stam- 
ford, Conn. 

In  1857,  after  taking  part  in  the  preliminary  survey  for 
the  New  York,  New  Haven  &  Hartford  Shore  Line  Rail- 
way, he  entered  the  service  of  the  Illinois  Central  Railroad 
Company  in  Chicago  as  an  assistant  engineer.  He  was 
later  made  assistant  chief  engineer,  and  several  years  after- 
wards appointed  land  commissioner.  For  many  years,  he 
occupied  the  position  of  tax  commissioner,  and  at  the  time 
of  his  retirement  in  1905,  was  acting  as  custodian  of  deeds. 
From  1878  to  1912,  his  home  was  in  Kenwood,  a  suburb 
of  Chicago,  and  since  then  he  had  lived  in  California.  He 
was  a  member  of  the  Protestant  Episcopal  Church,  and  for 
many  years  served  as  a  warden  and  vestryman  of  St.  Paul's 
Church  of  Kenwood.  He  was  an  honorary  member  of  the 
Western  Society  of  Engineers,  of  which  he  was  one  of  the 
founders  and,  for  many  years,  secretary. 

Mr.  Morehouse  died  in  Los  Angeles,  Cal.,  March  18, 
1916,  after  an  illness  of  several  months  due  to  neuritis. 
His  body  was  cremated. 


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On  October  15,  1861,  he  was  married  in  Chicago  to 
Fredrika,  daughter  of  Christian  and  Maria  (Hagal)  Ger- 
hardt,  who  survives  him,  He  leaves  also  three  children: 
Clara,  George  Gerhardt,  and  Frederick  Ballard. 


Albert  Hiller  Roffe,  Ph.B.  1864 

Born  September  12,  1844,  in  Boston,  Mass. 
Died  June  3,  1916,  in  Newton  Center,  Mass. 

Albert  Hiller  Rofife  was  born  in  Boston,  Mass.,  Septem- 
ber 12,  1844,  the  son  of  Matthew  Roffe,  an  Englishman, 
who  came  to  this  country  and  was  engaged  in  business  as 
a  last-maker  at  Boston.  His  mother  was  Catharine, 
daughter  of  Thomas  and  Catharine  (Martin)  Hiller  and  a 
descendant  of  Mary  Chilton,  who  came  to  America  with 
the  Mayflower  company  in  1620. 

He  received  his  early  schooling  in  the  public  schools  of 
Newton,  Mass.,  and  entered  the  .Scientific  School  from  the 
Newton  High  School  in  1862.  He  completed  the  work  of 
the  civil  engineering  course  in  1864,  receiving  the  degree 
of  Ph.B. 

After  leaving  Yale,  Mr.  Roffe  was  for  a  time  engaged  in 
engineering  work  for  the  Government,  after  which  he  man- 
aged a  subscription  agency  in  Boston  for  some  years.  He 
then  entered  the  lumber  and  grain  business  at  Newton 
Center,  and  for  many  years  was  active  in  matters  connected 
with  the  government  of  the  town  of  Newton.  Since  1900, 
he  had  given  most  of  his  attention  to  his  real  estate 
interests. 

Mr.  Roffe  died  at  his  home  in  Newton  Center,  June  3, 
1916,  after  a  prolonged  illness,  and  was  buried  in  the 
Newton  Cemetery. 

On  March  2^,  1876,  he  was  married  in  Boston  to  Gertrude 
Maria,  daughter  of  William  and  Lydia  Ann  (Drew)  Guild 
of  Newton.  Her  death  occurred  on  December  26,  1909. 
Their  two  daughters,  Gertrude  Hiller  (the  wife  of  Arthur 
Lester  Brayton  of  Newton  Center)  and  Helen  Elizabeth, 
survive.  Charles  A.  Hiller,  a  graduate  of  the  College  in 
1864,  and  A.  Maxcy  Hiller  (B.A.  1866,  LL.B.  1897)  were 
cousins  of  Mr.  Roffe. 


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Augustus  Jay  DuBois,  Ph.B.   1869 

Born  April  25,  1849,  at  Newton  Falls,  Ohio 
Died  October  19,  191S,  in  New  Haven,  Conn. 

Augustus  Jay  DuBois  was  the  son  of  Dr.  Henry  Augustus 
DuBois  and  Catherine  Helena  (Jay)  DuBois,  and  was 
born  at  Newton  Falls,  Ohio,  April  25,  1849.  His  father, 
whose  parents  were  Cornelius  and  Sarah  Piatt  (Ogden) 
DuBois,  graduated  from  Columbia  with  the  degree  of  B.A. 
in  1827  and  that  of  M.D.  in  1830;  in  1864  the  honorary 
degree  of  Doctor  of  Laws  was  conferred  itpon  him  by  Yale 
University.  Cornelius  DuBois  was  the  fifth  of  the  name 
in  America  and  fourth  in  descent  from  Jacques  DuBois,  a 
French  Huguenot  refugee  from  Artois,  who  fled  to  Leyden, 
Holland,  and  emigrated  to  Esopus,  N.  Y.  Augustus  Du- 
Bois' mother  was  a  daughter  of  Peter  Augustus  Jay,  a 
graduate  of  Columbia  in  1794,  who  received  an  honorary 
degree  from  Yale  in  1798,  and  the  granddaughter  of  Chief 
Justice  John  Jay  and  Sarah  VanBrugh  (Livingston)  Jay, 
the  latter  being  the  daughter  of  William  Livingston  (B.A. 
1741),  a  member  of  the  Continental  Congress,  governor  of 
New  Jersey,  and  a  member  of  the  United  States  Constitu- 
tional Convention.  She  was  descended  from  Augustus  Jay, 
a  French  Huguenot. 

Augustus  DuBois  was  fitted  for  Yale  at  the  Hopkins 
Grammar  School  in  New  Haven,  and  in  the  Scientific 
School  took  the  course  in  civil  engineering.  After  graduat- 
ing in  1869,  he  spent  some  time  in  engineering  work  in 
New  Haven  and  California,  although  giving  the  greater 
part  of  his  attention  to  study  in  this  country  and  abroad, 
spending  eighteen  months  at  the  Royal  Mining  Academy 
in  Freiberg,  Saxony.  He  took  the  degree  of  C.E.  at  Yale 
in  1870  and  that  of  Ph.D.  in  1873. 

In  1875,  he  was  made  professor  of  civil  engineering  at 
Lehigh  University,  but  after  two  years  returned  to  New 
Haven  to  take  up  his  work  as  professor  of  mechanical 
engineering  in  the  Sheffield  Scientific  School.  In  1884,  he 
received  an  appointment  to  the  professorship  of  civil  engi- 
neering, which  he  held  until  his  death.  For  a  long  time. 
Professor  DuBois  served  on  the  Governing  Board  of  the 
Scientific  School,  and  he  was  also  a  member  of  the 
University  Council. 


1869-1870  1-65 

He  was  widely  know  as  a  writer  on  engineering  subjects. 
He  published  several  works  on  Graphical  Statics,  and  was 
the  author  of  a  book  on  Stresses  in  Framed  Structures, 
which  is  regarded  as  one  of  the  most  valuable  books  ever 
written  in  any  branch  of  engineering.  As  one  of  the  Yale 
Bicentennial  publications  he  issued  a  volume  on  Mechanics. 
At  the  time  of  his  death,  Professor  DuBois  had  nearly  com- 
pleted a  new  book  on  Stresses  upon  which  he  had  been  at 
work  for  nearly  ten  years.  He  had  translated  a  number 
of  German  works,  and  had  also  written  articles  on  Science 
and  Faith  and  kindred  subjects  which  were  published  in 
different  magazines.  He  held  membership  in  many  learned 
societies,  including  the  American  Society  of  Civil  Engineers, 
the  American  Society  of  Mechanical  Engineers,  the  Society 
of  Naval  Architects  and  Marine  Engineers,  and  the  Ameri- 
can Society  for  the  Advancement  of  Science.  He  belonged 
to  the  Church  of  Christ  in  Yale  University. 

Professor  DuBois  died  suddenly  at  his  home  in  New 
Haven,  October  19,  191 5.  His  death  was  due  to  an 
attack  of  heart  trouble.  He  was  buried  in  the  Jay  Cemetery 
at  Harrison,  N.  Y. 

His  marriage  took  place  in  New  Haven,  June  23,  1883, 
to  Adeline,  daughter  of  Arthur  and  Kate  (Ives)  Blakesley, 
who  died  seven  months  after  her  husband.  They  had  no 
children.  Four  of  his  brothers  have  graduated  from  Yale: 
Henry  Augustus,  a  member  of  the  Class  of  1859  S. ;  Cor- 
nelius Jay,  who  graduated  from  the  School  of  Medicine 
in  1866,  five  years  after  taking  an  LL.B.  at  Columbia;  John 
Jay,  who  received  the  degree  of  B.A.  in  1867,  graduating 
from  the  Columbia  Law  School  in  1869,  and  Robert  Ogden 
(Ph.B.  1883,  M.D.  1886).  Professor  DuBois  was  a  distant 
cousin  of  John  C.  DuBois  (B.A.  1852,  M.D.  New  York 
University  1857),  whose  son,  Julian,  graduated  from  the 
Scientific  School  in  1890. 


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Henry  Correll  Humphrey,  Ph.B.   1870 

Born  June  10,  1848,  at  East  Windsor  Hill,  Conn. 
Died  January  9,  1916 


Henry  Correll  Humphrey  was  the  son  of  Henry  Moore 
Humphrey,  a  graduate  of  Rush  Medical  College,  and  Anna 


164  SHEFFIELD   SCIENTIFIC   SCHOOL 

O.  Humphrey,  and  was  born  at  East  Windsor  Hill,  Conn., 
June  10,  1848.  He  received  his  early  education  in  Stam- 
ford, Conn.,  and  before  joining  the  Class  of  1870  S.  as  a 
Junior,  spent  two  years  at  Amherst  College.  In  the  Scien- 
tific School,  he  took  the  course  in  chemistry,  receiving  a 
prize  for  excellence  in  that  subject  in  Senior  year. 

For  some  years  previous  to  his  death  on  January  9, 
1 916,  Mr.  Humphrey  held  a  position  as  chemist  for  the 
Corn  Products  Refining  Company  of  New  York  City,  his 
home  being  at  Hackensack,  N.  J.  He  belonged  to  the 
American  Philosophical  Society. 

He  was  twice  married,  the  maiden  name  of  his  first  wife 
being  Florence  Barnes  Thurston.  His  second  marriage 
took  place  in  July,  1892,  to  Ada  Eugenie  Stout.  By  his 
first  marriage,  Mr.  Humphrey  had  a  daughter,  Mary,  and 
by  his  second,  a  son,  Henry  Correll,  Jr.  His  nephew, 
Henry  J.  C.  Humphrey,  took  the  degree  of  Ph.B.  at  Yale 
in  1908. 


Thomas  Hubbard  Russell,  Ph.B.  1872 

Born  December  14,  1852,  in  New  Haven,  Conn. 
Died  February  2,  1916,  in  New  Haven,  Conn. 

Thomas  Hubbard  Russell  was  born  December  14,  1852, 
in  New  Haven,  Conn.,  his  parents  being  William  Hunting- 
ton and  Mary  Elizabeth  (Hubbard)  Russell.  His  father, 
a  graduate  of  Yale  College  in  1833  and  of  the  School  of 
Medicine  in  1838,  for  many  years  conducted  a  preparatory 
school  in  New  Haven  under  the  name  of  The  Collegiate  and 
Commercial  Institute;  throughout  the  Civil  War  and  for 
some  years  afterwards,  he  held  an  appointment  as  major 
general  in  the  State  Militia,  being  assigned  to  the  work  of 
organizing  and  forwarding  troops  during  the  war.  General 
Russell  was  the  son  of  Matthew  Talcott  Russell  (B.A, 
1779)  and  Mary  (Huntington)  Russell,  the  latter  being  the 
daughter  of  Rev.  Enoch  Huntington,  a  graduate  Of  the 
College  in  1759,  who  served  as  a  member  of  the  Yale 
Corporation  for  twenty-eight  years  and  as  its  secretary 
from  1788  to  1793,  and  a  niece  of  Samuel  Huntington,  who 
received  honorary  degrees  from  Yale  in  1779  and  1787,  was 


1870-1872  i65 

a  signer  of  the  Declaration  of  Independence,  president  of 
the  Continental  Congress  in  1779,  1780,  and  1781,  a  chief 
justice  of  the  Superior  Court,  and  governor  of  Connecticut. 
His  wife  was  the  daughter  of  Thomas  Hubbard,  from  1829 
until  his  death  in  1838  professor  of  surgery  at  Yale,  where 
he  had  received  an  honorary  M.D.  in  1818.  Among  his 
ancestors  were  many  other  graduates  of  Yale  and  men 
prominent  in  the  early  history  of  New  England,  including 
Rev.  Thomas  Hooker  and  Joseph  Talcott,  one  of  the  early 
proprietors  of  Hartford. 

The  greater  part  of  his  preparatory  training  was  received 
at  his  father's  school,  although  he  spent  the  year  before  his 
entrance  to  Yale  in  Clinton,  N.  Y.,  studying  under  a  private 
tutor  at  the  home  of  his  uncle,  Rev.  Simeon  North  (B.A. 
1825),  ex-president  of  Hamilton  College.  He  entered  the 
Scientific  School  in  1869,  and  in  his  Senior  year  he  was 
awarded  a  prize  for  excellence  in  zoology. 

Soon  after  his  graduation,  he  went  on  a  paleontological 
expedition  conducted  by  Professor  Othniel  C.  Marsh  (B.A. 
i860).  He  took  up  the  study  of  medicine  at  Yale  upon  his 
return  to  New  Haven,  and  received  his  medical  degree  in 
1875.  During  his  course,  he  gave  some  time  to  teaching, 
and  also  served  as  an  assistant  to  Professor  Francis  Bacon 
(M.D.  1853).  In  1875,  ^^  was  resident  physician  and 
surgeon  to  the  New  Haven  Hospital.  Since  that  time  he 
had  practiced  in  New  Haven,  and,  from  1877,  when  he 
became  an  assistant  in  surgery  under  Professor  David  P. 
Smith,  was  a  member  of  the  University  Faculty.  During 
1880-1881,  he  served  as  lecturer  on  clinical  surgery,  after 
which  he  was  for  two  years  lecturer  on  genito-urinary  and 
venereal  diseases.  He  was  appointed  professor  of  materia 
medica  and  therapeutics  in  1883,  and  held  that  chair  until 
his  appointment  in  1891  to  the  professorship  of  clinical 
surgery  and  the  lectureship  on  surgical  anatomy.  For  a 
number  of  years.  Professor  Russell  was  physician  to  the 
New  Haven  Dispensary,  and,  from  1878  until  1908,  when 
he  was  appointed  consulting  surgeon,  served  as  attending 
surgeon  on  the  visiting  staff  of  the  New  Haven  Hospital. 
He  was  a  member  of  Center  Church  (Congregational)  of 
New  Haven,  and  belonged  to  the  American  Association  for 
the  Advancement  of  Science,  several  medical  societies,  the 
Connecticut  Academy  of  Arts  and  Sciences,  and  the  New 
Haven  Colony  Historical  Society.     For  some  years,  he  had 


l66  SHEFFIELD   SCIENTIFIC   SCHOOL 

been  Secretary  of  his  Class  in  the  School  of  Medicine.  He 
had  written  many  articles  for  medical  journals. 

He  died  at  his  home  in  New  Haven,  February  2,  1916, 
after  a  brief  illness  from  pneumonia,  and  was  buried  in 
Grove  Street  Cemetery. 

Professor  Russell's  marriage  took  place  in  New  Haven, 
December  21,  1882,  to  Mary,  daughter  of  Judge  Lyman 
Ezra  Munson  (LL.B.  185 1)  and  Lucy  A.  (Sanford) 
Munson  and  sister  of  Edward  Lyman  Munson,  a  graduate 
of  the  College  in  1890  and  of  the  School  of  Medicine  in 
1892.  She  survives  him  with  their  five  children:  Mary  Tal- 
cott,  Thomas  Hubbard,  Jr.  (Ph.B.  1906,  M.D.  1910),  Wil- 
liam Huntington  (B.A.  1912  and  LL.B.  1914),  Eleanor 
Woodbridge,  now  the  wife  of  Hewette  Elwell  Joyce,  who 
received  the  degree  of  B.A.  at  Yale  in  1912,  and  Edward 
Stanton,  a  non-graduate  member  of  the  Class  of  1916  S. 
Professor  Russell's  brothers  were  Talcott  Huntington  Rus- 
sell (B.A.  1869,  LL.B.  Columbia  1871),  Philip  Gray  Rus- 
sell, who  received  from  Yale  the  degree  of  B.A.  in  1876 
and  that  of  LL.B.  two  years  later,  Edward  Hubbard 
Russell,  a  graduate  of  the  Sheffield  Scientific  School  in 
1878,  and  Robert  Gray  Russell,  who  died  in  1881,  while 
in  his  Sophomore  year  at  Yale. 


Franklin  Edwards,  Ph.B.   1874 

Born  April  10,  1855,  in  Northampton,  Mass. 
Died  February  13,  1916,  in  Springfield,  Mass. 

Franklin  Edwards  was  born  April  10,  1855,  in  North- 
ampton, Mass.,  being  the  son  of  Oscar  Edwards,  presi- 
dent of  a  bank  in  that  city,  and  a  direct  descendant  of 
Alexander  Edwards,  who  came  to  this  country  from  Wales 
about  1640.  Through  his  mother,  whose  maiden  name  was 
Katharine  Wendell,  he  was  descended  from  Oliver  Wen- 
dell, an  early  settler  in  Albany,  N.  Y.  He  was  fitted  for 
Yale  at  the  Northampton  High  School.  In  the  Scien- 
tific School,  he  pursued  the  course  in  civil  engineering,  and 
served  on  the  Class  Supper  Committee  in  Junior  year. 

His  death  occurred  at  the  Nauheim  Sanitarium  in 
Springfield,  Mass.,  February  13,  191 6,  from  a  complication 
of  diseases.    Burial  was  in  Bridge  Street  Cemetery  in  that 


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1872-1875  1^7 

city.  In  1890,  Mr.  Edwards  became  office  manager  for  the 
Collins  Manufacturing-  Company  of  North  Wilbraham, 
Mass.,  and  continued  in  their  employ  for  a  long  time. 

He  was  married  in  Northampton,  February  12,  1880,  to 
Anna  M.,  daughter  of  George  P.  Dickinson  of  Brooklyn, 
N.  Y.,  by  whom  he  had  two  sons,  Gilbert  and  Pomeroy. 


Charles  William  Fenn,  Ph.B.   1875 

Born  October  i,  1854,  in  Jersey  City,  N.  J. 
Died  May  2,  IQ16,  in  Portland,  Maine 

Charles  William  Fenn  was  born  October  i,  1854,  in 
Jersey  City,  N.  J.  His  father,  Dr.  Thomas  Legare  Fenn, 
graduated  from  Amherst  with  the  degree  of  B.A.  in  1850, 
and  practiced  as  a  physician  for  a  number  of.  years  in  Wil- 
mington, Del.  His  grandparents  were  Joel  William  and 
Mary  Burden  (Legare)  Fenn,  and  he  was  descended  from 
Benjamin  Fenn,  who  came  to  Dorchester,  Mass.,  from. 
England  in  1630,  and  from  Solomon  Legare,  a  French 
Huguenot,  who  settled  in  South  Carolina  in  1696.  He  was 
related  to  John  Bassnett  Legare  and  to  John  Berwick 
Legare,  both  graduates  of  Yale  in  181 5.  The  maiden  name 
of  his  mother  was  Helen  Marr. 

He  passed  his  boyhood  in  Portland,  Maine,  and  entered 
the  Scientific  School  from  the  Portland  High  School.  He 
took  the  course  in  civil  engineering,  receiving  several  Ger- 
man prizes,  served  as  secretary  of  the  Class  of  1875  S.  in 
Junior  year,  was  a  member  of  the  Class  Crew,  and  sang  on 
the  Sheffield  Glee  Club. 

Mr.  Fenn  went  into  the  Government  service  at  Boston 
harbor  after  graduation,  and  in  a  short  time  was  placed  in 
charge  of  improvements  in  the  Hingham  division.  He  was 
then  employed  in  the  Portland  Locomotive  Machine  Works 
for  two  years  and  afterwards  in  a  large  paper  mill  near 
Portland.  After  serving  for  two  years  as  assistant  principal 
of  the  Gorham  Normal  School  at  Gorham,  Maine,  he  held 
for  a  time  the  position  of  assistant  division  engineer  of  the 
Lake  Shore  &  Michigan  Southern  Railroad  at  Cleveland, 
Ohio.     He  later  became  assistant  to  the  president  of  the 

I  United  States  Rolling  Stock  Company,  and  lived  in  Chicago 
until  1893,  when  he  was  made  secretary  of  the  Missouri  Car 
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&  Foundry  Company  of  St.  Louis.  He  returned  East  in 
1894,  and  for  the  next  two  years  made  his  headquarters  in 
New  York  City,  being  connected  with  Jaffrey  &  Company 
as  traveling  auditor.  Since  1897,  he  had  practiced  inde- 
pendently as  a  civil  and  hydraulic  engineer  in  Portland. 
During  this  period,  he  was  engaged  on  the  construction  of 
a  number  of  large  buildings,  and  had  served  as  chief  engi- 
neer for  the  Portland  Water  District,  as  manager  of  the 
Mechanic  Water  Falls  Company,  and  as  treasurer  of  the 
North  Berwick  Water  Company.  He  was  a  member  of  the 
High  Street  Congregational  Church  of  Portland,  of  which 
his  uncle,  Rev.  William  Henry  Fenn  (B.A.  1854),  a  sketch 
of  whose  life  appears  elsewhere  in  this  volume,  was  for 
many  years  pastor. 

His  death  occurred  at  his  home  in  Portland,  May  2,  1916. 
Three  years  before,  he  had  suffered  a  slight  shock,  from  the 
effects  of  which  he  had  never  recovered,  and  had  since  been 
confined  to  his  home.  Interment  was  in  Evergreen 
Cemetery  in  that  city. 

.  Mr.  Fenn  was  married  January  3,  1883,  in  Portland 
to  Emily  Augusta,  daughter  of  Charles  and  Sarah 
Small,  who  died  December  2,  1894.  Their  two  sons, 
Charles  Henry,  who  received  the  degree  of  B.S.  from  the 
University  of  Maine  in  1910,  and  Herbert  Keaney,  a  gradu- 
ate of  the  United  States  Naval  Academy  in  1913,  survive. 
Mr.  Fenn  also  leaves  his  second  wife,  who  was  Marion, 
daughter  of  Philip  Cahill  and  Bertha  (McGowan)  Silver 
and  to  whom  he  was  married  in  Portland,  January  8,  19 12. 
His  brother,  Thomas  Legare  Fenn,  Jr.,  received  the  degree 
of  M.D.  from  Columbia  in  1882. 


Sidney  Williams  Clark,  Ph.B.   1876 

Born  October  24,   1855,  in  Waterbairy,  Conn. 
Died  July  22,  1915,  in  Hartfordi  Conn. 

Sidney  Williams  Clark,  son  of  Sidney  Lyman  and  Nancy 
(Parsons)  Clark,  was  born  in  Waterbury,  Conn.,  October 
24,  1855,  being  a  descendant,  on  the  paternal  side,  of  Rev. 
Elisha  Williams,  rector  of  Yale  College  from  1726  to  1739, 
and  of  Rev.  Eliphalet  Williams  (B.A.   1743,  D.D.   1782), 


1875-1876  i69 

for  thirty- two  years  a  member  of  the  Yale  Corporation. 
His  njother,  the  daughter  of  Samuel  and  Caroline  (Russell) 
Parsons,  was  descended  from  Cornet  Joseph  Parsons,  upon 
whom  an  original  Northampton  land  grant  was  bestowed. 

He  entered  Yale  from  the  Hartford  (Conn.)  Public  High 
School,  his  family  having  removed  to  Hartford  when  he 
was  about  eleven  years  of  age,  and  took  the  select  course  in 
the  Scientific  School. 

In  the  fall  after  graduation,  he  became  connected  with 
the  firm  of  W.  N.  Pelton  &  Company  of  that  city,  wholesale 
dealers  in  drygoods,  in  which  he  became  a  partner  a  number 
of  years  later.  Since  the  disorganization  of  that  firm  in 
1897,  he  had  been  in  the  brokerage  business,  for  some  years 
being  associated  with  Francis  R.  Cooley  (B.A.  1886).  Mr. 
Clark  had  been  active  in  the  work  of  the  Asylum  Hill  Con- 
gregational Church  of  Hartford,  serving  as  deacon  for  six 
years. 

He  died  July  22,  191 5,  at  his  home  in  that  city,  of  chronic 
nephritis,  from  which  he  had  suffered  since  191 3.  Inter- 
ment was  in  Northampton,  Mass. 

His  marriage  took  place  in  New  York  City,  April  24, 
1894,  to  Amelia  S.,  daughter  of  James  Dean  and  Sarah 
(McCrosky)  Ray,  who  survives  him.  Their  only  child, 
Sidney  Ray,  died  in  infancy. 


Solomon  Samuel  Kohn,  Ph.B.  1876 

Born  December  25,  1848,  in  Galsage,  Austria-Hungary 
Died  April  7,  1916,  in  Boerne,  Texas 

Solomon  Samuel  Kohn  was  born  in  Galsage,  Austria- 
Hungary,  December  25,  1848.  He  was  of  a  family  of 
whom  many  had  for  generations  been  rabbles.  Under  his 
father's  tutorship  in  Hungary,  he  studied  until  thirteen 
years  of  age.  He  then  left  home,  and,  traveling  through 
the  country,  officiated  at  different  congregations  as  cantor, 
and  was  considered  at  that  time  the  youngest  cantor  in 
Hungary.  At  the  age  of  sixteen,  he  studied  under  Chief 
Rabbi  Hirsh,  of  Prague,  and  in  1869  graduated  there  as 
rabbi.  After  filling  several  engagements  in  Europe,  he 
accepted  a  call  to  New  Haven,  Conn.,  where  he  remained 


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until  1876.  During-  this  period  he  studied  at  Yale,  and  in 
1876  received  the  degree  of  Ph.B. 

The  next  year,  he  served  as  a  rabbi  in  Louisville,  Ky. 
In  1881,  he  was  admitted  to  the  bar  and  practiced  law  for 
a  year.  He  responded  to  a  call  at  Boston,  Mass.,  in  1882, 
and  for  seven  years  officiated  as  rabbi  in  that  city.  At 
this  time,  he  also  gave  private  instruction  in  Oriental  lan- 
guages, and  prepared  and  issued  a  prospectus  on  Mishna. 
His  term  expiring  in  Boston,  he  answered  a  call  at  Buffalo, 
N.  Y.,  where,  although  elected  for  three  years,  he  resigned 
after  serving  only  six  months.  He  was  then  for  a  short 
time  at  Paterson,  N.  J.,  after  which  he  devoted  his  atten- 
tion entirely  to  the  study  of  medicine,  and  in  1892  gradu- 
ated at  Dartmouth  College  with  the  degree  of  Doctor  of 
Medicine.  He  took  a  post-graduate  course  at  the  New 
York  Polyclinic  Hospital  the  next  year,  and  then  settled 
in  Norwich,  Conn.,  where  he  practiced  medicine  for  several 
years,  afterwards  going  to  London,  England,  to  further 
his  scientific  studies.  For  five  years,  he  assisted  Dr.  Lister 
in  the  Children's  Hospital  in  that  city,  and  on  his  return  to 
America  resumed  the  practice  of  medicine  at  St.  Louis, 
Mo.,  where,  in  1907,  he  was  appointed  professor  of  anat- 
omy at  the  Hippocratean  College  of  Medicine  and  Surgery. 

After  instructing  there  for  three  years,  he  was  com- 
pelled, on  account  of  ill  health,  to  resign  and  go  to  San 
Antonio,  Texas.  He  conducted  a  sanitarium  there  for 
several  years,  and  later  moved  to  Boerne,  Texas,  where  he 
died  April  7,  1916. 

In  every  city  in  which  Dr.  Kohn  had  resided,  he  helped 
in  organizing  dififerent  institutions  beneficial  to  Jewish 
life,  and  was  active  in  various  movements  for  improv- 
ing the  conditions  of  his  people.  The  honorary  degree  of 
LL.D.  was  conferred  upon  him  by  Odessa  University  in 
1909,  and  he  had  previously  received  that  of  D.D. 

Dr.  Kohn's  wife  died  some  years  ago  in  Paterson,  N.  J. 
Seven  children  survive,  one  of  whom,  David  Kohn,  is  pre- 
paring for  publication  a  biography  of  his  father's  life,  com- 
bined with  many  of  his  interesting  sermons. 


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Francis  Rawlinson  Read,  Ph.B.   1877 

Born  March  lo,  1856,  in  New  York  City 
Died  October  i,  1915,  in  San  Francisco,  Cal. 

Francis  Rawlinson  Read  was  born  March  10,  1856,  in 
New  York  City,  where  his  father,  Frederick  William  Read, 
lived  until  about  1865,  at  that  time  going  to  New  Orleans, 
La.,  and  later  settling  in  Texas.  His  paternal  grand- 
parents were  English,  and  settled  in  New  York  City  about 
1815,  his  grandfather,  Thomas  Read,  becoming  president  of 
the  Chambers  Street  Bank.  Through  his  mother,  who  was 
Maria  Louise,  daughter  of  Benjamin  and  Harriet  (Jones) 
Brooks,  he  was  descended  from  Theophilus  Eaton,  first 
governor  of  the  colony  of  New  Haven. 

He  was  prepared  for  Yale  in  Hartford,  Conn.,  and 
entered  the  Scientific  School  in  1874.  After  his  gradua- 
tion, he  became  an  assayer  for  the  Union  Construction 
Mines  at  Cerro  Gordo,  and  while  there  was  appointed 
United  States  deputy  surveyor.  During  1880-81,  he  served 
as  assistant  geologist  in  the  United  States  Geological  Survey 
on  the  Comstock  Mines  at  Virginia  City,  Nev.  The  next 
four  years  were  spent  as  a  civil  and  mining  engineer  for 
the  New  Almadeen  Quicksilver  Mines,  and  he  was  after- 
wards engaged  in  the  general  practice  of  civil  and  mining 
engineering.  For  a  time,  he  was  engineer  of  the  Golden 
Gate  Park,  where  he  laid  out  the  speedway,  later  being 
superintendent  or  manager  of  various  mines.  He  was  one 
of  the  engineers  engaged  in  furnishing  the  Vallejo  water 
supply,  and  was  an  assistant  engineer  for  the  city  of  San 
Francisco,  being  engaged  for  a  time  on  the  Tuolumne  water 
supply  on  the  Tuolumne  River.  As  a  consulting  engineer, 
he  was  frequently  called  upon  to  make  examinations  of 
mines  and  engineering  works  and  to  report  as  an  expert  in 
many  suits  before  the  courts  and  the  United  States  Land 
Department.  The  greater  part  of  his  life  since  graduation 
had  been  spent  in  San  Francisco,  Cal.,  where  he  died  Octo- 
ber I,  191 5,  from  tuberculosis  of  the  throat  and  lungs. 
Burial  was  in  Greenwood  Cemetery,  Brooklyn. 

Mr.  Read  was  a  member  of  the  Protestant  Episcopal 
Church.    He  was  unmarried,  and  is  survived  by  one  sister. 


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Frank  Hanson  Harrison,  Ph.B.  1879 

Born  August  30,  1856,  in  Indianapolis,  Ind. 
Died  July  23,  1915,  in  New  York  City 

Frank  Hanson  Harrison,  son  of  J.  C.  S.  Harrison,  was 
born  in  Indianapolis,  Ind.,  August  30,  1856.  He  received 
his  early  education  in  the  public  schools  in  Indianapolis  and 
in  General  Russell's  Collegiate  and  Commercial  Institute 
and  the  Hopkins  Grammar  School  in  New  Haven,  Conn. 
He  entered  the  Sheffield  Scientific  School  in  the  fall  of 
1876,  taking  the  course  in  biology,  and  was  graduated  with 
the  Class  of  1879. 

After  leaving  Yale,  he  studied  medicine  in  the  College  of 
Physicians  and  Surgeons  in  New  York,  and  received  the 
degree  of  M.D.  there  in  1882.  He  later  practiced  his  pro- 
fession in  Salt  Lake  City,  Indianapolis,  and  in  New  York 
City.  His  death  occurred  at  a  hospital  in  New  York  City, 
July  23,  1915,  from  cirrhosis  of  the  liver.  Burial  was  in 
Indianapolis. 

Dr.  Harrison  married  a  daughter  of  Brigham  Young,  and 
had  several  children.  He  had  for  some  years  been  separated 
from  his  wife.  He  was  a  cousin  of  Louis  Howland  (B.A. 
1879). 


Frederick  Wallace  Paramore,  Ph.B.   1879 

Born  July  14,  1855,  in  Cleveland,  Ohio 
Died  October  28,  191 5,  in  Pasadena,  Cal. 

Frederick  Wallace  Paramore  was  born  July  14,  1855,  in 
Cleveland,  Ohio,  the  son  of  James  Wallace  and  N.  Helen 
(Kloch)  Paramore.  He  received  his  preliminary  training 
under  private  tutors,  and  before  entering  Yale  attended 
Washington  University  in  St.  Louis,  Mo.  He  took  the 
select  course  in  the  Scientific  School. 

His  father,  a  graduate  of  Granville  College  and  of  the 
Albany  Law  School,  was  president  of  the  St.  Louis  & 
Southwestern  Railroad  (Cotton  Belt  Route),  and  after 
graduating  from  Yale,  his  son  became  his  private  secretary. 
After  serving  in  that  capacity  for  some  time,  he  was  made 
purchasing  agent  for  the  road.     In  1884,  he  went  abroad, 


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and  upon  his  return  to  this  country,  entered  the  square 
timber  business  in  Arkansas.  Since  the  death  of  his  father 
in  May,  1887,  he  had  served,  with  his  brother,  Edward 
Everett  Paramore  (Ph.B.  1882),  as  administrator  of  his 
estate.  They  formed  the  firm  of  Paramore  Brothers  & 
Company  to  deal  in  investment  securities  in  St.  Louis  in 
1889,  and  of  this  company  Frederick  Paramore  was  presi- 
dent until  his  retirement  from  business  in  191 1. 

At  that  time,  he  removed  to  California,  and  had  since 
made  his  home  in  Pasadena,  where  he  died,  of  diabetes, 
October  28,  191 5.  His  body  was  taken  to  St.  Louis  for 
burial  in  Bellefontaine  Cemetery. 

Mr.  Paramore  was  twice  married,  his  first  wife  being 
NelHe,  daughter  of  George  Hazeltine  of  St.  Louis.  She  died 
in  1884,  three  years  after  their  marriage,  and  on  March  17, 
1888,  he  married  in  Philadelphia,  Pa.,  Harriet  Howell, 
daughter  of  Howell  Atwater,  a  non-graduate  member  of 
the  Yale  Class  of  1863,  and  Harriet  S.  (Chase)  Atwater 
and  a  niece  of  Mr.  Paramore's  classmate,  WiUiam  M. 
Atwater.  She  survives  him  with  their  only  child,  Helen 
Montgomery.  Mr.  Paramore's  brother,  Edward,  is  also 
living,  and  has, two  sons  who  have  attended  Yale:  James 
Wallace  (Ph.B.  191 1)  and  Edward  Everett,  Jr.,  a  member 
of  the  Class  of  1917  S.  Another  brother,  James  Allen  Para- 
more, of  the  Class  of  1891  S.,  died  during  his  college  course. 


Nathan  Gross  Bozeman,  Ph.B.  1882 

Born  February  13,  1856,  in  Montgomery,  Ala. 
Died  March  17,  1916,  in  New  York  City 

Nathan  Gross  Bozeman  was  born  at  Montgomery,  Ala., 
February  13,  1856,  the  son  of  Nathan  and  Fannie  (Lamar) 
Bozeman.  His  father,  who  received  the  degree  of  M.D.  at 
the  University  of  Louisville  in  1848  and  the  honorary  degree 
of  LL.D.  at  the  University  of  Alabama  in  1891  and  who 
served  during  the  Civil  War  on  the  Board  of  Army  Sur- 
geons of  the  Confederate  States  of  America,  having  the 
rank  of  major,  was  the  son  of  Nathan  and  Harriet  (Knotts) 
Bozeman,  grandson  of  Joseph  Bozeman,  who  fought  in  the 
Revolutionary  War,  and  a  descendant  of  Nathan  Bozeman, 


174  SHEFFIELD   SCIENTIFIC   SCHOOL 

who  emigrated  to  Maryland  from  Holland  in  1672.  His 
mother  was  of  Huguenot  descent,  being  the  daughter  of 
Rev.  B.  B.  Lamar,  one  of  the  founders  of  Macon,  Ga.,  and 
Eliza  (Thurman)  Lamar.  She  was  descended  in  the  fifth 
generation  from  Thomas  Lamar,  who  came  from  France  to 
America  in  1685  and  settled  in  Maryland.  Her  grand- 
father, John  Lamar,  served  in  the  Revolution. 

On  her  death  in  1861,  Dr.  Bozeman  took  up  practice  in 
New  York  City,  and  his  son  attended  Manhattan  College 
in  that  city,  Seton  Hall  College  at  South  Orange,  N.  J., 
Wright's  School  in  Morristown,  N.  J.,  and  the  New  Jersey 
School  at  Baltimore,  Md.  He  also  studied  abroad  for  three 
years  under  private  tutors — in  Germany,  Switzerland,  and 
France,  visiting  also  the  hospitals  where  his  father  demon- 
strated. He  spent  the  year  of  1876-77  at  the  University  of 
Virginia  and  the  next  year  at  Coburg,  Germany,  Vevey, 
Switzerland,  and  Paris,  France,  entering  Yale  in  the  fall  of 
1879.  He  took  the  biology  course  in  the  Sheffield  Scientific 
School,  and  was  one  of  the  highstand  men  in  the  Freshman 
Class,  receiving  a  second  prize  for  excellence  in  English 
composition.  He  took  the  degree  of  Bachelor  of  Philoso- 
phy in  1882. 

He  was  graduated  from  the  College  of  Physicians  and 
Surgeons  at  Columbia  University  in  1885,  and  shortly  after- 
wards passed  a  competitive  examination,  through  which  he 
received  an  appointment  as  surgeon  on  the  house  staff  of  the 
Woman's  Hospital  in  New  York  City.  He  took  up  regu- 
lar practice  in  that  city  in  1885,  and  in  1888  was  made 
assistant  attending  surgeon  and  physician  to  the  Woman's 
Hospital,  as  well  as  to  the  French  Hospital.  From  1886  to 
1889,  he  served  as  an  instructor  at  the  Post-Graduate  Medi- 
cal School.  He  had  become  well  known  as  a  gynecologist, 
and  at  the  time  of  his  death  was  on  the  staffs  of  several 
hospitals  in  New  Jersey,  including  those  at  Bayonne  and 
Hackensack,  St.  Francis'  at  Jersey  City,  and  St.  Mary's  at 
Newark.  He  had  written  many  papers  for  medical  jour- 
nals, and  belonged  to  the  New  York  County  Medical 
Society,  the  New  York  Medical  Society,  the  Society  of  the 
Sons  of  the  Revolution  in  the  State  of  New  York,  and  the 
Southern  Society.  He  was  an  Episcopalian,  being  a 
communicant  of  St.  Margaret's  Church,  New  York. 

Dr.  Bozeman's  death  occurred  at  his  home  in  New  York 
City,  March  17,  1916,  after  an  illness  of  six  days  due  to 


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pneumonia.     His  body  was  taken  to  Macon,  Ga.,  for  burial 
in  the  family  plot  in  Rosehill  Cemetery. 

He  was  married  on  June  8,  1889,  in  New  York  City  to 
Marion,  daughter  of  Col.  John  G.  McHenry  of  Madison, 
Ga.,  a  graduate  of  Princeton  in  1839,  They  were  divorced 
in  1891,  and  on  September  19,  1899,  Dr.  Bozeman  was 
married  to  Celeste,  daughter  of  Dr.  Heinrich  Malten  and 
Selma  (Werner)  Malten,  who  survives  him.  He  had  no 
children. 


Howard  Greer,  Jr.,  Ph.B.  1888 

Born  May  31,  1865,  in  Cleveland,  Ohio 
Died  August  10,  1915,  in  Detroit,  Mich. 

Howard  Greer,  Jr.,  son  of  Howard  Greer,  a  graduate  of 
Allegheny  College  at  Meadville,  Pa.,  and  Abrilla  (Ecoff) 
Greer,  was  born  in  Cleveland,  Ohio,  May  31,  1865.  His 
boyhood  was  spent  in  Rochester,  Pa.,  Marietta,  Ohio,  and 
Chicago,  111.,  and  he  received  his  preparatory  training  at 
the  Lake  View  (111.)  High  School.  Entering  the  Scientific 
School  in  1885,  he  took  the  course  in  mechanical  engineer- 
ing, and  was  for  two  years  a  member  of  the  University 
Orchestra. 

After  his  graduation,  he  took  a  position  as  draftsman  for 
Morris  Sellers  &  Company  in  Chicago,  and  later,  while  still 
in  their  employ,  was  sent  to  Canada  and  to  England  and 
France  to  introduce  patents  controlled  by  the  company.  In 
1894,  he  became  mechanical  superintendent  for  the  Hey- 
wood  &  Merrill  Chain  Factory  of  Chicago,  but  the  next 
year  gave  up  that  position,  and  was  employed  by  the 
National  Contracting  Company  of  New  York  on  the  work 
on  the  Erie  Canal  for  some  time.  Removing  to  Syracuse, 
N.  Y.,  in  1897,  he  was  for  two  years  superintendent  of 
motive  power  for  the  Syracuse  Rapid  Transit  Company. 
Later,  he  was  chief  engineer  of  the  Lake  Shore  Engine 
Works  in  Marquette,  Mich.,  and  afterwards  was  located  in 
Chicago  as  general  manager  of  the  Thompson-Greer  Com- 
pany. He  then  held  for  two  years  the  position  of  works 
manager  for  the  Bucyrus  Company  at  Evansville,  Ind. 

Since  January,  1914,  he  had  lived  in  Detroit,  Mich., 
where  he  was  connected  with  the  McCord  Manufacturing 


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Company  as  chief  engineer.  His  death  occurred  at  the 
Harper  Hospital  in  that  city,  August  10,  191 5,  three  days 
after  he  had  undergone  an  operation  for  tumor  of  the  brain. 
Burial  was  in  Rosehill  Cemetery,  Chicago. 

Mr.  Greer  was  married  October  11,  1892,  in  Chicago 
to  Helen  Cossett,  daughter  of  Henry  Munson  Lyman  (B.A. 
Williams  1858,  M.D.  Columbia  1861)  and  Sarah  (Clark) 
Lyman,  who  survives  him.  Four  children,  all  of  whom 
survive,  were  born  to  them:  Howard  Clark;  Margaret 
Lyman;  Henry  Lyman,  and  Helen  Barbara.  Mr.  Greer's 
brother,  Paul  Ecoff  Greer,  graduated  from  the  College  in 

1891  and  from  the  Harvard  Law  School  in  1908.  Rev. 
William  H.  Day,  a  non-graduate  member  of  the  Class  of 

1892  in  the  School  of  Religion,  is  a  brother-in-law. 


Louis  LeSassier,  Ph.B.  1888 

Bom  October  IS,  1866,  in  New  Orleans,  La. 
Died  December  13,  1915,  in  New  Orleans,  La. 

Louis  LeSassier  was  born  in  New  Orleans,  La.,  October 
15,  1866,  his  parents  being  Henry  Alexander  and  Margaret 
Emma  (Pritchard)  LeSassier.  His  father,  the  son  of  Louis 
and  Carmelite  (Bohan)  LeSassier  and  the  nephew  of 
Charles  LeSassier,  one  of  the  three  commissioners  sent  to 
England  to  prevent  the  sale  of  Louisiana  to  Spain  in  1768, 
graduated  from  Jefferson  College,  Covington,  La.,  and  for 
many  years  was  engaged  in  business  as  a  stock  broker  and 
sugar  planter,  and  served  as  president  of  the  New  Orleans 
Stock  Exchange  and  the  Citizens  Bank.  His  mother  was 
the  daughter  of  Richard  Owen  Pritchard,  who  fought  in 
the  battle  of  New  Orleans,  and  Mary  (Ross)  Pritchard. 
He  was  fitted  for  Yale  at  the  Hopkins  Grammar  School  in 
New  Haven,  and  entered  in  1885,  taking  the  civil  engineer- 
ing course  in  the  Scientific  School.  He  served  on  the  Class 
Supper  Committee. 

In  July,  1888,  he  entered  the  employ  of  the  Charleston, 
Cincinnati  &  Chicago  Railroad,  as  an  engineer  at  Yorkville, 
but  six  months  later  left  them  to  become  an  observer  for 
the  Mississippi  River  Commission  at  Carrollton,  La.  In 
September,  1889,  he  was  made  supervisor  of  the  Mobile 
and  New  Orleans  division  of  the  Louisville  &  Nashville 


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Railroad,  and  continued  in  that  position  until  May,  1891. 
He  then  spent  a  year  and  a  half  at  New  Orleans,  as  assistant 
engineer  in  the  construction  department  of  the  American 
Sugar  Refining  Company.  In  1893,  he  became  connected 
with  the  General  Contracting  Company  of  New  Orleans. 
This  company,  of  which  he  was  general  manager  during 
the  last  twenty  years  of  his  life,  liquidated  at  his  death, 
which  occurred  suddenly  December  13,  191 5,  at  his  home 
in  New  Orleans.  He  had  been  ill  for  several  months,  and 
his  recovery  was  almost  complete,  when  an  attack  of  heart 
trouble  caused  his  death.  Burial  was  in  Metairie  Cemetery, 
New  Orleans. 

He  was  married  in  that  city,  November  21,  1893,  to  Marie 
Louise,  daughter  of  John  Williams  and  Johanna  (Chad- 
wick)  Dwyer.    She  survives  him  with  their  daughter,  Emily. 


William  Bartlett  Beckley,  Ph.B.   1889 

Born  June  16,  1867,  in  New  Haven,  Conn. 
Died  March  24,  1916,  in  Stamford,  Conn. 

William  Bartlett  Beckley,  son  of  Elihu  Atwater  and 
Elizabeth  J.  (Bartlett)  Beckley,  was  bom  June  16,  1867,  in 
New  Haven,  Conn.  His  father,  a  lumber  merchant,  was 
the  son  of  Silas  A.  and  Amelia  (Atwater)  Beckley,  the 
latter  being  the  daughter  of  Jared  and  Eunice  (Dickerman) 
Atwater  and  a  descendant  of  David  Atwater,  one  of  the 
early  settlers  of  New  Haven.  His  mother's  parents  were 
Buckley  Howe  and  Henrietta  (Richardson)   Bartlett. 

He  was  fitted  for  Yale  at  the  Hillhouse  High  School  and 
at  the  Hopkins  Grammar  School  in  New  Haven,  and  spent 
three  years  in  the  Scientific  School,  where  he  took  the 
mechanical  engineering  course. 

Among  the  companies  with  which  he  had  been  connected 
since  his  graduation  in  1889  were  the  following  shipbuilding 
concerns:  the  Harlan  &  Hollingsworth  Company,  the  New 
York  Launch  &  Engine  Company  (of  which  he  was  secre- 
tary and  treasurer),  the  Holland  Submarine  Torpedo  Boat 
Company,  and  the  New  York  Shipbuilding  Company.  He 
was  also  interested  in  the  lumber  business,  being  for  some 
years  associated  with  The  Crosby  &  Beckley  Company  and 
the  Douglas  Lumber  Company  of  New  Haven.     Later,  he 


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served  as  secretary  of  the  firm  of  Halstead  &  Harmount, 
and  from  about  1904  until  his  death  he  was  president  and 
manager  of  the  Stamford  Lumber  Company,  his  home  hav- 
ing been  at  Stamford,  Conn.,  since  that  time.  In  1912,  Mr. 
Beckley  was  elected  president  of  the  Stamford  Board  of 
Trade,  and  served  in  that  capacity  for  two  years. 

His  death  occurred  March  24,  19 16,  in  the  Stamford 
Hospital,  after  a  brief  illness  due  to  mastoiditis  which 
necessitated  an  operation.    Burial  was  in  Springdale,  Conn. 

He  was  married  in  New  Haven,  December  10,  1890,  to 
Beulah  E.,  daughter  of  George  C.  and  Emily  Pettis,  from 
whom  he  was  divorced  in  191 5.  He  was  married  a  second 
time  September  23,  191 5,  in  Reno,  Nev.,  to  Gertrude,  daugh- 
ter of  Martin  Gill  of  Stamford,  who  survives  him.  He 
also  leaves  two  daughters  by  his  first  marriage,  Gertrude 
Huntington  and  Margaret  Enella. 


Walter  Abbott  Wood,  Ph.B.   1892 

Born  June  2,  1871,  at  Hoosick  Falls,  N.  Y. 
Died  October  8,  1915,  at  Hoosick  Falls,  N.  Y. 

Walter  Abbott  Wood  was  born  June  2,  1871,  at  Hoosick 
Falls,  N.  Y.,  the  son  of  Walter  Abbott  and  Elizabeth 
(Nichols)  Wood.  His  father's  parents  were  Aaron  and 
Rebecca  (Wright)  Wood,  and  his  mother  was  the  daughter 
of  George  H.  and  Julia  (Phelps)  Nichols.  He  entered  the 
Sheffield  Scientific  School  from  St.  Paul's  School,  Concord, 
N.  H.,  and  took  the  course  in  mechanical  engineering. 

After  graduation,  he  became  connected  with  the  Wood 
Mower  &  Reaper  Company,  of  which  his  father  was  the 
founder  and  in  which  he  was  made  a  director.  He  was  one 
of  the  founders  of  the  Noble  &  Wood  Machine  Company 
at  Hoosick  Falls,  and  since  1896  he  had  also  been  a  director 
of  the  First  National  Bank.  In  late  years,  he  had  been 
much  interested  in  farming,  and  operated  on  his  farm  a 
modern  dairy  that  attracted  much  attention,  while  his  herd 
of  blooded  cattle  was  one  of  the  largest  in  the  state. 

Mr.  Wood  had  always  taken  an  active  part  in  local  and 
state  aflFairs.  In  1893,  ^^  was  made  a  second  lieutenant  in 
the  Thirty-second  Separate  Company  of  the  State  Militia, 
and   served   for   several  months   in   the   Spanish-American 


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War,  and  he  afterwards  became  an  officer  in  the  National 
Guard  of  New  York.  He  was  a  vestryman  of  St.  Mark's 
Protestant  Episcopal  Church  of  Hoosick  Falls.  He  served 
as  a  village  trustee  in  1893-94  and  again  in  1900-01,  and 
in  1902  was  elected  supervisor  of  the  town  of  Hoosick,  and 
served  two  terms,  being  made  chairman  of  the  board  in 
1905.  He  received  election  to  the  State  Senate  from  the 
Rensselaer  County  district  in  November,  1914,  on  the 
Republican  ticket.  His  period  of  service  was  terminated 
by  illness  just  before  the  adjournment  of  the  Legislature 
that  winter,  and  from  that  time  his  health  gradually  failed, 
his  death  occurring-  at  his  home  at  Hoosick  Falls  on  Octo- 
ber 8,  191 5.  He  was  buried  in  the  family  plot  in  Maple 
Grove  Cemetery,  Hoosick  Falls. 

He  was  married  in  Radnor,  Pa.,  October  6,  1906,  to 
Dorothy  Leib,  daughter  of  Charles  Custis  Harrison,  a 
graduate  of  the  University  of  Pennsylvania  in  1862  and 
until  19 1 2  provost  of  the  University,  who  was  honored  with 
the  degree  of  LL.D.  by  Yale  in  1901,  having  previously 
received  it  at  Columbia  and  Princeton,  and  Ellen  Nixon 
(Wain)  Harrison.  She  survives  him  with  two  sons, 
Walter  Abbott,  3d,  and  Harrison. 


Elmer  Arthur  Lawbaugh,  Ph.B.   1893 

Born  October  2,  1873,  in  Phoenix,  Mich. 
Died  August  31,  1915,  in  Chicago,  111, 

Elmer  Arthur  Lawbaugh  was  born  in  Phoenix,  Mich., 
October  2,  1873,  the  son  of  Albert  I.  Lawbaugh,  who 
received  the  degree  of  M.D.  from  the  Long  Island  College 
Hospital  in  1870  and  who  later  practiced  medicine  in  Mich- 
igan, serving  as  surgeon  to  various  hospitals,  railroads, 
and  mines.  His  mother  was  Margaret,  daughter  of  Wil- 
liam and  Caroline  (Emmert)  Smith.  He  spent  his  boyhood 
in  Calumet,  Mich.,  and  attended  the  high  school  in  that 
place,  the  Peekskill  (N.  Y.)  Military  Academy,  Racine  Col- 
lege, and  the  University  of  Michigan  before  coming  to 
Yale.  Taking  the  biology  course  in  the  Sheffield  Scientific 
School,  upon  graduation  he  entered  the  Yale  School  of 
Medicine,  from  which  he  received  the  degree  of  M.D.  in 
1895. 


l8o  SHEFFIELD   SCIENTIFIC   SCHOOL 

He  then  went  abroad,  and  devoted  the  next  five  years  to 
the  study  of  diseases  of  the  eye,  spending  the  year  of 
1895-96  at  King's  College,  London,  and  later  taking  courses 
at  medical  colleges  and  hospitals  at  Berlin,  Vienna,  Prague, 
and  Paris.  In  1900,  he  returned  to  this  country,  and 
opened  offices  as  an  oculist  in  Chicago,  111.,  where,  in  addi- 
tion to  his  regular  practice,  he  served  as  instructor  in 
ophthalmology  and  chief  of  the  clinic  at  Rush  Medical  Col- 
lege and  as  oculist  to  the  Chicago  Orphan  Asylum,  the 
North  Star  Dispensary,  and  the  Central  Free  Dispensary. 
Two  years  later,  after  spending  some  time  in  Oregon  for 
his  health,  he  decided  to  give  up  his  practice  and  enter 
business  at  Portland,  as  a  dealer  in  timber  lands.  In  1906, 
he  formed,  with  Mr.  J.  P.  Brayton,  the  firm  of  Brayton  & 
Lawbaugh,  Ltd.,  with  offices  in  Portland  and  Chicago,  and, 
upon  the  death  of  Mr.  Brayton  in  19 13,  he  became  presi- 
dent of  the  company.  In  its  interests,  he  had  traveled 
extensively,  both  abroad  and  in  this  country,  and  he  was 
considered  an  authority  on  the  value  of  timber  and  timber 
lands. 

His  death  occurred,  as  the  result  of  an  attack  of  blood 
poisoning  which  had  developed  some  months  before,  in  St. 
Luke's  Hospital,  Chicago,  on  August  31,  191 5.  Burial 
was  in  Lakeview  Cemetery  in  Calumet,  Mich.,  the  home  of 
his  parents,  and  in  their  family  mausoleum. 

He  was  married  on  May  9,  1908,  in  Meriden,  Conn.,  to 
Etta  Lyman,  daughter  of  Henry  and  Josephine  Griswold 
(Lyman)  Warren.  She  survives  him  with  a  daughter, 
Marjorie  Warren. 


Mitchell  Campbell  Lilley,  Ph.B.   1894 

Born  November  26,  1869,  in  Columbus,  Ohio 
Died  November  21,  1915,  in  Okeechobee,  Fla. 

Mitchell  Campbell  Lilley  was  the  son  of  Mitchell  Camp- 
bell Lilley,  of  the  M.  C.  Lilley  Company,  and  Amanda 
Catherine  (Brooks)  Lilley,  and  was  born  in  Columbus, 
Ohio,  November  26,  1869.  He  entered  Yale  from  the 
Lawrenceville  School,  taking  the  select  course  in  the 
Scientific  School. 


I893-I894  I8I 

Soon  after  graduation,  he  became  secretary  and  treasurer 
of  the  C.  T.  Nelson  Lumber  Company  of  Columbus.  In 
1898,  he  was  made  general  manager  of  the  Kinnear  Calk 
Company  of  that  city,  but  in  1902  moved  to  Chicago,  111., 
to  take  charge  of  the  Western  plant  of  the  Pullman  Auto- 
matic Ventilator  Company.  While  in  that  city,  he  also 
organized  the  Fischer  &  Gesch  Manufacturing  Company, 
and  served  for  two  years  as  its  president.  Since  1909,  Mr. 
Lilley  had  lived  at  Fort  Myers,  Fla.,  engaged  in  farming 
and  the  cultivation  of  eucalyptus  trees.  At  the  time  of 
his  death,  he  was  president  of  the  Southern  Fisheries  Com- 
pany of  Okeechobee,  Fla.,  where  he  died  suddenly,  from 
heart  failure,  November  21,  1915.  Interment  was  in  Green 
Lawn  Cemetery  in  Columbus. 

He  was  married  in  that  city,  January  3,  1895,  to  Fanny 
Clarke,  daughter  of  Granville  Moody  and  Sarah  (Jackson) 
White.  She  survives  him  with  three  children :  Elise  Camp- 
bell; Emily  Doak,  and  Mitchell  Campbell,  3d.  A  third 
daughter,  Frances  Clarke,  died  shortly  after  birth. 

Mr.  Lilley  had  done  much  for  the  development  of  the 
town  of  Okeechobee,  and  was  vice  president  of  its  Board 
of  Trade  and  a  member  of  the  City  Council. 


Abram  Nave  Ranney,  Ph.B.  1894 

Born  August  17,  1872,  in  Elizabeth,  N.  J. 
Died  in  October,  1915,  in  Biarritz,  France 

It  has  been  impossible  to  secure  the  desired  information 
for  an  obituary  sketch  of  Mr.  Ranney  in  time  for  publi- 
cation in  this  volume.  A  sketch  will  appear  in  a  subsequent 
issue  of  the  Obituary  Record. 


George  Sheffield,  Ph.B.  1894 

Born  February  26,  1873,  in  New  York  City 
Died  January  12,  1916,  in  New  York  City 

George  Sheffield  was  born  February  26,  1873,  in  New 
York  City,  his  parents  being  George  St. John  Sheffield 
(B.A.   1863)   and  Mary   (Stewart)    Sheffield.     His  father 


1 82  SHEFFIELD   SCIENTIFIC   SCHOOL 

is  the  son  of  Joseph  Earl  Sheffield,  who  endowed  the 
Scientific  School  and  who  received  the  honorary  degree  of 
Master  of  Arts  at  Yale  in  1871,  and  Maria  (Stjohn)  Shef- 
field. His  mother's  parents  were  John  Aikman  and  Sarah 
(Johnson)  Stewart. 

His  preparation  for  the  Scientific  School,  where  he  took 
the  select  course,  was  received  at  the  Lawrenceville  School 
and  at  Phillips  Academy,  Andover.  He  was  captain  of  the 
Freshman  Football  Team  and  a  member  of  the  Freshman 
Nine. 

Mr.  Sheffield  became  connected  with  the  United  States 
Trust  Company  of  New  York  City  in  the  autumn  after  his 
graduation,  and  continued  with  that  company  until  1900. 
At  that  time,  he  became  a  member  of  the  Stock  Exchange 
firm  of  Sheffield  &  McCullough,  his  partner  being  John  H. 
McCullough  (Ph.B.  1896).  This  firm  was  dissolved 
Au'gust  I,  1910,  and  since  that  time  Mr.  Sheffield  had  been 
occupied  with  his  duties  as  executor  of  the  will  of  the  late 
Henry  Sanford,  the  great-grandfather  of  his  children.  In 
191 5,  he  became  associated  with  the  firm  of  VanAntwerp, 
Bishop  &  Company,  bankers,  of  New  York  City. 

His  death  occurred  January  12,  1916,  in  New  York  City, 
after  an  illness  of  six  weeks  due  to  cancer  of  the  stomach. 
He  was  buried  in  Sleepy  Hollow  Cemetery  at  Tarrytown, 
N.  Y. 

On  March  2,  1899,  Mr.  Sheffield  was  married  to  Katha- 
rine C,  daughter  of  Samuel  Simons  Sanford,  professor 
of  applied  music  at  Yale  from  1894,  when  the  University 
conferred  an  honorary  M.A.  upon  him,  until  his  death  in 
1910,  and  Katharine  (Cecil)  Sanford.  They  were  divorced 
in  191 1.  A  daughter,  Mary  Stewart,  and  a  son,  Joseph 
Earl,  survive.  Their  oldest  child,  Katharine  Cecil,  died 
October  12,  1907.  His  brother,  the  late  Joseph  Earl  Shef- 
field, took  the  degree  of  B.A.  at  Yale  in  1894  and  that  of 
M.A.  in  1898.  Mr.  Sheffield  was  a  nephew  of  Charles  J. 
Sheffield,  a  graduate  of  the  Scientific  School  in  1867,  and 
a  cousin  of  Thomas  Brodhead  VanBuren  (Ph.B.  1886)  and 
of  Harold  Sheffield  VanBuren,  who  graduated  from  the 
College  in  1878. 


1894-1895  i8.3 


Thatcher  Magoun  Adams,  Jr.,  Ph.B.   1895 

Born  March  13,  1874,  in  New  York  City 
Died  April  i,  1916,  in  New  York  City 

Thatcher  Magoun  Adams,  Jr.,  was  the  son  of  Wilham 
Adams,  a  non-graduate  member  of  the  Class  of  1861,  who 
was  a  member  of  the  banking  firm  of  Adams  &  McHarg, 
and  Helen  (Coolidge)  Adams,  and  was  born  March  13, 
1874,  in  New  York  City.  His  grandfather,  Rev.  William 
Adams,  D.D.,  LL.D.  (B.A.  1827),  was  at  one  time  presi- 
dent of  Union  Theological  Seminary,  and  his  great-grand- 
father, John  Adams,  a  graduate  of  the  College  in  1795, 
served  for  many  years  as  principal  of  Phillips  (Andover) 
Academy.  The  latter's  father,  John  Adams,  was  captain 
of  a  regiment  during  the  Revolution.  The  founder  of  the 
Adams  family  in  this  country  was  Henry  Adams,  who  emi- 
grated from  England  to  Braintree,  Mass.,  in  1634.  Thatcher 
Adams'  mother  was  the  daughter  of  Henry  and  Margaret 
(Hawley)  Coolidge. 

His  home  was  at  Scarsdale,  N.  Y.,  during  his  boyhood, 
and  he  was  prepared  for  Yale  at  the  Lawrenceville  (N.  J.) 
School  and  at  the  Cutler  School  in  New  York  City.  He 
took  the  select  course  in  the  Scientific  School,  which  he 
entered  in  1892. 

The  first  two  years  after  graduation  he  spent  in  the 
employ  of  Hartley  &  Graham,  dealers  in  firearms  and 
ammunition  of  New  York  City.  In  the  fall  of  1898,  after 
a  trip  around  the  world  with  John  F.  Talmage  (B.A.  1895, 
LL.B.  New  York  Law  School  1897)  and  Frederick  A.  M. 
Schieffelin  (Ph.B.  1897),  he  bought  a  seat  on  the  New 
York  Stock  Exchange.  Shortly  afterwards,  he  formed  with 
Thomas  L.  Clarke,  a  graduate  of  the  College  in  1897,  the 
brokerage  firm  of  Adams  &  Clarke,  his  uncle,  Thatcher  M. 
Adams  (B.A.  1858),  being  a  special  partner.  This  firm 
became  Day,  Adams  &  Company  in  1902,  through  consoli- 
dation with  Clarence  S.  Day  &  Company,  of  which  George 
Parmly  Day  (B.A.  1897)  and  Julian  Day  (B.A.  1901)  were 
members,  and  in  1913  its  name  was  changed  to  Adams, 
Livingston  &  Davis.  From  March,  1914,  until  his  death, 
Mr.  Adams  was  senior  member  of  the  firm  of  Adams, 
Davis  &  Bartol,  in  which  his  associates  were  Messrs.  Henry 
G.  Bartol  and  William  H.  Radigan,  Morgan  Davis,  who 


184  SHEFFIELD   SCIENTIFIC    SCHOOL 

graduated  from  the  Sheffield  Scientific  School  in  1896,  and 
his  uncle.  Mr.  Adams  made  his  home  in  New  York  from 
1905  to  1915,  and  afterwards  at  Mendham,  N.  J.  He  was 
a  member  of  the  Brick  Presbyterian  Church  of  New  York 
City. 

His  death  occurred  suddenly  April  i,  1916,  in  that  city, 
as  the  result  of  heart  trouble  followed  by  pneumonia.  He 
was  buried  in  Woodlawn  Cemetery. 

On  November  i,  1905,  he  was  married  in  Newark, 
N.  J.,  to  Edith  Atlee,  daughter  of  Philip  Nye  and  Margaret 
(Atlee)  Jackson,  who  survives  him  with  a  son,  Thatcher 
Magoun,  Jr.  He  also  leaves  his  mother,  a  sister,  and  three 
brothers,  two  of  the  latter — William  and  Thomas  Safford — 
being  graduates  of  Yale  with  the  degree  of  Ph.B.  in  1891 
and  1901,  respectively.  Another  brother,  John  Brown 
Adams  (B.A.  1899,  LL.B.  Columbia  1902),  died  in  1907. 
Mr.  Adams  was  a  cousin  of  William  Adams  Brown,  who 
received  the  degrees  of  B.A.,  M.A.,  Ph.D.,  and  D.D.  from 
Yale  in  1886,  1888,  1901,  and  1907,  respectively,  and  who 
graduated  from  Union  Theological  Seminary  in  1890; 
William  A.  Delano  (B.A.  1895,  B.F.A.  1907)  ;  Thatcher 
M.  Brown,  a  graduate  of  the  College  in  1897;  Moreau 
Delano  (B.A.  1898),  and  Eugene  Delano,  Jr.  (B.A.  1908). 


Hubert  Cowles  Downs,  Ph.B.  1896 

Born  January  24,  1874,  in  Chicago,  111. 
Died  April  24,  1916,  near  Anaheim,  Cal. 

Hubert  Cowles  Downs,  only  son  of  James  Edward  and 
Mary  Ann  (Cowles)  Downs,  was  born  in  Chicago,  111., 
January  24,  1874.  His  father,  a  retired  wholesale  dry- 
goods  merchant,  is  the  son  of  Myron  Day  and  Lydia  EHza- 
beth  (Allen)  Downs  and  a  descendant  of  Governor  William 
Bradford,  who  came  to  Plymouth,  Mass.,  from  England  in 
1620.  Through  his  mother,  whose  parents  were  Elisha 
Allen  and  Rebecca  (Dickinson)  Cowles,  he  was  descended 
from  John  Cowles,  who  emigrated  to  America  from  Eng- 
land about  1635.  Settling  first  in  Hartford,  Conn.,  he 
removed  in  1640  to  Farmington,  and  served  for  some  years 
as  a  member  of  the  General  Court  of  Connecticut. 


1895-1897  i85 

Hubert  Downs  received  his  preparation  for  Yale  in  Chi- 
cago at  the  Chicago  Manual  Training  School  and  the  Uni- 
versity School.  He  took  the  select  course  in  the  Scientific 
School. 

After  his  graduation  in  1896,  he  took'  a  short  trip  abroad, 
on  his  return  to  Chicago  entering  the  employ  of  Sears, 
Roebuck  &  Company.  In  January,  1897,  he  took  a  posi- 
tion in  the  foreign  department  of  the  John  V.  Farwell  Com- 
pany, a  wholesale  drygoqds  house  of  Chicago,  but  after 
six  years  ill  health  forced  him  to  resign.  The  remainder  of 
his  life  was  spent  in  the  West,  principally  in  California, 
although  in  1909  and  1910  he  was  located  in  Denver,  Colo., 
working  at  that  time  in  the  office  of  the  purchasing  agent 
of  the  Denver  &  Rio  Grande  Railroad.  While  living  in 
Los  Angeles,  Cal.,  in  1906  and  1907,  he  was  engaged  in  the 
manufacture  of  door  screens  with  the  Pacific  Screen  Com- 
pany. Since  1910,  he  had  been  living  on  his  ranch,  consisting 
of  about  twenty-five  acres,  near  Anaheim,  in  southern  Cali- 
fornia, devoting  his  attention  to  the  growing  of  walnut  and 
orange  trees.  He  was  just  beginning  to  make  a  success  of 
his  business,  when  his  health  completely  failed,  in  May, 
191 5,  and  he  went  to  Galesburg,  III,  for  an  operation  for 
cancer.  An  explorative  operation  proved  that  nothing 
could  be  done,  and,  after  a  few  months  spent  at  his  parents' 
home  in  Chicago,  he  returned  to  California.  His  death 
occurred  at  his  home,  Nelbert  Ranch,  near  Anaheim,  April 
24,  1 9 16.  He  was  cremated  at  the  Rosedale  Crematory, 
Los  Angeles. 

Mr.  Downs  was  married  June  28,  191 1,  in  Los  Angeles 
to  Nellie  Isabelle,  daughter  of  Robert  W.  and  Martha  Ann 
(Gould)  Gordon,  who  survives  him,  as  do  his  parents.  He 
had  no  children. 


James  Crapo  Cristy,  Ph.B.   1897 

Born  February  8,  1874,  in  Flint,  Mich. 
Died  April  15,  1916,  in  Detroit,  Mich. 

James  Crapo  Cristy  was  born  February  8,  1874,  in  Flint, 
Mich.,  the  son  of  Harlan  Page  and  Emma  E.  (Crapo) 
Cristy.  Through  his  father,  whose  parents  were  Sumner 
F.  and  Sarah    (Hooper)    Cristy,  he  was  descended  from 


1 86  SHEFFIELD    SCIENTIFIC    SCHOOL 

John  Cristy,  who  came  to  America  from  Scotland  or  the 
north  of  Ireland  prior  to  1746  and  settled  at  Windham 
N.  H.  The  earliest  ancestor  in  this  country  of  his  mother, 
who  was  the  daughter  of  Henry  H.  Crapo,  at  one  time 
governor  of  Michigan,  and  Mary  Anne  (Slocum)  Crapo, 
was  Peter  Crapo,  who,  as  a  young  lad,  the  only  survivor 
of  a  French  vessel  from  Bordeaux,  was  cast  ashore  some- 
where on  the  coast  of  Cape  Cod  about  the  year  1680.  He 
settled  at  Middleboro,  Mass. 

He  was  fitted  for  Yale  at  the  Detroit  High  School  and 
under  a  private  tutor  in  New  Haven.  Entering  the  Scien- 
tific School  as  a  member  of  the  Class  of  1896,  he  completed 
his  work  for  his  degree  with  the  Class  of  1897  S.,  taking 
the  course  in  civil  engineering. 

During  the  summer  of  1896,  he  worked  in  the  civil  engi- 
neer's office  of  the  Flint  &  Pere  Marquette  Railroad  at 
Saginaw,  Mich.,  and  after  graduation  entered  the  employ 
of  George  Morley  &  Company,  wholesale  lumber  dealers 
of  Detroit,  with  which  firm  his  father  was  for  many  years 
connected.  From  1899  until  the  failure  of  the  company 
in  December,  1907,  he  served  as  its  superintendent.  During 
the  summer  of  1908,  he  sold  lumber  on  commission,  and  in 
the  fall  of  that  year  started  a  small  lumber  yard  in  Detroit, 
which,  in  November,  1910,  was  incorporated  under  the 
name  of  The  J.  C.  Cristy  Lumber  Company.  Two  years 
later,  this  company  was  absorbed  by  the  Detroit  Lumber 
Company,  and  Mr.  Cristy  became  yard  manager.  He  con- 
tinued in  that  position  until  his  removal  to  Birmingham, 
Mich,,  where  he  was  made  manager  and  secretary  of  the 
Mellen-Wright-Stephens  Company. 

His  death  occurred  at  the  Harper  Hospital  in  Detroit, 
April  15,  1916,  after  an  illness  of  about  two  months  due 
to  nephritis.  His  body  was  cremated,  and  the  ashes 
interred  in  Elmwood  Cemetery  in  Detroit. 

From  191 2  to  the  date  of  his  death,  Mr.  Cristy  conducted 
the  agency  for  Oakland  County  for  an  automobile  concern 
under  the  name  of  the  J.  C.  Cristy  Sales  Company.  While 
living  in  Detroit,  he  was  for  several  years  a  deacon  in  the 
Jefferson  Avenue  Presbyterian  Church,  and  took  an  active 
part  in  the  work  of  its  Sunday  school.  His  summer  home 
was  at  Clarkston,  Mich. 

He  was  married  February  12,  1903,  in  Detroit  to  Laura 
Louise,  daughter  of  Joseph  Chittenden  and  Mary  (Parker) 


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Hart,  who  survives  him.  They  had  four  children:  Mary- 
Hart  ;  Harlan  Page,  2d ;  David  Hart,  who  died  in  infancy, 
and  James  Crapo,  Jr.  Mr.  Cristy's  uncle,  William  W. 
Crapo,  graduated  from  Yale  in  1852,  receiving  the  honor- 
ary degree  of  LL.D.  in  1882,  and  his  cousin,  Stanford  T. 
Crapo,  is  a  member  of  the  College  Class  of  1886. 


Franklin  Jonathan  Ely,  Ph.B.   1897 

Born  October  8,  1874,  in  Milwaukee,  Wis. 
Died  September  24,  1915,  in  Watkins  Glen,  N.  Y. 

Franklin  Jonathan  Ely,  who  was  born  in  Milwaukee, 
Wis.,  October  8,  1874,  was  descended  from  Richard  Ely 
of  Lyme,  Conn.,  who  had  seven  sons,  all  of  whom  fought 
in  the  Revolutionary  War  and  several  of  whom  graduated 
from  Yale.  The  youngest  son,  David  (Franklin  Ely's 
great-grandfather),  graduated  from  the  College  in  1769, 
served  for  forty-three  years  as  pastor  of  the  Congregational 
Church  in  Huntington,  Conn.,  receiving  the  honorary 
degree  of  D.D.  from  Yale  in  1808,  and  was  from  1788  until 
his  death  in  1816  a  Fellow  of  the  Corporation,  being  its 
secretary  for  twenty-two  years.  He  had  three  sons,  David, 
Elisha,  and  Isaac  Mills,  graduates  of  Yale  in  1800,  1803, 
and  1806,  respectively.  Elisha  Ely,  who  married  Eloise 
Curtiss,  a  descendant  of  the  Sillimans  of  Connecticut  and 
New  York,  was  the  grandfather  of  Franklin  Ely,  whose 
parents  were  Oliver  Curtiss  and  Julia  Eliza  (Peirce)  Ely. 
The  latter  was  the  daughter  of  Jonathan  Lovering  and 
Angelma  (Moulton)  Peirce  and  the  great-granddaughter  of 
Jonathan  Moulton,  colonel  of  the  Third  New  Hampshire 
Regiment  in  the  War  of  the  American  Revolution,  who  was 
given  the  township  of  Moultonboro,  N.  H.,  in  recognition 
of  his  efficient  service  during  the  war. 

His  family  moved  to  Chicago,  111.,  in  1877,  and  he  was 
prepared  for  Yale  at  the  Chicago  Manual  Training  and  Col- 
lege Preparatory  School.  At  Yale,  he  took  the  course  in 
civil  engineering  in  the  Scientific  School.  His  standing  was 
such  that  he  was  in  the  first  division  each  year,  and  he 
served  on  the  Scientific  Monthly  board  during  his  Senior 
year. 


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In  1897,  he  became  connected  with  the  Peoples  Gas, 
Light  &  Coke  Company  of  Chicago,  as  appUcation  clerk, 
and  then  as  draftsman.  In  1899,  he  was  obliged  to  resign 
because  of  ill  health,  and  for  the  next  few  years  he  spent 
the  greater  part  of  his  time  in  travel,  principally  in  Cali- 
fornia, Florida,  and  Europe.  In  1905,  he  again  became 
connected  with  the  Peoples  Gas,  Light  &  Coke  Company 
as  draftsman,  and  later  was  employed  in  the  engineering 
and  street  department.  He  was  made  assistant  engineer  of 
construction  in  1910,  and  purchasing  agent  one  year  later. 
Failing  health  compelled  him  to  resign  that  position  in 
June,  191 5,  and  the  next  month  he  went  to  the  Adirondacks 
with  his  family.  On  August  25,  he  and  his  wife  went  to 
the  sanitarium  at  Watkins  Glen,  N.  Y.,  where  he  died 
September  24,  19 15,  from  Bright's  disease.  He  was  buried 
in  Oakwood  Cemetery,  Chicago. 

On  October  4,  191 1,  Mr.  Ely  was  married  in  Chicago  to 
Geraldine,  daughter  of  James  Philander  and  Henrietta 
(Hill)  Soper,  who  survives  him  with  two  sons,  Franklin 
Jonathan,  Jr.,  and  James  Soper. 

He  was  a  member  of  the  Kenwood  Evangelical  Church 
of  Chicago,  which  he  joined  in  1893.  He  was  largely 
instrumental  in  forming  the  Advance  Club  of  the  Peoples 
Gas,  Light  &  Coke  Company,  and  served  as  its  first  chair- 
man. 

George  Lauder,  Jr.,  Ph.B.  1900 

Born  November  2,  1878,  in  Pittsburgh,  Pa. 
Died  January  4,  1916,  in  Greenwich,  Conn. 

George  Lauder,  Jr.,  was  born  in  Pittsburgh,  Pa., 
November  2,  1878,  the  son  of  George  Lauder,  a  partner  in 
the  Carnegie  Steel  Company,  who  studied  for  four  years  at 
Glasgow  University,  where  he  took  the  degree  of  C.E.,  and 
was  lecturer  in  engineering  science  in  Queen's  College, 
Liverpool,  before  coming  to  this  country  in  1870,  and  Anna 
Maria  Romeyn  (Varick)  Lauder.  His  father's  parents 
were  George  and  Seaton  (Morrison)  Lauder,  and  his 
mother  was  the  daughter  of  John  and  Susan  (Storm) 
Varick.  He  entered  Yale  from  Phillips  Academy,  Andover, 
Mass.,  and  took  the  civil  engineering  course  in  the  Scientific 
School. 


1897-1901  1^9 

Mr.  Lauder  had  given  much  of  his  attention  to  philan- 
thropy since  graduating.  His  home  had  been  at  Green- 
wich, Conn.,  since  1902.  He  was  one  of  the  founders  of 
the  Greenwich  Hospital,  serving  as  its  treasurer  until  his 
death,  and  was  also  a  director  of  the  Manhattan  Eye,  Ear 
and  Throat  and  the  Presbyterian  hospitals  of  New  York 
City  and  of  the  Home  Trust  Company  of  Hoboken,  N.  J. 
With  his  father  and  sisters,  Mr.  Lauder  two  years  ago 
established  the  Anna  M.  R.  Lauder  Chair  of  Public  Health 
in  the  School  of  Medicine.  Yachting  had  long  been  one 
of  his  chief  interests,  and  in  1905  he  won  the  fourth  prize 
with  his  yacht,  Endymion,  in  the  ocean  race  for  the  cup 
offered  by  the  German  Emperor.  He  had  also  cruised  to  a 
great  extent  along  the  Atlantic  coast  and  in  European 
waters.  For  three  years,  he  was  commodore  of  the  Indian 
Harbor  Yacht  Club.  He  was  one  of  the  syndicate  of 
yachtsmen  who  built  the  Defiance  in  1914  for  the  defence  of 
the  America's  Cup.  His  interest  and  support  had  been 
largely  given  to  Yale  rowing  affairs. 

His  death  occurred  at  his  home  in  Greenwich,  January  4, 
1916,  after  a  brief  illness  due  to  pneumonia.  He  was  buried 
in  the  Putnam  Cemetery  in  that  town. 

He  was  married  in  Greenwich,  May  22,  1902,  to  Kath- 
erine  Morgan,  daughter  of  George  and  Maria  Townsend 
(Durfee)  Rowland  and  sister  of  his  classmate,  Jasper  M. 
Rowland,  and  of  Henry  C.  Rowland,  who  took  the  degree 
of  M.D.  at  Yale  in  1898,  and  of  John  T.  Rowland,  a  mem- 
ber of  the  College  Class  of  191 1.  Mrs.  Lauder  survives 
her  husband  with  their  three  children:  Katherine  Varick, 
Mary  Josephine  Rowland,  and  George,  3d.  Mr.  Lauder 
was  a  cousin  of  Remsen  Varick  Messier  (B.A.  1880), 
Eugene  L.  Messier  (Ph.B.  1894),  and  of  Lewis  F.  Frissell 
(B.A.  1895,  M.A.  1897,  M.D.  Columbia  1900). 


Chorbajian  Martin  Luther,  Ph.B.  1901 

Born  February  25,  1875,  in  Marash,  Turkey 
Died  December  8,  1915,  in  Toronto,  Ontario,  Canada 

Chorbajian  Martin  Luther,  son  of  Minas  and  Pearl 
(Monrad)  Chorbajian,  was  born  February  25,  1875,  in 
Marash,  Turkey,  where  he  received  his   early  education. 


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In  1896,  he  was  granted  the  degree  of  B.A.  by  Central 
Turkey  College  at  Aintab,  and  the  following  year  came  to 
this  country.  He  entered  the  Sheffield  Scientific  School  in 
1898,  and  was  graduated  three  years  later.  His  name  was 
originally  Luther  Martin  Chorbajian,  but  shortly  after 
entering  the  University,  he  decided  to  reverse  the  order  of 
his  names,  and  had  since  been  known  as  Chorbajian  Martin 
Luther. 

Soon  after  leaving  Yale,  he  went  to  the  PhiHppines,  and 
for  two  years  taught  in  the  public  school  at  Salvadore.  In 
June,  1903,  he  returned  to  the  United  States,  and  a  few 
weeks  later  took  a  position  in  the  United  States  Engineer's 
Office  at  Fort  Michie,  N.  Y.  He  continued  there  until 
February,  1904,  when  he  entered  the  employ  of  the  New 
York,  New  Haven  &  Hartford  Railroad  Company  as 
transitman,  and  for  the  next  three  years  divided  his  time 
between  New  Haven  and  New  York  City.  He  left  the 
New  Haven  Road  in  February,  1907,  to  accept  a  position  as 
draftsman  with  the  American  Bridge  Company  at 
Ambridge,  Pa.  Since  April,  1908,  he  had  been  a  member 
of  the  engineering  staff  of  Mackenzie,  Mann  &  Company 
(the  Canadian  Northern  Railway)  at  Toronto,  Ontario, 
Canada,  and  had  been  principally  engaged  on  the  designing 
of  bridges.  In  1914,  he  was  promoted  to  the  position  of 
designing  engineer  with  that  company.  He  was  a  member 
of  the  Walmer  Road  Baptist  Church  of  Toronto,  and  was 
very  active  in  the  work  among  the  young  people  of  the 
church. 

He  died  in  that  city,  December  8,  191 5,  six  days  after 
undergoing  an  operation  for  appendicitis,  and  was  buried  in 
Prospect  Cemetery.  His  death  was  unexpected,  as  the 
operation  had  been  a  successful  one ;  it  is  thought  that  the 
intense  sympathy  which  Mr.  Luther  felt  for  the  recent 
sufferings  of  the  Armenians  retarded  his  chances  of 
recovery. 

His  marriage  took  place  August  2,  1904,  in  New  Haven, 
Conn.,  to  Marie  Virgin,  daughter  of  Haroutune  and  Esther 
(Sarkissian)  Keshishian.  She  survives  him  with  their  two 
daughters,  Nazenig  Viola  and  Araxy  Nevart. 


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John  James  Wright-Clark,  Ph.B.   1902 

Born  December  13,  1880,  in  Newark,  N.  J. 
Died  November  i,  1915,  in  Newark,  N.  J. 

John  James  Wright-Clark  was  born  in  Newark,  N.  J., 
December  13,  1880,  his  parents  being  John  Gibson  Wright, 
who  served  with  the  Union  Army  during  the  Civil  War, 
ranking  as  a  brigadier  general  at  its  close,  and  Margaret 
Campbell  Clark  (Millar)  Wright.  His  parents  died  in  his 
boyhood,  and  he  was  brought  up  by  an  uncle,  John  Clark, 
of  Paisley,  Scotland,  whose  name  he  adopted.  He  received 
the  greater  part  of  his  education  at  Kutenburn,  Scotland, 
making  final  preparation  for  Yale  at  Westminster  School, 
Dobbs  Ferry,  N.  Y.  He  entered  Yale  in  1899,  taking  the 
select  course  in  the  Scientific  School,  and  received  a  French 
prize  in  his  Freshman  year. 

After  spending  the  first  few  months  following  his  gradu- 
ation in  travel  abroad,  he  entered  the  employ  of  the  Nairn 
Linoleum  Company  at  Kearney,  N.  J.,  as  assistant  manager. 
He  continued  with  that  company  until  his  death,  since  1907 
holding  the  position  of  managing  director.  He  was  a  mem- 
ber of  the  North  Reformed  Church  of  Newark  and  a 
director  of  the  Essex  County  National  Bank  and  of 
Westminster  School. 

Since  1912,  Mr.  Wright-Clark's  health  had  been  poor, 
and  in  November,  1913,  it  was  found  necessary  to  amputate 
his  left  leg  above  the  knee  owing  to  a  cancerous  growth. 
His  condition  continued  to  become  worse,  and  he  died  at  his 
home  in  Newark,  November  i,  191 5.  Interment  was  in 
Mount  Pleasant  Cemetery,  that  city. 

On  May  21,  1902,  he  was  married  in  Newark  to  Helen 
Tod,  daughter  of  Peter  and  Elizabeth  (Perkins)  Campbell, 
who  survives  him  with  two  children,  Margaret  Elizabeth 
and  Peter  Campbell. 


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Ralph  William  Young-,  Ph.B.   1907 

Born  January  21,  1887,  in  West  Upton,  Mass. 
Died  June  28,  1916,  in  Worcester,  Mass. 

Ralph  William  Young  was  born  January  21,  1887,  in 
West  Upton,  Mass.,  where  his  father,  Alfred  Young,  has 
Uved  since  1879  as  superintendent  of  the  dyeing  department 
of  the  large  straw-goods  manufactory  of  William  Knowl- 
ton  &  Sons.  The  latter  was  the  son  of  William  and  Emily 
Ann  (Atwood)  Young.  William  Young,  a  native  of  Luton, 
Bedfordshire,  England,  came,  with  his  family,  to  Foxboro, 
Mass.,  in  1856,  and  was  a  pioneer  straw-goods  dyer  in  the 
United  States;  he  returned  to  England  in  the  interests  of 
his  firm  in  i860,  coming  back  to  this  country  two  years 
later  and  following  his  trade  until  his  death  in  1904. 
Through  his  mother,  who  was  Mary  A.,  daughter  of  Wil- 
liam Albert  Vinal,  a  sergeant  in  Company  I,  First  Maine 
Cavalry,  during  the  Civil  War,  and  Caroline  (Barwise) 
Vinal,  Ralph  W.  Young  was  descended  from  William  Vinall 
of  Vinehall  County,  Sussex,  England,  from  whom  the 
family  of  Vinal  took  their  present  name.  This  branch  of 
the  family  came  to  America  many  years  ago,  and  settled 
in  Littleton,  Mass.  His  great-grandfather,  Phineas  Vinall, 
went  to  Orono,  Maine,  in  his  early  youth.  Other  ancestors 
took  an  active  part  in  the  Revolutionary  War  and  the  War 
of  1812. 

He  received  his  preparatory  training  at  the  Upton  High 
School,  and  before  joining  the  Class  of  1907  in  the  Scien- 
tific School  in  February,  1906,  spent  two  and  a  half  years 
at  the  Worcester  Polytechnic  Institute. 

He  continued  his  studies  in  mining  at  Yale  for  a  year 
after  taking  his  degree,  serving  also  at  this  time  as  an 
assistant  in  Hammond  Laboratory.  From  January,  1909, 
until  June,  1910,  he  was  located  in  California,  being 
employed  by  the  Mammoth  Copper  Mining  Company,  at 
first  at  their  mine  near  Kennett,  and  afterwards  at  the 
"Original  Quartz  Hill"  mine  near  Buckeye.  He  then  went 
to  Mexico,  and  for  several  years  was  connected  with  the 
Compania  de  Real  del  Monte  y  Pachuca,  a  subsidiary  (as 
is  also  the  Mammoth  Copper  Mining  Company)  of  the 
United  States  Smelting  &  Refining  Company.  He  later 
was  at  the    "Dificultad"    mine,  near  Pachuca,  his  position 


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at  the  time  of  his  return  to  this  country  in  the  spring  of 
1914  being  that  of  chief  engineer  of  all  the  mines  of  the 
company  in  Mexico.  The  last  two  years  of  his  life  were 
spent  in  graduate  work  in  the  Sheffield  Scientific  School. 

On  May  15,  19 16,  he  underwent  a  serious  operation  for 
sarcoma,  and  later  complications  developed,  his  death  fol- 
lowing on  June  28  in  the  Worcester  (Mass.)  City  Hospital. 
Burial  was  in  Maplewood  Cemetery  in  his  native  town.  A 
short  time  before  his  death,  Mr.  Young  had  accepted  a 
position  with  the  Hardinge  Conical  Mill  Company  of  New 
York  City. 

He  was  married  June  5,  1916,  in  New  Haven,  Conn., 
to  Sara  Nichols,  daughter  of  Rufus  T.  and  Angeline 
(Parcells)  Rockwell.  She  survives  him,  as  do  his  parents, 
a  brother,  and  a  sister. 


Winfield  Clarence  Miller,  Ph.B.   1908 

Born  December  7,  1884,  in  Kingston,  Mo. 
Died  October  31,  1915,  at  Saranac  Lake,  N.  Y. 

Winfield  Clarence  Miller,  son  of  Winfield  and  Edith  Eliza- 
beth (Filby)  Miller,  was  born  December  7,  1884,  in  Kings- 
ton, Mo.,  where  his  father  was  at  the  time  clerk  of  the 
Circuit  Court  and,  ex-officio,  recorder  of  deeds.  Since  1889, 
the  latter  has  lived  in  Indianapolis,  Ind.,  and  until  191 1  he 
served  as  financial  correspondent  of  the  Connecticut  Mutual 
Life  Insurance  Company  for  Ohio  and  Indiana;  he  was 
also  for  three  years  president  of  the  ^tna  Trust  &  Savings 
Company  of  Indianapolis.  After  graduating  from  the 
Shortridge  High  School  in  that  city,  the  son  spent  one  year 
at  the  Culver  (Ind.)  Military  Academy  and  another  at 
Purdue  University.  He  entered  Yale  in  1905,  and  took  the 
select  course  in  the  Scientific  School. 

From  his  graduation  until  191 1,  he  was  associated  with 
his  father,  being  engaged  in  field  and  office  work  for  the 
Connecticut  Mutual  Life  Insurance  Company.  In  the  latter 
part  of  191 1,  he  accepted  the  position  of  secretary  and 
treasurer  of  the  Art  Garment  Company  of  Indianapolis,  but 
was  compelled  to  resign  in  January,  191 2,  on  account  of 
tubercular  trouble,  which  was  first  disclosed  in  that  month. 
From  that  time,  he  resided  at  Saranac  Lake,  N.  Y.,  and  at 


194  SHEFFIELD    SCIENTIFIC    SCHOOL 

Minocqua,  Wis.,  except  for  short  periods  spent  at  his  home 
in  Indianapolis  and  about  four  months  in  191 5  in  Albu- 
querque, N.  Mex.  His  death  occurred  October  31,  191 5, 
at  Saranac  Lake,  and  his  body  was  taken  to  Indianapolis  for 
burial  in  Crown  Hill  Cemetery. 

He  was  unmarried,  and  is  survived  by  his  father  and  a 
brother,  Blaine  Heston  Miller,  who  studied  civil  engineering 
at  the  Massachusetts  Institute  of  Technology  for  several 
years.  Paul  M.  Mohr  (B.A.  1901)  is  a  cousin  of  Mr. 
Miller. 


John  Fedor  Bernhardi,  Ph.B.  1909 

Born  July  19,  1887,  in  Jamaica,  N.  Y. 
Died  June  2,  1916,  in  New  Haven,  Conn, 

John  Fedor  Bernhardi  was  the  son  of  Fedor  E.  and 
Frances  (Shaw)  Bernhardi,  and  was  born  at  Jamaica,  Long 
Island,  N.  Y.,  July  19,  1887.  His  father's  parents  were 
Fedor  and  Ernestine  (Rabe)  Bernhardi  of  Ronneburg, 
Saxe-Altenburg,  Germany.  His  mother  is  the  daughter  of 
William  and  Lydia  (O'Donnell)  Shaw.  Through  her,  he 
was  descended  from  John  and  Margaret  O'Donnell,  who 
came  to  New  York  in  1818  from  Ireland. 

He  was  fitted  for  Yale  at  the  Jamaica  High  School,  and 
in  the  Scientific  School  took  the  course  in  civil  engineering. 

In  the  fall  after  his  graduation,  he  entered  the  employ  of 
the  Long  Island  Railroad  as  a  civil  engineer,  and  after- 
wards worked  for  the  New  York  Central  Railroad  Com- 
pany in  New  York  City,  and  for  the  Red  Hook  Light  & 
Power  Company  of  Bingham  Mills,  N.  Y. 

Mr.  Bernhardi  died  June  2,  1916,  at  his  home  in  New 
Haven,  after  an  illness  of  three  weeks,  due  to  meningitis. 
His  body  was  taken  to  Jamaica  for  burial.  At  the  time 
of  his  death,  he  was  connected  with  The  Connecticut  Com- 
pany as  a  civil  engineer,  and  had  been  located  in  New 
Haven  since  July  of  the  previous  year. 

On  July  20,  19 14,  he  was  married  in  Penn  Yan,  N.  Y., 
to  Sara,  daughter  of  Martin  and  Katherine  (Costello) 
Gavin,  who  survives  him  without  children.  He  leaves  also 
his  mother  and  two  brothers.  He  was  a  member  of  the 
Roman  Catholic  Church. 


1908-1909  195 


William  Byers  Denton,  Ph.B.   1909 

Born  May  21,  1888,  in  Sycamore,  III. 
Died  March  19,  1916,  near  Pueblo,  Colo. 

William  Byers  Denton,  son  of  Gilbert  Henry  and  Anna 
(Byers)  Denton,  was  born  May  21,  1888,  in  Sycamore, 
111.  His  father's  parents  were  Solomon  and  Olive  (Crosby) 
Denton,  and  through  him  he  was  descended  from  Solomon 
Denton,  2d,  who  was  born  in  Greenwich  County  in  1750. 
Mrs.  Denton  is  the  daughter  of  William  M.  and  Jane 
(Ade"e)  Byers  and  a  descendant  of  James  Byers,  who  came 
to  America  from  Dumfriesshire,  Scotland,  in  1818,  settling 
at  Andes,  N.  Y. 

The  son  was  prepared  for  Yale  at  the  West  Denver 
(Colo.)  High  School,  and  took  the  electrical  engineering 
course  in  the  Scientific  School.  He  was  awarded  a  Spanish 
prize  in  his  first  year  and  honors  for  excellence  in  all  studies 
as  a  Junior. 

He  continued  his  work  in  engineering  at  the  Massachu- 
setts Institute  of  Technology  after  graduating  from  Yale, 
receiving  the  degree  of  B.S.  there  in  191 1.  The  next  four 
years  were  spent  as  a  member  of  the  engineering  staff  of 
the  Vulcan  Iron  Works  of  Denver,  of  which  his  father  is 
president.  In  October,  1915,  he  took  a  position  as  engineer 
for  the  Colorado  Fuel  &  Iron  Company  at  Pueblo,  Colo. 

On  March  19,  1916,  while  still  in  their  employ,  he  was 
accidentally  drowned  in  the  Arkansas  River,  near  Pueblo, 
His  body  was  taken  to  Denver  for  cremation.  Mr.  Denton 
was  not  married.  His  parents,  a  sister,  and  a  brother 
survive  him. 


James  Edward  Schall,  Jr.,  Ph.B.   1909 

Born  May  i8,  1888,  in  Columbia,  Pa. 
Died  March  15,  igi6,  in  New  Haven,  Conn. 

James  Edward  Schall,  Jr.,  was  born  May  18,  1888,  in 
Columbia,  Pa.,  where  his  father,  James  Edward  Schall,  was 
at  the  time  engaged  in  business  as  manager  of  a  rolling  mill. 
The  latter  moved  to  New  Haven,  Conn.,  with  his  family, 
in  1899,  and  is  at  present  head  of  the  firm  of  J.  E.  Schall  & 


196  SHEFFIELD    SCIENTIFIC    SCHOOL 

Company,  dealers  in  iron  and  steel.  He  is  the  son  of  James 
Augustus  and  Katharine  E.  (Small)  Schall.  His  wife  is 
Laura,  daughter  of  Charles  Frederick  and  J.  Ellen 
(Caufman)  Sheaf er. 

Their  son  was  prepared  for  Yale  at  the  New  Haven  High 
School,  and  first  entered  the  Scientific  School  in  1905.  He 
left  in  his  first  year,  however,  joining  the  Class  of  1909  S. 
as  a  Freshman.     He  took  the  civil  engineering  course. 

Since  graduation,  Mr.  Schall  had  been  continuously 
employed  by  the  Southern  New  England  Telephone  Com- 
pany at  New  Haven  as  an  accountant.  He  was  a  member 
of  St.  Paul's  Church  (Protestant  Episcopal)  of  that  city. 

His  death  occurred  at  his  parents'  home,  March  15, 
1916,  being  due  to  nephritis.  His  illness  was  very  short, 
and  death  came  suddenly.  Pie  was  buried  in  Evergreen 
Cemetery,  New  Haven. 

Mr.  Schall  was  not  married.  Besides  his  parents,  he  is 
survived  by  two  brothers,  Howard  Sheafer  Schall,  who 
graduated  at  Yale  with  the  degree  of  Ph.B.  in  1907,  and 
Charles  Frederick  Schall. 


Winfred  Clark  Warner,  Ph.B.   1910 

Born  December  12,  1887,  in  New  Haven,  Conn. 
Died  January  20,  1916,  at  Saranac  Lake,  N.  Y. 

Winfred  Clark  Warner,  son  of  William  Ailing  and  Nettie 
Clark  (Ensign)  Warner,  was  born  December  12,  1887,  in 
New  Haven,  Conn.  His  father,  whose  parents  were  Sher- 
man R.  and  Delia  Caroline  (Hodges)  Warner,  is  president 
and  treasurer  of  The  Warner-Miller  Company  of  New 
Haven.  His  mother  was  the  daughter  of  Edwin  W.  and 
Julia  Maria  (Mix)  Ensign.  He  received  his  preliminary 
education  at  the  New  Haven  Pligh  School  and  at  the  Booth 
Preparatory  School  in  New  Haven.  He  entered  Yale  in 
1907,  taking  the  course  in  electrical  engineering  in  the 
Scientific  School,  but  was  not  able  to  complete  his  course, 
as  it  was  found  that  he  was  suffering  from  tuberculosis, 
and  he  was  forced  to  leave  in  February  of  Senior  year.  In 
Freshman  year,  he  was  given  honorable  mention  in  chemis- 
try. His  degree  was  voted  to  him  in  November,  1910,  and 
he  was  at  that  time  enrolled  with  his  Class. 


1909-1911  197 

Since  withdrawing  from  Yale,  he  had  Hved  at  Saranac 
Lake,  N.  Y.,  coming  to  his  home  in  New  Haven  for  short 
periods  when  his  condition  was  somewhat  improved.  lie 
was  usually  able  to  spend  some  time  each  summer  at  his 
father's  camp  at  Blue  Mountain  Lake  in  the  Adirondacks. 
His  death  occurred  at  Saranac  Lake,  January  20,  1916, 
and  he  was  buried  in  Evergreen  Cemetery  at  New  Haven. 

Mr.  Warner  had  not  married.  His  father,  step-mother, 
and  a  half-brother  survive  him. 


Walter  Mackintosh  Geddes,  Ph.B.   191 1 

Born  November  13,  1885,  in  Newark,  N.  J. 
Died  November  7,  1915,  in  Smyrna,  Asia  Minor 

Walter  Mackintosh  Geddes  was  born  in  Newark,  N.  J., 
November  13,  1885,  his  father  being  Alexander  Geddes, 
who  interrupted  his  course  at  the  University  of  Edin- 
burgh to  go  to  Asia  Minor  as  construction  engineer  for 
the  MacAndrews  &  Forbes  Company,  manufacturers  of 
licorice,  and  at  the  close  of  our  Civil  War  came  to  the 
United  vStates  to  open  an  American  agency  of  the  company. 
He  continued  as  general  manager  for  the  company  at  New- 
ark until  his  death,  and  for  several  years  served  as  health 
commissioner  for  that  city.  Walter  Geddes'  mother  was 
Susan  Isabel,  daughter  of  George  Baker  of  Woolwich, 
England. 

He  studied  at  the  Newark  High  School  and  at  the 
Stevens  Institute  of  Technology  at  Hoboken,  N.  J.,  in 
preparation  for  his  college  course,  and  before  entering  Yale 
in  1908,  spent  several  years  as  a  ranchman  in  the  West  and 
in  travel  abroad.  As  a  member  of  the  Class  of  191 1  S.,  he 
took  the  forestry  course,  and  after  receiving  his  Ph.B.,  he 
continued  his  studies  in  the  Yale  School  of  Forestry  for  a 
year,  being  graduated  with  the  degree  of  M.F.  in  1912. 

In  July  of  that  year,  he  entered  the  employ  of  Peters, 
Byrne  &  Company,  tree  surgeons  of  Pittsburgh,  Pa.,  as  a 
solicitor,  but  early  in  the  following  year  he  became  con- 
nected with  the  MacAndrews  &  Forbes  Company.  He  was 
sent  abroad  in  March,  1913,  to  represent  them  at  Aleppo, 
Syria,  and  in  the  fall  of  that  year  became  local  manager  for 


198  SHEFFIELD    SCIENTIFIC    SCHOOL 

the  company  at  Damascus.     His  death  occurred  at  Smyrna.. 
Asia  Minor,  November  7,  191 5. 

He  was  married  in  Denver,  Colo.,  October  30,  1912,  to 
Rebekah  Virginia,  daughter  of  Edward  Pottle  Botsford. 
Mrs.  Geddes,  who  has  been  in  this  country  since  the  out- 
break of  the  European  war,  survives  her  husband  with  their 
son,  George  Baker.  Mr.  Geddes  served  for  a  time  as  Sec- 
retary of  his  Class  in  the  School  of  Forestry,  but  resigned 
on  taking  up  his  work  abroad. 


Edward  Hodges  Norton,  Ph.B.   191 1 

Born  November  3,  1888,  in  Torrington,  Conn. 
Died  October  23,  1915,  in  Boston,  Mass. 

Edward  Hodges  Norton,  son  of  Edward  Mills  Norton, 
who  is  employed  in  the  American  Brass  Company,  and 
whose  parents  were  Edward  and  Mary  (Wooster)  Norton, 
was  born  in  Torrington,  Conn.,  November  3,  1888.  His 
mother  was  Helen,  daughter  of  Levi  Hodges,  at  one  time 
a  colonel  in  the  Connecticut  Militia,  and  Delia  C.  (Drake) 
Hodges.  His  paternal  ancestor,  Thomas  Norton,  came  to 
Massachusetts  in  1639,  and  his  maternal  ancestor,  Capt. 
William  Hodges,  some  years  earlier. 

Before  entering  Yale  in  1908,  he  attended  the  public 
schools  of  Torrington  and  Ansonia,  receiving  his  final  prep- 
aration at  the  Ansonia  High  School.  He  took  the  course 
in  chemistry  in  the  Scientific  School,  and  received  honors 
in  German  in  his  Freshman  year. 

Mr.  Norton  was  a  laboratory  assistant  at  Yale  from  the 
fall  of  1911  until  January,  1912,  when  he  began  work  as 
a  chemist  for  the  Kolynos  Company  of  New  Haven,  con- 
tinuing with  that  company  until  his  death,  which  occurred 
October  23,  191 5,  in  Boston,  where  he  was  spending  a  few- 
days.  The  cause  of  his  death  was  diabetes,  from  which  he 
had  suffered  for  about  ten  months.  His  body  was  taken  to 
Torrington  for  burial. 

He  was  not  married.  His  father,  a  sister,  and  two 
brothers,  the  elder,  Richard  Drake,  being  a  member  of  the 
College  Class  of  1919,  survive  him.  He  belonged  to  the 
First  Congregational  Church  of  Torrington. 


1911-1915  199 


Paul  Edward  Mower  Tiesing,  Ph.B.   191 5 

Born  April  22,  1895,  in  New  Haven,  Conn. 
Died  November  15,  1915,  in  Baltimore,  Md. 

Paul  Edward  Mower  Tiesing,  son  of  Edward  John  Ties- 
ing,  whose  parents  were  Frank  William  and  Martha 
Dorothy  Tiesing,  was  born  in  New  Haven,  Conn.,  April 
22,  1895,  his  mother  being  Annie  Elizabeth,  daughter  of 
Samuel  Erastus  and  Annie  Elizabeth  Mower.  He  was  pre- 
pared for  Yale  at  the  New  Haven  High  School,  and  took 
the  course  in  biology  in  the  Sheffield  Scientific  School, 
receiving  honors  in  that  subject  Freshman  year. 

In  the  fall  after  his  graduation,  he  entered  Johns  Hopkins 
University  with  the  intention  of  taking  -the  four-year  course 
in  surgery.  His  death  occurred  at  the  Johns  Hopkins  Hos- 
pital in  Baltimore,  Md.,  November  15,  1915,  following  an 
operation  for  an  abscess  of  the  lung  and  an  attack  of  pneu- 
monia.   His  body  was  taken  to  Windsor,  Vt.,  for  burial. 

Mr.  Tiesing  was  not  married.  Both  parents  survive  him. 
He  belonged  to  the  Humphrey  Street  Congregational 
Church  of  New  Haven. 


GRADUATE   SCHOOL 


GRADUATE  SCHOOL 
Joseph  Cullen  Messick,  M.A.  1909 

Born  May  i,  1876,  in  Mechanicsburg,  Ohio 
Died  February  3,  1916,  in  Delaware,  Ohio 

Joseph  Cullen  Messick,  son  of  James  Jefferson  and 
Frances  Adelia  (Wilkinson)  Messick,  was  born  May  i, 
1876,  in  Mechanicsburg,  Ohio.  On  the  paternal  side,  he 
was  of  German  descent,  his  ancestors  being  among  the 
earliest  settlers  in  Virginia.  His  mother  was  of  Scotch- 
Irish  origin. 

He  received  his  preparatory  training  in  the  Mechanicsburg 
High  School,  and  after  spending  a  year  at  Western  Reserve 
University,  entered  Ohio  Wesleyan  University,  where  he 
was  graduated  as  a  Bachelor  of  Arts  in  1902.  Mr.  Mes- 
sick's  special  interest  was  Latin,  and  in  1908  he  began  a 
year  of  graduate  work  at  Yale  on  a  University  Fellowship. 
He  received  the  degree  of  M.A.  in  1909. 

During  the  next  year,  he  was  acting  head  of  the  Latin 
Department,  and  an  associate  professor,  at  Ohio  Wesleyan. 
In  1910,  he  was  appointed  to  the  Brown  professorship  of 
Latin,  and  served  thereafter  as  head  of  the  department.  He 
had  given  much  time  to  research  in  Latin,  but  had  not  at  the 
time  of  his  death  completed  any  work  for  publication.  In 
the  summer  of  19 12,  he  traveled  in  Europe,  spending  most 
of  his  time  in  Rome.  He  was  a  member  of  Phi  Beta 
Kappa,  the  School  Masters  Club  of  Central  Ohio,  and  the 
Classical  Association  of  the  Middle  West.  He  belonged 
to  the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church,  and  for  seven  years 
taught  a  Sunday  school  class  of  college  students. 

Professor  Messick's  death  occurred  in  Delaware,  Ohio, 
February  3,  1916,  as  the  result  of  an  attack  of  pneumonia, 
and  he  was  buried  in  that  town. 

On  June  21,  1906,  he  was  married  in  Alliance,  Ohio,  to 
Clara  Birdlyn,  daughter  of  Judson  S.  and  Rachael  Susanna 
(Feter)  Millhon,  who  survives  him  with  a  daughter, 
Katherine  Millhon.  Mrs.  Messick  graduated  at  Mount 
Union  College  at  Alliance  with  the  degree  of  Litt.B.  in 
1906. 


M.A.    I909-PII.D.    1909 


John  Carey  Boals,  Ph.D.   1877 

Born  November  i6,  1850,  in  Somerville,  Tenn. 
Died  November  17,  1908,  in  Covington,  Tenn. 

It  has  been  impossible  to  secure  the  desired  information 
for  an  obituary  sketch  of  Dr.  Boals  in  time  for  publication 
in  this  volume.  A  sketch  will  appear  in  a  subsequent  issue 
of  the  Obituary  Record. 


Kannosuke  Kawanaka,  Ph.D.   1909 

Died  April  5,  igi6,  in  Kyoto,  Japan 

It  has  been  impossible  to  secure  the  desired  information 
for  an  obituary  sketch  of  Dr.  Kawanaka  in  time  for  publica- 
tion in  this  volume.  A  sketch  will  appear  in  a  subsequent 
issue  of  the  Obituary  Record. 


SCHOOL   OF    MEDICINE 


SCHOOL  OF  MEDICINE 
Frank  Gallagher,  M.D.   1864 

Born  March  19,  1845,  in  New  Haven,  Conn. 
Died  March  25,  1916,  in  Newport,  Ore. 

Frank  Gallagher  was  born  March  19,  1845,  in  New  Haven, 
Conn.,  the  son  of  James  Gallagher,  a  cigar  manufacturer. 
The  latter  served  for  some  years  as  a  member  of  the  Board 
of  Public  Works  of  New  Haven,  Conn.,  to  which  place  he 
had  moved  from  Baltimore,  Md.,  in  1843,  was  president  of 
the  Connecticut  State  Board  of  Charities  from  1882  to 
1886,  represented  New  Haven  in  the  General  Assembly  of 
1 861  and  1863,  and  was  a  state  senator  in  1867,  1868,  and 
1889.  Frank  Gallagher's  mother  was  Miranda  Lucinda, 
daughter  of  Walter  Pease,  a  native  of  Enfield,  Conn.,  born 
in  1818,  of  an  old  and  much  esteemed  family  of  that  town. 

He  entered  Yale  in  1862,  taking  his  medical  degree  two 
years  later,  and  afterwards  practiced  in  New  Haven.  The 
greater  part  of  his  life  had,  however,  been  spent  in  the 
West,  principally  in  Oregon.  He  died  in  Newport,  that 
state,  on  March  25,  1916. 

Dr.  Gallagher  was  married  some  years  ago  to  Myra  Tut- 
tle,  but  was  later  separated  from  her.  They  had  one  daugh- 
ter. His  younger  brother,  John  Currier  Gallagher,  who 
died  in  1912,  graduated  from  the  Scientific  School  in  1879 
and  from  the  School  of  Law  in  188 1. 


Fenner  Harris  Peckham,  M.D.   1866 

Born  February  ii,  1844,  in  East  Killingly,  Conn. 
Died  December  25,  1915,  in  Providence,  R.  I. 

Fenner  Harris  Peckham  was  born  in  East  Killingly, 
Conn.,  February  11,  1844,  being  the  only  son  of  Fenner 
Harris  and  Catharine  Davis  (Torrey)  Peckham.  His 
father  was  the  son  of  Hazael  Peckham,  a  practicing  physi- 
cian, and  Susannah  (Thornton)  Peckham  and  a  descendant 


1864-1866  203 

of  John  Peckham,  who  came  to  America  from  England  in 
1638  and  settled  at  Newport,  R.  I.  A  graduate  of  the  Yale 
School  of  Medicine  in  1842,  he  practiced  in  East  Killingly 
until  1852  and  in  Providence,  R.  I.,  from  that  year  until  his 
death  in  1887;  he  was  a  surgeon  in  the  Third  Rhode  Island 
Heavy  Artillery  during  the  Civil  War.  His  wife,  whose 
parents  were  William  and  Zilpah  (Davison)  Torrey,  was 
descended  from  William  Torrey,  who  settled  in  Weymouth, 
Mass.,  in  1640,  having  emigrated  from  Combe  St.  Nicholas, 
England. 

The  son  was  educated  in  the  schools  of  Providence,  and 
after  leaving  the  Providence  High  School  in  1861,  served 
for  a  time  with  the  Union  Army  as  hospital  steward,  later 
becoming  a  lieutenant  in  the  Twelfth  Rhode  Island  Volun- 
teer Infantry.  He  took  up  the  study  of  medicine  at  Yale 
in  1864,  having  previously  studied  under  his  father. 
Returning  to  Providence  after  his  graduation,  he  became 
associated  with  the  latter,  and  after  his  death  continued  in 
practice  until  a  few  years  ago,  when  he  practically  retired, 
relinquishing  his  practice  to  his  eldest  son. 

Dr.  Peckham  had  not,  however,  confined  his  activities 
entirely  to  his  profession,  but  had  interested  himself  in 
many  movements  for  civic  betterment,  as  well  as  giving  his 
attention  to  a  number  of  business  projects.  From  January 
9,  1904,  to  November  16,  1904,  he  was  president  of  the 
Board  of  Park  Commissioners,  and  from  the  organization 
of  the  Metropolitan  Park  Commission  of  Rhode  Island  on 
the  latter  date  was  chairman  of  that  body  and  one  of  its 
most  ardent  champions.  Since  19 15,  he  had  been  president 
of  the  Public  Park  Association,  and  he  had  also  served  as 
state  commissioner  of  birds  from  Providence  County.  He 
was  president  of  the  Hope  Webbing  Company,  the  largest 
plant  of  its  kind  in  the  world,  vice  president  of  the  Provi- 
dence Telephone  Company,  a  director  of  the  Narragansett 
Electric  Lighting  Company,  the  Rhode  Island  Perkins 
Horseshoe  Company,  the  Mechanics  National  Bank,  the 
Freemasons  Hall  Company,  and  the  Wood  River  Branch 
Railway  Company,  and  a  trustee  of  the  Mechanics  Savings 
Bank.  He  was  a  member  of  St.  Stephen's  Protestant 
Episcopal  Church  of  Providence  and  of  the  Massachusetts 
Commandery  of  the  Military  Order  of  the  Loyal  Legion. 
He  belonged  to  the  Rhode  Island  Medical  Society  and  to 
the  American   Medical  Association,   and  had  served   as  a 


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United  States  pension  examining  surgeon.  He  had  written 
somewhat  for  the  press. 

Dr.  Peckham's  death,  which  was  due  to  heart  trouble, 
occurred  at  his  home  in  Providence,  December  25,  191 5, 
after  an  illness  of  only  three  days.  He  was  buried  in  Swan 
Point  Cemetery,  that  city. 

He  was  married  October  29,  1867,  in  Providence,  to 
Mary  Helen,  daughter  of  Elam  Ward  and  Helen  (Fuller) 
Olney,  who  died  May  13,  1911.  On  January  9,  1913,  Dr. 
Peckham  was  married  a  second  time  in  ,  Providence  to 
Mary  Anna,  daughter  of  Francis  W.  and  Anna  D.  (Barney) 
Carpenter,  who  survives  her  husband.  He  also  leaves  his 
three  children  by  his  first  marriage, — Charles  Fenner,  who 
graduated  from  the  College  of  Physicians  and  Surgeons  at 
Columbia  in  1890  with  the  degree  of  M.D.,  Alice,  and 
Wilham  Torrey,  a  graduate  of  Brown  in  1897. 


George  Edward  Cragin,  M.D.   1867 

Born  January  7,  1840,  in  New  York  City 
Died  September  8,  1915,  in  Kenwood,  N.  Y. 

George  Edward  Cragin  was  born  in  New  York  City, 
January  7,  1840,  his  parents  being  George  Cragin,  at  one 
time  editor  of  Moral  Reform,  and  Mary  Elizabeth  (John- 
son) Cragin.  His  great-grandfather,  Amos  Cragin,  was 
killed  at  the  battle  of  Ticonderoga  in  1758.  His  paternal 
grandfather  was  Benjamin  Cragin,  who  served  as  justice 
of  the  peace  in  Douglass,  Mass.,  and  represented  his  dis- 
trict in  the  Massachusetts  Legislature  for  about  forty  years. 
His  mother  was  the  daughter  of  Daniel  and  Mary  G. 
Johnson. 

He  received  his  early  education  at  Kenwood,  N.  Y.,  and 
before  entering  the  Yale  School  of  Medicine  in  1864,  was 
engaged  in  farming  and  manufacturing. 

After  taking  his  degree  in  1867,  he  became  connected 
with  the  Oneida  Community,  Ltd.,  at  Kenwood,  with  which 
he  continued  until  his  retirement  in  1911.  Until  about 
1886,  he  attended  to  the  medical  practice  of  the  Community, 
but  since  that  time  "had  taken  no  cases.  Although  in  failing 
strength  the  last  five  years  of  his  life,  Dr.  Cragin  was  very 
active  intellectually,  giving  much  of  his  attention  to  writing. 


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When  sixty-eight  years  of  age,  he  took  up  oil  painting,  and 
left  a  number  of  pictures. 

Dr.  Cragin  became  ill  with  acute  indigestion  at  his  home 
in  Kenwood  on  the  afternoon  of  September  8,  191 5,  and 
died  at  midnight,  his  death  being  due  to  angina  pectoris. 
He  was  buried  in  the  local  cemetery. 

His  marriage  took  place  on  October  25,  1879,  in  Ken- 
wood to  Carrie  M.,  daughter  of  Rev.  Lorenzo  Bolles,  Jr., 
of  Hopkinton,  Mass.,  who  served  as  chaplain  of  the 
Twenty-first  Iowa  Regiment  during  the  Civil  War,  and 
Rachel  M.  (Crossman)  Bolles,  who  survives  him.  They 
had  two  children,  Edward  Trowbridge,  who  died  in  infancy, 
and  Jessie,  now  Mrs.  John  Newton  Milnes  of  Espy,  Pa. 
One  of  his  brothers,  John  Holton  Cragin,  attended  the 
Sheffield  Scientific  School  during  1867-68,  while  the  other, 
Charles  Adams  Cragin,  received  the  degree  of  Ph.B.  at 
Yale  in  1873. 


Charles  Frederick  Dibble,  M.D.   1885 

Born  May  22,  1859,  in  New  Haven.  Conn. 
Died  July  21,  1915,  in  Guilford,  Conn. 

Charles  Frederick  Dibble  was  born  May  22,  1859,  i"  New 
Haven,  Conn.,  his  parents  being  Charles  Ferdinand  Dibble, 
a  carriage  manufacturer  of  that  city,  who  served  as  com- 
missary with  the  Fourteenth  Connecticut  Regiment  during 
the  Civil  War,  and  Axia  Elmina  (Fields)  Dibble.  He 
received  his  early  education  at  the  Episcopal  Academy  at 
Cheshire,  Conn.,  and  before  entering  Yale  in  1882  worked 
for  a  time  in  the  carriage  shop  of  Mr.  Townsend  in  New 
Haven. 

"  He  took  his  medical  degree  in  1885,  and  for  the  next  five 
years  practiced  in  New  Haven.  He  then  moved  to  Clare- 
mont,  Va.,  where  he  followed  his  profession  until  1905. 
At  that  time,  he  gave  up  active  practice  on  account  of  poor 
health*  and  he  had  since  lived  in  Guilford,  Conn.,  where  he 
died  July  21,  191 5,  after  a  short  illness.  Burial  was  in 
Nut  Plains  Cemetery,  Guilford. 

He  was  married  in  New  Haven,  July  i,  1885,  to  Ella 
Emily,  daughter  of  Elv  Malvin  and  Lucy  Munro  (Daniels) 
Wing  and  widow  of  Henry  M.  Sanderson.      She  survives 


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him  with  their  son,  Charles  Frederick,  Jr.  Dr.  Dibble  was 
the  nephew  of  Frederic  Levi  Dibble  (M.D.  1859),  who 
went  to  the  front  in  the  Civil  War  as  a  surgeon. 


William  Harvey  Stowe,  M.D.   1888 

Born  August  10,  1842,  in  New  Haven,  Conn. 
Died  August  11,  1915,  in  South  Norwalk,  Conn. 

William  Harvey  Stowe  was  the  son  of  Harvey  and  Sarah 
(Lees)  Stowe,  and  was  born  August  10,  1842,  in  New 
Haven,  Conn.  He  was  of  an  old  English  family,  the 
pioneer  ancestor  of  the  American  branch  being  John  Stowe 
of  Hawkhurst,  Kent,  who  came  on  the  ship  Elizabeth  in 
1635  and  settled  at  Roxbury,  Mass. 

His  early  education  was  received  in  General  Russell's 
Collegiate  and  Commercial  Institute  in  New  Haven,  and  he 
had  passed  his  entrance  examinations  for  Yale,  intending 
to  enter  with  the  College  Class  of  1865,  but  in  September, 
1861,  enlisted  instead  in  the  Sixth  Connecticut  Infantry  as 
a  first  lieutenant.  In  1868,  he  accepted  a  position  as  teacher 
in  commercial  and  mathematical  branches  and  Latin,  and 
as  military  instructor,  at  General  Russell's  school,  where  he 
remained  until  June,  1885.  He  then  conducted  for  three 
years  a  school  of  his  own  in  New  Haven,  under  the  name 
of  the  Collegiate  and  Commercial  Institute.  In  1886,  he 
took  up  the  study  of  medicine  at  Yale,  receiving  the  degree 
of  M.D.  with  honors  in  1888  and  spending  the  following 
year  in  graduate  work. 

He  began  practice  at  Cross  River,  N.  Y.,  in  1895,  serving 
in  1900  and  1901  as  superintendent  of  the  Sunday  school  of 
the  Presbyterian  Church  at  South  Salem,  N.  Y.  In  the 
spring  of  1908,  he  moved  to  South  Norwalk,  Conn.,  and 
followed  his  profession  in  that  place  until  his  sudden  death, 
fiom  apoplexy,  August  11,  1915.  He  was  buried  in  River- 
side Cemetery  at  South  Norwalk. 

Dr.  Stowe  became  affiliated  with  the  South  N'orwalk 
Congregational  Church  upon  his  arrival  in  that  town,  and 
was  one  of  the  most  active  and  energetic  workers  in  the 
congregation,  being  a  deacon  from  October,  191 3,  until  his 
death.  In  1909,  he  was  appointed  secretary  and  treasurer 
of  the  Norwalk  Medical  Association,  and  he  had  also  been 


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a  member  of  the  New  York  and  Connecticut  State  Military 
Examining  Boards,  and  belonged  to  the  American  Medical 
Society. 

He  was  married  August  3,  1869,  in  New  Haven  to  Ellen 
Frances,  daughter  of  Edward  Swain  and  Sarah  Ann 
(Bates)  Read.  She  died  in  May,  1892,  and  on  May  2, 
1900,  his  second  marriage  took  place  in  Bedford,  N.  Y.,  to 
Caroline  Avery,  daughter  of  Harvey  W.  and  Caroline 
Reynolds.  Dr.  Stowe  had  five  children  by  his  first  mar- 
riage: Sarah  Read  (Mrs.  Franklin  Everett  Weaver  of 
Waterbury,  Conn.)  ;  Edward  Benjamin,  who  died  May  30, 
1886;  Eric  Lees;  WiUiam  Davenport,  and  Dorothea  Olive, 
the  wife  of  Mr.  John  Cully  of  Meriden,  Conn.  His  grand- 
son, Hobart  Stowe  Weaver,  graduated  from  the  College  in 
1916,  and  other  relatives  are  Edwin  Starr  Pickett  (B.A. 
1899,  LL.B.  1901),  and  Ralph  M.  Read,  a  graduate  of  the 
Scientific  School  in  1912. 


Frank  Atwater  Elmes,  M.D.   1905 

Born  November  27,  1879,  in  Derby,  Conn. 
Died  May  21,  1916,  in  Derby,  Conn. 

Frank  Atwater  Elmes,  son  of  William  Forbes  and  Kath- 
erine  (Vincent)  Elmes,  was  born  November  27,  1879,  in 
Derby,  Conn.  His  father  was  the  son  of  Thomas  and  Lucy 
Root  (Atwater)  Elmes  and  the  great-grandson  of  Charles 
Atwater,  who  established  a  scholarship  at  Yale.  Among 
his  ancestors  were  David  Atwater,  one  of  the  first  planters 
of  New  Haven  Colony,  Lieut.  Elisha  Root,  an  officer  in  the 
Revolution,  and  Col.  William  Curtiss.  Members  of  the 
Root  family  came  to  this  country  because  they  would  not 
fight  under  -Cromwell,  and  were  among  the  settlers  of 
Farmington,  Conn.,  in  1640. 

Entering  Yale  from  the  Derby  High  School  as  a  member 
of  the  College  Class  of  1902,  Frank  Elmes  withdrew  early 
in  1900,  and  went  to  South  Africa.  On  his  arrival  there, 
he  enlisted  in  the  English  Mounted  Infantry  for  service  in 
the  Boer  War.  He  was  wounded  twice,  and  had  fever,  and 
as  a  result,  was  invalided  home  with  a  pension  and  a  medal 
at  the  end  of  a  year.  He  entered  the  Yale  School  of  Medi- 
cine in  1901,  taking  his  degree  four  years  later.     In  Senior 


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year,  he  was  president  of  his  Class,  of  which  he  had  been 
Secretary  since  graduation. 

After  serving  ^s  an  interne  at  the  New  Haven  Hospital 
for  about  eighteen  months  after  taking  his  degree,  he  went 
abroad  for  further  study  in  Rome,  Berlin,  and  London. 
Returning  to  this  country  in  1908,  he  settled  in  his  native 
town,  where  he  had  since  devoted  his  attention  to  surgery. 
For  about  two  years,  he  was  associated  with  Charles  T. 
Baldwin  (M.D.  New  York  University  1883),  but  since  1910 
had  practiced  alone. 

Dr.  Elmes  served  as  attending  surgeon  to  Griffin  Hos- 
pital, Derby,  for  two  months  each  year,  as  health  officer  of 
Derby  for  two  years,  and  as  medical  inspector  of  its  public 
schools  for  a  similar  period.  He  had  written  several  arti- 
cles for  medical  journals  on  subjects  connected  with  health 
and  school  inspection.  He  was  a  Roman  Catholic,  being  a 
communicant  of  St.  Mary's  Church  of  Derby.  He  was  a 
member  of  the  American  Medical  Association,  the  Con- 
necticut Medical  Society,  the  New  Haven  County  and  City 
Medical  societies,  and  at  one  time  served  as  vice  president 
of  the  School  of  Medicine  Alumni  Association. 

His  death  occurred  suddenly  at  his  home  in  Derby  on 
May  21,  1916,  and  he  was  buried  in  Grove  Street  Cemetery, 
New  Haven.  Dr.  Elmes  was  unmarried.  In  addition  to 
his  brother,  Thomas,  who  graduated  from  the  Scientific 
School  in  1906  and  from  the  School  of  Law  in  191 1,  he  is 
survived  by  his  parents.  A  number  of  relatives  have 
attended  Yale. 


John  Charles  Malony,  M.D.   1910 

Born  August  26,  1886,  in  Lakemont,  N.  Y. 
Died  August  i,  191 5,  in  Dundee,  N.  Y. 

John  Charles  Malony  was  born  August  26,  1886,  in 
Lakemont,  N.  Y.,  his  parents  being  Dr.  John  Montgomery 
Malony  and  Josephine  (Huson)  Malony.  His  father,  who 
received  the  degree  of  M.D.  from  Georgetown  University 
in  1870,  has  been  for  many  years  engaged  in  practice  as  a 
physician  and  surgeon  in  Dundee,  N.  Y.,  where  he  served 
as  health  officer  and  coroner  from  1886  to  1905.  His 
mother  is  the  daughter  of  William  H.  and  Mary  E.  (Reed) 


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Huson.  After  graduating  from  the  Dundee  High  School, 
the  son  entered  the  Yale  School  of  Medicine  in  1905,  but 
was  compelled  to  withdraw  in  his  first  year  on  account  of 
illness.  He  returned  in  1906,  and  completed  his  work  in 
1910.  He  served  as  an  associate  editor  of  the  year  book 
issued  by  his  Class  in  its  Senior  year. 

After  spending  the  two  years  following  his  graduation  as 
an  interne  at  the  Hospital  of  St.  Raphael  in  New  Haven,  he 
returned  to  Dundee,  where  he  had  since  practiced.  His 
death  was  due  to  a  sudden  attack  of  heart  trouble,  and 
occurred  August  i,  19 15,  at  his  home  in  that  town.  He 
was  buried  in  Hillside  Cemetery,  Dundee. 

On  December  25,  19 12,  Dr.  Malony  was  married  in 
Rochester,  N.  Y.,  to  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  D.  E.  and  N. 
Helen  (Goble)  Beam,  who  survives  him  with  their  infant 
daughter,  Helen  Elizabeth.  Besides  his  parents  and  three 
sisters,  he  leaves  three  brothers :  William  Redfield  Proctor 
Malony  (B.A.  1900,  LL.B.  Georgetown  1903,  M.L.  George- 
town 1904)  ;  Frederick  Fletcher  Malony,  who  received  the 
degree  of  M.D.  at  Yale  in  1901,  and  Harry  James  Malony, 
a  non-graduate  member  of  the  College  Class  of  191 1,  who 
graduated  from  West  Point  in  19 12. 


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Alexander  John  Robert,  LL.B.   185 1 

Born  October  2,  1828,  near  Robertsville,  S.  C. 
Died  September  17,  1915,  in  Grass  Valley,  Cal. 

Alexander  John  Robert  was  born  October  2,  1828,  on  a 
plantation  near  Robertsville,  S.  C,  being  one  of  the  thirteen 
children  of  James  Jehu  Robert  and  a  descendant  of  Pierre 
Robert,  the  physician  and  preacher  of  the  colony  of  Hugue- 
nots who  settled  in  South  Carolina,  and  of  Landgrave 
Thomas  Smith,  at  one  time  governor  of  that  state.  His 
mother  was  Phoebe  Miranda,  daughter  of  Capt.  Patrick 
McKenzie,  of  the  English  Navy,  and  Esther  (Moss) 
McKenzie,  the  latter  being  the  daughter  of  Dr.  George 
Moss. 

In  1849,  h^  received  the  degree  of  B.A.  from  Brown 
University.  Before  entering  that  institution,  he  had  studied 
at  Denison  University  in  Granville,  Ohio.  He  came  to  New 
Haven  in  January,  1850,  and  was  graduated  from  the  Yale 
School  of  Law  the  following  year. 

Shortly  afterwards,  he  was  admitted  to  the  bar  at  Mari- 
etta, Ga.,  but  practiced  his  profession  for  only  a  short 
time,  giving  his  attention  instead  to  his  plantation.  He  was 
colonel  of  the  Seventy-eighth  Regiment  of  Georgia  State 
Troops,  and  at  the  beginning  of  the  Civil  War,  enlisted  in 
the  Confederate  Army,  as  a  private  in  Company  E,  Fourth 
Georgia  Volunteers.  He  was  promoted  to  the  rank  of  first 
lieutenant,  and  later  became  adjutant,  serving  in  the  latter 
capacity  from  1862  to  1865.  From  1871  to  1876,  he  held 
the  position  of  principal  of  the  Masonic  Literary  Institute 
at  Ringgold,  Ga.,  and  during  the  next  two  years  was  head 
of  the  Sam  Houston  Institute  at  Jasper,  Tenn.  In  1878, 
he  was  chosen  president  of  the  Corsicana  (Texas)  Female 
College,  and  filled  that  office  until  1882,  when  he  became 
president  of  Andover  College  at  Huntsville,  Texas.  He 
was  then  for  some  years  engaged  in  manufacturing  at  Hills- 
boro,  Texas,  later  being  superintendent  successively  of  the 
schools  of  Colorado,  Texas,  and  of  those  of  Comanche, 
Longview,  Hillsboro,  and  Pottsboro,  in  the  same  state,  and 


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of  Marietta,  Indian  Territory.  After  serving  for  a  time  as 
president  of  Cree  Female  College  at  Tishomingo,  in  that 
territory,  he  removed,  in  April,  1906,  to  Spokane,  Wash., 
and  there  took  up  truck  farming  and  poultry  culture. 

Seven  years  later,  he  v^ent  to  Davis,  Cal.,  but  a  few 
months  afterwards  left  that  town  for  Grass  Valley,  Cal., 
where  he  died  September  17,  191 5,  after  a  brief  illness  fol- 
lowing a  general  breakdown  in  health.  Burial  was  in  Elm 
Ridge  Cemetery  at  Grass  Valley.  Mr.  Robert  had  served 
as  a  vestryman  and  warden  in  the  Protestant  Episcopal 
Church. 

He  was  married  on  October  18,  1863,  in  LaGrange, 
Ga.,  to  May  Virginia,  daughter  of  Wiley  Hartsfield  Simms. 
Mrs.  Robert,  who  graduated  from  the  Southern  Female 
College  in  1861,  survives  her  husband.  Five  children  were 
born  to  them :  Addie  Sterling,  a  graduate  of  Baylor  Female 
Seminary  in  1887;  Alexander  Beale;  Margaret  May,  who 
is  the  wife  of  Frank  E.  Geathard  of  Spokane,  Wash. ;  Pierre 
Joseph,  and  Emily  Lee.  Mr.  Robert  was  a  brother  of 
Joseph  Thomas  Robert  (B.A.  Brown  1828,  M.D.  Medical 
College  of  the  State  of  South  Carolina  1831,  LL.D.  Denison 
1869),  who  studied  in  the  Yale  School  of  Medicine  during 
1829-30;  James  Lawrence  Robert,  a  graduate  of  the  Georgia 
Medical  College  in  1854;  William  Henry  Robert,  who  was 
educated  at  South  Carolina  College ;  Milton  George  Robert 
(B.A.  Brown  1847)  ;  Francis  Wayland  Robert,  a  non- 
graduate  member  of  the  Class  of  185 1  at  Brown,  who 
received  the  degree  of  LL.B.  at  Yale  in  185 1 ;  Stoney  Jehu 
Robert,  who  studied  at  Brown  University  and  later  received 
the  degree  of  M.D.  from  the  Georgia  Medical  College,  and 
of  Benjamin  Franklin  Robert,  a  student  at  Brown  from 
1853  to  1856. 


Oliver  Perry  Shiras,  LL.B.   1856 

Born  October  22,  1833,  in  Pittsburgh,  Pa. 
Died  January  7,  1916,  in  Seabreeze,  Fla. 

Oliver  Perry  Shiras,  one  of  the  four  sons  of  George  and 
Eliza  (Herron)  Shiras,  was  born  in  Pittsburgh,  Pa.,  Octo- 
ber 22,  1833.  His  mother  was  the  daughter  of  Rev.  Francis 
Herron  and  Elizabeth    (Blaine)    Herron.     He   studied   at 


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the  Western  University  of  Pennsylvania  (University  of 
Pittsburgh)  for  some  time,  and  in  1853  received  the  degree 
of  B.A.  from  Ohio  University  at  Athens,  where  he  spent 
four  years.  He  then  came  to  Yale,  and,  after  some  time  in 
the  Department  of  Philosophy,  in  1854  took  up  the  study 
of  law,  being  graduated  with  the  degree  of  Bachelor  of 
Laws  in  1856. 

In  that  year,  Mr.  Shiras  was  admitted  to  the  Iowa  Bar, 
and  practiced  in  Dubuque  until  1882,  when  he  was 
appointed  United  States  district  judge  for  the  northern 
district  of  Iowa.  He  served  in  that  capacity  until  his 
retirement  in  November,  1903.  He  was  a  member  of  the 
American  Bar  Association  and  the  author  of  "Equity  Prac- 
tice in  the  United  States  Courts."  In  1886,  Yale  conferred 
the  honorary  degree  of  LL.D.  upon  him,  and  eighteen  years 
afterwards  he  received  a  similar  degree  from  Ohio  Uni- 
versity. He  served  with  the  Union  Army  from  August, 
1862,  until  November,  1864,  as  a  first  lieutenant  in  the 
Twenty-seventh  Iowa  Infantry. 

His  death  occurred,  after  an  operation,  January  7,  1916, 
at  Seabreeze,  Fla.  His  body  was  taken  to  Dubuque  for 
burial. 

He  was  married  in  Springfield,  Ohio,  February  28,  1857, 
to  Elizabeth  Ruth,  daughter  of  Nathaniel  Mitchell.  She 
died  August  11,  1885.  They  had  four  children:  Isabella 
H.,  who  married  Mr.  Irving  VanVliet  in  1891 ;  Eliza  H. 
(died  January  27,  1863)  ;  Anna  D.,  who  died  in  infancy, 
and  Frederick  D.,  whose  death  occurred  June  11,  1908. 
On  October  11,  1888,  Mr.  Shiras  was  married  in  St.  Paul, 
Minn.,  to  Mrs.  Hetty  E.  Cornwall,  who  survives  him  with 
his  eldest  daughter.  His  brother,  George  Shiras,  Jr.,  grad- 
uated from  the  College  in  1853,  receiving  an  honorary 
LL.D.  in  1883.  The  latter's  sons  are  George  Shiras,  3d, 
who  attended  Cornell  from  1877  to  1881,  graduating  from 
the  Yale  School  of  Law  in  1883,  and  Winfield  Kennedy 
Shiras  (LL.B.  1884),  who  studied  at  Cornell  for  four  years 
before  coming  to  Yale. 


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Frank  AUyn  Robinson,  LL.B.   1872 

Born  August  3,  185 1,  in  Norwich,  Conn. 
Died  December  25,  191 5,  in  New  Haven,  Conn. 

Frank  Allyn  Robinson,  son  of  John  Adams  and  Mary 
Elizabeth  (Callyhan)  Robinson,  was  born  August  3,  1851, 
in  Norwich,  Conn.  His  parents  removed  to  New  London, 
Conn.,  when  he  was  nine  years  of  age,  and  he  received  his 
preparatory  training  at  the  Bartlett  School  (now  known  as 
the  Bulkeley  High  School)  in  that  city.  He  entered  the 
Yale  School  of  Law  in  1870. 

In  1872,  he  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  New  Haven,  where 
he  practiced  for  six  years  in  association  with  his  brother, 
William.  He  returned  to  Norwich  in  1878,  and  since  1879 
had  been  engaged  in  the  publication  of  legal  blanks  there. 
In  politics  he  was  a  Republican,  and  for  two  years,  begin- 
ning in  1906,  he  served  as  an  alderman.  Throughout  his 
residence  in  Norwich,  he  had  taken  an  active  part  in  the 
work  of  Christ  Protestant  Episcopal  Church,  of  which  at 
the  time  of  his  death  he  was  junior  warden. 

He  died  December  25,  191 5,  from  valvular  heart  trouble, 
after  a  brief  illness,  in  Grace  Hospital,  New  Haven,  Conn., 
where  he  had  gone  for  treatment.  Burial  was  in  Yantic 
Cemetery  in  Norwich. 

Mr.  Robinson  was  married  October  18,  1877,  in  New 
Haven  to  Elizabeth  Clarissa,  daughter  of  John  Burgis  and 
Lucretia  Coan  (Bartlett)  Kirby,  who  survives  him  with 
two  daughters,  Louise  and  Helen.  Their  oldest  child,  Allyn 
Kirby,  died  in  infancy.  Mr.  Robinson  was  a  brother  of 
John  Adams  Robinson  (B.S.  Dartmouth  1855,  M.D. 
Columbia  1858,  LL.B.  Yale  1871)  and  of  William  Callyhan 
Robinson,  a  graduate  of  Dartmouth  in  1854,  who  received 
an  LL.D.  there  in  1879  and  an  honorary  M.A.  from  Yale 
in  1881.  Three  nephews,  Philip  N.  Robinson  (LL.B. 
1886);  George  W.  Robinson  (LL.B.  1888),  and  Paul  S. 
Robinson  (Ph.B.  1889,  M.D.  1891),  and  a  grandnephew, 
Elliott  S.  Robinson  (B.A.  1916),  also  graduated  from  Yale. 


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George  Arnold  Tyler,  LL.B.   1876 

Born  August  12,  1847,  in  Haddam,  Conn. 
Died  October  11,  1915,  in  New  Haven,  Conn. 

George  Arnold  Tyler  was  born  in  Haddam,  Conn., 
August  12,  1847,  the  son  of  Rev.  Daniel  Melvin  Tyler,  a 
Methodist  clergyman,  and  Dolly  (Shailer)  Tyler.  Before 
entering  the  Yale  School  of  Law  in  1874,  he  studied  at 
Wesleyan  Academy,  Wilbraham,  Mass.,  and  at  the  Hart- 
ford  (Conn.)    Business  College. 

Since  his  admission  to  the  Connecticut  Bar  shortly  after 
his  graduation  in  1876,  Mr.  Tyler  had  practiced  law  in 
New  Haven.  His  death  occurred  at  his  home  in  that 
city  on  October  11,  1915,  after  a  prolonged  illness  due 
to  heart  trouble.  Burial  was  in  Oak  Grove  Cemetery, 
West  Haven. 

He  was  married  on  November  6,  1872,  in  Middletown, 
Conn.,  to  Magdalena  Y.,  daughter  of  Henry  S.  and  Angel- 
ica (Meigs)  North.  She  survives  him  with  a  daughter, 
Carolyn  North,  the  wife  of  Robert  Stanley  Kearney  (LL.B. 
1901)  of  East  Orange,  N.  J. 


Justus  Street  Hotchkiss,  LL.B.   1877 

Born  February  4,  1831,  in  New  Haven,  Conn. 
Died  November  12,  1915,  in  New  Haven,  Conn. 

Justus  Street  Hotchkiss,  son  of  Lucius  Hotchkiss,  a 
wholesale  lumber  merchant,  of  the  firm  of  H.  &  L.  Hotch- 
kiss, and  Maria  Melcher  (Street)  Hotchkiss,  was  born 
February  4,  183 1,  in  New  Haven,  Conn.  Through  his 
father,  whose  parents  were  Justus  and  Susanna  Hotchkiss, 
he  was  descended  from  Samuel  Hotchkiss,  who  came  to 
this  country  from  England  in  the  seventeenth  century,  set- 
tling in  New  Haven  before  1678.  Justus  Hotchkiss  died  in 
1 81 2,  and  his  estate  was  the  largest  up  to  that  time  probated 
in  that  town.  The  mother  of  Justus  S.  Hotchkiss  was  the 
daughter  of  Justin  Washington  and  Anne  (Whidden) 
Street  and  a  descendant  of  Rev.  Nicholas  Street,  a  gradu- 
ate   of    Oxford    University    in    1625,    who    emigrated    to 


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America  from  Bridgewater  and  settled  at  Taunton,  Mass. 
He  was  minister  successively  at  Taunton  and  New  Haven, 
serving  the  First  Church  in  New  Haven  from  1659  till  his 
death  in  1674.  In  the  line  of  descent  from  him  to  Justus 
S.  Hotchkiss  were  his  son.  Rev.  Samuel  Street  (B.A.  Har- 
vard 1664),  minister  at  Wallingford,  Conn.,  and  the  latter's 
great-grandson.  Rev.  Nicholas  Street,  a  graduate  of  Yale 
in  1 75 1,  minister  at  East  Haven,  Conn.,  for  fifty-one  years 
(1755-1806). 

Justus  S.  Hotchkiss  received  his  early  education  in  the 
school  of  Stiles  French  (B.A,  1827)  in  New  Haven,  where 
he  was  prepared  for  college.  Preferring  to  enter  immedi- 
ately into  his  father's  business,  he  did  so  at  the  age  of 
sixteen.  He  pursued  the  lumber  trade  in  New  Haven  for 
about  twenty-six  years,  during  the  latter  part  of  which  he 
was  in  partnership  with  Andrew  W.  DeForest.  He  had 
then  acquired  an  independent  fortune,  and  retired  from  all 
active  business.  After  two  or  three  years,  he  took  up  the 
study  of  law,  as  a  literary  pursuit,  and  attended  courses  on 
several  subjects  at  the  Yale  School  of  Law,  in  the  years 
1875-76  and  1876-77,  but  without  taking  examinations  for 
a  degree.  In  1878,  he  became  a  member  of  the  Society's 
Committee  of  the  First  Church  (Congregational)  in  New 
Haven,  and  held  that  office  for  thirty-eight  years,  during 
the  latter  portion  of  which  time  he  was  its  chairman.  He 
was  also  for  many  years  superintendent  of  the  mission 
Sunday  school  of  that  church  in  Highwood.  He  was 
elected  a  director  of  the  Second  National  Bank  of  New 
Haven  in  1880, — an  office  which  he  continued  to  fill  until  his 
death.  He  was  also  a  director  of  the  Boston  &  New  York 
Air  Line  Railroad  Company  during  the  later  years  of  its 
existence,  before  its  absorption  in  the  New  York,  New 
Haven  &  Hartford  Railroad  Company,  being  first  elected 
in  1902. 

In  1888,  he  prepared  a  paper  which  he  read  before  the 
New  Haven  Colony  Historical  Society,  on  *'New  Haven 
Bells."  This  is  printed  in  the  Papers  of  the  Society,  Vol- 
ume V,  page  173.  Mr.  Hotchkiss  made  several  visits  to 
Europe,  and  traveled  extensively  there.  The  first  of  these 
he  made  in  company  with  Alfred  H.  Terry  (LL.B.  1849, 
Honorary  M.A.  1865),  then  an  officer  in  the  Connecticut 
Militia  and  afterwards  major  general  in  the  United  States 
Army.     Thpy  took  pains  to  examine  some  of  the  great  battle- 


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fields  of  the  Napoleonic  Wars,  and  Colonel  Terry  made  a 
careful  study  of  them. 

In  1893,  the  degree  of  LL.B.  was  conferred  upon  Mr. 
Hotchkiss  by  Yale  University,  as  of  the  Class  of  1877,  with 
which  he  had  pursued  his  legal  studies. 

His  death  occurred  November  12,  191 5,  at  his  home  in 
New  Haven,  after  an  illness  of  several  months  due  to  apo- 
plexy. He  was  buried  in  Grove  Street  Cemetery  in  that 
city.  By  his  will,  large  bequests  were  made  to  the  New 
Haven  Hospital  and  the  First  Church  of  New  Haven,  and 
lesser  ones  to  other  charities.  Yale  University  was  made 
residuary  legatee.  What  it  receives  is  to  be  kept  as  a 
permanent  fund,  and  will  probably  amount  to  as  much  as 
$900,000. 

He  was  married  in  New  Haven,  May  9,  1866,  to  Fanny, 
daughter  of  Edmund  and  Harriet  (Mears)  Winchester  of 
Boston,  Mass.,  by  whom  he  had  one  daughter,  Fanny 
Winchester,  who  died  shortly  after  birth.  Mrs.  Hotchkiss 
was  the  author  of  the  volume  of  family  genealogy  entitled 
"Winchester  Notes."  She  died  January  24,  1912.  Mr. 
Hotchkiss  was  a  cousin  of  Henry  Hotchkiss  Townshend 
(B.A.  1897,  LL.B.  1901),  and  of  H.  Stuart  Hotchkiss  and 
Raynham  Townshend,  both  of  whom  graduated  from  the 
Scientific  School  in  1900,  the  latter  being  also  a  graduate  of 
the  College  of  Physicians  and  Surgeons  at  Columbia  in 
1905. 


Edward  Franklin  Meeker,  LL.B.   1877 

Born  March  26,  1853,  in  Bridgeport,  Conn. 
Died  November  17,  1915,  in  Bridgeport,  Conn. 

Edward  Franklin  Meeker  was  born  March  26,  1853,  in 
Bridgeport,  Conn.,  the  son  of  Edwin  Meeker,  a  merchant, 
and  Abby  (Hull)  Meeker.  In  1640,  the  first  member  of 
his  family  to  settle  in  this  country  came  from  England,  and 
joined  the  New  Haven  Colony.  His  great-grandfather, 
Benjamin  Meeker,  fought  in  the  Revolutionary  War,  and 
was  taken  prisoner,  being  confined  to  Sugar  House  prison 
for  a  year  and  a  half. 

He  received  his  early  education  in  the  public  schools  of 
Bridgeport  and  in  the  school  of  Rev.  Guy  B.^  Day   (B.A, 


1877  21.7 

1845)  ^ri  that  city.  Before  entering  the  Yale  School  of 
Law  in  1875,  he  spent  several  years  in  learning  carriage- 
making,  and  had  also  served  as  clerk  and  deputy  collector 
of  internal  revenue  for  that  city.  He  was  president  of 
his  Class  at  Yale. 

After  his  graduation,  Mr.  Meeker  continued  for  two 
years  as  deputy  collector  of  revenue  in  Bridgeport,  but  in 
April,  1879,  went  to  New  York  City,  where  he  was  admitted 
to  the  bar.  Returning  to  his  native  town  in  1881,  he  prac- 
ticed there  for  the  next  two  years.  In  1883,  he  entered 
the  employ  of  the  Naugatuck  Railroad  as  general  account- 
ant and  paymaster,  but  in  1886  accepted  an  appointment 
from  President  Cleveland  as  postmaster  of  Bridgeport. 
He  served  in-that  capacity  for  three  years,  after  which  he 
was  engaged  in  manufacturing  until  1895,  when  he  resumed 
the  practice  of  law.  From  1885  to  1887,  he  served  as  clerk 
of  the  Board  of  Common  Council  of  Bridgeport,  and  for 
two  years  he  was  a  member  of  the  Board  of  Assessors. 
Mr.  Meeker  belonged  to  the  Society  of  the  Sons  of  the 
Revolution,  and'  was  a  member  of  the  Protestant  Episcopal 
Church,  being  a  communicant  of  Trinity  Church,  Bridge- 
port. 

He  died  at  his  home  in  that  city,  November  17,  191 5,  and 
was  buried  in  Mountain  Grove  Cemetery.  His  death  fol- 
lowed a  long  illness  due  to  myocarditis. 

He  married  in  Hartford,  Conn.,  April  18,  1888,  Lucy 
Maria,  daughter  of  Samuel  Finley  Jones,  a  non-gradu- 
ate member  of  the  Wesleyan  Class  of  1847,  and  Lucy  M. 
(Wilcox)  Jones  and  a  sister  of  Samuel  F.  Jones,  who  was 
a  member  of  the  College  Class  of  1875,  but  did  not 
graduate.  She  survives  him  with  their  son,  James  Edward 
(B.A.  1913,  M.A.  1915). 


William  Joseph  Mills,  LL.B.   1877 

Born  January  11,  1849,  in  Yazoo  City,  Miss. 
Died  December  24,  1915,  in  East  Las  Vegas,  N.  Alex. 

William  Joseph  Mills  was  born  in  Yazoo  City,  Miss., 
January  11,  1849,  the  son  of  William  Mills,  of  Louisa, 
Va.,  whose  parents  were  William  and  Elizabeth  (Gardiner) 
Mills  and  who  took  the  degree  of  M.D.  at  the  University 


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of  Pennsylvania  in  1832.  His  mother  was  Harriet,  daugh- 
ter of  Joseph  and  Margaret  (McDowell)  Beale;  her 
maternal  ancestors  came  from  the  north  of  Ireland  in  1757, 
settling  in  Chester  County,  Pennsylvania.  Two  years  after 
the  death  of  his  father  in  1853,  Mrs.  Mills  was  married 
to  William  Henry  Law  (B.A.  1822). 

William  J.  Mills  spent  his  youth  at  Norwich,  Conn., 
receiving  his  early  education  at  the  Norwich  Free  Acad- 
emy. Before  entering  the  Yale  School  of  Law  in  1875, 
he  was  employed  as  a  clerk  by  the  New  York  firm  of 
Grinnell,  Whitman  &  Company.  He  won  the  Jewell  prize 
in  his  first  year  at  Yale. 

He  was  admitted  to  the  Connecticut  Bar  in  1877,  and 
until  1886  practiced  law  in  New  Haven.  In- 1878,  he  was 
elected  to  the  Connecticut  House  of  Representatives,  and 
from  1880  to  1882  served  as  a  state  senator.  He  went 
to  New  Mexico  in  1886,  and,  with  the  exception  of  the 
four  years  from  1894  to  1898,  which  he  spent  in  practice  in 
New  Haven,  had  lived  at  East  Las  Vegas  ever  since.  In 
January,  1898,  he  received  appointment  as  chief  justice 
of  the  Supreme  Court  of  New  Mexico,  and  served  in  that 
capacity  until  February,  1910,  when  he  resigned  to  become 
territorial  governor  of  New  Mexico,  an  office  to  which 
he  had  been  appointed  by  President  Taft. 

On  the  admission  of  New  Mexico  into  the  Union,  Mr. 
Mills  resumed  the  practice  of  his  profession  at  Las  Vegas, 
continuing  until  his  death,  which  occurred  at  his  home, 
December  24,  191 5,  after  an  illness  of  several  weeks  due 
to  bronchial  pneumonia.  The  direct  cause  of  his  death  was 
heart  failure.  Burial  was  in  the  Masonic  Cemetery  at 
Las  Vegas. 

He  was  a  member  of  the  Protestant  Episcopal  Church, 
and  had  served  as  a  vestryman  of  Trinity  Church,  New 
Haven,  and  as  senior  warden  of  St.  Paul's  Memorial 
Church  at  East  Las  Vegas.  He  was  elected  president  of 
the  Yale  Alumni  Association  of  New  Mexico  at  its  organi- 
zation meeting  in  March,  191 5. 

He  was  married  January  14,  1885,  in  West  Haven,  Conn., 
to  Alice,  daughter  of  Wilson  and  Emma  (Hobrough) 
Waddingham.  Three  children  were  born  to  them:  Wil- 
son Waddingham,  who  received  the  degree  of  Ph.B.  at 
Yale  in  1910  and  those  of  LL.B.  and  J.D.  from  the  Uni- 
versity of  Michigan  in   1913;     Alice  Law   (died  June  20, 


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1903),  and  Madeline.  Mr.  Mills  was  a  brother  of  John 
Beale  Mills  (B.A.  1873,  LL.B.  1876),  and  a  half-brother 
of  the  late  William  Henry  Law,  a  graduate  of  the  College 
in  1878  and  of  the  School  of  Law  in  1880. 


William  John  Beecher,  LL.B.   1880 

Born  March  5,  1859,  in  Bridgeport,  Conn. 
Died  December  3,  1915,  in  Newtown,  Conn. 

William  John  Beecher,  son  of  John  and  Margaret 
Beecher,  was  born  in  Bridgeport,  Conn.,  March  5,  1859. 
He  received  his  preparatory  training  at  the  Staples  Insti- 
tute at  Easton,  Conn.,  entering  the  Yale  School  of  Law 
from  that  school  in  1879. 

In  July,  1880,  immediately  after  his  graduation,  he  was 
admitted  to  the  bar  in  New  Haven.  He  then  opened 
offices  in  Bridgeport,  where  he  practiced  all  his  life.  At 
the  time  of  his  death,  he  was  senior  member  of  the  firm 
of  Beecher  &  Canfield.  His  home  was  at  Newtown,  Conn., 
for  many  years,  and  for  a  long  time  he  served  as  judge 
of  the  Probate  Court  of  that  town. 

He  died  at  his  home  in  Newtown,  December  3,  191 5, 
from  arterio  sclerosis,  and  was  buried  in  the  local  cemetery. 

On  April  3,  1891,  he  was  married  to  Mary  B.,  daughter 
of  Henry  B.  and  Eliza  (Blakeslee)  Glover  of  Newtown. 
His  nephew,  John  Robert  Beecher,  received  the  degree  of 
LL.B.  at  Yale  in  1909,  and  was  associated  with  him  in 
practice. 


Harris  Gilbert  Eames,  LL.B.   i 

^  Born  January  i,  1867,  in  Newark,  N.  J. 
Died  November  11,   191 5,  in  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 

Harris  Gilbert  Eames  was  born  January  i,  1867,  in  New- 
ark, N.  J.,  his  parents  being  Harris  and  Margaret  Eliza- 
beth (Hughes)  Eames.  His  father,  a  leather  merchant 
of  New  Haven,  Conn.,  was  the  son  of  Henry  Eames,  a 
Methodist  minister,  and  Lydia  (Harris)  Eames  and  grand- 


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son  of  Henry  Eames,  who  came  to  this  country  from  Cork, 
Ireland,  in  1769  and  settled  in  Philadelphia.  His  mother 
was  the  daughter  of  Andrew  and  Sarah  Ann  (Scott) 
Hughes.  He  received  his  preparatory  training  at  Wes- 
leyan  Academy,  Wilbraham,  Mass.,  and  entered  the  Yale 
School  of  Law  in  1887. 

Shortly  after  his  graduation,  he  was  admitted  to  the 
Connecticut  Bar,  and  began  practice  in  West  Haven.  In 
January,  1890,  he  received  appointment  as  postmaster  there, 
and  filled  that  office  until  the  spring  of  1895,  when  he 
went  to  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.,  where  for  a  time  he  worked  as 
a  reporter  on  the  Brooklyn  Standard-Union.  Afterwards, 
he  was  in  the  Brooklyn  office  of  the  New  York  Herald,  but 
in  1 901  he  became  court  reporter  for  the  Brooklyn  Eagle. 
During  this  period,  he  had  given  his  attention  somewhat  to 
the  practice  of  law,  and  in  October,  1914,  he  resigned  from 
the  Eagle  to  devote  his  whole  time  to  his  practice.  Mr. 
Eames  was  a  member  of  the  Brooklyn  Bar  Association, 
the  Central  Y.  M.  C.  A.  of  Brooklyn,  and  Plymouth  (Con- 
gregational) Church.  From  19 10  to  19 13,  he  served  as 
president  of  the  Midwood  Park  Property  Owners' 
Association. 

His  death,  which  followed  an  attack  of  acute  indiges- 
tion, occurred  at  his  home  in  Brooklyn,  November  11, 
191 5.  He  was  buried  in  Oak  Grove  Cemetery,  West 
Haven. 

He  was  married  June  11,  1903,  in  Brooklyn  to  Anna 
Maud,  daughter  of  the  late  Frank  Emmett  and  Susan 
Maria  (Crown)  Parshley,  who  survives  him.  They  had 
no  children. 


Paul  Robinson  Jarboe,  LL.B.  1891 

Born  December  22,  1867,  in  San  Francisco,  Cat. 
Died  January  15,  1916,  in  San  Francisco,  Cal, 

Paul  Robinson  Jarboe  was  the  son  of  John  Rodolph 
Jarboe  (B.A.  1855)  and  Mary  Halsey  (Thomas)  Jarboe, 
and  was  born  December  22,  1867,  in  San  Francisco,  Cal. 
His  first  American  ancestor  was  French,  and  came  with 
Lord  Baltimore  about  1630,  settling  in  St.  Mary's  County, 
Maryland;   he  was  a  tobacco  planter,  having  as  his  planta- 


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tion  one  of  the  original  divisions  of  that  part  of  the  coun- 
try. His  maternal  ancestors  were  John  Thomas,  who  set- 
tled in  Marshfield  about  1630,  and  David  Brainerd,  one  of 
the  first  settlers  of  Haddam,  Conn.  In  the  branches  of 
these  two  families  are  the  names  of  many  of  the  first- 
comers  and  founders  of  the  cities  and  colleges  of  the  New 
England  states,  including  Rev.  Samuel  Whiting  and  Rev. 
John  Fisk.  Paul  Jarboe's  grandfather,  Rev.  Dr.  Eleazer 
Thomas,  was  killed  by  Modoc  Indians  while  serving  with 
General  Canby  on  the  Peace  Commission  to  the  Modocs. 

He  took  his  law  degree  in  1891,  two  years  after  enter- 
ing Yale,  and  after  graduation  became  associated  with  his 
father  in  practice  in  San  Francisco  under  the  firm  name  of 
Jarboe  &  Jarboe.  He  had  only  consented  to  be  a  lawyer 
to  please  his  father,  and  after  the  latter's  death  in  1893, 
found  that  his  desire  was  to  enter  a  business  life.  His 
business  efforts  were  along  lines  of  developing  the 
natural  resources  of  California,  and  for  the  greater  part 
of  his  life  he  was  a  partner  in  the  Columbia  Marble  Com- 
pany and  the  Tuolumne  Light  &  Power  Company.  At 
the  time  of  his  death,  which  occurred  very  suddenly  Janu- 
ary 15,  1916,  in  San  Francisco,  he  was  connected  wdth  the 
Garford  Truck  Company  of  that  city,  as  sales  manager. 

On  July  10,  1894,  Mr.  Jarboe  married  Miss  Eleanor 
Dimond,  eldest  daughter  of  General  Dimond  of  San  Fran- 
cisco, and  had  a  son,  John  Dimond.  His  second  marriage 
took  place  December  12,  191 5,  to  Mrs.  Carol  H.  Barton, 
who  survives  him.     His  mother  is  also  living. 


Ulysses  Simpson   [Grant]   Kendall,  LL.B.   1893 

_  Born  September  26,  1866,  in  Pocahontas,  Pa. 
Died  December  25,  1915,  in  Mount  Clemens,  Mich. 

Ulysses  Simpson  [Grant]  Kendall,  one  of  the  nine 
children  of  John  C.  Kendall,  a  farmer,  and  Elizabeth 
(Miller)  Kendall,  was  born  in  Pocahontas,  Pa.,  Septem- 
ber 26,  1866.  He  was  of  English  descent,  his  father  being 
the  son  of  Christian  and  Hannah  (Leydig)  Kendall.  His 
mother's  parents  were  David  and  Fannie  (Livingood) 
Miller. 


2  22  SCHOOL   OF    LAW 

He  studied  at  the  Curry  University  Preparatory  School 
at  Pittsburgh,  Pa.,  and  in  1890  was  graduated  from  Leba- 
non University  at  Lebanon,  Ohio.  After  spending  a  year 
in  the  Yale  School  of  Law,  he  received  the  degree  of  LL.B. 
in  1893.  In  the  fall  of  that  year,  he  entered  the  Sheffield 
Scientific  School,  but  during  the  winter  term  was  trans- 
ferred to  the  College  Class  of  1894,  with  which  he  was 
graduated. 

He  then  settled  at  Fairmont,  W.  Va.,  and  began  the 
practice  of  law.  In  1897,  he  was  elected  mayor  of  the 
city  on  the  Republican  ticket,  and  during  his  term  of  office 
he  served  as  president  of  the  West  Virginia  Mayors'  Asso- 
ciation. Three  years  later,  he  received  election  as  judge 
of  the  second  judicial  circuit  of  West  Virginia,  an  office 
which  he  held  until  December  31,  1907,  when  he  resumed 
the  practice  of  law.  In  1910,  he  spent  several  months  on 
the  Pacific  Coast,  and  then  opened  offices  for  the  prac- 
tice of  his  profession  in  Detroit,  Mich.,  where  he  became 
counsel  for  a  number  of  corporations.  He  belonged  to  the 
Presbyterian  Church  of  Fairmont. 

In  December,  191 5,  he  was  taken  ill  with  intestinal 
trouble,  and  went  to  St.  Joseph's  Hospital,  Mount  Clemens, 
Mich.,  for  treatment.  He  died  there  on  December  25, 
after  an  operation,  and  was  buried  in  his  native  town. 

Mr.  Kendall  was  not  married.  Surviving  him  are  three 
brothers  and  four  sisters. 


George  Frederick  Mull,  LL.B.   1894 

Born  December  7,  1868,  in  Manilla,  Ind. 
Died  August  26,  1915,  in  Indianapolis,  Ind. 

George  Frederick  Mull  was  the  son  of  Cyrus  Mull,  a 
farmer  and  trader,  and  Eleanor  J.  (Kerrick)  Mull.  Born 
at  Manilla,  Ind.,  December  7,  1868,  he  received  his  pre- 
paratory training  at  the  DePauw  Preparatory  School  at 
Greencastle,  Ind.  In  the  fall  of  1893,  having  been  gradu- 
ated from  DePauw  University  with  the  degree  of  Ph.B. 
the  previous  June,  he  took  up  the  study  of  law  at  Yale. 

He  was  admitted  to  the  Indiana  Bar  in  1894,  and  imme- 
diately began  practice  in  Indianapolis.  In  November,  1895, 
he  became  a  member  of  the  firm  of  Edenharter  &  Mull, 


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continuing  in  that  connection  until  his  death,  which  oc- 
curred August  26,  191 5,  in  the  Methodist  Episcopal  Hospi- 
tal, Indianapolis,  as  the  result  of  blood  poisoning.  At  the 
time  when  he  received  the  injury  which  brought  about  his 
death,  he  was  suffering  from  diabetes,  which  had  reached  an 
advanced  stage.     Burial  was  at  Rushville,  Ind. 


William  Carmody  Keane,  LL.B.   1899 

Born  February  23,  1873,  in  New  Haven,  Conn. 
Died  December  3,  1915,  in  New  York  City 

William  Carmody  Keane  was  born  in  New  Haven,  Conn., 
February  23,  1873,  his  parents  being  William  Keane,  an 
aldernian  and  member  of  the  New  Haven  City  Council, 
and  Ann  (Whalen)  Keane.  He  received  his  early  educa- 
tion in  the  schools  of  New  Haven,  graduating  from  the 
Hillhouse  High  School,  and  in  1896  entered  the  Yale 
School  of  Law.  He  belonged  to  both  the  Kent  and  Way- 
land  clubs,  serving  as  vice  president  and  treasurer  of  the 
latter  in  his  Senior  year,  and  was  awarded  a  Kent  Club 
diploma  at  graduation  in  1899. 

Soon  afterwards,  he  was  admitted  to  the  Connecticut 
Bar,  and  immediately  took  up  the  practice  of  law  in  New 
Haven.  He  removed  to  New  York  City  some  years  later, 
and  spent  the  remainder  of  his  life  in  that  city,  where  he 
died  December  3,  191 5.  His  body  was  brought  to  New 
Haven  for  burial  in  St.  Bernard's  Cemetery. 

Mr.  Keane  was  unmarried,  and  is  survived  by  three 
brothers  and  three  sisters.  He  was  a  member  of  the 
Roman  Catholic  Church. 


Edward  Francis  Hallen,  LL.B.   1901 

Born  January  i6,  1867,  in  Nashua,  N.  H. 
Died  December  21,  1914,  in  Nashua,  N.  H. 

Edward  Francis  Hallen,  son  of  John  and  Honora  (Mark- 
ham)  Hallen,  was  born  in  Nashua,  N.  H.,  January  16,  1867. 
He  attended  the  schools  in  that  town,  being  graduated  in 
1883  from  the  Nashua  High  School.     Two  years  later,  he 

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2  24  SCHOOL   OF   LAW 

went  to  Bridgeport,  Conn.,  where  he  took  a  position  as. 
cashier  for  the  Bridgeport  Forge  Company.  In  1899,  he 
began  a  special  course  in  law  at  Yale,  and  the  next  year, 
after  severing  his  connection  with  the  Bridgeport  Forge 
Company,  was  enrolled  as  a  member  of  the  Senior  Class 
in  the  School  of  Law,  and  served  on  the  editorial  board 
of  the  Yale  Lazu  Journal. 

While  taking  his  work  at  Yale,  he  was  connected  with 
the  law  firm  of  Paige  &  Carroll  of  Bridgeport,  and  since 
his  graduation  had  practiced  in  that  city.  In  1910,  he  was 
elected  judge  of  the  Probate  Court,  and  held  that  office 
until  his  death.  He  was  made  a  member  of  the  Bridge- 
port Board  of  Education  in  1890,  and  for  nineteen  years 
served  as  its  secretary.  In  1904,  he  was  the  candidate  of 
the  Democratic  party  for  representative  from  the_  fourth 
Connecticut  Congressional  district,  but  was  defeated  by 
the  Republican  nominee.  He  served  as  president  of  the 
Board  of  Police  Commissioners  of  Bridgeport  in  1910  and 
1911. 

His  death,  which  was  due  to  Bright's  disease,  occurred 
December  21,  1914,  in  Nashua,  where  he  had  been  for  a 
month.  He  was  buried  in  St.  Michael's  Cemetery  in 
Bridgeport.  Mr.  Hallen  was  not  married.  His  Yale  rela- 
tives include  John  Edward  Hallen  (B.A.  1916)  and 
Francis  Augustus  Hallen,  of  the  Class  of  19 18  in  the 
Scientific  School. 


George  Groot  Snow,  LL.B.  1907 

Born  January  25,  1884,  in  Sprinj?field,  S.  Dak. 
Died  August  i,  1915,  in  Springfield,  S.  Dak. 

George  Groot  Snow  was  born  in  Springfield,  S.  Dak., 
January  25,  1884,  his  parents  being  George  Washington 
and  Albirta  M.  (Davison)  Snow.  His  father,  who  served 
in  the  Twentieth  Wisconsin  Infantry  during  the  Civil 
War,  went  to  Dakota  Territory  in  1869,  and  on  the  admis- 
sion of  South  Dakota  as  a  state  into  the  Union  took  an 
active  part  in  the  framing  of  its  constitution ;  he  has  been 
a  member  of  the  State  Senate,  and  from  1901  to  1905  filled 
the  office  of  lieutenant  governor  of  South  Dakota.  The 
son's   preparatory   training   was    received   at   the    Shattuck 


I9OI-I9IO  225 

School  at  Faribault,  Minn.,  and  before  entering  Yale  in 
1905  he  spent  two  years  in  the  study  of  law  at  the  Uni- 
versity of  Michigan. 

After  graduating  from  the  Yale  School  of  Law  in  1907, 
he  entered  upon  the  practice  of  law  in  Seattle,  Wash.,  where 
he  was  located  until  191 2.  In  April  of  that  year,  he 
returned  to  his  native  town,  and  followed  his  profession 
there  until  his  death,  which  occurred  at  his  home,  as  the 
result  of  a  self-inflicted  shot-gun  wound,  on  August  i, 
191 5.     Burial  was  in  Springfield. 

He  was  not  married,  and  is  survived  by  his  father  and 
a  brother.  He  belonged  to  the»  Protestant  Episcopal 
Church. 


Ralph  Hayford  Lincoln,  LL.B.  19 10 

Born  August  30,  1885,  at  Fall  River,  Mass. 
Died  April  19,  1916,  at  Fall  River,  Mass. 

Ralph  Hayford  Lincoln  was  born  at  Fall  River,  Mass., 
August  30,  1885,  being  the  son  of  Arba  Nelson  Lincoln, 
a  lawyer  of  Fall  River,  and  Mira  (Kimball)  Lincoln.  His 
paternal  grandparents  were  Charles  Fisher  and  Eliza  Ara- 
belle  (Avery)  Lincoln.  On  that  side  of  the  family,  he 
was  descended  from  Thomas  Lincoln,  who  came  to  Hing- 
ham,  Mass.,  from  Hingham,  England,  in  1635,  and  in 
1649  settled  at  Taunton,  Mass. ;  here  he  was  granted  a 
grist  mill  privilege  and  became  the  miller  for  the  colony. 
On  the  Avery  line,  he  was  descended  from  Thomas  Avery, 
who  settled  in  Portsmouth,  N.  H.,  prior  to  1657.  ^^^ 
mother  was  .the  daughter  of  Alfred  Russell  and  Sarah 
Welch  (Hayford)  Kimball  of  Haverhill,  Mass.,  and  a 
descendant  of  Richard  Kimball,  who^  emigrated  from  Eng- 
land and  settled  in  Watertown,  Mass.,  in  1634. 

He  entered  the  Yale  School  of  Law  in  1907,  upon  grad- 
uating from  Phillips  Exeter  Academy,  and  completed  his 
course  three  years  later.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Way- 
land  Club. 

After  his  graduation  in  1910,  he  went  to  Medford,  Ore., 
where,  upon  being  admitted  to  the  bar,  he  practiced  law 
for  a  year  or  more,  and  then  engaged  in  the  automobile 
business  as  manager  of  the  Bear  Creek  Motor  Car  Com- 


2  26  SCHOOL   OF   LAW 

pany.  He  returned  to  Fall  River  in  1914,  and  became 
local  agent  for  the  Studebaker  Automobile  Company,  as 
a  member  of  the  firm  of  Ralph  H.  Lincoln  &  Company,  in 
which  he  was  associated  with  his  father.  He  was  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Central  Congregational  Church  of  Fall  River. 

His  death  occurred  April  19,  1916,  at  the  Union  Hos- 
pital at  Fall  River,  following  an  operation  for  appendicitis. 
His  body  was  cremated  at  the  Massachusetts  Crematory 
at  Forest  Hills. 

On  November  30,  191 1,  Mr.  Lincoln  was  married  in 
Maiden,  Mass.,  to  Jennie  Tracy,  daughter  of  Zachariah 
and  Ida  (Cornu)  Lambert,  who  survives  him  with  two 
children,  Hayford  Nelson  and  Warner  Conrad.  He  is 
also  survived  by  his  parents,  three  brothers,  Ernest  Avery 
Lincoln,  who  received  the  degrees  of  B.S.  and  C.E.  at 
Dartmouth  College  in  1908  and  1909,  respectively;  Ken- 
neth Chandler  Lincoln  (B.A.  Williams  1914),  and  Carl 
Kimball  Lincoln,  a  graduate  of  Dartmouth  with  the  degree 
of  B.S.  in  1916,  and  by  a  sister,  Grace  Lincoln,  who 
received  the  degree  of  B.A.  at  Wellesley  College  in  191 1. 


Harold  Edward  Tierney,  LL.B.   191 1 

Born  February  17,  1888,  in  Goshen,  N.  Y. 
Died  January  23,  1916,  in  Closter,  N.  J. 

Harold  Edward  Tierney,  son  of  William  Tierney,  deputy 
surveyor  of  the  New  York  Customs  House  from  1908  to 
1916,  was  born  in  Goshen,  N.  Y.,  February  17,  1888.  His 
mother  was  Mary  F.,  daughter  of  Patrick  and  Kate  Gor- 
man. His  high  school  education  was  received  in  Engle- 
wood,  N.  J.,  which  had  been  his  home  since  1894.  He 
entered  the  Yale  School  of  Law  in  1908,  being  graduated 
three  years  later. 

Since  that  time,  he  had  practiced  law  independently  in 
Englewood.  He  had  been  active  in  politics,  and  was  the 
Democratic  candidate  for  member  of  the  New  Jersey 
Assembly  from  Bergen  County  in  1915.  He  was  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Roman  Catholic  Church,  and  attended  St. 
Cecilia's  at  Englewood. 

Qn  January  23,  1916,  Mr.  Tierney  was  instantly  killed 
in  an  automobile  accident  at  Closter,  not  far  from  Engle- 


LL.B.    I9IO-M.L.    1909  227 

wood.     Interment  was  In  Mount  Carmel  Cemetery,  Engle- 
wood. 

He  was  married  June  9,  1913,  in  New  Haven,  Conn.,  to 
Theresa  Victorine,  daug:hter  of  Georg-e  and  Mary  (Wood) 
Stanford  and  sister  of  James  W.  Stanford  (Ph.B.  1906). 
Mrs.  Tierney  survives  her  husband.    They  had  no  children. 


MASTER   OF   LAWS 

Proceso  Gonzales  Sanchez,  M.L.   1909 

Born  July  2,  1886,  in  Bacolor,  Pampanga,  P.  I. 
Died  June  5,  1915,  in  Manila,  P.  I. 

Proceso  Gonzales  Sanchez  was  born  at  Bacolor,  Pam- 
panga, P.  I.,  July  2,  1886,  being  the  son  of  Pedro  Sanchez, 
a  graduate  of  the  College  of  Pampanga  and  of  St.  Tomas 
University  at  Manila,  who  was  a  teacher  during  the 
Spanish  regime  in  the  Philippine  Islands,  later  serving 
as  municipal  president  under  the  Military  Government  and 
as  secretary  in  the  municipal  president's  office  at  Concep- 
cion.     His  mother's  maiden  name  was  Valentina  Gonzales. 

He  received  his  preparatory  training  at  the  Tarlac  High 
School,  and  in  1905  carne  to  the  United  States.  Three 
years  later,  he  was  graduated  from  Indiana  University  with 
the  degree  of  LL.B.,  and  admitted  to  the  Indiana  Bar. 
The  year  of  1908-09  was  spent  in  the  Yale  School  of  Law, 
and  on  the  completion  of  his  course  he  was  given  the 
degree  of  Master  of  Laws  cum  laude. 

After  serving  successively  as  a  clerk  in  the  Court  of 
Land  Registration,  the  Bureau  of  Education,  and  in  the 
Law  Division  of  the  Executive  Bureau  of  the  Philippines, 
Mr.  Sanchez  was,  in  January,  1913,  appointed  a  clerk  in 
the  Bureau  of  Justice,  having  been  admitted  to  practice 
in  the  Philippines  the  previous  September.  In  September, 
1913,  he  was  designated  as  a  special  assistant  for  the  pur- 
pose of  representing  the  Government  in  land  cases  in 
Pangasinan,  and  he  afterwards  served  as  the  represen- 
tative of  the  Government  in  land  cases  in  Bataan  Province, 
as  acting  provincial  fiscal  of  Palawan  and  of  Bulacan,  as 
acting  provincial  of  Bulacan  and  of  Zambales,  and  as 
special  prosecuting  attorney  of  Tayabas  and  of  Bulacan. 


228  SCHOOL   OF   LAW 

In  the  summer  of  1914,  he  also  conducted  the  prosecution 
of  certain  criminal  cases  in  Bataan. 

While  serving  as  special  prosecuting  attorney  in  Bula- 
can,  he  was  taken  ill  with  typhoid  fever,  and  his  death 
occurred  June  5,  191 5,  at  the  Phihppine  General  Hospital 
in  Manila.  He  was  a  Roman  Catholic,  and  was  buried 
in  the  Binondo  Catholic  Cemetery  at  Manila. 

He  was  unmarried.  His  parents,  two  brothers,  and 
two  sisters  survive  him. 


M.L.    I909-B.D.    1875  229 


SCHOOL  OF  RELIGION 
William  Taylor  Jackson,  B.D.   1875 

Born  October  25,  1839,  in  Willoughby,  England 
Died  September  12,  1915,  in  Mount  Pleasant,  Iowa 

William  Taylor  Jackson  was  born  in  Willoughby,  Eng- 
land, October  25,  1839,  his  parents  being  Thomas  and  Char- 
lotte Jackson.  He  received  his  early  schooling  in  Richmond, 
England,  and  came  to  America  at  the  age  of  fifteen. 
In  1864,  he  was  graduated  from  Western  (now  Leander 
Clark)  College,  where  three  years  later  he  received  the 
degree  of  M.A.  He  then  spent  some  time  in  educational 
work,  and  in  1872  entered  the  Yale  School  of  Religion 
from  Poolesville,  Ind. 

After  his  graduation  in  1875,  he  spent  three  years  as 
principal  of  Green  Hill  Seminary  at  Green  Hill,  Ind. 
He  received  the  degree  of  Doctor  of  Philosophy  from  the 
University  of  Michigan  in  1879,  and  during  the  next  year 
taught  at  the  Fostoria  (Ohio)  Academy.  In  1880-81,  he 
served  as  acting  professor  of  modern  languages  at  Indi- 
ana University,  and  then  returned  to  Fostoria,  and  taught 
at  the  academy  until  1894.  At  that  time,  he  was  appointed 
superintendent  of  the  Fostoria  public  schools,  and  con- 
tinued in  that  position  until  1890,  when  he  accepted  the 
professorship  of  English  and  literature  at  Western  Col- 
lege. During  1892-93,  he  was  acting  professor  of  the 
science  and  art  of  teaching  and  of  political  economy  at 
Cornell  College,  Mount  Vernon,  Iowa. 

In  1893,  he  was  ordained,  and  became  rector  of  Trinity 
Protestant  Episcopal  Church  at  Emmetsburg,  Iowa,  where 
he  remained  for  seventeen  years.  Since  1909,  he  had  been 
in  charge  of  St.  Michael's  parish  at  Mount  Pleasant,  Iowa, 
where  he  died  September  12,  191 5,  from  cerebral  menin- 
gitis.    His  body  was  taken  to  Iowa  City  for  burial. 

While  he  was  in  northern  Iowa,  Mr.  Jackson  served  as 
dean  of  the  Sioux  City  Deanery,  and  after  his  removal 
to  Mount  Pleasant  he  was  for  upwards  of  ten  years  a 
member  of  the  Standing  Committee  of  the  Diocese,  as  well 
as  being  one  of  the  examining  chaplains. 


230  SCHOOL   OF   RELIGION 

His  marriage  took  place  in  Iowa  City,  November  23, 
1865,  to  Virginia  E.,  daughter  of  Jacob  and  Elizabeth 
Shuey,  who  survives  him  with  five  children :  Fred  T. ; 
Lester  T.,  who  received  the  degree  of  B.A.  from  the  State 
University  of  Iowa  in  1896;  Cora  May  (Jackson)  Car- 
son, a  student  at  Syracuse  University  during  1895-96; 
Grace  (Jackson)  Alston,  and  Herbert  P.  A  daughter, 
Bessie  B.,  died  in  infancy,  and  the  death  of  their  eldest 
son,  William  Shuey,  who  studied  at  Oberlin  College  from 
1887  to  1889,  occurred  in  April,  1896. 


Lester  Beach  Piatt,  B.D.  1875 

Born  August  30,  1852,  in  New  Haven,  Conn. 
Died  November  i,  1915,  in  Washington,  D,  C. 

Lester  Beach  Piatt  was  the  son  of  Landra  Beach  Piatt, 
a  merchant,  and  Harriet  (Hemmenway)  Piatt,  and  was 
born  in  New  Haven,  Conn.,  August  30,  1852.  Plis  ances- 
tors were  identified  with  the  early  settlement  of  New  Haven 
Colony,  Richard  Piatt  at  one  time  having  owned  land  in 
what  is  now  the  center  of  the  city  of  New  Haven.  Later 
the  family  moved  to  Milford,  Conn.,  where  his  father  was 
born.  The  name  of  Richard  Piatt  appears  on  the  Memorial 
Bridge  at  Milford. 

He  entered  the  preparatory  department  of  Oberlin  Col- 
lege in  1867,  his  home  at  that  time  being  in  Baltimore,  Md., 
and  five  years  later,  upon  the  completion  of  his  college 
course,  received  the  degree  of  B.A.  An  interesting  epi- 
sode in  Mr.  Piatt's  life  occurred  after  his  graduation  from 
Oberlin,  when  he  spent  three  months  in  Nebraska  among 
the  Pawnee  Indians  and  accompanied  them  on  their  annual 
buffalo  hunt.  The  party  was  attacked  by  the  Sioux  and 
most  of  the  men  killed.  Mr.  Piatt  narrowly  escaped,  and 
was  instrumental  in  saving  many  wounded  Indians,  besides 
women  and  children  and  their  winter's  supply  of  food. 
His  account  of  this  experience  was  printed  in  an  early 
number  of  the  Cosmopolitan  Magazine. 

He  began  the  study  of  theology  at  Yale  in  1872,  remain- 
ing until  1874,  when  he  withdrew  and  spent  about  two 
years  in  study  at  Berlin  and  Leipsic  and  in  Continental 
travel.     On   November  6,    1877,   he  was   ordained   to  the 


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ministry  of  the  Cangregational  Church  at  Falls  Church, 
Va.,  and  cpntinued  there  until  June,  1880,  when  he  accepted 
a  call  to  Owosso,  Mich.  During  his  pastorate  of  two  years 
in  that  town,  he  took  several  months'  leave  of  absence, 
traveling  through  the  Holy  Land,  Egypt,  Greece,  and 
Italy;  his  lectures  on  Asia  Minor  were  later  published 
in  the  Cosmopolitan  Magazine  and  local  papers.  After 
resigning  his  pastorate  in  Owosso,  he  took  a  course  cov- 
ering about  six  months  in  the  Yale  Theological  Depart- 
ment, and  in  May,  1883,  the  degree  of  B.D.  was  voted  to 
him  by  the  Yale  Corporation,  and  he  was  enrolled  with 
his  former  Class.  He  was  then  settled  over  the  Congre- 
gational Church  at  Flint,  Mich.,  where  he  remained  until 
1886.  His  next  charge,  which  covered  a  period  of  two 
years,  was  that  of  the  Union  Congregational  Church  at 
Upper  Montclair,  N.  J.  Since  1893,  he  had  resided  in 
Washington,  D.  C,  where  he  was  identified  with  various 
manufacturing  and  financial  interests.  At  the  time  of  his 
death,  Mr.  Piatt  was  a  trustee  of  the  First  Congregational 
Church  of  that  city,  of  which  he  had  been  a  member  for 
many  years. 

His  death  occurred  at  his  home  in  Washington,  Novem- 
ber I,  191 5,  and  followed  an  illness  of  three  months. 
Burial  was  in  Greenmount  Cemetery,  Baltimore. 

He  was  married  in  Owosso,  Mich.,  December  19,  1883, 
to  Lucy  Beach,  daughter  of  William  Kellogg  and  Helen 
(Beach)  Tillotson,  who  survives  him  with  their  two  sons, 
Tillotson  Beach  (Ph.B.  1908)  and  Lester  Beach,  Jr.  (Ph.B. 
1913). 


Edward  Payson  Root,  B.D.   1875 

Born  August  4,  1844,  in  Montague,  Mass. 
Died  January  8,  1916,  in  Northampton,  Mass. 

Edward  Payson  Root,  son  of  Solomon  Wellington  Root, 
a  farmer,  and  Betsey  Aurelia  (Kellogg)  Root,  was  born 
August  4,  1844,  in  Montague,  Mass.  His  earliest  paternal 
ancestor  in  this  country  was  Thomas  Root,  who  came 
from  Badby,  England,  and,  after  spending  seven  years 
at  Hartford,  Conn.,  settled  in  Northampton,  Mass.,  in  1654. 
His  mother  was  the  daughter  of  Flam  and  Betsey  (Dole) 
Kellogg. 


232  SCHOOL   OF   RELIGION 

He  received  his  early  education  in  the  public  schools  in 
his  native  town  and  at  Kimball  Union  Academy,  Meriden, 
N.  H.,  and  in  1867  entered  Amherst  College.  Graduat- 
ing from  that  institution  four  years  later,  he  spent  the 
year  of  1871-72  as  an  assistant  in  the  Amherst  College 
Library.  From  1872  to  1875,  he  studied  theology  at  Yale, 
receiving  his  B.D.  in  the  latter  year. 

In  June,  1876,  after  spending  a  year  in  preaching  at 
Hampden,  Mass.,  he  was  ordained  to  the  ministry  of  the 
Congregational  Church,  and  from  that  time  until  Decem- 
ber, 1883,  held  the  pastorate  of  the  First  Congregational 
Church  of  Hampden.  In  1884,  he  accepted  a  call  to  East 
Hampton,  Conn.,  and  remained  there  until  1891,  when  he 
went  to  Colorado.  For  the  next  three  years,  he  was  pastor 
of  the  Congregational  Church  at  Highland  Lake,  and 
from  1894  to  1897  of  the  Buena  Vista  Congregational 
Church.  Returning  to  the  East  in  1904,  he  became  in  that 
year  pastor  of  the  Somers  (Conn.)  Congregational  Church. 

From  1910  until  his  death,  which  occurred  at  his  home 
in  Northampton,  Mass.,  January  8,  1916,  as  the  result  of 
grippe,  he  was  in  charge  of  the  Congregational  Church 
at  Becket,  Mass.  He  was  buried  in  Spring  Grove  Ceme- 
tery at  Northampton. 

Mr.  Root  was  married  in  New  Haven,  Conn.,  December 
24,  1875,  to  Fannie  L,  daughter  of  Ira  and  Mary  (Hills) 
Bryant,  who  survives  him  with  two  daughters,  Louise 
Hills,  a  graduate  of  Colorado  College  with  the  degree  of 
Ph.B.,  and  Florence  Kellogg  (B.A.  Smith  1906). 


Albert  Henry  Thompson,  B.D.   1875 

Born  January  27,  1849,  in  Chelsea,  Mass. 
Died  January  29,  1916,  in  Raymond,  N.  H. 

Albert  Henry  Thompson,  whose  parents  were  Edward 
K.  and  Elizabeth  D.  (Smith)  Thompson,  was  born  Jan- 
uary 27,  1849,  in  Chelsea,  Mass.  When  he  was  three  years 
of  age,  his  father,  a  sea  captain,  and  his  mother  were 
drowned  at  sea,  and  he  was  brought  up  in  the  home  of 
relatives  of  the  latter  at  Searsport,  Maine.  After  gradu- 
ating from  Phillips  (Andover)  Academy,  he  entered 
Amherst  College,  where  he  received  the  degree  of  B.A. 


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in  1872.  He  was  the  valedictorian  of  his  college  class 
and  also  its  permanent  secretary.  From  1872  to  1875,  he 
was  a  student  in  the  Yale  School  of  Religion,  taking  his 
B.D.  in  the  latter  year. 

Mr.  Thompson  was  licensed  to  preach  by  the  New  Haven 
West  Association  in  1874,  being  ordained  to  the  Congre- 
gational ministry  at  Bingham,  Maine,  February  26,  1879. 
From  1875  to  1877,  he  was  stated  supply  at  Georgetown, 
Conn.,  and  then  for  two  years  at  Bingham.  He  was  pastor 
of  the  Congregational  Church  at  Cromwell,  Iowa,  during 
1879-80,  for  the  next  seven  years  being  acting  pastor  at 
Wakefield,  N.  H.  During  this  latter  period,  he  wrote 
a  sketch  of  the  town  for  the  "History  of  Carroll  County." 
Since  1888,  he  had  held  the  pastorate  of  the  Raymond 
(N.  H.)  Congregational  Church,  and  he  died  suddenly  at 
his  home  in  that  town,  January  29,  19 16,  from  angina 
pectoris.     Burial  was  in  Pine  Grove  Cemetery. 

For  seventeen  years,  Mr.  Thompson  was  secretary- 
treasurer  of  the  Rockingham  Conference  of  Congregational 
and  Presbyterian  Churches,  and  he  had  served  as  chap- 
lain of  the  Raymond  Grange  and  of  the  Governor  Bachelder 
Pomona  Grange.  He  was  a  regular  correspondent  of 
several  newspapers,  including  the  Exeter  (N.  H.)  News- 
Letter.  On  August  7,  191 5,  he  delivered  the  historical 
address  at  the  celebration  of  the  one  hundredth  anniversary 
of  the  Congregational  Church  of  Searsport. 

He  was  married  in  Lowell,  January  13,  1885,  to  Mrs. 
Arvilla  Pitman,  daughter  of  Loammi  and  Mary  B.  Hardy. 
Two  daughters,  Arvilla  H.  (Mrs.  Robert  G.  Ewell  of 
Fostoria,  Ohio)  and  Elizabeth  H.,  survive  him.  Another 
daughter,  Rose  Standish,  died  in  infancy. 


Rolla  George  Bugbee,  B.D.  1876 

Born  September  7,  1848,  in  Brid^ewater,  Vt. 
Died  August  13,  1915,  in  Peterboro,  N.  H. 

Rolla  George  Bugbee  was  born  September  7,  1848,  in 
Bridgewater,  Vt.  In  1871,  he  was  graduated  from  Dart- 
mouth College,  and  entered  the  Yale  School  of  Religion 
two  years  later,  receiving  the  degree  of  Bachelor  of  Divin- 
ity in  1876. 


234  SCHOOL   OF   RELIGION 

On  November  8,  1876,  he  was  ordained  as  a  Congre- 
gational minister  at  West  Hartland,  Conn.,  where  he 
preached  until  November,  1880.  His  later  pastorates  were 
in  Bridgewater,  Bethel,  and  Randolph,  Vt.,  Canton,  N.  Y., 
Thomaston,  Conn.,  Wells  River,  Vt.,  Athol,  Mass.,  and 
Peterboro,  N.  H.  He  died  in  the  latter  town,  August  13, 
1915. 

Mr.  Bugbee  was  married  in  Mechanicsville,  Vt.,  August 
24,  1876,  to  Susan  Imogene  Barrett.  They  had  two  chil- 
dren, only  one  of  whom  is  living. 


John  Wesley  Horner,  B.D.   1876 

Born  September  6,  1852,  in  Lanesville,  Ind. 
Died  February  8,  1916,  in  West  Chicago,  111. 

John  Wesley  Horner,  son  of  Jacob  S.  Horner,  who 
served  as  a  surgeon  in  an  Indiana  Regiment  during  the 
Civil  War,  and  Nancy  Horner,  was  born  September  6,  1852, 
in  Lanesville,  Ind.  After  spending  three  years  at  Indiana 
University,  he  entered  the  Yale  School  of  Religion  in  1873, 
remaining  until  1876. 

Soon  after  his  graduation  from  Yale,  he  was  ordained 
as  a  Congregational  minister  at  Bloomfield,  Iowa,  and 
spent  the  next  year  there  as  pastor.  In  1877,  ^^  was  called 
to  the  First  Congregational  Church  at  Keosauqua,  Iowa, 
where  he  was  located  until  1879.  During  the  next  two 
years,  he  studied  law,  later  holding  pastorates  at  Otsego, 
Mich.,  Lake  City,  Minn.,  New  Hampton  and  Independence, 
Iowa,  Aberdeen,  S.  Dak.,  and  at  Revere,  Mass.  In  191 1, 
the  condition  of  his  health  forced  him  to  resign  the  charge 
of  the  Union  Congregational  Church  at  Auburn  Park,  Chi- 
cago, 111.,  which  he  had  held  for  two  years.  In  1914,  after 
spending  the  interval  in  California,  Florida,  and  Chicago, 
he  was  able  to  accept  a  call  to  the  Congregational  Church 
at  Metropolis,  111.,  where  he  remained  for  a  year  and  a 
half.  Mr.  Horner  had  patented  a  number  of  inventions, 
notable  among  them  being  a  door  mat,  which  is  now  used 
extensively. 

His  death  occurred  suddenly,  as  the  result  of  heart  dis- 
ease, February  8,  1916,  in  West  Chicago,  111.,  where  he 
had  been  living  for  three  months  as  pastor  of  the   Con- 


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gregational  Church.     His  body  was  taken  to  Des  Moines, 
Iowa,  for  burial. 

Mr.  Horner  was  married  in  1877,  in  Bloomfield,  Iowa, 
to  Orpha  Morgan,  who  died  in  1880.  By  this  marriage, 
there  was  one  son,  Charles,  who  survives.  On  September 
22,  1881,  Mr.  Horner's  second  marriage  took  place  at 
Des  Moines  to  Gertrude,  daughter  of  Robert  L.  and 
Jennie  Clark,  who  survives  him  with  their  two  daughters, 
Hazel  (Mrs.  C.  C.  Hitchcock  of  Milwaukee)  and  Helen 
(Mrs.  E.  M.  Olds,  also  of  that  city). 


Thomas  Whitney  Darling,  B.D.   1878 

Born  October  21,  1849,  in  Keene,  N.  H. 
Died  May  7,  1916,  in  Windsor,  Vt. 

Thomas -Whitney  Darling  was  born  in  Keene,  N.  H., 
October  21,  1849,  the  son  of  Daniel  and  Theodosia  (Stone) 
Darling.  His  father,  a  farmer,  was  the  son  of  Rev.  David 
Darling,  who  attended  Brown  for  several  years  and 
received  the  degree  of  B.A.  from  Yale  in  1779. 

He  received  his  preparatory  training  under  Rev.  J.  A. 
Leach  in  his  native  town,  and  in  1871  entered  Mid- 
dlebury  College  from  Amherst,  where  he  had  been  a 
member  of  the  Class  of  1874.  In  1874,  he  was  graduated 
from  Middlebury,  and  in  the  fall  began  the  study  of 
theology  at  Yale,  where  he  received  the  degree  of  B.D. 
four  years  later.-  In  1876,  he  taught  at  the  Collegiate  Insti- 
tute in  Springfield,  Mass.,  and  the  year  of  1878-79  was 
spent  by  him  as  superintendent  of  the  schools  of  Nelson, 
N.  H.  He  was  ordained  to  the  ministry  of  the  Congre- 
gational Church  in  October,  1881,  and  during  the  next 
three  years  served  as  pastor  at  Wentworth,  N.  H.  In  the 
winter  of  1883,  he  accepted  a  call  to  the  Congregational 
Church  at  Danville,  Vt.,  where  he  was  located  until  1888. 
At  that  time,  he  returned  to  Wentworth  and  preached 
there  for  a  year.  From  1889  to  1894,  he  held  the  pas- 
torate of  the  Acworth  (N.  H.)  Congregational  Church, 
and  then  went  back  to  Wentworth,  his  third  pastorate 
covering  a  period  of  six  years.  In  1900,  he  became  pastor 
of  the  Congregational  Church  at  Ripton,  Vt.,  and  held 
that  charge  until  March,  1901,  making  his  home  at  Middle- 


236  SCHOOL   OF   RELIGION 

bury.  For  six  years,  Mr.  Darling  also  served  as  super- 
intendent of  the  schools  of  Danville,  and  at  this  time  was 
a  faithful  worker  for  the  betterment  of  all  town  conditions. 

He  died  May  7,  1916,  in  Windsor,  Vt.,  where  he  had 
lived  since  January,  1915.  He  was  at  that  time  in  the 
employ  of  the  National  Acme  Manufacturing  Company. 
His  death  was  due  to  cystitis,  from  which  he  had  suffered 
for  several  weeks.  Burial  was  in  Lyndonwood  Cemetery, 
Stoneham,  Mass. 

Mr.  Darling  was  married  August  28,  1877,  in  Middle- 
bury,  Vt.,  to  Delia  H.,  daughter  of  Mrs.  Aqubia  Rock- 
well, who  survives  him.  They  had  three  children:  Gertie 
May,  who  married  Clifford  E.  Smith  of  Brattleboro,  Vt. ; 
Ralph  Whitney,  who  died  in  Stoneham,  Mass.,  April  24, 
1909,  and  Grace  Genevieve,  whose  death  occurred  in 
Acworth,  January  27,  1891. 


V\^illiam  Edward  Jefifries,  B.D.  1883 

Born  March  23,  1852,  in  Fredericksburg,  Va. 
Died  August  17,  1915,  in  Port  Chester,  N.  Y. 

William  Edward  Jeffries,  son  of  William  J.  and  Mary 
E.  Jeffries,  was  born  March  23,  1852,  in  Fredericksburg, 
Va.,  and  attended  a  military  school  in  that  town.  After 
working  for  six  years  as  a  bookkeeper  in  a  wholesale  car- 
pet house  in  Washington,  D.  C,  he  entered  Drew  Theo- 
logical Seminary  in  1879,  being  graduated  in  May,  1882. 
The  following  year,  he  received  the  degree  of  B.D.  from 
Yale. 

In  1884,  he  joined  the  New  York  East  Conference,  two 
years  later  being  ordained  as  a  deacon  in  the  Methodist 
Episcopal  Church  at  the  DeKalb  Avenue  Church  in 
Brooklyn.  He  was  ordained  as  an  elder  in  1888.  His 
first  charge  was  at  Saugatuck,  Conn.,  and  his  second  in 
Madison,  Conn.  He  was  afterwards  pastor  of  churches 
at  Bay  Ridge,  Unionville,  Bridgeport,  Port  Chester,  Strat- 
ford, Mianus,  Cutchogue,  New  Haven,  and  Port  Jefferson. 
He  resigned  his  pastorate  in  the  latter  town  in  1907,  and 
in  May  of  that  year  entered  the  insurance  business  in 
New  Haven  with  his  brother,  Thomas  T.  Jeffries,  con- 
tinuing his  interest  in  that  direction  until  his  death.    During 


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this  period,  he  did  much  Sunday  supply  work,  preaching 
in  both  Congregational  and  Methodist  churches. 

Mr.  Jeffries  was  taken  suddenly  ill  in  December,  1914, 
and  afterwards  suffered  from  heart  and  kidney  trouble. 
His^  death  occurred  at  the  home  of  his  sister  in  Port 
Chester,  N.  Y.,  August  17,  191 5.  Burial  was  in  King 
Street  Cemetery  in  that  city,  near  the  church  which  he 
had  erected  and  dedicated  in  1893. 

He  was  married  on  May  27,  1885,  in  Saugatuck  to 
Nettie  E.,  daughter  of  Edwin  D.  and  Ann  E.  Hopkins. 
She  survives  him  with  a  son,  Edward  H. 


Thomas  Milton  Beadenkoff,  B.D.  1885 

Born  June  16,  1855,  in  Baltimore,  Md. 
Died  September  7,  1915,  in  Baltimore,  Md. 

Thomas  Milton  Beadenkoff,  son  of  Martin  Beadenkoff, 
was  born  June  16,  1855,  in  Baltimore,  Md,,  where  his 
father  was  engaged  in  business  as  a  baker.  His  mother 
was  Emeline  Graham,  daughter  of  William  and  Rachel 
(Graham)  Purnell  and  granddaughter  of  William  Graham, 
who  fought  in  the  Revolutionary  War.  He  received  his 
early  education  in  the  public  schools  of  Baltimore,  and  was 
a  graduate  of  Baltimore  City  College  in  1871  and  of 
Johns  Hopkins  University  with  the  degree  of  B.A.  in 
1880.  In  1884,  after  studying  theology  at  Boston  Uni- 
versity for  two  years,  he  entered  the  Yale  School  of 
Religion.  He  was  graduated  in  1885,  and  spent  the  next 
year  at  Yale  in  graduate  study. 

He  was  ordained  to  the  Congregational  ministry  at 
North  Waterford,  Maine,  in  September,  1886,  and  preached 
there  until  1890,  when  he  returned  to  Baltimore,  where,  as 
pastor  of  the  Canton  Congregational  Church,  the  remainder 
of  his  active  ministry  was  spent.  In  1905,  he  resigned  that 
charge,  and  had  since  been  engaged  as  secretary  of  the 
Public  Bath  Commission.  He  was  the  originator,  sup- 
porter, and,  from  1893  to  191 5,  the  superintendent  of  the 
free  baths  system  of  Baltimore.  In  19 12,  he  went  as  a 
delegate  to  the  International  Conference  on  Public  and 
School  Baths  at  The  Hague. 


238  SCHOOL   OF   RELIGION 

Mr.  Beadenkoff  died  at  his  home  in  Baltimore,  September 
7,  191 5.  He  had  suffered  from  heart  trouble  for  about  a 
year. 

His  marriage  took  place  in  Baltimore,  June  20,  1899,  to 
Annie,  daughter  of  Richard  B.  and  Anne  M.  S.  Stidham, 
who  survives  him.  They  had  five  children:  Thomas  Mil- 
ton, who  died  at  birth;  Martin  Lawrence;  Anna  Lucille; 
William  Gladstone,  and  Mary  Lila. 


Frederic  Lorenzo  Stevens,  B.D.   1885 

Born  May  7,  1859,  in  St.  Johnsbury,  Vt. 
Died  November  5,  1915,  in  Rochester,  Minn. 

Frederic  Lorenzo  Stevens,  one  of  the  two  children  of 
Lorenzo  O.  and  Abiah  Welch  Stevens,  was  born  in  St. 
Johnsbury,  Vt.,  May  7,  1859.  He  received  his  early  edu- 
cation in  his  native  town  and  in  Winona,  Minn.,  his  par- 
ents having  removed  to  the  latter  town  in  his  boyhood, 
and  took  his  academic  work  at  Olivet  College,  where  he 
was  graduated  in  1882.  The  next  three  years  were  spent 
in  the  study  of  theology  at  Yale,  and  in  1885  he  was  given 
the  degree  of  B.D. 

He  began  preaching  at  Southington,  Conn.,  in  February 
of  that  year,  and  was  ordained  and  installed  as  pastor  of 
the  Southington  Congregational  Church  the  following 
December.  In  1886-87,  he  pursued  graduate  work  in  the 
Yale  School  of  Religion  on  the  Hooker  Fellowship.  On 
July  I,  1888,  he  was  dismissed  from  his  charge  at  South- 
ington, and  shortly  afterwards  sailed  for  Germany,  where 
he  passed  two  years  in  study  at  Jena,  Leipsic,  and  Berlin. 
On  his  return  to  America,  he  was  for  a  while  located  in 
New  Haven,  dividing  his  time  between  preaching  and 
literary  activities.  He  wrote  several  articles  for  the  New 
Englander.  In  1888,  he  had  prepared  the  Church  Manual 
of  Southington. 

In  1893,  his  health  being  somewhat  impaired,  he  went 
to  the  home  of  his  parents  in  Winona.  After  a  short 
rest,  he  resumed  preaching,  but  was  able  to  continue  only 
a  few  years.     Chronic  cystitis  developed,  and  after  a  long 


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illness  from  brain  trouble,  he  died  at  a  sanitarium  at 
Rochester,  Minn.,  November  5,  1915.  Burial  was  in 
Winona. 

Mr.  Stevens  was  married  September  7,  1887,  in  South- 
ington  to  Mary  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  John  and  Eunice 
Beckley  Gridley,  who  survives  him  with  their  daughter, 
Doris  Imogene,  a  non-graduate  member  of  the  Class  of 
1916  at  Mount  Holyoke  College. 


Clarence  DeVere  Greeley,  B.D.  1886 

Born  May  ig,  1856,  in  Waytie  Township,  Pa. 
Died  February  25,  1916,  in  Chicago,  111. 

Clarence  DeVere  Greeley  was  the  youngest  child  in  a 
family  of  seven,  and  was  born  in  Wayne  Township,  Pa., 
May  19,  1856.  Nathan  Barnes  Greeley,  his  father,  was 
an  only  brother  of  Horace  Greeley,  the  founder  of  the 
New  York  Tribune,  and  the  son  of  Zaccheus  and  Mary 
(Woodburn)  Greeley.  He  was  descended  from  Zaccheus 
Greeley,  who  came  from  the  north  of  Ireland  to  New 
England  with  his  two  brothers  in  1640  and  settled  near 
Nutfield  (now  Londonderry),  N.  H. 

In  1883,  upon  the  completion  of  the  regular  four-year 
course,  he  was  graduated  from  Washburn  College,  and 
from  that  year  until  1887  ^yas  enrolled  in  the  Theological 
Department  at  Yale.  He  received  the  degree  of  B.D.  in 
1886,  and  spent  the  next  year  in  graduate  work. 

He  studied  in  the  Harvard  Divinity  School  during 
1887-88,  and  after  his  ordination  to  the  ministry  of  the 
Congregational  Church,  preached  for  a  time  at  Mount 
Carmel,  Conn.  Later,  he  held  pastorates  at  Prairie  du 
Chien,  Wis.,  Braddock,  Pa.,  and  Chicago,  111.,  but  most 
of  his  time  had  been  spent  in  educational  work.  He  had 
served  as  a  lecturer  on  sociology  in  the  University  of  North 
Carolina  and  at  Washburn  College,  and  during  the  last 
few  years  of  his  life  specialized  in  functional  ethics.  He 
was  a  frequent  contributor  to  various  publications.  In 
1895,  he  received  the  degree  of  M.A.  from  Washburn,  and 
six  years  later  the  University  of  Wooster  gave  him  that 
of  Doctor  of  Philosophy. 


24°  SCHOOL   OF    RELIGION 

Dr.  Greeley  died  at  his  home  in  Chicago,  February  25, 
1916,  his  death  following  an  operation  for  bladder  trouble. 
Burial  was  in  Mount  Hope  Cemetery  in  that  city. 
^  He  was  unmarried.    A  brother,  a  sister,  and  three  half- 
sisters  survive  him. 


Richard  Owen,  B.D.   1892 

Died  April  30,  1916 

It  has  been  impossible  to  secure  the  desired  informa- 
tion for  an  obituary  sketch  of  Mr.  Owen  in  time  for  pub- 
lication in  this  volume.  A  sketch  will  appear  in  a  subse- 
quent issue  of  the  Obituary  Record. 


George  Henry  Flint,  B.D.   1893 

Born  January  25,  1865,  in  Lincoln,  Mass. 
Died  July  24,  1915,  in  Lincoln,  Mass. 

George  Henry  Flint,  son  of  George  Flint,  whose  parents 
were  Ephraim  and  Susan  (Bemis)  Flint,  was  born  in 
Lincoln,  Mass.,  January  25,  1865.  His  mother  was  Caro- 
line Amelia,  daughter  of  Henry  and  Mary  Rice. 

He  received  his  preparatory  training  at  Phillips  Acad- 
emy, Andover,  Mass.,  and  in  1882  entered  Williams  Col- 
lege. He  became  a  member  of  Phi  Beta  Kappa,  and 
graduated  with  the  degree  of  B.A.  in  1886.  The  next 
three  years  he  spent  in  teaching — -at  first  at  the  Peekskill 
(N.  Y.)  Military  Academy  and  later  at  Monson  Academy 
at  Monson,  Mass.  During  1889-90,  he  served  as  an 
assistant  in  chemistry  at  Williams,  and  in  the  latter  year 
received  the  degree  of  M.A.  there.  He  began  his  theo- 
logical studies  at  Yale  in  the  fall  of  1890. 

After  graduating  from  the  Yale  School  of  Religion  in 
1893,  he  continued  his  studies  in  New  Haven  for  a  year. 
He  then  served  for  two  years  as  assistant  pastor  of  Phillips 
Church  at  South  Boston,  Mass.,  being  placed  in  charge  of 
Phillips  Chapel.  In  1896,  he  became  pastor  of  Hope 
Chapel,  of  the  Old  South  Church,  Boston,  where  he 
remained  until  1899,  when  he  was  called  to  Central  Con- 


I 


1886-1898  241 

gregational  Church  at  Dorchester,  Mass.  Largely  through 
his  efforts,  a  new  church  edifice  was  built  during  his  pas- 
torate. Ill  health  forced  him  to  resign  the  charge  in  1914, 
and  after  spending  the  following  winter  in  Florida,  he 
returned  to  his  native  town,  where  his  death  occurred, 
from  a  complication  of  diseases,  on  July  24,  191 5.  He 
was  buried  in  the  Lincoln  Cemetery. 

Mr.  Flint  was  married  June  17,  1896,  in  Hinsdale,  Mass., 
to  Mary  P.,  daughter  of  Azariah  Smith  and  Emily  (Payne) 
Storm.  Mrs.  Flint,  who  was  a  grandniece  of  Azariah 
Smith  (B.A.  1837,  M.D.  1840)  and  of  William  Manlius 
Smith  (B.A.  1844,  M.D.  University  of  Pennsylvania  1849), 
survives  her  husband  with  two  children,  Caroline  Emily 
and  Philip  Ephraim. 


Francis  Chase  Bliss,  B.D.   1898 

Born  August  25,  1872,  in  Newport,  R.  I. 
Died  December  7,  1915 

Francis  Chase  Bliss  was  born  at  Newport,  R.  L,  August 
25,  1872.  He  received  the  degree  of  B.A.  at  Brown  Uni- 
versity in  1894,  on  completing  the  regular  four-year  course, 
and  in  the  fall  of  1895  began  his  preparation  for  the  minis- 
try in  the  Yale  School  of  Religion.  At  the  end  of  his  first 
year,  he  was  awarded  one  of  the  Fogg  Scholarships,  and 
in  1894  was  graduated  with  the  degree  of  Bachelor  of 
Divinity. 

In  1898,  he  went  to  Plymouth,  Wis.,  and  was  ordained 
there  the  following  August.  He  was  called  to  the  Congre- 
gational Church  at  Amery,  Wis.,  in  1901,  and  held  that 
charge  for  three  years.  From  1904  until  1910,  he  was 
located  in  North  Dakota,  his  pastorates  being  successively 
at  Highland,  Velva,  Sawyer,  Minot,  Benedict,  and  at  Ana- 
moose  and  Drake.  He  removed  to  Rockford,  Iowa,  in 
1910,  and  continued  there  until  October,  191 5,  when  he  was 
settled  over  a  church  at  New  England,  N.  Dak. 

His  death  occurred  December  7,  191 5,  from  pneumonia. 
He  was  buried  at  Fergus  Falls,  Minn. 
J^        Mr.  Bliss  was  married  in  Minneapolis,  Minn.,  July  22, 
I^B  1914,  to  Eunice  V.  Hansen,  who  survives  him. 

I 


242  SCHOOL   OF   RELIGION 


Knut  Emil  Forsell,  B.D.   1898 

Born  September  23,  1864,  in  Vexio,  Smaland,  Sweden 
Died  January  28,  1916,  in  Minneapolis,  Minn. 

Knut  Emil  Forsell  was  born  in  Vexio,  Smaland,  Sweden, 
September  23,  1864,  and  came  to  this  country  at  the  age  of 
seventeen.  He  was  educated  at  Northwestern  College, 
Minneapolis,  Minn.,  Chicago  Theological  Seminary,  and 
Carleton  College,  graduating  from  the  latter  institution 
in  1894.  In  1897,  he  came  to  New  Haven,  and  the  next 
year  was  graduated  from  the  Yale  School  of  Religion. 

For  a  time  thereafter,  he  was  editor  of  a  Swedish 
religious  paper.  Later,  he  visited  Sweden,  and  on  his 
return  was  sent  to  Alaska,  there  becoming  pastor  of  a 
church  at  Nome.  From  1903  to  1907,  he  made  his  home 
at  West  Duluth,  Minn.,  in  the  latter  year  removing  to 
Minneapolis,  where  he  preached  in  the  Swedish  Tabernacle. 
He  had  also  taught  in  the  American  Business  College  and 
Northwestern  College,  and  had  served  as  principal  of  the 
Minnehaha  Academy.  During  the  period  from  1911  to 
1913,  he  was  located  on  a  homestead  in  northern  Minne- 
sota, but  in  June,  191 5,  he  went  to  Canby,  Minn.,  where  the 
remainder  of  his  life  was  spent  as  pastor  of  the  Swedish 
Mission  Church.  Mr.  Forsell  was  the  author  of  a  "Life 
of  Missionary  Franson,"  and  "The  Free  Church  Movement 
of  America,"  and  had  translated  into  the  Swedish,  Shel- 
don's  "In  His  Steps." 

He  died  in  the  Swedish  Hospital,  Minneapolis,  January 
28,  1916,  from  chronic  myocarditis  and  nephritis,  and  was 
buried  in  West  Duluth. 

On  April  26,  1905,  he  was  married  in  that  town  to  Anna 
Beatrice,  daughter  of  L.  P.  and  Anna  C.  (Bjesse)  High- 
mark,  who  survives  him  with  five  children:  Eldon  Victor, 
Elsa  Ruth  Purdy,  George  Emil,  Beatrice  Ruby,  and  Paul 
Rueben. 


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Members  of  the  Scientific  and  Graduate  Schools,  and  of  the  Schools  of  Lazv,  Medicine, 
and  Religion  are  indicated  by  the  letters  s,  ma  or  dp,  I  or  ml,  m,  and  d,  respectively. 


Class 

Page 

Class 

Page 

j866 

Adams,  Charles  H. 

62 

i860 

Delafield,  Francis 

32 

1895^ 

Adams,  Thatcher  M.,  Jr 

.   183 

1856 

Denniston,  James   0. 

19 

1886 

Ames,  Henry  Semple 

116 

1909  J 

Denton,   William   B. 

195 

1873 

Ashley,  Clarence  D. 

84 

1885  m 

Dibble,  Charles  F. 

205 

1839 

Atwater,  David  F. 

I 

1864 

Dibble,  Orson  G. 

57 

1914 

Dickey,  W.  Grant 

157 

1863 

Barnard,  Frederick  J. 

48 

1901 

Doudge,  Barton  T. 

149 

1885 

Barnes,  Jonathan 

no 

1896^ 

Downs,  Hubert  C. 

184 

1862 

Barnum,  Henry  S. 

45 

i86gs 

DuBois,  A,  Jay 

162 

1870 

Beach,  Walter  R. 

76 

1861 

Durfee,  Henry  R. 

37 

188s  d 

Beadenkoff,   Thomas  M 

237 

1849 

Dwight,  Timothy 

5 

1867 

Beard,  Henry  B. 

63 

1S89S 

Beckley,  William  B. 

177 

1889/ 

Eames,  Harris  G. 

219 

185 1 

Bedinger,  Everett  W. 

10 

1847 

Edmands,  John 

4 

1880/ 

Beecher,  William  J. 

219 

1874  s 

Edwards,   Franklin 

166 

1878 

Benton,  Edwin  A. 

99 

1905  w 

Elmes,  Frank  A. 

207 

igogs 

Bernhardi,  John  F. 

194 

1897^ 

Ely,  Franklin  J. 

187 

1898  d 

Bliss,   Francis   C. 

241 

1877  dp 

Boals,  John  C, 

201 

1875  s 

Fenn,  Charles  W. 

167 

1BS2S 

Bozeman,   Nathan   G. 

173 

1854 

Fenn,  William  H. 

17 

1865 

Brown,  John  C. 

60 

1893  d 

FHnt,   George  H. 

240 

1876  d 

Bugbee,  Rolla  G. 

233 

1882 

Foote,  Carlton  A. 

107 

189s 

Bumstead,  Arthur 

132 

1871 

Ford,  Isaac  H. 

81 

1898 

Burnet,  Jacob  B. 

141 

i8g8d 

Forsell,  Knut  E. 

242 

I  goo 

Butler,  Albert  N. 

144 

1874 

Foster,  Frank  W. 

90 

1895 

Butler,  George  E. 

134 

i860 

Foster,  William  E. 

34 

1888 

Fowler,  George  B. 

124 

1895 

Cable,  Benjamin  S 

135 

^^1 

Francis,  Cyrus  W. 

49 

1887 

Caldwell,  Victor  B. 

119 

1876 

Frew,  William  N. 

91 

189I 

Calhoun,  Gouverneur 

126 

1861 

Frost,  Milton 

39 

1853 

Catlin,  Lynde  A. 

15 

189I 

Chadwick,  Ernest 

127 

1864  m 

Gallagher,  Frank 

202 

I9OI 

Chappell,  Harold 

148 

1858 

Garrard,  Jeptha 

20 

1876  J 

Clark,  Sidney  W. 

168 

19T1  s 

Geddes,  Walter  M. 

197 

1887 

Cobb,  Sanford  E. 

121 

1893 

Gibbs,  Rufus  M. 

129 

1887 

Cochrane,  Francis 

122 

1863 

Glasgow,  Edward  B. 

51 

1898 

Cogswell,  Henry   B. 

142 

1858 

Grant,  Edward  D. 

21 

1900 

Conner,  Norman  G. 

145 

j886d 

Greeley,  Clarence  DeV. 

239 

187I 

Coonley,  Edgar  D. 

80 

1888  s 

Greer,  Howard,  Jr. 

175 

1865 

Cooper,  James  W. 

61 

'^^ 

Corwith,  Charles  R. 

109 

1901/ 

Hallen,  Edward  T. 

223 

1867  m 

Cragin,  George  E. 

204 

1883 

Harkness,  Charles  W. 

109 

1897^ 

Cristy,  James  C. 

185 

185 1 

Harlow,  William  T. 

12 

1879  s 

Harrison,  Frank  H. 

172 

1878  rf 

Darling,   Thomas  W. 

235 

1882 

Hawkes,   Charles   B. 

108 

1896 

Dayton,  Estey  F. 

137 

1879 

Haynie,  Edwin  C. 

102 

INDEX 


253 


Class 

Page 

Class 

Page 

1896 

Heard,  Carlos  C. 

138 

1894 

O'Day,  Daniel 

131 

i860 

Higgins,   Lucius   H. 

35 

1892  d 

Owen,  Richard 

240 

1868 

Hill,  Beach 

65 

1903 

Hitchcock,  Charles,  Jr. 

149 

1879  s 

Paramore,  Frederick  W 

.   172 

1896 

Hollister,  John  C. 

139 

1868 

Parry,  Samuel 

68 

1864 

Hopkins,  Theodore  W. 

57 

1864 

Peck,  William  G. 

59 

1876 

Home,  Durbin 

93 

1866  m 

Peckham,  Fenner  H. 

202 

1876  (/ 

Horner,  John  W. 

234 

1858 

Peirce,  Luther  H. 

23 

1850 

Horton,  Benjamin  J. 

9 

1887 

Penrose,  Thomas  N. 

123 

1877/ 

Hotchkiss,  Justus  S. 

214 

1885 

Phelps,  Edward  B. 

113 

1870^ 

Humphrey,  Henry  C. 

163 

1875  d 

Piatt,  Lester  B. 

230 

1885 

Hunter,  Ernest  H. 

112 

1867 

Porter,  P.  Brynberg 

64 

1890 

Hutchinson,  Otis  K. 

125 

1869 

Prudden,  Theodore  P. 

72> 

1876 

Hyde,  William  Waldo 

94 

1894^ 

Ranney,  Abram  N. 

181 

1875  rf 

Jackson,  William  T. 

229 

1877  s 

Read,  Francis  R. 

171 

1891/ 

Jarboe,  Paul  R. 

220 

1851/ 

Robert,  Alexander  J. 

210 

1883  d 

Jeffries,  William  E. 

236 

1872/ 

Robinson,  Frank  A. 

213 

1873 

Robson,  James  A. 

88 

1909  dp 

Kawanaka,  Kannosukc 

201 

1864  J 

Roffe,  Albert  H. 

161 

1899/ 

Keane,  William  C. 

223 

1875  d 

Root,  Edward  P. 

231 

1870 

Kelly,  Robert 

77 

1872  s 

Russell,  Thomas  H. 

164 

1893/ 

Kendall,   Ulysses   S. 

221 

1861 
1876  s 

Kitchel,  Harvey  S. 
Kohn,   Solomon   S, 

40 
169 

1914        Safford,  Geoffrey  L. 
1909  ml  Sanchez,  Proceso  G. 

159 
227 

1900  J 

Lauder,  George,  Jr. 

188 

1844 

Savage,  George  S.  F. 

3 

1893  J 
1888^ 

Lawbaugh,  Elmer  A. 
LeSassier,  Louis 

179 
1/6 

1909^ 
1886 

Schall,  James  E.,  Jr. 
Schwab,  John  C. 

195 
117 

1894  J 

Lilley,  Mitchell  C. 

1  /u 

180 

1868 

Seagrave,  Francis  E. 

69 

1910/ 

Lincoln,  Ralph  H. 

225 

1861 

Sears,  Lorenzo 

42 

1894 
igois 

Longenecker,  Ralph 
Luther,   Chorbajian   M, 

130 

189 

1878 
1894  J 
1863 

Shaw,   Charles  H. 
Sheffield,  George 
Shepard,  Charles  U. 

lOI 

181 

52 

1901 

McAuley,  Henry  S. 

149 

1890 

Sherwood,  John  H. 

125 

1878 

McEwan,  James  B. 

100 

1906 

Shevlin,  Thomas  L. 

152 

1909 

McKiernan,  Charles   P. 

154 

1856/ 

Shiras,    Oliver    P. 

211 

1910 

Malony,  John  C. 

208 

1907 

Shirk,  John  E. 

153 

1877/ 

Meeker,  Edward  F. 

216 

1853 

Smalley,  George  W. 

16 

1877 

Merrifield,   Webster 

97 

1881 

Smith,     John  C. 

104 

I909?»a  Messick,  Joseph  C. 

200 

1907/ 

Snow,  George  G. 

224 

1908^ 

Miller,  Winfield  C. 

19^ 

1909 

Spitzer,  Roland  A. 

156 

1877/ 

Mills,  WilHam  J. 

217 

1861 

Stanton,  Charles  T. 

44 

•  1873 

Minor,   S.   Carrington 

87 

1885  c/ 

Stevens,  Frederic  L. 

238 

i  1868 

Moore,   Frank 

66 

1888  w 

Stowe,  William  H. 

206 

1856  J 

Morehouse,   Louis   P. 

160 

1849 

Morris,  Edward  D. 

7 

1859 

Tatum,  Joseph  T. 

26 

1  1894/ 

Mull,  George  F. 

222 

1862 

Taylor,  John  P. 

47 

1  1909 

Murchey,   Karl  E. 

155 

1851 

Temple,  David  P. 

14 

Pi 

1869 

Thomas,  Aaron  S. 

74 

8 1858 

Neide,  Horace 

22 

187s  d 

Thompson,  Albert  H. 

232 

1859 

Newton,  Homer  G. 

24 

1911/ 

Tierney,  Harold  E. 

226 

191 1 J 

Norton,  Edward  H. 

198 

1915J 

Tiesing,  Paul  E.  M. 

199 

I 


254 


INDEX 


Class 

1885  Townsend,  Joseph  H. 

1900  Tracy,  William  E. 

1895  Tyler,  Fred  S. 

1876/  Tyler,  George  A. 

i860  Vandyne,  Charles  H. 

1868  Viele,  Sheldon  T. 

1870  Vincent,  Frank 

1881  Wallace,  George  M. 

1863  Wallis,  Hamilton 

1880  Ward,  Edwin  C. 

1899  Warner,  Horace  B. 


Page 

Class 

115 

igios 

146 

1904 

136 

1873 

214 

1859 

1897 

3(> 

I87I 

70 

1892  J 

79 

1859 

1902^ 

105 

55 

1876 

103 

igoys 

143 

1859 

Page 

Warner,  Winfred   C.  196 

Warren,  Bronson  M.  151 

Whittaker,  William  H.  89 

Winn,  Henry  26 

Winter,  Clarence  140 

Wood,  Cortlandt  83 

Wood,  Walter  A.  178 

Wright,  Arthur  W.  28 

Wright-Clark,  John  J,  191 

Young,  Herbert  S.  96 

Young,  Ralph  W.  192 

Yundt,  Edwin  H.  31 


OBITUARY  RECORD 

OF 

GRADUATES  OF  YALE  UNIVERSITY 

Deceased  during  the  year  ending 
JULY  h  1917 


INCLUDING  THE   RECORD   OF   A    FEW    WHO    DIED    PREVIOUSLY 
HITHERTO    UNREPORTED 


[No.  2  of  the  Seventh  Printed  Series,  and  No.  76  of  the  whole   Record.-  The 
present  Series  consists  of  iive  numbers.] 


I 


'/-' 


OBITUARY  RECORD 

OF 

GRADUATES  OF  YALE  UNIVERSITY 

Deceased  during  the  year  etidifig 
July  i,  1917, 

Including  the  Record  of  a  few  who  died  previously,  hitherto  unreported 

[No.  2  of  the  Seventh  Printed  Series,  and  No.  76  of  the  whole  Record. 
The  present  Series  consists  of  five  numbers.] 


YALE  COLLEGE 
(academic  department) 

Robert  Hall  Smith,  B.A.  1846 

Born  February  29,  1828,  in  Baltimore,  Md. 
Died  September  11,  1915,  on  Spesutia  Island,  Harford  County,  Md. 

Robert  Hall  Smith  was  the  son  of  Samuel  W.  and  Elinor 
(Donnell)  Smith,  and  was  born  February  29,  1828,  in 
Baltimore,  Md.  Through  his  father,  whose  parents  were 
Robert  and  Margaret  Smith,  he  traced  his  descent  from 
Samuel  Smith,  who  came  to  this  country  from  Ballema- 
goragh,  Ireland,  in  1728,  settling  at  Donegal,  Lancaster 
County,  Pa.  His  mother  was  the  daughter  of  John  and 
Anne  (Smith)  Donnell. 

He  was  prepared  for  college  at  a  private  school  in  Balti- 
more County,  and  entered  Yale  as  a  Sophomore  in  1843, 
receiving  his  degree  with  the  Class  of  1846. 

After  graduation  he  became  engaged  in  farming  on 
Spesutia  Island  in  Harford  County,  Md.,  where  he  con- 
tinued to  make  his  home  until  his  death,  September  11, 
191 5,  which  resulted  from  infirmities  incident  to  his  age. 
Interment  was  in  Westminster  Cemetery,  Baltimore.  He 
was  a  member  of  the  Protestant  Episcopal  Church. 


256  YALE    COLLEGE 

His  marriage  took  place  December  12,  1861,  in  Harford 
County,  to  Mary  M.,  daughter  of  Andrew  Hall.  They 
had  five  children:  Robert  Hall;  Anna  Moore,  now  the 
wife  of  Chapman  Stuart  Clark  of  Ferryman,  Md. ;  John 
Donnell,  whose  death  occurred  January  19,  1870,  at  the 
age  of  three  years;  Julian  Chatard,  and  John  Donnell. 
Mr.  Smith's  brother,  John  Donnell  Smith,  graduated  from 
the  College  in  1847  J  he  served  with  the  Confederate  Army 
during  the  Civil  War,  ranking  as  a  captain  at  its  close. 


Charles  Selden,  B.A.   1848 

Born  June  25,  1827,  in  Liverpool,  England 
Died  May  4,  191 5,  at  Kings  Park,  N.  Y. 

Charles  Selden,  son  of  David  and  Gertrude  Elizabeth 
(Richards)  Selden,  was  born  June  25,  1827,  in  Liverpool, 
England,  where  his  father,  a  merchant,  was  then  engaged 
in  business.  The  latter  was  the  son  of  Rev.  David  Selden, 
a  graduate  of  the  College  in  1782,  and  Cynthia  (May) 
Selden;  his  wife's  father  was  Abraham  Richards.  Charles 
Selden's  great-grandfather.  Rev.  Eleazar  May  (B.A. 
1752),  was  the  son  of  Deacon  Hezekiah  May  and  Anne 
(Stillman)  May  of  Wethersfield,  Conn.,  and  a  nephew  of 
Benjamin  Stillman  (B.A.  1724)  ;  he  married  Sibyl,  daugh- 
ter of  Deacon  Samuel  Huntington,  and  sister  of  Rev. 
Eliphalet  Huntington  (B.A.  1759),  and  had  two  sons  who 
graduated  from  Yale — John  May  in  1777  and  Hezekiah 
May  in  1793. 

He  received  his  preparatory  training  at  the  Hopkins 
Grammar  School  in  New  Haven,  Conn.,  and  entered  Yale 
in  1843.  He  joined  the  Class  with  which  he  was  gradu- 
ated at  the  beginning  of  its  Freshman  year,  and  in  the 
fall  after  receiving  his  B.A.  degree  returned  to  New  Haven 
to  take  up  the  study  of  law  at  Yale. 

In  May,  1849,  ^^  went  to  a  health  resort  at  Brattle- 
boro,  Vt.,  where  a  year  was  spent.  He  then  served  for  a 
time  as  a  clerk  for  his  father  in  New  York  City,  and 
was  afterwards  employed  in  various  business  houses  there, 
later  going  to  California  to  look  after  the  affairs  of  a 
coftcern  having  mining  interests   in   Placer   County.     His 


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death  occurred  May  4,  1915,  at  Kings  Park,  N.  Y.,  where 
he  had  been  hving  for  some  years. 

He  was  first  married  June  5,  1856,  to  Georgiana  Lane, 
daughter  of  James  Vandenbergh  of  New  York  City.  She 
died  May  8,  1857,  and  on  November  9,  1865,  Mr.  Selden 
married  her  sister,  Emily  Bloomfield  Vandenbergh.  By 
his  first  marriage,  he  had  one  daughter,  Georgiana  Lane 
(Selden)  McCall,  who  is  now  living  in  Albany,  N.  Y. 
Two  of  Mr.  Selden's  brothers,  Edward  David  and  Silas 
Richards  Selden,  graduated  from  the  College  in  1844  ^^^ 
1845,  respectively,  and  his  nephew,  Robert  William  Selden, 
in  1880. 


Theodore  Henry  Hittell,  B.A.   1849 

Born  April  5,  1830,  in  Marietta,  Pa. 
Died  February  23,  1917,  in  San  Francisco,  Calif. 

Theodore  Henry  Hittell  was  the  son  of  Dr.  Jacob  Hittell 
and  Catharine  (Shertzer)  Hittell,  and  was  born  April  5, 
1830,  in  Marietta,  Pa.  Before  joining  the  Yale  Class  of 
1849  as  a  Senior,  he  spent  three  years  at  Miami  University. 

In  1850  he  began  the  study  of  law  in  Cincinnati,  Ohio, 
and  two  years  later  was  admitted  to  the  bar  of  that  state. 
After  practicing  in  Hamilton,  Ohio,  for  three  years,  he 
removed,  in  October,  1855,  to  San  Francisco.  His  first 
work  in  California  was  as  a  reporter  for  his  brother,  John 
S.  Hittell,  editor  of  the  San  Francisco  Chronicle,  and  he  was 
later  on  the  staffs  of  the  Evening  Bulletin  and  the  Times. 
In  1 86 1  he  opened  law  offices  in  San  Francisco,  for  a  time 
being  associated  in  practice  with  Mr.  Elisha  Cook.  As 
attorney  for  the  "outside  land"  cases,  Mr.  Hittell  induced 
owners  of  land  outside  the  pueblo  of  San  Francisco  to  give 
1,000  acres  to  the  city  for  park  purposes.  Their  gift  is 
the  present  Golden  Gate  Park.  Mr.  Hittell  served  as  a 
member  of  the  California  State  Senate  from  1880  to  1882. 
He  had  always  given  much  time  to  writing,  and  was  the 
author  of  "The  Adventures  of  James  Capen  Adams, 
Mountaineer  and  Grizzly  Bear  Hunter  of  California" 
(i860),  "The  General  Laws  of  California,  from  1850 
to  1864,  inclusive"  (1864),  "Hittell's  Civil  Practice," 
"Nevada  Supreme  Court  Reports,"  "Hittell's  Code  and 
Statutes  of  the  State  of  CaUfornia"    (two  volumes;    1876), 


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a  supplement  to  the  last  named,  published  in  1880,  and 
"A  Memorial  Address  on  Bancroft  and  his  Services  to 
CaHfornia"  (1883).  For  many  years  he  was  engaged  on 
a  "History  of  California,"  two  volumes  of  which  appeared 
in  1885  and  the  remaining  two  in  1897,  He  completed 
an  exhaustive  "History  of  Hawaii"  several  months  before 
his  death,  and  his  children  are  planning  to  publish  this. 
Mr.  Hittell  was  an  honorary  member  of  the  Society  of 
California  Pioneers.  He  died  at  his  home  in  San  Francisco, 
February  23,  19 17. 

Mr.  Hittell  was  married  June  12,  1858,  to  Eliza  C.  Wiehe 
of  San  Francisco.  Of  their  four  children,  three  survive — 
Catharine  Hermanna,  a  graduate  of  the  University  of 
California  in  1882;  Charles  Jacob,  who  attended  that 
institution  from  1879  to  1 881  and  afterwards  studied  paint- 
ing abroad,  and  Franklin  Theodore.  A  son,  John  Jacob, 
died  in  infancy. 


Augustus  Hart  Carrier,  B.A.   185 1 

Born  March  2,  1831,  in  Canton,  Conn. 
Died  September  12,  1916,  in  Santa  Barbara,  Calif. 

Augustus  Hart  Carrier  was  born  in  Canton,  Conn., 
March  2,  1831.  His  paternal  ancestors  came  from  England 
to  Salem,  Mass.,  early  in  the  seventeenth  century ;  members 
of  the  family  later  removed  to  Connecticut,  one  branch 
settling  in  that  section  of  Hartford  County  afterwards 
called  Canton.  On  the  maternal  side,  he  was  of  German 
and  English  descent,  some  of  his  ancestors  having  come 
to  America  from  the  vicinity  of  Frankfurt-am-Main  about 
1780. 

He  received  his  preparatory  training  at  the  cottage 
school  of  Rev.  Henry  Jones  (B.A.  1820)  in  Bridgeport, 
Conn.  At  Yale  he  was  awarded  a  Berkeley  premium  in 
Latin  composition  in  Freshman  year,  a  first  prize  in  English 
composition  the  following  year,  and  a  First  Dispute  appoint- 
ment at  graduation.  He  was  a  member  of  the  editorial 
board  of  the  Yale  Literary  Magazine,  served  successively 
as  treasurer  and  president  of  Linonia,  and  was  one  of  the 
Commencement  speakers. 

The  year  following  his  graduation  Mr.  Carrier  spent  as 


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a  teacher  at  the  Monson  (Mass.)  Academy.  He  then 
went  to  Georgia  for  his  heaUh,  and  while  there  continued 
his  studies  and  did  a  Httle  private  tutoring.  In  the  fall 
of  1853,  after  teaching  Latin  and  geometry  for  a  term  at 
Lawrence  Academy,  Groton,  Mass.,  he  entered  Andover 
Theological  Seminary,  where  he  studied  for  a  year.  On 
June  6,  1855,  he  was  licensed  to  preach,  being  ordained 
to  the  ministry  of  the  Congregational  Church  in  New 
Haven  the  following  January.  His  first  charge  was  that 
of  the  Presbyterian  Church  at  Paris,  Ky.,  where  he  was 
located  for  a  year.  From  1858  to  1863  he  served  as  pastor 
of  a  church  of  the  same  denomination  at  North  East,  Pa., 
and  during  the  next  three  years  held  the  pastorate  of  the 
Auburndale  (Mass.)  Congregational  Church.  In  1867  he 
went  to  Minneapolis,  Minn.,  in  the  hope  that  the  climate 
would  benefit  his  wife's  health,  and,  after  preaching  for 
several  months  at  the  Congregational  Church,  was  called 
to  the  pastorate  of  the  First  Presbyterian  Church.  Going 
from  Minneapolis  in  1871  to  the  First  Presbyterian  Church, 
Erie,  Pa.,  he  passed  the  next  eight  years  as  pastor  of  the 
latter  church.  For  a  few  months  after  resigning  that 
charge  he  supplied  the  Presbyterian  Church  in  Grand 
Rapids,  Mich.  In  1879  he  became  pastor  of  the  Fourth 
Presbyterian  Church  of  Indianapolis,  Ind.,  serving  that 
church  until  1885,  when  he  went  abroad.  After  a  semester 
spent  at  the  University  of  Berlin,  he  traveled  for  several 
months,  returning  to  the  United  States  in  1886  to  assume 
the  pastorate  of  the  First  Presbyterian  Church  at  Santa 
Barbara,  Calif.  His  home  had  been  in  that  city  ever  since, 
but  for  the  last  fifteen  years  of  his  life  he  had  not  been 
actively  engaged  in  the  ministry,  having  been  pastor  emeri- 
tus of  the  First  Presbyterian  Church  since  1901.  In  1885 
Wabash  College  conferred  the  honorary  degree  of  Doctor 
of  Divinity  upon  Mr.  Carrier.  His  death  occurred  in 
Santa  Barbara,  September  12,  1916. 

He  was  married  in  Wheeling,  W.  Va.,  April  2,  1857,  to 
vSusan  Ann  Bandelle,  by  whom  he  had  three  children: 
Augustus  Stiles,  a  graduate  of  the  College  in  1879  and  of 
Hartford  Theological  Seminary  in  1884,  who  received  the 
honorary  degrees  of  D.D.  and  LL.D.  from  Parsons  College 
in  1893  and  1913,  respectively,  and  who  is  now  a  member 
of  the  faculty  at  McCormick  Theological  Seminary,  Chi- 
cago;  a  daughter  who  died  in  1876,  and  Charles  Frederic 


2  6o  YALE    COLLEGE 

(B.A.    Harvard    1885),  whose   death   occurred   a  year   or 
so  ago.     Mrs.  Carrier  died  in  1894. 


George  Reginald  Heber  Hughes,  B.A.   185 1 

Born  November  25,  1832,  in  Baltimore,  Md. 
Died  June  22,  1914,  in  Chicago,  111. 

It  has  been  impossible  to  secure  the  desired  information 
for  an  obituary  sketch  of  Mr.  Hughes  in  time  for  publica- 
tion in  this  volume.  A  sketch  will  appear  in  a  subsequent 
issue  of  the  Obituary  Record. 


John  Rogers  Thurston,  B.A.   185 1 

Bprn  September  4,  1831,  in  Bangor,  Maine 
Died  October  20,  1916,  in  Worcester,  Mass. 

John  Rogers  Thurston  was  born  in  Bangor,  Maine,  Sep- 
tember 4,  1 83 1.  His  parents,  John  Thurston,  a  farmer, 
and  Abigail  King  (Lawrence)  Thurston,  both  dying  when 
he  was  two  years  of  age,  he  was  adopted  by  an  aunt,  with 
whom  he  made  his  home  in  Bangor.  John  R.  Thurston 
was  the  grandson  of  David  and  Chloe  (Redington)  Thurs- 
ton and  of  Rogers  and  Frances  (Hancock)  Lawrence.  On 
the  paternal  side,  he  was  descended  from  Daniel  Thurston, 
who  emigrated  to  this  country. in  1635  fi'om  Gloucestershire, 
England,  settling  at  Newbury,  Mass.,  and  from  Abraham 
Redington,  Richard  Kimball,  Allan  Perley,  Francis  Pea- 
body,  Reginald  Foster,  John  Dresser,  Joseph  Jewett,  and 
William  Law,  all  early  settlers  in  Essex  County,  Mass. 
His  maternal  ancestors  included  John  Lawrence,  of  Gro- 
ton,  Mass.,  Daniel  King,  of  Lynn,  Mass.,  Nathaniel  Rogers 
and  Jonathan  Wade,  of  Ipswich,  Mass.,  and  Nathaniel 
Hancock,  of  Cambridge,  Mass.,  all  of  whom  came  to  this 
country  between  1630  and  1640. 

He  was  fitted  for  college  at  the  Bangor  High  School, 
and  in  Freshman  year  at  Yale  was  given  a  second  prize 
in  mathematics.  He  was  graduated  in  1851  with  Phi  Beta 
Kappa  rank,  having  received  Oration  appointments. 


1851  26l 

From  185 1  to  1855  Mr.  Thurston  taught  in  the  classical 
department  of  the  school  conducted  by  James  Betts  at 
Norwalk,  Conn.  During  the  first  year  of  the  period  he 
also  pursued  graduate  studies  at  Yale.  Entering  Bangor 
Theological  Seminary  in  1855,  he  graduated  there  three 
years  afterwards.  His  intention  had  been  to  go  as  a  mis- 
sionary to  China,  and,  in  fact,  he  had  received  an  appoint- 
ment from  the  American  Board  of  Commissioners  for 
Foreign  Missions.  A  subsequent  change  in  his  plans 
caused  him  to  accept  a  call  to  be  associate  pastor  of  the 
First  Congregational  Church  at  Newbury,  Mass.  There 
he  was  ordained  and  installed  in  January,  1859,  and,  with 
the  exception  of  a  few  months  spent  in  the  service  of  the 
Christian  Commission  at  the  time  of  the  Civil  War, 
j)reached  there  until  January,  1870,  being  the  colleague  of 
Rev.  Leonard  Withington  (B.A.  1814),  for  many  years 
the  pastor.  His  second  and  last  pastorate  was  at  Whitins- 
ville,  Mass.,  where  he  was  located  from  April,  1871,  to 
July,  191 1. 

Since  his  retirement  in  the  latter  year,  Mr.  Thurston  had 
lived  in  Worcester,  Mass.,  where  he  died,  from  old  age, 
October  20,  1916.  His  body  was  taken  to  Whitinsville  for 
burial  in  Pine  Grove  Cemetery. 

He  was  married  in  Orrington,  Maine,  September  4,  1858, 
to  Frances  Orella,  daughter  of  Walter  and  Elizabeth 
(Hincks)  Goodale.  Three  children  were  born  to  them: 
Walter  Lawrence,  who  died  in  infancy;  Margaret  Mead, 
now  the  wife  of  Oilman  DuBois  Frost  (B.A.  Dartmouth 
1886,  M.D.  Harvard  and  Dartmouth  1892),  and  Elizabeth 
Ooodale,  whose  death  occurred  in  October,  1895.  Mrs. 
Thurston  died  February  21,  1868,  and  on  March  16,  1871, 
Mr.  Thurston  married  in  New  York  City,  Caroline  Augusta 
Welles,  daughter  of  Charles  W.  and  Elizabeth  (Burnham) 
Storey,  who  survives  him.  They  had  five  children :  Charles 
Storey,  who  graduated  from  Yale  College  in  1895  and 
from  the  Harvard  Law  School  in  1898;  John  Lawrence 
(died  May  10,  1904),  who  received  the  degree  of  B.A. 
from  Yale  in  1898  and  that  of  B.D.  from  Hartford  Theo- 
logical Seminary  in  1902;  Caroline,  who  died  in  infancy; 
Flelen,  whose  death  occurred  when  she  was  four  and  a 
half  years  of  age,  and  Lsabel  Storey  (B.A.  Mount  Holvoke 
IQ02).  Mr.  Thurston  was  a  cousin  of  Edward  Buck  (B.A. 
1852),  a  sketch  of  whose  life  follows. 


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Edward  Buck,  B. A.   1852 

Born  April  17,  1829,  in  Orland,  Maine 
Died  April  6,  1917,  in  Bucksport,  Maine 

Edward  Buck,  whose  parents  were  John  Buck,  a  mer- 
chant, and  Sarah  (Thurston)  Buck,  was  born  in  Orland, 
Maine,  April  17,  1829.  His  father  was  the  son  of  Ben- 
jamin and  Sarah  (Sewall)  Buck,  and  a  descendant  of 
Wilham  Buck,  who  came  to  this  country  from  England  in 
1635  and  settled  at  Cambridge,  Mass.  His  great-great- 
grandfather, Jonathan  Buck,  removed  from  Haverhill, 
Mass.,  in  1762  to  Plantation  No.  i  on  the  Penobscot  River, 
which  was  named  Buckstown  (since  changed  to  Bucks- 
port)  in  his  honor;  he  held  a  colonel's  commission  in  the 
Revolutionary  War.  His  mother's  parents  were  David  and 
Chloe  (Redington)  Thurston.  She  traced  her  descent  to 
Daniel  Thurston,  who  emigrated  to  America  from  Eng- 
land in  1635,  settling  at  Newbury,  Mass. 

He  received  his  preparatory  training  at  Phillips  Acad- 
emy, Andover,  Mass.,  and,  after  first  entering  Bowdoin 
College,  joined  the  Class  of  1852  at  the  beginning  of  the 
third  term  of  Freshman  year.  He  was  one  of  the  speakers 
at  Junior  Exhibition,  received  Oration  appointments,  and 
belonged  to  Phi  Beta  Kappa. 

After  graduation  Mr.  Buck  entered  the  Bangor  Theo- 
logical Seminary,  where  he  was  a  student  for  three  years. 
He  subsequently  preached  in  various  towns  in  Maine,  and 
was  a  chaplain  for  a  time  in  the  Civil  War.  Shortly  after 
the  war  he  retired  from  the  ministry,  and  engaged  in  the 
lumber  business,  being  associated  with  his  father  until  1872. 
His  home  for  nearly  fifty  years  had  been  in  Bucksport, 
where  his  death  occurred  April  6,  1917,  after  a  brief  ill- 
ness due  to  heart  trouble.  He  was  buried  in  that  town. 
Always  a  great  reader  and  widely  informed,  he  retained 
his  intellectual  vigor  and  lively  interest  in  affairs  until  the 
last. 

Mr.  Buck  was  married  June  3,  1863,  in  Bucksport,  to 
Emeline  Billings,  daughter  of  Henry  and  Eliza  (Cobb) 
Darling.  Mrs.  Buck  died  on  May  17,  1909.  They  had 
one  son,  Carl  Darling,  who  received  the  degrees  of  B.A. 
and  Ph.D.  at  Yale  in  1886  and  1889,  respectively,  and  that 
of  Litt.D.  from  the  University  of  Athens  in  19 12,  and 
who  has  been  for  some  years  a  professor  at  the  University 


1852  263 

of  Chicago.  The  latter's  second  son,  Howard  S.  Buck, 
graduated  from  Yale  in  1916,  and  is  now  serving  with 
the  American  Ambulance  Corps  in  France.  Mr.  Buck 
was  a  cousin  of  Rev.  Edwin  A.  Buck  (B.A.  1849)  ^^d  of 
Rev.  John  R.  Thurston  (B.A.  1851).  The  preceding  sketch 
gives  the  details  of  the  latter's  life. 


Ephraim  Cutter,  B.A.   1852 

Born  September  i,  1832,  in  Woburn,  Mass. 
Died  April  24,  1917,  in  West  Falmouth,  Mass. 

Ephraim  Cutter  was  born  in  Woburn,  Mass.,  September 
I,  1832,  the  son  of  Benjamin  Cutter  (B.A.  Harvard  1824, 
M.A.  and  M.D.  Harvard  1827,  M.D.  Pennsylvania  1857) 
and  Mary  (Whittemore)  Cutter.  His  father  practiced 
medicine  in  Woburn  from  1827  until  his  death  in  1864, 
and  was  highly  respected  as  a  medical  man;  he  collected 
the  data  afterwards  used  as  foundational  in  "The  Cutter 
Family  of  New  England"  and  the  "History  of  Arlington." 
Ephraim  Cutter  was  a  descendant  of  Richard  Cutter,  who 
in  1640  arrived  in  America  with  his  widowed  mother, 
Elizabeth  Cutter,  and  settled  first  in  Cambridge,  Mass., 
and  later  in  West  Cambridge,  now  Arlington;  the  "His- 
tory of  Arlington"  shows  the  intensive  and  extensive  labors 
of  these  colonists  in  agriculture,  town  and  church  govern- 
ment, and  manufacturing;  mill  property  was  in  the  hands 
of  the  Cutters  for  two  hundred  years.  Among  his  ancestors 
who  fought  in  the  Revolution  were  his  great-grandfather, 
Ammi  Cutter,  Samuel  Locke,  a  captain  of  militia  at  Dor- 
chester Heights,  and  Samuel  Whittemore.  The  latter's 
son,  Amos  Whittemore,  who  was  the  grandfather  of  Eph- 
raim Cutter,  in  1797  invented  a  card  machine,  thereby 
establishing  a  prosperous  industry  in  the  town.  The 
Whittemore  family  descended  from  Thomas  Whittemore, 
who  came  from  Hitchin,  England,  in  1642,  settling  in 
Charlestown  and  Maiden,  Mass. 

Ephraim  Cutter  received  his  preparatory  training  at 
Warren  Academy  in  his  native  town.  In  his  Junior  year 
at  Yale  he  was  given  a  Second  Colloquy  appointment. 
While  pursuing  his  work  in  the  College,  he  took  the  full 
course  in  chemistry  in  the  Scientific  School. 

After  teaching  at  Warren  Academy  for  a  year  following 


264  YALE    COLLEGE 

his  graduation  from  Yale,  he  began  the  study  of  medicine, 
taking  courses  at  Harvard  and  the  University  of  Penn- 
sylvania. He  received  his  medical  degree  from  the  former 
institution  in  1856  and  from  the  latter  in  1857.  The  Boyl- 
ston  Gold  Medal  was  awarded  to  him  by  the  authorities 
at  Harvard  in  1857.  He  practiced  his  profession  at 
Woburn  from  1856  to  1875,  at  Cambridge  for  the  next  six 
years,  and  in  New  York  City  from  1881  to  190 1.  His  home 
was  at  West  Falmouth,  Mass.,  during  the  remainder  of 
his  life.  Dr.  Cutter  had  given  much  time  to  research 
throughout  the  entire  period  of  his  professional  career. 
He  studied  the  morphology  of  raw  beef  for  many  years, 
discovered  the  American  tuberculosis  cattle  test,  and,  in 
1 87 1,  proved  that  under  certain  procedures  galvanic  cur- 
rents traverse  deep  tissues  of  the  body.  He  was  an  expert 
in  food  values,  and,  among  others,  was  the  author  of 
"Versions  and  Flexions,"  "Food  in  Motherhood,"  "Fatty 
Ills  and  their  Masquerades,"  and  "Food — Its  Relation  to 
Health  and  Disease,"  the  last  two  being  written  in  collab- 
oration with  his  son,  John  A.  Cutter.  His  published  writ- 
ings included  about  six  hundred  articles,  these  appearing 
in  professional  and  scientific  journals.  Dr.  Cutter  had 
invented  a  number  of  surgical,  laryngological,  and  gyne- 
cological instruments  and  procedures  in  relation  to  them. 
In  1876,  with  George  B.  Harriman,  D.D.S.,  of  Boston,  who 
then  owned  ToUes'  i/75th  inch  objective,  he  used  this 
highest  power  lens,  as  well  as  lower  ones,  in  micro-photog- 
raphy on  blood  and  yeast  protoplasms,  antedating  Metchni- 
koff's  leucocytosis  by  nearly  ten  years ;  it  is  but  just  to 
note  that  Dr.  Harriman  could  not  employ  the  i/75th  inch 
objective  in  blood  work  with  the  special  Tolles  condenser 
until  Dr.  Cutter  had  made  some  adjustments;  the  apparatus 
for  this  micro-photography  was  also  designed  by  him.  He 
was  the  first  to  use  the  term  morphology  in  medicine  in 
relation  to  blood,  sputum,  tirine,  potable  waters,  animal 
and  vegetable  kingdom  foods,  etc.,  and  despite  inventions 
of  procedures  and  instruments  and  his  photography  of  his 
own  larynx  in  1868,  getting  the  anterior  insertion  in  which 
Czermak  had  failed,  he  considered  his  most  important  work 
to  have  been  in  the  last  forty  odd  years  of  his  life  in  the 
management  of  chronic  cases  of  disease  and  the  detection 
of- their  pre-stages  by  morphological  and  chemical  work. 
He  went  to  Europe  in  1862,  1889,  and  1890.     During  his 


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first  trip  abroad  he  visited  many  hospitals  and  medical 
schools,  endeavoring  to  make  known  the  medical  virtues 
of  veratrum  viride;  on  his  second  visit  he  represented  the 
American  Medical  Association  at  the  meeting  of  the 
British  Medical  Association  at  Leeds,  and  in  1890  he 
attended  the  Tenth  International  Medical  Congress  at 
Berlin,  speaking  on  several  subjects,  and  was  one  of  the 
four  per  cent  invited  to  the  imperial  reception  at  Potsdam. 
In  1887  Grinnell  College  conferred  the  honorary  degree 
of  LL.D.  upon  him.  He  was  at  one  time  professor  of 
clinical  morphology  and  apphed  physics  at  the  College  of 
Physicians  and  Surgeons,  Boston. 

Dr.  Cutter  was  a  special  military  agent  in  the  state  of 
Massachusetts  during  the  greater  part  of  the  Civil  War, 
serving  also  on  the  Committee  of  One  Hundred  which 
raised  the  Massachusetts  Soldiers'  Fund.  He  had  been 
Secretary  of  the  Class  of  1852  since  the  death  of  Rev. 
Alonzo  N.  Lewis  in  1907,  and  edited  the  Class  Record 
issued  in  1913.  He  was  a  member  of  many  scientific 
organizations,  and  was  deacon  and  clerk  of  the  First  Con- 
gregational Church  in  Woburn  from  1864  to  1874,  and 
compiled  a  manual  of  this  church  with  historical  data 
which  is  of  high  interest  to  bibliophiles  in  American  church 
history;  with  his  first  wife  he  was  largely  instrumental 
in  organizing  the  Church  of  the  Comforter  in  the  Bronx, 
and  was  a  lay  member  of  the  General  Synod  of  the 
Reformed  Church  of  America  in  1898.  He  wrote  much 
on  church  music ;  with  William  Ludden  and  Rev.  Dr. 
Gardiner  vSpring  Plumley,  both  graduates  of  the  College  in 
1850,  he  prepared  papers  on  the  need  of  a  School  of  Music 
at  Yale,  which  were  presented  to  the  Yale  Alumni  Asso- 
ciation of  Fairfield  County,  the  foundation  of  this  depart- 
ment following  within  a  short  time. 

His  death  occurred  April  24,  19 17,  at  his  home  in  West 
Falmouth,  after  a  brief  illness  resulting  from  apoplexy. 
Interment  was  in  the  Kensico  Cemetery,  Westchester 
County,  N.  Y. 

He  was  twice  married,  his  first  wife  being  Rebecca 
Smith,  daughter  of  Thomas  Valentine  Sullivan,  one  of 
the  three  founders  of  the  American  Young  Men's  Chris- 
tian Association,  and  Elizabeth  (Dunning)  Sullivan.  Their 
marriage  took  place  in  Woburn,  October  7,  1856,  and  nine 
children  were  born  to  them:    Benjamin,  who  studied  in 


266  YALE   COLLEGE 

Germany  under  Gotschius  and  Seifriz  for  three  years, 
became  a  musician  and  composer  of  repute  in  this  country, 
and  died  in  1910;  Ephraim,  a  student  at  the  Massachusetts 
Institute  of  Technology  in  1876-77;  Thomas  SuUivan,  who 
died  January  31,  1863;  John  Ashburton  (B.A.  Massachu- 
setts Agricuhural  College  and  Boston  University  1882, 
M.D.  Albany  Medical  College  1886)  ;  Mary  Whittemore, 
who  died  at  the  age  of  nine  years ;  Rebecca  Russell,  whose 
death  occurred  February  i,  1869;  Lewis  Whitney  (died 
June  26,  1874)  ;  Grace  Dunning,  who  died  when  five  years 
old,  and  Edward  Parker,  who  died  in  1898.  Mrs.  Cutter's 
death  occurred  in  1899,  and  two  years  later  Dr.  Cutter  was 
married  in  Boston  to  Mrs.  Anna  L.  Davidson,  daughter  of 
Rev.  Lamson  Minor  and  Nancy  Minor,  and  widow  of  G. 
Minor  Davidson.  She  survives  him  with  two  sons  by  his 
first  marriage,  and  he  also  leaves  a  brother,  William 
Richard  Cutter,  who,  from  1865  to  1867,  was  a  student 
at  Norwich  University,  which  conferred  the  degree  of 
M.A.  upon  him  in  1893,  as  of  1868,  and  who  took  a  special 
course  in  the  Sheffield  Scientific  School  from  1867  to  i86g. 


Wayne  MacVeagh,  B.A.   1853 

Born  April  19,  1833,  in  West  Vincent,  Pa. 
Died  January  11,  1917,  in  Washington,  D.  C. 

[Isaac]  Wayne  MacVeagh  was  born  April  19,  1833,  at 
West  Vincent,  Pa.,  the  son  of  John  and  Margaret  (Lincoln) 
MacVeagh.  His  parents  were  pioneer  settlers  in  Chester 
County,  Pa.  He  joined  the  Class  of  1853  as  a  Junior,  was 
given  a  second  prize  in  English  disputation  that  year  and 
a  Senior  High  Oration  appointment,  was  a  member  of  Phi 
Beta  Kappa,  and  spoke  at  Commencement. 

During  the  first  year  after  his  graduation  from  Yale  he 
taught  at  the  Freeland  Seminary  in  Montgomery  County, 
Pa.  He  then  began  the  study  of  law  in  the  ofifice  of 
Joseph  J.  Lewis  in  Westchester,  Pa.,  and  in  April,  1856, 
was  admitted  to  the  bar.  He  carried  on  a  general  practice 
in  Westchester  for  the  next  fourteen  years,  serving  from 
1854  to  1862  as  district  attorney  of  Chester  County.  He 
received  a  commission  as  captain  of  cavalry  in  the  Penn- 
sylvania  State   Mihtia  in    1862,   the   following  year  being 


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assigned  to  an  infantry  regiment.  During  the  emergency 
in  1863  he  acted  as  aide  on  the  staff  of  General  Couch, 
holding  a  commission  as  major  in  the  volunteer  service. 
In  that  same  year  he  served  as  chairman  of  the  Republican 
State  Committee.  Mr.  MacVeagh  was  appointed  minister 
resident  at  Constantinople  by  President  Grant  in  May,  1870, 
but  resigned  that  post  in  September,  1871.  Returning  to 
Harrisburg,  he  was,  in  October,  1872,  elected  a  member  of 
the  Constitutional  Convention  of  Pennsylvania,  and  served 
as  chairman  of  the  committee  on  the  Legislature  and  as  a 
member  of  the  committee  on  the  judiciary.  In  1876  he 
opened  a  law  office  in  Philadelphia.  The  next  year  he 
headed  .the  commission  which  was  sent  to  Louisiana  to 
amicably  adjust  disputes  of  contending  parties  there.  He 
served  as  attorney  general  of  the  United  States  from 
March,  1881,  until  the  death  of  President  Garfield  the  fol- 
lowing November,  after  which  he  resumed  his  practice  in 
Philadelphia.  He  was  appointed  ambassador  to  Italy  in 
1893,  and  served  in  that  capacity  for  four  years.  His 
legal  career  was  a  long  and  distinguished  one,  its  climax 
coming  with  his  appointment  as  chief  counsel  of  the  United 
States  in  the  Venezuela  arbitration  before  The  Hague 
Tribunal  in  1907.  Mr.  MacVeagh  received  the  honorary 
degree  of  Doctor  of  Laws  from  Amherst  in  1881,  from 
Pennsylvania  in  1897,  and  from  Harvard  in  1901.  He 
was  for  some  years  subsequent  to  its  organization  in  1880 
president  of  the  Civil  Service  Reform  Association  of  Phila- 
delphia, and  had  been  chairman  of  the  Indian  Rights 
Association.  He  had  had  a  number  of  articles  published 
in  the  North  American  Reviezv. 

Owing  to  declining  health,  he  had  withdrawn  from  active 
life  some  years  ago,  and  had  since  lived  quietly  in  Wash- 
ington, D.  C,  spending  several  months  each  year  on  his 
farm  at  Bryn  Mawr,  Pa.  His  death  occurred  at  his  Wash- 
ington home,  January  11,  19 17. 

Mr.  MacVeagh  was  twice  married,  his  first  wife  being 
Letty  Miner,  daughter  of  Joseph  J.  Lewis  of  Westchester. 
Their  marriage  took  place  May  22,  1856,  and  two  children 
were  born  to  them :  Lincoln,  who  graduated  from  Amherst 
in  1881,  and  Charles  Miner  (B.A.  Harvard  1881,  LL.B. 
Columbia  1883).  Mrs.  MacVeagh  died  June  22,  1862,  and 
on  December  27,  1866,  Mr.  MacVeagh  was  married  to  Vir- 
ginia Rolette,  daughter  of  Simon  Cameron  of  Harrisburg. 


268  YALE    COLLEGE 

They  had  two  children,  Wayne,  who  died  January  i,  1893, 
while  in  his  Senior  year  at  Harvard,  and  Margaretta 
Cameron.  Mr.  MacVeagh's  brother,  Franklin  MacVeagh 
(B.A.  1862,  LL.B.  Columbia  1864,  LL.D.  Yale  1912),  was 
secretary  of  the  Treasury  under  President  Taft. 


Samuel  Chester  Gale,  B.A.   1854 

Born  September  15,  1827,  in  Royalston,  Mass. 
Died  September  22,  1916,  in  Minneapolis,  Minn. 

Samuel  Chester  Gale,  son  of  Isaac  Gale,  who  seryed  with 
the  Second  Brigade,  Seventh  Division,  Massachusetts 
Volunteers,  during  the  War  of  1812,  and  Tamar  (God- 
dard)  Gale,  was  born  on  his  father's  farm  at  Royalston, 
Mass.,  September  15,  1827.  His  grandfather,  Jonathan 
Gale,  a  descendant  of  Richard  Gale,  who  emigrated  from 
England  to  Watertown,  Mass.,  in  1635,  fought  in  the  Rev- 
olution; his  wife  was  Rhoda  (Baker)  Gale.  Samuel 
Gale's  mother  was  the  daughter  of  Samuel  and  Catharine 
(Parks)  Goddard,  and  through  her  he  was  descended  from 
William  Goddard,  who  came  to  America  from  London  in 
1665,  settling  at  Watertown,  Mass. 

He  prepared  for  college  principally  through  his  own 
efforts,  entering  with  the  Class  of  1854.  He  received  in 
Sophomore  year  a  third  prize  in  English  composition,  was 
given  a  Dispute  appointment  and  an  election  to  Phi  Beta 
Kappa,  and  was  Class  orator  at  Commencement. 

Mr.  Gale  took  up  the  study  of  law  at  Harvard  in  the 
fall  after  receiving  his  bachelor's  degree  at  Yale.  During 
his  course  there  he  taught  for  a  term  at  the  high  school 
in  Holden,  Mass.,  and  in  1855  returned  to  New  Haven 
for  a  year  as  a  member  of  the  teaching  staff  at  General 
Russell's  school.  He  then  read  law  for  a  time  in  the  office 
of  Bacon  &  Aldrich  in  Worcester,  Mass.  In  May,  1857, 
he  removed  to  Minneapolis,  Minn.,  where  the  remainder 
of  his  life  was  spent.  For  a  few  years  he  was  engaged 
in  the  practice  of  law,  being  for  a  while  in  the  office  of 
Cornell  &  Vanderburgh,  but  about  i860  he  entered  the  real 
estate  and  mortgage  loan  business  with  his  brother,  Harlow 
A.  Gale,  and  Mr.  George  H.  Rust  under  the  firm  name  of 
Gale  &  Company.  He  continued  in  the  business  until  the 
infirmities  of  age  compelled  his  retirement  in  19 10. 


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Mr.  Gale  was  active  throughout  his  hfe  in  pubHc  matters, 
giving  generously  of  his  time  and  means  to  the  welfare 
of  the  city  and  state.  In  1859  he  aided  in  organizing  a 
library  association  in  Minneapolis,  from  which  grew  the 
Minneapolis  Athenaium  and  later  the  public  library  sys- 
tem, of  which  he  was  for  many  years  one  of  the  directors. 
He  was  early  identified  with  the  Minnesota  Academy  of 
Sciences,  was  one  of  the  organizers  of  the  Minneapolis 
Society  of  Fine  Arts,  one  of  the  original  incorporators  of 
Lakewood  Cemetery,  a  member  of  the  Board  of  Education 
from  1871  to  1880  and  of  the  Minnesota  State  Normal 
School  Board,  an  alderman  for  several  years,  being  also 
president  of  the  City  Council,  chairman  of  the  building 
committee  of  the  Minneapolis  Exposition  and  later  its 
president,  and  president  of  the  Board  of  Trade  in  1885. 
Mr.  Gale  was  active  in  the  movement  which  led  to  the 
creation  of  a  park  board  and  a  park  system  in  Minneapolis. 
In  1887  he  gave  a  parsonage  and  grounds  to  the  Baptist 
Church  in  his  native  town,  and  two  years  later,  with  his 
wife,  presented  to  the  town  of  Holden,  Mass.,  the  Damon 
Memorial  Library  and  High  School.  He  was  the  chief 
contributor  toward  the  erection  of  the  Unitarian  Church  of 
Minneapolis,  of  which  he  was  a  member.  In  t888,  in 
conjunction  with  Judge  Charles  E.  Vanderburgh  (B.A. 
1852),  he  gave  the  site  of  the  present  North  Side  Branch 
Library  in  Minneapolis. 

His  death  occurred  September  22,  1916,  at  his  home  in 
Minneapolis,  after  an  illness  of  several  weeks  resulting 
from  a  fall  in  which  his  hip  was  fractured.  He  was  buried 
in  Lakewood  Cemetery. 

On  October  15,  1861,  he  was  married  in  Holden,  Mass., 
to  Susan  Abigail,  daughter  of  Samuel  and  Alona  (Chenery) 
Damon,  who  died  in  February,  1908.  They  had  five  chil- 
dren: Edward  Chenery  (B.A.  Yale  1884,  M.A.  Harvard 
1887)  ;  Alice,  a  graduate  of  Smith  College  in  1887,  who 
was  married  in  1891  to  David  Percy  Jones  (B.A.  Min- 
nesota 1883)  of  Minneapohs;  Anna  (B.L.  Smith  1889), 
the  wife  of  Clarkson  Lindley  of  Minneapolis,  who  is  a  non- 
graduate  member  of  the  Amherst  Class  of  1878;  Marion, 
who  received  the  degree  of  B.L.  from  Smith  in  1894,  and 
Charles  Sumner  (B.A.  1895).  Mr.  Gale's  nephews,  Harlow 
Gale,  and  Samuel  E.,  Maurice  S.,  and  Henry  F.  Damon, 
graduated  from  the  College  in  1885,  1896,  1904,  and  1906, 
respec^^ively. 


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Alexander  Henry  Stevens,  B.A.   1854 

Born  June  13,  1834,  in  New  York  City 
Died  July  10,  1916,  in  Lawrence,  N.  Y. 

Alexander  Henry  Stevens  was  born  in  New  York  City, 
June  13,  1834,  the  son  of  Byam  Kerby  Stevens  (BA.  1811), 
whose  parents  were  Gen.  Ebenezer  Stevens  and  Lucretia 
(Ledyard)  Stevens.  Ebenezer  Stevens  was  one  of  the 
Boston  Tea  Party,  served  as  senior  officer  of  artillery  at  the 
battle  of  Saratoga  and  as  chief  of  artillery  for  Lafayette 
at  the  battle  of  Yorktown,  and  was  major  general  of  artil- 
lery in  the  War  of  1812 ;  his  wife  was  the  daughter  of  John 
and  Mary  (Ellery  nee  Austin)  Ledyard  of  Hartford,  Conn. 
Alexander  H.  Stevens'  mother  was  Frances,  daughter  of 
Albert  Gallatin,  who  in  1780  came  from  Geneva,  Switzer- 
land, to  the  United  States,  where  he  became  known  as 
one  of  the  greatest  financiers  of  his  day.  He  served  as  a 
Congressman  from  1795  to  1801,  was  secretary  of  the 
Treasury  for  the  next  twelve  years,  played  a  prominent 
part  in  the  negotiation  of  the  treaty  of  Ghent  in  1814,  and 
afterwards  served  successively  as  minister  to  France  and 
England.  He  was  twice  married,  his  first  wife  being 
Sophie  Allegre,  and  his  second,  the  mother  of  Frances 
(Gallatin)  Stevens,  being  Hannah,  daughter  of  Commo- 
dore James  Nicholson,  U.  S.  N.,  and  Frances  (Witter) 
Nicholson.  On  the  paternal  side,  Alexander  H.  Stevens 
was  descended  from  Thomas  Hawley  and  Thomas  Weld  of 
Roxbury,  Mass.,  Thomas  Stanley  of  Cambridge,  Mass., 
and  John  Ledyard  of  Hartford.  His  maternal  ancestors 
included  John  Chew  and  Edward  Robbins  of  Virginia  and 
William  Nicholson  of  Maryland. 

He  was  prepared  for  Yale  at  Huddard's  School  in  New 
York  City,  entering  college  in  1850  and  receiving  his  degree 
four  years  later.  For  about  a  year,  beginning  in  January, 
1855,  he  served  as  a  cashier's  clerk  in  the  Bank  of  Com- 
merce in  New  York  City,  under  his  uncle,  John  A.  Stevens, 
who  was  its  president.  In  May,  1856,  after  two  months 
spent  in  travel  in  Cuba,  he  became  a  clerk  in  the  store  owned 
by  his  brother,  Albert  G.  Stevens,  in  New  York  City.  His 
brother  took  him  into  partnership  with  him  early  in  the  next 
vear,  and,  until  186R,  they  carried  on  a  general  commission 
business  with  Cuba,  principally  in  sugar,  under  the  name 


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of  Stevens,  Angulo  &  Company.  In  July  of  the  latter  year 
he  was  made  cashier  of  the  Gallatin  National  Bank  of  New 
York,  continuing  in  that  position  until  April,  1880,  when  he 
was  chosen  to  fill  the  office  of  vice-president.  He  was 
elected  president  of  the  Sixth  National  Bank  in  1890,  and 
nine  years  afterwards,  on  its  consolidation  with  the  Astor 
National  Bank  (later  the  Astor  Trust  Company),  he  was 
made  vice-president,  an  office  which  he  held  until  his  death. 
He  was  also  president  of  the  Samuel  Stevens  Realty  Com- 
pany and  a  director  in  the  Mobile  &  Ohio  Railroad  and  in 
the  St.  Paul  &  Duluth  Railroad.  He  was  a  member  of  the 
Sons  of  the  Revolution.  He  served  as  treasurer  of  the 
fund  raised  in  memory  of  President  Woolsey. 

His  death  occurred,  from  heart  failure,  July  10,  1916,  at 
his  home  at  Lawrence,  Long  Island,  N.  Y.,  where  he  had 
lived  since  1874.  He  was  buried  in  Greenwood  Cemetery, 
Brooklyn. 

Mr.  Stevens  was  married  in  Hartford,  Conn.,  December 
4,  i860,  to  Mary  AUyne,  daughter  of  William  Foster  Otis 
(B.A.  Harvard  1821)  and  Emily  (Marshall)  Otis,  who 
survives.  Eight  children  were  born  to  them :  Mary  Otis ; 
Frances  Gallatin,  who  was  married  in  1893  to  Capt.  Har- 
ington  Swann  of  the  British  Army  and  who  died  Decem- 
ber 24,  1910;  Emily  Louise,  the  widow  of  Adolf  Ladenburg; 
William  Alexander  (died  September  16,  1869)  ;  EUzabeth 
Gray,  whose  death  occurred  October  30,  1893;  Eben,  a 
graduate  of  the  College  in  1892;  Alexander  Eliot,  who 
died  in  June,  1883;  and  Francis  Kerby  (Ph.B.  1897). 
His  Yale  relatives  include  his  uncles,  Samuel  Stevens 
(B.A.  1805),  Alexander  H.  Stevens  (B.A.  1807,  M.D. 
University  of  Pennsylvania  181 1),  and  John  A.  Stevens 
(B.A.  1813)  ;  his  brother,  Frederic  William  Stevens  (B.A. 
1858,  LL.B.  Columbia  1864)  ;  his  cousin,  Ledyard  Stevens 
(B.A.  1864),  and  his  grandson,  Byam  Kerby  Stevens,  a 
member  of  the  Class  of  1919. 


Samuel  Lathrop  Bronson,  B.A.   1855 

Born  January  12,  1834,  in  Waterbury,  Conn. 
Died  June  11,  1917,  in  New  Haven,  Conn. 

Samuel   Lathrop  Bronson  was  born  January   12,    1834, 
in  Waterbury,  Conn.,  the  son  of  Henry  Bronson   (M.D. 


272  YALE    COLLEGE 

1827,  Honorary  M.A.  1840),  for  seventeen  years  professor 
of  materia  niedica  and  therapeutics  at  Yale,  and  a  writer 
on  historical  and  economic  subjects.  The  latter  was  the 
son  of  Bennet  Bronson,  a  graduate  of  the  College  in  1797, 
who  was  at  one  time  chief  justice  of  the  New  Haven 
County  Court,  and  Anne  (Smith)  Bronson;  a  brother  of 
Jesse  Bronson  (B.A.  1826,  M.D.  1829)  and  Thomas  Bron- 
son (B.A.  1829),  and  a  descendant  of  John  Bronson,  who 
came  to  this  country  from  England  in  1636  and  settled  at 
Hartford,  Conn.  Henry  Bronson  married  Sarah  Miles, 
fourth  daughter  of  Samuel  Lathrop  (B.A.  1792),  a  member 
of  the  Massachusetts  State  Senate  for  several  terms  and  a 
Congressman  from  1819  to  1872,  and  Mary  (McCrackan) 
Lathrop,  and  granddaughter  of  Rev.  Joseph  Lathrop,  one 
of  the  most  eminent  preachers  of  his  day  in  New  England, 
who  graduated  from  the  College  in  1754  and  received  an 
honorary  D.D.  at  Yale  in  1791  and  at  Harvard  in  181 1. 
The  founder  of  the  American  branch  of  the  Lathrop 
family  was  Rev.  John  Lathrop,  who  emigrated  from  Eng- 
land to  Scituate,  Mass.,  in  1634. 

Samuel  L.  Bronson  entered  Yale  from  General  Russell's 
Commercial  and  Collegiate  Institute,  New  Haven,  In 
Freshman  year  he  was  given  a  third  prize  in  mathematics. 
His  Junior  appointment  was  a  Dissertation. 

He  was  a  student  in  the  Yale  School  of  Law  from  Sep- 
tember, 1855,  to  March,  1857,  completing  his  preparation 
for  the  law  in  the  office  of  William  B.  Wooster  (LL.B. 
1846)  in  Derby,  Conn.  For  three  years  after  his  admission 
to  the  Connecticut  Bar  in  September,  1857,  he  practiced  in 
Seymour,  in  1858  being  elected  to  the  State  Legislature  on 
the  Democratic  ticket.  His  home  had  be'en  in  New  Haven 
since  June,  1864.  For  some  years  he  was  associated  in 
practice  with  Tilton  E.  Doolittle  (B.A.  Trinity  1844,  LL.B. 
Yale  1846).  He  served  as  recorder  of  the  New  Llaven  City 
Court  from  1866  to  1869,  as  judge  of  the  Court  of  Com- 
mon Pleas  during  1870-71,  and  as  corporation  counsel  far 
the  city  from  1873  to  1878.  He  was  a  member  of  the 
Connecticut  House  of  Representatives  in  1869,   1876,  and 

1877.  He  retired   from  the  practice  of  his  profession  in 

1878,  and  managed  his  father's  large  interests  until  the 
latter's  death  in  1873,  when  he  succeeded  to  the  family 
estates.  In  1900  he  was  the  Democratic  nominee  for 
governor  of  Connecticut.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Pres- 
byterian Church  of  Waterbury. 


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His  death,  which  was  due  to  a  sudden  attack  of  heart 
failure,  occurred  at  his  home  in  New  Haven,  June  ii,  1917. 
Burial  was  in  the  Grove  Street  Cemetery. 

Judge  Bronson  was  married  November  30,  1861,  in  Sey- 
mour, to  Frances  E.,  daughter  of  Thomas  Stoddard  (M.D. 
1836)  and  Esther  Ann  (Gilbert)  Stoddard,  and  grand- 
daughter of  Abiram  Stoddard  (B.A.  1800).  They  had 
six  children:  Thomas  Stoddard  (Ph.B.  1886,  M.D.  1889)  ; 
Josiah  Harmar;  Mary  Esther,  who  died  September  22, 
1895  J  Sarah  Frances ;  Ezekiel  Stoddard,  a  graduate  of 
the  College  in  1900,  and  Marion  DeForest.  Mr.  Bronson 
leaves  his  wife  and  five  children.  He  was  a  brother  of 
Nathan  Smith  Bronson  (Ph.B.  1856)  and  Stephen  Henry 
Bronson  (M.D.  1866),  an  uncle  of  Theodore  L.  Bronson 
(B.A.  1912),  a  cousin  of  Edward  B.  Bronson  (B.A.  1865), 
and  a  second  cousin  of  Bennet  Bronson  (B.A.  1909).  His 
wi.fe's  nephew,  Louis  E.  Stoddard,  graduated  from  the 
College  in  1899. 


Lewis  Elliot  Stanton,  B.A.   1855 

Born  July  19,  1833,  in  Clinton,  Conn. 
Died  August  27,  1916,  in  Clinton,  Conn. 

Lewis  Elliot  Stanton  was  the  son  of  John  Stanton,  a  mer- 
chant, and  Caroline  (Elliot)  Stanton,  and  was  born  in 
Clinton,  Conn.,  July  19,  1833.  His  father,  whose  parents 
were  Adam  Stanton,  a  native  of  Rhode  Island,  and  Eliza- 
beth (Treat)  Stanton,  was  descended  from  Thomas  Stan- 
ton, one  of  the  founders  of  Hartford,  Conn.,  and  a  noted 
Indian  interpreter,  and  from  Abraham  Pierson,  the  first 
president  of  Yale  College.  Through  his  mother,  he  traced 
his  descent  to  Rev.  John  Eliot,  the  "Apostle  to  the  Indians." 

He  entered  college  from  Bacon  Academy  at  Colchester, 
Conn.,  in  Freshman  year  receiving  a  prize  in  one  of  the 
Linonian  debates,  and  the  next  year  being  given  a  third 
prize  in  declamation. 

Mr.  Stanton  taught  for  a  year  after  his  graduation,  at 
first  at  Collamer,  Ohio,  where  he  was  principal  of  Shaw 
Academy,  and  afterwards  in  Cleveland.  He  then  began 
the  study  of  law  at  home,  but  in  May,  1857,  entered  the 
Yale    School    of    Law,    where    he    was    registered    until 


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February,  1859.  At  that  time  he  became  a  clerk  in  the 
law  office  of  John  S.  Beach  (B.A.  1839),  where  he  remained 
until  his  admission  to  the  bar  a  few  months  later.  From 
November,  1859,  until  1865  he  practiced  in  Norwich,  Conn., 
serving  successively  during  this  period  as  assistant  clerk 
of  the  Superior  Court  of  New  London  County  and  as 
recorder  of  the  city  of  Norwich.  Removing  to  Hartford 
in  1865,  he  formed  a  partnership  with  John  C.  Day  (B.A. 
1857)  which  continued  until  187 1 ;  after  that  date  Mr. 
Stanton  had  his  office  alone,  giving  his  attention  largely 
to  corporation  practice,  in  which  he  was  very  successful. 
He  was  assistant  United  States  district  attorney  from  1870 
to  1884,  and  United  States  district  attorney  for  the  next 
four  years.  In  November,  1879,  he  was  elected  to  the 
General  Assembly  from  Hartford,  on  the  Republican  ticket, 
and  during  his  term  of  office  served  as  chairman  of  the 
House  judiciary  committee.  He  was  a  member  of  the 
American  and  Connecticut  Bar  associations,  and  had 
served  as  president  of  the  Hartford  Bar  Library  Asso- 
ciation, to  which  he  bequeathed  his  law  library.  He  was  a 
member  of  the  Connecticut  Historical  Society,  and  had  read 
a  number  of  papers  before  that  body,  two  of  which,  "Recol- 
lections of  Laws  and  Lawyers"  and  "Turnpike  Roads  in 
Connecticut,"  were  afterwards  published.  Some  years  ago 
he  compiled  and  published  an  account  of  the  exercises  at 
the  dedication  of  the  Morgan  School  building  at  Clinton. 
He  had  frequently  delivered  lectures  on  literary  and  his- 
torical subjects.  He  belonged  to  Center  Congregational 
Church,  Hartford. 

Mr.  Stanton  was  in  the  habit  of  spending  much  of  his 
leisure  time  at  the  family  home  in  Clinton,  and  he  died 
there,  of  diabetes,  August  27,  1916,  after  an  illness  of 
several  months,  and  was  buried  in  the  local  cemetery.  The 
residence  of  the  first  president  of  Yale  stood  on  the  site 
of  the  Stanton  home  and  some  of  the  timbers  of  the  ancient 
home  are  built  into  the  present  structure,  which  contains 
a  valuable  collection  of  antique  furniture,  pottery,  and  por- 
celain. By  the  provision  of  his  will,  Mr.  Stanton  estab- 
lished this  historic  house  as  a  museum,  and  created  a  fund 
for  its  endowment.  He  was  unmarried,  and  left  no  imme- 
diate relatives.  He  was  a  first  cousin  of  Rev.  Dr.  Giles 
Buckingham  Willcox  (B.A.  1848)  and  a  second  cousin  of 
David  Willcox  (B.A.  1872),  Rev.  Charles  H.  Willcox,  a 


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graduate  of  the  College  in  1876  and  of  the  School  of 
Religion  in  1881,  and  of  Alfred  B.  Willcox,  who  received 
his  Ph.B.  at  Yale  in  1882. 


Alexis  Wynns  Harriott,  B.A.   1856 

Born  September  24,  1835,  at  Salt  Cay,  Turks  Islands, 

British  West  Indies 
Died  December  7,  1916,  at  Salt  Cay,  Turks  Islands, 

British  West  Indies 

Alexis  Wynns  Harriott,  one  of  the  three  children  of 
Daniel  and  Mary  Olivia  (Hyatt)  Harriott,  was  born  Sep- 
tember 24,  1835,  at  Salt  Cay  on  Grand  Turk,  one  of  the 
group  known  as  Turks  Islands,  in  the  British  West  Indies. 
His  father  was  born  in  the  Bermudas,  and  went  to  the  Turks 
Islands  when  a  young  man,  there  engaging  in  business  as 
a  manufacturer  and  merchant;  he  had  served  as  a  justice 
of  the  peace,  as  an  honorable  member  of  the  Legislative 
Council,  and  as  a  major  in  the  militia.  His  mother  was 
a  native  of  Grand  Turk. 

He  received  his  preparatory  training  at  the  Simeon  Hart 
School  in  Farmington,  Conn.  After  graduating  from  the 
College  he  studied  engineering  for  a  year  in  the  Scientific 
School,  and  then  spent  a  year  at  home,  returning  to  Yale 
in  the  fall  of  1858.  He  received  the  degree  of  Ph.B.  the 
following  June,  While  an  undergraduate  in  the  College 
he  served  as  captain  of  the  Thulia  Boat  Club,  and,  in  his 
Senior  year,  as  commodore  of  the  Yale  Navy.  He  was 
captain  of  the  Olympia  Boat  Club  during  the  two  years 
of  his  course  in  the  Scientific  School. 

Mr.  Harriott  taught  English  and  mathematics  in  New 
York  City  for  three  months  in  1859,  but  returned  to  the 
West  Indies  in  February,  i860,  to  carry  on  the  salt  manu- 
facturing business  founded  in  1833  by  his  father,  who  had 
died  the  previous  December.  In  April,  1863,  he  received 
the  appointment  of  United  States  consular  agent  at  Salt 
Cay,  and  served  in  that  capacity  until  1888.  At  that  time 
he  put  his  business  in  the  hands  of  his  two  younger  sons, 
and  entered  the  British  Colonial  Civil  Service,  as  assistant 
commissioner  at  Grand  Turk.  He  later  became  acting 
commissioner,  and  for  many  years  was  the  virtual  governor 
of  the  island.    Mr.  Harriott  served  as  a  justice  of  the  peace 


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for  Turks  and  Caicos  Islands  for  many  years,  beginning 
in  1879;  as  marriage  officer  at  Salt  Cay  from  1884  to  1888, 
and  as  a  member  of  the  Legislative  Board  of  Turks  and 
Caicos  Islands  from  1881  to  1888.  He  was  a  member  of 
the  Episcopal  Church,  and  had  at  different  times  been  a 
vestryman,  church  warden,  and  lay  reader.  He  had  made 
frequent  visits  to  Bermuda  and  to  the  United  States. 

He  died  December  7,  19 16,  at  his  home  on  Grand  Turk. 
His  health  had  failed  rapidly  since  the  death  of  his  wife 
in  November,  1915. 

His  marriage  took  place  November  17,  1864,  ^^  Farm- 
ington.  Conn.,  to  Alice  Celestia,  daughter  of  Francis  Win- 
throp  Cowles.  Four  of  their  children,  Edmund  Cowles, 
Daniel  Francis,  Howard  Fessenden,  and  Mary  Louise,  are 
living.  A  son,  Francis  Cowles,  born  in  1872,  died  Decem- 
ber 16,  1880.  Mr.  Harriott's  brother,  James  Hyatt  Harriott, 
received  the  degree  of  M.D.  from  Yale  in  1859. 


William  James  Harris,  B.A.   1856 

Born  May  21,  1834,  in  West  Brattleboro,  Vt. 
Died  June  22,  1917,  in  Nashua,  N.  H. 

William  James  Harris  was  born  in  West  Brattleboro,  Vt., 
May  21,  1834,  the  son  of  Rev.  Roswell  Harris,  a  graduate 
of  Middlebury  College  in  182 1  and  of  Andover  Theo- 
logical Seminary  in  1826,  and  Matilda  (Leavitt)  Harris. 
His  father,  who  was  for  many  years  engaged  in  educa- 
tional work,  was  the  son  of  William  and  Abiah  (Brooks) 
Harris. 

Before  entering  Yale  as  a  Junior,  he  was  for  a  time  a 
member  of  the  Williams  Class  of  1856.  He  received  a 
second  prize  in  Latin  in  Junior  year  at  Yale,  and  a  Senior 
High  Oration  appointment,  and  was  elected  to  membership 
in  Phi  Beta  Kappa. 

He  spent  the  first  three  years  after  his  graduation  as 
principal  of  an  academy  at  St.  Stephen,  New  Brunswick, 
and  from  1859  to  1861  was  head  of  the  Monson  (Mass.) 
Academy.  He  became  pastor  of  the  Congregational  Church 
at  Saxtons  River,  Vt.,  in  June,  1861,  leaving  there  a  year 
later  to  accept  a  call  to  the  Congregational  Church  at 
Brandon,  Vt.,  where  he  remained  until  December,  1864. 
He  then  studied  for  over  a  year  for  orders  in  the  Protestant 


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Episcopal  Church,  Hving  in  Boston  and  its  vicinity  and  at 
Philadelphia,  and  in  June,  1866,  became  rector  of  Grace 
Church,  Manchester,  N.  H.  During  the  academic  year  of 
1868-69  he  served  as  an  instructor  in  the  Episcopal  Theo- 
logical School  at  Cambridge,  Mass.  From  January,  1871, 
to  July,  1876,  he  was  rector  of  Trinity  Church,  Rutland, 
Vt.  His  next  parish  was  that  of  Christ  Church,  Detroit, 
Mich.,  which  he  left  in  1881.  After  being  engaged  in 
ministerial  work  in  Chicago,  111.,  for  some  months,  he 
became,  in  1882,  rector  of  Christ  Church,  Yankton,  S.  Dak., 
and  he  was  subsequently  dean  of  Calvary  Cathedral  at 
Sioux  Falls,  that  state.  In  1885  he  returned  East,  and  was 
for  a  time  in  charge  of  St.  Paul's  Church,  Boston,  later 
being  rector  of  the  Church  of  the  Ascension,  Waltham, 
Mass.,  and  Christ  Church,  Hyde  Park,  Mass.  On  January 
I,  1892,  he  became  archdeacon,  or  as  it  is  known  locally, 
diocesan  missionary,  of  the  Diocese  of  Vermont,  making 
his  headquarters  in  Rutland,  although  his  home  was  in 
Nashua,  N.  H.  He  served  in  that  capacity  for  a  number 
of  years,  and  previous  to  his  retirement  in  1907  was  in 
charge  of  the  Church  of  the  Good  Shepherd,  Barre,  Vt., 
and  of  St.  Paul's  Church,  White  River  Junction,  Vt.  His 
death  occurred  June  22,  1917,  at  his  home  in  Nashua. 

He  received  the  degree  of  D.D.  from  Trinity  College, 
Hartford,  in  1872.  From  1894  to  1907  he  published  The 
Mountain  Echo  as  a  diocesan  paper  in  Vermont.  He  was 
a  deputy  to  the  Triennial  Convention  of  the  Protestant 
Episcopal  Church  from  the  Diocese  of  Michigan  in  1880 
and  1883  and  from  the  Diocese  of  Vermont  in  1901.  He 
served  as  a  member  of  the  standing  committee  of  the 
Diocese  of  Michigan  from  1876  to  1879,  and  was  president 
of  two  diocesan  conventions  when  the  diocese  was  without 
a  bishop. 

Dr.  Harris  was  married  August  18,  1859,  to  Mary  Gale 
Hill  of  St.  Stephen,  New  Brunswick.  They  had  two 
children :  Emma,  who  was  married  February  18,  1896, 
to  William  M.  Hall  of  Montreal,  Quebec,  and  William 
Leavitt  (B.A.  Dartmouth  1896,  LL.B.  Boston  University 
1898),  who  died  June  4,  1908.  His  brothers,  Roswell  and 
Charles  Clarke  Harris,  received  the  degree  of  B.A.  from 
Middlebury  in  i860  and  1862,  respectively.  The  former 
was  also  a  graduate  of  Andover  Theological  Seminary  and 
the  latter  of  the  Divinity  School  of  the  Protestant  Episcopal 
Church  in  Philadelphia. 


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Whittlesey  Adams,  B.A.   1857 

Born  November  26,  1829,  in  Warren,  Ohio 
Died  June  27,  1916,  in  Warren,  Ohio 

Whittlesey  Adams,  one  of  the  ten  children  of  Ashael 
Adams,  a  merchant,  and  Lucy  (Mygatt)  Adams,  was  born 
in  Warren,  Ohio,  November  2.6,  1829.  Both  parents  came 
originally  from  Connecticut.  His  father  was  the  son  of 
Ashael  and  Olive  (Avery)  Adams,  and  was  descended  from 
John  Adams,  who  emigrated  to  America  from  England  in 
1621,  settling  in  Plymouth  Colony.  Through  his  mother, 
whose  parents  were  Comfort  and  Lucy  (Knapp)  Mygatt, 
he  traced  his  descent  to  Joseph  Mygatt,  one  of  the  first 
settlers  of  Hartford,  Conn.  His  grandfather,  Ashael 
Adams,  was  a  soldier  of  the  Revolution,  enlisting  as  a 
private,  Connecticut  line,  in  1777,  and  serving  until  the 
close  of  the  war;  he  was  with  Washington  during  the 
winter  at  Valley  Forge.  His  great-grandfather.  Col.  Eli 
Mygatt,  served  with  distinction  in  various  Connecticut 
regiments  during  that  war.  Other  ancestors  were  John 
Webster,  an  early  governor  of  Connecticut,  and  Gov.  Wil- 
liam Bradford  of  Plymouth. 

His  preparatory  training  was  received  in  the  public 
schools  in  his  native  town.  In  1853  he  entered  Western 
Reserve  University,  where  he  spent  the  next  three  years, 
joining  the  Class  of  1857  at  Yale  as  a  Senior. 

Mr.  Adams  began  the  study  of  law  in  Warren  soon 
after  receiving  his  degree  from  Yale,  but,  although  admitted 
to  the  bar  in  i860,  he  had  never  followed  that  profession. 
In  1857,  on  securing  the  agency  of  several  insurance  com- 
panies, he  established  the  Adams  Insurance  Agency  in 
Warren.  His  business  had  grown  rapidly,  and  at  the  time 
of  his  death  he  was  the  president  of  The  Adams  Insurance 
Agency  Company,  then  the  oldest  and  largest  insurance 
agency  in  eastern  Ohio.  Mr.  Adams  had  large  financial 
interests  in  the  leading  industrial  and  banking  institutions 
in  Warren.  From  October,  1858,  until  January,  i860,  he 
held  an  appointment  as  deputy  clerk  of  the  Probate  Court 
of  Trumbull  County,  Ohio,  and  he  had  also  served  at 
various  times  as  county  school  examiner,  deputy  county 
auditor,  and  as  deputy  postmaster  of  Warren.  In  1859-60 
he  was  secretary  and  treasurer  of  the  Warren  &  Lake  Erie 


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Plank  Road  Company,  and  from  1865  to  1869  he  was  a 
member  of  the  drygoods  firm  of  McCombs,  Smith  & 
Adams.  He  had  written  somewhat  for  the  newspapers, 
principally  on  subjects  connected  with  local  history.  He 
held  for  several  years  the  honor  of  being  the  oldest  living 
member  of  the  First  Presbyterian  Church  of  Warren,  of 
which,  in  1858-59,  he  was  the  treasurer.  He  was  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Sons  of  the  American  Revolution  and  the  Society 
of  Colonial  Wars.  In  1864  he  was  offered  a  commission 
as  additional  paymaster,  with  the  rank  of  major,  in  the 
United  States  Volunteers,  but  declined  the  offer. 

Mr.  Adams  died  June  27,  1916,  at  his  home  in  Warren, 
after  an  illness  of  a  few  days  resulting  from  infirmities 
incident  to  his  age.  Burial  was  in  Oakwood  Cemetery  in 
that  town. 

Plis  marriage  took  place  in  Warren,  May  19,  1864,  to 
Margaret  Scott,  daughter  of  Charles  and  Ann  Eliza  (Scott) 
Smith.  Her  death  occurred  March  15,  1915.  They  had 
three  sons:  Charles  Smith,  who  died  November  8,  191 5, 
Fred  W.,  and  Scott  M. 


Edward  Louis  Duer,  B.A.  1857 

Born  January  19,  1836,  in  Crosswicks,  N.  J. 
Died  September  6,  1916,  in  Odessa,  Del. 

Edward  Louis  Duer  was  born  in  Crosswicks,  N.  J., 
January  19,  1836,  the  son  of  Dr.  George  Duer.  He  entered 
Yale  in  1854  to  take  up  the  study  of  engineering  subjects, 
and  in  1855  joined  the  College  Class  of  1857,  with  which 
he  was  graduated. 

From  1857  until  i860  he  pursued  the  study  of  medicine 
at  the  University  of  Pennsylvania,  receiving  the  degree 
of  M.D.  in  the  latter  year.  He  served  as  resident  physician 
at  the  Philadelphia  Hospital  until  1862,  when  he  opened 
offices  in  Philadelphia.  He  continued  in  practice  there 
until  191 1,  attaining  great  success  as  a  specialist  in  gynecol- 
ogy. Since  his  retirement  he  had  lived  at  Odessa,  Del., 
where  he  died  September  6,  19 16. 

From  1863  to  1881  Dr.  Duer  served  as  obstetrician  and 
gynecologist  to  the  Philadelphia  Hospital,  and  he  had  also 
been  on  the  staffs  of  the  Preston  Retreat,  the  Presbyterian 


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YALE    COLLEGE 


and  Maternity  hospitals,  the  Philadelphia  Home  for  Incur- 
ables,^  and  the  Pennsylvania  State  Hospital  for  Women, 
of  which  latter  institution  he  was  one  of  the  founders. 
He  aided  in  founding  the  Philadelphia  Polyclinic,  and  for 
some  time  lectured  there  on  gynecology.  During  the  Civil 
War  he  held  an  appointment  as  an  acting  assistant  surgeon 
in  the  United  States  Army,  serving  as  chief  operator  for  a 
staff  of  seventeen  surgeons.  Dr.  Duer  had  been  chairman 
of  the  medical  section  of  the  Central  Committee  of  the 
University  of  Pennsylvania,  and  had  frequently  contributed 
to  medical  publications,  including  the  English  Obstetrical 
Journal  and  the  American  Obstetrical  Journal.  He  was  a 
member  of  a  number  of  professional  societies,  serving  at 
various  times  as  president  of  the  Philadelphia  Obstetrical 
Society  and  the  Society  of  Ex-Resident  Physicians  of  the 
Philadelphia  Hospital,  and  as  vice-president  of  the  Ameri- 
can Gynecological  Society.  He  was  a  former  president  of 
the  Yale  Alumni  Association  of  Philadelphia,  and  had 
served  as  vice-president,  and  later  as  president,  of  the  New 
Jersey  Society  of  Pennsylvania. 

He  was  married  October  29,  1862,  to  Clara  J.  Naudain 
of  Philadelphia.  Their  two  children  survive :  Snow  Nau- 
dain, who  received  the  degrees  of  B.A.  and  M.D.  from  the 
University  of  Pennsylvania  in  1885  and  1890,  respectively, 
and  Helen,  the  wife  of  Malcolm  S.  Councill  of  Bryn  Mawr, 
Pa.  Mrs.  Duer  died  May  15,  1880,  and  in  1907  Dr.  Duer 
married  Louise,  daughter  of  Daniel  W.  Corbit  of  Odessa, 
Del.,  who  survives  him. 


Alfred  Hand,  B.A.   1857 

Born  March  26,  1835,  in  Honesdale,  Pa. 
Died  May  2;^,  1917,  in  Scranton,  Pa. 

Alfred  Hand  was  born  March  26,  1835,  in  Honesdale, 
Pa.,  the  son  of  Ezra  Hand,  a  merchant,  and  Catharine 
(Chapman)  Hand.  His  father  was  the  son  of  John  and 
Mary  (Jones)  Hand,  and  a  descendant  of  John  Hand,  who 
came  from  Stanstede,  England  to  Southampton,  Long 
Island,  in  1640  and  afterwards  became  one  of  the  founders 
of  Easthampton.  His  mother's  parents  were  Benjamin  and 
Lydia  Cochrane  (Jones)  Chapman.    She  traced  her  descent 


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to  Robert  Chapman,  who  came  from  Hull,  England,  in  1635, 
with  the  company  sent  out  by  those  interested  in  the  Con- 
necticut Patent  to  erect  a  fort  at  the  mouth  of  the  Con- 
necticut River.  He  later  helped  to  found  the  town  of 
Saybrook,  serving  for  many  years  as  one  of  its  commis- 
sioners and  as  deputy  to  the  Connecticut  General  Court. 
He  was  also  a  captain  of  the  Train  Band,  and  received 
large  devises  of  land  in  Connecticut  from  friendly 
Indian  chieftains. 

Alfred  Hand  received  his  early  education  in  the  schools 
at  Honesdale,  where  he  prepared  for  college  under  New 
England  tutors.  At  Yale  he  was  given  Dissertation  appoint- 
ments, and  was  a  member  of  Linonia  and  Phi  Beta  Kappa. 

Soon  after  graduation  Mr.  Hand  entered  the  law  office 
of  William  Jessup  (B.A.  181 5)  and  William  H.  Jessup 
(B.A.  1849)  i"  Montrose,  Pa.  He  was  admitted  to  the 
bar  of  Susquehanna  County  in  1859,  and  in  May  of  the 
next  year  began  practice  in  Scranton  as  a  member  of  the 
firm  of  Jessup  &  Hand.  He  had  also  served  as  principal 
of  the  Susquehanna  Academy  at  Montrose  during  1858-59. 
In  1866  he  formed  a  co-partnership  with  Isaac  J.  Post,  a 
graduate  of  the  College  in  i860,  which  continued  until 
1879,  when  he  was  appointed  an  additional  judge  of  the 
Eleventh  Judicial  District  of  Pennsylvania.  He  was 
assigned  to  the  Forty-fifth  District  when  it  was  formed 
in  1879  and  elected  judge  for  a  term  of  ten  years  from 
January  i,  1880.  In  July,  1888,  he  received  an  appoint- 
ment as  a  justice  of  the  Supreme  Court  of  the  state  to 
fill  an  unexpired  term,  and  served  until  January,  1889, 
when  he  resumed  the  practice  of  law.  The  next  year  he 
formed  a  partnership  with  his  son,  William  (B.A.  1887), 
continuing  in  that  connection  until  his  gradual  retirement 
a  few  years  before  his  death.  Mr.  Hand  had  settled  in 
Scranton  when  it  was  but  a  hamlet,  and  had  always  taken 
a  leading  part  in  local  affairs.  The  first  Select  Council  met 
in  his  office,  and  he  assisted  in  drafting  the  first  charter 
of  the  city.  He  was  one  of  the  organizers  and  the  first 
president  of  the  Third  National  Bank,  and  was  for  many 
years  a  director  of  the  Peoples  Street  Railway  Company, 
the  Jefferson  Railroad  Company,  the  Lackawanna  Mills, 
the  Dickson  Manufacturing  Company,  the  Lackawanna 
Valley  Coal  Company,  the  National  Elevator  and  Machine 
Company,    and    the    Oxford    Iron   &    Nail    Company,    and 


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president  of  the  Davis  Oil  Company,  the  last  two  being 
New  York  corporations.  He  was  one  of  the  founders  of 
the  Pennsylvania  Oral  School  for  the  Deaf,  serving  as 
president  from  its  organization  in  1884  until  his  death, 
when  it  was  a  state  institution,  and  also  aided  in  forming 
the  Lackawanna  Bible  Society,  the  Young  Men's  Christian 
Association,  and  the  Home  for  the  Friendless.  He  was 
president  or  director  of  the  first  two  of  the  latter-named 
institutions  for  many  years,  and  had  also  served  as  presi- 
dent of  the  Scranton  Public  Library  (Albright  Memorial) 
from  its  organization  in  1890,  and  was  for  many  years 
president  and  a  director  of  the  Lackawanna  Hospital,  now 
a  state  institution,  located  in  Scranton.  He  was  long  a 
trustee  of  Lafayette  College,  and  had  been  an  elder  in  the 
First  Presbyterian  Church  of  Scranton  since  1867,  com- 
pleting fifty  years'  service  a  month  before  his  death.  He 
represented  the  Lackawanna  Presbytery  in  six  General 
Assemblies,  and  served  on  the  Committee  on  Revision  of 
the  Confession  of  Faith  of  the  Presbyterian  Church.  He 
was  the  first  lay  moderator  ever  chosen  by  the  Lacka- 
wanna Presbytery.  He  was  a  delegate  to  the  International 
Peace  Conferences  of  1896  and  1907.  He  belonged  to 
the  Pennsylvania  Historical  Society,  the  New  England 
Society  of  Northeastern  Pennsylvania,  and  the  Lackawanna 
Law  and  Library  Association. 

Mr.  Hand  died  suddenly  May  23,  191 7,  at  his  home  in 
Scranton,  following  an  attack  of  apoplexy.  Interment  was 
in  Dunmore  Cemetery,  in  the  suburbs  of  Scranton. 

He  was  married  September  11,  1861,  in  Montrose,  to 
Phebe  Anna,  daughter  of  William  Jessup  (B.A.  181 5, 
LL.D.  Hamilton  1848)  and  Amanda  (Harris)  Jessup,  and 
sister  of  William  H.,  Henry  H.,  and  Samuel  Jessup,  mem- 
bers of  the  College  Classes  of  1849,  1851,  and  i860, 
respectively.  She  died  on  April  25,  1872,  and  on  November 
26,  1873,  he  was  married  a  second  time  to  Helen  Elizabeth, 
daughter  of  Frederick  and  Lucy  A.  (Chamberlin)  Sander- 
son of  Beloit,  Wis.  Her  death  occurred  October  29,  1907. 
Mr.  Hand  had  six  children  by  his  first  marriage:  Horace 
Edward,  a  graduate  of  the  College  in  1884;  Harriet  Jes- 
sup, who  received  the  degree  of  B.A.  at  Wellesley  in  1887 
and  who  died  November  30,  1915;  William  Jessup  (B.A. 
1887)  ;  Alfred  (B.A.  1888,  Ph.B.  1889,  M.D.  Pennsylvania 
1892)  ;   Charlotte  Chapman,  who  graduated  from  Wellesley 


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with  the  degree  of  B.A.  in  1892,  and  Miles  Tracy,  a  non- 
graduate  member  of  the  Yale  Class  of  1893,  who  received 
a  B.A.  at  Williams  in  1894  and  an  M.E.  at  Cornell  in  1897. 
His  children  by  his  second  wife  were:  Helen  Sanderson, 
now  the  wife  of  John  Lyman  Peck  (B.A.  Lafayette  1893, 
M.D.  Hahnemann  Medical  College  1897)  of  Scranton; 
Walter,  who  died  in  the  second  year  of  his  age,  and  Ruth 
Boies,  who  was  married  in  19 14  to  Clarence  N.  Callender 
(B.A.  Pennsylvania  1909,  M.A.  Pennsylvania  1917)  of 
Philadelphia,  Pa.  Rev.  Alfred  C.  Hand  (B.A.  1882)  was 
a  nephew  of  Mr.  Hand;  George  F.  Bentley  (B.A.  1873) 
the  son  of  a  cousin,  and  W^illiam  H.  Jessup  (B.A.  1884) 
and  Stuart  D.  Jessup  (B.A.  1891)  nephews  by  marriage. 
William  H.  Jessup's  sons,  William  H.  Jessup,  Jr.,  and 
James  M.  Jessup,  graduated  from  the  College  in  191 5  and 
1916,  respectively. 


John  Edwin  Kimball,  B.A.   1858 

Born  July  18,  1833,  in  Webster,  Mass. 
Died  September  7,  1916,  in  Worcester,  Mass. 

John  Edwin  Kimball,  son  of  William  and  Polly  (Robin- 
son) Seaman  Kmball,  was  born  in  Webster,  Mass.,  July 
18,  1833.  His  father,  who  fought  in  the^War  of  1812,  was 
for  many  years  superintendent  of  a  mill  at  Webster  and 
later  a  carpenter  and  builder  in  Oxford,  Mass.  He  was 
the  son  of  Samuel  Kimball,  a  soldier  in  a  Connecticut  regi- 
ment in  the  Revolutionary  War,  and  Phebe  (Burrell)  Kim- 
ball, and  a  descendant  of  Richard  Kimball,  who  in  1634 
came  from  Ipswich,  England,  to  Watertown,  Mass.  The 
Robinson  family  from  which  his  mother  was  descended 
has  been  well  known  since  Revolutionary  times  in  the 
southern  part  of  Worcester  County,  Mass.  Mrs.  Kimball 
was  the  daughter  of  William  and  Molly  (Dudley)  Robin- 
son, and  the  granddaughter  of  Silas  and  Mary  (Learned) 
Robinson. 

John  Kimball  was  prepared  for  Yale  at  the  Nichols 
Academy,  Dudley,  Mass.,  and  at  the  Leicester  (Mass.) 
Academy.  He  first  entered  Yale  with  the  Class  of  1856, 
but  withdrew  in  July,  1853,  reentering  in  1854  with  the 
Class    of    1858.     In    Sophomore   year   he   was    given   two 


284  YALE    COLLEGE 

prizes  in  English  composition  and  one  in  declamation,  and 
in  1857  he  was  the  orator  for  the  Statement  of  Facts  for 
Linonia.  He  served  on  the  editorial  board  of  the  Yale 
Literary  Magazine  in  Senior  year. 

In  November,  1858,  he  became  principal  of  the  high 
school  at  Oxford,  Mass.,  where  he  remained  until  the  fol- 
lowing March.  The  next  year  was  spent  as  private  tutor 
with  a  family  near  Louisville,  Ky.,  from  which  position  he 
withdrew  to  allay  the  commotion  excited  by  his  having 
voted  for  Lincoln.  He  then  served  for  a  year  as  principal 
of  the  Ogden  School  in  Chicago,  111.  Removing  to  St. 
Louis  in  1862,  he  was  for  the  next  eighteen  years  identified 
with  the  public  school  system  of  that  city.  After  serving 
successively  as  principal  of  the  Washington  School  and  the 
Central  High  School,  and  as  assistant  principal  of  the  First 
High  School,  he  organized,  in  1871,  a  branch  high  school, 
of  which  he  was  for  a  time  the  head.  In  1879,  after  having 
had  charge  of  several  grammar  schools  for  a  number  of 
years,  he  was  placed  in  charge  of  the  Polytechnic  Branch 
High  School,  which  had  just  been  formed  by  the  consoli- 
dation of  five  branch  high  schools.  For  some  time,  he  also 
held  the  position  of  principal  of  the  O'Fallon  Polytechnic 
Institute,  an  evening  school.  In  October,  1880,  he  left  St. 
Louis  to  accept  an  appointment  as  superintendent  of  the 
schools  of  Hartford,  Conn.  A  year  later  he  took  a  simi- 
lar position  in  Newton,  Mass.,  where  he  was  located  until 
his  retirement  in  1*^84. 

Since  that  time  Mr.  Kimball's  home  had  been  in  Oxford, 
Mass.,  where  he  had  taken  an  active  interest  in  town  affairs. 
For  twelve  years  he  was  moderator  of  the  town  meetings. 
He  served  several  terms  as  a  member  of  the  Board  of 
Selectmen  and  of  the  School  Committee,  was  chairman  of 
the  building  committee  of  the  Larned  Free  Public  Library, 
for  several  years  serving  as  a  trustee  of  the  institution,  and 
was  at  one  time  chairman  of  the  standing  committee  of 
the  North  Congregational  Church,  of  which  he  was  a  dea- 
con. For  three  years  Mr.  Kimball  was  a  member  of  the 
Massachusetts  Board  of  Agriculture,  and  acted  on  the  com- 
mittee having  oversight  of  the  Massachusetts  Agricultural 
C  College  at  Amherst.  He  was  an  associate  member  of  the 
Philosophical  Society  of  Great  Britain,  a  director  of  the 
Oxford^  National  Bank,  a  vice-president  of  the  Interstate 
Petroleum  Company,  and  president  of  the  Osage  Consoli- 


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dated  Oil  &  Gas  Company  and  of  the  Boston  &  New 
Mexico  Copper  Company.  For  many  years  during  his 
residence  in  St.  Louis  Mr.  Kimball  was  a  deacon  in  the 
First   Congregational   Church. 

He  suffered  a  stroke  of  paralysis  in  February,  19 12,  and 
was  afterwards  confined  to  his  bed.  In  August,  1916,  he 
was  removed  to  a  sanitarium  in  Worcester,  Mass.,  where 
he  died  the  seventh  of  the  following  month.  His  body  was 
taken  to  Oxford  for  burial  in  the  family  lot  in  South 
Cemetery. 

He  was  unmarried.  His  brother,  Thomas  Dudley  Kim- 
ball, a  non-graduate  member  of  the  Class  of  1863,  who 
served  as  captain  of  Company  G,  Fifty-first  Regiment, 
Infantry,  and  later  of  Company  A,  Second  Regiment, 
Heavy  Artillery,  Massachusetts  Volunteers,  during  the 
Civil  War,  survives  him. 


Hasket  Derby  Catlin,  B.A.   1859 

Born  June  26,  1839,  in  New  Brighton,  N.  Y. 
Died  June  3,  1917,  in  Northumberland,  Pa. 

Hasket  Derby  Catlin  was  born  at  New  Brighton,  Staten 
Island,  N.  Y.,  June  26,  1839,  being  one  of  the  nine  children 
of  Charles  Taylor  and  Lucy  Ann  (Derby)  Catlin.  His 
father,  a  graduate  of  Yale  College  in  1822,  who  received 
an  M.A.  at  Columbia  in  1828,  was  for  many  years  engaged 
in  the  commission  business  in  New  York  City;  he  was 
the  son  of  Lynde  Catlin  (B.A.  1786)  and  Helen  Margaret 
(Kip)  Catlin.  His  mother's  parents  were  Elias  Hasket 
Derby,  2d,  and  Lucy  (Brown)  Derby. 

Receiving  his  preparatory  training  at  Phillips  Academy, 
Andover,  Mass.,  he  entered  Yale  with  the  Class  of  1859. 
He  won  a  Berkeley  premium  for  excellence  in  Latin  com- 
position in  Sophomore  and  Senior  years,  and  held  the 
Woolsey  Scholarship  and  was  the  recipient  of  a  first  prize 
in  Latin  in  Junior  year.  He  received  the  Latin  Oration  at 
Junior  Exhibition,  his  name  standing  first  on  the  appoint- 
ment list,  and  a  Philosophical  Oration  at  Commencement, 
speaking  on  both  occasions.  He  belonged  to  Brothers  in 
Unity  and  Phi  Beta  Kappa,  being  recording  secretary  of 
the  latter  as  a  Senior. 


286  YALE    COLLEGE 

He  Spent  the  first  two  years  after  graduation  teaching  in 
Brooklyn,  N.  Y.,  and  devoted  the  year  of  1861-62  to  general 
study.  Beginning  his  preparation  for  the  ministry  at  Yale 
in  -the  fall  of  1862,  he  contintied  there  for  three  years, 
completing  his  course  at  the  Harvard  Theological  School. 
In  May,  1867,  after  preaching  for  two  years  at  large,  he 
was  ordained  pastor  of  the  Unitarian  Church  at  Neponset, 
Dorchester,  Mass.  He  remained  there  for  over  three  years. 
From  1873  to  1877  he  served  as  pastor  of  the  Unitarian 
Church  at  Northumberland,  Pa.  He  was  pastor  at  Harlem, 
N.  Y.,  from  1877  to  1879,  ^at  Dublin,  N.  H.,  from  1881  to 
1885,  at  Eastport,  Maine,  from  1886  to  1896,  and  at 
Gouverneur,  N.  Y.,  for  the  next  four  years.  He  lived  at 
Brooklyn,  N.  Y.,  from  1900  to  1902  and  later  at  Edgewood 
Park,  a  suburb  of  Pittsburgh,  Pa.  In  1910  he  resumed  the 
pastorate  of  the  Northumberland  Unitarian  Church,  and 
was  in  charge  of  the  service  when  it  was  rededicated  as 
the  Joseph  Priestley  Memorial  on  October  24  of  that  year. 
Mr.  Catlin  had  contributed  a  number  of  articles  to 
periodicals. 

His  death  occurred  June  3,  1917,  in  Northumberland, 
Pa.,  after  an  illness  of  three  weeks.  Interment  was  in 
Riverview  Cemetery,  Northumberland. 

On  October  31,  1878,  he  was  married  in  Northumberland, 
to  Plannah  Taggart,  daughter  of  Joseph  Priestley,  M.D., 
and  great-great-granddaughter  of  the  scientist.  Dr.  Joseph 
Priestley  of  England,  and  later  of  Northumberland.  They 
had  two  children,  Joseph  Priestley,  a  graduate  of  the  Massa- 
chusetts Institute  of  Technology  in  1901,  and  Lucy  Helen, 
who  died  in  infancy.  Mr.  Catlin  is  survived  by  his 
wife  and  son,  a  brother,  Arnold  Welles  Catlin  (B.A. 
1862,  M.D.  Pennsylvania  1865),  and  a  nephew,  Rt.  Rev. 
Sidney  Catlin  Partridge,  a  member  of  the  College  Class  of 
1880.  His  brothers,  Lynde  A.  and  Charles  T.  Catlin,  gradu- 
ates of  the  College  in  1853  and  1856,  respectively,  died 
before  him.  He  was  a  nephew  of  John  M.  Catlin,  of  the 
Class  of  1820,  and  an  uncle  of  Rev.  Reginald  W.  Catlin 
(B.A.  1908),  whose  death  occurred  in  1914. 


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John  Werley  Beckley,  B.A.   i860 

Born  October  8,  1838,  in  Shelbyville,  Ky. 
Died  March  11,  1917,  in  Louisville,  Ky. 

John  Werley  Beckley,  son  of  John  R.  and  Elizabeth 
(Long)  Beckley,  was  born  in  Shelbyville,  Ky.,  October  8, 
1838.  His  ancestors  were  pioneer  settlers  in  this  country, 
some  of  their  descendants  serving  as  officers  in  the  Revolu- 
tionary War.  He  entered  Yale  in  1858,  and  was  graduated 
two  years  later. 

He  took  up  the  study  of  law  in  his  native  town  upon 
graduation,  and  immediately  after  his  admission  to  the  bar 
of  Kentucky  began  practice  there.  He  was  elected  to  the 
county  attorneyship  of  Shelby  County  in  1865,  and  served 
in  that  capacity  until  his  removal  the  next  year  to  Louis- 
ville, Ky.,  his  home  during  the  remainder  of  his  life.  There 
he  was  for  some  years  in  the  office  of  Harlan  &  Bristow, 
but  later  gave  up  the  law  to  enter  upon  a  business  career. 
He  was  at  one  time  connected  with  C.  P.  Moorman  & 
Company,  commission  merchants,  but  for  some  years  pre- 
vious to  his  death  was  president  of  the  Eagle  Tannery 
Company.  In  recent  years  he  had  spent  much  time  in 
New  England  on  business  for  his  firm.  His  death  occurred 
March  11,  1917,  at  his  home  in  Louisville. 

He  was  married  at  Berkeley  Springs,  Va.,  January  26, 
1870,  to  Florence  Colston  of  Baltimore,  Md.,  who  survives 
him  with  a  son,  Pendleton,  and  two  daughters,  Florence 
and  George  Mason.  The  younger  daughter  is  the  wife  of 
J.  Farrand  Williams  (B.A.  1909).  George  A.  Colston 
and  Frederick  C.  Colston,  graduates  of  the  College  in  1898 
and  1904,  respectively,  and  Dr.  J.  A,  Campbell  Colston 
(Ph.B.  1907),  are  Mrs.  Beckley's  nephews. 


Lemuel  Tripp  Willcox,  B.A.   i860 

Born  August  8,  1835,  in  Fairhaven,  Mass. 
Died  January  i,  1917,  in  Fairhaven,  Mass. 

Lemuel  Tripp  Willcox,  whose  parents  were  Amaziah  P. 
and  Susan  H.  Willcox,  was  born  in  Fairhaven,  Mass., 
August  8,  1835.  He  was  fitted  for  Yale  at  the  New  Bed- 
ford  (Mass.)   Fligh  School  and  at  Williston  Seminary  at 


288  YALE    COLLEGE 

Easthampton,  Mass.  In  his  Sophomore  year  in  college  he 
was  given  a  third  prize  in  English  composition.  His  Junior 
and  Senior  appointments  were  Orations.  He  was  a  member 
of  Phi  Beta  Kappa. 

After  his-  graduation  from  Yale  he  began  the  study  of 
law  in  the  office  of  Eliot  &  Stetson  in  New  Bedford,  Mass. 
The  senior  member  of  this  firm  was  Thomas  Dawes  Eliot, 
a  graduate  of  George  Washington  University  in  1825  and 
a  member  of  Congress  for  several  years.  Mr.  Willcox 
was  admitted  to  the  bar  of  Massachusetts  in  1862,  and 
practiced  in  New  Bedford  until  191 5.  He  was  at  one  time 
a  justice  of  the  peace,  and  served  as  president  of  the  New 
Bedford  Bar  Association  from  1912  to  191 5.  He  had  been 
a  member  of  the  School  Board  and  a  vestryman  of  Grace 
Protestant  Episcopal  Church.  At  the  formation  of  the 
Yale  Club  of  New  Bedford  in  March,  1914,  he  was  elected 
vice-president  of  the  organization.  He  died  after  a  linger- 
ing illness,  January  i,  1917,  in  Fairhaven,  where  he  had 
been  living  for  over  a  year. 

His  marriage  took  place  June  22,  1865,  to  Harriet  Curtis 
Field  of  New  Haven,  Conn.  Their  only  child,  Standish, 
survives. 


Hubert  Sanford  Brown,  B.A.   1861 

Born  March  28,  1840,  in  New  Hartford,  Conn. 
Died  April  16,  1917,  in  Beaulieu-sur-Mer,  France 

Hubert  Sanford  Brown  was  born  in  New  Hartford, 
Conn.,  March  28,  1840,  the  son  of  Sanford  and  Eliza  (Ship- 
man)  Brown.  He  was  descended  from  Peter  Brown,  a 
member  of  Plymouth  Colony,  and  from  Col.  John  Brown 
(B.A.  1771),  who  served  with  distinction  in  the  Revolu- 
tionary War.  His  mother,  a  native  of  New  Britain,  Conn., 
belonged  to  a  family  of  Puritan  extraction  and  distin- 
guished in  the  history  of  that  colony  and  the  state  of 
Connecticut. 

He  was  fitted  for  college  at  the  Hudson  River  Institute 
at  Claverack,  N.  Y.  In  his  Sophomore  year  at  Yale  he 
was  given  first  prizes  in  English  composition  and  in  decla- 
mation. His  Junior  appointment  was  a  Second  Dispute,  and 
he'  received  a  First  Dispute  at  Commencement.  He  served 
on  the  editorial  board  of  the  University  Quarterly,  and  was 


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a  member  of  the  Beethoven  Society  and  the  Cymothoe 
Boat  Club. 

Although  Mr.  Brown  intended  to  enter  business  eventu- 
ally, he  studied  law  during  the  first  year  after  his  gradua- 
tion, spending  this  time  in  an  office  in  Hartford,  Conn., 
at  his  home  in  New  Hartford,  and  at  the  Harvard  Law 
School.  He  became  a  member  of  the  New  York  firm 
of  H.  D.  Ormsbee  &  Company,  commission  merchants  and 
dealers  in  hardware  and  metals,  in  July,  1863,  continuing 
his  association  with  that  concern  until  early  in  1865,  when 
he  was  appointed  captain  and  assistant  adjutant  general  on 
the  staff  of  Major  General  W.  B.  Hazen,  commanding  the 
second  division  of  the  Fifteenth  Corps  of  General  Sher- 
man's army.  He  received  successive  promotions  as  corps 
adjutant  general,  major,  and  brevet  lieutenant  colonel. 
After  the  final  muster-out  of  the  army  of  the  West  he  was 
on  duty  at  Murfreesboro  and  Nashville,  Tenn.,  until  being 
himself  mustered  out  of  service  in  October,  1866.  Early 
in  1867  Mr.  Brown  entered  business  in  Chicago,  111.,  as  a 
wholesale  dealer  in  glassware,  lamps,  and  crockery.  He 
was  for  a  time  a  member  of  the  firm  of  Eaton,  Maguire 
&  Company,  and  afterward  was  in  partnership  with  the 
late  Sherburne  B.  Eaton  (B.A.  1862)  under  the  name  of 
Eaton  &  Brown.  This  latter  firm  suffered  heavy  losses 
during  the  great  fire  of  1871,  but  resumed  business  at  once. 
From  February,  1875,  ^o  1890  Mr.  Brown  was  located  in 
Philadelphia,  Pa.,  as  a  member  of  the  firm  of  J.  E.  Kingsley 
&  Company,  proprietors  of  the  Continental  Hotel.  He 
then  entered  business  in  New  York  City,  where  he  remained 
until  1898. 

Since  that  time  he  had  lived  at  Beaulieu-sur-Mer,  on  the 
French  Riviera,  where  he  died,  April  16,  1917,  from  heart 
trouble  with  complications.  Interment  was  in  the  family 
vault  at  Beaulieu-sur-Mer.  Mr.  Brown,  who  was  unmar- 
ried, is  survived  by  a  sister. 


Walter  Hanford,  B.A.   1861 

Born  December  i,  1840,  in  New  York  City- 
Died  April  26,  1917,  in  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 

Walter  Hanford  was  born  in  New  York  City,  December 
I,  1840,  being  the  son  of  Philander  and  Elizabeth  (Hoyt) 


290  YALE   COLLEGE 

Hanford.  His  father,  a  prominent  merchant  of  New  York, 
was  in  business  for  over  half  a  century,  shipping  goods  to 
the  West  Indies.  He  received  his  early  training  at  the 
Collegiate  School  in  New  York  City.  At  Yale  he  was 
given  Philosophical  Oration  appointments,  and  was  elected 
to  Phi  Beta  Kappa. 

Mr.  Hanford  studied  law  in  New  York  City  for  fif- 
teen months  after  his  graduation,  but  trouble  with  his 
eyes  at  length  compelled  him  to  abandon  his  intention  of 
entering  that  profession.  After  serving  for  some  years 
as  cashier  and  bookkeeper  for  a  firm  in  New  York  City, 
he  was,  in  January,  1870,  admitted  to  membership  in  the 
firm  of  C.  L.  Woodbridge  &  Company,  importers  of  fancy 
goods.  After  the  failure  of  that  company  in  1895,  he  joined 
the  Empire  Refrigerating  &  Ice-Machine  Company  as 
secretary  and  treasurer.  This  company  had  been  formed 
for  the  purpose  of  developing  a  new  system  of  artificial 
refrigeration  for  cold  storage  and  the  manufacture  of  pure 
ice,  and  Mr.  Hanford  retained  his  connection  with  it  for 
several  years.  The  remainder  of  his  active  business  life 
was  spent  with  the  Lawyers  Mortgage  Company  of  New 
York. 

About  two  years  ago  he  suffered  an  attack  of  paralysis 
which  left  him  in  a  permanently  crippled  condition,  and 
in  September,  1916,  he  was  removed  from  his  home  in 
Brooklyn  to  the  Long  Island  College  Hospital.  There  his 
death  occurred  April  26,  19 17,  as  the  result  of  apoplexy. 
He  was  buried  in  Greenwood  Cemetery,  Brooklyn. 

Mr.  Hanford  belonged  to  Christ  Protestant  Episcopal 
Church  of  Brooklyn.  He  was  married  February  6,  1873, 
to  Helen  Eliza,  daughter  of  Harry  and  Margaret  (Bergen) 
Wilber  of  Batavia,  N.  Y.  She  survives  him  with  their  son, 
Walter  McLeod;  he  also  leaves  a  sister. 


Elliot  Chapin  Hall,  B. A.   1862 

BcTn  April  29,  1838,  in  Jamestown,  N.  Y. 
Died  April  27,  1917,  in  Jamestown,  N.  Y. 

Elliot  Chapin  Hall,  youngest  of  the  five  children  of 
William  and  Julia  (Jones)  Hall,  was  born  April  29,  1838, 
in  Jamestown,  N.  Y.,  where  his  father  was  prominently 
engaged  in  business  for  more  than  sixty  years.    The  latter. 


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a  native  of  Wardsboro,  Vt,  was  the  son  of  William  Hall, 
who  held  a  captain's  commission  during  the  Revolutionary 
War,  and  Abigail  (Pease)  Hall.  His  wife's  parents  were 
Solomon  and  Clarissa  (Hay ward)  Jones. 

His  preparatory  training  was  received  at  the  Jamestown 
Academy  and  at  the  Delaware  Literary  Institute  at  Frank- 
lin, N.  Y.  He  entered  Yale  in  1858,  and  was  given  a 
Dissertation  appointment  in  both  Junior  and  Senior  years. 
He  began  the  study  of  theology  in  the  fall  of  1862,  spending 
two  years  at  Yale  and  one  at  Union  Theological  Seminary, 
New  York  City. 

Mr.  Hall  was  graduated  from  the  latter  institution  in 
May,  1865,  and,  having  been  licensed  to  preach  the  previous 
month,  supplied  the  pulpit  of  the  Congregational  Church 
at  Farmington,  Pa.,  for  the  next  year  and  a  half.  He 
was  ordained  at  Ashville,  N.  Y.,  on  June  13,  1866,  and  the 
next  year  accepted  a  call  to  Otto,  N.  Y.,  removing  from 
that  town  to  Kiantone,  N.  Y.,  in  December,  1869.  He  was 
pastor  of  the  Kiantone  Cpngregational  Church  until  1879, 
when  he  was  called  to  the  family  home  in  Jamestown  by 
the  serious  illness  of  his  father,  who  died  in  1880.  For  a 
long  time  he  was  a  director  of  the  Chautauqua  County 
Trust  Company  and  of  its  successor,  the  National  Chau- 
tauqua County  Bank,  and  of  the  Farmers  &  Mechanics 
Bank.  From  1908  to  1914  Mr.  Hall  served  as  president 
of  the  Jamestown  Worsted  Mills,  of  which  his  father  was 
one  of  the  founders.  Although  he  had  relinquished  his 
ministerial  duties  upon  entering  a  business  life,  he  had 
always  given  largely  of  his  time  and  means  to  the  develop- 
ment of  the  church  in  general.  He  was  for  forty  years 
registrar  of  the  Western  New  York  Association  of  Con- 
gregational Churches,  and  for  twenty  years  served  as  clerk 
of  the  First  Congregational  Church  of  Jamestown.  He 
was  a  corporate  member  of  the  American  Board  of  Com- 
missioners for  Foreign  Missions.  The  virtual  founder 
of  the  Jamestown  Y.  M.  C.  A.,  he  served  as  a  director 
from  its  organization  in  1884  and  as  president  from  1901 
to  1916,  being  made  honorary  president  when  illness  com- 
pelled his  retirement.  He  had  been  president  of  the  Asso- 
ciated Charities  and  of  the  board  of  trustees  of  the  James 
Prendergast  Library,  vice-president  of  the  Jamestown  Busi- 
ness College,  and  a  trustee  of  the  Chautauqua  Institution. 

His  health  had  not  been  good  in  several  years,  and  for 


292  YALE    COLLEGE 

thirteen  months  he  had  been  confined  to  his  bed  the  greater 
portion  of  the  time.  He  died  April  27,  1917,  at  his  home 
in  Jamestown,  and  was  buried  in  Lakeview  Cemetery  in 
that  town. 

Mr.  Hall  was  married  July  24,  1867,  in  Amherst,  Mass., 
to  Tirzah  Strong,  daughter  of  Ebenezer  Strong  Snell,  for 
many  years  professor  of  mathematics  and  natural  philoso- 
phy at  Amherst,  where  he  received  the  degrees  of  B.A., 
M.A.,  and  LL.D.,  in  1822,  1825,  and  i860,  respectively,  and 
Sabra  Cobb  (Clark)  Snell.  They  had  four  children:  a 
daughter  who  died  in  early  infancy;  Martha  Snell  (B.A. 
Mount  Holyoke  1895,  M.A.  Mount  Holyoke  1903),  who 
was  married  August  16,  1905,  to  William  Lyman  Cowles 
(B.A.  Amherst  1878,  M.A.  Amherst  1881)  ;  Elliot  Snell, 
who  took  the  degree  of  B.A.  at  Amherst  in  1896  and  that 
of  Ph.D.  at  Johns  Hopkins  in  1904,  and  Tirzah  Hinsdale. 
Surviving  Mr.  Hall  are  his  wife  and  three  children.  His 
brother,  the  late  William  C.  J.  Hall,  graduated  from  Yale 
College  in  185 1. 


Charles  Phelps  Williams,  B.A.   1862 

Born  August  19,  1840,  in  Stonington,  Conn. 
Died  August  23,  1916,  in  South  Pasadena,  Calif. 

Charles  Phelps  Williams,  whose  parents  were  Ephraim 
and  Hannah  (Denison)  Williams,  was  born  in  Stonington, 
Conn.,  August  19,  1840,  His  father  was  the  son  of  Eph- 
raim and  Hannah  Eliza  (Denison)  Williams,  and  a  col- 
lateral descendant  of  Col.  Ephraim  Williams,  the  founder 
of  Williams  College,  who  commanded  a  regiment  of  Massa- 
chusetts troops  in  the  French  and  Indian  War,  being  killed 
in  an  ambuscade.  The  earliest  member  of  the  family  to 
settle  in  America  was  Robert  Williams,  who  came  from 
Great  Yarmouth,  England,  to  Roxbury,  Mass.,  in  1635. 
Charles  P.  Williams'  mother  was  the  daughter  of  Amos 
and  Hannah  (Williams)  Denison,  and  through  her  he  was 
descended  from  Capt.  George  Denison,  who  emigrated  to 
this  country  in  163 1  from  Stratford,  England,  settling  at 
Roxbury. 

.  He  was  fitted  for  college  in  his  native  town,  and  entered 
Yale  in  1858.    He  was  forced  to  withdraw  in  Junior  year  on 


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account  of  a  severe  and  dangerous  illness,  but  his  degree 
was  voted  to  him  by  the  Corporation  in  1893,  ^"^  he  was 
then  enrolled  with  the  Class  of  1862.  While  in  college  he 
received  a  First  Dispute  Junior  appointment. 

Mr.  Williams  went  to  Europe  shortly  after  leaving  Yale, 
and  did  not  return  until  June,  1863.  The  next  two  years 
were  spent  at  Stonington.  In  1865,  his  health  having  been 
completely  restored,  he  entered  the  brokerage  business  in 
New  York  City.  He  was  a  member  of  the  firm  of  Williams 
&  Prentice,  in  which  his  partner  was  Mr.  Sartell  Prentice, 
for  a  number  of  years.  In  December,  1890,  he  sold  his 
seat  on  the  New  York  Stock  Exchange,  and  retired  from 
business.  Believing  that  a  knowledge  of  the  law  would 
be  useful  in  the  management  of  his  affairs,  he  entered  the 
New  York  Law  School  in  1893,  and  two  years  later 
received  the  degree  of  LL.B.  In  July,  1895,  Mr.  Williams 
was  admitted  to  the  New  York  Bar,  and,  although  he  never 
practiced,  for  several  years  had  a  desk  in  the  office  of 
his  classmate,  Frederic  A.  Ward.  He  was  a  member  of 
Grace  Protestant  Episcopal  Church  of  Brooklyn. 

The  latter  part  of  Mr.  Williams'  life  was  marked  by 
impaired  health.  In  an  endeavor  to  find  a  climate  favorable 
to  his  condition  he  traveled  extensively  for  several  years. 
In  1903  he  settled  in  South  Pasadena,  Calif.,  where  the 
remainder  of  his  life  was  quietly  passed.  He  was  interested 
in  various  charities,  and  a  few  years  ago  built  and  equipped 
Williams  Hall,  a  recreation  building  at  the  Barlow  Sani- 
tarium for  Consumptives  at  Los  Angeles.  In  December, 
1912,  he  had  a  cerebral  hemorrhage,  and  since  that  time 
his  condition  had  been  serious.  His  death  occurred  at  his 
home  on  August  23,  1916.  Burial  was  in  the  Elm  Grove 
Cemetery  at  Stonington. 

Mr.  Williams  was  married  October  28,  1868,  at  Mystic 
Bridge,  Conn.,  to  Fanny,  daughter  of  Charles  Henry  and 
Eunice  (Clift)  Mallory,  who  died  June  13,  1915.  Their 
three  children  survive :  Fanny  Mallory,  the  wife  of  Albert 
Lincoln  Mason  of  Brooklyn,  N,  Y. ;  Charles  Mallory, 
who  took  his  Ph.B.  at  Yale  in  1892  and  his  M.D.  at  Colum- 
bia in  1898,  and  Kate  Mallory,  a  graduate  of  Smith  in  1896, 
who  was  married  June  30,  1903,  to  Henry  Perkins  Moseley 
(B.A.  1894,  M.D.  Columbia  1898).  Among  Mr.  Williams' 
Yale  relatives  were  his  nephews,  William  P.  Dixon  (B.A. 
1868)  and  Ephraim  W.  Dixon  (B.A.  1881),  and  his  grand- 


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nephews,  Henry  B.  Barnes,  Jr.,  Courtlandt  D.  Barnes, 
Theodore  P.  Dixon,  Courtlandt  P.  Dixon,  2d,  and  Thomas 
S.  Barnes,  graduates  of  the  College  in  1893,  1902,  1907, 
1908,  and  1910,  respectively.  Philip  R.  Mallory  (B.A. 
1908),  John  H.  Mallory,  a  non-graduate  member  of  the 
same  Class,  Robert  Mallory,  Jr.,  and  Charles  H.  Mallory, 
who  received  the  degrees  of  B.A.  in  1909  and  191 5,  respec- 
tively, and  Holmes  Mallory,  a  member  of  the  Class  of 
1918,  are  nephews  of  his  wife. 


Benjamin  Eglin,  B.A.   1863 

Born  April  28,  1838,  in  Ithaca,  N.  Y. 
Died  August  14,  1914,  in  Lewinsville,  Va. 

Benjamin  Eglin  was  born  April  28,  1838,  in  Ithaca,  N.  Y., 
the  son  of  John  and  Sarah  (Bentley)  Eglin.  His  father, 
who  was  the  son  of  Adam  and  Margaret  (Hodgson)  Eglin, 
came  with  his  wife  to  this  country  from  Lancaster  County, 
England,  in  1830,  and  took  up  his  residence  in  Ithaca,  where 
he  became  engaged  in  woollen  manufacturing. 

He  studied  at  the  Susquehanna  Collegiate  Institute  at 
Towanda,  Pa.,  and  at  the  Rock  River  Seminary,  Mount 
Morris,  III.,  before  joining  the  Yale  Class  of  1863  in  Junior 
year.  He  was  elected  to  membership  in  Phi  Beta  Kappa, 
and  received  a  Dissertation  appointment  at  Commencement. 

After  spending  a  year  as  principal  of  the  Wellsboro 
Academy  in  Tioga  County,  Pa.,  Mr.  Eglin  accepted  an 
appointment  as  clerk  in  the  Treasury  Department  at  Wash- 
ington, D.  C,  and  took  up  his  work  there  in  July,  1864. 
While  thus  employed,  he  entered  the  Law  Department  of 
Columbian  College  (now  George  Washington  University), 
and  in  1867  was  given  the  degree  of  LL.B.  by  that  institu- 
tion. He  then  became  engaged  in  the  investigation  of 
fraudulent  and  contested  claims  in  the  office  of  the  second 
auditor  of  the  Treasury,  retaining  his  connection  with  that 
department  until  August  31,  1885.  At  that  time  he  resigned 
and  took  up  his  residence  at  Lewinsville,  Fairfax  County, 
Va.,  where  the  remainder  of  his  life  was  spent  as  a  farmer. 

His  death  occurred  at  his  home  August  14,  1914..  after 
a. year's  illness  from  paralysis,  and  he  was  buried  in  the 
Episcopal  Cemeterv  at  Fairfax  Court  House. 

On  December  18,  1872,  he  was  married  in  that  town  to 


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Annie,  daughter  of  Henry  Wirt  Thomas,  a  former  state 
senator  and  Heutenant-governor  of  Virginia,  and  JuHa 
(Jackson)  Thomas  of  Fairfax  County.  Mrs.  EgHn  died 
July  3,  1890.  They  had  four  children:  Julia;  Ethel,  who 
married  George  Holbrooke  Maurice  (C.E.  Lehigh  1893)  ; 
Lucy  Dix,  whose  death  occurred  September  23,  1903,  and 
Henry  Wirt  Thomas,  a  graduate  of  the  Virginia  Military 
Institute  in  1905,  now  serving  as  a  captain  in  the  United 
States  Army. 


Oliver  Hazard  Payne,  B.A.   1863 

Born  July  21,  1839,  in  Cleveland,  Ohio 
Died  June  27,  1917,  in  New  York  City- 
Oliver  Hazard  Payne,  son  of  Henry  B.  and  Mary 
(Perry)  Payne,  was  born  in  Cleveland,  Ohio,  July  21, 
1839.  His  father  graduated  from  Hamilton  College  in 
1832,  and,  after  practicing  law  in  Cleveland  for  twelve 
years,  entered  politics.  He  served  in  the  Ohio  Senate 
from  1849  to  185 1,  was  the  Democratic  candidate  from  his 
district  in  1851  for  the  United  States  Senate  and  for 
governor  of  the  state  in  1857,  was  elected  to  the  Forty- 
fourth  Congress,  was  the  candidate  for  the  Democratic 
presidential  nomination  in  1880  -and  1884,  and  served  as 
a  United  States  Senator  from  1885  to  1891.  His  wife  was 
the  daughter  of  Nathan  Perry,  and  a  descendant  of  Oliver 
Hazard  Perry,  noted  as  the  hero  of  the  battle  of  Lake  Erie. 
He  was  fitted  for  Yale  at  Phillips  Academy,  Andover, 
Mass.  He  remained  with  the  Class  of  1863  only  until 
October,  1861,  leaving  at  that  time  to  accept  a  commission 
as  first  lieutenant  in  the  One  Hundred  and  Twenty-fourth 
Ohio  Infantry.  Through  successive  promotions  he  rose 
to  the  rank  of  colonel,  and  on  March  13,  1865,  was 
brevetted  brigadier-general  of  volunteers.  In  1878  the 
degree  of  B.A.  was  voted  to  him  by  the  Yale  Corporation, 
and  he  had  since  been  enrolled  in  the  Class  of '1863. 

On  returning  to  Cleveland  after  completing  his  service 
in  the  Army,  he  entered  the  oil  refining  business  with  Mr. 
James  B.  Clark,  Mr.  John  Huntington  later  being  their 
partner.  The  business  was  subsequently  absorbed  by  the 
Standard    Oil    Company,    and    Colonel    Payne    served    as 


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treasurer  of  this  company  until  1884,  when  he  removed  to 
New  York  City.  Since  that  time  he  had  been  on  its  board 
of  directors,  and  he  was  also  a  director  of  many  other 
corporations,  including  the  American  Tobacco  Company, 
the  Virginia  &  Southeastern  Railway  Company,  the  Coal 
Creek  Mining  &  Manufacturing  Company,  and  the  Ten- 
nessee Coal  &  Iron  Company.  His  public  benefactions 
were  large,  probably  the  most  notable  being  his  gifts  to  the 
Cornell  Medical  School.  In  1887  he  endowed  the  Loomis 
Laboratory,  an  institution  organized  for  the  promotion  of 
original  research  in  chemistry,  biology,  and  pathology,  and 
for  elementary  teaching  in  these  branches,  and  he  had  also 
given  large  sums  to  the  University  of  Virginia,  Western 
Reserve  University,  the  New  York  University  Medical 
College,  and  the  Post-Graduate  Hospital  of  New  York  City. 
By  his  will,  bequests  of  a  million  dollars  each  were  made  to 
Yale,  the  New  York  Public  Library,  and  Lakeside  Hospital, 
Cleveland,  besides  many  smaller  ones  to  other  educational 
and  philanthropic  institutions.  His  death  occurred  at  his 
home  in  New  York  City,  June  27,  1917,  after  an  illness 
of  eight  months  due  to  spinal  rheumatism.  Interment  was 
in  Cleveland. 

Colonel  Payne's  chief  recreation  was  yachting,  and  he  went 
to  Europe  in  his  steam  yacht,  the  Aphrodite,  each  summer 
from  1898  to  1914,  when  the  war  caused  him  to  confine 
his  cruising  to  American  .waters.  He  had  never  married. 
His  brother,  Henry  W.  Payne,  who  died  in  1878,  graduated 
from  the  College  in  1867  and  from  the  Columbia  Law 
School  in  1870.  One  of  his  sisters  married  William  Collins 
Whitney  (B.A.  1863),  and  another  was  the  wife  of  Charles 
W.  Bingham  (B.A.  1868).  His  nephews,  Harry  Payne 
Whitney,  Payne  Whitney,  and  Henry  Payne  Bingham, 
graduated  from  the  College  in  1894,  1898,  and  1910, 
respectively.  A  niece  is  the  wife  of  Dudley  S.  Blossom 
(B.A.  1901). 


Frederick  Folger  Thomas,  B.A.   1863 

Born  October  11,  1842,  in  Factory ville,  N.  Y. 
Died  August  6,  1916,  in  Berkeley,  Calif. 

Frederick  Folger  Thomas,  son  of  William  HoUoway  and 
Angeline  Amanda  (Folger)  Thomas,  was  born  October  11, 


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1842,  in  Factory ville,  N.  Y.  His  father,  a  merchant 
lumberman  and  farmer,  who  was  at  one  time  a  colonel  in 
the  New  York  State  Militia,  was  the  son  of  Abraham  and 
Lydia  (HoUoway)  Thomas.  He  was  fitted  for  Yale  at 
the  private  school  of  the  Rev.  Mr.  Bradbury  at  Hudson, 
N.  Y.,  and  at  Phillips  Academy,  Andover,  Mass.  His 
scholarship  appointments  in  college  were  Disputes.  He 
received  his  B.A.  degree  in  1863,  and  then  entered  the 
Scientific  School,  where  he  pursued  courses  in  chemistry 
and  mining  for  the  next  three  years.  In  1865  he  was 
granted  the  degree  of  Ph.B.  and  a  second  prize  for  his 
essay  on  "Petroleum."  During  the  year  1865-66  he  served 
as  an  assistant  in  chemistry. 

In  February,  1867,  Mr.  Thomas  sailed  for  California, 
going  from  there  to  Silver  Peak,  Nev.,  where  he  was 
engaged  in  mining  for  several  years.  In  1873  he  was 
placed  in  charge  of  the  Cerro  Gordo  Silver  Lead  Works 
in  Inyo  County,  Calif.,  and  spent  the  next  few  years  there, 
later  being  located  at  Ward,  Nev.  Early  in  1889  he 
went  to  Australia  to  become  general  manager  of  the  Central 
Broken  Hill  Mining  Company,  Ltd.,  of  which  he  was  part 
owner.  This  company  operated  a  silver  mine  at  Broken 
Hill,  New  South  Wales,  about  1,400  miles  inland  from 
Sydney,  which  became,  under  his  management,  one  of  the 
most  productive  in  the  world,  although  it  had  previously 
been  unprofitable.  He  spent  three  years  in  Australia,  then 
returning  to  California,  where  the  remainder  of  his  life 
was  passed.  He  was  one  of  the  organizers  and  a  director 
of  the  Kennedy  Gold  Mining  Company,  which  operated  at 
Jackson  one  of  the  greatest  gold  mines  in  this  country.  In 
1894  he  became  president  and  general  manager  of  the 
Gwin  Mine  Development  Company,  and  reopened  that 
property  in  Calaveras  County. 

Mr.  Thomas  died  suddenly  August  6,  1916,  at  his  home 
in  Berkeley,  Calif.     His  body  was  cremated. 

He  was  married  June  18,  1873,  in  Hudson,  N.  Y.,  to 
Nora,  daughter  of  Darius  Peck  (B.A.  Hamilton  1825) 
and  Harriet  (Willard)  Peck  of  Hudson,  N.  Y.  She  sur- 
vives him  with  their  five  children:  William  Shepard  (C.E. 
Rensselaer  Polytechnic  Institute  1896,  E.M.  Columbia 
1898);  Maud  Angeline;  John  Hudson  (B.A.  1902); 
Nora,  and  Frederick  Folger,  who  received  the  degrees  of 
B.A.  and  J.D.  from  the  University  of  California  in  1908 


298  YALE    COLLEGE 

and  191 1,  respectively.  Philip  C.  and  Darius  E.  Peck, 
graduates  of  the  College  in  1896  and  1898,  respectively,  are 
Mrs.  Thomas'  nephews. 


William  Hall  Brace  Pratt,  B.A.  1864 

Born  October  16,  1842,  in  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 
Died  August  27,  1916,  in  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 

William  Hall  Brace  Pratt  was  the  son  of  Henry  Zacha- 
riah  Pratt,  a  bookseller  and  publisher,  who  became  vice- 
president  of  the  yEtna  Fire  Insurance  Company  in  1861, 
and  Lucy  Elizabeth  (Brace)  Pratt,  and  was  born  October 
16,  1842,  in  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.  His  father's  parents  were 
Harry  and  Susan  (Cleveland)  Pratt,  the  latter  being  the 
daughter  of  Rev.  Aaron  Cleveland  of  Norwich,  Conn.  He 
was  a  descendant  of  John  Pratt,  who  came  to  America 
from  Stevenage,  Hertfordshire,  England,  in  1633,  settling 
at  Newtown  (now  Cambridge),  Mass.,  from  which  place 
he  went  three  years  later  to  Hartford,  Conn.,  as  a  member 
of  Rev.  Thomas  Hooker's  party.  His  mother  was  the 
daughter  of  Thomas  Kimberly  Brace  (B.A.  1801),  who 
was  president  of  the  ^tna  Insurance  Company  from  its 
organization  until  his  death  in  i860,  a  period  of  thirty-eight 
years,  a  member  of  the  Connecticut  State  Legislature  for 
one  term,  and  mayor  of  Hartford  from  1840  to  1843,  ^"^ 
Lucy  Mather  (Lee)  Brace;  her  grandfather.  Judge  Jona- 
than Brace,  a  graduate  of  the  College  in  1779,  served  as 
a  Congressman  for  two  years,  and  was  also  at  one  time 
mayor  of  Hartford,  a  member  of  the  State  Legislature,  and 
an  ex-officio  Fellow  of  Yale.  Rev.  Richard  Mather,  her 
earliest  ancestor  in  this  country,  was  born  at  Lowton,  Lanca- 
shire, in  1596,  came  from  Liverpool  to  Boston  in  August, 
1635,  and  passed  the  remainder  of  his  life  in  Dorchester, 
Mass.,  and  she  w^as  also  descended  from  Rev.  Samuel 
Mather,  one  of  the  founders  of  Yale  College,  Samuel 
Mather  (B.A.  1726),  and  Samuel  Mather  (B.A.  1756). 

He  spent  his  boyhood  in  Hartford,  Conn.,  being  prepared 
for  college  at  the  local  high  school.  At  Yale  he  belonged 
to  Brothers  in  Unity  and  the  Varuna  Boat  Club,  received 
a  third  prize  in  declamation  in  Sophomore  year,  and  was 
one  of  the  Cochleaureati. 


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In  the  fall  after  his  graduation  he  entered  the  College 
of  Physicians  and  Surgeons  at  Columbia,  and  three  years 
later  was  granted  the  degree  of  Doctor  of  Medicine.  Dur- 
ing the  cholera  epidemic  of  1866  he  had  volunteered  his 
services  and  was  assigned  to  the  Red  House  Hospital  in 
New  York.  He  went  abroad  in  May,  1869,  having  com- 
pleted an  interneship  of  eighteen  months  at  Bellevue  Hos- 
pital, New  York  City.  The  next  two  years  were  spent  in 
study  at  Vienna,  Berlin,  and  Munich.  On  his  return  to 
this  country  in  November,  187 1,  he  opened  offices  in  Brook- 
lyn, where  he  practiced  until  his  death.  For  many  years 
he  held  the  chair  of  diseases  of  women  and  children  at 
the  Brooklyn  Central  Dispensary,  and  he  served  for  twenty 
years  as  visiting  physician  to  the  Home  for  Destitute  Chil- 
dren and  the  Home  for  Aged  Men.  He  was  made  attending 
physician  to  the  Methodist  Episcopal  Hospital  at  its  founda- 
tion in  1881,  becoming  consulting  physician  in  1893.  He 
was  on  the  board  of  managers  of  this  latter  institution, 
being  also  a  director  of  the  Training  School  for  Nurses 
connected  with  it.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Long  Island 
Historical  and  New  England  societies,  and  for  thirty-nine 
years  served  as  a  trustee  of  Grace  Methodist  Episcopal 
Church,  Brooklyn. 

He  died  there  at  his  home,  August  27,  1916,  after  an  ill- 
ness of  two  months  due  to  hardening  of  the  arteries,  and 
was  buried  in  Greenwood  Cemetery. 

On  December  28,  1876,  he  was  married  in  Brooklyn,  to 
Mary  Harris,  daughter  of  Albert  Gallatin  and  Harriet 
(Otis)  Ploughton.  She  survives  him  with  their  four  chil- 
dren,— Albert  Houghton,  who  graduated  from  Cornell  in 
1901 ;  Lucy  Brace,  the  wife  of  Leonard  Edward  Fackner 
of  Brooklyn;  William  Brace  (B.A.  1906),  and  Marilla 
Houghton, — four  grandsons,  and  a  granddaughter.  Dr. 
Pratt's  brother,  Henry  Cleveland  Pratt,  graduated  from 
Yale  College  in  1857  and  from  the  Harvard  Law  School 
three  years  later.  A  sister  married  Edward  T.  Owen  (B.A. 
1872,  Ph.D.  1900),  professor  of  French  at  the  University 
of  Wisconsin.  He  was  the  uncle  of  Sidney  Robinson  Ken- 
nedy, a  graduate  of  the  College  in  1898,  John  Favill  (B.A. 
1909,  M.D.  Harvard  1913),  and  Leonard  Kennedy  (B.A. 
1909,  M.A.  1913).  A  grandnephew,  Wilbert  W.  Perry, 
studied  in  the  Vale  School  of  Medicine  from  1899  to 
1903. 


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James  Harvey  VanGelder,  B.A.   1864 

Born  November  4,  1838,  in  Catskill,  N.  Y. 
Died  April  24,  1917,  in  Catskill,  N.  Y. 

James  Harvey  VanGelder  was  the  son  of  Peter  Van- 
Gelder, a  farmer,  and  Sarah  (Meyer)  VanGelder,  and  was 
born  November  4,  1838,  in  Catskill,  N.  Y.  His  father's 
parents  were  Jacob  and  Maria  (Miendes,  or  Meynderse) 
VanGelder  and  his  mother  was  the  daughter  of  William 
and  Rachael  Meyer,  and  a  descendant  of  Christian  Meyer, 
who  came  to  America  from  near  Holland  Border  in  1709 
and  settled  at  West  Camp,  N.  Y. 

He  was  fitted  for  college  at  the  Ashland  Collegiate 
Institute  at  Ashland,  N.  Y.  In  Junior  year  at  Yale  he 
was  given  a  Second  Dispute  appointment,  and  his  Senior 
appointment  was  an  Oration.  He  also  received  a  first 
prize  in  mathematics  in  his  final  year.  He  belonged  to 
Brothers  in  Unity  and  Phi  Beta  Kappa. 

Mr.  VanGelder  spent  the  first  few  years  after  graduation 
as  principal  and  instructor  in  mathematics  and  Latin  at 
the  Catskill  Academy  in  his  native  town.  From  1867  to 
1872  he  was  engaged  in  farming  at  Palenville,  N.  Y.,  after 
which  he  became  a  student  in  the  Albany  Law  School. 
He  received  his  LL.B.  from  that  institution  in  May,  1873, 
and  was  admitted  to  the  bar  of  New  York  State  the  follow- 
ing summer.  He  practiced  law  in  Catskill  from  that  time 
imtil  1890,  serving  as  justice  of  the  peace  in  1883.  From 
1889  to  1898  Mr.  VanGelder  gave  part  of  his  time  to  lectur- 
ing. While  his  son  was  a  student  at  Columbia,  he  lived 
in  New  York  City,  where  he  delivered  in  the  public  schools 
and  elsewhere  a  number  of  illustrated  lectures  on  travel 
and  history.  During  this  period  he  spent  his  summers  at 
Catskill,  managing  a  summer  resort,  and  after  his  retire- 
ment in  1898  he  made  his  home  in  that  village.  He  took 
an  active  interest  in  local  afifairs,  especially  in  regard  to 
a  municipal  water  supply  and  public  roads.  He  was  a 
member  of  the  Methodist  Church  of  Catskill  and  of  the 
New  York  Genealogical  and  Biographical  Society. 

In  the  spring  of  1906  he  suffered  a  slight  stroke  of 
paralysis,  and  the  following  August  received  serious  injuries 
in  an  accident,  in  consequence  of  which  he  had  since  been 
in  ill  health.     He  died  at  his  home  in  Catskill,  April  24, 


1864  3°* 

191 7>  the  immediate  cause  of  his  death  being  myocarditis. 
He  was  buried  in  the  Sandy  Plains  Cemetery  at  South 
Cairo,  N.  Y. 

His  marriage  took  place  August  2,  1864,  in  Palenville, 
N.  Y.,  to  Rebecca  E.,  daughter  of  Walter  and  Caroline 
(Waldron)  Pine.  She  survives  him  with  a  daughter,  Car- 
rie, who  was  married  in  1885  to  Charles  Athow  Wardle 
of  Catskill,  and  a  son,  Arthur  Pine,  a  graduate  of  Columbia 
with  the  degree  of  Ph.B.  in  1896.  Two  daughters,  Leila 
and  Alma,  died  in  early  childhood. 


Oliver  Sherman  White,  B.A.   1864 

Born  November  2,  1842,  in  New  Haven,  Conn. 
Died  March  30,  1917,  in  New  Haven,  Conn. 

Oliver  Sherman  White  was  born  November  2,  1842,  in 
New  Haven,  Conn.  His  father,  Henry  White,  was  the 
son  of  Dyer  and  Hannah  (Wetmore)  White,  and  a  descend- 
ant of  Elder  John  White,  who  emigrated  to  Boston,  Mass., 
from  England  about  1632.  The  latter's  grandson,  Capt. 
John  White,  is  supposed  to  have  come  to  New  Haven  from 
Middletown  Upper  Houses,  or  Cromwell,  Conn.,  about 
1720.  Dyer  White,  his  grandson,  began  the  practice  of 
law  in  1785,  and  his  practice  has  ever  since  been  carried 
on  by  his  descendants.  Oliver  S.  White's  mother  was 
Martha,  daughter  of  Roger  Sherman  (B.A.  1787)  and 
Susanna  (Staples)  Sherman,  and  granddaughter  of  Roger 
Sherman,  a  member  of  the  Continental  Congress  and  a 
signer  of  the  Declaration  of  Independence,  upon  whom 
Yale  conferred  an  honorary  M.A.  in  1768. 

He  entered  Yale  from  the  Hopkins  Grammar  School, 
New  Haven,  received  Second  Colloquy  appointments, 
belonged  to  Linonia  and  the  Glyuna  Boat  Club,  and  was 
one  of  the  Cochleaureati. 

Soon  after  his  graduation  Mr.  White  entered  the  employ 
of  T.  B.  Coddington  &  Company  in  New  York  City,  where 
he  was  located  for  the  next  four  years.  During  1868-69 
he  was  a  clerk  in  the  United  States  Commissary  Depart- 
ment at  Cheyenne,  Wyo.  In  May,  1869,  he  went  to  Labette 
County,  Kans.,  and  remained  there  until  September,  1871, 
engaged  in  farming  and  raising  cattle.  Returning  to  New 
Haven  a  month  later,  he  began  the  study  of  law,  and  in 


302  YALE    COLLEGE 

1873  received  the  degree  of  LL.B.  magna  cum  laude  from 
Yale.  He  then  entered  upon  the  practice  of  his  profession 
in  New  Haven,  and  as  a  member  of  the  firm  of  White 
Brothers,  carried  on  the  practice  founded  by  Dyer  White 
in  1785.  With  his  brothers  he  made  a  specialty  of  con- 
veyancing, continuing  a  system  of  abstracts  of  land  titles 
started  by  his  father  and  regarded  as  authoritative  upon 
the  ownership  of  land  in  New  Haven.  Mr.  White  was  a 
trustee  of  and  counsel  for  the  New  Haven  Savings  Bank, 
a  director  of  the  Mechanics  Bank,  and  a  trustee  of  the 
New  Haven  Orphan  Asylum.  He  was  a  member  of  the 
New  Haven  Colony  Historical  Society  and  of  the  First 
Ecclesiastical  Society  in  New  Haven  (Center  Church). 

His  death  occurred  suddenly  March  30,  191 7,  at  his 
home  in  New  Haven,  from  heart  disease.  Burial  was 
in  the  Grove  Street  Cemetery. 

Mr.  White  had  never  married.  Two  brothers,  Roger 
S.  White  (B.A.  1859,  LL.B.  1862)  and  Thomas  H.  White 
(B.A.  i860,  M.D.  1862),  are  living,  and  Mr.  White  is  also 
survived  by  a  nephew,  Roger  S.  White,  2d,  a  graduate  of 
the  College  in  1899  and  of  the  School  of  Law  in  1902,  and 
six  nieces,  one  being  the  wife  of  John  Rogers  (B.A.  1887, 
Ph.B.  1888,  M.D.  Columbia  1891)  and  one  of  Henry  L. 
Stimson  (B.A.  1888,  M.A.  Harvard  1889).  Four  brothers, 
Willard  W.,  Henry  D.,  Charles  A.,  and  George  E.  White, 
the  last  three  graduates  of  the  College  in  1851,  1854,  and 
1866,  respectively,  died  before  him. 


Charles  Mills  Whittelsey,  B.A.   1864 

Born  July  15,  1842,  at  Manepay  Station,  Jaffna,  Ceylon 
Died  April  i,  1917,  in  Montclair,  N.  J. 

Charles  Mills  Whittelsey,  one  of  the  three  children  of 
Rev.  Samuel  Goodrich  Whittelsey  and  Anna  Cook  (Mills) 
Whittelsey,  was  born  July  15,  1842,  at  Manepay  Station, 
Jaffna,  Ceylon.  His  father  graduated  from  the  College 
in  1834,  studied  in  the  Theological  Department  at  Yale  from 
1837  to  1840,  and  sailed  in  the  fall  of  1841  for  Ceylon, 
where  he  served  as  a  missionary  of  the  American  Board 
until  his  death  in  1847.  He  was  the  son  of  Rev.  Samuel 
Whittelsey  (B.A.  1803)  and  Abigail  (Goodrich)  Whittelsey, 


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the  latter  being  the  daughter  of  Rev.  Samuel  Goodrich,  a 
graduate  of  the  College  in  1783.  The  pioneer  member  of 
the  family  in  this  country  was  John  Whittelsey,  who  came 
from  Cambridgeshire,  England,  to  Saybrook,  Conn.,  in 
1635  and  married  Ruth,  daughter  of  William  and  Jane 
Dudley  of  Guilford,  Conn.  Their  son,  Samuel,  who  gradu- 
ated from  Yale  in  1705  and  served  as  a  trustee  of  the  Col- 
lege for  twenty  years,  married  a  daughter  of  Rev.  Nathaniel 
Chauncy,  Harvard  1661,  and  had  four  sons,  two  of  whom 
graduated  from  Yale — Samuel  in  1729  and  Chauncey  in 
1738;  a  daughter  married  Col.  Elihu  Hall  (B.A.  1731). 
His  grandson,  Samuel  Whittelsey,  received  his  B.A.  at 
Yale  in  1764,  and  married  Mary,  daughter  of  Dr.  Leverett 
Hubbard,  of  the  Class  of  1744.  A  granddaughter  became 
the  wife  of  John  Chandler  (B.A.  1772).  Charles  Mills 
Whittelsey's  mother,  who  was  a  daughter  of  Jabez  and 
Hannah  (Coe)  Mills,  and  a  sister  of  George  Lewis  Mills 
(B.A.  1835),  married  Rev.  Dr.  Thornton  A.  Mills  (B.A. 
Miami  1830)  after  the  death  of  her  husband. 

Charles  M.  Whittelsey  was  brought  to  this  country  when 
five  years  of  age,  and  was  fitted  for  college  at  the  Newark 
(N.  J.)  Academy.  In  Freshman  and  Sophomore  years  he 
received  first  prizes  in  mathematics,  and  he  was  also  given 
a  first  prize  in  English  composition  in  his  second  year. 
His  Junior  appointment  was  a  High  Oration  and  his  Senior 
appointment  an  Oration.  He  was  one  of  the  speakers  at 
the  Junior  Exhibition  and  at  Commencement,  and  was  a 
member  of  Phi  Beta  Kappa.  He  also  belonged  to  the 
Varuna  Boat  Club,  the  Beethoven  Society,  and  Linonia, 
being  president  of  the  latter  organization  in  Senior  year. 

In  the  fall  of  1865,  after  teaching  for  a  year  at  a  boys' 
school  at  Ellington,  Conn.,  he  entered  the  Auburn  Theo- 
logical Seminary.  He  preached  at  Bridgewater,  Vt.,  dur- 
ing the  following  summer,  and  late  in  1867,  having  com- 
pleted his  seminary  course,  accepted  a  call  to  New  Berlin, 
N.  Y.  He  was  ordained  by  the  Chenango  Presbytery  April 
23,  1868,  and  in  October,  1869,  removed  from  New  Berlin 
to  Utica,  N.  Y.,  there  becoming  pastor  of  the  Bethany- 
Branch  Presbyterian  Church.  His  health  began  to  fail 
about  a  year  later,  and  he  resigned  his  charge  in  1870. 
Mr.  Whittelsey  devoted  the  next  few  years  to  private 
evangelistic  work  as  his  condition  permitted,  preaching 
occasionally.     His  home  was  at  Saratoga  Springs,  N.  Y., 


304  YALE   COLLEGE 

from  April,  1871,  to  February,  1873.  After  preaching  at 
Athens,  Pa.,  for  a  few  months  in  the  spring  of  that  year 
he  removed  to  Spencerport,  N.  Y.,  where  he  served  as 
pastor  of  the  Congregational  Church  until  1879.  The  con- 
dition of  his  health  had  thereafter  prevented  him  from 
engaging  in  the  active  work  of  the  ministry  for  any  length 
of  time,  although  in  1884  he  supplied  the  pulpit  of  the 
First  Congregational  Church  at  Rutland,  Vt.,  for  six 
months.  He  lived  at  Saratoga  Springs  from  1879  to  1887, 
at  Asbury,  N.  J.,  for  the  next  two  years,  at  Providence, 
R.  I.,  from  1889  to  1907,  at  Saltillo  and  Torreon,  Mexico, 
during  1907-08,  at  Evanston,  111.,  for  a  year,  and  at 
Encanto,  Calif.,  from  August,  1909,  to  May,  1914.  The 
remainder  of  his  life  was  passed  at  the  home  of  his  eldest 
son  at  Montclair,  N.  J.,  where  he  died  April  i,  191 7,  after 
a  short  illness.  Interment  was  in  the  old  cemetery  at  Dover, 
N.J. 

Mr.  Whittelsey  had  always  been  an  active  teacher  and 
expositor  of  the  Scriptures,  and  had  written  a  number  of 
small  pamphlets  on  religious  subjects,  among  them,  "Gospel 
Work"  and  "Gospel  Truth,"  published  by  the  American 
Tract  Society.  He  served  as  stated  secretary  of  the  Rhode 
Island  Congregational  Conference  in  1905-06. 

He  was  married  October  3,  1867,  in  Rochester,  N.  Y., 
to  Louise  Amanda,  daughter  of  Abner  and  Dolly  Walker 
(Pitts)  Wakelee.  They  had  five  children:  Theodore,  who 
received  the  degree  of  B.A.  at  Williams  in  1890  and  that 
of  Ph.D.  from  the  University  of  Gottingen  in  1895 ;  Lewis 
Gates,  who  studied  at  both  Amherst  and  Brown ;  Dolly 
Louise  (B.L.  Smith  1901);  Samuel  Goodrich,  a  non- 
graduate  member  of  the  Class  of  1905  at  Brown,  and  Anna 
Ruth.  Mr.  Whittelsey  is  survived  by  his  children,  with 
the  exception  of  his  younger  daughter,  who  died  of 
typhoid  fever,  January  10,  1908.  His  wife  died  from  the 
same  disease  on  that  day  also. 


Elmer  Bragg  Adams,  B.A.   1865 

Born  October  27,  1842,  in  Pom  fret,  Vt. 
Died  October  24,  1916,  in  St.  Louis,  Mo. 

Elmer  Bragg  Adams  was  born  in  Pomfret,  Vt.,  October 
27,    1842,    his    earliest   American    ancestor    being    Henry 


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Adams,  who  emigrated  from  England  to  Braintree,  Mass., 
in  1634.  Descendants  in  the  direct  hne  from  Henry  Adams 
were:  Ensign  Edward  Adams,  John  Adams,  Obadiah 
Adams,  Nathan  Adams,  Issachar  Adams,  and  Issachar 
Adams,  the  latter  being  Elmer  B.  Adams'  grandfather.  His 
parents  were  Jarvis  Adams,  a  farmer,  and  Eunice  H. 
(Mitchell)  Adams.  They  were  married  in  Croyden,  N.  H., 
and  in  1840  went  to  live  at  Pomfret.  Mr.  Adams  took  a 
prominent  part  in  the  life  of  the  community,  being  active 
in  church  work.  Elmer  B.  Adams  was  one  of  their  nine 
children. 

His  preparation  for  college  was  received  at  the  Kimball 
Union  Academy  at  Meriden,  N.  H.  He  belonged  to 
Brothers  in  Unity  and  the  Glyuna  Boat  Club  at  Yale, 
received  Oration  appointments,  and  was  a  member  of  Phi 
Beta  Kappa. 

Mr.  Adams  spent  the  first  year  after  his  graduation  in 
the  South,  establishing  free  schools  for  poor  white  children 
in  Georgia,  under  the  auspices  of  the  American  Union 
Commission.  In  1866  he  began  the  study  of  law  in  the 
office  of  Washburn  &  Marsh  in  Woodstock,  Vt.  He  spent 
one  term  in  1867  at  the  Harvard  Law  School,  then  resumed 
his  studies  in  Woodstock,  and  was  admitted  to  the  bar  of 
Vermont  in  1868.  In  April  of  that  year  he  removed  to 
St.  Louis,  Mo.,  and  after  his  admission  to  the  bar  was  in 
partnership  for  a  year  with  Mr.  Wells  Hendershott.  He 
practiced  alone  from  January,  1870,  until  September,  1872, 
when  he  became  a  member  of  the  firm  of  Lee  &  Adams, 
his  partner  being  Bradley  D.  Lee  (LL.B.  1866).  This 
partnership  continued  without  interruption  until  1878,  when 
Mr.  Adams  was  elected  judge  of  the  Circuit  Court  of  the 
city  of  St.  Louis.  He  served  the  full  term  of  six  years, 
declined  reelection  and  promotion,  and  returned  to  the 
bar  in  1885,  as  a  member  of  the  firm  of  Boyle,  Adams  & 
McKeigham,  in  which  his  associates  were  Messrs.  Wilbur 
F.  Boyle  and  John  E.  McKeigham.  The  latter  withdrew 
from  the  firm  in  1892,  and  for  the  next  three  years  Mr. 
Adams  and  Mr.  Boyle  were  in  partnership  under  the  name 
of  Boyle  &  Adams.  In  1895  Mr.  Adams  was  appointed 
United  States  district  judge  for  the  Eastern  Division  of  the 
Eastern  Judicial  District  of  Missouri,  and  served  in  that 
capacity  until  1905,  at  that  time  receiving  an  appointment 
from  President  Roosevelt  as  United  States  circuit  judge 


306  YALE   COLLEGE 

of  the  Eighth  Judicial  Circuit.  The  United  States  Circuit 
Court  was  abohshed  by  Act  of  Congress  in  191 1,  and  the 
judges  of  that  court  became  automatically  the  judges  of 
the  Circuit  Court  of  Appeals,  in  which  office  Judge  Adams 
labored  until  his  death.  During  his  long  service  in  the 
Federal  Courts  he  participated  in  many  cases  of  great  im- 
portance, and  was  considered  one  of  the  ablest  jurists  of 
the  Middle  West.  He  was  sent  to  Salt  Lake  City  to 
organize  the  Federal  Court  on  the  admission  of  Utah  into 
the  Union  in  1896.  He  was  celebrated  as  a  lecturer  on 
legal  topics,  and  held  an  appointment  as  lecturer  on  suc- 
cession and  wills  at  the  University  of  Missouri  for  several 
years.  The  honorary  degree  of  LL.D.  had  been  conferred 
upon  him  by  that  university  in  1898,  by  Washington  Uni- 
versity in  1907,  and  by  Yale  in  19 16.  Judge  Adams  was 
a  director  of  the  American  Peace  and  Arbitration  League, 
and  a  member  of  the  New  England  Society,  the  Sons  of 
the  Revolution,  and  the  Washington  and  Compton  Avenues 
Presbyterian  Church  of  vSt.  Louis.  He  had  made  a  number 
of  trips  to  Europe. 

In  accordance  with  his  usual  custom,  he  spent  the 
summer  of  1916  at  Woodstock,  Vt.  On  October  15  he 
suffered  a  very  slight  stroke  of  paralysis,  and  left  two 
days  later  for  St.  Louis,  a  second  stroke  coming  just 
before  his  arrival.  He  died  there  on  the  twenty-fourth  of 
the  month,  after  being  unconscious  for  three  or  four  days. 
Interment  was  in  River  Street  Cemetery,  Woodstock. 

He  was  married  November  10,  1870,  in  that  town,  to 
Emma  Ursula,  daughter  of  Lorenzo  and  Ursula  (Hazen) 
Richmond.  They  had  no  children.  Mrs.  Adams  survives 
her  husband. 


William  Benedict  Bushnell,  B.A.   1865 

Born  March  4,  1845,  in  Quincy,  111. 
Died  July  5,  1916,  in  Manitowoc,  Wis. 

William  Benedict  Bushnell,  eldest  son  of  Nehemiah  and 
Eliza  Hutson  (Benedict)  Bushnell,  was  born  March  4,  1845, 
in  Quincy,  111.  His  father,  a  graduate  of  Yale  in  1835, 
was  a  leading  lawyer  in  that  town ;  he  served  as  president 
of  the  Chicago,  Burlington  &  Quincy  Railroad  from  1851 


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to  1 86 1,  later  becoming  attorney  for  the  road,  and  was  at 
one  time  a  member  of  the  Illinois  General  Assembly.  His 
mother  was  the  daughter  of  Dr.  William  Benedict  of  Mill- 
bury,  Mass.,  and  the  granddaughter  of  Rev.  Dr.  Joel  Bene- 
dict, a  noted  divine. 

He  received  his  early  education  in  the  preparatory  depart- 
ment of  St.  Paul's  College,  Palmyra,  Mo.  At  Yale  he  was 
a  member  of  the  Nixie  and  Glyuna  Boat  clubs  and  of 
Brothers  in  Unity.  Although  he  was  absent  from  college 
during  the  greater  part  of  Sophomore  year,  he  was  able  to 
complete  the  course  with  his  Class. 

During  the  first  few  years  after  receiving  his  degree  at 
Yale,  Air.  Bushnell  was  teller  for  the  Merchants  &  Farmers 
National  Bank  of  Quincy.  He  then  became  interested  in 
the  wholesale  ice  business,  giving  his  attention  especially 
to  the  building  of  machinery  for  making  ice  artificially 
and  to  the  erection  of  refrigerating  plants.  He  was  one 
of  the  pioneers  in  this  industry,  owning  and  controlling 
many  patents  essential  to  its  success.  At  various  times  he 
was  active  in  establishing  plants  at  Quincy  and  Chicago,  111., 
and  at  Tacoma  and  Seattle,  Wash.  He  had  served  as  vice- 
president  of  the  Arctic  Ice  Company  and  as  president  of 
the  Arctic  Ice  Machine  Company  of  Quincy,  was  secretary 
of  the  Boyle  Ice  Company  of  Chicago  from  1878  to  1884, 
and  was  also  connected  with  the  Consolidated  Ice  Machine 
Company  for  some  time.  The  burden  of  his  many  activities 
told  on  him  at  length,  and  his  health  failed.  He  was  sent 
by  his  physician  to  England,  his  wife  accompanying  him, 
and  remained  abroad  until  the  spring  of  1889.  At  that 
time  they  returned  to  Tacoma,  where  Mr.  Bushnell  again 
assumed  the  active  management  of  his  affairs.  He  had, 
however,  overestimated  his  strength,  and  in  1902  his  mental 
health  gave  way,  and  he  was  forced  to  retire  from,  business, 
and  had  since  lived  a  quiet  and  retired  life.  While  visiting 
an  old  friend  in  Manitowoc,  Wis.,  in  the  spring  of  1916, 
he  was  taken  acutely  ill  and  was  removed  to  a  hospital 
in  that  city,  his  death  occurring  there  on  July  5.  His  body 
was  taken  to  his  native  town  for  burial  in  the  family  plot 
in  Woodland  Cemetery. 

Mr.  Bushnell  is  survived  by  his  wife,  Georgie  Moore 
Bushnell.  He  had  no  children.  He  was  a  cousin  of  Wil- 
liam Benedict  Bull,  a  non-graduate  member  of  the  College 
Class  of  1868. 


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Henry  Churchill,  B.A.   1865 

Born  June  15,  1844,  in  Gloversville,  N.  Y. 
Died  January  7,  1917,  in  Miami,  Fla. 

Henry  Churchill  was  born  June  15,  1844,  in  Gloversville, 
N.  Y.,  the  son  of  Henry  and  Selina  (Burr)  Churchill. 
His  preparatory  training  was  received  at  the  Union  Semi- 
nary in  his  native  town,  and  at  Yale  he  was  a  member  of 
Linonia.  He  received  a  Junior  Oration  appointment  and 
a  Senior  Dissertation. 

He  remained  in  Gloversville  for  a  year  after  his  gradua- 
tion, being  employed  as  a  bookkeeper  by  C.  Hutchinson 
&  Company.  In  1866  he  removed  to  Herkimer,  N.  Y.,  and 
took  a  position  with  Warner  Miller  &  Company,  a  concern 
engaged  in  the  manufacture  of  paper.  He  was  admitted  to 
membership  in  this  firm  some  years  later,  its  business  then 
being  conducted  under  the  name  of  Miller  &  Churchill.  It 
was  subsequently  incorporated  as  the  Herkimer  Paper 
Company,  and  of  this  latter  company  Mr.  Churchill  served 
as  vice-president  and  treasurer  until  1898,  when  its  interests 
were  sold  to  the  International  Paper  Company.  In  the 
following  year  Mr.  Churchill  became  president  of  the 
Frankfort  (N.  Y.)  Linen  Manufacturing  Company,  This 
concern  failed  a  few  years  later,  and  after  completing  his 
duties  as  receiver,  he  accepted  the  position  of  secretary 
and  treasurer  of  the  British  American  Finance  Company. 
He  continued  in  that  connection  until  iqog,  when  he  became 
secretary  of  a  copper  mining  company  which  owned  large 
properties  in  New  Mexico.  He  lived  at  Cutler,  N.  Mex., 
until  191 5,  at  that  time  removing  to  Miami,  Fla.,  where  he 
purchased  an  orange  grove,  which  proved  a  great  success. 
His  death  occurred  at  his  home  in  Miami,  January  7,  1917, 
as  the  result  of  infirmities  incident  to  his  age.  He  was 
buried  in  the  local  cemetery. 

While  living  in  Herkimer,  Mr.  Churchill  was  for  some 
years  president  of  the  First  National  Bank,  and  he  was 
afterwards  president  of  the  First  National  Bank  of 
Frankfort.  He  had  also  served  on  the  Herkimer  Board 
of  Education  and  the  Municipal  Commission,  and  as  a 
trustee  of  the  Herkimer  Free  Library,  having  become  a 
member  of  the  board  of  the  latter  institution  at  its 
foundation. 


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Mr.  Churchill  was  married  June  19,  1867,  in  Gloversville, 
to  Ella  W.  Sunderlin,  who  survives  him  with  their  two 
daughters,  May  and  Alice  Burr. 


William  Walker  Scranton,  B.A.   1865 

Born  April  4,  1844,  in  Augusta,  Ga. 
Died  December  3,  1916,  in  Scranton,  Pa. 

William  Walker  Scranton  was  born  in  Augusta,  Ga., 
April  4,  1844,  the  son  of  Joseph  Hand  Scranton.  John 
Scranton,  the  first  of  his  line  in  this  country,  was  one  of 
the  twenty-five  heads  of  the  Puritan  families  who  came 
from  England  in  1637  and  in  1639  founded  the  plantation 
of  Guilford,  Conn.  Joseph  H.  Scranton,  who  was  the 
son  of  Jonathan  and  Roxanna  (Crompton)  Scranton,  was 
born  at  Windsor,  Conn.,  and  early  in  life  went  to  Augusta, 
where  he  became  the  head  of  a  large  mercantile  house. 
He  was  twice  married,  his  second  wife,  the  mother  of 
William  W.  Scranton,  being  Cornelia,  daughter  of  William 
P.  and  Lucy  (Adam)  Walker,  and  a  descendant  of  James 
Walker,  who  came  to  America  from  England  about  1655, 
settling  at  Taunton,  Mass.  In  1847  ^r.  Scranton  removed 
with  his  family  to  Scranton,  Pa.,  where  two  of  his  cousins 
had  established  iron  mills,  and  there  he  soon  became  a 
leader  in  the  enterprises  which  have  made  the  Lackawanna 
Valley  famous  as  a  manufacturing  center. 

William  Scranton's  preparatory  training  was  received  at 
the  Scranton  High  School  and  at  Phillips  Academy, 
Andover,  Mass.  At  Yale  he  rowed  on  the  University  Crew 
in  1864  and  1865,  and  was  captain  of  the  Glyuna  Navy 
in  Senior  year.    He  was  a  member  of  Linonia. 

After  graduation  he  returned  to  Scranton  and  entered 
the  employ  of  the  Lackawanna  Iron  &  Coal  Company,  of 
which  his  father  was  president.  With  the  intention  of 
learning  the  business  thoroughly,  he  worked  for  two  years 
in  the  various  departm.ents  of  the  company.  In  1867  he 
was  made  superintendent  of  a  mill  opened  by  the  company 
at  that  time,  four  years  later  becoming  assistant  president, 
as  well  as  superintendent,  of  all  the  mills  of  the  company. 
He  went  to  Europe  in  1874  to  study  the  manufacture  of 
Bessemer  steel  in  England,  France,  and  Germany.     On  his 


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return  to  this  country  he  was  made  general  manager  of 
the  Lackawanna  Iron  &  Coal  Company,  and  soon  after- 
wards built,  the  company's  Bessemer  steel  works  and  steel 
rail  mill.  Under  his  direction  and  management  the  capacity 
of  the  company's  works  was  doubled  and  changes  made 
which  quadrupled  the  capacity  of  its  great  collieries.  In 
1880,  having  decided  to  build  a  plant  for  himself,  he  again 
went  to  Europe  to  study  the  steel  situation  in  its  latest 
development  and  practice,  and  when  he  returned  to  Penn- 
sylvania founded  the  Scranton  Steel  Company,  which  was 
the  first  company  in  this  country  to  roll  steel  rails  direct 
from  the  ingot,  one  hundred  and  twenty  feet  long,  cutting 
to  four  lengths  of  thirty  feet  each.  Mr.  Scranton  remained 
in  active  control  of  the  company  until  1891,  when  it  was 
consolidated  with  the  Lackawanna  Iron  &  Steel  Company. 
At  that  time  he  withdrew  from  the  steel  business  except 
as  an  investor,  thereafter  devoting  liis  energies  to  the  man- 
agement and  extension  of  the  Scranton  Gas  &  Water  Com- 
pany, which  had  been  founded  by  his  father  in  1854.  He 
had  also  been  president  of  the  Hyde  Park  Gas  Company, 
the  Meadow  Brook  Water  Company,  and  the  Scranton 
Electric  Light  &  Heat  Company,  and  a  director  in  a  num- 
ber of  other  enterprises. 

Mr.  Scranton  was  a  member  of  the  First  Presbyterian 
Church  of  Scranton.  He  had  been  a  generous  supporter 
of  the  Yale  Alumni  University  Fund  at  various  times,  and 
several  years  ago  gave  a  large  piece  of  property  at  St. 
Albans,  Vt.,  to  the  University  of  Vermont. 

His  death  occurred  December  3,  1916,  in  Scranton,  and 
he  was  buried  in  Dunmore  Cemetery  in  that  city. 

On  October  15,  1874,  he  was  married  in  St.  Albans,  to 
Katherine  Maria,  daughter  of  Worthington  Curtis  Smith, 
who  received  the  degree  of  B.A.  from  the  University  of 
Vermont  in  1843,  and  Katherine  (Walworth)  Smith.  She 
survives  him  with  their  son,  Worthington,  a  graduate  of 
Yale  College  in  1898  and  of  the  Harvard  Law  School  in 
1901.     Two  brothers  and  a  sister  are  also  living. 


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Marcellus  Bowen,  B.A.  1866 

Born  April  6,  1846,  in  Marion,  Ohio 
Died  October  3,  1916,  in  Geneva,  Switzerland 

Marcellus  Bowen  was  the  son  of  Judge  Ozias  Bowen 
and  Lydia  (Baker)  Bowen,  and  was  born  in  Marion,  Ohio, 
April  6,  1846.  In  his  Freshman  and  Sophomore  years  at 
Yale  he  was  awarded  second  prizes  in  mathematics.  He 
received  Philosophical  Oration  appointments,  ranking  third 
in  his  Class  at  graduation,  and  was  elected  to  Phi  Beta 
Kappa. 

From  1866  to  1868  Mr.  Bowen  taught  in  Stamford,  Conn. 
He  then  entered  Union  Theological  Seminary,  New  York 
City,  but  interrupted  his  course  there  in  1869  to  go  abroad. 
He  later  resumed  his  work  at  the  seminary,  and  was  gradu- 
ated in  1872.  His  ordination  to  the  Presbyterian  ministry 
occurred  shortly  afterwards,  and  he  then  became  pastor  at 
Springfield,  N.  J.  He  resigned  that  charge  in  the  spring 
of  1874,  and  went  to  Smyrna,  Turkey,  as  a  missionary 
under  the  American  Board  of  Commissioners  for  Foreign 
Missions.  He  remained  there  until  June,  1884,  at  that 
time  returning  to  this  country.  After  teaching  for  a  few 
months  at  the  Betts  Military  Institute  at  Stamford,  Conn., 
he  opened  a  school  for  boys  at  Hartford,  Conn.,  of  which 
he  served  as  principal  until  May,  1888.  In  the  meantime 
he  had  been  chosen  to  act  as  the  representative  of  the 
American  Bible  Society  at  Constantinople,  and  shortly  left 
America  to  assume  his  new  duties.  For  nearly  thirty  years 
he  had  charge  of  the  interests  of  the  society  in  the  Turkish 
Empire,  Bulgaria,  Greece,  Egypt,  and  the  Soudan.  His 
work  in  the  Levant  had  been  very  successful,  and  his 
knowledge  of  problems  had  frequently  been  of  particular 
service  to  the  American  Minister  at  Constantinople.  The 
difficulty  of  reaching  his  entire  field  from  Constantinople 
at  length  led  to  his  transferring  his  headquarters  tempo- 
rarily to  Geneva,  Switzerland,  where  he  died  very  suddenly, 
October  3,  1916. 

He  had  returned  to  this  country  several  times  for  brief 
visits,  and  in  1904  the  University  of  Wooster  conferred 
the  honorary  degree  of  Doctor  of  Divinity  upon  him. 

Dr.  Bowen's  marriage  took  place  August  29,  187 1,  in 
West  Hartford,  Conn.,  to  Flora  Pierpont  Stearns,  who  sur- 


312  YALE    COLLEGE 

vives  him  with  a  daughter,  Lilian  Mclntyre,  the  wife  of 
Frank  Ferguson.  An  older  child,  Marcellus  Pierpont,  died 
July  26,  1874. 


Albert  Francis  Hale,  B.A.   1866 

Born  October  2,  1844,  in  Springfield,  111. 
Died  July  i,   1916,  in  Nottoway,  Va. 

Albert  Francis  Hale,  son  of  Rev.  Albert  Hale  (B.A. 
1827),  was  born  October  2,  1844,  in  Springfield,  111.,  where 
his  father  for  over  twenty-five  years  held  the  pastorate 
of  the  Second  Presbyterian  Church.  The  latter's  parents 
were  Matthew  and  Ruth  (Stevens)  Hale.  His  grandfather 
was  Dr.  Elizur  Hale,  a  graduate  of  the  College  in  1742. 
Elizur  Hale,  who  was  the  son  of  Capt.  Jonathan  Hale 
and  Sarah  (Talcott)  Hale,  and  the  grandson  of  Lieut. 
Samuel  Hale  and  Mary  (Welles)  Hale,  was  born  at  Glas- 
tonbury, Conn.,  on  an  estate  which  had  been  in  the  family 
since  the  seventeenth  century  and  which  still  remains  in 
a  collateral  branch.  His  wife  was  Abigail,  daughter  of 
Joseph  and  Martha  (White)  HoUister.  Albert  F.  Hale's 
mother  was  Abiah,  daughter  of  Phineas  Chapin,  of  New- 
port, N.  H. 

He  received  his  preparatory  training  at  a  Lutheran  school 
in  Springfield,  and  in  1862  entered  Illinois  College.  He 
took  the  work  of  Freshman  year  there,  joining  the  Class 
of  1866  at  Yale  as  a  Sophomore.  He  received  First  Dis- 
pute appointments,  and  was  a  member  of  Phi  Beta  Kappa. 

In  the  autumn  following  his  graduation  from  the  College 
he  began  the  study  of  theology  at  Yale,  continuing  his 
course  as  his  health  permitted,  and  receiving  the  degree  of 
Bachelor  of  Divinity  in  1870.  His  ordination  to  the  min- 
istry of  the  Presbyterian  Church  took  place  at  Springfield 
in  October,  1870,  and  after  serving  for  two  years  as  pastor 
at  Somonauk,  111.,  and  taking  a  trip  abroad  in  1872,  he 
was  for  four  years  engaged  in  home  missionary  work  in 
Kansas  and  Nebraska.  He  was  employed  by  Starr  & 
Company  of  San  Francisco,  Calif.,  from  1876  to  1879,  but 
in  January  of  the  latter  year  reentered  the  ministry.  His 
pastorates  were  successively  at  South  Vallejo,  Calif.,  Tona- 
wanda,  N.  Y.,  Junction  City,  Kans.,  and  at  Warren,  Grand 


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Ridge,  and  Ridgefield,  111.  In  1896  he  settled  on  a  planta- 
tion at  Nottoway,  Va.,  and  there  the  remainder  of  his  life 
was  passed.  He  gave  his  attention  principally  to  farming, 
but  during  the  winters  from  1902  to  19 12  taught  at  a 
freedman's  school  maintained  by  the  Presbyterian  Church 
(North)  at  Burkeville,  Va.  Since  1912  he  had  had  a  regular 
preaching  appointment  one  Sunday  each  month,  and  this  he 
filled  until  a  few  months  before  his  death,  which  occurred, 
from  cancer,  at  his  home  at  Nottoway,  July  i,  19 16.  He 
was  buried  in  Dunn  Cemetery  at  Nottoway  Court  House. 

Mr.  Hale  was  married  October  10,  1882,  in  Tonawanda, 
N.  Y.,  to  Lillian  M.,  daughter  of  Curtis  and  Melissa 
(Miller)  Taber.  They  had  four  children,  Lillian  May, 
Katharine  Frances,  Albert  Curtis,  and  Charles  Woolsey, 
all  of  whom,  with  Mrs.  Hale,  survive.  The  elder  daughter 
was  married  December  27,  1905,  to  Edward  William  Brooks 
of  London,  England,  and  has  two  children.  William  H. 
Hale,  a  second  cousin  of  Mr.  Hale,  graduated  from  the 
College  in  i860,  taking  his  LL.B.  at  the  Albany  Law  School 
in  1861  and  his  Ph.D.  at  Yale  in  1863. 


Eugene  Francis  Beecher,  B.A.   1867 

Born  March  7,  1846,  in  Boston,  Mass. 
Died  January  29,  1917,  in  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 

Eugene  Francis  Beecher  was  born  in  Boston,  Mass., 
March  7,  1846.  His  father.  Rev.  Edward  Beecher  (B.A. 
1822,  D.D.  Marietta  1841),  a  tutor  at  Yale  during  1825-26, 
later  served  for  a  number  of  years  as  president  of  Illi- 
nois College,  and  was  at  one  time  senior  editor  of  The 
Congregationalist.  Rev.  Lyman  Beecher,  his  grandfather, 
graduated  from  the  College  in  1797,  and  was  afterwards 
president  of  Lane  Theological  Seminary,  where  he  also 
held  a  professorship  in  theology ;  Middlebury  College  con- 
ferred the  honorary  degree  of  Doctor  of  Divinity  upon  him 
in  1818.  Dr.  Beecher  was  the  son  of  David  and  Esther 
(Lyman)  Beecher;  he  was  twice  married,  his  first  wife, 
the  mother  of  Edward  Beecher,  being  Roxana,  daughter 
of  Eli  and  Roxana  (Ward)  Foote.  The  pioneer  member 
of  the  Beecher  family  in  this  country  was  John  Beecher, 
who  came  from  England  with  the  Mayflower  company  and, 


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in  1640,  settled  in  New  Haven  Colony.  Eugene  Beecher's 
mother  was  Isabella  Porter,  daughter  of  Enoch,  and  Anna 
K.  Jones.  She  was  a  member  of  the  Maine  branch  of  the 
Porter  family.  Her  uncle,  Rufus  King  (B.A.  Harvard 
1777),  was  the  first  minister  from  this  country  to  Great 
Britain;  he  fought  in  the  Revolutionary  War  and  was 
for  a  long  time  a  member  of  the  Senate. 

Eugene  F.  Beecher  received  his  preparatory  training  at 
Galesburg,  111.,  under  the  direction  of  his  father,  and 
entered  Yale  in  1863.  He  received  a  Colloquy  appointment 
in  Junior  year  and  a  Second  Colloquy  at  Commencement. 
He  was  a  member  of  Brothers  in  Unity. 

After  teaching  for  two  years  in  the  preparatory  depart- 
ment of  Knox  College  at  Galesburg,  Mr.  Beecher  became, 
in  1869,  assistant  editor  of  the  Brooklyn  (N.  Y.)  Union. 
A  year  later  he  gave  up  that  position,  and  formed  a  part- 
nership with  a  Mr.  Feffers,  and  in  1872  became  associated 
with  a  Mr.  Davidson,  for  the  next  few  years  being  engaged 
in  negotiating  for  Western  lands  and  loans.  He  started 
the  publication  of  the  Brooklyn  Monthly  in  July,  1877, 
retaining  his  interest  in  it  until  1882.  He  then  took  a  posi- 
tion with  the  Bradstreet  Company,  some  years  later  becom- 
ing business  manager  of  the  Brooklyn  edition  of  the  New 
York  World.  He  subsequently  left  that  newspaper  for  the 
Tribune,  but  afterwards  returned  to  its  staff.  He  was  a 
man  with  ideas  far  in  advance  of  his  time.  On  returning 
from  England  in  the  spring  of  1908  he  had  the  conviction 
that  a  world  war  was  inevitable,  unless  the  nations  could 
be  brought  to  realize  it  and  voluntarily  undertake  to  prevent 
it.  He  submitted  to  the  Bradstreet  Company,  of  which  he 
was  then  business  manager,  the  idea  of  a  world  court  upheld 
by  the  combined  navies  of  the  Powers,  whose  only  function 
should  be  the  policing  of  the  seas.  He  thought  that  Brad- 
streets  should  undertake  this  propaganda,  because  such  a 
colossal  war  would  shake  the  financial  world  to  its  founda- 
tions. Because  these  ideas  were  considered  chimerical  and 
because  his  heart  was  in  them  to  such  an  extent,  he  resigned 
from  the  Bradstreet  Company.  He  was  a  member  of  Plym- 
outh Church  of  Brooklyn,  where  he  made  his  home. 

Mr.  Beecher's  death  occurred  in  the  Swedish  Hospital  in 
Brooklyn,  January  29,  1917.  Several  days  before,  during 
a  snow  storm,  he  was  knocked  down  and  rendered  insensible 
by  a  surface  car,  and  he  died  without  regaining  conscious- 


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ness.     Interment  was  in  Riverside  Cemetery  at  Wakefield, 
R.  I. 

He  was  twice  married,  his  first  wife  being  Susan  Wood, 
daughter  of  Daniel  and  Louise  (Rodman)  Hiscox.  Their 
marriage  took  place  October  6,  1870,  in  Brooklyn,  and  two 
children  were  born  to  them,  Loufse  Isabel,  who  was  married 
December  14,  1892,  to  William  Estabrook  Chancellor  (B.A. 
Amherst  1889)  and  who  died  August  18,  1908,  and  Clare 
Rodman,  whose  marriage  to  Frederick  Arnold  Kummer 
(C.E.  Rensselaer  Polytechnic  Institute  1894)  took  place 
October  16,  1895.  Mrs.  Beecher  died  on  May  9,  1907, 
and  on  October  29,  1913,  Mr.  Beecher  was  married  in 
Brooklyn,  to  Florence,  daughter  of  Robert  B.  Cantrell  of 
Brooklyn,  who  survives  him.  He  leaves  also  one  daughter 
by  his  first  marriage  and  six  grandchildren.  He  was  the 
nephew  of  Rev.  George  Beecher,  a  graduate  of  the  College 
in  1828,  who  studied  in  the  Theological  Department  at 
Yale  from  1830  to  1832;  of  Rev.  William  H.  Beecher,  upon 
whom  the  University  conferred  an  honorary  M.A.  in  1833, 
and  of  Rev.  Henry  Ward  Beecher  (B.A.  Amherst  1834), 
the  noted  writer  and  reformer.  Two  of  his  aunts  married 
Yale  men,  one  being  the  wife  of  Thomas  C.  Perkins  (B.A. 
1818)  and  the  other  of  John  Hooker  (B.A.  1837).  He  was 
a  cousin  of  Frederick  Beecher  Perkins  (B.A.  1850,  Hon- 
orary M.A.  i860),  Rev.  George  B.  Beecher,  a  graduate  of 
the  College  in  1861,  and  Harry  Beecher  (B.A.  i( 


William  Adorno  Peck,  B.A.   1867 

Born  November  20,  1844,  in  Hartford,  Conn. 
Died  June  2,  1917,  in  Denver,  Colo. 

William  Adorno  Peck,  whose  parents  were  Eleazer 
Adorno  Peck,  an  insurance  agent,  and  Lucy  Elizabeth 
(Wildman)  Peck,  was  born  in  Hartford,  Conn.,  November 
20,  1844.  On  the  paternal  side  he  was  descended  from 
William  Peck,  one  of  the  founders  of  New  Haven  Colony. 
His  boyhood  was  spent  at  Troy,  N.  Y.,  and  he  was  pre- 
pared for  Yale  at  the  local  high  school.  He  was  a  member 
of  Brothers  in  Unity,  and  received  a  Second  Dispute 
appointment  in  Junior  year  and  a  Second  Colloquy  at 
Commencement. 


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He  Spent  the  first  two  years  after  graduation  at  the 
Rensselaer  Polytechnic  Institute,  taking  the  degree  of  C.E. 
there  in  1869,  and  was  then  employed  on  the  Morrisania 
town  survey,  which  included  the  suburbs  along  the  Harlem 
River.  In  1872  he  traveled  abroad,  visiting  Damascus  in  the 
Far  East,  Palestine,  and  Egypt.  On  his  return  to  this  coun- 
try in  1873,  he  went  to  Port  Kent,  N.  Y.,  where  he  joined  the 
engineering  division  of  the  New  York  &  Canada  Railroad, 
and  was  afterwards  engaged  in  engineering  at  Troy  for  a 
brief  period.  He  spent  the  winter  of  1876-77  in  New 
York  City,  taking  a  special  course  in  assaying  at  the  Colum- 
bia School  of  Mines.  Since  the  spring  of  the  latter  year 
he  had  made  his  headquarters  in  Colorado.  During  the 
first  three  years  he  was  engaged  in  work  at  Idaho  Springs 
and  at  Georgetown,  from  1880  to  1886  he  was  employed  in 
the  surveyor  general's  office,  and  for  the  next  three  years 
he  had  a  position  in  the  office  of  the  chief  engineer  of  the 
Denver  &  Rio  Grande  Railroad.  In  1890  he  opened  an 
office  of  his  own  in  Denver  as  a  civil  engineer  and  surveyor, 
continuing  in  practice  until  his  death.  From  1895  to  1898 
he  served  as  county  surveyor  of  Arapahoe  County.  In 
1896  he  obtained  a  commission  as  a  deputy  mineral  sur- 
veyor, and  for  several  years  worked  on  surveys  for  mineral 
patents,  later  being  engaged  on  reservoir  and  irrigation 
work.  Except  for  brief  periods  spent  in  Utah,  Wyoming, 
and  Arizona,  his  work  had  been  entirely  in  Colorado.  He 
was  a  member  of  the  Central  Presbyterian  Church  of 
Denver, 

He  died  suddenly  June  2,  1917,  in  Denver,  as  the  result 
of  hardening  of  the  arteries.  Interment  was  in  Crown 
Hill  Cemetery. 

Mr.  Peck's  marriage  took  place  in  Denver,  November  16, 
1884,  to  Mary,  daughter  of  Charles  G.  and  Jane  (Fitz- 
gerald) Holme.  Three  children  were  born  to  them :  Henry 
Holme,  whose  death  occurred  February  2,  1888;  William 
Adorno,  Jr.,  and  Mildred  Armstrong.  The  latter  graduated 
from  the  University  of  Colorado  with  the  degree  of  B.A. 
in  191 1.    Surviving  Mr.  Peck  are  his  wife  and  two  children. 


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Joseph  Warren  Greene,  B.A.   1868 

Born   November  2,   1846,  in   Brooklyn,   N.   Y. 
Died  March  25,  1917,  in  Summit,  N.  J. 

Joseph  Warren  Greene  was  born  in  Brooklyn,  N.  Y., 
November  2,  1846,  the  son  of  Joseph  Warren  and  Mary 
Augusta  (Smith)  Greene.  He  was  titted  for  college  there 
under  James  D.  Clark,  and  in  Junior  year  received  a  Dis- 
sertation appointment,  his  Senior  appointment  being  a  First 
Dispute.  He  was  elected  to  membership  in  Phi  Beta 
Kappa. 

In  the  fall  of  1868  Mr.  Greene  entered  the  Columbia 
Law  School,  and  two  years  later  received  the  degree  of 
LL.B.  The  year  of  1870-71  was  spent  in  study  at  Braun- 
schweig, Germany.  In  1872  he  took  up  the  practice  of  law 
in  New  York  City,  where  he  had  since  followed  his  pro- 
fession, being  for  some  years  a  member  of  the  firm  of 
Arnold,  Greene  &  Patterson  and  later  of  that  of  Arnold 
&  Greene.  He  was  prominent  both  as  a  lawyer  and  in 
banking  and  insurance  circles.  He  was  a  director  in  the 
Home  Life  Insurance  Company  and  the  Niagara  Fire 
Insurance  Company,  and  had  served  on  the  executive  and 
law  committees  of  the  New  York  Civil  Service  Reform 
Association.  In  1896  he  was  nominated  for  Supreme  Court 
justice  on  an  independent  ticket,  but  was  not  elected.  Since 
1900  he  had  been  Class  Agent  for  the  Yale  Alumni  Uni- 
versity Fund,  and  for  many  years  had  given  his  time 
unsparingly  to  the  management  of  the  reunions  of  his 
Class.  He  spent  the  summer  of  1903  abroad.  Mr.  Greene 
had  been  a  trustee  of  the  South  Brooklyn  Savings  Institu- 
tion, a  member  of  the  Board  of  Commissioners  for  the  Im- 
provement of  Brooklyn  Heights  and  of  the  Civil  Service 
Commission  of  Brooklyn,  a  director  of  the  Brooklyn  Young 
Men's  Christian  Association,  and  a  vestryman  of  Holy 
Trinity  Church. 

He  died,  from  heart  disease,  March  25,  1917,  in  Summit, 
N.  J.,  where  he  had  lived  since  1915,  his  home  having  pre- 
viously been  in  Brooklyn.  He  had  been  seriously  ill  for  a 
week  before  his  death.  Interment  was  in  Greenwood  Ceme- 
tery, Brooklyn. 

His  marriage  took  place  October  20,  1874,  in  Brooklyn, 
to  Julia   Strong,  daughter  of  Benjamin  IJpson  and  Ara- 


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bella  Munson  (Taylor)  Sherman.  Mrs.  Greene  died  July 
12,  1895.  Of  their  five  children,  three  sons,  Joseph  Warren 
(B.A.  1899),  James  Taylor,  and  Herbert  Gouverneur 
(B.A.  1903),  and  a  daughter,  Julia  Sherman,  survive. 
Another  daughter,  Katherine,  died  in  infancy. 


William  Alexander  Linn,  B.A.  1868 

Born  September  4,  1846,  in  Deckertown  (now  Sussex),  N.  J. 
Died  February  23,  1917,  in  Hackensack,  N.  J. 

William  Alexander  Linn  v^as  born  September  4,  1846, 
in  Deckertown  (now  Sussex),  N.  J.,  the  son  of  Alexander 
Linn,  a  physician,  who  received  his  B.A.  from  Union 
College  in  1831  and  was  later  graduated  from  the  Phila- 
delphia Medical  College,  and  Julia  (Vibbert)  Linn.  His 
great-grandparents,  Joseph  and  Martha  (Kirkpatrick)  Linn, 
came  to  America  from  Dumfrieshire,  Scotland,  in  1736, 
settling  near  Basking  Ridge,  N.  J.  Their  son,  John  Linn, 
who  joined  Captain  Manning's  Sussex  County  Troop  as 
a  private  in  the  War  of  the  Revolution,  soon  being  made 
a  sergeant,  was  elected  to  the  New  Jersey  State  Assembly 
in  1803  and  to  the  Council  (Senate)  the  following  year, 
held  office  for  four  terms,  beginning  in  1810,  as  judge  of 
the  Court  of  Common  Pleas,  and  was  elected  to  Congress 
in  1819,  serving  until  his  death  in  1824;  his  wife  was 
Martha,  daughter  of  Richard  Hunt.  William  A.  Linn's 
mother  was  the  daughter  of  Horace  Vibbert. 

He  was  fitted  for  Yale  at  Phillips  Academy,  Andover, 
Mass.  In  his  Sophomore  year  he  received  a  first  and  a 
second  prize  in  English  composition  and  a  third  prize  in 
declamation.  His  Junior  appointment  was  a  Second  Dis- 
pute, and  he  was  given  a  Colloquy  at  Commencement.  He 
played  on  the  Class  Baseball  Team  in  his  second  year,  was 
secretary  of  the  first  University  Baseball  Association, 
served  on  the  editorial  board  of  the  Yale  Literary  Magazine 
in  Senior  year,  and  was  one  of  the  Class  historians  and 
the  Class  Poet.  He  was  elected  to  membership  in  Chi 
Delta  Theta. 

Mr.  Linn  entered  journalistic  work  in  New  York  City 
immediately  after  his  graduation.  From  the  fall  of  1868 
to  November,   1871,  he  served  successively  as  a  reporter, 


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assistant  city  editor,  editor  of  the  weekly  and  semi-weekly 
editions,  and  night  editor  of  the  Tribune.  For  the  next 
eight  months  he  was  city  editor  of  the  New  York  Evening 
Post.  In  July,  1872,  he  was  offered  the  editorship  of  the 
Troy  (N.  Y.)  Morning  Whig,  with  the  privilege  of  pur- 
chasing an  interest  in  the  paper.  Finding  that  it  had  no 
financial  standing,  he  resigned  in  May,  1873,  and  returned 
to  New  York,  there  accepting  the  position  of  news  and 
superintending  editor  of  the  Evening  Post.  He  remained 
with  this  paper  twenty-six  years,  becoming  its  managing 
editor  in  October,  1891.  He  held  that  position  until  April, 
1900,  when  he  resigned  on  account  of  ill  health.  He  had 
contributed  articles  at  various  times  to  The  Atlantic 
Monthly,  The  Galaxy,  St.  Nicholas,  Scribner's,  Harper's 
Young  People,  and  The  Country,  and  was  also  for  many 
years  New  York  correspondent  of  the  Philadelphia  Tele- 
graph and  the  Boston  Transcript.  Two  of  his  articles, 
printed  in  Scribner's,  were  afterwards  published  in  "Homes 
in  City  and  Country."  During  the  later  years  of  his  con- 
nection with  the  Evening  Post,  Mr.  Linn  had  been  collect- 
ing material  for  a  history  of  Mormonism  and  had  been 
instrumental  in  securing  for  the  New  York  Public  Library 
a  unique  collection  of  works  on  the  subject.  After  leaving 
the  Post,  he  at  once  began  work  on  his  "Story  of  the 
Mormons,"  and  this  was  published  in  June,  1902.  In  the 
summer  of  that  year  he  wrote  "Rob  and  his  Gun,"  and  in 
1903  he  completed  a  biography  of  Horace  Greeley  for 
Appleton's  "Series  of  Historic  Lives."  He  continued  until 
his  death  to  make  occasional  contributions  to  the  editorial 
pages  of  the  Evening  Post  and  the  literary  supplement  of 
the  Times  and  to  a  few  other  periodicals.  In  1882  and 
1883  he  studied  law  with  his  classmate,  James  M.  Varnum, 
and  was  admitted  to  the  bar  of  New  York  in  March,  1883, 
but  never  practiced. 

Mr.  Linn  became  a  resident  of  Hackensack,  N.  J.,  in 
1875,  and  had  thereafter  taken  an  active  part  in  civic 
affairs.  In  1887  he  assisted  in  forming  the  Hackensack 
Mutual  Building  and  Loan  Association,  and  was  its  first 
president.  He  had  also  served  as  vice-president  of  the 
Building  and  Loan  Association  League  of  New  Jersey  and 
as  secretary  of  the  Hackensack  Investment  Association. 
In  the  spring  of  1903  a  state  bank  was  organized  in  Hacken- 
sack under  the  name  of  the  Peoples  National  Bank,  and 


320  YALE    COLLEGE 

Mr.  Linn  was  made  its  first  president,  continuing  in  that 
office  until  1915.  In  1910  he,  with  other  directors  of  this 
bank,  organized  the  First  National  Bank  of  Ridgefield 
Park,  a  near-by  New  Jersey  town,  and  served  as  its  presi- 
dent for  the  next  three  years.  He  was  appointed  county 
collector  for  Bergen  County  in  191 5,  being  reappointed  to 
that  office  for  a  term  of  two  years  in  January,  19 17.  He 
served  on  the  commission  which  secured  the  passage  by 
the  legislatures  of  New  Jersey  and  New  York  of  the  law 
under  which  the  Palisades  Interstate  Park  Commission 
was  established,  and  was  a  member  of  this  latter  commission 
from  its  inception  until  1912.  He  was  for  a  time  a  director 
of  the  Hackensack  Hall  and  Armory  Association  and  of 
the  Johnson  Public  Library.  He  was  a  member  of  the 
New  Jersey  and  Bergen  County  Historical  societies,  and 
served  at  one  time  as  president  of  the  Bergen  County 
Republican  Club.  In  1895  he  purchased  a  farm  of  one 
hundred  and  seventy-two  acres  in  Sussex  County,  N.  J., 
and  there  he  had  large  peach  and  apple  orchards  and  a 
dairy  of  between  thirty  and  forty  cows. 

Mr.  Linn's  death  occurred  suddenly  February  23,  1917, 
at  his  home  in  Hackensack,  as  the  result  of  heart  disease. 
He  was  buried  in  North  Church  Cemetery  in  Hardyston 
Township,  Sussex  County.  '  By  the  terms  of  his  will,  a 
non-sectarian  hospital  is  to  be  founded  and  maintained  in 
Sussex  in  memory  of  his  father.  He  bequeathed  his  books 
and  pamphlets  on  Mormonism  to  Yale. 

On  January  31,  1871,  he  was  married  in  New  York 
City,  to  Margaret  A.  Martin,  who  died  March  5,  1897. 
They  had  no  children.  Mr.  Linn  is  survived  by  two 
brothers. 


Thomas  Hamlin  Robbins,  B.A.   1868 

Born  November  4,  1841,  in  Rocky  Hill,  Conn. 
Died  June  13,  1916,  at  Colorado  Springs,  Colo. 

Thomas  Hamlin  Robbins  was  born  at  Rocky  Hill,  Conn., 
November  4,  1841,  being  the  only  son  of  Allen  Austin 
Robbins,  a  farmer,  and  Abby  Ann  (Goodrich)  Robbins. 
.On  the  paternal  side  he  was  descended  from  John  and 
Hester  Robbins,  who  came  to  this  country  from  England 


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with  five  of  their  sons  about  1640.  His  father's  parents 
were  Allen  and  Amelia  (Bulkley)  Robbins,  the  latter  being 
the  great-granddaughter  of  Rev.  Peter  Bulkley.  His 
mother  was  the  daughter  of  Jason  and  Anna  Dunning 
(Goff)  Goodrich,  and  the  granddaughter  of  Gideon  Goff, 
a  Revolutionary  soldier. 

His  preparatory  training  was  begun  under  the  instruction 
of  Simeon  T.  Frost  (B.A.  1857),  then  principal  of  Lewis 
Academy,  Southington,  Conn.,  and  he  later  entered  the 
Hudson  River  Institute  at  Claverack,  N.  Y.,  interrupting 
his  course  there  to  enlist  in  the  Twenty-fifth  Connecticut 
Volunteers,  with  which  he  served  as  a  corporal  in  Louisi- 
ana until  August  26,  1863.  At  that  time  he  resumed  his 
studies  at  Claverack,  entering  Yale  in  the  fall  of  1864 
with  the  Class  of  1868.  He  received  Oration  appointments, 
and  was  a  member  of  Phi  Beta  Kappa. 

Mr.  Robbins  was  an  assistant  to  his  former  instructor, 
Mr.  Frost,  at  the  Amenia  (N.  Y.)  Seminary  for  four 
years  following  his  graduation.  He  then  went  West,  and 
for  more  than  a  year  was  engaged  in  civil  engineering. 
Business  conditions  at  the  time  were  unfavorable  to  railroad 
construction  and  to  new  enterprises  generally,  and  he 
returned  East  in  October,  1873,  assuming  temporarily  his 
old  position  in  the  seminary  at  Amenia.  He  was  later 
able  to  return  to  civil  engineering,  his  work  being  chiefly 
in  the  Middle  West,  and  was  active  in  his  profession  until 
within  a  year  or  two  of  his  death.  His  home  during  the 
last  twenty  years  of  his  life  was  at  Colorado  Springs,  Colo., 
where  he  died  June  13,  1916,  after  a  brief  illness. 

He  was  married  May  5,  1895,  to  Mrs.  C.  A.  Zimmerman, 
whose  death  occurred  August  15,  1909.  They  had  no 
children.    Mr.  Robbins  is  survived  by  a  sister. 


John  Leonard  Varick,  B.A.   1868 

Born  December  i,   1846,  in  Poughkeepsie,  N.  Y. 
Died  July  6,  1916,  in  'New  York  City- 
John   Leonard  Varick,   son  of   Abraham  and   Margaret 
VanSchaick  (Bronk)  Varick,  was  born  December  i,  1846, 
in  Poughkeepsie,  N.  Y.     His  father  was  the  son  of  John 
Vredenburg    and    Maria    A.     (Remsen)     Varick,    and    a 


322  YALE    COLLEGE 

descendant  of  John  Varick,  who  came  to  America  from 
Holland  about  1687.  Two  great-great-uncles,  Col.  Richard 
Varick  and  John  Varick,  served  in  the  Revolution,  the 
former  being  private  secretary  to  Washington,  and  the 
latter  a  surgeon  general;  Richard  Varick  was  mayor  of 
New  York  from  1789  to  1800.  Through  his  mother, 
whose  parents  were  John  Leonard  and  Alida  (Conine) 
Bronk,  J.  Leonard  Varick  was  descended  from  Jonas 
Bronk,  who  emigrated  to  this  country  from  Holland  and 
became  the  principal  owner  of  the  land  in  that  district  of 
New  York  City  which  is  now  known  as  the  Bronx.  His 
great-grandfather,  Leonard  Bronk,  was  the  first  judge  of 
Greene  County,  N.  Y.  Philip  Conine,  another  great-grand- 
father, served  in  the  Revolution. 

His  preparatory  training  was  received  at  Warring's  Mili- 
tary Academy  at  Poughkeepsie,  from  which  he  entered 
Yale  in  1864.  His  scholarship  appointments  were  Orations, 
and  he  was  a  member  of  Phi  Beta  Kappa.  He  served  as 
secretary  of  Brothers  in  Unity,  and  played  third  base  on 
the  University  Baseball  Team. 

Mr.  Varick  entered  the  hardware  business  in  New  York 
City  shortly  after  his  graduation,  being  for  nearly  forty- 
five  years  associated  with  the  Upson,  Post  &  Frisbie  Com- 
pany and  the  Union  Nut  Company,  the  selling  agents  in 
New  York  of  the  Upson  Nut  Company  of  Unionville, 
Conn.,  and  Cleveland,  Ohio.  He  had  been  a  director  of 
the  Upson  Nut  Company  and  treasurer  of  the  Union  Nut 
&  Bolt  Company,  which  succeeded  the  Union  Nut  Com- 
pany, and  had  also  served  as  president  of  the  Composite 
Iron  Works  Company  of  New  York  and  as  a  director  in 
the  Millers  Falls  Company  of  Millers  Falls,  Mass.  In 
1892  he  became  a  member  of  the  board  of  governors  of 
the  Hardware  Club,  which  was  incorporated  at  that  time, 
and  at  various  times  held  office  as  secretary,  vice-president, 
and  president. 

Mr.  Varick  retired  from  business  in  19 13.  He  lived  in 
Brooklyn  for  some  time,  but  in  recent  years  had  resided 
in  New  York  City.  He  w^s  a  trustee  of  the  Holland  and 
Dutchess  County  societies,  being  president  of  the  latter 
from  1905  to  1907. 

His  death  occurred  July  6,  1916,  in  New  York  City, 
after  an  illness  of  several  days  due  to  heart  trouble.  Inter- 
ment was  in  the  Kensico  Cemetery. 


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On  October  16,  1883,  Mr.  Varick  was  married  in  New 
York  City  to  Julie  Henriques,  daughter  of  Elias  and  Sarah 
(Seixas)  deLeon  of  Venezuela,  who  survives  him  without 
children. 


Henry  Varnum  Freeman,  B.A.   1869 

Born  December  20,  1842,  in  Bridgeton,  N.  J. 
Died  September  5,  1916,  en  route  to  Chicago,  111. 

Henry  Varnum  Freeman,  whose  parents  were  Henry 
and  Mary  B.  (Bangs)  Freeman,  was  born  in  Bridgeton, 
N.  J.,  December  20,  1842.  His  father,  who  was  for  several 
years  principal  of  Wallkill  Academy  at  Middletown,  N.  Y., 
and  later  superintendent  of  the  schools  of  Rockford,  111., 
was  the  son  of  Solomon  and  Abigail  (Clark)  P>eeman,  and 
was  descended  from  Edmund  Freeman,  who  came  to 
Massachusetts  from  Devonshire,  England,  about  1630. 
His  mother  was  the  daughter  of  Elkanah  and  Reliance 
(Berry)  Bangs;  her  earliest  American  ancestor  was 
Edward  Bangs,  who  came  from  England  in  1623,  settling 
in  Massachusetts. 

The  greater  part  of  his  early  life  was  spent  in  New  Eng- 
land, but  in  1 86 1  he  entered  the  preparatory  department 
of  Beloit  College,  where  he  spent  one  year.  He  was 
admitted  to  Beloit  College  in  1862,  but  did  not  begin  his 
course,  as  in  August  of  that  year  he  enlisted  in  Com- 
pany K,  Seventy-fourth  Illinois  Infantry,  of  which  he  was 
made  first  sergeant.  On  August  24,  1863,  he  was  promoted 
to  be  captain  of  the  Twelfth  Colored  Infantry,  with 
which  he  served  until  receiving  his  honorable  discharge 
in  July,  1865.  He  entered  Yale  shortly  afterwards,  and 
in  his  Sophomore  year  was  given  two  prizes  in  English 
composition  and  one  in  declamation.  As  a  Senior  he 
received  a  Townsend  premium  and  a  first  prize  in  English 
composition.    He  served  as  a  Class  Deacon. 

In  the  fall  following  his  graduation  he  took  up  the  study 
of  lav/  in  Chicago,  at  first  in  the  office  of  Hibbard,  Rich  & 
Noble  and  later  in  that  of  King,  Scott  &  Payson.  In  1871 
he  interrupted  his  studies  to  serve  for  a  year  as  principal 
of  the  Charleston  (111.)  High  School,  but  in  July,  1872, 
was  admitted  to   the  bar  of   Illinois.     Early  in   the  next 


32  4  YALE    COLLEGE 

year  he  opened  an  office  in  Chicago,  where  he  conducted 
a  general  practice  until  November,  1893,  when  he  was 
elected  judge  of  the  Superior  Court.  He  served  on  the 
bench,  through  successive  appointments,  until  the  latter 
part  of  1915,  retiring  at  that  time  on  account  of  failing 
health  resulting  from  the  effects  of  an  automobile  accident. 
In  February,  1898,  he  was  appointed  a  justice  of  the  Appel- 
late Court,  becoming  presiding  justice  the  following  June, 

Judge  Freeman  had  served  as  professorial  lecturer  on 
legal  ethics  and  medical  jurisprudence  at  the  University 
of  Chicago,  and  as  lecturer  on  legal  ethics  in  its  Law 
Department.  His  home  had  been  at  Hyde  Park  since 
1873,  and  during  1878-79  he  served  as  corporation  counsel 
for  the  village.  He  was  a  frequent  contributor  to  legal 
journals,  and  had  delivered  a  number  of  addresses  before 
various  organizations.  He  wrote  "The  Colored  Brigade 
in  the  Campaign  and  Battle  of  Nashville,"  volume  two  of 
"Military  Essays  and  Recollections,"  and  volume  three  of 
"Some  Battle  Recollections  of  Stone  River."  In  1898  he 
became  president  of  the  Chicago  Literary  Club,  and  the  next 
year  was  chosen  commander  of  the  Illinois  Commandery  of 
the  Military  Order  of  the  Loyal  Legion.  During  1904-05  he 
served  as  governor  of  the  Society  of  Mayflower  Descendants, 
and  in  1907-08  was  president  of  the  Yale  Club  of  Chicago. 
Judge  Freeman  was  a  director  of  McCormick  Theological 
Seminary  from  1905  until  his  death  and  of  the  Chicago 
Public  Library  from  1910  to  191 3.  For  twenty-eight  years 
he  was  an  elder  in  the  Hyde  Park  Presbyterian  Church. 
In  1887  he  went  abroad,  and  since  his  retirement  he  had 
spent  much  time  in  travel,  principally  in  Florida  and 
California. 

lie  died  suddenly,  from  heart  failure,  September  5,  1916, 
while  returning  to  Chicago  from  his  summer  home  at  Har- 
bor Point,  Mich.  Burial  was  in  West  Side  Cemetery  at 
Rockford,  111. 

His  marriage  took  place  October  16,  1873,  in  that  city, 
to  Marv  L.,  daughter  of  Rev.  William  Stanton  Curtis, 
D.D.  (B.A.  Illinois  College  1838),  who  studied  for  three 
years  in  the  Theological  Department  at  Yale,  and  Martha 
A.  (Leach)  Curtis,  a  graduate  of  Mount  Holyoke  Seminary 
(now  College)  in  1839.  They  had  four  children:  Mabel  D., 
the  wife  of  Rev.  Henry  C.  Culbertson  (B.A.  Cincinnati 
1895,  B.D.  Chicago  1900,  D.D.  Lenox  1910),  now  president 


1869  325 

of  the  College  of  Emporia;  Mary  Ethel  (Ph.B.  Chicago 
1901),  who  was  married  June  20,  1907,  to  Reuben  Myron 
Strong  (B.A.  Oberlin  1897,  M.A.  Harvard  1899,  Ph.D. 
Harvard  1901),  professor  of  anatomy  at  Vanderbilt  Med- 
ical College ;  Helen  A.,  a  graduate  of  the  University  of 
Chicago  with  the  degree  of  Ph.B.  in  1905,  and  Henry  B. 
(M.E.  Cornell  1910).  Mrs.  Freeman  and  all  their  children 
survive.  Mrs.  Freeman's  brother,  Edward  Lewis  Curtis, 
graduated  from  the  College  in  1874,  and  was  for  a  number 
of  years  professor  of  Hebrew  languages  and  literature  at 
Yale,  being  from  1905  to  191 1  acting  dean  of  the  School 
of  Religion.  The  latter's  son,  Edward  E.  Curtis,  received 
his  B.A.  from  Yale  in  1910,  his  M.A..  in  191 1,  and  his 
Ph.D.  in  1916,  and  two  of  his  daughters  have  married  Yale 
graduates,  one  being  the  wife  of  Professor  George  Dahl 
(B.A.  1908,  M.A.  1909,  Ph.D.  1913)  and  the  other  of 
Rev.  Plugh  Hartshorne  (B.A.  Amherst  1907,  M.A.  Yale 
1910,  B.D.  Yale  191 1,  Ph.D.  Columbia  1913). 


John  R.  Thayer,  B.A.   1869 

Born  March  9,  1845,  in  Douglass,  Mass. 
Died  December  19,  1916,  in  Worcester,  Mass. 

John  R.  Thayer,  whose  parents  were  Mowry  Richardson 
and  Harriet  (Morse)  Thayer,  was  born  March  9,  1845, 
in  Douglass,  Mass.,  and  was  fitted  for  college  at  Nichols 
Academy  in  the  near-by  town  of  Dudley.  His  ancestors 
came  to  America  from  Scotland  before  the  Revolutionary 
War,  and  settled  in  Mendon,  Mass. 

After  his  graduation  from  Yale  in  1869  he  read  law 
in  the  office  of  Judge  Henry  Chapin  of  Worcester  for 
two  years,  being  admitted  to  the  bar  of  Massachusetts 
in  1 87 1.  Shortly  afterwards  he  formed  a  partnership 
with  Col.  William  A.  Williams,  which  continued  for 
six  years.  He  then  became  associated  with  Charles  H. 
Chapin  under  the  firm  name  of  Thayer  &  Chapin.  From 
1885  to  1906  Mr.  Thayer  was  a  member  of  the  firm 
of  Thayer  &  Rugg,  his  partner  being  Arthur  P.  Rugg, 
who  received  the  degree  of  B.A.  from  Amherst  in  1883 
and  that  of  LL.B.  from  Boston  Universitv  in  1886. 
Mr.  Rugg  withdrew  from  the  firm  in  1906,  when  he  was 


326  YALE    COLLEGE 

appointed  a  justice  of  the  Supreme  Court  of  Massachusetts, 
and  at  that  time  Mr.  Thayer's  eldest  son,  who  had  been  in 
his  office  for  several  years,  became  his  partner,  the  firm 
name  being  changed  to  Thayer  &  Thayer.  On  the  latter's 
death  in  1912,  Mr.  Thayer  joined  the  firm  of  Bullock  & 
Thayer,  of  which  Alexander  H.  Bullock  (B.A.  Harvard 
1896)  was  the  senior  and  his  second  son,  John  M.  Thayer, 
the  junior  member.  The  name  of  the  firm  then  became 
Thayer,  Bullock  &  Thayer,  and  Mr.  Thayer  continued  his 
association  with  it  until  his  death.  In  his  early  practice 
he  gave  his  attention  largely  to  the  trial  of  cases  to  the 
jury,  and  in  his  later  years  he  was  engaged  chiefly  in  the 
trial  of  civil  cases.  He  was  president  of  the  Worcester 
Bar  Association  from  1910  to  1913. 

He  was  a  Democrat,  and  from  the  beginning  of  his  career 
took  an  active  interest  in  politics,  and  much  of  his  time 
was  devoted  to  public  service.  He  frequently  spoke  at 
political  gatherings.  He  served  on  the  Worcester  Common 
Council  from  1877  to  1880  and  on  the  Board  of  Aldermen 
from  1 88 1  to  1884,  and  he  was  a  member  of  the  Massa- 
chusetts House  of  Representatives  in  1880  and  1881  and 
of  the  State  Senate  in  1890  and  1891.  He  served  upon 
the  judiciary  committee,  and  was  considered  one  of  the 
leading  members  of  the  General  Assembly.  In  1898  he 
was  elected  to  Congress  from  the  third  Massachusetts 
district,  and  served  until  1905,  when  he  refused  to  be  a 
candidate  for  renomination.  Besides  the  oflices  which  he 
filled,  he  ran  for  mayor  of  Worcester  in  1892,  but  was 
defeated  by  a  small  majority,  and  he  had  declined  an 
appointment  to  the  Superior  Court. 

Mr.  Thayer  was  a  member  of  All  Saints'  Protestant 
Episcopal  Church  of  Worcester.  He  served  as  a  trustee 
of  Nichols  Academy  for  fifteen  years.  He  owned  a  farm 
at  Pomfret,  Conn.,  where  he  spent  his  leisure  time,  and 
while  there  devoted  much  time  to  fox-hunting,  in  which 
he  was  keenly  interested.  Although  his  health  had  been 
poor  for  nearly  four  years,  he  was  able  to  give  his  attention 
to  his  practice  until  within  a  few  weeks  of  his  death,  which 
occurred  at  his  home  in  Worcester,  December  19,  1916. 
Burial  was  in  Rural  Cemetery,  Worcester. 

His  marriage  took  place  January  30,  1873,  in  Worces- 
ter, to  Charlotte  H.,  daughter  of  Pitt  and  Diana 
(Perrin)    Holmes,    and    sister    of    Henry    Perrin    Holmes 


I 


1869-1870  32  7 

(B.A.  1866).  They  had  six  children:  Henry  Holmes, 
who  received  the  degrees  of  B.A.  and  LL.B.  from 
Harvard  in  1896  and  1899,  respectively,  and  who  died 
November  28,  1912;  John  Mowry  (B.A.  Harvard  1898); 
Charlotte  Diana;  Marguerite  Elizabeth,  who  married  Wil- 
liam Carter  Quinby,  a  graduate  of  Harvard  College  in 
1899  and  of  the  Harvard  Medical  School  in  1902;  Mary 
Perrin;  and  Edward  Carrington  (B.A.  Harvard  1915, 
LL.B.  Harvard  1917).  Besides  his  five  children,  Mr. 
Thayer  is  survived  by  a  brother  and  a  sister.  His  cousin, 
John  M.  Thayer,  also  graduated  from  Yale  in  1869. 


Randall  Spaulding,  B.A.   1870 

Born  February  3,   1845,   in  Townsend,  Mass. 
Died  October  24,  1916,  in  Montclair,  N.  J. 

Randall  Spaulding,  son  of  Daniel  and  Lucy  Wyer 
(Clement)  Spaulding,  was  born  February  3,  1845,  i" 
Townsend,  Mass.  Members  of  the  Spaulding  family  emi- 
grated to  America  from  Spalding,  England,  early  in  the 
seventeenth  century,  settling  at  Braintree,  Mass.  Daniel 
Spaulding's  parents  were  Lsaac  and  Lucy  (Emery)  Spauld- 
ing, and  he  was  the  grandson  of  Benjamin  Spaulding,  a 
lieutenant  in  the  Revolutionary  Army,  and  Mary  Heald 
Spaulding.  His  wife  was  the  daughter  of  John  and  Hannah 
(Pierce)  Clement. 

He  received  his  preparation  for  Yale  at  Lawrence  Acad- 
emy, Groton,  Mass.  He  was  a  member  of  Brothers  in 
Unity,  and  in  their  prize  debate  Sophomore  year  received 
third  prize.  He  was  also  given  a  third  prize  in  English 
composition  that  year,  and  in  Junior  year  received  an  Ora- 
tion appointment.  His  Senior  appointment  was  a  High 
Oration,  and  he  was  a  member  of  Phi  Beta  Kappa. 

In  the  autumn  of  1870  Mr.  Spaulding  went  to  Rockville, 
Conn.,  then  a  village  of  some  five  or  six  thousand  people, 
to  teach  school.  At  that  time  there  were  only  district 
schools  in  the  place,  but  within  a  short  time  Mr.  Spaulding 
was  able,  with  the  co-operation  of  some  public-spirited  men 
and  women,  to  expand  the  upper  grade  of  the  East  District 
School,  where  he  was  teaching,  into  a  firmly  established 
high   school,   from   which,   in    1873,   two  boys,   the   entire 


328  YALE    COLLEGE 

graduating  class,  entered  Yale  without  conditions.  His 
influence  among  his  pupils  was  very  strong,  and  it  is 
worthy  of  note  that  of  the  ten  or  twelve  eldest  among 
them,  with  whom  he  came  in  closest  contact,  nearly  all 
attained  to  places  of  honor  and  trust  in  later  life.  In  1874, 
after  a  year  spent  in  travel  and  study  abroad,  principally 
at  Gottingen  and  Heidelberg,  Mr.  Spaulding  became  super- 
intendent of  the  schools  of  Montclair,  N.  J.,  a  position  which 
he  filled  with  remarkable  success  for  thirty-eight  years,  at 
the  end  of  which  time  he  resigned  on  account  of  failing 
health.  When  he  began  his  work  in  Montclair,  the  schools 
over  which  he  had  supervision,  and  where  he  also  acted 
as  principal  and  teacher,  consisted  of  but  two  or  three  build- 
ings. At  the  time  of  his  retirement  he  had  the  satisfaction 
of  seeing  several  fine  buildings  in  various  sections  of  the 
city,  with  an  attendance  of  three  thousand  children,  and 
the  knowledge  that  the  fame  of  Montclair's  schools  had 
spread  through  the  East. 

He  had  held  many  positions  of  honor  in  the  educational 
organizations  to  which  he  belonged,  being  at  various  times 
president  of  the  Schoolmasters'  Club  of  New  York,  the 
Schoolmasters'  Association  of  New  York  and  Vicinity,  and 
the  New  Jersey  Council  of  Education,  and  treasurer  of  the 
Headmasters'  Association  of  the  United  States.  He  was 
a  member  of  the  First  Congregational  Church  of  Montclair, 
and  in  1899-1900  held  the  office  of  president  of  the  Con- 
gregational Club  of  New  York  and  Vicinity.  He  was 
deeply  interested  in  photography,  and  some  years  ago  his 
book,  "First  Lessons  in  Amateur  Photography,"  was 
published.  He  had  been  president  of  the  New  York  Society 
of  Amateur  Photographers  and  the  Postal  Photographic 
Club,  an  organization  including  members  from  most  of  the 
Eastern  and  Western  states.  During  his  vacations  Mr. 
Spaulding  traveled  extensively  in  this  country,  many  of 
his  trips  being  taken  on  foot.  He  was  fond  of  the  moun- 
tains, and  climbed  many  of  the  highest  peaks  of  the  Rockies 
and  other  mountains  in  search  of  botanical  specimens,  in 
the  collection  of  which  he  was  very  mtich  interested.  He 
took  one  of  these  trips  in  the  interest  of  the  Smithsonian 
Institution,  for  which  he  obtained  many  valuable  specimens. 
The  summer  of  1888  he  spent  in  traveling  with  his  family 
in  Great  Britain,  extending  his  journeys  to  the  Hebrides. 

He  had  suffered  from  hardening  of  the   arteries   since 


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1914,  and  his  death  occurred  at  his  home  in  Montclair, 
October  24,  19 16.  He  was  buried  in  Rosedale  Cemetery 
in  that  city. 

Mr.  Spaulding  was  twice  married,  his  first  wife  being 
Florence  Alicia,  daughter  of  Chester  and  Ehzabeth  (Bull) 
Chapman  of  Ellington,VConn.  They  were  married  in  Rock- 
ville,  July  29,  1874,  and  had  three  children,  Raymond 
Chapman,  a  graduate  of  the  College  in  1897  and  of 
the  New  York  Law  School  in  1899;  Edith  Randall, 
who  died  November  5,  1900,  and  Clement,  whose 
death  occurred  January  6,  1881.  Mrs.  Spaulding  died 
July  4,  1889,  and  on  July  14,  1891,  Mr.  Spaulding's 
marriage  took  place  in  Hyde  Park,  Mass.,  to  Sarah  L., 
daughter  of  Samuel  Myrick  and  Isabelle  (Swords)  Norris. 
She  survives  him  with  his  son,  and  he  leaves  also  his 
brother,  Wayland  Spaulding  (B.A.  1874,  B.D.  1884). 


Frederick  Sidney  Chase,  B.A.   1871 

Born  December  31,  1849,  in  Lafayette,  Ind. 
Died  June  25,   1917,  in  Indianapolis,  Ind. 

Frederick  Sidney  Chase  was  born  in  Lafayette,  Ind., 
December  31,  1849,  his  parents  being  Hiram  Wilson  and 
Rebecca  Sophia  (Gridley)  Chase.  Through  his  father,  who 
was  the  son  of  Horizon  and  Anne  (Webb)  Chase,  he  traced 
his  descent  to  Aquila  Chase,  who  came  to  this  country 
from  Chesham,  England,  in  1639.  His  mother  was  the 
daughter  of  Newman  Gridley.  Her  maternal  ancestors 
were  early  settlers  of  Connecticut,  who  afterwards  removed 
to  the  vicinity  of  Utica,  N.  Y. 

He  received  his  preparatory  training  at  the  Lafayette  Col- 
legiate Institute,  entering  Yale  as  a  member  of  the  Class 
of  1870.  He  left  that  Class  in  Junior  year,  on  account  of 
a  breakdown  in  health,  but  returned  to  New  Haven  in  the 
fall  of  1870,  and  completed  his  course  the  following  June. 
His  Junior  appointment  was  a  Dissertation,  and  at  Com- 
mencement he  was  given  a  Philosophical  Oration.  He 
was  a  member  of  Phi  Beta  Kappa  and  Linonia,  and 
belonged  to  the  Class  Glee  Club  in  his  Senior  year. 

He  began  the  study  of  law  at  Columbia  University  after 
graduating  from  Yale,  and  in  1873  received  the  degree  of 


33°  YALE    COLLEGE 

LL.B.  from  that  institution.  He  then  returned  to  Indiana, 
was. admitted  to  the  bar,  and  entered  upon  the  practice  of 
law  at  Lafayette.  In  1875  he  became  associated  with  his 
father,  who  was  one  of  the  leading  lawyers  of  the  state, 
under  the  name  of  Chase  &  Chase.  After  the  death  of  his 
father  in  1889  he  was  for  some  years  a  member  of  the  firm 
of  Wallace,  Baird  &  Chase,  in  which  his  partners  were  W. 
DeWitt  Wallace  and  Samuel  P.  Baird.  His  business  had 
been  largely  confined  to  looking  after  trust  property  and 
interests  of  his  own  during  the  latter  part  of  his  life.  He 
was  a  member  of  the  Second  Presbyterian  Church  of 
Lafayette. 

His  death  occurred  in  Indianapolis,  Ind.,  June  25,  1917, 
as  the  result  of  heart  trouble.  He  suffered  a  paralytic 
stroke  several  years  ago,  and  since  1914  had  been  in  a 
sanitarium  in  that  city,  undergoing  treatment.  Interment 
was  in  Springvale  Cemetery  at  Lafayette. 

Mr.  Chase  was  married  March  20,  1877,  in  that  city,  to 
Annis  E.,  daughter  of  Moses  and  Eliza  (Hawkins)  Fowler. 
She  died  November  12,  1884.  Their  only  son,  Moses 
Fowler,  survives.    Mr.  Chase  also  leaves  a  sister. 


O'Hara  Darlington,  B.A.   1871 

Born  August  29,   1849,  at  Guyasuta,   Pa. 
Died  August  22,  1916,  at  Guyasuta,  Pa. 

O'Hara  Darlington,  son  of  William  McCullough  and 
Mary  Carson  (O'Hara)  Darlington,  was  born  August  29, 
1849,  ^t  Guyasuta,  Pa.,  the  family  estate.  This  property, 
situated  in  O'Hara  Township  in  Allegheny  County,  was 
purchased  from  the  state  in  1793  by  his  great-grandfather, 
James  O'Hara,  who  came  to  Philadelphia  from  Ireland  in 
1772  and  two  years  afterwards  settled  in  Pittsburgh;  he 
attained  a  notable  record  as  a  soldier,  serving  as  captain 
of  an  independent  company  of  Virginia  frontiersmen  at 
Kanawha  in  1777  and  as  quartermaster-general  of  the 
United  States  Army  from  1792  to  1796.  The  American 
branch  of  the  Darlington  family  was  founded  by  Abraham 
Darlington,  who  came  from  Darnhall,  Chester  County, 
England,  in  171 1,  and  settled  in  Chester  County,  Pa. 
O'Hara  Darlington's  father,  an  attorney  at  law  and  writer 
on  American  history,  was  the  son  of  Benjamin  and  Agnes 


1871  33^ 

(McCullough)  Darlington.  His  mother,  who  was  the 
daughter  of  Richard  Butler  and  Mary  Boyd  (Fitzsimmons) 
O'Hara,  continued  her  husband's  work  of  historical  research 
after  his  death. 

He  received  his  early  training  at  the  Sharpsburg  (Pa.) 
Academy,  and  also  attended  the  Western  University  of 
Pennsylvania  (University  of  Pittsburgh)  before  entering 
Yale  with  the  Class  of  1870.  Owing  to  ill  health,  he  with- 
drew from  college  in  Freshman  year,  but  returned  the 
following  fall  and  completed  his  course  in  1871.  He  was  a 
member  of  Brothers  in  Unity,  and  received  a  First  Col- 
loquy appointment  at  Commencement. 

Mr.  Darlington's  life  since  graduation  had  been  devoted 
mainly  to  the  study  of  history,  botany,  and  general  litera- 
ture, and  to  travel,  although  the  care  of  the  Darlington 
estate  had  absorbed  his  attention  to  quite  an  extent. 
Botany,  especially,  had  interested  him,  and  he  had  given 
much  time  to  research  and  experiments  in  that  direction. 
He  was  noted  for  his  remarkable  memory  and  great  knowl- 
edge of  history  and  literature.  The  family  library,  con- 
sisting of  the  books  collected  by  his  father  and  sorne 
additional  volumes  which  he  had  himself  gathered,  is 
regarded  as  one  of  the  finest  private  collections  in  the 
country.  Mr.  Darlington  was  a  Presbyterian  and  a  member 
of  the  Pennsylvania  Historical  Society. 

He  died  after  some  months  of  ill  health,  August  22,  1916, 
at  Guyasuta,  which  had  always  been  his  home,  and  was 
buried  in  the  Allegheny  Cemetery  at  Pittsburgh.  His 
death  resulted  from  a  severe  attack  of  heat  prostration, 
following  a  serious  illness  from  acute  indigestion  which 
occurred  earlier  in  the  year. 

Mr.  Darlington  had  never  married.  He  is  survived  by 
two  sisters.  A  second  cousin,  Norman  B.  Beecher,  gradu- 
ated from  the  College  in  1898,  receiving  an  LL.B.  at  Har- 
vard three  years  later. 


John  Kasson  Howe,  B.A.   1871 

Born  July  10,  1850,  in  Troy,  N.  Y. 
Died  March  4,  1917,  in  Albany,  N.  Y. 

John  Kasson  Howe  was  born  July   10,   1850,  in  Troy, 
N.  Y.,  being  a  descendant  of  John  Howe,  of  Warwickshire, 


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England,  who  came  to  Sudbury,  Mass.,  in  1638,  and  later 
was  the  first  settler  of  Marlboro,  Mass.  His  father,  James 
Henry  Howe,  was  the  son  of  James  and  Elizabeth  (Potter) 
Howe;  he  was  born  in  Lebanon,  N.  H.,  but  spent  most  of 
his  life  in  Troy,  engaged  in  business  as  a  merchant.  On 
the  maternal  side,  John  K.  Howe  was  of  Scotch-Irish 
descent,  and  according  to  family  records  his  ancestors, 
Adam  and  Jane  Hall  Kasson,  emigrated  from  Belfast  to 
Boston  in  1722.  His  mother  was  Honor  Maria,  daughter 
of  Adam  and  Nancy  (Blackman)  Kasson. 

Before  entering  Yale  in  1867,  he  studied  at  the  Troy 
Academy  and  at  the  Hopkins  Grammar  School,  New 
Haven.  He  was  given  First  Dispute  appointments  in  both 
Junior  and  Senior  years. 

Mr.  Howe  was  engaged  in  the  hardware  business  with 
his  father  in  Troy  for  some  years  after  graduation,  the 
name  of  the  firm  being  Howe  &  Company.  In  November, 
1883,  he  entered  the  Osgood  Dredge  Company  of  Albany, 
N.  Y.,  as  partner.  He  continued  to  make  his  home  in 
Troy  until  1891,  but  at  that  time  removed  to  Albany.  In 
April,  191 1,  the  Osgood  Dredge  Company  was  consolidated 
with  the  Marion  Shovel  &  Dredge  Company  of  Marion, 
Ohio,  and  the  manufacturing  part  of  the  business  was 
transferred  to  that  town.  Mr.  Howe,  who  was  at  the  time 
the  principal  owner  and  officer  in  the  first-named  company, 
remained  in  Albany  as  Eastern  representative  and  consult- 
ing engineer  of  the  firm,  and  was  active  in  the  life  of  that 
city  until  his  death.  The  Albany  Orphan  Asylum  had 
long  been  one  of  his  chief  interests.  He  was  chosen  a 
member  of  its  board  of  managers  in  1904  and  elected  presi- 
dent in  19 1 3.  Having  made  a  thorough  study  of  the  best 
methods  of  conducting  a  charity  of  this  sort,  he  was  the 
first  to  advocate  the  abandonment  of  the  old  asylum  and 
the  adoption  of  the  cottage  system.  Since  1903  he  had 
served  as  president  of  the  board  of  trustees  of  the  Second 
Presbyterian  Church.  He  was  a  member  of  a  number  of 
social  organizations,  being  a  founder  of  the  local  Uni- 
versity Club,  and  was  a  director  of  the  First  National  Bank. 
He  was  especially  active  as  an  alumnus  of  Yale,  and  had 
been  a  member  of  the  Alumni  Advisory  Board  since  its 
organization  in  1906.  As  an  evidence  of  the  appreciation 
of  this  service  to  the  University,  the  Yale  Alumni  Associa- 
tion of  Northeastern  New  York,  has  established  a  Howe 


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memorial  fund  with  which  to  educate  local  boys  at  Yale. 
Mr.  Howe  was  a  member  of  the  Citizen  Corps  of  Troy, 
N.  Y.,  and  served  his  full  time  in  the  National  Guard.  He 
spent  five  months  in  Europe  in  1882. 

He  died,  after  a  brief  illness  of  angina  pectoris,  at  his 
home  in  Albany,  March  4,  19 17.  Interment  was  in  the 
Holland  lot  in  the  Springfield  (Mass.)  Cemetery. 

He  was  married  December  7,  1881,  in  New  York  City, 
to  Annie  E.,  daughter  of  Josiah  Gilbert  and  Elizabeth 
(Chapin)  Holland,  formerly  of  Springfield,  Mass.,  but  then 
living  in  New  York,  where  Mr.  Holland  went  to  establish 
and  edit  Scribner's  Monthly,  now  called  the  Century  Maga- 
:^ine.  She  survives  him  with  their  daughter,  Alison,  and 
he  also  leaves  a  nephew,  the  only  child  of  his  brother,  the 
late  Allen  Brewer  Howe  (Ph.B.  1874,  Ph.D.  Strassburg 
1879). 

George  Cheever  Jewell,  B.A.   1871 

Born  May  19,  1844,  in  New  York  City 
Died  November  10,  1916,  in  Tabor,  Iowa 

George  Cheever  Jewell  was  the  son  of  Leander  Jewell, 
a  printer,  and  Mary  Ann  (Corwith)  Jewell,  and  the  grand- 
son of  Ebenezer  Jewell,  who  fought  in  the  War  of  1812, 
and  Anna  (Jones)  Jewell.  He  was  born  May  19,  1844,  in 
New  York  City,  being  a  descendant  of  Thomas  Jewell,  who 
came  to  Hingham,  Mass.,  from  England  about  1655. 
Leander  Jewell  died  in  1847,  and  nine  years  afterwards  his 
wife  married  Simeon  P.  Bradford.  On  the  maternal  side, 
George  C.  Jewell  was  of  Huguenot  origin,  his  mother's 
ancestors  having  come  from  France  early  in  the  eighteenth 
century.    They  settled  at  Bridgehampton,  Long  Island. 

His  boyhood  was  spent  in  western  New  York  State,  in  the 
vicinity  of  Seneca  Lake,  and  there  he  attended  the  district 
schools,  when  possible.  His  preparation  for  college  was 
received  at  the  Cooperstown  (N.  Y.)  Seminary  and  at 
Willi ston  Seminary,  Easthampton,  Mass.  He  began  the 
study  of  theology  at  Yale  in  the  fall  after  receiving  his 
bachelor's  degree,  spending  a  year  in  New  Haven.  From 
1872  to  1874  he  was  at  Auburn  Theological  Seminary, 
and  during  his  summer  vacations  preached  at  Bridgewater, 
Vt,  and  DeRuyter,  N.  Y.     He  was  ordained  to  the  Pres- 


334  YALE    COLLEGE 

byterian  ministry  in  the  October  following  his  graduation 
from  the  seminary,  and  soon  became  pastor  of  a  church 
of  that  denomination  at  Parma  Center,  N.  Y.,  where  he 
remained  for  three  years.  In  May,  1878,  he  was  settled 
over  the  Congregational  churches  at  Ellington  and  Clear 
Creek,  N.  Y.  His  next  charge  was  at  Sand  Bank,  N.  Y. 
He  was  then  pastor  at  Black  Creek,  N.  Y.,  from  1882  to 
1885 ;  at  Cortland,  Ohio,  for  the  next  three  years ;  at  Say- 
brook,  Ohio,  from  1885  to  1892;  at  Lewis,  Iowa,  from  1892 
to  1898;  of  Pilgrim  Church,  Creston,  Iowa,  from  1898  to 
1901 ;  at  Kellogg,  Iowa,  from  1901  to  1903,  and  at  Chester, 
Iowa,  from  1903  to  1907.  While  pastor  of  the  Cortland 
Congregational  Church,  he  supplied  the  Hartford  Congre- 
gational Church,  and  during  his  pastorate  in  Saybrook  he 
preached  occasionally  in  Cleveland.  In  April,  1907,  he 
retired  from  the  active  work  of  the  ministry  on  account 
of  his  wife's  health,  and  after  spending  over  a  year  in 
Iowa  City,  where  his  younger  daughter  was  engaged 
in  post-graduate  work  at  the  university,  removed  to 
Tabor,  Iowa,  which  was  thereafter  his  home  and  where 
he  died  very  suddenly,  from  heart  failure,  November  10, 
1916.  Burial  was  in  the  Tabor  Cemetery.  During  his 
residence  in  Tabor  he  was  active  in  church  work,  serving 
occasionally  in  a  ministerial  capacity.  He  continued  his 
studies  in  Greek  and  Hebrew  almost  until  the  last. 

Mr.  Jewell  was  married  September  17,  1874,  in  DeRuyter, 
N.  Y.,  to  Susan  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Dr.  David  Wilder 
and  Elizabeth  Ann  (Williams)  Wilder.  She  survives  him 
with  two  daughters,  Frances  Angeline  (B.A.  Tabor  1903, 
M.A.  State  University  of  Iowa  1909)  and  Susan  Grace 
(B.A.  Tabor  1904,  M.S.  State  University  of  Iowa  1908), 
now  a  professor  at  Tabor. 


Herbert  Evelyn  Kinney,  B.A.   1871 

Born  March  28,  1847,  in  Griswold,  Conn. 
Died  August  24,  1916,  in  Griswold,  Conn. 

Herbert  Evelyn  Kinney  was  born  in  Griswold,  Conn., 
March  28,  1847,  his  parents  being  Archibald  Crary  Kinney, 
a  teacher  and  farmer,  and  Emily  (Boardman)  Kinney. 
He  was  descended  from  Henry  Kinne,  who  was  born  in 


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1624,  probably  in  Holland,  of  Puritan  parentage,  and  came 
to  Salem,  Mass.,  his  death  occurring  there  in  1712.  Two 
of  his  grandsons,  Thomas  and  Joseph  Kinne,  removed  to 
Connectictit,  and  purchased  adjoining  farms  on  the  south 
bank  of  the  Pachaug  River  in  Preston,  near  Griswold. 
Archibald  C.  Kinne  was  the  son  of  Sterry  and  Sally  (Rob- 
bins)  Kinney,  and  the  grandson  of  Samuel  Robbins,  a  cap- 
tain in  the  Revolution.  His  wife  was  the  daughter  of 
John  and  Abby  (Cook)  Boardman.  She  traced  her  ancestry 
to  the  Boardman  family  of  Ipswich,  Mass.,  the  founders 
of  which  were  Thomas  and  Samuel  Boreman,  early  settlers 
in  the  town,  who  had  come  to  America  from  Claydon,  Eng- 
land ;  Samuel  Boreman  later  settled  in  Wethersfield,  Conn. 
John  Wait  Boardman,  born  in  Topsfield,  Mass.,  in  1676, 
married  Mary  Billings  of  Preston,  Conn.,  who  was  a  sister 
of  Rev.  William  Billings,  a  graduate  of  Yale  in  1720. 
Through  her  grandmother,  Jemima  M.  Boardman,  whose 
father  was  Capt.  Ezra  Kinne,  Mrs.  Archibald  C.  Kinney 
was  also  a  descendant  of  Henry  Kinne  of  Salem.  Other 
ancestors  of  her  son  were  Capt.  Thaddeus  Cook,  Col.  David 
Boardman,  and  Rev.  Aaron  Kinne  (B.A.  1765).  William 
Kinne,  a  graduate  of  the  College  in  1848,  was  a  distant 
cousin. 

His  preparatory  training  was  received  at  the  Norwich 
(Conn.)  Free  Academy.  He  was  given  a  first  prize  in 
English  composition  in  Sophomore  year  and  a  second  prize 
in  that  subject  in  1871,  receiving  also  in  Sophomore  year 
a  second  prize  in  the  Brothers  Prize  Debate  and  the  Modern 
Language  Scholarship.  He  ranked  first  in  the  Class  in 
Junior  year  and  second  at  Commencement,  his  appointments 
being  Philosophical  Orations.  He  was  a  member  of 
Brothers  in  Unity  and  Phi  Beta  Kappa. 

After  being  engaged  in  private  tutoring  in  New  Haven 
for  a  year,  during  which  he  also  studied  in  the  Yale  Gradu- 
ate School,  Mr.  Kinney  began  the  study  of  law  at  Columbia 
University,  where  he  received  the  degree  of  LL.B.  in  1874. 
He  was  admitted  to  the  New  York  Bar  in  October,  1874, 
and  for  the  next  three  years  served  as  managing  clerk 
in  the  office  of  Betts,  Atterbury  &  Betts  in  New  York  City. 
He  then  practiced  independently  until  1882,  when  he 
became  a  member  of  the  legal  staff  of  the  West  Shore 
Railroad  Company,  and  he  afterwards  served,  until  his 
resignation  in   1905,  in  a  similar  capacity  with  the   New 


33^  YALE    COLLEGE 

York  Central  &  Hudson  River  Railroad  Company.  While 
thus  engaged,  he  became  especially  conversant  with  real 
estate  and  admiralty  law,  and  had  charge  of  much  impor- 
tant litigation.  He  served  as  consulting  attorney  in  con- 
nection with  the  constitutional  questions  relative  to  the 
United  Engineering  Building,  for  which  Mr.  Carnegie 
offered  a  gift  of  one  million  dollars,  on  condition  that  all 
the  societies  of  engineers  be  united  in  one  building.  He 
was  a  director  in  the  Wallkill  Valley  Railroad,  the  Mahopac 
Falls  Railroad  Company,  and  the  Rome,  Watertown  & 
Ogdensburg  Railroad.  When  the  consolidation  of  the  New 
York  Central  and  West  Shore  railroads  took  place,  Mr. 
Kinney,  ranking  next  to  Judge  Ashbel  Green  in  the  Law 
Department,  had  special  charge  of  the  real  estate  branch 
of  the  transaction.  Afterwards  suffering  a  nervous  break- 
down, he  spent  a  summer  in  England  recuperating.  The 
condition  of  his  health  later  compelled  his  complete  retire- 
ment, and  he  settled  on  the  ancestral  farm  at  Griswold, 
where  he  remained  during  the  rest  of  his  life,  giving  his 
time  to  farming  and  study  as  his  health  permitted.  He 
still  retained  his  aptitude  for  languages,  and  his  chief  work 
in  recent  years  was  translating  stories  from  German  into 
English,  and  the  study  of  Japanese.  He  was  deeply  inter- 
ested in  sociology,  and  had  contributed  to  the  press  numer- 
ous articles  on  various  phases  of  the  subject.  Mr.  Kinney 
was  not  a  church  member,  but  attended  the  Episcopal 
Church,  his  wife  being  for  many  years  a  member  of  Christ 
Church,  New  York  City.  He  had  served  as  secretary  of 
the  Kinne  Historical  and  Genealogical  Society,  incorporated 
in  1884. 

His  death  occurred  at  his  home,  August  24,  1916,  as  the 
result  of  acute  indigestion,  apparently  caused  by  heat  pros- 
tration. Interment  was  in  the  "Kinne  Burying  Ground" 
in  the  town  of  Griswold. 

He  was  married  June  4,  1890,  in  New  York  City,  to 
Charlotte  Emily,  daughter  of  Nelson  and  Emily  (Jones) 
Clements,  and  a  descendant  of  Brig.-Gen.  James  Chambers 
of  the  Revolutionary  Army,  whose  daughter,  Charlotte 
Chambers,  founded  the  Cincinnati  chapter  of  the  Artierican 
Bible  Society  in  181 5.  They  had  one  son,  Evelyn  Clements, 
who,  with  his  mother,  survives.  Mr.  Kinney  also  leaves 
two  sisters. 


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Lyne  Starling,  B.A.   187 1 

Born  August  23,  1848,  in  Frankfort,  Ky. 
Died  October  4,  1916,  in  Greenville,  Miss. 

Lyne  Starling  was  born  August  23,  1848,  in  Frankfort, 
Ky.,  the  son  of  Lyne  Starling,  a  lawyer,  merchant,  and 
planter,  who  served  as  colonel  and  chief  of  General  Crit- 
tenden's staff  during  the  Civil  War,  and  who  was  the  son 
of  William  and  Mary  (McDowell)  Starling.  The  Starlings 
were  London  merchants,  who  emigrated  about  1740  to  Vir- 
ginia, where  they  became  large  owners  of  tobacco  lands. 
Ephraim  McDowell,  the  pioneer  member  of  his  family  in 
this  country,  received  a  large  grant  of  land  in  Rockbridge 
County,  Va.,  before  1735.  His  son,  John,  as  captain  of 
the  militia  of  his  county,  was  killed  in  ambush  while  pur- 
suing Indians,  and  his  grandson,  Samuel  McDowell,  par- 
ticipated in  the  French  and  Indian  War  of  1757  and  in 
the  Revolution,  and  afterwards  removed  to  Kentucky, 
where  he  presided  at  the  ten  conventions  held  prior  to 
Kentucky's  admission  to  the  Union,  and  was  the  first  United 
States  judge  of  the  state.  Many  members  of  the  McDowell 
family  fought  in  the  Civil  War,  the  majority  of  them  being 
in  the  Union  Army.  Lyne  Starling's  mother  was  Maria 
Antoinette,  daughter  of  Benjamin  and  Prudence  (Culbert- 
son)  Hensley,  the  latter's  parents  being  Alexander  and 
Janet  (Lindsay)  Culbertson.  She  was  descended  from  Dr. 
William  Hensley  and  his  wife,  Mary  Delaney  Hensley,  of 
Culpeper  County,  Va. 

Lyne  Starling  entered  Yale  from  Frankfort,  where  he 
had  received  his  preparatory  training  at  B.  B.  Sayre's 
School.  He  was  president  of  the  Class  Baseball  Team  for 
two  years  and  a  member  of  the  Wooden  Spoon  Committee. 

In  1872  he  established  himself  on  a  cotton  plantation  at 
Sunnyside,  Ark.,  where  he  remained  for  ten  years.  He 
removed  to  Greenville,  Miss.,  in  the  spring  of  1882,  and 
until  1886  was  engaged  in  business  as  a  banker.  He  then 
entered  the  cotton  business,  but  only  continued  his  activities 
in  that  direction  for  about  four  years.  For  some  years 
he  was  connected  with  a  St.  Louis  and  New  Orleans  steam- 
boat line,  always  making  his  home  in  Greenville.  He  was 
for  eight  years  secretary  of  the  Mississippi  Levee  Board, 
of  which  his  brother,  W^illiam  Starling,  was  chief  engineer. 


33^  YALE    COLLEGE 

He  served  on  the  City  Council  of  Greenville  from  1895  to 
1907  and  as  city  clerk  for  eight  years.  He  was  a  member 
of  the  First  Presbyterian  Church  of  Greenville.  He  died 
at  his  home  in  that  town,  October  4,  1916,  following  an 
illness  of  more  than  a  year  due  to  neuritis.  Burial  was  in 
Greenville. 

Mr.  Starling  was  married  October  i,  1872,  in  Frankfort, 
to  a  distant  cousin,  Kate  Crittenden,  daughter  of  Henry 
and  Elizabeth  Ann  (Todd)  Watson.  Mrs.  Starling  died 
March  24,  1917.  Four  children  were  born  to  them:  Henry 
Watson,  who  graduated  from  Centre  College  (now  known 
as  the  Central  University  of  Kentucky)  in  1896;  Lyne,  a 
graduate  of  that  institution  in  1897;  Katharine  Innes  (Mrs. 
Hugh  Agnew  Gamble),  and  Maria  Hensley,  the  wife  of 
William  McClintoch  Reid.  In  addition  to  his  children,  all 
of  whom  live  in  Greenville,  Mr.  Starling  is  survived  by 
five  grandchildren,  two  sisters,  and  a  brother,  the  latter 
being  Charles  Hensley  Starling,  also  a  member  of  the 
Class  of  1871.  Starling  W.  Childs  (B.A.  1891)  is  a 
relative. 

Some  time  before  his  death,  Mr.  Starling,  with  his  two 
sisters  and  brother,  presented  to  the  Greenville  Public 
Library  the  collection  of  books  owned  by  the  late  Wil- 
liam Starling  and  consisting  of  twenty-six  hundred  vol- 
umes. Because  of  the  interest  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Lyne  darling 
felt  in  the  education  of  worthy  young  men  and  women, 
their  children  have  given,  as  a  memorial  to  them,  one 
thousand  dollars  to  a  group  of  schools  owned  by  the  Synod 
of  the  Presbyterian  Church  of  Mississippi,  this  amount 
to  be  placed  in  trust  and  the  interest  vised  for  a  perpetual 
scholarship  which  is  named  for  them. 


Hiram  Sterling  Pomeroy,  B.A.   1872 

Born  January  22,  1848,  in  Somers,  Conn. 
Died  April  20,   1917,   in  Auburndale,   Mass. 

Hiram  Sterling  Pomeroy  was  born  in  Somers,  Conn., 
January  22,  1848,  being  the  youngest  of  the  twelve  children 
of  Oren  Pomeroy,  a  farmer  and  manufacturer  of  that  town, 
where  the  family  had  lived  for  several  generations.  Oren 
Pomeroy,  who  served  at  one  time  as  a  colonel  on  the  staff  of 


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the  governor  of  Connecticut,  was  the  son  of  Hiram  and 
Ruby  Pomeroy  (Parsons)  Pomeroy.  He  was  a  descendant 
of  Eltweed  Pomeroy,  who,  in  1630,  came  from  Beaminster, 
England;  in  October,  1633,  became  chairman  of  the  first 
town  government  estabhshed  in  any  of  the  New  England 
colonies,  and  was  engaged  in  the  manufacture  of  fire  arms, 
as  was  a  long  line  of  his  descendants,  including  Seth  Pom- 
eroy, an  officer  in  the  French  and  Indian  Wars,  who  was  the 
first  brigadier-general  commissioned  by  the  United  States 
Congress.  The  latter's  sons,  Seth  and  Medad,  graduated 
from  Yale  in  1753  and  1757,  respectively;  the  elder  son 
married  Sarah,  daughter  of  Gov.  Jonathan  Law,  Harvard 
1695,  and  a  sister  of  Richard  Law  (B.A.  175 1,  LL.D.  1802), 
a  member  of  the  Continental  Congress,  and  of  John  Law 
(B.A.  1753).  Other  members  of  the  Pomeroy  family  who 
had  received  degrees  from  Yale  were  Samuel  Pomeroy 
(B.A.  1705)  ;  Benjamin  Pomeroy  (B.A.  1733),  who 
married  a  sister  of  Eleazer  Wheelock  (B.A.  1733),  the 
founder  and  the  first  president  of  Dartmouth  College,  and 
was  himself  actively  interested  in  the  establishment  of  that 
institution,  of  which  he  was  one  of  the  original  trustees 
and  where  he  received  the  degree  of  Doctor  of  Divinity  in 
1774;  the  latter's  son,  Josiah  Pomeroy,  who  graduated 
from  the  College  in  1770;  Josiah  Pomeroy  (B.A.  1762), 
and  Rev.  Jonathan  Law  Pomeroy  (Honorary  M.A.  1801). 
H.  Sterling  Pomeroy's  mother,  a  second  cousin  of  her 
husband,  was  Lucinda,  daughter  of  Capt.  Samuel  Pomeroy 
and  Catharine  (Day)  Pomeroy,  and  granddaughter  of 
Joshua  and  Mary  (Davis)  Pomeroy.    . 

He  prepared  for  college  at  the  Monson  (Mass.)  Acad- 
emy, and  under  a  private  tutor,  and  entered  Yale  with  the 
Class  of  1872.  Ill  health  obliged  him  to  withdraw  at  the 
end  of  Freshman  year.  His  condition  later  improved,  and 
for  some  years,  with  an  interval  of  study  in  the  Yale 
School  of  Medicine  in  1870,  he  was  engaged  in  business 
as  superintendent  of  the  Blake  Brothers  Hardware  Manu- 
facturing Company  at  Westville,  Conn.  During  this  period 
he  made  several  inventions,  for  which  he  obtained  patents. 
Yale  gave  him  an  honorary  M.A.  in  1891,  and  he  had 
since  been  enrolled  with  his  original  Class. 

About  1880  he  went  abroad  and  studied  in  the  Universi- 
ties of  Leipsic  and  Prague,  graduating  with  high  standing 
from   Leipsic  with  the  degree   of   M.D.   in   1885.     While 


340  YALE    COLLEGE 

studying  in  Austria,  he  was  connected  with  the  work  of 
the  American  Board  and  estabUshed  an  EngUsh  Protestant 
Sunday  School  in  Prague,  the  first  known  there.  In  1886 
Dr.  Pomeroy  returned  with  his  family  to  America,  and 
settled  in  Boston,  where  he  practiced  until  his  death.  Of 
late  years  he  had  devoted  himself  to  nervous  cases  and  to 
the  cure  of  inebriates  and  drug  victims.  He  was  vice- 
president  of  the  Health  Educational  League  of  Boston, 
and  the  author  of  "Ethics  and  Marriage"  (1888),  "Is 
Man  Too  Prolific"  (1891),  and  "The  Boy  and  the  Cigar- 
ette" (1906).  P^or  many  years  he  was  a  member  of  the 
Central  Congregational  Church  of  Boston,  being  a  deacon 
and  superintendent  of  the  Sunday  School.  In  1908  he 
removed  to  Auburndale,  a  suburb  of  Boston,  but  continued 
his  practice  in  the  city.  He  became  a  member  of  the 
Auburndale  Congregational  Church,  was  a  deacon  for  five 
years,  and  at  the  time  of  his  death  a  member  of  the  church 
committee.  For  twenty-seven  years  he  was  a  member  of 
the  Boston  Congregational  Club,  and  he  also  belonged  to 
the  Suffolk  branch  of  the  Massachusetts  Medical  Society, 
the  Boston  Medical  Library  Association,  the  League  to 
Enforce  Peace,  and  the  Society  of  Colonial  Families.  He 
had  aided  in  gathering  material  for  a  genealogy  of  the 
Pomeroy  family,  and  was  president  of  the  Pomeroy  Family 
Association. 

He  died  suddenly  at  his  home  in  Auburndale,  April  20, 
1917.  While  he  had  been  ill  for  some  time  with  the  grippe 
and  angina  pectoris,  his  death  was  unexpected.  He  was 
buried  in  the  North  Cemetery  in  his  native  town. 

Dr.  Pomeroy  was  married  in  New  Haven,  Conn.,  October 
2,  1872,  to  Elizabeth  Fay,  daughter  of  John  Adams  and 
Sarah  (Hotchkiss)  Blake.  She  died  December  24,  1875, 
and  on  October  28,  1882,  he  married  in  Prague,  Austria, 
Mary  Eleanor,  daughter  of  Rev.  Daniel  Shepardson  and 
Eliza  (Smart)  Shepardson.  Dr.  Shepardson  was  the 
founder  of  Shepardson  College,  the  women's  department 
of  Denison  University;  he  studied  at  Brown  for  several 
years,  receiving  an  honorary  M.A.  from  that  institution 
in  1856,  ten  years  after  Granville  University  had  conferred 
a  similar  degree  upon  him,  and  the  degree  of  D.D.  from 
the  University  of  Lewisburg  in  1872.  Mrs.  Pomeroy,  who 
w^-s  a  sister  of  Francis  Wayland  Shepardson  (B.A.  Deni- 
son 1882  and  Brown  1883,  Ph.D.  Yale  1892)  and  Daniel 
Shepardson   (B.A.  Denison  1888,  Ph.D.  Yale  1891),  died 


1872-1873  341 

March  10,  191 1,  and  on  November  2y,  1912,  Dr.  Pomeroy 
was  married  in  New  Haven,  to  Sara  Blake,  daughter  of 
AVilHam  Woodruff  Stone  (B.A.  1854)  and  Sarah  Carina 
(Blake)  Stone,  and  a  niece  of  his  first  wife.  She  survives 
him,  and  he  also  leaves  four  children  by  his  second  mar- 
riage. Faith,  who  graduated  from  Denison  University  with 
the  degree  of  B.S.  in  1904  and  was  married  three  years  later 
to  George  Anthony  Hall  (B.S.  Massachusetts  Institute  of 
Technology  1901,  B.D.  Yale  1909,  M.A.  Harvard  1910)  ; 
Kenneth,  who  attended  Mount  Hermon  and  has  been  in 
business  in  Boston  for  the  past  ten  years ;  Norman,  a 
student  at  Denison  University,  and  Dorothy,  who  is  a  special 
student  at  Shepardson  College,  and  five  grandchildren. 
Two  children  by  this  marriage,  Eric  Shepardson  and 
Gladys,  died  in  1893  and  1895,  respectively.  Several  of' 
Dr.  Pomeroy's  sisters  attended  Mount  Holyoke  College, 
and  a  brother,  Oren  Day  Pomeroy,  received  the  degree  of 
M.D.  from  Columbia  in  i860.  He  was  a  great-uncle  of 
Rev.  Henry  Burnham  Kirkland  (B.D.  1912). 


William  Beebe,  B.A.   1873 

Born   September  4,    1851,   in  Litchfield,   Conn. 
Died  March   11,   1917,   in  New  Haven,   Conn. 

William  Beebe  was  born  September  4,  1851,  in  Litchfield, 
Conn.,  the  son  of  Philip  Schuyler  and  Lucy  Beebe  (Rob- 
bins)  Beebe.  Plis  father,  whose  parents  were  William  and 
Clarissa  (Sanford)  Beebe,  was  descended  from  John  Beebe, 
who  came  to  this  country  from  England  in  May,  1650,  and 
settled  in  Hadley,  Mass.  His  great-grandfather,  Bezaliel 
Beebe,  a  colonel  in  the  Revolution,  also  fought  in  the  French 
and  Indian  Wars.  His  mother,  likewise  a  descendant  of 
John  Beebe,  was  the  daughter  of  Samuel  and  Luce  (Beebe) 
Robbins. 

He  was  fitted  for  Yale  at  the  Litchfield  Select  Academy. 
He  was  awarded  first  and  second  prizes  in  English  com- 
position in  vSophomore  year,  a  second  prize  at  Junior  Exhi- 
bition, and  a  Townsend  premium  and  a  first  prize  in  English 
composition  Senior  year.  His  appointments  were  Philo- 
sophical Orations,  and  he  ranked  third  in  the  Class  at 
graduation.     He  was  a  member  of  Phi  Beta  Kappa,  and 


342  YALE    COLLEGE 

served  on  the  editorial  board  of  the  Yale  Literary  Magazine 
in  1872-73. 

He  taught  for  three  months  in  the  autumn  of  1873  in 
the  Hartford  (Conn.)  PubHc  High  School,  but  was  then 
compelled  by  an  attack  of  inflammatory  rheumatism  to  give 
up  his  position.  In  1874  he  began  work  in  mathematics 
and  astronomy  in  the  Yale  Graduate  School,  continuing 
his  studies  in  that  department  until  1879.  He  had  been  a 
member  of  the  Yale  Faculty  since  1876,  when  he  received 
an  appointment  as  a  tutor.  Six  years  later  he  was  promoted 
to  be  assistant  professor  of  mathematics,  and  in  1898  was 
raised  to  a  full  professorship.  He  had  also  served  as 
instructor  and  professor  of  astronomy.  Since  the  fall  of 
191 5  he  had  been  a  member  of  the  University  Council. 
Professor  Beebe  had  written  a  number  of  articles  on  comet- 
ary  orbits  for  German  periodicals.  In.  1882,  in  conjunc- 
tion with  the  late  Professor  Andrew  Wheeler  Phillips 
(Ph.B.  1873,  Honorary  M.A.  Trinity  1875,  Ph.D.  Yale 
1877),  he  published  "Graphic  Algebra,"  and  a  few  years 
ago  completed  a  work  on  analytical  geometry.  He  belonged 
to  the  American  Mathematical  Society.  Yale  conferred 
the  honorary  degree  of  Master  of  Arts  upon  him  in  1899. 

Professor  Beebe  had  for  some  years  been  actively  inter- 
ested as  a  trustee  in  the  George  Junior  Republic  at  Litch- 
field, and  of  late  he  had  given  generously  of  his  time  and 
energy  to  the  work  of  the  American  Red  Cross  and  had 
served  on  the  Serbian  Relief  Committee.  He  was  a  bene- 
factor of  the  Gaylord  Farm  Sanatorium  at  Wallingford, 
Conn.,  of  which  he  was  a  director  and,  for  some  years, 
financial  agent.  A  few  years  ago  he  and  Mrs.  Beebe  gave 
to  this  institution  an  open  air  pavilion  in  memory  of  their 
son.  Professor  Beebe  was  a  member  of  the  Protestant 
Episcopal  Church,  being  a  vestryman  of  Trinity  Church, 
New  Haven.     He  had  taken  a  number  of  trips  abroad. 

He  died  March  11,  1917,  at  his  home  in  New  Haven, 
after  a  brief  illness  from  double  pneumonia.  His  body 
was  taken  to  Litchfield  for  burial  in  the  West  Cemetery. 

He  was  married  June  22,  1880,  in  Wilmington,  Del.,  to 
Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Col.  George  Lea  Febiger,  U.  S.  A., 
and  Caroline  (Smith)  Febiger.  They  had  one  son,  Philip 
►Schuyler,  2d,  a  non-graduate  member  of  the  Sheffield  Class 
of  1905,  who  died  May  20,  1908.  Professor  Beebe,  who 
was  the  last  of  his  name  and  family,  is  survived  by  his 
wife. 


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Frederick  Sheldon  Parker,  B.A.   1873 

Born  July  26,  1852,  in  New  Haven,  Conn. 
Died   September  9,   1916,  in  Brooklyn,  N.  Y, 

Frederick  Sheldon  Parker  was  born  July  26,  1852,  in 
New  Haven,  Conn.,  where  his  ancestor,  Edward  Parker, 
an  English  Puritan,  settled  in  1644,  soon  after  the  founding 
of  the  colony.  His  father,  Frederick  Sheldon  Parker,  was 
a  paper  manufacturer  of  that  city,  and  the  son  of  Dr. 
Joseph  Parker,  a  physician  of  Litchfield,  Conn.,  who  served 
as  a  surgeon  in  the  Revolutionary  Army,  and  Lydia  (Har- 
rison) Parker.  His  mother  was  Martha,  daughter  of 
William  and  Frances  (Longyear)  Newton  of  Albany, 
N.  Y.,  and  a  descendant  of  Thomas  Newton,  who  settled 
in  Fairfield,  Conn.,  in  1639,  and  of  Gov.  William  Bradford 
of  Plymouth  Colony. 

He  was  fitted  for  Yale  at  Hopkins  Grammar  School,  and 
for  two  years  of  his  college  course  was  a  member  of  his 
Class  Glee  Club.  He  received  First  Colloquy  appointments, 
and  served  on  the  Senior  Promenade  and  Class  Supper 
committees. 

After  graduating  he  remained  at  Yale  for  a  year  to  take 
a  post-graduate  course  in  history,  at  the  conclusion  of 
which  he  entered  the  Columbia  Law  School,  where  he 
received  his  LL.B.  in  1876.  From  November,  1875,  until 
1878  he  was  in  the  office  of  Blatchford,  Seward,  Griswold 
&  DaCosta  of  New  York  City,  being  for  a  year  their 
managing  clerk.  In  1878  he  entered  the  office  of  the  United 
States  district  attorney  in  that  city,  where  he  remained 
for  two  years,  during  part  of  which  he  served  as  an  assist- 
ant district  attorney.  In  1880  he  formed  a  partnership 
with  Alfred  Taylor  (B.S.  Lewisburg  1866,  LL.B.  Columbia 
1871).  On  the  death  of  Mr.  Taylor  in  1894  the  name  of 
the  firm  was  changed  from  Taylor  &  Parker  to  Parker  & 
Aaron,  Mr.  Herman  Aaron  (B.S.  College  of  the  City  of 
New  York  1881,  LL.B.  Columbia  1883),  who  had  also  been 
in  the  former  firm,  becoming  Mr.  Parker's  junior  partner. 
Mr.  Parker  continued  in  the  active  practice  of  his  profes- 
sion, giving  his  attention  principally  to  corporation  law, 
until  his  death,  which  occurred  in  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.,  Sep- 
tember 9,  1916,  from  oedema  of  the  lungs,  following  an 
operation  for  appendicitis.  Interment  was  in  Greenwood 
Cemetery,  Brooklyn. 


344  YALE    COLLEGE 

Throughout  his  Hfe,  one  of  Mr.  Parker's  chief  interests 
was  in  collecting  Napoleona.  He  made  many  trips  to 
Europe,  during  which  he  gathered  much  material,  and  his 
collection  eventually  came  to  be  considered  one  of  the 
largest  and  best  in  the  country.  This  he  bequeathed  in  his 
will  to  Yale  University.  He  wrote  and  edited  much  on 
the  subject  of  Napoleona,  and  had  become  a  recognized 
authority.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Society  of  Mayflower 
Descendants,  the  Society  of  Colonial  Wars,  the  Sons  of  the 
Revolution,  and  the  Society  of  Founders  and  Patriots. 
For  many  years  he  served  as  a  vestryman  of  Grace  Church, 
Brooklyn.  He  was  Secretary  of  the  Class  of  1873  for 
three  years  after  graduation. 

On  May  16,  1876,  he  was  married  in  Brooklyn,  to  Jose- 
phine Mason,  daughter  of  John  J.  and  Mary  M.  Hill.  Her 
death  occurred  February '18,  1879.  They  had  one  son, 
Frederick  Sheldon,  Jr.,  who  died  at  birth,  February  6, 
1879.  Mr.  Parker  leaves  his  brother,  William  Newton 
Parker,  a  graduate  of  the  College  in  1879.  His  brother- 
in-law,  Simeon  Baldwin  Chittenden,  received  his  B.A.  from 
Yale  in  1865,  and  the  latter's  son,  Simeon  B.  Chittenden, 
Jr.,  is  a  graduate  of  the  College  in  1902.  Another  nephew, 
John  Hill  Morgan,  graduated  from  the  College  in  1893 
and  from  the  School  of  Law  in  1896. 


Daniel  Robinson  Howe,  B.A.   1874 

Born  May  6,  1851,  in  Hartford,  Conn. 
Died  May  13,  1917,  in  Hartford,  Conn. 

Daniel  Robinson  Howe,  son  of  Edmund  G.  and  Frances 
(Kies)  Howe,  was  born  May  6,  1851,  in  Hartford,  Conn., 
where  his  father  was  for  a  long  time  engaged  in  business 
as  a  banker.  He  was  fitted  for  college  at  the  Hartford 
Public  High  School,  and  in  his  Senior  year  at  Yale  served 
on  the  Presentation  Day  Committee. 

He  had  been  engaged  in  business  in  Hartford  since  grad- 
uation. In  1874  he  entered  the  employ  of  Collins,  Fenn 
&  Company,  a  wholesale  dry  goods  house,  some  years  later 
becoming  a  clerk  and  bookkeeper  in  the  Hartford  National 
Bank.  From  1881  to  1895  he  was  a  member  of  the  banking 
firm  of  Howe  &  Collins,  his  partner  being  his  brother-in- 


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law,  Atwood  Collins  (B.A.  1873),  and  he  was  afterwards 
engaged  in  business  as  a  broker. 

Mr.  Howe  was  for  a  long  time  a  director  of  the  National 
Exchange  Bank,  senior  director  of  the  Connecticut  Trust 
&  Safe  Deposit  Company  and  of  the  Collins  Company,  and 
second  in  service  on  the  board  of  the  Connecticut  Fire 
Insurance  Company,  A  number  of  years  ago  he  served 
as  treasurer  of  the  Hartford  Street  Railway  Company,  and 
he  was  a  former  vice-president  of  the  Society  for  Savings. 
He  had  been  for  some  time  a  deacon  of  the  First  Church 
of  Christ  in  Hartford  (Center  Church),  and  was  closely 
identified  with  many  philanthropic  organizations.  For 
many  years  he  served  as  president  of  the  Young  Men's 
Christian  Association,  and  at  his  death  was  a  member  of 
its  board  of  trustees.  He  was  also  vice-chairman  of  the 
State  Y.  M.  C.  A.,  secretary  and  treasurer  of  the  Warbur- 
ton  Chapel,  a  member  of  the  advisory  board  of  the  Hart- 
ford Orphan  Asylum  and  of  the  executive  committee  of 
the  Hartford  Federation  of  Churches,  a  trustee  of  the 
Watkinson  Juvenile  Asylum  and  Farm  School  and  of  the 
Good  Will  Club,  and  a  director  of  the  American  School 
for  the  Deaf  and  the  Hartford  Retreat.  Mr.  Howe  had 
made  a  number  of  trips  to  Europe. 

He  died  May  13,  1917,  at  his  home  in  Hartford,  after 
an  illness  of  two  years  due  to  arterio  sclerosis,  and  was 
buried  in  Cedar  Hill  Cemetery. 

His  marriage  took  place  in  Hartford,  February  16,  1876, 
to  Henrietta  Atwood,  daughter  of  Erastus  and  Mary  S. 
(Atwood)  Collins,  and  granddaughter  of  John  M.  Atwood, 
a  graduate  of  the  College  in  1814.  She  survives  him  with 
their  three  children:  Edmund  Grant  (B.A.  1906,  M.A. 
Harvard  1907)  ;  Henrietta  Collins,  who  was  married  May 
6,  1908,  to  Clement  Scott  of  Hartford,  and  Marjorie 
Frances,  now  the  wife  of  Maynard  Hazen  of  Boston,  Mass. 
Mr.  Howe  also  leaves  a  sister,  three  grandchildren,  and  a 
niece. 

Whipple  Owen  Sayles,  B.A.   1874 

Born  January  14,  1849,  in  Pascoag,  R.  I. 
Died  January  2,  1917,  in  East  Orange,  N.  J. 

Whipple  Owen  Sayles,  son  of  Whipple  and  Abigal 
(Owen)   Sayles,  was  born  in  Pascoag,  R.  L,  January  14, 


346   .  YALE    COLLEGE 

1840  He  was  a  lineal  descendant  of  Roger  Williams,  and 
one  of  his  ancestors  signed  the  Declaration  of  Independ- 
ence. His  preparatory  training  was  received  at  Lapham 
Institute,  North  Scituate,  R.  L,  and  at  a  school  in  Westerly, 
R.  I.  He  entered  Hillsdale  College  in  Michigan,  but  after 
a  brief  stay  was  called  home  by  the  death  of  his  father. 
He  joined  the  Yale  Class  of  1874  as  a  Freshman. 

From  1874  to  1876  he  studied  in  the  Columbia  Law 
School,  and  in  the  latter  year  took  the  degree  of  Bachelor 
of  Laws.  He  was  then  admitted  to  the  bar  of  New  York 
State,  and  practiced  in  New  York  City  until  his  death. 
His  membership  in  the  New  York  Law  Institute  covered 
a  period  of  thirty-seven  years.  When  he  changed  his 
residence  from  New  York  to  East  Orange  some  years  ago, 
he  became  a  member  of  the  New  Jersey  Bar  and  joined 
the  First  Congregational  Church  of  East  Orange,  becoming 
connected  with  its  various  societies.  In  the  latter  part  of 
his  life  he  attended  the  Presbyterian  Church,  although  never 
taking  his  letter  from  the  First  Congregational  Church. 
He  was  an  acknowledged  power  in  the  ward  in  which  he 
lived,  doing  much  to  improve  conditions  there,  especially 
in  regard  to  clean  politics  and  in  the  fight  against  the 
liquor  traffic.  His  interest  in  public  affairs  was  cultivated 
early  in  the  home  circle  by  both  his  father  and  mother ;  for 
more  than  twenty  years  the  town  of  Burrillville,  R.  I., 
had  no  saloons,  chiefly  through  the  influence  and  deter- 
mination of  his  father. 

Mr.  Sayles  died  at  his  home  in  East  Orange,  January  2, 
19 1 7,  of  pneumonia,  which  developed  after  an  attack  of 
the  grippe. 

He  was  married  October  5,  1878,  in  Bloomfield,  N.  J., 
to  Emily  Sarah,  daughter  of  Enoch  W.  and  Mellissa  L. 
Page.  Two  of  their  children,  Whipple  Owen,  Jr.,  and 
Abigal  Edna,  died  in  infancy.  Mrs.  Sayles,  three  daugh- 
ters, Mellissa  Ruth,  Ethel  Mary,  and  Emily,  a  son,  Osmond 
Lyman,  and  a  sister  survive.  Another  sister  of  Mr.  Sayles 
died  a  few  years  ago;  she  had  served  for  forty  years  as 
a  missionary  in  India. 


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.  William  Nelson  Washburn,  B.A.   1874 

Born  July  30,  1851,  in  Orange,  Mass. 
Died  February  5,  1917,  in  Greenfield,  Mass. 

William  Nelson  Washburn  was  born  in  Orange,  Mass., 
July  30,  1 85 1.  His  father,  William  Barrett  Washburn 
(B.A.  1844,  LL.D.  Harvard  1872),  was  a  member  of  both 
houses  of  the  Massachusetts  State  Legislature  for  several 
years,  a  Congressman  from  1863  to  1871,  and  governor  of 
Massachusetts  from  1872  to  May,  1874,  when  he  resigned 
to  fill  an  unexpired  term  in  the  United  States  Senate.  Mr. 
Washburn  served  as  a  member  of  the  Yale  Corporation 
from  1872  to  1881,  and  he  was  also  a  trustee  of  Smith 
College  and  an  overseer  of  Amherst.  He  was  the  son  of 
Asa  and  Phebe  (Whitney)  Washburn,  the  grandson  of 
Phineas  Whitney- of  Winchester,  who  served  as  captain 
of  a  cavalry  company  active  in  putting  down  Shay's  Rebel- 
lion, and  a  descendant  of  John  Whitney,  who  came  to  this 
country  from  London,  and  settled  at  Watertown,  Mass. 
Hannah  Augusta  (Sweetser)  Washburn,  the  mother  of 
William  Nelson  Washburn,  was  the  daughter  of  Col. 
Samuel  Sweetser  and  Anna  R.  (Humphrey)  Sweetser. 

He  was  fitted  for  college  at  Williston  Seminary  in  East- 
hampton,  Mass.,  and  received  a  Dissertation  appointment 
in  both  Junior  and  Senior  years. 

Making  his  home  in  Greenfield,  Mass.,  since  graduation, 
he  had  taken  an  active  part  in  the  business  and  social 
life  of  that  town,  although  his  main  business  interest  had 
been  at  Erving,  Mass.,  not  far  from  Greenfield.  There 
his  father  had  established  a  company  for  the  manufacture 
of  chairs,  which  in  recent  years  had  been  known  as  the 
Washburn  &  Haywood  Chair  Company,  and  of  this  com- 
pany William  N.  Washburn  was  treasurer  at  his  death. 
He  was  also  a  director  of  the  First  National  Bank  of 
Greenfield,  president  of  the  Greenfield  Gas  Company,  the 
Greenfield  Library  Association,  and  the  Greenfield  Club, 
a  trustee  of  the  Franklin  Savings  Institution,  and  treasurer 
of  the  Greenfield  Country  Club.  He  was  deeply  interested 
in  various  movements  for  civic  betterment,  but  had  never 
cared  to  fill  any  municipal  offices.  He  was  a  member  of 
the  Society  of  the  Civil  War  and  the  United  Military  Order 
of    America,    and    attended    the    Second    Congregational 


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34^  YALE    COLLEGE 

Church  of  Greenfield.  He  had  acquired  a  large  and  valu- 
able collection  of  rare  stamps. 

Mr.  Washburn  died  at  his  home  in  Greenfield,  February 
5,  1917,  after  a  two  weeks'  illness  of  myocarditis.  Burial 
was  in  Green  River  Cemetery  in  that  town. 

He  was  married  July  21,  1880,  in  Chicago,  III,  to  Jennie 
Eldridge,  daughter  of  William  Yocum  and  Ann  (Atkinson) 
Daniels.  Their  first  child  died  at  birth.  Mrs.  Washburn 
survives  her  husband  with  a  daughter,  Leila  A.,  who  mar- 
ried Horatio  Sanderson  duMont  of  Greenfield,  and  he 
also  leaves  a  grandson  and  three  sisters. 


Frank  Spencer  Witherbee,  B.A.   1874 

Born  May  12,  1852,  at  Port  Henry,  N.  Y. 
Died  April  13,  1917,  in  New  York  City 

Frank  Spencer  Witherbee  was  born  at  Port  Henry, 
N.  Y.,  May  12,  1852,  being  a  descendant  of  John  Witherbye, 
who  canie  to  this  country  in  1672,  was  one  of  the  founders 
of  Stowe,  Mass.,  and  fought  in  King  Philip's.  War.  His 
wife  was  Mary,  daughter  of  John  Howe,  one  of  the  first 
settlers  in  Marlboro,  Mass.  Among  their  descendants  were 
Thomas  Witherbye,  who  was  born  in  Sudbury,  Mass.,  in 
1678,  and  married  Hannah  Wood;  their  second  son,  Capt. 
Silas  Witherbye,  married  Thankful,  daughter  of  Major 
Keyes.  Jonathan  Gilman  Adams  Witherbee,  the  father  of 
Frank  S.  Witherbee,  was  the  son  of  Thomas  and  Millie 
(Adams)  Witherbye;  it  was  during  his  hfetime  that  the 
family  name  assumed  its  present  form.  His  wife,  Char- 
lotte (Spencer)  Witherbee,  whose  parents  were  Jonathan 
Buck  Spencer,  one  of  the  pioneers  in  developing  the  lumber 
districts  of  Canada  and  the  Western  states  and  who  dis- 
tinguished himself  in  the  War  of  181 2,  receiving  for  his 
services  a  tract  of  land  in  Iowa,  and  Mary  (Walker) 
Spencer,  traced  her  descent  to  Thomas  Spencer,  who  came 
to  America  from  Stratford,  England,  about  1632  and  settled 
at  Cambridge,  Mass.,  removing  to  Hartford,  Conn.,  five 
years  later. 

Entering  Yale  from  the  Hopkins  Grammar  School,  New 
Haven,   he    served   on   the   Junior    Promenade    and    Class 


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Supper  committees,  and  was  chairman  of  the  Senior  Prom- 
enade Committee. 

He  went  abroad  soon  after  his  graduation,  but  was 
called  home  in  August,  1875,  on  account  of  the  serious 
illness  of  his  father.  The  latter  died  soon  afterwards,  and 
Mr.  Witherbee  at  once  assumed  his  business  interests,  most 
of  which  were  concerned  with  the  mining  of  iron  ore  and 
the  manufacturing  of  pig  iron  in  the  vicinity  of  Port  Henry 
on  Lake  Champlain.  Becoming  a  co-partner  in  the  firm 
of  Witherbee,  Sherman  &  Company,  which  was  started  in 
1849  t>y  his  father  and  his  uncle,  Silas  H.  Witherbee,  he 
had  seen  the  business  increase  rapidly  until  at  his  death 
the  concern  was  one  of  the  largest  producers  of  separated 
iron  ore  in  the  world.  Pie  had  been  president  of  the  com- 
pany since  its  incorporation  in  1900.  He  was  also  presi- 
dent of  the  Lake  Champlain  &  Moriah  Railroad  and  a 
director  in  the  Cheever  Iron  Ore  Company,  the  Citizens 
National  Bank  of  Port  Henry,  the  Central  Hudson  Steam- 
boat Company,  the  Equitable  Life  Assurance  Society,  the 
Cubitas  Iron  Ore  Company  of  Cuba,  and  the  Fulton  Trust 
Company  and  Chatham  &  Phenix  National  Bank  of  New 
York  City. 

Mr.  Witherbee  early  became  prominent  in  various  phases 
of  civic  and  social  life.  He  had  attended  a  number  of 
the  state  and  national  political  conventions  of  the  Repub- 
lican party,  serving  on  a  number  of  committees,  and  was 
twice  a  presidential  elector.  He  was  interested  in  the 
different  primary  laws,  took  an  active  part  in  the  creation 
of  the  Adirondack  State  Park  and  the  Crown  Point  State 
Reservation,  and  was  one  of  the  foremost  advocates  of 
improved  waterways  for  the  state  of  New  York.  He  had 
served  on  the  New  York  Board  of  Trade  and  Transporta- 
tion, and  on  a  number  of  canal  commissions,  and  was  one 
of  the  three  commissioners  appointed  by  Governor  Roose- 
velt to  study  and  report  on  the  canal  systems  of  Europe. 
In  1912  he  received  the  cross  of  the  Legion  of  Honor 
from  the  French  Government  in  recognition  of  his  services 
on  the  Champlain  Tercentenary  Celebration  Commission. 
He  had  served  as  a  member  of  the  state  committee  of  the 
Young  Men's  Christian  Association,  and  as  a  manager  of 
the  House  of  Refuge,  a  reformatory  for  boys,  and  the 
Orthopedic  Hospital.  He  was  president  and  a  trustee  of 
the  Sherman  Free  Library  of  Port  Henry,  and  was  espe- 


35^  YALE    COLLEGE 

cially  interested  in  the  work  of  the  Witherbee  Memorial 
Association,  organized  to  conduct  a  workingmen's  cKib  at 
the  mines.  He  belonged  to  the  American  Institute  of 
Mining  Engineers,  the  Lake  Superior  Institute  of  Mining 
Engineers,  the  New  York  Chamber  of  Commerce,  the 
Academy  of  Political  and  Social  Science,  the  Sons  of  the 
Revolution,  the  Pilgrim  Society,  and  the  National  His- 
torical Association.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Port  Henry 
Presbyterian  Church,  but  when  in  New  York  City  attended 
Grace  Protestant  Episcopal  Church.  He  was  for  five  years 
a  member  of  the  New  Yoil^  National  Guard,  completing  his 
service  in  1880. 

Mr.  Witherbee's  death  occurred  April  13,  191 7,  at  his 
New  York  home,  as  the  result  of  a  complication  of  diseases. 
He  had  been  in  poor  health  for  several  years,  but  was 
able  to  keep  up  his  many  activities  until  within  a  short  time 
of  his  death.  Interment  was  in  Greenwood  Cemetery, 
Brooklyn. 

He  was  married  in  New  York  City,  April  25,  1883,  to 
Mary  Rhinelander,  daughter  of  Lispenard  and  Mary 
Rogers  (Rhinelander)  Stewart,  and  sister  of  Lispenard 
Stewart  (B.A.  1876,  LL.B.  Columbia  1878).  They  had 
three  children:  a  daughter  who  died  at  birth,  Lispenard 
Stewart,  and  Evelyn  Spencer.  The  son  died  February  8, 
1907,  while  in  his  Senior  year  at  Yale;  he  was  given  his 
B.A.  post  obit,  the  following  June.  Besides  his  wife  and 
daughter,  Mr.  Witherbee  is  survived  by  a  sister,  who  mar- 
ried Edward  H.  Peaslee  (B.A.  1872,  M.D.  Columbia  1875), 
and  whose  son,  Edmund  W.  Peaslee,  graduated  from  the 
College  in  191 3.  He  was  a  cousin  of  Walter  C.  Witherbee 
(B.A.  t88o),  and  a  second  cousin  of  Silas  H.  Witherbee 
(Ph.B.  1911). 


James  Wilton  Brooks,  B.A.   1875 

Born  April  19,  1853,  in  New  York  City 
Died  July  6,  1916,  in  Atlantic  City,  N.  J. 

Tames  Wilton  Brooks,  son  of  James  and  Mary  Louisa 
(Randolph  nee  Cunningham)  Brooks,  was  born  April  19, 
1853,  in  New  York  City.  His  father,  a  graduate  of  Colby 
College  in  1828,  was  elected  to  the  Maine  Legislature  at 


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the  age  of  twenty-one,  and  the  next  year  went  to  Wash- 
ington as  a  poUtical  correspondent.  In  1836  he  founded 
the  New  York  Express,  of  which  he  was  for  nearly  forty 
years  editor  and  proprietor.  He  was  a  member  of  the 
New  York  Legislature  in  1847  and  Congressman  from 
1849  to  1853  and  again  from  1863  until  his  death  in  1873. 
His  parents  were  Capt.  James  "Brooks,  a  native  of  England, 
and  Elizabeth  (Folsom)  Brooks,  whose  ancestors  settled 
in  Massachusetts  in  1638.  Captain  Brooks  was  killed  in 
the  War  of  1812,  while  in  command  of  the  privateer 
Yankee.  J.  Wilton  Brooks'  maternal  ancestors  were  early 
settlers  at  Wilton,  Va. 

He  was  prepared  for  college  under  private  tutors.  In 
his  Senior  year  he  was  on  the  editorial  board  of  the 
Yale  Literary  Magazine. 

Mr.  Brooks  lived  abroad  for  several  years  after  gradua- 
tion, returning  to  New  York  to  become  city  editor  of  the 
Express.  He  was  shortly  made  general  editor,  and  retained 
that  post  until  1881,  when  he  sold  his  interest  in  the  paper. 
In  the  meantime  he  had  studied  law  at  Columbia,  and  on 
being  admitted  to  the  New  York  Bar  in  1882,  opened 
offices  in  New  York  City.  He  continued  in  practice  there 
for  some  years.  He  was  a  candidate  on  the  Democratic 
ticket  for  the  New  York  Assembly  in  1881,  and  the  follow- 
ing year  was  elected  to  the  Legislature,  where  he  served 
two  terms.  He  was  appointed  alternate  to  the  Republican 
National  Convention  of  1884  from  the  sixteenth  Congres- 
sional district  of  New  York.  At  one  time  he  was  the 
editor  of  the  now  extinct  University  Magazine.  He  had 
contributed  numerous  articles  to  periodicals,  and  was  the 
author  of  a  "History  of  the  Court  of  Common  Pleas  of 
the  City  and  County  of  New  York,"  published  in  1896. 
He  was  a  Fellow  of  the  Society  of  Science,  Letters  and 
Art  of  London,  and  a  member  of  the  Protestant  Episcopal 
Church.  In  1890  St.  John's  University,  Annapolis,  con- 
ferred the  honorary  degree  of  LL.D.  upon  him. 

Mr.  Brooks'  death  occurred  July  6,  1916,  at  Atlantic 
City,  N.  J.  He  was  buried  in  Greenwood  Cemetery, 
Brooklyn. 

His  first  marriage  took  place  September  14,  1880,  at 
Cold-Spring-on-Hudson,  N.  Y.,  to  Laura  Gertrude,  daugh- 
ter of  Benjamin  Winchester.  She  died  in  1888,  and  on 
November  29,  1893,  Mr.  Brooks  married  Florence,  daugh- 


352  YALE    COLLEGE 

ter  of  Henry  James  Miller.  He  was  next- married,  April 
2,  1912,  in  Valetta,  Malta,  to  Mrs.  Frances  Irving  (Rease) 
Beadel,  daughter  of  George  B.  and  Elizabeth  (Irving) 
Rease,  and  widow  of  Frederick  Beadel.  Mrs.  Brooks  sur- 
vives her  husband.    He  had  no  children. 


Edward  Henry  Rogers,  B.A.   1875 

Born  September  4,  1854,  in  Branford,  Conn. 
Died  March  7,  1917,  in  New  Haven,  Conn, 

Edward  Henry  Rogers  was  born  September  4,  1854, 
in  Branford,  Conn.,  the  family  home  since  1720.  The 
pioneer  member  of  the  family  in  this  country  was  John 
Rogers,  who  came  from  England  to  Plymouth,  Mass.,  in 
1620.  Other  ancestors  on  the  paternal  side  were  Abraham 
Rogers,  Jr.,  Eli  Fowler,  Noah  Fowler,  and  Abraham 
Fowler ;  the  last  named  was  wounded  in  King  Philip's 
War  in  1675.  Edward  H.  Rogers'  parents  were  Henry 
Rogers,  a  member  of  the  General  Assembly  of  Connecticut 
in  1877,  who  was  an  authority  on  the  genealogy  of  old 
Connecticut  families,  and  Elizabeth  (Townsend)  Rogers, 
daughter  of  John  and  Parnel  (Bishop)  Townsend  of  West- 
moreland, Oneida  County,  N.  Y. 

Prepared  for  college  at  the  Whitestown  (N.  Y.)  Semi- 
nary, he  entered  Yale  in  1871,  receiving  the  degree  of 
B.A.  in  1875  and  that  of  LL.B.  in  1877.  He  had  been 
admitted  to  the  bar  of  Connecticut  in  January  of  1877,  and 
with  the  exception  of  three  years  (1889  to  1892),  when 
he  was  a  member  of  the  patent  staff  of  the  Westinghouse 
Electrical  Company  in  New  York  City,  had  always  prac- 
ticed in  New  Haven.  During  the  early  part  of  his  pro- 
fessional career  he  was  associated  with  Talcott  H.  Russell 
(B.A.  1869,  LL.B.  Columbia  1871),  afterwards  being  a 
member  of  the  firm  of  Clark,  Swan  &  Rogers,  in  which 
his  partners  were  James  Gardner  Clark  (B.A.  1861)  and 
Charles  L.  Swan,  a  graduate  of  the  College  in  1874  and 
of  the  School  of  Law  in  1877.  On  returning  from  New 
York  in  1892,  he  became  associated  with  Charles  R.  Inger- 
soll  (B.A.  1840,  LL.D.  1874),  a  former  governor  of  Con- 
necticut, with  whom  he  was  connected  until  1902.  He 
then  had  his  offices  with  Judge  Jacob  B.  Ullman   (LL.B. 


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1899)  'J^til  the  latter's  death  in  1906.  While  indination 
turned  him  more  exclusively  for  a  time  to  the  practice  of 
patent  and  admiralty  law,  Mr.  Rogers'  strength  in  his  pro- 
fession was  not  confined  to  these  departments  of  it ;  he 
was  in  the  fullest  sense  a  strong  lawyer  in  his  grasp  of 
the  general  principles  of  jurisprudence,  with  an  exceptional 
knowledge  and  understanding  of  the  case  law  of  his  own 
state.  He  was  especially  noted  for  his  skill  in  writing 
briefs  on  questions  of  law.  He  served  as  corporation 
counsel  for  the  city  of  New  Haven  from  1908  to  19 10. 
He  was  a  member  of  the  American  Bar  Association,  and 
a  communicant  of  St.  Paul's  Protestant  Episcopal  Church, 
and  had  served  as  the  local  member  of  the  various  reunion 
committees  for  the  Class  of  1875. 

His  death,  occurring  March  7,  1917,  at  his  home  in  New 
Haven,  followed  a  brief  illness  of  pneumonia.  He  was 
buried  in  the  family  plot  in  Branford. 

Mr.  Rogers  was  married  in  Plainville,  -Conn.,  June  7» 
1883,  to  Henrietta  Frances,  daughter  of  Edward  N.  and 
Permelia  Frances  (Thompson)  Pierce.  She  survives  him 
with  a  daughter,  Elizabeth  Townsend,  who  graduated  from 
Vassar  College  in  1910  and  was  married  June  30,  1913, 
to  James  Lukens  McConaughy  (B.A.  1909,  M.A.  Bowdoin 
191 1,  Ph.D.  Columbia  1913).  Their  son,  Edward  Pierce, 
died  December  22,  1914,  while  in  his  Senior  year  at  Yale. 
A  sister  of  Mrs.  Rogers  married  William  E.  Peck  (B.A. 
1881). 

Chester  Mitchell  Dawes,  B.A.   1876 

Born  July  14,   1855,  in  North  Adams,  Mass. 
Died  April   12,   1917,  in  Chicago,   111. 

Chester  Mitchell  Dawes  was  born  in  North  Adams, 
Mass.,  July  14,  1855,  the  son  of  Henry  Laurens  and  Electa 
Allen  (Sanderson)  Dawes.  His  father's  parents  were 
Mitchell  and  Mercy  (Burgess)  Dawes,  and  he  was  a 
descendant  of  William  Dawes,  who  came  from  England 
in  1G35  ^nd  settled  in  Massachusetts.  He  graduated  from 
Yale  in  1839,  served  for  several  years  in  both  houses  of 
the  Massachusetts  Legislature,  and  was  elected  to  Congress 
in  1857,  being  from  1857  to  1875  a  member  of  the  House 
of  Representatives  and  from  1875  to  1893  ^  member  of 
the  Senate ;   he  received  an  honorary  LL.D.  from  Williams 


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in  1869  and  from  Yale  in  1889.  His  wife  was  the  daughter 
of  Chester  and  Anna  (AlHs)  Sanderson,  and  through  her 
Chester  M.  Dawes  traced  his  descent  to  Robert  Sanderson, 
who  emigrated  to  this  country  from  England  in  1637, 
settling  at  Boston  in  1652  as  master  of  the  Mint  and  there 
making  the  pine-tree  shilling. 

He  was  fitted  for  college  at  Williston  Seminary,  East- 
hampton,  Mass.,  and  at  the  Hopkins  Grammar  School, 
New  Haven.  In  Freshman  year  he  served  on  the  Class 
Supper  Committee  and  as  treasurer  of  the  Class  Boat 
Committee.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Class  Baseball  Team 
in  Sophomore  year  and  of  the  University  Baseball  Team 
in  Senior  year.  His  Junior  appointment  was  a  Second 
Dispute,  and  at  Commencement  he  received  a  Second 
Colloquy. 

Soon  after  his  graduation  from  Yale  Mr.  Dawes  began 
the  study  of  law  in  the  offices  of  Hillard,  Hyde  &  Dickinson 
in  Boston,  at  the  same  time  attending  lectures  at  the  Boston 
University  Law  School,  where  he  received  the  degree  of 
LL.B.  in  1878.  He  was  admitted  to  the  Massachusetts 
Bar  the  following  November,  and  for  nearly  a  year  after- 
wards continued  in  the  same  office  in  Boston.  In  October, 
1879,  he  removed  to  Chicago,  111.,  and  within  a  few  months 
formed  a  partnership  with  Frederick  H.  Winston  (LL.B. 
Harvard  1853)  and  the  latter's  son,  Frederick  S.  Winston, 
a  member  of  the  Yale  Class  of  1877,  under  the  firm  name 
of  Winston  &  Dawes.  From  February,  1884,  until  the 
summer  of  1886  Mr.  Dawes  served  as  assistant  United 
States  attorney  for  the  Northern  District  of  Illinois.  In 
September,  1886,  he  accepted  an  appointment  as  assistant 
solicitor  of  the  Chicago,  Burlington  &  Quincy  Railroad 
Company,  fifteen  years  later  being  made  general  solicitor 
and,  in  1909,  general  counsel  for  the  company.  He  held 
this  latter  position  at  the  time  of  his  death.  He  was  also 
a  director  of  the  Washington  &  Quincy  Railroad.  A 
Republican  in  politics,  he  served  as  a  presidential  elector 
in  1896.  Mr.  Dawes  was  a  member  of  the  Chicago  Board 
of  Education  from  1899  to  1902  and  again  from  1907  to 
1909. 

His  death  occurred  April  12,  1917,  at  his  home  in  Chi- 
cago, after  an  illness  of  a  few  hours  due  to  angina  pectoris. 
He  was  buried  in  Pittsfield,  Mass.,  his  father's  home  having 
been  in  that  city  for  many  years. 


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Mr.  Dawes  was  married  May  12,  1881,  to  Ada  B., 
daughter  of  Gen.  Byron  Laflin  and  Frances  Ann  (Caswell) 
Laflin.  Their  only  children  were  twins,  Chester  Mitchell, 
Jr.,  and  Electa  Sanderson.  The  son  died  in  early  infancy 
and  the  daughter  in  November,  1902.  Mr.  Dawes  is  sur- 
vived by  his  wife,  a  brother,  Henry  Laurens  Dawes  (B.A. 
1884),  and  a  sister. 


Joseph  Sexton  Hunn,  B.A.   1876 

Born  July  31,  1851,  in  Rochester,  N.  Y. 
Died  May  31,  1917,  in  Rochester,  N.  Y. 

Joseph  Sexton  Hunn,  whose  parents  were  Francis  Sexton 
and  Catherine  M.  (Krake)  Hunn,  was  born  July  31,  1851, 
in  Rochester,  N.  Y.  His  father  was  a  manufacturer  of 
furniture  in  Rochester,  and  the  son  of  Rev.  David  Lothrop 
Hunn,  who  was  graduated  from  Yale  in  181 3  and  from 
the  Andover  Theological  Seminary  in  1816,  and  of  Eunice 
(Sexton)  Hunn.  Rev.  David  Hunn  was  a  grandnephew 
of  Rev.  Zadock  Hunn  (B.A.  1766),  and  a  descendant  of 
Rev.  Nathaniel  Hunn,  who  received  his  B.A.  at  Yale  in 
1 73 1.  The  founders  of  the  American  branch  of  the  family 
were  Jonathan,  David,  and  Gideon  Hunn,  three  brothers, 
who  came  from  England  about  1680  and  settled  in  Lyme 
and  Wethersfield,  Conn.  Ephraim  Tiffany  Hunn,  grandson 
of  Jonathan  Hunn  and  great-grandfather  of  Joseph  Sexton 
Hunn,  was  a  Revolutionary  privateersman,  at  one  time 
confined  on  the  prison-ship  Jersey,  and  was  in  service  at 
New  London  at  the  time  that  that  city  was  burned,  in  1781. 
On  the  maternal  side,  Joseph  S.  Hunn  was  descended  from 
Caliph  Krake,  who  emigrated  to  this  country  about  1760 
from  Germany,  enlisted  in  the  Revolutionary  War,  and 
later  settled  with  his  wife,  Elizabeth  (Hills)  Krake,  in  her 
birthplace,  Minden,  N.  Y.  His  mother's  parents  were 
Henry  Krake,  wdio  served  in  the  War  of  1812,  and  Eliza- 
beth (Porter)  Krake. 

He  was  fitted  for  Yale  at  Wilson's  Grammar  School, 
Rochester.  In  college  he  served  on  the  Record  board  in 
Sophomore  and  Senior  years,  and  received  a  Second  Dis- 
pute appointment  in  Junior  year  and  a  First  Colloquy  at 
Commencement. 


35^  YALE    COLLEGE 

Returning  to  Rochester  upon  graduation,  he  began  the 
study  of  law  in  the  office  of  George  F.  Danforth  (B.A. 
Union  1840,  LL.D.  Union  and  Hamihon  1879),  afterwards 
a  judge  of  the  Court  of  Appeals  of  New  York  State.  He 
was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  1879,  and,  after  two  years  of 
practice,  became  associated  with  his  classmate,  William 
DeLancey  EUwanger.  They  continued  in  partnership  under 
the  name  of  Hunn  &  EUwanger  until  1904,  when  the  firm 
was  dissolved  by  mutual  consent.  Thereafter  Mr.  Hunn 
devoted  practically  all  of  his  time  to  his  duties  as  trustee 
of  the  Hiram  Sibley  Estate  of  Rochester.  He  was  an 
officer  of  the  McKinley-Darragh-Savage  Mines  of  Cobalt, 
Ltd.,  and  a  manager  of  the  Rochester  Homeopathic  Hos- 
pital, of  which  he  was  for  about  two  years  the  treasurer. 
He  also  served  at  different  times  as  president  of  the  Yale 
Alumni  Association  of  Rochester  and  of  the  Genesee  Valley 
Club.  He  was  one  of  the  founders  of  and  a  principal  sub- 
scriber to  an  endowed  scholarship  in  Rochester,  by  which 
one  Rochester  boy,  who  otherwise  would  be  denied  the 
privilege,  is  kept  at  Yale. 

Mr.  Hunn  died  May  31,  1917,  at  the  Rochester  Homeo- 
pathic Hospital,  after  an  illness  of  about  three  weeks  due  to 
a  carbuncle,  complicated  with  a  severe  attack  of  acute  dia- 
betes. His  body,  by  his  own  wish,  was  cremated,  and  the 
ashes  interred  in  Mount  Hope  Cemetery,  Rochester. 

He  was  married  August  12,  1882,  in  Buffalo,  N.  Y.,  to 
Mary  Kempshall,  daughter  of  Col.  Watson  Alanson  Fox 
and  Flora  Lavinia  (Rice)  Fox.  Her  death  occurred  May 
7,  1888,  four  days  after  the  birth  of  their  only  son,  Clarke 
Fox.  The  latter,  a  graduate  of  the  College  in  191 1  and 
assistant  in  English  there  in  1911-12,  survives.  Mr.  Hunn 
also  leaves  five  brothers  and  a  sister.  He  was  an  uncle  of 
the  late  Francis  Sherman  Hunn  (Ph.B.  1899),  and  a  second 
cousin  of  Edward  B.  Hunn  (Ph.B.  1916),  whose  attend- 
ance at  the  University  was  due  largely  to  Mr.  Hunn's 
influence  and  assistance. 


Louis  William  Maxson,  B.A.   1876 

Born  July  2,  1855,  in  Herbertville,  Calif. 
Died  July  2,  1916,  in  Baltimore,  Md. 

Louis  William  Maxson,  whose  parents  were  Frank  Max- 
son,  a  mining  and  mechanical  engineer,  and  Juliet   (Lan- 


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phear)  Maxson,  was  born  in  Herbertville,  Amador  County, 
Calif.,  July  2,  1855.  His  father  was  the  son  of  Asa  and 
Mary  (Chapman)  Maxson,  and  a  descendant  of  John 
Maxson,  born  in  1638,  whose  father  came  to  this  country, 
probably  from  England,  between  1630  and  1635  and  settled 
at  Newport,  R.  I.  His  mother,  who  was  the  daughter  of 
William  and  Eliza  (Miner)  Lanphear,  traced  her  descent 
to  the  Lanphears  who  emigrated  to  America  in  1689, 
settling  at  or  in  the  neighborhood  of  Westerly,  R.  I. 

E[is  boyhood  was  spent  partly  in  the  Sierra  Nevada  foot- 
hills of  Amador  and  Calaveras  counties,  Calif.,  and  partly 
in  Norwich,  Conn.  He  received  his  preparatory  training 
at  the  Norwich  Free  Academy.  In  Sophomore  year  at 
Yale  a  second  prize  in  mathematics  was  awarded  to  him. 
His  Junior  appointment  was  a  First  Colloquy,  and  he 
received  a  First  Dispute  at  Commencement. 

For  four  years  after  graduation  Mr.  Maxson  was 
engaged  in  educational  work.  He  was  principal  of  the 
Academy  at  Greens  Farms,  Conn.,  during  1876-77,  teacher 
of  classics  and  mathematics  and,  for  a  part  of  the  time, 
acting  principal  at  the  Port  Chester  (N.  Y.)  Military  Acad- 
emy the  next  year,  and  instructor  in  classics  and  mathe- 
matics at  the  Emerson  Institute  in  Washington,  D.  C,  from 
1878  to  1880.  During  this  latter  period  he  also  gave  some 
time  to  private  tutoring.  In  August,  1880,  he  entered  the 
United  States  Patent  Office  as  fourth  assistant  examiner. 
For  many  years  previous  to  his  death  he  had  held  the 
appointment  of  principal  examiner  in  charge  of  Division  14. 
Mr.  Maxson  studied  law  in  the  early  years  of  his  work  in 
Washington,  and  received  the  degree  of  LL.B.  from  George 
W^ashington  University  in  1882  and  that  of  M.L.  the  fol- 
lowing year. 

His  home  was  in  Washington  from  1878  to  1894,  when 
he  moved  to  Kensington,  Md.,  his  place  of  residence  at  the 
time  of  his  death.  He  was  active  in  church  work,  having 
been  an  elder  in  the  Metropolitan  Presbyterian  Church  of 
Washington  for  several  years  prior  to  his  removal  to  Ken- 
sington and  an  elder  in  the  Warner  Memorial  Presbyterian 
Church  of  the  latter  place  almost  from  the  time  of  its 
founding  to  his  death.  For  two  years  he  served  as  physical 
1  director  of  the  gymnasium  of  the  church,  and  for  several 

■^L  years  was  a  member  of  the  Public  School  Board  of  the 
IH^  town.  He  held  the  national  championship  in  archery  for 
IB   eight  years. 

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35 8  YALE    COLLEGE 

His  death  occurred  July  2,  19 16,  at  the  Johns  Hopkins 
Hospital,  Baltimore,  following  an  operation  for  carcinoma. 
He  had  been  in  poor  health  for  nearly  a  year.  Interment 
was  in  the  Congressional  Cemetery  at  Washington. 

He  was  married  December  25,  1884,  in  that  city,  to 
Minnie  Rosetta,  daughter  of  George  Alexander  and  Cath- 
erine (Otterback)  Bohrer.  She  survives  him  with  their 
two  sons,  Louis  Archer,  a  graduate  of  George  Washington 
University,  Washington,  with  the  degrees  of  B.A.  and 
M.S.  in  1913  and  191 5,  respectively,  and  Donald  Livingston. 
He  also  leaves  a  sister  and  two  brothers,  one  of  the  latter 
being  Frank  Oscar  Maxson  (Ph.B.  1872,  C.E.  1882). 
Mr.  Maxson's  oldest  child,  Constance  Elaine,  died  in 
infancy. 


Francis  Joseph  Woodman,  B.A.   1876 

Born  August  7,   1851,  at  Great  Falls    (now   Somersworth),  N.   H. 
Died  July  28,  1916,  in  Washington,  D.  C. 

Francis  Joseph  Woodman,  whose  parents  were  Joseph 
and  Sarah  (LeGros)  Woodman,  was  born  at  Great  Falls 
(now  Somersworth),  N.  H.,  August  7,  185 1.  His  mother 
was  the  daughter  of  Isaiah  and  Eunice  (Burrows)  LeGros, 
and  the  granddaughter  of  Jonathan  Burrows,  who  served 
in  the  Revolutionary  War  as  orderly  sergeant  in  a  New 
Hampshire  Regiment. 

He  entered  Phillips  (Exeter)  Academy  at  the  age  of 
nineteen  years,  graduating  in  1872.  He  was  a  member 
of  the  Class  and  University  Glee  clubs  throughout  his 
course  at  Yale. 

During  the  three  years  immediately  following  his  gradua- 
tion he  lived  in  his  native  town,  engaged  in  journalistic 
work.  He  was  editor  and  manager  of  the  Free  Press  for 
the  greater  part  of  this  period,  but  in  the  spring  of  1879 
became  editor  of  the  Journal.  Fie  severed  his  connection 
with  the  latter  publication  in  October  of  that  year,  and 
removed  to  Washington,  D.  C,  where  he  took  a  position 
in  the  United  States  Pension  Bureau.  He  began  the  study 
of  medicine  at  George  Washington  Universitv  in  1883,  two 
vears  later  receiving  the  degree  of  M.D.  Since  that  time 
his  work  in  the  Pension  Bureau  had  been  in  the  Medical 
Division.     He  had  advanced  through  many  grades  to  the 


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position  of  qualified  surgeon,  an  office  which  he  held  until 
failing  health  compelled  his  resignation  early  in  1916.  In 
addition  to  his  duties  for  the  Government,  he  had  also 
practiced  his  profession  to  a  slight  extent,  and  had  served 
as  professor  of  pathology  in  the  United  States  College  of 
Veterinary  Surgeons  at  Washington.  In  October,  1889, 
Dr.  Woodman  received  a  commission  as  a  medical  officer 
in  the  National  Guard  of  the  District  of  Columbia.  In 
1909,  after  twenty  years'  service,  he  was  retired,  at  his 
own  request,  at  that  time  ranking  as  major  in  the  Medical 
Corps.  He  had  long  been  prominent  in  Masonry.  He 
was  admitted  to  the  thirty-third  degree  some  years 
ago,  and  since  1909  had  held  the  office  of  grand  tiler  of 
the  supreme  council  of  the  Scottish  Rite  for  the  Southern 
jurisdiction  of  the  United  States.  He  was  a  member  of 
the  Sons  of  the  American  Revolution,  had  served  on  the 
executive  committee  of  the  Yale  Alumni  Association  of 
Washington,  and  belonged  to  St.  James'  Protestant  Episco- 
pal Church,  where  he  was  a  lay  reader. 

His  death  occurred  at  his  home  in  Washington,  July  28, 
1916,  after  a  lingering  illness  due  to  cirrhosis  of  the  liver. 
Interment  was  in  Forest  Glade  Cemetery,  Somersworth, 
N.  H. 

Dr.  Woodman  was  married  June  30,  1884,  in  Washing- 
ton, to  Jennie  Whitmore,  daughter  of  Benjamin  and  Zilpha 
A.  (Whitney)  Cutter  of  Westbrook,  Maine.  Neither  of 
their  two  sons — LeGros  and  Francis  Joseph,  Jr. — is  living. 
Mrs.  Woodman  survives  her  husband.  His  brother,  the 
late  Charles  Carroll  Woodman  (B.A.  Dartmouth  1867), 
was  an  assistant  surgeon  in  the  United  States  Army. 


Frederick  Wendell  Davis,  B.A.   1877 

Born  September  9,  1855,  in  Hartford,  Conn. 
Died  June  16,  1917,  in  Hartford,  Conn. 

Frederick  Wendell  Davis  was  born  September  9,  1855, 
in  Hartford,  Conn.,  his  parents  being  Gustavus  Fellowes 
and  Lucy  Terry  (Strong)  Davis.  His  father,  for  many 
years  president  of  the  City  Bank  of  Hartford,  was  the 
son  of  Gustavus  Fellowes  Davis,  a  Baptist  minister,  who 
received  honorary  degrees  from  Colby,  Yale,  and  Wesleyan, 


360  YALE    COLLEGE 

and  Abigail  (Leonard)  Davis,  and  a  descendant  of  Robert 
Davis,  who  came  from  England  in  1638,  and  settled  in 
Yarmouth,  Mass.,  twelve  years  later  removing  to  Barn- 
stable. His  mother's  parents  were  William  and  Naomi 
(Terry)  Strong.  She  traced  her  descent  to  Governor  Wil- 
liam Bradford.  Frederick  W.  Davis  was  also  related  to 
the  Strong,  Wolcott,  Quincy,  and  Wendell  families,  his 
ancestors  including  Roger  Wolcott,  governor  of  Con- 
necticut from  1 75 1  to  1754. 

Entering  Yale  from  the  Hartford  Public  High  School, 
he  served  as  treasurer  of  the  Class  Boat  Club  in  vSophomore 
year,  and  as  assistant  treasurer  of  the  University  Boat 
Club  the  next  year,  being  president  of  the  latter  organiza- 
tion in  Senior  year.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Class  Glee 
Club  for  three  years,  and  was  leader  of  the  University 
Glee  Club  and  played  on  the  University  Football  Team  in 
Senior  year. 

Mr.  Davis  went  to  New  Orleans,  La.,  in  December,  1878, 
with  the  firm  of  Smith  &  Boullemet,  after  spending  a  year 
in  their  Louisville  office.  In  1881  he  returned  to  Hartford, 
and  had  since  made  his  home  in  that  city.  He  was  con- 
nected with  the  Colt's  Patent  Fire  Arms  Manufacturing 
Company  and  the  Perkins  Electric  Switch  Manufacturing 
Company,  and  in  1896  took  a  position  with  the  firm  of 
J.  J.  &  F.  Goodwin,  retaining  his  connection  with  that  firm 
until  October,  1916,  when  he  retired  from  business.  For 
several  years  he  served  as  auditor  of  the  Travelers  Insur- 
ance Company,  and  he  had  been  connected  with  the  Hartford 
Street  Railway  Company  and  the  Wadsworth  Athenaeum 
in  a  similar  capacity.  He  was  a  trustee  of  the  State  Savings 
Bank  and  the  Morris  Plan  Company.  He  was  a  member 
of  the  Hartford  Common  Council  in  1897,  and  served  for 
eleven  years  on  the  Hartford  Public  High  School  Com- 
mittee. He  was  a  member  of  the  Archaeological  Club,  the 
Society  of  Mayflower  Descendants,  the  Drama  League,  the 
Municipal  Society,  and  the  Navy  League.  He  belonged 
to  the  First  Church  (Congregational). 

He  died  at  his  home  in  Hartford,  June  16,  1917,  as  the 
result  of  heart  trouble,  from  which  he  had  suffered  for 
several  years.  With  Mrs.  Davis,  he  spent  four  months  in 
Florida  this  past  winter,  dividing  the  time  between  Cocoa- 
nut  Grove  and  Ormond  Beach. 

Mr.  Davis  was  twice  married,  his  first  wife  being  Lucy 


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Trumbull,  daughter  of  Morris  Woodward  and  Julia 
(Palmer)  Smith.  Their  marriage  took  place  September 
30,  1879,  in  New  Hartford,  Conn.,  and  one  son,  Carl  Willis, 
was  born  to  them.  The  latter  received  the  degrees  of  B.A. 
and  M.A.  at  Yale  in  1902  and  1908,  respectively.  Mrs. 
Davis  died  February  i,  1881,  and  on  October  i,  1884,  he 
was  married  in  Hampton,  Conn.,  to  Mary,  daughter  of 
Henry  Griswold  and  Delia  Williams  (Ellsworth)  Taintor, 
and  sister  of  the  late  Henry  Ellsworth  Taintor  (B.A.  1865). 
By  this  marriage  Mr.  Davis  had  four  children:  Dorothy 
Wendell  (B.A.  Smith  1907),  the  wife  of  James  Lippincott 
Goodwin  (B.A.  1905,  M.F.  1910)  of  Hartford;  Roger 
Wolcott,  who  graduated  from  the  Scientific  School  in  191 1 
and  from  the  School  of  Law  in  1913;  Frederick  Ellsworth, 
a  graduate  of  Annapolis  in  19 13,  now  a  lieutenant  in  the 
United  States  Navy,  and  Elise  Pierrepont,  who  died  April 
16,  1906.  Besides  his  wife  and  four  children,  he  is  survived 
by  a  granddaughter  and  one  sister.  Another  sister,  who 
was  the  wife  of  Rev.  Wilder  Smith  (B.A.  1857),  died  in 
191 5,  and  a  brother,  Gustavus  Pierrepont  Davis  (B.A.  1866, 
M.D.  Columbia  1869),  in  1914.  The  latter's  son,  Arthur 
W.  Davis,  graduated  from  the  College  in  1899,  his  death 
occurring  in  1904,  and  two  daughters  married  Yale  men, 
one  being  the  wife  of  Otto  A.  Schreiber  (B.A.  1892)  and 
the  other  of  W.  Stuart  Glazier  (B.A.  1906).  Mr.  Davis 
was  a  cousin  of  Pierpont  V.  Davis  (B.A.  1905),  Howard 
C.  Davis  (B.A.  1909),  and  Everett  D.  Davis  (B.A.  1914), 
and  an  uncle  by  marriage  of  the  late  Harlan  Henry  Taintor, 
who  graduated  from  Yale  College  in  1892,  and  of  Bradford 
Ellsworth  (B.A.  1903). 


Paul  Charlton,  B.A.   1878 

Born  November  2,  1856,  in  Harrisburg,  Pa. 
Died  June  4,   1917,  in  Jiiana  Diaz,   Porto  Rico 

Paul  Charlton  was  born  in  Harrisburg,  Pa.,  November  2, 
1856,  the  son  of  Dr.  Samuel  Templeton  Charlton  and  Clare 
J.  (Porter)  Charlton.  His  father,  who  was  for  a  time  a 
member  of  the  Class  of  1846  at  Washington  (now  Wash- 
ington and  Jefferson)  College  and  was  graduated  from  the 
Medical  Department  of  New  York  University  in  1850, 
practiced  medicine  at  Harrisburg  for  many  years,  serving 


3^2  YALE   COLLEGE 

as  surgeon  in  a  Pennsylvania  regiment  during  the  Civil 
War.  He  was  the  son  of  Dr.  James  Charlton,  an  English- 
man, who  came  to  this  country  from  England  about  1810, 
settling  at  Alexandria,  Va.,  and  Nancy  (Templeton)  Charl- 
ton. His  wife  was  the  daughter  of  John  and  Maria 
(Bucher)  Porter  of  Alexandria.  She  was  of  Scotch-Irish 
and  German  origin,  her  ancestors  coming  to  this  country 
in  1755  and  settling  in  Philadelphia,  Harrisburg,  and 
Lebanon,  Pa. 

Entering  Yale  from  the  Harrisburg  Academy,  he  was 
president  of  the  Class  Football  Club  for  three  years  and 
a  member  of  the  Class  Glee  Club  in  Junior  year. 

He  spent  the  first  year  after  graduation  on  a  topograph- 
ical survey,  after  which  he  began  the  study  of  law  in 
Hollidaysburg,  Pa.  He  was  admitted  to  the  Pennsylvania 
Bar  in  1882,  and  for  the  next  six  years  practiced  at  Harris- 
burg. Removing  to  Omaha,  Nebr.,  in  May,  1888,  he  was 
for  a  time  engaged  in  an  independent  practice,  later  being 
successively  a  member  of  the  firm  of  Charlton  &  Crofoot, 
Charlton,  Crofoot  &  Hall,  Charlton  &  Hall,  and  Mont- 
gomery, Charlton  &  Hall.  From  1895  to  1905  he  devoted 
himself  exclusively  to  corporation  law  and  practice  in  the 
Federal  Courts.  In  May  of  the  latter  year  he  was  called 
to  Washington,  D.  C,  to  become  law  officer  of  the  Bureau 
of  Insular  Affairs  in  the  War  Department.  During  1909 
and  1910  he  also  served  as  lecturer  on  colonial  administra- 
tion in  the  College  of  the  Political  Sciences  at  George 
Washington  University.  In  191 1  he  was  appointed  United 
States  judge  for  the  District  of  Porto  Rico,  and  held  that 
post  for  a  little  over  a  year.  Since  January,  1913,  he  had 
practiced  law  in  San  Juan. 

Mr.  Charlton  had  written  occasionally  for  the  news- 
papers, and  had  delivered  occasional  addresses  before 
learned  and  technical  societies.  He  was  an  associate  editor 
of  the  Bulletin  de  Colonisation  Comparee  of  Brussels. 
While  living  in  Omaha,  he  was  active  in  municipal  affairs, 
being  a  director  of  the  Omaha  Public  Library,  and  a  mem- 
ber of  the  committee  on  arrangements  for  the  Trans- 
Mississippi  Library  Congress  and  chairman  of  the  advisory 
committee  of  the  Fine  Arts  Bureau  of  the  Trans-Mississippi 
and  International  Exposition,  held  at  Omaha  in  1898.  He 
was  a  member  of  the  Society  of  Colonial  Wars,  the 
American    Society    of    Political    Sciences,    the    American 


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Society  of  International  Law,  and  the  Protestant  Episcopal 
Church.  His  death  occurred  June  4,  1917,  at  Juana  Diaz, 
Porto  Rico,  following  an  operation  for  a  carbuncle. 

Mr.  Charlton  was  married  November  24,  1887,  in  Holli- 
daysburg,  to  Elizabeth  Patton,  daughter  of  John  and  Maria 
(Milliken)  Denniston,  by  whom  he  had  three  sons,  Porter, 
Robert,  and  Denniston.  Mrs.  Charlton  died  September  10, 
1902,  and  on  January  8,  1908,  he  was  married  in  Baltimore, 
Md.,  to  Helen,  daughter  of  Dr.  Alfred  Wanstall  and 
Margaret  M.  (French)  Wanstall,  who  survives  him. 


David  Daggett,  B.A.   1879 

Born  April  3,  1858,  in  New  Haven,  Conn. 
Died  July  3,  1916,  in  New  Haven,  Conn. 

David  Daggett  was  born  April  3,  1858,  in  New  Haven, 
Conn.,  the  son  of  David  Lewis  and  Margaret  Donaldson 
(Gibbons)  Daggett.  His  father  received  from  Yale  the 
degree  of  B.A.  in  1839  and  that  of  M.D.  four  years  later, 
and  was  for  many  years  a  leading  physician  in  New  Haven ; 
he  was  the  son  of  Leonard  Augustus  Daggett  (B.A.  1807) 
and  Jennette  (Atwater)  Daggett,  and  the  grandson  of  David 
Daggett,  a  graduate  of  the  College  in  1783,  who  served  as 
a  United  States  Senator,  as  Kent  professor  of  law  at  Yale, 
and  as  chief  justice  of  the  Superior  Court  of  Connecticut, 
and  upon  whom  Yale  conferred  the  degree  of  LL.D.  in 
1827.  John  Doggett,  the  founder  of  the  American  branch 
of  the  family,  came  to  Massachusetts  with  Governor  Win- 
throp  in  1630,  and  later  married  a  daughter  of  Thomas 
Mayhew,  subsequently  colonial  governor  of  Martha's  Vine- 
yard, Nantucket,  and  the  Elizabeth  Islands.  The  name 
was  changed  to  Daggett  two  generations  later.  David  L. 
Daggett  was  a  grandson  of  Eneas  Mtmson,  who  graduated 
from  Yale  in  1753  and  served  for  thirteen  years  as  pro- 
fessor of  materia  medica  and  botany  at  the  University.  His 
wife  was  a  daughter  of  William  and  Rebecca  (Donaldson) 
Gibbons  of  Wilmington,  Del.,  and  a  descendant  of  John 
Gibbons,  a  Quaker,  who  came  to  this  country  from  Wilt- 
shire, England,  in  1683,  settling  in  Chester  County,  Pa., 
where  members  of  the  family  were  prominent  in  local  and 
state  affairs  for  several  generations. 


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David  Daggett  was  prepared  for  Yale  at  the  Hopkins 
Grammar  School.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Senior 
Promenade  Committee. 

After  being  engaged  in  the  iron  and  steel  business  with 
E.  S.  Wheeler  &  Company  at  Birmingham,  Conn.,  and  at 
New  Haven  for  two  years,  he  entered  the  export  commis- 
sion house  of  Guy  H.  Gardner  of  New  York  City,  and 
spent  the  next  sixteen  months  on  a  business  trip  to  Aus- 
tralia, India,  Malta,  and  England.  On  his  return  to  this 
country  he  formed  a  partnership  with  Mr.  Gardner  under 
the  name  of  G.  H.  Gardner  &  Company.  He  continued 
in  that  connection  until  1890,  during  the  latter  part  of 
this  period  being  located  in  New  Haven.  He  then  took 
a  position  with  the  Winchester  Repeating  Arms  Company 
of  that  city,  and  traveled  in  their  interests  until  1899. 
Since  that  time  he  had  been  secretary  of  the  New  Haven 
Water  Company.  He  had  also  served  as  secretary  of  the 
W^est  Haven,  Milford,  and  Branford  Water  companies  and 
as  a  trustee  of  the  New  Haven  Savings  Bank,  the  New 
Haven  Wire  Company,  E.  S.  Wheeler  &  Company,  and 
the  New  Haven  Clock  Company.  He  was  at  one  time 
an  officer  of  the  Birmingham  Rolling  Mill.  Mr.  Daggett 
was  a  leading  member  of  the  Graduates  Club  of  New 
Haven.  He  had  served  on  its  board  of  governors,  as  chair- 
man of  its  building  and  house  committees,  as  vice-president, 
and  as  president.  He  aided  in  organizing  the  Yale  Alumni 
Association  of  New  Haven,  and  later  represented  the  organ- 
ization on  the  Alumni  Advisory  Board.  He  had  also 
served  as  secretary  of  the  Yale  Committee  of  Twenty-one, 
Inc.,  charged  with  building  the  Yale  Bowl  and  developing 
the  athletic  grounds  of  the  University,  and  as  a  member 
of  the  Wright  Memorial  Committee.  He  was  a  vestryman 
of  Trinity  Protestant  Episcopal  Church,  New  Haven,  and 
president  of  the  Brooks  Club,  the  men's  club  connected 
with  it.  He  was  clerk  of  the  Pine  Orchard  Association, 
the  borough  government  of  his  summer  home. 

Mr.  Daggett  died  very  suddenly,  as  the  result  of  an 
apoplectic  stroke,  in  New  Haven,  July  3,  1916.  Interment 
was  in  the  Grove  Street  Cemetery. 

He  was  married  June  2,  1887,  in  New  Haven,  to  Annie 
Wilcox,  daughter  of  Charles  Atwater,  who  received  the 
degree  of  B.A.  at  Yale  in  1834,  and  Emilie  (Montgomery) 
A'twater.     She  survives  him  with  their  son,  David  Lewis, 


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a  graduate  of  the  College  in  1910  and  of  the  School  of 
Law  in  1913.  Mr.  Daggett  also  leaves  a  brother,  Leonard 
Mayhew  Daggett  (B.A.  1884,  LL.B.  1887).  William  Gib- 
bons Daggett,  who  received  the  degree  of  B.A.  at  Yale 
in  1880  and  that  of  M.D.  at  the  University  of  Pennsylvania 
in  1884,  and  who  died  in  1910,  was  also  a  brother  of  Mr. 
Daggett.  Mrs.  Daggett  is  a  sister  of  William  M.  Atwater 
(Ph.B.  1879)  and  a  half-sister  of  Howell  Atwater,  a  non- 
graduate  member  of  the  College  Class  of  1863. 


Newell  Avery  Eddy,  B.A.   1879 

Born  May  20,  1856,  in  Bangor,  Maine 
Died  February  28,  1917,  in  Bay  City,  Mich. 

Newell  Avery  Eddy,  son  of  Jonathan  and  Caroline 
(Bailey)  Eddy,  was  born  in  Bangor,  Maine,  May  20,  1856. 
He  was  descended  from  Samuel  Eddy,  of  Cranbrook,  Kent, 
England,  who  settled  in  Plymouth  Colony  in  1630.  His 
great-great-grandfather,  Col.  Jonathan  Eddy  of  Eddington, 
Maine,  served  with  distinction  in  the  Revolutionary  War, 
and  was  rewarded  by  two  large  land  grants,  one  at  the 
head  of  the  tidewater  on  the  Penobscot  River,  Maine,  where 
the  town  of  Eddington,  which  he  organized,  now  stands. 
The  other  land  grant  is  the  present  city  of  Columbus,  Ohio. 
His  father,  who  was  engaged  in  business  in  Bangor  as  a 
lumber  merchant,  was  the  son  of  Ware  and  Nancy  (Clapp) 
Eddy.  His  mother's  parents  were  Amos  and  Sally  (Bal- 
lard) Bailey. 

His  preparatory  training  was  received  at  Phillips  Acad- 
emy, Andover,  Mass.    In  college  he  belonged  to  Linonia. 

Early  in  1880,  after  spending  some  time  at  home,  Mr. 
Eddy  went  to  southern  Florida,  where  he  studied  and  made 
collections  in  ornithology  and  oology  for  several  months. 
He  made  Bangor  his  home  for  the  next  few  years,  devoting 
his  attention  to  study  and  travel.  In  May,  1885,  he  removed 
from  Bangor  to  Bay  City,  Mich.,  where  the  remainder  of 
his  life  was  spent.  There  he  became  engaged  in  the  lumber 
and  real  estate  business  under  his  own  name,  continuing 
his  interests  in  that  direction  until  his  death.  Among  the 
companies  with  which  he  had  been  connected  as  an  officer 


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were  the  Eddy  Brothers  Company,  the  First  National  and 
Bay  County  Savings  banks,  the  General  Machinery  Com- 
pany, the  Opera  House  Company,  the  Elm  Lawn  Cemetery 
Association,  the  Smalley  Motor  Company,  the  Penobscot 
Mining  Company,  the  Piatt  Mining  Company,  the  Windiate 
Building  Company,  the  Eddy  Investment  Company,  the 
Lake  Transit  Company,  the  Eddy- Shaw  Transit  Company, 
and  the  Mershon-Eddy- Parker  Company.  Mr.  Eddy  served 
on  the  Bay  City  School  Board  for  some  years.  He  was 
a  member  of  the  American  Association  for  the  Advance- 
ment of  Science  and  the  Audubon  Society,  and  was  con- 
sidered an  authority  on  bird  life  in  North  America,  having 
one  of  the  largest  collections  of  birds  in  the  state  of 
Michigan,  all  of  which  he  had  collected  and  mounted  him- 
self. For  a  long  time  he  had  assisted  in  the  publication 
of  works  on  Michigan  birds,  and  he  had  made  reports  on 
the  same  subject,  as  well  as  contributing  frequently  to 
ornithological  journals.  At  the  time  of  his  death  he  was 
the  representative  of  the  Smithsonian  Institution  in  the 
Middle  West.  For  a  number  of  years  he  annually  made 
collecting  and  hunting  trips  in  various  parts  of  this  country. 

His  death  occurred  suddenly  February  ,28,  191 7,  'at 
his  home  in  Bay  City,  as  the  result  of  an  attack  of  acute 
indigestion  and  heart  failure.  Interment  was  in  Elm  Lawn 
Cemetery. 

Mr.  Eddy  was  married  February  9,  1880,  in  Bangor,  to 
Marianna  McRuer,  daughter  of  Edward  Mann  Field  (B.A. 
Bowdoin  1845,  M.D.  Jefferson  Medical  College  1849)  and 
Sally  (McRuer)  Field.  They  had  six  children:  Newell 
Avery,  Jr.  (Ph.B.  1904)  ;  May  Field,  who  was  married 
June  14,  1905,  to  Harry  Fay  Chapin  of  Bay  City;  Laura 
Parker,  the  wife  of  John  McCabe  of  Chicago,  111. ;  Donald 
McRuer,  who  graduated  from  the  Scientific  School  in  1912; 
Charles  Fremont,  2d  (Ph.B.  1917),  and  Sally  McRuer. 
The  eldest  son  is  the  Class  Boy  of  1879.  Mr.  Eddy  is 
survived  by  his  wife,  six  children,  and  two  grandchildren. 
His  Yale  relatives  include  his  cousins,  Edwin  M.  Eddy 
(Ph.B.  1899)  and  Stanley  L.  Eddy  (Ph.B.  1908). 


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Howard  Dunlap  Newton,  B. A.   1879 

Born  November  i8,  1857,  in  Norwich,  N.  Y. 
Died  November  21,  1916,  in  New  York  City- 
Howard  Dunlap  Newton,  whose  parents  were  Isaac 
Sprague  Newton  (B.A.  1848)  and  Jane  Campbell  (Dunlap) 
Newton,  was  born  in  Norwich,  N.  Y.,  November  18,  1857. 
He  was  the  grandson  of  William  Newton  of  Salem,  Conn., 
whose  father,  Asahel  Newton,  fought  in  the  Revolution, 
and  Lois  (Butler)  Newton,  the  latter  being  the  daughter 
of  Deacon  Richard  Butler,  the  niece  of  Seth  Sage  (B.A. 
1768),  and  a  descendant  of  Lieut.  Charles  Butler  and  Capt. 
Solomon  Sage,  both  of  whom  were  Revolutionary  soldiers. 
The  earliest  member  of  the  Newton  family  in  this  country 
was  Thomas  Newton,  who  came  from  England  to  Con- 
necticut prior  to  1640  and  married  Joan  Smith,  daughter 
of  Richard  Smith,  who  had  settled  in  Narragansett  before 
1639.  Howard  D.  Newton's  mother  was  of  Scotch  descent, 
her  father's  family  having  originated  in  Argyleshire  and 
settled  in  Cherry  Valley,  N.  Y.,  about  1740.  Among  her 
ancestors  who  served  in  the  Revolutionary  War  were  John 
Burkett  and  John  Dunlap.  Mrs.  Newton  was  the  daughter 
of  Robert  and  Hannah  (Burkett)  Dunlap;  she  died  Decem- 
ber 7,  1864,  and  her  husband  later  married  Jane,  daughter 
of  Harvey  and  Tamer  (Parks)  Newton. 

Howard  D.  Newton  was  fitted  for  college  at  the  Hopkins 
Grammar  School  in  New  Haven,  and  in  his  Freshman  year 
was  given  a  third  prize  in  mathematics.  His  Junior  appoint- 
ment was  an  Oration,  and  he  received  a  Dissertation  at 
Commencement. 

Returning  to  Norwich  immediately  after  graduation,  he 
was  employed  for  eighteen  months  in  the  National  Bank. 
In  January,  1881,  he  began  the  study  of  law  in  his  father's 
office.  Two  years  later  he  was  admitted  to  the  bar  of 
New  York  State,  and  he  had  since  practiced  in  Norwich, 
being  associated  with  his  father  until  the  latter's  death  in 
1889.  He  was  for  a  long  time  attorney  for  the  New  York, 
Ontario  &  Western  Railway.  He  was  interested  in  a  num- 
ber of  business  concerns,  serving  for  some  years  as  presi- 
dent of  the  National  Bank  of  Norwich,  the  Sherburne 
National  Bank,  and  the  Norwich  Water  Works.  After 
the   death   of   his    father-in-law,   Mr.    Martin,   the   David 


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Maydole  Hammer  Company  was  largely  in  the  charge  of 
Mr.  Newton  and  his  wife.  He  was  a  trustee  of  the  Follett 
Law  Library,  the  Young  Men's  Christian  Association,  and 
the  First  Congregational  Church.  The  surroundings  of  his 
home  town  show  evidence  of  his  active  interest  in  reforest- 
ing and  landscape  work. 

He  died  at  the  General  Memorial  Hospital  in  New  York 
City,  November  21,  1916,  after  an  illness  of  several  months 
due  to  carcinoma.  He  was  buried  in  Mount  Hope  Cemetery 
at  Norwich. 

His  marriage  took  place  November  18,  1885,  in  that 
town,  to  Jane  Vernette,  daughter  of  Cyrus  B.  and  Ann 
Vernette  (Maydole)  Martin.  Their  children  were:  Anna 
Martin,  who  graduated  from  Wellesley  in  1909  and  was 
married  August  12,  1913,  to  Charles  Talbot  Porter,  an 
instructor  at  Yale,  where  he  received  the  degree  of  Ph.B. 
in  1907  and  that  of  M.E.  in  1913;  Margaret  Dunlap  (B.A. 
Wellesley  1911)  ;  Lawrence  Howard,  who  died  February 
5,  1900;  Jean  Maydole  (B.A.  Wellesley  1916),  and  Eleanor 
Butler  (B.A.  Wellesley  1917).  Surviving  Mr.  Newton  are 
his  wife,  four  children,  a  brother,  Isaac  Burkett  Newton 
(B.A.  1883),  a  sister,  a  half-brother,  Edward  Payson  New- 
ton (B.A.  1897),  and  a  half-sister.  He  was  a  nephew  of 
Hubert  A.  Newton  (B.A.  1850),  for  many  years  professor 
of  mathematics  at  Yale,  and  Homer  G.  Newton  (B.A. 
1859)  ;  a  cousin  of  William  L.  Newton  (B.A.  1893),  and 
an  uncle  of  Reuben  Jeffery,  Jr.,  who  graduated  from  the 
College  in  191 1  and  from  the  School  of  Law  in  1914,  and 
of  Burkett  D.  Newton  (B.A.  1914). 


John  Theodore  Wentworth,  B.A.   1879 

Born  January  13,  1854,  at  Saratoga  Springs,  N.  Y. 
Died  September  19,  1916,  in  Racine,  Wis. 

John  Theodore  Wentworth  was  a  descendant  of  William 
Wentworth,  an  early  settler  in  New  Haven  Colony,  and 
was  born  January  13,  1854,  at  Saratoga  Springs,  N.  Y. 
His  father,  John  Theodore  Wentworth,  graduated  from 
Union  College  in  1846,  studied  law  at  Saratoga  Springs, 
arid  immediately  after  his  marriage  in  1852  went  West, 
first  to  Chicago,  111.,  where  he  was  connected  with  a  news- 


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paper,  and  then  to  Geneva  (now  Lake  Geneva),  Wis.,  where 
he  practiced  law;  in  1871  he  was  elected  clerk  of  the 
Circuit  Court,  and  the  family  moved  to  Elkhorn,  Wis.,  the 
county  seat;  in  1875  he  became  judge  of  the  First  Judicial 
Circuit,  and  removed  with  his  family  to  Racine,  Wis.  Mr. 
Wentworth  was  the  son  of  John  Wentworth,  who  went 
from  Boston  to  Saratoga  Springs  early  in  the  nineteenth 
century,  and  Mary  (Brown)  Wentworth,  and  a  descendant 
of  John  Wentworth,  the  founder  of  an  Indian  Charter 
School  at  Hanover,  N.  H.,  in  1769.  His  wife,  Frances 
(McDonnell)  Wentworth,  was  the  daughter  of  Thomas 
McDonnell  of  Portaferry,  Ireland,  who  came  to  America 
toward  the  close  of  the  eighteenth  century,  married  Frances 
Halsey  of  New  York,  and  soon  settled  at  Saratoga  Springs. 

Their  son  spent  the  first  seventeen  years  of  his  life  at 
Lake  Geneva.  After  studying  for  a  year  at  the  Elkhorn 
(Wis.)  High  School,  he  came  to  New  Haven  to  work  for 
the  New  Haven  Clock  Company.  In  1872  he  entered  the 
Hopkins  Grammar  School,  and,  after  spending  three  years 
there,  returned  to  the  West,  and  matriculated  at  Beloit 
College.  He  completed  his  Sophomore  year  at  that  insti- 
tution, joining  the  Yale  Class  of  1879  in  the  fall  of  1877. 
As  a  member  of  Linonia,  he  took  a  prominent  part  in  the 
various  debates  during  his  two  years  at  Yale.  He  received 
a  First  Dispute  appointment  at  Commencement. 

He  then  studied  law  in  the  offices  of  Sloan,  Stevens  & 
Morris  in  Madison,  Wis.,  being  admitted  to  the  bar  in 
April,  1881.  The  larger  part  of  his  life  was  spent  in 
Racine,  although  he  lived  in  Colorado  for  two  or  three 
years  on  account  of  his  health,  there  being  for  a  time 
engaged  in  mining  and  afterwards  associated  with  a  law 
firm  at  Silverton;  spent  two  years  in  Washington,  D.  C, 
as  secretary  to  Judge  Schoonmaker  of  the  Interstate  Com- 
merce Commission,  and  was  in  Chicago  for  a  similar  length 
of  time,  being  at  first  connected  with  the  legal  department 
of  J.  V.  Farwell  &  Company  and  later  with  the  law  firm 
of  Flower,  Smith  &  Musgrave.  For  one  year  he  was 
associated  in  practice  with  David  H.  Flett  (B.A.  Oberlin 
1875,  LL.B.  Wisconsin  1880).  He  then  formed  a  partner- 
ship with  his  father,  continuing  as  a  member  of  the  firm 
of  Wentworth  &  Wentworth  until  the  death  of  his  father 
in  1893.  Thereafter  he  conducted  an  independent  practice. 
He  was  interested  in  political  reforms,  and  was  especially 


370  YALE    COLLEGE 

active  in  establishing  the  AustraUan  ballot  system  in  Wis- 
consin. He  served  from  January,  1902,  until  19 16  as  court 
commissioner  for  Racine  County,  and  was  for  five  years 
a  justice  of  the  peace,  acting  in  the  latter  capacity  until 
the  work  of  the  Justice  Courts  was  largely  supplanted  by 
the  Municipal  Court  of  Racine  County,  the  bill  for  which 
he  mainly  drafted.  Mr.  Wentworth  had  read  widely,  not 
only  in  law  but  in  most  subjects  of  importance.  While 
engaged  in  his  work  for  the  Interstate  Commerce  Com- 
mission, he  published  a  useful  book,  entitled  "Practice 
before  the  Interstate  Commerce  Board."  At  forty-five 
he  acquired  the  art  of  shorthand  writing,  and  in  his  fiftieth 
year  took  up  the  study  of  both  Spanish  and  French,  learning 
to  read  easily  in  both  of  these  languages.  He  attended  the 
First  Presbyterian  Church  of  Racine,  and  was  active  in 
the  work  of  its  men's  Bible  class. 

Although  his  health  had  always  been  poor,  he  was  able 
to  give  his  attention  to  his  legal  work  until  1916.  In  recent 
years  he  had  largely  withdrawn  from  practice,  and  devoted 
himself  -to  making  abstracts  of  title.  His  death  occurred 
September  19,  1916,  at  St.  Mary's  Hospital,  Racine,  as  the 
result  of  a  nervous  breakdown.  Interment  was  in  the 
Mound  Cemetery  in  that  city. 

Mr.  Wentworth  had  never  married.  He  is  survived  by 
his  mother  and  two  sisters.  His  brother,  Thomas  McDon- 
nell Wentworth,  received  from  Yale  the  degree  of  B.A. 
post  obit,  in  1882. 


Frank  Hamilton  Ayer,  B.A.   1880 

Born  June  21,  1857,  in  Nashua,  N.  H. 
Died  January  13,  1917,  in  Nashua,  N.  H. 

Frank  Hamilton  Ayer  was  born  June  21,  1857,  in  Nashua, 
N.  H.,  the  son  of  Francis  Brown  Ayer  (M.D.  Jefferson 
Medical  College  1848)  and  Anne  Maria  (Baldwin)  Ayer. 
His  father,  who  practiced  medicine  in  Laconia,  N.  H.,  for 
some  years,  was  the  son  of  John  and  Judith  (McCutcheon) 
Ayer,  and  a  grandson  of  John  Ayer,  an  ensign  in  the 
Revolutionary  ,War,  who  lived  first  at  Pembroke,  N.  H., 
and  later  at  Ticonderoga.  The  McCutcheon  family,  a 
branch  of  the  Macleods,  came  with  a  colony  to  London- 


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derry,  N.  H.,  about  17 19,  later  removing  to  Pembroke. 
Frank  H.  Ayer's  great-grandfather,  Frederick  McCutcheon, 
served  as  a  private  in  the  Revolution.  His  mother,  whose 
parents  were  Josephus  Baldwin,  the  first  mayor  of  Nashua, 
and  Nancy  (Blan chard)  Baldwin,  was  descended  from 
Henry  Baldwin,  who  emigrated  to  America  from  Devon- 
shire, England,  about  1630,  settling  at  North  Woburn, 
Mass. 

His  preparation  for  college  was  received  at  Phillips 
Academy,  Andover,  Mass.,  and  under  a  private  tutor  in 
Nashua.  Fie  was  given  a  Second  Colloquy  appointment  in 
both  Junior  and  Senior  years. 

Soon  after  graduation  Mr.  Ayer  became  connected  with 
the  Nashua  Bobbin  &  Shuttle  Company.  He  was  made 
president  and  treasurer  of  the  concern  in  1885,  but  six 
years  later  resigned  to  take  the  position  of  Eastern  repre- 
sentative of  the  Ironton  Door  &  Manufacturing  Company 
of  Ironton,  Ohio.  He  retained  that  connection  until  1905, 
and  had  since  been  engaged  in  the  real  estate  business  in 
Nashua.  Mr.  Ayer  was  an  enthusiastic  golfer,  and  built 
the  first  course  in  the  state  of  New  Hampshire.  He  was 
a  supporter  of  the  Nashua  Unitarian  Church. 

He  died  very  suddenly  January  13,  19 17,  in.  Nashua,  as 
the  result  of  ursemic  poisoning.  Interment  was  in  the 
family  mausoleum  at  Bristol,  N.  H. 

He  was  married  January  26,  1887,  in  Manchester,  N.  H., 
to  Ellen  Frances,  daughter  of  Orison  and  Anne  Maria 
(Clark)  Batchelder.  They  had  no  children.  Mr.  Ayer  is 
survived  by  three  aunts  and  several  cousins.  His  wife  died 
May  17,  1910. 


Asa  John  Farwell,  B.A.   1880 

Born  July  27,  1857,  in  Hartford,  Conn. 
Died  September  i,  1916,  in  Hartford,  Conn. 

Asa  John  Farwell,  whose  parents  were  John  Isham  and 
Emma  Jane  (Church)  Farwell,  was  born  in  Hartford, 
Conn.,  July  2j,  1857.  His  father  was  the  son  of  Asa  and 
Eliza  (Isham)  Farwell,  and  his  mother's  parents  were 
Samuel  and  Sarah  Church.  He  was  fitted  for  Yale  at 
the   Hartford   Public   High   School,   and   before   entering 


372  YALE    COLLEGE 

college  spent  a  year  in  the  office  of  the  town  and  city 
treasurer  of  Hartford.  His  Junior  appointment  was  a 
Second  Colloquy. 

After  spending  a  year  in  Hartford,  Mr.  Farwell  entered 
the  Harvard  Medical  School  in  the  fall  of  1881,  but  at 
the  end  of  a  year  he  was  compelled  to  give  up  his  intention 
of  becoming  a  physician.  For  several  years  he  served  as 
bookkeeper  for  Lewis  Brothers  &  Company  in  Boston, 
Mass.,  on  June  i,  1885,  being  transferred  to  their  New 
York  office.  Two  years  later,  having  passed  a  Civil  Service 
examination,  he  was  appointed  to  a  clerkship  in  the  naval 
office  of  the  New  York  Customs  House,  where  he  was 
employed  until  1889.  In  June  of  that  year  he  returned  to 
Boston,  and  until  1897  was  a  bookkeeper  for  the  Boston 
Safe  Deposit  &  Trust  Company.  His  health  failed  about 
this  time,  and  for  the  next  six  years  he  lived  quietly  in  Lynn, 
Mass.  In  October,  1903,  he  took  a  position  with  Harper 
&  Brothers  in  New  York  City,  and  while  in  their  employ 
made  his  home  in  Brooklyn.  He  was  afterwards  connected 
with  the  V/estchester  &  Bronx  Title. &  Mortgage  Guaranty 
Company  of  White  Plains,  but  in  191 1  he  developed  tuber- 
culosis, and  went  to  Hartford,  where  the  remainder  of  his 
life  was  spent.  He  died  there  at  the  home  of  his  half- 
brother,  September  i,  1916,  and  was  buried  in  Spring  Grove 
Cemetery. 

He  was  unmarried.  Surviving  him  are  a  sister  and  a 
half-brother. 


Cadwalader  Edwards  Linthictim,  B.A.   1880 

Born  November  11,  1858,  near  Millersville,  Aid. 
Died  March  22,  1917,  in  Gaithersburg,  Md. 

Cadwalader  Edwards  Linthicum,  son  of  John  Linthicum, 
a  planter,  and  Matilda  (Dare)  Linthicum,  was  born  on  a 
farm  near  Millersville,  Md.,  November  11,  1858.  His 
father's  parents  w^ere  John  and  Rebecca  (White)  Lin- 
thicum, and  his  mother  was  the  daughter  of  Nathaniel 
and  Matilda  (Hodgkin)  Dare.  The  Linthicums  and  Cad- 
walader s  came  to  this  country  from  Wales  about  1776, 
settling  at  Annapolis,  Md.,  and  Philadelphia,  Pa.,  and  mem- 
bers of  both  families  participated  in  the  War  of  1812.  The 
Dare  family  came  from  Ireland  some  time  after  1812.  and 
the  Edwards  family  emigrated  from  Scotland  a  little  later. 


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■  He  received  his  preparatory  training  at  the  Millersville 
Academy,  and  in  1876  entered  St.  John's  College  at  Annap- 
olis, Md.,  where  he  was  graduated  with  the  degree  of  B.A. 
in  1879.  He  spent  only  Senior  year  with  the  Yale  Class 
of  1880. 

Mr.  Linthicum  taught  languages  and  mathematics  in 
New  Windsor  College  at  New  Windsor,  Md.,  from  1880 
to  1882,  and  then  spent  two  years  in  Baltimore  looking 
after  the  business  affairs  of  an  invalid  uncle.  In  1884  he 
went  to  Chicago^  111.,  and  took  a  position  as  bookkeeper 
with  the  PVa'nklin  Mills  Company.  He  was  appointed  to 
a  Fellowship  in  mathematics  and  civil  eng'ineering  at  Cor- 
nell University  in  1885,  and  spent  the  next  three  years 
there  as  a  graduate  student  and  instructor,  receiving  the 
degree  of  Doctor  of  Philosophy  cum  laude  in  1888.  With 
the  exception  of  the  year  1890-91,  which  he  spent  in  the 
South  for  his  health,  he  taught  mathematics,  Latin,  and 
Greek  at  various  preparatory  schools  from  1888  until  1893, 
being  connected  successively  with  the  Peekskill  (N.  Y.) 
Military  Academy,  the  New  York  Military  Academy  at 
Cornwall,  N.  Y.,  and  the  Academy  of  the  New  Church  in 
Philadelphia,  Pa.  From  1893  to  1895  he  was  engaged  in 
private  tutoring  in  New  York  City,  afterwards  conducting 
a  real  estate  business  in  that  city  for  some  years.  Mr.  Lin- 
thicum was  a  member  of  St.  Paul's  Methodist  Church  of 
Millersville,  Md. 

I  His  death  occurred  March  22,  1917,  at  the  home  of  his 
sister  in  Gaithersburg,  Md.,  where  he  had  been  living  since 
March,  1914.  He  had  suffered  from  locomotor  ataxia  for 
four  years,  and  this  disease  ultimately  caused  his  death. 
Interment  was  in  Loudon  Park  Cemetery  at  Baltimore. 
He  was  married  in  that  city,  December  28,  1898,  to  Bessie, 
daughter  of  Jacob  and  Carrie  (Fine)  Dreffuse  of  Baltimore. 
Mrs.  Linthicum  died  October  18,  1899.  They  had  no 
ch 
; 


children.     Surviving  Mr.  Linthicum  are  five  sisters. 


John  Caldwell  Coleman,  B.A.   1881 

Born  August  25,  1858,  in  New  York  City 
Died  February   17,   1917,   in  New  York  City 

John  Caldwell  Coleman  was  born  August  25,   1858,  in 
New  York  City,  the  son  of   Emerson  Coleman,  a  cotton 


374  YALE    COLLEGE 

merchant,  who  was  active  in  civic  work  during  the  Civil- 
War,  and  Frances  Ann  (Coleman)  Coleman.  His  father's 
parents  were  Eleazer  and  Anne  (Searle)  Coleman,  and  his 
mother,  a  cousin  of  her  husband,  was  the  daughter  of 
Eliphalet  and  Martha  (Kelly)  Coleman.  His  ancestors, 
Thomas  Coleman  and  John  Searle,  came  to  America  from 
England  in  1630,  settling  in  Massachusetts,  the  former 
becoming  an  owner  of  land  at  Nantucket.  He  was  also 
descended  from  the  Pomeroys,  Edwards,  Clarks,  and 
Strongs  of  Northampton.  One  of  his  ancestors  gave 
money  to  start  the  then  struggling  Harvard  College.  Others 
fought  in  the  Colonial  Wars,  one  going  on  the  Cape  Breton 
expedition.  His  great-great-grandfather,  Lemuel  Coleman, 
served  as  an  officer  with  a  Massachusetts  regiment  during 
the  Revolution. 

His  preparation  for  college  was  received  at  a  private 
school  in  New  York  City  and  at  Williston  Seminary,  East- 
hampton,  Mass.  He  received  two  first  prizes  in  English 
composition  in  Sophomore  year  and  a  second  prize  at 
Junior  Exhibition,  and  he  also  won  a  second  Kappa  Sigma 
Epsilon  prize  in  oratory.  His  appointments  were  Second 
Disputes,  and  he  was  one  of  the  speakers  at  Commence- 
ment. He  was  an  editor  of  the  C  our  ant  in  1879-80  and 
of  the  Yale  Literary  Magazine  in  Senior  year,  was  elected 
to  Chi  Delta  Theta,  served  as  treasurer  of  Linonia,  and 
was  a  member  of  the  Senior  Debating  Society  and  of  the 
Track  Team.  He  was  active  in  religious  work,  in  Senior 
year  superintending  the  Bethany  Sunday  School. 

Mr.  Coleman  received  the  degree  of  Bachelor  of  Laws 
from  Columbia  in  1883,  having  spent  the  two  years  follow- 
ing his  graduation  from  Yale  in  the  study  of  law.  He 
was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  March,  1883,  and  from  that 
time  until  1887  was  a  clerk  in  the  office  of  Burnett  &  Whit- 
ney in  New^  York  City.  During  the  next  few  years  he  con- 
ducted an  independent  practice,  but  later  became  associated 
with  Mr.  George  W.  Thomas,  and  continued  in  partnership 
with  him  until  his  death,  the  firm  name  being  Coleman  & 
Thomas.  In  1902-3  he  served  as  deputy  attorney-general 
for  the  state  of  New  York.  Mr.  Coleman  voluntarily 
gave  much  time  to  public  service.  He  moved  to  the 
west  side  of  New  York  in  1884,  and  there  was  hardly 
an  improvement  in  that  part  of  the  city  with  which  he 
was  not  identified.     He  joined  the  West  End  Association 


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in  1885,  and  for  many  years  was  its  legal  counsel.  In  1891 
he  was  elected  vice-president,  and  continued  in  that  capacity 
until  19 1 3,  when  he  assumed  the  presidency  of  the  organi- 
zation. He  held  that  office  until  his  death.  He  early  joined 
the  Union  League,  and  served  on  its  membership  and 
library  committees,  and  he  had  been  president  of  the  Nine- 
teenth District  Assembly  Club,  the  Williston  Alumni  Asso- 
ciation of  New  York  City,  and  the  Round  Table,  and  had 
held  office  in  the  Order  of  Founders  and  Patriots  of 
America.  He  had  been  a  member  of  the  Madison  Square 
Presbyterian  Church  of  New  York  City  since  he  was  ten 
years  of  age,  and  was  superintendent  of  its  Sunday  school 
for  ten  years. 

His  death  occurred  February  17,  1917,  at  his  home  in 
New  York  City,  from  heart  failure,  after  an  illness  of  a 
few  hours.  He  was  buried  in  Evergreen  Cemetery  at 
New  Haven,  Conn.  His  classmate,  Rev.  Joseph  Dunn 
Burrell,  was  one  of  the  officiating  clergymen  at  the 
funeral  services  on  February  20,  assisting  Rev.  Charles  H. 
Parkhurst. 

Mr.  Coleman  was  married  in  New  Haven,  June  25,  1884, 
to  Julia  Rose,  daughter  of  Alexander  and  Susan  Gold 
(Ufford)  McAlister,  granddaughter  of  Rev.  Hezekiah 
Gold  Ufford,  a  graduate  of  the  College  in  1806,  and  sister 
of  Alexander  U.  McAUster  (Ph.B.  1866).  She  survives 
him  with  a  son,  McAlister,  who  graduated  from  Columbia 
in  1909,  and  a  daughter,  Frances  Emerson. 


Everett  Warren,  B.A.   1881 

Born  August  27,  1859,  in  Scranton,  Pa. 
Died  August  4,  1916,  at  Lake  Placid,  N.  Y. 

Everett  Warren  was  born  in  Scranton,  Pa.,  August  27, 
1859,  being  a  direct  descendant  of  Richard  Warren,  who 
came  from  England  in  the  Mayflower.  His  great-great- 
grandfather, Isaac  Warren,  himself  a  sergeant  in  the  Revo- 
lution, was  a  cousin  of  Gen.  Joseph  Warren.  His  father, 
Harris  Franklyn  Warren,  who  was  for  some  years  previous 
to  his  death  in  1905  chief  accountant  of  the  Delaware, 
Lackawanna  &  Western  Railroad,  was  the  son  of  Isaac 
and  Leonora  (Perkins)  Warren.     His  mother  was  Marion 


376  YALE    COLLEGE 

Margery,  daughter  of  Charles  N.  and  Margery  (Thomas) 
Griffin. 

For  two  years  before  entering  Yale  he  was  a  clerk  in 
the  law  office  of  Hand  &  Post  in  Scranton,  the  members 
of  this  firm  being  Alfred  Hand  and  Isaac  J.  Post,  graduates 
of  the  College  in  1857  and  i860,  respectively,  and  at  the 
same  time  he  studied  privately  under  George  F.  Bentley 
(B.A.  1873).  Previously  he  had  attended  the  high  school 
and  Merrill's  Academy  in  Scranton.  In  his  Sophomore 
year  at  Yale  he  was  the  recipient  of  a  second  prize  in 
English  composition.  His  scholarship  appointments  were 
Dissertations,  and  he  was  a  member  of  Linonia  and,  in 
Senior  year,  of  the  News  board. 

After  graduation  he  read  law  in  the  office  of  E.  N. 
Willard,  subsequently  a  judge  of  the  Superior  Court  of 
Pennsylvania,  with  whom  he  formed  a  partnership  after 
his  admission  to  the  bar  in  September,  1882.  The  firm 
was  known  as  Willard  &  Warren  until  1892,  when  its  name 
was  changed  to  Willard,  Warren  &  Knapp,  this,  on  the 
death  of  Mr.  Willard  in  1910,  becoming  Warren,  Knapp, 
O'Malley  &  Hill.  Mr.  Warren  was  the  active  trial  lawyer 
for  the  firm,  frequently  being  engaged  in  important  litiga- 
tion for  the  leading  companies  and  corporations  of  north- 
eastern Pennsylvania  and  taking  a  prominent  part  in  the 
solution  of  the  many  important  problems  that  have  arisen 
during  recent  years  in  the  anthracite  coal  district.  He 
had  served  as  executor  and  trustee  of  several  estates. 

He  was  a  director  in  the  County  Savings  Bank,  the 
Scranton  Trust  Company,  the  Bangor  &  Portland  Railway 
Company,  and  the  Pennsylvania  Coal  Company.  He  had 
been  active  in  politics,  not  only  serving  as  a  delegate  to  a 
number  of  state  and  national  Republican  conventions,  but 
acting  upon  county  committees  and  giving  personal  service 
for  political  betterment.  He  aided  in  organizing  the 
Pennsylvania  branch  of  the  National  League  of  Republican 
Clubs,  and  twice  held  the  office  of  president  of  the  State 
Republican  League.  Mr.  Warren  joined  the  National 
Guard  of  Pennsylvania  in  1881  as  a  private  in  Company  A, 
Thirteenth  Regiment,  in  which  he  later  served  as  sergeant- 
major  and  as  adjutant.  For  five  years  he  was  judge  advo- 
cate of  the  Third  Brigade,  retiring  with  the  rank  of  major 
in  1891,  after  having  declined  the  position  of  judge  advocate 
general.     In  1889  he  published  a  pamphlet,    "The  Powers 


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and  Duties  of  the  Military  in  Times  of  Riot  and  Insurrec- 
tion." Since  1886  he  had  been  a  vestryman  of  St.  Luke's 
Protestant  Episcopal  Church,  and  he  had  invariably 
attended  diocesan  conventions.  He  had  made  several  trips 
abroad. 

His  death  occurred  August  4,  191 6,  at  his  summer  home 
at  Lake  Placid,  N.  Y.  Burial  was  in  Forest  Hill  Cemetery 
at  Scranton. 

He  was  married  in  that  city,  May  31,  1883,  to  Ellen  H., 
daughter  of  E.  N.  and  Ellen  C.  Willard.  She  survives 
him  with  their  three  children,  Marion  Margery,  who  was 
married  April  11,  1907,  to  Worthington  Scranton,  a  gradu- 
ate of  the  College  in  1898  and  of  the  Harvard  Law  School 
in  1901 ;  Dorothy  Josephine,  the  wife  of  Nathaniel  H. 
Cowdrey  (B.A.  1898),  and  Edward  Willard,  a  member  of 
the  College  Class  of  1918.  Rev.  Dr.  Israel  Perkins  Warren 
(B.A.  1838)  was  an  uncle  of  Mr.  Warren  and  Stanley 
Perkins  Warren  (B.A.  1869,  M.D.  1874),  a  cousin. 


Buriiside  Foster,  B.A.   1882 

Born  May  7,  1861,  in  Worcester,  Mass. 
Died  June  13,  1917,  in  St.  Paul,  Minn. 

Burnside  Foster  was  born  in  Worcester,  Mass.,  May  7, 
1861,  his  parents  being  Dwight  and  Henrietta  Perkins 
(Baldwin)  Foster.  His  father  was  the  son  of  Alfred 
Dwight  Foster  (B.A.  Harvard  1819)  and  Lydia  (Stiles) 
Foster,  and  the  grandson  of  Dwight  Foster  (B.A.  Brown 
1774),  a  member  of  Congress,  chief  justice  of  the  Massa- 
chusetts Court  of  Common  Pleas,  a  United  States  Senator, 
and  a  member  of  the  Constitutional  Convention  of  1779. 
He  graduated  from  Yale  College  in  1848,  and  after  study- 
ing in  the  Harvard  Law  School  and  elsewhere,  practiced 
for  many  years  in  Massachusetts,  serving  as  attorney  gen- 
eral of  that  state  from  1861  to  1864  and  as  a  judge  of  the 
Supreme  Court  from  1866  to  1871 ;  Yale  conferred  the 
honorary  degree  of  LL.D.  upon  him  in  1871.  His  wife 
was  the  daughter  of  Roger  Sherman  Baldwin  (B.A.  181 1, 
LL.D.  Trinity  1844  and  Yale  1845),  governor  of  Connect- 
icut in  1844  and  1.845  and  a  member  of  the  United  States 
Senate  for  several  years,  and  Emily   (Perkins)   Baldwin; 


37^  YALE    COLLEGE 

granddaughter  of  Simeon  Baldwin  (B.A.  1781),  and  great- 
granddaughter  of  Roger  Sherman,  a  signer  of  the  Declara- 
tion of  Independence,  who  received  an  honorary  M.A.  at 
Yale  in  1768  and  who  was  the  fifth  treasurer  of  the  Uni- 
versity. Burnside  Foster  was  also  descended  from  Regi- 
nald Foster,  who  came  to  Ipswich,  Mass.,  from  England 
in  1638,  and  from  John  Baldwin,  who  settled  in  New  Haven 
Colony  in  1636.  His  ancestors  included  Brig.-Gen.  Joseph 
Dwight,  a  member  of  the  Colonial  Council  from  1733  to 
1 75 1,  and  second  in  command  in  the  assault  on  Louisburg 
in  1745,  Judge  Jedidiah  Foster,  Harvard  1744,  and  Eben- 
ezer  Baldwin,  a  graduate  of  Yale  in  1763. 

His  preparatory  training  was  received  at  the  Boston  Latin 
School  and  Hopkinson's  Private  School,  Boston,  and  at 
Phillips-Andover.  He  received  third  prizes  in  English  com- 
position and  declamation  Sophomore  year,  and  in  Senior 
year  was  given  honorable  mention  in  the  contest  for  the 
Scott  prize  in  German. 

Entering  upon  the  study  of  medicine  at  Harvard  after 
his  graduation  from  Yale,  he'  received  the  degree  of  M.D. 
there  in  1886.  On  August  i,  1885,  he  began  an  eighteen 
months'  hospital  service  in  the  Massachusetts  General  Hos- 
pital in  Boston.  After  completing  his  work  there,  he  spent 
some  months  in  study  in  Vienna  and  Dublin,  opening  an 
office  in  St.  Paul,  Minn.,  on  his  return  to  this  country  in 
1888.  He  served  for  some  years  as  professor  of  dermatol- 
ogy and  syphilology  and  lecturer  on  the  history  of  medicine 
at  the  University  of  Minnesota,  was  editor  of  the  St.  Paul 
Medical  Journal  from  1899  until  his  death,  and  was  the 
author  of  a  number  of  articles  appearing  in  other  medical 
journals.  He  was  a  member  of  the  American  Medical 
Association  and  the  Minnesota  State  Medical  Society,  and 
a  Fellow  of  the  American  Dermatological  Association,  and 
was  at  one  time  president  of  the  Ramsey  County  Medical 
Society.  For  two  years  he  served  on  the  St.  Paul  Library 
Board.  In  April,  1909,  he  delivered  an  address  before  the 
Association  of  Life-insurance  Presidents  of  New  York 
City,  entitled  "A  Suggestion  Concerning  the  Increased 
Longevity  of  Life-insurance  Pohcy-Holders,"  which 
attracted  wide-spread  attention. 

He  died  in  St.  Paul,  June  13,  1917,  after  an  illness  of 
three  months  due  to  tumor  of  the  brain.  Interment  was  in 
Oakland  Cemetery  in  that  city. 


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He  was  married  January  i,  1894,  in  St.  Paul,  to  Sophie 
Vernon,  daughter  of  John  Henry  Hammond,  who  attended 
Bethany  College,  Virginia,  for  a  time,  and  who  served 
throughout  the  Civil  War,  ranking  as  a  brigadier-general 
at  its  close,  and  Sophie  Vernon  (Wolfe)  Hammond,  and 
sister  of  John  Henry  Hammond  and  Ogden  Haggerty 
Hammond,  graduates  of  the  Scientific  School  in  1892  and 
1893,  respectively.  She  survives  him  with  three  children, 
Harriet  Burnside,  Elizabeth  Hammond,  and  Roger  Sher- 
man. He  also  leaves  three  brothers,  Alfred  Dwight  Foster 
(B.A.  Harvard  1873,  LL.B.  Boston  University  1875), 
Roger  Foster  (B.A.  1878,  LL.B.  Columbia  1880,  M.A.  Yale 
1883),  and  Reginald  Foster,  a  graduate  of  Yale  College  in 
1884  and  of  the  Boston  University  Law  School  in  1886, 
and  three  sisters,  one  of  whom  is  the  widow  of  Professor 
James  K.  Thacher  (B.A.  1868,  M.D.  1879).  Dr.  Foster 
was  a  nephew  of  Edward  L.  Baldwin  (B.A.  1842,  LL.B. 
1844),  Roger  S.  Baldwin,  of  the  Class  of  1847,  George  W. 
Baldwin,  a  graduate  of  the  College  in  1853,  and  Simeon 
E,  Baldwin  (B.A.  1861),  a  former  governor  of  Connecticut; 
a  cousin  of  Roger  S.  Baldwin  (B.A.  1890,  LL.B.  1893, 
LL.M.  1894),  and  an  uncle  of  Henry  C.  Thacher  (B.A. 
1902,  M.S.  1904,  M.D.  Johns  Hopkins  1906)  and  Thomas 
Anthony  Thacher,  a  graduate  of  the  College  in  1908  and 
of  the  School  of  Law  in  1910. 


William  Pollock,  B.A.   1882 

Born  April  2,  1859,  in  Pittsfield,  Mass. 
Died  November  i,  1916,  in  New  York  City- 
William  Pollock  was  born  April  2,  1859,  in  Pittsfield, 
Mass.,  his  father  being  William  Pollock,  a  prominent  textile 
manufacturer  of  Berkshire  County  for  many  years,  whose 
parents  were  George  and  Margaret  Pollock.  His  mother, 
Susan  (Learned)  Pollock,  was  the  daughter  of  Edward 
and  Elizabeth  (Crawford)  Learned. 

He  was  prepared  for  Yale  at  Phillips  Academy,  Exeter, 
N.  H.,  and  in  his  Freshman  year  served  on  the  Class  Sup- 
per Committee.  He  was  also  a  member  of  the  Junior 
Promenade  and  the  Class  Cup  committees. 

Mr.  Pollock  was  elected  to  membership  in  the  New  York 


3^0  YALE    COLLEGE 

Stock  Exchange  in  the  fall  of  1882,  and  for  the  next  few 
months  was  a  member  of  the  banking  and  brokerage  firm 
of  Pollock  &  Bixby.  The  firm  was  dissolved  in  1883,  and 
after  continuing  the  business  for  about  a  year,  Mr.  Pollock 
retired  from  the  Stock  Exchange.  He  lived  in  New  York 
for  the  next  three  years,  but  was  not  engaged  in  any  busi- 
ness until  1887,  when  he  became  connected  with  the  Housa- 
tonic  Railroad  Company  at  Bridgeport,  Conn.  He  had 
made  his  home  in  Pittsfield  since  1890,  spending  his  winters 
in  New  York.  He  took  an  active  part  in  the  social  life 
of  Pittsfield,  and  was  prominent  in  various  movements 
for  civic  welfare.  He  had  a  stable  of  fine  Kentucky-bred 
horses,  many  of  which  had  taken  prizes  at  horse  shows  in 
various  parts  of  the  country. 

He  had  been  in  failing  health  since  February,  1916,  when 
he  suffered  an  attack  of  typhoid-pneumonia.  His  death 
occurred  at  his  New  York  home,  November  i,  1916,  follow- 
ing an  operation  for  stomach  trouble.  Interment  was  in 
the  family  plot  in  Pittsfield. 

Mr.  Pollock  was  married  August  9,  1882,  to  Mrs.  Fannie 
Dawson  Greenough  of  Wilmington,  N.  C,  the  widow  of 
Charles  Edward  Greenough.  They  were  later  divorced,  and 
on  March  17,  1892,  Mr.  Pollock  married  in  New  York 
City,  Mrs.  Louise.  G.  (Marshall)  Kernochan,  daughter  of 
John  Rutgers  and  Eveline  (Gasquet)  Marshall,  and  widow 
of  John  A.  Kernochan.  By  his  first  marriage,  Mr.  Pollock 
had  a  daughter,  Margaret,  who  survives  him.  His  widow 
is  living,  and  he  also  leaves  a  stepson,  Marshall  R.  Kerno- 
chan, a  sister,  and  two  brothers.  The  latter  are  George  E., 
and  Edward  L.  Pollock,  non-graduate  members  of  the 
Yale  Classes  of  1878  and  1884,  respectively. 


George  Lorenzo  Burton,  B.A.   1883 

Born  July  15,   1863,  in  Adams,  N.  Y. 
Died  July   19,   1916,   at  York  Beach,  Maine 

George  Lorenzo  Burton  was  born  in  Adams,  N.  Y., 
July  15,  1863,  being  the  son  of  George  R.  and  Sarah  F. 
Burton.  His  mother  was  the  daughter  of  Rev.  Lorenzo 
Rice  and  Abagail  Smith.  He  was  fitted  for  Yale  at  the 
Hopkins  Grammar  School  in  New  Haven,  Conn.,  and  in 


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1882-1883  38 1 

Sophomore  year  in  college  was  a  member  of  the  Class 
Glee  Club.  He  received  a  First  Dispute  Junior  and  a 
Second  Dispute  Senior  appointment. 

Mr.  Burton  taught  modern  languages  at  the  Bradford 
Mansion  School  at  Harrison,  N.  Y.,  during  his  first  year 
out  of  college,  and  from  1884  to  1886  was  instructor  in 
mathematics  and  Latin  at  the  Brooklyn  Collegiate  and 
Polytechnic  Institute.  During  this  latter  period  he  also, 
studied  law  at  Columbia  University,  receiving  in  1886  the 
degree  of  LL.B.  He  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  that  year, 
and  was  afterwards  for  a  short  time  in  the  office  of  Piatt 
&  Bowers  of  New  York  City.  In  1887  he  went  to  Ness 
City,  Kans.,  and  for  the  next  few  years  was  associated  in 
business  with  his  classmate,  the  late  Philo  C.  Black,  editing 
the  Ness  City  Times.  Returning  to  New  Haven  in  1890, 
Mr.  Burton  had  since  been  a  member  of  the  firm  of  George 
R.  Burton  &  Sons,  a  company  engaged  in  the  general  insur- 
ance business  and  founded  by  his  father.  He  had  made  a 
special  study  of  insurance  law  with  particular  reference  to 
the  employers'  liability  and  surety  companies  for  which  his 
firm  act  as  general  agents  for  Connecticut.  He  was  a 
member  of  the  New  Haven  City  Council  for  three  terms, 
being  president  of  the  board  in  1896.  He  was  a  member 
of  the  Governor's  Foot  Guard,  the  Sons  of  the  American 
Revolution,  and  Calvary  Baptist  Church,  New  Haven. 

He  died  suddenly  July  19,  19 16,  at  York  Beach,  Maine, 
where  he  was  spending  the  summer.  His  death  was  due 
to  heart  disease.  Burial  was  in  Evergreen  Cemetery,  New 
Haven. 

Mr.  Burton  was  married  July  6,  1897,  in  that  city,  to 
Emma  Abigail  Woodworth  of  New  Haven.  She  survives 
him  with  a  daughter,  Emily  Rice,  and  a  son,  Robert  Wood- 
worth.  Mr.  Burton's  father  and  two  brothers,  one  being 
Louis  R.  Burton  (LL.B.  1903),  are  also  living. 


Frank  Penrose  Sproul,  B.A.  1883 

Born  August  27,   1862,  in  Philadelphia,  Pa. 
Died  January  18,  1917,  in  Brookline,  Mass. 

Frank   Penrose   Sproul   was  born   August  27,    1862,   in 
Philadelphia,  Pa.,  the  son  of  Robert  Cooper  Grier  Sproul, 


382  YALE    COLLEGE 

a  lawyer,  and  Ada  (Snyder)  Sproul,  and  the  grandson  of 
Henry  Sproul.  He  was  fitted  for  Yale  at  the  Princeton 
(N.  J.)  Preparatory  School,  and  in  his  Junior  year  at 
college  was  given  a  First  Dispute  appointment.  His  Senior 
appointment  w^as  a  Second  Dispute. 

In  the  fall  of  1883,  after  a  summer  spent  abroad,  he 
began  the  study  of  law  in  Pittsburgh  in  the  office  of  Mr. 
Malcolm  Hay.  He  entered  the  Law  School  of  the  Uni- 
versity of  Pennsylvania  in  1884,  and  during  his  course 
there  also  studied  in  the  office  of  Mr.  George  M.  Dallas 
of  Philadelphia.  He  was  graduated  from  the  University 
of  Pennsylvania  in  1886,  and  admitted  to  the  bar  in  that 
year.  He  then  began  the  practice  of  law  in  Pittsburgh,  in 
which  he  continued  until  March,  1914,  during  the  last 
fourteen  years  of  this  period  being  in  partnership  with 
Frederick  C.  Perkins,  a  graduate  of  Yale  College  in  1894 
and  of  the  Harvard  Law  School  in  1896. 

Mr.  Sproul  was  a  member  of  Emmanuel  Protestant 
Episcopal  Church  of  Allegheny  and  of  the  Allegheny 
County  Bar  Association.  After  spending  the  summer  of 
1916  on  the  Maine  coast,  he  took  up  his  residence  at  the 
Hotel  Puritan  in  Boston,  Mass.  On  the*  evening  of  January 
16,  1917,  he  went  with  his  younger  son  to  the  baggage 
room  of  the  hotel  to  look  for  the  boy's  bicycle,  and,  not 
being  familiar  with  the  place,  fell  through  an  unguarded 
door  to  the  bottom  of  the  elevator  shaft,  striking  on  his 
head  and  causing  a  compound  concussion  of  the  brain. 
Two  major  operations  were  performed  in  the  endeavor 
to  save  his  life,  but  without  avail,  and  he  died  without 
regaining  consciousness  on  the  morning  of  January  18,  at 
a  Brookline  hospital.  Interment  was  in  the  Forest  Hills 
(Mass.)  Cemetery. 

He  was  first  married  December  23,  1889,  in  Pittsburgh, 
to  Mary  Walton,  daughter  of  Mark  W.  and  Harriet 
(Marshall)  Watson.  He  was  married  a  second  time  Febru- 
ary 28,  1905,  in  Allegheny,  to  Charlotte  Elizabeth,  daughter 
of  William  R.  and  Alice  M.  (Kennedy)  Howe  of  Pitts- 
burgh. By  his  first  marriage  Mr.  Sproul  had  a  daughter, 
Harriet  Watson,  now  the  wife  of  Capt.  D.  St.  Clair  Bolton 
of  the  British  Army,  and  by  his  second,  two  sons,  Frank 
Penrose  and  William  Howe.  His  wife  and  three  children 
survive  him,  and  he  also  leaves  a  brother,  Henry  Sproul  of 
Pittsburgh,  whose  son,  Henry  Sproul,  Jr.,  is  a  non-graduate 
member  of  the  College  Class  of  191 5. 


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George  John  McAndrew,  B.A.   1884 

Born  December  20,  1858,  in  Forestville,  N.  Y. 
Died  August  23,  1916,  in  Stamford,  Conn. 

George  John  McAndrew  was  born  December  20,  1858, 
in  Forestville,  N.  Y.,  his  parents  being  Donald  and  Mar- 
garet (Rennie)  McAndrew,  who  had  come  to  this  country 
from  Scotland  shortly  after  their  marriage.  His  father, 
a  farmer  of  Forestville,  was  the  son  of  George  and  Isabella 
(McMurray)  McAndrew;  one  of  his  brothers  was  instru- 
mental in  introducing  the  Australian  ballot  system.  His 
mother's  parents  were  Samuel  and  Margaret  (Copeland) 
Rennie;  she  had  one  brother  who  was  vice-chancellor  of 
exchequer  under  Queen  Victoria,  another  who  had  served 
as  a  deputy  governor  of  Queensland,  a  third  being  promi- 
nent in  colonial  service  in  New  Zealand,  and  another  who 
was  a  corporal  in  the  British  Army  in  the  War  of  the 
Crimea. 

George  McAndrew  studied  at  the  Forestville  Free  Acad- 
emy and  at  the  Fredonia  (N.  Y.)  Normal  School,  and  in 
1878  entered  Hamilton  College,  spending  a  year  at  that 
institution.  During  1879-80  he  served  as  principal  of  the 
Ellicottville  (N.  Y.)  Union  School,  holding  a  similar  posi- 
tion at  the  Ellington  (N.  Y.)  Academy  the  following  year. 
In  1 88 1  he  joined  the  Yale  Class  of  1884  as  a  Sophomore. 
He  received  a  Second  Dispute  in  Junior  year  and  a  First 
Colloquy  at  Commencement. 

His  later  life  had  been  entirely  given  to  educational 
work.  The  first  four  years  after  his  graduation  were  spent 
at  Pawtucket,  R.  I.,  as  principal  of  the  high  school,  and 
from  1888  to  1890  he  served  as  sub-master  of  the  Hillhouse 
High  School,  New  Haven,  Conn.  In  the  latter  year  he 
moved  to  Plattsburg,  N.  Y.,  where  for  the  next  three 
years  he  held  an  appointment  as  superintendent  of  schools. 
He  was  superintendent  of  the  schools  of  South  Orange, 
N.  J.,  from  1893  to  1900  and  president  of  the  Montana 
State  Normal  School  at  Dillon  during  the  following  year. 
In  1902  he  became  superintendent  of  the  schools  at  Mamar- 
oneck,  N.  Y.,  where  he  continued  until  his  death,  which 
occurred  August  23,  1916,  at  Stamford,  Conn.,  after  a 
month's  illness  following  a  paralytic  stroke,  largely  due  to 
overwork.  Interment  was  in  Prospect  Cemetery  in  his 
native  town. 


3^4  YALE    COLLEGE 

Mr.  McAndrew  was  a  member  of  the  Larchmont  Avenue 
Presbyterian  Church  of  Mamaroneck.  In  1893  he  received 
the  degree  of  M.A.  in  course  from  Yale.  He  had  also 
received  a  Ph.D.  degree  from  Mount  Union-Scio  College, 
Ohio,  in  1900.  He  went  abroad  in  1888,  and  spent  three 
months  in  Germany. 

He  was  married  in  Forestville,  April  25,  1888,  to  Sylvia 
White,  daughter  of  LeRoy  and  Mary  (Johnson)  Hurlbert, 
and  sister  of  John  LeRoy  Hurlbert  (B.A.  1893).  Mrs. 
McAndrew,  who  is  a  non-graduate  member  of  the  Class  of 
1887  at  Mount  Holyoke  College,  survives  her  husband.  He 
leaves  also  four  children,  Mary  Johnson ;  Hurlbert,  a  grad- 
uate of  New  York  University  in  1913;  Georgia,  and 
Marjorie,  and  three  sisters. 


George  Hudson  Makiien,  B.A.   1884 

Born  July  16,  1855,  in  Goshen,  N.  Y. 
Died  February  21,  1917,  in  Goshen,  N.  Y. 

George  Hudson  Makuen  was  born  July  16,  1855,  in 
Goshen,  N.  Y.,  the  son  of  George  Makuen,  a  farmer,  and 
Ellen  Gertrude  (Magennis)  Makuen.  Both  parents  were 
born  in  Ireland,  his  father  being  of  Scotch  descent,  and 
his  mother  of  English  descent.  He  attended  the  Seward 
School  at  Florida,  N.  Y.,  and  the  Centenary  Collegiate 
Institute,  Hackensack,  N.  J.,  afterwards  becoming  a  teacher 
in  the  latter  school.  He  remained  there  until  January, 
1881,  when  he  joined  the  Yale  Class  of  1884.  As  a  Sopho- 
more he  received  a  second  prize  in  English  composition 
and  a  first  prize  in  declamation.  He  was  given  a  First 
Dispute  appointment  in  Junior  year,  and  won  the  first  prize 
at  the  Junior  Exhibition.  He  served  as  an  editor  of  the 
Pot-Pourri  in  Senior  year. 

For  several  years  after  graduation  he  taught  elocution 
and  oratory  in  the  National  School  of  Oratory  in  Phila- 
delphia. In  1886  he  began  the  study  of  medicine  at  Jef- 
ferson Medical  College,  at  the  same  time  continuing  his 
teaching  activities.  In  1889  he  received  his  medical  degree, 
and  after  being  engaged  in  general  practice  in  Philadelphia 
for  a  few  years,  began  to  specialize  in  laryngology,  rhinol- 
ogy,  and  otology,  taking  a  particular  interest  in  treatment 
for  defects  of  speech  and  voice.     He  had  written  exten- 


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sively  on  this  subject,  and  also  on  diseases  of  the  throat, 
nose,  and  ear.  From  1889  to  1892  he  served  on  the  faculty 
of  Jefferson  Medical  College,  and  in  1897  he  was  made 
professor  of  defects  of  speech  at  the  Polyclinic  Hospital 
and  College  for  Graduates  in  Medicine  at  Philadelphia.  He 
was  later  consultant  in  defects  of  speech  at  the  Vineland 
(N.  J.)  Training  School  for  Feeble-minded  Children  and 
consultant  to  the  Chester,  St.  Mary's,  and  the  Frederick 
Douglass  Memorial  hospitals.  He  was  a  member  of  a 
number  of  medical  societies,  and  was  president  of  the 
American  Academy  of  Medicine  in  1900,  of  the  American 
Laryngological,  Rhinological  and  Otological  Society  in 
1912,  and  of  the  American  Laryngological  Association  in 
1916.  In  1909  he  was  a  delegate  to  the  International  Con- 
gress in  Budapest.  Dr.  Makuen  was  chosen  president  of 
the  Yale  Alumni  Association  of  Philadelphia  in  1904,  and 
in  that  position  and  as  a  representative  of  that  association 
made  many  addresses  to  the  alumni  of  Yale  and  other  'col- 
leges. He  was  a  member  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal 
Church  of  Goshen. 

His  death  occurred  very  suddenly,  from  heart  trouble, 
February  21,  1917,  at  the  home  of  his  brother  in  that  town. 
He  had  gone  there  for  a  few  days'  visit.  He  was  buried 
in  Slate  Hill  Cemetery  at  Goshen. 

On  December  20,  1900,  Dr.  Makuen  was  married  in 
Chester,  Pa.,  to  Mrs.  Nancy  (Baker)  Dyer,  daughter  of 
George  and  Martha  Baker  of  Chester,  and  widow  of  Col. 
Samuel  A.  Dyer.  They  lived  in  Chester  until  19 14,  and 
afterwards  in  Newfield,  N.  J.  Mrs.  Makuen  survives  him, 
and  he  also  leaves  three  brothers  and  a  sister.  Dr.  Makuen 
had  no  children.  His  stepsons,  Samuel  Ashmead  Dyer  and 
Richard.  Wetherill  Dyer,  have  both  studied  at  Yale,  the 
former  having  graduated  from  the  Scientific  School  in  1913 
and  the  latter  being  a  non-graduate  member  of  the  College 
Class  of  1914. 


John  Ira  Souther,  B.A.   1884 

Born  February  25,   1861,  in  Worcester,  Mass. 
Died  January  20,  1917,  in  Richmond,  Va. 

John  Ira  Souther  was  born  in  Worcester,  Mass.,  Febru- 
ary 25,  1861,  the  son  of  Rev.  Samuel  Souther  (B.A.  Dart- 


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mouth  1842,  Bangor  Theological  Seminary  1846),  whose 
parents  were  Samuel  Souther  and  Mary  (Webster) 
Souther,  the  latter  being  a  cousin  of  Daniel  Webster  and 
a  grandniece  of  Gen.  John  Stark.  His  father,  who  was 
for  some  years  city  missionary  of  Worcester,  served  in 
the  Massachusetts  Legislature  in  1862-63,  enlisted  in  the 
Fifty-seventh  Massachusetts  Regiment  in  1863,  and  was 
killed  in  the  battle  of  the  Wilderness,  May  6,  1864,  at  that 
time  ranking  as  a  colonel.  The  pioneer  member  of  the 
Souther  family  in  this  country  was  Nathaniel  Souther,  who 
came  from  England  about  1630  and  settled  in  Plymouth 
Colony,  of  which  he  was  elected  secretary  October  4,  1635. 
John  I.  Souther's  great-grandfather,  Thomas  Stickney, 
served  as  colonel  of  a  N.ew  Hampshire  regiment  during 
the  Revolutionary  War;  other  ancestors  on  the  paternal 
side  were  Tristram  Coffin,  Paul  Coffin  (B.A.  Harvard  1759, 
S.T.D.  Harvard  1812),  and  Hugh  Stirling.  His  mother 
was' Mary  Frances,  daughter  of  Ira  and  Sarah  (Clement) 
Towle.  She  was  descended  from  Robert  Clement,  who 
emigrated  to  America  from  England  in  1642,  settling  at 
Haverhill,  Mass. 

After  graduating  from  the  Worcester  High  School,  he 
entered  the  Worcester  Polytechnic  Institute,  from  which 
he  took  the  degree  of  B.S.  in  1881.  He  was  valedictorian 
of  his  high  school  class,  and  held  the  same  honor  at  the 
Polytechnic  Institute.  He  joined  the  Yale  Class  of  1884 
in  Sophomore  year,  receiving  a  second  prize  in  mathematics 
in  that  year  and  again  in  Senior  year.  His  Junior  appoint- 
ment was  a  Philosophical  Oration  and  his  Senior  appoint- 
ment a  High  Oration,  and  he  was  elected  to  membership 
in  Phi  Beta  Kappa.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Class  Crew 
for  two  years,  of  the  Class  Baseball  Team  three  years,  and 
of  the  University  Baseball  Team  as  a  Junior  and  Senior. 
He  won  the  middle-weight  wrestling  contest  in  Sophomore 
year. 

Mr.  Souther  taught  physics  and  chemistry  in  the  Worces- 
ter High  School  for  a  year  after  graduation  from  Yale, 
and  then  opened  a  chemical  laboratory  at  Ironwood,  Mich. 
His  work  in  this  direction  won  for  him  a  reputation  as  an 
expert  in  the  analysis  and  treatment  of  iron  ore.  In  March, 
1892,  he  became  assistant  superintendent  of  blast  furnaces 
for  the  Illinois  Steel  Company,  a  position  which  he  held 
for  three  years.    From  1895  to  1900  he  was  connected  with 


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the  Eellaire  Steel  Company  at  Bellaire,  Ohio,  as  super- 
intendent of  their  blast  furnaces,  and  for  the  next  eleven 
years  held  a  similar  position  with  the  Cambria  Steel  Com- 
pany at  Johnstown,  Pa.  In  1914  he  removed  to  Cleveland, 
Ohio,  where,  until  January,  191 7,  he  was  engaged  in  the 
sale  of  refractories. 

He  went  to  Richmond,  Va.,  to  visit  his  son  early  in  1917, 
and  his  death  occurred  in  that  city  on  January  20,  after  a 
brief  illness  of  peritonitis.  His  body  was  taken  to  Cleveland 
for  burial  in  Lake  View  Cemetery. 

Mr.  Souther  was  a  member  of  St.  Mark's  Protestant 
Episcopal  Church  of  Johnstown,  serving  as  a  vestryman 
for  several  years. 

He  was  married  January  i,  1889,  in  Cleveland,  Ohio,  to 
Kate  Amelia,  daughter  of  Samuel  Augustus  and  Julia  Eliza- 
beth (Clark)  Fuller.  She  survives  him  with  three  children: 
Helen  Fuller,  who  was  married  April  14,  1914,  to  Newton 
Keith  Hartford  (B.S.  Harvard  1909)  ;  Hugh  Stirling,  and 
Arthur  Fuller,  who  graduated  from  Yale  with  the  degree 
of  Ph.B.  in  1914  and  191 7,  respectively.  Another  daughter, 
Julia  Fuller,  died  in  infancy.  Besides  his  wife  and  three 
children,  Mr.  Souther  is  survived  by  his  mother,  two  sisters, 
and  a  brother,  the  latter  being  William  Towle  Souther,  a 
graduate  of  the  College  in  1873  ^^^^  of  the  Harvard  Medical 
School  in  18^8.  An  elder  brother,  Samuel  Adams  Souther, 
who  was  a  member  of  the  College  Class  of  1874  for  a  year, 
died  in  1898.  Mr.  Souther's  nephew,  the  late  Richard 
Clement  Whittier,  graduated  from  the  Scientific  School  in 
1905. 

Joseph  Tomlinson,  B.A.   1884 

Born   March   15,   1863,   in   Huntington,   Conn. 
Died  May  20,  1916,  in  Redding  Ridge,  Conn. 

Joseph  Tomlinson,  one  of  the  five  children  of  Joseph  and 
Anne  Tappan  (Brewster)  Tomlinson,  was  born  March  15, 
1863,  in  Huntington,  Conn.  His  father  was  superintendent 
of  the  Star  Pin  Company,  and  had  held  various  town  offices 
in  Huntington,  including  those  of  judge  of  probate,  town 
judge,  and  town  clerk ;  he  was  the  son  of  Joseph  Tomlinson, 
a  physician,  and  Sarah  Eliza  (Bennett)  Tomlinson.  The 
pioneer  member  of  the  Tomlinson  family  in  this  country 
was  Henry  Tomlinson,  who  came  with  his  wife  and  two 


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children  from  England  to  Milford,  Conn.,  in  1652.  In  the 
direct  line  of  descent  was  Lieut.  Joseph  Tomlinson,  who 
fought  in  the  War  of  the  Revolution.  On  the  maternal 
side,  Joseph  Tomlinson  was  descended  from  Elder  William 
Brewster  and  from  William  and  Sarah  Homes,  the  latter 
being  the  sister  of  Benjamin  Franklin.  His  mother's  par- 
ents were  Rev.  Cyrus  Brewster,  who  studied  in  the  Theo- 
logical Department  from  1839  to  1841,  also  taking  work 
in  the  College,  and  received  the  honorary  degree  of  B.A. 
from  the  University  in  the  latter  year,  and  Anne  (Tappan) 
Brewster. 

He  was  fitted  for  college  at  the  high  school  in  Derby, 
Conn.,  and  in  his  Sophomore  year  was  given  a  second 
prize  in  English  composition.  His  appointments  were  First 
Disputes,  and  he  was  one  of  the  speakers  at  Commence- 
ment. While  an  undergraduate  he  was  correspondent  for 
the  New  Haven  Journal-Courier. 

He  spent  the  first  three- years  after  graduation  as  a  private 
tutor.  During  this  period  he  lived  with  his  pupil's  family 
at  Mamaroneck,  N.  Y.,  and  in  California,  and  traveled  with 
them  around  the  world.  In  1887  he  entered  the  paper 
barrel  business  in  Hartford,  Conn.,  but  after  about  a  year 
removed  to  Sioux  Falls,  S.  Dak.  There  he  purchased  a 
part  interest  in  the  Argus-Leader,  continuing  as  its  editor 
until  1905.  He  was  active  in  politics  and  civic,  matters,  and 
in  all  state  interests  of  a  broad  nature.  In  1905  Mr.  Tom- 
linson became  interested  in  a  newly  invented  machine  for 
addressing  newspapers,  gave  up  journalism,  and  became 
director,  vice-president,  and  general  manager  of  the  Cox 
Multi-Mailer  Company.  He  gave  his  attention  to  the 
development  and  selling  of  newspaper  addressing  machines 
during  the  remainder  of  his  life,  at  first  having  his  office 
in  New  York  City,  but  later  in  Chicago,  111.,  where  he  lived 
at  the  time  of  his  death.  He  owned  a  farm  at  Bethel,  Conn., 
on  which  he  spent  his  leisure  time.  He  was  a  member 
of  the  Second  Congregational  Church  of  Derby,  Conn. 

He  died  at  his  sister's  home  at  Redding  Ridge,  Conn., 
May  20,  1916.  He  had  suffered  from  cancer  for  several 
years,  but  was  able  to  attend  to  his  business  affairs  up  to 
within  ten  weeks  of  his  death,  when  his  condition  became 
very  serious.  H^  was  buried  in  Riverside  Cemetery  at 
Shelton,  Conn. 

'  Mr.  Tomlinson  was  married  at  Sioux  Falls,  November 
14,  1900,  to  Blanche  Ferneyhough  Bliss,  who  survives  him 


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without  children.  He  also  leaves  three  sisters,  two  of 
whom  married  Yale  men,  one  being  the  wife  of  Charles 
Wellington  Shelton  (B.D.  1881)  and  the  other  of  Daniel 
Sammis  Sanford,  a  graduate  of  the  College  in  1882.  Mrs. 
Shelton  was  a  student  for  three  years  in  the  Yale  School 
of  the  Fine  Arts,  and  Mrs.  Sanford  received  the  degree 
of  B.S.  from  Wellesley  College  in  1893,  afterwards  taking 
a  post-graduate  course  at  Yale. 


John  Cloyse  Bridgman,  B.A.   1885 

Born  December  22,  1862,  in  Andover,  Mass. 
Died  May  28,  1917,  in  Wilkes  Barre,  Pa. 

John  Cloyse  Bridgman  was  born  December  2.2,  1862,  in 
Andover,  Mass.,  his  father,  Isaac  Bridgman  (B.A.  Dart- 
mouth 1856,  Ph.D.  Dartmouth  1886),  being  at  that  time 
a  teacher  in  Phillips  Academy.  The  latter,  a  son  of  Isaac 
and  Lucy  (Chandler)  Bridgman,  was  descended  from 
James  Bridgman,  who  came  from  Winchester,  England, 
in  1640  and  settled  in  Massachusetts.  He  married  Mary 
Elizabeth  Gleason,  a  graduate  of  Mount  Holyoke  in  1853, 
whose  parents  were  John  C.  and  Margaret  Ann  (Duncan) 
Gleason.  She  was  of  English  descent,  her  ancestors  having 
settled  at  Framingham,  Mass.,  in  1670.  John  C.  Bridgman 
was  the  second  of  their  five  children. 

At  the  time  when  he  entered  Yale,  the  family  home  was 
in  Cleveland,  Ohio,  where  his  father  was  principal  of  the 
Cleveland  Academy.  He  had  received  his  preparatory 
training  at  the  Hopkins  Grammar  School,  New  Haven, 
Conn.,  and  in  his  Freshman  year  was  awarded  a  first 
Berkeley  premium  and  a  second  Gamma  Nu  declamation 
prize.  The  next  year  he  was  given  two  first  prizes  in 
English  composition,  and  in  Senior  year  he  received  a 
Townsend  premium.  His  appointments  were  Philosophical 
Orations,  and  he  was  a  member  of  Phi  Beta  Kappa  and 
Chi  Delta  Theta.  He  served  on  the  editorial  board  of  the 
Nezvs  in  Sophomore  year  and  on  that  of  the  Yale  Literary 
Magazine  in  Senior  year.  In  Freshman  year  he  was  a 
member  of  the  Class  Glee  Club  and  the  Class  Supper 
Committee. 

He  taught  at  the  Harry  Hillman  Academy  in  Wilkes 
Barre,   Pa.,   from   1885   to   1887,  also   studying  law   for  a 


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brief  period,  and  then  entered  the  employ  of  the  Hazard 
Manufacturing  Company.  In  1899,  ^^ter  serving  succes- 
sively as  a  clerk,  salesman,  and  secretary  of  the  company, 
he  was  made  general  manager,  and  continued  in  that  posi- 
tion for  the  remainder  of  his  life.  He  had  always  interested 
himself  actively  in  every  movement  for  the  betterment  of 
the  community.  He  had  been  a  vestryman  of  St.  Stephen's 
Protestant  Episcopal  Church,  a  trustee  of  the  Harry  Hill- 
man  Academy,  a  governor  and  president  of  the  Wyoming 
Valley  Country  Club,  a  director  of  the  Young  Men's 
Christian  Association  and  the  Boys'  Industrial  Association, 
being  chairman  of  the  board  of  the  last  named,  first 
president  of  the  Chamber  of  Commerce,  and  a  member 
of  the  City  Planning  Commission.  He  was  a  prominent 
member  of  the  Yale  Alumni  Association  of  the  Wyoming 
Valley.  A  book  entitled  "Brief  Declamations,"  compiled 
by  Mr.  Bridgman,  was  published  in  1890. 

He  died  suddenly,  of  heart  failure,  at  his  home  in  Wilkes 
Barre,  May  28,  1917,  and  was  buried  in  the  Forty  Fort 
Cemetery. 

Mr.  Bridgman  was  married  June  7,  1905,  in  St.  Johns- 
bury,  Vt.,  to  Ethel  Young,  daughter  of  David  Young 
Comstock  (B.A.  Amherst  1873)  and  Augusta  Sprague 
(Tenney)  Comstock.  She  survives  him  with  their  two  sons, 
David  Comstock  and  John  Cloyse.  He  also  leaves  a  sister 
and  a  brother,  Walter  R.  Bridgman,  who  was  graduated 
from  the  College  in  1881,  received  an  honorary  M.A.  at 
Miami  in  1891  and  at  Yale  in  1892,  and  is  now  professor 
of  Greek  at  Lake  Forest  College.  Two  of  the  latter's  sons, 
Donald  Storrs  and  Ray  Claflin  Bridgman,  have  attended 
Yale;  the  former  graduated  from  the  College  in  1913,  and 
the  latter  was  for  nearly  three  years  a  member  of  the 
Class  of  191 7,  having  left  to  enter  the  aviation  service  in 
France,  where  he  is  now  (July,  191 7)  a  member  of  the 
Lafayette  Escadrille. 


Louis  Austin  Mansfield,  B.A.   1885 

Born  March  it,  1863,  in  New  Haven,  Conn. 
Died  January  7,   1917,  in  New   Haven,   Conn. 

Louis  Austin  Mansfield  was  born  in  New  Haven,  Conn., 
March  11,  1863.     Fie  was  the  only  son  of  Austin  and  Emily 


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Althea  (Ford)  Mansfield,  and  a  descendant  of  Richard 
Mansfield,  who  settled  in  New  Haven  Colony  in  1639.  His 
father  was  the  son  of  Jesse  Merrick  and  Charlotte  (Heaton) 
Mansfield,  and  his  mother's  parents  were  Merrit  and  Althea 
(LaForge)  Ford.  Educated  at  Hopkins  Grammar  School, 
he  entered  Yale  in  1881,  and  was  graduated  in  1885, 
receiving  in  his  Senior  year  a  Second  Colloquy  appointment. 

After  graduation  he  entered  the  lumber  business  with  his 
father,  whom  he  succeeded  on  the  latter's  death  in  1898. 
The  firm  had  been  in  operation  since  1854.  Mr.  Mansfield 
was  one  of  the  prime  movers  in  the  organization  of  the 
Lumber  Dealers  Association  of  Connecticut,  organized  in 
1892,  and  for  twenty  years  served  as  its  secretary.  In  1913 
he  was  elected  vice-president  and  in  1914  president,  which 
latter  office  he  held  at  the  time  of  his  death.  He  was  also 
secretary  of  the  Eastern  States  Retail  Lumber  Dealers 
Association,  and  a  director  of  the  Lumber  Mutual  Fire 
Insurance  Company  of  Boston,  Mass.,  and  the  Pennsyl- 
vania Lumbermen's  Mutual  Fire  Insurance  Company  of 
Philadelphia,  to  which  two  boards  he  was  elected  in  1905. 
He  was  a  vestryman  of  St.  Thomas'  Protestant  Episcopal 
Church  for  some  years,  being  also  at  one  time  treasurer 
of  its  Sunday  school.  He  was  an  active  member  of  the 
Chamber  of  Commerce  until  five  years 'ago,  ill  health  pre- 
venting further  participation  in  that,  as  well  as  in  other 
civic  matters. 

His  death  occurred  January  7,  1917,  at  his  home  in  New 
Haven,  after  a  brief  illness  from  pneumonia,  and  he  was 
buried  in  the  family  plot  in  Evergreen  Cemetery.  His 
health  had  not  been  good  since  191 1,  although  it  was  some- 
what improved  after  a  year's  rest  in  1912,  when  he  spent 
several  months  in  Jamaica. 

He  was  married  in  New  Milford,  Conn.,  August  14, 
1890,  to  Mary  Frances,  daughter  of  Truman  E.  and  Frances 
E.  (Wheeler)  Hurd.  They  had  no  children.  Besides  his 
wife,  Mr.  Mansfield  is  survived  by  his  mother.  He  was 
a  nephew  of  Howard  Mansfield  (B.A.  1871)  and  Burton 
Mansfield,  a  graduate  of  the  Scientific  School  in  1875  and 
of  the  School  of  Law  in  1878.  His  cousin,  Henry  L. 
Gower,  graduated  from  the  College  in  1880. 


392  YALE    COLLEGE 


Dudley  Leavitt,  B.A.   1886 

Born  July  i6,  1864,  in  West  Stockbridge,  Mass. 
Died  August  23,  1914,  in  Pittsfield,  Mass. 

Dudley  Leavitt  was  the  son  of  William  Whipple  and 
Emma  (Sanford)  Leavitt,  and  was  born  July  16,  1864,  in 
West  Stockbridge,  Mass.  His  father  graduated  from  Wil- 
liams in  1859,  receiving  the  degree  of  M.D.  from  the 
College  of  Physicians  and  Surgeons  at  Columbia  the  fol- 
lowing year;  he  served  in  the  United  States  Navy  during 
the  Civil  War,  at  first  as  an  assistant  surgeon  and  afterwards 
as  surgeon  on  a  gunboat,  and  later  became  well  known 
as  a  physician  in  Berkshire  County,  Mass.,  his  home  now 
being  in  Pittsfield.  Dudley  Leavitt's  paternal  grandparents 
were  Dudley  and  Lydia  (Whipple)  Leavitt;  the  latter  was 
the  daughter  of  Samuel  Whipple,  and  a  descendant  of 
Sherman  Whipple,  who  came  from  England  to  eastern 
Massachusetts,  later  removing  to  New  London,  N.  H.  His 
mother  was  the  daughter  of  John  and  Emma  J.  Sanford 
of  Great  Barrington,  Mass. 

He  was  fitted  for  college  at  Williston  Seminary,  East- 
hampton,  Mass.,  and  spent  four  years  at  Yale  as  a  member 
of  the  Class  of  1^86.  He  did  not,  however,  receive  his 
degree  until  1890,  when  it  was  granted  to  him  by  a  vote  of 
the  Corporation. 

In  1887,  after  spending  a  year  studying  in  Pittsfield,  he 
began  the  study  of  medicine  at  the  College  of  Physicians 
and  Surgeons,  where,  in  1.890,  he  was  given  his  medical 
degree.  For  the  next  two  years  he  was  an  interne  on  the 
staff  of  the  French  Hospital  in  New  York  City.  At  the 
completion  of  his  service  he  was  appointed  physician  at 
the  dispensary  operated  in  connection  with  that  hospital,  and 
at  about  the  same  time  was  made  assistant  physician  to 
the  eye,  ear,  and  throat  department  of  the  Northwestern 
Dispensary.  In  1894  he  opened  an  office  in  New  York 
City,  but  a  year  afterwards  returned  to  his  home  in  Pitts- 
field to  attend  to  his  father's  practice  during  the  latter's 
absence  in  Europe.  He  continued  in  practice  there  until 
1906,  when  he  was  compelled  to  retire  on  account  of  ill 
health.    ' 

Dr.  Leavitt  was  a  member  of  the  Protestant  Episcopal 
Church,  being  a  communicant  of  St.  Stephen's  Church  of 
Pittsfield,  and  he  belonged  to  the  Berkshire  Medical  Society. 


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His  death  occurred  at  the  House  of  Mercy  Hospital  in 
Pittsfield,  August  23,  19 14,  as  the  result  of  lung  fever.  He 
was  buried  in  West  Stockbridge. 

Dr.  Leavitt  was  married  September  7,  1893,  in  Bain- 
bridge,  N.  Y.,  to  Lura  Redfield,  daughter  of  Abner  Marshall 
and  Rhoby  H.  Smith  of  Bainbridge,  N.  Y.  She  survives 
him  with  their  two  children,  Dudley  Williams  and  Dorothy 
Dudley.  The  latter  is  a  member  of  the  Class  of  1920  at 
Elmira  College. 


George  Edwin  Hill,  B.A.  1887 

Born  July  2,  1864,  in  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 
Died  September  30,  1916,  in  Bridgeport,  Conn. 

George  Edwin  Hill,  son  of  Charles  Edwin  and  Susan 
Frances  (Wilbur)  Hill,  was  born  July  2,  1864,  in  Brooklyn, 
N.  Y.  His  father,  who  conducted  a  tea  importing  business 
in  New  York  City  under  the  name  of  Charles  E.  Hill  & 
Company,  was  the  son  of  William  and  Elizabeth  (Buffum) 
Hill.  His  mother's  parents  were  John  Wilbur,  Jr.,  and 
Mary  (Helm)  Wilbur.  He  was  descended  from  John  Hill, 
who  settled  in  Dover,  N.  H.,  about  1644,  having  come  to 
this  country  from  England,  and  from  John  Wilbur,  the 
founder  of  the  Wilburite  branch  of  Quakers  of  Rhode 
Island,  and  a  descendant  of  early  English  settlers  of  that 
state. 

In  college  he  was  the  recipient  of  a  second  prize  in 
English  composition  in  Sophomore  year  and  of  Second 
Dispute  appointments.  He  had  been  fitted  for  Yale  at 
H.  U.  King's  School  in  Stamford,  Conn.,  his  home  since 
1876,  and  after  taking  his  degree  he  returned  there  as  a 
teacher.  Two  years  were  spent  in  this  way,  and  in  1889 
he  entered  the  Yale  School  of  Law,  from  which  he  was 
graduated  in  1891,  receiving  at  that  time  the  Townsend 
prize  for  delivering  the  best  oration. 

In  the  fall  of  that  year  he  began  practice  in  Bridgeport, 
where  he  had  since  followed  his  profession.  From.  1893 
to  1902  he  was  in  partnership  with  John  H.  Perry  (B.A. 
1870,  LL.B.  Columbia  1872)  and  Winthrop  H.  Perry,  a 
graduate  of  the  College  in  1876  and  of  the  School  of  Law 
in  1882,  under  the  name  of  Perry,  Perry  &  Hill,  and  he 
was  afterwards  a  member  of  the  firm  of  Hall  &  Hill.  On 
the  death  of  his  partner,  Edwin  F.  Hall  (LL.M.  1893)   in 


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1907,  the  firm  became  Hill  &  Boardman,  his  partner  being 
William  B.  Boardman  (B.A.  1893,  LL.B.  1898).  Mr.  Hill 
had  become  one  of  the  best-known  lawyers  in  the  state, 
and  was  considered  one  of  the  leading  citizens  of  Bridge- 
port, where  he  had  resided  since  1893.  He  served  as 
president  of  the  Bridgeport  Bar  Association  in  1910-11  and 
of  the  State  Bar  Association  from  1910  to  1912.  At  the 
time  of  his  death  he  was  county  health  officer  for  Fairfield 
County,  having  held  that  office  by  successive  appointments 
since  1894. 

Mr.  Hill  was  one  of  the  five  trustees  appointed  by  the 
Department  of  Justice  at  Washington  in  1914  to  take  over 
the  management  of  the  trolley  systems  in  Connecticut  pre- 
viously controlled  by  the  New  York,  New  Haven  &  Hart- 
ford Railroad  Company.  He  had  been  a  trustee  of  the 
Mechanics  &  Farmers  Savings  Bank  of  Bridgeport.  In 
1903  he  ran  for  mayor  of  the  city,  being  the  candidate  of  the 
Republican  party,  but  it  was  a  year  of  Democratic  victory, 
and  he  was  not  elected.  In  1904  he  served  as  chairman 
of  the  Republican  Town  and  City  Committee.  Only  a  few 
days  before  his  death  he  was  chosen  as  a  vice-president 
of  the  Hughes  Alliance  in  Connecticut.  He  served  as 
president  of  the  Board  of  Police  Commissioners  from  1906 
to  1909,  and  for  several  years  was  a  member  of  the  State 
Board  of  Accountancy.  He  gave  freely  and  constantly  of 
his  money,  time,  and  energy  to  the  service  of  Yale.  For 
a  long  time  he  was  secretary  of  the  Yale  Alumni  Associa- 
tion of  Fairfield  County,  was  its  vice-president  in  191 1 
and  its  president  the  following  year,  and  had  represented 
the  association  on  the  Alumni  Advisory  Board  and  on  the 
council  of  the  Associated  New  England  Yale  Clubs.  He 
had  been  Secretary  of  the  Class  of  1887  since  1893,  and 
edited  the  Class  Records  issued  in  1893,  1897,  1903,  1909, 
and  191 5.  He  held  the  office  of  president  of  the  Yale 
Association  of  Class  Secretaries  from  1914  to  1916.  He 
was  active  in  the  organization  of  the  University  Club  of 
Bridgeport,  and  was  its  second  president,  and  had  held 
office  in  practically  every  other  social  organization  to  which 
he  belonged.  Although  a  member  of  the  Society  of  Friends, 
he  had  sittings  in  the  North  Congregational  Church.  He 
had  traveled  quite  extensively  in  this  country,  and  spent 
the  summer  of  1909  in  Europe.  He  was  widely  read, 
especially  in  the  field  of  American  history.    He  contributed 


1887-1888  395 

an  article  on  "The  Secret  Ballot"  to  the  Yale  Law  Journal 
for  October,  1891,  which  was  afterwards  printed  in  pam- 
phlet form. 

Mr.  Hill's  death  occurred  very  suddenly,  as  the  result 
of  apoplexy,  September  30,  1916,  at  his  home  in  Bridgeport. 
Interment  was  in  Mountain  Grove  Cemetery,  in  that  city. 

He  was  married  April  20,  1910,  in  New  York  City,  to 
Catherine  Marea,  daughter  of  the  late  James  Seward  and 
Catherine  Marea  (Empie)  Utley.  Mrs.  Hill,  who  gradu- 
ated from  Bryn  Mawr  in  1905,  survives  her  husband  with- 
out children.  He  leaves  also  a  sister  and  two  brothers,  one 
of  whom,  William  Hill,  received  the  degree  of  C.E.  from 
Columbia  in  1882.  His  cousin,  Edw^ard  B.  Hill,  is  a  member 
of  the  College  Class  of  1900. 


Frederic  Hopkins  Pomroy,  B.A.   1888 

Born  October  i,  1863,  in  Lockport,  N.  Y. 
Died  March  6,  1917,  in  New  York  City 

Frederic  Hopkins  Pomroy  was  born  October  i,  1863, 
in  Lockport,  N.  Y.,  where  his  father,  Hopkins  C.  Pomroy, 
was  engaged  in  business  as  a  hardware  merchant.  His 
mother  was  Mary  C.  (Dean)  Pomroy.  He  studied  at  the 
Lockport  High  School  and  at  Williston "  Seminary,  East- 
hampton,  Mass.,  and  entered  Yale  as  a  member  of  the 
Class  of  1887.  After  spending  three  years  with  that  Class, 
he  withdrew  from  college  for  a  year,  returning  to  New 
Haven  in  the  fall  of  1887  and  completing  his  course  with 
the  Class  of  1888. 

Mr.  Pomroy  began  the  study  of  law  soon  after  his  gradu- 
ation, and  was  admitted  to  the  bar  of  New  York  State. 
Shortly  afterwards  he  received  an  appointment  as  assistant 
district  attorney  for  Niagara  County,  in  which  capacity  he 
served  for  about  a  year.  In  June,  1892,  he  became  secretary 
of  the  Sun  Printing  &  Publishing  Company  of  Lockport. 
He  removed  from  that  town  to  Buffalo  in  January,  1896, 
and  there  continued  the  practice  of  law.  In  June,  1898,  he 
was  appointed  commissary  of  subsistence,  with  the  rank  of 
captain,  in  the  United  States  Volunteers,  and  as  such  served 
for  nearly  a  year  at  Tampa,  Fla.,  and  in  Porto  Rico.  Early 
in  1901  he  received  an  appointment  as  captain  in  the  Com- 


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missary  Department  of  the  Regular  Army,  and  was  then 
sent  to  Cuba  for  a  year,  going  from  there  to  the  Phihp- 
pines.  In  1904  he  came  back  to  the  United  States, 
and  after  being  stationed  at  Chicago  for  a  time,  was 
transferred  to  New  York  City.  He  later  returned  to 
the  Philippines,  remaining  until  March,  1912.  He  was 
at  the  Army  Hospital  in  Washington,  D.  C,  for  the  next 
fourteen  months,  after  which  he  went  abroad  on  sick  leave, 
spending  some  time  traveling  through  Europe.  In  June, 
1913,  he  was  retired  on  account  of  disability  incurred  in 
the  line  of  duty.  He  had  been  promoted  to  be  a  major  in 
the  Quartermaster's  Corps  in  November,  19 12,  and,  recov- 
ering his  health  partially,  he  was  replaced  on  the  active 
list  in  191 5  and  given  charge  of  recruiting  at  Newark,  N.  J. 
This  duty  he  performed  until  his  death,  which  occurred 
suddenly  in  New  York  City,  March  6,  1917.  Burial  was 
in  Glenwood  Cemetery  in  his  native  town. 

Major  Pomroy  was  married  in  Lockport,  February  3, 
1897,  to  Alice,  daughter  of  Richard  Crowley,  a  Congress- 
man from  1879  to  1883,  and  Julia  (Corbitt)  Crowley. 
They  had  no  children.  Mrs.  Pomeroy  survives  her  hus- 
band, and  he  leaves  also  a  brother  and  a  sister. 


Henry  Strunz,  B.A.   1888 

Born  March  18,  1861,  at  Broad  Brook,  Conn. 
Died  December  12,  1916,  in  Palatka,  Fla. 

Henry  Strunz  was  born  at  Broad  Brook,  Conn.,  March 
18,  1 86 1,  the  son  of  William  Leopold  and  Hermenia 
(Diesner)  Strunz.  Both  parents  were  natives  of  Krim- 
mitschau.  Saxony,  Germany.  They  came  to  this  country 
in  1854,  settling  at  Broad  Brook,  where  Mr.  Strunz  entered 
the  employ  of  The  Broad  Brook  Company.  Henry  Strunz 
was  prepared  for  college  at  Williston  Seminary,  Easthamp- 
ton,  Mass.,  but  owing  to  financial  difficulties  he  did  not 
enter  Yale  until  four  years  after  completing  his  course 
there,  being  employed  for  a  time  during  this  period  in  the 
office  of  The  Broad  Brook  Company  and  later  working  for 
Otto  F.  Strunz,  who  was  engaged  in  the  bakery  business 
in  Bristol,  Conn.,  from  which  place  he  entered  college. 
In  his  Senior  year  he  was  given  a  Second  Colloquy 
appointment. 


1888^1891  397 

He  took  up  the  study  of  law  soon  after  his  graduation, 
spending  two  years  in  the  office  of  Newell  &  Jennings  in 
Bristol  and  one  year  in  the  Yale  School  of  Law,  from  which 
he  received  the  degree  of  LL.B.  in  1890.  In  October  of 
that  year  he  settled  in  Palatka,  Fla.,  and  until  1893  served 
as  assistant  to  Mr.  Joseph  H.  Spafford,  who  conducted  a 
law  and  real  estate  business  in  that  place.  A  partnership 
was  formed  between  them  in  1893,  continuing  for  two 
years.  At  the  end  of  this  period  Mr.  Strunz  became  the 
sole  manager  of  the  firm's  business,  and  so  continued  until 
his  death,  giving  the  greater  part  of  his  attention  to  his 
real  estate  interests.  He  was  from  1907  to  1910  city 
attorney  of  Palatka. 

He  died  suddenly  at  his  home  in  Palatka,  December  12, 
1916,  as  the  result  of  heart  failure.  Interment  was  in  the 
Plainville  (Conn.)  Cemetery.  He  was  unmarried,  and  is 
survived  by  a  niece  and  three  nephews. 


John  Barry  Sears,  B.A.   1891 

Born  August  23,  1869,  in  Chicago,  111. 
Died  October   11,    1916,  in  Milwaukie,   Ore. 

John  Barry  Sears  was  born  August  23,  1869,  in  Chicago, 
111.,  being  the  eldest  son  of  Joseph  and  Helen  Stedman 
(Barry)  Sears.  His  father,  who  was  the  founder  of  Kenil- 
worth,  a  stiburb  of  Chicago,  was  the  son  of  John  and  Mir- 
anda (Blount)  Sears,  and  a  descendant  of  Richard  Sears, 
who  came  to  this  country  from  England  about  1630,  set- 
tling on  Cape  Cod.  He  was  also  a  direct  descendant  of  John 
and  Priscilla  (Mullens)  Alden.  Through  his  mother,  whose 
parents  were  Samuel  Stedman  and  Abigail  Corbin  (Abbot) 
Barry,  John  B.  Sears  traced  his  descent  to  Arthur  Abbot, 
who  came  to  America  from  Totnes,  Devonshire,  in  1633 
and  settled  at  Salem,  Mass.,  and  from  John  Barry,  a 
minuteman  at  Lexington. 

He  entered  Yale  from  the  Harvard  School,  Chicago,  and 
in  his  Senior  year  was  president  of  the  University  Football 
Association. 

For  about  a  year  after  graduation  he  was  in  the  employ 
of  the  American  Exchange  National  Bank  of  Chicago.  In 
1893  he  became  associated  with  the  banking  firm  of  Lobdell, 


39^  YALE    COLLEGE 

Farwell  &  Company  (afterwards  Granger  Farwell  &  Com- 
pany) of  that  city.  In  1906  he  was  made  treasurer  of  the 
Farwell  Trust  Company,  later  becoming  a  director,  and 
continued  his  connection  with  that  concern  until  August, 
1913.  He  was  also  vice-president  and  treasurer  of  the 
Wisconsin  Granite  Company.  In  191 3,  owing  to  ill  health, 
he  left  Chicago  and  took  up  ranching  near  Jamieson,  Ore. 
In  the  winter  of  19 15  he  suffered  from  a  severe  attack  of 
pneumonia  and  grippe,  which  left  his  heart  in  a  weakened 
condition.  His  death  occurred  suddenly  October  11,  1916, 
at  a  sanitarium  in  Milwaukie,  Ore.,  where  he  had  been 
for  about  two  months.  His  body  was  cremated  and  the 
ashes  interred  at  Lake  Forest  Cemetery  in  Lake  Forest,  111. 

Mr.  Sears  was  a  member  of  the  Illinois  Commandery  of 
the  Military  Order  of  the  Loyal  Legion,  through  his  father, 
who  was  first  lieutenant  in  the  One  Hundred  and  Forty- 
seventh  Infantry. 

He  was  married  June  i,  1907,  in  Sacramento,  Calif.,  to 
Jessie  Scott,  daughter  of  James  and  Frances  Rebecca 
(Mudgit)  Anderson,  and  sister  of  James  Anderson,  Jr. 
(Ph.B.  1916).  They  had  no  children.  Mr.  Sears  is  sur- 
vived by  his  wife,  his  mother,  two  sisters,  and  two  brothers, 
Philip  R.  and  Joseph  Alden  Sears,  graduates  of  the  Scien- 
tific School  in  1899  and  1905,  respectively.  Two  cousins, — 
John  H.  Sears  (LL.B.  1904)  and  Ralph  William  Burnet 
(Ph.B.  1907), — have  also  received  degrees  from  Yale. 


Hubbard  Taylor  Simpson,  B.A.   1891 

Born  January  7,  1871,  in  Winchester,  Ky. 
Died  August  4,  1916,  in  Asheville,  N.  C. 

Hubbard  Taylor  Simpson  was  born  January  7,  1871,  in 
Winchester,  Ky.,  where  his  father,  James  David  Simpson 
(LL.B.  Harvard  1867),  is  still  engaged  in  the  practice  of 
law.  The  latter's  parents  were  James  Simpson,  chief  justice 
of  the  Court  of  Appeals  of  Kentucky,  who  was  born  in 
Belfast,  Ireland,  in  1796  and  came  to  this  country  two  years 
later,  and  Mary  Logan  (Caldwell)  Simpson,  a  native  of 
Danville,  Ky.  His  mother  was  Mary  Ellen,  daughter  of 
Hubbard  and  Sarah  Beverly  (Jouett)  Taylor  of  Winchester. 
Her  earliest  American  ancestor  was  James  Taylor,  who 
came  to  Virginia  from  Carlisle,  England,  in  1658. 


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His  preparation  for  college  was  received  at  the  Yerkes 
School  at  Paris,  Ky.,  and  under  a  private  tutor  at  Florida, 
N.  Y.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Class  Day  Committee,  and 
received  a  Senior  Second  Colloquy  appointment. 

Mr.  Simpson  entered  the  employ  of  the  Safety  Building 
&  Loan  Company  in  Winchester  soon  after  graduation,  and 
in  May,  1892,  was  made  secretary  of  the  company.  He 
continued  in  that  association  until  1900,  when  he  became 
bookkeeper  of  the  Citizens  National  Bank  in  the  same  town. 
In  1903  it  was  found  that  he  was  suffering  from  tuber- 
culosis, and  on  this  account  he  resigned  his  position,  and, 
in  the  hope  that  he  would  be  able  to  regain  his  health  in 
a  different  climate,  went  to  Clearwater,  Fla.,  where  he 
remained  for  eleven  years.  Since  1914  he  had  lived  in 
Asheville,  N.  C,  his  death  occurring  there  August  4,  1916. 
Interment  was  in  his  native  town. 

Mr.  Simpson  was  a  member  of  the  Presbyterian  Church, 
and  held  the  office  of  deacon  in  the  churches  of  that  denomi- 
nation at  Winchester  and  Clearwater.  He  was  married 
March  7,  1894,  at  Warwick  Villa,  Ky.,  to  Jessie  Swinburne, 
daughter  of  Thomas  Dobe  and  Annie  Gyfford  (Haines) 
Davidson  of  Petersburg,  Va.,  who  survives  him  with  one 
daughter,  Eleanor.    He  leaves  also  his  parents. 


Frederick  Sanford  WoodrufT,  B.A.   1892 

Born  October  21,  1869,  in  New  York  City 
Died  June  12,  1917,  in  New  York  City 

Frederick  Sanford  Woodruff  was  born  in  New  York 
City,  October  21,  1869,  the  son  of  Charles  Hornblower 
Woodruff  (B.A.  1858,  LL.B.  Columbia  1861)  and  Catherine 
Gertrude  Laing  (Sanford)  Woodruff.  He  was  a  descend- 
ant of  Matthew  Woodruff,  who  came  to  this  country  from 
England  about  1630  and  was  one  of  the  eighty-four  original 
proprietors  of  Farmington,  Conn.,  and  of  Nathaniel  Wood- 
ruff, one  of  the  earliest  settlers  in  Litchfield,  Conn.  His 
paternal  grandparents  were  Lewis  Bartholomew  Woodruff 
(B.A.  1830,  LL.D.  Columbia  i860),  who  served  on  the 
bench  for  a  number  of  years,  at  the  time  of  his  death  in 
1875  being  a  judge  of  the  Circuit  Court  of  the  United  States 
for   the    Second    Judicial    Circuit,    and    Harriette   Burnet 


400  YALE    COLLEGE 

(Hornblower)  Woodruff,  daughter  of  Chief  Justice  Joseph 
Coerten  Hornblower  of  New  Jersey  and  Mary  (Burnet) 
Hornblower.  His  great-grandfather,  Morris  Woodruff, 
was  major  general  of  Connecticut  Militia,  held  numerous 
political  and  judicial  offices,  and  was  a  presidential  elector 
in  1832.  His  mother  was  the  daughter  of  William  Elihu 
and  Margaret  Louise  (Craney)  Sanford,  and  a  niece  of 
Charles  F.  Sanford  (B.A.  1847).  She  traced  her  descent 
to  Thomas  Sanford,  who  emigrated  to  this  country  from 
England  in  1632  and  settled  at  Dorchester,  Mass. 

He  w^as  fitted  for  Yale  at  the  Columbia  Grammar  School 
and  at  the  Collegiate  School  of  Duane  L.  Everson  in  New 
York  City. 

After  graduation  in  1892  he  spent  several  months  abroad, 
on  his  return  to  this  country  entering  the  New  York  Law 
School.  In  June,  1894,  he  was  admitted  to  the  bar  of  the 
state  of  New  York,  and  then  spent  two  years  as  a  clerk 
in  the  office  of  Root  &  Clark,  of  which  firm  Elihu  Root  was 
senior  partner.  He  became  associated  with  his  father  in 
practice  in  1896,  remaining  in  that  connection  until  the 
latter's  retirement,  when  he  became  a  member  of  the  firm 
of  Gulick,  Woodruff  &  Marsh,  in  which  his  partners  were 
Alexander  R.  Gulick  (B.A.  Princeton  1889,  M.A.  Princeton 
1892,  LL.B.  New  York  Law  School  1892)  and  Rolph  Marsh 
(B.A.  Williams  1892,  LL.B.  New  York  Law  School  1894). 
Since  1902  Mr.  Woodruff  had  conducted  an  independent 
practice.  He  was  a  member  of  the  University  Club  of 
New  York,  for  many  years  making  it  his  second  home. 
He  was  also  a  member  of  the  Society  of  the  Cincinnati, 
the  Sons  of  the  Revolution,  of  which  he  had  been  vice- 
president  and  long  on  the  board  of  managers,  the  Society 
of  Colonial  Wars,  the  Military  Society  of  the  War  of 
1812,  and  the  Veteran  Corps  of  Artillery.  He  belonged  to 
the  Collegiate  Reformed  Dutch  Church  of  New  York  City. 

Mr.  Woodruff  died  June  12,  1917,  at  the  Presbyterian 
Hospital  in  New  York  City,  after  a  long  illness  due  to  a 
kidney  disorder.  Interment  was  in  the  family  plot  in  the 
East  Cemetery  at  Litchfield,  Conn. 

He  was  unmarried,  and  is  survived  by  a  brother,  Lewis 
Bartholomew  Woodruff  (B.A.  1890,  LL.B.  New  York  Law 
School  1892).  Two  other  brothers  had  attended  Yale: 
Charles  H.  Woodruff,  Jr.,  a  non-graduate  member  of  the 
College  Class  of  1896,  and  Edward  Seymour  Woodruff,  who 


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received  the  degree  of  B.A.  in  1899  and  that  of  M.F.  in 
1907.  Mr.  Woodruff  was  a  nephew  of  Morris  Woodruff 
(B.A.  i860,  Honorary  M.A.  1874),  and  a  cousin  of  Morris 
Woodruff,  a  graduate  of  the  College  in  1893,  and  George 
VV.  L.  Woodruff  (Ph.B.  1895,  E.E.  Columbia  1896). 


Joseph  Anderson,  B.A.   1893 

Born  July  9,   1871,  in  Waterbury,   Conn. 
Died  March  26,   1917,  in  West  Haven,  Conn. 

Joseph  Anderson,  son  of  Rev.  Dr.  Joseph  Anderson  and 
Anna  Sands  (Gildersleeve)  Anderson,  was  born  in  Water- 
bury,  Conn.,  July  9,  1871.  His  father  was  born  in  Scot- 
land in  1836,  the  son  of  William  and  Mary  (Rose)  Ander- 
son, came  to  this  country  six  years  later,  and  was  graduated 
from  the  College  of  the  City  of  New  York  in  1854  and  from 
Union  Theological  Seminary  in  1857.  He  was  pastor  of 
the  First  Congregational  Church  of  Waterbury  from  1865 
to  1905,  and  served  as  a  Fellow  of  the  Yale  Corporation 
from  1884  until  his  death  in  August,  1916.  Yale  conferred 
the  honorary  degree  of  Doctor  of  Divinity  upon  him  in 
1878.  His  wife  was  the  daughter  of  Thomas  Jefferson 
and  Dorothy  (Hamilton)  Gildersleeve,  the  latter  being  a 
descendant  of  George  Hamilton,  who,  as  a  lad  of  eighteen, 
came  to  this  country  from  Ireland  and  served  as  a  private 
in  the  Revolutionary  War. 

Joseph  Anderson  was  fitted  for  Yale  at  the  Waterbury 
High  School.  While  in  college  he  was  a  member  of  the 
Senior  Class  Football  Team,  and  received  a  Second  Col- 
loquy appointment  at  Commencement.  From  1893  to  1895 
he  was  a  student  in  the  School  of  Law,  receiving  the  degree 
of  LL.B.  in  the  latter  year.  He  served  on  the  editorial 
board  of  the  Yale  Law  Journal. 

The  four  years  following  his  admission  to  the  Connecticut 
Bar  in  June,  1895,  were  spent  in  the  practice  of  law  in 
Waterbury.  In  November,  1899,  Mr.  Anderson  went  to 
Porto  Rico,  and  shortly  afterwards  opened  a  law  office  in 
San  Juan.  He  was  appointed  United  States  commissioner 
for  the  district  of  Porto  Rico  in  1901,  and  served  in  that 
capacity  for  about  six  years.  He  was  greatly  interested 
in  the   commercial  development  of   the  island,   and   some 


402  YALE    COLLEGE 

years  ago  purchased  a  fruit  ranch  not  far  from  San  Juan, 
Eventually  his  business  interests  demanded  so  much  of  his 
time,  that  he  partially  relinquished  the  practice  of  law. 
He  returned  to  the  United  States  in  September,  191 6,  and 
had  since  resided  in  Woodmont,  Conn. 

He  had  been  in  poor  health  for  several  years,  and  his 
death  occurred  at  a  sanatorium  in  West  Haven,  Conn., 
March  26,  191 7,  from  cirrhosis  of  the  liver  and  nephritis. 
Burial  was  in  the  Westville  (Conn.)  Cemetery. 

Mr.  Anderson  was  married  September  12,  1899,  in 
Bridgeport,  Conn.,  to  Mary  Adelaide,  daughter  of  Thomas 
Clarkson  and  Ella  (Lines)  Lewis  of  New  Haven.  She 
survives  him  with  two  children,  Mary  Rose  and  Anna 
Gildersleeve.  Mr.  Anderson  also  leaves  a  sister.  His 
brother,  William  Anderson,  was  for  a  time  a  member 
of  the  College  Class  of  1884,  but  withdrew  in  Sophomore 
year,  his  death  occurring  in  Mav,  1884.  A  sister,  who  mar- 
ried Carl  E.  Munger  (Ph.B.  1880,  M.D.  Columbia  1883), 
died  in  i88q. 


George  Alexander  Phelps,  B.A.   1895 

Born  November  16,  1873,  in  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 
Died  October  30,   1916,   in  New  York  City 

George  Alexander  Phelps  was  born  in  Brooklyn,  N.  Y., 
November  16,  1873,  being  the  son  of  Frank  Phelps,  senior 
partner  in  the  mercantile  firm  of  Phelps  Brothers  &  Com- 
pany, and  Mary  (Curtiss)  Phelps.  His  father,  whose 
parents  were  George  Alexander  and  Eliza  (Ayres)  Phelps, 
traced  his  descent  to  William  Phelps,  who  came  to  this 
country  from  Tewksbury,  England,  and  settled  at  Dor- 
chester, Mass.  His  mother  was  the  daughter  of  Henry 
Tomlinson  and  Mary  Eliza  Henderson  (Beardslee)  Curtiss, 
and  a  descendant  of  Sydney  Beardslee,  an  emigrant  from 
England  in  the  seventeenth  century.  Members  of  the 
Curtiss  family  settled  in  Stratford,  Conn.,  in  1638.  ^ 

He  was  prepared  for  college  at  King's  School  in  Stam- 
ford, Conn.  In  Junior  year  he  received  a  First  Colloquy, 
and  his  Senior  appointment  was  a  Second  Colloquy. 

In  the  fall  after  his  graduation  he  began  the  study  of 
medicine    at    Columbia,    but    within    a    year    trouble    with 


1893-1895  403 

his  eyes  caused  him  to  discontinue  his  course.  Since  the 
spring  of  1896  he  had  been  connected  with  A.  G.  Spaulding 
&  Brothers  in  New  York  City.  Beginning  in  a  minor  posi- 
tion in  the  bicycle  department,  he  had  been  promoted 
rapidly,  until  at  his  death  he  was  one  of  the  executive 
heads  of  the  business,  holding  office  as  vice-president  and 
a  director.  He  had  been  an  active  worker  in  The  Yale 
Club  of  New  York  from  its  formation,  being  for  six  years 
a  member  of  the  council  and  for  five  chairman  of  the  house 
committee.  He  served  on  two  reunion  committees  of  the 
Class  of  1895.  His  home  had  been  at  Pelham  Manor  since 
1905,  and  he  was  one  of  the  founders  of  the  Pelham 
Country  Club  and  for  some  years  its  president.  He  was 
the  treasurer  of  the  Huguenot  Memorial  Presbyterian 
Church  at  Pelham,  and  took  an  active  part  in  all  civic 
affairs.  He  had  made  a  number  of  trips  to  the  Canadian 
woods  after  big  game.  In  1908  he  went  to  Australia  with 
the  American  Davis  Cup  Tennis  Team.  At  one  time  he 
was  a  member  of  the  board  of  governors  of  the  West  Side 
Tennis  Club  of  New  York. 

Mr.  Phelps  died  October  30,  1916,  in  Roosevelt  Hospital, 
New  York  City,  after  an  operation.  He  had  been  in  poor 
health  for  a  year.  Interment  was  in  Woodland  Cemetery, 
Stamford,  Conn. 

His  marriage  took  place  May  23,  1905,  in  Hartford, 
Conn.,  to  Harriet  B.,  daughter  of  Lucius  Albert  and  Harriet 
Elizabeth  (Barnes)  Barbour,  and  sister  of  Lucius  B.  Bar- 
bour (B.A.  1900).  They  had  two  children,  George  Alex- 
ander, Jr.,  and  Harriet  Elizabeth,  both  of  whom,  with  their 
mother,  survive.  Mr.  Phelps  also  leaves  his  parents,  a 
brother,  Marion  B.  Phelps,  who  graduated  from  the  Scien- 
tific School  in  1896,  and  a  sister.  He  was  a  nephew  of 
Julian  W.  Curtiss  (B.A.  1879),  and  a  cousin  of  Alfred 
L.  Curtiss  and  Henry  T.  Curtiss,  graduates  of  the  College 
in  1896  and  1910,  respectively. 


Nelson  Walling  Sayles,  B.A.   1895 

Born  November  19,  1872,  in  Millbury,  Mass. 
Died  October  14,  1916,  in  New  York  City 

Nelson  Walling  Sayles,  son  of  Irving  B.  and  Amelia  A. 
(Walling)   Sayles,  was  born  November  19,  1872,  in  Mill- 


404  YALE    COLLEGE 

bury,  Mass.,  and  was  fitted  for  college  at  the  Worcester 
(Mass.)  Academy.  His  father  was  treasurer  of  the  Alill- 
bury  Savings  Bank  and  national  bank  examiner  of  Massa- 
chusetts for  some  years. 

Mr.  Sayles  had  been  engaged  in  business  since  gradua- 
tion. In  1897  he  took  a  position  with  the  Palatine  Insur- 
ance Company  of  New  York  City,  remaining  with  them 
until  1899,  when  he  became  an  accountant  for  the  American 
Sheet  Company.  From  1902  to  1906  he  was  engaged  in 
similar  work  for  the  American  Brake  Shoe  &  Foundry 
Company,  and  for  the  next  four  years  was  assistant  auditor 
for  the  American  Colortype  Company.  The  remainder  of 
his  active  business  life  was  spent  in  the  employ  of  the 
Republic  Rubber  Company  of  Youngstown,  Ohio,  his  posi- 
tion at  the  time  of  his  death  being  that  of  purchasing  agent. 

In  1916  he  was  granted  a  leave  of  absence,  and  went 
to  New  York  City  for  an  operation.  His  death  occurred 
in  that  city,  October  14,  1916. 

Mr.  Sayles  was  married  October  31,  1909,  in  Jersey  City, 
N.  J.,  to  Mrs.  Flora  Liicia  (Grinnell)  Juene,  daughter  of 
Col.  Lorenzo  Dow  Grinnell,  of  St.  Louis,  Mo.,  a  veteran 
of  the  Civil  War.  She  survives  him  without  children.  He 
leaves  his  father. 


Alexander  Brown,  B.A.   1896 

Born  September  25,  1872,  in  Torresdale,  Pa. 
Died  October  24,  1916,  in  Essington,  Pa. 

Alexander  Brown  was  born  in  Torresdale,  Pa.,  Septem- 
ber 25,  1872,  the  son  of  Neilson  Brown,  whose  parents  were 
Alexander  Brown,  a  banker  of  Philadelphia,  and  Katherine 
(Neilson)  Brown.  His  mother  was  Elizabeth  Laurence, 
daughter  of  George  C.  and  Rosalie  (Morgan)  Carson. 
Part  of  his  boyhood  was  spent  in  Washington,  D.  C,  and 
Paris,  France,  and  he  was  fitted  for  Yale  at  St.  Paul's 
School,  Concord,  N.  H.  In  his  Freshman  year  he  was  a 
member  of  the  Class  Glee  Club  and  of  the  Second  Glee  Club. 
He  was  a  Class  wrestler,  a  substitute  on  the  University  Foot- 
ball Team,  a  prize  winner  for  several  years  on  the  Uni- 
versity Track  Team,  including  the  special  team  that  went 
to  England  to  compete  with  Oxford  in  1894,  and  a  member 
of  the  University  Crew  in  Senior  year. 


1895-1896  405 

Upon  graduating  from  college,  Mr.  Brown  entered  the 
Philadelphia  office  of  Brown  Brothers  &  Company,  bankers, 
where  he  spent  about  a  year  and  a  half,  but  since  that  time 
he  had  not  been  engaged  in  any  business.  For  eight  months 
of  the  Spanish- American  War  he  served  in  the  United 
States  Navy  as  assistant  paymaster  of  the  Gloucester,  and 
he  was  especially  mentioned  in  the  report  of  its  command- 
ing officer  for  bravery.  Mr.  Brown  was  a  well-known 
sportsman  and  big  game  hunter.  The  latter  pursuit  took 
him  several  times  to  Alaska  and  the  Far  West.  In  the 
latter  part  of  191 3  he  spent  two  months  in  the  unexplored 
country  north  of  Lake  Klaune,  near  the  Alaskan-Canadian 
border.  He  was  one  of  the  leading  polo-players  in  America, 
and  in  19 14  and  191 5  was  captain  of  the  Bryn  Mawr  Polo 
Club  team.  In  the  spring  of  1916  he  disposed  of  most  of 
his  polo  ponies  with  the  intention  of  devoting  more  of  his 
time  to  aviation.  While  at  Plattsburg  at  the  summer  camp 
he  became  keenly  interested  in  the  plans  of  a  group  of 
men  who  started  an  aviation  school  near  Philadelphia  in 
the  hope  of  aiding  the  movement  for  national  preparedness, 
and  devoted  much  time  to  perfecting  the  plans  of  this 
school.  On  October  24,  19 16,  when  making  a  trial  flight 
to  secure  a  license  from  the  Philadelphia  School  of  Avia- 
tion, he  in  some  way  lost  control  of  his  hydro-aeroplane, 
which  fell  into  the  E)elaware  River  at  Essington,  Pa.  His 
death  was  probably  due  to  drowning,  as  his  body  was 
found  pinned  under  the  machinery  of  his  hydro-aeroplane. 
Interment  was  in  the  family  vault  at  his  former  home  in 
Torresdale.  He  was  a  vestryman  of  All  Saints'  Church  of 
that  town  for  several  years  and  later,  after  his  removal  to 
Bryn  Mawr,  a  member  of  the  Church  of  the  Good  Shepherd, 
Rosemont. 

Mr.  Brown's  marriage  took  place  in  Devon,  Pa.,  April 
27,  1910,  to  Mrs.  May  (Hobson)  Foard  of  Philadelphia, 
daughter  of  John  Lowry  and  Coralie  Bertha  (Lazare) 
Plobson,  and  widow,  of  Addison  Kemp  Foard.  Three  sons 
were  born  to  them,  Alexander,  Jr.,  Neilson,  and  Hobson, 
all  of  whom,  with  their  mother,  survive. 


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George  Bates  Hatch,  B.A.   1896 

Born  August  29,  1874,  in  Hanover,  N.  H. 
Died  June  22,  1917,  at  Colorado  Springs,  Colo. 

George  Bates  Hatch,  a  descendant  of  Joseph  Hatch,  who 
came  from  England  to  Falmouth,  Mass.,  in  1626,  was 
born  August  29,  1874,  in  Hanover,  N.  H.  His  father,  John 
Eddy  Hatch,  was  the  son  of  Royal  and  Marian  (Chandler) 
Hatch;  he  graduated  from  Dartmouth  in  1869,  received 
his  LL.B.  at  Columbian  (now  George  Washington)  Uni- 
versity in  1871,  and  practiced  as  a  patent  attorney  in  Cin- 
cinnati, Ohio,  for  a  number  of  years.  His  mother  was 
Caroline  Augusta,  daughter  of  George  Henery  and  Caroline 
Augusta  (Perry)  Bates.  Through  her  he  traced  his  descent 
to  Clement  Bates,  who  came  to  this  coimtry  from  Kent, 
England,  in  1635  and  settled  at  Hingham,  Mass. 

He  was  fitted  for  college  at  the  Hopkins  Grammar  School 
in  New  Haven,  Conn.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Track 
Team  for  three  years,  taking  first  place  in  the  120-yard 
hurdle  against  Harvard  in  1895,  as  well  as  winning  one 
other  first,  two  seconds,  and  a  third  at  other  meets,  and 
played  in  the  Yale-Oxford  and  Yale-Cambridge  games.  In 
Junior  year  he  was  a  substitute  on  the  University  Football 
Team.    His  Senior  appointment  was  a  Second  Colloquy. 

Mr.  Hatch  spent  the  first  three  years  after  graduation 
as  a  student  in  the  Flarvard  Law  School.  He  was  a  mem- 
ber of  the  editorial  board  of  the  Harvard  Law  Review  from 
1897  to  1899,  and  received  his  LL.B.  cum  laude  in  the 
latter  year.  After  a  year  in  the  office  of  Anderson  & 
Anderson,  lawyers  of  New  York  City,  and  a  brief  trip 
abroad,  he  became  managing  clerk  for  the  firm  of  Mitchell 
&  Mitchell.  In  1901  he  formed  a  partnership  with  Philip 
J.  McCook  (B.A.  Trinity  1895,  LL.B.  Harvard  1899), 
which  continued  for  five  years.  On  account  of  ill  health 
he  went  to  Colorado  Springs,  Colo.,,  early  in  1907.  As 
soon  as  his  condition  permitted  he  again  took  up  the  law, 
practicing  alone  for  a  time.  In  June,  19 12,  he  became 
associated  with  the  firm  of  Smith  &  Knowlton,  and  in  1914 
formed  a  partnership  with  the  members  of  that  firm,  H. 
Alexander  Smith  (B.A.  Princeton  1901,  LL.B.  Columbia 
1904)  and  Daniel  W.  Knowlton  (B.A.  Harvard  1903, 
LL.B.  Harvard  1907),  under  the  name  of  Smith,  Knowlton 


I 896- I 897  407 

&  Hatch.  He  was  a  partner  in  this  firm  until  his  death, 
which  occurred  June  22,  1917,  at  Colorado  Springs,  as  the 
result  of  tuberculosis.  Interment  was  in  Spring  Grove 
Cemetery  at  Cincinnati,  Ohio. 

Mr.  Hatch  was  married  at  Colorado  Springs,  March  5, 
1908,  to  Frances  Mary,  daughter  of  Henry  and  Frances 
(Harrison)  Hunt  of  Nottingham,  England.  His  wife  and 
son,  George  Bates,  Jr.,  survive  him. 


Harry  Mayham  Keator,  B.A.   1897 

Born  November  21,   1873,  in  Roxbury,  N.  Y. 
Died  May  20,  1917,  in  Roxbury,  N,  Y. 

Harry  Mayham  Keator  was  born  November  21,  1873, 
in  Roxbury,  N.  Y.  His  father,  Charles  Gorse  Keator,  who 
was  engaged  in  farming  and  the  wholesale  creamery  busi- 
ness in  that  town  for  fifty  years,  was  the  son  of  Abram 
J.  and  Ruth  (Frisbee)  Keator.  His  mother  was  Rose, 
daughter  of  Cornelius  and  Julia  (Reynolds)  Mayham.  On 
the  paternal  side,  he  was  descended  from  John  More,  a 
Scotchman,  who  settled  in  the  Catskills  in  1773. 

He  received  his  preparatory  training  at  Williston  Semi- 
nary, Easthampton,  Mass.,  entering  Yale  in  1893.  In 
Freshman  year  he  was  a  member  of  the  Class  Nine,  and 
substituted  on  the  University  Baseball  Team,  and  he  was 
a  member  of  the  latter  team  during  the  remainder  of  his 
course,  being  captain  in  Senior  year. 

He  taught  at  Williston  in  1897-98,  and  then  began  the 
study  of  medicine  at  Columbia  University.  He  was  gradu- 
ated from  the  College  of  Physicians  and  Surgeons  in  1902, 
and  after  serving  interneships  at  the  Presbyterian  Hospital 
and  the  Sloane  Maternity  Hospital,  began  practice  as  a 
physician  in  New  York  City.  For  a  year  he  had  his  office 
with  his  classmate,  William  Darrach,  but  after  1905  he  prac- 
ticed alone.  He  served  as  an  instructor  in  physiology  at 
the  College  of  Physicians  and  Surgeons  from  1906  to  19 12, 
was  connected  with  the  Red  Cross  Hospital  as  an  attending 
surgeon,  and  had  also  been  assistant  physician  to  the 
Vanderbilt  Clinic  and  chief  of  a  surgical  clinic  at  the 
Presbyterian  Hospital  for  several  years. 

In   1912  Dr.  Keator  started  on  an  eleven  months'  trip 


4o8  YALE    COLLEGE 

around  the  world.  After  his  return  to  this  country  he 
divided  his  time  between  Saranac  Lake  and  the  family 
home  at  Roxbury,  continuing  his  endeavor  to  regain  his 
health.  He  spent  the  past  winter  in  Albuquerque,  N.  Mex., 
returning  to  Roxbury  in  March,  apparently  much  benefited. 
It  was  soon  found,  however,  that  there  was  slight  hope  of 
his  recovery,  and  this  knowledge  so  preyed  upon  his  mind 
that  he  became  unbalanced,  and,  on  May  20,  19 17,  took  his 
own  life.    Interment  was  in  Roxbury. 

He  was  a  member  of  the  Holland  Society  of  New  York. 
For  a  long  time  he  served  as  chairman  of  the  John  More 
Association,  an  organization  composed  of  descendants  of 
John  More.  Dr.  Keator  had  not  married.  Two  sisters 
survive  him.  His  relatives  include  the  following  Yale 
graduates:  the  late  John  F.  Keator  (B.A.  1877),  Dr.  Bruce 
S.  Keator  (B.A.  1879),  Rt.  Rev.  Frederic  W.  Keator  (B.A. 
1880),  Alexander  B.  Marvin  (B.A.  1899),  Frederic  R. 
Keator  (B.A.  1902),  Ben  C.  Keator  (Ph.B.  1908),  and 
Samuel  J.  Keator  (B.A.  1909). 


Francis  William  Sheehan,  B.A.   1898 

Born  October  i,  1875,  in  Easthampton,  Mass. 
Died  December  15,  1916,  in  Woodmont,  Conn. 

Francis  William  Sheehan,  son  of  William  Joseph  Shee- 
han, a  merchant,  and  Elizabeth  (O'Donnell)  Sheehan,  was 
born  October  i,  1875,  in  Easthampton,  Mass.  The  family 
moved  to  West  Haven,  Conn.,  in  1892,  and  his  father 
served  for  several  years  on  the  local  school  board.  The 
latter's  parents  were  Edward  and  Catherine  (Condon) 
Sheehan,  and  his  mother  was  the  daughter  of  Terrence  and 
Eliza  (McKenna)  O'Donnell.  An  uncle,  Edward  A. 
O'Donnell,  was  looked  upon  as  one  of  the  foremost  educa- 
tors of  his  day  in  Ireland,  having  been  influential  in  the 
establishment  of  three  noted  schools  for  boys,  one  of  which, 
the  Artane  Industrial  School  at  Dublin,  was  at  one  time 
among  the  largest  of  its  kind  in  the  world. 

Entering  Yale  in  1894  from  Williston  Seminary,  East- 
hampton, he  continued  his  studies  there  for  the  next  seven 
years,  receiving  the  degree  of  B.A.  in  1898  and  that  of 
LL.B.  in  1901.     He  was  a  member  of  the  Freshman  Glee 


1897-1898  409 

Club  and  afterwards  of  the  University  Glee  Club,  being 
president  of  the  latter  in  1898-99.  In  his  Senior  year  in 
the  College  he  was  elected  to  the  Cup  and  Senior  Promenade 
committees.    He  received  First  Colloquy  appointments. 

He  was  admitted  to  the  Connectictit  Bar  in  June,  1900, 
and  for  two  years  after  his  graduation  from  the  School 
of  Law  practiced  in  New  Haven  in  association  with  James 
E.  Wheeler  (B.A.  1892,  LL.B.  1894).  In  1903  he  became 
ill  with  tuberculosis,  and  went  to  Saranac  Lake,  where  he 
spent  two  years.  In  1905,  his  condition  being  somewhat 
improved,  he  engaged  in  ranching  with  his  classmates,  John 
R.  Paxton  and  Howard  D.  Reeve,  at  Glendive,  Mont.  The 
next  year  he  removed  to  Otis  Orchards,  Wash.,  where 
he  was  able  to  give  his  attention  to  work  in  his  apple 
orchards  until  a  few  years  ago,  when  he  met  with  a  serious 
accident.  Since  1913  his  strength  had  failed  steadily,  and 
in  September,  191 5,  he  went  to  Colorado  Springs,  Colo., 
but  finding  that  the  climate  was  not  helping  him  to  any 
extent,  he  returned  to  his  sister's  home  in  Woodmont,  Conn., 
where  his  death  occurred  December  15,  1916.  Interment 
was  in  the  family  plot  in  St.  Jerome  Cemetery,  Holyoke, 
Mass. 

Mr.  Sheehan  was  a  member  of  the  Roman  Catholic 
Church.  He  was  the  author  of  several  chapters  of  Mr. 
James  E.  Wheeler's  book,  "Connecticut  Administrative 
Officers,"  published  in  1903.  While  living  at  Otis  Or- 
chards, he  served  as  a  justice  of  the  peace,  and  held  many 
offices  of  trust.  He  was  untiring  in  his  efforts  to  work  for 
all  things  that  pertained  to  the  development  of  the  com- 
munity, in  which  he  and  his  classmate,  Howard  D.  Reeve, 
were  pioneers. 

He  was  unmarried.  Surviving  him  are  a  brother, 
Edward  A.  Sheehan,  who  graduated  from  Manhattan  Col- 
lege in  1887,  three  sisters,  one  of  whom  is  the  wife  of 
P2dward  P.  O'Meara  (LL.B.  1899),  his  step-mother,  and 
a  half-sister.  Another  brother,  William  Joseph  Sheehan, 
who  received  the  degree  of  B.S.  from  Manhattan  College 
in  1892  and  that  of  M.D.  from  Yale  in  1895,  died  in 
January,  191 5. 


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Kenneth  Bruce,  B.A.   1900 

Born  December  28,   1876,  in  Poughkeepsie,  N.  Y. 
Died  September  3,  1916,  at  Hot  Springs,  Va. 

Kenneth  Bruce  was  born  in  Poughkeepsie,  N.  Y.,  Decem- 
ber 28,  1876.  His  father  was  Wallace  Bruce,  poet  and 
lecturer,  a  graduate  of  Yale  in  1867,  who  was  well-known 
for  his  contributions  to  literature,  especially  on  the  subject 
of  the  Hudson  River,  and  who  served  as  United  States 
consul  at  Edinburgh  from  1889  to  1893,  the  Lincoln  Monu- 
ment in  memory  of  Scottish-American  soldiers  being 
erected  through  his  efforts  at  this  time.  Mr.  Bruce's  par- 
ents were  Alfred  and  Mary  Ann  (McAlpine)  Bruce;  he 
was  descended  from  George  Bruce,  of  the  Elgin  line  of 
Bruce  of  Bannockburn,  who  came  to  Woburn,  Mass.,  from 
Scotland,  and  married  a  granddaughter  of  Timothy  Carter, 
the  first  minister  at  Woburn,  a  student  at  Oxford  and  Cam- 
bridge in  1640.  His  great-grandfather,  John  Bruce,  fought 
in  the  battle  of  Lexington,  serving  afterwards  with  the 
Revolutionary  Army  as  a  sergeant.  The  mother  of  Ken- 
neth Bruce  was  Annie,  daughter  of  Stephen  Becker,  whose 
ancestors  were  early  Dutch  settlers  in  New  York;  the 
name  was  originally  spelled  Baecker. 

While  in  Edinburgh  he  attended  the  Collegiate  School, 
which  was  at  that  time  conducted  by  Dr.  Bryce,  and  he 
traveled  through  Scotland  and  England. and  on  the  Con- 
tinent, making  historical  pilgrimages  with  his  father.  He 
prepared  for  Yale  at  Philips  Academy,  Andover.  He  served 
as  president  of  the  Freshman  Union  and  as  vice-president 
of  the  Yale  Union,  received  a  first  prize  in  elocution  Sopho- 
more year,  a  Junior  Second  Dispute  and  a  Senior  First 
Dispute  appointment,  and  was  a  member  of  Chi  Delta 
Theta,  and  unanimously  elected  Class  Poet.  He  con- 
tributed many  essays  and  poems  to  the  Yale  Literary 
Magazine. 

Shortly  after  his  graduation  he  became  manager  of  the 
Bryant  Union  Publishing  Company  of  New  York  City,  with 
which  he  was  associated  until  1905.  Since  that  time  he 
had  been  identified  with  Chautauqua  work,  and  in  con- 
nection with  this  movement  had  lectured  in  various  parts 
of  the  country.  Like  his  father,  he  was  deeply  interested 
in  the  early  history  of   New  York,  and  one  of  his  most 


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popular  lectures  was  on  "The  Historic  Hudson."  Another 
having  a  wide  appeal  was  on  "Bonnie  Scotland."  In  1909 
he  published  a  book  "The  Return  of  the  Half  Moon,"  and 
he  had  frequently  contributed  verse  to  magazines.  He  was 
l)rcsident  and  superintendent  of  the  Florida  Chautauqua 
at  DeFuniak  Springs  during  the  last  ten  years  of  his  life, 
tie  had  served  as  president  of  the  First  National  Bank 
of  that  town,  was  a  Republican  in  politics,  and  an 
Episcopalian. 

In  recent  years  Mr.  Bruce  had  suffered  greatly  from 
rheumatism.  His  death  occurred,  as  the  result  of  heart 
failure,  September  3,  1916,  at  The  Homestead,  Hot  Springs, 
Va.,  where  he  was  taking  the  baths.  He  was  buried  in 
Oakwood  Cemetery  at  DeFuniak  Springs. 

He  was  married  April  5,  1905,  in  Atmore,  Ala.,  to  Laura, 
daughter  of  William  Marshall  and  Adeline  Carney,  who 
survives  him  without  children.  His  mother,  a  sister,  and  a 
brother  are  also  living.  Mr.  Bruce  was  a  nephew  of  Way- 
land  Irving  Bruce  (B.A.  1882,  M.A.  1888),  and  a  cousin 
of  Alfred  Bruce  Chace  (B.A.  1892)  ;  J.  Frank  Chace,  a 
non-graduate  member  of  the  College  Class  of  1894;  Wil- 
liam Wallace  Chace  (B.A.  1896),  and  Donald  Bruce,  a 
graduate  of  the  College  in  1906  and  of  the  School  of 
Forestry  in  19 10. 


Howard  Carleton,  B.A.   1901 

Born  September  7,  1879,  in  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 
Died  August  10,  1910,  at  Saranac  Lake,  N.  Y. 

Howard  Carleton  was  born  September  7,  1879,  in  Brook- 
lyn, N.  Y.,  the  son  of  Horace  Morrison  and  Carrie  Lewis 
(Wendelkin)  Carleton.  His  father,  who  was  descended 
from  early  settlers  of  Rowley,  Mass.,  studied  in  the  Shef- 
field Scientific  School  during  1868-69,  and  for  a  number 
of  years  after  leaving  Yale  was  engaged  in  the  publishing 
business  in  New  York  City.  He  was  a  member  of  the 
Sons  of  the  Revolution,  the  Society  of  Colonial  Wars,  and 
the  Order  of  Founders  and  Patriots. 

Howard  Carleton  was  fitted  for  Yale  at  the  Brooklyn 
High  School.  In  his  Sophomore  year  he  received  a  first 
prize  in  elocution  and  one  in  anatomical  drawing,  and  he 


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also  won  the  "Record  owl"  and  the  "Minerva  charm"  for 
work  done  in  Senior  year. 

He  entered  the  brokerage  business  in  New  York  City 
immediately  after  graduation,  joining  the  Consolidated 
Exchange  in  1902.  He  spent  five  years  on  that  board  as 
a  broker.  In  1907  he  went  to  California  for  his  health, 
and  shortly  afterwards  became  engaged  in  the  insurance 
business  in  Los  Angeles.  He  came  East  two  years  later, 
going  at  once  to  Saranac  Lake,  N.  Y.  His  death  occurred 
there  August  10,  19 10,  and  he  was  buried  in  Woodlawn 
Cemetery.  For  three  years  he  had  suffered  from  pulmon- 
ary tuberculosis,  which  later  developed  into  tuberculosis 
of  the  knee. 

Mr.  Carleton  was  unmarried.  His  mother,  two  brothers, 
and  a  sister  are  living,  his  father  having  died  December  25, 
1914. 


Thomas  Langdon  Cheney,  B.A.   1901 

Born  November  20,  1880,  in  South  Manchester,  Conn. 
Died  October  23,  1916,  at  Colorado  Springs,  Colo. 

Thomas  Langdon  Cheney  was  born  November  20,  1880, 
in  South  Manchester,  Conn.,  where  his  father,  Knight 
Dexter  Cheney  (B.A.  Brown  i860.  Honorary  M.A.  Brown 
1886),  had  long  been  engaged  in  the  silk  manufacturing 
business.  The  latter  was  the  son  of  Charles  and  Waitstill 
Dexter  (Shaw)  Cheney,  and  a  descendant  of  Benjamin 
Cheney,  who  came  to  this  country  from  England  and  settled 
at  Winchester,  Conn.,  and  of  Ichabod  Shaw,  who  came 
from  England  about  1670.  He  married  Ednah  Dow,  daugh- 
ter of  Samuel  Garfield  and  Elizabeth  (Dow)  Smith,  who 
was  descended  from  William  Smith,  an  emigrant  to  Peter- 
boro,  N.  H.,  from  Ireland  about  1740,  and  Elizabeth 
Morrison.  Thomas  L.  Cheney  was  one  of  their  eleven 
children. 

He  received  his  preparatory  training  at  the  South  Man- 
chester High  School,  the  Hartford  Public  High  School, 
and  the  Pomfret  (Conn.)  School.  He  was  a  member  of 
the  University  Golf  Team  for  two  years,  winning  the  fall 
championship  in  1899. 

After  graduation  he  returned  to  his  native  town  and 
entered  the  silk  manufacturing  business  of  Cheney  Brothers. 


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He  started  as  a  mill  hand  in  the  preparation  department 
of  the  spun  silk  mill,  and  in  1905  was  made  superintendent 
of  the  spinning  department.  On  the  death  of  his  brother, 
Knight  D.  Cheney,  Jr.  (B.A.  1892),  in  19 10  he  succeeded 
him  as  head  of  the  sales  department  of  the  corporation  in 
New  York  City.  He  was  at  one  time  a  director  of  the 
Merchants  Protective  Association,  the  Merchants  Associa- 
tion of  New  York,  and  the  McCall  Company.  He  spent 
several  months  abroad  in  1906. 

In  May,  19 16,  he  developed  tuberculosis,  and  went  at 
once  to  Colorado.  He  was  not  successful  in  recovering 
his  health,  however,  and  died  at  Colorado  Springs  on 
October  23  of  that  year.  His  body  was  taken  to  South 
Manchester  for  burial  in  the  East  Cemetery. 

Mr.  Cheney  was  married  May  27,  1916,  in  New  York  City, 
to  Judith  Stager,  daughter  of  Henry  W.  and  Harriet  Trabue 
(Stager)  Calkins  of  Cleveland,  Ohio.  His  wife  survives 
him  with  a  son,  Thomas  Langdon,  and  he  also  leaves  five 
sisters,  and  three  brothers,  Clifford  D.,  Philip,  and  Russell 
Cheney,  graduates  of  the  college  in  1898,  1901,  and  1904, 
respectively.  He  was  a  brother-in-law  of  Dr.  Alexander 
Lambert  (B.A.  1884,  Ph.B.  1885,  M.D.  Columbia  1888), 
Alfred  Cowles  (B.A.  1886),  William  H.  Cowles  (B.A. 
1887,  LL.B.  1889),  and  Hugh  A.  Bayne  (B.A.  1892,  LL.B. 
Tulane  1894)  ;  an  uncle  of  Alfred  Cowles,  3d,  Knight  C. 
Cowles,  and  Thomas  H.  Cowles,  graduates  of  Yale  with 
the  degree  of  B.A.  in  1913,  1916,  and  1917,  respectively, 
and  of  John  C.  Cowles,  a  former  member  of  the  Class  of 
1919,  and  a  first  cousin  of  Horace  B.  Cheney,  a  graduate 
of  the  Scientific  School  in  1890,  Howell  Cheney  (B.A. 
1892,  M.A.  1909),  a  member  of  the  Yale  Corporation,  Lieut. 
Ward  Cheney  (B.A.  1896),  w^ho  was  killed  in  battle  in  the 
Philippines  in  1900,  Austin  Cheney  (Ph.B.  1898),  and 
Frank  D.  Cheney,  who  received  his  B.A.  in  1900.  His 
Yale  relatives  also  include  Harry  G.,  John  D.,  and  Sher- 
wood A.  Cheney,  non-graduate  members  of  the  Sheffield 
Classes  of  1875,  1892,  and  1895,  respectively,  John  P. 
Cheney  (Ph.B.  1890),  and  George  W.  Cheney  (B.A.  1910). 


414  YALE  COLLEGE 


Barton  Talcott  Doudge,  B.A.   1901 

Born  September  20,   1879,  in  New  York  City 
Died  February  24,  1916,  in  New  York  City 

Barton  Talcott  Doudge,  son  of  James  Reuben  and  Sevilla 
Brace  (Hayden)  Doudge,  was  born  September  20,  1879,  in 
New  York  City.  His  father,  a  retired  merchant,  was  the 
son  of  Delevan  Davenport  and  Jemima  (Ketcham)  Doudge, 
and  the  grandson  of  the  Rev.  Reuben  Doudge  and  Nancy 
(Moses)  Doudge.  Rev.  Reuben  Doudge  was  a  Baptist 
minister  of  Princess  Anne  County,  Va.,  and  the  son  of 
Tully  and  Mary  Doudge  of  that  place.  The  Doudge  family 
were  early  settlers  in  Virginia,  Capt.  James  Dauge,  or 
Daugier,  first  appearing  there  in  1663.  Barton  T.  Doudge 
was  also  a  descendant  of  Lyon  Gardiner,  who  settled 
Gardiner's  Island.  Among  the  earliest  American  ancestors 
of  his  mother,  whose  parents  were  Albert  and  Sevilla 
(Brace)  Hayden,  were  William  Hayden,  who  came  to 
America  in  the  Mary  and  John  and  settled  in  Dorchester, 
Mass.,  in  1630;  Stephen  Brace,  who  came  to  this  country 
from  London,  England,  and  settled  in  Hartford,  Conn., 
before  1663 ;  Deacon  John  Strong,  of  Hartford,  William 
Phelps,  of  Windsor,  William  Gaylord,  John  Drake,  James 
Bates,  Henry  Castle,  Cyprian  Nichols,  Henry  Coe,  Widow 
Elizabeth  Curtis,  Edward  Griswold,  Begat  Eggleston,  John 
Bissel,  Gov.  Thomas  Welles,  and  many  others  equally  not- 
able in  the  settlement  of  this  country. 

He  entered  Yale  in  1897  from  the  Blake  School  in  New 
York  City,  and  became  a  member  of  the  University  Club. 

After  his  graduation  in  1901  with  the  degree  of  Bachelor 
of  Arts,  he  accepted  a  position  as  real  estate  agent  for 
E.  S.  Willard  &  Company  of  New  York.  He  was  then 
for  two  years  with  Vernon  Brothers,  paper  brokers,  after 
which  he  went  to  Canada  for  three  years.  In  1914  he 
went  to  Chile,  South  America,  in  the  employ  of  the  Chile 
Exploration  Company.  For  nine  months  before  his  death 
he  was  employed  by  the  firm  of  Hallowell  &  Henry,  dealers 
in  investment  securities,  of  New  York  City.  He  was  a 
member  of  Squadron  A,  New  York  National  Guard. 

In  February,  1916,  he  contracted  a  cold  which  developed 
into  grippe.  He  had  partially  recovered  when  acute  Bright's 
disease  developed,  and  following  a  two  weeks'  illness  of 


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this  he  died,  February  24,  1916,  at  the  New  York  Hospital 
in  New  York  City,  and  was  buried  in  Greenwood  Cemetery, 
Brooklyn. 

On  March  15,  1906,  he  married  Grace  Hurd  Richards, 
of  New  York,  his  wife  being  a  daughter  of  Peyton  C.  and 
Grace  H.  (Fessenden)  Richards.  They  had  two  children, 
Edith  and  Grace  H.  Mr.  Doudge  is  survived  by  his  wife 
and  two  children,  his  mother,  and  two  sisters,  one  of  whom 
is  the  wife  of  Dorrance  Reynolds  (B.A.  1902,  LL.B. 
Harvard  1905). 


Henry  Sayrs  McAuley,  B.A.   1901 

Born  November  20,  1879,  in  Chicago,  111. 
Died  June  27,  1916,  in  Missoula,  Mont. 

Henry  Sayrs  McAuley,  whose  parents  were  John  Towne 
and  Mary  Lockwood  (Sayrs)  McAuley,  was  born  Novem- 
ber 20,  1879,  in  Chicago,  111.  Through  his  father,  who 
was  the  son  of  George  and  Sarah  (Miller)  McAuley,  he 
traced  his  descent  to  Sir  William  McAuley,  who  resided 
in  Dublin,  Ireland,  and  to  his  wife,  Elizabeth  Nesbitt.  His 
mother  was  the  daughter  of  Henry  Sayrs,  w^ho  was  born 
in  Poughkeepsie,  N.  Y.,  and  Sarah  (Lockwood)  Sayrs, 
a  native  of  Newburgh,  N.  Y. 

He  was  fitted  for  college  at  the  University  School  in 
Chicago,  and  entered  Yale  in  1897,  graduating  four  years 
later. 

From  July,  1904,  to  March,  1915,  he  was  engaged  in 
the  practice  of  law  at  Chicago.  He  began  the  study  of 
law  at  the  Northwestern  University  Law  School  in  1901, 
receiving  the  degree  of  LL.B.  there  in  1904.  In  October 
of  that  year  he  became  associated  in  practice  with  Charles 
H.  Aldrich  (B.A.  Michigan  1875,  Honorary  M.A.  Michi- 
gan 1893),  formerly  Solicitor  General  of  the  United  States, 
with  whom  he  continued  until  October,  1908,  when  he 
began  an  independent  practice.  Owing  to  ill  health,  he 
was  forced  to  retire  in  March,  191 5,  and  spent  the  next 
six  months  in  travel.  In  September,  191 5,  he  settled  in 
Missoula,  Mont.,  where  he  died  June  27,  19 16,  as  the  result 
of  general  debility  and  neurasthenia.  Interment  was  in 
Rosehill  Cemetery  at  Chicago. 


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Mr.  McAuley  had  served  as  a  director  of  the  Kellogg 
Switchboard  &  Supply  Company  and  of  the  Wisconsin  Pea 
Canners  Company  of  that  city. 

He  was  married  June  21,  1905,  in  Milwaukee,  Wis.,  to 
Laura  Seager,  daughter  of  Horace  B.  and  Laura  (Seager) 
Rogers  of  Hancock,  Mich.  They  had  two  sons,  Vance 
and  Henry  Sayrs,  Jr.,  who  survive.  A  sister  of  Mr. 
McAuley  married  Clarence  T.  Morse  (B.A.  1887). 


Edwin  Potter  Thompson,  B.A.   1901 

Born  June  23,  1879,  in  Laredo,  Texas 
Died  September  28,  1916,  at  Fort  Bliss,  Texas 

Edwin  Potter  Thompson,  the  younger  of  the  two  sons 
of  Brig.-Gen.  John  Milton  Thompson,  U.  S.  A.,  now  retired, 
and  Mary  Elizabeth  (Walcott)  Thompson,  was  born  June 
23,  1879,  ^t  Fort  Mcintosh,  Laredo,  Texas.  Through  his 
father,  who  received  an  honorary  M.A.  from  Dartmouth  in 
1907  and  who  was  the  son  of  Ira  Witcher  and  Cynthia 
Wheeler  (Spaulding)  Thompson,  he  traced  his  ancestry  to 
Benjamin  Thompson,  a  Scotchman,  who  settled  in  Durham, 
N.  H.,  early  in  the  eighteenth  century.  His  mother's 
parents  were  Oliver  and  Elizabeth  C.  (Dodge)  Walcott. 
His  great-great-great-grandfather  served  at  Valley  Forge, 
White  Plains,  and  Bunker  Hill. 

He  prepared  for  Yale  at  the  Hopkins  Grammar  School 
in  New  Haven,  and  in  his  Junior  year  was  given  a  Second 
Dispute  appointment.  His  Senior  appointment  was  a  First 
Dispute. 

It  had  always  been  Mr.  Thompson's  desire  to  go  into 
the  Army,  but  he  had  been  unable  for  various  reasons  to 
enter  West  Point.  He  carried  this  resolution  through 
college  and  immediately  after  his  graduation  made  prepa- 
rations to  enter  the  Army  from  civil  life.  During  the  time 
necessary  to  prepare  for  and  pass  his  Army  examinations, 
he  was  employed  in  the  traffic  department  of  the  Northern 
Pacific  Railway.  On  February  8,  1902,  he  received  his 
appointment  as  a  second  lieutenant,  and  shortly  afterwards 
joined  his  regiment,  the  Twenty-sixth  Infantry,  at  Cat- 
balogan,  Samar,  Philippine  Islands.  He  was  promoted  to 
be   first   lieutenant   in   July,    1907,   and   at   that   time  was 


1901  41? 

assigned  to  the  Twenty- fourth  Infantry,  with  which  regi- 
ment he  was  stationed  at  Fort  Ontario,  N.  Y.,  until  191 1, 
when  he  again  went  to  the  Phihppines.  On  December  i, 
1914,  he  was  assigned  to  the  Twentieth  Infantry,  becoming 
a  captain  in  July,  19 16.  His  death  occurred  suddenly  at 
the  base  hospital  at  Fort  Bliss,  Texas,  September  28,  1916, 
of  peritonitis,  which  developed  after  an  operation  for 
appendicitis.  At  the  time  he  was  acting  adjutant  of  his 
regiment,  then  on  duty  at  the  Mexican  border.  Interment 
was  in  the  National  Cemetery  at  Arlington,  Va. 

Captain  Thompson  had  traveled  extensively  in  this 
country,  Mexico,  Hawaii,  the  Philippines,  Japan,  and 
eastern  China.  During  his  service  in  the  Army  he  had 
earned  the  highest  decorations  for  rifle  and  pistol  shooting, 
and  his  company,  in  each  regiment,  stood  at  or  near  the 
top  for  shooting  ability  and  general  discipline.  Fie  acted 
for  some  years  as  battalion  adjutant  and  quartermaster, 
and  was  rated  as  a  mounted  officer  during  most  of  his 
service.  He  attended  the  Episcopal  Church,  and  was  a 
member  of  the  Military  Order  of  the  Loyal  Legion  and  the 
Sons  of  the  American  Revolution. 

His  marriage  took  place  June  29,  1904,  in  Brownsville, 
Texas,  to  Laura  Linton,  daughter  of  Robert  Bryant 
Rentfro.  Two  daughters,  Elizabeth  Linton  and  Ruth, 
survive.  Captain  Thompson's  father  and  brother,  John 
Walcott  Thompson  (B.A.  Dartmouth  1895,  LL.B.  Yale 
1897,  LL.M.  Yale  1898),  are  also  living. 


George  Arnold  Welch,  B.A.   1901 

Born  May  29,   1879,  in  Cleveland,  Ohio 
Died  December   15,   1916,  in  Cleveland,   Ohio 

George  Arnold  Welch,  son  of  Henry  Clay  and  Sarah 
Cushing  (Lewis)  Welch,  was  born  May  29,  1879,  i"  Cleve- 
land, Ohio.  His  father  graduated  from  Dartmouth  in 
1 861,  and  was  afterwards  engaged  in  business  at  Cleve- 
land. He  was  the  son  of  Arnold  and  Hannah  Ann 
(Pierce)   Welch,  and  a  descendant  of  Philip  Welch,  who 

I  came  to  this  country  from  the  north  of  Ireland  in  1654, 
settling  at  Ipswich,  Mass.  His  wife  was  the  daughter  of 
Rev.  James  Davis  Lewis  (B.A.  1828)  and  Eunice  Robinson 
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(Jenkins)  Lewis,  the  latter  being  the  daughter  of  Weston 
Jenkins,  who  served  as  a  captain  in  the  War  of  1812.  Her 
earHest  American  ancestor  was  a  son  of  John  Robinson, 
who  came  to  America  about  1600. 

Entering  Yale  from  the  University  School,  Cleveland, 
he  became  a  member  of  the  Freshman  Glee  Club.  He  sang 
on  the  University  Glee  Club  for  two  years,  and  was  a 
member  of  the  News  board  for  three,  being  its  chairman 
in  Senior  year.  He  received  Second  Dispute  appointments, 
and  served  on  the  Class  Day  Committee. 

He  began  the  study  of  law  at  Harvard  in  the  fall  of  1901, 
and  three  years  later  was  granted  the  degree  of  LL.B.  In 
December,  1904,  he  was  admitted  to  the  bar  of  Ohio,  for 
the  next  four  years  being  in  the  offices  of  Henderson, 
Quail  &  Siddall  in  Cleveland.  In  1909,  after  a  year  spent 
in  the  Adirondacks  for  his  health,  he  began  an  independent 
practice  in  that  city,  shortly  afterwards  becoming  associated 
with  James  R.  Garfield  (B.A.  Williams  1885).  A  few 
years  later  Arthur  D.  Baldwin  (B.A.  1898,  LL.B.  Harvard 
1901)  joined  them.  Mr.  Welch  had  been  very  active  in 
the  work  of  the  Yale  Alumni  Association  of  Cleveland, 
serving  as  secretary  and  treasurer  from  1905  to  1908  and 
as  president  from  January,  1916,  until  his  death.  In 
1907-08  he  was  also  secretary  of  the  Associated  Western 
Yale  Clubs.  He  was  a  member  of  the  various  reunion 
committees  of  the  Class  of  1901.  He  had  served  on  the 
board  of  trustees  of  the  Cleveland  Legal  Aid  Society,  as 
treasurer  of  the  City  Club,  and  as  secretary  of  the  University 
Club. 

His  death,  which  was  due  to  heart  trouble,  occurred 
very  suddenly  in  Cleveland,  December  15,  191 6.  He  was 
buried  in  Lakeview  Cemetery  in  that  city.  Mr.  Welch  was 
unmarried.    A  sister  survives  him. 


William  Gates  Bourn,  B.A.   1902 

Born   September  27,   1878,  in  Detroit,  Mich. 
Died  September  11,   1916,  in  New  York  City 

William  Gates  Bourn  was  born  in  Detroit,  Mich.,  Sep- 
tember 27,  1878,  his  parents  being  Allan  Bourn,  for  a 
number  of  years  purchasing  agent  for  the  New  York  Cen- 
tral Railroad,  and  Bessie  Chapin  (Gates)   Bourn.     On  the 


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paternal  side,  he  traced  his  descent  to  Richard  Bourn, 
who  came  to  this  country  from  England  between  1632  and 
1650,  setthng  at  Sandwich,  Mass.  Another  ancestor  was 
Richard  JJourn,  missionary  to  the  Mashpee  Indians  of 
Cape  Cod  about  1658.  Wilham  G.  Bourn's  mother  was 
the  daughter  of  Elias  and  Mary  A.  (Stedman)  Gates,  and 
a  descendant  of  Reuben  Gates,  who  emigrated  to  America 
from  England  and  settled  at  Leominster,  Mass.,  about 
1740. 

He  was  fitted  for  Yale  at  Phillips  Academy,  Exeter, 
N.  H.,  and  in  Junior  and  Senior  years  received  First 
Colloquy  appointments.  The  year  after  his  graduation 
from  the  College  was  spent  in  the  Scientific  School,  where 
he  took  the  course  in  civil  engineering,  and  in  June,  1903, 
he  received  the  degree  of  Bachelor  of  Philosophy. 

A  few  months  later  he  took  a  position  in  the  maintenance 
of  way  department  of  the  New  York  Central  &  Hudson 
River  Railroad  Company.  For  eighteen  months  he  was 
employed  as  a  rodman  in  the  engineering  corps  on  the 
various  divisions  of  the  road.  He  went  to  Batavia,  N.  Y., 
in  May,  1905,  and  for  the  next  four  years  served  as  assist- 
ant supervisor  of  track.  Since  October,  1909,  he  had  been 
an  assistant  engineer  in  the  office  of  the  engineer  of  main- 
tenance of  w^ay  in  New  York  City.  During  this  latter 
period  he  had  made  his  home  in  White  Plains,  N.  Y.  He 
was  a  deacon  of  the  Westchester  Congregational  Church 
of  that  place,  and  had  been  active  in  the  work  of  its  Sunday 
school  and  missionary  society. 

In  July,  19 1 6,  he  underw^ent  an  operation  for  gastric 
ulcer  in  St.  Luke's  Hospital,  New  York.  His  recovery  was 
at  first  hoped  for,  and  he  was  about  to  return  home  when 
pleurisy  developed,  causing  his  death  on  September  11. 
He  was  buried  in  the  Kensico  (N.  Y.)  Cemetery. 

Mr.  Bourn  was  married  August  2.2,  1906,  in  Exeter, 
N.  H,,  to  Helen,  daughter  of  Rev.  John  Pushee  Demeritt 
(B.A.  University  of  Vermont  1861)  and  Lucy  (Bromley) 
Demeritt.  She  survives  him  with  their  four  children,  Alger 
Stedman,  Eugene  Bromley,  Barbara,  and  Allan.  His  par- 
ents and  a  sister  are  also  living.  Alger  Stedman  Bourn,  a 
non-graduate  member  of  the  Sheffield  Class  of  1904,  who 
died  March  23,  1904,  was  a  brother.  His  uncle,  Rev. 
Shear] ashub  Bourne,  received  the  degree  of  B.A.  at  Yale 
in  1849. 


42 O  YALE   COLLEGE 


Edward  FitzGerald,  B.A.   1902 

Born  January  g,   1880,  in  Derby,  Conn. 
Died  January  26,  1917,  in  New  York  City 

Edward  FitzGerald  was  born  in  Derby,  Conn.,  January 
9,  1880,  the  son  of  John  Joseph  and  Helen  Jane  (O'Brien) 
FitzGerald.  His  father,  who  was  a  merchant,  served  in 
the  Union  Navy  during  thirteen  months  of  the  Civil  War ; 
he  was  the  son  of  Patrick  and  Maria  (Conmy)  FitzGerald, 
who  came  to  this  country  from  Ireland  in  1840,  taking  up 
their  residence  in  Philadelphia.  His  mother's  parents  were 
Jeremiah  and  Mary  (Dunn)  O'Brien,  who  emigrated  to 
America  from  Ireland  in  1850  and  settled  at  Derby. 

Entering  Yale  from  the  Derby  High  School,  he  received 
Oration  appointments,  and  served  as  a  Class  Day  historian. 

His  entire  life  since  graduation  had  been  spent  in  educa- 
tional work.  He  began  as  a  teacher  of  French  at  the  Derby 
High  School,  and  in  1906  was  promoted  to  be  principal 
of  that  school.  After  serving  in  that  capacity  for  four 
years,  he  became  superintendent  of  the  schools  of  Derby. 
He  held  this  last  position  at  his  death.  In  19 12  he  received 
the  degree  of  Master  of  Arts  in  course  at  Yale.  He  served 
as  secretary  of  the  Derby  and  Shelton  Board  of  Trade 
from  1910  to  191 5,  was  a  member  of  the  Library  and 
Hospital  boards,  and  had  been  actively  interested  in  various 
other  civic  matters.  He  was  a  member  of  St.  Mary's 
Roman  Catholic  Church.  He  went  to  Europe  in  1909 
and  again  in  191 1. 

He  died  January  26,  191 7,  in  the  Presbyterian  Hospital 
in  New  York  City,  following  an  operation  for  a  brain 
tumor.  While  not  in  his  usual  good  health,  he  v/as  able  to 
be  at  his  office  until  a  month  before  his  death.  Burial  was 
in  St.  Peter's  Cemetery  at  Derby. 

Mr.  FitzGerald  was  married  October  12,  19 16,  in  Shel- 
ton, Conn.,  to  Mary  Irene,  daughter  of  John  Henry  and 
Mary  Jane  (Doran)  Hill.  His  wife,  who  graduated  from 
Mount  Holyoke  College  in  191 1,  survives  him,  and  he  also 
leaves  his  mother. 


1902-1904  42  1 


Christopher  Magee  Anderson,  B.A.   1904 

Born  January  25,  1883,  in  Pittsburgh,  Pa. 
Died  September  20,  1916,  at  Fort  Bliss,  Texas 

Christopher  Magee  Anderson,  son  of  John  Miller  and 
Clara  Cecelia  (Steel)  Anderson,  was  born  in  Pittsburgh, 
Pa.,  January  25,  1883.  His  father,  whose  parents  were 
John  Ayers  and  Catherine  (Miller)  Anderson,  was  con- 
nected with  the  Colonial  Steel  Company  of  Pittsburgh,  in 
which  city  he  was  at  one  time  director  of  charity,  and 
served  in  1899  as  treasurer  of  Allegheny  County.  His 
mother's  father,  John  R.  Steel,  came  to  this  country  from 
Cartmel,  England,  and  married  Elizabeth  Gardiner  of 
Butler,  Pa. 

Receiving  his  preparatory  training  at  the  Shadyside 
Academy  in  Pittsburgh,  he  entered  Yale  as  a  member  of 
the  Class  of  1904.  He  was  given  Second  Colloquy  appoint- 
ments in  both  Junior  and  Senior  years. 

He  was  a  law  student  at  the  University  of  Pittsburgh 
from  1904  to  1907,  taking  his  LL.B.  there  in  the  latter 
year.  He  had  also  read  law  for  a  time  in  the  office  of 
the  late  David  T.  Watson.  In  November,  1907,  following 
his  admission  to  the  Pennsylvania  Bar,  he  opened  an  office 
in  Pittsburgh,  where  he  continued  in  practice  until  the  East 
Pittsburgh  riots  in  May,  1916,  when,  as  commander  of 
the  First  Battalion,  Eighteenth  Infantry,  Pennsylvania 
National  Guard,  he  was  called  into  service.  Two  months 
later  he  went  to  the  Mexican  border  with  that  regiment, 
of  which  he  had  been  a  member  since  19 10,  having  been 
made  lieutenant  in  that  year,  captain  in  191 1,  and  major 
in  191 5.  He  died  at  the  base  hospital  at  Fort  Bliss,  Texas, 
September  20,  1916,  of  diabetes.  His  body  was  taken  to 
Pittsburgh  for  burial  in  Homewood  Cemetery. 

Mr.  Anderson  received  the  degree  of  M.A.  in  course  at 
Yale  in  1910.  He  v/as  a  member  of  the  Church  of  the 
Ascension  of  Pittsburgh,  and  in  April,  1910,  was  appointed 
a  lay  reader  by  Rt.  Rev.  Cortlandt  Whitehead  (B.A.  1863). 
He  belonged  to  the  Brotherhood  of  St.  Andrew.  At  one 
time  he  served  as  chairman  of  the  Renublican  Countv  Com- 
mittee.   He  was  unmarried.    His  mother  survives  him. 


42  2  YALE    COLLEGE 


Henry  Corwith  Dangler,  B.A.   1904 

Born  April  i,  1881,  in  Chicago,  111. 
Died  March  i,  1917,  in  Chicago,  111. 

Henry  Corwith  Dangler  was  born  in  Chicago,  111.,  April 
I,  1881,  his  parents  being  Charles  Israel  and  Antoinette 
Kimball  (Corwith)  Dangler.  His  father  was  connected 
with  the  American  Stove  Manufacturing  Company,  having 
been  interested  in  its  formation,  and  serving  as  division 
manager  and  director.  He  was  the  son  of  David  and 
Judith  (Clark)  Dangler,  and  a  descendant  of  Samuel 
Dangler,  who  was  born  in  Newmanstown,  Pa.,  in  1777, 
his  father  having  come  to  this  country  from  Germany. 
This  ancestor  fought  in  the  War  of  1812.  His  mother's 
parents  were  Henry  and  Isabelle  (Soulard)  Corwith.  Her 
ancestor,  Col.  Sir  William  Hunt,  came  to  America  after 
the  battle  of  Marston  Moor ;  fourth  in  descent  from  him 
was  Col.  Thomas  Hunt,  who  had  the  longest  continuous 
record  in  the  Revolution.  The  Corwith  family  came  from 
Carwythen,  Wales. 

He  entered  Yale  from  the  University  School,  Cleveland, 
C^hio,  and  was  a  member  of  the  Apollo  Banjo  and  the 
University  Mandolin  clubs,  an  editor  of  the  Record,  and  a 
member  of  Chi  Delta  Theta.  He  wrote  for  the  Yale 
Literary  Magazine  in  Senior  year.  He  received  First 
Colloquy  appointments. 

After  graduation  Mr.  Dangler  spent  one  year  at  the 
Columbia  School  of  Architecture  in  New  York,  going 
thence  to  Paris,  where  he  continued  his  architectural 
studies.  He  was  admitted  to  the  Ecole  des  Beaux  Arts, 
and  entered  the  Atelier  Laloux.  During  the  intervals  of 
his  Paris  work,  considerable  time  was  spent  in  travel  in 
France  and  Italy.  In  1909  Mr.  Dangler  returned  to 
Chicago,  III,  where  his  family  had  moved  from  Cleveland, 
and  there  entered  the  office  of  Howard  V.  D.  Shaw  (B.A. 
1890),  under  whom  he  practiced  architecture  for  about  a 
year.  He  then  became  associated  with  David  Adler,  Jr., 
a  graduate  of  Princeton  in  1904,  continuing  with  him  until 
the  summer  of  1916. 

At  that  time  a  general  breakdown  in  health  compelled 
him  to  retire,  and  he  was  not  able  to  resume  his  activities. 
He  died  March  i,  1917,  at  his  home  in  Chicago,  and  was 
buried  in  Greenwood  Cemetery  at  Galena,  111. 


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Mr.  Dangler  lived  at  Lake  Forest,  111.,  until  a  few  months 
before  his  death,  when  he  removed  to  Chicago.  He  was 
a  member  of  the  Presbyterian  Church  of  Lake  Forest. 

He  was  married  December  4,  191 5,  in  Chicago,  to  Ruth, 
daughter  of  Nathan  Smith  Davis  (B.A.  Northwestern  1880, 
M.A.  Northwestern  1883,  M.D.  Chicago  Medical  College 
1883)  and  Jessie  B.  (Hopkins)  Davis.  She  survives  him 
with  a  daughter,  Antoinette,  and  he  also  leaves  a  brother, 
David  Dangler  (B.A.  1905,  M.A.  1908).  Mr.  Dangler  was 
a  nephew  of  Charles  R.  Corwith  and  John  W.  Corwith, 
graduates  of  the  College  in  1883  and  1890,  respectively,  and 
a  cousin  of  Clifford  S.  Dangler,  a  non-graduate  member 
of  the  Sheffield  Class  of  1907,  Frank  B.  Dangler  (Ph.B. 
1909),  and  Alfred  E.  Hamill  (B.A.  1905). 


Joseph  Chappell  Ray  worth,  B.A.   1906 

Born  February  9,  1877,  at  Upper  Cape,  N.  B.,  Canada 
Died  November  11,  1916,  in  St.  John,  N.  B.,  Canada 

Joseph  Chappell  Rayworth  was  born  at  Upper  Cape, 
N.  B.,  Canada,  February  9,  1877,  the  son  of  Bolivar  Ray- 
worth,  a  farmer,  and  Clara  Ann  (Thompson)  Rayworth. 
His  father  was  the  son  of  Ephraim  Rayworth.  He  received 
his  early  education  at  the  Upper  Sackville  Superior  School. 
In  1899  he  entered  Acadia  University  and  four  years  later 
was  granted  the  degree  of  B.A.  by  that  institution.  From 
1903  to  1905  he  taught  at  Horton  Academy  at  Wolfville, 
Nova  Scotia,  entering  Yale  in  the  fall  of  1905  as  a  Senior. 
He  was  given  special  honors  in  mathematics,  a  DeForest 
mathematical  prize,  and  a  Philosophical  Oration  appoint- 
ment, and  was  a  member  of  Phi  Beta  Kappa  and  Sigma  Xi. 

Mr.  Rayworth  remained  at  Yale  until  1909,  taking  the 
degree  of  M.A.  in  1907  and  holding  an  instructorship  in 
mathematics  during  the  next  two  years.  He  became  an 
instructor  in  that  subject  at  Washington  University  in 
St.  Louis,  Mo.,  in  the  fall  of  1909,  and  served  in  that 
capacity  until  191 5,  when  he  was  promoted  to  the  rank  of 
assistant  professor.  Owing  to  ill  health,  he  was  compelled 
to  resign  in  the  summer  of  1916,  and  went  to  the  home  of 
his  wife's  family  at  St.  John,  New  Brunswick,  where  he 
died  November  11,  1916,  as  the  result  of  carcinoma  of  the 


424  YALE  COLLEGE 

intestines.  He  was  buried  in  the  Hawker  family  lot  in 
Fernhill  Cemetery  at  St.  John. 

He  was  a  member  of  the  American  Mathematical  Society. 
In  addition  to  his  university  work,  he  had  been  interested 
in  the  establishment  of  night  school  classes,  and  especially 
in  the  plans  for  the  opening,  in  1917,  of  a  night  school  of 
finance  at  Washington  University.  The  thesis  which  he 
had  been  writing  for  his  doctorate  was  nearly  completed 
at  the  time  of  his  death.  He  belonged  to  the  Queen  Square 
Methodist  Church  of  St.  John. 

He  was  married  September  10,  1913,  in  that  city,  to 
Frances  Hilda,  daughter  of  Walter  W.  and  Lottie  Eliza- 
beth (Holder)  Hawker.  They  had  no  children.  Professor 
Rayworth  is  survived  by  his  wife  and  two  brothers,  Lome 
and  Arthur,  who  are  engaged  in  active  business  operations 
at  Redvers,  Sask.,  Canada. 


Lewis  Holmes  Tooker,  B.A.   1906 

Born  August  29,  1884,  in  Riverhead,  N.  Y. 
Died  October  25,   1916,  in  Philadelphia,  Pa. 

Lewis  Holmes  Tooker  was  born  August  29,  1884,  at 
Riverhead,  Long  Island,  N.  Y.,  being  one  of  the  two 
children  of  Lewis  Frank  Tooker  (B.A.  1877,  Honorary 
M.A.  1907),  for  many  years  a  member  of  the  editorial 
staff  of  the  Century  Magazine,  at  present  being  assistant 
editor.  The  latter's  parents  were  Capt.  Lewis  Hulse  Tooker 
and  Mary  (Rowland)  Tooker,  and  he  traced  his  descent 
to  Thomas  Tooker,  who  came  to  Salem,  Mass.,  from  Eng- 
land in  1636.  Members  of  the  family  settled  at  Southold, 
Long  Island,  in  1745.  Lewis  H.Tooker's  mother  is  Vio- 
lette,  daughter  of  Holmes  Wass  and  Alma  (Gildersleeve) 
Swezey.  Through  her,  he  was  descended  from  John 
Swazey  who  emigrated  to  America  from  England  in  the 
seventeenth  century,  settling  in  Massachusetts,  and  from 
the  well-known  family  of  Gildersleeve,  early  comers  to 
America. 

Entering  Yale  from  the  Polytechnic  Preparatory  School, 
Brooklyn,  N.  Y.,  he  received  in  Junior  year  one  of  the 
Henry  James  TenEyck  prizes  and  a  First  Colloquy  appoint- 
ment. His  Senior  appointment  was  a  Second  Dispute.  He 
was  a  member  of  the  University  Dramatic  Association. 


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He  began  the  study  of  law  in  the  autumn  after  his  gradu- 
ation, and  in  1908  received  the  degree  of  LL.B.  from  the 
New  York  Law  School.  He  then  entered  the  law  office 
of  Eaton,  Lewis  &  Rowe  in  New  York  City,  remaining 
there  until  1910,  when  he  took  a  position  in  the  legal 
department  of  the  American  Bonding  Company  of  Balti- 
more. He  was  employed  in  their  New  York  office  for  a 
year,  after  which  he  was  connected  with  the  firm  of  Miller, 
King,  Lane  &  Trafford  until  1914.  Since  that  time  he 
had  been  at  The  Hill  School  at  Pottstown,  Pa.,  as  assistant 
to  the  headmaster,  Dwight  R.  Meigs  (B.A.  1907).  Mr. 
Tooker  had  long  been  deeply  interested  in  play-writing, 
and  had  studied  the  matter  with  thoroughness.  He  was 
a  member  of  the  Protestant  Episcopal  Church  of  the  Good 
Shepherd  of  Brooklyn.  He  served  for  five  years  as  private 
and  corporal  in  Troop  C,  First  Cavalry,  New  York  National 
Guard. 

He  had  suffered  from  stomach  trouble  and  rheumatism 
since  1913.  On  October  18,  1916,  he  went  to  the  Uni- 
versity Hospital  in  Philadelphia,  Pa.,  for  treatment,  and 
was  apparently  regaining  his  health  when  a  sudden  attack 
of  heart  failure  caused  his  death  on  October  25.  Interment 
was  in  Cedar  Hill  Cemetery  at  Port  Jefferson,  N.  Y. 

Mr.  Tooker  was  unmarried.  Plis  parents  and  a  sister 
survive  him. 


Arthur  Edw^in  Ely,  B.A.   1907 

Born  October  2,   1884,  in   Chester,  Mass. 
Died  September  7,  1916,  in  Becket,  Mass. 

Arthur  Edwin  Ely  was  born  in  Chester,  Mass.,  October 
2,  1884,  the  son  of  Edmund  Watson  Ely,  for  many  years 
superintendent  of  the  Lee  Marble  Works,  and  Ida  (Cross) 
Ely.  He  was  the  grandson  of  Edwin  and  Mary  A.  (Wat- 
son) Ely,  and  a  descendant  of  Nathaniel  Ely,  who  came 
to  America  from  Ipswich,  England,  in  1634,  and  settled 
at  Newtown  (now  Cambridge),  Mass.,  two  years  later  going 
to  Hartford,  Conn.,  with  Rev.  Thomas  Hooker.  In  1649, 
on  the  petition  of  Nathaniel  Ely  and  Richard  Olmstead, 
the  Connecticut  General  Court  gave  permission  for  the 
settlement   of    the   town   of    Norwalk.     Arthur    E.    Ely's 


426  YALE    COLLEGE 

maternal  grandparents  were  Amos  W.  and  Julia  (Wright) 
Cross.  On  that  side  of  the  family  he  was  descended  from 
David  Carn  Cross,  who  came  from  Scotland  with  Bur- 
goyne's  Army  in  the  Revolutionary  War  and  after  the 
svirrender  settled  in  Murrayfield  (now  Middlefield),  Mass. 

His  preparatory  training  was  received  at  the  Lee  (Mass.) 
High  School,  and  in  1903  he  entered  Amherst  College. 
He  spent  two  years  there,  and  was  a  contributor  to  the 
Literary  Monthly.  He  was  enrolled  at  Yale  from  1905  to 
1907,  and  received  Oration  appointments. 

After  graduation  he  continued  his  studies  for  two  years 
in  the  New  York  Law  School,  taking  his  LL.B.  in  1909. 
He  served  as  a  member  of  the  Class  Day  Committee. 
Following  his  admission  to  the  bar,  he  was  for  brief  periods 
with  the  firms  of  Train  &  Olney  and  Morgan,  Brecken- 
ridge  &  Marvin  in  New  York  City,  after  which  he  opened 
an  office  of  his  own.  In  June,  1912,  he  was  compelled  to 
give  up  his  practice  on  account  of  the  condition  of  his 
health  and  to  go  West.  He  spent  some  time  in  Denver, 
Colo.,  and  Phoenix,  Ariz.,  but  in  July,  19 16,  returned  to 
his  mother's  home  at  Becket,  Mass.,  where  he  died  two 
months  later,  on  September  7,  from  tuberculosis.  He  was 
buried  in  the  local  cemetery. 

Mr.  Ely  was  married  June  6,  1914,  to  Lisette,  daughter 
of  Charles  F.  and  Lisette  (Auer)  Drack.  They  had  no 
children.  Besides  his  wife,  he  is  survived  by  his  mother 
and  three  uncles. 


Eliot  Hale  Porter,  B.A.   1908 

Born  June  22,  1887,  in  New  Britain,  Conn. 
Died  October  14,  1916,  in  New  Britain,  Conn. 

Eliot  Hale  Porter  was  the  son  of  Frank  JuUus  Porter,  a 
furniture  merchant,  whose  parents  were  Bryan  Churchill 
and  Ann  Maria  (White)  Porter,  and  was  born  in  New 
Britain,  Conn.,  June  22,  1887.  He  was  descended  from 
John  Porter,  who  came  from  England,  and  settled  in 
Windsor,  Conn.,  in  1638.  His  mother  was  Sara  Hale 
(Brown)  Porter,  daughter  of  Harvey  Gillette  and  Amanda 
Frisbee  (Clark)  Brown  of  New  Britain,  and  a  descendant 
of    Sir   Nicholas   Hale   of   Kent   County,   England,   whose 


1907-1908  427 

son,  Samuel  Hale,  settled  at  Norwalk,  Conn.,  in  1654,  and 
also  of  John  Eliot,  the   "Apostle  to  the  Indians." 

He  received  his  preparation  for  college  at  the  New- 
Britain  High  School,  and  entered  as  a  Freshman  the  Class 
of  1908.  He  held  for  a  year  of  his  college  course  the 
Joseph  Eliot  Memorial  Scholarship,  which  was  founded  in 
memory  of  Joseph  Eliot,  minister  at  Guilford,  Conn.,  from 
1664  to  1694.  In  Junior  year  he  received  a  Second  Dis- 
pute appointment,  and  his  Senior  appointment  was  a  First 
Colloquy.  He  rowed  No.  4  on  the  Class  Crew  which  won 
the  fall  regatta  in  1906.  Two  of  his  summer  vacations  he 
spent  traveling  extensively  in  Europe. 

Shortly  after  graduation  he  took  the  position  of  cost 
accountant  with  the  hardware  manufacturing  company  of 
Russell  &  Erwin  of  New  Britain,  in  1910  being  transferred 
to  the  New  York  office.  About  a  year  later  he  resigned 
on  account  of  illness,  and  traveled  in  the  South  and  in 
Mexico.  In  the  spring  of  191 1.  he  w^as  for  many  weeks 
shut  up  in  the  city  of  Durango  while  it  was  besieged  by 
rebels,  and  served  in  the  American  Guard  formed  to  protect 
American  interests;  he  lived  at  the  American  Consulate. 
An  article  on  his  experiences  which  was  published  in  the 
Springfield  Republican  for  June  18,  191 1,  attracted  much 
attention.  In  1912  he  entered  the  furniture  house  of  B.  C. 
Porter  Sons,  owned  by  his  father  and  sons,  where  he  held 
the  position  of  manager  until  his  death. 

Eliot  Porter  was  much  interested  in  politics,  and  was 
elected,  by  a  large  majority,  councilman  from  his  ward 
in  April,  19 16.  He  displayed  marked  ability  in  his  work 
in  the  Council,  and  a  promising  career  in  the  political  field 
lay  open  to  him.  He  was  a  member  of  the  South  Congre- 
gational Church  of  New  Britain,  and  a  worker  in  the 
Brotherhood  Club.  He  was  an  expert  golfer,  having  taken 
part  in  many  local  and  state  tournaments,  and  had  achieved 
quite  a  reputation  in  a  dramatic  club. 

His  death  occurred  October  14,  1916,  at  his  home  in  New 
Britain,  after  an  illness  of  about  three  weeks  resulting  from 
a  cerebral  hemorrhage.  Burial  was  in  Fairview  Cemetery 
in  that  city.  Mr.  Porter  was  unmarried,  and  is  survived 
by  his  parents  and  a  brother,  Maxwell  Stoddard  Porter,  a 
member  of  the  Class  of  1918  S. 


42  0  YALE    COLLEGE 


Harold  Weymouth  Bean,  B.A.   19 lo 

Born  April  22,  1888,  in  Framingham  Center,  Mass. 
Died  August  19,  1916,  in  Littleton,  N.  H. 

Harold  Weymouth  Bean  was  born  April  22,  1888,  in 
Framingham  Center,  Mass.  His  father,  Harry  Weymouth 
Bean,  was  for  a  number  of  years  engaged  in  the  manufac- 
turing business  in  Boston  as  a  member  of  the  firm  of 
C.  W.  White  &  Company,  but  has  now  retired.  Mr.  Bean, 
who  was  the  son  of  Cyrus  and  Martha  (Fisk)  Bean,  was 
descended  from  John  Bean,  who  emigrated  to  America 
from  Scotland  and  settled  in  New  Hampshire.  His  wife 
was  NelHe  Wallace,  daughter  of  Edward  and  Mary  Ann 
(Beal)  Chapman,  and  a  descendant  of  Robert  Chapman  of 
Saybrook,  Conn. 

Their  son  attended  the  Framingham  High  School,  and 
in  his  Freshman  year  at  Yale  was  a  member  of  the  Class 
Soccer  and  Hockey  teams.  His  Senior  appointment  was 
a  First  Colloquy. 

For  about  a  year  after  taking  his  degree  he  was  con- 
nected with  the  brokerage  firm  of  Warner,  Tucker  & 
Company  of  Boston.  In  the  spring  of  1913  he  entered  the 
employ  of  the  Worcester  (Mass.)  Sand  Lime  Brick  Com- 
pany as  a  salesman.  He  remained  with  that  company  for 
a  year,  and  then  took  a  position  with  the  Foley  Hardware 
Company  of  Framingham.  Since  December,  191 5,  the  con- 
dition of  his  health  had  not  permitted  him  to  engage  in 
any  business,  and  he  had  lived  quietly  at  Framingham 
Center.  His  death  occurred,  from  heart  disease,  August 
19,  1916,  at  the  Littleton  (N.  H.)  Hospital,  where  he  had 
been  for  two  days.  His  body  was  taken  to  Framingham 
Center  for  burial  in  Edgell  Grove  Cemetery.  Mr.  Bean, 
who  was  unmarried,  is  survived  by  his  father.  He  was  a 
member  of  Plymouth  Congregational  Church  of  Framing- 
ham Center. 

Kenneth  Lucas  Fenton,  B.A.   1910 

Born  May  6,   1887,  in  McMinnville.  Ore. 
Died  May  31,  1917,  in  Portland,  Ore. 

Kisnneth  Lucas  Fenton  was  born  at  McMinnville,  Ore., 
May    6,    1887,    the    son    of    William    D.    and    Katherine 


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(Lucas)  Fenton.  His  father,  a  graduate  of  Christian 
College,  McMinnville,  with  the  degree  of  B.A.  in  1872, 
has  been  for  a  long  time  engaged  in  the  practice  of  law 
in  Portland,  Ore.  The  latter's  parents  were  James  D.  and 
Margaret  (Pinkerton)  Fenton,  and  he  traced  his  descent 
to  Caleb  Ponton,  who  came  to  this  country  as  a  boy  with 
his  father,  Richard  Fenton,  settling  in  Virginia  before  the 
Revolution.  His  wife  was  the  daughter  of  Albert  Whitfield 
and  Elizabeth  Frances  Lucas.  She  was  a  descendant  of 
the  Lucas  family  who  emigrated  to  America  from  England 
and  settled  at  Philadelphia,  later  removing  to  Virginia; 
on  the  maternal  side,  she  traced  her  descent  to  Francis 
Cooke  and  Stephen  Hopkins  of  Plymouth  Colony.  Many 
of  Kenneth  Fenton's  ancestors  fought  in  the  Revolution. 

He  received  his  preparatory  training  at  the  Portland 
Academy,  and  spent  four  years  at  Leland  Stanford  Junior 
University  before  coming  to  Yale.  He  joined  the  Class  of 
1910  at  the  beginning  of  Junior  year,  receiving  honors  for 
the  work  of  that  year  and  a  High  Oration  appointment  at 
Commencement. 

In  September,  1910,  he  entered  his  father's  law  office  in 
Portland,  at  the  same  time  taking  a  course  at  the  Oregon 
Law  School.  He  was  graduated  from  that  institution  with 
the  degree  of  LL.B.  the  following  spring,  standing  at  the 
head  of  his  class,  and  after  being  admitted  to  the  bar  of 
Oregon,  began  the  practice  of  law  with  his  father.  Since 
April,  191 5,  he  had  been  a  member  of  the  firm  of  Fenton, 
Dey,  Thompson  &  Fenton.  In  1912  he  was  elected  secretary 
of  the  Multnomah  Club,  and  in  the  fall  of  1916  he  became 
secretary  of  the  LTniversity  Club  of  Portland. 

Mr.  Fenton's  death  occurred  May  31,  1917,  at  the  Port- 
land Surgical  Hospital,  as  the  result  of  injuries  received  in 
a  fall.    Burial  was  in  Riverview  Cemetery,  Portland. 

He  was  married  April  2,  1913,  in  San  Francisco,  Calif., 
to  Adelma  A.,  daughter  of  S.  Walters  and  Susan  Jane 
(Harley)  Walters,  who  survives  him  without  children. 
His  parents  and  three  brothers  are  also  living. 


43°  YALE    COLLEGE 


Thomas  Walker  Carter,  B.A.   191 1 

Born  July  20,  1889,  in  Burlington,  Vt. 
Died  October  17,   1916,  in  Nogales,  Ariz. 

Thomas  Walker  Carter  was  born  July  20,  1889,  in  Bur- 
lington, Vt.,  where  his  father,  Rev.  Charles  Francis  Carter, 
was  then  pastor  of  the  College  Street  Church.  The  latter, 
who  graduated  from  the  College  in  1878  and  from  Andover 
Theological  Seminary  in  1882,  receiving  the  honorary 
degree  of  Doctor  of  Divinity  from  Marietta  College  in  1916, 
now  holds  the  pastorate  of  Immanuel  Congregational 
Church  of  Hartford,  Conn.  His  parents  were  Timothy 
Walker  Carter  of  Chicopee  Falls,  Mass.,  who  served  as  a 
representative  to  the  Massachusetts  Legislature  in  1847 
and  1848,  was  a  member  of  the  Constitutional  Convention 
of  1853,  and  a  state  senator  in  i860  and  1861,  and  Eliza 
Harriet  (Bayley)  Carter,  the  latter  being  the  daughter  of 
Capt.  Robert  Bayley,  a  West  India  merchant,  who  was 
taken  prisoner  in  the  War  of  181 2,  and  Abigail  (Pettengill) 
Bayley.  The  family  was  of  English  origin,  the  founder 
of  the  American  branch  being.  Rev.  Thomas  Carter,  who 
settled  at  Woburn,  Mass.,  in  1635.  Thomas  W.  Carter's 
mother  was  Harriet  Fidelia,  daughter  of  John  and  Fidelia 
(Stiles)  Herrick  and  a  descendant  of  "Henry  of  Beverly," 
who  was  born  at  Salem,  Mass.,  in  1640. 

Flis  preparatory  training  was  received  at  the  Lexington 
(Mass.)  High  School  and  at  Phillips  Academy,  Exeter, 
N.  H.  In  college  he  was  on  the  Class  Baseball  Squad,  and 
received  First  Colloquy  appointments. 

In  September,  191 1,  Mr.  Carter  took  a  position  with  the 
Underwood  Typewriter  Company  of  Hartford,  Conn., 
where  he  was  employed  for  the  next  six  months.  He 
then  worked,  for  about  a  year  in  the  cost  department  of 
Pratt  &  Cady,  a  concern  engaged  in  the  manufacture  of 
valves,  leaving  in  February,  191 3,  to  enter  the  investment 
business  with  Mr.  William  S.  Conning.  A  year  later  he 
became  a  member  of  the  firm  of  Conning  &  Company,  in 
which  he  continued  until  the  time  of  his  death. 

In  June,  1916,  at  the  outbreak  of  the  trouble  with  Mexico, 
he  went  to  the  border  as  a  private  in  Troop  B,  Fifth  Militja 
Cavalry,  Connecticut  National  Guard.  After  serving  m 
the  neighborhood  of  Nogales,  Ariz.,  throughout  the  sum- 


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I9II-I9I2  431 

mer,  he  was  taken  ill  with  blood  poisoning,  which  developed 
from  a  carbuncle,  just  as  the  troop  was  about  to  start  for 
home.  It  was  found  necessary  to  leave  him  at  the  base 
hospital  at  Nogales,  where  he  died  October  17,  1916.  Burial 
was  in  Fairview  Cemetery  at  Chicopee,  Mass.  Mr.  Carter 
was  unmarried.  He  is  survived  by  his  parents  and  three 
brothers,  Dwight  Herrick  Carter  (B.A.  1914),  Lyon  Carter 
(B.A.  1915),  and  Frederick  Dewhurst  Carter,  a  member 
of  the  College  Class  of  1919.  He  was  a  member  of  the 
Hancock  Congregational  Church  of  Lexington,  Mass.,  of 
which  his  father  was  formerly  the  pastor. 


Clarence  Lee  Perkins,  B.A.   19 12 

Born  April  8,   1890,  in  East  Haddam,   Conn. 
Died  July  2,  1916,  in  Hartford,  Conn. 

Clarence  Lee  Perkins,  son  of  Eleazer  Jairus  Perkins,  a 
farmer,  and  Bessie  Jane  (Leete)  Perkins,  was  born  in  East 
Haddam,  Conn.,  April  8,  1890.  Plis  father  died  in  1896, 
and  his  mother  afterwards  married  Charles  Edward 
Griffin.  She  was  the  daughter  of  Josiah  Fowler  and  Sarah 
Mehitable  (Beadle)  Leete,  and  a  direct  descendant  of  Wil- 
liam Leete,  who  came  to  this  country  in  1637  from  Dod- 
ington,  England,  and  was  governor  of  Connecticut  from 
1661  to  1665. 

After  graduating  from  the  Hartford  (Conn.)  Public 
High  School,  he  worked  for  a  year  in  the  Hartford 
National  Bank.  He  entered  Yale  in  1908,  and  in  his  first 
year  received  honors.  He  was  given  a  Junior  Philosophical 
Oration  and  a  Senior  Oration  appointment,  and  was  a 
member  of  Phi  Beta  Kappa. 

Mr.  Perkins  had  been  connected  with  the  Standard  Oil 
Company  of  New  York  since  July  i,  19 12.  He  sailed  for 
China  in  March,  191 3,  and  from  April  to  November  of 
that  year  was  stationed  at  Shanghai.  He  was  then  trans- 
ferred to  Tientsin,  where  nine  months  were  spent.  In 
August,  19 14,  he  went  to  Chinwangtao,  leaving  that  post 
in  December  of  the  following  year  for  New-chwang. 

He  was  married  May  18,  1916,  in  Shanghai,  to  Gladys 
Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Thomas  Caleb  and  Bessie  Pedlar 
of  San  Francisco,  Calif.,  and  shortly  afterwards  left  China 


432  YALE    COLLEGE 

on  a  furlough,  reaching  Hartford  June  21.  He  was  taken 
ill  with  typhoid  fever  four  days  later,  and  died  at  his 
mother's  home  in  Hartford  on  July  2.  Interment  was  in 
Cedar  Hill  Cemetery  in  that  city.  Surviving  him  are  his 
wife,  mother,  stepfather,  and  two  brothers.  Mr.  Perkins 
was  a  member  of  the  Memorial  Baptist  Church  of  Hartford. 


Francis  Bergen,  B.A.   19 14 

Born  January  30,  1892,  in  Montclair,  N.  J. 
Died  May  11,  1917,  near  Wilton,  N.  Y. 

Francis  Bergen  was  born  in  Montclair,  N.  J.,  January 
30,  1892,  being  the  son  of  Frank  Bergen,  one  of  the  leading 
corporation  lawyers  in  the  state  of  New  Jersey.  The  latter, 
whose  parents  were  Peter  S.  and  Rebecca  M.  (Dilts) 
Bergen,  is  a  direct  descendant  of  Hans  Hansen  Bergen 
of  Plolland,  who  settled  on  Long  Island  in  1633;  later 
some  of  his  descendants  removed  to  New  Jersey.  Bergen 
County  and  several  other  municipalities  in  that  state  are 
named  for  members  of  the  family.  Francis  Bergen's 
mother,  Lydia  Swift  (Gardiner)  Bergen,  is  the  daughter 
of  Robert  H.  and  Louisa  M.  (Johnson)  Gardiner.  Her 
ancestors  on  her  father's  side  were  the  Gardiners  who  came 
to  America  from  England  in  the  seventeenth  century  and 
settled  probably  at  first  on  Boston  Neck,  and  subsequently 
on  Gardiner's  and  Plum  Islands  and  near  New  London, 
Conn. 

Francis  Bergen  was  fitted  for  Yale  at  the  Pingry  School 
in  Elizabeth,  N.  J.  In  his  Junior  year  he  received  a  First 
Colloquy,  and  his  Senior  appointment  was  a  Second 
Dispute.  He  belonged  to  the  Elizabethan  Club,  and  served 
on  the  editorial  board  of  the  Yale  Literary  Magasine  in 
his  Senior  year. 

After  graduating  at  Yale  he  was  entered  at  New  College, 
Oxford,  for  a  post-graduate  course,  but  was  prevented 
from  attending  by  the  outbreak  of  the  war.  For  that  reason 
he  entered  Harvard  Law  School  in  the  autumn  of  1914, 
and  as  a  Senior  was  entitled  to  the  degree  of  LL.B.,  without 
examination,  at  the  time  of  his  death,  having  enlisted  for 
active  military  service.  He  spent  the  summers  of  191 5  and 
1916  at  Plattsburg,  N.  Y.,  in  the  latter  year  serving  with 


1912-1915  433 

a  machine  gun  troop  of  the  regular  army  then  stationed 
there.  He  was  a  member  of  Trinity  Episcopal  Church  of 
Elizabeth. 

He  was  instantly  killed  May  11,  1917,  near  Wilton, 
between  Saratoga  and  Glens  Falls,  N.  Y.,  when  the  machine 
in  which  he  was  going  to  Plattsburg  to  enter  the  Reserve 
Officers'  Training  Camp  overturned.  He  was  unmarried. 
His  parents  and  a  sister  survive  him.  Frederick  A.  John- 
son, who  graduated  from  the  Sheffield  Scientific  School  in 
1894,  is  a  cousin  of  his  mother. 


John  Witbeck  Barrel!,  B.A.   19 15 

Born  September  12,  1892,  in  Chicago,  111. 
Died  July  i,  1916,  in  Bath,  111. 

John  Witbeck  Barrell  was  born  in  Chicago,  111.,  Sep- 
tember 12,  1892,  his  parents  being  Finley  and  Grace  Mary 
(Witbeck)  Barrell.  His  father  was  the  son  of  James  and 
Susan  (Finley)  Barrell,  and  his  mother's  parents  were 
John  H.  and  Mary  (Guernsey)  Witbeck.  Jasual  Barrell 
and  Henry  Witbeck,  both  of  whom  settled  in  Chicago  about 
1850,  were  the  first  of  his  relatives  to  live  in  this  country. 

He  was  fitted  for  Yale  at  Phillips  Academy,  Andover, 
Mass.  He  was  a  member  of  the  University  Gun  Team, 
being  captain  in  Senior  year,  and  received  a  Second  Col- 
loc|uy  appointment  as  a  Junior  and  a  First  Colloquy  at 
Commencement. 

His  father  had  been  for  many  years  head  of  the  banking 
house  of  Finley  Barrell  &  Company  of  Chicago,  and  im- 
mediately after  his  graduation  John  Barrell  became  asso- 
ciated with  this  firm.  On  March  i,  19 16,  he  was  admitted 
as  general  partner,  and  was  serving  as  such  at  the  time 
of  his  death,  which  occurred  July  i  of  that  year.  He  was 
spending  a  few  days  on  his  father's  farm  at  Bath,  111., 
and  while  swimming  in  a  small  lake  on  the  place  was 
seized  with  cramps,  and  although  saved  from  drowning 
died  two  hours  later.  While  at  Andover  he  had  strained 
his  heart  severely,  and  his  death  resulted  from  heart  failure 
and  hemorrhage.  Burial  was  in  the  Lake  Forest  (111.) 
Cemetery. 


434  YALE    COLLEGE 

Mr.  Barrell  was  not  married.  His  parents  survive  him. 
He  was  a  nephew  of  Albert  Munger  Barrell,  who  graduated 
from  the  College  in  1900. 


Richard  Lanpher,  B.A.   1916 

Born  December  4,  1893,  in  St.  Paul,  Minn. 
Died  March  11,   1917,  in  St.  Paul,  Minn, 

Richard  Lanpher  was  born  in  St.  Paul,  Minn.,  December 
4,  1893,  the  son  of  Obed  Pardon  and  Emma  Maria  (Balliet) 
Lanpher.  Through  his  father,  who  is  the  son  of  Morris 
and  Elvira  (Parker)  Lanpher,  he  was  descended  from 
Nathan  Lanphere,  who  came  to  this  country  from  England 
in  1716,  settling  at  Westerly,  R.  L  His  mother's  parents 
were  Aaron  and  Sarah  (Dangler)  Balliet.  She  is  of 
French-Huguenot  ancestry,  tracing  her  descent  to  Paulus 
and  Maria  Magdalena  (Wotring)  Balliet,  who  settled  at 
Whitehall,  Pa.,  in  1738. 

Before  entering  Yale  in  1912,  he  studied  at  the  Adiron- 
dack-Florida School  and  at  the  St.  Paul  Academy.  In 
Freshman  year  he  was  given  third  division  honors,  and 
he  received  a  Junior  High  Oration  and  a  Senior  Oration 
appointment.  He  was  an  editor  of  the  Yale  Record  as  a 
Senior. 

In  September,  1916,  he  entered  the  hat  department  of 
Lanpher,  Skinner  &  Company,  of  which  firm  his  father 
was  president  from  1876  to  1915.  This  company  conducts 
a  wholesale  business  in  hats  and  furs  in  St.  Paul. 

Mr.  Lanpher's  death  occurred  March  11,  19 17,  at  his 
home  in  that  city,  after  an  illness  of  six  weeks.  An  attack 
of  tonsilitis,  from  which  he  had  supposedly  recovered,  was 
followed  by  pneumonia.  This  developed  into  spinal  menin- 
gitis, causing  his  death.  He  was  buried  in  Oakland 
Cemetery,  St.  Paul. 

He  was  unmarried.  His  parents  and  two  sisters  survive 
him.  He  was  a  cousin  of  Joseph  L.  and  William  F.  Fore- 
paugh,  both  members  of  the  Class  of  1896  S. 


SHEFFIELD  SCIENTIFIC  SCHOOL 
Henry  Martyn  Seely,  Ph.B.   1856 

Born  October  2,  1828,  in  Onondaga,  N.  Y. 
Died  May  4,  1917,  in  Middlebury,  Vt. 

Henry  Martyn  Seely  was  born  in  Onondaga,  N.  Y., 
October  2,  1828,  being  a  descendant  of  Robert  Seely,  who 
came  to  this  country  in  1630  with  his  wife  and  two  sons 
and  served  as  a  lieutenant  under  Miles  Standish  and  John 
Mason  in  the  Pequot  Wars.  Another  ancestor,  Gideon 
Seely,  held  a  commission  a.s  a  captain  in  the  Revolutionary 
Army,  His  father,  Joseph  Owen  Seely,  a  farmer  and 
school  teacher,  was  the  son  of  Gideon  and  Esther  (Owen) 
Seely,  and  his  mother,  Susanna  (Stearns)  Seely,  was  the 
daughter  of  George  and  Hannah  (Bailey)  Stearns.  The 
founder  of  the  Stearns  family  in  this  country  was  Isaac 
Stearns  of  Yarmouth,  Mass. 

After  attending  the  Cazenovia  (N.  Y.)  Seminary  for 
several  years,  Henry  M.  Seely  taught  in  a  public  school 
in  that  town.  He  then  spent  a  winter  at  Syracuse,  N.  Y., 
engaged  in  the  study  of  preliminary  law  and  anatomy.  In 
1854  he  entered  the  Sheffield  Scientific  School,  taking  the 
course  in  chemistry. 

He  remained  at  Yale  for  a  year  after  his  graduation, 
serving  as  an  assistant  in  the  chemical  laboratory  and  con- 
tinuing his  studies.  In  1857  he  received  the  degree  of 
Doctor  of  Medicine  from  the  Berkshire  Medical  Institute 
at  Pittsfield,  Mass.,  and  for  the  next  five  years  was  con- 
nected with  the  teaching  staff  of  that  institution  as  pro- 
fessor of  chemistry.  From  i860  to  1867  he  held  a  similar 
position  at  the  University  of  Vermont.  In  1861  Professor 
Seely  had  accepted  the  chair  of  chemistry  and  natural 
history  at  Middlebury  College,  and  from  that  time  his  home 
was  at  Middlebury,  Vt.  After  1892  his  work  was  entirely 
in  the  department  of  natural  history,  and  in  1895  he  was 
made  professor  emeritus  of  that  subject.  Since  his  retire- 
ment he  had  devoted  his  time  to  private  teaching  and  to 
the  study  of  paleontology.  Professor  Seely  had  written  a 
number  of  articles  which  had  been  published  in  scientific 
journals   and   in   pamphlet   form.     He   spent   the  year   of 


43^  SHEFFIELD    SCIENTiriC    SCHOOL 

1867-68  in  Europe,  studying  during  the  first  part  of  this 
period  at  Freiberg  under  Richter  and  VonCotta,  and  after- 
wards at  Heidelberg  under  Bunsen.  Yale  conferred  an  hon- 
orary M.A.  upon  him  in  i860.  From  1875  to  1878  he  was 
secretary  of  the  Vermont  Board  of  Agriculture.  He  was  the 
gubernatorial  candidate  on  the  Prohibition  ticket  in  1886 
and  again  in  1888.  He  became  vice-president  of  the  Yale 
Alumni  Association  of  Vermont  in  March,  1917.  He  was 
a  member  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church  of  Middle- 
bury,  and  served  as  a  lay  delegate  to  the  general  conference 
of  that  sect  held  in  Cincinnati  in  1880.  He  belonged  to 
the  Sons  of  the  American  Revolution,  the  Vermont  Botan- 
ical Club,  the  American  Chemical  Society,  and  the  Geo- 
logical Society  of  America. 

His  death  occurred  at  his  home  in  Middlebury,  May  4, 
1917,  after  an  illness  of  several  years  due  to  arterio 
sclerosis.  He  was  buried  in  Oakwood  Cemetery  at  Syra- 
cuse, N.  Y. 

On  September  i,  1858,  he  was  married  in  Perryville, 
N.  Y.,  to  Adelaide  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Lewis  Hamblin, 
Jr.,  and  Desiah  (Halbert)  Hamblin.  They  had  one  daugh- 
ter, Adelaide  May,  who  studied  at  Syracuse  University 
from  1 88 1  to  1883  and  was  married  October  18,  1893, 
to  Rev.  John  Wight  Chapman,  a  graduate  of  Middlebury 
in  1879  and  of  the  General  Theological  Seminary  in  1886, 
and  now  Protestant  Episcopal  missionary  at  Anvik,  Alaska. 
Mrs.  Seely  died  August  14,  1865,  and  Professor  Seely's 
second  marriage  took  place  June  11,  1867,  in  Fair  Haven, 
Vt.,  to  Sarah  Jane,  daughter  of  Amos  and  Susan  (Barnaby) 
Matthews.  Three  children  were  born  to  them :  Sarah 
Grace  (B.A.  Middlebury  1891),  now  the  wife  of  Rev.  John 
Martin  Thomas,  D.D.,  LL.D.,  president  of  Middlebury 
College,  who  graduated  from  that  institution  in  1890  and 
from  Union  Theological  Seminary  in  1893;  Henry  Hamb- 
lin, who  received  his  B.A.  degree  at  Middlebury  in  1894  and 
his  M.D.  from  the  University  of  Vermont  in  1898,  and  is 
a  practicing  physician  in  Harvard,  Nebr.,  and  Lockwood 
Matthews  (B.A.  Middlebury  1895)  of  Newark,  N.  J. 
Besides  his  wife,  Professor  Seely  is  survived  by  his  four 
children  and  eleven  grandchildren. 


1856-1860  437 


Joseph  Addison  Rogers,  Ph.B.   i860 

Born  February  2,  1840,  in  East  Haven,  Conn. 
Died  January  25,   1917,  in  New  Haven,  Conn. 

Joseph  Addison  Rogers  was  a  descendant  in  the  eighth 
generation  of  James  Rogers,  who  came  from  England  to 
Massachusetts  in  the  ship  Increase  in  1635,  and  afterwards 
settled  in  New  London,  Conn.  He  was  born  February  2, 
1840,  in  East  Haven,  Conn.,  his  parents  being  Joseph  Harris 
and  Julia  (Upson)  Rogers.  His  father,  a  scholar  and 
teacher,  was  the  son  of  James  and  Mary  (Allen)  Rogers, 
the  latter  being  the  daughter  of  Rev.  Jason  Allen  (B.A. 
1806),  and  a  descendant  of  Samuel  Allen,  who  came  from 
England  to  this  country  about  1635,  settling  at  Cambridge, 
Mass.  His  maternal  grandparents  were  Freeman  Upson, 
whose  ancestor,  Thomas  Upson,  came  to  Hartford,  Conn., 
about  1638,  later  becoming  one  of  the  proprietors  of  the 
town  of  Farmington,  and  Hannah,  daughter  of  Hezekiah 
and  Mercy  (Holt)  Todd  of  Cheshire,  Conn.,  and  a  descend- 
ant of  William  Holt,  who  settled  in  New  Haven  Colony 
about  1640. 

He  received  his  early  education  at  schools  in  Fair  Haven 
and  New  Haven.  From  1855  to  1858  he  was  employed" 
in  the  New  York  office  of  the  Scovill  Alanufacturing  Com- 
pany of  Waterbury,  Conn.  In  tlie  fall  of  the  latter  year 
he  entered  Yale,  pursuing  the  course  in  civil  engineering, 
and  in  i860  was  given  the  degree  of  Ph.B.  and  the  follow- 
ing year  that  of  C.E.  He  was  an  assistant  in  engineering 
in  the  Scientific  School  from  i860  to  1863. 

In  the  autumn  of  1863  Mr.  Rogers  accepted  an  appoint- 
ment as  astronomical  assistant  in  the  United  States  Naval 
Observatory,  and  served  in  that  capacity  for  the  next  four 
years,  making  his  home  at  Washington,  D.  C.  During  the 
early  part  of  his  work  there  he  sometimes  made  long  jour- 
neys for  purposes  of  observation,  and  he  also  employed 
his  inventive  genius  somewhat  to  aid  in  the  use  of  instru- 
ments. From  1867  to  1874  he  had  charge  of  the  depart- 
ment of  nautical  instruments  in  the  Hydrographic  Office 
of  the  United  States  Navy.  He  was  then  for  about  seven- 
teen years  engaged  in  astronomical  and  other  scientific  work 
for  the  Naval  Observatory  and  the  Hydrographic  Office. 
In  1883  he  had  interrupted  this  work  to  become  assistant 


43^  SHEFFIELD    SCIENTIFIC    SCHOOL 

to  the  president  of  the  American  Shipbuilding  Company 
of  New  York,  and  for  the  next  two  years  was  located  in 
Philadelphia,  Pa.,  where  he  had  charge  of  the  local  factory 
of  the  company. 

In  1893  Mr.  Rogers  gave  up  his  work  for  the  Govern- 
ment, and  had  since  lived  quietly  in  New  Haven,  Conn., 
his  death  occurring  in  that  city  January  25,  191 7,  as  the 
result  of  heart  disease.  He  was  buried  in  St.  Peter's 
Cemetery  at  Cheshire,  Conn. 

He  was  a  member  of  the  First  Church  (Congregational) 
of  Fair  Haven.  In  1862  he  enlisted  as  a  private  in  the 
Twenty-seventh  Regiment,  Connecticut  Volunteers,  and 
served  until  severely  wounded  at  the  battle  of  Fredericks- 
burg on  December  13  of  that  year.  While  he  performed 
thereafter  many  years  of  active  work  and  was  not  an 
invalid,  he  was  at  times  discommoded  as  a  result  of  the 
wounds. 

Mr.  Rogers  had  not  married.  A  sister,  the  widow  of 
Brig.-Gen.  George  W.  Baird,  U.  S.  A.  (B.A.  1863),  survives 
him.  Both  of  her  daughters  married  Yale  men,  one  being 
the  wife  of  George  D.  Holmes  (B.A.  1890)  and  the  other 
of  Tom  Hall,  a  non-graduate  member  of  the  College  Class 
of  1902. 


Arnold  Hague,  Ph.B.   1863 

Born  December  3,  1840,  in  Boston,  Mass. 
Died  May  14,   1917,  in  Washington,  D.  C. 

Arnold  Hague  was  born  in  Boston,  Mass.,  December  3, 
1840,  the  son  of  Rev.  William  Hague,  and  the  grandson 
of  James  Hague,  who,  born  in  Yorkshire,  England,  in  1767, 
was  for  a  long  time  a  sea  captain  in  the  service  of  the 
East  India  Company.  His  father  graduated  from  Hamil- 
ton College  in  1826  and  from  the  Newton  Theological 
Institution  in  1829.  and  entered  the  Baptist  ministry;  he 
was  a  trustee  of  Brown  University  from  1837  to  1887  and 
received  the  honorary  degree  of  D.D.  from  that  institution 
in  1849  and  from  Harvard  in  1863.  Arnold  Hague's  mother 
was  Mary  Bowditch,  daughter  of  John  and  Abigail  (Mose- 
ley)  Moriarty  of  Salem,  Mass.  She  was  descended  from 
Nathaniel  Bowditch,  the  noted  mathematician,  whose  home 
was  in  Salem. 


1860-1863  439 

He  entered  Yale  in  1861  from  the  Albany  (N.  Y.)  Acad- 
emy, and  in  the  Scientific  School  specialized  in  chemistry. 
He  spent  three  years  in  Germany  after  his  graduation  from 
Yale,  studying  chemistry  and  mining  engineering  at  the 
Universites  of  Gottingen  and  Heidelberg  and  at  the  Frei- 
berg School  of  Mines. 

Immediately  on  his  return  to  the  United  States  in  1866, 
Mr.  Hague,  with  several  friends  and  his  elder  brother, 
Samuel,  entered  the  service  of  the  United  States  as  assist- 
ant geologist  of  the  Fortieth  Parallel  Survey  under  Clarence 
King  (Ph.B.  1863,  LL.D.  Brown  1890),  and  subsequently 
spent  about  ten  years  in  California  and  at  Virginia  City, 
Nev.,  in  a  study  of  the  geology  of  the  Comstock  Lode  and 
the  "Washoe  process"  of  securing  gold  from  the  ore.  The 
report  of  the  King  Exploration  contains  a  chapter  on  this 
subject  and  another  on  the  geology  of  the  White  Pine 
mining  district  written  by  Mr.  Hague.  He  was  also  the 
co-author,  with  Samuel  F.  Emmons  (B.A.  Harvard  1861, 
M.A.  Harvard  1866,  Sc.D.  Harvard  1909),  of  a  report  of 
the  detailed  survey  across  the  Cordilleras  of  North  America 
from  the  Great  Plains  to  the  Sierra  Nevadas.  In  1877  he 
was  appointed  government  geologist  of  Guatemala,  and 
made  many  trips  over  that  country,  especially  in  the  min- 
ing and  volcanic  districts.  The  Chinese  government  then 
secured  his  services  to  examine  the  gold,  silver,  and  lead 
mines  of  northern  China.  On  the  completion  of  his  work 
there  in  1879,  he  was  made  one  of  the  geologists  of  the 
United  States  Geological  Survey,  which  had  just  been 
organized.  He  retained  his  connection  with  the  Survey 
until  his  death.  His  first  investigations  were  in  the  Eureka 
mining  district  in  Nevada.  Mr.  Hague  was  probably  best 
known  for  his  work  at  the  Yellowstone  National  Park, 
where,  in  1883,  he  was  assigned  particularly  to  the  geysers, 
in  connection  with  the  extinct  volcanic  regions  of  the  Rocky 
Mountains.  His  report  on  that  subject  and  others  upon 
the  geolog}^  of  the  region  and  an  atlas  of  the  park  are 
standards.  In  the  reports  of  the  Survey  for  a  number  of 
years,  he  made  many  useful  suggestions  as  to  the  use  and 
improvements  of  the  park,  including  references  to  the 
flora  and  fauna  of  the  place.  He  had  contributed  a  number 
of  articles  to  scientific  journals.  Columbia  conferred  the 
degree  of  Doctor  of  Science  upon  him  in  1901,  and  the 
University  of  Aberdeen  gave  him  an  LL.D.  five  years  later. 


440  SHEFFIELD    SCIENTIFIC    SCHOOL 

He  served  as  a  member  of  the  commission  appointed  by 
the  National  Academy  of  Sciences  at  the  request  of  the 
United  States  Government  in  1896  to  prepare  plans  for 
the  National  Forest  reserves.  He  was  vice-president  of 
the  Congresses  of  Geologists  held  at  Paris  in  1900,  at  Stock- 
holm in  1910,  and  at  Toronto  in  1913,  and  since  1910  had 
been  president  of  the  United  States  Geological  Society. 
He  was  a  member  of  the  National  Academy  of  Sciences, 
the  American  Philosophical  Society,  the  Geological  Society 
of  America,  the  Geological  Society  of  London,  and  the 
Century  Club  of  New  York. 

He  died  May  14,  1917,  at  his  home  in  Washington, 
D.  C,  after  a  lingering  illness.  The  immediate  cause  of 
his  death  was  a  cerebral  hemorrhage.  Interment  was  in 
the  Albany  (N.  Y.)  Rural  Cemetery. 

Mr.  Hague  was  married  November  14,  1893,  in  New 
York  City,  to  Mrs.  Mary  Bruce  (Robins)  Howe,  daughter 
of  George  W.  and  Margaret  (Bruce)  Robins,  and  widow 
of  Walter  Howe  (B.A.  College  of  the  City  of  New  York 
1868,  LL.B.  Columbia  1870).  She  survives  him,  and  he 
also  leaves  two  stepsons,  Ernest  Howe  (B.A.  1898,  M.A. 
Harvard  1899,  Ph.D.  Harvard  1901)  and  Walter  Bruce 
Howe  (B.A.  1901,  LL.B.  Harvard  1904).  Mr.  Hague's 
brother,  the  late  James  D.  Hague,  studied  at  the  Lawrence 
Scientific  School  at  Harvard  for  several  years,  and  became 
widely  known  as  a  mining  expert. 


Henry  Dyer  Tiffany,  Ph.B.    1864 

Born   December   13,   1841,   in   New  York  City 
Died  January  23,  1917,  in  Port  Chester,  N.  Y. 

Henry  Dyer  Tiffany  was  born  December  13,  1841,  in 
New^  York  City,  being  ninth  in  descent  from  one  of  the 
original  patentees  of  a  tract  included  in  "Ye  West  Farms" 
of  the  town  of  West  Chester,  N.  Y.,  which  had  been  con- 
veyed to  him  early  in  the  seventeenth  century.  His  father, 
Francis  Alfonso  Tiffany,  was  the  son  of  Lyman  and  Sabra 
(Jenks)  Tiffany,  the  latter  being  the  daughter  of  Stephen 
and  Mary  (Arnold)  Jenks.  His  mother  was  Mary  Lydia, 
daughter  of  William  Woolly  and  Charlotte  (Leggett)  Fox. 

Receiving    his    preparatory    training    at    the    Flushing 


1863-1869  441 

(N.  Y.)  Institute  and  under  a  private  tutor,  he  entered 
the  Sheffield  Scientific  School  in  1861.  He  took  the  civil 
engineering  course,  and  was  captain  of  the  Undine  Boat 
Club  and  second  fleet  captain  of  the  Yale  Navy,  of  which 
he  was  one  of  the  founders.  While  an  undergraduate,  he 
enlisted  in  the  Seventh  Regiment,  New  York,  and  twice 
during  the. Civil  War  left  college  to  go  with  this  regiment 
when  it  was  called  out  for  duty. 

At  the  close  of  the  war  he  formed  a  partnership  with 
Richard  Haviland,  who  conducted  a  china  business  at 
Limoges,  France.  He  later  entered  the  real  estate  business 
in  New  York  City.  He  was  especially  interested  in  the 
development  of  the  eastern  portion  of  the  Bronx,  and  was 
a  member  of  the  North  Side  Board  of  Trade.  He  was 
always  keenly  interested  in  marine  architecture,  and  studied 
the  subject  thoroughly.  In  1890  he  built  the  yacht  Ventura, 
which  bore  a  close  similarity  to  the  principles  of  construc- 
tion now  adopted  in  briilding  speed  yachts.  He  belonged 
to  the  Protestant  Episcopal  Church.  He  died  January  23, 
1917,  at  his  home  at  Port  Chester,  N.  Y.,  after  a  brief 
illness  of  pneumonia. 

Mr.  Tiffany  was  first  married  October  11,  1864,  in  Wash- 
ington, N.  Y.,  to  Caroline,  daughter  of  Josiah  Dow  Chase. 
Six  children  were  born  to  them:  William  Fox,  who  died 
February  23,  1867;  George  Fox;  Edith  Leggett,  whose 
marriage  to  Frederick  Reuben  Lord  (C.E.  Columbia  1892) 
took  place  October  22,  1897;  Marie  (died  April  3,  1877)  ; 
Isabell  Perry,  who  was  married  October  14,  1903,  to  John^ 
Morris  Butler,  and  Harry,  who  died  at  birth,  January  20, 
1881.  By  his  second  wife,  formerly  Miss  Eleanor  B.  Gor- 
don of  Saginaw,  Mich.,  he  had  two  sons,  who,  with  their 
mother,  survive. 


Willard  Wendell  Wight,  Ph.B.   1869 

Born  May  11,  1848,  in  Natick,  Mass. 
Died  March  10,  1917,  at  Wellesley  Hills,  Mass. 

Willard  Wendell  Wight,  whose  parents  were  Willard 
Amory  Wight,  a  surveyor  and  farmer,  and  Lucy  Bacon 
(Morse)  Wight,  was  born  in  Natick,  Mass.,  May  11,  1848. 
His  father  was  the  son  of  Daniel  and  Zillah   (Goulding) 


442  SHEFFIELD    SCIENTIFIC    SCHOOL 

Wight ;  he  traced  his  descent  to  Thomas  Wight,  who  came 
to  this  country  from  England  in  1636  and  settled  at  Ded- 
ham,  Mass.,  the  following  year.  His  mother  was  the 
daughter  of  Amasa  and  Sally  (Bacon)  Morse,  and  a 
descendant  of  Samuel  Morse,  who  was  born  in  1661  and 
died  in  1704. 

Entering  Yale  from  the  Natick  High  School,  he  took 
the  course  in  civil  engineering  in  the  Scientific  School. 
Soon  after  graduation  he  became  an  assistant  engineer 
with  the  Athol  &  Enfield  Railroad,  upon  the  completion 
of  which  he  took  the  position  of  division  engineer  with 
the  Boston  &  Maine  Railroad.  When  the  work  of  con- 
struction on  which  he  was  engaged  was  finished,  he  accepted 
a  position  with  the  Canadian  Pacific  Railway,  but  this  he 
soon  resigned,  returning  home  because  of  the  serious  illness 
of  his  father.  It  was  necessary  for  him  to  remain  and 
carry  on  his  father's  affairs,  and  later  he  went  into  business 
for  himself  as  a  civil  engineer  and  surveyor,  making  his 
headquarters  at  Natick.  He  served  as  engineer  for  several 
towns  in  Massachusetts,  including  Natick,  Framingham, 
Wellesley,  Needham,  Dover,  and  other  near-by  towns,  and 
was  also  engineer  for  several  electric  street  railways  in  the 
eastern  part  of  the  state. 

While  living  in  Natick,  he  served  for  two  years  (1894 
to  1896)  as  chairman  of  the  Board  of  Selectmen,  and  at 
various  times  was  elected  to  other  of  the  town  offices.  In 
1902  he  moved  to  Newton  Center,  Mass.,  and  five  years 
later  to  Wellesley  Hills,  Mass.,  where  he  made  his  home 
until  his  death.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Boston  Society 
of  Civil  Engineers,  prominent  in  Masonic  circles,  and  active 
in  various  local  associations  and  clubs. 

Mr.  Wight  died  very  suddenly  March  10,  19 17,  at  Welles- 
ley Hills,  from  heart  failure,  only  a  few  days  after  his 
return  from  an  extensive  trip  to  the  West  Indies  and 
Central  America.  Masonic  services  were  held -at  St.  An- 
drew's Episcopal  Church,  Wellesley,  and  interment  was  in 
the  North  Cemetery  at  Natick. 

He  was  married  January  2,  1879,  in  Newton  Center,  to 
Abbie  Gardner,  daughter  of  Edward  G.  and  Sarah  E. 
(Gardner)  Caldwell.  Mrs.  Wight  died  in  September,  1892. 
their  children  are:  Roger  Willard  (B.S.  Massachusetts 
Institute  of  Technology  1901)  ;  Isabel  Caldwell  (B.L. 
Smith   1903),  the  wife  of   Frank  Kollock  Mitchell    (B.S; 


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1869-1870  443 

Massachusetts  Institute  of  Technology  1902)  of  Glen 
Ridge,  N.  J. ;  Malcohn  Gardner,  a  graduate  of  the  Massa- 
chusetts Institute  of  Technology  in  1906,  and  Gwendolen 
Ross,  who  graduated  from  Smith  in  1908  and  was  married 
February  7,  191 1,  to  Harold  Pierrepont  Newton  (Ph.B. 
1908). 


Thomas  Elwood  Calvert,  Ph.B.   1870 

Born  September  10,  1849,  in  Newtown  Square,  Pa. 
Died  December  19,  1916,  in  Lincoln,  Nebr. 

Thomas  Elwood  Calvert  was  the  son  of  Isaac  Anderson 
Calvert,  a  farmer,  and  Phoebe  Holland  (Rhodes)  Calvert. 
He  was  born  at  Newtown  Square,  Pa.,  September  10,  1849, 
and  was  of  Quaker  ancestry,  being  descended  on  the 
paternal  side  from  John  and  Judith  Calvert,  who  came 
from  England  in  1683  and  settled  in  the  William  Penn 
Colony.  His  mother  was  a  descendant  of  Joseph  and  Sara 
Rhodes,  who  came  from  England  in  1685  and  settled  in 
Marple  Township,  Delaware  County,  Pa. 

He  was  fitted  for  the  Scientific  School  at  Treemont  Sem- 
inary, Norristown,  Pa.  He  took  the  course  in  civil  engi- 
neering, and,  after  receiving  his  Ph.B.  in  1870,  spent  an 
additional  year  at  Yale,  engaged  in  post-graduate  work. 
He  was  a  member  of  the  Undine  Boat  Club. 

In  March,  1871,  he  entered  the  employ  of  the  Chicago, 
Burlington  &  Quincy  Railroad  as  an  assistant  engineer. 
In  1886  he  was  made  general  superintendent  and  chief 
engineer  of  the  lines  west  of  the  Missouri  River,  having 
entire  charge  of  the  construction  of  all  the  new  lines,  as 
well  as  the  operation  of  existing  lines.  He  served  in 
this  capacity,  and  lived  in  Lincoln,  Nebr.,  until  September, 
1907,  when  he  was  promoted  to  be  chief  engineer  of  the 
entire  Chicago,  Burlington  &  Quincy  system,  with  head- 
quarters in  Chicago.  This  position  he  held  at  the  time  of 
his  death.  Mr.  Calvert  was  considered  one  of  the  leaders 
in  railroad  construction  methods  in  this  country.  During 
his  active  railroad  life  the  Burlington  road  had  grown  from 
a  line  of  about  seventy  miles  to  a  system  of  4,900  miles, 
covering  the  states  of  Nebraska,  Colorado,  Wyoming, 
Montana,  and  South  Dakota.  It  is  said  by  his  co-workers 
that  he  personally  supervised,  as  to  location  and  construe- 


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tion,  more  lines  of  railroad  than  any  other  engineer  in  the 
United  States.  He  went  West  at  the  beginning  of  the 
movement  of  its  greatest  development,  and  was  a  visionist 
and  leader  in  this  development  for  forty-five  years.  At 
the  time  of  his  death  he  was  a  member  of  the  committee 
of  engineers  who  were  drafting  and  formulating  the  plans 
for  the  Chicago  Union  Station.  He  belonged  to  the 
American  Railway  Engineering  Association  and  to  the 
First  Congregational  Church  of  Lincoln,  and  was  active 
in  various  civic  and  philanthropic  societies  in  that  city. 

Mr.  Calvert's  home  had  been  at  Lincoln  since  April, 
1913,  and  his  death  occurred  there  December  19,  1916. 
In  the  fall  of  19 15  he  was  thrown  from  a  railway  motor 
car  while  on  a  tour  of  inspection  of  the  lines  in  Wyoming. 
He  apparently  recovered  his  health,  but  later  a  weakness 
of  the  heart  developed,  ultimately  causing  his  death.  He 
was  buried  in  Wyuka  Cemetery  at  Lincoln. 

He  was  married  at  Weeping  Water,  Nebr.,  November  8, 
1877,  to  Eva  Cecelia,  daughter  of  Minor  and  Emaline 
Shelton.  Her  death  occurred  May  12,  1891.  On  Novem- 
ber I,  191 1,  Mr.  Calvert  was  married  in  Lincoln,  to  Cora 
Belle,  daughter  of  Harvey  Wesley  and  Charlotte  Clement 
(Abbott)  Hardy,  who  survives  him.  His  brother  is  also 
living.     Mr.  Calvert  had  no  children. 


Jacob  Jackson  Abbott,  Ph.B.   1872 

Born  May  19,  1850,  in  Uxbridge,  Mass. 
Died  July  29,  1916,  in  Auburn,  Maine 

Jacob  Jackson  Abbott  was  born  May  19,  1850,  in  Ux- 
bridge, Mass.,  his  parents  being  Jacob  Jackson  and  Mar- 
garet Fletcher  (Whitin)  Abbott.  His  father  was  the  son 
of  Jacob  and  Nancy  (Wesson)  Abbott,  and  a  descendant 
of  George  Abbot  who  came  to  this  country  from  York- 
shire, England,  in  1640  and  three  years  later  settled  at 
Andover,  Mass.  He  graduated  from  Dartmouth  in  1839 
and  from  Union  Theological  Seminary  in  1845,  afterwards, 
as  long  as  his  health  would  permit,  serving  in  the  Con- 
gregational ministry.  He  was  considered  one  of  the  most 
learned  scholars  of  his  time  in  the  United  States ;  Bowdoin 
College  conferred  the  honorary  degree  of  D.D.  upon  him 


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in  1874.  His  wife  was  the  daughter  of  Col.  Paul  Whiting, 
who  adopted  the  present  form  of  the  family  name,  and 
Betsey  (Fletcher)  Whiting;  she  was  descended  from 
Nathaniel  Whiting,  who  as  early  as  1638  was  a  landholder 
at  Lynn,  Mass.,  operated  the  first  corn  mill  at  Dedham, 
Mass.,  in  1641,  and  in  1643  married  Hannah,  daughter  of 
John  and  Hannah  Dwight,  and  sister  of  Timothy  Dwight 
of  Dedham. 

Jacob  Jackson  Abbott  was  fitted  for  Yale  at  Yarmouth, 
Maine.  Upon  entering  the  Sheffield  Scientific  School  in 
1869,  he  received  a  prize  conferred  as  a  credit  for  the 
excellence  of  his  examination.  He  was  a  member  of  the 
Class  Baseball  Team.  After  graduating  with  the  degree 
of  Ph.B.  in  1872,  he  remained  at  Yale  for  two  years, 
receiving  the  degree  of  Civil  Engineer  in  1874. 

In  the  fall  of  1875  he  joined  his  brother,  James  W.  Abbott 
(B.A.  1868,  Ph.B.  1870),  at  Lake  City,  Colo.,  where  they 
established  the  firm  of  Abbott  Brothers,  civil  engineers, 
which  enjoyed  a  well  merited  reputation  during  the  first 
fifteen  years  of  Colorado's  history  as  a  state.  In  Lake 
City,  Mr.  Abbott  served  the  community  with  eminent  credit 
as  mayor  in  1885-86,  superintendent  of  schools  in  1887-88, 
and  county  surveyor  in  1890-91  and  again  during  1895-96. 
In  1897  he  removed  his  residence  to  Denver,  where  he 
continued  in  practice  as  a  civil  engineer  until  some  months 
before  his  death.  He  was  a  member  of  the  First  Con- 
gregational Church  of  Denver,  and  held  the  office  of 
commissioner  of  Hinsdale  County  during  1903-04.  In  the 
fall  of  191 5  he  went  to  San  Francisco  to  attend  the  Panama- 
Pacific  Exposition.  While  there  he  was  attacked  by 
Bright's  disease.  During  the  January  following  he  returned 
to  Denver,  soon  afterwards  going  with  his  wife  to  Auburn, 
Maine,  where  two  sons  and  two  daughters  were  living. 
His  death  occurred  in  that  city,  July  29,  19 16,  and  he 
was  buried  there  in  Mount  Auburn  Cemetery. 

He  was  married  in  Dansville,  N.  Y.,  February  26,  1877, 
to  Jenny  Lind,  daughter  of  Enoch  and  Mary  (Seabury) 
Farrington,  who  survives  him,  residing  with  her  children 
at  Auburn.  They  had  seven  children :  Margaret  Farring- 
ton, now  the  wife  of  Dr.  John  W.  Robinson  of  Auburn; 
James  Dudley;  Edward  Farrington,  who  graduated  from 
Bowdoin  in  1903 ;  Jacob  Jackson ;  Catharine  Whitin,  the 
wife  of  Thomas  E.  Chase  of  Auburn;    Charles  Cushman, 


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and  Dorothy,  who  died  August  28,  1896,  at  the  age  of  two 
years.  In  addition  to  his  brother,  James  Whitin  Abbott, 
who  received  degrees  from  Yale  as  already  stated,  Mr. 
Abbott's  younger  brothers,  William  Whittlesey  and  Paul 
Whitin  Abbott,  also  received  the  degree  of  Ph.B.  from 
Yale,  the  former  in  1877  and  the  latter  in  1883. 


William  Darlington  Evans,  Ph.B.   1872 

Born  in  1850,  in  West  Chester,  Pa. 
Died  July  25,  1916,  in  West  Chester,  Pa. 

William  Darlington  Evans,  one  of  the  seven  children  of 
Henry  S.  and  Jane  (Darlington)  Evans,  was  born  in  1850, 
in  West  Chester,  Pa.  His  father  was  for  forty  years 
editor  and  publisher  of  the  Village  Record,  and  had  served 
in  both  houses  of  the  Pennsylvania  State  Legislature,  being 
a  senator  at  the  time  of  his  death  in  February,  1872.  His 
grandfather,  William  Darlington,  graduated  from  the  Med- 
ical Department  of  the  University  of  Pennsylvania,  and 
practiced  for  some  years  in  West  Chester.  He  became 
noted  as  a  botanist,  and  in  1848  Yale  conferred  an  honorary 
LL.D.  upon  him.  He  raised  a  company  of  volunteers  at 
the  beginning  of  the  War  of  1812,  and  served  as  major  of 
a  volunteer  regiment  after  the  burning  of  the  capitol  at 
Washington.  He  was  a  member  of  Congress  from  181 5  to 
1817  and  again  from  1819  to  1823.  His  wife-  was  the 
daughter  of  Brig.-Gen.  John  Lacey  of  the  Revolutionary 
Army. 

He  received  his  preparatory  training  at  Wyer's  Academy 
in  West  Chester,  and,  entering  Yale  in  1869,  spent  three 
years  with  the  Sheffield  Class  of  1872.  He  did  not,  how- 
ever, receive  his  degree  until  1910,  at  that  time  being 
enrolled  with  his  original  Class. 

For  a  number  of  years  after  the  completion  of  his  col- 
lege course  Mr.  Evans  was  associated  with  his  brother, 
the  late  Barton  D.  Evans  (Ph.B.  1868),  in  the  publishing 
and  editing  of  the  West  Chester  Village  Record,  thus  con- 
tinuing his  father's  work.  This  paper  went  out  of  existence 
some  years  ago,  and  since  then  Mr.  Evans  had  been  a 
member  of  the  staff  of  the  West  Chester  Daily  Local  News. 
He  had  been  active  in  Republican  politics  in  his  native  town, 
and  had  frequently  presided  over  borough  conventions  and 


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served  as  a  delegate  to  the  county  conventions.  He  was 
at  one  time  a  candidate  for  the  State  Legislature,  but  did 
not  receive  election.  For  some  years  he  served  as  a  vestry- 
man of  the  Protestant  Episcopal  Church  of  the  Holy 
Trinity,  and  w^as  also  a  member  of  its  choir.  He  belonged 
to  the  Sons  of  the  Revolution,  and  was  a  former  member 
of  the  Wayne  Fencibles,  a  local  military  organization. 

Mr.  Evans  died  at  his  home  in  West  Chester,  July  25, 
19 1 6,  after  an  illness  resulting  from  stomach  and  intestinal 
trouble.  He  was  buried  in  Oakland  Cemetery  in  that 
town. 

He  married  Lucy,  daughter  of  George  Messersmith  of 
Chambersburg,  Pa.,  who  survives  him  with  two  children, 
Llenry  S.  and  Georgina  Messersmith.  He  also  leaves  two 
sisters. 


Fayette  Williams  Brown,  Ph.B.   1878 

Born  October  8,  1857,  in  Providence,  R.  I. 
Died  October  25,  1916,  in  Montreal,  Que.,  Canada 

Fayette  Williams  Brown,  whose  parents  were  Fayette 
Putnam  and  Abby  Watson  (Tyler)  Brown,  was  born  Octo- 
ber 8,  1857,  in  Providence,  R.  L  His  earliest  American 
ancestor  on  the  paternal  side  settled  in  Salisbury,  Conn., 
about  1635.  Fayette  W.  Brown's  father  was  the  son  of 
Elijah  Brown,  3d,  and  Mary  (Williams)  Brown  of  Pitts- 
ford,  Vt. ;  the  grandson  of  Elijah  Brown,  2d,  who  was  an 
officer  in  the  Revolutionary  War,  and  Sarah  (Adams) 
Brown  of  Coventry,  Conn.,  and  the  great-grandson  of 
Elijah  and  Lydia  (Garry)  Brown.  His  mother  was  of 
Huguenot  descent,  being  the  daughter  of  George  W.  Tyler, 
a  student  in  the  Medical  Department  at  Yale  during 
1820-21,  and  Mary  Elizabeth  (Aborn)  Tyler,  and  a 
descendant  of  Gabriel  Bernon,  who  came  from  France  in 
1688,  settling  at  New  Oxford,  Mass.  Other  ancestors  were 
Tarrant  Putnam,  the  brother  of  Israel  Putnam,  and  Samuel 
Williams,  his  great-grandfather,  who  started  the  Rutland 
(Vt.)  Herald. 

He  entered  Yale  from  the  Peekskill  (N.  Y.)  Military 
Academy,  taking  the  select  course  in  the  Scientific  School. 
In  1878,  while  still  a  student  at  Yale,  he  was  the  amateur 
champion  of  the  New  York  Athletic  Club  for  the  440  yard 


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dash  and  the  amateur  champion  of  America  for  the  one 
hundred  yard  dash.  He  won  the  Track  Team  gold  medal 
for  one  hundred  yards  and  a  gold  medal  in  the  hurdle 
race  in  1878.  He  played  on  the  University  Baseball  Team 
in  Junior  year  and  on  the  University  Football  Team  as  a 
Senior. 

The  three  years  following  his  graduation  from  the  Shef- 
field Scientific  School  were  spent  in  the  study  of  law  at 
Columbia,  and  in  1881  he  received  the  degree  of  LL.B. 
from  that  institution.  After  spending  several  years  in 
Texas  engaged  in  sheep  ranching  with  several  of  his  Yale 
classmates,  he  returned  to  Yonkers,  N.  Y.,  his  parents' 
home,  in  December,  1884.  He  assisted  his  father,  the 
manager  of  the  Mutual-  Life  Insurance  Company  of  New 
York,  until  the  latter's  sudden  death  in  May,  1885.  At  that 
time  he  was  appointed  manager  for  Canada  for  the  com- 
pany, and  immediately  took  up  his  headquarters  in  Mont- 
real. He  continued  in  that  position  during  the  remainder 
of  his  life.  He  had  been  a  director  of  the  Montreal  Trust 
Company  and  of  the  Ames  Holding  Company  of  Montreal, 
and  had  served  as  second  vice-president  of  the  Sanitarium 
for  Tuberculosis  at  Ste.  Legathe  des  Monts,  Quebec,  as  a 
governor  of  the  General  Hospital  in  Montreal  and  of  the 
Montreal  Maternity  Hospital,  as  a  life  governor  of  the 
Iverly  Settlement,  and  as  a  member  of  the  finance  com- 
mittee of  the  Society  of  Decorative  Art.  He  was  keenly 
interested  in  golf,  and  for  five  years  was  president  and 
captain  of  the  Royal  Montreal  Golf  Club.  He  was  a 
member  of  a  number  of  other  clubs  and  of  St.  Paul's 
Presbyterian  Church,  Montreal,  and  of  the  Grenadier 
Guards  for  Home  Defense.  He  had  made  frequent  visits 
abroad,  accompanied  by  his  family.  In  September,  1909, 
he  was  found  to  be  suffering  from  a  slight  attack  of  tuber- 
culosis, and  was  obliged  to  spend  eighteen  months  at 
Saranac  Lake,  N.  Y.  He  fully  recovered  his  health,  and 
was  able  to  resume  his  social  and  business  relations.  Mr. 
Brown  had  been  admitted  to  the  bars  of  New  York  and 
Texas,  but  had  never  practiced  law. 

His  death  occurred  suddenly  October  25,  1916,  at  his 
home  in  Montreal,  as  the  result  of  an  attack  of  angina 
pectoris.  Interment  was  in  Mount  Royal  Cemetery, 
Montreal. 

He   was    married   June   9,    1886,    in    Glenburn,    Pa.,    to 


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Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Andrew  and  Frances  Mary  (Sisson) 
Leighton,  and  sister  of  James  Leighton  (B.A.  1881).  She 
survives  him  with  their  two  daughters,  Dorothy,  now  the 
wife  of  Jonathan  Campbell  Meakins  (B.A.  Toronto  1901, 
M.D.  1904),  who  enlisted  in  the  Canadian  Army  Medical 
Corps  and  went  to  France  as  a  major  in  February,  191 5, 
and  Elizabeth  Leighton,  who  was  married  July  31,  191 5, 
to  Lieut.  Harold  Ramsay  Kingston,  a  graduate  of  Lajola 
Jesuit  College,  Montreal,  and  now  a  member  of  the  Sixtieth 
Battalion,  Third  Division,  Canadian  Expeditionary  Force. 
Mr.  Brown's  brother,  George  Tyler  Brown,  is  a  non- 
graduate  member  of  the  Sheffield  Class  of  1885.  Other 
Yale  relatives  include  his  cousins,  Francis  Dana  Winslow 
(Ph.B.  1878)  ;  Kenelm  Winslow  (B.A.  1905),  and  Carroll 
D.  Winslow  (Ph.B.  1910).  The  late  Theodore  F.  Leighton, 
a  graduate  of  the  College  in  1874,  was  a  cousin  of  Mrs. 
Brown. 


Charles  deVillers  Hoard,  Ph.B.   1879 

Born  May  11,  1857,  in  Ogdensburg,  N.  Y. 
Died  February  12,  191 5,  in  Ogdensburg,  N.  Y. 

Charles  deVillers  Hoard  was  born  May  11,  1857,  in 
Ogdensburg,  N.  Y.,  the  son  of  Louis  deVillers  and  Mar- 
garette  Annette  (Clarkson)  Hoard.  His  father,  after  serv- 
ing as  recorder  of  deeds  and  as  clerk  of  the  Circuit  Court 
of  Cook  County,  111.,  from  1843  to  1856,  spent  eight  years 
in  Ogdensburg,  returning  to  Chicago  in  1864  and  becoming 
an  examiner  of  land  titles.  From  1880  until  his  death  in 
1893  he  resided  in  Ogdensburg.  He  was  the  son  of  Silvius 
and  Nancy  Mary  (deVillers)  Hoard,  and  a  descendant  of 
Charles  Hoar,  who  came  to  America  from  England  in  1635 
and  settled  at  Gloucester,  Mass.,  his  wife,  Joanna  Hoar, 
dying  at  Braintree  in  1661.  Their  son,  Leonard,  graduated 
at  Harvard  in  1650,  and  was  president  of  that  institution 
from  1672  to  1675.  Senator  George  F.  Hoar  (B.A.  Har- 
vard 1846,  LL.B.  Harvard  1849,  LL.D.  Yale  1885),  of 
Massachusetts,  was  a  member  of  the  family.  Members  of 
the  branch  from  which  Charles  deVillers  Hoard  was 
descended  adopted  the  present  form  of  the  name  in  1810. 
His   mother,  a  native  of   Halifax,   Nova   Scotia,  was  the 


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daughter  of  Robert  and  Margarette  (Wilson)  Clarkson, 
who  came  from  Scotland  and  settled  in  Nova  Scotia. 

He  received  his  preparatory  training  at  General  Russell's 
school  in  New  Haven,  Conn.,  entering  the  Sheffield  Sci- 
entific School  in  1875.    He  took  the  select  course. 

Shortly  after  his  graduation  he  went  to  Chicago,  to  take 
a  position  as  examiner  of  titles  with  Handy  &  Company,  a 
firm  engaged  in  the  abstract  business.  In  1901  this  firm 
was  merged  with  the  Title  Guarantee  &  Trust  Company, 
and  he  continued  with  the  latter  organization  until  1904, 
when  he  retired  from  business,  and  returned  to  Ogdens- 
burg,  where  the  remainder  of  his  life  was  spent.  He  was 
a  director  of  the  Ogdensburg  Pulp  Wood  Company  and 
of  the  National  Bank  of  that  town.  From  the  beginning 
of  his  residence  in  Ogdensburg,  Mr.  Hoard  took  an  active 
and  whole-souled  interest  in  municipal  affairs.  He  was 
elected  mayor  on  the  Democratic  ticket  in  1912,  refusing 
to  serve  a  second  term  on  account  of  ill  health.  He  had 
traveled  abroad  extensively.  He  was  the  organizer  and 
first  commodore  of  the  Oswegatchie  Yacht  Club. 

His  death  occurred  February  12,  191 5,  in  Ogdensburg, 
of  diabetes,  after  an  illness  of  several  years.  Burial  was 
in  the  local  cemetery. 

Mr.  Hoard  was  married  in  Chicago,  June  21,  1882,  to 
Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Charles  Butler  and  Mary  Jane 
(Peck)  Brown.  They  had  no  children.  Surviving  Mr. 
Hoard  are  his  wife  and  a  niece;  the  latter  is  the  daughter 
of  Francis  deVillers  Hoard,  a  non-graduate  member  of 
the  Class  of  1868  at  Hamilton  College,  who  received  the 
degree  of  M.D.  from  Georgetown  College  in  1879. 


Frank  Lewis  Bigelow,  Ph.B.   1881 

Born  September  21,  1862,  in  New  Haven,  Conn. 
Died  June  20,  1917,  in  New  Haven,  Conn. 

Frank  Lewis  Bigelow  was  born  September  21,  1862,  in 
New  Haven,  Conn.,  where  his  father,  Hobart  Baldwin 
Bigelow,  was  long  a  prominent  citizen.  The  latter  was 
for  two  years  a  member  of  the  New  Haven  Common 
Council,  supervisor  from  1871  to  1874,  and  fire  commis- 
sioner for  the  next  two  years;    he  served  in  the  General 


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Assembly  in  1875,  as  mayor  of  New  Haven  in  1879-1880, 
and  as  governor  of  Connecticut  from  1881  to  1883.  His 
parents  were  Levi  L.  and  Belinda  (Pierpont)  Bigelow,  and 
he  traced  his  descent  to  Rev.  James  Pierpont,  third  minister 
at  New  Haven  and  one  of  the  founders  of  Yale  College, 
whose  father,  John  Pierpont,  came  to  this  country  from 
England  in  1640  and  settled  at  Roxbury,  Mass.  He  married 
Eleanor  Swift,  daughter  of  Philo  and  Eleanor  (Swift) 
Lewis,  and  a  descendant  of  William  Lewis,  who  emigrated 
to  America  from  England  in  1632,  settling  at  Farmington, 
Conn.,  and  Gen.  Heman  Swift  (Honorary  M.A.  1797) 
of  Revolutionary  fame.  Frank  L.  Bigelow  was  one  of  their 
four  children. 

He  received  his  preparatory  training  at  the  Hopkins 
Grammar  School  in  New  Haven,  and  took  the  dynamical 
engineering  course  in  the  Scientific  School. 

Mr.  Bigelow's  home  had  always  been  in  New  Haven. 
Immediately  after  graduation  he  became  connected  with 
The  Bigelow  Company,  a  firm  founded  by  his  father  in 
1861  for  the  manufacturing  of  fire  tube  and  water  tube 
steam  boilers.  He  served  as  secretary  of  the  company 
from  1883  to  1891,  afterwards  holding  the  office  of  presi- 
dent. He  was  also  president  of  the  National  Pipe  Bending 
Company  during  the  last  ten  years  of  his  life,  and  a  director 
of  the  New  Haven  Water  Company,  the  Merchants 
National  Bank,  and  the  National  Savings  Bank.  He  was 
a  Congregationalist,  being  a  member  of  the  Church  of  the 
Redeemer,  on  whose  Society's  Committee  he  had  served 
since  191 5.  During  his  father's  term  of  office  as  governor 
of  Connecticut,  he  was  aide-de-camp  on  his  staff.  He  had 
been  Secretary  of  the  Class  of  1881  S.  since  graduation. 
He  was  at  one  time  a  member  of  the  Alumni  Advisory 
Board,  and  was  a  director  and  a  governor  of  the  Yale 
Publishing  Association  from  1909  until  his  death,  being  also 
president  of  the  board  of  governors.  He  belonged  to  the 
American  Society  of  Mechanical  Engineers  and  the  Ameri- 
can Society  of  Naval  Engineers. 

He  died  very  suddenly,  of  heart  disease,  in  New  Haven, 
June  20,  19 1 7,  and  was  buried  in  Evergreen  Cemetery  in 
that  city. 

Mr.  Bigelow  was  married  October  10,  1883,  in  New 
Haven,  to  Anna  Louise,  daughter  of  Robert  Hunting  and 
Louise  (Shepherd)  Lewis.    She  survives  him  with  a  daugh- 


452  SHEFFIELD    SCIENTIFIC    SCHOOL 

ter,  Louise,  the  wife  of  Donald  W.  Porter  (B.A.  1908, 
M.D.  Harvard  1912),  and  two  sons,  Pierrepont,  who 
graduated  from  the  Scientific  School  in  1910,  and  Lewis 
Hobart.  His  brother,  Walter  Pierpont  Bigelow  (Ph.B. 
1887),  died  in  1907. 


Bernard  Joseph  Shanley,  Ph.B.   1881 

Born  March  8,  1859,  in  New  Haven,  Conn. 
Died  May  28,  1917,  in  New  Haven,  Conn. 

Bernard  Joseph  Shanley  was  born  March  8,  1859,  in  New 
Haven,  Conn.,  the  son  of  Bernard  and  Susan  (Morris) 
Shanley.  His  parents,  who  were  born  in  Ireland,  came 
to  this  country  in  1848,  his  father  engaging  in  the  con- 
tracting business  in  New  Haven. 

He  entered  Yale  from  the  Hillhouse  High  School,  taking 
the  select  course  in  the  Scientific  School.  In  the  fall  after 
receiving  his  Ph.B.  he  became  a  student  in  the  Yale  School 
of  Law,  from  which  he  was  graduated  in  1883. 

He  was  admitted  to  the  bar  of  Connecticut  in  June  of 
that  year,  and  immediately  began  the  practice  of  his  pro- 
fession in  New  Haven.  From  1887  to  1889  he  served  as 
city  clerk,  having  been  elected  to  that  office  on  the  Demo- 
cratic ticket.  After  the  completion  of  his  term,  Mr.  Shanley 
took  a  position  as  auditor  in  the  New  Haven  Post  Office, 
resigning  in  1898  to  become  an  auditor  in  the  office  of  the 
city  comptroller.  He  continued  in  this  latter  position  until 
his  death,  which  occurred  in  New  Haven,  May  28,  1917, 
after  a  four  days'  illness  of  pneumonia.  Interment  was  in 
St.  Bernard's  Cemetery. 

Mr.  Shanley  was  a  member  of  St.  Patrick's ^  Roman 
Catholic  Church,  New  Plaven.  He  had  never  married.  He 
is  survived  by  a  brother,  a  sister,  and  two  nieces. 


John  Alpheiis  Allen,  Ph.B.   1883 

Born  October  19,  1863.  in  Hebron,  Maine 
Died  June  5,  1916,  in  Manzanita,  Ore. 

"•John  Alpheus  Allen  was  born  in  Hebron,  Maine,  Octo- 
ber 19,  1863,  being  eighth  in  descent  from  Samuel  Allen, 


1881-1883  453 

who  settled  in  Braintree,  Mass.,  in  1630,  The  latter's 
daughter  married  a  son  of  Miles  Standish ;  his  son,  Samuel, 
settled  in  Bridgewater,  Mass.,  where  the  family  home 
remained  for  many  years,  and  there  became  prominent  in 
town  affairs  and  as  an  officer  in  the  wars  with  the  Indians. 
John  A.  Allen's  parents  were  Oscar  Dana  Allen  (Ph.B. 
1861,  Ph.D.  1871),  professor  of  metallurgy  and  analytical 
chemistry  at  Yale  for  a  number  of  years,  and  Fidelia 
(Totman)  Allen.  His  father  was  the  son  of  Alpheus  and 
Hannah  (Seabury)  Allen,  and  the  grandson  of  Abel  and 
Mary  (Dillingham)  Allen,  who  had  removed  from  Bridge- 
water  to  Auburn,  Maine.  His  mother  was  the  daughter 
of  John  Totman  of  Fairfield,  Maine. 

His  preparatory  training  was  received  at  the  New  Haven 
(Conn.)  High  School.  At  Yale  he  was  given  a  prize  for 
the  best  entrance  examination  and,  in  Junior  year,  prizes 
in  mathematics,  physics,  and  chemistry.  While  an  under- 
graduate he  made  journeys  in  two  of  the  summer  vacations 
to  the  mountains  of  Gaspe  and  to  Labrador  for  the  purpose 
of  obtaining  botanical  specimens.  He  spent  the  year  of 
1883-84  in  graduate  work  in  chemistry  in  the  Scientific 
School. 

He  then  went  to  Washington,  D.  C,  to  take  a  position 
as  assistant  to  the  curator  of  metallurgy  at  the  National 
Museum.  An  attack  of  malarial  fever  caused  him  to  give 
up  this  work  within  a  year  and  to  go  to  California,  where 
he  remained  for  a  short  time.  He  was  then  successively 
employed  as  a  chemist  with  the  Solid  Steel  Company  of 
Alliance,  Ohio,  and  the  Roanoke  Iron  Company  of  Roanoke, 
Va.,  after  which  he  served  as  an  assistant  in  the  Gray 
Herbarium  at  Harvard  University  until  1891.  At  that 
time  his  health  broke  down,  and  for  the  next  eight  years 
he  was  unable  to  engage  in  any  work.  Part  of  this  period 
was  spent  in  Maine  and  the  remainder  in  the  state  of 
Washington.  In  1899  he  became  connected  with  the 
American  Chemical  Company,  a  small  experimental  estab- 
lishment in  Philadelphia,  Pa.,  for  which  he  conducted  a 
number  of  electrolytic  investigations.  He  was  next  em- 
ployed as  a  chemist  by  the  Nungesser  Electric  Battery 
Company  in  Cleveland,  Ohio,  but  in  19 12  on  account  of 
poor  health  went  to  Oregon,  where  he  was  engaged  in  col- 
lecting mollusks  until  his  death.  Ilis  collection  was 
bequeathed  to  the  Portland   (Maine)   Museum  of  Natural 


454  SHEFFIELD    SCIENTIFIC    SCHOOL 

History.  Mr.  Allen  had  written  several  articles  for  the 
Nautilis,  a  conchological  journal,  in  recent  years.  He  was 
the  author  of  "Mosses  of  the  Cascade  Mountains/'  "Tables 
for  Iron  Analysis,"  "A  List  of  the  Botanical  Writings  of 
Sereno  Watson,"  and  "A  Check-hst  of  the  Plants  of  Gray's 
Manual." 

He  was  accidentally  drowned  June  5,  19 16,  at  Manzanita, 
Ore.,  where  he  had  been  living  for  about  a  year.  Burial 
was  in  that  town. 

Mr.  Allen  was  unmarried.  Surviving  him  are  two 
brothers,  one  of  whom,  Grenville  French  Allen,  received 
the  degree  of  Ph.B.  at  Yale  in  1885,  and  is  now  supervisor 
of  the  Mount  Rainier  National  Forest,  with  headquarters 
at  Tacoma,  Wash.  The  other,  Edward  T.  Allen,  was 
trained  as  a  forester,  but  specialized  in  forest  and  lumber 
economics,  and  is  now  acting  in  an  advisory  capacity  with 
the  Council  of  National  Defense  in  Washington. 


Edward  Linsley  Maltby,  Ph.B.   1887 

Born  January  14,  1868,  in  Northford,  Conn. 
Died  September  12,  1916,  in  Northford,  Conn. 

Edward  Linsley  Maltby,  one  of  the  three  sons  of  Henry 
and  Sophia  (Linsley)  Maltby,  was  born  in  Northford, 
Conn.,  January  14,  1868.  His  father,  a  farmer,  who  served 
at  one  time  in  the  Connecticut  State  Legislature,  was  the 
son -of  Henry  and  Ruth  (Hart)  Maltby,  and  a  descendant 
of  William  Maltby,  who  came  to  this  country  from  York- 
shire, England,  in  1670,  settling  at  Branford,  Conn.  An 
ancestor  of  his  mother's,  Aaron  Hall  of  Wallingford,  Conn., 
served  as  a  private  in  the  War  of  181 2. 

He  was  fitted  for  Yale  at  the  Hillhouse  High  School, 
New  Haven,  and  entered  the  Scientific  School  in  1884.  He 
took  the  course  in  dynamical  engineering,  receiving  honor- 
able mention  in  Senior  year. 

Mr.  Maltby  became  connected  with  the  Worthington 
Pump  &  Machinery  Corporation  of  New  York  City  in 
December,  1887.  His  work  was  principally  in  the  erecting 
and  testing  departments  of  the  company,  and  at  different 
times  he  had  charge  of  the  starting  and  testing'of  large 
water    works    pumping    engines    in    various    parts    of    the 


1883-1892  455 

country,  and  was  very  successful.  In  1900  he  resigned  his 
position  with  the  company  to  engage  in  general  engineering 
work.  He  maintained  offices  in  New  York  City  until  the 
fall  of  191 5.  At  that  time  he  developed  tuberculosis  and 
went  to  live  in  his  native  town,  where  his  death  occurred 
September  12,  1916.  Interment  was  in  the  Northford 
Cemetery.    Mr.  Maltby  was  unmarried. 


Harry  Ralston  Quinn,  Ph.B.   1892 

Born  December  23,  1870,  in  Milton,  Vt. 
Died  March  31,  1917,  in  Boston,  Mass. 

Harry  Ralston  Quinn,  son  of  Daniel  Ford  Quinn,  a 
merchant,  and  Augusta  (Cooley)  Quinn,  was  born  in 
Milton,  Vt.,  December  23,  1870.  His  father,  whose  parents 
were  John  and  Nancy  (Martin)  Quinn,  came  to  this  country 
from  the  north  of  Ireland  when  a  small  boy,  and  settled  at 
Colchester,  Vt.  His  mother  was  the  daughter  of  Solomon 
and  Artimicia  (Lee)  Cooley.  She  was  descended  from 
Azariah  Lee  and  from  John  Alden. 

Until  entering  the  Hillhouse  High  School  in  New  Haven, 
Conn.,  to  prepare  for  Yale,  he  lived  in  Milton.  He  pur- 
sued the  course  in  mechanical  engineering  in  the  Scientific 
School  for  three  years. 

He  continued  his  father's  hardware  business  in  Milton 
for  four  years  after  graduating  in  1892,  his  father  having 
died  some  time  before.  Since  1896  he  had  been  connected 
with  the  Rochester  Stamping  Company  of  Rochester,  N.  Y., 
and  lived  in  Boston,  Mass.,  until  his  death.  He  attended 
the  Congregational  Church.  He  died  at  his  home  in  Forest 
Hills,  Boston,  March  31,  1917,  after  an  illness  of  a  week 
due  to  pneumonia.  Interment  was  in  Mount  Hope  Ceme- 
tery, Forest  Hills. 

He  was  married  September  6,  1905,  to  Elizabeth  Faulkner 
of  Boston,  who  survives  him.  They  had  one  son,  Ralston 
Faulkner.    Mr.  Quinn  is  also  survived  by  two  sisters. 


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Howard  Joseph  Haslehurst,  Ph.B.   1893 

Born  July  3,  1872,  in  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 
Died  December  12,  1916,  in  Montreux,  Switzerland 

Howard  Joseph  Haslehurst,  the  son  of  Joseph  and  Mari- 
etta T.  Haslehurst,  was  born  July  3,  1872,  in  Brooklyn, 
N.  Y.  He  entered  Yale  from  the  Brooklyn  Polytechnic 
Institute,  and  took  the  chemistry  course  in  the  Scientific 
School.  He  served  on  the  Graduation  Committee  of  his 
Class. 

Mr.  Haslehurst  entered  the  real  estate  business  in  New 
York  City  after  graduation,  but  for  some  years  the  condi- 
tion of  his  health  had  made  it  impossible  for  him  to  continue 
his  activities  in  that  direction.  The  latter  part  of  his  life 
had  been  spent  abroad,  principally  at  Territet,  Switzerland, 
near  Montreux,  where  he  died,  December  12,  1916.  His 
death  was  due  to  an  attack  of  acute  pneumonia. 

He  was  unmarried.  His  mother,  who  still  makes  her 
home  in  Switzerland,  survives  him. 


Richard  Clough  Anderson,  Ph.B.   1894 

Born  February  22,  1872,  in  Cincinnati,  Ohio 
Died  October  20,  1916,  in  Cincinnati,  Ohio 

Richard  Clough  Anderson  was  born  February  22,  1872, 
in  Cincinnati,  Ohio.  His  father,  Larz  Anderson,  who 
attended  the  Harvard  Law  School  and  was  later  connected 
with  the  firm  of  Anderson  &  Longworth,  was  the  son  of 
Larz  Anderson  (B.A.  Harvard  1822,  M.A.  Harvard  1858) 
and  Catherine  (Longworth)  Anderson.  He  was  a  descend- 
ant of  Robert  Anderson,  who  came  to  this  country  from 
Scotland  in  the  latter  part  of  the  seventeenth  century, 
settling  in  Virginia,  and  whose  grandson,  Robert  Anderson 
(1712-1792),  married  Elizabeth  Clough.  Richard  Clough 
Anderson,  '94  S.,  was  their  great-great-grandson.  His 
great-grandfather,  Richard  Clough  Anderson,  was  aide-de- 
camp to  Lafayette  during  the  Revolution,  and  he  was  a 
grandnephew  of  Gen.  Robert  Anderson,  of  Fort  Sumter, 
and  of  Charles  Anderson,  a  former  governor  of  Ohio. 
Through  his  mother,  Emma  (Mendenhall)  Anderson,  whose 


1893-1894  457 

parents  were  George  and  Elizabeth  Shoemaker  (Maule) 
Mendenhall,  he  traced  his  descent  to  John  Mendenhall,  who 
emigrated  to  America  from  Bath,  England,  with  William 
Penn  in  1682  and  settled  in  Philadelphia.  The  Maule  family- 
is  of  French  origin. 

He  received  his  preparation  for  college  at  Phillips  Acad- 
emy, Andover,  Mass.  Spending  a  year  at  the  Massa- 
chusetts Institute  of  Technology  before  coming  to  Yale, 
he  was  there  a  member  of  the  Freshman  Baseball  Team. 
He  took  the  select  course  in  the  Sheffield  Scientific  School, 
was  vice-president  of  the  Athletic  Association  and  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Athletic  Team  in  1893,  and  served  on  the  Gradua- 
tion Committee. 

After  spending  three  months  abroad  in  the  summer  of 
1894,  he  returned  to  Cincinnati  and  took  a  position  with 
the  American  Book  Company.  Four  years  later  he  left 
their  employ  to  become  general  manager  of  the  Hallwood 
Cash  Register  Company  of  Columbus,  Ohio,  but  in  1900 
resumed  his  connection  with  the  American  Book  Company. 
In  1904  he  became  associated  with  the  banking  and  brok- 
erage firm  of  W.  E.  Hutton  &  Company  of  Cincinnati, 
with  which  he  remained  until  1908.  The  management  of 
the  Anderson  estate  had  occupied  his  attention  for  several 
years  previous  to  his  death.  He  had  been  secretary-treas- 
urer of  the  Franklin  Motor  Car  Company  since  19 13  and 
of  the  Standard  Plastic  Relief  Company  since  1909.  He 
was  also  a  director  of  the  Broadway  &  Newport  Bridge 
Company,  the  Highland  Park  Land  Company,  the  Lynn 
Superior  Company,  and  the  Lawrence  Mendenhall  Com- 
pany, being  vice-president  of  the  last  named.  Mr.  Ander- 
son was  a  member  of  Christ  Episcopal  Church  and  of  a 
number  of  social  organizations  in  Cincinnati.  He  went  to 
the  Philippines,  Japan,  and  China  in  President. Taft's  party 
in  1905.  He  was  active  in  the  work  of  the  Cincinnati 
Yale  Club,  serving  as  one  of  its  vice-presidents  in  191 5-16, 
and  was  chairman  of  the  hospitality  committee  when  the 
Associated  Western  Yale  Clubs  met  in  Cincinnati  a  few 
years  ago.  He  published  a  book  entitled  "Animals  in 
Social  Captivity,"   in  1914,  and  dedicated  it  to  his  Class. 

He  died  at  his  home  in  Cincinnati,  October  20,  1916,  of 
pneumonia,  and  was  buried  in  Spring  Grove  Cemetery.  He 
had  been  ill-  since  the  spring  of  1915,  and  his  death  was 
hastened  by  that  of  his  brother,  George  Mendenhall  Ander- 


458  SHEFFIELD    SCIENTIFIC    SCHOOL 

son,  a  graduate  of  the  Columbia  School  of  Architecture 
and  of  the  Beaux  Arts,  who  died  two  weeks  before  him. 

Mr.  Anderson  was  married  in  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.,  July  9, 
1914,  to  Grace,  daughter  of  the  late  Thomas  S.  Noble,  who 
established  the  Cincinnati  Art  School  and  served  as  its 
head  for  thirty-five  years.  His  wife  survives  him  with- 
out children,  and  he  also  leaves  his  mother.  He  was  a 
brother  of  Robert  Anderson  (Ph.B.  1895,  B.S.  Massa- 
chusetts Institute  of  Technology  1897),  who  died  October 
28,  191 3.  His  cousin,  William  P.  Anderson,  3d,  graduated 
from  the  Scientific  School  in  1916. 


Henry  Hobart  Holly,  Ph.B.   1894 

Born  September  12,  1872,  in  New  York  City 
Died  April  3,  1917,  in  Summit,  N.  J. 

Henry  Hobart  Holly  was  born  in  New  York  City,  Sep- 
tember 12,  1872.  His  father,  Henry  Hobart  Holly,  a 
wholesale  grocer,  was  the  son  of  Edwin  Sellick  and  Mary 
Elizabeth  (Howe)  Holly,  and  a  descendant  of  John  Holly, 
who  came  to  this  country  about  1642  from  England,  settling 
at  Stamford,  Conn.  Many  of  his  paternal  ancestors  fought 
in  the  Revolutionary  War.  His  mother,  Margaret  Ann 
(Carnley)  Holly,  was  the  daughter  of  Robert  and  Fanny 
(Thompson)  Carnley,  and  the  granddaughter  of  Robert 
Carnley,  who  came  from  England  to  New  York  City  before 
1796. 

He  entered  the  Scientific  School  from  the  Columbia 
Grammar  School,  New  York  City.  His  course  was  that  in 
civil  engineering. 

Since  the  fall  of  1894  Mr.  Holly  had  been  engaged  in 
the  practice  of  architecture  in  New  York  City.  He  first 
went  with  the  firm  of  Renwick,  Aspinwall  &  Owen,  and 
for  fourteen  years  afterwards  had  his  office  with  Wil- 
liam W.  Renwick  (M.E.  Stevens  Institute  of  Technology 
1885),  although  they  were  not  in  partnership.  In  1900  he 
received  a  traveling  scholarship  from  Mr.  Renwick,  and 
spent  eight  months  in  England,  France,  and  Italy,  and  for 
a  brief  period  in  1901  he  was  connected  with  the  firm  of 
McKim,  Mead  &  White.  His  work  had  been  principally 
in  churches  and  country  houses. 


1894-1895  459 

Mr.  Holly's  death  occurred  at  his  home  in  Summit,  N.  J., 
April  3,  1917,  after  a  year's  illness.  Burial  was  in  St. 
Andrew's  Cemetery  at  Stamford,  Conn. 

He  had  served  as  a  trustee  of  the  Overlook  Hospital 
Association  of  Summit,  and  was  a  member  of  Calvary 
Episcopal  Church.  At  one  time  he  belonged  to  Company  I, 
Seventh  Regiment,  New  York  National  Guard,  but  resigned 
in  191 1. 

He  was  married  October  20,  1904,  in  New  York  City,  to 
Charlotte  Chapin,  daughter  of  William  Moseley  and  Char- 
lotte Amelia  (Chapin)  Morgan  of  New  York  City.  They 
had  three  children,  Edwin  Morgan,  Henry  Hobart,  Jr., 
and  Elizabeth  Chapin.  The  elder  son  died  in  infancy,  but 
the  other  two,  with  Mrs.  Holly,  survive.  Mr.  Holly  also 
leaves  a  sister. 


John  Armine  Bookwalter,  Ph.B.   1895 

Born  February  6,  1874,  in  Springfield,  Ohio 
Died  February  8,  1917,  in  Springfield,  Ohio 

John  Armine  Bookwalter,  son  of  Francis  Marion  and 
Mary  Elizabeth  (Croft)  Bookwalter,  was  born  in  Spring- 
field, Ohio,  February  6,  1874.  His  father's  parents  were 
David  and  Susan  (VanGundy)  Bookwalter,  and  he  was 
descended  from  Joseph  Bookwalter  of  Berks  County,  Pa., 
whose  ancestors  came  from  Switzerland,  and  from  Samuel 
VanGundy  of  Ross  County,  Ohio,  who  was  of  Dutch 
ancestry.  He  attended  the  University  of  Michigan  from 
1857  to  1859.  His  wife  was  the  daughter  of  Henry  and 
Lena  Jane  (Shartle)  Croft.  Her  ancestors  emigrated  to 
America  from  Germany,  and  settled  at  Botetourt  County, 
Va.,  in  1804  removing  to  Clark  County,  Ohio. 

He  received  his  preparatory  training  at  the  Golden  Hill 
Institute  at  Kingston,  N.  Y.,  and  at  Yale  took  the  mechan- 
ical engineering  course  in  the  Scientific  School. 

Mr.  Bookwalt?er  was  employed  during  the  first  two  years 
after  his  graduation  by  James  Leffel  &  Company,  manu- 
facturers of  turbine  water  wheels,  engines,  etc.,  in  Spring- 
field, a  company  with  which  his  father  has  for  a  long  time 
been  connected.  In  May,  1897,  he  took  a  position  in 
the  auditor's  office  of  the  Oregon  Short  Line  Railroad  at 


460  SHEFFIELD    SCIENTIFIC    SCHOOL 

Salt  Lake  City,  Utah.  A  year  later  he  became  associated 
with  the  firm  of  R.  H.  Officer  &  Company  of  that  city  as 
an  assayer.  He  continued  with  them  until  April,  1900, 
and  then  went  abroad  for  several  months,  on  his  return 
going  to  Holcomb  Valley,  Calif.  There  he  became  engaged 
in  assaying  at  DeLaMar's  Gold  Mountain  Mine.  In  Janu- 
ary, 1 90 1,  he  returned  to  his  native  town,  where  the 
remainder  of  his  life  was  spent.  After  serving  for  ten 
years  as  secretary  of  James  Lefifel  &  Company,  he  was, 
in  January,  191 1,  made  vice-president  and  treasurer  of  the 
company.  Five  years  later  he  succeeded  his  uncle,  the  late 
John  W.  Bookwalter  as  president,  and  held  that  office  until 
his  death  in  Springfield,  February  8,  1917,  after  an  illness 
of  five  days  from  pneumonia.  Interment  was  in  Ferncliff 
Cemetery  in  that  city. 

Mr.  F>ookwalter's  marriage  took  place  December  31,  1899, 
in  Ontario,  Calif.,  to  Eudora  Gwendolyne,  daughter  of 
Joseph  Elder  and  Frances  Gertrude  (McDonald)  HefTel- 
finger.  She  survives  him  with  their  son,  John  Francis.  He 
also  leaves  his  parents  and  a  sister.  Two  cousins  of  Mr. 
Bookwalter  are  graduates  of  Yale,  Alfred  G.  Bookwalter 
being  a  member  of  the  College  Class  of  1897  and  Robert 
Z.  Buchwalter,  of  that  of  1899. 


James  D'Wolf  Cutting,  Ph.B.   1895 

Born  February  14,  1875,  in  New  York  City 
Died  April  17,  1917,  in  New  York  City 

James  D'Wolf  Cutting  was  born  in  New  York  City, 
February  14,  1875,  being  the  only  son  of  Robert  Livingston 
and  Judith  Carter  (Moale)  Cutting.  His  father  graduated 
from  Columbia  in  1856  and  from  the  Harvard  Law  School 
in  1859,  and  then  entered  the  brokerage  business  in  New 
York  City,  succeeding  his  father,  Robert  Livingston  Cut- 
ting, who  was  president  of  the  New  York  Stock  Exchange 
during  the  Civil  War,  as  head  of  the  firm  of  R.  L.,  Cutting 
&  Company.  His  mother's  family  were  residents  of  Balti- 
more, Md. 

He  was  fitted  for  college  at  the  Lawrenceville  (N.  J.) 
School.  He  chose  the  select  course  in  the  Scientific  School, 
and  was  given  honors  in  his  Senior  year. 


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He  became  a  member  of  the  Stock  Exchange  firm  of 
Taylor,  Cutting  &  Company  in  New  York  City  soon  after 
his  graduation.  In  1906  he  formed  the  firm  of  Cutting  & 
Company,  and  remained  as  its  head  until  191 5,  when  he 
retired  from  business.  For  the  past  two  years  he  had 
devoted  himself  to  literature,  music,  and  art,  and  he  had 
become  a  recognized  authority  on  these  subjects.  He  gave 
much  time  to  reading,  and  from  time  to  time  contributed 
articles  to  the  press  on  subjects  of  public  interest.  He 
was  a  director  of  the  Philharmonic  Society.  He  held  the 
swimming  record  between  Newport  and  Narragansett  Pier. 

Mr.  Cutting  died  suddenly  April  ly,  191 7,  at  his  home 
in  New  York  City  from  heart  disease.  He  was  unmarried, 
and  left  no  immediate  relatives. 


Charles  Leonard  Frost  Robinson,  Ph.B.   1895 

Born  July  9,  1874,  in  Sayville,  N.  Y. 
Died  July  6,  1916,  in  Woods  Hole,  Mass. 

Charles  Leonard  Frost  Robinson  was  the  son  of  Frank 
Tracy  and  Ida  May  (Frost)  Robinson,  and  was  born  July 
9,  1874,  at  Sayville,  Long  Island,  N.  Y.  His  great-great- 
grandfather, Lieut.  William  deGroot,  served  with  the  New 
Jersey  State  Battalion  of  Volunteer  Infantry  during  the 
Revolution.  Rev.  Stephen  Steel  (B.A.  17 18)  was  an 
ancestor.  His  father  was  the  son-  of  Francis  Robinson, 
a  non-graduate  member  of  the  College  Class  of  1837,  and 
Anne  LaTourette  (deGroot)  Robinson,  and  a  descendant 
of  Rev.  John  Robinson,  whose  family  came  to  Plymouth, 
Mass.,  from  Leyden  in  1620.  His  mother's  parents  were 
Charles  Leonard  and  Caroline  Augusta  (Bailey)  Frost. 
Her  earliest  American  ancestor  was  John  Alden  of  Plym- 
outh Colony.  After  the  death  of  Mr.  Robinson  in  1898, 
she  was  married  to  Thomas  Albert  Lawton  of  Newport, 
R.  I. 

His  home  dm-ing  his  boyhood  was  in  New  York  City, 
where  he  received  his  preparatory  training  at  the  Halsey 
School.  Entering  Yale  in  1891,  he  was  a  member  of  the 
Class  of  1894  S.,  until  a  Senior,  but  withdrew  in  that  year 
owing  to  illness,  returning  in  the  fall  of  1894  and  complet- 
ing his  course  the  following  June.  He  took  the  chemistry 
course. 


4^2  SHEFFIELD    SCIENTIFIC    SCHOOL 

Soon  after  graduation  Mr.  Robinson  entered  his  father's 
and  grandfather's  firm,  Robinson,  Haydon  &  Company, 
miners  and  shippers  of  coal,  in  New  York.  He  continued 
his  connection  with  that  firm  for  several  years,  and  was 
later  associated  with  Strong,  Sturgis  &  Company.  On 
January  i,  1911,  he  became  president  of  Colt's  Patent  Fire 
Arms  Manufacturing  Company  of  Hartford,  Conn.,  and 
thereafter  gave  the  greater  part  of  his  attention  to  the 
affairs  of  that  company.  He  had  also  served  as  president 
of  the  Catling  Gun  Company  and  the  Maryland  Coal  Com- 
pany, and  as  a  director  of  the  Norwich  &  Westerly  Rail- 
road, the  Shore  Line  Electric  Company,  the  Hartford  Fire 
Insurance  Company,  the  Travelers'  Life  Insurance  Com- 
pany, the  American  Hardware  Corporation  of  New  Britain, 
Conn.,  the  Newport  Trust  Company,  the  Butte  &  Superior 
Copper  Company,  the  Connecticut  Trust  &  Safe  Deposit 
Company,  and  the  Phoenix  National  Bank.  His  summer 
home  was  at  Newport,  R.  I.,  and  there  he  served  on  the 
board  of  Park  Commissioners,  and,  for  five  years,  as  colonel 
of  the  Newport  Artillery  Company.  In  1908  he  was 
appointed  chairman  of  the  State  Republican  Convention, 
and  the  next  year  went  to  Chicago  as  a  delegate  to  the 
Republican  National  Convention.  He  was  a  member 
of  the  Huguenot  Society,  the  Sons  of  the  Revolution, 
the  Sons  of  the  American  Revolution,  the  Descendants 
of  Colonial  Governors,  the  Society  of  Mayflower  Descend- 
ants, the  Society  of  Colonial  Wars,  and  the  Society  of 
the  Cincinnati  in  the  State  of  Rhode  Island  and  Provi- 
dence Plantations,  of  which  latter  he  was  for  many 
years  secretary.  He  belonged  to  many  social  organizations, 
and  was  a  communicant  of  the  Protestant  Episcopal  Church, 
and  a  vestryman  of  the  Church  of  the  Good  Shepherd, 
Hartford.  His  library  was  considered  one  of  the  finest 
in  New  England,  his  Americana  and  naval  histories  being 
well-known. 

Mr.  Robinson  had  long  been  interested  in  yachting. 
While  an  undergraduate  he  organized  the  Yale  Yacht  Club, 
serving  as  its  president.  For  several  years  before  his 
death  he  was  an  active  supporter  of  the  Yale  Navy,  giving 
material  assistance  in  various  way,  in  IQ16  defraying  the 
expenses  of  the  crew's  quarters  on  the  Housatonic.  Some 
trme  ago  he  presented  to  it  the  "John  Hart"  shell,  named 
in  honor  of  the  first  graduate  of  Yale,  who  was  an  ancestor 
of  Mrs.  Robinson.     He  had  made  a  number  of  cruises  in 


i895  463 

his  yacht.  In  1903  he  pubHshed  a  book,  "Twenty  Thousand 
Miles  in  the  Wanderer."  For  three  years  he  was  rear- 
commodore  of  the  New  York  Yacht  Club,  and  he  was  a 
member  of  the  Royal  Thames  Yacht  Club  of  England,  the 
Imperial  Yacht  Club  of  Germany,  the  Royal  Yacht  Club 
of  Belgium,  and  the  Newport  Yacht  Racing  Association. 
He  served  on  the  America's  cup  committee  in  1900,  1901, 
and  1903,  and  was  a  member  of  the  committee  for  the 
ocean  race  for  the  cup  offered  by  the  German  Emperor 
in  1905. 

On  July  6,  1916,  while  aboard  his  yacht,  the  Savarona, 
he  died  suddenly  at  Woods  Hole,  Mass.,  from  heart  disease. 
Interment  was  in  Cedar  Hill  Cemetery  at  Hartford. 

Mr.  Robinson  was  married  June  30,  1896,  in  Hartford, 
to  Elizabeth  Hart  Jarvis,  daughter  of  Cyprian  Nichols  and 
Hetty  Hart  (Jarvis)  Beach  of  Newport,  R.  I.  She  and 
their  three  children — Caldwell  Colt,  the  Class  Boy  of 
1895  S.,  Elizabeth  Alden,  and  Francis — survive  him,  as 
well  as  his  mother  and  an  uncle,  T.  H.  Robinson.  A 
daughter,  Hetty  Hart,  died  in  infancy. 


James  Terry,  Ph.B.   1895 

Born  February  i,  1873,  in  Terryville,  Conn. 
Died  February  3,  1917,  at  Saranac  Lake,  N.  Y. 

James  Terry,  was  the  son  of  Edward  Clinton  Terry 
(Ph.B.  1871)  and  Louise  Ellen  (Webster)  Terry,  and  was 
born  in  Terryville,  Conn.,  February  i,  1873.  His  paternal 
grandparents  were  James  and  Elizabeth  Miles  (Hollister) 
Terry,  and  he  traced  his  descent  to  Samuel  Terry,  who 
came  to  this  country  from  England  in  1650  and  settled  in 
Springfield,  Mass.  His  mother  was  the  daughter  of  Ben- 
jamin Webster.  She  was  descended  from  Gov.  John  Web- 
ster and  the  Goodwin  family. 

Entering  the  Scientific  School  from  the  Hartford  Public 
High  School  of  Hartford,  Conn.,  he  took  the  civil  engi- 
neering course.  He  served  as  vice-president  of  the  Tennis 
Association  in  Senior  year,  and  was  elected  a.  member  of 
the  Class  Cup  Committee. 

Since  graduation  he  had  held  the  position  of  secretary 
and  treasurer  of  the  Phoenix  Brass  Foundry  Company  of 
Hartford.     His  father,  an  engineer  and  inventor  of  note, 


464  SHEFFIELD    SCIENTIFIC    SCHOOL 

had  for  a  long  time  studied  and  experimented  with  low 
speed  steam  turbines,  taking  out  patents  on  certain  funda- 
mental principles,  and  in  1906  formed  the  Terry  Steam 
Turbine  Company.  The  company  had  been  in  operation 
in  the  first  plant  for  two  years,  and  had  completed  plans 
for  new  buildings  and  machinery  when  he  died,  and  the 
responsibility  of  carrying  on  the  work  devolved  upon  James 
Terry,  who  became  its  president  and  treasurer.  Through 
his  efforts  the  company  had  developed  rapidly  until  at  the 
present  time  it  ranks  first  in  the  production  of  its  type  of 
machine.  Since  his  father's  death  he  had  also  been  secre- 
tary and  manager  of  the  Farmington  River  Power  Com- 
pany, one  of  the  first  water  power  companies  in  the  country 
organized  for  developing  electric  power  for  long-distance 
use.  He  was  a  Democrat  in  politics,  and  from  1902  to 
1904  served  as  a  member  of  the  Hartford  Common  Council, 
He  was  a  candidate  for  alderman  some  years  ago,  but 
did  not  receive  election.  He  won  the  tennis  doubles  cham- 
pionship of  New  England  in  1902  with  Frank  E.  Howard, 
and  the  singles  championship  the  following  year.  He  was 
a  member  of  the  Asylum  Hill  Congregational  Church  of 
Hartford. 

Mr.  Terry  had  suft"ered  from  tuberculosis  since  191 3,  and 
had  thereafter  been  compelled  to  spend  part  of  each  year 
at  Saranac  Lake,  although  continuing  his  business  activities 
until  the  end.  His  death  occurred  February  3,  191 7,  at 
Saranac  Lake,  and  he  was  buried  in  Cedar  Hill  Cemetery 
in  Hartford. 

His  marriage  took  place  in  that  city,  November  9,  1904, 
to  Leontine  Mc Arthur,  daughter  of  James  M.  and  Cornelia 
C.  (Hotchkiss)  Thomson.  They  had  two  children,  Edward 
Clinton,  2d,  who  died  in  infancy,  and  Leontine  Hotchkiss. 
In  addition  to  his  wife  and  daughter,  Mr.  Terry  is  survived 
by  his  mother. 

John  McGtififey  Barnett,  Ph.B.   1896 

Born  October  28,  1874,  in  Dayton,  Ohio 
Died  January  4,  1917,  in  Denver,  Colo. 

John  McGuffey  Barnett  was  born  in  Dayton,  Ohio,  Octo- 
ber 28,  1874,  the  son  of  William  A.  and  Laura  Theresa 
(Easton)  Barnett.    His  father,  a  dealer  in  municipal  bonds, 


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was  descended  from  John  Barnett,  who  came  to  this 
country  from  Ireland  and  was  an  officer  in  the  Revolu- 
tionary War.  John  McGuffey  Barnett's  grandparents  were 
John  M.  and  Juliet  Barnett.  His  mother,  who  was  the 
daughter  of  Eliphalet  and  Mary  (Kemper)  Easton,  traced 
her  ancestry  to  the  Kemper  family  who  settled  in  Virginia, 
having  come  to  America  from  Miisen,  Germany,  in  171 3. 

He  took  the  course  in  mechanical  engineering  in  the 
Sheffield  Scientific  School,  which  he  had  entered  from  the 
Deaver  Collegiate  Institute  in  Dayton. 

After  his  graduation  he  returned  to  Dayton,  and  spent 
a  year  with  the  Stoddard  Manufacturing  Company  as  an 
expert  machinist.  Later  he  was  connected  with  the 
Thresher  Electrical  Company  of  Dayton,  leaving  their 
employ  in  1904,  to  take  a  position  with  the  Santa  Fe  Rail- 
road. Shortly  afterwards  he  became  a  special  representa- 
tive of  the  Macbeth-Evans  Glass  Company  of  Pittsburgh, 
and  had  since  traveled  all  over  the  United  States  in  their 
interests. 

In  July,  191 5,  he  was  taken  ill  in  Baltimore,  and,  while 
he  soon  took  up  his  Avork  again,  he  never  regained  normal 
health.  In  the  summer  of  1916  after  attending  the  Vicen- 
nial Reunion  of  his  Class,  he  started  on  a  business  trip 
to  the  Pacific  coast,  although  at  great  cost  to  himself.  On 
September  i  he  stopped  in  Denver,  where  his  brother  and 
sister  were  living,  and  was  never  able  to  leave  that  city, 
his  death  occurring  on  January  4,  1917,  as  the  result  of 
valvular  heart  trouble.  His  body  was  taken  to  Dayton  for 
burial  in  Woodland  Cemetery. 

Mr.  Barnett  was  a  member  of  the  First  Presbyterian 
Church  of  Dayton.  He  was  unmarried.  Surviving  him 
are  a  brother  and  two  sisters. 


Frederick  Chaffee  Thrall,  Ph.B.   1896 

Born  June  17,  1875,  in  Omaha,  Nebr. 
Died  February  20,  1917,  in  Walkerville,  Ont,  Canada 

Frederick  Chaffee  Thrall,  whose  parents  were  George 
and  Jessie  Eliza  (Clarkson)  Thrall,  was  born  in  Omaha, 
Nebr.,  June  17,  1875.  His  father  was  the  son  of  Reuben 
Rose  Thrall,  a  soldier  of  the  War  of  181 2,  and  Elizabeth 
(Gove)  Thrall,  and  a  descendant  of  William  Thrall,  who 


466  SHEFFIELD    SCIENTIFIC    SCHOOL 

came  to  America  from  England.  He  settled  at  Windsor, 
Conn.,  as  early  as  1636,  and  served  in  the  Pequot  War  in 
1637.  His  son,  Samuel,  fought  in  both  the  French  and 
Indian  Wars  and  the  Revolution,  holding  various  commis- 
sions, and  was  a  member  of  the  Massachusetts  Legislature 
in  1788.  Jesse  Thrall,  son  of  Samuel,  served  in  his  father's 
company  in  the  Revolution;  he  was  the  grandfather  of 
Frederick  C.  Thrall.  The  latter's  maternal  grandparents 
were  George  Graeme  Clarkson,  a  native  of  Edinburgh, 
Scotland,  and  Mary  (Parsells)  Clarkson.  Through  his 
mother,  he  was  descended  from  Johannes  Blauvelt,  who 
came  to  this  country  from  Holland  and  was  one  of  the 
sixteen  land  purchasers  of  Hackensack,  N.  J.  An  ancestor, 
Hezekiah  Kilborn,  was  graduated  from  Yale  College  in 
1720,  and  another,  William  Paine,  who  came  to  Boston, 
from  England,  in  1635,  is  referred  to  in  a  family  genealogy 
as  "a  hberal  patron  of  the  college  at  Cambridge — helping 
during  his  life  to  endow  it  and  making  a  devise  to  it  by  his 
will." 

His  preparatory  training  was  received  at  Phillips  Acad- 
emy, Andover,  Mass.  He  took  the  select  course  in  the 
Scientific  School,  and  was  a  member  of  the  Athletic  Team 
for  three  years. 

Soon  after  graduation  from  Yale  he  entered  the  employ 
of  the  Detroit  Screw  Works,  a  manufacturing  company 
organized  by  his  father  and  grandfather  at  Detroit,  and 
which  is  now  a  subsidiary  of  the  Standard  Screw  Company. 
In  1905  he  was  made  sales  manager  of  the  Chicago  Screw 
Company,  shortly  afterwards  being  transferred  to  Elyria, 
Ohio.  He  held  the  position  of  treasurer  and  sales  man- 
ager of  the  Western  Automatic  Machine  Screw  Company 
in  Elyria  until  191 1,  when  he  returned  to  the  Detroit  Screw 
Works  as  sales  manager.  In  1913  he  resigned  that  posi- 
tion, and  was  instrumental  in  starting  the  Wilt  Twist  Drill 
Company  of  Canada,  Ltd.,  at  Walkerville,  Ontario.  He 
had  since  served  as  sales  manager  of  this  company.  His 
energies  had  been  chiefly  spent  in  building  up  the  business, 
which  had  met  with  success  in  spite  of  the  adverse  business 
conditions  in  Canada  since  1912.  Mr.  Thrall  was  a  mem- 
ber of  St.  Mary's  Church  (Protestant  Episcopal)  of 
Walkerville. 

He  died  at  his  home  in  that  city,  February  20,  1917,  and 
was   buried   in    Elmwood    Cemetery,   Detroit.      His    death 


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followed  a  long  illness  of  neuritis  and  pleurisy,  undoubtedly 
due  to  overwork. 

Mr.  Thrall  was  married  in  Detroit,  September  13,  1904, 
to  Rachel,  daughter  of  George  and  Harriet  P.  (Mallory) 
Hutchinson.  Mrs.  Thrall,  who  was  a  non-graduate  member 
of  the  Smith  Class  of  1902,  survives  her  husband  with  a 
daughter,  Barbara.  He  also  leaves  a  sister  and  a  brother, 
George  Clarkson  Thrall  (Ph.B.  1898). 


James  Harper  Bryson,  Ph.B.   1897 

Born  August  24,  1876,  in  St.  Louis,  Mo. 
Died  June  22,  1914,  in  Wauwatosa,  Wis. 

James  Harper  Bryson  was  born  August  24,  1876,  in 
St.  Louis,  Mo.  His  father.  Dr.  John  Paul  Bryson,  prac- 
ticed as  a  surgeon  in  St.  Louis  until  his  death  in  1903. 
Dr.  Bryson  was  the  son  of  James  and  Eliza  (Banks)  Bry- 
son, and  the  grandson  of  John  Bryson,  a  native  of  Prim- 
rose Mount,  County  Antrim,  Ireland,  and  Eleanor  (Camp- 
bell) Bryson,  who  was  born  in  the  city  of  Antrim.  His 
wife,  the  mother  of  James  H.  Bryson,  was  Mary  Stirling, 
daughter  of  William  Drew  Winter  (B.A.  Harvard  1839) 
and  Sarah  (Stirling)  Winter,  and  a  descendant  of  Capt. 
Samuel  Winter  and  Sarah  (Bowman)  Winter  of  Bath, 
Maine.^ 

His  preparatory  training  was  received  at  the  St.  Louis 
University  School  and  at  Mr.  King's  school  in  Stamford, 
Conn.  He  spent  three  years  at  Yale,  taking  the  select 
course  in  the  Scientific  School  and  receiving  an  appoint- 
ment at  his  graduation  in  1897. 

In  1899,  after  two  years  spent  in  the  study  of  law  at 
Washington  University  in  St.  Louis,  he  was  given  the 
degree  of  LL.B.  at  that  institution.  He  was  admitted  to 
the  bar  of  Missouri  in  1897.  In  1901  he  became  a  member 
of  the  firm  of  Fowler  &  Bryson  of  St.  Louis,  his  partner 
being  Mr.  A.  C.  Fowler.  This  firm  made  a  specialty  of 
patent,  trade  mark,  and  copyright  law. 

In  1907  Mr.  Bryson  was  compelled  to  retire  from  prac- 
tice, as  it  was  found  that  he  was  suffering  from  paresis, 
of  which  he  died  in  the  Milwaukee  Sanitarium  at  Wau- 
watosa, Wis.,  June  22,   1914.     Interment  was  in   Calvary 


4^8  SHEFFIELD    SCIENTIFIC    SCHOOL 

Cemetery,  St.  Louis.  Mr.  Bryson,  who  was  unmarried,  is 
survived  by  a  sister.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Roman 
CathoHc  Church  of  St.  Francis  Xavier  of  St.  Louis. 


Ward  Slosson  Gregory,  Ph.B.   1899 

Born  April  2,  1879,  in  Norwalk,  Conn. 
Died  January  14,  1917,  at  Colorado  Springs,  Colo. 

Ward  Slosson  Gregory  was  born  in  Norwalk,  Conn., 
April  2,  1879,  his  father  being  James  Glynn  Gregory,  a 
graduate  of  Yale  College  in  1865  and  of  the  College  of 
Physicians  and  Surgeons  at  Columbia  in  1868.  Dr.  Greg- 
ory still  practices  in  Norwalk.  His  parents  were  Ira 
Gregory  (M.D.  1829),  also  for  a  long  time  a  physician  in 
that  town,  which  he  represented  in  the  Connecticut  State 
Legislature  in  1853,  and  Frances  Augusta  Gregory.  He 
traced  his  descent  to  John  Gregory,  lord  of  the  manors 
of  Frisby  and  Ashfordby,  England,  whose  son,  Henry,  came 
to  Springfield,  Mass.,  in  1639,  later  removing  to  Stratford, 
Conn.  John  Gregory,  the  latter's  son,  was  one  of  the 
founders  of  Norwalk,  and  Jabez  Gregory,  his  great-grand- 
son, served  as  captain  of  the  Ninth  Connecticut  Company . 
in  the  Revolution.  Ward  S.  Gregory's  mother  was  Jean- 
nette  Linsley,  daughter  of  Timothy  Stone  Pinneo,  who 
received  the  degree  of  B.A.  from  Yale  in  1824  and  that 
of  M.D.  from  the  Ohio  Medical  College  in  1843,  and 
Jeannette  (Linsley)  Pinneo,  the  latter's  father  being  Rev. 
Joel  Harvey  Linsley,  D.D.,  a  graduate  of  Middlebury  Col- 
lege in  181 1,  who  served  as  president  of  Marietta  College 
from  1836  to  1846.  Her  paternal  grandparents  were  Rev. 
Bezaleel  Pinneo  (B.A.  Dartmouth  1791,  Honorary  M.A. 
Yale  and  Dartmouth  1798)  and  Mary  (Stone)  Pinneo.  Her 
great-grandfather,  Rev.  Timothy  Stone,  the  son  of  Deacon 
Timothy  Stone  of  Guilford,  Conn.,  who  served  as  a  colonel 
in  the  Revolution,  and  grandson  of  Nathaniel  Stone,  who 
was  a  lieutenant  in  the  Militia  in  1702  and  a  deputy  to 
the  General  Court  that  same  year,  graduated  frorn  Yale  in 
1763;  he  married  Eunice,  daughter  of  Solomon  Williams 
(B.A.  Harvard  1719,  D.D.  Yale  1773),  and  sister  of  Wil- 
liam Williams  (B.A.  Harvard  1751,  Honorary  M.A.  Yale 
T753),    a    signer    of    the    Declaration    of    Independence. 


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Among  her  ancestors  was  Dr.  Comfort  Starr,  who  came 
to  America  from  Cranbrook,  Kent,  England,  in  1635, 
settling  at  Cambridge,  Mass. 

Before  entering  Yale  in  1896,  he  attended  the  Harstrom 
School  in  Norwalk.  He  took  the  chemistry  course  in  the 
Sheffield  Scientific  School,  and  the  four  years  immediately 
following  his  graduation  were  spent  in  the  study  of  medicine 
at  Columbia.  On  taking  his  degree  there  in  1903,  he  was 
given  one  of  the  Harsen  prizes. 

Dr.  Gregory  was  a  member  of  the  house  staff  of  St. 
Luke's  Hospital  in  New  York  City  from  June,  1903,  to 
January,  1905,  after  which  he  served  for  three  months  as 
an  interne  at  the  Sloane  Maternity  Hospital.  He  went 
abroad  in  1905,  and  spent  several  months  in  study  in  Italy 
and  France.  Upon  his  return  to  this  country,  he  became 
associated  with  his  father  in  practice  in  Norwalk,  and  with 
the  exception  of  the  year  of  1907-08,  which  he  spent  in 
the  Adirondacks  for  his  health,  was  actively  engaged  in 
his  profession  in  that  city  until  June,  191 5.  He  served  as 
attending  surgeon  to  the  Norwalk  Hospital  from  1906  to 
191 5,  and  was  for  three  years  assistant  surgeon  in  the 
Connecticut  Naval  Militia.  Dr.  Gregory  was  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Fairfield  County  Medical  Association,  the  Con- 
necticut Medical  Society,  and  the  American  Medical 
Association. 

His  health  first  began  to  fail  about  1906,  but  after  spend- 
ing a  year  in  the  mountains  his  condition  was  greatly 
improved.  In  19 13  he  went  to  South  America  on  Com- 
modore E.  C.  Benedict's  yacht,  as  surgeon  of  the  party. 
It  was  hoped  that  this  cruise  would  restore  his  health,  but, 
unfortunately,  it  did  not  effect  a  complete  cure,  and  in 
June,  191 5,  Dr.  Gregory  went  to  Colorado  Springs,  Colo., 
where  his  death  occurred  January  14,  1917,  from  pulmonary 
tuberculosis.  His  body  was  cremated  and  the  ashes  interred 
at  Norwalk. 

Dr.  Gregory  was  not  married.  He  is  survived  by  his 
parents  and  two  sisters,  one  of  whom,  Jean  L.  Gregory, 
now  the  wife  of  Flomer  M.  Byington,  the  United  States 
consul  at  FIull,  England,  graduated  from  Wellesley  in 
1902. 


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Chaloner  Baker  Schley,  Ph.B.   1900 

Born  October  21,  1878,  in  New  York  City 
Died  February  17,  1917,  at  Colorado  Springs,  Colo. 

Chaloner  Baker  Schley,  whose  parents  were  Grant 
Barney  and  Martha  Elizabeth  (Baker)  Schley,  was  born 
October  21,  1878,  in  New  York  City,  where  his  father  is 
still  engaged  in  the  banking  business  as  head  of  the  firm 
of  Moore  &  Schley.  The  latter  was  the  son  of  Evander  S. 
and  Olive  (Higby)  Schley.  His  wife  was  the  daughter 
of  George  E.  and  Evelyn  (Stevens)  Baker. 

Their  son  was  fitted  for  Yale  at  St.  Paul's  School,  Con- 
cord, N.  H.,  and  entered  the  Sheffield  Scientific  School  as 
a  member  of  the  Class  of  1899.  He  joined  the  Class  with 
which  he  was  graduated  in  Junior  year.  He  took  the 
select  course. 

In  the  fall  of  1900  he  entered  the  Columbia  Law  School 
with  the  intention  of  completing  his  course  and  then  prac- 
ticing in  New  York  City.  It  was  found  in  September  of 
the  following  year  that  his  lungs  were  seriously  affected 
and  that  it  would  be  necessary  for  him  to  live  in  a  drier 
climate  than  that  of  New  York.  Consequently  he  took 
up  his  residence  at  Colorado  Springs,  Colo.,  where  he 
became  prominent  in  civic  affairs,  being  a  member  of 
various  charitable  boards.  In  1905  he  organized  the  Denver 
Rock  Drill  &  Machinery  Company,  and  became  its  presi- 
dent. This  company  prospered  from  the  outset,  and  is  now 
one  of  the  largest  makers  and  sellers  of  compressed  air 
drills  for  mining  purposes  in  the  United  States.  During 
the  past  three  years  most  of  Mr.  Schley's  time  had  been 
devoted  to  developing  the  Trinchera  Ranch  in  southwestern 
Colorado. 

His  death  occurred  at  Colorado  Springs,  February  17, 
191 7,  of  the  disease  from  which  he  had  suffered  for  so  long 
a  time.     Interment  was  in  Kensico  Cemetery. 

On  June  30,  1905,  Mr.  Schley  was  married  at  Colorado 
Springs,  to  Mrs.  Edith  (Turner)  Daniels,  daughter  of 
Major  Emory  Turner.  She  survives  him  with  three  chil- 
dren, Grant  Barney,  2d,  Turner,  and  Chaloner  Baker,  Jr. 
Mr.  Schley  also  leaves  his  father,  three  brothers,- — Grant 
Barney  Schley,  Jr.,  a  member  of  the  Columbia  Class  of 
1902,  and  Kenneth  Baker  Schley  and  Evander  Baker 
Schley,  graduates  of  the  Scientific  School  in  1902  and  1904, 


1900-1904  47 1 

respectively, — and  a  sister,  the  wife  of  Max  H.  Behr  (Ph.B. 
1905).  His  cousin,  Reeve  Schley,  received  the  degree  of 
B.A.  at  Yale  in  1903  and  that  of  LL.B.  at  Columbia  in 
1906. 


Joseph  Curtis,  Ph.B.   1904 

Born  November  20,  1881,  in  Rochester,  N.  Y. 
Died  March  4,  1917,  in  Rochester,  N.  Y. 

Joseph  Curtis,  son  of  Eugene  Thompson  Curtis  (B.A. 
Williams  1864),  who  served  as  captain  of  the  Sixteenth 
New  York  Heavy  Artillery  during  the  Civil  War,  and 
Sarah  L.  (Thompson)  Curtis,  was  born  in  Rochester,  N.  Y., 
November  20,  1881.  Plis  father  was  the  son  of  Joseph 
Curtis,  the  founder  of  the  Rochester  Union  and  Advertiser, 
and  Elizabeth  (Gurney)  Curtis.  His  maternal  grandpar- 
ents were  Nathaniel  and  Julia  (Harvey)  Thompson,  the 
latter  being  a  descendant  of  John  Harvey. 

He  received  his  preparatory  training  at  the  Bradstreet 
School  in  Rochester  and  at  the  Hotchkiss  School  at  Lake- 
ville.  Conn.  In  the  Scientific  School  he  took  the  select 
course,  and,  in  his  Freshman  year,  was  a  member  of  the 
Class  Golf  Team.  He  w^as  chairman  of  the  Class  Book 
historians  in  Senior  year. 

His  entire  life  since  graduation  had  been  spent  in 
Rochester.  In  October,  1904,  he  joined  the  staff  of  the 
Union  and  Advertiser  as  a  reporter.  He  showed  a  remark- 
able aptitude  for  newspaper  work,  and  in  April,  1909,  was 
made  city  editor,  a  position  which  he  held  up  to  the  time 
of  his  death.  He  had  been  elected  a  trustee  of  the  company 
publishing  the  Union  and  Advertiser  in  January,  1906,  and 
since  1910  had  also  held  the  office  of  vice-president.  Mr. 
Curtis  was  a  member  of  the  Third  Presbyterian  Church 
of  Rochester. 

His  death  on  March  4,  191 7,  came  at  the  end  of  a  four 
years'  illness,  half  of  which  time  he  had  spent  in  bed.  He 
was  buried  in  Mount  Hope  Cemetery  in  Rochester. 

He  was  married  October  24,  1907,  in  Rochester,  to  Grace 
Evelyn,  daughter  of  Charles  Seymour  and  Katharine 
(Peck)  Hastings.  They  had  two  children,  Joseph,  3d, 
who  died  in  early  infancy,  and  Kathleen  Hastings.  In 
addition  to  his  wife  and  daughter,  Mr.  Curtis  is  survived 
by  his  mother  and  a  brother. 


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John  Bingham  Naething,  Ph.B.   1904 

Born  August  25,  1884,  in  New  York  City 
Died  May  17,  1917,  in  Los  Angeles,  Calif. 

John  Bingham  Naething  was  born  August  25,  1884,  in 
New  York  City,  the  son  of  Charles  Frederick  and  Mary 
Louise  (Bingham)  Naething.  His  great-grandfather,  Syl- 
vanus  Hayward,  and  his  great-great-grandfather,  Peter 
Hayward,  both  fought  at  the  battle  of  Bunker  Hill.  He 
was  also  a  descendant  of  Pierre  Fauconnier,  collector- 
general  for  the  port  of  New  York  from  1702  until  1707. 

He  attended  Columbia  Institute  and  the  Groff  School  in 
New  York  City  before  entering  the  Scientific  School  in 
1901.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Sheffield  Debating  Team 
and  the  Water  Polo  Team,  and  in  Senior  year  served  as 
business  manager  of  the  Scientific  Monthly. 

Mr.  Naething  began  the  study  of  law  at  Columbia  in 
the  autumn  of  1905.  He  spent  a  year  there,  being  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Football  and  Track  teams,  and  continued  his 
work  during  1906-07  at  the  New  York  Law  School.  He 
was  admitted  to  the  New  York  Bar  in  April,  1907,  but 
had  never  followed  the  profession  of  a  lawyer.  In  1907 
he  became  assistant  manager  for  the  banking  and  brokerage 
firm  of  Charles  A.  Morse  &  Company  in  New  York,  in 
which  capacity  he  served  for  three  years.  His  father 
became  ill  in  1910,  and  from  then  until  the  latter's  death 
in  19 1 3  Mr.  Naething  was  engaged  in  the  management  of 
his  affairs.  He  went  to  Europe  for  six  months  in  1913, 
and  upon  his  return  cruised  along  the  Atlantic  Coast  in 
an  auxiliary  yawl  for  a  similar  period.  In  1914  he  went 
to  El  Paso,  Texas,  where  he  purchased  a  ranch  which  he 
ran  for  two  years.  In  1916  he  removed  to  California,  and 
until  the  time  of  his  death  was  engaged  in  mining  with 
his  brother,  their  interests  being  in  that  state  and  in 
Arizona. 

While  living  in  the  East,  Mr.  Naething  played  on  the 
Englewood  Golf  Team,  and  was  a  member  of  the  team 
which  won  the  New  Jersey  State  Championship  in  .1913. 
He  held  the  heavy-weight  wrestling  championship  of  the 
New  York  Athletic  Club  for  several  years,  and  won  the 
dub  handball  championship  in  191 3  and  the  golf  champion- 
ship in  1914.    He  was  a  member  of  the  New  York  Athletic 


1904  473 

Club  Water  Polo  Team  for  five  years,  during  which  period 
they  won  five  American  championships  and  an  Olympic 
championship. 

His  death  occurred  May  17,  1917,  in  Los  Angeles,  Calif., 
of  pneumonia,  after  an  illness  of  seven  weeks.  He  was 
buried  in  Woodlawn  Cemetery,  New  York. 

Mr,  Naething  was  married  September  6,  1909,  at  Ridge- 
field  Park,  N.  Y.,  to  Josie  Ruth,  daughter  of  Edwin  Morris 
and  Josie  Kendall  (Smith)  Barnes,  and  sister  of  E.  Morti- 
mer Barnes  (Ph.B.  1904).  They  were  later  divorced,  and 
in  191 3  Mr.  Naething  married  Madeline  Dryer,  who  sur- 
vives him.  He  also  leaves  a  sister  and  a  brother,  Foster 
Stebbings  Naething,  who  was  graduated  from  the  Scientific 
School  in  1907. 


Robert  Emmet  Sheldon,  Jr.,  Ph.B.   1904 

Born  April  12,  1883,  in  Columbus,  Ohio 
Died  April  18,  1917,  in  Lexington,  Ky. 

Robert  Emmet  vSheldon,  Jr.,  was  born  April  12,  1883, 
in  Columbus,  Ohio,  the  son  of  Robert  Emmet  and  Mary 
Elizabeth  (Butler)  Sheldon.  His  father,  who  served  in 
the  Civil  War  with  the  One  Hundred  and  Thirty-third  Ohio 
Volunteer  Lifantry,  was  a  pioneer  in  the  wholesale  dry 
goods  business  in  Columbus,  and  was  also  president  of 
the  Columbus  Railway  &  Light  Company  for  fifteen  years. 

He  received  his  preparatory  training  at  the  Columbus 
Central  High  School  and  at  the  Columbus  University 
School,  and  in  1900  entered  Ohio  State  University,  spend- 
ing one  year  there  and  being  a  member  of  the  Foot- 
ball Team  and  the  Mandolin  Club.  In  1901  he  became 
a  Freshman  in  the  Sheffield  Scientific  School.  He  took  the 
select  course,  and  was  a  member  of  the  Freshman  Football 
and  Crew  Squads,  the  Class  Crew,  and  the  Apollo  and 
University  Banjo  and  Mandolin  clubs. 

He  returned  to  Columbus  immediately  after  graduation, 
and  entered  the  employ  of  his  father's  firm,  the  Sheldon 
Dry  Goods  Company.  He  was  made  secretary  and  buyer 
of  the  company  in  January,  1905,  serving  in  that  capacity 
until  the  dissolution  of  the  firm  in  April,  191 5.  For  six 
years  Mr.  Sheldon  was  a  director  of  the  Jobbers  Associa- 


474  SHEFFIELD    SCIENTIFIC    SCHOOL 

tion  of  Dress  Fabric  Buyers,  being  president  of  the  organi- 
zation from  1913  to  1915,  and  he  was  also  a  director  of  the 
Manufacturers  and  Jobbers  Association  of  Columbus  for 
three  years,  holding  office  as  treasurer  in  1914.  He  had 
written  a  few  articles  for  trade  journals,  and  was  president 
of  the  Ohio  Savings  Company  during  1908-09.  He  joined 
the  Fourth  Infantry  Ohio  National  Guard  in  19 13,  in 
March  of  that  year  receiving  a  commission  as  second  lieu- 
tenant, battalion  quartermaster  commissary.  He  had  served 
as  secretary  and  a  director  of  the  Franklin  County  Council 
of  the  Boy  Scouts  of  America,  and  at  one  time  was  vice- 
president  and  a  director  of  the  Columbus  Athletic  Club. 
He  was  a  member  of  the  Presbyterian  Church. 

Two  years  ago  Mr.  Sheldon  became  connected  with  Bird 
&  Company  of  New  York  City  as  salesman,  and  was 
located  in  that  city  until  early  in  191 7,  when  he  removed 
to  Lexington,  Ky.  He  died  there  April  18,  1917,  after  a 
week's  illness  due  to  ursemic  poisoning.  His  body  was 
taken  to  Columbus  for  burial  in  Green  Lawn  Cemetery. 

He  was  married  May  10,  1906,  in  Columbus,  to  Ruth  Mar- 
garet, daughter  of  Samuel  Harden  Church  (Litt.D.  Pitts- 
burgh 1895,  Honorary  M.A,  Bethany  1896  and  Yale  1897, 
LL.D.  Pittsburgh  1909)  and  Margaret  (Joyce)  Church. 
Two  children,  Margaret  Ruth  and  Robert  Emmet,  Jr.,  were 
born  to  them.  Mr.  Sheldon  is  survived  by  his  wife,  two 
children,  three  sisters,  and  two  brothers.  His  nephew, 
Prescott  Sheldon  Bush,  graduated  from  the  College  in  1917. 


Gilmore  Kinney,  Jr.,  Ph.B.   1907 

Born  June  9,  1886,  in  Ness  City,  Kans. 
Died  December  15,  1916,  in  New  York  City 

Gilmore  Kinney,  Jr.,  was  born  June  9,  1886,  at  Ness 
City,  Kans.,  being  one  of  the  seven  children  of  Gilmore 
and  Celia  A.  (Osborne)  Kinney.  Through  his  father,  a 
contractor,  whose  parents  were  Orson  A.  and  Julia  E. 
(Greenman)  Kinney,  he  was  descended  from  Llehry  Kin- 
ney, who  was  born  in  Holland  in  1624,  came  to  this  country 
in  1635,  and  settled  at  Salem,  Mass.  His  mother  was  also 
of  New  England  stock.  She  was  the  daughter  of  Benjamin 
L  and  Clarine  (Kellogg)  Osborne. 


1904-1907  475 

His  parents  moved  from  Ness  City  to  Kansas  City  in 
1889,  two  years  later  taking  up  their  residence  at  Yonkers, 
N.  Y.  In  1896  the  family  removed  to  Weehawken,  N.  J., 
where  they  are  now  living.  Gilmore  Kinney,  Jr.,  was  grad- 
uated from  the  Union  Hill  (N.  J.)  High  School,  and  then 
spent  two  years  at  Phillips-Andover,  from  which  he  entered 
Yale.  He  took  the  course  in  electrical  engineering  in  the 
Scientific  School,  w^as  vice-president  of  the  Freshman  Base- 
ball Association,  and  played  on  the  University  Baseball 
Team  for  three  years,  being  its  captain  in  1907.  He  won 
the  fall  tennis  tournament  in  Freshman  year,  and  was  a 
member  of  the  University  Basketball  Team  that  year  and 
again  as  a  Senior.  He  served  on  the  Sheffield  Senior 
Advisory  Committee. 

After  spending  a  short  time  at  home  following  his  gradu- 
ation, he  entered  the  employ  of  Kuhn  Brothers  of  Pitts- 
burgh, Pa.,  a  firm  interested  in  Idaho  irrigation  work.  In 
January,  1908,  he  went  to  Idaho  to  engage  in  engineering, 
and  about  a  year  later  formed  a  partnership  with  Mr.  W.  S. 
Owens  for  the  practice  of  civil  engineering,  being  located 
at  Jerome,  Idaho.  In  February,  19 10,  he  went  to  a  newly- 
opened  mining  camp  at  Jarbridge,  Idaho,  and  soon  became 
interested  in  the  organization  of  the  Jarbridge  Pavlak 
Mining  Company,  formed  to  develop  the  Pavlak  group  of 
claims.  In  March,  191 1,  he  was  one  of  the  organizers  of 
the  mining  brokerage  firm  of  Brunn,  Kinney  &  Company, 
with  offices  at  Twin  Falls  and  Jarbridge.  In  August,  191 1, 
he  came  East  as  far  as  Bowling  Green,  Ohio,  to  be  married, 
returning  with  his  wife  to  Idaho,  where  they  resided  at 
Twin  Falls  until  April,  1912,  when  the  firm  of  Brunn, 
Kinney  &  Company  was  dissolved  and  Mr.  Kinney  came 
East  to  New  York  to  live.  He  worked  in  various  capaci- 
ties for  a  short  time,  and  finally  accepted  a  position  with 
the  Nucoa  Butter  Company  of  Bayonne,  N.  J.,  where 
he  proved  his  value  by  reconstructing  an  immense  plant 
and  installing  machinery  to  manufacture  a  new  food  prod- 
uct called  "nut  margerine."  He  continued  to  advance, 
and  shortly  before  his  death  had  been  promoted  to  a 
responsible  executive  position  with  the  company. 

Always  fond  of  and  proficient  in  athletics,  Mr.  Kinney, 
after  his  return  to  New  York,  continued  to  play  baseball, 
being  associated  with  the  Englewood  team  of  the  Amateur 
League  and  later  with  the  Crescent  Athletic  Club  of  Brook- 


47^  SHEFFIELD    SCIENTIFIC    SCHOOL 

lyii.  In  19 1 6  he  moved  to  Forest  Hills,  Long  Island,  where 
he  played  on  the  Forest  Hills  Gardens  team  of  the  same 
league.  In  the  winter  of  1914  he  was  asked  to  take  charge 
of  the  University  basketball  affairs.  He  had  given  unspar- 
ingly of  his  time  and  strength  to  build  up  this  sport  at 
Yale,  and  under  his  leadership  Yale  in  19 15  won  her  first 
intercollegiate  basketball  championship  in  a  number  of 
years.  At  the  time  of  his  death  he  represented  the  Uni- 
versity on  the  executive  committee  of  the  Intercollegiate 
Basketball  League. 

His  death  occurred  December  15,  1916,  at  the  Park  Ave- 
nue Hotel,  New  York  City,  following  his  return  from  a 
weekly  visit  to  New  Haven,  where  he  went  each  Wednes- 
day to  coach  the  University  Basketball  Team,  of  which  his 
younger  brother,  Orson,  of  the  Class  of  1918,  was  a  mem- 
ber. While  he  had  suffered  from  Bright's  disease  for 
some  time,  his  condition  was  not  considered  serious  by 
his  family,  and  his  death  was  entirely  unexpected.  Burial 
was  in  Woodlawn  Cemetery,  New  York. 

Mr.  Kinney  was  married  August  23,  191 1,  at  Bowling 
Green,  Ohio,  to  Mary  Elmina,  daughter  of  Elias  Hatfield 
and  Ida  May  (Wagner)  McKnight.  She  survives  him 
with  two  children,  McKnight  and  Mary  Elmina.  He  also 
leaves  his  parents,  tw^o  sisters,  and  three  brothers. 


Radcliff  Evans  Sprott,  Ph.B.   1907 

Born  March  26,  1885,  in  St.  Paul,  Minn. 
Died  April  21,  1917,  in  Bridgeport,  Conn. 

Radcliff  Evans  Sprott,  whose  parents  were  John  Radcliff 
and  Merica  (Hill)  Sprott,  was  born  in  St.  Paul,  Minn., 
March  26,  1885.  His  father  was  the  son  of  Robert  and 
Mary  (Radcliff)  Sprott.  The  earhest  American  ancestor 
of  his  mother  was  John  Evans,  a  Welshman.  Her  parents 
were  John  E.  and  Eliza  (Evans)  Hill. 

His  boyhood  was  spent  in  Cincinnati,  Ohio,  and  Bridge- 
port, Conn.,  and  he  was  prepared  for  college  at  the  Wean- 
tining  School  in  New  Mil  ford.  Conn.  Entering  Yale  in 
1903,  he  was  with  the  Class  of  1906  S.  until  March  of 
Senior  year.  He  returned  to  New  Haven  the  following 
September,   and   received   his   degree   in   June,    1907,   two 


1907  477 

months  after  his  father's  death.  His  course  was  that  in 
electrical  engineering.  While  a  member  of  1906  S.,  he 
played  on  the  Class  Golf  Team. 

After  serving  for  a  time  as  an  electrical  engineer  for 
the  Gale  Electric  Company  of  Elizabeth,  N.  J.,  Mr.  Sprott 
returned  to  Bridgeport  in  1908.  Three  years  later  he 
became  secretary  and  treasurer  of  the  Gas  Appliance  Ex- 
change, Inc.,  retaining  that  connection  until  his  death.  He 
had  participated  in  a  number  of  state  golf  tournaments. 
He  was  captain  of  the  Bridgeport  Rifles,  and  a  member  of 
the  Coast  Artillery  for  three  years,  and  spent  one  summer 
at  Plattsburg.  He  belonged  to  the  United  Congregational 
Church  of  Bridgeport. 

His  death  occurred  April  21,  191 7,  in  Bridgeport,  after 
an  illness  of  six  days  due  to  basilar  meningitis,  resulting 
from  overwork.  Interment  was  in  Mountain  Grove  Ceme- 
tery in  that  city.  Mr.  Sprott  was  unmarried  and  is  survived 
by  his  mother. 


Morris  English  Tuttle,  Ph.B.   1907 

Born  June  13,  1883,  in  Boston,  Mass. 
Died  March  16,  1917,  in  New  Haven,  Conn. 

Morris  English  Tuttle  was  born  in  Boston,  Mass.,  June 
13,  1883,  the  son  of  Frank  Charles  Tuttle,  a  merchant,  and 
Clara  (Morris)  Tuttle.  His  father  was  the  son  of  Isaac  A. 
and  May  E.  Tuttle,  and  a  descendant  of  William  Tuttle, 
who  came  to  New  Haven,  Conn.,  from  England  in  1643. 
His  mother  traced  her  descent  to  Ebenezer  and  Alice  Mor- 
ris, who  came  from  England  in  1642,  settling  at  Lisbon, 
N.  H. ;  her  parents  were  Isaac  and  Rebecca  Bush  French 
Morris. 

He  was  fitted  for  Yale  at  the  New  Haven  High  School 
in  New  Haven,  and  took  the  civil  engineering  course  in 
the  Sheffield  Scientific  School. 

His  first  position  after  graduation  was  with  the  Register 
Publishing  Company  of  New  Haven.  After  severing  that 
connection,  he  entered  the  employ  of  the  city  of  New  Haven, 
and  at  the  time  of  his  death  was  a  civil  engineer  in  the 
engineering  department.  He  was  ^  member  of  Trinity 
Protestant  Episcopal  Church. 


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In  a  moment  of  temporary  mental  aberration  he  took  his 
own  Ufe  at  his  father's  home  in  New  Haven,  March  i6, 
19 1 7.     Interment  was  in  Evergreen  Cemetery. 

Mr.  Tuttle  was  married  September  2,  1916,  in  New 
Haven,  to  MadeHne,  daughter  of  John  and  Mary  Ruff,  who 
survives  him.  He  also  leaves  his  parents  and  a  brother, 
Frank  C.  Tuttle,  Jr.  (Ph.B.  1916). 


Frank  Anthony  Rend,  Ph.B.   1909 

Born  August  i,  1885,  in  Chicago,  111. 
Died  September  i,  1916,  in  Greenwich,  Conn. 

Frank  Anthony  Rend  was  born  in  Chicago,  111.,  August 
I,  1885,  the  son  of  William  Patrick  and  Elizabeth  (Barry) 
Rend.  His  father,  whose  parents  were  Ambrose  and 
Elizabeth  (Cline)  Rend,  came  to  this  country  from  County 
Leitrim,  Ireland,  in  1847,  settling  at  Lowell,  Mass.  He 
w^as  a  student  at  St.  John's  College,  Annapolis,  Md.,  and 
enlisted  in  the  Fourteenth  Regiment,  New  York  Volunteers, 
previous  to  the  first  battle  of  Bull  Run ;  this  regiment  par- 
ticipated in  many  of  the  most  remarkable  battles  of  the 
Civil  War,  and  at  the  battle  of  Malvern  Hill  he  had  a 
portion  of  his  clothing  shot  away,  while  in  the  siege  of 
Yorktown  he  was  the  first  man  in  the  regiment  to  be  struck 
by  a  bullet,  but  fortunately  escaped  serious  injury.  During 
the  greater  part  of  his  service  he  held  the  rank  of  a  non- 
commissioned officer.  For  some  time  in  recent  years, 
prior  to  his  death  in  191 5,  he  was  lieutenant-colonel  of 
the  Second  Regiment,  Illinois  Volunteer  Infantry.  Frank 
A.  Rend's  mother  was  the  daughter  of  Capt.  Thomas  Barry 
and  Elizabeth  (Fitzgerald)  Barry,  who  emigrated  to 
America  from  Ireland  in  1820  and  settled  at  St.  John,  New 
Brunswick. 

He  attended  the  University  School  in  Chicago,  entering 
Yale  in  1905  as  a  member  of  the  Class  of  1908  S.,  but  at 
the  beginning  of  the  next  year  joined  the  Class  with  which 
he  was  graduated.  He  took  the  select  course,  and  was  a 
member  of  the  Freshman  Baseball  Team  in  1907. 

Immediately  after  graduation  he  returned  to  Chicago, 
where  he  became  associated  with  his  father  in  the  coal 
business,  under  the  name  of  W.  P.  Rend  &  Company.  He 
was  a  member  of  the  Holy  Name  Cathedral  of  that  city. 


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Mr.  Rend  died  September  i,  1916,  in  Greenwich,  Conn., 
while  on  a  vacation.  He  had  suffered  from  heart  disease 
for  a  short  time,  and  this  caused  his  death.  Interment  was 
in  Calvary  Cemetery,  Chicago. 

His  marriage  took  place  in  Chicago,  in  June,  191 1,  to 
Louise,  daughter  of  Joseph  and  Leila  (Wood)  Bond.  She 
survives  him  with  a  daughter,  Frances. 


Lowell  Palmer  Rush,  Ph.B.   1914 

Born  June  28,  1892,  in  Oil  City,  Pa. 
Died  July  11,  1916,  in  Oil  City,  Pa. 

Lowell  Palmer  Rush,  son  of  Henry  George  Rush,  a 
manufacturer,  and  Adda  B.  (Palmer)  Rush,  was  born  in 
Oil  City,  Pa.,  June  28,  1892.  On  the  paternal  side,  he  was 
descended  from  John  Rush,  who  came  to  this  country  from 
Germany.  His  mother,  who  was  the  daughter  of  Arthur 
Stone  Palmer,  a  captain  in  the  Civil  War,  and  Sarah 
(Wightman)  Palmer,  traces  her  descent  to  Christopher 
VanHorn,  who  came  from  Holland  to  New  Amsterdam, 
and  to  the  Wightman  family  of  Pittsburgh.  Her  mother's 
uncle,  Thomas  Wightman,  was  a  glass  manufacturer  and 
philanthropist. 

He  was  fitted  for  Yale  at  the  Hotchkiss  School,  Lake- 
ville.  Conn.,  and  in  the  Scientific  School  took  the  select 
course,  receiving  honors  in  chemistry  and  German  as  a 
Freshman.  He  was  a  member  of  the  College  and  Class 
Baseball  teams. 

Immediately  after  graduation  he  became  connected  with 
the  H.  G.  Rush  Barrel  Works  of  Oil  City  as  bookkeeper, 
and  remained  in  that  position  until  his  death.  He  was  a 
member  of  the  Second  Presbyterian  Church  of  Oil  City. 

Mr.  Rush  died  in  that  city,  July  11,  1916,  after  a  five 
weeks'  illness  resulting  from  appendicitis.  He  was  buried 
in  Grove  Hill  Cemetery,  Oil  City. 

He  had  not  married.  Besides  his  parents,  he  leaves  a 
sister  and  a  brother.  The  latter,  Raymond  W.  Rush, 
graduated  from  the  Scientific  School  in  1910. 


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Prescott  King  Towle,  Ph.B.   1914 

Born  October  i8,  1890,  in  Detroit,  Mich, 
Died  January  7,  1917,  in  Detroit,  Mich. 

Prescott  King  Towle  was  born  in  Detroit,  Mich.,  Octo- 
ber 18,  1890,  his  parents  being  Frederic  and  AHce  (Hub- 
bard) Towle.  His  father,  now  secretary  and  treasurer  of 
the  National  Silica  Company  of  Detroit,  was  descended 
from  Philip  Towle,  who  came  to  Hampton,  N.  H.,  from 
Scotland  in  1640;  he  was  the  son  of  Simon  and  Harriet 
(Hunt)  Towle.  His  mother  was  the  daughter  of  Bela 
Hubbard  (B.A.  Hamilton  1834,  LL.D.  Hamilton  1893) 
and  Sarah  (Baughman)  Hubbard,  and  the  granddaughter 
of  Thomas  Hill  Hubbard  (B.A.  1799),  a  representative  in 
Congress  for  the  fifteenth  and  seventeenth  sessions.  Her 
earliest  ancestor  in  this  country  was  George  Hubbard,  who 
came  from  England  in  1633,  settling  at  Guilford,  Conn. 
Rev.  Bela  Hubbard,  a  graduate  of  the  College  in  1758, 
who  received  the  degree  of  M.A.  at  Columbia  in  1762  and 
that  of  D.D.  at  Yale  in  1804,  was  her  great-grandfather. 
vSix  of  Prescott  K.  Towle's  ancestors  fought  in  the 
Revolutionary  War. 

Entering  Yale  from  the  Lawrenceville  (N.  J.)  School, 
he  spent  three  years  with  the  Class  of  1913  S.  and  one  with 
that  of  1914  S.  In  1910  he  was  a  member  of  the  Freshman 
Mandolin  Club  and  the  Indoor  Track  Squad.  He  took  the 
course  in  mechanical  engineering. 

Mr.  Towle  began  work  in  November,  1914,  with  the 
Dominion  Forge  &  Stamping  Company  of  Walkerville, 
Ont.,  Canada,  and  remained  with  this  company  until  his 
death,  at  which  time  he  held  the  office  of  engineer  and 
factory  manager  of  Plant  No.  i. 

His  death,  which  occurred  January  7,  1917,  in  the  Harper 
Hospital  in  Detroit,  resulted  from  injuries  received  in  an 
automobile  accident  the  previous  day.  Interment  was  in 
Elmwood  Cemetery,  Detroit. 

Surviving  Mr.  Towle  are  his  father  and  mother.  He 
was  unmarried.  He  belonged  to  Christ  Episcopal  Church 
of  Detroit. 


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Frank  McNulty,  Ph.B.   1915 

Born  April  7,  1892,  in  Chicago,  111. 
Died  December  2,  1916,  in  New  York  City 

Frank  McNulty  was  born  in  Chicago,  111.,  April  7,  1892, 
the  son  of  Patrick  Henry  and  Mary  A.  (Foley)  McNulty. 
His  father,  whose  parents  were  James  and  Mary  McNulty, 
came  to  this  country  from  Ireland  in  1887.  His  mother 
was  the  daughter  of  Francis  and  Mary  Foley  of  Chicago. 

He  lived  in  Chicago  during  his  early  boyhood,  removing 
to  New  York  in  1901.  He  received  his  preparatory  train- 
ing at  the  Grofif  School  in  New  York  City,  and  entered 
Yale  in  191 1,  completing  his  course  with  the  Class  of 
1915  S.  He  played  on  the  Class  Baseball  Team  in  1914, 
and  was  a  member  of  the  Interfraternity  and  Student 
councils. 

vSince  graduation  Mr.  McNulty  had  been  connected  with 
McNulty  Brothers,  Inc.,  plaster  contractors  of  New  York 
City,  his  first  position  being  that  of  manager  of  the  Phila- 
delphia office.  On  the  death  of  his  father  in  July,  1916, 
he  succeeded  him  as  president  of  the  firm.  He  was  a 
Roman  Catholic  and  a  member  of  St.  Aloysius'  Church  of 
Great  Neck,  Long  Island,  where  he  had  lived  since  191 1. 

His  death  occurred  December  2,  19 16,  in  the  Presby- 
terian Hospital  in  New  York  City,  where  he  had  been  for 
eleven  weeks.  He  had  undergone  several  operations  for 
septic  pneumonia  during  this  period.  His  body  was  taken 
to  Chicago  for  burial  in  Mount  Carmel  Cemetery. 

Mr.  McNulty,  who  was  unmarried,  is  survived  by  his 
mother,  three  brothers,  and  four  sisters.  His  cousin, 
Thomas  J.  McNulty,  Jr.,  is  a  non-graduate  member  of  the 
Class  of  1915  S. 


Lee  Walter  Rosenfeld,  Ph.B.   191 5 

Born  May  29,  1894,  in  Chicago,  111. 
Died  May  30,  1917,  in  Chicago,  111. 

I>ee  Walter  Rosenfeld,  son  of  Maurice  and  Mattie 
(Rosenberg)  Rosenfeld,  was  born  in  Chicago,  111.,  May 
29,   1894.     His  father,  a  retired  capitalist,  is  the   son  of 


482  SHEFFIELD    SCIENTIFIC    SCHOOL 

Levi  and  Henrietta  (Reese)  Rosenfeld.  His  mother's 
parents  were  Jacob  and  Hannah  (Reese)   Rosenberg. 

He  studied  at  the  Oxford  School  and  the  University 
High  School  in  Chicago,  graduating  from  the  latter  in 
191 1,  and  for  a  short  time  attended  the  University  of 
Chicago.  Entering  Dartmouth  College  in  the  fall  of  191 1, 
he  spent  one  year  there,  coming  to  Yale  the  next  year  as 
a  member  of  the  Freshman  Class  in  the  Scientific  School. 
He  took  the  select  course. 

During  the  first  few  months  after  leaving  Yale,  Mr. 
Rosenfeld  traveled  in  this  country  with  his  parents.  In 
the  fall  of  191 5  he  took  a  position  in  the  shoe  department 
of  the  Spiegel,  May,  Stern  Company,  a  mail  order  house 
in  Chicago,  where  he  worked  for  a  year.  He  entered  the 
employ  of  E.  &  S.  Loewenstein,  investment  bankers  of 
Chicago,  November  i,  1916,  as  appraiser  and  salesman, 
and  was  connected  with  that  firm  at  his  death.  He  was 
of  the  Jewish  faith.    He  had  been  abroad  four  times. 

His  death  occurred  May  30,  1917,  at  the  Michael  Reese 
Hospital,  Chicago,  following  an  operation  for  mastoiditis. 
Burial  was  in  Mount  Maariv  Cemetery  in  that  city. 

Mr.  Rosenfeld,  who  was  unmarried,  is  survived  by  his 
parents  and  a  sister.  He  was  a  cousin  by  marriage  of 
Harry  D.  Kohn  (Ph.B.  1885)  and  Abraham  K.  Selz,  who 
graduated  from  the  Scientific  School  in  1903,  and  a  first 
cousin  of  Joseph  F.  Rosenberg,  a  member  of  the  College 
Class  of  1916. 


Frederic  Collins  Gleason,  Ph.B.   1916 

Born  July  12,  1893,  in  Adrian,  Mich. 
Died  February  5,  1917,  in  New  York  City 

Frederic  Collins  Gleason  was  born  July  12,  1893,  in 
Adrian,  Mich.,  being  one  of  the  four  children  of  Thomas 
Williams  and  Nellie  Watkinson  (Stone)  Gleason.  His 
father,  who,  previous  to  his  death  in  1908,  was  secretary 
of  the  Niagara  Power  &  Development  Company  of  Bufifalo, 
N.  Y.,  was  the  son  of  Frederick  Lathrop  and  Martha 
(Willard)  Gleason,  and  a  descendant  of  Thomas  Gleason, 
who  came  to  Watertown,  Mass.,  from  Sulgrave,  England 
in    1752.     His   maternal    grandparents   were   Rev.    Collins 


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Stone  (B.A.  1832),  principal  of  the  American  Asylum  for 
the  Deaf  and  Dumb  in  Hartford,  Conn.,  and  Ellen  Jane 
(Gill)  Stone.  His  mother  was  descended  from  William 
Stone,  who  came  to  America  from  Guilford,  England,  in 
1639,  and  settled  at  Guilford,  Conn. 

He  was  prepared  for  Yale  at  the  Hartford  Public  High 
School,  and  in  his  Freshman  year  in  the  Scientific  School 
held  the  Hartford  City  Scholarship.  He  was  active  in 
Y.  M.  C.  A.  work  while  at  Yale,  and  served  on  a  number 
of  committees,  including  the  Boys'  Club  Committee,  of 
which  he  was  chairman,  and  the  Student  Council.  He 
took  the  course  in  mechanical  engineering. 

Mr.  Gleason  spent  the  summer  of  1916  with  the  Yale 
Batteries  in  camp  at  Tobyhanna,  Pa.  In  October  he  began 
work  as  an  efficiency  engineer  in  the  Biltmore  Machine 
Shops  in  New  York  City,  but  early  in  November  was  com- 
pelled to  give  up  his  position  on  account  of  ill  health.  He 
then  entered  the  Presbyterian  Hospital  in  New  York  for 
the  purpose  of  undergoing  treatment  for  pernicious  anaemia. 
His  death  occurred  there  February  5,  1917,  and  his  body 
was  taken  to  Hartford  for  burial  in  Cedar  Hill  Cemetery. 

Mr.  Gleason  was  a  member  of  the  Asylum  Hill  Congre- 
gational Church  of  Hartford.  He  was  unmarried.  He 
is  survived  by  his  mother,  a  sister,  and  a  brother.  Two 
uncles,  Edward  Collins  Stone  and  George  Frederick  Stone, 
have  graduated  from  Yale,  the  former  receiving  the  degree 
of  B.A.  in  1862  and  the  latter  being  a  member  of  the  Class 
of  1870  in  the  Scientific  School.  A  sister  of  his  mother 
married  Job  Williams  (B.A.  1864).  The  latter's  sons  are 
Henry  L.  Williams  and  Arthur  C.  Williams,  graduates  of 
the  College  in  1891  and  1898,  respectively,  and  Charles  G. 
Williams  (Ph.B.  1908). 


GRADUATE  SCHOOL 
Hjcilniar  Philip  Johnson,  M.A.   1903 

Born  November  21,  1876,  in  Lindsborg,  Kans. 
Died  December  16,  1916,  in  Phoenix,  Ariz. 

Hjalmar  Philip  Johnson  was  born  in  Lindsborg,  Kans., 
November  21,  1876,  being  one  of  the  two  sons  of  Gustaf 
and  Carolina  (Magnussm)  Johnson.  His  father  was  a 
native  of  Lungsund,  Varmland,  Sweden,  and  his  mother 
was  born  at  Sanderyd,  Smaland,  Sweden.  Some  years 
after  her  death  in  1887,  Mr.  Johnson  married  Sarah 
Erickson. 

He  was  graduated  from  Bethany  College  at  Lindsborg 
in  1901,  having  received  his  preliminary  education  in  its 
preparatory  department.  In  1903  he  took  his  master's 
degree  at  Yale.  While  a  student  in  the  Graduate  School, 
he  taught  in  one  of  the  evening  schools  of  New  Haven. 

Mr.  Johnson's  death  occurred  December  16,  1916,  in 
Phoenix,  Ariz.,  as  the  result  of  tuberculosis.  Burial  was  in 
his  native  town.  During  the  latter  years  of  his  life  he  had 
been  employed  by  the  Good  Manufacturing  Company  of 
New  York  as  a  salesman.  His  headquarters  were  at  one 
time  in  Montreal,  Que.,  Canada,  and  he  afterwards  lived 
at  Freeport,  Long  Island,  N.  Y.  He  was  a  member  of 
the  Lutheran  Church. 

He  was  married  August  20,  1905,  in  Brooklyn,  N.  Y., 
to  Maria  Georgina,  daughter  of  Rienhold  and  Wilhemina 
(Sandberg)  Akerlow.  She  survives  him  with  two  children  : 
Vera  Marie  and  Bernhard  Gustaf.  A  second  daughter, 
Dorothy  Caroline,  died  in  early  infancy. 


George  Edward  Copenhaver,  M.A.   1909 

Born  October  29,  1887,  near  Bristol,  Tenn. 
Died  December  31,  1914,  in  Catawba,  Va. 

George  Edward  Copenhaver  was  the  third  son  of  Levi 
Copenhaver,  a  farmer  and  stock  raiser,  who  served  in  the 
Confederate  Army  during  the  Civil  War  and  received  the 
degree  of  B.A.  from  Emory  and  Henry  College  in  1870, 
and    Catherine   Ellen    (Groseclose)    Copenhaver,    and   was 


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485 


born  October  29,  1887,  near  Bristol,  Tenn.  He  received 
his  preparation  for  college  at  the  Bristol  High  School, 
and  in  1908  graduated  from  Roanoke  College,  Salem,  v^a., 
with  honors.  He  held  a  scholarship  at  Yale,  and  in  1909 
received  the  Philo  Sherman  Bennett  prize  for  the  best 
essay  on  "The  Constitution  of  Oklahoma."  He  was  always 
much  interested  in  municipal,  state,  and  national  questions, 
and  wrote  a  number  of  articles  for  the  local  papers  advocat- 
ing compulsory  education  for  Tennessee  and  the  parcels 
post  several  years  before  either  became  a  law.  Both  in 
Roanoke  and  at  Yale,  his  favorite  studies  were  history  and 
economics. 

His  plans  were  to  return  to  Yale  in  the  fall  of  1909  to 
enter  the  School  of  Law,  but  later  he  decided  to  teach  for 
a  time.     This  he  did  for  a  year  near  his  home.     Then,  at 
the  urgent  request  of   friends,  he  became  connected  with 
the  Herald-Courier,   a   Bristol  daily  paper,  where  he  did 
efficient  and  commendable  work.     The  strain  of  the  work 
at  length  affected  his  health,  and  he  gave  up  his  position 
to  reenter  teaching.    For  two  years  he  was  most  successful 
as   principal    of    the    Tifton    (Ga.)    High    School.      While 
there  he  was  engaged  on  a  History  of  the  United  States 
for  High  School  Classes.     He  had  much  material  collected 
and  innumerable  notes  made,  and  at  the  time  of  his  death 
had  finished  up  to  the  Revolutionary  War.     From  Tifton 
he  went  to  Glennville,  Ga.,  as  superintendent  of  schools,  but 
remained  less  than  a  year  because  of  ill  health.     He  spent 
a  few  months  at  his  home,  and  then  went  to  Saranac  Lake, 
N.  Y.,  for  treatment  for  tuberculosis,  but  as  his  condition 
did  not  improve  after  a  few  months  there,  he  entered  the 
Catawba  Sanatorium  at  Catawba,  Va.,  where  he  was  until 
his  death,  December  31,   1914.     Less  than  a  week  before 
he  died  he  had  a  hemorrhage,  and  from  that  he  never  fully 
rallied.     The  funeral  services  were  in  charge  of  Dr.  J.  A. 
Morehead,  president  of  Roanoke  College,  and  the  interment 
was  at  Weaver's  Cemetery,  near  Bristol. 

Mr.  Copenhaver  was  a  member  of  the  English  Lutheran 
Church,  His  brother,  Nat  Hawkins  Copenhaver,  gradu- 
ated from  Roanoke  College  in  19 10,  and  received  the 
degrees  of  M.A.  and  M.D.  from  Yale  in  1912  and  1917, 
resi)ectively.  Another  brother,  Hugh  W.  Copenhaver, 
graduated  from  King  College  with  the  degree  of  B.A.  in 
1905 >  and  a  sister.  Sue  Ellen  Copenhaver,  received  her 
B.A.  at  Cornell  in  1912.    Mr.  Copenhaver  was  unmarried. 


SCHOOL  OF  THE  FINE  ARTS 
Bela  Lyon  Pratt,  B.F.A.   1899 

Born  December  ii,  1867,  in  Norwich,  Conn. 
Died  May  18,  1917,  in  Jamaica  Plain,  Mass. 

Bela  Lyon  Pratt  was  born  December  11,  1867,  in  Nor- 
wich, Conn.,  the  son  of  George  and  Sarah  Victoria  (Whit- 
tlesey) Pratt.  His  father,  a  graduate  of  Yale  College  in 
1857,  practiced  law  in  Norwich  from  i860  until  his  death 
in  1875,  serving  for  some  years  as  city  attorney  and  cor- 
poration counsel  and  representing  Norwich  in  the  General 
Assembly  several  terms.  He  was  the  son  of  Bela  Lyon 
and  Nabby  (Tirrell)  Pratt.  The  founder  of  the  American 
branch  of  the  family  was  Matthew  Pratt,  who  came  from 
England  in  1624,  settling  in  East  Weymouth,  Mass.  One 
of  his  descendants  was  Bela  Pratt,  a  stone  mason,  who 
built  the  first  stone  house  in  Weymouth  and  a  breakwater 
on  the  north  shore ;  he  married  Sophia  Lyon  of  Halifax, 
Mass.,  and  their  son  was  the  first  Bela  Lyon  Pratt.  The 
wife  of  George  Pratt  was  the  daughter  of  Oramel  Whittle- 
sey, a  piano  maker,  who  later  founded  the  Music  Vale 
Seminary,  a  school  of  music  at  Salem,  Conn.,  and  Charlotte 
Maconda  (Morgan)  Whittlesey.  She  was  descended  from 
John  Whittlesey,  who  came  to  America  from  Cambridge- 
shire, England,  near  Whittlesea,  in  1635,  and  settled  at 
Saybrook,  Conn.  One  ancestor,  John  Whittlesey,  was 
killed  in  Arnold's  attack  on  Fort  Griswold. 

As  a  child,  Bela  Lyon  Pratt  showed  marked  skill  at  model- 
ling, and  at  the  age  of  sixteen  years  he  became  a  student 
at  the  Yale  School  of  the  Fine  Arts,  where  he  continued 
his  work  for  three  years.  He  entered  the  Art  Students 
League  of  New  York  in  1887,  studying  there  under  Augus- 
tus St.  Gaudens,  F.  Edwin  Elwell,  William  Chase,  and 
Kenyon  Cox.  During  his  second  year  he  also  worked  for 
Mr.  St.  Gaudens  in  his  studio,  and  later  he  worked  for 
him  another  year.  He  went  to  Paris  in  1890,  and  entered 
the  Ecole  des  Beaux  Arts  at  the  head  of  the  class.  While 
studying-  abroad  he  received  two  medals  and  two  prizes 
for   proficiency   in    drawing   and   modelling.      In    1892   he 


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returned  to  this  country,  where  he  soon  achieved  a  notable 
reputation.  He  had  his  studio  in  Boston,  Mass.,  and  since 
1893  had  served  as  an  instructor  in  modelUng  at  the  Boston 
Museum  of  Fine  Arts.  Mr.  Pratt's  works  include  two 
colossal  groups  on  the  Water  Gate  of  the  Peristyle  at  the 
Chicago  Exposition;  the  Eliot  medal  for  Harvard  and  the 
Yale  Bicentennial  medal;  six  seven-foot  spandrel  figures 
for  the  main  entrance,  a  twelve-foot  figure,  "Philosophy," 
and  a  series  of  four  medallions,  "The  Seasons,"  in  the 
pavilions  of  the  Library  of  Congress;  a  figure  of  "Victory" 
for  the  Battleship  Massachusetts;  figures  for  the  Rhode 
Island  and  the  Kearsarge;  a  tablet  for  the  Alabama;  a 
recumbent  figure  of  Dr.  Coit  of  St.  Paul's  School,  Concord, 
N.  H.  (this  received  honorable  mention  at  the  Paris  Salon  of 
1897)  ;  a  "Study  of  a  Young  Girl"  (for  which  he  received 
the  second  medal  at  the  Buffalo  Exposition  in  1901)  ;  vari- 
ous groups  for  the  Buffalo  and  St.  Louis  Expositions  (he 
also  received  a  medal  at  the  latter  exposition)  ;  the  Soldiers' 
and  Sailors'  Monument  at  Maiden,  Mass. ;  the  monument 
for  the  State  of  Connecticut  at  Andersonville ;  the  Harvard 
Spanish  War  Memorial,  the  Army  Nurses  Monument  for 
the  Boston  State  House;  "Science"  and  "Art,"  placed 
in  front  of  the  Boston  Public  Library,  the  statue  of  Edward 
Everett  Hale  in  the  Boston  Public  Garden,  the  statue  of 
Nathan  Hale  for  the  Yale  Campus,  and  the  New  Bedford 
(Mass.)  Whaleman's  Memorial.  He  designed  the  two 
and  a  half-  and  the  five-dollar  gold  pieces  for  the  United 
States  Government,  and  many  busts,  reliefs,  and  fountains. 
In  19 1 5  he  was  awarded  a  medal  at  the  Panama-Pacific 
International  Exposition  for  his  "Study  of  a  Young  Girl." 
The  last  work  on  which  he  was  engaged  was  a  large 
statue  of  Alexander  Hamilton  to  be  set  up  in  the  park 
reservation  in  Chicago;  he  had  completed  the  clay  model 
for  this.  Mr.  Pratt  served  on  the  Massachusetts  Fine 
Arts  Commission  for  several  years.  He  received  the  degree 
of  Bachelor  of  Fine  Arts  at  Yale  in  1899,  and  in  1915 
Harvard  conferred  the  honorary  degree  of  Master  of  Arts 
upon  him.  He  was  a  member  of  the  National  Institute 
of  Arts  and  Letters,  the  American  Academy  of  Arts  and 
Sciences,  the  National  Sculpture  Society,  the  American 
Federation  of  Arts,  the  American  Numismatic  Society,  and 
St.  Peter's  Episcopal  Church  of  Jamaica  Plain,  a  suburb 
of  Boston. 


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He  died  May  i8,  1917,  at  his  home  in  Jamaica  Plain. 
He  had  been  in  faiUng  health  for  several  months,  and  his 
death  was  due  to  heart  disease.  Interment  was  in  "Moss- 
wood,"   the  family  cemetery  on  the  farm  in  Salem,  Conn. 

Mr.  Pratt  was  married  August  11,  1896,  in  Boston,  to 
Helen  Lugarda,  daughter  of  Dudley  and  Jane  Anna  (Mal- 
colm) Pray  of  Boston.  She  survives  him  with  four  chil- 
dren: Dudley,  a  member  of  the  College  Class  of  1919; 
Minot  Whittlesey,  who  is  entered  for  the  Class  of  1921 ; 
Helen  Malcolm,  and  Elizabeth  Morgan.  He  also  leaves 
his  mother,  a  brother,  Oramel  Whittlesey  Pratt  (B.A. 
1885),  and  two  sisters. 


SCHOOL  OF  MEDICINE 
George  Clary,  M.D.   1857 

Born  April  13,  1829,  in  Cornish,  N.  H. 
Died  December  30,  1916,  in  New  Britain,  Conn. 

George  Clary  was  born  April  13,  1829,  in  Cornish,  N.  H., 
his  father,  Rev.  Joseph  Ward  Clary  (B.A.  Middlebury  1808, 
Andover  Theological  Seminary  181 1),  at  that  time  being 
pastor  of  the  Cornish  Congregational  Church.  The  latter 
was  the  son  of  Dr.  Isaac  Ward  Clary  and  Eunice  (Bald- 
win) Clary,  and  a  descendant  of  John  Clary,  who  is  sup- 
posed to  have  come  to  America  from  Scotland  in  1640, 
settling  at  Watertown,  Mass.  His  second  wife,  Lucy 
(Hall  nee  Farrar)  Clary,  the  mother  of  George  Clary,  was 
the  daughter  of  Timothy  Farrar  (B.A.  Harvard  1767, 
LL.D.  Harvard  1847),  for  forty  years  a  justice  of  the 
Supreme  Court  of  New  Hampshire,  and  Anna  (Bancroft) 
Farrar.  Her  earliest  American  ancestor  was  John  Farrar, 
an  emigrant  from  Hingham,  Norfolk  County,  England,  to 
Hingham,  Mass.  By  her  first  marriage  to  Richard  Hall, 
a  graduate  of  Middlebury  in  1808  and  of  Andover  Theo- 
logical Seminary  in  181 1,  she  had  several  children,  two  of 
whom,  Horace  Hall  and  Richard  Hall,  were  graduated  from 
Dartmouth  in  1839  and  1847,  respectively. 

George  Clary  attended  Phillips  Academy,  Andover, 
Mass.,  and  Appleton  Academy  at  New  Ipswich,  N.  H., 
entering  Dartmouth  College  in  1848.  During  the  four 
years  following  his  graduation  from  that  institution  in 
1852,  he  studied  with  practicing  physicians  at  Thetford, 
N.  H.,  and  Hartford,  Conn.,  working  as  a  clerk  in  a  drug 
store  during  part  of  this  time.  The  year  of  1856-57  was 
spent  in  the  Yale  School  of  Medicine. 

Shortly  after  receiving  his  medical  degree,  he  began 
practice  in  Hartford,  Conn.  In  February,  1862,  he  was 
appointed  assistant  surgeon  of  the  Thirteenth  Regiment, 
Connecticut  Volunteers,  being  promoted  to  be  surgeon  in 
July  of  the  following  year.  He  acted  in  that  capacity  until 
April,  1866,  when  he  was  mustered  out  of  service.  At 
that  time  he  settled  in  New  Britain,  where  the  remainder 
of  his  life  was  spent.     He  was  active  in  his  chosen  profes- 


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sion  until  1901,  when  the  condition  of  his  health  com- 
pelled him  to  retire  from  practice. 

Dr.  Clary  was  one  of  the  fomiders  of  the  New  Britain 
Y.  M.  C.  A.  in  1867,  and  served  on  its  board  of  directors 
for  some  time.  In  1887  he  was  elected  to  the  New  Britain 
Common  Council,  and  he  was  for  a  long  time  a  deacon  in 
the  First  Congregational  Church.  He  was  a  member  of 
the  Connecticut  State  Medical  Society,  the  New  Britain 
Medical  Society,  and  the  Hartford  Medical  Society. 

Dr.  Clary's  death  occurred  at  his  home,  December  30, 
1916,  after  a  ten  days'  illness  of  bronchitis.  He  was  buried 
in  Fairview  Cemetery  in  New  Britain. 

On  December  5,  1867,  he  was  married  in  Norwich,  Conn., 
to  Mary  Rebecca,  daughter  of  Alexander  and  Mary  (Fox) 
Dorrance.  She  survives  him  with  two  of  their  four  chil- 
dren,— Eliza  F.  and  Mabel.  Dr.  Clary  also  leaves  a  sister. 
His  son,  George  B.,  who  studied  at  Rensselaer  Polytechnic 
Institute,  died  December  21,  1906,  and  the  death  of  his 
youngest  daughter,  Harriet  D.,  occurred  June  4,  1904,  three 
years  after  her  marriage  to  Clarence  F.  Bennett  of  New 
Britain.  Dr.  Clary's  half-brother,  Timothy  Farrar  Clary, 
graduated  from  Dartmouth  in  1841  and  from  Andover 
Theological  Seminary  in  1846. 


Ozias  Willard  Peck,  M.D.   1857 

Born  May  8,  1835,  in  Thomaston,  Conn. 
Died  August  4,  1916,  in  Oneonta,  N.  Y. 

Ozias  Willard  Peck  was  the  son  of  Ozias  Peck,  a 
mechanic,  by  his  second  marriage  to  Harriet  Ann,  daughter 
of  Philip  and  Anne  (Adams)  Pond.  His  father's  parents 
were  Asahel  Peck,  who  served  for  eight  months  of  the 
Revolutionary  War  as  a  private,  and  Anna  (Marsh)  Peck. 
The  Peck  family  traced  their  descent  directly  to  Deacon 
Paul  Peck,  who  came  to  America  from  Essex  County, 
England,  in  the  Defence  in  1635,  remaining  in  Boston  or 
its  vicinity  for  about  a  year  and  then  removing  with  Rev. 
Thomas  Flooker  to  Hartford.  On  the  maternal  side,  Ozias 
W.  Peck  was  descended  from  Samuel  Pond,  who  settled 
in'  Windsor,  Conn.,  in  the  seventeenth  century,  and  from 
Jeremy  Adams,  who  was  living  in  Hartford  as  early  as 


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1635.  His  father  died  in  1835,  and  Mrs.  Peck  afterwards 
married  Eli  Terry,  the  inventor  of  the  Terry  clock. 

Born  May  8,  1835,  in  Thomaston,  Conn.,  he  received  his 
early  education  in  the  public  schools  and  at  the  Terryville 
Institute  in  Plymouth,  Conn.  Before  entering  the  Medical 
Department  at  Yale  in  1855,  he  worked  in  a  drug  store  in 
New  Haven  for  three  years. 

After  his  graduation  in  1857  he  took  a  course  of  lectures 
at  the  College  of  Physicians  and  Surgeons  at  Columbia 
University,  after  which  he  spent  a  year  at  the  Connecticut 
State  Hospital  in  New  Haven,  at  the  same  time  pursuing 
studies  at  Yale.  In  the  winter  of  1858  Dr.  Peck  opened 
an  office  in  Bedford,  N.  Y.,  where  he  practiced  until  Octo- 
ber, 1862,  at  that  time  joining  the  staff  of  Su,rgeon  R.  M. 
Bartholomew,  U.  S.  A.,  at  McDougal  General  Hospital, 
New  York,  as  acting  assistant  surgeon.  He  served  in  this 
capacity  for  over  two  years  of  the  Civil  War,  and  in  1865 
returned  to  New  Haven  as  a  practicing  physician.  During 
his  residence  of  eight  years  in  that  city  he  was  a  sanitary 
inspector,  and  also  served  as  a  member  of  the  Common 
Council.  He  spent  the  year  of  1873-74  in  travel  in  this 
country  and  the  following  year  in  hospitals  in  New  York 
City.  In  1875  he  took  up  his  residence  in  Oneonta,  N.  Y., 
where  he  practiced  for  many  years,  after  his  retirement 
giving  his  attention  to  sanitary  work  and  study  as  long 
as  his  health  permitted.  From  1882  to  1908  he  was  the 
local  health  officer,  and  he  had  also  served  for  a  long  time 
as  a  consulting  physician  to  the  Aurelia  Fox  Memorial 
Hospital.  He  was  for  some  years  on  the  staff  of  the  state 
commissioner  of  health  as  a  smallpox  expert,  and  from 
1894  to  1900  held  an  appointment  as  a  pension  examiner. 
Dr.  Peck  had  written  a  number  of  short  articles  on  medical 
and  sanitary  subjects.  He  was  a  school  trustee  for  the 
town  of  Oneonta  for  two  years,  and  was  a  member  of  the 
First  Presbyterian  Church,  the  Sons  of  the  American 
Revolution,  the  New  York  State  Medical  Society,  the 
American  Public  Health  Association,  and  the  Association 
of  Surgeons  of  the  United  States  Army.  In  1892  Hamilton 
College  conferred  the  honorary  degree  of  Master  of  Arts 
upon  Dr.  Peck. 

He  died  August  4,  1916,  at  his  home  in  Oneonta,  his  death 
following  a  lingering  illness  due  to  heart  disease  and  old 
age.    Interment  was  in  Riverside  Cemetery. 


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His  marriage  took  place  April  lo,  1877,  in  Oneonta,  to 
Mrs.  Francis  Maria  (Miller)  Sabin,  daughter  of  John  and 
Susan  Miller,  and  widow  of  A.  S.  Sabin.  Their  only  child 
was  a  daughter,  Harriet  Terry,  the  wife  of  Arthur  S.  Hurst 
of  Roselle  Park,  N.  J.    She  and  his  wife  survive  him. 


Jairus  Francis  Lines,  M.D.   1862 

Born  July  30,  1834,  in  New  Haven,  Conn. 
Died  July  18,  1916,  in  New  Haven,  Conn. 

Jairus  Francis  Lines,  son  of  Jairus  Gilbert  and  Sarah 
Prudentia  (Sperry)  Lines,  was  born  July  30,  1834,  in 
New  Haven,  Conn.  His  ancestors,  Ralph  Lines  and 
Richard  Sperry,  were  among  the  early  settlers  in  New 
Haven  Colony.  His  father  was  the  son  of  Ransom  Lines, 
and  his  mother's  parents  were  Abner  and  Elizabeth  (Gil- 
bert) Sperry,  the  latter  being  the  daughter  of  Daniel  Gil- 
bert, and  a  descendant  of  Matthew  Gilbert,  deputy  governor 
of  New  Haven  Colony  and  one  of  the  seven  pillars  of 
the  First  Church. 

He  was  a  student  at  Yale  from  i860  to  1862.  Directly 
after  receiving  the  degree  of  Doctor  of  Medicine,  he  began 
practice  in  New  Haven.  He  died  July  18,  1916,  at  his 
home  in  that  city,  and  his  body  was  cremated.  During  part 
of  the  Civil  War  Dr.  Lines  served  as  an  assistant  surgeon 
in  the  Twelfth  Connecticut  Volunteers. 

His  marriage  took  place  December  i,  1881,  in  Wo9d- 
bridge,  Conn.,  to  Eliza  Jennett,  daughter  of  Levi  Merwin 
Marks  of  Waterbury,  Conn.  Mrs.  Lines  died  some  years 
ago.    They  had  no  children. 


Charles  Hubbard  Howland,  M.D.   1880 

Born  October  10,  1850,  in  Farmingdale,  N.  J. 
Died  June  25,  1917,  in  New  Haven,  Conn. 

Charles  Hubbard  Plowland,  whose  parents  were  Michael 
Howland,  a  merchant,'  and  Meribah  (Williams)  Howland, 
was  born  October  10,  1850,  in  Farmingdale,  N.  J.  Through 
his  father,  who  was  the  son  of  James  and  Hannah  (Cook) 
Howland,  he  traced  his  descent  to  Henry  Howland,  who 


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came  with  his  two  brothers  to  Plymouth  Colony  in  1621 
or  1622,  afterwards  settling  at  Duxbury,  Mass.  His 
mother  was  descended  from  Elihu  Williams,  an  English 
Quaker,  who  settled  in  Monmouth  County,  N.  J.,  about 
1700.     Her  parents  were  Elihu  and  Elizabeth  Williams. 

He  lived  on  a  farm  at  Farmingdale  until  fourteen  years 
old,  after  which  he  worked  in  New  York  City  and  Long 
Branch,  N.  J.,  for  five  years,  attending  school  during  part 
of  this  time.  While  at  Long  Branch  in  1867  he  served  an 
apprenticeship  as  a  joiner.  After  studying  at  General 
Russell's  Commercial  and  Collegiate  Institute  and  at  the 
Hopkins  Grammar  School,  New  Haven,  Conn.,  he  entered 
Yale  College  as  a  Freshman.  He  remained  with  the  Class 
of  1879  until  the  spring  of  1876,  when  he  was  compelled 
to  withdraw  on  account  of  poor  health.  He  was  a  student 
in  the  Yale  School  of  Medicine  from  1877  to  1880. 

Upon  receiving  his  medical  degree,  he  spent  a  year  in 
post-graduate  work  at  the  College  of  Physicians  and 
Surgeons  in  New  York  City.  After  practicing  in  Meriden, 
Conn.,  from  1881  to  1888,  he  removed  to  New  Haven, 
where,  with  the  exception  of  three  years  (1892-1895)  spent 
at  Waveland,  Fla.,  for  his  health,  he  had  since  followed  his 
profession.  While  in  Florida  he  was  engaged  in  raising 
fruit  and  practicing  medicine.  He  was  a  member  of  Plym- 
outh Congregational  Church,  New  Haven. 

Dr.  Howland  died  suddenly,  from  heart  disease,  at  his 
home  in  that  city,  June  25,  1917.  Burial  w^as  in  the  family 
plot  in  Evergreen  Cemetery. 

He  was  married  May  3,  1882,  in  New  Haven,  to  AUice, 
daughter  of  Henry  William  and  Sarah  S.  (Clarke)  Brough- 
ton.  They  had  two  sons  r  Harold  Broughton,  who  died  at 
the  age  of  four  years,  and  Kenneth  Wilbur.  Besides  his 
wife  aild  younger  son.  Dr.  Howland  is  survived  by  a 
granddaughter. 


Edward  Michael  McCabe,  M.D.   1887 

Born  December  12,  1863,  in  New  Haven,  Conn. 
Died  June  5,  1917,  in  New  Haven,  Conn. 

Edward  Michael  McCabe  was  bom  in  New  Plaven, 
Conn.,  December  12,  1863,  being  the  son  of  Edward  and 
Bridget    (Conlan)    McCabe.     His   father,  born  in   County 


494  SCHOOL    OF    MEDICINE 

Cavan,  Ireland,  the  son  of  James  McCabe,  came  to  this 
country  in  1852,  and  engaged  in  business  in  New  Haven 
as  a  feed  merchant.  His  mother,  also  a  native  of  County 
Cavan,  was  the  daughter  of  John  and  Rose  (Reilly)  Conlan. 

After  graduating  from  the  Hillhouse  High  School,  New 
Haven,  he  studied  at  Manhattan  College,  receiving  his 
B.A.  there  in  1884.  In  the  fall  of  that  year  he  entered  the 
Yale  School  of  Medicine,  where  he  completed  his  course 
in  1887. 

From  1887  to  1889  Dr.  McCabe  was  physician  and  sur- 
geon at  St.  Vincent's  Hospital,  New  York  City,  after  which 
he  served  a  year's  interneship  at  the  Rotunda  Hospital  in 
Dublin,  Ireland.  The  next  three  years  were  spent  in 
general  medical  practice  at  New  Haven,  but  in  1893  he 
returned  to  New  York  City  and  until  1905  was  connected 
with  the  New  York  Eye  and  Ear  Infirmary  as  assistant 
surgeon.  Since  the  latter  year  he  had  been  located  in  New 
Haven,  where  he  had  become  well-known  as  a  specialist 
on  the  eye,  ear,  and  throat.  From  1897  to  1903  he  held  an 
appointment  as  assistant  in  clinical  ophthalmology  at  Yale, 
in  the  latter  year  being  promoted  to  an  instructorship,  a 
position  which  he  held  until  his  death.  Since  1905  his 
title  had  been  that  of  instructor  in  clinical  ophthalmology. 
He  had  also  served  as  visiting  oculist  at  St.  Francis'  Orphan 
Asylum  and  the  Home  for  the  Aged  and  as  surgeon  in  the 
eye  and  ear  department  at  the  Hospital  of  St.  Raphael.  In 
1889  he  received  an  M.A.  degree  from  Manhattan  College. 
He  was  president  of  the  New  Haven  Medical  Association 
in  1908,  and  belonged  to  the  American  and  Connecticut 
Medical  associations.  He  was  a  member  of  St.  Mary's 
Roman  Catholic  Church. 

He  died  June  5,  19 17,  at  his  home  in  New  Haven,  and 
was  buried  in  St.  Bernard's  Cemetery.  His  death  followed 
a  several  months'  illness  of  septic  poisoning,  which 
developed  from  an  attack  of  tonsilitis.  He  had  suffered 
from  valvular  heart  trouble  for  some  years. 

Dr.  McCabe  was  married  March  2,  1897,  in  Brooklyn, 
N.  Y.,  to  Susan  T.  daughter  of  James  and  Ellen  (Flynn) 
Sheehan  of  New  York  City,  by  whom  he  is  survived.  He 
also  leaves  four  children:  Marion  Rose,  Edward  James, 
Walter  Lawrence,  and  Martha.  A  daughter,  Helen,  and 
a,  son,  John,  died  in  infancy.  Dr.  McCabe  was  a  cousin  of 
John  t.   Smith    (B.A.   Creighton  University   1899,   LL.B. 


1887-1892  tK^F^     "^^^ 

Yale  1901),  J.  Vincent  Smith,  a  graduate  of  the  School  of 
Medicine  in  1904,  and  James  F.  Cobey,  who  received  the 
degrees  of  Ph.B.  and  M.D..  at  Yale  in  1912  and  1916, 
respectively. 


Hyman  Solomon  Shlevin,  M.D.   1892 

Born  February  28,  1868,  in  Orany,  Vilna,  Russia 
Died  May  12,  1917,  in  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 

Hyman  Solomon  Shlevin  was  born  in  Orany,  Vilna, 
Russia,  February  28,  1868,  the  son  of  Joseph  Shlevin,  a 
merchant,  and  Sheina  (Kubin)  Shlevin.  He  received  his 
early  education  in  his  native  town,  coming  to  this  country 
when  fourteen  years  of  age.  He  was  employed  in  a  printing 
establishment  in  New  Haven,  Conn.,  until  1889,  when  he 
entered  the  Yale  School  of  Medicine.  He  supported  him- 
self during  his  course  at  Yale,  graduating  with  the  degree 
of  M.D.  in  1892. 

His  entire  life  since  that  time  had  been  spent  in  the 
practice  of  medicine  in  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.  He  was  active 
as  a  civic  worker,  being  a  leading  figure  in  the  Eastern 
District  Improvement  Association.  His  generosity  endeared 
him  to  many,  and  he  was  known  as  the  "physician  of  the 
poor."  He  was  connected  with  the  Williamsburgh  Hospital, 
Brooklyn,  and  was  a  member  of  the  congregation  of  Temple 
Beth  Elokem,  the  Mount  Sinai  Benevolent  Society,  the 
Brooklyn  Federation  of  Hebrew  Charities,  the  King's 
County  and  North  Brooklyn  Medical  societies,  and  the 
Eastern  District  Y.  M.  C.  A. 

Dr.  Shlevin's  death  occurred  very  suddenly  in  Brooklyn, 
May  12,  191 7,  as  the  result  of  apoplexy.  He  was  buried  in 
Linden  Hill  Cemetery  at  Maspeth,  Long  Island. 

He  was  married  October  17,  1894,  in  New  Haven,  to 
Anna,  daughter  of  Leon  and  Lillian  Brooks,  and  sister  of 
Charles  L.  Brooks  (LL.B.  1902).  They  had  three  children, 
Edmund  Lester,  Vivienne  Jeannette,  and  Clarence  Jeanne. 
The  elder  son  is  a  student  at  the  College  of  Physicians  and 
Surgeons  at  Columbia.  Besides  his  wife  and  children,  Dr. 
Shlevin  is  survived  by  his  mother,  who  still  resides  in  Vilna, 
and  two  brothers. 


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William  Sanford  Kingsbury,  M.D.   1896 

Born  September  17,  1867,  in  Glastonbury,  Conn. 
Died  April  9,  1917,  in  Glastonbury,  Conn. 

William  Sanford  Kingsbury  was  born  in  Glastonbury, 
Conn.,  September  17,  1867.  His  father  was  Daniel  Kings- 
bury, who  received  the  degree  of  Doctor  of  Medicine  from 
the  Connecticut  Botanical  Society  in  185 1  and  from  the 
Metropolitan  Medical  College,  New  York  City,  in  1856. 
In  185 1  he  began  the  practice  of  medicine  in  Glastonbury, 
where  he  continued  as  a  practicing  physician  for  more  than 
fifty  years.  He  was  very  active  in  church  work,  being 
senior  warden  of  St.  James'  Episcopal  Church  for  many 
years  and  its  treasurer  for  fifty  years.  William  S.  Kings- 
bury was  eighth  in  descent  from  Henry  Kingsbury,  who 
came  to  this  country  from  England  in  1630.  He  settled  in 
Ipswich  in  1641  and  later  in  Haverhill,  Mass.  On  the 
maternal  side,  he  was  descended  from  Daniel  Cone,  who 
came  to  this  country  from  England  and  settled  in  Haddam, 
Conn,,  in  1662.  The  first  mention  of  him  is  in  1657.  Dr. 
Kingsbury's  mother,  Lucy  Melissa  (Cone)  Kingsbury, 
was  the  daughter  of  Erastus  and  Lucy"  Bevins  (Beebe) 
Cone.  Llis  father's  parents  were  Sanford  and  Cynthia 
(Baxter)  Kingsbury.  His  mother's  uncle,  William  Cone, 
was  graduated  from  Yale  College  in  1813,  and  was  a 
student  at  Andover  Theological  Seminary  in  181 7. 

Dr.  Kingsbury  was  graduated  from  the  Hartford  Public 
High  School  in  1888,  and  then  entered  the  Sophomore  Class 
of  Trinity  College,  Hartford,  from  which  he  received  the 
degree  of  B.vS.  in  1891.  He  taught  for  two  years  in 
DeVeaux  College,  Niagara  Falls,  N.  Y.  His  medical 
studies  were  begun  at  Yale  in  1893,  and  he  was  graduated 
in  1896. 

He  served  as  interne  in  St.  John's  Llospital,  Lowell, 
Mass.,  during  1896-97,  and  then  entered  upon  the  practice 
of  medicine  in  Glastonbury,  where  the  entire  period  of  his 
professional  life  was  spent.  He  was  active  in  town  affairs. 
He  was  a  member  of  the  governing  board  of  the  Williams 
Memorial  Association  from  its  organization  in  1914  and 
chairman  of  important  committees,  and  was  at  one  time 
president  of  the  Glastonbury  Business  Men's  Association. 
He  had  enlisted  in  the  Home  Guard,  and  was  one  of  the 


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physical  examiners.  He  was  a  vestryman  of  St.  James' 
Protestant  Episcopal  Church  for  several  years  and  at  one 
time  junior  warden.  He  was  chairman  of  the  Republican 
Town  Committee  from  1898  to  1902,  "and  represented  Glas- 
tonbury in  the  State  Legislature  in  1905.  He  joined  the 
Progressive  party  when  it  was  formed  in  19 12.  He  was  a 
member  of  the  Hartford  County  Medical  Society,  the  Hart- 
ford Medical  Society,  and  the  Connecticut  Medical  Society. 

He  died  in  Glastonbury,  April  9,  1917,  of  angina  pectoris 
after  an  illness  of  only  a  few  hours.  He  was  buried  in 
St.  James'  Cemetery,  Glastonbury. 

He  was  married  September  28,  1898,  in  Boston,  Mass., 
to  Mary  Loud,  daughter  of  Francis  Henry  and  Mary 
Elizabeth  (Schwartz)  Raymond,  His  wife  survives  him 
with  their  two  children,  Elizabeth  and  Honor  Prince.  Four 
sisters  of  Dr.  Kingsbury  are  living,  one  of  them,  Mrs. 
Charles  Goodrich  Rankin,  being  a  graduate  of  Mount 
Holyoke  College  in  1891  and  of  Radcliffe  in  1902. 


Fred  Pollock  Lane,  M.D.   1904 

Born  May  15,  1880,  in  Rochester,  N.  Y. 
Died  January  14,  1917,  in  New  Haven,  Conn. 

Fred  Pollock  Lane,  son  of  Fred  Hayes  Lane,  an  insur- 
ance agent,  and  Mary  Celia  (Pollock)  Lane,  was  born 
May  15,  1880,  in  Rochester,  N.  Y.  His  father's  parents 
were  Jehial  and  Sarah  Fitch  (Leavitt)  Lane.  His  mother 
was  the  daughter  of  William  Pollock  and  Martha  Jane 
(Day)  Pollock,  and  a  descendant  of  Elizabeth  Wilkens, 
who  came  to  America  from  the  north  of  Ireland  in  1775, 
settling  in  Ohio. 

He  received  his  preparatory  training  at  the  high  school 
at  Wallingford,  Conn.,  and  before  entering  the  Yale  School 
of  Medicine  in  1899  was  engaged  in  the  drug  business  in 
that  town. 

For  eighteen  months  after  receiving  his  medical  degree 
he  served  as  an  interne  at  the  New  Haven  Hospital,  after 
which  he  became  house  physician  at  the  Lying-in  Hospital 
in  New  York  City.  Upon  completing  his  post-graduate 
training,  he  began  the  practice  of  medicine  and  surgery  in 
New  Haven.     From  the  beginning  of  his  private  practice 


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he  was  very  successful,  and  was  early  regarded  by  his  col- 
leagues as  one  of  the  most  promising  of  the  younger  men. 
In  January,  191 1,  he  was  appointed  an  assistant  on  the 
surgical  staff  of  the  Hospital  of  St.  Raphael  in  New  Haven, 
and  two  years  later  was  made  an  attending  surgeon.  He 
had  also  served  as  lecturer  on  anatomy  in  the  training 
school  connected  with  this  hospital.  Dr.  Lane  was  a  mem- 
ber of  the  American  Medical  Association,  the  American 
Sur'gical  Congress,  and  the  city,  county,  and  state  medical 
associations.  He  belonged  to  the  Congregational  Church 
of  Wallingford. 

He  was  taken  ill  with  pneumonia  January  9,  191 7,  and 
five  days  later,  weakened  by  the  strain  of  continued  over- 
work, succumbed  to  this  disease.  His  body  was  cremated 
and  the  ashes  interred  at  New  Haven. 

Dr.  Lane  was  unmarried.  Surviving  him  are  his  parents, 
a  brother,  Leavitt  J.  Lane  (Ph.B.  1906),  and  a  sister. 


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John  Latta,  LL.B.  1859 

Born  March  2,  1836,  in  Unity,  Pa. 
Died  February  15,  1913,  in  Greensburg,  Pa. 

John  Latta  was  born  March  2,  1836,  in  Unity,  Pa.,  being 
the  son  of  Moses  Latta,  a  farmer,  and  Eliza  (Graham) 
Latta.  His  father,  whose  parents  were  John  and  Mary 
(Story)  Latta,  served  in  a  company  of  Pennsylvania  Volun- 
teers during  the  latter  part  of  the  War  of  181 2.  His 
mother  was  the  daughter  of  Robert  and  Jane  (Jackson) 
Graham. 

He  received  his  early  education  in  Pennsylvania  at  the 
academies  at  Elders  Ridge  and  Sewickley,  and  read  law 
in  the  office  of  Mr.  D.  H.  Hazen  in  Pittsburgh  before 
entering  the  Yale  School  of  Law  in  1857. 

Shortly  after  receiving  his  law  degree,  he  was  admitted 
to  the  bar  of  Westmoreland  County,  Pa.  The  entire  period 
of  his  professional  career  was  spent  in  Greensburg  in  that 
state,  where  he  took  a  prominent  part  in  civic  affairs.  He 
was  a  school  director  for  seventeen  years,  and  a  member 
of  the  Protestant  Episcopal  Church,  serving  as  a  vestryman 
of  Christ  Church.  A  Democrat  in  politics,  he  was  elected 
to  the  State  Senate  for  the  term  from  1864  to  1866.  In  1872 
and  1873  he  was  a  member  of  the  General  Assembly,  and 
he  served  as  lieutenant-governor  of  Pennsylvania  from  1875 
to  1879. 

Mr.  Latta's  death  occurred  February  15,  191 3,  at  his 
home  in  Greensburg,  after  a  two  days'  illness  of  neuralgia 
of  the  heart.  He  was  buried  in  St.  Clair  Cemetery  at 
Greensburg. 

He  was  twice  married,  his  first  wife  being  Emma  A., 
daughter  of  Cuthbert  Hollingswood  Hope  of  Liverpool, 
England.  Their  marriage  took  place  September  12,  1865, 
in  Uniontown,  Pa.,  and  four  children  were  born  to  them: 
Cuthbert  Hope;  Mary  M.,  who  was  married  in  1888  to 
William  B.  Ryan  of  Mexico  City,  Mexico;  Alice,  whose 
death  occurred  in  July,  1872,  and  Isabel  Graham.  Mrs. 
Latta  died  August  12,  1876,  and  on  December  25,  1877, 
Mr.  Latta  was  married  to  Rose,  daughter  of  Elias  Baker 


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and  Sarah  (Spang)  McClellan  of  Greensburg.  They  had 
six  children:  Rose  (died  March  28,  1913),  who  was  twice 
married,  her  first  husband  being  James  Thompson  Brunot, 
whose  death  occurred  in  August,  1902,  and  her  second, 
A.  Murray  Turner  of  Hammond,  Ind. ;  Josephine  M.,  who 
was  married  to  Richard  H.  Jamison  of  Greensburg  in  1904 ; 
John,  whose  death  occurred"  October  9,  1891,  when  he  was 
eight  years  of  age;  Thomas  Pollard;  Sarah  Marguerite, 
and  Ruth,  who  died  in  infancy.  Mr.  Latta  is  survived  by 
his  wife,  six  children,  and  several  grandchildren. 


George  Austin  Fay,  LL.B.    1862 

Born  August  29,  1838.  in  Marlboro,  Mass. 
Died  September  22,  1916,  in  Meriden,  Conn. 

George  Austin  Fay  was  born  in  Marlboro,  Mass.,  August 
29,  1838,  being  one  of  the  six  children  of  George  William 
Fay,  a  cabinet  maker  and  farmer,  and  Amanda  Almina 
(Ward)  Fay.  His  father  was  the  son  of  Josiah  and  Hep- 
zibah  (Collins)  Fay,  and  through  the  latter  he  was 
descended  from  Miles  Standish.  The  earliest  member  of 
the  family  to  settle  in  America  was  John  Fay,  who  came 
to  Plymouth  in  1656,  later  settling  at  Marlboro.  His  great- 
grandfather, Josiah  Fay,  served  as  a  major  in  the  Revolu- 
tion, and  his  grandfather,  Josiah  Fay,  was  a  captain  in 
that  war;  the  former  died  from  wounds  received  at  the 
battle  of  White  Plains.  George  A.  Fay's  mother  was  the 
daughter  of  Jeremiah  Ward,  a  soldier  in  the  War  of  181 2, 
and  Eunice  (Storrs)  Ward,  and  a  descendant  of  William 
Ward,  who  emigrated  to  America  from  England  about  1639, 
settling  at  Sudbury,  Mass. 

He  received  his  early  education  at  the  high  school  in  his 
native  town,  and  before  taking  up  the  study  of  law  at  Yale 
worked  as  a  telegraph  operator.  He  came  to  New  Haven 
in  1861,  and  after  receiving  his  degree  in  1862,  spent  an 
additional  year  in  professional  study. 

Mr.  Fay  was  admitted  to  the  bar  of  Connecticut  in  1863, 
having  previously  spent  a  short  time  in  the  office  of  Orville 
H.  Piatt  (LL.D.  1887)  in  Meriden.  In  May,  1863,  he 
opened  an  office  of  his  own  in  Meriden.  The  rest  of  his 
life  was  spent  in  that  city.     In  1871  he  was  elected  to  the 


1859-1888  50I 

State  Senate,  and  during  his  term  of  two  years  served  as 
chairman  of  the  committee  on  corporations  and  of  the 
committee  on  elections.  The  successful  contest  of  Marshall 
Jewell  against  James  E.  English  for  the  office  of  governor 
of  Connecticut  was  tried  before  his  committee.  Mr.  Fay 
was  an  attendant  at  St.  Andrew's  Protestant  Episcopal 
Church,  Meriden.     In  1873  he  visited  Europe  with  his  w^fe. 

His  death  occurred  September  22,  1916,  in  Meriden,  after 
a  year's  illness  from  a  complication  of  diseases.  He  was 
buried  in  Walnut  Grove  Cemetery. 

Mr.  Fay  was  married  in  Meriden,  September  11,  1865, 
to  Jane  Maria,  daughter  of  Alfred  Pierpont  and  Emeline 
Amelia  (Bradley)  Curtis,  who  died  in  October,  1908.  They 
had  no  children.    Two  brothers  and  ^  nephew  survive. 


Allen  Charles  Alderman,  LL.B.   1888 

Born  September  26,  1868,  in  East  Granby,  Conn. 
Died  September  24,  1916,  in  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 

Allen  Charles  Alderman,  son  of  Allen  A.  Alderman,  an 
extensive  tobacco  raiser,  and  Sophia  A.  (Snow)  Alderman, 
was  born  September  26,  1868,  in  East  Granby,  Conn.  His 
mother  was  the  daughter  of  Charles  and  Rhoda  Snow. 

He  received  his  early  education  at  the  Suffield  (Conn.) 
Academy.  The  degree  of  LL.B.  was  granted  to  him  by 
Yale  in  1888,  after  he  had  spent  a  year  in  the  School  of 
Law. 

In  July  of  that  year  he  settled  in  Hartford,  Conn.,  and, 
having  been  admitted  to  the  bar  of  Connecticut,  commenced 
practice  in  that  city  with  the  late  Samuel  Jones.  He 
removed  to  New  York  City  in  March,  1906,  and  for  two 
years  practiced  as  a  member  of  the  firm  of  Hoye  &  Alder- 
man. In  March,  1912,  he  opened  offices  in  Brooklyn,  where 
he  followed  his  profession  until  his  death.  His  home  had 
been  in  Brooklyn  since  1906,  and  he  died  there  September 
24,  19 16,  from  a  complication  of  diseases.  Interment  was 
in  the  cemetery  at  East  Granby. 

His  marriage  took  place  in  Brooklyn,  July  9,  1906,  to 
Lena  M..  daughter  of  Abel  A.  and  Sophia  W.  (Stratton) 
Thornton.  They  had  no  children.  Mr.  Alderman  is  sur- 
vived bv  his  wife,  his  mother,  and  a  brother. 


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Clarence  Eugene  Cundall,  LL.B.   1888 

Born  March  7,  1864,  in  Brooklyn,  Conn. 
Died  July  10,  1916,  in  Norwich,  Conn. 

Clarence  Eugene  Cundall  was  born  March  7,  1864,  in 
Brooklyn,  Conn.,  the  son  of  Edward  L.  and  Maria  E. 
(Smith)  Cundall.  His  father,  who  practiced  law  in  Brook- 
lyn for  some  years,  serving  at  one  time  as  state's  attorney 
for  Windham  County  and  as  clerk  of  the  County  Court, 
had  been  a  member  of  both  houses  of  the  Connecticut  Legis- 
lature. His  ancestors  came  to  Rhode  Island  from  Brunt- 
loff,  York,  England,  about  17 10. 

In  1886,  after  graduating  from  the  Killingly  High  School, 
he  entered  the  Yale  School  of  Law,  from  which  he  received 
the  degree  of  LL.B.  in  1888.  He  then  began  practice  in 
Danielson,  Conn.,  and  followed  his  profession  in  that  town 
until  early  in  the  summer  of  1916,  when  he  was  taken  ill 
with  a  complication  of  diseases.  He  was  removed  to  the 
Backus  Hospital  at  Norwich,  Conn.,  where  he  died  a  month 
later,  on  July  10.  Interment  was  in  Westfield  Cemetery, 
Danielson. 

Mr.  Cundall  had  served  as  a  trial  justice  in  Brooklyn, 
and  was  a  trustee  of  the  Brooklyn  Savings  Bank.  He  was 
a  member  of  the  Congregational  Church.  A  brother, 
Arthur  L.  Cundall  (D.V.S.  National  Veterinary  College 
1895),  survives  him.     He  had  not  married. 


Samuel  Stone  Hotchkiss,  LL.B.   1891 

Born  March  20.  1869.  in  Columbus,  Ohio 
Died  December  3,  1916.  in  Riverhead,  N.  Y. 

Samuel  vStone  Hotchkiss,  whose  parents  were  Samuel 
Milo  and  Emma  Josephine  (Stone)  Hotchkiss,  was  born 
in  Columbus,  Ohio,  March  20,  1869.  He  received  his  high 
school  education  in  Hartford,  Conn.  His  father,  for  some 
years  president  of  the  American  Paper  Barrel  Company, 
served  from  1887  to  1893  as  commissioner  of  the  Con- 
necticut Bureau  of  Labor  Statistics ;  his  ancestors  included 
Capt.  Gideon  Hotchkiss  and  Capt.  Phineas  Castle  of  Hart- 
ford.   His  mother  was  a  lineal  descendant  of  Rev.  Thomas 


i88cS-i895  503 

Hooker  and  of  Rev.  vSamuel  Andrew,  one  of  the  founders  of 
Yale  College,  of  which  he  served  as  president  pro  tent  from 
1707  to  1719. 

Mr.  Hotchkiss  entered  the  Yale  School  of  Law  in  1889. 
He  received  the  degree  of  LL.B.  in  June,  1891,  being 
admitted  to  the  Connecticut  Bar  in  the  same  month,  and  to 
that  of  New  York  State  in  May,  1892.  About  a  year  after 
graduation  he  began  practice  in  Riverhead,  N.  Y.,  where 
he  followed  his  profession  during  the  remainder  of  his  life, 
making  a  specialty  of  real  estate  law  and  title  work. 

He  died  December  3,  1916,  at  his  home  in  Riverhead, 
and  was  buried  in  the  local  cemetery.  He  had  suffered  for 
some  time  from  Bright's  disease  and  rheumatism,  and  his 
death  was  due  to  these  diseases.  • 

Mr.  Hotchkiss  w^as  first  married  October  24,  1894,  in 
New  York  City,  to  Anna  Aline,  daughter  of  Lyman  S. 
Stone.  Her  death  occurred  in  February,  1905.  His  second 
wife,  to  whom  he  was  married,  September  3,  1905,  was 
Helen  E.,  daughter  of  Lyman  B.  L'Hommedieu.  They  had 
three  sons,  who,  with  their  mother,  survive.  He  also  leaves 
two  daughters  by  his  first  marriage, — Dorothy  Aline  and 
Ruth  Marie, — his  mother,  and  two  sisters. 


Howard  Curtis  Webb,  LL.B.   1895 

Born  October  20,  1861,  in  Trenton,  N,  J, 
Died  July  2;^,  1916,  in  New  Haven,  Conn. 

Howard  Curtis  Webb,  one  of  the  three  children  of  Dr. 
Sumner  C.  Webb  and  Cynthia  A.  (Pierce)  Webb,  was 
born  October  20,  1861,  in  Trenton,  N.  J.  He  was  descended 
on  the  paternal  side  from  Christopher  Webb,  who  settled 
in  Braintree,  Mass.,  in  1645,  having  come  to  this  country 
from  England.  His  father,  who  was  the  son  of  Curtis  and 
Margaret  (Hitchcock)  Webb,  practiced  as  a  physician  at 
Homer,  N.  Y.,  for  many  years  after  his  graduation  from 
the  Albany  Medical  College.  His  mother's  parents  were 
Benjamin  and  Polly  (Bow en)  Pierce. 

Howard  Webb  withdrew  from  the  Homer  Academy  in  his 
Senior  year  to"  enter  the  employ  of  the  Homer  Republican., 
In  1880  he  became  editor  of  this  paper,  serving  in  that 
capacity  for  two  years.    He  removed  to  New  Haven,  Conn., 


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in  1882,  and  for  two  years  was  a  reporter  for  the  Morning 
News.  He  then  joined  the  staff  of  the  New  Haven  Union, 
of  which,  in  1885,  he  was  made  managing  editor.  Five 
years  later  he  resigned  to  take  a  position  on  the  Register, 
with  which  he  continued  until  entering  the  School  of  Law 
in  1893.  During  his  course  at  Yale  Mr.  Webb  also  did 
newspaper  work,  and  after  his  graduation  in  1895  he  was 
for  a  short  time  a  reporter  for  the  Morning  News. 

He  was  admitted  to  the  bar  of  Connecticut  in  1895,  and 
then  entered  the  law  offices  of  Case,  Ely  &  Case  in  New 
Haven.  In  1897  he  became  a  member  of  the  firm.  The 
partnership  of  Case,  Ely  &  Webb  was  dissolved  in  1904, 
and  Mr.  Webb  afterwards  practiced  alone.  He  was 
appointed  assistant  city  attorney  in  June,  1897,  and  three 
years  later,  on  the  death  of  Frank  J.  Brown  (B.A.  1893, 
LL.B.  1895),  succeeded  him  as  city  attorney.  He  filled 
that  position  until  1905. 

In  1898  Mr.  W^ebb  was  appointed  a  member  of  the  com- 
mission formed  for  the  purpose  of  revising  the  charter 
and  ordinances  of  New  Haven,  and  for  some  years  he  was 
a  member  of  the  advisory  board  of  the  Butler  Business 
School.  From  1887  to  1892  he  served  in  Company  F, 
Second  Regiment,  Connecticut  National  Guard,  attaining 
the  rank  of  corporal.  He  was  also  for  three  years  color 
sergeant  on  the  major's  staff  of  the  Second  Company, 
Governor's  Foot  Guard.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Homer 
Congregational  Church. 

His  death  occurred  at  the  Hospital  of  St.  Raphael  in  New 
Haven,  July  23,  1916,  following  an  operation  for  intestinal 
cancer.  He  was  buried  in  Indian  River  Cemetery  at 
Clinton,  Conn. 

On  June  12,  1888,  he  was  married  in  that  town,  to  Susie 
A.,  daughter  of  John  H.  and  Hannah  Hill  of  Clinton.  She 
survives  him  without  children. 


Patrick  Julius  McMahon,  LL.B.   1896 

Born  March  17,  1863,  in  Portraine,  Dublin,  Ireland 
Died  September  18,  1916,  in  Waterbury,  Conn. 

^Patrick  Julius  McMahon  was  born  at  Portraine,  Dublin, 
Ireland,  March   17,   1863,  the  son  of  Owen  McMahon,  a 


1895-1897  5^5 

mechanic,  and  Bridget  (Gargan)  McMahon,  both  of  whom 
died  in  his  boyhood.  His  father's  parents  were  Eugene 
and  Ehzabeth  (Stevens)  McMahon,  and  his  mother  was 
the  daughter  of  John  and  Mary  (Cahil)  Gargan. 

After  completing  his  early  education  in  Dublin  schools, 
he  was  employed  for  five  years  as  a  junior  clerk  with  the 
civil  government  of  Malahide.  He  came  to  this  country  in 
1882,  and  settled  in  Waterbury,  Conn.  He  worked  suc- 
cessively for  the  firm  of  Brown  Brothers,  the  Scovill  Manu- 
facturing Company,  and  the  Waterbury  Manufacturing 
Company,  and  did  not  take  up  the  study  of  law  until  1895, 
when  he  entered  Yale. 

He  was  given  the  degree  of  LL.B.  the  next  year,  and 
had  practiced  in  Waterbury  since  his  admission  to  the  Con- 
necticut Bar.  In  1899  he  was  made  clerk  of  the  City  Court, 
and  served  in  that  capacity  until  receiving  the  appointment 
of  judge  of  the  same  court  nine  years  later.  He  continued 
on  the  bench  until  his  death.  Mr.  McMahon  was  a  Roman 
Catholic,  and  recently  had  been  a  member  of  the  Church  of 
the  Blessed  Sacrament;  while  attending  the  Church  of  the 
Immaculate  Conception  some  years  ago,  he  was  for  a  time 
president  of  the  Holy  Name  Society. 

He  died  at  his  home  in  Waterbury,  September  18,  1916, 
from  heart  failure,  and  was  buried  in  St.  Joseph's  Cemetery 
in  that  city.  Although  he  had  been  suffering  from  a  cold 
for  several  days,  his  death  was  sudden  and  unexpected. 

Mr.  McMahon  was  married  June  7,  1899,  in  Waterbury, 
to  Mary  A.,  daughter  of  Michael  and  Mary  (Hennelly) 
Walsh.  She  survives  him  without  children,  and  he  also 
leaves  a  sister  and  a  half-brother. 


Arthur  Ashford  Wilder,  LL.B.   1897 

Born  November  3,  1873,  in  Kaalaea,  Oahu,  H.  T. 
Died  January  4,  191 7,  in  Honolulu,  H.  T. 

Arthur  Ashford  Wilder  was  born  at  Kaalaea,  Oahu, 
H.  T.,  November  3,  1873.  His  early  education  was  received 
in  Honolulu  at  the  Punahou  Preparatory  School.  Before 
taking  up  the  study  of  law  at  Yale,  he  spent  some  time 
at  Oahu  College,  and  was  also  engaged  in  stenographic 
work  for  a  while.  He  entered  the  Yale  School  of  Law  in 
1895,  and  was  given  honors  in  Junior  year  and  the  Jewell 


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prize  in  1897.  He  served  as  registrar  of  the  School  of  Law 
in  1895-96.  He  received  the  degree  of  LL.B.  in  1897  ^"d 
that  of  LL.M.  the  following  year. 

Returning  to  Honolulu  in  1898,  he  immediately  began 
practice  in  that  city  as  a  member  of  the  firm  of  Robertson 
&  Wilder,  his  partner  being  Alexander  G.  M.  Robertson 
(LL.B.  1893),  now  chief  justice  of  the  Supreme  Court  of 
Hawaii.  In  February,  1905,  Mr.  Wilder  became  associate 
justice  of  the  Supreme  Court  of  Hawaii,  and  held  office 
until  January,  1910,  when  he  resigned  to  enter  the  law 
firm  of  Thompson,  demons  &  Wilder,  the  other  members 
of  which  were  Frank  E.  Thompson  and  Charles  F.  demons 
(B.A.  1895,  LL.B.  and  M.L.  National  University  Law 
School  1898  and  1899,  respectively).  He  was  afterwards 
associated  in  practice  with  William  L.  Stanley  in  the  firm 
of  Stanley  &  Wilder.  Judge  Wilder  was  one  of  the  organ- 
izers of  the  Bar  Association  of  1899,  and  served  as  its  first 
secretary.  He  did  important  work  as  a  member  of  the 
commissions  appointed  in  1905  and  1915  to  revise  the  laws 
of  Hawaii.  He  always  took  an  active  interest  in  public 
matters  and  in  outdoor  sports,  particularly  in  aquatic  sports, 
and  was  one  of  the  leaders  in  making  Regatta  Day  an 
important  occasion  in  Honolulu.  In  1910  he  was  appointed 
to  the  board  of  regents  of  the  College  of  Hawaii,  and  he 
was  a  member  of  the  Honolulu  Park  Commission  in  1912. 
He  died  by  his  own  hand  at  his  home  in  Honolulu,  January 

4,  1917- 

On  February  14,  1906,  he  was  married  in  that  city  to 
Jane  Kahiwalani  Gilford,  from  w^hom  he  was  later  divorced. 
They  had  no  children.  Mr.  Wilder  is  survived  by  two 
brothers,  two  sisters,  and  a  half-brother.  The  latter, 
Ellwood  Coggeshall  Wilder,  graduated  from  the  SheffieM 
Scientific  School  in  1909. 


Howard  Birdseye  Peck,  LL.B.   1898 

Born  October  7,  1873,  in  Derby,  Conn. 
Died  January  26,  1917,  in  Derby,  Conn. 

Howard  Birdseye  Peck  was  born  October  7,  1873,  in 
Derby,  Conn.,  the  son  of  George  Hobart  Peck,  a  manu- 
facturer. He  was  descended  from  Joseph  Peck,  who  came 
to  this  country  from  England  in  1640,  settling  at  Milford, 


1897-1901  5«>7 

Conn.  His  paternal  grandparents  were  Ephraim  Birdseye 
and  Betsy  (Porter)  Peck,  and  his  mother,  Maria  P. 
(Stilson)  Peck,  was  the  daughter  of  Benjamin  and  Maria 
(Curtis)  Stilson.  The  earliest  ancestor  of  his  mother  to 
settle  in  America  was  Benjamin  Curtis,  who  came  from 
England  to  Newtown,  Conn. 

He  attended  the  Derby  High  School,  the  Cheshire 
(Conn.)  Academy,  and  the  Hopkins  Grammar  School,  and 
took  up  the  study  of  law  at  Yale  in  1894.  In  1896  he  inter- 
rupted his  studies  for  a  year,  and  spent  this  period  at  home. 
Returning  to  New  Haven  in  the  fall  of  1897,  he  completed 
his  course  in  the  School  of  Law  the  following  June. 

He  was  admitted  to  the  bar  of  Connecticut  in  1898,  and 
began  practice  in  Derby  immediately  after  his  graduation. 
Within  two  years  he  was  appointed  assistant  prosecuting 
attorney  of  the  city  court,  and  until  his  death  served  in 
that  capacity  from  time. to  time.  In  1914  he  was  appointed 
judge  of  the  City  Court  to  fill  a  vacancy,  being  elected  by 
the  Legislature  in  191 5  to  fill  out  the  short  term.  Mr.  Peck 
had  been  a  member  of  the  Sinking  Fund  Commission 'of 
Derby  since  1902,  and  was  tax  collector  for  two  terms, 
president  of  the  Derby  and  Shelton  Board  of  Trade  for 
two  years,  and  for  a  long  time  held  a  similar  office  in  the 
Derby  Civic  Club.  He  was  elected  to  the  Connecticut  State 
Legislature  on  the  Democratic  ticket  in  November,  1916. 
He  was  a  member  of  St.  James'  Protestant  Episcopal 
Church  of  Derby. 

Mr.  Peck  had  been  in  poor  health  for  about  six  months, 
and  following  an  attack  of  neuritis  in  the  fall  of  1916 
suffered  a  nervous  breakdown,  from  which  he  did  not 
recover.  His  death  occurred  January  26,  191 7,  at  his  home 
in  Derby,  and  he  was  buried  in  Oak  Clifif  Cemetery. 

He  was  unmarried.  Besides  his  brother,  Irving  H.  Peck, 
who  studied  in  the  Scientific  School  from  1891  to  1893, 
he  is  survived  by  his  mother. 


Charles  Luther  Burnham,  LL.B.   1901 

Born  December  13,  1876,  in  Hartford,  Conn. 
Died  February  28,  1917,  in  New  London,  Conn. 

Charles  Luther  Burnham  was  the  only  child  of  Ralph 
and    Euphrosnia    (Bown)     Burnham,    and    was    born    in 


5°°  SCHOOL    OF    LAW 

Hartford,  Conn.,  December  13,  1876.  His  father  was  a 
manufacturer  of  leather  belting,  and  the  son  of  Asa  Burn- 
ham,  a  descendant  of  Deacon  John  Burnham,  one  of  three 
brothers  who  came  to  America  in  1635  ^^  the  Angel  Gabriel 
and  settled  at  Ipswich,  Mass.  John  Burnham  was  the  son 
of  Robert  Burnham,  born  in  1581,  and  Mary  Andrews,  who 
were  married  in  1608  in  Norwich,  Norfolk  County,  Eng- 
land. Through  his  ancestors  who  fought  in  the  ]?*equot 
War  and  in  the  Revolution,  Charles  L.  Burnham  was 
eligible  to  many  patriotic  organizations,  but  only  became 
a  member  of  the  Society  of  Colonial  Wars. 

He  received  his  preparatory  training  in  the  public  schools 
of  Hartford,  and  in  1894  entered  Trinity  College,  where 
he  was  graduated  four  years  later.  He  was  a  student  in 
the  Yale  School  of  Law  from  1898  to  1901,  receiving  his 
LL.B.  in  the  latter  year. 

He  was  admitted  to  both  the  Conijecticut  and  New  York 
bars  in  the  spring  of  1901 — before  his  graduation  from 
Yale — so  that  he  passed  three  law  examinations  in  six 
months.  He  had  expected  to  enter  the  law  offices  of  Evarts, 
Choate  &  Beaman  of  New  York  City  as  managing  clerk, 
but  the  death  of  Mr.  Evarts  caused  the  dissolution  of  the 
firm,  and  Mr.  Burnham  went  with  one  of  the  partners, 
Mr.  Treadwell  Cleveland,  as  managing  clerk.  In  1902  he 
became  a  member  of  the  law  firm  of  VanWyck,  Mygatt  & 
Burnham.  Later  he  gave  up  the  practice  of  law,  and 
entered  the  brokerage  business.  He  was  a  Republican 
and  much  interested  in  politics  in  the  twenty-ninth  assem- 
bly district  of  New  York,  being  at  one  time  captain  and 
treasurer  of  the  organization.  He  was  a  member  of  Com- 
pany K,  Seventh  Regiment,  New  York  National  Guard,  and 
was  honored  by  having  his  name  placed  on  the  bronze  tab- 
let in  the  company  room.  He  was  an  Episcopalian,  and 
belonged  to  the  Church  of  the  Good  Shepherd,  Hartford, 
and  to  St.  George's  Church,  New  York  City. 

He  died  in  New  London,  Conn.,  February  28,  191 7,  as 
the  result  of  heart  and  lung  trouble.  He  had  lived  in  New 
London,  w^here  he  had  a  summer  home,  since  his  health 
began  to  fail  in  1914. 

Mr.  Burnham  was  married  November  9,  1904,  to  Anna 
Wallace,  daughter  of  George  and  Anna  S.  (Wallace)  Elliott 
of  New  York  City.  She  survives  him  with  three  children, 
Anita,  Natalie,  and  Elliott. 


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Andrew  Chester  Halpin,  LL.B.  1904 

Born  March  26,  1878,  in  Windsor,  Maine 
Died  January  26,  1917,  at  Coopers  Mills,  Maine 

Andrew  Chester  Halpin  was  born  in  Windsor,  Maine, 
March  26,  1878,  the  son  of  John  and  Beulah  (Fibbetts) 
Halpin.  He  studied  in  the  schools  of  his  native  town  and 
at  Phillips  Academy,  Andover,  Mass.,  and  later,  while 
learning  a  trade  in  Lawrence,  Mass.,  attended  an  evening 
school.  He  was  a  student  in  the  Yale  School  of  Law 
from  1901  to  1904,  and  in  his  first  year  was  a  member 
of  the  '05  Freshman  Crew. 

In  addition  to  practicing  law  Mr.  Halpin  had  been 
engaged  in  lumbering  operations  and  in  water  power  devel- 
opment, and  at  one  time  served  as  superintendent,  of  the 
schools  of  Whitefield,  Maine.  In  the  fall  of  1916  he  was 
elected  to  the  county  attorneyship  of  Lincoln  County,  Maine, 
but  was  unable  to  assume  the  duties  of  that  office  owing  to 
ill  health.  He  died,  of  tuberculosis,  January  26,  1917,  at 
his  home  at  Coopers  Mills,  Maine. 


William  Cyril  Holden,  LL.B.   1905 

Born  February  g,  1884,  in  Forestville,  Conn. 
Died  June  17,  1916,  in  Forestville,  Conn. 

William  Cyril  Holden,  son  of  James  Farley  and  Margaret 
(Gillern)  Holden,  was  born  February  9,  1884,  in  Forest- 
ville, Conn.  His  father,  who  has  been  postmaster  of  that 
town  for  twenty-eight  years,  is  the  son  of  Felix  and  Jane 
(Farley)  Holden,  who  came  to  this  country  from  Ireland 
in  1845  and  1850,  respectively,  settling  at  Bristol,  Conn. 
His  mother's  parents,  James  and  Ann  (Dawes)  Gillern, 
emigrated  to  America  from  Ireland  in  1844,  and  settled 
at  Bristol. 

He  attended  grammar  school  in  Forestville,  receiving  his 
high  school  education  in  Bristol,  and  entered  the  Yale 
School  of  Law  in  1902.  He  had  suffered  from  tuberculosis 
since  1904,  and  during  his  Senior  year  was  compelled  by 
the  condition  of  his  health  to  be  absent  from  New  Haven 
for  a  considerable  portion  of  the  time.     His   scholarship 


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5IO  SCHOOL    OF    LAW 

standing  was  such,  however,  that  he  was  able  to  graduate 
with  his  Class. 

Mr.  Holden  spent  the  six  months  after  receiving  his 
degree  in  the  Adirondacks,  and  then  returned  to  Forestville. 
Shortly  afterwards  he  was  admitted  to  the  Connecticut  Bar, 
and  then  became  associated  in  the  practice  of  law  with  his 
uncle,  Benedict  M.  Holden  (LL.B.  1895),  in  Hartford.  In 
the  summer  of  1906  he  was  forced  to  revisit  the  Adiron- 
dacks, but  a  year  later,  having  regained  his  strength  some- 
what, returned  to  Connecticut,  and  was  actively  engaged 
in  his  profession  in  Bristol  until  1912.  In  1910  he  was  a 
member  of  the  commission  which  drafted  the  city  charter, 
serving  as  advising  attorney.  He  was  a  candidate  on  the 
Democratic  ticket  for  representative  to  the  State  Legisla- 
ture in  1910,  but  was  defeated  by  six  votes.  In  the  fall 
of  191 1  he  was  appointed  the  first  corporation  counsel  of 
Bristol.  He  was  compelled  to  resign  from  that  position 
within  a  year,  on  account  of  the  condition  of  his  health, 
and  had  not  since  been  able  to  follow  his  profession. 

He  spent  the  remainder  of  his  life  quietly  at  his  parents' 
home  in  Forestville,  where  he  died  June  17,  1916.  Inter- 
ment was  in  St.  Joseph's  Cemetery  at  Bristol. 

Mr.  Holden  was  a  Roman  Catholic,  and  a  communicant 
of  St.  Matthew's  Church  of  Forestville.  He  was  unmarried. 
His  parents  survive  him. 


Francis  Dustin  Hurtt,  LL.B.   1907 

Born  August  31,  1855,  in  Springfield,  Ohio 
Died  May  29,  1917 

It  has  been  impossible  to  secure  the  desired  information 
for  an  obituary  sketch  of  Mr.  Hurtt  in  time  for  publication 
in  this  volume.  A  sketch  will  appear  in  a  subsequent  issue 
of  the  Obituary  Record. 


SCHOOL  OF  RELIGION 
Simon  Byron  Hershey,  B.D.   1874 

Born  September  21,  1847,  in  Marshallville,  Ohio 
Died  February  10,  1917,  in  Ashtabula,  Ohio 

Simon  Byron  Hershey  was  born  September  21,  1847, 
in  Marshallville,  Ohio,  the  son  of  Benjamin  Hershey,  a 
native  of  Lancaster,  Pa.,  and  Susannah  (Wellhouse) 
Hershey,  who  was  born  in  Ohio.  His  preparatory  training 
was  received  at  the  district  school  in  Marshallville  and  at 
Otterbein  University,  Westerville,  Ohio.  He  entered  Ober- 
lin  in  1868,  receiving  the  degree  of  B.A.  in  1870,  and  spent 
the  next  three  years  at  Oberlin  Theological  Seminary.  He 
was  enrolled  in  the  Theological  Department  at  Yale  during 
1873-74,  being  given  the  degree  of  Bachelor  of  Divinity  in 
the  latter  year. 

On  October  27,  1874,  Mr.  Hershey  was  ordained  to  the 
ministry  at  the  West  Street  Congregational  Church,  Dan- 
bury,  Conn.,  where  he  remained  as  pastor  until  June,  1881. 
He  traveled  in  Europe  during  the  next  few  months,  but  in 
January,  1882,  accepted  the  charge  of  the  First  Congre- 
gational Church  at  Ashtabula,  Ohio.  He  spent  the  next 
fourteen  years  in  that  city,  removing  to  Ashland,  Ohio, 
in  the  winter  of  1895.  He  served *as  pastor  of  the  Ashland 
Congregational  Church  until  September,  1897,  at  that  time 
becoming  manager  of  the  Central  Lyceum  Bureau  in  Cleve- 
land. It  was  while  in  Danbury  that  he  first  saw  the  neces- 
sity and  possibilities  of  the  lecture  platform  as  a  means 
of  higher  entertainment  and  better  education  for  the  people. 
He  then  urged  the  liberal  use  of  the  church  and  pulpit  for 
that  purpose,  and  long  before  he  devoted  himself  to  lyceum 
work,  he  brought  to  many  communities  at  a  nominal  cost 
the. most  noted  lecturers  and  musicians  of  the  country.  He 
was  the  originator  of  the  "Circuit  idea"  of  establishing 
and  furnishing  lecture  courses  and  Chautaucjuas  to  various 
towns  and  communities  throughout  the  country.  In  1900 
he  removed  to  Rochester,  N.  Y.,  to  take  charge  of  the 
local  Lyceum  Bureau.  About  a  year  later  the  Central 
Lyceum  Bureau  enlarged  its  scope  and  established  offices  in 


512  SCHOOL    OF    RELIGION 

various  sections  of  the  country,  Mr.  Hershey  being  made 
general  manager  of  the  main  office  at  Rochester. 

His  death  occurred  February  lo,  19 17,  in  Ashtabula,  as 
the  result  of  arterio  sclerosis,  complicated  by  heart  disease. 
He  was  buried  in  Chestnut  Grove  Cemetery,  Ashtabula. 

Mr.  Hershey  was  married  in  Oberlin,  Ohio,  August  18, 
1874,  to  Thirza  Electa,  daughter  of  Homer  Johnson,  M.D., 
and  Anne  Abiah  (Pierce)  Johnson.  They  had  no  children. 
Mr.  Hershey  is  survived  by  his  wife,  who  was  a  student 
at  Oberlin  College  for  several  years. 


David  Gochenauer,  B.D.   1876 

Born  September  18,  1843,  in  Shippensburg,  Pa. 
Died  February  20,  1917,  in  San  Diego,  Calif. 

David  Gochenauer  was  born  in  Shippensburg,  Pa.,  Sep- 
tember 18,  1843.  P>efore  attaining  his  majority,  he  joined 
Company  G,  Two  Hundred  and  Second  Pennsylvania 
Infantry,  and  served  with  it  throughout  the  Civil  War, 
being  twice  wounded.  He  at  first  ranked  as  a  first  lieu- 
tenant, but  was  later  promoted  to  be  captain.  After  being 
mustered  out  of  service,  Mr.  Gochenauer  entered  the  Medi- 
cal Department  of  the  University  of  Pennsylvania.  He 
received  the  degree  of  M.D.  in  1868,  and  for  the  next 
few  years  was  engaged  in  special  work  in  his  profession 
in  New  York  City.  From  1873  to  1876  he  was  a  student 
in  the  Yale  School  of  Religion. 

During  the  four  years  following  his  graduation  from 
Yale  he  was  pastor  of  a  church  at  Ellis,  Kans.  He  then 
resumed  the  practice  of  medicine,  being  located  in  New 
York  City  in  1880-81  and  at  Socorro,  N.  Mex.,  for  the 
next  five  years.  During  part  of  this  latter  period  he  also 
filled  the  position  of  state  superintendent  of  public  instruc- 
tion. With  the  exception  of  two  years,  his  home  had  been 
in  San  Diego,  Calif.,  since  1886.  Some  years  ago  he 
organized  and  became  president  of  the  San  Diego  Rapid 
Transit  Street  Car  Company,  which  is  said  to  have  been 
one  of  the  first  electric  street  car  systems  in  the  United 
States.  He  was  for  a  time  manager  of  the  San  Diego  Sun, 
but  after  a  year  returned  to  the  practice  of  his  profession, 
in  which  he   continued  until  his  death.     Dr.   Gochenauer 


1874-1876  5^3 

had  at  different  times  served  as  health  officer,  county 
physician,  and  city  physician,  and  as  a  member  of  the  San 
Diego  Board  of  Health.  He  founded  and  built  the  Agnew 
Sanitarium  in  that  city  in  1892.  He  was  the  president 
of  the  Chamber  of  Commerce  in  1897,  and  had  for  many 
years  been  actively  identified  with  Republican  politics,  at 
one  time  being  chairman  of  the  County  Central  Committee. 

His  health  had  not  been  good  for  several  years,  but  his 
sudden  death  on  February  20,  1917,  at  his  home  in  San 
Diego,  following  an  attack  of  acute  indigestion,  was 
entirely  imexpected. 

Dr.  Gochenauer  married  Mary  L.  Grove  of  Baltimore, 
Md.,  who  survives  him  without  children. 


George  Herbert  Grannis,  B.D.   1876 

Born  July  29,  1850,  in  Oberlin,  Ohio 
Died  April  11,  1915,  in  Plymouth,  Pa. 

George  Herbert  Grannis  was  born  in  Oberlin,  Ohio,  July 
29,  1850,  the  son  of  Horace  Roscoe  Grannis,  a  graduate 
of  Oberlin  College  in  1842  and  of  Oberlin  Theological 
Seminary  in  1845,  ^^^  Electa  Salina  (Pease)  Grannis.  He 
studied  in  the  preparatory  department  of  Oberlin  College 
from  1866  to  1868,  pursuing  the  course  leading  to  the 
B.A.  degree  for  the  next  four  years.  In  1873,  after  teach- 
ing for  a  year,  he  entered  the  Theological  Department  at 
Yale,  and  received  the  degree  of  Bachelor  of  Divinity  in 
1876. 

He  was  ordained  to  the  Congregational  ministry  at  St. 
Clair,  Mich.,  in  November,  1876,  and  spent  five  years  there 
as  pastor.  From  1881  to  1885  he  filled  a  pastorate  at 
Ypsilanti,  Mich.,  and  in  1886^  after  studying  for  a  time  at 
Andover  Theological  Seminary,  he  was  located  at  Rogers 
Park,  Ark.  He  then  accepted  a  call  to  the  Third  Congre- 
gational Church  of  St.  Louis,  Mo.,  where  he  preached  until 
November,  1891,  his  next  charge,  covering  a  period  of 
four  years,  being  at  Windsor  Park,  Chicago,  111.  From 
1896  to  1899  he  was  pastor  of  the  Congregational  Church 
at  Grossdale,  111.,  and  the  next  year  was  engaged  in  Lyceum 
Bureau  work  there.  Mr.  Grannis  was  in  business  in  Chi- 
cago   from    1900   to    1907.      The   next    seven   years   were 


514  SCHOOL    OF    RELIGION 

Spent  as  pastor  of  Brightwood  Church,  IndianapoHs,  Ind. 
His  last  charge  was  in  Plymouth,  Pa.,  where  he  held  the 
pastorate  of  the  Elm  Congregational  Church  from  August, 
1914,  until  his  death  on  April  it,  1915.  He  died  in  Plym- 
outh as  the  result  of  congestion  of  the  liver.  Interment 
was  in  Oberlin. 

Mr.  Grannis  was  married  December  6,  1888,  in  Memphis, 
Tenn.,  to  Agnes  F.,  daughter  of  Columbus  D.  and  Maria  S. 
Conway.  She  survives  him  with  three  children:  Herbert 
Conway,  Lester  Bruce,  and  Bertha  Ellen.  A  daughter, 
Marcella,  died  August  28,  191 1. 


William  Tucker  Hutchins,  B.D.   1876 

Born  January  20,  1849,  in  Springfield,  Mass. 
Died  February  i,  1917,  in  New  Haven,  Conn. 

William  Tucker  Hutchins,  son  of  James  Spalding  and 
Julia  Maria  (Morrill)  Hutchins,  was  born  in  Springfield, 
Mass.,  January  20,  1849.  He  was  a  student  at  Yale  for 
three  years,  graduating  from  the  School  of  Religion  in 
1876. 

Mr.  Hutchins  had  been  engaged  in  ministerial  work 
almost  entirely  since  that  time.  He  was  ordained  December 
20,  1876,  at  Westchester,  Conn.,  where  he  remained  as 
pastor  for  nearly  three  years.  From  1881  to  1884  he 
served  as  city  missionary  at  New  Haven,  Conn.  His  next 
pastorate  was  at  West  Torrington,  Conn.,  where  he  v/as 
located  until  1886.  In  that  year  he  accepted  a  call  to 
Ellington,  Conn.,  leaving  his  charge  in  that  town  in  1892 
to  become  pastor  at  Indian  Orchard,  Mass.  After  severing 
his  connection  in  the  latter  place,  he  was  for  a  time  engaged 
in  lecturing  at  Springfield,  and  then  removed  to  California, 
being  settled  over  a  church  at  Santa  Rosa  soon  afterwards. 
Returning  to  the  East  about  1910,  he  became  pastor  at 
Millbury,  Mass.,  and  was  later  located  in  Francestown, 
N.  H.  He  died  by  his  own  hand  February  i,  191 7,  in 
New  Haven,  Conn. 

He  was  a  brother  of  Rev.  Henry  Learned  Hutchins 
(B.A.  1870,  B.D.  1873),  who  died  in  1903,  and  the  uncle 
of  Henry  H.  Sykes,  Edward  J.  Hutchins,  and  Harold  L. 
Hutchins,  graduates  of  the  Scientific  School  in  1889,  1904, 


1876-1880  515 

and  1909,  respectively,  and  of  Albert  E.  Hutchins  (B.A. 
1913).  A  niece  married  Frank  S.  Meara  (B.A.  1890,  Ph.D. 
1892,  M.D.  Columbia  1895). 


John  Edward  Russell,  B.D.   1880 

Born  January  8,  1848,  in  Walpole,  N.  H. 
Died  February  25,  1917,  in  Williamstown,  Mass. 

John  Edward  Russell  was  born  in  Walpole,  N.  H.,  Janu- 
ary 8,  1848,  his  parents  being  John  Benjamin  Russell,  a 
farmer,  and  Lucy  Ormsby  (Hooper)  Russell.  His  father 
was  the  son  of  David  and  Mary  A.  (Wheeler)  Russell. 
The  Russells  were  an  English  family  of  Norman  descent, 
the  first  American  representative  of  which  settled  here  in 
the  eighteenth  century.  John  E.  Russell's  grandmother 
was  a  descendant  of  Elizabeth  Catlin,  who  was  taken  cap- 
tive as  a  child  in  the  Deerfield  (Mass.)  massacre  of  1704 
and  taken  to  Canada  by  the  Indians.  Her  family  were  all 
killed  before  her  eyes.  She  later  married  James  Battis 
Dumont,  an  officer  on  Montcalm's  staff.  Lucy  Ormsby 
(Hooper)  Russell  traced  her  descent  to  Levi  Hooper,  born 
in  1742  in  Bridgewater,  Mass.  He  was  a  soldier  in  the  last 
French  War.  Her  parents  were  Elisha  and  Jemima  Snell 
(Ormsby)  Hooper. 

His  early  education  was  received  in  public  schools  and 
at  Meriden,  N.  H.  In  1869  he  entered  Dartmouth  College, 
but  left  after  two  years,  completing  his  college  course  in 
1872  at  Williams,  where  he  belonged  to  Phi  Beta  Kappa. 
He  spent  the  year  after  receiving  his  degree  at  Wil- 
liams as  principal  of  Berwick  Academy  at  Berwick,  Maine. 
He  then  began  his  studies  for  the  ministry  at  Andover 
Theological  Seminary,  remaining  there  for  two  years.  He 
was  licensed  to  preach  in  1875,  ^"<^  ^or  the  next  three  years 
served  as  pastor  of  the  Congregational  Church  at  Putney, 
Vt.  The  next  year  was  spent  in  study  and  teaching  and 
during  1879-80  he  was  a  student  in  the  Yale  School  of 
Religion.  He  was  given  the  degree  of  B.D.  in  1880,  and 
for  the  next  two  years  pursued  graduate  studies  at  Yale, 
supplying  the  Congregational  Church  at  Farmington,  Conn., 
during  the  summer  of  1881,  and  preaching  for  some  weeks 
at  North  Canaan,  Conn.,  the   following  winter.     He  was 


5l6  SCHOOL    OF    RELIGION 

granted  an  M.A.  degree  by  Williams  in  1882,  and  then 
supplied  the  Congregational  Church  in  Dalton,  Mass.,  for 
a  year.  He  spent  the  year  of  1883-84  at  the  University  of 
Berlin,  specializing  in  philosophy  and  theology.  In  1884 
he  was  appointed  to  an  instructorship  in  New  Testament 
Biblical  theology  at  Yale,  the  next  year  being  promoted  to 
be  professor  of  Biblical  theology.  He  held  that  chair  until 
1889,  and  since  that  time  had  been  professor  of  moral  and 
intellectual  philosophy  at  Williams  College,  where  he  had 
previously  served  for  two  years  (1884  to  1886)  as  lecturer 
on  the  history  of  philosophy.  He  spent  the  year  of  1899- 
19GO  traveling  in  Europe.  He  lectured  on  the  philosophy 
of  religion  at  the  Harvard  Divinity  School  during  1893-94, 
preached  at  the  University  of  Chicago  for  three  weeks  in 
the  winter  of  1907,  and  was  appointed  a  lecturer  there  for 
the  summer  quarter  of  1908,  lecturing  upon  "The  Ultimate 
Conceptions  of  Alodern  Physical  Science"  and  ''The  Ethics 
of  Evolution."  He  had  written  a  number  of  magazine 
articles,  notable  among  which  were  his  controversies  upon 
pragmatism  with  Dr.  William  James  and  Dr.  Schiller  of 
Oxfo'rd,  and  was  the  author  of  several  books,  including 
one  on  "The  Philosophy  of  Locke,"  "A  First  Course  in 
Philosophy,"  and  "An  Elementary  Logic."  He  was  a 
member  of  the  American  Philosophical  Society,  the  Amer- 
ican Psychological  Society,  and  the  Congregational  Church. 
Yale  conferred  an  honorary  M.A.  upon  him  in  1885. 

Professor  Russell  died  February  25,  1917,  in  Williams- 
town,  Mass.,  after  an  illness  of  nearly  seven  weeks  due  to 
an  organic  trouble.  He  was  l)uried  in  the  College  Cemetery 
at  Williamstown. 

His  marriage  took  place  in  Minneapolis,  Minn.,  Septem- 
ber 7,  1882,  to  Abbie  Louise,  daughter  of  Haynes  E.  and 
Fanny  (Eager)  Baker.  They  had  two  children,  Frances 
Baker  and  Marion  Haynes.  Professor  Russell  is  survived 
by  his  wife  and  daughters. 


Alfred  Playfair  Powelson,  B.D.   1882 

Born  July  7,  1851,  in  Plainfield,  Ohio 
Died  December  16,  1916,  in  Tacoma,  Wash. 

Alfred  Playfair  Powelson  was  born  in  Plainfield,  Ohio, 
July  7,   1 85 1,  the  son  of  Valentine  Johnson   Powelson,  a 


i88o-i882  517 

farmer,  and  Ellen  Hilton  (Thorp)  Powelson.  On  the 
paternal  side,  he  was  of  English  descent,  his  ancestors  hav- 
ing settled  in  Virginia  many  years  ago.  His  mother's 
people  came  from  Holland  and  England,  and  settled  in 
Germantown,  Pa.,  and  near  Jamestown,  Va.  His  father 
was  the  son  of  Conrad  and  Kate  (Johnson)   Powelson. 

In  1871  he  entered  Adrian  College  at  Adrian,  Mich., 
having  previously  studied  in  its  preparatory  department, 
and  four  years  later  received  the  degree  of  B.A.  On 
August  31,  1875,  he  w^as  ordained  at  Mechanicsburg,  as  an 
evangelist  of  the  Methodist  Protestant  Church,  and  from 
that  time  until  1879  preached  in  Rich  wood,  Middlebury, 
and  Lebanon,  Ohio.  During  the  next  four  years  he  was 
a  student  in  the  Yale  School  of  Religion,  taking  the  degree 
of  Bachelor  of  Divinity  there  in  1882.  In  1880  he  had 
received  an  M.A.  from  Adrian,  and  in  1896  he  took  his 
doctorate  there  for  work  in  history  and  philosophy. 

On  May  19,  1883,  Mr.  Powelson  became  pastor  of  the 
First  Congregational  Church  at  Woodbury,  Conn.,  where 
he  was  located  until  1887.  During  the  following  year  he 
supplied  the  pulpit  of  the  First  Congregational  Church  of 
Tacoma,  Wash.,  and  in  October,  1888,  accepted  a  call  to 
Ellensburg,  Wash.  He  held  the  charge  of  the  First  Con- 
gregational Church  in  that  city  for  a  year.  The  remainder 
of  his  life  had  been  spent  in  educational  work.  From 
1889  to  1898  he  served  as  principal  of  Tacoma  Academy, 
after  which  he  was  for  seven  years  president  of  the  College 
of  the  City  of  Tacoma.  During  the  latter  years  of  his 
life  Dr.  Powelson  was  a  member  of  the  First  Congrega- 
tional Church  of  Tacoma. 

He  died  December  16,  1916,  in  that  city,  after  a  five  days' 
illness  of  pneumonia.  Burial  was  in  Woodlawn  Cemetery, 
[Tacoma. 

His  marriage  took,  place  in  Woodbury,  Conn.,  April  6, 
J1887,  to  Laura  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  David  Samuel  and 
Lucy  (deForest)  Bull.  They  had  four  children,  Valentine 
[Johnson,  Elizabeth,  Alfred  Playfair,  and  Lucy.  Mrs. 
[Powelson  survives  her  husband,  and  he  also  leaves  four 
[brothers,  one  of  whom,  Morgan  Everett  Powelson,  received 
tthe  degrees  of  B.A.  and  M.A.  from  Lafayette  College  in 
,1889,  and  graduated  from  the  Yale  School  of  Religion  in 
'1892. 


5i8         •  SCHOOL  OF  religion 


George  Foster  Prentiss,  B.D.   1887 

Born  September  28,  1858,  in  Windham,  Vt. 
Died  November  3,  1916,  in  Florence,  Mass. 

.George  Foster  Prentiss  was  the  son  of  Asahel  Omar 
and  Hannah  Silsbee  (Johnson)  Prentiss,  and  was  born  in 
Windham,  Vt.,  September  20,  1858.  Through  his  father, 
whose  parents  were  Reuben  Prentiss,  Jr.,  and  Roxana 
(Upham)  Prentiss,  he  traced  his  descent  to  John  Upham, 
who  settled  in  Massachusetts  in  1635  and  whose  son, 
Phineas,  was  a  lieutenant  in  King  Philip's  War.  His 
mother  was  the  daughter  of  Cyrus  and  Hephzibah  (Page) 
Johnson,  and  a  descendant  of  Capt.  Timothy  Johnson,  who 
came  to  America  from  Kent  County,  England,  about  1670 
and  settled  at  Andover,  Mass.  He  had  at  least  three 
ancestors  who  served  in  the  Revolution — Jonathan  Upham, 
Nathan  Page,  and  Reuben  Prentiss.  An  uncle  fought  in 
the  Civil  War. 

He  received  his  early  education  in  the  preparatory  depart- 
ment of  Oberlin  College  and  at  the  Monson  (Mass.)  Acad- 
emy. In  1880  he  entered  Amherst  College,  taking  his  B.A. 
there  four  years  later.  He  was  a  student  in  the  Yale  School 
of  Religion  from  1884  to  1887. 

Mr.  Prentiss  was  ordained  to  the  ministry  of  the  Con- 
gregational Church  at  Bridgeport,  Conn.,  in  May  of  that 
year,  and  until  December,  1893,  served  as  pastor  of  the 
W^st  End  Church.  His  next  charge  was  in  Winsted,  in 
that  state,  where  he  was  located  for  four  years.  He  closed 
his  labors  there  in  December,  1897,  and  the  following  month 
accepted  a  call  to  Davenport  Church,  New  Haven.  He 
served  that  church  for  eight  years.  From  November,  1906. 
to  September,  1907,  he  was  pastor  of  the  Congregational 
Church  at  Cambridge,  N.  Y.  He  went  from  there  to 
Schenectady,  N.  Y.,  where  he  was  pastor  of  the  Jay  Street 
Congregational  Church  for  four  years.  About  six  months 
before  he  left  Schenectady,  this  church  united  with  the 
People's  Church,  forming  the  United  People's  Church,  and 
of  this  latter  organization  Mr.  Prentiss  became  associate 
pastor.  During  1910-11  he  served  as  moderator  of  the 
Hudson  River  Association  of  Congregational  Churches. 
His  last  charge  was  that  of  the  Florence  Church  at  North- 


1887-1892  5 '9 

ampton,  Mass.,  to  which  he  had  been  called  five  years  before 
his  death. 

Mr.  Prentiss  had  unusual  musical  gifts,  which  proved 
of  great  value  to  him  in  his  work.  While  pastor  of  Daven- 
port Church,  he  served  as  president  of  the  New  Haven 
Oratorio  Society,  and  in  Schenectady  he  was  president  of 
the  Philharmonic  Choral  Society  and  musical  editor  of 
the  Citizen. 

He  died  at  his  home  in  Florence,  November  3,  19 16,  the 
direct  cause  of  his  death  being  anaemia,  which  came  as 
the  result  of  a  nervous  breakdown.  Burial  was  in  the 
Center  Cemetery  in  his  native  town. 

His  marriage  took  place  June  28,  1887,  in  Derby,  Conn., 
to  Sarah  A.,  daughter  of  Lucius  and  Mary  (Naramore) 
Gilbert.  They  had  no  children.  Besides  his  wife,  Mr. 
Prentiss  is  survived  by  his  mother,  two  sisters,  and  a 
brother. 


Richard  Owen,  B.D.   1892 

Born  March  18,  1863,  in  Nevin,  Wales 
Died  April  30,  1916,  near  Cobourg,  Ont.,  Canada 

Richard  Owen  was  born  March  18,  1863,  in  Nevin, 
Wales,  and  before  coming  to  this  country  in  1884  attended 
Bristol  Institute  and  W^estern  College,  the  latter  institution 
being  located  at  Plymouth,  England.  He  was  graduated 
from  Marietta  College  with  the  degree  of  B.A.  in  1889, 
and  spent  the  next  three  years  pursuing  theological  studies 
at  Yale,  where  he  received  the  degree  of  Bachelor  of 
Divinity  in  1892. 

In  that  year  he  was  ordained  to  the  Congregational  min- 
istry at  Cherryfield,  Maine,  and  served  as  pastor  there  until 
1895.  His  later  pastorates  were  at  Bar  Harbor,  Maine 
(1895- 1903);  Spring  Valley,  N.  Y.  (1904-06);  Hyannis 
and  West  Yarmouth,  Mass.  (1906-10);  Hinesburg,  Vt. 
(1910-14).  He  was  obhged  to  retire  from  active  ser- 
vice in  1914  on  account  of  ill  health,  and  died  April  30, 
1916,  near  Cobourg,  Ont.,  Canada,  of  ansemia.  He  was 
unmarried. 


520  SCHOOL    OF    RELIGION 

Henry  Martin  Goddard,  B.D.   1893 

Born  May  3,  1869,  in  Ludlow,  Vt. 
Died  May  13,  1917,  in  Boston,  Mass. 

Henry  Martin  Goddard,  whose  parents  were  Martin 
Henry  Goddard,  a  lawyer,  and  Emma  Armena  (Wilder) 
Goddard,  was  born  in  Ludlow,  Vt.,  May  3,  1869.  His 
mother  was  the  daughter  of  Ransel  and  Armena  (White) 
Wilder. 

He  was  fitted  for  college  at  the  Black  River  Academy 
in  his  native  town,  from  which  he  entered  Middlebury  in 
1886.  He  became  a  member  of  Phi  Beta  Kappa  there,  and 
in  1890  received  his  B.A.  degree.  In  the  fall  of  that  year 
he  began  the  study  of  theology  at  Yale. 

The  six  years  following  his  graduation  from  Yale  in 
1893  were  spent  as  pastor  of  the  Congregational  churches 
at  South  Royalton  and  Royalton,  Vt.  He  was  ordained  at 
South  Royalton  in  January,  1894.  In  1899  he  was  called 
to  West  Concord,  N.  H.,  where  he  filled  the  pastorate  of 
the  West  Congregational  Church  for  eight  years.  From 
1907  to  1913  he  was  pastor  at  Essex,  Mass.,  and  during 
the  remainder  of  his  life  he  preached  at  the  Congregational 
Church  in  North  Reading,  Mass. 

His  death  occurred  at  the  Peter  Bent  Brigham  Hospital 
in  Boston,  Mass.,  May  13,  19 17,  following  an  operation 
for  cancer.    Burial  was  in  his  native  town. 

On  October  2,  1895,  he  was  married  in  Ludlow,  to  Lena 
Augusta,  daughter  of  Darwin  Ranny  and  Mary  Etta  (John- 
son) Sargent.  She  survives  him  with  three  children :  Paul 
Martin,  Helen  Verona,  and  Dwight  Sargent. 


John  Arend  Timm,  B.D.   1902 

Born  June  8,  i860,  in  New  York  City- 
Died  August  24,  1916,  in  Woodmont,  Conn, 

John  Arend  Timm  was  born  June  8,  i860,  in  New  York 
City,  his  parents  being  Arend  and  Anna  (Brickwedell) 
Timm.  His  father  was  engaged  in  business  as  an  under- 
taker in  that  city.  After  receiving  his  early  education  in 
the    public    schools    of    New    York,    he    entered    Neparan 


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College  there  in  1873.  He  was  graduated  from  that  insti- 
tution in  1878  and  from  the  Lutheran  Theological  Sem- 
inary, Philadelphia,  Pa.,  three  years  later. 

He  was  ordained  as  a  Lutheran  minister  in  1881,  shortly 
becoming  pastor  of  St.  Peter's  Church  at  Verona,  N.  Y., 
where  he  remained  for  three  years.  He  held  the  charge 
of  the  First  German  Lutheran  Church  at  Lyons,  N.  Y., 
from  1884  to  1893,  in  October  of  the  latter  year  removing 
to  New  Haven,  Conn.,  where  he  had  accepted  a  call  to 
Trinity  German  Lutheran  Church.  This  congregation  was 
comparatively  small  when  he  first  took  up  his  work  in  New 
Haven,  but  during  his  pastorate  of  nearly  twenty-three 
years  it  had  rapidly  increased,  and  the  church  had  been 
very  prosperous. 

Mr.  Timm  was  a  student  in  the  Yale  School  of  Religion 
from  1901  to  1906,  and  during  the  last  four  years  of  this 
period  he  also  pursued  courses  in  Biblical  literature  and 
the  Semitic  languages  in  the  Graduate  School.  He  received 
the  degree  of  Bachelor  of  Divinity  from  Yale  in  1902.  He 
had  given  some  time  to  private  tutoring  in  German.  He 
served  as  a  member  of  the  Board  of  Municipal  Library 
Commissioners  of  New  Haven  for  eleven  years,  being  its 
secretary  from  1906  until  his  death,  and  was  president 
of  the  Lutheran  Conference  in  Connecticut.  He  had  also 
been  a  member  of  the  examining  board  of  the  Lutheran 
Ministerium  of  New  York  City.  He  was  a  member  of  the 
New  Haven  Colony  Historical  Society  and  active  in  the 
work  of  the  Organized  Charities  of  Connecticut. 

He  died  very  suddenly,  as  the  result  of  a  cerebral  hemor- 
rhage, August  24,  1916,  in  Woodmont,  Conn.,  where  he  was 
spending  the  summer.  Interment  was  in  Evergreen  Ceme- 
tery, New  Haven. 

Mr.  Timm  was  married  in  New  York  City,  July  6,  1882, 
to  Emma,  daughter  of  Frederic  and  Wilhelmena  (Rass- 
man)  Stone.  She  survives  him  with  their  three  children. 
Vera  Anna,  a  graduate  of  Mount  Holyoke  College  in  1906; 
Alexander  Berthold  (B.A.  1910,  M.D.  New  York  Univer- 
sity 1915),  and  John  Arend,  a  member  of  the  Class  of  1919 
in  the  Sheffield  Scientific  School.  Mr.  Timm  also  leaves 
three  brothers,  all  residents  of  Bayonne,  N.  J.,  and  one 
sister,  who  lives  in  South  Hadley,  Mass. 


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Members  of  the  Scientific  and  Graduate  Schools,    and    of   the    Schools    of  Fine   Arts, 

Laiv,  Medicine,  and  Religion  are  indicated  by  the  letters  s,  ma,  art,  I,  m, 

and  d,  respectively. 

Class 

1872  .v  Abbott,  Jacob  J. 

1865  Adams,  Ehiier  B. 
1857  Adams,  Whittlesey 
1888  /  Alderman,  Allen  C 
1883^  Allen,  John  A. 
1904  Anderson, 

Chfistopher  M. 

1893  Anderson,  Joseph 

1894.9  Anderson,  Richard  C. 

1880  Ayer,  Frank  H. 

1896.?  Barnett,  John  McG. 

1915  Barrell,  John  W. 

1910  Bean,  Harold  W. 
i860  Beckley,  John  W. 

1873  Beebe,  William 
1867  Beecher,  Eugene  F. 
1914  Bergen,  Francis 

1881  s  Bigelow,  Frank  L. 

1895  ,9  Bookwalter,  John  A. 
1902  Bourn,  William  G. 

1866  Bowen,  Marcellus 
1885  Bridgman,  John  C. 
1855  Bronson,  Samuel  L. 
1875  Brooks,  J.  Wilton 

1896  Brown,  Alexander 
1878  .y  Brown,  Fayette  W. 
1861  Brown,  Hubert  S. 

1900  Bruce,  Kenneth 

1897  s  Bryson,  James  H. 
1852  Buck,  Edward 

1901  I  Burnham,  Charles  L. 
1883  Burton,  George  L. 
1865  Bushnell,  William  B. 

1870.9  Calvert,  Thomas  E. 

1901  Carleton,  Howard 

1851  Carrier,  Augustus  H. 

191 1  Carter,  Thomas  W. 
1859  Catlin,  Hasket  D. 
1878  Charlton.  Paul 
1871  Chase,  Frederick  S. 
1901  Cheney,  Thomas  L. 
1865  Churchill.  Henry 
i8si7  in  Clary,  George 
1881  Coleman,  John  C 


Page 

Class 

Page 

444 

■  1909  ma  Copenhaver,  G.  Edward 

484 

304 

1888/ 

Cundall,  Clarence  E. 

502 

278 

1904.9 

Curtis,  Joseph 

471 

501 

1852 

Cutter,  Ephraim 

263 

452 

1895^ 

Cutting,  James  D'W. 

460 

421 

1879 

Daggett,  David 

363 

401 

1904 

Dangler,  Henry  C. 

422 

456 

1871 

Darlington,  O'Hara 

330 

370 

1877 

Davis,  Frederick  W. 

359 

1876 

Dawes,  Chester  M. 

353 

464 

1901 

Doudge,  Barton  T. 

414 

433 

1857 

Duer,  Edward  L. 

279 

428 

287 

1879 

Eddy,  Newell  A. 

365 

341 

1863 

Eglin,  Benjamin 

294 

313 

[907 

Ely,  Arthur  E. 

425 

432 

:S72s 

Evans,  William  D. 

446 

450 

459 

1880 

Farwell,  Asa  J. 

371 

418 

862  / 

Fay,  George  A. 

500 

311 

1910 

Fenton,  Kenneth  L. 

428 

389 

[902 

FitzGerald,  Edward 

420 

271 

^882 

Foster,  Burnside 

377 

350 

1869 

Freeman,  Henry  V. 

323 

404 

447 

1854 

Gale,  Samuel  C. 

268 

288 

1916.9 

Gleason,  Frederic  C. 

482 

410 

1876  d 

Gochenauer,  David 

512 

467 

1893  d 

Goddard,  Henry  M. 

520 

262 

1876  rf 

Grannis,  George  H. 

513 

507 

1868 

Greene,  J.  Warren 

317 

380 

1899^ 

Gregory,  Ward  S. 

468 

306 

1863.9 

Hague,  Arnold 

438 

443 

1866 

Hale,  Albert  F. 

312 

411 

1862 

Hall,  Elliot  C. 

290 

258 

1904/ 

Halpin,  Andrew  C. 

509 

430 

1857 

Hand,  Alfred 

280 

285 

r86i 

Han  ford,  Walter 

289 

361 

1856 

Harriott,  Alexis  W. 

275 

329 

1856 

Harris,  William  J. 

276 

412 

1893  ^ 

Haslehurst,  Howard  J. 

456 

308 

1896 

Hatch,  George  B. 

406 

489 

1874  rf 

Hershey,  S.  Byron 

511 

373 

1887 

Hill,  George  E. 

393 

532 

INDEX 

Class 

Page 

Class 

Page 

1849 

Hittell,  Theodore  H. 

257 

1912 

Perkins,  Clarence  L. 

431 

1879  <? 

Hoard,  Charles  deV. 

449 

1895 

Phelps,  George  A. 

402 

1905/ 

Holden,  William  C. 

509 

1882 

Pollock,  William 

379 

1894^ 

Holly,  Henry  H. 

458 

1872 

Pomeroy,  H.  Sterling 

338  1 

1891/ 

Hotchkiss,  Samuel  S. 

502 

1888 

Pomroy,  Frederic  H. 

395  i 

1874 

Howe,  Daniel  R. 

344 

1908 

Porter,  Eliot  H. 

426 

1871 

Howe,  John  K. 

331 

1882  rf 

Powelson,  Alfred  P. 

516 

1880  m 

Howland,  Charles  H. 

492 

1899  ar^  Pratt,  Bela  L. 

486 

185 1 

Hughes,  George  R.  H. 

260 

1864 

Pratt,  William  H.  B. 

298 

1876 

Hunn,  Joseph  S. 

355 

1887  rf 

Prentice,  George  F, 

518 

1907/ 

Hurtt,  Francis  D. 

510 

1876  rf 

Hutchins,  William  T. 

514 

1892  J 

Quinn,  Harry  R. 

455 

1871 

Jewell,  George  C. 

333 

1906 

Rayworth,  Joseph  C. 

423 

1903  ma  Johnson,  Hjalmar  P. 

484 

1909  >y 

Rend,  Frank  A. 

478 

1868 

Robbins,  Thomas  H. 

320 

1897 

Keator,  Harry  M. 

407 

1895  <y 

Robinson,  Charles  L.  F. 

461 

1858 

Kimball,  John  E. 

283 

1875 

Rogers,  Edward  H. 

352 

1896  m 

Kingsbury,  William  S. 

496 

i86o.y 

Rogers,  Joseph  A. 

437 

1907  s 

Kinney,  Gilmore,  Jr. 

474 

1915  s 

Rosenfeld,  Lee  W. 

481 

1871 

Kinney,  Herbert  E. 

334 

1914J 

Rush,  Lowell  P. 

479 

1880  d 

Russell,  John  E. 

515 

1904  m 

Lane,  Fred  P. 

497 

1916 

Lanpher,  Richard 

434 

1895 

Sayles,  Nelson  W. 

403 

1859/ 

Latta,  John 

499 

1874 

Sayles,  Whipple  0. 

345 

1886 

Leavitt,  Dudley 

392 

1900^ 

Schley,  Chaloner  B. 

470 

1862  m 

Lines,  Jairus  F. 

492 

1865 

Scranton,  William  W. 

309 

1868 

Linn,  William  A. 

318 

1891 

Sears,  John  B. 

397 

1880 

Linthicum, 

1856  s 

Seely,  Henry  M. 

435 

Cadwalader  E. 

372 

1848 

Selden,  Charles 

256 

1881  s 

Shanley,  Bernard  J. 

452 

1884 

McAndrew,  George  J. 

383 

1898 

Sheehan,  Francis  W. 

408 

1901 

McAuley,  Henry  S. 

415 

1504^ 

Sheldon,  Robert  E.,  Jr. 

473 

1887  ni 

McCabe,  Edward  M. 

493 

1892  ;;;. 

Shlevin,  Hyman  S. 

495 

1896/ 

McMahon,  Patrick  J. 

504 

1891 

Simpson,  Hubbard  T. 

398 

igiSs 

McNulty,  Frank 

481 

1846 

Smith,  Robert  H. 

255 

1853 

MacVeagh,  Wayne 

266 

1884 

Souther,  John  L 

385 

1884 

Makuen,  G.  Hudson 

384 

1870 

Spaulding,  Randall 

327 

1887^ 

Maltby,  Edward  L. 

454 

1907  s 

Sprott,  Radcliff  E. 

476 

1885 

Mansfield,  Louis  A, 

390 

1883 

Sproul,  Frank  P. 

381 

1876 

Maxson,  Louis  W. 

356 

T855 

Stanton,  Lewis  E. 

273 

1871 

Starling,  Lyne 

337 

1904^ 

Naething,  John  B. 

472 

1854 

Stevens,  Alexander  H. 

270 

1879 

Newton,  Howard  D. 

367 

1888 

Strunz,  Henry 

396 

1892  d 

Owen,  Richard 

519 

i8q5  s 

Terry,  James 

463 

1869 

Thayer,  John  R. 

325 

1873 

Parker,  Frederick  S. 

343 

1863 

Thomas,  Frederick  F. 

296 

1863 

Payne,  Oliver  H. 

295 

1901 

Thompson,  Edwin  P. 

416 

1898/ 

Peck,  Howard  B. 

506 

1896  s 

Thrall,  Frederick  C. 

465 

1857  m 

Peck,  Ozias  W. 

490 

1851 

Thurston,  John  R. 

260  ■ 

1867 

Peck,  William  A. 

315 

1864^ 

Tiffany,  Henry  D. 

440^ 

'I 

INDEX 

533 

Class 

Page 

Class 

Page 

1902  rf 

Timm,  John  A. 

520 

19OI 

Welch,  George  A, 

417 

1884 

Tomlinson,  Joseph 

387 

1879 

Wentworth,  John  T. 

368 

1906 

Tooker,  Lewis  H. 

424 

1864 

White,  Oliver  S. 

301 

1914^ 

Towle,  Prescott  K. 

480 

1864 

Whittelsey,  Charles  M. 

302 

1907^ 

Tuttle,  Morris  E. 

477 

1869:? 

Wight,  Willard  W. 

441 

1897/ 

Wilder,  Arthur  A. 

505 

1864 

VanGelder,  James  H. 

300 

i860 

Willcox,  Lemuel  T. 

287 

1868 

Varick,  J.  Leonard 

321 

1862 

Williams,  Charles  P. 

292 

1874 

Witherbee,  Frank  S. 

348 

1881 

Warren,  Everett 

375 

1876 

Woodman,  Francis  J. 

358 

1874 

Washburn,  William  N. 

347 

1892 

Woodruff,  Frederick  S. 

399 

1895/ 

Webb,  Howard  C. 

503 

OBITUARY  RECORD 

OF 

GRADUATES  OF  YALE  UNIVERSITY 

Deceased  during  the  year  endingf 
JULY  /,  f9J8 


INCLUDING  THE   RECORD   OF  A   FEW  WHO   DIED    PREVIOUSLY 
HITHERTO  UNREPORTED 


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present  Series  consists  of  five  numbers.] 


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■> 


OBITUARY   RECORD 

OF 

GRADUATES  OF  YALE  UNIVERSITY 

Deceased  during  the  year  ending 
July  i,  1918 

Including  the  Record  of  a  few  who  died  previously,  hitherto  unreported 

[No.  3  of  the  Seventh  Printed  Series,  and  No.  T]  of  the  whole  Record. 
The  present  Series  consists  of  five  numbers.] 


I 


YALE  COLLEGE 

(academic  department) 

Joseph  Rowell,  B.A.   1848 

Born  April  22,  1820,  in  Cornish,  N.  H. 
.    Died  June  5,  1918,  in  San  Francisco,  Calif. 

Joseph  Rowell  was  born  April  2.2,  1820,  in  Cornish,  N.  H., 
the  son  of  Rev.  Joseph  Rowell  (B.A.  Dartmouth  17^4)  and 
Hannah  (Chase)  Rowell  and  the  grandson  of  William 
Rowell.  His  father  was  pastor  of  the  Cornish  Congrega- 
tional Church  from  1800  to  1828,  afterwards,  until  his 
death  in  1842,  having  a  pastorate  in  Claremont,  N.  H.  His 
mother  was  the  daughter  of  Daniel  and  Hannah  Chase  and 
a  descendant  of  Aquila  Chase,  who  came  to  America  in 
1638,  settling  in  the  Massachusetts  Bay  Colony.  The 
earliest  member  of  the  Rowell  family  to  settle  in  this 
country  was  Thomas  Rowell,  who  came  from  England  in 
1638  and  afterwards  made  his  home  in  Massachusetts. 

Joseph  Rowell  entered  Kimball  Union  Academy,  Meriden, 
N.  H.,  in  1841,  having  previously  labored  on  his  father's 
farm  at  Cornish  and  later  on  that  of  his  brother  at  Clare- 
mont. He  was  a  member  of  the  Yale  Class  of  1848 
throughout  its  course. 


I 


53^  YALE   COLLEGE 

In  the  fall  after  receiving  his  degree  he  entered  Union 
Theological   Seminary,   from  which   he   was   graduated   in 

1 85 1.  He  was  ordained  as  an  evangelist  in  November  of 
that  year  at  New  Haven  and  the  following  month  left  New 
York  for  the  Isthmus  of  Panama,  where  he  spent  nearly 
seven  years  in  the  service  of  the  American  Seamen's  Friend 
Society  and  the  American  and  Foreign  Church  Union.  On 
July  29,  1858,  he  arrived  in  San  Francisco,  Calif.,  his  home 
for  the  remainder  of  his  life.  The  following  week  he 
organized  the  Mariners'  Church,  which  proved  very  suc- 
cessful, although  its  failure  had  been  prophesied  by  the 
pastors  of  the  city.  In  March,  i860,  the  San  Francisco 
Port  Society,  composed  of  influential  men  of  all  creeds,  was 
organized,  and  in  six  years  a  large  and  commodious  build- 
ing was  finished  and  dedicated  to  religious  work  among  the 
seamen  of  all  lands.  Mr.  Rowell  continued  as  chaplain 
there  until  the  destruction  of  the  church  building  in  the 
fire  of  April,  1906.  Since  that  time  he  had  devoted  himself 
mainly  to  mission  work.  In  1908  he  visited  Palestine, 
making  the  journey  alone.  His  death  occurred  June  5, 
1918,  at  St.  Luke's  Hospital  in  San  Francisco,  following 
an  illness  of  four  days.  The  remains  were  cremated.  In 
point  of  years,  he  was  probably  the  oldest  living  Yale  grad- 
uate. A  thirty-two  page  pamphlet,  entitled  "San  Fran- 
cisco's Pioneer  Apostle  to  Seamen:  Story  of  the  Life  of 
Chaplain  Rowell,"  was  published  in  July,  1918,  by  W.  W. 
Ferrier  of  Berkeley,  Calif. 

Mr.  Rowell  was  married  in  Portland,  Maine,  October  11. 

1852,  to  Hannah,  daughter  of  Rev.  Dr.  Asa  Cummings  and 
Phoebe  (Johnson)  Cummings.  Dr.  Cummings  was  a  grad- 
uate of  Harvard  in  181 7  and  of  Andover  Theological 
Seminary  in  1820,  and  for  many  years  served  as  an  overseer 
and  trustee  of  Bowdoin  College,  which  had  conferred  two 
honorary  degrees  upon  him.  Mrs.  Rowell  died  on  January 
15,  1879.  Of  their  eleven  children,  four  survive:  Joseph 
Cummings  (B.A.  and  M.A.  University  of  California  1874 
and  1903,  respectively),  who  has  been  librarian  of  that 
university  since  1874;  Edward  Francis,  who  spent  two 
years  at  the  University  of  California  as  a  special  student 
of  mining;  Bertha  Louisa  (Mrs.  Gilbert  Findlay)  ;  and 
William  Arthur,  a  graduate  of  Cooper  Medical  College, 
San  Francisco.  A  daughter,  Grace  Waldo  (Mrs.  Wilburn 
•Haynes),  died  October  12,  1916,  and  the  other  children  died 


I848-I850 


537 


in  childhood,  the  eldest,  Hannah,  attaining  the  age  of  six 
years.  Mr.  Rowell  was  a  brother  of  the  late  Samuel  Newell 
Rowell  (B.A.  1849,  M.D.  1852).  A  sister,  Mrs.  Caroline 
Skinner,  lives  in  Youngstown,  N.  Y. 


Albert  Booth,  B.A.  1850 

Born  August  22,  1825,  in  Springfield.  Mass. 
Died  July  21,  1917,  in  Bridgeport,  Conn. 

Albert  Booth,  son  of  Samuel  Chandler  and  Eunice  (Day) 
Booth,  was  born  in  Springfield,  Mass.,  August  22,  1825. 
His  father's  parents  were  Isaac  and  Elizabeth  (Foskit) 
Booth.  He  was  a  descendant  of  Robert  Booth,  who  with 
two  brothers,  Richard  and  John,  came  to  New  Haven  from 
England  in  1639 ;  Robert  Booth  later  settled  in  Saco,  Maine, 
where  he  had  a  tide  mill  and  was  a  selectman. 

He  was  fitted  for  Yale  at  the  Monson  (Mass.)  Academy. 
In  his  Senior  year  at  college  he  received  a  dispute  appoint- 
ment.    He  belonged  to  Brothers  in  Unity. 

After  graduation  he  tavight  for  two  years,  at  first  at  the 
Washington  Institute,  New  York  City,  and  later  in  East 
Windsor,  Conn.,  to  which  town  his  family  had  removed  in 
his  boyhood.  In  1852  he  became  a  student  at  Union  Theo- 
logical Seminary,  from  which  he  was  graduated  three  years 
afterwards.  He  then  entered  the  ministry  of  the  Methodist 
Episcopal  Church,  continuing  in  active  work  for  almost 
forty  years,  until  1894,  and  thereafter  for  some  years  sup- 
plying occasional  vacancies.  He  was  ordained  at  Brooklyn, 
N.  Y.,  in  April,  1857.  His  first  pastorate  was  at  Darien, 
Conn.,  where  he  was  located  from  May,  1855,  to  May,  1857. 
During  the  next  two  years  he  preached  at  Westchester  and 
West  Farms,  N.  Y.  His  next  charge  was  at  Litchfield, 
Conn.,  where  he  remained  until  1861,  then  going  to  Seymour. 
In  May,  1862,  he  became  pastor  at  Freeport,  N.  Y.,  and  he 
later  held  pastorates  in  two  other  Long  Island  towns — 
Rockville  Center  and  Whitestone.  Returning  to  Connecticut 
in  1868,  he  was  afterwards  pastor  successively  at  Wood- 
bury, Roxbury,  New  Milford,  West  Granby,  Bloomfield, 
Milford,  Cheshire,  Kensington,  Easton,  Washington,  Union- 
ville,  Burlington,  North  Canton,  and  Wilton.     His  home 


538  YALE    COLLEGE 

had  been  at  Bridgeport,  Conn.,  since  1894.  He  died  there 
July  21,  191 7,  of  general  debility  due  to  old  age.  Burial 
was  in  the  family  plot  in  Mountain  Grove  Cemetery,  Bridge- 
port. For  the  past  twenty  years  he  had  served  as  Secretary 
of  the  Class  of  1850.  He  had  compiled  a  genealogy  of  the 
Booth  family,  which  was  published  in  1903. 

Mr.  Booth  was  married  March  30,  1857,  in  Darien,  Conn., 
to  Louisa,  daughter  of  William  H.  and  Sarah  (Tildsley) 
Tristram  of  Sheffield,  England.  They  had  eight  children: 
Ella  Louisa,  who  was  married  on  December  27,  1887,  to 
Edward  A.  Disbrow  of  Bridgeport;  Samuel  Albert  (B.A. 
1884),  whose  death  occurred  December  3,  1898;  Wilbur 
Franklin,  a  graduate  of  the  College  in  1884  and  of  the 
School  of  Law  in  1888;  Lily  Tildsley  (born  and  died  in 
1863)  ;  Charles  Isaac  (born  and  died  in  1864)  ;  George 
Frederick ;  Minnie  Day,  who  graduated  from  Smith  in  1890 ; 
and  James  Rupert.  Mrs.  Booth,  two  daughters,  and  three 
sons  are  living.  Mr.  Booth  was  the  brother  of  Franklin 
Booth  (Ph.B.  1859,  M.D.  Bellevue  Hospital  Medical  Col- 
lege 1864),  who  served  as  an  Assistant  Surgeon  in  the 
U.  S.  Army  throughout  the  Civil  War.  His  nephew,  Dr. 
Franklin  FL  Booth,  graduated  from  Yale  College  in  1898. 
He  was  a  distant  cousin  of  Rev.  Chauncey  Booth  (B.A. 
1810). 


Henry  Mart3^n  Dechert,  B.A.   1850 

Born  March  11,  1832,  in  Reading,  Pa. 
Died  May  27,  1918,  in  Philadelphia,  Pa. 

Henry  Martyn  Dechert,  son  of  Elijah  and  Mary  William 
(Porter)  Dechert,  was  born  in  Reading,  Pa.,  March  11, 
1832.  He  was  of  Revolutionary  descent,  being  a  great- 
grandson  of  Captain  Peter  Dechert,  5th  Battalion,  Pennsyl- 
vania line,  who  had  emigrated  from  Hesse-Darmstadt  in 
1754,  and  of  Colonel  Andrew  Porter,  of  the  24th  Pennsyl- 
vania Artillery,  who  was  on  Washington's  staff  at  Valley 
Forge.  Colonel  Porter,  afterwards  surveyor  general  of 
Pennsylvania,  declined  appointment  to  a  brigadier  general- 
ship in  1 81 2  on  account  of  age. 

He  entered  Yale  at  the  age  of  fourteen.  During  the  first 
year  after  graduation  he  read  law  in  his  father's  office  in 


1850  539 

Reading,  in  1851  becoming  principal  of  the  Mount  Pleasant 
Seminary  at  Boyerstown,  Pa.  A  year  later  he  resumed  the 
study  of  law  in  Philadelphia  in  the  office  of  Charles  Bing- 
ham Penrose.  He  was  admitted  to  the  bar  of  Pennsylvania 
February  7,  1854,  and  afterwards  practiced  his  profession 
in  Philadelphia  for  a  number  of  years.  In  1855  ^^  was 
elected  a  school  director.  From  1856  to  i860  he  was  an 
assistant  city  solicitor,  and  in  May,  i860,  was  the  Demo- 
cratic candidate  for  the  office  of  city  solicitor,  and  ten  years 
later  for  that  of  judge  of  the  Court  of  Common  Pleas.  At 
the  outbreak  of  the  Civil  War  he  enlisted  in  the  Union 
Army,  and  in  1862  and  1863  was  a  First  Lieutenant  in  the 
25th  and  40th  Pennsylvania  Volunteer  Infantry.  He  was 
the  author  of  various  papers  upon  legal,  financial,  and  neuro- 
logical questions.  He  was  president  of  the  Commonwealth 
Title  &  Trust  Company  of  Philadelphia  from  its  organiza- 
tion in  1886  until  1906,  when  he  retired  as  chairman  of  the 
board  of  directors.  During  1896-97  he  served  as  first  presi- 
dent of  the  trust  section  of  the  American  Bankers'  Associa- 
tion. For  many  years  he  was  a  trustee  of  the  Hospital  for 
Feeble-Minded  Children  at  Elwyn,  and  he  served  for  six 
years  as  president  of  the  board  of  trustees  of  the  Pennsyl- 
vania State  Asylum  for  the  Chronic  Insane.  He  was  also 
for  a  long  time  president  of  the  board  of  trustees  of  the 
Western  Home  for  Poor  Children  and  of  the  Young  Men's 
Institute.    He  was  a  member  of  the  Sons  of  the  Revolution. 

His  death  occurred  May  27,  1918,  at  his  home  in  Phila- 
delphia, following  an  illness  of  several  years  due  to  a  com- 
plication of  diseases. 

Mr.  Dechert  was  married  September  15,  1857,  to  Esther 
Servoss,  daughter  of  Thomas  S.  Taylor  of  Philadelphia. 
Her  death  occurred  on  November  6,  1890.  They  had  four 
children:  Henry  Taylor,  a  graduate  of  the  University  of 
Pennsylvania  with  the  degree  of  B.A.  in  1879  ^^^  that  of 
LL.B.  in  1881,  who  served  as  Lieutenant  Colonel  of  the 
2d  Regiment,  Pennsylvania  National  Guard,  during  the 
Spanish- American  War,  and  who  died  in  October,  191 5; 
Bertha  M.,  who  is  now  the  wife  of  Charles  H.  Gale  of 
Cleveland ;  Ellen  G.,  who  died  some  years  ago ;  and  Edward 
P.  One  of  Mr.  Dechert's  brothers,  Howard  Porter  Dechert, 
graduated  at  Princeton  in  1862,  having  previously  studied 
at  the  University  of  Pennsylvania.  A  grandson.  Lieutenant 
Robert  Dechert,  has  been  in  active  service  in  France. 


540  YALE    COLLEGE 


Ellis  Henry  Roberts,  B.A.   1850 

Born  September  30,  1827,  in  Utica,  N.  Y. 
Died  January  8,  1918,  in  Utica,  N.  Y. 

Ellis  Henry  Roberts  was  born  September  30,  1827,  in 
Utica,  N.  Y.  His  parents,  Watkin  and  Gwen  (Williams) 
Roberts,  were  married  in  Llanuwchlly,  near  Bala,  North 
Wales,  and  four  of  their  eight  children  were  born  there. 
His  father,  who  was  the  son  of  Ellis  Roberts,  came  to 
Utica  in  181 6,  and  his  mother  two  years  later. 

His  early  education  was  received  at  the  village  school  in 
Utica.  For  several  years  he  worked  as  a  proof  reader  on 
the  magazine,  Y  Cenhadwr  Americana.  He  was  prepared 
for  Yale  at  the  Whitestown  (N.  Y.)  Seminary,  from  which 
he  was  admitted  to  the  Sophomore  class  at  Yale  in  1847. 
He  received  two  second  prizes  in  English  composition  that 
year,  and  in  Junior  year  was  awarded  the  Bristed  Scholar- 
ship. In  Senior  year  he  won  the  Townsend  Essay  Prize. 
He  ranked  second  in  the  Class  at  graduation  and  was  one 
of  the  speakers  at  Commencement.  He  belonged  to  Phi 
Beta  Kappa,  and  served  as  chairman  of  the  editorial  board 
of  the  Yale  Literary  Magazine. 

During  his  summer  vacations  he  had  worked  on  the  Utica 
Morning  Herald,  which  had  been  established  in  1847  by  his 
brother,  Robert  W.  Roberts,  and  Richard  U.  Sherman,  and 
on  returning  to  Utica  in  1850  he  became  a  member  of  the 
staff  of  this  paper,  although  for  a  few  months  after  gradua- 
tion he  also  served  as  principal  of  the  Utica  Academy  and 
the  next  year  was  a  teacher  of  Latin  at  the  Utica  Female 
Seminary.  In  May,  1851,  he  became  sole  proprietor  of  the 
publication,  and  continued  as  its  editor  until  1880.  For 
the  next  nine  years  he  also  devoted  much  of  his  time  to  the 
editorial  conduct  of  the  Herald,  of  which  he  was  then  part 
owner.  The  Utica  Gazette  had  been  merged  with  it  in  1857. 
In  1862  he  was  nominated  for  mayor  of  the  city  of  Utica, 
but  was  defeated.  He  was  a  delegate  to  the  National 
Republican  conventions  of  1864  and  1868,  and  in  1867 
served  one  term  in  the  Assembly  of  New  York  State.  From 
1871  to  1875  h^  was  a  member  of  Congress,  and  during  this 
period  served  on  the  Ways  and  Means  Committee.  Presi- 
dent Harrison  appointed  Mr.   Roberts  assistant  treasurer 


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of  the  United  States  in  1889,  and  he  held  the  position  for 
four  years.  From  1893  to  1897  he  was  president  of  the 
Franldin  National  Bank  of  New  York,  resigning  to  become 
treasurer  of  the  United  States,  an  office  which  he  filled  for 
eight  years.  In  1905  President  Roosevelt  appointed  him 
as  a  member  of  the  board  of  examiners  of  the  United  States 
Mint,  and  his  associates  chose  him  as  chairman.  Mr. 
Roberts  had  delivered  a  number  of  addresses  and  had  lec- 
tured at  several  universities.  He  was  the  author  of  "Gov- 
ernment Revenue,  Especially  the  American  System"  (1884) 
and  "The  Planting  and  Growth  of  the  Empire  State" 
(1887).  He  was  at  one  time  president  of  the  St.  David's 
Society  of  New  York,  the  Phi  Beta  Kappa  Society,  and  the 
Oneida  Historical  Society  at  Utica.  In  1869  Hamilton 
College  conferred  an  honorary  LL.D.  upon  him,  and  he 
received  a  similar  degree  at  Yale  in  1884.  He  traveled  in 
Europe  in  1868  and  1873.  He  belonged  to  the  First  Presby- 
terian Church  of  Utica.  He  died  January  8,  1918,  at  his 
home  in  that  city,  after  an  illness  of  five  months  due  to 
the  infirmities  of  age.  Burial  was  in  Forest  Hill  Cemetery 
at  Utica. 

Mr.  Roberts  was  married  June  20,  1851,  in  Utica,  to 
Elizabeth,  daughter  of  David  Edward  and  Ann  (Lewis) 
Morris  and  sister  of  Rev.  Edward  Dafydd  Morris  (B.A. 
1849).  Her  death  occurred  July  20,  1903.  They  had  no 
children.  Professor  Edward  P.  Morris  (B.A.  1874)  is  a 
nephew. 


Henry  Loomis,  B.A.   185 1 

Born  January  19,  1829,  in  Springfield,  Mass. 
Died  June  25,  1918,  in  Middletown,  N.  Y. 

Henry  Loomis,  son  of  Henry  and  Sophronia  Frink 
Loomis,  was  born  January  19,  1829,  in  that  part  of  Spring- 
field, Mass.,  which  is  now  known  as  Chicopee.  His  family 
removed  to  New  Haven,  Conn.,  in  1830,  and  he  received  his 
preparatory  training  at  the  Hopkins  Grammar  School  in 
that  city  and  at  Phillips  Academy,  Andover,  Mass.  He 
entered  Yale  with  the  Class  of  1846,  but  was  absent  from 
college  during  the  year  1848-49  because  of  ill  health.     He 


542  YALE    COLLEGE 

joined  the  Class  of  1851  at  the  beginning  of  Junior  year. 
He  was  given  a  second  prize  in  mathematics  that  year. 

After  graduating  he  spent  a  year  as  a  travehng  salesman 
and  then  entered  the  Yale  Divinity  School.  Illness  inter- 
rupted his  course  and  in  June,  1854,  he  went  to  Europe. 
He  remained  abroad  for  two  years,  studying  at  the  univer- 
sities at  Halle,  Heidelberg,  Tiibingen,  and  Berlin.  He 
resumed  his  theological  studies  at  Yale  in  1856  and  gradu- 
ated the  next  year.  He  then  filled  temporary  pulpit 
engagements  of  about  three  months  each  at  Guildhall,  Vt., 
South  Boston,  Springfield,  and  Northampton,  Mass.  He 
was  ordained  pastor  of  Union  Church  at  Globe  Village, 
Southbridge,  Mass.,  June  i,  1859,  but  the  condition  of  his 
health  soon  compelled  him  to  resign.  From  1861  to  1863 
he  was  at  various  health  resorts  in  Europe,  and  on  his 
return  to  this  country  in  1863  he  became  pastor  of  the 
Congregational  Church  at  North  Manchester,  Conn.  Pro- 
longed and  severe  bronchial  and  catarrhal  troubles  led  to 
a  removal  to  Minnesota,  where  for  two  years  he  held  the 
pastorate  of  the  Congregational  Church  at  Wabasha.  He 
accepted  a  call  to  the  Poughkeepsie  (N.  Y.)  Congregational 
Church  in  June,  1869,  but  after  a  time  was  obliged  to  retire 
from  the  active  ministry  because  of  long  continued  ill 
health.  His  life  since  that  time  had  been  that  of  an  invalid 
and  for  many  years  he  had  been  confined  to  a  sanitarium. 

For  some  years  Mr.  Loomis  devoted  much  of  his  time 
to  writing,  his  articles  appearing  in  various  periodicals, 
including  the  New  Englander  and  the  Literary  Digest.  He 
died  at  Middletown,  N.  Y.,  June  25,  1918. 

He  was  married  May  18,  1859,  to  Frances  Elizabeth  Craft 
of  Brookline,  Mass.  Her  death  occurred  March  17,  1919. 
Two  daughters,  Helen  and  Mabel  Ruth,  survive.  The 
former  is  an  artist  and  the  latter  graduated  from  Vassar  in 
1885.  She  taught  at  that  institution  from  1886  to  1895  and 
in  1896  became  dean  of  women  at  Colorado  College. 

Homer  Baxter  Spragtie,  B.A.   1852 

Born  October  19,  1829,  in  Sutton,  Mass. 
Died  March  23,  1918,  in  Newton,  Mass. 

Homer  Baxter  Sprague  was  born  in  Sutton,  Mass.,  Octo- 
ber 19,  1829,  the  son  of  Jonathan  Sprague,  a  farmer  and 


1851-1852  543 

blacksmith,  and  Mary  Ann  (Whipple)  Sprague.  His  father 
was  the  son  of  Jonathan  Sprague,  a  Quaker,  and  Patience 
(Pixley)  Sprague  and  a  descendant  of  Edward  Sprague  of 
Upway,  Dorsetshire,  England,  whose  three  sons,  Ralph, 
Richard,  and  William,  came  to  Salem,  Mass.,  in  1628,  shortly 
afterwards  founding  the  town  of  Charlestown.  William 
Sprague  in  1636  was  one  of  the  founders  of  Hingham. 
Homer  Sprague's  maternal  grandparents  were  Welcome 
Whipple,  a  representative  in  the  Massachusetts  Legislature, 
and  Amy  Whipple,  who  was  born  in  Cumberland,  R.  I. 
His  mother  traced  her  descent  to  John  Whipple,  of  the 
sixth  generation  of  Whipples;  he  was  a  direct  descendant 
of  William  the  Conqueror. 

He  was  fitted  for  Yale  at  the  Leicester  (Mass.)  Academy. 
He  received  a  second  prize  Freshman  year  and  two  first 
prizes  Sophomore  year,  for  excellence  in  English  composi- 
tion, and  in  the  latter  year  was  also  given  one  of  the 
Berkeley  premiums  for  excellence  in  Latin  composition. 
In  Senior  year  he  was  awarded  a  Townsend  Premium  and 
the  DeForest  Gold  Medal.  His  Junior  appointment  was  a 
philosophical  oration  and  his  Senior  appointment  a  high 
oration.  He  was  a  member  of  Phi  Beta  Kappa  and  ranked 
as  valedictorian  at  graduation.  He  was  president  of  Linonia 
and  served  on  the  editorial  board  of  the  Yale  Literary 
Magazine  in  Senior  year,  and  was  Class  Orator  on  Presenta- 
tion Day. 

During  1852-53  he  was  enrolled  in  the  Yale  School 
of  Law  and  also  studied  law  in  the  office  of  Eleazar  K. 
Foster  (B.A.  1834).  He  later  studied  in  the  office  of 
Henry  Chapin  of  Worcester,  supporting  himself  by  private 
tutoring  and  instructing  classes  in  Greek  in  the  Worcester 
Academy.  He  was  admitted  to  the  bar  of  Massachusetts 
in  1854  and  later  to  that  of  Connecticut.  From  1854  until 
the  death  of  his  partner  in  1856,  he  practiced  law  In 
Worcester  with  Mr.  J.  H.  Mathews.  He  was  for  two  years 
a  soldier  in  the  Worcester  City  Guards  and  a  member  of 
the  Worcester  School  Committee.  He  became  principal  of 
the  Worcester  High  School  in  September,  1856,  continuing 
in  that  capacity  for  over  three  years.  He  removed  to  New 
Haven  in  March,  i860,  and  after  being  for  a  few  months 
in  charge  of  the  Webster  School,  resumed  .the  practice  of 
law.  He  served  at  this  time  as  a  member  of  the  New  Haven 
Board  of   Education.     In   1861    he  helped  to   recruit  two 


544  YALE   COLLEGE 

companies  of  volunteers  and  went  to  New  Orleans  with 
one  of  them  (Company  H,  13th  Regiment,  Connecticut 
Infantry  Volunteers)  as  Captain.  He  rose  to  the  rank  of 
Lieutenant  Colonel  in  his  regiment,  and  was  afterwards 
brevetted  Colonel  for  gallantry  at  Port  Hudson.  Colonel 
Sprague  was  wounded  in  battle  at  Irish  Bend,  La.,  April  14, 
1863,  but  did  not  leave  the  field  of  action.  He  was  taken 
prisoner  in  the  battle  of  Winchester,  and  spent  six  months 
in  the  prisons  of  the  South.  Much  of  his  experience  in  the 
army  is  delineated  in  a  history  of  his  regiment  which  he 
prepared  and  printed  in  1867. 

In  the  fall  of  1866  he  was  appointed  principal  of  the  State 
Normal  School  at  New  Britain,  Conn.  The  next  year  that 
school  was  suspended  for  a  year,  and  in  1867  Dr.  Sprague 
was  elected  to  the  Connecticut  Legislature,  in  which  body 
he  was  House  chairman  of  the  Joint  Standing  Committee 
on  Education.  He  was  then  for  two  years  professor  of 
rhetoric  and  English  literature  at  Cornell  University,  resign- 
ing in  1870  to  become  principal  of  Adelphi  Academy  at 
Brooklyn,  N.  Y.,  where  he  remained  until  1875.  ^^  ^^74 
he  received  the  degree  of  Ph.D.  from  the  University  of 
New  York.  The  period  from  1876  to  1885  was  spent  as 
headmaster  of  the  Girls'  High  School  of  Boston.  While 
there  he  was  accustomed  to  spend  his  summers  at  Martha's 
Vineyard,  where  he  founded  the  Free  Public  Library,  the 
Rural  Improvement  Society,  and  the  Martha's  Vineyard 
Summer  Institute.  This  institute,  established  in  the  seven- 
ties, and  not  limited  in  branches  of  study,  was  the  earliest 
and  the  largest  for  many  years  of  the  world's  general  sum- 
mer schools.  In  1885  Dr.  Sprague  accepted  the  presidency 
of  Mills  College,  California,  having  a  short  time  before 
declined  the  offer  of  the  presidency  of  an  important  univer- 
sity and  a  New  England  college,  both  denominational  insti- 
tutions. Two  years  later  he  became  president  of  the 
University  of  North  Dakota.  While  occupying  that  posi- 
tion, a  strong  effort  was  made,  without  his  concurrence,  to 
elect  him  to  the  United  States  Senate,  but  he  failed  to 
receive  the  nomination.  He  was  president  of  the  North 
Dakota  Teachers'  Association  in  1888,  and  wrote  the  prm- 
cjpal  sections  of  the  articles  on  education  in  the  state  con- 
stitution. The  severity  of  the  winter  climate  and  the  health 
of  his  family  caused  Dr.  Sprague  to  remove  to  California 
in  1891.    Two  years  later  he  became  engaged  in  university 


1852  545 

extension  work,  lecturing  mainly  on  Shakespeare  and  Mil- 
ton, and  founding  "centers."  He  was  often  called  upon  to 
lecture  at  Chautauqua  assemblies  in  many  states.  From 
1896  to  1899  he  held  a  professorship  at  Drew  Theological 
Seminary.  During  the  latter  part  of  his  life  he  had  con- 
tinued to  lecture  in  various  parts  of  the  country  and  abroad 
and  had  devoted  much  time  to  writing.  A  number  of  his 
speeches  and  lectures  have  been  issued  in  pamphlet  form, 
and  he  was  a  frequent  contributor  to  magazines.  From 
1898  to  1903  he  was  editor  of  the  department  of  rhetoric 
of  the  Student's  Journal.  Among  his  literary  productions 
were:  "Fellowship  of  Slave-holders"  (1857);  "Free  Text 
Books  for  Public  Schools"  (1879)  >  "Alleged  Law  Blunders 
in  Shakespeare"  (1902)  ;  "Right  and  Wrong  in  our  Civil 
War"  (1903)  ;  "Recollections  of  Henry  Ward  Beecher" 
(1905);  "The  True  Macbeth"  (1909);  "Metrical  Version 
of  the  Book  of  Job"  (1913)  ;  "The  European  War — Its 
Causes  and  Cure"  (1914);  "Lights  and  Shadows  in  Con- 
federate Prisons"  (191 5)  ;  "Studies  in  Shakespeare"  (first 
series,  191 6)  ;  "Studies  in  Shakespeare"  (second  series, 
1918;  this  was  completed  for  the  press  a  few  weeks  before 
his  death,  but  has  not  been  published)  ;  and  "Reminiscences 
of  Yale,  1848-1852"  (this  was  finished,  ready  for  publica- 
tion, several  weeks  before  his  death). 

In  1916  the  honorary  degree  of  LL.D.  was  conferred 
upon  him  by  Temple  University  and  the  University  of  North 
Dakota.  He  was  a  former  counsellor  of  the  National  Edu- 
cational Association,  president  of  the  American  Institution 
of  Instruction  from  1883  to  1885,  founder  and  first  presi- 
dent of  the  New  England  Watch  and  Ward  Society,  asso- 
ciate founder  and  president  of  the  New  England  Society  of 
North  Dakota,  a  companion  of  the  Loyal  Legion,  a  life 
member  of  the  Pilgrim  Society,  and  a  director  and  member 
of  the  executive  committee  of  the  American  Peace  Society, 
for  which  he  had  delivered  a  number  of  lectures.  Dr. 
Sprague  belonged  to  Grace  Protestant  Episcopal  Church  of 
Newton,  where  he  had  made  his  home  in  recent  years.  He 
died  in  Newton,  March  23,  1918,  after  a  month's  illness  due 
to  old  age.  His  remains  were  cremated  at  Mount  Auburn 
Cemetery  and  the  ashes  now  rest  in  New  Haven. 

He  was  married  December  28,  1854,  in  New  Haven,  to 
Antoinette  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Captain  Leonard  Pardee 
and  Sarah  L.  Pardee.    His  wife  died  on  January  30,  191 3. 


54^  YALE    COLLEGE 

They  had  four  children:  Charles  Homer  (LL.B.  Boston 
University  1877)  ;  Sarah  Antoinette,  who  was  married  on 
November  4,  1880,  to  Rev.  William  Whiting  Davis  (B.A. 
Amherst  1879)  of  New  York,  and  died  December  27,  1916; 
William  Pardee,  a  graduate  of  the  Bellevue  Hospital 
Medical  College  in  1882;  and  Goldwin  Smith  (B.A.  Uni- 
versity of  North  Dakota  1893).    The  three  sons  survive. 


James  McCormick,  B.A.   1853 

Born  October  31,  1832,  in  Harrisburg,  Pa. 
Died  September  9,  1917,  in  Harrisburg,  Pa. 

James  McCormick  was  born  in  Harrisburg,  Pa.,  October 
31,  1832,  his  parents  being  James  McCormick,  a  lawyer, 
and  Eliza  (Buehler)  McCormick.  His  father  was  the  son 
of  William  and  Margery  (Bines)  McCormick  and  the  great- 
grandson  of  Thomas  McCormick,  who  came  to  this  country 
from  Ulster,  Ireland,  in  1735,  settling  near  Harrisburg. 
Through  his  mother,  who  was  the  daughter  of  George  and 
Mary  (Nagle)  Buehler,  he  was  descended  from  Joachim 
Nagle,  who  settled  in  Berks  County,  Pennsylvania,  in  1752, 
having  emigrated  to  America  from  Isenberg,  Prussia. 

He  received  his  preparatory  training  at  the  Plarrisburg 
Academy.  He  was  given  a  second  prize  in  mathematics 
Sophomore  year  and  was  elected  to  membership  in  Phi 
Beta  Kappa. 

After  graduation  he  studied  law  in  Harrisburg  for  three 
years  and  was  admitted  to  the  Pennsylvania  Bar  in  1856. 
He  practiced  law  in  that  city  until  he  became  cashier  of 
the  Dauphin  Deposit  Bank.  Pie  continued  in  that  capacity 
for  some  years,  and  afterwards  served  three  years  as  presi- 
dent of  its  successor,  the  Dauphin  Deposit  Trust  Company. 
Since  his  father's  death  in  1870,  his  time  had  been  mainly 
devoted  to  his  duties  as  trustee  of  the  James  McCormick 
Estate,  consisting  of  farms,  iron  industries,  flour  mills,  and 
real  estate.  Pie  instituted  a  Dime  Savings  Bank  in  Harris- 
burg, being  its  treasurer  from  1890  to  191 1  and  defraying 
the  expenses  of  the  undertaking.  He  was  one  of  the  incor- 
porators of  the  Pine  Street  Presbyterian  Church  and  served 
as  an  elder  from  1858  to  1894.     For  forty  years  he  was 


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teacher  of  a  large  class  of  men  in  the  Sunday  school,  being 
absent  during  that  long  period  less  than  ten  Sundays,  and 
personally  directed  all  its  activities.  Through  frequent  con- 
tact with  members  of  his  class,  mostly  hand  workers,  he 
gained  an  unusual  intimacy  with  hundreds  of  men.  Devoted 
to  outdoor  life,  he  was  accustomed  from  boyhood  to  take 
long  walks  in  the  country.  These  he  continued  until  eighty- 
two  years  of  age,  though  never  an  able-bodied  man,  as  he 
suffered  from  heart  trouble.  In  1899,  by  his  physician's 
orders,  he  gave  up  strenuous  attention  to  business  and 
church  affairs.  Previous  to  1899  he  was  in  the  habit  of 
visiting  for  several  days  at  a  time,  regardless  of  the  season, 
a  camp  on  the  Blue  Mountains,  nine  miles  distant  from  his 
home.  Here  he  enjoyed  an  extremely  simple  life,  doing  his 
share  of  the  camp  work.  With  daily  Bible  study  and  the 
close  camp  associations,  his  companions,  usually  members 
of  his  big  class,  were  given  inspiration  for  better  lives  and 
service.  He  was  one  of  the  founders  of  the  Harrisburg 
Hospital  and  was  its  head  for  many  years,  was  the  first 
president  of  the  Harrisburg  Public  Library  Association,  and 
was  one  of  the  organizers  of  tlie  Harrisburg  Young  Men's 
Christian  Association.  He  served  as  president  of  the  latter 
for  one  term  and  was  associated  with  the  International 
Committee  for  forty- two  years,  rendering  important  service 
in  this  capacity.  Dwight  Hall  on  the  Yale  Campus  was 
started  largely  through  his  initiative.  His  charities  were 
innumerable. 

Mr.  McCormick  died  September  9,  1917,  at  his  home, 
from  the  infirmities  of  old  age.  Burial  was  in  the  Harris- 
burg Cemetery. 

He  was  married  May  26,  1859,  in  Harrisburg,  to  Mary 
Wilson,  daughter  of  Hermanns  and  Mary  Elder  (Kerr) 
Alricks  of  Harrisburg.  His  wife  was  descended  from 
Pieter  Alricks,  who  came  from  Holland  in  1658.  Her 
mother  was  the  great-granddaughter  of  Rev.  John  Elder, 
who  came  from  Edinburgh  about  1736.  Mrs.  McCormick's 
death  occurred  August  6,  1891.  Eight  children  were  born 
to  them:  Herman,  who  died  in  1867  at  the  age  of  six; 
Henry  (B.A.  1884)  '■>  James  and  William,  both  of  whom 
took  the  degree  of  B.A.  in  1887;  Donald  (B.A.  1890); 
Eliza;  Mary  (born  March  11,  1874;  died  May  7,  1877); 
and  Robert,  who  received  the  degree  of  B.A.  from  Yale  in 
1900.     Mr.   McCormick's   daughter  Eliza   was   married  in 


548  YALE    COLLEGE  " 

1904  to  William  W.  Finney  and  resides  in  Churchville,  Md. 
His  brother,  the  late  Henry  McCormick,  graduated  from 
the  College  in  1852.  Henry  B.  McCormick  (B.A.  1892) 
and  Vance  C.  McCormick  (Ph.B.  1893)  are  nephews. 


Charles  Tripler  Alexander,  B.A.   1854 

Born  May  3,  1833,  at  Fort  Touson,  Indian  Territory 
Died  February  28,  1918,  in  Washington,  D.  C. 

Charles  Tripler  Alexander  was  born  May  3,  1833,  at 
Fort  Touson,  Indian  Territory.  His  father  was  Brigadier 
General  Edmund  B.  Alexander,  U.  S.  A.,  and  his  mother 
was  Elizabeth  Ann  (Craig)  Alexander. 

He  entered  Yale  in  1850  as  a  resident  of  Daviess  County, 
Ky.  He  spent  the  first  two  years  after  graduation  studying 
medicine  at  Jefferson  Medical  College  in  Philadelphia, 
where  he  received  the  degree  of  M.D.  in  1856.  In  Octo- 
ber of  that  year  he  was  appointed  an  Assistant  Surgeon 
in  the  U.  S.  Army,  with  the  rank  of  First  Lieutenant. 
During  the  Civil  War  he  served  successively  as  an  inspector 
of  rebel  prisons,  as  head  of  a  hospital,  and  as  Acting  Medical 
Purveyor,  and  afterwards  he  was  stationed  at  different  army 
posts  throughout  the  country.  He  was  at  St.  Louis  in  1866, 
1874,  and  1885,  and  at  West  Point,  N.  Y.,  being  principally 
occupied  as  an  examining  surgeon  and  medical  purveyor. 
He  was  promoted  to  the  rank  of  Captain  on  October  i, 
1861,  and  to  that  of  Major  and  Surgeon,  February  9,  1863. 
On  March  13,  1865,  he  was  made  Brevet  Lieutenant  Colonel 
"for  faithful  and  meritorious  services  during  the  war,"  and 
twenty-one  years  later  was  commissioned  a  Lieutenant 
Colonel  in  the  Medical  Department.  He  was  brevetted 
Colonel  on  February  27,  1890,  "for  gallant  services  in  the 
Nes  Perces  Indian  Campaign,"  and  in  September  of  the 
following  year  received  his  commission  as  Colonel  and 
Chief  Medical  Purveyor  of  the  Army,  with  assignment  to 
New  York  City.  On  reaching  the  age  limit  in  May,  1897, 
he  was  retired,  and  later,  by  act  of  April  23,  1904,  was 
advanced  to  the  rank  of  Brigadier  General,  retired.  Flis 
4eath  occurred  February  28,  19 18,  at  his  home  in  Wash- 
ington, D.  C.    He  was  buried  at  West  Point,  N.  Y. 


1853-1854  549 

General  Alexander  was  married  in  St.  Louis,  Mo., 
December  3,  1863,  to  Julia  A.,  daughter  of  Dr.  R.  A.  Barret. 
They  had  three  daughters:  Maria  L.,  Edmonia,  and  Lela. 
The  latter  was  married  November  2,  1892,  to  J.  J.  Emery 
of  Cincinnati. 


Austin  Cornelius  Dunham,  B.A.   1854 

Born  June  10,  1833,  in  Coventry,  Conn. 
Died  March  17,  1918,  in  St.  Petersburg,  Fla. 

Austin  Cornelius  Dunham  was  born  in  Coventry,  Conn., 
June  10,  1833,  the  son  of  Austin  and  M.  S,  (Root)  Dunham. 
The  family  moved  to  Hartford,  Conn.,  in  1835  and  there 
Mr.  Dunham  became  known  as  a  merchant  of  high  stand- 
ing, also  engaging  in  the  cotton  manufacturing  business. 
His  wife's  father  was  Judge  Jesse  Root. 

After  attending  school  in  Hartford,  North  Coventry, 
and  Ellington,  Conn.,  he  entered  Yale  in  1850  and  was 
graduated  four  years  later.  He  was  absent  from  college 
in  Junior  year. 

After  graduation  he  taught  for  a  year  in  Elmira,  N.  Y., 
and  then  returned  to  Hartford.  For  some  years  he  was  a 
member  of  the  firms  of  Austin  Dunham  &  Company  and 
E.  N.  Kellogg  &  Company,  after  which  he  became  senior 
partner  in  the  firm  of  Austin  Dunham's  Sons,  manufacturers 
of  worsted  yarns  and  hosiery.  He  was  later  president  of 
the  Dunham  Hosiery  Company  and  the  Rock  Manufactur- 
ing Company.  He  had  had  numerous  other  business  inter- 
ests. It  was  largely  through  his  efforts  that  the  cost  of 
electric  lights  was  so  reduced  as  to  make  them  practical 
for  house  lighting.  He  bought  the  Hartford  Electric  Light 
Company  as  a  bankrupt  concern  and  developed  a  large 
business  from  it.  Under  his  direction  the  first  transmission 
plant  in  the  United  States  was  installed  in  Hartford,  and 
he  was  the  first  to  adopt  many  other  inventions  along  this 
line.  He  retired  as  president  of  the  company  in  February. 
191 2,  being  succeeded  by  his  brother,  Samuel  G.  Dunham, 
but  retained  his  place  as  first  director  until  his  death.  He 
was  at  one  time  president  of  the  Willimantic  Linen  Com- 
pany, and  was  one  of  the  founders  of  the  Austin  Organ 


5'SO  YALE    COLLEGE 

Company  and  the  Automatic  Refrigerating-  Company,  and 
a  director  of  the  ^tna  Fire  Insurance  Company,  the 
Travelers  Life  Insurance  Company,  and  the  National 
Exchange  Bank.  He  had  succeeded  his  father  in  several 
of  these  positions,  the  latter  having  been  connected  in  some 
capacity  with  most  of  the  large  corporations  of  the  city. 
After  his  retirement  a  few  years  ago  Austin  C.  Dunham 
became  interested  in  the  development  of  truck  farming, 
and  he  bought  the  Corbin  farm  at  Newington,  established 
a  number  of  five-acre  tracts,  on  which  he  built  concrete 
houses  and  barns,  and  brought  the  land  to  a  high  state  of 
cultivation.  When  the  United  States  entered  the  war,  he 
gave  the  farm  to  the  Connecticut  Agricultural  College  at 
Storrs.  Following  out  his  inventive  genius,  which  had 
early  demonstrated  itself  in  the  invention  of  many  electrical 
appliances  for  household  use,  he  invented  a  universal  wheel, 
to  be  used  on  various  types  of  vehicles.  He  had  been  inter- 
ested in  many  charities  and  had  given  largely  to  the  Hart- 
ford Hospital.  In  1912  he  gave  $75,000  to  the  Sheffield 
Scientific  School,  towards  the  construction  of  the  Electrical 
Engineering  Laboratory.  He  was  a  trustee  of  the  Watkin- 
son  Juvenile  Asylum  and  Farm  School,  the  Watkinson 
Library,  and  the  Hartford  Grammar  School,  a  director  of 
the  Cedar  Hill  Cemetery,  and  president  of  the  Hartford 
Hospital  Corporation. 

He  had  read  many  papers  before  clubs  and  other  organi- 
zations. A  series  of  autobiographical  papers,  first  printed 
in  the  Hartford  Courant,  were  afterwards  collected  and 
published  in  a  book,  entitled  "Reminiscences  of  Austin  C. 
Dunham."  In  the  last  few  years  Mr.  Dunham  had  made  a 
number  of  trips  to  Florida  and  Cuba.  He  died,  after  a 
brief  illness,  at  St.  Petersburg,  Fla.,  on  March  17,  1918. 

He  was  married  September  16,  1858,  to  Lucy  J.,  daugh- 
ter of  James  Root  (B.A.  1806),  who  fought  in  the  War 
of  1812,  and. Lucy  Ann  (Olmstead)  Root.  Her  death 
occurred  in  September,  1864.  They  had  two  children:  a 
son,  who  died  in  1873  i^i  his  thirteenth  year,  and  a  daughter, 
Laura  Baldwin,  who  studied  in  the  Yale  School  of  the  Fine 
Arts  during  1876-77  and  was  married  March  22,  1890,  to 
Danford  Newton  Barney,  a  graduate  of  the  College  in 
1881.  Her  sons  are  Danford  Newton  Barney,  Jr.  (B.A. 
191^),  and  Austin  Dunham  Barney,  a  member  of  the  Class 


i854  551 

of  191 8.  In  addition  to  his  daughter  and  four  grandchil- 
dren, Mr.  Dunham  is  survived  by  his  brother  Samuel,  whose 
son,  Austin  Dunham,  received  the  degree  of  B.A.  at  Yale 
in  1917.    George  C.  Dunham  (B.A.  1856)  was  a  relative. 


Ira  Welch  Pettibone,  B.A.   1854 

Born  July  27,  1833,  in  Whitesboro,  N.  Y. 
Died  September  29,  1917,  in  Chicago,  111. 

Ira  Welch  Pettibone  was  born  in  Whitesboro,  N.  Y., 
July  27,  1833,  being  one  of  the  five  children  of  Rev.  Ira 
Pettibone  (B.A.  Middlebury  1828,  D.D.  Middlebury  1885) 
and  Louisa  Pamela  (Welch)  Pettibone.  His  father,  a 
Presbyterian  minister,  was  the  son  of  Luman  and  Polly 
(Kingsbury)  Pettibone  and  a  descendant  of  John  Petti- 
bone, who  came  to  this  country  about  1650  from  Wales  and 
settled  at  Simsbury,  Conn.  His  mother  was  the  daughter 
of  Dr.  Benjamin  Welch  and  Louisa  (Guiteau)  Welch  and 
a  sister  of  Benjamin  Welch  (M.D.  1823). 

His  early  education  was  received  under  the  tuition  of  his 
father  and  at  Williston  Seminary,  Easthampton,  Mass., 
and  before  joining  the  Class  of  1854  as  a  Junior  he  spent 
two  years  at  Amherst  College. 

Mr.  Pettibone  entered  upon  a  career  as  a  teacher  after 
graduating.  From  1854  to  1859  he  taught  at  the  Alger 
Institute,  Cornwall,  Conn.,  being  principal  during  the  last 
two  years.  In  1859-60  he  was  principal  of  the  academy  at 
Norfolk,  Conn.;  and  the  next  year  held  a  similar  position 
at  the  Winchester  (Conn.)  Institute.  On  October  30,  1861, 
he  was  commissioned  a  Major  in  the  loth  Regiment, 
Connecticut  Volunteers,  and  early  in  the  next  year  sailed 
with  General  Burnside's  expedition  from  Annapolis.  He 
was  promoted  to  be  Lieutenant  Colonel  February  8,  1862, 
and  to  be  Colonel  the  following  June,  but  in  November, 
1862,  resigned  his  commission  because  of  ill  health.  He 
returned  to  the  Winchester  Institute  in  May,  1863,  con- 
tinuing as  its  head  until  1871,  when  he  was  placed  in  charge 
of  the  preparatory  department  of  Beloit  College.  He 
remained  there  until  1881,  during  this  period  also  giving 
instruction  in  mathematics  to  college  classes.     From  1881 


552  YALE   COLLEGE 

to  1884  he  was  headmaster  of  the  Morgan  Park  Military 
Academy  of  Chicago,  111.,  and  for  the  next  nineteen  years  he 
taught  Latin  and  Greek  in  the  North  Division  High  School 
of  that  city.  Since  his  retirement  in  1903,  he  had  given 
his  attention  mainly  to  the  study  of  history  and  literature. 
He  was  a  member  of  the  Congregational  Church  of  Win- 
chester. In  1868  he  served  as  a  member  of  the  Connecticut 
Legislature.  He  died  at  his  home  in  Chicago,  September  29, 
191 7,  following  a  gradual  decline  in  health.  His  last  ill- 
ness covered  a  period  of  two  weeks.  Interment  was  in 
Center  Cemetery,  Norfolk,  Conn. 

Mr.  Pettibone's  marriage  took  place  April  16,  1856,  to 
Emily  Frances,  daughter  of  Robert  and  Alura  (Spicer) 
Miner  of  Cornwall,  Conn.  Her  death  occurred  April  23, 
1869.  Their  four  children, — Robert  Frederick  (B.A.  Beloit 
1877)  ;  Charles  Ira ;  Emily  Frances,  who  was  married 
August  3,  1886,  to  Elliott  Birdsey  Bronson  of  Winchester; 
and  Frederick, — are  living.  Mr.  Pettibone  is  also  survived 
by  a  sister.  He  was  a  first  cousin  of  Dr.  William  Henry 
Welch  (B.A.  1870)  and  of  Rev.  Luman  A.  Pettibone  (B.D. 
1880). 


George  Alvah  Kittredge,  B.A.   1855 

Born  March  29,  1833,  in  Boston,  Mass. 
Died  December  26,  1917,  in  Brookline,  Mass. 

George  Alvah  Kittredge  was  born  in  Boston,  Mass., 
March  29,  1833,  the  son  of  Alvah  and  Mehetable  (Grozier) 
Kittredge. 

He  received  his  early  education  under  private  tutors  and 
at  the  Roxbury  Latin  School.  At  the  age  of  seventeen  he 
went  to  Syria  in  a  sailing  vessel  of  less  than  two  hundred 
tons.  Upon  his  return  in  1851,  he  entered  Yale  with  the 
Class  of  1855.  In  Sophomore  year  he  was  given  a  second 
Berkeley  Premium  in  Latin  composition  and  the  next  year 
a  second  prize  in  Latin.  His  Senior  appointment  was  a 
philosophical  oration  and  he  belonged  to  Phi  Beta  Kappa. 
During  1855-56  he  continued  his  studies  at  Yale  on  the 
Clark  Scholarship  foundation. 

He  traveled  in  the  West  during  part  of  the  next  year. 


1854-1855  553 

From  1857  to  1862  he  was  employed  by  Naylor  &  Com- 
pany, of  Boston,  and  at  this  time  his  home  was  in  Roxbury. 
In  September,  1862,  he  sailed  for  India,  and  for  the  next 
forty  years  he  was  prominently  engaged  in  business  in 
Bombay.  He  was  for  a  long  time  a  member  of  the 
mercantile  firm  of  Stearns,  Hobart  &  Company.  He  later 
introduced  tramways  into  India  and  in  1873  was  given  a 
concession  for  a  horse  railway  and  became  chairman  and  a 
director  of  the  Bombay  Tramway  Company,  Ltd.  For  a 
number  of  years  he  served  as  American  vice  consul  and 
for  nearly  ten  years  was  a  member  of  the  board  of  trustees 
for  the  port  of  Bombay.  Mr.  Kittredge  had  taken 
an  active  part  in  inaugurating  the  movement  to  allow 
women  to  study  medicine  in  India,  being  chairman  of  the 
Medical  Women  for  India  Fund.  He  also  established  a 
Women's  Hospital  at  Bombay,  in  the  interests  of  which 
institution  he  made  several  visits  to  England  and  America. 
Queen  Victoria  was  one  of  the  warmest  supporters  of  this 
hospital.  In  all,  Mr.  Kittredge  had  made  forty-two  trips 
to  and  from  India,  had  traveled  extensively  in  Europe,  and 
had  been  around  the  world  twice.  Since  1905  he  had  lived 
in  the  vicinity  of  Boston,  during  the  last  eight  years  of  his 
life  making  his  home  in  Brookline,  where  he  died,  Decem- 
ber 26,  191 7.  Interment  was  in  Forest  Hills  Cemetery, 
Boston.  He  bequeathed  to  the  University  a  collection  of 
coins  and  unset  seals,  together  with  many  books  and  maps 
relating  to  India  and  the  Near  and  Far  East. 

Mr.  Kittredge  belonged  to  the  Episcopal  Church.     He 
had  never  married.    Surviving  him  are  two  sisters. 


Charles  Mellen  Tyler,  B.A.   1855 

Born  January  8,  1832,  in  Limington,  Maine 
Died  May  15,  1918,  in  Scranton,  Pa, 

Charles  Mellen  Tyler  was  born  January  8,  1832,  in 
Limington,  Maine,  the  son  of  Daniel  Tyler,  a  lawyer,  and 
Lavinia  (Small)  Tyler.  His  father's  father  was  Captain 
Joseph  Tyler,  who  with  his  father  (the  great-grandfather 
of  Charles  Mellen  Tyler)  fought  in  the  American  ranks 
at  the  battle  of  Bunker  Hill.    Both  were  in  the  Continental 


554  YALE   COLLEGE 

Army  throughout  the  Revolution.  Captain  Joseph  Tyler's 
grandfather  served  as  an  officer  under  General  Wolfe, 
before  the  walls  of  Quebec  in  the  French  and  Indian  War, 
and  was  wounded  at  Ticonderoga.  The  immigrant  pro- 
genitor of  the  Tyler  family  was  Job  Tyler,  who  came  to 
this  country  from  England  in  1632,  settling  at  Newport, 
R.  L,  and  removing  shortly  afterwards  to  Andover,  Mass. 
He  left  two  sons,  Hopestill  and  Moses.  From  the  latter, 
whose  marked  grave  is  in  Andover,  Charles  Mellen  Tyler 
traced  his  direct  descent. 

He  received  his  early  education  from  his  father  and  in 
the  country  schools  of  Maine,  later  attending  Lewiston 
Academy  at  Lewiston,  Maine.  On  his  graduation  he  was 
ready  to  enter  college,  but  his  youth  and  financial  reverses 
suffered  by  his  family  about  that  time  made  it  impossible. 
He  found  employment  at  different  occupations,  and  worked, 
among  other  places,  in  a  ship  chandler's  office  in  Belfast, 
Maine,  and  for  the  grocery  house  of  D.  L.  Gibbons  &  Com- 
pany in  Boston.  His  industry  and  frugality  enabled  him 
at  last  to  enter  Phillips-Andover  for  the  Senior  year  in 
order  to  obtain  a  firmer  foundation  in  classics,  and  at  this 
institution  he  obtained  his  final  preparatory  education.  He 
won  here  the  distinction  of  being  chosen  to  compose  the 
Greek  dialogue  for  his  Commencement, — the  highest  honor 
open  to  a  one-year  man. 

At  Yale  he  was  elected  to  membership  in  Phi  Beta  Kappa. 
In  his  first  year  he  divided  a  first  prize  in  Latin,  and  as  a 
Sophomore  he  divided  a  third  prize  in  English  composition 
and  won  a  third  prize  in  declamation. 

He  attended  Union  Theological  Seminary  in  New  York 
City  for  a  year  after  graduation,  and  was  licensed  to  preach 
in  June,  1856.  In  November  of  that  year,  after  spending 
some  months  preaching  in  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.,  and  in  Chicago, 
he  accepted  a  call  to  the  First  Church  of  Christ  at  Gales- 
burg,  III,  vv^here  he  was  installed  as  pastor  in  June,  1857. 
He  left  Galesburg  in  July  of  the  next  year,  and,  after 
an  interval  of  about  seven  months  spent  in  New  Haven, 
became  pastor  of  the  Congregational  Church  of  Natick, 
Mass.  He  served  in  the  Massachusetts  Legislature  during 
1862,  being  a  member  of  the  committee  on  education.  He 
served  in  the  Civil  War  as  Chaplain  of  the  22d  Massachu- 
setts Volunteers,  with  the  rank  of  Captain,  and,  among 
other    operations,    went    through    the    campaign    of    the 


i855  555 

Wilderness.  In  1867  he  left  Natick,  and  for  the  next  five 
years  held  the  pastorate  of  the  South  Congregational  Church 
of  Chicago.  He  was  called  to  the  Reformed  Dutch  Church 
of  Ithaca,  N.  Y.,  in  the  fall  of  1872,  and  began  preaching 
there  in  December.  This  church  shortly  afterwards  with- 
drew from  the  classis  and  became  Congregational  in 
denomination.  Dr.  Tyler  was  installed  as  pastor  on  Novem- 
ber 18,  1874,  and  continued  in  this  charge  until  receiving 
an  appointment  to  the  Sage  professorship  of  history  and 
the  philosophy  of  religion  and  Christian  ethics  at  Cornell 
University  in  1891.  In  1903  he  was  retired  with  the  rank 
of  professor  emeritus  and  had  since  spent  much  time  abroad. 
He  was  a  member  of  the  board  of  trustees  of  Cornell  from 
1886  to  1892,  and  again  from  1907  until  his  death,  at  the 
same  time  serving  as  librarian  of  the  Ithaca  City  Library. 
He  had  delivered  a  number  of  addresses,  had  published  a 
number  of  reviews,  and  was  the  author  of  "Bases  of 
Religious  Belief :  Historical  and  Ideal,"  which  appeared 
in  1897;  a  "Life  of  Lieutenant  George  Wolcott,  U.  S.  V.," 
and  several  text  books.  He  received  the  degrees  of  M.A. 
and  D.D.  from  Yale  in  1890  and  1892,  respectively.  He 
belonged  to  the  Military  Order  of  the  Loyal  Legion,  the 
American  Oriental  Society,  and  the  Society  for  Psychical 
Research.  For  the  past  four  years  he  had  made  his  home 
with  his  younger  daughter  in  Scranton,  Pa.,  where  he  died 
May  15,  1918.  He  had  undergone  an  operation  for  an 
abscess  of  the  neck  several  months  before,  and  from  the 
effects  of  this  he  failed  to  recover.  Burial  was  in  Lake 
View  Cemetery  at  Ithaca. 

Dr.  Tyler  was  married  December  10,  1856,  in  New  Haven, 
to  Ellen  A.,  daughter  of  Captain  Thomas  Davis  and  Harriet 
N.  (Rich)  Davis.  She  died  on  January  14,  1891,  and  in 
June,  1892.  he  was  married  in  Syracuse,  N.  Y.,  to  Miss 
Katharine  E.  Stark,  a  professor  of  music  in  Syracuse  Uni- 
versity. Her  parents  were  Nathan  and  Mary  Ann  (Elmen- 
dorf)  Stark.  She  died  May  25,  1912.  Dr.  Tyler  had  two 
daughters  by  his  first  marriage,  Effie  Dunrieth  and  Ethel 
Beatrice.  The  elder  daughter  was  married  June  16,  1880, 
to  James  Eraser  Gluck  (B.A.  Cornell  1874),  whose  death 
occurred  December  15,  1897.  She  was  married  a  second 
time,  in  1903,  to  James  Hughes  Massie  (M.E.  Cornell  1901) 
and  is  now  living  in  London,  England.  Her  son,  Clair 
Gluck,  served  with  the  British  Army  in  the  Mesopotamian 


556  YALE   COLLEGE 

campaign  and  later  was  on  the  Western  front.  Her 
daughter,  Margel  Gluck,  has  been  doing  canteen  service 
and  camp  recreation  work  in  England.  Dr.  Tyler's  younger 
daughter  was  married  on  December  20,  1900,  to  James 
Gardner  Sanderson,  of  Scranton,  who  studied  law  at 
Cornell  from  1893  to  1896. 


Patrick  Henry  Woodward,  B.A.   1855 

Born  March  19,  1833,  in  Franklin,  Conn. 
Died  September  4,  1917,  in  Hartford,  Conn. 

Patrick  Henry  Woodward  was  born  March  19,  1833,  in 
Franklin,  Conn.,  his  parents  being  Ashbel  Woodward  (M.D. 
Bowdoin  1829,  Honorary  M.D.  Yale  1855)  and  Emeline 
(Bicknell)  Woodward.  His  father  was  the  son  of  Abner 
and  Eunice  (Fuller)  Woodward  and  a  descendant  in  the 
seventh  generation  of  Richard  Woodward,  who  came  to 
Watertown,  Mass.,  from  Ipswich,  England,  in  1634;  he 
practiced  medicine  in  F'^ranklin  for  many  years  and  served 
throughout  the  Civil  War  as  Surgeon  of  the  26th  Regiment, 
Connecticut  Volunteers.  His  mother,  who  was  the  daugh- 
ter of  Samuel  and  Sally  (Marcy)  Bicknell,  traced  her 
ancestry  to  Zachary  Bicknell,  who  landed  in  Boston,  May 
6,  1635,  and  settled  at  Weymouth,  Mass.,  in  1636,  having 
emigrated  to  this  country  from  Weymouth,  England. 

He  received  his  preparation  for  college  partly  at  Phillips 
Academy,  Andover,  Mass.,  and  partly  at  home.  He  was 
given  a  third  prize  in  English  composition  Sophomore 
year  and  in  Junior  year  a  second  Berkeley  Premium  and  a 
third  prize  in  Latin.  His  appointments  were  high  orations, 
and  he  spoke  at  Commencement.  Fie  was  elected  to  mem- 
bership in  Phi  Beta  Kappa. 

From  September,  1855,  to  May,  1856,  Mr.  Woodward 
wa*s  principal  of  Mcintosh  County  Academy  at  Darien,  Ga. 
The  next  two  years  were  spent  as  a  private  tutor  in  the 
family  of  Mr.  William  R.  Gignilliat  at  Darien,  and  during 
this  period  he  also  studied  medicine.  In  December,  1859, 
after  studying  law  at  Harvard  for  a  few  months,  he  was 
admitted  to  the  Connecticut  Bar.  He  then  went  South  and 
took  up  the  practice  of  law  at  Savannah,  Ga.,  as  a  member 


i855  557 

of  the  firm  of  Gignilliat  &  Woodward.  In  September,  1862, 
he  joined  the  editorial  staff  of  the  Hartford  Courant.  He 
gave  up  this  connection  three  years  later  to  accept  an 
appointment  as  a  special  agent  of  the  Post  Office  Depart- 
ment. On  November  i,  1874,  he  was  named  as  chief  special 
agent  of  the  department,  with  headquarters  in  Washington. 
After  the  Civil  War  he  had  reorganized  the  service  in 
Georgia,  after  which  he  was  for  four  years  in  charge  of  the 
railway  mail  service  from  the  Ohio  River  to  the  Gulf,  and  in 
1 88 1  he  investigated  for  the  Government  the  alleged  "Star 
Route"  frauds.  He  resigned  in  June,  1885.  In  1886  and 
1887  he  was  secretary  and  treasurer  of  the  Mather  Electric 
Light  Company  of  Hartford.  In  1888  he  became  secretary 
of  the  Hartford  Board  of  Trade  and  served  in  this  capacity 
until  1901.  At  the  time  of  his  death  he  was  vice  president 
of  the  Connecticut  General  Life  Insurance  Company,  presi- 
dent of  the  Dime  Savings  Bank,  a  trustee  of  the  Security 
Trust  Company,  a  director  of  the  Retreat  for  the  Insane, 
and  secretary  of  the  board  of  trustees  of  Trinity  College. 
The  latter  institution  conferred  the  honorary  degree  of 
Master  of  Arts  upon  him  in  1900.  Mr.  Woodward  had 
contributed  extensively  to  magazines.  Several  of  his 
stories  written  in  the  middle  seventies  were  included  in  the 
"Anthology  of  the  Most  Interesting  Stories  of  all  Nations," 
issued  by  the  Review  of  Reviews  Publishing  Company  in 
191 5.  He  was  the  author  of  "Guarding  the  Mails,"  which 
was  first  published  in  1876  and  of  which  several  editions, 
under  the  title,  "The  Secret  Service  of  the  Post  Office 
Department,"  were  later  issued ;  "A  Centennial  History  of 
the  Hartford  Bank"  (1892)  ;  and  "A  History  of  Insurance 
in  Connecticut"  (1897).  He  also  published  for  many  years 
the  annual  reports  of  the  Hartford  Board  of  Trade.  He 
belonged  to  the  American  Economic  Association  and  the 
American  Historical  Association,  and  was  a  member  of  the 
Protestant  Episcopal  Church.  His  death  occurred  Septem- 
ber 4,  1917,  at  his  home  in  Hartford.  He  had  been  in 
declining  health  for  several  months  due  to  the  infirmities  of 
age.    He  was  buried  in  the  Windham  (Conn.)  Cemetery. 

His  marriage  took  place  September  11,  1867,  in  South 
Windham,  to  Mary,  daughter  of  Charles  and  Mary  (Abbe) 
Smith.  They  had  two  children:  Helen,  who  was  married 
on  November  16,  1892,  to  Rev.  Stephen  Henry  Cranberry 
(S.T.B.  Nashotah  1873)   oi  Newark,  N.  J.,  and  Charles 


558  YALE   COLLEGE 

Guilford,  a  graduate  of  Trinity  in  1898.  Mr.  Woodward 
is  survived  by  his  wife,  two  children,  a  granddaughter, 
Helen  Granberry  Waterman,  the  wife  of  Edgar  Francis 
Waterman,  treasurer  of  Trinity  College,  and  two  great- 
granddaughters.  His  brother,  Richard  William  Woodward 
(B.A.  1867),  is  also  living. 


Julius  Gay,  B.A.   1856 

Born.  February  15,  1834,  in  Farmington,  Conn. 
Died  May  2,  1918,  in  Farmington,  Conn. 

Julius  Gay  was  the  only  son  of  Fisher  and  Lucy  (Thom- 
son) Gay,  and  was  born  February  15,  1834,  in  Farmington, 
Conn.  His  father  was  seventh  in  descent  from  John  Gay, 
who  came  to  this  country  from  England  about  1630  and 
settled  at  Watertown,  Mass.  He  was  the  son  of  Erastus 
and  Eunice  (Treadwell)  Gay  and  the  grandson  of  Fisher 
Gay,  who  graduated  from  Yale  College  in  1759  and  served 
as  Lieutenant  Colonel  of  a  Connecticut  regiment  during  the 
Revolution.  Julius  Gay's  mother  was  the  daughter  of 
Jonathan  and  Eunice  (Fitch)  Thomson  and  a  descendant 
of  Rev.  James  Fitch,  the  first  minister  of  Norwich,  Conn., 
who  was  born  at  Bocking,  England,  in  1622  and  died  at 
Lebanon,  Conn.,  November  18,  1702. 

Julius  Gay  received. his  preparation  for  college  in  Farm- 
ington at  the  school  conducted  by  Simeon  Hart  (B.A.  1823). 
In  Freshman  year  he  received  a  second  mathematics  prize, 
and  in  Junior  year  he  was  given  a  first  prize  in  the  same 
subject.  His  Senior  appointment  was  a  second  dispute. 
After  graduating  from  the  College  he  spent  two  years 
studying  engineering  in  the  Scientific  School  and  was  given 
the  degree  of  Ph.B.  in  1858. 

From  1858  to  1873  he  was  engaged  in  civil  engineering, 
practicing  in  Hartford  County,  where  he  was  recognized 
as  an  expert  in  that  profession.  In  1873  he  became  con- 
nected with  the  Farmington  Savings  Bank  as  treasurer. 
He  served  in  that  capacity  until  19 10,  when  he  was  made 
president  and  secretary  of  the  bank.  Mr.  Gay  was  a 
member  of  the  Congregational  Church  in  Farmington.  He 
died  May  2,  191 8,  at  his  home  in  that  town.     He  had  been 


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in  poor  health  for  a  year  and  a  half,  and  had  been  seriously 
ill  for  five  weeks.  His  death  was  due  to  pruritis  and  other 
diseases  incident  to  old  age.  He  was  buried  in  Riverside 
Cemetery  at  Farmington. 

He  was  married  October  16,  1862,  in  that  town,  to  Maria, 
daughter  of  Mervin  and  Caroline  (Guptil)  Clark.  Mr. 
Gay  is  survived  by  his  wife  and  a  daughter,  Florence 
Thomson.     Three  other  daughters  died  in  infancy. 


John  Monteith,  B.A.   1856 

Born  January  31,  1833,  in  Elyria,  Ohio 
Died  May  4,  1918,  in  South  Orange,  N.  J. 

John  Monteith  was  born  January  31,  1833,  in  Elyria, 
Ohio,  being  one  of  the  nine  children  of  Rev.  John  Monteith. 
His  father  graduated  from  Jefferson  College  in  181 3  and 
was  a  member  of  the  Class  of  1816  at  the  Princeton  Theo- 
logical Seminary,  afterwards  being  engaged  in  missionary 
work  and  teaching.  He  was  a  descendant  of  David  Mon- 
teith, who  came  from  Dundee,  Scotland,  to  Gettysburg,  Pa., 
about  1780,  and  of  Sarah  Licky,  also  of  Dundee.  His 
mother,  whose  father  was  Captain  Luther  Harris,  traced 
her  descent  to  that  member  of  the  Harris  family  who  settled 
at  Newtown,  Conn,,  early  in  the  seventeenth  century,  hav- 
ing emigrated  to  this  country  from  England. 

He  received  his  early  education  in  the  school  conducted 
by  his  parents  at  Elyria.  From  1852  to  1854  he  was  a  stu- 
dent at  Western  Reserve  University,  and  he  also  studied 
for  a  short  time  at  Hudson  College.  He  entered  Yale  as  a 
Junior  in  1854,  receiving  a  dissertation  appointment  at 
Commencement. 

After  graduating  Mr.  Monteith  studied  theology  at  Yale 
for  two  years,  and  in  October,  1858,  was  ordained  and 
installed  pastor  of  the  Terry ville  (Conn.)  Congregational 
Church.  In  1860-61  he  was  a  resident  licentiate  at  Union 
Theological  Seminary,  New  York  City,  and  during  the 
early  part  of  the  Civil  War  he  served  in  the  U.  S.  Christian 
Commission.  After  filling  a  two-year  pastorate  at  the 
First  Congregational  Church  of  Jackson,  Mich.,  he  went  to 
the  Euclid  Avenue  Presbyterian  Church  of  Cleveland,  Ohio. 


560  YALE    COLLEGE 

In  1866  he  removed  to  St.  Louis,  Mo.,  where  he  took  an 
active  part  in  organizing  the  Pilgrim  Congregational 
Church,  of  which  he  was  pastor  until  1870.  At  that  time 
he  resigned  because  of  ill  health  and  for  a  year  was 
engaged  in  farming  in  southern  Missouri.  In  June,  1871, 
he  accepted  the  superintendency  of  the  public  schools  of 
Missouri,  and  served  in  that  capacity  until  January,  1875, 
when  he  again  took  up  farming.  He  built  up  two  churches 
and  four  normal  schools  in  Missouri, — at  Warrensburg, 
Kirksville,  Cape  Girardeau,  and  Jefferson  City.  Until  early 
in  1878  he  was  secretary  of  the  Missouri  State  Board  of 
Agriculture.  He  was  then  for  a  number  of  years  engaged 
in  literary  and  editorial  work  for  several  publishing  houses, 
and  in  delivering  lectures  on  educational  subjects.  From 
1879  to  1881  he  was  connected  with  the  Montesano  Springs 
Company  of  Kimmswick,  Mo.,  and  for  the  next  seven  years 
he  made  his  home  at  Webster  Springs,  Mo.  He  removed 
to  Cincinnati,  Ohio,  in  1888.  From  1889  to  1899  he  lived 
in  California,  at  first  making  his  home  in  San  Diego,  and 
later  removing  to  Sausalito.  In  1897  he  removed  to  New 
York  City,  and  for  the  next  few  years  was  chiefly  engaged 
as  a  book  editor,  doing  work  for  three  publishing  houses. 
The  last  sixteen  years  of  his  life  were  spent  in  South 
Orange,  N.  J.,  where,  from  1905  to  1908,  he  served  as 
superintendent  of  the  Monteith  School,  which  is  now  con- 
ducted by  his  daughters.  He  was  active  in  the  work  of  the 
Village  Improvement  Society  and  attended  the  Orange  Uni- 
tarian Church.  He  died  at  his  home.  May  4,  1918,  as  the 
result  of  heart  disease,  and  was  buried  in  Fairmotmt  Cem- 
etery at  Newark,  N.  J.  His  health  was  good  until  1915, 
but  after  that  time  he  suffered  for  a  while  from  partial 
paralysis  induced  by  excessive  mountain  climbing,  although 
he  later  recovered  and  was  able  to  resume  his  daily  walks. 

Some  of  Mr.  Monteith's  best-known  text  books  are  "Liv- 
ing Creatures,"  "Familiar  Animals,"  and  "Useful  Ani- 
mals." While  living  at  San  Diego,  he  was  for  a  time  editor 
of  the  San  Diego  Clipper,  and  later  he  edited  the  Calif  ornian 
Magazine,  published  in  San  Francisco.  In  1887  he  spent 
several  months  abroad  gathering  data  for  his  books.  For 
over  five  years  he  was  associated  with  the  work  of  the 
Thomas  Davidson  Society  of  New  York  City  and  its  night 
schools. 

Jie  was  married  July   16,   1861,  in   Sandusky,   Ohio,  to 


1856  56 1 

Lydia  Maria,  daughter  of  Lewis  Loomis,  a  lineal  descend- 
ant of  Joseph  Loomis,  who  settled  at  Windsor,  Conn.,  in 
1620,  and  built  what  is  now  the  oldest  homestead  in  the 
United  States  to  have  remained  in  one  family,  and  Charlotte 
(Lewis)  Loomis,  whose  grandmother,  Lady  Ranel^gh,  was 
a  sister  of  General  Richard  Montgomery  of  the  Revolu- 
tionary Army.  Her  death  occurred  November  3,  1889. 
They  had  six  children:  George  W.  (died  July  6,  1904)  ; 
Caroline;  John  Charles;  Charlotte  (born  and  died  in  July, 
1869);  Ethel  Ranelagh;  and  Mary  Harris.  His  brother, 
George  Monteith,  served  as  a  Major  during  the  Civil  War. 


John  Thomas  Price,  B.A.   1856 

Born  July  13,  1836.  at  Arrow  Rock,  Mo. 
Died  January  11,  1918,  in  Leavenworth,  Kans. 

John  Thomas  Price  was  born  at  Arrow  Rock,  Mo.,  July 
13,  1836,  the  son  of  Dr.  J.  T.  Price  and  a  grandson  of  Dr. 
John  Sappington.  He  entered  Yale  in  1852,  but  after 
spending  Freshman  and  Sophomore  years  with  the  Class 
of  1856,  left  college.  He  returned  to  New  Haven  in  the 
fall  of  1855  and  was  given  his  degree  the  following  June. 

Mr.  Price  spent  the  two  years  immediately  following  his 
graduation  in  the  study  of  law  in  St.  Louis,  Mo.,  where  he 
was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  February,  1858.  He  traveled  in 
Europe  from  1858  to  i860,  on  his  return  to  this  country 
taking  up  the  practice  of  law  in  St.  Louis.  Soon  after  the 
outbreak  of  the  Civil  War,  he  entered  service,  being  com- 
missioned as  a  Second  Lieutenant  in  the  5th  U.  S.  Infantry. 
He  afterwards  served  successively  on  the  staffs  of  General 
C.  F.  Smith,  General  Hamilton,  and  Major  General  Hal- 
leck.  He  was  at  one  time  Acting  Adjutant  General  for  the 
district  of  St.  Louis,  and  later  served  as  Chief  Mustering 
and  Distributing  Officer  for  the  Department  of  Missouri. 
He  raised  the  9th  Missouri  Cavalry  and  was  its  Colonel,  but 
before  its  enrollment  was  completed  he  accepted  the  Lieu- 
tenant-Colonelcy of  the  1st  Missouri  Volunteer  Cavalry, 
serving  till  November,   1863.      At  that  time,  having  been 


562  YALE    COLLEGE 

made  a  Captain  in  the  5th. Infantry  (Regular  Army),  he 
went  to  New  Mexico,  and  there,  in  addition  to  discharging 
his  duties  in  the  Army,  acted  as  a  United  States  revenue 
assessor.  In  the  summer  of  1864  he  resigned  his  commis- 
sion and*  espoused  the  cause  of  the  Liberal  Party  in  Mexico, 
then  fighting  against  Maximilian.  He  remained  in  Mexico 
nearly  a  year,  studying  the  Spanish  language,  and  in  the 
fall  of  1865  joined  Juarez,  who  was  at  that  time  at  El  Paso 
with  his  government.  He  was  engaged  in  preparations  as 
agent  of  that  government  to  raise  troops,  sell  lands,  etc., 
when  he  was  summoned  to  Missouri  by  the  death  of  his 
father.-  In  February,  1866,  he  resumed  the  practice  of  law, 
at  the  same  time  editing  the  Saline  County  Progress  at 
Marshall,  Mo.  In  the  fall  of  that  year  he  ran  as  an  Inde- 
pendent candidate  for  Congress,  but  withdrew  before  elec- 
tion. After  the  death  of  his  wife  in  1870,  he  resided  with 
his  mother  at  Arrow  Rock,  where  he  was  for  some  years 
engaged  in  farming.  After  a  time  he  became  inclined  to 
religious  mysticism,  arid,  developing  into  an  enthusiast  for 
reform,  he  eventually  evolved  "The  Christocratic  Working- 
men's  League,"  the  organ  of  which  (edited  by  himself) 
was  entitled  The  Rustler,  and  published  in  Slater,  Mo.  In 
1890  he  issued  a  pamphlet,  ''The  New  Jerusalem  in  Amer- 
ica." He  had  made  addresses  in  political  campaigns,  and 
was  several  times  called  upon  to  speak  in  Chicago  on  "free 
silver."  He  made  his  home  with  his  daughter  in  St.  Louis 
for  a  while,  but  later  went  to  live  at  the  Soldiers'  Home  at 
Danville,  111.  In  July,  1909,  he  was  transferred  to  the 
National  Soldiers'  Home  at  Leavenworth,  Kans.,  where 
the  remainder  of  his  life  was  spent  and  where  his  death 
occurred  January  11,  1918.  He  was  buried  in  the  Military 
Cemetery  at  Leavenworth. 

He  was  married  December  5,  1866,  at  Arrow  Rock,  to 
vSarah  M.,  daughter  of  Dr.  Charles  M.  Bradford.  Her 
death  occurred  December  29,  1870.  Colonel  Price  is  sur- 
vived by  a  daughter,  Eulalia  May,  who  was  married  in 
September,  1891,  to  William  C.  Shields  and  now  resides  at 
Colorado  Springs,  Colo.  A  daughter  and  a  son  died  in 
early  infancy. 


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Andrew  Jackson  Steinman,  B.A.    1856 

Born  October  lo,  1836,  in  Lancaster,  Pa. 
Died  November  17,  1917,  in  Lancaster,  Pa, 

Andrew  Jackson  Steinman  was  the  son  of  John  Frederick 
Steinman,  a  merchant,  and  Mary  Smith  (Fahnestock) 
Steinman,  and  was  born  in  Lancaster,  Pa.,  October  10, 
1836.  His  father,  whose  parents  were  John  Frederick  and 
Sybella  Margaretta  (Mayer)  Steinman,  was  descended 
from  Christian  Frederick  Steinman,  who  emigrated  to 
America  from  Saxony  in  1748  and  settled  at  Nazareth. 
His  mother  was  the  daughter  of  Charles  Carpenter  Fahne- 
stock. 

He  received  his  preparatory  training  in  the  Lancaster 
public  schools,  entering  Yale  with  the  Class  of  1856.  The 
first  year  after  graduation  he  spent  at  the  Albany  Law 
School,  and  from  1857  to  1859  he  continued  his  law  studies 
in  the  office  of  A.  Herr  Smith  at  Lancaster.  He  was 
admitted  to  the  Pennsylvania  Bar  in  August,  1859,  ^^^ 
immediately  began  practice  in  Lancaster.  He  served  as  a 
delegate  to  the  National  Democratic  Convention  in  1868, 
and  was  for  a  number  of  years  chairman  of  the  Democratic 
Committee  of  Lancaster  County.  In  1898  he  received  the 
Democratic  nomination  for  Congress  for  the  Ninth  Penn- 
sylvania District,  but  was  not  elected.  From  1868  to  191 7 
he  was  editor  of  the  Lancastisr  Daily  Intelligencer,  and  since 
1 89 1  he  had  been  chairman  of  the  Pennsylvania  Iron  Com- 
pany, a  private  concern  in  which  he  had  a  large  proprietary 
interest  and  to  which  he  had  devoted  much  of  his  time. 
He  was  prominently  identified  with  various  activities  in 
Lancaster.  In  recent  years  he  had  given  but  slight  atten- 
tion to  the  practice  of  law.  He  was  a  member  of  the 
Moravian  Church.  His  death  occurred  November  17, 
191 7.  at  Lancaster,  after  a  lingering  illness.  Interment  was 
in  the  Woodward  Hill  Cemetery  in  that  city. 

Mr.  Steinman  was  married  January  25,  1882,  in  Reading, 
Pa.,  to  Caroline  Morgan,  daughter  of  John  Mulhollan  and 
Elizabeth  (Duncan)  Hale.  She  survives  him  with  their 
four  children:  Elizabeth  Duncan;  John  Frederic  (Ph.B. 
1906)  ;  James  Hale  (B.A,  1908,  LL.B.  Pennsylvania  1910), 


564  YALE    COLLEGE 

who  served  as  a  Major  and  later  as  a  Lieutenant  Colonel 
in  the  Adjutant  General's  Department  during  the  great 
war :  and  Caroline  Hale, 


James  Brewster  Cone,  B.A.   1857 

Born  January  6,  1836,  in  Hartford,  Conn. 
Died  March  20,  1918,  in  Hartford,  Conn. 

James  Brewster  Cone  was  born  in  Hartford,  Conn.,  Jan- 
uary 6,  1836,  the  son  of  William  Russell  Cone  (B.A.  1830) 
and  Rebecca  Daggett  (Brewster)  Cone.  His  father,  who 
was  for  many  years  a  prominent  lawyer  in  Hartford  and 
later  engaged  in  business  as  a  banker,  was  the  son  of  Joseph 
Warren  and  Mehitabel  (Swan)  Cone  and  a  descendant  of 
Daniel  Cone,  who  emigrated  to  this  country  from  Scotland 
in  165 1,  settling  at  East  Haddam,  Conn.,  and  of  Mehitable 
Spencer,  who  was  the  daughter  of  Jared  Spencer  of  Cam- 
bridge. The  earliest  American  ancestor  of  his  mother  was 
Elder  William  Brewster,  who  came  from  England  to  Plym- 
outh in  1620.  James  Cone's  great-grandfather,  Louis 
Hequenberg,  came  from  France  to  serve  with  our  army 
during  the  Revolution,  and  in  1798  married  Mercy  Clark. 

He  was  fitted  for  college  at  Dudley's  School  (the  North- 
ampton Collegiate  School)  at  Northampton,  Mass.  In 
Junior  year  he  received  a  third  dispute  appointment  and  in 
Senior  year  was  given  a  second  dispute. 

Mr.  Cone  spent  nearly  a  year  at  his  home  in  Hartford 
after  graduation  and  then  went  abroad.  He  traveled  and 
studied  in  various  parts  of  France  and  other  countries,  and 
in  1859  served  as  American  vice  consul  at  Lyons.  He 
returned  to  Hartford  in  1862,  and  for  the  next  two  years 
was  engaged  in  designing  for  the  Hartford  Carpet  Com- 
pany. From  1864  to  1883  he  was  located  in  New  York 
City,  being  successively  a  member  of  the  carriage  manu- 
facturing firms  of  Adams  &  Cone,  James  B.  Cone  &  Com- 
pany, and  J.  B.  Brewster  &  Company.  About  1870  he 
served  as  a  Captain  of  Artillery  in  the  New  York  Militia. 
In  April,  1883,  at  the  request  of  his  father,  he  returned  to 
Hartford,  and  afterwards  occupied  himself  with  the  man- 
agement of  the  family  estate.     He  had  spent  much  time  in 


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foreign  travel.  Since  1897  he  had  served  as  Secretary  of 
the  Class  of  1857,  having  previously  acted  as  Assistant 
Secretary.  At  the  time  of  his  death  he  was  a  trustee  of  the 
Wadsworth  Atheneum,  the  Watkinson  Library  of  Refer- 
ence, the  American  School  for  the  Deaf,  and  the  Hartford 
Retreat  for  the  Insane,  and  a  director  of  the  ^tna  National 
Bank.  He  was  an  authority  on  ancient  arms  and  had  a 
most  interesting  and  valuable  collection.  He  attended 
Trinity  Church  of  Hartford,  and  was  a  member  of  the 
Sons  of  the  Revolution,  the  Society  of  Colonial  Wars,  and 
the  Society  of  Mayflower  Descendants.  Mr.  Cone  died 
March  20,  1918,  at  his  home  in  Hartford,  after  an  illness  of 
two  weeks  due  to  acute  Bright's  disease.  Burial  was  in  the 
family  plot  in  Cedar  Hill  Cemetery  in  that  city. 

He  was  married  January  27,  1863,  in  New  York  City  to 
Harriet  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Casper  Frederick  and  Sarah 
Maria  (Goodrich)  Uhlhorn.  Her  death  occurred  June  25, 
1918.  They  had  two  children:  Casper  Frederick  Uhlhorn 
(born  November  11,  1866;  died  August  24,  1867)  and 
William  Russell  (born  and  died  January  31,  1875).  Mr. 
Cone  is  survived  by  his  nephew  (and  nearest  of  kin),  Wil- 
liam R.  C.  Corson  (B.A.  1891). 


Robert  Macy  Gallaway,  B.A.   1858 

Born  August  4,  1837,  in  New  York  City 
Died  November  13,  1917,  in  New  York  City 

Robert  Macy  Gallaway  was  born  August  4,  1837,  in  New 
York  City,  the  son  of  Daniel  Ayres  and  Hepsey  (Macy) 
Gallaway.  His  great-grandfather  came  to  this  country 
from  Greenock,  Scotland,  in  1760  or  1761  and  married 
Susan  Devoe  about  1783.  Their  son,  Tobias  Gallaway, 
married  Ann  Griffin. 

He  was  fitted  for  college  at  private  schools  in  New  York 
City,  including  the  Forest  School,  and  at  Phillips  Academy, 
Andover,  Mass.  He  entered  Yale  in  1854,  and  while  in 
college  belonged  to  Linonia. 

After  leaving  college  he  entered  his  father's  office,  the 
firm  of  Boorman,  Ayres  &  Company,  who  were  engaged  in 
the  iron  business.     He  remained  there  as  a  clerk  for  some 


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two  or  three  years  and  then  went  on  business  for  the  firm 
to  CaHfornia,  making  two  or  three  trips  by  way  of  the  Isth- 
mus of  Panama  in  saihng  vessels  and  mule-back  across  the 
Isthmus.  After  finishing  the  business  which  took  him  to 
California,  he  engaged  for  a  while  in  the  lumber  business  on 
his  own  account.  He  returned  to  New  York  about  1866  or 
1867.  When  his  father's  firm  was  consolidated  with  the 
Atlantic  Dock  Iron  Works  he  became  president  of  the  cor- 
poration and  continued  so  until  the  summer  of  1877.  Dur- 
ing his  connection  with  the  company  many  of  the  largest 
gas-making  plants  in  this  country  were  constructed  by  the 
Atlantic  Dock  Iron  Works,  including  one  at  Newark,  N.  J., 
Providence,  R.  I.,  and  others  in  Brooklyn  and  New  York 
City,  among  them  the  New  York  Mutual  Gas  Light  Com- 
pany of  New  York,  of  which  he  was  president  and  director 
at  the  time  of  his  death.  He  went  abroad  in  1877  and 
traveled  extensively  over  Europe  and  through  Egypt  and 
the  Holy  Land,  his  family  living  in  Paris  during  that 
•time.  In  the  summer  of  1878  he  returned  to  the  United 
States  at  the  request  of  Mr.  John  Pierpont  Morgan,  and 
became  connected  with  the  Long  Island  Railroad,  then  in 
the  hands  of  receivers.  Shortly  after  this  he  became  presi- 
dent of  the  New  York  &  Northern  Railroad  and  completed 
the  building  of  the  road  and  its  connection  with  the  ele- 
vated railroad  at  155th  Street  and  the  terminal  at  Brewsters, 
N.  Y.  He  remained  president  of  this  road  until  the  prop- 
erty was  sold  to  the  New  York  Central  Railroad.  About 
1880  or  1881  he  was  appointed  by  President  Chester  A. 
Arthur  a  member  of  the  commission  to  examine  and  report 
upon  the  Northern  Pacific  Railroad  land  grants,  which  he 
did  during  the  summer  of  that  year.  In  1880  he  was 
elected  vice  president  of  the  Manhattan  Railway  Company 
(an  elevated  railway  in  New  York  City)  and  was  the  exec- 
utive officer  of  that  company  until  the  death  of  Jay  Gould 
in  1 89 1.  In  that  year  he  was  elected  a  director  and  vice 
president  of  the  Merchants  National  Bank  at  42  Wall 
Street,  New  York  City,  and  in  1892  became  its  president, 
remaining  in  that  office  until  January  i,  1917.  For  six 
years  he  was  a  member  of  the  Board  of  Education  of  New 
York  City,  having  been  appointed  by  Mayor  Franklin 
Edson  and  reappointed  by  Mayor  Abraham  S.  Hewitt.  He 
was  a  trustee  of  the  Bowery  Savings  Bank,  president  and 
director  of  the  New  York  Mutual  Gas  Light  Company,  a 


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director  of  the  Chicago,  IndianapoHs  &  Louisville  Railroad, 
the  Manhattan  Railroad  Company,  the  Southern  Railway, 
the  Wabash,  St.  Louis  &  Southwestern  Railway,  the  Texas 
&  Pacific  Railroad,  the  Hocking  Valley  Railroad  Company, 
the  Iron  Mountain  Railway  Company,  the  Rio  Grande  & 
Western  Railroad,  the  Western  Union  Telegraph  Company, 
and  the  American  Smelting  Company.  He  also  was  a 
member  of  the  New  York  board  of  management  of  the 
Royal  Insurance  Company  of  Liverpool,  England,  treas- 
urer and  a  director  of  the  New  York  Home  for  Incurables, 
and  vice  president  and  a  director  of  the  Society  for  the 
Prevention  of  Cruelty  to  Children.  Mr.  Gallaway  was 
possessed  of  marked  business  and  executive  ability,  and 
devoted  much  time  and  thought  to  civic  and  charitable 
matters.  In  1868  he  received  the  degree  of  M.A.  at  Yale. 
He  died  at  his  home  in  New  York  City,  November  13,  19 17. 
He  was  married  April  20,  1868,  to  Elizabeth  Anne, 
daughter  of  Merrill  Whitney  Williams  (Honorary  M.D. 
1850)  and  Eliza  Burtiss  (Duryea)  Williams  of  New  York 
City.  Of  this  union  there  were  three  children:  Merrill 
Williams  (B.A.  1892,  LL.B.  New  York  Law  School  1894)  ; 
John  Macy,  a  non-graduate  member  of  the  Class  of  1894 
in  the  Scientific  School ;  and  Mary,  who  died  April  9,  1905. 
In  addition  to  his  wife  and  sons,  Mr.  Gallaway  is  survived 
by  two  grandsons. 


Frederick  Alphonso  Noble,  B.A.   1858 

Born  March  17,  1832,  in  Baldwin,  Maine 
Died  December  31,  1917,  in  Evanston,  111. 

Frederick  Alphonso  Noble  was  born  in  Baldwin,  Maine, 
March  17,  1832,  his  parents  being  James  and  Jane  (Cram) 
Noble.  He  was  the  oldest  of  twelve  children.  He  was 
fitted  for  Yale  at  Phillips  Academy,  Andover,  Mass.,  and 
at  the  Kimball  School,  Meriden,  N.  H.  In  Sophomore  year 
he  received  a  first  prize  in  declamation,  and  the  next  year 
he  was  president  of  Brothers  in  Unity  and  orator  for  the 
Statement  of  Facts.  His  Senior  appointment  was  a  col- 
loquy. 

From  1858  to  i860  he  was  a  student  at  Andover  Theo- 


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logical  Seminary,  being  licensed  to  preach  in  the  latter  year 
and  ordained  in  1862.  His  final  preparation  for  the  min- 
istry was  received  at  Lane  Theological  Seminary,  where  he 
studied  during  1860-61.  For  the  next  seven  years  he  was 
pastor  of  the  House  of  Hope  Presbyterian  Church  of 
St.  Paul,  Minn.  From  there  he  went  in  January,  1868,  to 
the  Third  Presbyterian  Church  of  Pittsburgh,  Pa.,  where 
he  remained  until  1875,  when  he  was  called  to  the  First 
Congregational  Church  (Center  Church)  of  New  Haven. 
His  pastorate  in  New  Haven  lasted  for  four  years.  In 
1879  he  became  pastor  of  the  Union  Park  Congregational 
Church  of  Chicago.  At  the  age  of  seventy  he  resigned,  but 
was  retained  as  pastor  emeritus.  After  his  retirement  he 
continued  to  preach  in  prominent  churches  of  Chicago, 
Oak  Park,  Evanston,  and  many  eastern  cities.  He  was 
one  of  the  founders  of  the  Chicago  City  Missionary  Society, 
which  celebrated  its  thirty-sixth  anniversary  a  few  months 
ago.  He  was  the  first  president  of  the  New  West  Educa- 
tion Commission,  an  organization  that  established  and  aided 
many  academies  and  colleges  in  the  Middle  West.  In  1898 
he  served  as  moderator  of  the  National  Council  of  the  Con- 
gregational Churches  of  America.  He  was  a  delegate  to 
the  determining  Missionary  Council  held  in  London  in  1888 
and  to  the  International  Council  of  Churches  held  in  that 
city  three  years  later.  From  1898  to  1900  he  was  presi- 
dent of  the  American  Missionary  Association,  and  in  1899 
he  served  as  a  delegate  to  the  International  Council  of 
Churches  convening  in  Boston.  He  edited  The  Advance 
from  1886  to  1888.  In  1896  he  published  "The  Divine 
Life  in  Man,"  and  the  next  year  his  "Discourses  on 
Philippians"  appeared.  He  was  also  the  author  of  "Our 
Redemption"  (1898),  "Typical  New  Testament  Conver- 
sions" (1901),  "The  Pilgrims"  (1907),  and  "Spiritual 
Culture"  (1914),  and  he  had  written  many  booklets  and 
tracts  on  civic,  educational,  literary,  and  religious  topics  and 
was  a  frequent  contributor  to  magazines.  He  received  the 
honorary  degree  of  D.D.  from  Western  Reserve  in  1872 
and  that  of  LL.D.  from  Oberlin  in  1899.  He  was  chaplain 
of  the  Republican  National  Convention  of  1884.  His 
death  occurred  suddenly  December  31,  1917,  at  his  home 
in  Evanston,  as  the  result  of  acute  myocarditis.  He  was 
buried  in  Rosehill  Cemetery,  Chicago. 

Dr.    Noble    was    married    September    15,    1861,    in    St. 


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Anthony,  Minn.,  to  Lucy  Augusta,  daughter  of  George  W. 
and  Mary  Carlton  Johnson  Perry  of  Dummerston,  Vt. 
She  died  June  7,  1895,  and  on  July  i,  1897,  his  second  mar- 
riage took  place  in  Evanston,  to  Leila  Moss  Crandon,  a 
graduate  of  Northwestern  University  in  1884  and  the 
daughter  of  Frank  P.  and  Elizabeth  (Washburn)  Crandon 
of  Evanston.  He  had  six  children:  Frederick  Perry  (B.A. 
Amherst  1885,  B.D.  and  Ph.D.  Chicago  Theological  Sem- 
inary 1889  and  1899,  respectively)  ;  Mary  Perry  (born 
November  14,  1865  ;  married  November  20,  1889,  to  Frank 
M.  Hicks ;  died  July  4,  1890)  ;  Philip  S chaff,  a  non-graduate 
member  of  the  Class  of  1890  S. ;  Walter  Galbraith  (born 
September  6,  1871 ;  died  February  29,  1872)  ;  Katie  Tyler 
(born  December  30,  1872;  died  July  5,  1873);  and  Ruth 
(born  and  died  August,  1876).  Mrs.  Noble  and  two  of  the 
sons  are  living  and  he  is  also  survived  by  two  brothers,  one 
of  whom,  Newell  P.  Noble,  graduated  from  Bates  College 
in  1877. 


Henry  Rose  Hinckley,  B.A.   1859 

Born  December  20,  1838,  in  Northampton,  Mass. 
Died  June  9,  1918,  in  Northampton,  Mass. 

Henry  Rose  Hinckley  was  born  December  20,  1838,  in 
Northampton,  Mass.,  the  son  of  Samuel  Lyman  Hinckley 
(B.A.  Williams  1830),  a  lawyer,  and  Henrietta  Elizabeth 
(Rose)  Hinckley,  His  father,  who  was  the  son  of  Jon- 
athan Huntington  Lyman  (B.A.  1802)  and  Sophia  (Hinck- 
ley) Lyman,  changed  his  name  in  1831,  at  the  request  of  his 
grandfather,  Samuel  Hinckley  (B.A.  1781),  and  by  act  of 
the  Massachusetts  Legislature,  from  Samuel  Hinckley 
Lyman  to  Samuel  Lyman  Hinckley.  Samuel  Hinckley, 
who  was  judge  of  the  Probate  Court  for  Hampshire  County 
at  Northampton  from  181 6  to  1834,  was  wounded  in  the 
battle  of  White  Plains,  while  serving  in  the  Revolutionary 
Army.  Samuel  L.  Hinckley  was  the  grandson  of  Rev. 
Joseph  Lyman  (B.A.  1767,  D.D.  Williams  1801),  a  trustee 
of  Amherst  College  and  one  of  the  founders  of  the  Amer- 
ican Board  of  Commissioners  for  Foreign  Missions,  and 
Hannah  (Huntington)  Lyman,  a  grandnephew  of  Jonathan 


570  YALE   COLLEGE 

Lyman  (B.A.  1758)  and  Rev.  Eliphalet  Lyman  (B.A. 
1776),  a  nephew  of  George  Hinckley  (B.A.  1810),  and  a 
brother. of  Joseph  Lyman  (B.A.  1828).  The  first  Hinckley 
to  come  to  America  was  Samuel  Hinckley,  who  brought  his 
family  from  Tenterden,  Kent,  England,  to  Scituate,  Mass., 
in  1635.  His  son,  Thomas  Hinckley,  was  a  colonial  gov- 
ernor of  Plymouth.  Henry  R.  Hinckley's  mother  was  the 
daughter  of  Donald  Rose,  who  came  from  Elgin,  Scotland, 
to  this  country,  and  Elizabeth  (Singleton)  Rose.  The 
latter  was  a  native  of  South  Carolina. 

Before  entering  Yale  in  1855,  Henry  R.  Hinckley 
attended  the  Mount  Pleasant  School,  Amherst,  Mass.,  the 
private  school  of  L.  J.  Dudley  at  Northampton,  Williston 
Seminary,  Easthampton,  Mass.,  Luther  Wright's  private 
school  at  Easthampton,  Mass.,  and  Bellerive,  Vevey,  Swit- 
zerland. In  college  he  belonged  to  the  Nautilus  Boat  Club 
and  Brothers  in  Unity  and  was  vice  president  of  the  Yale 
Chess  Club  in  Senior  year. 

He  remained  in  New  Haven  for  two  years  after  gradu- 
ation, spending  his  time  in  study  and  reading.  He  then 
went  abroad  for  a  year  of  travel  and  study.  In  the  fall  of 
1862  he  entered  the  Harvard  Law  School,  but  a  year  later 
entered  the  Army  as  a  Second  Lieutenant  of  the  5th  Massa- 
chusetts Cavalry  (colored),  with  which  he  served  until 
April,  1865.  He  then  spent  a  few  months  in  Europe.  On 
his  return,  he  went  to  New  York  City  to  finish  his  law 
studies  and  begin  practice.  Pie  had  received  the  degree  of 
LL.B.  at  Harvard  in  1864.  Following  his  marriage  in  1866 
he  again  went  to  Europe.  He  later  established  his  home  in 
Northampton,  where  he  followed  his  profession  as  a  lawyer 
for  a  brief  period.  He  afterwards  gave  his  attention  to 
manufacturing,  from  1887  to  1908  being  president  of  the 
Northampton  Cutlery  Company.  He  was  a  member  of 
the  first  city  government  of  Northampton,  serving  in  the 
Northampton  Common  Council  in  1884-85  and  of  the 
Board  of  Aldermen  during  1885-86.  In  1906  he  visited 
the  Azores,  Algiers,  and  Italy,  and  he  had  made  several 
later  trips  abroad.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Protestant 
Episcopal  Church,  but  after  his  marriage  attended  the  First 
Church  of  Christ  (Congregational)  in  Northampton,  of 
whose  parish  he  was  a  member. 
'.  Mr.  Hinckley  died  at  his  home  in  Northampton,  June  9, 


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i859  571 

1918,  after  a  brief  illness  due  to  angina  pectoris.     He  was 
buried  in  the  Bridge  Street  Cemetery,  Northampton. 

He  was  married  in  that  city  June  2,  1866,  to  Mary 
Wright,  daughter  of  Benjamin  Barrett  (B.A.  Harvard 
1819,  M.D.  Harvard  1823)  and  Mary  (Wright)  Barrett. 
They  had  six  children:  Edward  Barrett,  a  graduate  of 
Yale  College  in  1889  and  of  the  Harvard  Law  School  in 
1892;  Donald  Rose  (B.A.  1892,  M.D.  Harvard  1896),  who 
died  October  14,  1901 ;  Henry  Barrett  (B.A.  1892,  M.A. 
Harvard  1895)  ;  Rose,  who  graduated  at  Smith  College  in 
1895;  Benjamin  Barrett  (B.A.  1897)  ;  and  George  Lyman 
(B.A.  1900,  M.A.  1906).  Mr.  Hinckley  was  a  cousin  of 
Samuel  H.  Lyman  and  Rev.  Arthur  H.  Allen,  graduates  of 
the  College  in  1861  and  1873,  respectively. 


John  Shelly  Weinberger,  B.A.   1859 

Born  March  28,  1832,  in  Milford,  Pa. 
Died  September  12,  1917,  in  Collegeville,  Pa. 

John  Shelly  Weinberger  was  the  son  of  Joseph  and  Mary 
(Shelly)  Weinberger  and  was  born  March  28,  1832,  in 
Milford,  Pa.  His  father,  a  millwright  and  farmer,  was  the 
son  of  Baltzer  and  Veronica  (Schantz)  Weinberger  and  a 
descendant  of  Balthasar  Weinberger,  who  came  from  a 
village  in  Alsace  to  Bucks  County,  Pa.,  in  1749. 

He  was  prepared  for  college  at  the  Freeland  Seminary, 
Collegeville,  Pa.,  and  entered  Yale  in  1855.  He  had  pre- 
viously (1851-53)  taught  in  the  common  schools  of  Milford 
Township.  He  received  a  third  dispute  appointment  in 
Junior  year,  and  a  second  dispute  at  Commencement.  He 
belonged  to  Linonia. 

Immediately  after  graduation  he  began  teaching  in  the 
Freeland  Seminary,  his  subjects  being  ancient  and  modern 
languages  and  natural  science.  He  was  appointed  one  of 
the  principals  in  i860,  and  held  that  position  until  1870, 
when  Freeland  Seminary  was  merged  into  Ursinus  College. 
He  accepted  the  chair  of  Greek  at  the  college,  and  served  in 
that  capacity  until  his  retirement  in  1903,  when  he  was 
made  professor  emeritus.  The  presidency  of  Ursinus  was 
offered  to  him  in  1890,  but  he  declined  it;   in  1870  he  had 


572  YALE    COLLEGE 

refused  a  similar  offer  at  the  Pennsylvania  Female  College. 
He  was  dean  of  Ursinus  College  from  1892  to  1903.  After 
his  retirement  he  lived  quietly  at  his  home  in  Collegeville. 
In  1873-74  he  acted  as  judge  of  elections  in  the  Upper 
Providence  district,  and  in  1896  he  was  first  burgess  of 
Collegeville.  He  was  a  trustee  of  Trinity  Reformed 
Church  of  that  town  from  1861  to  1869  and  an  elder  from 
1870  to  1 89 1,  and  taught  in  its  Sunday  school  for  over  fifty 
years.  He  had  published  a  number  of  addresses  and 
essays.  In  1865  he  received  an  M.A.  at  Yale,  and  the  hon- 
orary degree  of  Doctor  of  Laws  was  conferred  upon  him 
•by  Ursinus  in  1895.  He  died  September  12,  1917,  at  his 
home  in  Collegeville,  as  the  result  of  old  age.  He  had  been 
an  invalid  since  the  fall  of  1916.  Burial  was  in  the  Doyles- 
town  (Pa.)  Cemetery. 

Professor  Weinberger  was  married  October  13,  1861,  in 
Plumstead,  Pa.,  to  Emma,  daughter  of  Jacob  Stover  and 
Elizabeth  (Fretz)  Kratz.  Her  death  occurred  March  27, 
19 1 7.  They  had  one  daughter,  Minerva,  who  graduated  at 
the  head  of  her  class  at  Ursinus  in  1884,  receiving  the 
degree  of  M.A.  three  years  later.  The  latter  has  placed 
her  father's  effects  in  the  rooms  of  the  Montgomery  County 
Historical  Society  at  Norristown,  Pa. 


Horace  Lewis  Fairchild,  B.A.   i860 

Born  June  15,  1835,  in  Trumbull,  Conn. 
Died  March  29,  1918,  in  Trumbull,  Conn, 

Horace  Lewis  Fairchild  was  born  June  15,  1835,  in 
Trumbull,  Conn.  He  was  the  son  of  Daniel  Fairchild,  a 
paper  manufacturer,  and  Ann  Eliza  (Hungerford)  Fair- 
child.  His  father,  whose  parents  were  Lewis  and  Martha 
(Nichols)  Fairchild,  traced-  his  descent  to  Thomas  Fair- 
child,  who  came  from  England  to  Stratford,  Conn.,  in  1638 
or  1639,  being  one  of  the  first  settlers  of  the  town.  Horace 
L.  Fairchild's  great-grandfather,  Lewis  Fairchild,  and  his 
great-great-grandfather,  Daniel  Fairchild,  served  in  the 
Revolution.  The  earliest  American  ancestor  of  his  mother, 
who  was  the  daughter  of  Horace  and  Martha  (Ryan) 
Hungerford,  was  Thomas  Hungerford,  who  came  to  this 


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country  from  Wiltshire,  England,  in  1628  and  settled  first 
in  New  London,  Conn. 

He  was  prepared  for  Yale  at  Hadley,  Mass.,  and  at  a 
private  school  in  Bridgeport,  Conn.  In  his  Sophomore 
year  he  was  awarded  a  third  prize  for  the  solution  of  math- 
ematical problems,  and  in  his  Senior  year  he  received  a  first 
dispute  appointment. 

From  graduation  until  1886  he  was  engaged  in  paper 
manufacturing  in  Trumbull.  He  lived  in  Nichols,  Conn., 
where  he  made  a  special  study  of  fruit  culture,  and  was 
regarded  as  a  specialist  in  this  branch.  From  1880  until 
his  death  he  was  a  director  of  the  First  National  Bank  of 
Bridgeport,  and  in  1904  he  represented  the  town  of  Nichols 
for  one  term  in  the  Connecticut  State  Legislature.  He 
belonged  to  the  First  Congregational  Church  of  Trumbull. 

Mr.  Fairchild  died  March  29,  1918,  in  Trumbull,  after  an 
illness  of  about  two  months  due  to  a  complication  of  dis- 
eases. Interment  was  in  the  Nichols  Cemetery  at  Trum- 
bull. 

He  was  married  September  10,  1872,  in  that  town,  to 
Antoinette,  daughter  of  Samuel  and  Delia  (Edwards) 
Edwards  of  Trumbull.  They  had  no  children.  Surviving 
Mr.  Fairchild  are  two  sisters. 


Edward  Brown  Furbish,  B.A.   i860 

Born  May  21,  1837,  in  Portland,  Maine 
Died  April  27,  1918,  in  Rochester,  N.  Y. 

^  Edward  Brown  Furbish,  son  of  Dependence  Hart  Fur- 
bish, a  sugar  merchant,  and  Persis  (Brown)  Furbish,  was 
born  in  Portland,  Maine,  May  21,  1837.  He  received  his 
early  education  at  Phillips  Academy,  Andover,  Mass.,  enter- 
ing Yale  in  1856.  The  first  two  years  after  graduating  he 
spent  at  the  Andover  (Mass.)  Theological  Seminary.  He 
was  ordained  as  Chaplain  of  the  25th  Maine  Volunteers,  in 
Portland,  October  3,  1862,  and  served  with  that  regiment 
until  it  was  mustered  out  in  1863.  He  then  returned  to 
Yale  to  complete  his  preparation  for  the  ministry.  He 
finished  his  course  in  1864,  and  from  December  of  that 
year  to  March,  1872,  held  the  pastorate  of  the  Presbyterian 


574  YALE    COLLEGE 

Church  at  New  Hartford,  N.  Y.  He  then  accepted  a  call 
to  the  Presbyterian  Church  at  Potsdam,  N.  Y.,  where  he 
remained  until  August,  1879,  ^t  that  time  becoming  pastor 
of  the  Lockport  (N.  Y.)  Congregational  Church.  He 
served  in  this  capacity  until  1890,  and  for  the  next  twelve 
years  was  settled  over  the  First  Congregational  Church  at 
Spencerport,  N.  Y.  On  May  8,  1902,  he  was  appointed 
chaplain  of  the  New  York  State  Soldiers'  and  Sailors' 
Home  at  Bath.  He  retired  from  this  position  in  1912, 
and  afterwards  resided  at  the  home  of  his  daughter  in 
Rochester,  N.  Y.,  where  he  died  of  apoplexy,  April  2."], 
1918,  after  an  illness  of  six  years.  He  was  buried  in  Glen- 
wood  Cemetery  at  Lockport,  N.  Y. 

Mr.  Furbish  was  married  October  9,  1862,  in  New 
Haven,  Conn.,  to  Grace  Harrison,  daughter  of  Robert  and 
Elizabeth  (Harrison)  Townsend,  who  died  April  12,  1914. 
He  is  survived  by  two  sons,  Clinton  Hart  (B.A.  1894)  and 
Robert  Townsend,  and  a  daughter,  Grace  Mary,  who  was 
married  August  31,  1904,  to  Azariah  Boody  Sias.  Three 
daughters  died  in  childhood, — Ella  Waterman,  on  October 
31,  1865;  Persis,  on  December  17,  1877;  and  Elizabeth 
Harrison,  on  February  24,  1884. 


Marcus  Perrin  Knowlton,  B.A.   i860 

Born  February  3,  1839,  in  Wilbraham,  Mass. 
Died  May  7,  1918,  in  Springfield,  Mass. 

Marcus  Perrin  Knowlton  was  born  February  3,  1839,  in 
Wilbraham,  Mass.,  the  son  of  Merrick  and  Fatima  (Per- 
rin) Knowlton.  The  family  moved  to  Monson,  Mass., 
when  he  was  five  years  old  and  he  received  his  preparation 
for  Yale  at  the  Monson  Academy.  He  worked  on  his 
father's  farm  during  the  summers,  and  taught  school  during 
the  winters  of  1854,  1855,  and  1856,  entering  Yale  in  the 
latter  year.  He  was  given  a  second  prize  in  English  com- 
position Sophomore  year  and  received  an  oration  appoint- 
ment both  Junior  and  Senior  years.  He  was  a  member  of 
Phi  Beta  Kappa.  In  his  Senior  year  he  taught  at  the  Hop- 
kins Grammar  School. 

After  serving  for  six  months  as  principal  of  the  Union 
School  at  Norwalk,  Conn.,  he  began  the  study  of  law  in  the 


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office  of  James  G.  Allen  in  Palmer,  Mass.  He  later 
removed  to  Springfield,  reading  law  with  John  Wells  and 
Augustus  L.  Soule,  both  of  whom  were  later  justices  of 
the  Supreme  Court  of  Massachusetts.  He  was  admitted 
to  the  Hampden  County  Bar  in  the  latter  part  of  1862,  and 
shortly  afterwards  opened  an  office  in  Springfield.  For 
thirteen  years  Mr.  George  M.  Stearns  was  his  partner.  In 
1872  and  1873  ^^  was  president  of  the  Springfield  Common 
Council,  and  in  1878  he  served  as  a  representative  in  the 
State  Legislature,  being  a  member  of  several  important 
committees.  In  1880  and  1881  he  was  a  state  senator. 
During  this  time  he  also  acted  as  a  director  of  the  Spring- 
field &  New  London  Railroad  Company  and  the  City 
National  Bank  of  Springfield,  and  as  treasurer  and  a  trustee 
of  the  City  Hospital  and  of  Monson  Academy.  About 
1880  he  was  appointed  to  the  Superior  Court,  and  in  1887 
he  was  made  an  associate  justice  of  the  Supreme  Court 
of  Massachusetts,  of  which  fifteen  years  later  he  was 
appointed  chief  justice.  He  retired  from  the  bench  in 
September,  191 1,  because  of  serious  trouble  with  his  eyes, 
from  which  he  later  partially  recovered.  In  February, 
191 3,  Governor  Foss  appointed  him  a  member  of  a  com- 
mission to  investigate  the  needs  and  conditions  of  railroad 
and  water  communication  in  the  New  England  states,  and 
he  later  served  as  chairman  of  the  board  of  trustees 
appointed  by  the  United  States  Supreme  Court  to  admin^ 
ister  the  majority  of  the  stock  of  the  Boston  &  Maine  Rail- 
road, of  which  the  New  York,  New  Haven  &  Hartford  Rail- 
road was  a  beneficiary.  The  honorary  degree  of  Doctor  of 
Laws  was  conferred  upon  Judge  Knowlton  by  Yale  in  1895, 
by  Harvard  in  1900,  and  by  Williams  in  191 5.  He  was  a 
Fellow  of  the  American  Academy  of  Arts  and  Sciences  and 
a  member  of  the  Church  of  the  Unity  of  Springfield.  His 
death  occurred  at  his  home  in  Springfield,  May  7,  19 18,  as 
the  result  of  pneumonia.  He  had  been  in  failing  health  for 
a  long  time.     Burial  was  in  the  Springfield  Cemetery. 

Judge  Knowlton  was  married  July  18,  1867,  in  Spring- 
field, to  Sophia,  daughter  of  William  and  Saba  A.  (Cush- 
man)  Ritchie.  She  died  February  18,  1886,  and  on  May 
21,  1891,  he  was  married  in  Portland,  Maine,  to  Rose  Mary, 
daughter  of  Cyrus  King  and  Susan  (Holt)  Ladd.  She 
survives  him  with  their  two  children:  Marcus  Ladd  (B.A. 
1914)  and  Elizabeth  (B.A.  Vassar  1916,  M.A.  RadcUffe 
1917). 


576  YALE   COLLEGE 


Henry  Ward  Siglar,  B.A.  i860 

Born  October  ii,  1833,  in  Seneca,  N.  Y. 
Died  April  18,  1918,  in  New  York  City 

Henry  Ward  Siglar  was  born  at  Seneca,  N.  Y.,  October 
II,  1833,  the  son  of  Samuel  Siglar.  He  entered  Yale  as  a 
Sophomore  in  1857,  his  home  at  that  time  being  in  Canan- 
daigua,  N.  Y.     He  was  given  dissertation  appointments. 

From  September,  i860,  until  August,  1863,  he  served  as 
principal  of  Staples  Free  Academy  at  Easton,  Conn.  Dur- 
ing the  next  eight  months  he  conducted  the  Fairfield  Family- 
School  for  Boys,  then  removing  to  Newburgh,  N.  Y.,  where 
he  established,  in  May,  1864,  the  Siglar  School,  a  prepara- 
tory school  for  boys.  He  continued  as  head  of  this  institu- 
tion for  a  number  of  years,  but  for  a  long  time  had  made  his 
home  in  New  York  City,  engaged  in  a  variety  of  pursuits, 
including  tutoring,  advertisement  writing,  and  editorial 
work.  He  was  at  one  time  employed  as  a  special  agent  of 
the  Mutual  Life  Insurance  Company  of  New  York,  and 
later  he  was  an  agent  for  the  New  York  Realty  Owners. 
For  several  years  he  wrote  the  editorials  for  the  Bronx 
Star.  In  1874  he  published  a  text  book  entitled  "Progres- 
sive English  Exercises  in  Analysis,  Composition  and  Spell- 
ing by  the  use  of  Symbols."  He  was  at  one  time  a  deacon 
in  the  Presbyterian  Church.  He  died  at  his  home  in  New 
York  City,  April  18,  1918.  His  death  was  due  to  chronic 
myocarditis. 

Mr.  Siglar  was  married  August  14,  1861,  to  Mary 
Frances,  daughter  of  Alfred  Burr  of  Easton.  She  sur- 
vives with  their  son,  Henry  Burr.  The  latter,  who  gradu- 
ated from  Yale  College  in  1897  and  from  the  College  of 
Physicians  and  Surgeons  at  Columbia  in  1902,  has  been  in 
active  service  as  a  Captain  in  the  Medical  Reserve  Corps. 


David  William  Eaves,  B.A.   1861 

Born  July  i8,  1838,  at  Social  Hill,  Ky. 
Died  June  5,  1917,  in  Princeton,  Calif. 

^'  David  William  Eaves  was  born  July  18,  1838,  at  Social 
Hill,  Ky.,  the  son  of  Sanders  and  Jane  Scott  Short  Eaves. 


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His  father's  parents  were  John  S.  Eaves,  who  was  born 
in  1783  near  the  Roanoke  River  in  Virginia,  and  Lurina 
(Ingram)  Eaves.  His  mother  was  the  daughter  of  Nathan 
and  Jean  Wallace  (Pooge)  Scott  and  the  granddaughter  of 
Robert  and  Elizabeth  Pooge.  She  was  of  Scotch  descent, 
her  ancestors  having  settled  at  Staunton,  Va.,  in  1737. 

He  was  fitted  for  college  at  the  Greenville  (Ky.)  Acad- 
emy, and  before  joining  the  Class  of  1861  at  the  beginning 
of  Senior  year,  was  engaged  in  business  with  his  uncle.  He 
received  an  oration  Senior  appointment,  and  was  a  member 
of  Phi  Beta  Kappa  and  the  Cymothoe  Boat  Club. 

The  first  six  months  after  graduation  he  spent  at  his  home 
in  Kentucky  and  then  went  abroad.  He  studied  at  Berlin, 
Jena,  and  Heidelberg,  making  law  his  specialty,  and  in  1864 
received  the  degree  of  J.U.D.  at  the  latter  institution.  He 
returned  to  his  home  in  October  of  that  year  and  for  the 
next  few  months  gave  his  attention  to  the  study  of  Amer- 
ican law.  Although  admitted  to  the  bar  of  Kentucky  in 
July,  1865,  he  had  never  practiced  law.  From  the  fall  of 
1865  until  1873  he  was  engaged  in  business  as  a  banker  and 
broker  at  Leavenworth,  Kans.  He  became  secretary  and 
treasurer  of  the  Missouri  Valley  Bridge  Company  of  that 
city  in  1873,  and  served  in  this  capacity  for  four  years,  then 
removing  to  Peoria,  111.,  where  he  entered  the  brokerage 
business,  in  which  he  was  engaged  until  1887.  The 
remainder  of  his  life  was  spent  in  the  West,  mainly  at 
Lewiston,  Idaho.  He  had  been  engaged  in  real  estate, 
mining,  and  for  many  years  in  grain  dealing  as  a  member 
of  the  Vollmer  Clearwater  Company,  which  had  numerous 
warehouses  and  buying  points  in  Idaho.  He  had  been 
admitted  to  the  bar  in  most  of  the  surrounding  states,  not, 
however,  for  the  purpose  of  practicing  his  profession,  but 
in  order  to  secure  position  and  standing  in  other  lines  of 
business.  His  death  occurred,  as  the  result  of  a  general 
breakdown  in  health,  June  5,  1917,  at  Princeton,  Calif., 
where  he  had  been  for  two  years.  His  body  was  cremated 
at  Cypress  Lawn  Cemetery  in  San  Francisco. 

On  October  19,  1865,  Mr.  Eaves  was  married  in  Green- 
ville, Ky.,  to  Anna  C,  daughter  of  Edward  R.  and  Harriett 
Rumsey  (Miller)  Weir.  She  died  in  1900.  Surviving 
them  are  their  six  children :  Elliott  W.,  who  is  engaged  in 
the  grain  business  and  banking  in  Lewiston;  Lucien,  who 
is  engaged  in  mining  at  Helena,  Mont. ;  Lucile  (B.A.  Stan- 


578  YALE   COLLEGE 

ford  University  1894),  who  has  taken  graduate  work  at 
the  Universities  of  Chicago  and  CaHfornia  and  at  Columbia 
and  is  well  known  as  a  sociologist;  Ruth;  Harriett,  now 
the  wife  of  Rev.  C.  K.  Jenness,  a  Methodist  minister  having 
a  pastorate  in  Boston;  and  Bell,  who  married  Herbert 
Stiles  of  San  Diego,  CaHf. 


Frederick  Rowland  Jones,  B.A.   1861 

Born  September  19,  1839,  in  Fairfield,  Conn. 
Died  September  18,  1916,  in  Litchfield,  Conn. 

Frederick  Rowland  Jones  was  born  September  19,  1839, 
in  Fairfield,  Conn.  He  was  the  son  of  Obadiah  William 
and  Elizabeth  Mulbly  (Rowland)  Jones  and  was  descended 
from  Edward  Johnes,  who  came  to  America  in  1629  from 
Wales.  His  father  was  the  son  of  William  Gardiner  and 
Sarah  (Titus)  Johnes,  and  his  mother's  parents  were 
Samuel  and  Elizabeth  (Maltbie)  Rowland. 

He  was  prepared  for  college  at  Phillips  Academy,  Ando- 
ver,  Mass.  After  graduating  from  Yale,  Mr.  Jones  trav- 
eled for  a  year  in  Canada.  He  then  went  into  business  in 
New  York  with  the  firm  of  Jones  &  Company  and  in  1892 
became  a  director  in  the  Hecker- Jones- Jewell  Milling  Com- 
pany. He  remained  with  them  until  1908,  when  his  health 
failed.  His  home  had  been  in  New  York  City  since  1895. 
He  belonged  to  the  Fifth  Avenue  Presbyterian  Church. 

He  died  September  18,  1916,  in  Litchfield,  Conn.,  after 
an  illness  of  two  months,  and  was  buried  at  Fairfield,  Conn. 
Mr.  Jones  never  married.  He  is  survived  by  a  sister  and 
two  brothers. 


Fielder  Cross  Slingluff,  B.A.   1861 

Born  June  16,  1842,  in  Baltimore,  Md. 
Died  May  20,  1918,  in  Baltimore,  Md. 

Fielder  Cross  Slingluff  was  born  in  Baltimore,  Md.,  June 
16,  1842.  His  father,  Jesse  Slingluff,  was  a  farmer  and 
merchant  and  for  thirty  years  also  served  as  president  of 


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the  Commercial  &  Farmers  National  Bank  of  Baltimore. 
He  was  the  son  of  Jesse  and  Elizabeth  (Deardorf)  Sling- 
luff  and  the  grandson  of  John  Slingluff,  whose  father, 
Henry  Slingluff,  emigrated  from  Waldeck-Pyrmont,  Ger- 
many, in  1729,  and  settled  in  Germantown,  Pa.  Fielder  C. 
Slingluff's  mother,  Frances  Elizabeth  Cross,  was  the  daugh- 
ter of  Trusman  and  Margaret  (Bohn)  Cross  and  a 
descendant  of  Fielder  Cross,  who  was  a  large  landowner  in 
Prince  George  County,  Md.,  and  of  Thomas  Cross,  who 
emigrated  from  Ireland  about  1650. 

He  received  his  early  education  at  a  public  school  in  Bal- 
timore County  and  from  1850  to  1858  studied  at  Calvert 
College,  New  Windsor,  Md.  He  entered  Yale  as  a  Junior 
in  1859.  He  was  a  member  of  Linonia  and  the  Nereid 
Boat  Club. 

The  first  year  after  graduation  he  studied  law  with 
Machem  &  Gittings  in  Baltimore.  On  August  8,  1862,  he 
enlisted  as  a  Private  in  the  2d  Maryland  Cavalry,  which 
was  organized  for  service  in  the  Confederate  Army  by  his 
father  and  a  group  of  men  in  Baltimore.  In  July,  1863,  he 
became  Second  Lieutenant  and,  in  1864,  First  Lieutenant. 
He  served  in  all  of  the  Shenandoah  Valley  campaigns  from 
the  time  of  his  enlistment  until  August  8,  1864,  when  he 
was  taken  prisoner  by  General  Averill  at  Moorefield,  Hardy 
County,  Va.  When  he  was  released  from  Camp  Chase, 
Columbus,  Ohio,  in  March,  1865,  he  returned  to  Baltimore, 
and  continued  the  study  of  law,  which  he  had  carried  on 
during  his  imprisonment.  He  began  the  practice  of  law  in 
Baltimore  in  April,  1866,  and  was  for  many  years  in  part- 
nership with  his  brother,  Charles  Bohn  Slingluff,  who  grad- 
uated from  the  College  in  1859.  Later  his  son,  Thomas 
Rowland  Slingluff,  and  his  cousin,  Robert  Lee  Slingluff, 
were  associated  with  him.  He  took  a  leading  part  in 
organizing  the  Northern  Electric  Line,  and  was  its  legal 
counsel  until  this  line  was  merged  with  others  in  the  United 
Railways  &  Electric  Company,  of  which  he  continued  as 
counsel.  He  took  an  active  interest  in  municipal  affairs, 
and  was  instrumental  in  developing  a  tract  of  land,  consist- 
ing of  about  three  hundred  acres,  which  adjoined  the  city 
of  Baltimore.  This  tract  had  long  been  held  by  the  Bohn 
family,  from  which  family  his  mother  was  descended,  and 
now  constitutes  a  part  of  the  city.  He  was  regarded  as 
one  of  the  best  local  authorities  on  corporation  law,  and 


580  YALE   COLLEGE 

was  for  ten  years  professor  of  corporations,  partnerships, 
agencies,  bailments,  and  shipping  in  the  Baltimore  Univer- 
sity School  of  Law.  In  1899  he  was  elected  president  of 
the  Yale  Alumni  Association  of  Maryland  and  served  in 
this  capacity  for  a  number  of  years.  He  attended  the  Epis- 
copal Church. 

Mr.  Slingluff  died  May  20,  1918,  in  Baltimore,  of  heart 
disease,  from  which  he  had  suffered  for  some  months.  He 
was  buried  in  Greenmount  Cemetery,  Baltimore. 

He  was  married  October  3,  1866,  in  Baltimore  County, 
to  Ella,  daughter  of  Richard  and  Caroline  Sewell,  who  died 
January  18,  1869.  They  had  two  children;  the  oldest  died 
unnamed  shortly  after  her  birth  and  the  second,  Richard 
Sewell,  died  in  1901,  leaving  two  daughters.  Mr.  Slingluff 
was  married  a  second  time  November  4,  1873,  in  Alex- 
andria, Va.,  to  Mary  Legrand,  daughter  of  Reuben  and 
Julia  Mary  (Legrand)  Johnston,  who  survives  him  with 
eight  children:  Fielder  Cross,  Jr.,  who  was  a  Captain  of 
Engineers  from  January,  1918,  until  the  end  of  the  war; 
Thomas  Rowland,  who  attended  the  University  of  Mary- 
land for  a  time  and  served  as  a  Captain  in  the  Ordnance 
Department  from  March,  1918,  until  the  cessation  of  hos- 
tilities ;  Mary  Legrand,  who  married  F.  Highland  Burns  of 
Baltimore;  Philip  Devereaux,  a  Lieutenant  in  the  Aviation 
Corps  during  the  war;  Ethel  Croxall,  the  wife  of  William 
Dudley,  of  New  York;  Reuben  Johnston,  who  enlisted  in 
the  Engineer  Corps  as  a  Private  in  January,  1918,  serving 
until  the  end  of  the  war;  Donald;  and  Frances  Cross,  the 
wife  of  Alfred  Howell  of  Pittsburgh,  Pa.  Another  son, 
Douglas,  died  in  infancy. 


Henry  Hamlin  Stebbins,  B.A.   1862 

Born  June  3,  1839,  in  New  York  City- 
Died  August  19,  1917,  in  Rochester,  N,  Y. 

Henry  Hamlin  Stebbins  was  born  June  3,  1839^  in  New 
York  City,  being  the  second  of  the  seven  children  of  Phil- 
ander Wright  and  Marietta  (Hamlin)  Stebbins.  He  left 
school  about  1855  with  the  intention  of  going  into  business, 
arid  was  for  a  time  in  the  employ  of  a  large  wholesale  house 


i86i-i862  581 

in  New  York.  He  later  gave  up  the  idea,  and  entered 
Phillips  Academy,  Andover,  Mass.  During  1858-59  he 
was  a  student  at  New  York  University.  In  the  fall  of  the 
latter  year  he  joined  the  Yale  Class  of  1862  as  a  Sopho- 
more. He  was  given  a  first  prize  in  declamation  that  year 
and  received  an  oration  appointment.  He  was  a  Class 
deacon,  spoke  at  Junior  Exhibition  and  at  Commencement, 
and  was  a  member  of  Phi  Beta  Kappa  and  Brothers  in 
Unity. 

He  spent  the  first  three  years  after  graduation  as  a  pri- 
vate tutor,  at  first  in  Irvington,  N.  J.,  and  later  in  Brooklyn, 
N.  Y.,  and  during  this  period  he  also  studied  at  Union 
Theological  Seminary.  In  1864  he  was  in  the  service  of 
the  Christian  Commission  at  West  Point.  In  1866  he 
joined  the  Senior  class  at  Princeton  Theological  Seminary, 
and  in  the  following  spring  graduated  both  from  that  insti- 
tution and  from  Union  Seminary.  He  was  ordained  on 
October  8,  1867,  and  in  that  month  accepted  a  call  to  the 
Presbyterian  Church  at  Riverdale,  N.  Y.  He  remained 
there  for  slightly  more  than  six  years,  a  large  part  of  his 
work  being  done  in  the  more  populous  and  poorer  town  of 
Spuyten  Duyvil.  In  November,  1873,  he  went  to  Grace 
Presbyterian  Church  of  Oswego,  N.  Y.,  being  installed  as 
its  pastor  early  in  January  and  continuing  in  that  office  until 
1887.  He  was  then  for  about  fourteen  years  pastor  of  the 
Central  Presbyterian  Church  at  Rochester,  N.  Y.,  one  of  the 
largest  organizations  in  the  Presbyterian  Church.  In  1904 
he  retired  from  the  active  work  of  the  ministry,  but  con- 
tinued to  make  his  home  in  Rochester.  Through  his  efforts 
a  new  church  building  was  erected  at  a  cost  of  $105,000. 
His  influence  in  the  Sunday  school  was  marked,  the  mem- 
bership increasing  to  two  thousand  during  his  pastorate. 
After  his  retirement  he  served  as  temporary  minister  of  the 
West  End  Presbyterian  Church  of  New  York  City,  and  the 
First  Presbyterian  Church  of  Lockport,  N.  Y.,  and  fre- 
quently filled  other  pulpits.  His  main  work  since  1904  had 
been  the  betterment  of  municipal  conditions.  He  was  a 
vice  president  of  the  National  Playground  Association  of 
America,  and  when  that  organization  held  a  convention  in 
Rochester  in  1910  he  served  as  chairman  of  the  local  com- 
mittee of  arrangements.  He  was  a  member  of  the  execu- 
tive committee  of  the  Rochester  Playground  League,  a 
trustee  of  the  People's  Rescue  Mission,  and  an  organizer  of 


582  YALE    COLLEGE 

the  United  Charities,  and  was  active  in  the  work  of  the 
Humane  Society  and  the  Society  for  the  Prevention  of 
Cruelty  to  Children.  He  served  on  the  Park  Board  for  a 
number  of  years  and  for  several  years  was  president  of  the 
State  Custodial  Society  at  Newark,  N.  Y.  Hamilton  Col- 
lege conferred  the  degree  of  Doctor  of  Divinity  upon  him 
in  1883.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Rochester  Historical 
Society  and  of  the  executive  committee  of  the  National 
Progressive  Party.  Dr.  Stebbins'  death  occurred  August 
19,  1917,  at  his  home  in  Rochester,  after  an  illness  of  sev- 
eral months,  culminating  in  pneumonia.  He  was  buried  in 
Riverside  Cemetery  in  Oswego. 

He  was  married  January  30,  1868,  in  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.,  to 
Caroline  Stanford,  daughter  of  Joshua  M.  and  Jane  Van- 
Cott  of  Brooklyn.  She  died  January  15,  1876,  and  on 
June  I,  1878,  Dr.  Stebbins  was  married  in  Oswego,  to  Julia 
Frances,  daughter  of  Edwin  and  Mary  (Carrington)  Allen 
of  Oswego,  who  died  December  14,  1905.  By  his  first  mar- 
riage. Dr.  Stebbins  had  two  daughters, — Katharine  VanCott 
(B.A.  Vassar  1894)  and  Jane  Burch, — and  by  his  second, 
two  sons, — Edwin  Allen  and  Henry,  graduates  of  the 
College  in  1902  and  1904,  respectively.  His  four  children 
survive.  Alan  Fox  (B.A.  1903,  LL.B.  Harvard  1906)  is 
a  nephew  of  Dr.  Stebbins. 


Henry  Belin,  Jr.,  B.A.   1863 

Born  September  23,  1843,  in  West  Point,  N.  Y. 
Died  December  25,  1917,  in  Scranton,  Pa. 

Henry  Belin,  Jr.,  was  born  at  West  Point,  N.  Y.,  Sep- 
tember 23,  1843,  the  son  of  Henry  and  Isabella  (d'Andelot) 
Belin.  Both  parents  were  natives  of  Philadelphia,  Pa.,  his 
father  being  the  son  of  Augustus  and  Mary  Alletta  (Heid- 
rick)  Belin  and  his  mother  the  daughter  of  Henri  d'Ande- 
lot, who  was  born  in  France,  and  came  to  America  in 
1793,  and  Louisa  (Homberg)  d'Andelot,  of  Philadelphia,  a 
descendant  of  Moses  Homberg  and  Ann  Nagle,  who  emi- 
grated to  this  country  in  the  eighteenth  century.  The  Belin 
family  was  of  French  origin.     John  Belin,  the  great-grand- 


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1862-1863  5^3 

father  of  Henry  Belin,  Jr.,  was  a  planter  on  the  island  of 
Santo  Domingo;  his  son  Augustus  came  to  the  United 
States  about  1791,  and  was  at  first  engaged  in  business  in 
Philadelphia,  but  later  removed  to  Wilmington,  Del,  and 
there  became  associated  with  the  duPonts.  Henry  Belin, 
Sr.,  graduated  from  the  U.  S.  Military  Academy  at  West 
Point  about  1824,  and  was  one  of  the  topographical  engi- 
neers employed  by  the  Government  to  make  a  survey  of  the 
Maine  and  Canadian  boundary  line,  one  of  the  notable 
undertakings  of  the  time. 

Henry  Belin,  Jr.,  entered  Yale  from  the  Hopkins  Gram- 
mar School  in  New  Haven.  From  1863  to  April,  1870,  he 
was  located  at  the  Wilmington  plant  of  E.  I.  duPont  & 
Company.  He  then  removed  to  Scranton,  Pa.,  to  take 
charge  of  the  duPont  powder  business  in  the  anthracite 
region.  At  the  time  of  his  death  he  was  president  and  a 
director  of  the  consolidated  powder  companies  of  that  dis- 
trict, incorporated  as  E.  I.  duPont  deNemours  &  Company 
of  Pennsylvania,  and  was  a  director  of  the  Delaware  cor- 
poration of  the  company.  Mr.  Belin  was  one  of  Scran- 
ton's  most  prominent  citizens.  About  1884  he  assisted  in 
the  establishment  of  a  school  for  the  deaf,  which  is  now 
known  as  the  Pennsylvania  State  Oral  School  for  the  Deaf, 
and  afterwards  served  successively  as  its  treasurer  and 
president.  He  was  chairman  of  the  committee  appointed 
by  the  Scranton  Board  of  Trade  to  secure  a  public  library 
for  the  city,  and  had  been  treasurer  and  a  trustee  of  the 
library  since  its  foundation  in  1890.  From  1900  until  his 
death  he  was  also  a  member  of  the  Pennsylvania  State 
Library  Commission.  He  was  a  member  of  the  finance 
committee  of  the  Hahnemann  Hospital,  an  institution 
owing  its  existence  largely  to  his  initiative  and  continued 
support,  and  served  in  a  similar  capacity  for  the  Margaretta 
Belin  Home  for  Nurses.  He  was  a  trustee  of  the  Second 
Presbyterian  Church  and  a  director  and  secretary  of  the 
Lackawanna  Trust  Company,  president  and  a  director  of 
the  Wyoming  Shovel  Works,  vice  president  and  a  director 
of  the  Scranton  Lace  Company,  and  a  director  of  the  First 
National  Bank,  the  Cherry  River  Boom  &  Lumber  Com- 
pany, the  Cherry  River  Paper  Company,  the  Hebard 
Cypress  Company,  and  the  Klots  Throwing  Company.  For 
three  years  (1877-1880)  he  was  a  member  of  the  National 
Guard  of  Pennsylvania,  during  the  final  year  of  his  service 


584  YALE   COLLEGE 

being  Major  on  the  Brigade  Staff  and  inspector  of  rifle 
practice. 

Mr.  Belin  died  December  25,  1917,  at  his  home  in  Scran- 
ton.  He  had  been  in  failing  health  for  several  months,  but 
his  death  was  due  to  pneumonia.  Interment  was  in  the 
Forest  Hill  Cemetery  at  Scranton. 

He  was  married  October  13,  1868,  in  Wilmington,  to 
Margaretta  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Ferdinand  and  Marietta 
(Allen)  Lammot.  They  had  nine  children:  Mary  Lam- 
mot,  who  was  married  April  5,  1893,  to  Nathaniel  Gould 
Robertson  (B.S.  Massachusetts  Institute  of  Technology 
1885)  of  Scranton;  Isabella  d'Andelot,  who  died  in  infancy; 
Alice  (B.A.  Bryn  Mawr  1892),  the  wife  of  Pierre  Samuel 
duPont  (B.S.  Massachusetts  Institute  of  Technology  1890) 
of  Wilmington;  Henry  (born  November  29,  1873;  died 
July  14,  1878)  ;  Paul  Beck,  a  graduate  of  the  Sheffield  Sci- 
entific School  in  1895 ;  Charles  Augustus  (B.A.  1899,  LL.B. 
Pennsylvania  1903)  ;  Ferdinand  Lammot,  who  received  his 
Ph.B.  at  Yale  in  1901 ;  Margaretta  Lammot,  whose  death 
occurred  April  i,  1910;  and  Gaspard  d'Andelot  (Ph.B. 
1908).  Mrs.  Belin  and  six  children  survive  him.  Mr. 
Belin's  grandsons,  Henry  Belin  Robertson  and  Nathaniel 
Gould  Robertson,  Jr.,  graduated  from  the  Scientific  School 
in  1914  and  1917,  respectively.  The  latter  served  abroad  as 
a  First  Lieutenant  in  the  Aviation  Service. 


Edward  Munson  Booth,  B.A.  1863 

Born  January  26,  1840,  in  Torrington,  Conn. 
Died  August  2,  1917,  in  Mercer,  Wis. 

Edward  Munson  Booth,  son  of  Elisha  Smith  and  Elvira 
A.  (Squire)  Booth,  was  born  January  26,  1840,  in  Torring^ 
ton.  Conn.  His  preparatory  training  was  received  at  Wil- 
liston  Seminary,  Easthampton,  Mass.  He  was  given  a 
Junior  second  colloquy  appointment. 

He  taught  for  some  three  months  in  the  autumn  of  1863 
in  the  academy  at  Ashford,  Conn.  In  December  of  that 
ye:^r  he  removed  to  Chicago,  111.,  there  becoming  a  teacher 
of  classical  studies  and  elocution.     He  was  later  made  pro- 


I 


1863  585 

fessor  of  elocution  at  McCormick  Theological  Seminary 
and  at  the  University  of  Chicago.  From  1882  to  1887  he 
was  professor  of  rhetoric  and  oratory  at  the  State  Univer- 
sity of  Iowa,  at  Iowa  City,  and  for  the  next  three  years 
held  the  Knapp  instructorship  in  elocution  at  Beloit  College. 
In  1890  he  returned  to  McCormick  Theological  Seminary 
as  professor  of  elocution,  and  continued  in  that  capacity 
until  shortly  before  his  death,  which  occurred  August  2, 
1917,  in  Mercer,  Wis.,  as  the  result  of  angina  pectoris. 
Interment  was  in  Chicago. 

He  had  contributed  a  number  of  papers  to  The  Advance, 
Werner's  Magazine,  The  Interior,  and  to  the  Reports  of  the 
National  Association  of  Elocutionists,  of  which  organiza- 
tion he  was  for  many  years  an  officer,  and  was  the  author 
of  a  book  upon  the  'principles  of  vocal  and  gesticulative 
expression,  entitled  *'Delsarte  Outlines,"  four  editions  of 
which  have  been  published.  In  his  later  years  Professor 
Booth  felt  at  times  some  regret  that  he  had  not  entered  the 
ministry,  as  he  intended  to  do  when  he  went  to  college,  but 
was  consoled  by  the  reflection  that  by  his  instruction  in 
elocution  he  had  increased  the  efficiency  of  many  ministers, 
and  thus  had,  in  a  sense,  preached  the  gospel  through  the 
lips  of  others. 

He  was  married  August  22,  1866,  to  Susan  May  Martin  of 
South  Attleboro,  Mass.,  by  whom  he  had  one  daughter. 
May.  Mrs.  Booth  died  November  28,  1870,  and  on  Jan- 
uary I,  1874,  his  second  marriage  took  place  to  Adele 
McNair  of  Castile,  N.  Y.  They  had  three  sons:  Lester 
McNair,  Edward  Albert,  and  Oliver  Stanley.  The  latter 
died  in  March,  1894,  at  the  age  of  eight. 


John  Haskell  Butler,  B.A.   1863 

Born  August  31,  1841,  in  Middleton,  Mass. 
Died  September  8,  1917,  in  East  Somerville,  Mass. 

John  Haskell  Butler,  son  of  John  Butler,  a  paper  manu- 
facturer, and  Mary  J.  (Barker)  Butler,  was  born  in  Mid- 
dleton, Mass.,  August  31,  1841.  His  father  was  the  son  of 
John  and  Nancy  (Haskell)  Butler  and  a  descendant  of 
John  Butler,  who  came  from  England  to  Massachusetts. 


586  YALE   COLLEGE 

His  mother's  parents  were  John  and  Susan  (Bigelow) 
Barker. 

His  preparation  for  college  was  received  at  Lawrence 
Academy,  Groton,  Mass.  In  his  Junior  year  he  was  given 
a  dissertation  appointment. 

Directly  after  graduating  he  enlisted  in  the  United  States 
Navy,  and  served  for  two  and  a  half  years  as  Paymaster's 
Clerk  on  the  S.  S.  Fredonia,  stationed  at  Callao,  Peru.  In 
January,  1866,  he  entered  the  law  office  of  Griffin  &  Stearns 
at  Charlestown,  Mass.  Following  his  admission  to  the 
Middlesex  County  Bar  in  October,  1868,  he  formed  a  part- 
nership, under  the  name  of  Stearns  &  Butler,  with  William 
St.  Agnan  Stearns  (B.A.  Harvard  1841),  in  whose  office 
he  had  formerly  studied.  In  April,  1874,  they  removed 
their  office  to  Boston  and  after  Mr.  Stearns  retired  in  1890, 
Mr.  Butler  conducted  the  practice  under  his  own  name. 
For  twenty-eight  years  he  was  associate  justice  of  the 
Somerville  Police  Court.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Somer- 
ville  School  Committee  from  1876  to  1888,  served  in  the 
Massachusetts  House  of  Representatives  in  1880  and  1881 
(being  House  chairman  of  the  Committee  on  Claims  during 
the  latter  year),  was  commissioner  of  insolvency  for  Mid- 
dlesex County  for  several  years,  and  was  elected  to  the 
Executive  Council  of  the  State  for  three  successive  terms, 
starting  wdth  1884.  For  two  years  he  served  as  president 
of  the  National  Fraternal  Congress,  and  he  was  the  legal 
adviser  of  several  large  societies.  He  was  prominent  in 
Masonic  circles.  His  death  occurred  September  8,  1917, 
at  his  home  in  East  Somerville,  after  an  illness  of  some 
months  due  to  heart  trouble  and  complications.  Interment 
was  in  Forest  Hills  Cemetery  in  Boston. 

Judge  Butler  was  married  in  Pittston,  Pa.,  January  i, 
1870,  to  Laura  L.,  daughter  of  Jabez  B.  and  Mary  (Ford) 
Bull  and  sister  of  his  classmate,  Cornelius  W.  Bull.  She 
died  on  April  22,  1908,  and  on  May  15,  1915,  he  was  mar-^ 
ried  in  Boston  to  Alice  Williams,  daughter  of  George  Wil- 
liams and  Priscilla  (Clark)  Fells,  who  survives  him.  He 
also  leaves  one  son  by  his  first  marriage,  John  Lawton,  and 
a  sister. 


i863  587 

Henry  Clay  DeForest,  B.A.   1863 

Born  March  13,   1844,  in  Dover,  N.  Y. 
Died  December  10,  1917,  in  Wetmore,  Kans. 

Henry  Clay  DeForest  was  born  in  Dover,  N.  Y.,  March 
13,  1844,  his  parents  being  Isaac  Newton  and  Augusta  Ann 
(Moulton)  DeForest.  His  family  removed  to  Madison, 
Wis.,  in  1856,  and  there  his  father  became  engaged  in  farm- 
ing. The  latter,  who  was  the  son  of  Joseph  and  Leah 
(Marks)  DeForest,  traced  his  descent  to  Isaac  DeForest, 
who  came  to  this  country  from  Holland  in  1637,  settling  at 
New  Amsterdam,  and  to  Jesse  DeForest,  who  Uved  in 
Avesne,  France,  and  planned  the  emigration  of  the  family 
to  this  country.  His  mother  was  the  daughter  of  Robert 
G.  and  Jane  (Green)  Moulton. 

He  was  fitted  for  college  at  the  Madison  Academy  and 
before  joining  the  Yale  Class  of  1863  at  the  beginning  of  its 
Sophomore  year,  spent  three  years  at  Wisconsin  State  Uni- 
versity. In  Junior  and  Senior  years  at  Yale  he  was  given 
first  colloquy  appointments. 

From  1863  to  1865  he  was  employed  as  a  cashier  by  the 
Wilmington  Coal  Mining  Company  of  Chicago,  111.,  and  for 
the  next  five  years  he  held  a  similar  position  with  the  cloth- 
ing firm  of  G.  T.  Belden  &  Company  of  that  city.  In  Feb- 
ruary, 1870,  he  removed  to  Wetmore,  Kans.,  where  the 
remainder  of  his  life  was  spent.  Until  his  retirement  in 
191 5  he  was  engaged  in  a  general  mercantile  business,  and 
he  afterwards  gave  his  attention  mainly  to  banking.  For 
thirty-two  years  he  was  president  of  the  Wetmore  State 
Bank,  and  from  1871  to  1873  he  served  in  the  State  Legis- 
lature, having  been  elected  on  the  Republican  ticket.  He 
was  a  member  of  the  Wetmore  Episcopal  Church.  He  died 
December  10,  1917,  in  Wetmore,  and  was  buried  in  the 
local  cemetery.  His  death  was  due  to  a  general  breakdown 
in  health  and  followed  an  illness  of  two  weeks. 

Mr.  DeForest  was  married  August  18,  1897,  in  Wetmore, 
to  Anna  Belle,  daughter  of  George  G.  and  Elizabeth  (Wil- 
son) Gill.  He  is  survived  by  his  wife  and  son,  Carol 
Holmes. 


588  YALE    COLLEGE 


Morton  William  Easton,  B.A.   1863 

Born  August  i8,  1841,  in  Hartford,  Conn. 
Died  August  21,  1917,  at  Mount  Gretna,  Pa. 

Morton  William  Easton  was  born  August  18,  1841,  in 
Hartford,  Conn.,  the  son  of  Oliver  Hastings  Easton,  an 
architect,  and  Emeline  Maria  (Brace)  Easton.  He  was  of 
Puritan  ancestry,  tracing  his  descent  on  the  paternal  side  to 
Joseph  Easton,  who  came  to  Cambridge,  Mass.,  in  1634, 
and  on  the  maternal  side  to  Stephen  Brace,  who  settled  at 
Hartford,  Conn.,  in  1660.  His  father  was  the  son  of  Wait 
and  Phoebe  (Hastings)  Easton,  and  his  mother's  parents 
were  Manning  and  Lucy  (Webster)  Brace. 

He  was  fitted  for  college  at  the  Hartford  Public  High 
School.  He  received  a  second  dispute  appointment  both 
Junior  and  Senior  years. 

Soon  after  graduation  from  college,  he  began  the  study 
of  medicine  in  Hartford.  He  continued  it  at  the  College  of 
Physicians  and  Surgeons  at  Columbia  University  and  also 
studied  for  eleven  months  in  Germany.  In  September, 
1867,  having  received  the  degree  of  M.D.  from  Columbia 
the  previous  June,  he  began  the  practice  of  medicine  in 
Hartford,  but  after  a  short  time  abandoned  it  for  the  more 
congenial  pursuit  of  the  study  of  philology.  He  was  given 
his  Ph.D.  at  Yale  in  1873.  In  February,  1874,  he  removed 
to  Knoxville,  Tenn.,  to  take  the  professorship  of  compara- 
tive philology  and  modern  languages  at  the  University  of 
Tennessee.  He  resigned  this  chair  in  1880,  to  accept  an 
instructorship  in  French  at  the  University  of  Pennsylvania, 
where,  in  May,  1883,  he  was  appointed  professor  of  com- 
parative philology.  He  was  connected  with  this  institution 
until  his  death,  since  1912  having  the  title  of  professor 
emeritus  of  English  and  comparative  philology.  He  was 
from  1887  to  1892  adjunct  professor  of  Greek,  and  for  the 
next  twenty  years  professor  of  English.  He  was  the 
author  of  numerous  articles  on  phonetics,  Sanskrit,  Iranian, 
and  English  subjects. 

Since  1913  Professor  Easton  had  been  in  the  habit  of 
spending  the  winter  at  Tampa,  Fla.  He  was  a  vestryman 
of  the  Protestant  Episcopal  Church  of  the  Transfiguration 
in  Philadelphia.  He  died  August  21,  1917,  at  his  summer 
home  at  Mount  Gretna,  Pa.      Death  was  due  to  general 


i863  589 

debility  and  came  after  an  illness  of  four  weeks.     Burial 
was  in  the  South  Laurel  Hill  Cemetery,  Philadelphia. 

He  was  married  in  Knoxville,  June  15,  1875,  to  Maria 
Stille,  daughter  of  Dr.  Selden  Burton  and  Phebe  (Stille) 
Burton.  She  survives  him  with  three  children:  Burton 
Scott  (B.A.  and  Ph.D.  Pennsylvania  1898  and  1901, 
respectively,  D.D.  Philadelphia  Divinity  School  1911)  ;  Wil- 
liam Hastings  (B.A.  and  Ph.D.  Pennsylvania  1900  and 
1903,  respectively)  ;  and  Ethel  Stille,  who  was  married  in 
June,  1905,  to  Robert  Agnew  Longwell.  Their  oldest  child, 
Edith  Burton,  was  born  and  died  in  1876. 


George  Champlin  Shepard  South  worth,  B.A.  1863 

Born  December  13,  1842,  in  West  Springfield,  Mass. 
Died  February  19,  1918,  in  Springfield,  Mass. 

George  Champlin  Shepard  Southworth  was  born  Decem- 
ber 13,  1842,  at  West  Springfield,  Mass.,  the  son  of  Edward 
Southworth  (B.A.  Harvard  1826)  and  Ann  Elizabeth 
(Shepard)  Southworth.  Edward  Southworth  was  a  hneal 
descendant  of  that  Leyden  pilgrim  of  the  same  name  who 
returned  from  Holland  to  England  in  1620  with  his  wife 
Alice,  and  two  children,  and  died  there.  Alice  Southworth 
came  to  New  Plymouth  in  1623,  and  married  Gov.  William 
Bradford.  Her  sons,  Constant  and  Thomas  Southworth, 
were  brought  up  in  the  Bradford  family  and  became 
prominent  in  the  Colony  and  in  the  United  Colonies.  Mr. 
Southworth  was  a  descendant  of  Constant  Southworth,  the 
older  son.  Ann  Shepard  was  the  daughter  of  Rev.  Mase 
Shepard  (B.A.  Dartmouth  1785),  of  Little  Compton,  R.  I., 
and  the  sister  of  Professor  Charles  U.  Shepard,  M.D., 
LL.D.  (B.A.  Amherst  1824)  ;  her  mother,  Deborah  (Has- 
kins)  Shepard,  was  a  sister  of  Ruth  Haskins  Emerson,  the 
mother  of  Ralph  Waldo  Emerson. 

He  was  fitted  for  college  at  Phillips  Academy,  Andover, 
Mass.  In  Junior  year  at  Yale  he  received  from  the  Class 
the  Wooden  Spoon.  He  was  one  of  the  four  Class  his- 
torians and  the  Class  poet.  He  wrote  several  Class  and 
fraternity  songs,  including  the  Ivy  Song,  and  contributed  to 
the  Yale  Literary  Magazine.     He  was  a  member  of  the 


590  YALE    COLLEGE 

Nixie  Boat  Club  and  president  of  Brothers  in  Unity.     His 
Junior  appointment  was  a  second  colloquy. 

Two  years  after  his  graduation  from  Yale,  he  received 
the  degree  of  LL.B.  at  Harvard.  He  assisted  in  his 
father's  business  of  paper  manufacturing  until  1869,  when 
he  resumed  study  at  the  University  of  Berlin,  taking  lec- 
tures in  history  and  constitutions.  He  then  traveled  with 
his  uncle.  Professor  Shepard  of  Amherst,  Mr.  Erastus 
DeForest  of  New  Haven,  and  his  brother,  Mase  S.  South- 
worth  (B.A.  1868),  in  Denmark,  Sweden,  and  Russia. 
After  the  death  of  his  father  in  1869  he  returned  to  this 
country,  becoming  president  of  the  Southworth  Company 
at  Mittineague,  Mass.,  and  a  director  in  various  corpora- 
tions. He  was  a  member  of  the  Lower  House  of  the  Leg- 
islature of  Massachusetts  in  1871-72,  representing  West 
Springfield  and  adjacent  villages.  In  1873-74  he  made  a 
journey  around  the  world  with  his  brother,  Mase  S.  South- 
worth,  and  his  cousin,  Edward  W.  Southworth  (B.A. 
1875).  Dr.  Southworth  again  went  abroad  with  his  family 
in  1877  for  rest  and  the  study  of  foreign  languages  and 
literature.  He  returned  in  1881,  when  he  was  chosen  pro- 
fessor of  belles  lettres  in  Kenyon  College,  Gambler,  Ohio. 
In  1885  he  was  also  appointed  professor  of  sacred  the- 
ology at  the  Bexley  Theological  Seminary  of  the  Protestant 
Episcopal  Church  of  the  Diocese  of  Ohio.  In  1888  he 
resigned  both  chairs  and  the  following  year  became  pro- 
fessor of  the  English  language  and  literature  in  the  Case 
School  of  Applied  Science  at  Cleveland.  Soon  afterwards 
he  purchased  a  home  in  Salem,  Ohio,  and  was  elected  senior 
warden  of  the  Episcopal  Church  there.  For  five  years  Dr. 
Southworth  was  president  of  the  Yale  Alumni  Association 
of  Cleveland,  and  in  that  capacity  he  was  a  delegate  to  the 
meeting  of  the  Associated  Western  Yale  Clubs  held  in  Chi- 
cago in  1894.  He  was  also  invited  to  represent  Yale  Uni- 
versity at  the  inauguration  of  President  King  at  Oberlin  in 
1903.  In  1875,  and  annually  for  four  years  thereafter,  he 
presented,  with  his  brother,  Mase  S.  Southworth,  a  silver 
cup, — called  the  Southworth  Cup, — valued  at  two  hundred 
and  fifty  dollars,  for  single  scull  races.  It  is  believed  that 
this  had  a  marked  influence  on  Yale's  success  in  rowing 
at  that  time  and  later.  In  1889-90  he  was  on  the  exam- 
ining committee  at  Western  Reserve  University.  He 
published  a  volume  of    "Lectures  on  English  Literature," 


i863  591 

and  a  pamphlet  on  the  "Descendants  of  Constant  South- 
worth/'  having  given  much  attention  to  genealogy  both  at 
home  and  abroad.  In  1900  he  put  aside  active  work  and 
lived  for  more  than  two  years  with  members  of  his  family 
in  Europe.  On  his  return  he  went  to  Gambier,  to  be  near 
his  sons  who  were  at  college  there.  His  home  had  been  in 
Springfield,  Mass.,  since  1914.  In  1896  he  received  the 
degree  of  L.H.D.  from  Kenyon  College.  He  was  a  life 
member  of  the  American  Philological  Association  and  the 
Ohio  Archaeological  and  Historical  Society. 

Dr.  Southworth  died  at  his  home  in  Springfield,  February 
19,  1918,  after  a  short  illness.  Burial  was  in  the  Cemetery 
of  the  First  Congregational  Church  at  West  Springfield. 

On  April  30,  1874,  in  Rome,  Italy,  he  was  married  to 
Ada,  daughter  of  Melvin  Gilmore  and  Harriet  Ann  (Thur- 
ston) Deane.  Mrs.  Southworth  survives  with  their  chil- 
dren: Mary  (B.A.  Smith  1899),  the  wife  of  Herbert  Frith 
Williams  (B.A.  Kenyon  1896)  ;  Constant  (B.A.  Kenyon 
1898,  LL.B.  Cincinnati  1903),  a  Major  in  the  332d  Infantry 
in  Italy,  where  he  had  charge  of  the  Montenegrin  expedi- 
tions in  1918  and  1919;  Rufus  (B.A.  Kenyon  1900,  M.A. 
Kenyon  1903,  M.D.  Cincinnati  1904),  who  served  as  a 
Captain  in  the  Medical  Corps  from  1917  to  1919;  Elisabeth 
Shepard  (B.A.  Smith  1904),  the  wife  of  Professor  John  S. 
Harrison  (B.A.,  M.A.,  and  Ph.D.  Columbia  1899,  1900, 
1903,  respectively)  ;  Melvin  Deane  (Ph.B.  Kenyon  1907)  ; 
Edward,  who  studied  at  Kenyon  and  received  his  LL.B.  at 
the  University  of  Cincinnati  in  1912;  George  Shepard 
(B.A.  Kenyon  1909)  ;  and  John  Deane  (B.A.  Kenyon  191 1, 
M.D.  Johns  Hopkins  1918),  who  was  with  the  Johns  Hop- 
kins unit  in  France  in  191 7,  served  as  a  First  Lieutenant  in 
the  Medical  Corps  of  the  2d  Division  in  1918  and  1919, 
being  cited  by  General  Pershing  and  receiving  the  Croix  de 
Guerre,  and  is  now  a  Captain  in  the  Kufan  Commission. 
Yale  relatives  include  three  brothers :  Mase  S.  Southworth 
(B.A.  1868),  Edward  Southworth  (B.A.  1879),  and 
Thomas  Shepard  Southworth  (B.A.  1883)  ;  and  five  cous- 
ins, Edward  Boltwood  (B.A.  i860),  Charles  U.  Shepard 
(B.A.  1863),  Thomas  K.  Boltwood  (B.A.  1864),  Edward 
W.  Southworth  (B.A.  1875),  and  Constant  Southworth 
(Ph.B.  1919). 


592  YALE   COLLEGE 


Lewis  Atterbury  Stimson,  B.A.   1863 

Born  August  24,  1844,  in  Paterson,  N,  J. 
Died  September  17,  1917,  at  Shinnecock  Hills,  N.  Y. 

Lewis  Atterbury  Stimson  was  the  son  of  Henry  Clark 
Stimson,  a  banker,  and  Julia  Maria  (Atterbury)  Stimson, 
and  was  born  August  24,  1844,  in  Paterson,  N.  J.  His 
father  was  the  son  of  Rev.  Henry  Bowen  Stimson  and 
Rebecca  (Pond)  Stimson  and  a  descendant  of  George 
Stimson,  who  came  from  England  to  Massachusetts  Bay 
about  1630,  and  of  George  Stimson,  who  took  part  in  the 
campaign  against  the  Pequots  in  1640.  The  latter  married 
Alice  Phillips  of  Salem.  The  family  lived  for  more  than  a 
century  in  the  neighborhood  of  Boston,  especially  at 
Ipswich  and  Hopkinton.  The  land  grants  given  by  Massa- 
chusetts to  soldiers  of  the  early  Indian  War  instead  of  pay 
took  some  of  the  family  to  Maine,  where  their  descendants 
still  live.  Each  succeeding  generation  contributed  soldiers 
in  the  French  and  Indian  Wars,  and  another  George  Stim- 
son, great-great-grandson  of  the  first  mentioned,  and  great- 
grandfather of  Lewis  A.  Stimson,  served  in  the  Continental 
Army  throughout  the  Revolution,  attaining  the  rank  of 
Captain.  Shortly  after  the  close  of  the  war,  having  become 
impoverished  by  giving  away  his  private  fortune  to  help 
finance  Washington's  army  at  Cambridge,  he  moved  from 
Hopkinton  to  Greene  County,  N.  Y.  Rebecca  Pond  Stim- 
son was  a  descendant  of  a  French  Huguenot  by  the  name  of 
DuPont  who  settled  at  Litchfield,  Conn.,  and  was  a  connec- 
tion of  the  Judsons  of  that  place.  Lewis  A.  Stimson's 
mother  was  the  daughter  of  Lewis  Atterbury,  who  came  as 
a  young  boy  from  Loughborough,  England,  to  New  York 
shortly  after  the  Revolution.  He  was  a  member  of  the 
importing  firm  of  Guest,  Atterbury  &  Company  in  Balti- 
more, Md.,  where  he  married  Catharine,  daughter  of  Elisha 
and  Mary  Smith  Boudinot,  a  direct  descendant,  in  the  fifth 
generation,  from  Elie  Boudinot,  who  came  to  this  country 
from  LaRochelle,  France,  by  way  of  the  West  Indies  in 
1687,  after  the  revocation  of  the  Edict  of  Nantes,  and  set- 
tled in  New  York  City.  The  family  resided  in  that  city 
until  about  1770,  and  afterwards  in  New  Jersey.  Elias 
Boudinot,  Lewis  Stimson's  great-great-uncle,  was  Commis- 


i863  593 

sary  General  of  Prisoners  on  Washington's  staff  and  Presi- 
dent of  Congress  at  the  time  the  treaty  of  peace  with 
England  was  made;  Yale  conferred  an  honorary  LL.D. 
upon  him  in  1790.  His  great-grandfather,  Elisha  Boudi- 
not,  was  a  deputy  to  the  Colonial  Congress,  a  member  of 
the  Committee  of  Safety  and  a  justice  of  the  Supreme 
Court  of  New  Jersey.  William  Peartree  Smith  (B.A. 
1742)  was  also  an  ancestor. 

He  was  prepared  for  Yale  partly  in  the  public  schools  of 
Paterson  and  partly  at  home  under  a  private  tutor.  In 
Sophomore  year  he  divided  a  first  prize  in  mathematics. 
His  appointments  were  first  disputes. 

He  went  abroad  immediately  after  graduation,  on  his 
return  a  few  months  later  entering  the  Army  with  the  rank 
of  Captain.  He  served  until  the  end  of  the  Civil  War,  at 
first  as  Aide  on  the  staff  of  Major  General  Birney  and 
later  on  that  of  Major  General  Terry.  From  1865  to  1871, 
with  the  exception  of  the  year  of  1866-67,  which  was  spent 
abroad,  he  was  engaged  in  the  banking  and  brokerage  busi- 
ness with  his  father  in  New  York  City.  He  was  for  a 
time  a  member  of  the  firm  of  H.  C.  Stimson  &  Company 
and  afterwards  a  partner  in  the  firms  of  Litchfield,  Dana  & 
Stimson,  and  Stimson,  Fronk  &  Company.  In  1867  he 
was  elected  to  the  New  York  Stock  Exchange.  He  went 
abroad  with  his  family  in  1871,  because  of  his  wife's 
health,  and  studied  medicine,  mainly  in  Paris,  for  the  next 
two  years.  He  then  returned  to  New  York  and  in  1874 
was  graduated  from  the  Bellevue  Hospital  Medical  College 
with  the  degree  of  M.D.  In  1875  he  began  practice  in  New 
York  City.  Dr.  Stimson  was  appointed  professor  of  physi- 
ology at  New  York  University  in  1883,  two  years  later 
becoming  professor  of  anatomy,  and,  in  1889,  professor  of 
surgery.  Since  1898  he  had  held  the  chair  of  surgery  at 
the  Cornell  University  Medical  College,  and  he  was  also 
consulting  surgeon  to  the  New  York,  Bellevue,  Hudson 
Street,  and  Christ  hospitals.  He  was  the  author  of  "Oper- 
ative Surgery,"  first  published  in  1878,  "A  Translation  of 
Gosselius'  Clinical  Surgery"  (1878),  and  "Fractures  and 
Dislocations,"  which  was  first  published  in  two  volumes — 
that  on  Fractures  in  1883  and  that  on  Dislocations  in  1888, 
the  two  subjects  being  included  in  a  single  volume  in  1899; 
had  written  somewhat  on  subjects  of  a  general  literary 
character;    and  was  the  translator  of  Lacombe's    "History 


594  YALE   COLLEGE 

of  France."  He  was  made  a  regent  of  the  University  of 
the  State  of  New  York  in  1893,  and  seven  years  later  the 
honorary  degree  of  LL.D.  was  conferred  upon  him  by  Yale 
University.  He  belonged  to  the  Madison  Square  Presby- 
terian Church,  and  was  a  member  of  a  number  of  profes- 
sional societies,  including  the  French  Society  of  Surgery, 
an  honor  extended  to  very  few  surgeons  outside  of  France. 
He  also  belonged  to  the  Century  Club  and  the  Loyal 
Legion.  In  his  schooner-yacht,  the  Fleur-de-Lys,  he  had 
cruised  in  the  Mediterranean  and  yEgean  seas;  this  vessel 
participated  in  the  ocean  race  of  1905  for  the  Kaiser's  cup, 
arriving  at  Falmouth  seventh  on  the  list. 

After  the  outbreak  of  the  European  War,  Dr.  Stimson 
made  two  visits  to  the  battle  front  on  missions  of  relief, 
one  in  191 5  and  the  other  in  1916.  He  was  interested 
especially  in  the  care  of  French  orphans,  and  was  a  mem- 
ber of  several  French  organizations  devoted  to  this  work. 
At  the  time  of  his  death  he  was  gathering  material  from 
authoritative  sources  for  the  purpose  of  grouping  various 
essays  by  surgeons  at  the  war  front  into  a  book  on  military 
surgery.  This  work  was  begun  on  his  own  initiative,  but 
was  continued  in  cooperation  with  the  Committee  on 
National  Defense,  at  their  request.  He  died  suddenly  Sep- 
tember 17,  1917,  at  his  summer  home  at  Shinnecock  Hills, 
Long  Island,  as  the  result  of  heart  trouble.  The  interment 
was  in  Woodlawn  Cemetery,  New  York. 

Dr.  Stimson  was  married  November  9,  1866,  in  Paris, 
France,  to  Candace,  daughter  of  Thomas  M.  and  Candace 
(Thurber)  Wheeler  of  New  York  City.  Her  death 
occurred  June  7,  1876.  Their  two  children,  Henry  Lewis 
(B.A.  1888,  M.A.  Harvard  1889),  Secretary  of  War  from 
191 1  to  1913,  who  saw  service  in  France  as  Colonel  of  a 
Field  Artillery  regiment,  and  Candace  Catharine,  stirvive. 
Three  brothers.  Rev.  Henry  A.  Stimson,  who  graduated 
from  Yale  in  1865,  ^^^  received  the  degree  of  D.D.  from 
Ripon  and  Yale  in  1885  and  1893,  respectively;  John  Ward 
Stimson  (B.A.  1872)  ;  and  Frederick  Julian  Stimson  (B.A. 
1877,  LL.B.  Columbia  1879),  are  also  living.  Dr.  Stimson 
was  the  uncle  of  Frederick  W.  Weston  (B.A.  1899),  J. 
Francis  Stimson,  <?.r-'o6,  Henry  B.  Stimson  (B.A.  1907), 
Alfred  L.  Loomis  (B.A.  1909),  Philip  M.  Stimson  (B.A. 
1-910),  Frederick  B.  Stimson,  ex-'is,  and  Boudinot  Stim- 
son, a  member  of  the  College  Class  of  1920. 


i863  595 


Thomas  Young,  B.A.   1863 

Born  January  lO,  1840,  in  Franklinville,  N.  Y. 
Died  June  24,  1918,  in  Brentwood,  N.  Y. 

Thomas  Young  was  born  January  10,  1840,  at  Franklin- 
ville, N.  Y.,  being  one  of  the  seven  children  of  Thomas 
Perkins  Young,  a  farmer  and  cabinet  maker,  and  Caroline 
(Hudson)  Young.  Through  his  fatlier,  whose  parents 
were  Thomas  and  Esther  (Perkins)  Young,  he  was 
descended  from  Rev.  John  Youngs,  who  was  one  of  the 
original  settlers  of  the  town  of  Southold  in  1640.  His 
mother  was  the  daughter  of  Joseph  and  Mehetabel  (Fan- 
ning) Hudson,  and  a  descendant  of  Edmund  Fanning,  who 
settled  at  Groton,  Conn.,  in  1653,  having  come  from  Dublin, 
Ireland,  in  1641.  Other  ancestors  were:  James  Fanning, 
who  held  a  Captain's  commission  in  the  British  Army  in 
colonial  times;  Edmund  Fanning  (B.A.  1757),  also  a  loyal- 
ist, who  was  in  command  of  the  King's  American  Regiment 
of  Foot  during  the  Revolutionary  War  and  later  served 
successively  as  Lieutenant  Governor  of  Nova  Scotia  and 
Prince  Edward  Island,  and  eventually  attained  the  rank  of 
General  in  the  British  Army;  Phineas  Fanning,  Jr.  (B.A. 
1769)  ;  and  Nathaniel  Sylvester,  first  resident  proprietor  of 
the  manor  of  Shelter  Island. 

He  was  fitted  for  Yale  at  the  Franklinville  Academy 
under  the  tuition  of  his  cousin,  Rev.  Dr.  Joseph  N.  Hallock 
(B.A.  1857)  and  at  the  preparatory  school  of  Rev.  Henry 
M.  Colton  (B.A.  1848)  at  Middletown,  Conn.  His  appoint- 
ments were  second  disputes. 

Shortly  after  graduation  he  was  commissioned  as  a  First 
Lieutenant  in  the  8th  Regular  Infantry,  a  colored  regiment. 
He  was  mustered  into  service  November  20,  1863,  and  was 
ordered  to  Florida.  On  October  21,  1864,  he  was  promoted 
to  a  Captaincy  and  in  March,  1865,  was  raised  to  his  Major- 
ity and  assigned  to  the  127th  Regiment,  U.  S.  Colored 
Infantry.  He  was  mustered  out  of  service  in  September, 
1865,  and  soon  afterwards  entered  the  Albany  Law  School, 
from  which  he  received  the  degree  of  LL.B.  in  1866.  He 
was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  May  of  that  year,  and  a  few 
months  later  began  practice  at  Huntington,  Long  Island. 
He  was  admitted  to  practice  in  the  United  States  District 


596  YALE   COLLEGE 

and  Circuit  courts  November  24,  1871,  and  in  the  United 
States  Supreme  Court  five  years  later.  In  1870  he  was 
elected  district  attorney  of  Suffolk  County,  and  acted  in 
that  capacity  for  one  term.  From  1880  to  1892  he  served 
as  County  judge,  having  been  elected  on  the  Republican 
ticket.  He  was  a  director  of  the  Bank  of  Huntington  from 
its  organization  in  1888,  serving  also  as  president  for  five 
years,  and  in  December,  1904,  he  was  elected  chairman  of 
Group  Seven  of  the  New  York  State  Bankers'  Association. 
He  was  president  of  the  Huntington  Soldiers  and  Sailors 
Memorial  Association,  which  he  helped  to  organize,  a 
director  in  the  Huntington  Water  Works  Company,  and  a 
vestryman  of  St.  John's  Protestant  Episcopal  Church.  He 
was  a  member  of  the  Military  Order  of  the  Loyal  Legion 
and  of  the  American,  New  York  State,  and  Suffolk  County 
Bar  associations.  He  had  served  as  president  of  the  latter 
organization.  He  had  been  an  active  worker  in  the  Liberty 
Loan  campaigns.  Judge  Young  was  accidentally  killed 
June  24,  19 1 8,  by  a  railroad  train  near  the  Ross  Sanitarium 
at  Brentwood,  where  he  had  gone  for  treatment  for  low 
blood  pressure  caused  by  arterio  sclerosis.  He  was  buried 
in  the  Huntington  Rural  Cemetery. 

He  was  married  Decernber  7,  1870,  in  Huntington,  to 
Martha  L.,  daughter  of  Gilbert  Potter  and  Lucinda  (Finch) 
Williams.  She  died  July  22,  1906.  Their  three  daughters 
survive:  Caroline  Williams,  who  was  married  December  i, 
1897,  to  Ross  Wilton  Downs  of  Huntington;  Bertha 
Lucinda;   and  Ethel  Fanning. 


Stephen  Condit  Pierson,  B.A.   1864 

Born  November  18,  1841,  in  Orange,  N.  J. 
Died  March  23,  1918,  in  Meriden,  Conn. 

Stephen  Condit  Pierson  was  born  November  18,  1841,  in 
Orange,  N.  J.,  the  son  of  Aaron  Pierson,  a  wholesale  mer- 
chant, and  Mary  Caroline  (Ogden)  Pierson.  His  father 
was  the  son  of  Dr.  Isaac  Pierson  and  a  direct  descendant 
of  Thomas  Pierson,  who  was  an  uncle  of  Abraham  Pierson, 
first  president  of  Yale,  and  of  Jasper  Crane,  the  first  sur- 
veyor of  New  Haven  and  Newark,  N.  J. ;    Rev.  Robert 


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Treat,  a  founder  of  Milford,  Conn.,  and  Newark;  Rev. 
Peter  Prudden;  and  Richard  Harrison,  His  mother  was 
the  daughter  of  Aaron  and  Rebecca  (Farrand)  Ogden. 
She  was  descended  from  John  Ogden,  who  came  from 
Dorset  County,  England,  to  Stamford,  Conn.,  in  1641,  and 
later  settled  in  New  Jersey,  and  from  Nathaniel  Farrand, 
who  settled  at  Milford,  Conn.,  in  1645.  The  latter,  whose 
family  name  was  originally  Fferren,  lived  in  Montpellier, 
France,  and  Yorkshire,  England,  before  coming  to  America. 

He  was  fitted  for  Yale  at  the  Hartford  (Conn.)  High 
School.  He  belonged  to  Brothers  in  Unity  and  the  Varuna 
Boat  Club,  and  in  Senior  year  was  captain  of  the  latter 
and  commodore  of  the  Yale  Navy.  After  graduating 
from  the  College,  he  spent  a  year  studying  engineering  in 
the  Sheffield  Scientific  School. 

He  then  entered  the  engineer  corps  of  the  New  York 
Central  Railroad,  residing  at  Albany  until  November,  1865, 
when  he  was  appointed  assistant  engineer  of  the  New  York 
&  Albany  Railroad  and  took  part  in  the  surveys  of  that 
road.  He  was  later  engaged  successively  on  surveys  for 
the  Montgomery  &  Erie  Railroad,  the  New  Haven,  Hart- 
ford &  Springfield  Railroad,  the  United  States  Government, 
this  latter  being  a  survey  of  the  Connecticut  River,  and  for 
a  railroad  from  Windsor  Locks  to  Suffield.  Since  1868  he 
had  followed  his  profession  as  a  civil  engineer  in  Meriden, 
Conn.  He  served  as  city  surveyor  until  1888,  and  per- 
formed many  engineering  tasks  which  contributed  to  the 
development  of  Meriden.  He  perfected  the  map  of  the 
city,  and  had  a  valuable  collection  of  photogravures.  After 
serving  the  city  in  a  public  capacity,  Mr.  Pierson  engaged 
in  private  work,  being  employed  by  the  state  on  many  occa- 
sions. He  assisted  in  the  survey  of  Mount  Talcott  a  few 
years  ago,  and  more  recently  had  been  working  at  the  state 
park  on  East  and  West  mountains.  From  1880  to  1888  he 
served  as  fire  marshal.  He  was  a  member  of  the  American 
Society  of  Civil  Engineers,  the  Connecticut  Society  of  Civil 
Engineers,  and  the  First  Congregational  Church  of  Meri- 
den. He  died  suddenly  in  that  city,  March  23,  1918,  from 
heart  trouble.  Burial  was  in  the  family  plot  at  Simsbury, 
Conn. 

Mr.  Pierson  was  married  September  23,  1868,  in  Sims- 
bury,  to  Hannah  Pettibone,  daughter  of  Decius  and  Lucy 
(Wilcox)   Latimer,  by  whom  he  had  five  children:    Guy 


598  YALE   COLLEGE 

Roland  Phelps  (born  July  25,  1870;  died  May  8,  1872); 
Decius  Latimer,  a  graduate  of  the  College  in  1894,  whose 
death  occurred  January  19,  1897;  Mary  Caroline  Ogden, 
who  was  married  June  8,  1898,  to  Horace  Bushnell  Cheney 
(Ph.B.  1890)  ;  Antoinette  Randolph  Phelps,  who  died 
October  12,  1903;  and  Lucy  Wilcox,  whose  marriage  to 
George  Francis  Dominick,  Jr.  (B.A.  1894,  M.A.  1901),  took 
place  April  7,  1904.  Mrs.  Pierson  died  September  22, 
1883,  and  on  September  18,  1890,  Mr.  Pierson  was  married 
a  second  time,  in  Hartford,  Conn.,  to  Mrs.  Mindwell 
Hastings  Glazier,  daughter  of  Homer  and  Sarah  M. 
Hastings.  She  survives  him  and  he  also  leaves  two  daugh- 
ters, a  brother,  Rev.  Isaac  Pierson  (B.A.  1866),  and  eight 
grandchildren,  the  eldest  of  whom,  Horace  B.  Cheney,  Jr., 
is  a  member  of  the  Class  of  1921.  His  nephew,  Dr.  Philip 
H.  Pierson,  graduated  from  the  College  in  1908  and  from 
the  Harvard  Medical  School  in  1913.  Among  other  Yale 
relatives  were:  Rev.  John  Pierson  (B.A.  1711),  William  S. 
Pierson  (B.A.  1808),  William  S.  Pierson  (B.A.  1836), 
Charles  W.  Pierson  (B.A.  1886),  Stuart  E.  Pierson  (LL.B. 
1895),  and  Albert  H.  Pierson,  a  non-graduate  member  of 
the  Class  of  1906  in  the  School  of  Forestry. 


Moseley  Hooker  Williams,  B.A.  1864 

Born  December  23,  1839,  in  Farmington,  Conn. 
Died  November  9,  1917,  in  Philadelphia,  Pa. 

Moseley  Hooker  Williams  was  the  son  of  Cornelius 
Robbins  Williams,  a  clockmaker,  and  was  descended  from 
the  early  settlers  of  Rocky  Hill,  Conn.  He  was  born 
December  23,  1839,  in  Farmington,  Conn.,  his  mother  being 
Caroline  (Hooker)  Williams,  daughter  of  Deacon  Ira 
Hooker  of  Bristol,  Conn.,  a  soldier  of  the  Revolution,  and 
Amy  (Barnes)  Hooker  and  a  descendant  of  Thomas 
Hooker,  leader  and  first  pastor  of  the  settlers  of  Hartford. 

Before  entering  Yale  in  i860,  he  attended  Kimball  Union 
Academy,  Meriden,  N.  H.,  and  Williston  Seminary,  East- 
hampton,  Mass.  He  received  several  prizes  in  English 
composition  and  in  declamation,  was  given  a  Junior  disser- 
tation and  a  Senior  oration  appointment,  spoke  at  Junior 


i864  599 

Exhibition  and  at  Commencement,  was  a  member  of  Phi 
Beta  Kappa,  Brothers  in  Unity,  and  the  Varuna  Boat  Club, 
and  served  on  the  editorial  board  of  the  Yale  Literary 
Magazine  in  Senior  year. 

He  spent  the  first  three  years  after  graduation  studying 
for  the  ministry,  being  at  Union  Theological  Seminary  in 
New  York  City  from  1864  to  1866,  and  at  the  Andover 
(Mass.)  Theological  Seminary  the  next  year.  In  Novem- 
ber, 1867,  a  few  months  after  graduating  from  the  latter 
institution,  he  became  acting  pastor  of  the  Second  Congre- 
gational Church  of  Philadelphia,  Pa.  He  was  ordained 
and  installed  as  its  regular  pastor  March  26,  1868,  remain- 
ing until  April,  1869,  when  he  accepted  a  call  to  the  Grand 
Avenue  Chapel  of  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.  From  1870  to  1873  he 
held  the  pastorate  of  the  Plymouth  Congregational  Church 
of  Portland,  Maine.  In  the  latter  year  he  resigned  and 
returned  to  Philadelphia,  taking  up  his  residence  in  Ger- 
mantown.  He  afterwards  gave  his  attention  mainly  to 
literary  work.  Since  1876  he  had  been  connected  with 
the  editorial  department  of  the  American  Sunday-School 
Union.  He  held  the  position  of  assistant  editor  from  May, 
1879,  until  March,  191 5,  when  he  was  made  honorary 
assistant  editor.  Although  relieved  from  responsibility  at 
that  time,  he  had  continued  actively  at  work  until  his  last 
illness.  He  had  written  for  the  Sunday  School  World,  the 
Union  Quarterly,  the  Young  People's  Paper,  the  Sunday- 
School  Missionary,  and  other  periodicals.  His  services  in 
connection  with  Congregational  churches  in  Philadelphia 
and  its  vicinity  were  so  continuous  and  valuable  that  he  was 
known  locally  as  the  "bishop"  of  Congregationalism  in  that 
section.  A  number  of  his  sermons  were  published  in  daily 
and  weekly  papers.  He  was  a  contributor  to  The  Congrega- 
tionalist  for  many  years.  In  1880  he  assisted  in  the  prep- 
aration of  Dr.  Schaff's  "Dictionary  of  the  Bible,"  and  he 
wrote  the  introduction  to  the  "History  of  the  Revised  New 
Testament,"  issued  by  the  National  Publishing  Society  of 
Philadelphia  in  1881.  In  1899  Temple  University  con- 
ferred an  honorary  Ph.D.  upon  him.  For  many  years  he 
was  secretary  of  the  Congregational  Ministers*  Association 
of  Philadelphia,  and  for  eighteen  years  he  served  in  a  sim^ 
ilar  capacity  for  the  Phi  Alpha  Clerical  Club.  He  was  for 
a  long  time  manager  of  the  Germantown  Young  Men's 
Christian  Association.     He  was  a  member  of  the  Society  of 


6oo  YALE   COLLEGE 

Biblical  Literature  and  Exegesis  and  of  the  Central  Congre- 
gational Church  of  Philadelphia.  He  died  November  9, 
1917,  at  Philadelphia,  after  an  illness  of  a  month  due  to 
diseases  incident  to  old  age.  Interment  was  in  the  Wil- 
liams family  lot  in  the  Hillside  Cemetery  at  Terryville, 
Conn. 

Dr.  Williams  was  married  February  i,  1870,  in  German- 
town,  to  Emma  Virginia,  daughter  of  Charles  Godfrey  and 
Margaret  (Unruh)  Bockius.  She  survives  him  with  their 
four  children:  Clarence  Russell  (B.A.  Pennsylvania  1892, 
M.A.  Princeton  1895,  B.D.  Chicago  1901,  Ph.D.  Yale 
1912)  ;  Carrie  Hooker,  who  was  married  on  June  21,  1905, 
to  Thomas  K.  P.  Haines  of  Swampscott,  Mass. ;  Margaret 
Bockius ;  and  Ethel  Lillian.    He  also  leaves  four  grandsons. 


Ebenezer  J.  Hill,  B.A.  1865 

Born  August  4,  1845,  in  Redding,  Conn. 
Died  September  27,  1917,  in  Norwalk,  Conn. 

Ebenezer  J.  Hill  was  born  at  Redding,  Conn.,  August  4, 
1845,  his  parents  being  Rev.  Moses  Hill,  a  Methodist  min- 
ister, and  Charlotte  Ilsley  (McLellan)  Hill.  His  father 
was  the  son  of  Ebenezer  and  Sarah  (Barlow)  Hill  and  a 
descendant  of  William  Hill,  who  emigrated  to  America 
from  England  in  1634  and  settled  at  Dorchester,  Mass., 
later  removing  to  Windsor,  Conn.,  and  of  Sarah  (Jour- 
dain)  Hill,  his  wife,  who  was  the  daughter  of  Ignatius  and 
Elizabeth  (Baskerville)  Jourdain  of  Exeter,  England. 
Ignatius  Jourdain  was  a  Member  of  Parliament  and  a  noted 
Puritan.  Through  his  mother,  who  was  the  daughter  of 
Stephen  and  Hannah  (Ilsley)  McLellan,  he  traced  his 
descent  to  Bryce  McLellan,  who  came  from  Scotland  to 
Falmouth,  Maine,  in  1720,  and  to  William  Ilsley,  Peter 
Coffin,  Thomas  Bradbury,  Joseph  Parker,  William  Moody, 
and  many  other  of  the  original  settlers  of  Newbury  and 
Andover,  Mass.  He  was  also  a  descendant  on  the  paternal 
side  of  Rev.  John  Jones,  the  first  minister  at  Fairfield, 
Conn.,  of  Andrew  Ward,  one  of  the  organizers  of  Connect- 
icut Colony,  and  of  a  number  of  the  original  settlers  of 
Fairfield  County.     In  every  generation  his  ancestors  took 


f 


1864-1865  6oi 

an  active  and  prominent  part  in  the  life  of  their  respective 
communities. 

Before  entering  Yale  in  1861,  he  studied  at  Union 
School,  Norwalk,  Conn.,  and  under  a  private  tutor.  He 
was  a  member  of  Linonia  and  received  a  third  prize  in 
English  composition  in  1863.  He  left  college  at  the  end  of 
Sophomore  year  to  become  civilian  aid  to  his  older  brother. 
Major  Asbury  Hill,  in  the  Quartermaster  Corps.  He 
served  in  the  Army  until  the  close  of  the  Civil  War.  In 
1892  Yale  conferred  upon  him  the  honorary  degree  of 
M.A.,  and  he  was  afterwards  enrolled  with  the  Class  of 

1865. 

In  1868  he  was  made  secretary  and  treasurer  of  the  Nor- 
walk Iron  Works.  He  served  in  this  latter  capacity  until 
1 87 1,  and  for  the  next  twenty- two  years  was  engaged  in  the 
lumber  business.  At  the  time  of  his  death  he  was  president 
of  the  National  Bank  of  Norwalk,  and  he  had  previously 
served  as  president  of  the  Norwalk  Street  Railway  Com- 
pany and  the  Norwalk  Gas  Light  Company.  He  served 
twice  as  burgess  of  the  town  and  at  one  time  was  chairman 
of  the  Board  of  Education.  In  1884  he  was  a  member  of 
the  Republican  National  Convention,  and  during  1887-88^ 
he  served  in  the  State  Senate.  He  was  elected  to  Congress 
from  the  Fourth  Congressional  District  of  Connecticut  in 
1894,  and  served,  through  successive  reelections,  until  1913. 
He  was  defeated  by  the  Democratic  candidate  in  1913,  but 
was  reelected  to  the  64th  and  65th  Congresses.  He  was 
recognized  as  an  authority  on  tariff  and  financial  matters, 
especially  the  former,  and  his  speeches  were  quoted  by 
newspapers  throughout  the  country.  Among  the  more 
important  pieces  of  legislation  for  which  he  was  primarily 
responsible  and  for  which  he  was  given  national  credit,  are 
the  establishment  of  the  rural  free  delivery  service,  free 
alcohol  in  arts  and  industries,  and  the  chemical  schedule  in 
the  present  tariff  bill,  which  establishes  the  dye  stuff  indus- 
try in  this  country.  His  work  in  relation  to  the  gold  stand- 
ard was  also  very  important  and  his  speech  in  Congress 
was  used  throughout  the  country  as  a  work  of  reference  and 
an  authority  on  the  subject.  He  was  a  member  of  the 
Banking  and  Currency  Committee  for  eight  years,  of  the 
Committee  on  Expenditure  in  the  Treasury  Department  for 
ten  years,  of  the  Ways  and  Means  Committee  for  fourteen 
years,  of  the  Coinage,  Weights  and  Measures  Committee 


6o2  YALE    COLLEGE 

for  seven  years,  and  of  the  Private  Land  Claims  Committee 
for  two  years.  He  went  as  the  personal  representative  of 
President  Taft  through  the  West,  speaking  in  favor  of  reci- 
procity with  Canada.  He  was  a  candidate  for  nomination 
for  the  United  States  Senate  in  1909,  but  was  defeated 
by  Frank  B.  Brandegee  (B.A.  1885).  He  had  traveled 
widely  both  in  this  country  and  abroad,  studying  the  polit- 
ical, industrial,  and  financial  systems  of  other  governments. 
He  was  a  member  of  the  Norwalk  Methodist  Church,  and 
served  for  a  long  time  on  its  official  board,  and  was  active 
in  the  work  of  its  Sunday  School.  In  1892  he  was  lay  dele- 
gate from  the  New  York  East  Conference  to  the  Interna- 
tional Quadrennial  Conference.  He  was  a  member  of  the 
Sons  of  the  American  Revolution.  He  died  September  27, 
1917,  at  his  home  in  Norwalk,  after  an  illness  of  several 
weeks,  induced  by  a  heat  stroke  suffered  the  previous  July. 
He  had  suffered  a  nervous  breakdown  from  overwork  in 
December,  1916,  and  was  ordered  by  his  physician  to  take  a 
full  year  of  absolute  rest,  but  the  extra  session  of  Congress 
and  war  conditions  made  this  impossible  for  one  of  his 
temperament,  and  the  intense  work  in  the  extreme  heat 
brought  on  his  final  illness.  Interment  was  in  Riverside 
Cemetery  at  Norwalk. 

Mr.  Hill  was  married  in  Amherst,  Mass.,  June  15,  1868, 
to  Mary  Ellen,  daughter  of  Abner  Goodale  and  Emily 
(Rice)  Mosman.  They  had  four  children:  Frederick 
Asbury  (B.A.  1893,  LL.B  1895),  who  served  as  a  Lieu- 
tenant Colonel  during  the  Spanish-American  War  and  who 
died  August  31,  1907;  Clara  Mosman;  Helena  Charlotte, 
who  was  married  December  16,  1896,  to  Walter  Harvey 
Weed  (E.M.  Columbia  1883);  and  Elsie  Mary.  The 
daughters  are  graduates  of  Vassar  College  in  1895,  1896, 
and  1906,  respectively.  Mrs.  Hill's  death  occurred  May 
23,  1918.  In  addition  to  his  daughters,  Mr.  Hill  is  sur- 
vived by  a  sister,  two  granddaughters,  the  elder  a  student 
at  Vassar,  and  a  grandson,  the  latter  being  a  Midshipman 
at  Annapolis.  He  was  a  great-grandnephew  of  Joel  Bar- 
low (B.A.  1778)  and  a  cousin  of  Albert  B.  Hill  (Ph.B. 
1869),  Joseph  W.  Hill  (B.A.  1878),  Cyrus  F.  Hill  (B.A. 
1881),  William  Burr  Hill  (B.A.  1881),  William  Barlow 
Hill  (Ph.B.  1886),  Charles  L.  Hill  (B.A.  1895),  Ebenezer 
Hill  (B.A.  1897),  Joseph  A.  Hill  (Ph.B.  1902),  Joseph  B. 
Thomas  (B.A.  1903),  and  Ralph  H.  Thomas  (B.A.  1905). 


i865  603 


Edward  Augustus  Sarmiento  Man,  B.A.  1865 

Born  December  2^,  1844,  in  Philadelphia,  Pa. 
Died  September  10,  1917,  in  Bayonne,  N.  J. 

Edward  Augustus  Sarmiento  Man  was  the  son  of  Daniel 
Man,  Jr.,  a  lawyer  by  profession,  and  Louise  Sarmiento 
(Arnel)  Man,  and  was  born  in  Philadelphia,  Pa.,  December 
27,  1844.  His  father's  parents  were  Daniel  and  Mary  Man, 
who  came  from  Staffordshire,  England,  and  settled  at 
Philadelphia.  Daniel  Man,  Sr.,  was  engaged  there  as  a 
shipping  merchant ;  during  the  War  of  1812  he  fitted  out 
ships  for  the  service  of  the  country  at  his  own  expense. 
His  mother  was  the  daughter  of  Wilhelm  and  Rebecca 
(Rogers)  Arnel,  a  Quakeress.  Wilhelm  Arnel  emigrated 
to  America  from  Nancy,  France,  settling  at  Baltimore,  Md., 
at  the  time  Jerome  Bonaparte  located  in  Bordentown,  N.  J., 
and  was  associated  with  him  there. 

He  was  fitted  for  college  at  the  boarding  school  of  N.  M. 
and  S.  B.  Belden  at  White  Plains,  N.  Y.,  and  in  the  fall  of 
i860  entered  Princeton  University,  where,  however,  he 
remained  but  one  term.  He  joined  the  Yale  Class  of  1865 
at  the  beginning  of  Sophomore  year.  He  was  a  member 
of  the  Glyuna  Boat  Club  and  Linonia. 

In  October,  1865,  he  began  the  study  of  law  in  the  office 
of  Asa  I.  Fish  in  Philadelphia,  at  the  same  time  attending 
lectures  at  the  University  of  Pennsylvania.  He  received 
the  degree  of  LL.B.  from  that  institution  in  1867,  and  the 
following  February  was  admitted  to  the  Philadelphia  Bar. 
In  November,  1868,  after  reading  law  for  some  months  in 
the  office  of  B.  Williamson  &  Son  of  Jersey  City,  he  was 
admitted  to  the  bar  of  New  Jersey.  Later  the  firm  of 
Williamson  &  Man  was  formed,  and  continued  for  a  num- 
ber of  years.  In  1877  Mr.  Man  was  granted  admission  to 
the  New  York  Bar  and  opened  offices  in  New  York  City. 
He  made  a  specialty  of  attending  to  business  in  New  Jersey 
for  members  of  the  New  York  Bar  and  incorporating  stock 
companies  under  the  laws  of  New  Jersey,  also  attending  to 
a  general  practice  in  the  New  York  courts.  He  had  served 
as  a  special  master  in  the  Court  of  Chancery  and  as  a 
Supreme  Court  commissioner,  and  in  1906  was  appointed 
by  the  District  Court  of   New  Jersey  a  referee  in  bank- 


6o4  YALE    COLLEGE 

ruptcy  for  the  district  comprising  Hudson  and  Bergen 
counties,  an  office  which  he  held  at  his  death.  He  had 
made  Bayonne  his  legal  residence  for  many  years,  and  is 
said  to  have  been  the  first  lawyer  to  practice  there.  He 
was  at  one  time  actively  interested  in  local  Democratic 
politics,  and  served  as  city  attorney  and  as  secretary  of  the 
Martin  Act  Commission.  In  1900  he  was  a  candidate  for 
Congress  on  the  "farmer''  ticket,  but  was  defeated.  He 
was  a  member  of  the  board  of  directors  of  the  Bayonne 
Hospital  from  its  inception  until  his  death  and  its  secre- 
tary until  1908,  when  poor  health  compelled  his  resignation. 
Through  his  efforts  the  University  Club  of  Hudson 
County  was  organized  and  he  was  its  president  for  several 
terms.  Although  he  had  been  an  invalid  for  about  a  year, 
his  death  on  September  10,  1917,  at  a  Bayonne  hotel,  was 
entirely  unexpected.  Endocarditis  was  the  cause  of  his 
death.  He  was  buried  in  the  family  plot  in  Greenwood 
Cemetery,  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 

Mr.  Man  was  unmarried.  His  brother,  Ernest  Albert 
Man,  served  in  the  United  States  Consular  Service  for 
nineteen  years,  resigning  as  consul  general  in  Denmark 
because  of  poor  health ;  he  died  in  1917.  The  sole  remain- 
ing member  of  the  family  is  a  sister,  Miss  Jane  Man,  of 
Pasadena,  Calif. 


Edward  Payson  Brooks,  B.A.   1866 

Born  August  18,  1842,  in  Strong,  Maine 
Died  April  8,  1918,  in  San  Diego,  Calif. 

Edward  Payson  Brooks  was  born  at  Strong,  Maine, 
August  18,  1842,  the  son  of  Henry  Albert  Brooks,  of  Hal- 
lowell,  Maine,  and  Elvira  (Hersey)  Brooks.  His  father, 
whose  parents  were  John  Brooks,  of  Concord,  Mass.,  and 
Susan  (Cony)  Brooks,  was  descended  from  Thomas 
Brooks  who  settled  at  Watertown,  Mass.,  in  1636. 

He  prepared  for  Yale  at  the  Maine  Wesleyan  Seminary, 
entering  the  Class  of  1866  at  the  beginning  of  its  Sopho- 
more year.  He  was  a  member  of  Linonia  and  received  a 
second  colloquy  Junior  appointment. 

After  graduation  he  taught  at  Geneva  Lake  and  Lake 


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Mills,  Wis.,  for  several  years.  He  then  formed  a  partner- 
ship with  Rev.  Henry  B.  Beard  (B.A.  1867)  in  Minnesota. 
This  lasted  one  year,  after  which  Mr.  Brooks  was  engaged 
in  the  publishing  business  in  New  Haven,  Conn.,  with  his 
classmate,  Charles  C.  Chatfield.  In  1872  he  withdrew  from 
the  firm  and  moved  to  Chicago,  where  he  became  the  pub- 
lisher of  The  Appeal,  a  monthly  journal  orf  the  Reformed 
Episcopal  Church.  In  1880  he  went  to  Minnesota  and 
engaged  in  lending  money  on  farm  lands,  making  his  home 
at  Luverne.  Four  years  later  he  went  to  Gettysburg, 
S.  Dak.,  to  take  up  stock  raising.  In  189 1  he  moved  to  San 
Diego,  Calif.,  where  he  was  engaged  in  the  real  estate  busi- 
ness until  his  death,  which  occurred  very  suddenly,  April  8, 
1918,  in  San  Diego,  from  heart  failure.  He  was  buried  in 
Mount  Hope  Cemetery  at  San  Diego.  He  was  president  of 
the  New  England  Society  in  191 1,  a  director  of  the  Federa- 
tion of  State  Societies  in  1914,  and  in  191 5  was  one  of  the 
founders  and  president  of  the  State  of  Maine  Society.  He 
also  belonged  to  the  Wisconsin  Society. 

He  was  married  July  9,  1870,  at  Marshall,  Wis.,  to  Helen 
Maria,  daughter  of  Rev.  Dan  Huntington  and  Elizabeth 
Huntington.  They  had  four  children :  Helen  Frances,  Eva, 
Genevieve,  and  Edward  Huntington.  He  is  survived  by 
his  daughter,  Helen,  who  is  now  the  wife  of  Joseph  G. 
Donovan  of  South  Pasadena,  Calif.,  and  his  son.  The 
second  daughter  died  in  infancy  and  the  youngest  in  1899. 
Mrs.  Brooks  died  July  4,  1918,  after  a  lingering  illness. 


John  Buckingham,  B.A.   1866 

Born  June  5,  1846.  in  New  York  City'      ^ 
Died  January  5,  1918,  in  New  York  City 

John  Buckingham  was  the  son  of  Charles  and  Juliet 
(Wilbur)  Buckingham,  and  was  born  June  5,  1846,  in 
New  York  City.  He  was  fitted  for  college  at  the  Mount 
Pleasant  Academy,  Ossining,  N.'  Y.,  and  joined  the  Yale 
Class  of  1866  as  a  Sophomore.  He  belonged  to  Linonia 
and  the  Glyuna  Boat  Club. 

After  graduation  he  studied  architecture  and  then  entered 
the  office  of  John  W.  Ritch  in  New  York  City,  to  begin  the 


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practice  of  his  profession.  He  was  appointed  designer  and 
instructor  in  architecture  at  the  Cooper  Union,  and  in  1882 
became  manager  of  the  technical  schools  of  the  Metropol- 
itan Museum  of  Art.  Several  years  later  he  was  compelled 
to  give  up  work  because  of  rheumatism,  which  had  crippled 
his  hands.  He  spent  some  years  in  Europe  receiving  treat- 
ment, and  for  a  time  was  at  the  mud  baths  at  Ischia,  near 
Posilippo,  Italy.  He  later  suffered  from  a  nervous  dis- 
order and  was  for  some  years  at  a  sanatorium  in  Italy. 
The  treatment  gave  no  permanent  relief,  however,  and  in 
1910  he  returned  to  New  York  City,  his  home  during  the 
remainder  of  his  life.     He  died  there  January  5,  1918. 

Mr.  Buckingham  was  married  in  1874,  in  New  York 
City,  to  Jenny  Dewey,  who  died  in  Italy  in  1907.  They  had 
no  children.  Mr.  Buckingham's  brother,  Charles  Bucking- 
ham, a  non-graduate  member  of  the  Class  of  1858,  died  in 
1916. 

Lovell  Hall,  B.A.  1866 

Born  May  12,  1844,  in  East  Hampton,  Conn. 
Died  November  27,  1917,  in  Middletown,  Conn. 

Lovell  Hall  was  born  in  East  Hampton,  Conn.,  May  12, 
1844,  his  parents  being  John  Smith  Hall,  a  bell  manufac- 
turer, and  Martha  Blake  (Lovell)  Hall.  He  was  a 
descendant  of  John  Hall,  who  settled  in  Cambridge,  Mass., 
in  1633,  and  was  a  leading  founder  of  Hartford,  Conn.,  in 
1635,  and  of  Middletown,  Conn.,  in  1650;  Rev.  Nathaniel 
Collins,  Harvard  1660,  first  minister  ordained  over  the  First 
Church,  Middletown;  John  Howland  of  the  Mayflower ; 
and  Robert  Lovell,  who  settled  in  Weymouth,  Mass.,  in 
1635.  Lovell  Hall's  father  was  the  son  of  Giles  Cowdery 
and  Dolly  Stephens  (Parmelee)  Hall,  and  his  mother  was 
the  daughter  of  Rev.  Shubael  Lovell  and  Bethiah  (Perkins) 
Lovell.  His  father  and  mother  were  both  among  the  early 
Abolitionists,  and  closely  associated  with  some  of  the 
leaders.  Three  of  his  uncles  were  college  graduates,  one 
of  Michigan  University,  and  two  of  Brown. 

His  preparation  for  college  was  received  at  the  Fall 
River  (Mass.)  High  School.  In  the  winter  of  1862,  having 
taken  the  first  term  of  the  year  at  Wesleyan,  he  entered 


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Yale  University,  where  he  graduated  in  1866.  He  was 
awarded  second  prizes  in  the  Freshman  and  Junior  prize 
debates,  in  Sophomore  year  was  given  a  second  prize  in 
EngHsh  composition,  and  in  Senior  year  received  a  Town- 
send  Premium.  In  his  Junior  year  he  was  also  awarded, 
jointly  with  his  chum,  Charles  Hemmenway  Adams,  the 
Yale  Literary  Magazine  medal.  His  appointments  were 
high  orations,  and  he  was  a  member  of  Phi  Beta  Kappa  and 
the  Varuna  Boat  Club,  president  of  Linonia,  and  one  of  the 
three  founders  of  The  Yale  C  our  ant. 

He  taught  school  in  Chatham,  Conn.,  during  1866-67,  and 
the  next  year  was  assistant  principal  of  the  Ontario 
Female  Seminary  at  Canandaigua,  N.  Y.  In  1868  he 
entered  the  Columbia  Law  School,  from  which  he  received 
the  degree  of  LL.B.  two  years  later,  having  in  the  mean- 
time been  admitted  to  the  New  York  Bar  in  1869,  and  been 
granted  the  same  year  his  degree  of  M.A.  by  Yale. 

The  years  from  1870  to  1875  he  spent  at  East  Hampton, 
developing  the  family  real  estate,  and  building  and  running 
the  first  steam  mill  in  that  vicinity.  In  1875  he  opened  a 
law  office  at  Middletown,  Conn.,  but  retained  for  several 
years  his  residence  in  his  native  town,  where  he  carried  on 
fruit  raising,  farming,  and  the  breeding  of  choice  registered 
stock.  He  took  an  active  part  in  public  affairs,  honestly 
and  unselfishly  laboring  for  what  he  considered  the  best 
good  of  his  city  and  his  state.  From  1879  to  1887  he  held 
the  office  of  prosecuting  agent  of  Middlesex  County,  gain- 
ing at  the  close  of  his  course  seventeen  successive  cases. 
For  six  years  from  1883  he  was  coroner  for  the  county,  with 
selection  and  control  of  fifteen  physician  assistants,  he  being 
the  first  in  his  county  to  interpret  and  put  into  execution  the 
present  coroner  law.  He  was  a  well-known  contributor  to 
leading  newspapers  of  the  state  on  matters  of  current 
interest  and  importance,  and  was  for  some  years  field 
editor  of  the  New  Haven  Leader.  Among  distinctive 
products  of  his  pen  are  an  article  on  "Heredity,"  written 
for  The  Connecticut  Magazine,  and  a  broad  and  compre- 
hensive study  of  the  early  history  of  Hartford  and  Middle- 
town,  as  embodied  in  the  life  of  his  ancestor  John  Hall  and 
his  associates,  published  in  the  "Genealogical  and  Family 
History  of  the  State  of  Connecticut."  He  was  a  member 
of  the  North  Congregational  Church  of  Middletown,  taking 


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a  lively  interest  in  the  men's  club  of  the  church,  and  making 
valuable  gifts  of  pictures  and  books  to  their  room  in  the 
parish  house.  For  many  years  he  was  also  a  member,  and 
at  one  time  vice  president,  of  the  Connecticut  Congrega- 
tional Club. 

He  died  November  27,  1917,  at  his  home  in  Middletown, 
of  sudden  cerebral  hemorrhage.  Interment  was  in  Indian 
Hill  Cemetery  at  Middletown. 

Mr.  Hall  was  unmarried.     A  sister  survives  him. 


Frank  Lee  Baldwin,  B.A.   1867 

Born  July  19,  1846,  in  Massillon,  Ohio 
Died  August  12,  1917,  in  Massillon,  Ohio 

Frank  Lee  Baldwin,  a  descendant  in  the  seventh  genera- 
tion of  Nathaniel  Baldwin,  who  emigrated  from  Choles- 
bury,  Warwickshire,  England,  to  Milford,  Conn.,  before 
1639,  was  born  at  Massillon,  Ohio,  July  19,  1846.  His 
parents  were  Pomeroy  Baldwin,  who  was  connected  with 
the  Massillon  Rolling  Mill  Company,  and  Clara  A.  (Miller) 
Baldwin.  His  father  was  the  son  of  Pomeroy  and  Ann 
(Foote)  Baldwin,  who  went  to  Ohio  in  1814  and  had  much 
to  do  with  the  early  settlement  of  the  town  of  Hudson. 
His  mother  was  the  daughter  of  Jacob  and  Elizabeth 
(Ettleman)  Miller. 

He  received  his  early  education  in  the  public  schools  of 
Massillon,  including  the  Massillon  High  School.  In  1863 
he  entered  Western  Reserve  College,  Hudson,  Ohio,  which 
institution  is  now  a  part  of  the  university  of  that  name  in 
Cleveland,  but  after  two  years  came  to  Yale,  where  he  was 
graduated  in  1867.  He  received  a  high  oration  Senior 
appointment  and  belonged  to  Phi  Beta  Kappa  and  Linonia. 

Immediately  after  leaving  Yale,  he  began  the  study  of 
law  with  Alexander  Bierce  of  Canton,  Ohio,  and  he  was 
also  for  several  months  a  student  in  the  office  of  Ranney  & 
Bolton  of  Cleveland.  He  was  admitted  to  the  bar  at  Can- 
ton on  April  16,  1869,  and  soon  afterwards  opened  an 
office  in  Massillon,  where  he  practiced  until  his  retirement 
in  191 2.  He  practiced  alone  until  March,  1878,  at  that 
time  forming  a  partnership  with  Anson  Pease  under  the 
name  of  Pease  &  Baldwin,  which  continued  until  February, 


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"  when  Mr.  Pease  became  a  judge  of  the  Court  of 
Common  Pleas.  Ten  years  later  Judge  Pease  retired  from 
the  bench  and  resumed  his  association  with  Mr.  Baldwin, 
Otto  E.  Young  also  joining  the  firm,  which  became  Pease, 
Baldwin  &  Young.  After  the  death  of  the  senior  partner 
in  December,  1896,  the  name  was  changed  to  Baldwin  & 
Young.  Mr.  Young  died  in  May,  1902,  and  Mr.  Baldwin 
afterwards  practiced  alone.  For  a  number  of  years  he 
served  as  treasurer  and  agent  for  the  Massillon  Paper 
Company  and  for  more  than  thirty  years  he  was  a  trustee 
and  treasurer  of  the  Charity  Roach  School,  located  in  Mas- 
sillon. He  died  of  heart  failure,  August  12,  191 7,  at  his 
home  in  Massillon,  and  was  buried  in  the  family  plot  in  the 
local  cemetery.  He  had  been  an  invalid  for  several  years. 
He  attended  the  Episcopal  Church.  He  had  traveled 
extensively,  his  last  trip  being  to  China  and  Japan. 

He  was  married  June  28,  1890,  in  Massillon,  to  Annie  J., 
daughter  of  Dr.  Isaac  Steese  and  Ann  (Johnson)  Steese. 
She  survives  him  without  children.  He  was  a  cousin  of 
Arvine  Wales  and  Horatio  W.  Wales,  graduates  of  the 
Scientific  School  in  189 1  and  1903,  respectively. 


Abel  Stanton  Clark,  B.A.  1867 

Born  November  18,  1840,  at  Great  Bridge,  Staffordshire,  England 
Died  March  14,  1918,  in  Hartford,  Conn. 

Abel  Stanton  Clark  was  born  at  Great  Bridge,  Staflford- 
shire,  England,  November  18,  1840,  being  the  only  child  of 
Jonathan  and  Lucy  (Stanton)  Clark.  His  father  was  bom 
near  Wrexham,  Wales,  the  son  of  Thomas  and  Elizabeth 
(Morris)  Clark.  He  died  when  Abel  S.  Clark  was  a  year 
old,  and  his  wife  afterwards  married  John  Insull.  Her 
parents  were  James  and  Ann  (Byng)  Stanton,  the  latter 
being  a  near  relative  of  Admiral  John  Byng. 

He  spent  part  of  his  boyhood  with  his  paternal  grand-" 
parents  in  Wales,  and  later  lived  at  Chester,  England.  In 
1850  he  came  with  his  mother  and  stepfather  to  New 
Haven,  Conn.  After  spending  a  few  years  in  school,  he 
was  employed  in  various  ways  for  eight  or  nine  years,  and 
then  decided  to  continue  his  education.     He  studied  during 


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1862-63  at  General  Russell's  Collegiate  and  Commercial 
Institute,  and  then  entered  Yale.  He  was  a  member  of 
Brothers  in  Unity,  and  in  Junior  and  Senior  years  received 
first  colloquy  appointments. 

Mr.  Clark  taught  at  the  American  School  for  the  Deaf  in 
Hartford,  Conn.,  until  two  years  ago,  beginning  his  work 
directly  after  his  graduation  from  Yale.  In  1871,  as  a 
result  of  the  growing  sentiment  in  favor  of  giving  more 
thorough  instruction  in  speech  to  the  deaf  and  dumb,  he 
was  asked  by  the  directors  of  the  school  to  undertake  that 
special  line  of  work.  Under  the  instruction  of  Dr.  Alex- 
ander Graham  Bell,  who  later  invented  the  telephone,  he 
acquired  an  expert  knowledge  of  vocal  physiology  and 
"visible  speech,"  as  it  was  termed.  He  spent  four  years  in 
the  application  of  the  oral  method  to  deaf  children,  and 
then  began  to  combine  the  oral  with  other  methods,  con- 
tinuing this  system  during  the  remainder  of  his  long  period 
of  teaching.  He  worked  faithfully  for  the  moral  uplift  of 
his  pupils,  as  well  as  for  their  intellectual  development,  and 
many  of  them  in  later  years  thanked  him  for  his  interest 
in  them  and  guidance  while  they  were  young.  During 
1867-1870  he  studied  at  the  Hartford  Theological  Sem- 
inary, and  later  he  was  licensed  to  preach.  He,  with  others, 
was  afterwards  in  charge  of  the  chapel  services  at  the 
American  School  of  the  Deaf  and  some  years  ago  fre- 
quently conducted  religious  services  for  the  deaf  in  various 
New  England  towns.  For  many  years  he  was  a  deacon  in 
the  Asylum  Hill  Congregational  Church.  He  had  con- 
tributed occasional  articles  to  the  American  Annals  of  the 
Deaf  and  was  the  author  of  a  text  book  of  English  and 
American  literature  for  use  in  schools  for  the  deaf.  This 
book  has  been  translated  into  Braille  for  the  benefit  of 
blind-deaf  children.  He  also  wrote  an  article  for  the  vol- 
ume, "Recent  Christian  Progress,"  published  in  commem- 
oration of  the  seventy-fifth  anniversary  of  the  Hartford 
Theological  Seminary.  He  had  been  abroad  five  times. 
Mr.  Clark  died  March  14,  1918,  at  his  home  in  Hartford, 
after  an  illness  of  two  years'  duration,  due  to  heart  trouble 
and  complications.  He  was  buried  in  Cedar  Hill  Cemetery 
in  that  city. 

He  was  married  August  19,  1869,  in  New  Haven,  Conn., 
to.  Henrietta  A.,  daughter  of  Joseph  Rogers  and  Marietta 
(Smith)    Piatt  of   New   Haven.     She   survives   him   with 


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their  four  children:  Lucy  Marietta,  who  was  married  Sep- 
tember 12,  1899,  to  Winfred  Gridley  Carleton  and  now  lives 
in  Medford,  Mass. ;  Mabel  Esther,  who  obtained  a  diploma 
from  the  Museum  of  Fine  Arts  at  Boston  in  1901 ;  Sarah 
Elizabeth;  and  Morris  Byng.  Three  grandchildren,  two 
half  sisters,  and  a  half  brother  are  also  living. 


James  Fiske  Merriam,  B.A.  1867 

Born  May  2,  1845,  in  Springfield,  Mass. 
Died  June  28,  1918,  at  Stafford  Springs,  Conn. 

James  Fiske  Merriam  was  born  May  2,  1845,  in  Spring- 
field,  Mass.  His  father,  George  Merriam,  who  was  the  son 
of  Dan  and  Thirza  (Clapp)  Merriam,  of  West  Brookfield, 
Mass.,  was  a  member  of  the  Springfield  firm  of  G.  &  C. 
Merriam,  and  became  the  joint  owner,  with  his  brother, 
Charles,  and  later  with  his  brother,  Homer,  of  the  copyright 
of  Webster's  Dictionary.  The  dictionary  was  published  by 
them  from  1843  i^^til  1880,  including  the  first  single  vol- 
ume edition,  edited  by  Rev.  Chauncey  A.  Goodrich  (B.A. 
1810)  in  1847;  after  1880  came  revisions:  under  Noah 
Porter  (B.A.  1831),  the  "Unabridged"  (1884)  and  the 
"International"  (1890);  under  William  T.  Harris,  the 
"New  International"  (1911);  continuing  in  the  hands  of 
the  G.  &  C.  Merriam  Company  to  the  present  time.  His 
earliest  American  ancestor  was  Joseph  Merriam,  who  came 
to  this  country  in  1638  from  Kent,  England,  with  his  wife, 
Sarah  Goldstone  Merriam,  and  their  two  sons.  He  settled 
in  Concord,  Mass.,  being  made  a  freeman  in  1639,  and  had 
a  third  son  and  two  daughters  thereafter.  James  F.  Mer- 
riam's  mother,  Abby  Fiske  (the  widow  of  George  Spring  of 
Brooklyn,  N.  Y.,  when  she  was  married  to  George  Mer- 
riam), was  the  daughter  of  Rev.  John  Fiske,  D.D.,  of  New 
Braintree,  Mass.,  and  Elizabeth  (Mellen)  Fiske,  who  set- 
tled at  New  Braintree  in  1794,  Dr.  Fiske  remaining  pastor 
there  until  his  death,  sixty  years  later. 

Mr.  Merriam  was  prepared  for  college  under  Dr.  J.  H. 
Raymond  at  the  Brooklyn  (N.  Y.)  Polytechnic  Institute, 
entering  Yale  in  1863.  In  his  Freshman  year  he  received 
the  first  prize  in  the  Linonia  prize  debate,  and  in  his  Sopho- 


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more  year  he  was  awarded  first  prizes  in  English  composi- 
tion and  declamation.  His  Senior  appointment  was  a 
dissertation,  and  he  was  a  member  of  Phi  Beta  Kappa. 

He  spent  the  first  year  after  graduation  studying  theology 
at  Yale,  and  then  entered  Andover  Theological  Seminary, 
where  he  was  graduated  in  1871.  In  the  fall  of  that  year 
he  accepted  a  call  to  become  the  pastor  of  the  Congrega- 
tional Church  at  Farmington,  Conn.  He  resigned  the  pas- 
torate in  June,  1873,  an  attack  of  typhoid  fever  the  previous 
winter  having  compelled  him  to  stop  all  work.  In  October, 
1874,  being  still  unable  to  take  up  his  profession,  except  in 
occasional  preaching,  he  went  abroad  for  his  health,  spend- 
ing most  of  the  time  between  1874  and  1876  in  Europe  with 
his  family.  In  1877  he  revolted  against  the  doctrine  of 
eternal  punishment,  and  the  examining  council  did  not  vote 
to  install  him  as  minister  of  the  Indian  Orchard  (Mass.) 
Evangelical  Church,  where  he  had  been  preaching  for  six 
months.  Nevertheless,  the  Indian  Orchard  Church  by 
unanimous  vote  asked  Mr.  Merriam  to  remain  with  them, 
which  he  did  for  a  year  and  a  half  longer.  Then,  still 
feeling  the  effects  of  his  illness,  as  well  as  being  dispirited 
by  the  action  of  the  council,  he  resigned  and  spent  some 
time  in  California.  About  two  years  later  he  became  an 
investment  broker  in  New  York.  He  had  offices  also  in 
Springfield,  and  lived  in  the  two  cities  alternately.  During 
the  years  which  were  devoted  to  business,  as  well  as  after- 
wards, he  retained  his  interest  in  literature,  and  was  a 
frequent  contributor  to  the  Christian  Union  and  the  Spring-^ 
field  Republican.  Since  his  retirement  in  1897  he  had  spent 
much  of  the  time  at  Stafford  Springs,  Conn.,  where  he  had 
a  summer  home,  and  with  his  sister,  Mrs.  Lucius  D.  Olm- 
stead,  in  Hartford. 

Mr.  Merriam  died  June  28,  1918,  at  Stafford  Springs. 
His  health  had  been  gradually  breaking  down  for  about 
two  years.     Interment  was  in  Springfield. 

He  was  married  April  7,  1869,  in  Hudson,  N.  Y.,  to 
Charlotte  E.  Sprague  of  New  Haven,  Conn.  They  had 
two  daughters,  Helen  and  Elizabeth,  both  of  whom,  with 
Mrs.  Merriam,  survive.  He  was  a  brother  of  the  late 
George  Spring  Merriam  (B.A.  1864)  and  Edward  Fiske 
Merriam  (B.A.  1870). 


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Francis  Griffith  Newlands,  B.A.   1867 

Born  August  28,  1846,  in  Natchez,  Miss. 
Died  December  24,  1917,  in  Washington,  D.  C. 

Francis  Griffith  Newlands  was  the  son  of  James  Birnie 
Newlands,  a  distinguished  physician,  and  Jessie  (Barland) 
Newlands,  and  was  born  August  28,  1846,  in  Natchez,  Miss. 
His  father  was  born  in  Glasgow,  Scotland,  and  was  gradu- 
ated from  the  University  of  Edinburgh.  Coming  to 
America  in  1833  or  1834,  he  settled  first  at  Troy,  N.  Y., 
then  went  South,  and  finally  took  up  his  residence  in 
Quincy,  111.  He  died  in  185 1.  His  wife  was  a  native  of 
Perth,  Scotland. 

When  quite  a  young  man,  Francis  Griffith  Newlands 
determined  to  follow  the  legal  profession.  He  attended 
school  at  Quincy  and  Payson,  111.,  and  the  high  school  in 
Chicago,  and  was  prepared  under  a  private  tutor  in  Wash- 
ington, D.  C.  He  received  two  third  prizes  in  declamation 
Sophomore  year.  Owing  to  financial  difficulties  he  left 
college  in  the  third  term  of  Junior  year,  but  in  1901  the 
University  conferred  the  honorary  degree  of  Master  of 
Arts  upon  him  and  he  was  then  enrolled  with  the  Class  of 
1867. 

Upon  leaving  Yale,  he  went  to  Washington,  and  secured 
a  position  in  the  Civil  Service  which  enabled  him  to  pursue 
the  study  of  law  at  Columbian  (now  George  Washington) 
University.  He  was  admitted  to  the  bar  of  the  District  of 
Columbia  in  1869,  and  then  went  to  San  Francisco,  where 
he  practiced  until  1885,  when  he  became  a  trustee  of  the 
estate  of  his  father-in-law,  William  Sharon.  In  1888  he 
removed  his  office  to  Reno,  Nev.  During  his  residence  in 
San  Francisco,  he  was  always  identified  with  movements 
looking  toward  the  improvement  of  the  city.  In  1880  he 
was  a  member  of  the  executive  committee  of  the  Demo- 
cratic State  Central  Committee.  In  1887  he  was  promi- 
nently mentioned  for  a  seat  in  the  United  States  Senate  but 
was  defeated.  He  was  elected  to  Congress  in  1893  and 
served  in  the  Lower  House  until  1903,  when  he  was  elected 
senator  as  the  candidate  of  the  Democratic  party.  He  was 
reelected  in  1909  and  191 5.  During  his  long  service  in 
both  houses,  he  was  rated  as  one  of  the  most  active  Demo- 


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cratic  workers,  and  his  labors  extended  to  practically  every 
sphere  of  legislation  and  governmental  v^ork.  He  was 
chairman  of  the  Committee  on  Interstate  Commerce,  a 
member  of  the  Committee  on  Banking  and  Currency,  and 
framed  the  chief  measures  for  the  reclamation  of  Western 
lands  and  the  protection  of  the  water  power  of  that  section 
of  the  country.  Since  his  death  the  name  of  the  Truckee- 
Carson  Reclamation  Project  in  Nevada,  in  which  he  was 
deeply  interested,  has  been  changed  to  the  Newlands  Recla- 
mation Project.  He  advocated  strongly  the  construction  of 
canals  to  compete  with  railroads  in  freight  transportation, 
and  was  a  member  of  the  Waterways  Commission.  He  was 
active  as  an  advocate  of  bimetallism,  and  for  many  years 
served  as  vice  chairman  of  the  National  Silver  Committee. 
His  work  in  behalf  of  art  won  for  him  the  Beaux  Arts 
medal.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Episcopal  Church.  Sen- 
ator Newlands  died  suddenly,  of  heart  trouble,  December 
24,  1917,  at  his  home  in  Washington.  His  death  was 
largely  due  to  overwork  in  connection  with  his  preparations 
for  an  investigation  of  war-time  transportation  problems. 
Interment  was  in  Oak  Hill  Cemetery,  Washington. 

He  was  married  November  19,  1874,  in  San  Francisco, 
to  Clara  Adelaide,  daughter  of  Senator  William  Sharon  of 
San  Francisco,  a  non-graduate  member  of  the  Class  of  1846 
at  Athens  College,  and  Marie  (Malloy)  Sharon.  She  died 
February  18,  1882,  and  on  September  4,  1888,  he  was  mar- 
ried at  Easton  Neston  Hall,  Towcester,  England,  to  Edith, 
daughter  of  Hall  McAllister,  for  many  years  the  leader  of 
the  San  Francisco  Bar.  By  his  first  marriage,  he  had  four 
children:  Edith  Marion,  who  was  married  April  15,  1903, 
to  Charles  H.  L.  Johnston  and  now  resides  in  Santa  Bar- 
bara, CaHf. ;  Janet,  who  became  the  wife  of  William  B. 
Johnston  in  1903 ;  Frances  Clara,  whose  marriage  to  Cap- 
tain Leopold  von  Bredow  took  place  May  6,  1905,  and  who 
died  August  20,  1907;  and  Sharon  (born  and  died  Feb- 
ruary 17,  1882).  Two  sons  by  his  second  marriage, — Hall 
McAllister  and  John  Cutler, — died  in  infancy.  His  wife, 
two  daughters,  and  five  grandchildren  survive  him. 


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Henry  Parks  Wright,  B.A.   1868 

Born  November  30,  1839,  in  Winchester,  N.  H. 
Died  March  17,  1918,  in  New  Haven,  Conn. 

Henry  Parks  Wright  was  the  only  son  of  Parks  Wright, 
a  contractor  and  builder,  and  Relief  Willard  (WooUey) 
Wright,  and  was  born  in  Winchester,  N.  H.,  November  30, 
1839.  His  father's  parents  were  Elsworth  Wright,  a 
descendant  in  the  eighth  generation  of  Samuel  Wright,  who 
was  deacon  of  the  church  in  Springfield  in  1639,  ^^^  Eliza- 
beth (Parks)  Wright  (later  married,  after  her  husband's 
death,  to  Levi  G.  Rugg).  His  mother  was  the  daughter  of 
Dr.  David  Woolley,  a  soldier  of  the  Revolution,  by  his 
second  wife,  Hannah  (Crawford)  Woolley,  who  was  the 
daughter  of  Captain  John  Crawford  of  Oakham,  Mass., 
and  Mary  Ford  Perkins  Crawford.  Captain  Crawford, 
whose  father,  Alexander  Crawford,  was  one  of  the  first 
settlers  of  Oakham,  commanded  a  company  in  a  Massa- 
chusetts regiment  during  the  Revolutionary  War. 

Henry  Parks  Wright's  parents  died  when  he  was  a  small 
child,  and  after  their  deaths  he  Uved  with  his  grandmother 
in  Oakham,  where  he  began  to  teach  in  1856.  He  prepared 
for  Yale  at  Phillips  Academy,  Andover,  Mass.,  and  under 
the  tutelage  of  Rev.  Dr.  Francis  N.  Peloubet  of  Oakham. 
In  August,  1862,  he  enlisted  in  Company  F,  51st  Massa- 
chusetts Infantry.  He  was  appointed  Sergeant  on  Novem^ 
ber  4,  1862,  and  was  clerk  of  his  company.  He  served 
with  his  regiment  until  it  was  mustered  out  on  July  2y, 
1863.  In  the  fall  of  the  next  year  he  entered  Yale.  He 
held  the  Hurlbut  Scholarship  in  his  Freshman  year, 
received  two  second  prizes  in  English  composition  and  a 
third  prize  in  declamation  Sophomore  year,  and  in  Senior 
year  was  given  a  first  prize  in  English  composition.  He 
delivered  the  Latin  oration  when  a  Junior  and  was  vale- 
dictorian of  the  Class  at  graduation,  being  one  of  the  Com- 
mencement speakers.  He  served  on  the  Junior  Promenade 
and  Class  Picture  committees,  and  was  a  member  of  Phi 
Beta  Kappa. 

For  a  year  and  a  half  after  graduation  he  taught  at  the 
Chickering  Institute,  Cincinnati,  Ohio,  in  1870  becoming  a 
tutor  in  Latin  and  Greek  in  Yale  College.     He  was  made 


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assistant  professor  of  Latin  in  1871,  and  five  years  later 
was  appointed  to  the  Dunham  professorship  of  Latin,  a 
chair  which  he  held  until  his  retirement  in  1909,  when  he 
became  professor  emeritus.  He  was  chosen  dean  of  the 
College  when  that  office  was  created  in  1884,  and  rendered 
conspicuous  service  in  that  capacity  for  twenty-five  years. 
A  silver  medal  was  presented  to  him  by  the  College  faculty 
in  1909,  and  a  few  years  later  Wright  Memorial  Hall, 
given  in  his  honor,  was  erected  as  a  tribute  from  his  many 
Yale  friends.  Yale  granted  him  the  degree  of  Ph.D.  in 
1876,  and  Union  College  conferred  an  honorary  LL.D. 
upon  him  in  1895.  From  April,  1877,  to  August,  1878,  he 
studied  at  the  University  of  Gottingen  and  in  Berlin. 
Since  1871  he  had  been  Secretary  of  the  Class  of  1868. 
He  was  a  member  of  the  Connecticut  Academy  of  Arts 
and  Sciences,  the  American  Philological  Association,  the 
Archaeological  Institute  of  America,  the  American  Histor- 
ical Association,  the  New  Haven  Colony  Historical  Society, 
the  New  England  Historic  Genealogical  Society,  the  New 
Hampshire  Historical  Society,  and  the  Church  of  Christ  in 
Yale  University.  He  was  one  of  the  three  honorary  mem- 
bers of  the  Yale  Club  of  New  York  City.  Since  1886  Dean 
Wright  had  been  a  trustee  of  the  Hopkins  Grammar 
School,  and  until  shortly  before  his  death  he  was  also  a 
trustee  of  the  Connecticut  College  for  Women.  Some 
years  ago  he  served  as  a  trustee  of  the  Mount  Hermon 
School  for  Boys.  He  was  one  of  the  founders  of  the  Yale 
Foreign  Missionary  Society,  being  a  member  of  its  exec- 
utive committee  until  191 1,  when  he  resigned,  and  its  presi- 
dent from  1904  to  1906.  He  was  a  founder  and  the  first 
president  of  the  Yale  Cooperative  Corporation.  He  was 
the  author  of  "Satires  of  Juvenal"  (1901);  "Fobes 
Memorial  Library,  Oakham,  Mass.,"  with  two  historical 
addresses  (1909);  "The  Early  Grammar  Schools  of  New 
England"  (an  address  delivered  in  1910  before  the  grad- 
uating class  of  Hopkins  Grammar  School  upon  its  two 
hundred  and  fiftieth  anniversary)  ;  "From  School  Through 
College"  (1911);  "Independence  Day  in  1797"  (1911); 
and  "Soldiers  of  Oakham,  Mass."  (1914).  He  had  also 
completed  the  manuscripts  for  two  other  books,  "The 
Young  Man  and  Teaching,"  to  be  published  by  The  Mac- 
millan  Company,  and  the  historical  section  of  "History  and 
Family  Genealogies  of  Oakham,  Mass.,"    in  which  he  and 


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his  son  Henry  collaborated  and  which  is  to  appear  in  two 
volumes.  He  also  made  an  address  at  the  one  hundred  and 
fiftieth  anniversary  of  the  incorporation  of  the  town  of 
Oakham,  where  he  was  accustomed  to  spend  the  summer. 
His  death  occurred  at  his  home  in  New  Haven,  March  17, 
1918,  as  the  result  of  infirmities  incident  to  his  age. 
Funeral  services  were  held  in  Battell  Chapel  the  following 
Wednesday  and  in  the  Oakham  Church  the  next  day. 
Burial  was  in  the  South  Cemetery  at  Oakham.  A  memorial 
service  for  Dean  Wright  was  held  in  Battell  Chapel  on 
June  18,  1918. 

He  was  married  in  Oakham,  July  7,  1874,  to  Martha 
Elizabeth  Burt,  a  graduate  of  the  Oread  Collegiate  Insti- 
tute in  1 87 1,  and  the  daughter  of  Alfred  Ely  and  Elizabeth 
(Lincoln)  Burt.  Their  children  were:  Alice  Lincoln 
(B.A.  Wellesley  1897,  Ph.D.  Yale  1901),  instructor  in 
English  in  the  State  Normal  School,  New  Haven;  Henry 
Burt  (B.A.  1898,  Ph.D.  1903),  who  holds  the  Stephen 
Merrell  Clement  professorship  of  Christian  methods  at 
Yale  and  who  has  been  serving  as  director  of  religious 
work  on  the  executive  staff  of  the  Army  Y.  M.  C.  A.  at 
Camp  Devens,  Mass.;  Alfred  Parks,  who  died  May  20, 
1901,  while  in  his  Senior  year  at  Yale  and  was  given  his 
degree  post  ohitiim;  and  Ellsworth.  His  wife,  daughter, 
and  two  sons  are  living. 


Nelson  Garrison  Carman,  B.A.  1869 

Born  February  13,  1847,  in  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 
Died  October  14,  1917,  in  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 

Nelson  Garrison  Carman  was  born  February  13,  1847,  in 
Brooklyn,  N.  Y.,  the  son  of  Nelson  Garrison  and  Rebecca 
Jane  (Vunck)  Carman.  His  grandfather,  Stephen  Car- 
man, served  twenty  terms  in  the  State  Legislature  and  was 
a  member  of  the  Constitutional  Convention  which  ratified 
the  Constitution  of  the  United  States  in  1788.  Stephen 
Carman's  brother,  Samuel,  was  a  Colonel  in  the  Revolu- 
tionary Army,  and  his  son,  Richard,  served  as  a  Captain  in 
the  War  of  1812.  The  Carmans  trace  their  ancestry  to 
John  and  Florence  Carman,  who  came  to  this  country  from 


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Hemal,  Hempstead  County,  Herts,  England,  in  1631,  set- 
tling at  Roxbury,  Mass.  His  mother,  whose  parents  were 
Samuel  S.  and  Mary  (Clevinger)  Vunck,  was  of  Dutch  and 
French  extraction. 

He  was  prepared  for  college  at  the  Brooklyn  Polytechnic 
Institute  and  at  Professor  Overheiser's  Preparatory  School 
in  Brooklyn.  After  his  graduation  from  Yale,  he  was  for 
one  year  a  clerk  in  the  employ  of  the  Russell  &  Erwin  Man- 
ufacturing Company  in  New  York.  In  1872  he  entered  the 
Columbia  Law  School,  from  which  he  received  the  degree 
of  LL.B.  in  1874.  He  then  began  the  practice  of  his  pro- 
fession in  Brooklyn.  Mr.  Carman  was  a  Republican,  and 
politically  was  more  active  in  the  town  of  Babylon  and  in 
Suffolk  County  than  in  Brooklyn.  During  the  Garfield 
campaign,  he  was  president  of  the  Garfield  Club  of  Baby- 
lon, in  which  town  he  made  his  home  from  1874  to  1917. 
Always  a  fluent  speaker,  he  made  a  reputation  during  the 
campaign  for  effective  oratory,  and  at  one  time  was  consid- 
ered one  of  the  five  best  after-dinner  speakers  in  the 
country.  As  early  as  191 3,  he  advocated  a  plan  for  an 
international  police  system  for  the  preservation  of  order  in 
Mexico.  Mr.  Carman  was  a  director  of  the  New  England 
Society  and  the  Brooklyn  Club,  and  belonged  to  the  First 
Unitarian  Church  of  Brooklyn. 

He  died  October  14,  1917,  at  his  home  in  Brooklyn,  after 
an  illness  of  three  weeks  due  to  peritonitis,  which  followed 
an  operation.  He  was  buried  in  Greenwood  Cemetery, 
Brooklyn. 

Mr.  Carman  was  married  in  Brooklyn,  October  14,  1869, 
to  Mary  Adella,  daughter  of  George  S.  and  Mary  (Well- 
ington) Gary  of  Brooklyn.  They  had  no  children.  He  is 
survived  by  his  wife  and  a  niece. 


Talcott  Huntington  Russell,  B.A.   1869 

Born  March  14,  1847,  in  New  Haven,  Conn. 
Died  October  19,  1917,  in  Westport,  Conn. 

Talcott  Huntington  Russell  was  born  in  New  Haven, 
Conn.,  March  14,  1847.  He  was  the  son  of  General  Wil- 
liam Huntington  Russell  and  Mary  Elizabeth  (Hubbard) 
Russell.     His  father,  a  graduate  of  the  College  in  1833  and 


1869  6i9 

of  the  School  of  Medicine  in  1838,  was  the  founder  of  the 
well-known  Collegiate  and  Commercial  Institute  in  New 
Haven.  He  was  the  son  of  Matthew  Talcott  Russell  (B.A. 
1779)  and  Mary  (Huntington)  Russell  and  a  grandson  of 
Rev.  Enoch  Huntington  (B.A.  1759),  who  was  for  twenty- 
eight  years  a  Fellow  of  Yale  College,  from  1788  to  1793 
being  secretary  of  the  Corporation.  Noadiah  Russell,  one 
of  the  founders  of  the  College,  was  an  ancestor.  Mrs.  Rus- 
sell was  the  daughter  of  Thomas  Hubbard  (Honorary 
M.D.  1818),  at  one  time  professor  of  surgery  at  Yale. 

He  received  his  preparatory  training  at  his  father's 
school  and  at  the  Lawrence  Academy,  Groton,  Mass. 
After  graduation  from  Yale  he  studied  for  one  year  in  the 
Yale  School  of  Law,  and  then  entered  the  Columbia  Law 
School,  from  which  he  received  the  degree  of  LL.B.  in 
1872.  He  was  admitted  to  the  bar  of  Connecticut  in  that 
year,  and  afterwards  practiced  law  in  New  Haven,  retiring 
in  1914.  He  was  at  one  time  a  member  of  the  New  Haven 
Board  of  Councilmen,  being  for  one  year  its  president.  In 
1878  he  was  appointed  receiver  of  the  American  Mutual 
Life  Insurance  Company.  In  1884  he  became  secretary  of 
the  Independent  Republican  Organization.  From  1892 
until  1900  he  was  instructor  on  municipal  corporations  in 
the  Yale  School  of  Law.  He  was  for  a  number  of  years 
treasurer  of  the  Conference  on  Uniform  State  Laws,  of 
which  body  he  was  one  of  the  first  members,  and  chairman 
of  the  Committee  on  Commercial  Law.  In  191 1  he  was 
retained  by  the  legislative  committee  on  a  system  of  com- 
pensation for  industrial  injuries,  to  prepare  a  draft  of  a 
bill  which  formed  the  framework  of  much  of  the  legislation 
finally  adopted.  He  was  named  as  first  member  of  the 
commission  created  to  investigate  the  general  subject  of 
state  insurance  for  workmen.  In  1913,  when  Connecticut 
adopted  the  workmen's  compensation  system,  he  was  made 
chairman  of  the  board  and  commissioner  for  the  third  Con- 
gressional district.  On  account  of  ill  health,  he  was  forced 
to  resign  after  a  year  and  a  half  of  service. 

Mr.  Russell  died  in  AVestport,  Conn.,  October  19,  1917, 
after  an  illness  of  four  years.  Interment  was  in  the  Grove 
Street  Cemetery  in  New  Haven. 

He  was  married  December  10,  1889,  in  New  Haven,  to 
Geraldine  Whittemore,  daughter  of  Captain  William  W. 
Low,  U.  S.  N.,  and  Evelina   (Peck)   Low.     She  survives 


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him  with  their  two  sons,  Philip  Gray  Russell  (B.A.  1913) 
and  William  Low  Russell,  a  member  of  the  Class  of  1920. 
He  was  a  brother  of  Thomas  Hubbard  Russell,  '72  S., 
Philip  Gray  Russell,  ''jd,  and  Edward  Hubbard  Russell, 
'78  S. 


John  Wood  Hird,  B.A.  1871 

Born  December  27,  1841,  in  Bradford,  Yorkshire,  England 
Died  November  17,  1917,  in  Interlaken,  Mass. 

John  Wood  Hird,  whose  parents  were  Samuel  W.  Hird, 
a  carpenter  and  musician,  and  Mary  (Farmer)  Hird,  was 
born  December  27,  1841,  in  Bradford,  Yorkshire,  England. 
His  father's  family  was  of  Scottish  origin.  His  mother 
was  born  in  London,  but  spent  her  early  life  at  Burley, 
Wharfedale,  Yorkshire. 

He  came  to  Lowell,  Mass.,  at  the  age  of  fourteen,  but  later 
moved  to  Maine.  During  the  Civil  War  he  served  as  a 
Private  in  the  28th  Maine  Volunteers  and  as  a  scout  under 
General  Banks.  He  completed  his  preparatory  training  at 
Phillips  Academy,  Andover,  Mass.,  and  in  1867  entered 
Yale  as  a  Freshman.  His  Junior  appointment  was  a 
second  colloquy  and  his  Senior  appointment  a  first  colloquy. 

After  receiving  his  degree,  he  continued  his  studies  at 
Andover  Theological  Seminary,  graduating  there  in  1874. 
He  was  afterwards  engaged  in  teaching  for  a  while.  He 
was  ordained  to  the  ministry  of  the  Congregational  Church, 
March  19,  1879.  During  1877-78  he  was  acting  pastor  at 
West  Tisbury,  Mass.,  and  for  the  next  eleven  years  he  held 
the  pastorate  of  the  Union  Congregational  Church  at  North 
Brookfield,  Mass.  In  1889  he  was  called  to  Memorial  Con- 
gregational Church  of  Baldwinsville,  Mass.,  where  he 
remained  until  1903,  at  that  time  becoming  pastor  at  Water- 
ford  and  Lower  Waterford,  Vt.  Four  years  later  he  was 
settled  over  the  Congregational  Church  at  Pawlet,  Vt.,  con- 
tinuing there  until  191 1.  His  next  and  last  charge  was  that 
of  the  Congregational  Church  at  Interlaken,  Mass.  He 
died  at  his  home  there  very  suddenly  on  November  17, 
1917,  as  the  result  of  a  cerebral  hemorrhage.  Burial  was 
in  the  Stockbridge  Cemetery. 

Mr.  Hird  was  married  April  8,  1879,  ii^  North  Tisbury, 


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Mass.,  to  Adeline  W.,  daughter  of  Captain  Edwin  A.  Luce 
and  Celina  (Hillman)  Luce.  She  survives  him  with  their 
three  children:  Mary  Adeline  (B.A.  Western  Reserve 
1903)  ;  Emerson  Freeman  (B.A.  Western  Reserve  1906, 
M.D.  Boston  University  1906),  who  has  been  serving  with 
the  American  Red  Cross  in  Rumania;  and  Grace  Virginia. 
Mr.  Hird  visited  his  home  in  England  in  1867,  and  again, 
with  his  wife,  in  1894. 


George  Louis  Hemenway,  B.A.   1872 

Born  November  23,  1850,  in  Hopkinton,  Mass. 
Died  August  19,  1917,  in  Hopkinton,  Mass. 

George  Louis  Hemenway  was  the  son  of  Fisher  and 
Elizabeth  Jones  (Fitch)  Hemenway,  and  was  born  Novem- 
ber 23,  1850,  in  Hopkinton,  Mass.  His  father,  a  business 
man  of  that  town,  was  the  son  of  Josiah  and  Mary  (Park- 
hurst)  Hemenway  and  a  descendant  of  Ralph  Hemenway, 
who  emigrated  to  America  from  England  and  settled  at 
Roxbury,  and  of  Elizabeth  Hewes  of  Roxbury.  His 
mother's  parents  were  Elijah  and  Mary  (Valentine)  Fitch. 
She  traced  her  descent  to  Rev.  James  Fitch,  who  came  to 
this  country  from  England,  settling  at  Norwich,  Conn.,  and 
to  John  Valentine,  who  came  from  Eccles,  Lancashire,  Eng- 
land, about  1675  and  settled  in  Boston. 

His  preparatory  training  was  received  at  the  Hopkinton 
High  School.  After  graduating  from  Yale  in  1872,  he 
attended  the  Boston  University  Law  School.  He  was 
admitted  to  the  Massachusetts  Bar  in  1876  and  had  since 
practiced  his  profession  in  his  native  town.  From  1884 
until  his  death  he  was  a  trial  justice,  being  the  second  oldest 
justice  in  term  of  service  in  Middlesex  County.  For  many 
years  he  was  active  in  local  affairs,  serving  on  the  school 
committee  and  the  water  board,  and  as  tax  collector,  treas- 
urer, and  town  counsel.  He  represented  his  district  in  the 
State  Legislature  in  1905.  He  was  a  director  of  the  Hop- 
kinton National  Bank,  served  as  vice  president  of  the 
Southern  Middlesex  Bar  Association  from  its  foundation  in 
19 1 5  until  his  death,  and  was  a  member  of  the  Massachu- 
setts Bar  Association.     He  died  at  his  home  after  a  short 


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illness,  August  19,  1917,  and  was  buried  in  Mount  Auburn 
Cemetery  at  Hopkinton. 

Mr.  Hemenway  was  married  January  10,  1893,  in  Hop- 
kinton, to  Cora  L.,  daughter  of  Marcus  C.  and  Amy 
(Wheelock)  Phipps.  They  had  one  son,  Chauncey  Alfred, 
who  died  July  25,  1904,  at  the  age  of  six.  Mrs.  Hemen- 
way is  living,  and  four  brothers  and  two  sisters  also  sur- 
vive. One  brother,  Alfred  Hemenway,  graduated  from  the' 
College  in  1861.  His  great-grandfather,  Elijah  Fitch, 
second  minister  at  Hopkinton,  received  the  degree  of  B.A. 
at  Yale  in  1765. 


Henry  Saunders  Potter,  B.A.   1872 

Born  June  10,  1850,  in  Madison,  Ind. 
Died  February  6,  1918,  in  St.  Louis,  Mo. 

Henry  Saunders  Potter,  son  of  Russell  Potter,  a  banker, 
and  Eliza  (Saunders)  Potter,  was  born  in  Madison,  Ind., 
June  10,  1850.  His  mother  was  the  daughter  of  Isaac 
Thom  and  Rebecca  (Page)  Saunders. 

He  was  fitted  for  Yale  at  the  Chickering  Institute  in  Cin- 
cinnati, Ohio.  In  his  Junior  and  Senior  years  in  college  he 
served  as  treasurer  of  the  Class  Boat  Club,  and  he  was  a 
winner  of  several  single  scull  races.  He  belonged  to 
Linonia. 

For  several  years  after  graduation,  Mr.  Potter  was  in  the 
grain  business  in  Kansas  City,  Mo.  In  1882  he  removed  to 
St.  Louis,  Mo.,  there  becoming  secretary  and  superintend- 
ent of  the  Union  Depot  Elevator  and  Warehouses.  He 
continued  in  that  capacity  until  1900,  when  he  was  made 
president  of  the  St.  Louis  Steel  Barge  Company.  He  held 
this  position  at  the  time  of  his  death,  which  occurred  Feb- 
ruary 6,  1918,  in  St.  Louis,  after  an  illness  of  four  days  due 
to  pneumonia.  Interment  was  in  the  Bellefontaine  Ceme- 
tery, St.  Louis. 

Mr.  Potter  was  a  member  of  the  Episcopal  Church.  He 
was  married  November  26,  1879,  in  St.  Louis,  to  Margaret, 
daughter  of  John  Randolph  and  Margaret  (Clarkson) 
Lionberger.  She  is  no  longer  living.  Their  two  sons, 
CJarkson,  a  graduate  of  Yale  in  1901,  and  Henry  (B.A. 
1903,  LL.B.  Washington  University,  St.  Louis,  1905), 
survive. 


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Simeon  Leonard  Boyce,  B.A.   1873 

Born  January  14,  1850,  in  Chicago,  111. 
Died  September  2,  1917,  in  Chicago,  111. 

Simeon  Leonard  Boyce  was  born  in  Chicago,  111.,  Janu- 
ary 14,  1850,  his  parents  being  LeRoy  Merrick  and  Helen 
Maria  (Williams)  Boyce.  His  father,  a  druggist,  changed 
the  spelling  of  the  family  name  from  Boies  to  Boyce.  He 
was  the  son  of  Levi  and  Celia  Grove  (Merrick)  Boies  and 
a  descendant  of  David  Boies.  The  latter  was  a  native  of 
France,  who  fled  to  Scotland  during  the  persecution  of  the 
Huguenots;  subsequently  he  crossed  to  Ireland  and  in 
1727  came  to  Massachusetts,  settling  first  at  Hopkinton  and 
later  at  Blandford.  Helen  Maria  (Williams)  Boyce  was  the 
daughter  of  John  and  Elizabeth  (Leonard)  Williams.  She 
was  descended  from  Robert  Williams,  who  came  to  Rox- 
bury,  Mass.,  from  Norwich,  England,  about  1638,  and  from 
John  Leonard,  who,  coming  to  America  from  Pontypool, 
Monmouthshire,  England,  established  the  Leonard  forge  at 
Taunton,  Mass.,  in  1652. 

Leonard  Boyce  received  his  preparatory  training  at  Gen- 
eral Russell's  Collegiate  and  Commercial  Institute  in  New 
Haven.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Class  Crew,  the  Junior 
Promenade  Committee,  and  the  Class  Day  Committee.  He 
played  on  the  Football  Team  and  was  business  manager  of 
the  University  Glee  Club  in  Senior  year. 

In  the  fall  after  graduation  he  began  the  study  of  law  in 
the  office  of  Walker,  Dexter  &  Smith  in  Chicago,  and  at 
the  same  time  entered  the  Union  College  of  Law.  He  was 
admitted  to  the  bar  in  January,  1877,  and  for  the  next  year 
was  in  partnership  with  his  classmate,  the  late  Leslie  Carter. 
He  had  practiced  alone  since  1878.  For  the  past  thirteen 
years  he  had  been  president  of  the  board  of  trustees  of  the 
First  Presbyterian  Church,  of  which  he  was  also  an  elder. 
In  19 12  he  served  as  chairman  of  the  committee  that 
planned  the  consolidation  of  the  Forty-first  Street  Presby- 
terian Church  with  the  First  Church.  He  was  a  trustee 
and,  from  1905,  treasurer,  of  the  Old  Peoples  Home,  Chi- 
cago. At  one  time  he  was  a  trustee  of  the  American  Col- 
lege for  Girls  at  Constantinople.  In  1909-10  he  served  as 
president  of  the  Associated  Western  Yale  Clubs,  and  he 
was  at  one  time  secretary  and  treasurer  of  the  Chicago 
Yale  Club. 


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His  death  occurred  at  his  home  in  Chicago,  September  2, 
19 1 7.  Three  weeks  before  he  had  undergone  an  operation 
for  a  long  standing  stomach  trouble  and,  although  the 
operation  was  surgically  successful,  he  was  too  frail  to 
rally.     He  was  buried  in  Rosehill  Cemetery,  Chicago. 

Mr.  Boyce  was  married  January  7,  1875,  ^^  Chicago,  to 
Helen  Isabel,  daughter  of  Willard  L.  and  Eliza  (Adams) 
Adams.  They  had  six  children:  Helen;  James  Leonard, 
who  graduated  from  Yale  College  in  1901  and  afterwards 
studied  law  at  Harvard;  Marguerite  (born  January  11, 
1883;  died  January  12,  1883)  ;  LeRoy  Merrick  (born  and 
died  August  11,  1887);  Leonard  (born  March  26,  1890; 
died  April  3,  1891)  ;  and  Elizabeth.  His  wife,  two  daugh- 
ters, and  a  son  survive. 


Samuel  James  Elder,  B.A.  1873 

Born  January  4,  1850,  in  Hopeville,  R.  I. 
Died  January  22,  1918,  in  Boston,  Mass. 

Samuel  James  Elder  was  born  in  Hopeville,  R.  L,  Jan- 
uary 4,  1850.  His  father,  James  Elder,  of  Baltimore,  Md., 
was  a  sea  captain,  and  he  himself  saw  some  service  before 
the  mast  in  his  youth.  James  Elder  was  the  son  of  John 
Elder,  who  served  as  a  soldier  at  the  beginning  of  the 
American  Revolution  and  afterwards  married  Esther 
McKinley,  who  was  a  sister  of  President  McKinley's  great- 
grandfather. John  Elder  was  a  descendant  of  Robert 
Elder,  a  Cameronian,  who  emigrated  from  Scotland  and 
settled  in  Paxtang,  Pa.,  in  1730.  The  latter's  brother,  Rev. 
John  Elder,  was  minister  at  Paxtang  for  fifty-six  years,  and 
in  the  French  and  Indian  War  commanded  the  defenses 
from  Easton  to  the  Susquehannah  with  the  rank  of  Colonel. 
He  later  raised  a  company  which,  under  the  command  of 
his  son,  joined  Washington  at  Valley  Forge.  Samuel  J. 
Elder's  mother  was  Deborah  Dunbar  (Keen)  Elder,  daugh- 
ter of  James  Keen,  whose  father,  Jacob  Keen,  came  from 
Scotland  to  Thomaston,  Maine,  about  1780,  and  Margaret 
(Dunbar)  Keen,  who  was  also  of  Scotch  descent. 

He  was  fitted  for  college  at  the  high  school  in  Lawrence, 
Mass.,  where  his  family  was  then  living.  At  Yale  he 
received  first  prizes  in  the  Linonia  debates  of  Freshman 


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and  Sophomore  years  and  was  given  the  second  prize  in  the 
union  debate  Junior  year.  He  was  awarded  a  first  prize  in 
composition  Senior  year  and  a  special  prize  for  the  best 
story  contributed  to  the  Yale  Literary  Magazine.  In  1873 
he  was  captain  of  the  Class  Baseball  Team  and  a  member 
of  the  University  Baseball  Team. 

Mr.  Elder  began  the  study  of  law  at  Columbia  in  the  fall 
after  graduation,  but  left  a  few  months  later  and  continued 
his  studies  in  Boston  in  the  office  of  John  H.  Hardy  (B.A. 
Dartmouth  1870),  who  subsequently  became  a  judge  of 
the  Massachusetts  Superior  Court.  For  a  short  time  he 
attended  the  Boston  University  Law  School,  and  in  June, 
1875,  he  was  admitted  to  the  Suffolk  County  Bar.  Later 
he  was  admitted  to  the  bar  of  a  number  of  Federal  Courts 
and  to  that  of  the  Unked  States  Supreme  Court.  He  prac- 
ticed law  in  Boston  continuously  to  his  death,  rising  rapidly 
in  his  profession.  From  the  time  of  his  admission  to  the 
bar  in  1875  to  1884  he  shared  the  office  of  Mr.  Hardy,  but 
no  partnership  was  formed  until  the  latter  date.  From 
October,  1884,  to  June,  1885,  he  was  a  member  of  the  firm 
of  Hardy,  Elder  &  Proctor  (Thomas  W.  Proctor,  Dart- 
mouth 1879,  being  the  junior  partner)  ;  the  firm  then 
became  Elder  &  Proctor  on  the  appointment  of  Judge 
Hardy  to  the  Boston  Municipal  Court.  In  November, 
1886,  Mr.  Proctor  was  appointed  assistant  district  attorney 
for  Suffolk  County  and  Mr.  Elder  practiced  alone  until 
1890,  when  he  formed  a  partnership  under  the  name  of 
Elder  &  Wait  with  William  Cushing  Wait,  Harvard  1882, 
who  retired  from  the  firm  in  1902  to  become  a  justice  of  the 
Superior  Court.  In  1893  Edmund  A.  Whitman,  a  graduate 
of  Harvard  in  1881,  became  a  member  of  the  firm,  the 
name  becoming  Elder,  Wait  &  Whitman,  and  later,  Elder 
&  Whitman.  The  firm  name  was  changed  to  Elder,  Whit- 
man &  Barnum  in  1901  and  in  1916  again  became  Elder  & 
Whitman.  Mr.  Elder  had  filled  important  legal  offices, 
both  in  this  country  and  abroad.  Probably  the  most 
notable  event  in  his  professional  career  was  as  one  of  the 
senior  counsel,  in  1910,  for  the  United  States  in  the  North 
Atlantic  Fisheries  Arbitration  with  England  before  The 
Hague  Tribunal.  This  experience  in  international  arbi- 
tration led  to  his  election  as  president  of  the  Massachusetts 
Peace  Society  and  to  membership  on  the  board  of  trustees 
of  the  World's  Peace  Foundation,  as  well  as  to  his  activity 


626  YALE    COLLEGE 

in  the  formation  of  the  League  to  Enforce  Peace,  of  which 
he  was  an  officer.  He  had  given  special  attention  to  copy- 
right law  and  was  instrumental  in  securing  the  enactment 
by  Congress  of  the  International  Copyright  Act  of  1891. 
His  address  on  "Our  Archaic  Copyright  Laws,"  which  was 
many  times  reprinted,  was  one  of  the  first  steps  in  the 
movement  that  culminated  in  the  complete  revision  by 
Congress  in  1909  of  the  copyright  laws.  He  served  as  lec- 
turer on  the  subject  in  the  Boston  University  Law  School 
during  1901-02.  His  principal  work,  however,  was  in  jury 
trials  in  Suffolk  and  Middlesex  counties.  He  achieved 
fame  as  counsel  for  the  defense  in  the  Eastman  murder 
case,  and  was  also  counsel  for  the  Encyclopedia  Britannica 
in  a  six-year  contest,  carried  on  all  over  the  country,  which 
ended  in  a  victory  for  the  company^  the  defendants  being 
enjoined  for  violation  of  copyright.  For  ten  years  he  was 
counsel  for  Mary  Baker  Eddy,  and  for  a  long  time  he 
served  as  counsel  for  the  New  York  Central  Railroad. 
When  the  United  States  declared  war  he  became  a  member 
of  the  Legal  Advisory  Board  for  his  division.  His  home 
had  been  in  Winchester,  Mass.,  since  1877.  He  was  a 
member  of  the  Winchester  Republican  Town  Committee  in 
1883,  and  in  1885  served  one  term  in  the  Lower  House 
of  Massachusetts  Legislature.  He  afterwards  frequently 
appeared  before  committees  of  the  Legislature  on  impor- 
tant matters.  He  declined  a  nomination  for  Congress  and 
positions  on  the  Superior  Court  and  Commerce  Court 
benches.  From  1891  to  1896  he  was  state  commissioner  on 
the  portraits  of  governors.  In  1901  he  was  chosen  chair- 
man of  the  Republican  State  Convention,  and  seven  years 
later  he  was  elected  a  delegate  to  the  Republican  National 
Convention,  serving  on  the  committee  on  credentials.  He 
was  elected  president  of  the  Boston  Bar  Association  in 
1913,  and  at  the  time  of  his  death  was  a  member  of  the 
council  of  the  Middlesex  Bar  Association.  Yale  conferred 
the  honorary  degree  of  LL.D,  upon  him  in  1908.  He  was 
a  former  president  of  the  Boston  Yale  Club,  and  since  191 1 
had  represented  that  organization  on  the  Alumni  Advisory 
Board.  He  had  also  served  as  president  of  the  Massachu- 
setts Republican  Club,  the  Boston  City  Club,  and  was  an 
officer  of  various  other  social  organizations.  He  was  fre- 
quently called  upon  to  make  addresses  on  public  occasions 
and  was  popular  as  an  after-dinner  speaker.     He  belonged 


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to  the  First  Congregational  Church  of  Winchester.  He 
had  traveled  extensively  in  Europe. 

He  died  of  angina  pectoris,  after  an  hour's  illness,  Janu- 
ary 22,  1918,  at  the  Massachusetts  General  Hospital  in 
Boston.  Burial  was  in  Wildwood  Cemetery,  Winchester. 
By  the  terms  of  his  will  a  bequest  of  $10,000  was  made  to 
Yale  University  to  be  used  for  general  purposes  in  the 
College. 

Mr.  Elder  was  married  May  10,  1876,  at  Hastings-on- 
Hudson,  N.  Y.,  to  Lilla  Sarah,  daughter  of  Cornelius 
Washington  and  Margaret  J.  (Wyckoff)  Thomas.  They 
had  five  children :  Clara  Joanvahrs,  who  died  in  1878  at  the 
age  of  one  year;  Margaret  Munro,  who  graduated  from 
Vassar  in  1904;  Frances  Adele;  Ruth  Dunbar,  a  member 
of  the  Class  of  1920  at  Vassar;  and  Samuel  James,  now 
preparing  for  Yale  at  the  Westminster  School,  Simsbury, 
Conn.     Mrs.  Elder  died  August  13,  1907. 


William  Addison  Houghton,  B.A.  1873 

Born  March  10,  1852,  in  Holliston,  Mass. 
Died  October  22,  1917,  in  Plainfield,  N.  J. 

William  Addison  Houghton  was  born  in  Holliston, 
Mass.,  March  10,  1852,  the  son  of  Cyrus  and  Eliza  Adaline 
(Sawin)  Houghton.  His  father  was  engaged  in  the  comb 
manufacturing  business,  being  the  head  successively  of  the 
firms  of  Houghton  &  Joslin,  Houghton  &  Daniels,  and  the 
Holliston  Comb  Company;  he  also  owned  a  large  pump 
factory.  His  parents  were  Caleb  and  Susanna  (Sawyer) 
Houghton,  and  he  was  a  descendant  of  John  Houghton,  a 
native  of  Bedfordshire,  England,  who  was  one  of  the  orig- 
inal proprietors  and  founders  of  Lancaster,  Mass. ;  Ralph 
Houghton  of  Houghton  Towers,  Lancashire,  England,  also 
a  founder  of  Lancaster;  Robert  Houghton,  who  served  in 
King  Philip's  War ;  and  Cyrus  Houghton,  who  served  in  the 
Crown  Point  expedition  of  1759.  Cyrus  Houghton  married 
the  daughter  of  Lieutenant  Samuel  Sawin  of  Gardner,  Mass., 
a  soldier  in  the  War  of  1812,  and  Martha  (Heywood) 
Sawin,  who  was  the  daughter  of  Captain  Seth  Heywood, 
who  fought  in  the  Revolutionary  War.  Mrs.  Houghton 
was  the  granddaughter  of  Captain  Samuel  Sawin  of  the 


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Revolutionary  Army  and  Mary  (Wesson)  Sawin;  the 
great-granddaughter  of  Captain  Jeremiah  Wesson,  who  lost 
his  life  in  the  Louisburg  Expedition  of  1745;  and  a 
descendant  of  John  Sawin,  who  came  to  Watertown,  Mass., 
from  Box  ford,  Suffolk  County,  England,  about  1641,  and 
of  Munning  Sawin,  who  served  in  King  Philip's  War. 

His  preparation  for  Yale  was  received  at  the  HoUiston 
High  School  and  at  Phillips  Academy,  Andover,  Mass. 
He  was  valedictorian  of  the  Phillips  Class  of  1869.  In  col- 
lege he  was  given  two  prizes  in  composition  in  Sophomore 
year  and  another  in  Senior  year.  He  received  a  philosoph- 
ical oration  appointment  Junior  year  and  a  Senior  high 
oration,  ranking  fifth  in  the  Class  at  graduation.  He  was 
a  member  of  Brothers  in  Unity,  and  divided  a  second  prize 
in  their  Sophomore  debate.  He  belonged  to  Phi  Beta 
Kappa,  was  a  Junior  Exhibition  speaker,  dividing  the  first 
prize  with  a  classmate,  a  Class  Orator,  and  an  editor  of  the 
Vale  Literary  Magazine. 

In  the  fall  of  1873  he  became  principal  of  the  preparatory 
department  and  instructor  in  Latin  and  Greek  at  Olivet 
College  at  Olivet,  Mich.  He  remained  there  for  two  years, 
and  then  spent  one  term  studying  theology  at  Yale.  In 
January,  1876,  he  was  appointed  a  tutor  in  Latin  in  Yale 
College,  but  resigned  at  the  end  of  the  first  term  of  the 
next  college  year,  having  been  appointed  professor  of  Eng- 
lish literature  at  the  Imperial  University  at  Tokio,  Japan. 
He  taught  there  until  June,  1882,  and  on  his  final  departure 
received  the  then  unusual  honor  of  an  interview  with  the 
Emperor,  who  personally  thanked  him  for  his  efificient 
labors.  During  the  greater  part  of  the  next  two  years. 
Professor  Houghton  studied  advanced  Latin  in  Europe, 
chiefly  at  the  University  of  Berlin.  He  returned  to  Amer- 
ica in  October,  1883,  and  the  following  January  began  his 
work  as  assistant  professor  of  English  literature  and 
rhetoric  at  New  York  University.  In  1889  he  was  trans- 
ferred to  the  department  of  Latin  at  that  institution,  with 
the  rank  of  associate  professor.  In  1892  he  accepted  the 
chair  of  Latin  at  Bowdoin  College,  where  he  continued 
until  1907,  when  he  was  made  professor  emeritus. 

Professor  Houghton  had  written  articles  and  delivered 
lectures  on  subjects  relating  to  Japan,  general  literature, 
and  the  Latin  language.  Since  1894  he  had  been  a  mem- 
ber of  the  managing  committee  of  the  American  School  of 


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Classical  Studies  at  Rome.  He  belonged  to  the  American 
Philological  Association,  the  Philological,  Geographical 
Asiatic  Society,  the  American  Archaeological  Society,  the 
Society  of  Colonial  Wars  of  the  State  of  Maine,  and  to  the 
First  Parish  Church  of  Brunswick,  Maine.  He  received 
the  degree  of  M.A.  in  course  at  Yale  in  1889.  Since  his 
retirement  he  had  spent  much  time  in  Florida,  and  had  also 
lived  at  Yonkers,  N.  Y.  He  had  completed  a  translation  of 
the  works  of  Horace  which  he  had  aimed  to  make  as  nearly 
literal  as  was  compatible  with  employing  the  original  metre. 
This  translation  received  unlimited  praise  from  the  critics 
to  whom  he  submitted  it  and  he  had  hoped  to  publish  it  after 
the  war.  He  had  also  written  many  original  poems,  and 
translations  from  the  French  and  German,  which  were  pub- 
lished in  various  magazines  and  papers. 

He  died  of  apoplexy,  October  22,  19 17,  while  visiting  at 
the  home  of  his  elder  son  in  Plainfield,  N.  J.  Interment 
was  in  Lake  Grove  Cemetery  in  his  native  town. 

Professor  Houghton  was  married  July  11,  1876,  in  New 
Haven,  Conn.,  to  Charlotte  Johnson,  daughter  of  DeWitt 
Clinton  Morris  (B.A.  1840)  and  Charlotte  A.  (Johnson) 
Morris.  She  survives  him  with  their  three  children:  Wil- 
liam Morris,  who  studied  at  Yale  during  1900-01,  was  grad- 
uated from  Bowdoin  in  1903,  and  received  the  degree  of 
M.A.  at  Harvard  in  1904;  Charles  Andrew  Johnson  (B.A. 
Bowdoin  1906)  ;  and  Harriet  Cecil.  He  was  a  brother  of 
Edward  Houghton  (B.A.  1852)  and  a  nephew  of  Rev. 
William  Addison  Houghton  (B.A.  1840). 


Lewis  Whiteman  Irwin,  B.A.   1873 

Born  August  23,  1851,  in  Cincinnati,  Ohio 
Died  May  22,  1918,  in  Cincinnati,  Ohio 

Lewis  Whiteman  Irwin  was  born  in  Cincinnati,  Ohio, 
August  23,  1 85 1.  His  father,  William  F.  Irwin,  who  was 
engaged  in  the  pork-packing  business  in  Illinois  and  Cin- 
cinnati, was  the  son  of  Archibald  and  Sidney  (Grubb) 
Irwin.  He  was  of  Scotch-Irish  descent.  Members  of  the 
family  took  a  conspicuous  part  in  the  Revolution  and  the 
War  of  1812.  WilHam  F.  Irwin's  sister  Elizabeth  was 
the  mother  of  Benjamin  Harrison,  twenty-third  president  of 


630  YALE   COLLEGE 

the  United  States.  His  wife  was  Harriet  (Whiteman) 
Irwin,  daughter  of  Lewis  and  Louisa  (Irwin)  Whiteman, 
The  latter  was  a  distant  relative  of  William  F.  Irwin. 

He  was  fitted  for  college  at  the  private  school  of  E.  F. 
Bliss  in  Cincinnati.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Class  Base- 
ball Team  and  the  University  Football  Team,  and  served  as 
chairman  of  the  Class  Day  Committee.  He  received  second 
colloquy  appointments. 

Directly  after  graduating  from  Yale,  he  entered  the  law 
office  of  Stanley  Matthews  (B.A.  Kenyon  1840,  LL.D.  Yale 
1888),  afterwards  a  United  States  senator  and  justice  of 
the  Supreme  Court,  and  at  the  same  time  matriculated  at 
the  Cincinnati  Law  School.  He  graduated  from  the  latter 
institution  in  April,  1875,  and  was  admitted  to  the  bar. 
After  being  engaged  in  practice  at  Cincinnati  for  over  a 
year,  he  became  an  assistant  in  the  office  of  the  prosecuting 
attorney  for  Hamilton  County,  Ohio,  and  the  following 
April  was  himself  appointed  to  the  latter  post.  In  October, 
1878,  he  was  the  Democratic  candidate  to  succeed  himself, 
but  was  not  elected.  He  resumed  the  practice  of  his  pro- 
fession in  Cincinnati  in  April,  1879,  continuing  until  a  few 
years  ago,  when  he  retired.  He  was  at  one  time  a  member 
of  the  firm  of  Irwin  &  Murray.  He  died  May  22,  1918,  in 
Cincinnati,  of  heart  disease,  from  which  he  had  suffered 
for  some  years. 

His  marriage  took  place  January  20,  1885,  in  Cincinnati, 
to  Alice  Key  Dandridge,  who  died  March  2.'j,  19 16.  They 
had  no  children.  . 


Henry  Adgate  Strong,  B.A.  1873 

Born  September  10,  1846,  in  Colchester,  Conn. 
Died  November  18,  1917,  in  Cohoes,  N.  Y. 

Henry  Adgate  Strong  was  the  son  of  Edward  Henry  and 
Eunice  (Loomis)  Strong,  and  was  born  September  10, 
1846,  in  Colchester,  Conn.,  where  his  father  was  engaged  in 
farming.  The  latter  was  the  son  of  Elijah  and  Lucy  (Fin- 
ley)  Strong  and  a  descendant  of  John  Strong,  a  native  of 
Taunton,  England,  who  reached  Nantasket,  Mass.,  in  May, 
1630,  and  became  one  of  the  first  founders  of  Dorchester. 
John  Strong  later  lived  in  Hingham  and  Taunton,  Mass., 


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and  Windsor,  Conn.,  removing  from  the  last-named  place 
in  1659  to  Northampton,  Mass.,  of  which  he  was  one  of  the 
founders.  There  he  lived  for  forty  years,  taking  a  leading 
part  in  town  and  church  affairs.  Eunice  Loomis  Strong's 
parents  were  Veach  and  Lucy  (Lathrop)  Loomis.  She 
was  the  granddaughter  of  Captain  Isaiah  Loomis,  a  soldier 
of  the  Revolution,  whose  father.  Lieutenant  Thomas 
Loomis,  was  descended  through  three  ancestors  of  the  same 
name  from  John  Loomis,  who  came  from  England  with  his 
father,  Joseph  Loomis,  in  1638  and  became  a  man  of  prom- 
inence in  the  town  of  Windsor,  Conn.  She  also  traced  her 
descent  to  Robert  Williams,  who  came  to  this  country  in 
1637  and  settled  at  Roxbury,  Mass. 

He  received  his  preparation  for  college  at  the  academy  in 
Colchester,  at  Phillips  Academy,  Andover,  and  at  Phillips- 
Exeter.  His  Junior  appointment  was  a  first  colloquy.  He 
was  a  member  of  the  football  team  that  defeated  Columbia. 

In  the  fall  after  graduation  he  entered  the  Albany  Law 
School,  from  which  he  received  the  degree  of  LL.B.  in 
May,  1874.  He  began  the  practice  of  law  in  Troy,  but  in 
September,  1874,  moved  to  Cohoes,  where  he  formed  a 
partnership  under  the  firm  name  of  Fitts  &  Strong  with 
George  H.  Fitts,  later  a  justice  of  the  Supreme  Court.  In 
July,  1875,  he  gave  up  this  connection  to  become  associated 
with  his  classmate,  Frederick  C.  Webster.  The  partnership 
of  Strong  &  Webster  was  dissolved  a  few  months  later,  and 
Mr.  Strong  afterwards  practiced  alone,  except  for  a  brief 
period.  He  did  a  general  legal  business,  but  confined  his 
work  so  far  as  possible  to  an  office  practice  in  preference  to 
the  work  of  a  courtroom.  At  the  time  of  his  death  he  was 
dean  of  the  Cohoes  Bar.  He  was  a  Republican,  and  always 
took  an  active  and  prominent  part  in  city  affairs.  He  was 
named  as  a  delegate  to  various  county  and  state  conven- 
tions, and  in  this  capacity  helped  to  shape  the  policy  of  his 
party  for  many  years.  In  1877  he  served  as  a  school  com- 
missioner, being  elected  from  the  second  ward.  From  1878 
to  1885,  and  again  from  1896  to  1906,  he  was  city  attorney 
for  Cohoes  and  from  1892  to  1896  he  held  the  office  of 
mayor  of  the  city.  He  had  been  a  trustee  of  the  Cohoes 
Savings  Institution  since  1878  and  for  the  last  twenty- two 
years  had  also  served  as  its  attorney.  He  was  also  a 
director  of  and  attorney  for  the  National  Bank  of  Cohoes, 
attorney    for    the    Cohoes    Hospital   Association   and   the 


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Young  Women's  Christian  Association,  and  president  of 
the  Cohoes  Chamber  of  Commerce.  In  1917  he  was 
appointed  chairman  of  the  Cohoes  Draft  Exemption  Board, 
and  was  serving  in  this  capacity  at  the  time  of  his  death, 
being  also  a  representative  on  the  Albany  County  Defense 
Board.  He  was  for  many  years  a  trustee  of  the  Silliman 
Memorial  Presbyterian  Church  of  Cohoes,  and  belonged  to 
the  Albany  County  and  the  New  York  State  Bar  associa- 
tions. He  died  suddenly,  from  heart  disease,  November 
18,  1917,  at  his  home  in  Cohoes.  The  remains  were  cre- 
mated and  the  ashes  interred  in  Vale  Cemetery,  Schenec- 
tady. 

Mr.  Strong  was  married  June  5,  1884,  to  Esther  Lucretia, 
daughter  of  Robert  Hastings  of  Schenectady.  Her  death 
occurred  April  22,  1901.  They  had  no  children,  Mr. 
Strong  is  survived  by  a  brother,  Nelson  H.  Strong  (B.A. 
1876). 


James  Heartt  VanBuren,  B.A.   1873 

Born  July  7,  1850,  in  Watertown,  N.  Y. 
Died  July  9,  1917,  in  Easton,  Pa. 

James  Heartt  VanBuren  was  born  July  7,  1850,  in 
Watertown,  N.  Y.,  but  spent  his  youth  in  Cincinnati,  Ohio, 
where  his  father,  James  Saurin  VanBuren,  was  engaged  in 
business  as  a  hardware  merchant.  The  latter  .was  the  son 
of  Rev.  Peter  VanBuren,  a  graduate  of  Union  College  in 
1802,  and  Abigail  (Mudge)  VanBuren  and  a  descendant 
of  Cornehs  Maessen  VanBuren.  Cornelis  VanBuren  came 
from  Gelderland,  Holland,  to  this  country  in  163 1,  and 
after  spending  three  years  in  the  colony  of  Rensselaerwyck, 
returned  to  Holland,  where  he  married  Catelijntje  Martens. 
He  sailed  again  for  America  in  1636  and  lived  until  his 
death  in  1648  on  his  farm  a  few  miles  below  Albany,  N.  Y. 
Rev.  Peter  VanBuren  was  a  second  cousin  of  President 
Martin  VanBuren.  Abigail  (Mudge)  VanBuren  was  the 
daughter  of  Joseph  and  Prudence  (Treat)  Mudge  and  a 
descendant  of  Jarvis  Mudge,  who  was  born  in  England, 
came  to  Massachusetts  in  1638,  and  later  moved  to  Connect- 
icut. James  H.  VanBuren's  mother  was  Harriet  Adelia 
(Stebbins)  VanBuren.     She  was  the  daughter  of  Solomon 


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Johnson  and  Ruth  (Allen)  Stebbins  and  traced  her  descent 
to  Rowland  Stebbins,  who  emigrated  to  America  from 
Essex,  England,  in  1634,  first  settling  at  Roxbury,  Mass., 
but  in  1639  becoming  one  of  the  original  settlers  of  Spring- 
field, Mass. 

He  received  his  preparatory  training  at  the  Chickering 
Institute  in  Cincinnati,  and  before  entering  college  was 
employed  by  several  business  houses.  At  Yale  he  served 
as  an  editor  of  the  Yale  Record  and  as  a  Class  historian. 
He  received  a  second  dispute  appointment  Junior  year  and 
his  Senior  appointment  was  a  second  colloquy.  He  was  the 
author  of  the  ivy  ode. 

He  spent  about  a  year  after  graduating  studying  in  the 
Theological  Department  at  Yale,  and  at  the  same  time 
served  as  librarian  of  Brothers  in  Unity  and  Linonia.  In 
May,  1874,  he  became  principal  of  the  classical  department 
of  The  Selleck  School  at  Norwalk,  Conn.,  where  he 
remained  for  five  months.  He  then  studied  for  two  years 
at  the  Berkeley  Divinity  School  in  Middletown,  Conn., 
graduating  in  1876.  He  was  ordained  as  deacon  in  the 
Protestant  Episcopal  Church  in  May  of  that  year  and  as 
priest  in  1877.  From  June,  1876,  to  May,  1878,  he  was 
rector  of  St.  Peter's  Church,  Milford,  Conn.,  and  for  the 
next  three  years  was  at  Trinity  Church,  Seymour,  Conn. 
In  February,  1881,  he  was  called  to  St.  Paul's  Church  at 
Englewood,  N.  J.,  where  he  remained  until  December,  1884. 
His  next  parish  was  St.  Paul's,  Newburyport,  Mass.  He 
was  located  there  for  nearly  six  years,  and  then  removed  to 
Lynn,  Mass.,  to  become  rector  of  St.  Stephen's  Church. 
He  served  as  vice  dean  of  the  Eastern  Convocation  and  for 
three  years  was  archdeacon  of  Lowell.  He  also  acted  as 
examining  chaplain  to  the  bishop  for  five  years.  On  Janu- 
ary 18,  1 90 1,  he  accepted  an  appointment  as  a  missionary 
to  Porto  Rico,  and  the  next  month  arrived  in  that  country. 
He  soon  built  up  a  strong  church  organization  in  San  Juan, 
where  he  was  rector  of  the  Church  of  St.  John  the  Baptist. 
He  was  consecrated  Bishop  of  Porto  Rico  June  24,  1902, 
and  successfully  filled  the  duties  of  that  office  until  the 
winter  of  1911-12,  when  he  resigned  because  of  ill  health. 
In  April,  1912,  he  went  abroad,  upon  his  return  the  follow- 
ing November  going  to  Indianapolis,  Ind.,  to  live.  His 
condition  having  somewhat  improved,  he  became,  in  April, 
1913,  rector  of  Christ  Church,  Madison,  Ind.     He  was  in 


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charge  of  that  parish  for  about  a  year.  In.  the  winter  of 
1914-15  he  was  in  charge  of  the  Church  of  the  Ascension  in 
Pittsburgh,  and  during  the  winter  of  191 5-16  he  served  in 
the  place  of  the  Suffragan  Bishop  of  Pennsylvania,  making 
his  home  in  Philadelphia.  The  next  year  (1916-17)  he 
acted  as  temporary  rector  of  Calvary  Church,  Pittsburgh. 
He  afterward  resided  at  Easton,  Pa.  Bishop  VanBuren 
went  abroad  in  1883  and  1895.  While  living  in  Lynn,  he 
was  for  eight  years  a  director  of  the  Lynn  Boys'  Club,  and 
for  several  years  edited  The  Diocese.  He  published  a  vol- 
ume of  Latin  hymns,  with  translations,  under  the  title 
"Latin  Hymns  in  English  Verse,"  in  1904,  and  a  volume  of 
sermons,  entitled  "Sermons  That  Have  Helped,"  in  1908. 
He  was  also  the  author  of  "A  Short  History  of  the  Chris- 
tian Church"  (1886)  and  "Confirmation  Addresses" 
(1900).  He  compiled  and  published  a  hymnal  in  the 
Spanish  language  for  use  in  the  missions  of  the  Episcopal 
Church  in  Spanish-speaking  countries.  He  built  and 
equipped  St.  Luke's  Memorial  Hospital  in  Ponce,  Porto 
Rico.  In  1902  the  Berkeley  Divinity  School  conferred  the 
honorary  degree  of  Doctor  of  Sacred  Theology  upon  him. 

Bishop  VanBuren  died  July  9,  191 7,  at  the  Easton  (Pa.) 
Sanitarium,  where  he  had  been  for  nearly  two  months. 
His  death  was  due  to  general  debility.  Interment  was  in 
the  Union  Cemetery  at  Nor  walk.  Conn. 

He  was  married  April  11,  1877,  in  that  town,  to  Annie 
Maria,  daughter  of  Asa  and  Emma  Louisa  (Handes) 
Smith.  She  survives  him  with  their  son,  Albert  William 
(B.A.  1900,  Ph.D.  1915),  who  served  as  an  instructor  at 
Yale  from  1906  to  1908  and  is  now  librarian  and  professor 
of  archaeology  in  the  American  Academy  in  Rome.  Bishop 
VanBuren's  mother  is  also  living.  His  brother,  William 
Allen  VanBuren  (B.A.  1878),  died  in  1906. 


Hollis  Burke  Frissell,  B.A.  1874 

Born  July  14,  1851,  in  South  Amenia,  N.  Y. 
Died  August  5,  1917,  in  Whitefield,  N.  H. 

Hollis  Burke  Frissell  was  born  July  14,  185 1,  in  South 
Amenia,  N.  Y.  He  was  the  son  of  Rev.  Amasa  Cogswell 
Frissell,  a  student  in  the  Theological  Department  at  Yale 


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from  1838  to  1841,  who  afterwards  filled  the  pastorates  of 
several  Presbyterian  churches  in  New  York,  and  served  as 
district  secretary  of  the  American  Tract  Society,  and 
Lavinia  (Barker)  Frissell.  His  father  was  the  son  of 
Amasa  Frissell  and  a  descendant  of  Joseph  Frissell,  who 
came  to  this  country  in  169 1  from  Scotland  and  settled  in 
Woodstock,  Conn.,  being  one  of  thirty-five  to  receive  grants 
of  the  town.  Another  paternal  ancestor  was  Lieutenant 
William  Frissell,  an  officer  in  the  Revolutionary  War. 
Through  his  mother  he  was  descended  from  Captain  Wil- 
liam Barker  and  John  Read,  both  Revolutionary  soldiers. 
From  the  latter  the  town  of  Redding,  Conn.,  takes  its  name. 

He  was  prepared  for  college  at  the  Poughkeepsie  (N.  Y.) 
Collegiate  Institute  and  at  Phillips-Andover.  He  entered 
Yale  with  the  Class  of  1873,  but  was  compelled  to  leave 
during  the  first  term  of  his  Senior  year  because  of  illness. 
He  completed  his  course  with  the  Class  of  1874.  He  was  a 
member  of  the  1873  Class  Glee  Club,  and  of  the  Univer- 
sity Glee  Club  from  1872  to  1874,  being  president  in 
1873-74.  He  was  a  member  of  the  1873  Class  Picture 
Committee,  and  president  of  the  Yale  Missionary  Society. 

After  graduation  Dr.  Frissell  taught  for  two  years  at 
the  DeGarmo  Institute,  Rhinebeck,  N.  Y.,  leaving  in  Sep- 
tember, 1876,  to  enter  Union  Theological  Seminary.  He 
was  graduated  from  the  latter  institution  in  1879,  ^^^ 
became  assistant  pastor  of  the  Madison  Avenue  Presby- 
terian Church,  New  York  City.  In  1880  he  was  ordained 
to  the  Presbyterian  ministry  in  Newark,  N.  J.,  and  became 
chaplain  of  Hampton  Institute  at  Hampton,  Va.  In  1893 
he  was  elected  to  the  principalship  of  Hampton  Institute. 
He  remained  in  this  important  office  until  his  death,  devot- 
ing all  of  his  time  and  energy  to  the  upbuilding  of  the 
school,  and  the  problem  of  the  education  and  betterment  of 
the  negro  race.  He  was  also  well  known  as  a  friend  of  the 
Indian.  Under  his  guidance,  Hampton  Institute  became 
not  only  the  leader  and  pioneer  in  the  industrial  education 
of  the  American  negro,  but  also  a  forum  where  Southern 
and  Northern  white  men  and  negroes  meet  on  common 
ground  to  discuss  problems  of  education,  agriculture,  and 
sanitation  in  the  South.  Dr.  Frissell  was  a  member  of  the 
General  Education  Board,  the  Southern  Education  Board 
(being  an  organizer  of  this),  the  Negro  Rural  School  Fund 
Board  (known  also  as  the  Jeanes  Fund  Board),  the  Rocke- 


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feller  Sanitary  Commission  for  the  Eradication  of  Hook- 
worm Disease,  and  the  Cooperative  Education  Association 
of  Virginia;  he  was  chairman  of  the  board  of  trustees  of 
the  Calhoun  Colored  School,  a  trustee  of  the  Virginia 
Manual  Labor  Schools,  of  the  Negro  Reformatory  Associa- 
tion of  Virginia  since  1900,  and  in  1914  was  elected  presi- 
dent of  the  New  York  State  Colonization  Society.  He 
received  the  degree  of  D.D.  from  Howard  University  in 
1893,  that  of  S.T.D.  from  Harvard  University  in  1900,  and 
that  of  LL.D.  from  Yale  University  in  1901  and  from 
Richmond  College  in  1909. 

He  died  suddenly,  from  heart  failure,  August  5,  1917,  at 
his  summer  home  in  Whitefield,  N.  H.  Interment  was  in 
the  school  cemetery  at  Hampton  Institute.  A  memorial 
service  in  his  honor  was  held  at  Hampton  on  October  4. 
The  Southern  Workman  for  November,  19 17,  was  issued 
as  a  memorial  number  to  Dr.  Frissell. 

He  was  married  November  8,  1883,  in  Bloomfield,  N.  J., 
to  Julia  F.,  daughter  of  Amzi  Dodd  of  Bloomfield,  judge 
of  the  Court  of  Appeals  and  vice  chancellor  of  New  Jersey 
and  president  of  the  Mutual  Benefit  Life  Insurance  Com- 
pany. Her  mother  was  Jean  A.  (Frame)  Dodd.  They 
had  one  son,  Sydney  Dodd,  who  graduated  from  Yale  in 
1908,  and  who,  until  he  joined  the  Army  in  191 7,  had  been 
connected  with  Hampton  Institute,  and  had  done  much 
toward  the  practical  education  of  the  negro  along  the  line 
of  scientific  farming.  He  returned  from  overseas  service 
as  a  First  Lieutenant  in  the  Field  Artillery  in  the  early  sum- 
mer of  1919.  Mrs.  Frissell  and  her  son  survive.  The  late 
Ezra  R.  Frissell,  a  non-graduate  member  of  the  Class  of 
1872,  was  a  brother.  Dr.  Frissell's  nephew,  Lewis  Fox 
Frissell,  graduated  from  Yale  in  1895. 


John  Wesley  Peck,  B.A.   1874 

Born  February  10,  1852,  in  Trumbull,  Conn. 
Died  August  16,  1917,  in  Derby,  Conn. 

John  Wesley  Peck  was  born  in  Trumbull,  Conn.,  Feb- 
ruary 10,  1852.  He  was  the  son  of  Rev.  John  Levi  Peck, 
LL.D.,  and  Eliza  (Nichols)  Peck.  His  father,  who  was  a 
graduate  of  Drew  Theological  Seminary,  was  the  son  of 


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Levi  and  Naomi  (Wheeler)  Peck.  His  earliest  American 
ancestor  was  Joseph  Peck,  who  came  to  this  country  from 
England  about  161 7.  Eliza  Nichols  Peck,  a  native  of 
Nichols,  Conn.,  was  the  daughter  of  Prosper  and  Lucy 
(Curtis)  Nichols.  Her  ancestors  were  early  settlers  in 
Milford,  Conn. 

He  was  prepared  for  Yale  at  Stratford  Academy,  Strat- 
ford, Conn.  In  his  Sophomore  year  he  received  a  third 
prize  in  English  composition  and  a  Berkeley  Premium  for 
excellence  in  Latin  composition ;  in  his  Junior  year  he  was 
awarded  the  first  Winthrop  classical  prize.  His  Junior 
appointment  was  a  high  oration,  and  in  Senior  year  he  was 
given  an  oration.     He  was  a  member  of  Phi  Beta  Kappa. 

After  graduation  Mr.  Peck  taught  for  two  years  in  the 
Easton  (Conn.)  Academy.  In  1876  he  returned  to  Yale, 
where  he  spent  two  years  studying  French,  Greek,  and 
Latin  in  the  Graduate  Department,  and  received  the  degree 
of  Ph.D.  in  1878.  In  1879  he  was  made  principal  of  one 
of  the  public  schools  of  Derby  (then  Birmingham),  Conn., 
which  position  he  held  until  1893,  when  he  was  chosen  as 
superintendent  of  all  the  public  schools  of  Derby.  He  con- 
tinued in  that  position  until  1912,  when  he  retired.  He  was 
a  member  of  St.  James*  Protestant  Episcopal  Church, 
Derby. 

Mr.  Peck  died  in  Derby,  August  16,  1917,  after  a 
number  of  years  of  invalidism,  but  an  actual  illness  of  but 
two  weeks.     Burial  was  in  Nichols,  Conn. 

Mr.  Peck  was  unmarried  and  left  no  near  relatives. 


Wayland  Spaulding-,  B.A.   1874 

Born  September  26.  1850,  in  Townsend,  Mass. 
Died  April  17,  1918,  in  Colorado  Springs,  Cdo. 

Wayland  Spaulding,  son  of  Daniel  and  Lucy  Wyer 
(Clement)  Spaulding,  was  born  September  26,  1850,  in 
Townsend,  Mass.  Members  of  the  Spaulding  family 
removed  from  Spalding,  England,  to  America  early  in  the 
seventeenth  century  and  settled  in  Braintree,  Mass.  Daniel 
Spaulding  was  a  son  of  Isaac  and  Lucy  (Emery)  Spaul- 
ding, and  a  grandson  of  Lieutenant  Benjamin  Spaulding, 
of  the  Revolutionary  Army,  and  Mary  Heald  Spaulding. 


638  YALE    COLLEGE 

His  wife  was  the  daughter  of  John  and  Hannah  (Pierce) 
Clement,  and  a  descendant  of  Robert  Clement,  who  came 
to  this  country  from  Coventry,  England,  in  1642,  settling  at 
Haverhill,  Mass. 

He  was  prepared  for  Yale  at  Lawrence  Academy,  Gro- 
ton,  Mass.,  and  at  Williston  Seminary,  Easthampton,  Mass., 
where  he  was  class  poet  of  the  Class  of  1870.  At  Yale  he 
was  one  of  the  Junior  prize  speakers,  and  was  also  given  a 
third  prize  in  English  composition..  Having  received  an 
oration  appointment,  he  was  chosen  one  of  the  speakers  at 
Commencement,  and  was  a  member  of  Phi  Beta  Kappa. 

After  graduation  Mr.  Spaulding  went  to  Rockville, 
Conn.,  where  he  remained  four  years,  completely  reorgan- 
izing the  high  school,  and  sending  several  pupils  to  Yale, 
where  they  entered  without  conditions.  In  1878  Mr.  Spaul- 
ding became  principal  of  Morris  Academy,  Morristown, 
N.  J.,  where  he  remained  three  years.  He  then  entered  the 
Yale  Theological  Seminary,  at  the  same  time  serving  the 
First  Church  in  Cornwall,  Conn.  He  received  the  degree 
of  B.D.  in  1884.  He  then  went  to  Poughkeepsie,  N.  Y., 
where  he  was  ordained  and  installed  over  the  First  Con- 
gregational. Church.  During  the  twelve  years  of  this  pas- 
torate, he  presented  various  papers  before  the  Hudson 
River  Association.  He  was  moderator  of  this  body,  as  well 
as  of  several  councils,  and  was  also,  in  1890,  moderator  of 
the  New  York  State  Congregational  Association.  In  1896 
he  was  installed  pastor  of  the  Bedford  Park  Congrega- 
tional Church,  New  York  City,  where  he  served  until  1901, 
when  his  father's  last  illness  called  him  home  to  Town- 
send.  While  there  he  preached  in  Ayer,  Mass.  When  he 
returned  to  New  York  in  1904,  he  became  a  private  instruc- 
tor, preparing  young  men  and  women  for  college.  At  the 
same  time,  he  served  the  Church  of  the  Covenant  in  North 
Pelham,  N.^Y.,  for  six  years.  In  1912  he  became  instructor 
in  Greek  at  the  Horace  Mann  School,  Columbia  University. 
In  1903  he  traveled  through  Europe  as  far  as  Greece,  and 
he  went  abroad  again  in  1910.  In  1917  his  health  failed, 
and  he  went  to  live  in  Colorado  Springs,  Colo.,  with  his 
daughter.  He  died  there,  from  Bright's  disease,  April  17, 
1918.  Interment  was  in  the  Evergreen  Cemetery  at  Colo- 
rado Springs. 

Mr.  Spaulding  was  married  December  31,  1874,  in  New 
Haven,  Conn.,  to  Mary  Mead,  daughter  of  Rev.  Whitman 


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Peck  (B.A.  1838)  and  Ruth  Maria  (Keeler)  Peck  of 
that  city.  Their  daughter,  Leila  Clement,  is  the  wife  of 
Edward  Winans  Kent;  she  was  valedictorian  of  the  Class 
of  1899  at  Vassar  College,  and  received  the  degree  of  Ph.D. 
from  Columbia  in  191 1.  In  addition  to  his  wife  and  daugh- 
ter, Mr.  Spaulding  is  survived  by  a  sister.  His  brother, 
Randall  Spaulding  (B.A.  1870),  died  in  1916.  A  nephew, 
Raymond  C.  Spaulding,  graduated  from  Yale  in  1897. 


Charles  Benner,  B.A.  1876 

Born  July  31,  1855,  in  Astoria,  N.  Y. 
Died  June  19,  1918,  in  Englewood,  N.  J. 

Charles  Benner  was  born  at  Astoria,  Long  Island,  N.  Y., 
July  31,  1855,  his  parents  being  Robert  Benner  (B.A.  1842) 
and  Mary  VanAntwerp  (Shaw)  Benner.  His  father  was 
the  son  of  Jacob  and  Margaret  (Ferow)  Benner  and  the 
grandson  of  Hans  Velder  and  Alida  (Wietman)  Benner. 
The  American  progenitor  of  the  Benner  family  was  Valen^ 
tyn  Benner  (or  Bender),  who  came  from  Bavaria  about 
1680  to  escape  the  persecutions  which  Louis  XIV  was  car- 
rying on  against  the  Protestants.  He  settled  near  the 
present  town  of  Red  Hook,  N.  J.  Charles  Benner's 
maternal  grandparents  were  William  and  EHzabeth  (Van- 
Antwerp)  Shaw.  His  mother  was  the  granddaughter  of 
Jacobus  VanAntwerp,  whose  ancestors  were  among  the 
first-comers  from  Amsterdam  to  New  Amsterdam. 

He  was  fitted  for  Yale  at  Phillips  Academy,  Andover, 
Mass.  He  received  a  second  colloquy  appointment  at 
Junior  Exhibition. 

In  the  fall  after  graduation  he  entered  the  Columbia 
Law  School,  from  which  he  received  the  degree  of  LL.B. 
in  1878.  During  1876-77  he  also  studied  law  in  his  father's 
office,  and  the  next  year  with  Albert  Mathews  (B.A.  1842). 
He  then  opened  an  office  of  his  own  in  New  York  City,  con- 
tinuing in  independent  practice  until  January,  1885,  when 
he  became  associated  with  Edward  R.  Johnes  (B.A.  1873, 
LL.B.  Columbia  1876)  and  Henry  C.  Wilcox,  under  the 
firm  name  of  Johnes,  Benner  &  Wilcox.  When  his  father 
retired  from  practice  in  January,  1888,  Charles  Benner 
withdrew  from  the  firm,  and  formed  a  partnership  with 


640  YALE   COLLEGE 

his  brother,  WilUs  Benner  (B.A.  1880,  LL.B.  Columbia 
1881),  under  the  name  of  Benner  &  Benner.  He  continued 
in  this  connection  until  1902,  when  his  brother  went  into 
the  real  estate  business.  He  practiced  alone  until  19 16, 
when  the  condition  of  his  health  compelled  his  retirement. 
He  was  one  of  the  original  directors  of  the  Queens  County 
Bank  and  its  first  attorney  and  counsel.  He  was  connected 
with  many  corporate  enterprises,  and  was  particularly  inter- 
ested in  real  estate  in  the  New  York  district,  being  a 
director  in  the  East  River  Land  Company  and  the  Queens- 
boro  Street  Railroad  Company.  He  was  a  governor  of  the 
Boys'  Club  of  Englewood  and  had  served  on  the  committee 
of  the  Bureau  of  Associated  Relief.  In  1909  he  was 
offered  the  Republican  nomination  for  mayor  of  Engle- 
wood, but  declined  it.  He  belonged  to  St.  Paul's  Episcopal 
Church,  Englewood.  He  died  at  his  home  in  that  town, 
June  19,  1918,  after  a  lingering  illness  resulting  from  a 
stroke  of  apoplexy  suffered  in  January,  1916.  Burial  was 
in  Brookside  Cemetery,  Englewood. 

His  marriage  took  place  in  Astoria,  October  28,  1885,  to 
Gertrude,  daughter  of  Edward  Augustus  and  Mary  While- 
mina  (Bartow)  Whittemore.  She  survives  him  with  five 
children:  Paula,  who  was  married  November  4,  1908,  to 
David  Prince  Earle  (B.S.  Princeton  1905)  ;  Edward  Whit- 
temore (Ph.B.  1910) ;  Marion  Bartow,  whose  marriage  to 
Henry  Lee  Ferguson  (Ph.B.  1904)  took  place  June  28, 
1910;  Janet  Wells;  and  Charles  VanAntwerp,  a  non-grad- 
uate member  of  the  Sheffield  Class  of  1916,  who  served 
during  the  war  with  the  Naval  Aviation  Forces.  Another 
daughter,  Helen  Stanley,  died  June  3,  1904.  His  brother, 
Franklin  Benner,  was  a  special  student  in  the  Scientific 
School  during  1872-73.  Hildreth  Benner  (B.A.  1910)  is 
a  nephew. 


Elmer  Parker  Howe,  B.A.   1876 

Born  November  i,  1851,  in  Westboro,  Mass. 
Died  June  18,  1918,  in  Boston,  Mass. 

Elmer  Parker  Howe,  son  of  Archelaus  Matthias  and  H. 
Janette  (Brigham)  Howe,  was  born  November  i,  185 1,  in 
Westboro,  Mass.     He  was  descended  from  John  Howe,  of 


1876  641 

Duxbury,  Mass.,  one  of  the  early  settlers  of  Boston.  In 
the  spring  of  i860  his  family  moved  to  Worcester,  Mass., 
where  he  was  educated  in  the  public  schools  and  learned  the 
machinist's  trade  in  his  father's  shop.  From  1868  to  1871 
he  studied  at  the  Worcester  County  Free  Institute  of  Indus- 
trial Science  (now  the  Worcester  Polytechnic  Institute), 
receiving  the  degree  of  B.S.  in  the  latter  year.  He  studied 
with  Charles  R.  Lanman,  '71,  in  New  Haven  during  1871- 
y2,  and  then  entered  Yale.  In  Sophomore  year  he  was 
given  two  first  prizes  in  English  composition,  and  he 
received  a  Junior  dissertation  and  a  Senior  second  dispute 
appointment. 

He  studied  law  in  the  office  of  Hillard,  Hyde  &  Dickin- 
son in  Boston,  for  two  years  after  graduation,  at  the  same 
time  attending  lectures  at  the  Boston  University  Law 
School.  He  went  to  Worcester  in  the  summer  of  1878, 
and,  after  continuing  his  studies  in  the  office  of  Hoar  & 
Nelson,  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  September.  On  Janu- 
ary I,  1879,  ^^  was  made  junior  partner  in  the  firm  of 
Hillard,  Hyde  &  Dickinson.  The  following  June  the 
senior  partner  died,  and  the  firm  name  was  changed  to 
Hyde,  Dickinson  &  Howe.  In  1889  the  partnership  was 
discontinued  by  mutual  consent,  and  Mr.  Howe  afterwards 
practiced  alone,  making  patent  law  his  specialty.  From 
1881  to  191D  he  was  counsel  for  the  American  Trust  Com- 
pany of  Boston,  and  he  afterwards  continued  as  a  member 
of  its  directorate.  He  had  also  been  the  counsel  for  the 
Goodyear  Shoe  Machinery  Company.  He  was  one  of  the 
five  men  who  promoted  the  organization  of  the  United  Shoe 
Machinery  Company  in  1899,  and  afterwards  served  as  its 
counsel  and  a  member  of  its  board  of  directors  and  execu- 
tive committee,  continuing  in  this  capacity  until  his  death. 
Mr.  Howe  represented  the  Boston  Yale  Club  on  the  Alumni 
Advisory  Board  of  Yale  from  its  organization  to  1909, 
serving  as  a  member  of  its  executive  committee.  In  191 5 
he  resigned  as  a  trustee  of  the  Worcester  Polytechnic  Insti- 
tute. ^  He  belonged  to  the  Boston  Bar  Association  and  the 
American  Chemical  Society.  He  had  traveled  extensively 
in  this  country  and  abroad.  His  death  occurred  at  his  resi- 
dence in  Boston,  June  18,  1918.  He  had  been  in  poor 
health  for  some  years,  and  on  June  13  suffered  a  severe 
shock,  which  caused  his  death.  He  was  buried  in  his  native 
town. 


642  YALE   COLLEGE 

Mr.  Howe  had  not  married.     In  the  last  few  years  he 
had  made  his  home  in  Marblehead  much  of  the  time. 


Edgar  Jay  Lake,  B.A.  1876 

Born  October  30,  1856,  in  Chicago,  111. 
Died  May  2,  1918,  in  Hollywood,  Los  Angeles,  Calif. 

Edgar  Jay  Lake  was  born  in  Chicago,  111.,  October  30, 
1856,  the  son  of  David  Jay  Lake,  a  banker,  and  Mary  A. 
(Cushman)  Lake.  Through  his  father,  whose  parents 
were  EH  and  Ruth  (Hurd)  Lake,  he  traced  his  descent  to 
Edward  and  Anna  Leavenworth  Lake,  who  came  to 
America  in  1694  and  settled  at  New  Stratford.  His 
mother  was  the  daughter  of  Don  and  Celinda  (Matteson) 
Cushman  and  a  descendant  of  Robert  Cushman,  who  was 
born  in  England  about  1580,  went  to  Holland  for  religious 
freedom  in  1607,  and  came  to  Plymouth,  Mass.,  in  1621. 

His  boyhood  was  spent  in  Lake  Forest,  III,  and  he 
received  his  preparatory  training  at  the  Lake  Forest  Acad- 
emy. He  was  given  a  second  colloquy  appointment  in 
Junior  year. 

After  graduating  Mr.  Lake  went  to  Colorado,  becoming 
connected  with  C.  A.  Roberts  &  Company,  dealers  in  hard- 
ware at  Denver,  where  he  made  his  home  for  twenty  years. 
He  was  general  agent  of  the  Equitable  Accident  Insurance 
Company  of  Colorado  from  1892  to  1899.  During  the  next 
four  years  he  was  employed  as  a  United  States  deputy 
mineral  surveyor  at  Cripple  Creek,  Colo.  He  then  removed 
to  Manhattan,  Nev.,  where  he  continued  his  activities  in  the 
same  direction.  Since  1908  his  home  had  been  at  Holly- 
wood, Los  Angeles,  Calif.,  where  he  was  cashier  for  Th. 
VonRolf,  general  agent  for  Arizona  and  Nevada  of  the 
Northwestern  Mutual  Life  Insurance  Company.  He  had 
written  a  number  of  songs  and  church  anthems.  He  was 
killed  in  an  automobile  accident  at  Hollywood,  May  2,  1918. 
His  body  was  cremated. 

Mr.  Lake  was  married  March  i,  1892,  in  Denver,  to 
Estelle  D.,  daughter  of  Henry  W.  and  Statira  (Sears) 
Barr  of  Louisville,  Ky.  She  survives  him  with  their 
daughter,  Estelle  Daisy,  and  he  also  leaves  a  brother  and 
two  sisters.  Another  brother.  Wells  C.  Lake,  graduated 
from  the  Scientific  School  in  1875  and  died  the  next  year. 


1876  643 


Everett  James  McKnight,  B.A.  1876 

Born  June  12,  1855,  in  Ellington,  Conn. 
Died  December  25,  1917,  in  Hartford,  Conn. 

Everett  James  McKnight  was  born  in  Ellington,  Conn., 
June  12,  1855,  the  son  of  James  Dixon  McKnight,  a  farmer, 
whose  parents  were  Horace  and  Assenith  (Kimball) 
McKnight.  His  mother  was  Mary  Fidelia  (Thompson) 
McKnight,  daughter  of  John  and  Ann  (Ellsworth)  Thomp- 
son and  a  descendant  of  William  and  Margaret  Thompson. 
The  latter  emigrated  to  this  country  in  1720,  settling  in  that 
part  of  Windsor  which  is  now  known  as  Melrose.  On  the 
paternal  side,  he  was  descended  from  John  McKnight,  who 
came  to  New  Haven  from  Scotland  and,  as  a  merchant, 
later  removed  to  Hartford,  still  later  settling  on  a  farm  in 
Ellington. 

After  studying  for  a  time  at  Hall's  Family  School  in 
Ellington,  he  entered  Hopkins  Grammar  School  in  New 
Haven,  from  which  he  entered  college.  He  sang  on  the 
Yale  Glee  Club,  and  was  treasurer  of  the  Yale  Football 
Association  in  Sophomore  year,  secretary  the  next  year, 
and  president  in  Senior  year.  He  was  graduated  with  the 
Class,  and  during  1876-77  was  a  student  in  the  Yale  School 
of  Medicine.  He  then  went  to  the  College  of  Physicians 
and  Surgeons  at  Columbia  University,  where  he  received 
the  degree  of  Doctor  of  Medicine  in  February,  1879. 

Shortly  afterwards  he  began  the  practice  of  his  profes- 
sion in  East  Hartford,  Conn.,  removing  in  1893  to  Hart- 
ford, where  he  spent  the  remainder  of  his  life.  He  was 
appointed  orthopedic  surgeon  of  the  Hartford  Hospital  in 
1897,  assistant  surgeon  in  1899,  and  visiting  surgeon  in 
1900.  He  was  consulting  surgeon  to  the  Hartford  Orphan 
Asylum,  the  New  Britain  General  Hospital,  the  Middlesex 
Hospital  at  Middletown,  and  the  Johnson  Memorial  Hos- 
pital at  Stafford  Springs.  He  served  as  medical  director 
of  the  Hartford  Life  Insurance  Company  from  1899  to 
1904.  In  the  latter  year  he  gave  up  general  practice 
and  had  since  devoted  himself  almost  exclusively  to  sur- 
gery. He  was  one  of  the  trustees  and,  in  1904,  clerk  of  the 
national  legislative  council  of  the  American  Medical  Asso- 
ciation, a  prominent  member  of  the  American  Urological 
Society  and  the  New  England  Surgical  Society,  and  a  Fel- 
low of  the  American  College  of  Surgeons  and  the  New 


644  YALE   COLLEGE 

York  Academy  of  Medicine.  He  was  president  of  the 
State  Medical  Society  in  1908  and  of  the  City  Medical 
Society  from  19 14  until  his  death  and  had  also  been  presi- 
dent of  the  Hartford  County  Medical  Association.  At  the 
time  of  his  death  he  was  chairman  of  the  committee  on 
public  policy  and  legislation  of  the  State  Medical  Society. 
He  served  as  an  instructor  in  surgery  at  Yale  from  1906  to 
1908  and  the  University  conferred  the  honorary  degree  of 
Master  of  Arts  upon  him  in  1907.  In  1892  he  represented 
the  town  of  East  Hartford  in  the  Connecticut  General 
Assembly.  He  belonged  to  Immanuel  Congregational 
Church,  Hartford,  and  to  the  Connecticut  Historical  Soci- 
ety. He  died  as  the  result  of  angina  pectoris  at  his  home 
in  Hartford  on  December  25,  1917,  and  was  buried  in  the 
Center  Cemetery  at  Ellington.  His  death  was  due  largely 
to  overwork  in  connection  with  his  duties  as  acting  secre- 
tary of  the  Hartford  board  of  examiners  for  applicants  for 
the  Medical  Officers'  Reserve  Corps  and  as  a  member  of 
the  First  District  Exemption  Board,  the  Medical  Section 
of  the  State  Committee  of  the  Council  of  National  Defense, 
the  War  Board  of  the  American  Medical  Association,  and 
the  General  Medical  Board  of  the  Council  of  National 
Defense  and  its  sub-committee  on  Medical  Advisory 
Boards. 

Dr.  McKnight  was  married  February  8,  1881,  in  New 
Haven,  Conn.,  to  Aletha  Thompson,  daughter  of  David 
Beach  and  Jane  W.  (Dayton)  Linsley  of  that  city.  They 
had  one  daughter,  Rachel,  who,  with  Mrs.  McKnight,  sur- 
vives.    Two  brothers  are  also  living. 


Myron  Henry  Phelps,  B.A.   1876 

Born  April  2,  1856,  in  Lewiston,  III. 
Died  December  29,  1916,  in  Bombay,  India 

Myron  Henry  Phelps  was  the  son  of  Major  George 
Phelps  and  Cornelia  (Rogers)  Phelps  and  was  born  April 
2,  1856,  at  Lewiston,  111.  His  father,  who  was  engaged  in 
the  practice  of  law,  served  as  a  Paymaster  during  the  Civil 
War;  he  was  the  son  of  Myron  and  Adaline  (Rice)  Phelps 
and  a  descendant  of  George  Phelps,  who  settled  at  Dor- 
chester, Mass.,  in  1630,  having  emigrated  to  this  country 


1876  645 

from  Tewksbury,  England.  His  mother's  parents  were 
Peltiah  and  Mary  (Towle)  Rogers. 

He  received  his  early  education  at  private  schools  in  Elm- 
wood,  111.,  and  New  Albany,  Ind.,  and  in  1872  entered  the 
University  of  Michigan,  where  he  spent  two  years.  He 
joined  the  Yale  Class  of  1876  at  the  beginning  of  Junior 
year.  He  was  a  member  of  Phi  Beta  Kappa  and  received 
Townsend  and  College  premiums  in  English  composition 
and  a  high  oration  appointment  in  Senior  year. 

He  remained  at  Yale  for  a  year  following  his  graduation, 
winning  the  John  Addison  Porter  Prize  in  1877.  He  was 
then  employed  by  the  United  States  Civil  Engineering 
Service  at  St.  Louis  for  several  years,  going  from  there  in 
1882  to  Washington,  D.  C,  where  for  about  a  year  he  was 
a  member  of  the  examining  corps  of  the  Patent  Office.  In 
the  meantime  he  had  been  studying  law,  and  in  1884 
received  the  degree  of  LL.B.  from  George  Washington 
University.  He  continued  his  studies  in  New  York  City 
the  following  year,  and  in  1885  was  given  a  similar  degree 
at  Cokimbia.  Shortly  afterwards  he  began  practice  in  Chi- 
cago, remaining  there  until  the  spring  of  1887  as  a  member 
of  the  firm  of  Offield,  Towle  &  Phelps.  For  the  next 
eleven  years  he  followed  his  profession  in  New  York  City, 
where  he  made  a  specialty  of  patent  law  and  built  up  an 
extensive  practice.  In  1898  he  retired  for  the  purpose  of 
giving  his  time  to  literary  and  kindred  pursuits,  but  in  1902, 
after  spending  two  years  in  Germany,  Austria,  Italy,  and 
Greece,  and  some  months  in  Mexico,  he  resumed  the  prac- 
tice of  law  in  New  York  City,  in  which  he  continued  until 
1909.  Of  late  years  he  had  devoted  nearly  all  of  his  time 
and  energy  to  the  amelioration  of  industrial  conditions  in 
British  India  and  to  deep  studies  in  the  Indian  philosophies. 
He  was  at  one  time  president  of  the  Society  for  the 
Advancement  of  India.  The  India  House  in  New  York 
City  was  opened  in  1908,  under  his  direction,  to  give  stu- 
dents from  India  an  opportunity  to  learn  industrial  methods, 
but  the  institution  was  closed  at  the  end  of  that  year.  He 
died  December  29,  1916,  in  Bombay,  India,  where  he  had 
been  living  for  about  seven  years.  His  death  followed  an 
illness  of  several  months'  duration  due  to  tuberculosis.  His 
body  was  cremated  at  Bombay  and  the  ashes  consigned  to 
the  sea.  His  will  was  admitted  to  probate  in  New  York 
County  in  July,  191 7. 


646  YALE   COLLEGE 

Mr.  Phelps  was  married  April  13,  1885,  in  Quincy,  111., 
to  Lucy,  daughter  of  James  R.  Dayton.  They  had  been 
separated  for  some  years.  They  had  no  children.  Mr. 
Phelps  is  survived  by  five  brothers  and  two  sisters. 


Henry  Sabin  Chase,  B.A.  1877 

Born  October  i,  1855,  in  Waterbury,  Conn. 
Died  March  4,  1918,  in  Waterbury,  Conn. 

Henry  Sabin  Chase  was  born  in  Waterbury,  Conn., 
October  i,  1855.  His  father,  Augustus  Sabin  Chase,  was 
a  prominent  banker  and  manufacturer  in  Waterbury,  and 
was  descended  from  old  Windham  County  farming  stock, 
his  earliest  American  ancestor,  William  Chase,  having  come 
from  Cornwall,  England,  in  1630,  with  the  Winthrop  col- 
ony and  settled  at  Roxbury,  Mass.  His  mother  was  Martha 
(Starkweather)  Chase,  of  Chesterfield,  Mass.,  also  of  old 
New  England  stock,  but  more  professional  in  character,  her 
father  and  grandfather  having  been  doctors. 

Mr.  Chase  was  prepared  for  college  at  the  Gunnery 
School  at  Washington,  Conn.,  at  the  Hopkins  Grammar 
School  in  New  Haven,  and  by  a  private  tutor. 

After  his  graduation  from  Yale  in  1877,  he  became  a 
minor  officer  of  the  Holmes,  Booth  &  Hayden  Company,  of 
which  his  father  was  president.  Meanwhile  his  father  had 
become  interested  in  a  small  concern,  originally  the  United 
States  Button  Company,  which  later  became  the  Waterbury 
Manufacturing  Company.  In  1879  ^^^s  concern  passed  into 
the  ownership  of  Augustus  S.  Chase,  his  son,  Henry  Sabin 
Chase,  and  Mr.  Charles  F.  Pope,  Henry  Chase  being  elected 
secretary  of  the  company.  When  Mr.  Pope  decided  in 
1884  to  go  to  New  York,  his  interest  in  the  Waterbury 
Manufacturing  Company  was  bought  by  Mr.  Chase  and  his 
father  on  the  basis  of  equal  ownership.  After  his  father's 
death  in  1896,  the  business  had  become  so  large  that  in 
1900  the  Chase  Rolling  Mill  Company  was  created,  prin- 
cipally to  manufacture  the  brass  which  was  needed  by  the 
Waterbury  Manufacturing  Company  and  the  Waterbury 
Clock  Company.  By  19 14  the  Chase  Metal  Works  were  in 
operation,  and  in  1917  the  many  thousands  of  employees 
were  brought  under  the  Chase  Companies,  Inc.,  which 
includes    the    Waterbury    Manufacturing    Company,    the 


1876-1877  647 

Chase  Rolling  Mill  Company,  and  the  Chase  Metal  Works, 
Inc.  Mr.  Chase  was  also  president  of  the  Waterbury 
National  Bank,  of  which  his  father  was  president  for  thirty- 
two  years  and  in  which  he  has  been  succeeded  by  his 
brother,  Irving  H.  Chase  (B.A.  1880)  ;  the  American 
Printing  Company  (publishers  of  the  Waterbury  Amer- 
ican) ;  and  the  Great  Brook  Manufacturing  Company.  He 
was  vice  president  of  the  Oakville  Company,  and  a  director 
in  the  Waterbury  Clock  Company,  the  Waterbury  Gas 
Light  Company,  the  American  Mills  Company,  the  Smith  & 
Griggs  Manufacturing  Company,  the  Waterbury  Buckle 
Company,  and  the  New  Haven  Bank.  He  was  a  director 
of  the  Waterbury  Hospital  and  treasurer  of  the  Waterbury 
sinking  fund.  Mr.  Chase  was  a  member  of  the  Elizabethan 
Club  at  Yale  and  belonged  to  St.  John's  Church  parish, 
Waterbury. 

He  died  March  4,  1918,  at  the  Waterbury  Hospital,  fol- 
lowing an  operation  for  appendicitis.  He  was  buried  in 
Riverside  Cemetery,  Waterbury. 

He  was  married  in  that  city  April  4,  1889,  to  Alice, 
daughter  of  Thomas  Campbell  and  Jennie  (Hall)  Morton. 
Five  children  were  born  to  them:  Mildred,  now  the  wife 
of  Richard  Duncan  Ely  of  Watarbury;  Edith  Morton; 
Anne,  who  was  married  October  8,  1913,  to  Alfred  Hart 
(B.A.  1903)  of  Waterbury;  Katherine,  now  the  wife  of 
Dr.  Edgar  Stillman  of  New  York;  and  Rodney.  The 
latter  was  a  member  of  the  Class  of  1920  at  Yale  until  his 
enlistment  in  the  Naval  Aviation  Service.  Besides  his  wife 
and  five  children,  Mr.  Chase  is  survived  by  two  brothers, 
Irving  H.  Chase  (B.A.  1880)  and  Frederick  S.  Chase 
(B.A.  1887),  and  three  sisters,  Miss  Helen  E.  Chase,  Mary 
(Chase)  Kimball,  wife  of  Arthur  R.  Kimball  (B.A.  1877), 
and  AHce  (Chase)  Streeter,  wife  of  Edward  C,  Streeter 
(B.A.  1898).  He  was  an  uncle  of  Augustus  Sabin  Chase, 
1920,  and  Edmund  Rowland  Chase,  1921. 


Theodore  Peet,  B.A.  1877 

Born  February  20,  1856,  in  Sheffield,  Mass. 
Died  May  5,  1918,  in  Winchester,  Mass. 

Theodore   Peet,   son  of   Edward   and   Hulda    (Ensign) 
Peet,  was  born  in  Sheffield,  Mass.,  February  20,  1856.     His 


648  YALE   COLLEGE 

father,  who  was  the  son  of  Harvey  Prindle  Peet  (B.A. 
1822,  LL.D.  University  of  the  State  of  New  York  1849, 
Ph.D.  Gallaudet  1871)  and  Margaret  Maria  (Lewis)  Peet 
and  the  grandson  of  Rev.  Dr.  Isaac  Lewis  (B.A.  1794),  was 
an  instructor  in  the  New  York  Institute  for  the  Deaf  and 
Dumb.  He  was  prepared  for  college  at  the  South  Berk- 
shire Institute,  New  Marlboro,  Mass.,  and  at  Wesleyan 
Academy,  Wilbraham,  Mass. 

From  1877  until  1882  Mr.  Peet  studied  piano  and  musical 
theory  in  New  York  with  Mr.  O.  B.  Boise ;  during  one  year 
of  this  period  he  taught  in  the  New  York  Institute  for  the 
Deaf  and  Dumb,  of  which  his  uncle,  Isaac  L.  Peet,  who 
graduated  from  Yale  in  1845,  was  principal.  In  1882  he 
went  to  Europe  to  continue  the  study  of  music,  spending 
three  years  in  Berlin  and  four  in  Vienna.  In  1889  he 
returned  to  New  York  and  afterwards  taught  music  and 
studied  at  Columbia  for  a  time.  He  was  an  instructor  in 
St.  John's  School,  Manlius,  N.  Y.,  from  1895  to  1899.  He 
then  taught  successively  at  Rollins  College,  Winter  Park, 
Fla.,  and  at  Washington  College,  Chestertown,  Md.,  as  head 
of  the  department  of  modern  languages  in  each  case.  For 
several  years  his  home  had  been  at  Winchester,  Mass., 
where  he  was  engaged  in  private  tutoring  and  where  he  died 
May  5,  19 1 8,  after  a  hngering  illness.  He  had  never 
married. 


Charles  Edwin  Briggs,  B.A.  1878 

Born  May  15,  1856,  in  Rockford,  111. 
Died  October  29,  1917,  at  Lake  Charles,  La. 

Charles  Edwin  Briggs,  son  of  Chester  Clinton  and  Maria 
Emeline  (Peck)  Briggs,  was  born  May  15,  1856,  in  Rock- 
ford,  111.,  where  his  father  was  engaged  in  business  as  a 
banker  and  manufacturer.  Mr.  Briggs'  parents  were 
Joseph  and  Lucy  (Washburne)  Briggs.  His  earhest 
American  ancestor  came  from  England  to  Dover,  Vt.,  about 
1775.  His  wife,  also  of  English  descent,  was  the  daughter 
of  Moses  and  Nancy  (Cass)  Peck  of  Montpelier,  Vt. 

Charles  Briggs  was  prepared  for  Yale  at  Rockford  under 
the  tuition  of  Rev.  Wilder  Smith  (B.A.  1857).  He 
received  first  colloquy  appointments  in  Jimior  and  Senior 
years  and  was  a  member  of  Linonia. 


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For  some  years  after  graduation  he  was  connected  with 
the  Briggs  &  Enoch  Manufacturing  Company,  manufac- 
turers of  agricultural  implements,  of  Rockford,  as  treas- 
urer. In  1885  he  removed  to  Beatrice,  Nebr.,  and  until 
March,  1892,  was  engaged  in  the  retail  boot  and  shoe  busi- 
ness. He  then  returned  to  Rockford,  and  entered  the  fire 
insurance  business.  He  continued  in  this  line  of  work  until 
1900,  when  he  became  cashier  of  the  Calcasieu  Bank  of 
Lake  Charles,  La.  In  March,  1903,  he  took  the  position  of 
manager  for  the  Fox  Typewriter  Company,  Ltd.,  of  Chi- 
cago, 111.  He  was  in  their  employ  for  three  years,  and  then 
became  connected  with  the  A.  N.  Marquis  Company,  pub-^ 
Ushers  of  Who's  Who  in  America,  living  successively  in 
St.  Louis,  Detroit,  Chicago,  Boston,  and  New  York  City. 
His  death  occurred  October  29,  19 17,  at  Lake  Charles, 
from  heart  failure,  following  an  attack  of  the  grippe.  He 
was  buried  in  Orange  Grove  Cemetery  at  Lake  Charles. 

Mr.  Briggs  was  a  member  of  St.  James'  Protestant  Epis- 
copal Church  of  Chicago.  He  was  married  June  21,  1883, 
in  Vinton,  Iowa,  to  Anna,  daughter  of  William  Martin  and 
Jennie  (Hawkins)  Loree.  They  had  one  son,  Clinton 
Loree,  who,  with  Mrs.  Briggs,  survives. 


George  Louis  Curtis,  B.A.  1878 

Born  May  21,  1855,  in  Adrian,  Mich. 
Died  July  11,  1917,  in  Simsbury,  Conn. 

George  Louis  Curtis  was  born  in  Adrian,  Mich.,  May  21, 
1855,  the  son  of  Rev.  George  Camp  Curtis,  D.D.,  a  grad- 
uate of  Illinois  College  in  1839  and  of  Lane  Theological 
Seminary  a  few  years  later.  The  latter  was  the  son  of 
Lewis  and  Abigail  (Camp)  Curtis  and  a  descendant  of 
Thomas  Curtis,  who  settled  at  Wethersfield,  Conn.,  in  1639, 
having  come  to  America  from  Stratford-on-Avon  some 
little  time  before.  He  was  a  clergyman  of  the  Presbyterian 
Church,  half  of  his  life  being  spent  in  the  West  and  the 
remainder  in  New  York  State;  Hamilton  College  in  1852 
conferred  the  degree  of  Doctor  of  Divinity  upon  him.  He 
married  Persis  Catherine,  daughter  of  Leonard  and  Persis 
(Dodd)  Woods.  She  also  was  of  English  descent,  tracing 
her  ancestry  to  the  Woods  family,  early  settlers  at  Enfield, 
Mass.,  and  to  the  Dodd  family,  who  arrived  in  Boston 


650  YALE   COLLEGE 

about  1646.  She  was  a  member  of  the  first  class  to  gradu- 
ate from  Mount  Holyoke  Seminary  (now  College)  and 
was  afterwards  associated  in  teaching  with  Mary  Lyon. 

Their  son  received  his  early  education  at  the  Elmira 
(N.  Y.)  Free  Academy  and  at  the  Hopkins  Grammar 
School  in  New  Haven,  and  also  spent  two  years  in  travel 
and  study  on  the  Continent.  He  entered  Yale  with  the 
Class  of  1877,  but  was  obliged  to  withdraw  at  the  end  of 
Freshman  year  on  account  of  serious  trouble  with  his.  eyes. 
He  joined  the  Class  of  1878  at  the  beginning  of  its  Sopho- 
more year.  He  was  one  of  the  winners  of  the  Scott  Prize 
in  Junior  year  and  received  a  second  prize  at  the  Junior 
Exhibition.  His  appointments  were  philosophical  orations. 
He  belonged  to  Phi  Beta  Kappa,  and  was  a  Commencement 
speaker. 

During  the  winter  following  his  graduation,  Mr.  Curtis 
worked  in  a  commission  house  in  New  York  City,  being 
unable  to  continue  his  studies  on  account  of  serious  eye 
trouble.  In  1879  he  went  abroad  for  his  health,  remaining 
for  nearly  two  years.  On  his  return  he  spent  several 
months  in  Colorado.  From  November,  1883,  to  June,  1889, 
he  was  connected  with  the  Hampton  Normal  and  Agri- 
cultural Institute  at  Hampton,  Va.,  serving  during  the 
latter  part  of  the  period  as  commandant.  He  then  spent 
a  year  abroad,  mainly  for  the  purpose  of  undergoing  treat- 
ment for  his  eyes  in  Paris.  From  1890  to  1892  he  studied 
at  Union  Theological  Seminary  in  New  York,  graduating 
in  the  spring  of  1892.  He  was  licensed  to  preach  in  April, 
1892,  and  for  the  next  year  was  located  at  Rochester,  N.  Y., 
supplying  pulpits  in  that  vicinity.  He  was  ordained  there 
in  April,  1893,  as  a  Presbyterian  minister.  Mr.  Curtis 
served  as  pastor  of  the  Park  (now  the  Babcock  Memorial) 
Church  of  Baltimore,  Md.,  from  1893  to  1900.  From 
March,  1900,  until  his  death,  he  was  pastor  of  the  First 
Presbyterian  Church  of  Bloomfield,  N.  J.  He  was  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Board  of  Home  Missions  of  the  Presbyterian 
Church,  vice  president  and  director  of  the  Bloomfield  Theo- 
logical Seminary,  and  a  member  of  the  Presbytery  of 
Newark,  N.  J.  He  belonged  to  Kappa  Chi  (a  ministerial 
club  of  Newark)  and  had  contributed  numerous'  articles 
to  journals  and  newspapers.  Dr.  Curtis  was  a  leading 
citizen  of  Bloomfield,  prominent  in  the  organization  and 
work  of  all  the  philanthropic  and  patriotic  activities  of  the 
town,  and  one  of  the  original  members  of  the  local  chapter 


1878  651 

of  the  Red  Cross.  In  1909  he  received  an  honorary  D.D. 
at  Rutgers  College.  He  was  taken  ill  with  heart  trouble 
in  the  spring  of  191 7,  and  died  on  the  eleventh  of  July  in 
Simsbury,  Conn.,  where  the  last  few  months  of  his  life 
were  spent.     Burial  was  in  the  Simsbury  Cemetery. 

He  was  married  in  Simsbury,  October  29,  1907,  to 
Genevieve  Phelps,  daughter  of  Horace  Wolcott  Robbins 
(B.A.  Newton  University  1858)  and  Mary  Ayres  (Phelps) 
Robbins.  They  had  no  children.  Mrs.  Curtis  was  the 
sister  of  George  P.  Robbins  and  Wolcott  P.  Robbins, 
graduates  of  the  College  in  1891  and  1896,  respectively,  and 
the  sister-in-law  of  Dr.  T.  Stuart  Hart,  also  a  member  of 
the  Class  of  1891.  Besides  his  wife.  Dr.  Curtis  is  survived 
by  two  sisters,  Mrs.  Susan  Curtis  Redfield,  a  graduate  of 
Elmira  College  and  the  wife  of  Professor  Henry  S.  Red- 
field  (B.A.  Amherst  1877),  of  Columbia  University,  and 
Miss  Clara  K.  Curtis,  of  Rochester. 


Stanley  Walker  Dexter,  B.A.  1878 

Born  October  3,  1857,  in  London,  England 
Died  March  24,  1918,  in  New  York  City- 
Stanley  Walker  Dexter,  son  of  Henry  Stanley  and  Annie 
Breeze  (Walker)  Dexter,  was  born  October  3,  1857,  in 
London,  England.  His  father  was  a  civil  engineer,  most 
of  his  life  being  spent  in  New  York  and  California;  he 
was  the  son  of  Normand  and  Ruth  (Stanley)  Dexter  and 
a  descendant  of  Thomas  Dexter,  who  came  from  England 
in  1630  and  settled  at  Lynn  and  Sandwich,  Mass.  His 
mother's  parents  were  Thomas  Reed  Walker,  at  one  time 
mayor  of  Utica,  N.  Y.,  and  Sarah  Ann  (Breeze)  Walker. 
The  Walkers  were  early  settlers  in  Massachusetts,  Philip 
Walker,  who  died  at  Rehoboth,  Mass.,  in  1679,  being  the 
pioneer  member  of  the  family.  Mrs.  Dexter's  great-great- 
grandfather, Sidney  Breeze  (i 709-1 767),  came  to  New 
York  in  the  middle  of  the  eighteenth  century.  The  family 
is  Welsh,  originally  Ap  Rhys.  An  ancestor  of  Stanley 
Dexter,  Jonathan  Dexter,  fought  in  the  Revolution,  serving 
in  the  Connecticut  line  for  nearly  a  year. 

His  youth  was  spent  mainly  in  San  Francisco,  but  he  was 
fitted  for  college  at  the  Hopkins  Grammar  School  in  New 


652  YALE   COLLEGE 

Haven.  He  received  two  prizes  in  Latin  composition 
Freshman  year,  Junior  and  Senior  high  oration  appoint- 
ments, and  an  election  to  Phi  Beta  Kappa.  He  was  one  of 
the  historians  at  the  Freshman  Class  Supper,  a  member  of 
the  Class  Glee  Club  and  of  the  committee  in  charge  of  the 
fall  regatta  Junior  year,  and  a  Commencement  speaker. 

After  spending  a  year  traveling  in  Europe  and  the  East, 
he  began  the  study  of  law.     He  attended  Columbia  Uni- 
versity  and    Hamilton    College    and   in    1881    opened    an 
office  as  an  attorney  at  law  in  New  York  City.    About  1882 
he  formed  a  partnership  with  Charles  E.  Whitehead,  the 
firm  being  Whitehead  &  Dexter.     In  1884  James  Parker 
was  admitted  as  a  member  of  the  firm  and  the  name  changed 
to  Whitehead,  Parker  &  Dexter.     In  1890  this  firm  was 
succeeded  by  that  of  Whitehead,  Dexter  &  Osborn,  and  in 
1899  the  name  was  changed  to  Whitehead,  Dexter,  Osborn 
&  Gillespie,  and  in  1901   became  Dexter,  Osborn  &  Gil- 
lespie.    Since  1904  Mr.  Dexter  had  been  head  of  the  firm 
of  Dexter,  Osborn  &  Fleming,  in  which  his  partners  were 
William  Church  Osborn,  Matthew  C.  Fleming,  and  George 
W.    Whittlesey.      His    practice   had   been   largely    in    real 
estate  and  the  law  of  trusts  and  wills,  and  he  had  served 
as  general  counsel  for  the  Children's  Aid  Society  and  other 
charitable  organizations.    Since  1898  he  had  been  a  referee 
in  bankruptcy.  .  He  was  for  some  years  director  and  chair- 
man  of   the   law   committees    of    the   Allied   Real   Estate 
Industries.     Mr.  Dexter  belonged  to  the  American,  State, 
and  City  Bar  associations,  and  from  1906  to  1914  was  a 
member   of   the   committee   on   federal   legislation   of   the 
Association  of  the  Bar  of  the  City  of  New  York,  being 
its  secretary  from  1910  to  1913  and  chairman  the  next  year. 
He  was  president  and  a  director  of  the  VanBuren  Land 
Company  and  a  vice  president  and  director  of  the  Mutual 
Trust  Company  of  Westchester  County.    In  1897  he  served 
on  the  committee  on  organization  of  the  Citizens'  Union. 
He  attended  St.  George's  Protestant  Episcopal  Church  in 
New  York  City,  and  was  a  vestryman  of  Christ  Church, 
Oyster  Bay,  N.  Y.,  in  which  town  he  had  a  summer  home. 
He  was  a  member  of  the  American  Society  of  International 
Law,  the  Sons  of   the  Revolution,  and  the  St.   Nicholas 
Society.     He  went  abroad  in  1905.     He  died  from  a  com- 
plication of  diseases  March  24,  1918,  at  his  home  in  New 
York  City,  and  was  buried  in  Laurel  Hill  Cemetery,  Utica, 
N.  Y. 


1878  653 

His  marriage  took  place  September  10,  1884,  in  Benicia, 
Calif.,  to  Gabrielle  Manigault,  daughter  of  Colonel  Julian 
McAllister,  U.  S.  A.,  and  Elizabeth  Manigault  (Butler) 
McAllister.  They  had  three  children :  Gabriella  Manigault, 
who  was  married  on  August  9,  1909,  to  Thomas  Wentworth 
Pierce  (B.A.  Harvard  1900)  ;  Julian  Stanley,  a  non-gradu- 
ate member  of  the  Class  of  1918  S.,  who  was  discharged 
as  a  Second  Lieutenant  in  the  Air  Service  early  in  1919; 
and  Sidney  Breeze,  who  took  his  B.A.  at  Yale  in  1919.  His 
wife,  daughter,  and  two  sons  survive. 


Thomas  Ephraim  Mower,  B.A.   1878 

Born  October  6,  1855,  in  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 
Died  February  28,  1918,  in  Bartlesville,  Okla. 

Thomas  Ephraim  Mower  was  born  October  6,  1855,  in 
Brooklyn,  N.  Y.,  his  parents  being  Ephraim  and  Margaret 
S.  (Laidlaw)  Mower.  He  received  his  preliminary  edu- 
cation at  a  school  in  Brooklyn  and  at  the  Litchfield  (Conn.) 
Institute.  He  joined  the  Yale  Class  of  1878  in  October, 
1875.  He  was  a  member  of  Linonia,  served  on  the  Senior 
Promenade  Committee,  was  treasurer  of  the  University 
Baseball  Team,  and  won  the  Senior  440-yard  race  in  the 
spring  games  in  1878. 

The  first  year  after  graduation  he  spent  in  the  office  of 
an  insurance  broker  and  from  1879  to  1882  he  was  engaged 
in  the  cotton  brokerage  'business  in  New  York  City.  He 
was  afterwards,  for  some  years,  engaged  in  the  railway 
mail  service.  He  later  became  interested  in  the  Mine  Hill 
Stone-quarries,  operated  by  the  firm  of  E.  Mower  &  Com- 
pany at  Roxbury,  Conn.  In  September,  1897,  he  moved 
to  South  Norwalk,  Conn.,  and  for  the  next  two  years  was 
engaged  in  the  granite  business  in  that  town.  From  1899 
to  1901  he  lived  at  Corsicana,  Texas,  but  in  May  of  the 
latter  year  he  removed  to  Beaumont,  Texas,  there  becoming 
a  contractor  for  oil  and  water-wells.  At  this  time  he  was 
secretary  and  treasurer  of  the  Beaumont  Tank  Company. 
He  returned  to  Corsicana  in  1905,  his  home  being  in  that 
town  for  the  remainder  of  his  life.  He  also  had  business 
interests  in  Tulsa  and  Bartlesville,  Okla.  He  died  at 
Bartlesville  February  28,  1918.    Interment  was  in  Corsicana. 

Mr.  Mower  was  a  member  of  the  Protestant  Episcopal 


654  YALE   COLLEGE 

Church.     In  1891  he  represented  the  town  of  Roxbury  in 
the  Connecticut  Legislature. 

He  was  married  November  29,  1892,  in  New  York  City, 
to  Jessie  Frances,  daughter  of  Austin  D.  and  Julia  M. 
Burritt  of  Roxbury.    They  had  one  son,  Robert  Lefferts. 


Clinton  Spencer,  B.A.  1878 

Born  January  2,  1856,  in  Suffield,  Conn, 
Died  December  18,  1917,  in  Suffield,  Conn. 

Clinton  Spencer  was  one  of  the  eight  children  of  Alfred 
and  Caroline  Frances  (Reid)  Spencer,  and  was  born  Jan- 
uary 2,  1856,  in  Suffield,  Conn.  His  father,  a  farmer  and 
dealer  in  tobacco,  was  the  son  of  Alfred  and  Harriet  (King) 
Spencer.  He  was  descended  from  Thomas  Spencer,  an 
Englishman,  who  settled  first  at  Cambridge,  Mass.,  and 
later  at  Hartford,  Conn.,  and  whose  son  Thomas  was  one 
of  Suffield's  first  settlers.  Seven  other  ancestors  were 
voters  at  the 'first  town  meeting,  and  part  of  the  present 
family  homestead  has  not  been  out  of  the  family  since  its 
original  allotment  about  1672,  the  house  in  which  Clinton 
Spencer  lived  and  died  having  been  built  in  1726.  His 
maternal  grandparents  were  Samuel  and  Eudocia  (Taintor) 
Reid.  The  Reids  were  also  English,  the  first  member  of 
the  family  to  settle  in  this  country  being  John  Reade,  who 
came  to  Freetown  (now  Fall  River),  Mass.,  between  1625 
and  1640.  Eudocia  Taintor  was  •  descended  from  Charles 
Taintor,  who  settled  at  Fairfield,  Conn.,  in  1643,  having 
emigrated  to  America  from  Wales. 

Clinton  Spencer  entered  Yale  in  1873  from  the  Connect- 
icut Literary  Institution  of  Suffield.  After  spending  two 
years  with  the  Class  of  1877,  he  was  forced  to  withdraw 
from  college  because  of  ill  health.  He  joined  the  Class 
of  1878  in  Junior  year,  and  received  second  colloquy 
appointments. 

From  1878  to  1880  he  was  a  student  in  the  School  of 
Law,  being  given  the  degree  of  LL.B.  in  1881.  He  was 
admitted  to  the  Connecticut  Bar  in  1881,  and  practiced  law 
in  the  office  of  Johnson  &  Prentice  in  Hartford  for  the 
next  three  years.  He  served  as  assistant  clerk  of  the  Con- 
necticut House  of  Representatives  in  the  winter  of  1879, 


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as  clerk  the  next  year,  and  as  clerk  of  the  Senate  in  1881. 
He  was  engaged  in  the  leaf  tobacco  business  in  St.  Paul, 
Minn.,  from  1884  to  1896,  being  in  partnership  with  Mr. 
George  Mitchelson.  Because  of  ill  health  he  returned  to 
Suffield  in  January,  1896,  and  for  the  next  four  years  was 
an  agent  for  the  yEtna  Life  Insurance  Company.  In 
November,  1898,  he  was  elected  to  the  lower  house  of  the 
Connecticut  Legislature,  and  during  his  term  of  office  he 
served  as  chairman  of  the  railroad  committee.  From  1898 
to  1905  he  was  superintendent  of  the  Suffield  schools. 
Since  October,  1900,  he  had  been  engaged  in  the  grain, 
lumber,  coal,  and  general  farm  merchandise  business  with 
his  brother,  Samuel  R.  Spencer  (B.A.  1893),  the  business 
being  conducted  under  the  name  of  Spencer  Brothers  and 
later  as  Spencer  Brothers,  Inc.,  of  which  he  was  president. 
He  was  a  director  of  the  First  National  Bank,  the  Suffield 
Savings  Bank,  and  the  Suffield  School,  and  was  a  member 
of  the  Second  Baptist  Church.  His  death  occurred  Decem- 
ber 18,  1917,  at  his  home  in  Suffield,  after  a  short  illness 
of  pneumonia.  He  was  buried  in  Woodlawn  Cemetery  at 
Suffield. 

Mr.  Spencer  was  unmarried.  Two  brothers,  one  of  whom 
has  already  been  mentioned,  and  a  sister  survive.  He  was 
a  cousin  of  George  D.  Reid  (B.A.  1874)  and  T.  Henry 
Spencer  (Ph.B.  1879)  and  an  uncle  of  William  S.  Fuller 
(B.A.  1907)  and  J.  Robert  Montgomery,  2d  (Ph.B.  1912). 


Ambrose  Lee  Wager,  B.A.  1878 

Born  May  5,  1858,  in  Rhinebeck,  N.  Y. 
Died  October  31,  1917,  in  Rhinebeck,  N.  Y. 

Ambrose  Lee  Wager  was  born  May  5,  1858,  in  Rhine- 
beck, N.  Y.,  the  son  of  Ambrose  and  Eliza  (Farless) 
Wager.  His  father,  who  graduated  from  Union  College 
in  1839  and  afterwards  practiced  law  in  Rhinebeck,  was 
the  son  of  Barnet  and  Lucy  (Collin)  Wager;  his  great- 
grandfather came  from  Baden-Baden,  Germany,  in  1740, 
and  settled  at  Claverack  and  Ghent,  Columbia  County, 
N.  Y.  His  mother's  parents  were  Thomas  Farless,  an 
Englishman,  and  Eliza  (Conant)  Farless  of  HoUis,  N.  H., 
a   direct   descendant   of   Roger   Conant,   who   came   from 


656  YALE    COLLEGE 

Budleigh,  England,  to  Plymouth,  Mass.,  in  1623,  and 
moved  to  Salem  in  1626. 

He  prepared  for  college  at  the  DeGarmo  Institute  in 
Rhinebeck.  He  served  on  the  Junior  Promenade  Com- 
mittee and  was  an  editor  of  the  Yale  Index  in  Senior  year. 

From  1878  to  1880  he  studied  law  in  his  father's  office 
and  then  began  practice  in  Rhinebeck.  He  was  a  member 
of  the  Dutchess  County  Bar  and  served  as  legal  repre- 
sentative for  many  prominent  families  having  estates  in 
the  county.  He  was  a  director  of  the  First  National  Bank 
and  the  Savings  Bank,  a  vestryman  of  the  Church  of  the 
Messiah,  and  a  member  of  the  Dutchess  County  Society. 

Mr.  Wager's  death  occurred  October  31,  191 7,  at  his 
home  in  Rhinebeck,  as  the  result  of  a  stroke  of  paralysis. 
Interment  was  in  the  Rhinebeck  Cemetery.  He  was  unmar- 
ried, and  is  survived  by  his  sister. 


Henry  Lincoln  Rowland,  B.A.   1879 

Born  July  3,  1858,  in  Southport,  Conn. 
Died  January  18,  1918,  in  Waterbury,  Conn. 

Henry  Lincoln  Rowland  was  born  July  3,  1858,  in  South- 
port,  Conn.,  the  son  of  Samuel  Sherwood  and  Emily  Cole 
(Thorp)  Rowland,  whose  father,  Eliphalet  Thorp,  served 
as  a  Captain  in  the  Revolutionary  War.  His  father  was  a 
farmer  of  Fairfield  County,  to  which  place  the  first  Ameri- 
can ancestor  of  the  family  came  with  its  original  settlers 
in  1639.  The  family  removed  soon  after  the  birth  of 
Henry  L.  Rowland  to  Weston,  Conn.,  where  Mr.  Rowland 
lived  until  1870.  He  attended  boarding  school  in  the  town 
of  Wilton  for  three  years,  and  subsequently  completed  his 
preparation  for  college  in  the  Stamford  Military  Institute, 
under  the  tutorship  of  Mr.  Hiram  U.  King. 

After  graduation  he  took  a  three-year  course  in  the 
Columbia  Law  School,  receiving  the  degree  of  LL.B.  in 
1882,  but  he  had  never  entered  the  legal  profession.  In 
1882  he  went  to  Waterbury  and  until  1889  was  employed 
in  the  office  of  R.  N.  Blakeslee.  In  1889  he  entered  the 
insurance  business  and  was  for  many  years  agent  and  sole 
representative  of  the  Northwestern  Mutual  Life  Insurance 
Company,  subsequently  adding  to  his  interests  all  branches 


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of  insurance  and  founding  Rowland's  Insurance  Agency, 
of  which  his  son,  Sherwood  L.  Rowland,  is  now  the 
head.  He  was  a  director  and  member  of  the  executive 
committee  of  the  Waterbury  Savings  Bank,  handling  its 
loans  and  real  estate  transactions,  and  was  also  trust  officer 
and  a  director  of  the  Colonial  Trust  Company.  Mr.  Row- 
land was  much  interested  in  historical  matters,  especially 
pertaining  to  his  adopted  home  town,  and  was  secretary 
of  the  Mattatuck  Historical  Society,  which  position  he  held 
up  to  the  time  of  his  death.  He  was  a  member  of  the 
Society  of  Colonial  Wars,  the  Sons  of  the  American  Revolu- 
tion, and  the  Society  of  Founders  and  Patriots.  He 
belonged  to  St.  John's  Episcopal  Church,  serving  on  the 
vestry. 

Mr.  Rowland  died  January  18,  1918,  in  Waterbury. 
Interment  was  in  the  Riverside  Cemetery  in  that  city. 

He  was  married  June  23,  1887,  in  Waterbury,  to  Esther 
Maria,  daughter  of  Edward  Rutledge  and  Esther  (Strong) 
Lampson.  She  survives  him  with  their  three  sons :  Sher- 
wood Lampson;  Maurice  Trumbull  (B.A.  1912),  who 
served  as  a  Second  Lieutenant  during  the  recent  war ;  and 
Henry  Samuel.  He  leaves  also  one  brother,  Herbert  Samuel 
Rowland  of  Waterbury. 


John  Marshall  Douglas,  B.A.  1880 

Born  August  22,  1859,  in  Chicago,  111. 
Died  July  15,  1917,  at  Greystones,  County  Wicklow,  Ireland 

John  Marshall  Douglas,  son  of  John  Madison  Douglas, 
a  lawyer,  and  for  many  years  president  of  the  Illinois 
Central  Railroad  Company,  and  Amanda  (Marshall) 
Douglas,  was  born  in  Chicago,  111.,  August  22,  1859.  His 
father  was  the  son  of  William  and  Annie  (Bacon)  Douglas 
and  his  mother's  parents  were  James  and  Emelia  (Leroux) 
Marshall.  He  was  descended  from  the  Douglas  family 
who  came  from  Scotland  to  Plattsburg,  N.  Y.,  in  1770. 
He  was  fitted  for  college  under  private  tutors  and  at  the 
Harvard  School  in  Chicago.  He  entered  Yale  in  1876, 
and  was  graduated  four  years  later. 

Soon  after  graduation  he  became  a  partner  in  the  Chi- 
cago lumber  firm  of  James  Charnley  &  Company,  of  which 


658  YALE   COLLEGE 

his  father  and  his  brother-in-law,  the  late  James  Charnley 
(B.A.  1865),  were  members.  He  remained  in  the  business 
until  1885,  when  the  firm  sold  its  interest  to  The  James 
Charnley  Lumber  Company,  Inc.,  and  then  became  engaged 
in  ranching  near  Rawlins,  Wyo.  Upon  the  death  of  his 
father  in  1888,  he  became  executor  of  the  estate  and  for 
the  next  few  years  devoted  considerable  time  to  the  duties 
of  this  trust.  He  had  large  interests  in  mining  projects  in 
South  America.  From  1895  to  1910  he  traveled  extensively 
abroad,  and  since  that  time  had  resided  in  Knockeevin, 
Greystones,  County  Wicklow,  Ireland,  where  he  died  July 
15,  191 7,  of  heart  failure.  Burial  was  in  Kilquade  Ceme- 
tery, County  Wicklow.  Mr.  Douglas  was  a  member  of  the 
Roman  Catholic  Church. 

He  was  married  in  London,  England,  June  21,  1910,  to 
Angela,  daughter  of  the  late  James  Hilliard,  of  County 
Meath,  Ireland.  She  survives  him  with  their  four  chil- 
dren,— two  sons  and  two  daughters.  His  nephew,  Douglas 
Charnley,  graduated  from  the  College  in  1896. 


William  Thorn  Haviland,  B.A.   1880 

Born  March  29,  1856,  in  Ridgefield,  Conn. 
Died  February  23,  1918,  in  Bridgeport,  Conn. 

William  Thorn  Haviland  was  born  in  Ridgefield,  Conn., 
March  29,  1856,  his  parents  being  Isaac  and  Mary  Augusta 
(Thorn)  Haviland.  He  was  prepared  for  college  at  Fair- 
field, Conn.,  under  a  private  tutor.  In  Junior  year  he  was 
given  a  second  colloquy  appointment,  and  his  Senior 
appointment  was  a  first  colloquy.  From  1880  to  1882  he 
was  a  student  in  the  Yale  School  of  Law,  receiving  the 
degree  of  LL.B.  in  the  latter  year. 

He  then  entered  the  law  office  of  Stoddard  &  Hall  in 
Bridgeport,  and  in  1886  became  a  member  of  the  firm  of 
Stoddard,  Bishop  &  Haviland,  with  which  his  classmate, 
William  D.  Bishop,  was  also  connected.  In  1901,  on  being 
appointed  assistant  clerk  of  the  Superior  Court  artd  clerk 
of  the  Court  of  Common  Pleas  of  Fairfield  County,  he  gave 
up  the  general  practice  of  law.  Since  July,  1908,  he  had 
served  as  clerk  of  the  Superior  Court.  He  was  president 
of  the  Fairfield  County  Bar  Association  in  1910,  and  for 


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the  past  ten  years  had  been  president  of  the  Bridgeport 
Public  Library  Board.  At  the  time  of  his  death  he  was 
Secretary  of  his  Class  in  the  School  of  Law.  In  1896  he 
spent  some  months  in  European  travel.  His  death 
occurred  at  his  home  in  Bridgeport,  February  23,  1918, 
after  a  week's  illness  due  to  pneumonia. 

Mr.  Haviland  was  married  June  4,  1902,  in  South  Nor- 
walk,  Conn.,  to  Mrs.  Pauline  Swords  Stevenson,  daughter 
of  William  Henry  and  Jennie  Augusta  (Waterman) 
Swords.  They  had  two  sons,  Tallmadge  Downs  (bom 
June  14,  1903,  died  August  26,  191 3)  and  Paul,  and  a 
daughter,  Louise.  Mrs.  Haviland  and  the  two  younger 
children  are  living,  and  Mr.  Haviland  also  leaves  two 
brothers. 


William  Ansel  Purington,  B.A.  1880 

Born  June  17,  1858,  in  Holderness,  N.  H. 
Died  April  18,  1918,  in  Riverside,  Calif. 

William  Ansel  Purington  was  born  in  Holderness,  N.  H., 
June  17,  1858,  the  son  of  Rev.  Collamore  Purington,  a 
minister  of  the  Free  Baptist  Church,  who  had  held  pas- 
torates in  Maine  and  New  Hampshire,  and  served  in  the 
Civil  War  as  Chaplain  of  the  7th  Maine  Regiment.  He 
was  the  grandson  of  Humphrey  Purington,  a  soldier  in 
the  Revolutionary  War.  William  A.  Purington's  mother, 
Mary  Melvina  (Smith)  Purington,  was  the  daughter  of 
Simeon  and  Eliza  (Given)  Smith.  Several  of  her  ancestors 
served  as  officers  during  the  Revolution. 

After  studying  at  the  Waterville  (Maine)  Classical 
Institute  for  two  years,  he  entered  Bates  College  in  1876. 
At  the  close  of  his  Sophomore  year  there  he  came  to  Yale 
and  joined  the  Class  of  1880.  He  was  given  a  dissertation 
appointment  Senior  year. 

He  spent  the  first  year  after  graduation  as  principal  of 
the  high  school  in  Rochester,  Minn.,  and  then  removed 
to  North  Evanston,  111.,  where  he  was  principal  of  a  school 
until  1883.  From  1883  to  1886  he  was  principal  of  the 
Irving  Park  School  in  Chicago.  In  the  meantime  he  had 
been  studying  law,  and  in  1886  was  admitted  to  the  bar 
in   Chicago.     In    1888   he   removed   to   Riverside,    Calif., 


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because  of  his  wife's  health.  He  at  once  opened  a  law- 
office  there  and  continued  in  practice  until  his  death,  in 
partnership  with  Mr.  A.  A.  Adair  under  the  name  of  Pur- 
ington  &. Adair.  For  sixteen  years  he  served  as  city  attor- 
ney and  from  1896  to  1905  he  was  a  member  of  the  Board 
of  Education,  being  its  president  for  two  years.  He  had 
served  first  as  a  director  and  later  as  president  of  the  First 
National  Bank,  now  consolidated  with  the  Citizens  National 
Bank.  He  belonged  to  the  First  Congregational  Church  of 
Riverside.  Mr.  Purington  died  April  18,  1918,  in  that 
town,  after  an  illness  of  three  days  due  to  angina  pectoris. 
Interment  was  in  Evergreen  Cemetery,  Riverside. 

His  marriage  took  place  July  11,  1882,  at  Presque  Isle, 
Maine,  to  Eva  Estelle,  daughter  of  John  Augustus  and 
Eliza  Ann  (Heald)  Allen.  They  had  no  children.  In 
addition  to  his  wife,  Mr.  Purington  is  survived  by  a  sister. 


William  Russell  Purple,  B.A.  1880 

Born  December  4,  1859,  in  East  Haddam,  Conn. 
Died  February  24,  1918,  in  East  Haddam,  Conn. 

William  Russell  Purple,  son  of  Nathaniel  and  Wealthy 
Ann  (Tooker)  Purple,  was  born  in  East  Haddam,  Conn., 
December  4,  1859.  His  father  was  the  son  of  Nathaniel 
Purple,  whose  grandfather,  Edward  Purple,  settled  in 
Colchester,  Conn.,  in  1740,  and  Electa  (Smith)  Purple,  who 
traced  her  descent  from  Governor  William  Bradford  of 
Plymouth  Colony.  Some  of  his  mother's  ancestors  settled 
in  -New  London,  Conn.,  about  1650.  His  father  died  in 
1865  and  his  mother  in  1870,  and  in  the  latter  year  he 
removed  to  Springfield,  Mass.,  to  make  his  home  with  an 
uncle.  He  entered  Yale  in  1876  from  the  Springfield  High 
School,  and  in  Junior  year  was  given  a  second  dispute. 
His  Senior  appointment  was  a  first  colloquy. 

Mr.  Purple  began  teaching  in  the  fall  following  his 
graduation,  and  continued  in  that  line  of  work  until  1897. 
His  first  school  was  at  East  Hampton,  Conn.,  and  he 
afterwards  taught  at  Haddam,  Portland,  Glastonbury,  Fair- 
field, Bolton,  and  Madison  in  that  state,  and  at  Yonkers, 
N.  Y.,  and  Agawam,  Mass.  On  July  i,  1897,  he  was 
appointed  a  clerk  in  the  city  department  of  the  Hartford 


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(Conn.)  Post  Office,  and  served  in  that  capacity  until  19 14, 
with  the  exception  of  the  year  1910-11,  which  he  spent 
in  Springfield.  In  the  summers  of  1896,  1897,  and  1898, 
he  served  as  pianist  at  the  School  for  Physical  Culture  at 
Chautauqua,  N.  Y.  He  visited  England  in  1906.  The 
last  two  and  a  half  years  of  his  life  were  spent  in  teaching 
at  the  Mount  Parnassus  School  in  East  Haddam.  He  died 
very  suddenly,  February  24,  19 18,  while  attending  service 
at  the  East  Haddam  Congregational  Church,  of  which  he 
was  a  member.  His  body  was  cremated. 
He  was  unmarried. 


Benjamin  Bissell  Lamb,  B.A.  188 1 

Born  September  18,  1859,  in  Chicago,  111. 
Died  March  30,  1918,  in  Chicago,  111. 

Benjamin  Bissell  Lamb  was  bofn  in  Chicago,*  111.,  Sep- 
tember 18,  1859.  He  was  the  son  of  Augustus  Derias 
Lamb,  a  banker  and  merchant  of  Chicago,  and  Anna  Emily 
(Bissell)  Lamb.  His  father,  the  son  of  Loren  and  Susan 
(Adams)  Lamb,  was  fifth  in  direct  descent  from  John 
Lamb,  who  was  born  in  Scotland  in  1680  and  later  came  to 
America.  Susan  Lamb,  mother  of  Augustus  D.  Lamb,  was 
a  grandniece  of  John  Adams,  second  president  of  the 
United  States.  Mason  Adams,  her  grandfather,  was  a 
Colonel  in  the  Revolutionary  Army  and  died  at  Valley 
Forge  in  the  winter  of  1777.  Anna  Emily  Bissell  was  the 
daughter  of  Benjamin  K.  Bissell  of  Poughkeepsie  and 
Eunice  (Kay)  Bissell  of  Cheshire,  Conn.;  her  ancestors 
were  English,  and  were  among  the  settlers  at  Plymouth  in 
1628. 

He  was  prepared  for  Yale  at  the  Lake  Forest  (111.) 
Academy.  While  in  college  he  played  for  four  years  on 
the  University  Football  Team,  and  for  three  years  on  the 
University  Baseball  Team,  of  which  he  was  captain  in  his 
Junior  year. 

After  graduation  Mr.  Lamb  studied  law,  attending  the 
Yale  School  of  Law  for  one  term,  and  was  admitted  to  the 
bar  of  Illinois  in  1883.  From  1884  to  1887  he  was  teller 
and  assistant  cashier  of  the  Drovers  National  Bank  of  Chi- 
cago.    In  1887  he  entered  the  newspaper  business,  and  was 


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connected  with  the  business  departments  of  the  Times 
and  Inter-Ocean,  to  which  he  also  contributed  frequently. 
Later  he  was  engaged  in  the  banking  and  brokerage  busi- 
ness in  Chicago  for  a  number  of  years.  He  was  a  director 
of  the  North  Chicago  Steel  Railroad  Company,  the  Consoli- 
dated Traction  Company,  the  West  Chicago  Street  Railroad 
Company,  and  the  World's  Columbian  Exposition.  In 
1893  and  1900  he  traveled  abroad. 

Mr.  Lamb  died  March  30,  1918,  at  his  home  in  Chicago, 
of  pyelitis  and  nephritis,  from  which  he  had  suffered  for 
twenty  years.  For  eight  years  he  had  been  quite  blind. 
He  continued  to  direct  his  business  affairs  from  his  home 
until  19 1 3.  Burial  took  place  in  Rosehill  Cemetery  in  Chi- 
cago.    He  left  half  of  his  residuary  estate  to  Yale. 

Mr.  Lamb  was  unmarried,  and  is  survived  by  an  aunt, 
Miss  Sophia  Lamb,  of  Mansfield,  Pa. 


Howard  Hoyt  Knapp,  B.A.   1882 

Born  April  18,  1861,  in  South  Norwalk,  Conn. 
Died  June  17,  1918,  in  Hartford,  Conn. 

Howard  Hoyt  Knapp  was  born  April  18,  1861,  in  South 
Norwalk,  Conn.  His  father,  James  Henry  Knapp,  was  the 
son  of  James  and  Martha  (Bailey)  Knapp,  and  was  a  man- 
ufacturer of  hats  in  Danbury  and  South  Norwalk.  His 
mother,  Mariette  (Hoyt)  Knapp,  was  the  daughter  of  Starr 
Hoyt  of  Bethel,  Conn.,  and  Sally  Maria  (Nichols)  Hoyt  of 
Danbury.  Jonathan  Knapp,  a  great-grandfather  of  Howard 
Hoyt  Knapp,  served  as  Captain  in  the  Revolutionary  War. 
His  ancestors  came  to  this  country  from  England  in  1630. 

Mr.  Knapp  was  prepared  for  college  at  Dr.  Fitch's 
School,  South  Norwalk,  and  at  the  Hopkins  Grammar 
School,  New  Haven.  While  in  college  he  was  a  member 
of  the  University  Football  Team,  and  a  substitute  on  the 
University  Crew.     He  was  a  member  of  the  Glee  Club. 

After  graduation  he  studied  in  the  Yale  School  of  Law, 
receiving  the  degree  of  LL.B.  and  being  admitted  to  the 
bar  in  June,  1884.  In  September  of  that  year  he  went  into 
the  office  of  Seymour  &  Seymour,  attorneys,  in  Bridgeport, 
Conn.  The  firm  consisted  of  Edward  W.  Seymour  (B.A. 
1853)  and  Morris  W.  Seymour  (B.A.  1866).     On  January 


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I,  1887,  he  entered  into  a  partnership  with  Mr.  Morris  Sey-^ 
mour,  under  the  name  of  Seymour  &  Knapp,  but  later  the 
partnership  was  dissolved  and  he  practiced  alone.  From 
1883  to  1885  he  served  as  city  attorney.  He  was  corpora- 
tion counsel  for  the  city  of  Bridgeport  in  1893-94,  and  was 
also  counsel  to  the  commissioner  of  Fairfield  County.  He 
was  treasurer  of  the  Fairfield  County  Library  Association 
from  1894  to  1900.  He  was  a  member  of  the  grievance 
committee  of  the  Fairfield  County  Bar,  and  instructor  in 
Connecticut  practice  at  the  Yale  School  of  Law  from 
1 89 1  to  1908.  He  was  also  a  member  of  the  executive 
committee  of  the  Connecticut  Civil  Service  Reform  Associa- 
tion, and  for  three  years  he  served  on  the  Board  of  Appor- 
tionment and  Taxation  of  Bridgeport,  of  which  board  he 
was  unanimously  elected  president  in  1899.  Mr.  Knapp 
was  elected  president  of  the  Class  of  1882  at  the  twentieth 
reunion  and  reelected  to  that  office  five  years  later.   , 

He  died  June  17,  1918,  at  his  home  in  Hartford.  He  had 
lived  in  that  city  since  1907,  when  he  suffered  a  nervous 
breakdown  from  which  he  never  recovered.  Interment  was 
in  the  Cedar  Hill  Cemetery  at  Hartford. 

On  February  9,  1888,  at  Hartford,  he  married  Emily 
Hale,  daughter  of  Charles  E.  and  Lucy  (Adams)  Perkins, 
who  survives  him.  They  had  two  children:  Howard,  who 
died  in  infancy,  and  Farwell  Knapp,  who  graduated  from 
Yale  in  1916,  and  afterwards  studied  for  one  year  in  the 
Harvard  Law  School  until  his  enlistment  in  the  302d  Field 
Artillery,  with  which  he  went  overseas  as  a  Sergeant.  Mr. 
Knapp's  brother,  James  Hoyt  Knapp,  graduated  from  Yale 
in  1896. 


William  Scranton  Pardee,  B.A.  1882 

Born  September  16,  i860,  in  New  Haven,  Conn. 
Died  June  19,  1918,  in  New  Haven,  Conn. 

William  Scranton  Pardee,  son  of  William  Bradley  and 
Nancy  Maria  (English)  Pardee,  was  born  in  New  Haven, 
Conn.,  September  16,  i860.  The  Pardees  have  lived  in 
New  Haven  since  1640,  when  they  came  over  from  Eng- 
land ;  an  ancestor,  George  Pardee,  was  rec\or  of  the  Hop- 
kins Grammar   School   from   1662  to   1674.      William   B. 


664  YALE   COLLEGE 

Pardee,  the  son  of  Laban  and  Lucy  (Bradley)  Pardee,  was 
a  carriage  manufacturer  in  New  Haven,  and  a  descendant 
of  Rev.  John  Woodward  (B.A.  Harvard  1693).  His  wife 
was  the  daughter  of  James  and  Nancy  (Griswold)  EngHsh; 
her  ancestors  settled  in  Salem,  Mass.,  in  1620,  and  came  to 
New  Haven  in  lyoo. 

He  was  prepared  for  college  in  New  Haven,  at  the 
Thomas  Private  School,  the  French  School,  and  the  Hop- 
kins Grammar  School. 

After  graduation  he  studied  in  the  Yale  School  of  Law, 
from  which  he  received  the  degree  of  LL.B.  cum  laude  in 
1884.  Immediately  he  formed  a  partnership  with  the  late 
James  Protus  Pigott  (B.A.  1878,  LL.B.  1880)  ;  when  the 
latter  entered  Congress  in  1892,  Mr.  Pardee  entered  upon 
an  independent  practice.  He  was  counsel  for  New  Haven 
until  1893,  when  he  resigned.  In  1905  he  ran  for  mayor  of 
the  city  as  a .  Democrat,  but  was  defeated.  He  was  the 
author  of  the  agitation  which  resulted  in  the  Constitutional 
Convention  in  Connecticut  some  years  ago  and  contributed 
much  to  bringing  about  the  reform  representation  in  both 
the  Republican  and  Democratic  conventions.  He  was  the 
author  of  the  first  Corrupt  Practices  Act,  the  first  direct 
primary  law  in  Connecticut,  and  the  Fourteen  Town  Bill. 
He  was  a  member  of  the  executive  committee  of  the  Con- 
necticut Civil  Service  Reform  Association,  of  the  Council 
of  One  Hundred  of  New  Haven,  and  a  director  in  the  New 
Haven  Colony  Historical  Society.  He  had  published  sev- 
eral political  pamphlets  and  addresses.  He  gave  up  the 
practice  of  law  in  1909.  Mr.  Pardee  was  a  partner  in  the 
firm  of  Marvin  &  Pardee,  manufacturers  of  sewing  silks, 
from  1893  until  his  death ;  he  was  treasurer  and  director  of 
the  Jewett  City  Water  Company,  secretary  and  director  of 
the  New  Canaan  Water  Company,  treasurer  and  director 
of  the  Suffolk  Gas  &  Electric  Light  Company  from  1903  to 
1907,  and  treasurer  and  director  of  the  Guilford-Chester 
Water  Company.  He  was  a  vestryman  of  Trinity  Church 
(Protestant  Episcopal)  in  New  Haven,  and  an  alternate  to 
the  diocesan  conventions.  Mr.  Pardee  was  vice  commo- 
dore of  the  New  Haven  Yacht  Club  in  1909-10,  and  com- 
modore from  191 1  to  1915.  He  had  been  a  member  of  the 
Dinner  Committee  of  the  Class  of  1882  and  also  served  on 
the  Twenty-five' Year  Reunion  Committee.  He  was  elected 
a.  representative  of  the  Yale  Alumni  Association  of  New 


i882  665 

Haven  on  the  Alumni  Advisory  Board  in  191 5  and  served 
in  that  capacity  until  his  death.  He  was  for  fourteen  years 
secretary,  and  later  president,  of  the  Quinnipiack  Club,  and 
was  a  member  of  the  Lotos  Club  of  New  York.  In  1900  he 
traveled  in  England,  in  1902  in  Italy,  in  1904  in  France  and 
Switzerland,  and  in  1906  in  Holland  and  Germany. 

Mr.  Pardee  died  June  19,  1918,  at  his  home,  The  Morris 
House,  at  Morris  Cove,  New  Haven,  after  an  illness  of  a 
week  which  resulted  from  a  nervous  breakdown.  Inter- 
ment was  in  the  Grove  Street  Cemetery.  By  his  will  he 
left  the  old  Morris  Mansion  at  Morris  Cove,  which  he  had 
purchased  in  191 5,  to  the  New  Haven  Colony  Historical 
Society,  besides  a  substantial  part  of  his  estate  to  be  used 
for  the  maintenance,  upkeep  and  improvement  of  the  old 
house;  this  property  had  been  in  the  possession  of  the 
Morris  family,  of  which  Mr.  Pardee  was  a  descendant,  for 
many  generations,  and  he  had  spent  much  time  and  money 
in  restoring  it  to  its  former  beauty.  He  also  left  legacies 
to  the  city  of  New  Haven  for  the  beautifying  of  the  parks. 
His  public  bequests  amounted  to  about  $300,000.  In  191 5 
he  established  a  sculpture  prize  in  the  Yale  School  of  the 
Fine  Arts  as  a  memorial  to  his  sister. 

Mr.  Pardee  was  never  married.  Surviving  him  are  a 
half  brother,  George  E.  Lum  of  Birmingham,  Ala.,  two 
nephews,  and  three  nieces.  His  half  brother,  Harpin  M. 
Lum,  who  died  in  1866,  was  a  member  of  the  Class  of  1867. 


Henry  Lucien  Williams,  B.A.   1882 

Born  January  2,  1859,  in  Huntington,  Mass. 
Died  March  27,  1918,  in  Northampton,  Mass. 

Henry  Lucien  Williams,  whose  parents  were  Lucien 
Bennett  Williams,  a  basket  manufacturer,  and  Harriet 
(Copeland)  WilUams,  was  born  January  2,  1859,  in  Hunt- 
ington, Mass.  His  father  was  the  son  of  John  Bennett  and 
Lydia  (Wilson)  Williams;  his  ancestors  came  to  this 
country  from  Wales  about  1634  and  settled  at  Roxbury, 
Mass.  His  mother  was  the  daughter  of  Melvin  and 
Lucinda  (Blake)  Copeland;  her  ancestors  came  from  Eng- 
land about  1630  and  settled  near  Braintree,  Mass. 

He  was  prepared  for  college  in  the  public  schools  of 


6&6  YALE   COLLEGE 

Northampton  and  under  the  tutorship  of  Mr.  D.  D.  Gor- 
ham.  Throughout  his  college  course  he  was  a  member  of 
the  University  Glee  Club,  of  which  he  was  manager  in  his 
Junior  year,  and  president  in  his  Senior  year. 

After  graduation  he  began  work  with  the  Williams  Man- 
ufacturing Company  in  Northampton,  and  upon  his  father's 
death  in  1895  he  was  elected  president  of  the  company, 
which  position  he  held  until  his  death.  He  was  commis- 
sioned Captain  of  Company  I  of  the  2d  Massachusetts 
Regiment  in  December,  1892.  At  the  outbreak  of  the  war 
with  Spain,  this  regiment  was  mustered  into  the  Federal 
service  and  he  commanded  the  Northampton  company 
through  the  Cuban  campaign,  participating  in  the  battles 
of  El  Caney  and  San  Juan  Hill,  and  the  operations  about 
Santiago.  He  endured  many  hardships  and  returned  much 
broken  in  health;  in  fact,  he  never  regained  his  health. 
After  his  return  from  the  war  he  served  on  the  staff  of 
Governor  Crane  and  Governor  Guild  for  five  successive 
years  as  a  military  inspector,  with  the  rank  of  Colonel.  In 
1905,  after  fifteen  years'  service  in  the  militia,  he  went  on 
to  the  retired  list  and  was  given  the  rank  of  full  Colonel. 
He  maintained  a  deep  interest  in  military  affairs,  and  when 
Company  I  went  to  the  Mexican  border  he  was  very  active 
in  his  interest  in  their  behalf.  At  the  outbreak  of  the  war 
with  Germany,  he  reenlisted  for  active  service  in  the  State 
Guard  Reserves  and  was  assigned  to  duty  in  the  Armory  at 
Northampton,  wher^e  he  did  enlisting  service  and  was  busy 
with  many  details  in  behalf  of  the  regiment.  It  is  inter- 
esting to  note  that  this  regiment  was  the  first  to  be  deco- 
rated for  valor  by  the  French  Government. 

In  1905  he  was  elected  president  of  the  Nonotuck  Sav^ 
ings  Bank  and  for  more  than  twenty-three  years  he  was  a 
director  of  the  Northampton  National  Bank.  As  a  trustee 
of  the  State  Insane  Hospital  in  Northampton,  he  devoted 
much  time  to  the  affairs  of  that  institution.  For  years  he 
was  chairman  of  the  Standing  Committee  of  the  Second 
Congregational  Unitarian  Church,  and  was  on  the  building 
committee  when  a  new  edifice  was  erected  in  1905. 

Colonel  Williams  died  March  27,  1918,  at  his  home  in 
Northampton,  from  an  attack  of  angina  pectoris.  He  had 
not  been  in  good  health  for  many  years,  but  was  confined  to 
his  home  for  but  two  months.      The  end  came  suddenly. 


1882-1884  667 

Burial  took  place  in  the  Bridge  Street  Cemetery,  North- 
ampton. 

He  was  married  May  28,  1884,  in  Boston,  to  Isabella 
Hall,  daughter  of  Edward  and  Myra  (Hall)  Dewey.  She 
survives  him  without  children. 


Samuel  Plumer  McCalmont,  B.A.  1884 

Born  January  31,  1862,  in  Franklin,  Pa. 
Died  September  i,  1917,  in  Franklin,  Pa. 

Samuel  Plumer  McCalmont  was  born  January  31,  1862, 
at  Franklin,  Pa.,  his  parents  being  Samuel  Plumer  and 
Harriet  (Osborn)  McCalmont.  His  father,  who  was  the 
son  of  John  McCalmont,  an  early  settler  of  Sugar  Creek 
Valley,  Pa.,  and  Mary  (Plumer)  McCalmont,  practiced  law 
in  Franklin  for  many  years,  being  a  member  of  the  Penn- 
sylvania Legislature  from  1853  to  1855.  On  the  paternal 
side  Samuel  Plumer  McCalmont,  Jr.,  was  of  Scotch-Irish 
descent,  his  great-grandfather  having  come  from  County 
Armagh,  Ireland;  through  his  mother  he  was  of  English 
and  Welsh  descent. 

He  was  fitted  for  college  at  the  Franklin  High  School 
and  at  the  Brooks  School  in  Cleveland,  Ohio.  After  grad- 
uating he  spent  four  years  at  the  New  York  University 
Medical  School,  where  he  received  the  degree  of  M.D.  in 
1888.  In  the  fall  of  that  year  he  began  the  practice  of  his 
profession  in  Franklin,  but  soon  afterwards  his  health 
failed,  and  he  was  never  again  able  to  engage  in  any  active 
work.  His  death  occurred  at  the  family  home  in  Franklin, 
September  i,  19 17,  as  the  result  of  heart  disease,  and  he 
was  buried  in  the  Franklin  Cemetery. 

Dr.  McCalmont  was  unmarried.  Surviving  him  are  a 
brother,  David  B.  McCalmont  (Ph.B.  1897),  and  two  sis- 
ters, Harriette  (McCalmont)  Stone  (M.D.  Women's  Med- 
ical College  1893)  and  Constance  (McCalmont)  Humphrey, 
who  graduated  from  Smith  College  in  1896.  Two  brothers, 
John  O.  McCalmont,  also  a  graduate  of  Yale  in  1884,  and 
James  Donald  McCalmont,  and  an  older  sister,  Mary 
McCalmont,  are  deceased. 


668  YALE    COLLEGE 


Sydney  Stein,  B.A.   1884 

Born  February  26,  1862,  in  Chicago,  111. 
Died  June  12,  1918,  in  Chicago,  111. 

Sydney  Stein,  son  of  Solomon  and  Babette  (Hirsh) 
Stein,  was  born  February  26,  1862,  in  Chicago,  111.,  where 
his  father  was  engaged  in  the  manufacturing  business. 
The  latter  was  a  native  of  Pilsen,  Bohemia,  Austria;  his 
wife  was  born  at  Jungbunzlau,  Bohemia,  the  daughter  of 
Adam  Henry  and  Minnie  Hirsh.  They  came  to  this  coun- 
try in  1848  and  1854,  respectively. 

Sydney  Stein  received  his  preparatory  training  at  the 
Chicago  Central  High  School.  In  Sophomore  year  he  was 
given  a  second  prize  in  declamation,  and  he  received  a 
Junior  high  oration  appointment.  His  Senior  appointment 
was  an  oration  and  he  was  awarded  a  Townsend  Premium 
that  year.     He  belonged  to  Phi  Beta  Kappa. 

He  began  the  study  of  law  in  Chicago  immediately  after 
graduation,  and  in  June,  1887,  was  admitted  to  the  bar. 
Since  that  time  he  had  practiced  in  Chicago,  being  senior 
member  of  the  firm  of  Stein,  Mayer  &  Stein  from  its  organ- 
ization in  1904.  His  partners  were  Philip  Stein  (BA. 
University  of  Wisconsin  1865)  and  Elias  Mayer  (B.A. 
Harvard  1900,  LL.B.  Northwestern  1903).  From  1892  to 
1904  Mr.  Stein  served  as  master  in  chancery  of  the 
Supreme  Court  of  Cook  County.  He  was  a  member  of  the 
American,  Illinois,  and  Cook  County  Bar  associations.  He 
was  for  many  years  actively  interested  in  the  development 
of  the  Royal  Arcanum,  and  formerly  was  grand  regent  of 
the  order  for  the  state  of  Illinois.  He  died  after  an  illness 
of  four  days  at  the  Michael  Reese  Hospital  in  Chicago, 
June  12,  1918.  His  death  was  due  to  septemia.  He  was 
buried  in  Rosehill  Cemetery,  Chicago. 

Mr.  Stein  was  married  September  23,  1897,  in  that  city, 
to  Clara,  daughter  of  Max  A.  and  Sarah  (Frank)  Meyer. 
She  survives  him  with  their  two  children,  Edith  and 
Sydney,  and  he  also  leaves  two  brothers,  Arthur  Stein, 
^;»;-'9i  S.,  and  William  D.  Stein.  Another  brother,  Leo 
Stein  (B.A.  1888),  died  on  March  30,  1918,  and  a  sketch 
of  his  life  appears  in  this  number  of  the  Obituary  Record. 
The  latter's  son,  Edwin,  graduated  from  Yale  in  1916. 


i884  669 


Ray  Tompkins,  B.A.   1884 

Born  January  28,  1861,  in  Lawrenceville,  Pa. 
Died  June  30,  1918,  in  Elmira,  N.  Y. 

Ray  Tompkins  was  born  in  Lawrenceville,  Pa.,  January 
28,  1861,  the  son  of  Tamerlane  Burt  and  Britannia  (Mil- 
lard) Tompkins.  His  father  was  for  some  years  a  lumber 
dealer  in  Tioga  County,  Pa.,  but  after  the  family  removed 
to  Elmira,  N.  Y.,  in  1871,  was  engaged  in  the  wholesale 
grocery  business.  He  was  the  son  of  William  and  Sally 
(Burt)  Tompkins  and  a  descendant  of  John  Alden,  Thomas 
Rogers,  and  Elder  William  Brewster  of  the  Mayflower 
company.  His  wife,  whose  parents  were  Ambrose  and 
Mary  (Gordon)  Millard,  was  the  great-granddaughter  of 
John  Gordon,  who  was  born  in  Edinburgh,  Scotland,  in 
1760  and  came  to  America  at  the  age  of  seventeen,  settling 
at  Whitehall,  N.  Y. 

Ray  Tompkins  attended  the  Elmira  Free  Academy  and 
Williston  Seminary,  Easthampton,  Mass.,  before  entering 
Yale.  He  was  captain  of  the  Freshman  Baseball  Team, 
rowed  on  the  Class  Crew  one  year,  and  played  three  years 
on  the  University  Football  Team,  being  captain  in  Junior 
and  Senior  years.  In  Junior  year  he  was  given  a  second 
colloquy  appointment. 

He  spent  a  few  months  abroad  after  graduation,  and  then 
entered  the  wholesale  grocery  business  in  Elmira,  being 
connected  with  his  brother,  Charles  Millard  Tompkins. 
The  firm  name  was  C.  M.  &  R.  Tompkins.  Since  his 
brother's  death  in  1900,  Mr.  Tompkins  had  conducted  the 
business.  In  1902  he  became  vice  president  of  the  Elmira 
Trust  Company,  and  a  year  later,  when  this  concern  was 
merged  with  the  Chemung  Canal  Bank,  becoming  the 
Chemung  Canal  Trust  Company,  Mr.  Tompkins  was  made 
vice  president  of  the  new  organization.  He  was  elected  to 
the  presidency  of  the  company  in  1909,  and  served  in  this 
capacity  until  his  death.  For  the  past  seventeen  years  he 
had  also  been  president  of  the  Elmira  Water,  Light  &  Rail- 
road Company,  and  he  was  president  of  the  Elmira  Indus- 
trial Association,  the  Kenilworth  Realty  Corporation,  and 
the  New  Orange  Industrial  Association,  a  director  of  the 
Elmira  Knitting  Mills   and  the  Rahway  Valley  Railroad 


670  YALE    COLLEGE  1 

Company,  and  chairman  of  the  board  of  directors  of  the 
EcHpse  Machine  Company.  He  was  vice  president  of  the 
Arnot-Ogden  Art  Gallery,  a  trustee  of  the  Arnot-Ogden 
Hospital  and  Elmira  College,  and  treasurer  of  the  New- 
town Battlefield  Reservation  Commission.  He  was  a 
Republican  in  politics,  and  in  1912  served  as  a  presidential 
elector.  He  served  as  chairman  of  the  first  and  second 
Liberty  Loan  committees  and  as  treasurer  of  the  Chemung 
County  Home  Defense  Committee,  and  was  a  member  of 
the  Syrian  Relief  Commission.  His  interest  in  football  at 
Yale  had  brought  him  back  to  New  Haven  for  short  stays 
several  seasons,  when  he  had  been  called  upon  by  the  under- 
graduates and  coaches  for  advice  and  assistance.  He  died 
of  heart  disease,  at  his  home  in  Elmira,  June  30,  1918. 
While  his  health  had  been  poor  for  several  years,  he  had 
been  confined  to  his  bed  for  only  three  weeks.  Interment 
was  in  Woodlawn  Cemetery,  Elmira. 

Mr.  Tompkins  was  married  in  Elmira,  Septeniber  6,  1893, 
to  Sarah  Ross,  daughter  of  William  C.  Wey  (M.D.  Albany 
Medical  School  1849)  ^"^  Mary  Bowman  (Covell)  Wey. 
They  had  no  children. 


Wallace  Percy  Knapp,  B.A.   1886 

Born  August  7,  1863,  in  South  Norwalk,  Conn. 
Died  August  29,  1917,  at  Long  Beach,  N.  Y. 

Wallace  Percy  Knapp  was  born  August  7,  1863,  in  South 
Norwalk,  Conn.,  the  son  of  Alfred  Knapp,  a  merchant,  and 
Emma  (Whitman)  Knapp.  He  was  fitted  for  college  at 
Dr.  Holbrook's  School  in  Ossining,  N.  Y.  As  an  under- 
graduate he  won  several  intercollegiate  tennis  tournaments, 
and  in  his  Sophomore  year  defeated  the  National  champion, 
Sears. 

After  graduation  Mr.  Knapp  studied  for  one  year  at  the 
Yale  School  of  Law  and  then  entered  the  Columbia  Law 
School,  from  which  he  received  the  degree  of  LL.B.  m 
1888,  in  which  year  he  was  admitted  to  the  New  York  Bar. 
He  received  the  degree  of  LL.M.  from  New  York  Univer- 
sity in  1889.  Entering  the  office  of  Lamed  &  Warren  in 
1890,  he  was,  on  January  i,  1891,  taken  into  the  firm  as  a 
partner,  the  firm  name  being  changed  to  Earned,  Warren 


1884-1887  671 

&  Knapp.  An  attack  of  typhoid  fever  brought  a  long 
interruption,  and  his  attempt  to  take  up  work  again,  after 
apparent  recovery,  v^as  followed  by  a  nervous  breakdown. 
A  journey  abroad  restored  his  health,  but  he  did  not  resume 
court  work  or  active  practice,  although  he  maintained  a  law 
office.  On  May  21,  1912,  his  wife  was  killed  in  Central 
Park,  when  her  saddle  horse  stumbled  and  fell  on  her.  He 
made  an  effort  to  recover  from  the  blow,  and  devoted  him- 
self with  redoubled  energy  to  the  welfare  of  his  children. 
At  the  time  of  his  death,  however,  he  had  suffered  another 
breakdown,  and  was  at  Long  Beach,  Long  Island,  trying  to 
recuperate.  He  was  a  daring  swimmer,  and  accustomed  to 
go  alone  far  out  beyond  the  breakwater.  On  the  afternoon 
of  August  29,  1917,  he  went  out  as  usual  and  did  not  return. 
He  was  probably  seized  with  cramps  or  overcome  by  the 
strong  current,  as  his  body  was  found  next  morning  on  the 
beach  some  miles  away.  Interment  was  in  the  cemetery  at 
St.  James,  Long  Island. 

Mr.  Knapp  was  a  member  of  the  Church  of  the  Incarna- 
tion (Episcopal),  New  York,  and  of  the  Association  of  the 
Bar  of  the  City  of  New  York.  He  had  traveled  extensively 
abroad.  He  took  a  deep  interest  in  philanthropic  and  char- 
itable work,  and  was  a  director  of  Christadora  House,  and 
assistant  manager  of  Sevillia  Home. 

He  was  married  November  7,  1894,  to  Caroline  Duncan, 
daughter  of  Charles  Addison  Miller  (B.A.  1859)  and  Mary 
(Ely)  Miller  of  New  York,  and  sister  of  Charles  D.  Miller 
(B.A.  1902)  and  the  late  James  E.  Miller  (B.A.  1904). 
They  had  three  children,  all  of  whom  survive :  Mary  Eliza^ 
beth,  who  was  married  April  11,  1917,  to  Mortimer  Bliss 
Lane  (B.A.  1913)  ;  Emma  Whitman;  and  Percy  Whitman. 
Mr.  Knapp  is  also  survived  by  a  sister. 


Francis  Cameron  Clarke,  B.A.  1887 

Born  February  7,  1866,  in  New  York  City 
Died  December  9,  1917,  in  St.  Paul,  Minn. 

Francis  Cameron  Clarke  was  born  February  7,  1866,  in 
New  York  City,  being  one  of  the  three  children  of  Charles 
Cameron  and  Sarah  Ruth  (McCutchin)  Clarke.  His 
father,  who  graduated  from  Geneva  (now  Hobart)  College 


672  YALE  COLLEGE 

in  1844,  receiving  an  M.A.  there  five  years  later,  was  for 
many  years  connected  with  the  New  York  Central  &  Hud- 
son River  Railroad,  at  first  as  treasurer  and  later  as  vice 
president,  and  was  also  a  director  in  numerous  other  cor- 
porations. The  latter's  father,  George  Clarke,  was  of  the 
North  Hadley  branch  of  the  family  of  that  name;  his 
mother' was  Mary  (McLachlan)  Clarke,  a  native  of  Inver- 
ness-shire, Scotland.  His  wife  was  the  daughter  of  Adam 
McCutchin,  a  North  of  Ireland  Protestant  who  went  to 
Santa  Cruz,  Danish  West  Indies,  in  his  youth  and  married 
Jane  Carty,  who  belonged  to  a  family  owning  sugar  estates 
there;  her  ancestors  were  driven  from  Ireland  by  Oliver 
Cromwell. 

Francis  Clarke  was  fitted  for  college  at  the  Columbia 
Grammar  School  in  New  York  City,  having  previously 
attended  Dr.  Holbrook's  Military  Institute  at  Ossining, 
N.  Y.  At  Yale  he  sang  on  the  Freshman,  Second,  and 
University  Glee  clubs,  was  a  member  of  the  editorial  board 
of  the  Yale  Record,  and  belonged  to  Chi  Delta  Theta. 

In  July,  1887,  he  entered  the  treasurer's  office  of  the 
New  York  Central  &  Hudson  River  Railroad,  where  he 
remained  until  the  fall  of  1888,  when  illness  compelled  him 
to  give  up  business  temporarily.  After  spending  three  and 
a  half  years  in  travel  in  this  country  and  abroad,  he  took  a 
position  on  the  editorial  staff  of  the  New  York  Mail  and 
Express,  now  the  Evening  Mail.  In  1893  he  accepted  an 
offer  to  assist  editorially  in  the  resuscitation  of  the  extinct 
Godey's  Magazine.  This  project  proving  unsuccessful,  he 
resumed  his  work  on  the  Mail  and  Express,  but  remained 
for  only  a  short  time  as  he  again  suffered  a  breakdown  in 
health.  With  the  exception  of  a  brief  period  during  which 
he  was  employed  by  the  Pioneer  Press  of  St.  Paul,  Minn., 
he  was  unable  to  work  for  over  two  years.  In  the  fall  of 
1897  he  returned  to  the  New  York  Central  &  Hudson 
River  Railroad.  He  spent  six  years  in  its  auditing  depart- 
ment and  a  similar  period  in  the  purchasing  department. 
In  January,  1909,  he  took  charge  of  the  purchase  of  com- 
missary supplies  and  equipment  for  the  New  York  Central 
lines,  and  continued  in  this  work  until  his  death.  During 
the  last  eight  ♦years  of  his  Hfe  he  was  also  interested  in 
farming  and  fruit-growing  at  Schodack  Landing,  N.  Y., 
where  he  had  made  his  home  part  of  each  year  since  191 1. 
He  was  at  one  time  a  director  of  the  Southern  States  Pine 


i887  673 

Products  Company  of  Savannah,  Ga.  He  belonged  to  the 
Protestant  Episcopal  Church,  being  a  communicant  of 
Christ  Church  at  Bronxville,  N.  Y.  He  died  very  sud- 
denly, of  angina  pectoris,  at  St.  Paul,  Minn.,  December  9, 
1917,  and  was  buried  in  Sleepy  Hollow  Cemetery  at  Tarry- 
town,  N.  Y. 

Mr.  Clarke  was  married  January  7,  1901,  in  St.  Paul,  to 
Frances  Liffring,  daughter  of  Henry  Murney  and  Louise 
(Gregory)  Smyth  of  St.  Paul,  Minn.  She  died  November 
29,  1917-  Their  three  children,  Charles  Cameron,  3d, 
Romeyn,  and  Janet  Cameron,  are  living.  Mr.  Clarke  is 
also  survived  by  a  brother,  Charles  Cameron  Clarke  (B.A. 
1883,  Honorary  M.A.  1908),  professor  of  French  at  Yale, 
and  a  sister.  William  Savage  Burns,  1887,  was  a  first 
cousin,  and  Samuel  Knight,  another  classmate,  is  a  distant 
cousin.  Other  cousins  were:  Joshua  W.  Waterman  and 
Henry  H.  Haight,  both  graduates  of  the  College  in  1844; 
D.  Cameron  Haight  (B.A.  1847)  >*  Cameron  D.  Waterman, 
'74;  Robert  Cameron  Rogers,  '83;  Thomas  G.  Waterman, 
'86;  Henry  H.  Haight,  '88;  Louis  M.  Haight,  '89  S.; 
Cameron  B.  Waterman,  '01  and  '04  L. ;  and  Ira  D.  Water- 
man, '07. 


Joseph  Thomas  Cunningham,  B.A.  1887 

Born  January  11,  1865,  in  Norwich,  Conn. 
Died  July  20,  1917,  in  Norwich,  Conn. 

Joseph  Thomas  Cunningham,  son  of  Thomas  Cunning- 
ham, who  was  born  in  Ireland,  and  Margaret  (Murray) 
Cunningham,  was  born  in  Norwich,  Conn.,  January  11, 
1865.  He  received  his  preparatory  training  at  the  Norwich 
Free  Academy.  His  Junior  appointment  was  a  first  col^ 
loquy  and  he  received  a  second  colloquy  at  Commencement. 
After  graduating  from  Yale  he  was  for  three  months  early 
in  1888  manager  and  treasurer  of  the  Gregory  Pantomime 
Company.  During  this  time  he  also  traveled  in  the  West. 
He  then  studied  law  in  the  office  of  Judge  Shields  in  Nor- 
wich. During  the  campaign  of  1888  he  acted  as  secretary 
of  the  Democratic  National  Committee  in  New  York  City. 
In  1889  he  was  admitted  to  the  bar  and  from  that  time  until 
1902  practiced  his  profession  in  Norwich.     He  was  elected 


674  YALE   COLLEGE 

permanent  secretary  of  the  Connecticut  Democratic  State 
Convention  of  1892,  and  was  also  city  auditor  of  Norwich 
for  one  term.  The  period  from  1902  to  191 3  he  spent 
mainly  in  New  York  City  and  in  London,  England,  where 
he  did  some  writing  for  magazines  and  newspapers.  He 
had  traveled  all  over  Europe  at  times  on  business,  and  at 
others  for  recreation.  He  at  one  time  sold  American 
patent  rights  in  Belfast,  Ireland,  and  in  Berlin,  Germany. 
From  1913  up  to  the  time  of  his  death  he  practiced  law  in 
Norwich. 

His  death  occurred  as  a  result  of  atrophic  cirrhosis  of  the 
liver,  July  20,  191 7,  in  Norwich.  Interment  was  in  St. 
Mary's  Cemetery,  Norwich.  He  was  unmarried.  A 
brother,  Dr.  John  B.  Cunningham,  survives  him. 


Leo  Stein,  B.A.  1888 

Born  May  4,  1866,  in  Chicago,  111. 
Died  March  30,  1918,  in  New  York  City 

Leo  Stein  was  born  May  4,  1866,  in  Chicago,  111.,  the  son 
of  Solomon  and  Babette  (Hirsh)  Stein.  His  father  was 
born  at  Pilsen,  Bohemia,  Austria,  and  came  to  America  in 
1848,  later  taking  up  the  manufacture  of  starch  in  Chicago. 
His  mother,  whose  parents  were  Adam  Henry  and  Minnie 
Hirsh,  was  a  native  of  Jungbunzlau,  Bohemia,  and  came  to 
America  in  1854. 

He  was  prepared  for  college  at  the  Chicago  High  School. 
He  won  the  second  declamation  prize  in  his  Sophomore 
year  at  Yale,  received  second  dispute  appointments  both 
Junior  and  Senior  years,  and  was  a  member  of  the  Glee 
Club  and  the  College  Orchestra. 

On  graduation  Mr.  Stein  became  connected  with  Stein, 
Hirsh  &  Company,  manufacturers  and  importers  of  starch 
in  Chicago.  He  went  to  New  York  in  1889  to  take  charge 
of  the  New  York  office  and  entered  the  firm  in  January, 
189 1,  as  a  general  partner.  The  New  York  business  was 
subsequently  organized  as  a  separate  firm,  of  which  he 
became  senior  partner,  and  on  January  i,  1918,  it  was  incor- 
porated under  the  name  of  Stein,  Hall  &  Company,  Inc., 
with  Mr.  Stein  as  president.  In  1901  he  formed  the  Stein- 
Davies  Company,  of  which  he  was  president  until  his  death. 


1887-1889  675 

He  was  for  some  years  chairman  of  the  board  of  directors 
of  the  United  States  Title  Guaranty  Company,  and  also 
chairman  of  the  finance  committee  of  the  board  of  trustees 
of  the  New  York  Society  for  Ethical  Culture  during 
1917-18. 

Mr.  Stein  died  at  his  home  in  New  York,  after  an  illness 
of  seven  days,  from  pneumonia,  on  March  30,  1918.  Inter- 
ment was  at  Mount  Pleasant  Cemetery. 

He  was  married  November  29,  1893,  in  New  York  City, 
to  Eda,  daughter  of  Charles  and  Bertha  (Weisl)  Lesinsky. 
She  died  May  27,  1895,  leaving  a  son,  Edwin,  who  gradu- 
ated from  Yale  in  19 16,  and  became  a  Second  Lieutenant  of 
Field  Artillery  in  1917;  after  a  course  at  a  French  Artillery 
School  of  Instruction,  he  was  for  five  months  detailed  on 
duty  with  the  Army  Transport  Service  and  afterwards 
assigned  to  the  57th  Engineers  as  Personnel  Adjutant. 
Mr.  Stein  was  married  again  June  i,  1898,  in  New  York, 
to  Gerda,  daughter  of  Max  and  Bertha  (Pfeiffer)  Gold- 
frank.  Their  children  are-  Beatrice;  Harold  Leo,  a  stu- 
dent at  Yale  in  the  Class  of  1922 ;  and  Robert.  Surviving 
Mr.  Stein  are  his  wife  and  four  children,  four  sisters,  and 
two  brothers,  one  of  whom,  Arthur  Stein,  is  a  non-graduate 
member  of  the  Class  of  1891  S.  Another  brother,  Sydney 
Stein,  received  the  degree  of  B.A.  at  Yale  in  1884;  he  died 
June  12,  1918,  and  a  sketch  of  his  life  appears  on  another 
page  of  this  volume. 


Edmund  Daniel  Scott,  B.A.  1889 

Born  February  6,  1866,  in  New  Haven,  Conn. 
Died  July  27,  1917,  in  Worcester,  Mass.    . 

Edmund  Daniel  Scott  was  born  in  New  Haven,  Conn., 
February  6,  1866.  His  father,  Franklin  Scott,  son  of 
Daniel  and  Roxanna  Scott,  was  a  merchant;  members  of 
his  family  had  been  Connecticut  farmers  for  over  two 
hundred  years,  the  first  one,  Edmon  Scott,  who  came  to 
America  from  England  in  1634,  having  been  one  of  the 
original  proprietors  of  Farmington,  His  mother  was  Eliz- 
abeth, daughter  of  Abijah  and  Sally  (Beers)  Austin  of 
New  Haven. 

He  was  prepared  for  Yale  at  the  Hillhouse  High  School 


676  YALE   COLLEGE 

in  New  Haven.  He  won  a  first  grade,  Berkeley  Premium 
in  Freshman  year,  a  first  prize  in  composition  in  Sophomore 
year,  and  was  an  editor  of  the  Courant  in  Senior  year.  He 
took  a  high  oration  stand  at  Junior  Exhibition  and  a  philo- 
sophical oration  at  Commencement,  when  he  also  received 
one-year  honors  in  English  and  a  Earned  Scholarship.  He 
was  a  member  of  Phi  Beta  Kappa. 

He  spent  the  year  of  1889-1890  in  graduate  study  at  Yale, 
and  after  interrupting  his  course  to  act  for  one  year  as  a 
private  tutor,  returned  to  Yale  for  another  year  and 
received  the  degree  of  M.A.  in  1892.  For  the  next  two 
years  he  was  an  instructor  in  Latin  and  Greek  at  the  Con- 
necticut Episcopal  Academy,  Cheshire,  Conn.  During  the 
winter  and  spring  of  1896-97  he  was  a  student  at  the  Amer- 
ican School  of  Classical  Studies  in  Rome.  In  September, 
1897,  he  accepted  the  position  of  head  of  the  classical 
department  in  the  Holyoke  (Mass.)  High  School.  During 
the  summer  of  1898  he  traveled  in  England  and  Germany, 
with  the  special  intention  of  visiting  museums  and  galleries 
of  antique  art,  and  he  also  made  a  brief  excursion  through 
Holland  and  Belgium.  He  spent  the  summer  of  1901  in 
Paris,  London,  and  various  cities  of  northern  France  and 
Belgium.  In  July,  1905,  he  was  elected  head  of  the  Latin 
department  of  Worcester  Academy  at  Worcester,  Mass., 
which  position  he  held  until  his  death.  He  spent  the  sum- 
mer of  1907  in  Sicily  and  Italy,  and  the  summer  of  191 1 
with  his  eldest  daughter  in  France  and  Germany.  He  was 
a  member  of  All  Saints*  Church  (Protestant  Episcopal)  of 
Worcester. 

Mr.  Scott  died  July  2^,  1917,  in  the  Memorial  Hospital  in 
that  city  after  an  illness  of  two  weeks.  Burial  took  place 
in  the  Hope  Cemetery  in  Worcester. 

On  August  9,  1899,  he  was  married  in  Webster,  Mass.,  to 
Sarah  Harrington  Rogers,  a  graduate  of  Boston  University 
with  the  degree  of  Ph.B.  in  1891,  and  the  daughter  of 
Charles  C.  and  Susan  (Harrington)  Rogers.  She  sur- 
-vives  with  their  four  children,  Elizabeth  Rogers,  Charlotte 
Harrington,  Edmund  Gilbert,  and  Esther. 


1889-1894  677 


Patrick  Joseph  Cassidy,  B.A.  1894 

Born  July  6,  1874,  in  Norwich,  Conn. 
Died  January  28,  1918,  in  Norwich,  Conn. 

Patrick  Joseph  Cassidy  was  born  in  Norwich,  Conn.,  July 

),  1874.,   His  father,  Patrick  Cassidy  (M.D.  University  of 

'ermont   1865),   a  physician   and   surgeon,   was   born   in 

.nnaloughan,  County  Tyrone,  Ireland,  and  came  to  Amer^ 

jca  in  1852  at  the  age  of  thirteen  years.     He  was  the  son  of 

^atrick  and  Rose  (Rafferty)   Cassidy  and  was  descended 

from  a  family  of  physicians.     Patrick  J.  Cassidy's  mother 

was  Margaret,  daughter  of  John  and  Margaret   (Byrne) 

McCloud  of  Norwich,  Conn. ;   she  was  a  descendant  of  the 

Highland  clan  of  McCloud,  of  the  Hebrides  of  Scotland. 

She  died  April  17,  1914. 

He  was  prepared  for  college  at  the  Norwich  Free  Acad- 
emy. His  appointments  were  second  colloquies  in  both  his 
Junior  and  Senior  years. 

After  graduation  he  studied  at  the  Johns  Hopkins  Med- 
ical School,  receiving  the  degree  of  M.D.  in  1898.  The 
following  year  he  practiced  in  Norwich,  being  an  interne  at 
the  William  W.  Backus  Hospital  a  part  of  the  year.  In 
April,  1899,  he  removed  to  New  London,  Conn.,  returning 
in  January,  1906,  to  Norwich.  He  was  a  member  of  the 
visiting  staff  of  the  Memorial  Hospital  of  New  London,  but 
resigned  in  1906  and  became  visiting  surgeon  and  visiting 
pathologist  to  the  William  W.  Backus  Hospital.  In  1907  he 
became  a  member  of  the  board  of  education  of  the  Norwich 
Central  School  district  and  he  was  a  member  of  the  Town 
School  Committee  from  its  formation  in  1912  until  his 
death  in  1918.  In  1910  he  was  elected  a  councilor  of  the 
State  Medical  Society.  He  served  in  1906  as  president  of 
the  New  London  Medical  Society.  He  belonged  to  the 
Roman  Catholic  Church. 

After  the  United  States  entered  the  war  he  offered  his 
services  as  a  surgeon  and  in  the  fall  of  1917  was  appointed 
to  the  Walter  Reed  General  Hospital  in  Washington,  D.  C. 
He  was  tal<en  ill  before  entering  upon  his  duties  and  died 
at  his  home  in  Norwich  on  January  28,  1918,  after  an 
illness  of  four  months  due  to  Bright's  disease.  He  was 
buried  in  St.  Mary's  Cemetery  in  Norwich. 

On  February  12,  1901,  he  married,  at  Willimantic,  Conn., 


678  YALE    COLLEGE 

Jane  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Henry  Llewlyn  and  Jane 
(Lathrop)  Hall.  They  had  two  children:  Jane  Margaret, 
now  a  Freshman  at  Smith  College,  and  Patricia,  a  student 
at  the  Norwich  Free  Academy.  Surviving  Dr.  Cassidy  are 
his  wife  and  two  children,  his  father,  and  several  brothers 
and  sisters. 


James  Sinclair  Jenkins,  B.A.  1894 

Born  October  31,  1871,  in  Stamford,  Conn. 
Died  April  3,  1918,  in  Stamford,  Conn. 

James  Sinclair  Jenkins  was  bom  October  31,  1871,  in 
Stamford,  Conn.,  the  son  of  George  Washington  Allston 
and  Emma  (Clarke)  Jenkins.  He  was  prepared  for  col- 
lege at  the  King  School  in  Stamford,  and  at  St.  Mark's 
School,  Southboro,  Mass.  As  an  undergraduate  he  played 
on  the  Freshman  Football  and  Baseball  teams. 

After  graduation  he  studied  in  the  Yale  School  of  Law, 
receiving  the  degree  of  LL.B.  in  1896.  He  then  entered 
the  law  firm  of  Hart  &  Keeler  in  Stamford,  and  in  1897 
formed  a  partnership  with  Judge  F.  C.  Taylor  under  the 
name  of  Taylor  &  Jenkins.  He  retired  as  a  member  of  this 
firm  in  November,  1917,  to  look  after  property  affairs.  In 
1899  he  was  appointed  assistant  prosecuting  attorney  of  the 
Stamford  City  Court,  and  served  in  that  capacity  for  some 
years.  He  was  at  one  time  president  of  the  Shippan  Point 
Land  Company  and  was  a  director  of  the  Stamford  Yacht 
and  Suburban  clubs.  Mr.  Jenkins  died  April  3,  1918,  in 
Stamford,  after  an  illness  of  several  days,  from  pneumonia. 

He  was  married  October  16,  1900,  at  Stamford,  to 
Gladys,  daughter  of  William  L.  Pomeroy.  She  survives 
with  their  five  children :  George  Allston,  Gladys  Pomeroy, 
William  Pomeroy,  John  Jay,  and  Hope  VanGelder. 


Charles  James  Snififen,  B.A.  1894 

Born  August  lo,  1863,  in  Stratford,  Conn. 
Died  January  5,  1918,  in  Greenfield,  Mass. 

Charles  James  Sniffen,  son  of  Charles  Birdseye  Sniffen, 
a  farmer,  was  born  in  Stratford,  Conn.,  August  10,  1863. 


1894  ^79 

His  paternal  grandparents  were  Isaac  and  Sara  C.  (Birds- 
eye)  Sniff  en.  John  Birdseye,  his  first  American  ancestor, 
came  from  England  to  New  Haven,  Conn.,  in  1636  and 
finally  settled  in  Stratford.  He  was  the  first  deacon  in  the 
Congregational  Church  there.  When  the  Episcopal  Church 
was  started  in  Stratford,  his  grandsons,  Abel  and  Joseph 
Birdseye,  gave  money  and  land  for  that  purpose.  The 
descendants  of  the  Birdseye  family  have  been  in  Stratford 
since  that  time  and  some  of  them  own  and  live  now  in  the 
old  homestead.  The  Sniffen  family  was  living  in  Rye, 
N.  Y.,  in  1 61 6.  Charles  J.  Sniff  en's  mother  was  Isabella, 
daughter  of  Charles  Duffey  and  Mary  (Lynch)  Johnson. 
She  was  born  in  Liverpool,  England,  and  came  to  the 
United  States  in  1852. 

He  was  prepared  for  college  at  the  Bridgeport  High 
School,  Bridgeport,  Conn.,  graduating  third  in  his  class. 
He  was  awarded  a  third  college  prize  in  English  composi- 
tion, and  his  appointments  were  a  second  colloquy  in  his 
Junior  year  and  a  first  colloquy  at  Commencement. 

He  graduated  from  the  Berkeley  Divinity  School,  Mid- 
dletown,  Conn.,  in  1897,  and  in  June  of  that  year  was 
ordained  by  Bishop  Niles  a  deacon  in  the  Protestant  Epis- 
copal Church,  becoming  assistant  in  Holy  Trinity  Church 
in  Middletown.  He  was  ordained  to  the  priesthood  in  1898 
by  Rt.  Rev.  Chauncey  B.  Brewster  (B.A.  1868).  He  went 
to  Carthage,  Mo.,  in  1900,  as  rector  of  Grace  Church.  In 
1902  he  removed  to  Massachusetts,  and  became  assistant 
minister  of  St.  Paul's  Church  at  Stockbridge.  In  1906  he 
was  made  a  missionary  of  the  Diocese  of  Western  Massa- 
chusetts and  served  in  that  capacity  until  19 12,  when  he 
was  made  archdeacon  of  the  diocese.  He  held  this  latter 
office  at  the  time  of  his  death.  Mr.  Sniffen  was  a  deputy 
to  the  General  Conventions  of  the  Protestant  Episcopal 
Church  in  1910,  1913,  and  1916,  and  was  also  a  delegate  to 
the  Provincial  Synod  from  1913  to  1918.  He  served  also 
on  the  board  of  social  service  and  the  board  of  religious 
education  of  the  diocese.  He  was  instrumental  in  starting 
the  Ascension  Farm  School  in  South  Lee,  Mass. 

He  died  suddenly,  of  heart  trouble,  January  5,  1918,  at  the 
rectory  in  Greenfield,  Mass.,  where  he  had  gone  from  his 
home  in  South  Lee  to  officiate  at  a  funeral  service.  Burial 
was  in  the  Union  Cemetery  at  Stratford,  Conn. 

He  was  married  April  25,  1901,  at  Toronto,  Ontario,  Can- 


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ada,  to  Blanche  Norine,  daughter  of  WilHam  Edgar  and 
Elizabeth  Anne  (Way)  Wellington.  They  had  two  sons, 
Edgar  Wellington  and  Ronald  Charles,  both  of  whom,  with 
their  mother,  survive.  Mr.  Sniffen  also  leaves  his  mother, 
a  sister,  and  two  brothers. 


James  Malcolm  Kendall,  B.A.  1895 

Born  July  6,  1873,  in  Arnot,  Pa. 
Died  February  28,  1918,  in  Concord,  N.  H. 

James  Malcolm  Kendall  was  the  son  of  Rev.  John  Lud- 
low Kendall,  a  graduate  of  Adelbert  College,  Western 
Reserve  University,  in  1868,  and  Eugenia  Crippen  (Mal- 
colm) Kendall.  He  was  born  July  6,  1873,  at  Arnot,  Pa., 
his  father  at  that  time  being  pastor  of  the  Presbyterian 
Church  of  that  town.  The  latter  was  the  son  of  John  M. 
and  Nancy  (Ludlow)  Kendall. 

He  received  his  preparatory  training  at  Bucknell  Acad- 
emy, and  then  entered  Bucknell  University,  from  which  he 
was  graduated  with  the  degree  of  B.A.  in  1894.  He 
joined  the  Yale  Class  of  1895  at  the  beginning  of  Senior 
year.  From  1895  to  1898  he  pursued  classical  studies  in  the 
Yale  Graduate  School,  and  during  his  last  year  in  New 
Haven  he  also  taught  Latin  at  the  Harstrom  School  in 
Norwalk,  Conn. 

Since  1898  he  had  been  master  of  Latin  at  St.  Paul's 
School,  Concord,  N.  H.,  for  the  last  four  years  of  his  life 
being  head  of  the  department.  Mr.  Kendall  started  a  sum- 
mer school  camp  (Camp  Aloha)  at  Lake  Asquam,  Ashland, 
N.  H.,  in  1904,  and  continued  as  its  director  until  his  death. 
He  was  a  member  of  the  Episcopal  Church  at  St.  Paul's 
School.  He  spent  the  summer  of  1902  in  Europe.  He  died 
February  28,  19 18,  at  the  New  Upper  School  at  St.  Paul's, 
as  the  result  of  an  accident  while  skiing.  Burial  was  in  the 
St.  Paul's  School  Cemetery. 

He  was  married  July  2,  1901,  in  Norwalk,  Conn.,  to 
Louise  Brinckerhoif,  daughter  of  Asa  Burr  Woodward 
(B.A.  1853)  and  Sarah  Esther  (Hanford)  Woodward. 
She  survives  him  with  their  two  sons,  James  Malcolm,  Jr., 
and  Brinckerhoif  Woodward.  Mr.  Kendall  was  a  brother 
of  Edward  G.  Kendall  (B.A.  1895,  Ph.D.  1899),  who  also 


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I894-I896  681 

attended  Bucknell  College  before  coming  to  Yale,  and  is 
now  teaching  at  St.  Paul's  School. 


James  Dwight  Rockwell,  B.A.  1896 

Born  October  2,  1872,  in  Dryden,  N.  Y. 
Died  December  3,  1917,  in  New  York  City 

James  Dwight  Rockwell  was  born  October  2,  1872,  in 
Dryden,  N.  Y.  He  was  the  son  of  Erastus  Saunders  Rock- 
well, a  lawyer,  and  Mary  Mehetabel  (Dwight)  Rockwell. 
His  father's  parents  were  Erastus  and  Esther  (Saunders) 
Rockwell,  and  his  mother  was  the  daughter  of  Jeremiah 
Wilbur  and  Rebecca  Anne  (Cady)  Dwight.  Through  his 
mother  he  traced  his  descent  to  John  Dwight,  who  came  to 
this  country  from  England  and  settled  at  Dedham,  Mass. 

He  was  prepared  for  Yale  at  the  Pelham  Manor  (N.  Y.) 
School  and  at  the  Taft  School,  Watertown,  Conn.  After 
graduation  in  1896,  he  entered  the  New  York  offices  of  the 
United  States  Express  Company  as  shipping  clerk.  In 
1897  he  became  connected  with  a  firm  in  the  refrigerating 
trade,  and  in  1899,  after  some  experiences  in  insurance,  he 
went  into  the  chemical  business  with  Dr.  Edward  E. 
Brownell,  '95  S.  Their  company  was  organized  as  the 
Phinotas  Chemical  Company,  manufacturers  of  disinfect- 
ants. In  1904  Mr.  Rockwell  went  to  Cuba,  and  in  1905  to 
the  Isthmus  of  Panama,  establishing  branches  of  the  busi- 
ness in  both  places.  On  his  return  from  Panama,  he  wrote 
an  article  on  conditions  there,  which  was  published  in  Har- 
per's Weekly.  In  1906  he  was  forced  to  retire  from  active 
business  on  account  of  ill  health.  In  the  fall  of  1916  he 
reorganized  the  deferred  subscription  business  formerly 
conducted  under  the  name  of  C.  W.  Bell,  and  became  the 
sole  proprietor  of  A  Little  Late  Magazine  Company. 
Although  permanently  bedridden  he  continued  to  conduct 
its  affairs  until  two  days  before  his  death,  which  occurred 
December  3,  19 17,  in  New  York  City,  from  paralysis. 
Interment  was  in  Woodlawn  Cemetery,  New  York.  He 
was  a  member  of  the  Church  of  the  Transfiguration 
(Protestant  Episcopal)  of  New  York  City. 

Mr.  Rockwell  was  married  January  14,  1907,  in  New 
York  City,  to  Alice  Estelle,  daughter  of  James  Hicks  and 


6S2  YALE  COLLEGE 

Alice  Ferris  (Brown)  Spencer.  They  had  no  children. 
Mrs.  Rockwell  survives  him,  and  he  also  leaves  three  aunts 
and  an  uncle. 


Clinton  Joseph  Rumrill,  B.A.  1896 

Born  January  7,  1871,  in  Springfield,  Vt. 
Died  January  6,  1918,  in  Randolph,  Vt. 

Clinton  Joseph  Rumrill  was  born  January  7,  1871,  in 
Springfield,  Vt.,  one  of  the  eight  children  of  Edwin  Joseph 
Rumrill,  a  railroad  bridge  builder,  and  Susie  Cynthia 
(Simmonds)  Newton  Rumrill.  His  father's  parents  were 
Joseph  Rumrill,  a  farmer,  and  Cordelia  (Keys)  Rumrill; 
his  mother  was  the  daughter  of  Horace  Simmonds,  a  car- 
penter, and  Cynthia  Burnham  (Austin)  Simmonds  of  East 
Bethel,  Vt.  All  were  natives  of  Vermont,  the  earliest 
member  of  the  family  to  settle  there  being  Simon  Rumrill, 
who  came  to  America  in  1672. 

He  received  his  preparatory  training  at  the  St.  Johnsbury 
(Vt.)  Academy,  and  entered  Yale  from  Royalton.  At  the 
Junior  Exhibition  his  scholarship  rating  was  a  first  collo- 
quy. On  February  8,  1896,  he  went  to  Haiti,  West  Indies, 
and  remained  there  until  May  15,  1897,  serving  as  business 
manager  and  head  assistant  to  a  surgeon  in  Port  au  Prince. 
He  devoted  himself  to  the  study  of  medicine  during  this 
time  and  returned  to  the  United  States  in  order  to  enter  a 
medical  school  and  complete  his  training.  Although  hav- 
ing every  intention  of  taking  the  course  in  the  Yale 
School  of  Medicine,  he  finally  chose  Dartmouth  on  account 
of  its  proximity  to  his  home.  In  1899  his  B.A.  degree  at 
Yale  was  conferred,  with  enrollment  in  the  Class  of  1896, 
and  in  February,  1900,  he  received  his  M.D.  at  Dartmouth. 
In  the  October  following  he  began  the  practice  of  medicine 
in  Randolph,  Vt.,  in  partnership  with  Dr.  L.  A.  Russlow. 
He  later  practiced  independently.  He  was  a  member  of 
the  Vermont  and  American  Medical  associations.  He 
belonged  to  the  Congregational  Church. 

In  1908  Dr.  Rumrill  underwent  an  operation  for  appen- 
dicitis and  gall  bladder  troubles  and  later  he  suffered  from 
stomach  trouble.  His  death  occurred  on  January  6,  1918, 
at  a  sanatorium  in  Randolph,  after  a  number  of  operations 


1896-1897  683 

necessitated  by  an  organic  disorder.     Burial  was  in  Pleas- 
ant View  Cemetery. 

He  was  married  June  8,  1901,  in  Campton  Village,  N.  H., 
to  Marion  Belle,  daughter  of  Erastus  Fairbanks  and  Mary 
Ellen  (Goodhue)  Emerson.  She  survives  him  with  a 
daughter,  Arene  Emerson. 


Samuel  Deiiison  Babcock,  B.A.   1897 

Born  April  19,  1874,  in  New  York  City 

Died  April  14,  1918,  in  Paris,  France 

Samuel  Denison  Babcock  was  born  April  19,  1874,  in 
New  York  City.  He  was  of  Revolutionary  descent,  his 
ancestors  including  Major  General  Joshua  Babcock  (B.A. 
1724),  a  man  of  public  note,  both  before  and  during  the 
Revolution,  and  Colonel  Henry  Babcock  (B.A.  1752),  who 
commanded  the  Rhode  Island  Regiment  against  Ticon- 
deroga  in  the  French  and  Indian  War,  and  was  commander 
of  the  forces  at  Newport  during  the  Revolution.  His 
father,  Henry  Denison  Babcock,  received  the  degree  of 
B.A.  at  Columbia  in  1868;  he  was  the  son  of  Samuel  Deni- 
son and  Elizabeth  Crary  (Crary)  Babcock.  His  mother 
was  Anna  Mary  (Woodward)  Babcock,  daughter  of 
Robert  T."  and  Hetty  (Davis)  Woodward;  she  traced  her 
descent  to  Chief  Justice  Davis  of  Barnstable,  Mass. 

His  preparation  for  Yale  was  received  at  the  Berkeley 
School  in  New  York  City  and  at  the  Lawrenceville  ( N.  J. ) 
School.  While  in  college  he  served  on  the  executive 
committee  and  board  of  managers  of  the  University  Club, 
and  was  a  Cup  man. 

Since  graduation  he  had  been  engaged  in  the  brokerage 
business  in  New  York  City.  From  November,  1897,  to 
December,  1902,  he  was  in  the  office  of  J.  P.  Morgan  & 
Company.  On  January  i,  1903,  he  joined  his  father's  firm 
(Hollister  &  Babcock),  in  which  he  remained  a  partner 
until  its  dissolution.  He  bought  a  seat  on  the  New  York 
Stock  Exchange  in  1902.  Since  1912  he  had  made  his 
headquarters  in  the  office  of  Harris,  Winthrop  &  Company. 
He  entered  the  service  of  the  American  Red  Cross  as  a 
Lieutenant  in  August,  191 7,  and  was  later  promoted  to  a 
Captaincy  in  the  organization.      He  went  abroad  imme- 


684  YALE   COLLEGE 

diately  upon  receiving  his  commission.  His  death  occurred 
from  pneumonia,  at  the  Ritz  Hotel  in  Paris,  France,  April 
14,  1918.  A  service  in  his  memory  was  held  at  St.  Thomas' 
Church,  New  York  City,  on  May  5.  About  two  months 
after  his  death  his  body  was  brought  to  this  country,  and  is 
buried  in  the  family  vault  at  Woodlawn  Cemetery,  New 
York. 

Mr.  Babcock  was  not  married.  He  is  survived  by  his 
mother,  two  brothers, — the  elder  of  whom.  Woodward 
Babcock,  graduated  from  Columbia  in  1897,  while  the 
younger,  Richard  F.  Babcock,  is  an  undergraduate  at  Har- 
vard,— and  a  sister,  Alice,  who  is  the  wife  of  Henry  R. 
Winthrop  (B.A.  1898). 


McKinley  Boyle,  B.A.   1897 

Born  February  16,  1875,  in  Louisville,  Ky. 
Died  March  24,  1918,  in  New  York  City 

McKinley  Boyle  was  the  son  of  St.  John  and  Anna  Cable 
(McKinley)  Boyle,  and  was  born  February  16,  1875,  in 
Louisville,  Ky.,  where  his  father,  who  graduated  from 
Center  College,  Danville,  Ky.,  with  the  degree  of  B.A.  in 
1866  and  studied  in  the  Harvard  Law  School  during  1867- 
68,  was  for  many  years  engaged  in  the  practice  of  law. 
His  paternal  grandparents  were  General  Jeremiah  Tilford 
Boyle,  of  the  Union  Army,  and  Elizabeth  Owsley  Ander- 
son Boyle,  and  he  was  descended  from  Justice  John  Boyle, 
of  Danville,  Ky.,  and  from  Captain  John  Boyle,  a  British 
Army  officer.  His  mother  was  the  daughter  of  Andrew 
and  Mary  Wilcox  McKinley  and  a  descendant  of  Andrew 
McKinley,  who  emigrated  to  America  from  Lauderdale,- 
Scotland,  in  1774,  settling  at  Culpepper,  Va.,  and  who 
served  as  a  surgeon  in  the  American  Revolution. 

He  was  fitted  for  Yale  at  Phillips  Academy,  Andover, 
Mass.  In  1898,  after  studying  for  a  year  at  the  Boston 
University  Law  School,  he  began  the  practice  of  law  in 
Louisville.  He  removed  to  New  York  City  in  the  fall  of 
1899  and  for  the  next  three  years  was  connected  with  the 
brokerage  firm  of  George  P.  Butler  &  Brother.  For  sev- 
eral years  he  was  president  of  the  Continental  Car  & 
Equipment  Company  and  the  Louisville,  New  Albany  & 


1897-1898  68s 

Corydon  Railroad.  He  was  also  associated  with  the  bro- 
kerage firm  of  Hosmer  &  Webb  of  New  York  from  1914 
until  February,  1915,  when  he  became  a  member  of  the 
firm  of  C.  E.  Welles  &  Son,  members  of  the  New  York 
Stock  Exchange.  He  continued  in  this  connection  until 
his  death,  which  occurred  March  24,  191 8,  at  his  home  in 
New  York  City,  after  an  illness  of  ten  months.  Interment 
was  in  the  Belleview  Cemetery  at  Danville,  Ky. 

Mr.  Boyle  was  a  member  of  the  Presbyterian  Church  of 
Louisville.  In  recent  years,  while  making  his  headquar- 
ters in  New  York,  he  had  spent  considerable  time  in  Louis- 
ville looking  after  his  business  interests.  He  was  married 
in  Morristown,  N.  J.,  November  29,  1906,  to  Katherine 
Frances,  daughter  of  John  H.  and  Anna  (Murray)  Welch, 
who  survives  him. 


Warren  Bowditch  Johnson,  B.A.  1898 

Born  March  23,  1876,  in  Enfield,  Conn. 
Died  May  30,  1918,  in  Enfield,  Conn. 

Warren  Bowditch  Johnson  was  born  March  23,  1876,  in 
Enfield,  Conn.,  the  son  of  Joseph  Warren  Johnson,  an 
attorney  at  law,  and  Julia  Eugenia  (Bowditch)  Johnson. 
His  father's  parents  were  Aholiab  Johnson,  who  studied 
law  at  Yale  from  1822  to  1824,  and  Eliza  (Peck)  Johnson, 
daughter  of  Dr.  Daniel  Peck,  of  West  Stafford,  Conn.,  and 
a  descendant  of  Deacon  William  Peck,  of  New  Haven. 
His  mother  was  the  daughter  of  John  B.  and  Frances 
(Griffing)  Bowditch,  of  Shelter  Island,  N.  Y.  His  pater- 
nal ancestors  included  John  Johnson,  who  came  from 
Lincolnshire,  England,  to  Roxbury,  Mass.,  in  1630,  and 
Captain  Isaac  Johnson,  who  died  at  Warwick,  R.  I.,  of 
wounds  received  in  the  Swamp  fight  with  the  Indians. 
Several  ancestors  served  in  the  Revolution,  among  them 
Dr.  David  Ladd,  of  Bolton,  Conn.,  Daniel  Peck,  of  Lyme, 
and  John  Johnson  and  Aholiab  Johnson,  Sr.,  both  of  Kil- 
lingly. 

He  received  his  preparatory  training  at  the  Hartford 
(Conn.)  Public  High  School.  His  Junior  appointment 
was  a  second  colloquy  and  at  Commencement  he  was  given 
a  second  dispute.     In  the  fall  after  graduating  from  the 


686  YALE   COLLEGE 

College,  he  entered  the  School  of  Law,  from  which  he 
received  the  degree  of  Bachelor  of  Laws  in  1900.  He 
served  as  an  editor  of  the  Yale  Law  Journal  in  1899- 1900. 

In  November,  1900,  following  his  admission  to  the  Hart- 
ford County  Bar,  he  entered  the  law  office  of  Lewis  Sperry 
(B.A.  Amherst  1873),  ^^  Hartford.  Mr.  Sperry,  who  was 
a  member  of  Congress  from  1891  to  1895,  was  at  that  time 
senior  partner  in  the  firm  of  Sperry  &  McLean,  but  now 
conducts  his  practice  under  his  own  name.  Mr.  Johnson 
continued  this  association  until  his  death,  which  occurred 
May  30,  1918,  at  his  father's  home  in  Enfield,  after  a  short 
illness  of  pneumonia.  He  was  buried  in  the  old  cemetery 
at  Enfield. 

Mr.  Johnson,  who  was  unmarried,  is  survived  by  his 
father  and  a  sister.  He  belonged  to  the  Enfield  Congre- 
gational Church,  being  an  officer  of  several  affiliated  soci- 
eties, and  was  vice  president  of  the  Enfield  Library  Board. 
During  the  last  few  months  of  his  life  he  had  been  serving 
as  a  Government  appeal  agent  for  Draft  Board  No.  3  of 
Hartford  County.  He  had  made  three  trips  abroad  and 
had  also  traveled  extensively  in  this  country  and  Canada. 


Howard  Dickinson  Reeve,  B.A.   i 

Born  December  31,  1874,  in  Appleton,  Wis. 
Died  June  13,  1918,  at  Otis  Orchards,  Wash. 

Howard  Dickinson  Reeve  was  born  in  Appleton,  Wis., 
December  31,  1874,  the  son  of  James  Theodore  and  Laura 
(Spoiford)  Reeve.  His  father  graduated  from  Jefferson 
Medical  College  in  1855,  and  afterwards  followed  his  pro- 
fession at  Appleton.  He  was  fitted  for  Yale  at  Phillips 
Academy,  Andover,  Mass.  He  received  first  colloquy 
appointments. 

Mr.  Reeve  spent  the  first  five  years  after  graduation  in 
the  fire  insurance  business  in  New  York  City,  until  Feb- 
ruary, 1902,  being  connected  with  the  firm  of  Weed  & 
Kennedy,  and  afterwards  with  the  Norwich  Union  Fire 
Insurance  Society.  In  June,  1903,  he  became  engaged  in 
ranching  at  Glendive,  Mont.,  where  for  a  time  he  was  asso- 
ciated with  his  classmates,  John  R.  Paxton  and  Francis  W. 
Sheehan.     Since  1905  he  had  given  his  attention  to  fruit 


1898  687 

growing  at  Otis  Orchards,  Wash.  He  had  been  actively 
interested  in  the  development  of  that  district.  For  several 
years  prior  to  his  death  he  served  as  secretary  of  the 
Spokane  Fruit  Growers'  Company.  In  August,  19 17,  he 
entered  the  Officers'  Training  Camp  at  The  Presid^  of  San 
Francisco,  to  study  for  a  commission  in  the  Infantry  branch 
of  the  service,  but  was  soon  afterwards  discharged.  He 
then  returned  to  his  ranch,  where  he  took  his  own  life  by 
hanging  on  June  13,  1918.  Ill  health  and  continued  brood- 
ing over  the  recent  death  of  his  elder  son  were  ascribed  as 
causes  of  his  act.  His  body  was  taken  to. his  native  town 
for  burial.  He  was  a  member  of  the  First  Congregational 
Church  of  Appleton. 

He  was  married  April  11,  1906,  in  that  town,  to  Lucy 
Whittlesey,  daughter  of  Comfort  Starr  Buckland,  who 
survives  him.  They  had  three  children:  Theodora  Buck- 
land;  James  Theodore  (born  November  3,  1908;  died 
April  12,  1918)  ;   and  John  Paxton. 


Frank  Raymond  Stocker,  B.A.   1898 

Born  July  24,  1876,  in  Jermyn,  Pa. 
Died  October  16,  1917,  in  Scranton,  Pa. 

Frank  Raymond  Stocker  was  the  son  of  James  Daniel 
Stocker,  a  merchant,  and  Frances  Lydia  (Raymond) 
Stocker.  He  was  born  July  24,  1876,  in  Jermyn,  Pa., 
being  descended  from  John  Peet,  who  came  from  Derby- 
shire, England,  early  in  the  seventeenth  century  and  was 
one  of  the  pioneer  settlers  in  Stratford,  Conn.  His  father 
was  the  son  of  Albert  and  Lydia  Rebecca  (Peet)  Stocker 
and  a  descendant  of  John  Stocker,  who  came  to  Fairfield 
County,  Conn.,  from  Saratoga  County,  N.  Y.  The  latter 
was  married  in  1746  to  Mary  Morehouse  and  had  four 
sons,  Thaddeus,  John,  Seth,  and  Peter,  all  soldiers  of  the 
Revolution.  Frank  Stocker's  maternal  grandparents  were 
Rev.  Albert  Rhamanthus  Raymond,  a  graduate  of  Union 
College  in  1831  and  a  member  of  the  Class  of  1834  at 
Princeton  Theological  Seminary,  and  Mary  L.  (Wright) 
Raymond,  a  descendant  of  the  Wright  family  of  Massa- 
chusetts. The  Raymonds  were  French  Huguenots  who 
left  France  to  escape  persecution  and  settled  temporarily  in 


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England,  from  where  they  came  to  America,  settling  in  the 
Genesee  Valley,  N.  Y. 

He  was  fitted  for  Yale  at  the  School  of  the  Lackawanna 
at  Scranton,  Pa.  He  received  a  philosophical  oration 
appointgient  both  Junior  and  Senior  years,  and  was  given 
two-year  honors  in  political  science  and  law.  He  was  a 
member  of  Phi  Beta  Kappa  and  the  Yale  Union. 

His  father  was  seriously  ill  when  he  graduated,  and  for 
the  next  year  and  a  half  he  assisted  him  in  his  mercantile 
business  in  Jermyn.  During  1900-01  he  studied  law  in 
the  office  of  Willard,  Warren  &  Knapp  in  Scranton,  of 
which  firm  Everett  Warren,  '81,  was  a  member.  He  was 
admitted  to  the  Lackawanna  County  Bar,  January  28,  1901, 
and  later  to  the  Supreme  Court  of  Pennsylvania,  as  well  as 
to  the  Federal  Courts  in  the  district  in  which  he  practiced. 
In  January,  1902,  he  was  placed  in  charge  of  the  claim 
department  of  the  Pennsylvania  Casualty  Company  of 
Scranton,  and  the  next  year  became  secretary  of  the  com- 
pany. He  resigned  from  that  position  in  April,  1909,  and 
afterwards  served  as  attorney  for  the  company.  He  had 
been  engaged  in  the  general  practice  of  law  since  1909, 
having  an  office  in  Jermyn,  as  well  as  in  Scranton,  and  on 
April  2,  19 1 7,  joined  the  firm  of  Welles  &  Torrey,  which 
then  became  Welles,  Stocker  &  Torrey.  His  partners  were 
Charles  H.  Welles,  Charles  H.  Welles,  Jr.  (B.A.  1899), 
and  Douglas  J.  Torrey,  a  graduate  of  Yale  in  1907  and  of 
the  Harvard  Law  School  in  1910.  Mr.  Stocker  was  looked 
upon  as  one  of  the  foremost  of  Scranton's  younger  lawyers. 
In  1912  he  was  made  assistant  district  attorney  for  Lacka- 
wanna County  and  served  in  that  capacity  for  two  years. 
In  191 3  he  was  vice  chairman  of  the  County  Democratic 
Committee.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Green  Ridge  Pres- 
byterian Church. 

Mr.  Stocker  died  October  16,  1917,  at  his  home  in  Scran- 
ton. Heart  trouble,  superinduced  by  overwork  and  a 
nervous  breakdown  suffered  five  months  before,  caused  his 
death.  He  was  buried  in  Maplewood  Cemetery  at  Carbon- 
dale,  Pa. 

He  was  married  October  17,  1901,  in  that  town,  to 
Marion  Eraser,  daughter  of  Israel  and  Mary  (Lathrope) 
Crane.  Her  death  occurred  March  18,  191 4,  and  on  May 
10.  .1916,  he  was  married  a  second  time,  in  Scranton,  to 
Elizabeth  Leone,  daughter  of  Byron  and  Cora  I.   (Clay) 


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Buckingham,  who  survives  him.  He  also  leaves  three 
sons  by  his  first  marriage, — James  Daniel,  Dwight  Lathrope, 
and  Frank  Raymond,  Jr., — his  father,  a  brother,  and  a 
sister. 


Arthur  Collins  Williams,  B.A.  1898 

onn. 
Conn. 


Lrtnur  uoiiins   Williams,  n.i\.   1 

Bom  May  lo,  1876,  in  Hartford,  Conn. 
Died  November  30,  1917,  in  Hartford,  Con 


Arthur  Collins  Williams  was  born  May  10,  1876,  in 
Hartford,  Conn.,  the  son  of  Job  Williams  (B.A.  1864,  M.A. 
1887,  L.H.D.  Gallaudet  1889)  and  Catherine  (Stone)  Wil- 
liams. His  father  was  an  educator  of  the  deaf,  for  many 
years  principal  of  the  American  School  for  the  Deaf  in 
Hartford.  He  was  the  son  of  Giles  and  Fanny  Maria 
(Gallup)  Williams  and  was  descended  from  Richard  Wil- 
liams, who  came  from  England  in  1636,  and  who  first  set- 
tled in  Dorchester,  Mass.,  and  later  in  Taunton,  Mass. 
Another  early  ancestor  was  Captain  John  Gallup,  who 
crossed  in  the  ship  Mary  and  John  in  1630  to  Dorchester, 
and  who  is  said  to  have  fought  in  the  first  naval  battle  on 
this  coast.  Catherine  Stone  Williams  was  the  daughter  of 
Rev.  Collins  Stone  (B.A.  1832),  principal  of  the  American 
School  for  the  Deaf  from  1863  to  1870,  and  a  sister  of 
Edward  C.  Stone  (B.A.  1862)  and  George  F.  Stone  (Ph.B. 
1870). 

He  was  prepared  for  college  at  the  Hartford  Public  High 
School.  His  Junior  appointment  was  a  dissertation  and  his 
Senior  appointment  was  an  oration.  He  belonged  to  Phi 
Beta  Kappa  and  Sigma  Xi.  He  was  compelled  to  leave 
college  in  his  Senior  year  because  of  ill  health,  but  returned 
and  received  his  B.A.  in  1900,  being  enrolled  with  the  Class 
of  1898  by  vote  of  the  Corporation.  He  was  a  member  of 
the  Volunteer  Band  (of  which  he  was  leader  in  1900)  and 
the  Missionary  Committee,  leader  of  the  missionary  study 
class,  and  had  charge  of  the  Swift  collection  in  his  Sopho- 
more year. 

From  1900  to  1902  he  was  a  special  student  at  the  Hart- 
ford Theological  Seminary,  and  he  had  also  studied  (in 
absentia)  in  the  department  of  Biblical  literature  in  the 
Yale  Graduate  School.     In  1902-03  he  taught  in  the  Lynn 


690  YALE    COLLEGE 

Educational  and  Industrial  School,  Polk  County,  N.  C, 
and  the  following  year  was  ill  for  a  long  time  with  typhoid 
fever.  In  1904  he  became  assistant  treasurer  of  the  Yale 
Foreign  Missionary  Society,  and  continued  in  that  office 
three  years.  He  was  engaged  in  private  tutoring  in  Hart- 
ford in  1907-08,  and  the  next  year  was  connected  with  the 
Pilgrim  Congregational  Church  of  Hartford  and  with  the 
Washington  Life  Insurance  Company.  In  February,  1909, 
he  became  special  superintendent  in  Hartford  of  the 
Mutual  Life  Insurance  Company  of  New  York.  In  the 
summer  of  1897  he  took  a  four  months'  trip  to  Europe.  In 
May,  191 3,  he  formed  a  partnership  with  Joseph  H.  Smith, 
under  the  name  of  Smith  &  Williams,  the  firm  being 
appointed  district  managers  for  New  Haven  and  vicinity 
by  the  Mutual  Life  Insurance  Company  of  New  York. 
He  was  a  member  of  the  Pilgrim  Church.  He  contributed 
Chapter  IV  to  "A  Life  With  a  Purpose — A  Memorial  of 
J.  L.  Thurston  ['98],"  by  his  classmate,  Henry  B.  Wright. 
Mr.  WilHams  died  November  30,  1917,  at  the  Hartford 
Hospital  after  an  illness  of  several  months. 

Mr.  Williams  was  unmarried.  He  was  a  brother  of 
Henry  Lane  Williams  (B.A.  1891,  M.D.  University  of 
Pennsylvania  1895)  and  Charles  Gallup  Williams  (Ph.B. 
1908),  a  nephew  of  Arthur  Williams  (B.A.  1877),  and  a 
cousin  of  Arthur  Williams,  Jr.  (B.A.  1910),  and  Frederic 
Collins  Gleason  (Ph.B.  1916). 


Christopher  Pegues  Ellerbe,  B.A.  1900 

Born  December  15,  1878,  in  St.  Louis,  Mo. 
Died  August  5,  1917,  in  Santa  Monica,  Calif. 

Christopher  Pegues  Ellerbe,  the  son  of  Colonel  Chris- 
topher Pegues  Ellerbe  and  Mary  Virginia  (Wash)  Ellerbe, 
was  born  December  15,  1878,  in  St.  Louis,  Mo.  His  father, 
who  was  a  graduate  of  the  University  of  Virginia  in  the 
Class  of  1868,  was  a  lawyer,  practicing  as  the  senior  mem- 
ber of  the  firm  of  Ellerbe  &  Ellerbe.  His  mother  died 
when  he  was  five  years  old.  He  was  prepared  for  college 
at  the  Smith  Academy  in  St.  Louis. 

After  graduation  from  Yale  he  studied  law  in  Washing- 
ton University,  St.  Louis,  and  in  1901  was  admitted  to  the 


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bar;  in  1902  he  received  the  degree  of  LL.B.  from  Wash- 
ington University.  He  then  became  associated  with  the 
firm  of  Ellerbe,  Waddell  &  Hereford.  In  1903  the  firm 
name  was  changed  to  Ellerbe  &  Ellerbe,  and,  after  the  death 
of  Colonel  Ellerbe  in  1908,  was  changed  again  to  Ellerbe 
&  Brokaw,  the  junior  member  being  Linn  R.  Brokaw  (B.A. 
Princeton  1901,  LL.B.  Washington  University  1903).  In 
May,  1903,  he  purchased  the  Ferris  Wheel  in  Chicago,  and 
promoted  a  company  which  brought  the  wheel  to  the  St. 
Louis  World's  Fair  in  1904.  In  November,  1904,  his  health 
being  undermined,  he  went  to  the  Southwest.  From 
November,  1904,  until  January,  1906,  he  worked  as  a  cow- 
hand in  Arizona.  From  January,  1906,  until  November, 
1906,  he  was  special  attorney  for  the  banking  house  of 
Adams-Phillips  Company,  of  Los  Angeles,  living  in  Pasa- 
dena, Calif.  In  November,  1906,  he  returned  to  Arizona, 
and  was  elected  secretary  of  the  Arizona  Cattle  Growers 
Association,  at  the  same  time  having  a  law  ofBce  in  Tornb- 
stone,  Ariz,,  where  he  spent  one  month  out  of  every  six. 
He  was  also  deputy  sheriff  of  Cochise  County,  Ariz.  In 
1908  he  returned  to  St.  Louis  and  in  191 6  became  a  member 
of  the  firm  of  Jones,  Hocker,  Sullivan  &  Angert.  From 
191 3  to  191 7  he  held  an  appointment  as  professor  of  medical 
jurisprudence  at  St.  Louis  University. 

Mr.  Ellerbe  died  in  Santa  Monica,  CaHf .,  August  5,  1917, 
after  an  illness  of  seven  months  due  to  tuberculosis.  Inter- 
ment was  in  Bellefontaine  Cemetery,  St.  Louis. 

He  was  unmarried  and  left  no  near  relatives. 


Lewis  Edwards  Fulton,  B.A.   1901 

Born  January  22,  1879,  in  Waterbury,  Conn. 
Died  September  i,  1917 

Lewis  Edwards  Fulton,  eldest  son  of  William  Edwards 
and  Ida  Eleana  (Lewis)  Fulton,  was  born  in  Waterbury, 
Conn.,  January  22,  1879.  Llis  father,  who  has  for  sixteen 
years  been  president  of  The  Waterbury  Farrel  Foundry  & 
Machine  Company,  is  the  son  of  William  Goodrich  and 
Eliza  (Edwards)  Fulton  and  a  descendant  of  Robert 
Fulton,  who  came  from  England  to  Boston,  Mass.,  in  1730; 
of    Alexander    Edwards,    who    came    from    England    to 


692  YALE   COLLEGE 

America  in  1640  and  settled  in  Northampton,  Mass.,  in 
1654;  and  of  many  of  the  Colonial  founders  of  Massachu- 
setts and  Connecticut.  His  mother's  parents  were  Edward 
Cuffin  and  Harriet  M.  (Phippeny)  Lewis.  She  was 
descended  from  John  Lewis,  who  settled  at  Bridgeport, 
Conn.,  in  1831,  having  emigrated  to  this  country  from 
Wales,  and  from  David  Phippeny,  who  came  from  County 
Dorset,  England,  to  Hingham,  Mass.,  in  1635. 

"Before  entering  Yale  in  1897  he  attended  the  Waterbury 
High  School  and  Phillips  Academy,  Andover,  Mass.  In 
Senior  year  he  was  business  manager  of  the  Yale  Daily 
News,  and  he  had  previously  served  as  one  of  the  associate 
editors  of  this  publication.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Uni- 
versity Banjo  and  Mandolin  clubs  throughout  his  course. 

Immediately  after  graduation  he  became  connected  with 
The  Waterbury  Parrel  Foundry  &  Machine  Company,  and 
in  1908  was  made  treasurer  of  the  company.  He  resigned 
this  position  in  191 3  when  ill  health  compelled  him  to  retire 
from  business.  He  died  September  i,  19 17,  and  was 
buried  in  Riverside  Cemetery,  Waterbury. 

Mr.  Fulton  served  on  the  Triennial  and  Sexennial 
Reunion  committees  of  the  Class  of  190 1.  He  was  unmar- 
ried, and  is  survived  by  his  parents  and  two  brothers, 
William  Shirley  Fulton  (B.A.  1903),  treasurer  of  The 
Waterbury  Farrel  Foundry  &  Machine  Company,  and 
Irving  Kent  Fulton,  a  non-graduate  member  of  the  Class 
of  1906. 


George  Garr  Henry,  B.A.   190 1 

Born  January  2,  1881,  in  Ridgefield,  Conn. 
.    Died  July  5,  1917,  in  Morristown,  N.  J. 

George  Garr  Henry  was  born  January  2,  1881,  in  Ridge- 
field, Conn.,  his  parents  being  Rev.  Francis  A.  Henry,  a 
retired  clergyman  of  the  Protestant  Episcopal  Church,  and 
Helen  (Garr)  Henry.  His  father,  who  was  the  son  of 
Caleb  S.  and  Corneha  M.  (Heard)  Henry,  was  descended 
from  Robert  Henry,  who  came  from  England  to  Massachu- 
setts in  1720.  His  mother  was  the  daughter  of  George  and 
Eliza  (Kernochan)  Garr  and  a  descendant  of  Andrew  S. 
Garr,  who  settled  in  New  York  in  1785,  having  emigrated 


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to  this  country  from  England,  and  of  Joseph  Kernochan, 
who  came  to  America  from  Ireland. 

His  boyhood  was  spent  in  New  York,  Columbus,  Ohio, 
and  Washington,  D.  C.  He  received  his  early  education  at 
the  Columbus  Latin  School,  and  before  joining  the  Yale 
Class  of  190 1  as  a  Junior,  spent  three  years  with  the  Class 
of  1899  at  Ohio  State  University.  He  received  a  philo- 
sophical oration  appointment  and  two-year  honors  in 
science  and  law  at  graduation.  He  was  a  member  of  Phi 
Beta  Kappa. 

Mr.  Henry  had  been  engaged  in  the  brokerage  business 
in  New  York  City  since  graduation.  For  four  years  he 
was  connected  with  Spencer  Trask  &  Company,  and  from 
1904  to  1906  he  was  a  member  of  the  firm  of  Kinnicutt  & 
Potter.  He  then  joined  the  Potter,  Choate  &  Prentice 
Company,  being  placed  in  charge  of  its  bond  department. 
From  1907  to  1909  he  was  vice  president  of  the  Guaranty 
Trust  Company,  and  during  this  period  served  as  head  of 
its  bond  .department.  In  1909-1910  he  was  vice  president 
of  the  Union  Trust  Company.  The  last  seven  years  of  his 
life  were  spent  as  a  member  of  the  firm  of  William  Salo- 
mon &  Company.  At  the  time  of  his  death  he  was.  a 
director  and  chairman  of  the  finance  committee  of  the 
Emerson-Brantingham  Company  and  a  member  of  the 
finance  and  executive  committee  of  the  International  Steam 
Pump  Company,  a  director  of  the  Loose-Wiles  Biscuit 
Company,  the  Pan-American  Petroleum  &  Transport  Com- 
pany, the  California  Petroleum  Company,  and  the  Mary- 
land Trust  Company  of  Baltimore,  and  a  governor  of 
the  Investment  Bankers'  Association  of  America.  His 
encounter  with  the  Pujo  "Money  Trust"  investigation 
committee  in  191 3  was  featured  at  length  in  the  newspapers 
at  that  time.  In  1904  he  received  the  degree  of  M.A.  in 
course  at  Yale.  He  had  contributed  a  number  of  articles 
to  financial  magazines,  and  in  1907  published  "How  to 
Invest  Money."  His  home  had  been  at  Morristown,  N.  J., 
for  a  number  of  years.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Pan- 
American  and  Mexico  societies.  He  died  July  5,  19 17,  in 
the  Memorial  Hospital  in  Morristown,  as  the  result  of 
injuries  received  in  a  polo  game  on  the  field  of  the  Whip- 
pany  River  Club,  and  was  buried  at  Woodlawn  Cemetery. 
For  four  months  previous  to  his  death  he  served  as  director 


694  YALE    COLLEGE 

of  the  New  York  State  Military  Census,  making  his  head- 
quarters in  Albany. 

He  was  married  in  Alexandria,  Va.,  April  26,  1905,  to 
Elizabeth  Lloyd,  daughter  of  Cassius  Francis  and  Mary 
(Lloyd)  Lee.  They  had  one  son,  George  Garr,  Jr.,  who, 
with  Mrs.  Henry,  survives. 


Paul  John  Leidigh,  B.A.   1901 

Born  August  22,  1878,  in  Topeka,  Kans. 
Died  September  5,  1917,  at  Bay  View,  Mich. 

Paul  John  Leidigh  was  born  in  Topeka,  Kans.,  August 
22,  1878,  the  son  of  John  H.  Leidigh  (B.S.  Monmouth 
College  1859)  and  Sarah  (Shellabarger)  Leidigh.  His 
father's  parents  were  Henry  and  Martha  (Mohler)  Leidigh. 
His  mother  was  the  daughter  of  Jacob  and  Eliza  (Rei chert) 
Shellabarger. 

He  received  his  preparatory  training  at  the  Central  High 
School  in  Kansas  City,  Mo.  His  Junior  appointment  was 
a  second  colloquy  and  he  was  given  a  first  colloquy  at  Com- 
mencement. 

In  1902  he  received  the  degree  of  LL.B.  from  the  Kan- 
sas City  Law  School,  being  admitted  to  the  Missouri  Bar 
in  July  of  that  year.  He  entered  business  with  his  father 
in  1901,  and,  on  the  latter's  death  in  1910,  became  president 
of  the  Leidigh  &  Havens  Lumber  Company.  He  was  serv- 
ing in  this  capacity  at  the  time  of  his  death.  His  firm 
operated  a  line  of  thirty-one  retail  lumber  yards  through 
Missouri  and  Kansas,  and  also  did  a  wholesale  business. 
Mr.  Leidigh  had  served  as  secretary  of  the  Associated 
Western  Yale  Clubs  and  as  first  vice  president  of  the  Yale 
Alumni  Association  of  Kansas  City.  He  was  at  one  time  a 
deacon  in  the  Congregational  Church  and  later  an  officer  in 
the  Second  Presbyterian  Church  of  Kansas  City.  He  was 
interested  in  everything  of  a  charitable  nature  in  Kansas 
City.  He  died  at  Bay  View,  Mich.,  September  5,  1917,  as 
the  result  of  heart  trouble.  Interment  was  in  Mount 
Washington  Cemetery  in  Kansas  City. 

Mr.  Leidigh  was  married  January  29,  1907,  in  that  city, 
to  Anne,  daughter  of  Samuel  Gaylord  and  Ann  (Lazier) 
Warner.     She  died  January   15,   191 3,  and  on  March  7, 


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IQOI  695 

1916,  he  was  married  a  second  time  in  Kansas  City  to 
Helen,  daughter  of  Lewis  Seth  and  Sarah  Amanda  (Miller) 
Mohr  and  sister  of  his  classmate,  Paul  M.  Mohr.  She 
survives  him,  and  he  also  leaves  his  mother,  a  sister,  and  a 
brother.     He  had  no  children. 


Harold  Clark  Neal,  B.A.  1901 

Born  September  22,  1879,  in  Bloomsburg,  Pa. 
Died  March  25,  1918,  in  Covallen,  Pa. 

Harold  Clark  Neal  was  born  September  22,  1879,  ^^ 
Bloomsburg-,  Pa.,  the  son  of  Robert  Christman  and  Eleanor 
Hurley  (Clark)  Neal.  His  father  was  a  graduate  of  Troy 
Polytechnic  Institute  in  1866,  and  a  dealer  in  coal  and  iron. 
Eleanor  Clark  Neal  was  the  daughter  of  Robert  and 
Martha  Clark. 

His  preparation  for  college  was  received  at  St.  Paul's 
School,  Concord,  N.  H.  At  the  time  he  entered  Yale  his 
home  was  in  Harrisburg,  Pa.  In  college  he  was  coxswain 
of  the  Freshman  Crew. 

Mr.  Neal  died  March  25,  1918,  in  Covallen,  Pa.,  as  the 
result  of  ursemic  poisoning.  Interment  was  in  the  Blooms- 
burg Cemetery.  His  brother,  Robert  Christman  Neal,  Jr., 
graduated  from  Yale  in  1898,  and  two  uncles  also  were 
Yale  men.     He  was  unmarried. 


Edward  Everett  Tredway,  B.A.   1901 

Born  March  ii,  1879,  at  Oneida  Castle,  N.  Y.    - 
Died  May  19,  1918,  in  San  Diego,  Calif. 

Edward  Everett  Tredway  was  born  at  Oneida  Castle, 
N.  Y.,  March  11,  1879.  His  father,  Myron  Charles  Tred- 
way, a  tool  maker,  was  the  son  of  William  P.  and  Amanda 
(Graves)  Tredway.  His  mother  was  Mary  Ann  (Cowles) 
Tredway,  daughter  of  Caleb  G.  and  Harriet  (Red way) 
Cowles.  His  family  removed  to  Gloversville,  N.  Y.,  in  his 
infancy,  and  he  was  prepared  for  Yale  at  the  high  school  in 
that^  town.  He  was  given  a  first  colloquy  appointment  in 
Junior  year  and  a  second  colloquy  in  Senior  year. 


696  YALE    COLLEGE 

Mr.  Tredway  taught  in  the  Philippine  Islands  during  the 
first  three  years  after  graduation.  In  1904  he  returned  to 
the  United  States  after  traveling  in  Asia,  Africa,  and 
Europe,  and  took  up  the  study  of  medicine.  He  spent  one 
year  at  Johns  Hopkins,  two  years  at  the  Albany  Medical 
School,  al^d  a  year  at  the  Denver  and  Gross  Medical 
College  in  Denver,  Colo.,  receiving  the  degree  of  M.D. 
from  the  latter  institution  in  1908.  During  the  next  year 
he  served  as  house  physician  and  surgeon  at  St.  Anthony's 
Hospital  in  Denver.  He  later  practiced  in  Idaho  and 
Oregon.  In  1913  he  was  appointed  head  of  the  Allen 
Memorial  Hospital  at  Gray  Hawk,  Ky.,  and  remained  there 
until  removing  to  Pasadena,  Calif.,  several  years  ago.  In 
addition  to  conducting  a  private  practice  in  that  city.  Dr. 
Tredway  was  connected  with  the  Southern  California  Sani- 
tarium and  was  a  pathologist  at  Las  Encinas.  He  was  a 
member  of  the  American,  California  State,  Los  Angeles 
County,  and  Pasadena  Medical  associations.  He  belonged 
to  the  Pasadena  Presbyterian  Church  and  was  an  ordained 
elder  in  that  denomination. 

On  June  20,  19 17,  he  was  commissioned  as  a  First  Lieu- 
tenant in  the  Medical  Reserve  Corps  and  on  October  15  he 
was  assigned  to  Camp  Kearny,  San  Diego,  CaHf.,  as  a 
pathologist.  He  was  transferred  to  Base  Hospital  No.  35 
at  that  camp  on  May  10,  1918.  His  death  occurred  on  May 
19  at  St.  Joseph's  Hospital  in  San  Diego,  of  cerebrospinal 
meningitis,  which  he  contracted  while  in  the  performance 
of  his  duties.  His  body  was  cremated  and  the  ashes 
interred  at  Greenwood  Cemetery. 

He  was  married  September  30,  1913,  in  Cincinnati,  Ohio, 
to  Mary  Luella,  daughter  of  Allen  Gibson  and  Alvaretta 
Josephine  (Conner)  McClelland.  They  had  no  children. 
She  survives  him  and  he  also  leaves  his  father  and  a  sister. 


William .  Looniis  Harmount,  B.A.   1903 

Born  January  15,  1881,  in  New  Haven,  Conn, 
Died  July  20,  1917,  in  Pine  Orchard,  Conn, 

William  Loomis  Harmount  was  born  in  New  Haven, 
Conn.,  January  15,  1881,  the  son  of  Adoniram  Judson  Har- 
mount, a  lumber  merchant,  whose  parents  were  William 


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I90I-I903  697 

Simpson  and  Jane  (Morgan)  Harmount.  His  mother  was 
Mary  Ann,  daughter  of  Merril  and  Caroline  (Hunt) 
Loomis  of  New  Haven.  William  Simpson  Harmount,  his 
first  American  ancestor  on  the  paternal  side,  came  to  this 
country  in  1805  from  the  north  of  Ireland  and  settled  at 
Philadelphia,  Pa.  Through  his  mother  he  traced  his 
descent  to  Joseph  Loomis,  who  settled  at  Windsor,  Conn., 
in  1639,  having  come  to  America  from  Braintree,  Essex 
County,  England. 

He  was  prepared  for  college  at  the  Hillhouse  High 
School,  New  Haven.  In  college  he  was  a  member  of  Phi 
Beta  Kappa,  and  held  a  high  oration  Junior  appointment 
and  an  oration  Senior  appointment. 

The  year  following  his  graduation  was  spent  in  Florida 
with  a  young  boy  whom  he  was  tutoring.  In  1904  he  went 
to  Colorado,  where  he  remained  for  two  years  tutoring  a 
young  man  in  the  Wet  Mountain  Valley.  His  next  engage- 
ment was  for  one  year  with  a  school  of  tutoring  in  New 
Hampshire,  followed  by  a  year  at  The  Kingsley  School  at 
Essex  Fells,  N.  J.  During  the  next  three  years  he  taught 
at  the  Kiskiminetas  Springs  School  at  Saltsburg,  Pa.  He 
then  accepted  the  position  of  instructor  of  French  at  the 
Massachusetts  Agricultural  College  at  Amherst,  which 
position  he  held  until  his  death.  The  summer  of  1910  he 
spent  in  France  at  the  Universities  of  Caen  and  Grenoble. 
In  1912  he  traveled  in  Europe  again. 

He  died  July  20,  1917,  in  Pine  Orchard,  after  an  illness 
of  three  months  from  hemorrhages  of  the  stomach,  which 
were  followed  by  pleurisy  and  other  complications.  He 
was  buried  in  the  Grove  Street  Cemetery  in  New  Haven, 
At  the  time  of  his  death,  Mr.  Harmount  had  nearly  com- 
pleted a  French  text  book  for  use  in  colleges.  He  was  a 
member  of  Calvary  Baptist  Church  of  New  Haven. 

He  was  not  married.  He  is  survived  by  his  parents  and 
four  brothers,  one  of  whom,  George  S.  Harmount,  gradu- 
ated from  the  Sheffield  Scientific  School  in  1904.  An 
uncle,  Joseph  A.  Graves  (B.A.  1872),  and  two  cousins, 
Arthur  H.  Graves  (B.A.  1900)  and  Mortimer  H.  Ailing 
(Ph.B.  1893),  ^"lave  graduated  from  Yale. 


698  YALE   COLLEGE 


Lemuel  Hastings  Arnold,  4th,  B.A.  1904 

Born  June  9,  1881,  in  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 
Died  November  9,  1917,  in  New  York  City 

Lemuel  Hasting-s  Arnold,  4th,  was  born  in  Brooklyn, 
N.  Y.,  June  9,  1881.  His  parents  were  Lemuel  Hastings 
Arnold,  3d,  a  lawyer  of  the  firm  of  Arnold  &  Greene,  which 
was  formed  about  1868,  and  Annie  M.  (Peckham)  Arnold. 
His  great-great-grandfather  was  one  of  the  signers  of  the 
Declaration  of  Independence;  he  was  married  twice,  his 
second  wife  being  Cynthia  Hastings;  they  settled  in  St. 
Johnsbury,  which  was  named  for  Jonathan  Arnold.  His 
great-grandfather  was  the  first  Lemuel  Hastings  Arnold; 
he  was  born  in  Providence,  R.  I.,  and  was  governor  of  the 
state  for  some  years.  His  grandfather,  another  Lemuel 
Hastings  Arnold,  was  a  native  of  Providence;  he  married 
Harriet  Sheldon  of  the  same  city ;  they  lived  for  some  years 
in  Wakefield,  R.  L,  and  later  removed  to  Brooklyn.  On 
the  maternal  side  he  was  also  of  English  descent.  Mem- 
bers of  the  Peckham  family  came  to  America  early  in  the 
seventeenth  century.  His  great-grandfather,  John  S.  Peck- 
ham, was  one  of  the  pioneer  settlers  of  Utica,  N.  Y.,  going 
there  about  1800.  He  was  the  great-grandson  of  Jesse  and 
Eunice  (Peirce)  Taintor.  They  were  among  the  early 
settlers  in  Cleveland,  Ohio.  The  Taintor  family  came  over 
in  the  Mayflower  in  1620  and  settled  in  Colchester,  Conn. 

He  prepared  for  college  at  Phillips  Academy,  Andover, 
Mass.  In  college  he  was  manager  of  the  Freshman  Foot- 
ball Team  and  a  member  of  the  Bicentennial  Committee. 

After  graduation  he  studied  at  the  New  York  Law  School 
for  two  years,  and  was  admitted  to  the  New  York  Bar  in 
January,  1907.  He  was  a  clerk  in  the  office  of  Arnold  & 
Greene  (his  father's  firm)  from  1904  to  1907.  He  after- 
wards became  a  partner  in  the  firm  of  Jackson,  Arnold  & 
Fleischmann,  the  other  members  of  which  were  Frederick 
S.  Jackson  (B.A.  1896,  LL.B.  1899)  and  Charles  M. 
Fleischmann  (Ph.B.  1903).  In  1909  he  gave  up  the  law 
and  took  up  a  country  life.  His  home  had  been  at  Smith- 
town,  Long  Island,  since  191 3.  He  was  a  member  of  the 
First  Presbyterian  Church  of  Brooklyn.  He  went  abroad 
in  1906,  1908,  and  1910,  spending  the  winter  of  1910  in 
San  Francisco  and  Mexico.     He  died  of  typhoid  fever, 


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1904  699 

November  9,  1917,  in  New  York  City.    The  interment  was 
in  Greenwood  Cemetery. 

Mr.  Arnold  was  twice  married.  His  first  marriage  took 
place  June  14,  1905,  in  Brooklyn,  N,  Y.,  to  Mrs.  Marie 
Hoisington  Holmes.  He  was  divorced  from  her  in  1910, 
and  was  married  a  second  time  October  18,  191 1,  at  Sea- 
bright,  N.  J.,  to  Mrs.  Helen  (Fargo)  Moore,  daughter  of 
William  Congdell  and  Mary  Preston  Fargo  and  widow  of 
Nathaniel  F.  Moore.  She  survives  him  without  children. 
His  mother  is  also  living.  He  was  a  cousin  of  Edgar  H. 
Arnold  (B.A.  1907). 


'     Francis  Edwin  Rowland,  B.A.  1904 

Born  August  24,  1882,  in  Menlo  Park,  Calif. 
Died  July  9,  1917,  in  Banes,  Cuba 

Francis  Edwin  Howland  was  born  August  24,  1882,  in 
Menlo  Park,  Calif.,  the  son  of  Richard  Smith  Howland, 
for  over  twenty  years  editor  and  manager  of  the  Provi- 
dence (R.  I.)  Journal,  and  Mary  (Hoppin)  Howland. 
His  early  American  ancestors  included  Henry  Howland, 
who  came  from  England  in  1630  and  settled  near  Plym- 
outh, Mass.,  and  James  Logan,  who  was  a  chief  justice  of 
Pennsylvania,  coming  with  William  Penn  in  1699.  His 
father's  parents  were  Mathew  and  Rachel  (Smith)  How- 
land. His  mother  was  the  daughter  of  Francis  Edwin  and 
Eliza  (Anthony)  Hoppin.  His  parents  moved  in  1898  to 
Asheville,  N.  C,  where  his  father  was  interested  in  the 
development  of  railroad  and  other  property. 

He  prepared  for  Yale  at  St.  George's  School,  Newport, 
R.  I.  In  college  he  was  a  member  of  the  Class  Baseball 
Team  in  his  Sophomore  year  and  of  the  Fencing  Team  in 
his  Junior  and  Senior  years,  being  captain  in  Senior  year. 
He  won  the  Chamberlain  Greek  Prize,  a  first  Berkeley 
Premium,  a  second  Robinson  Latin  Prize,  and  a  second 
Winthrop  Prize  in  his  Junior  year.  He  was  a  member  of 
Phi  Beta  Kappa. 

He  went  abroad  with  the  Track  Team  after  graduation, 
and  then  traveled  through  England  and  France.  In  Feb- 
ruary, 1905,  after  spending  three  months  working  in  a  saw- 
mill in  Asheville,  he  went  to  Los  Palacios,  Cuba,  where 


700  YALE    COLLEGE 

he  became  connected  with  the  Palacios  Land  &  Fruit  Com- 
pany as  vice  president  and  a  director.  In  1906  he  traveled 
in  Europe,  and  he  went  abroad  again  in  1908.  In  1909  he 
worked  for  a  while  for  the  Asheville  &  East  Tennessee 
Railroad.  Since  June,  1910,  he  had  been  in  the  agricul- 
tural department  of  the  United  Fruit  Company  at  Banes, 
Cuba. 

Mr.  Howland  died  in  Banes,  July  9,  191 7.  His  death 
resulted  from  the  effects  of  a  fall  caused  by  the  breaking  of 
a  stirrup  leather  while  he  was  playing  polo  and  rupturing 
a  blood  vessel  in  his  brain.  Burial  was  in  the  cemetery  at 
Banes.  He  had  applied  for  the  second  Officers'  Training 
Camp  at  Fort  Oglethorpe,  Ga.,  and  was  preparing  to  leave 
Cuba  at  the  time  of  his  fatal  accident. 

He  was  not  married.  Surviving  him  are  his  parents, 
two  brothers,  and  a  sister.  He  was  a  relative  of  the  late 
Professor  James  Mason  Hoppin  (B.A.  1840). 


Oliver  Livingston  Jones,  B.A.   1904 

Born  April  i,  1880,  at  Cold  Spring  Harbor,  N.  Y. 
Died  March  21,  1918,  at  Cold  Spring  Harbor,  N.  Y. 

Oliver  Livingston  Jones  was  born  at  Cold  Spring  Har- 
bor, Long  Island,  N.  Y.,  on  April  i,  1880.  He  was  the 
son  of  Dr.  Oliver  Livingston  Jones,  a  real  estate  dealer,  and 
Mary  Elizabeth  Jones.  His  mother  died  October  21,  1918. 
He  received  his  preparatory  training  at  the  Cutler  School 
in  New  York  City. 

He  entered  the  Columbia  Law  School  in  the  fall  of  1904, 
but  left  before  the  completion  of  his  course  to  enter  the  law 
office  of  Finch  &  Coleman  in  New  York,  where  he  remained 
until  1909,  when  he  was  obliged  to  stop  work  on  account 
of  ill  health.  He  was  a  member  of  the  New  England 
Society  and  the  Society  of  Colonial  Wars. 

Mr.  Jones  died  of  pneumonia,  March  21,  1918,  at  Cold 
Spring  Harbor,  where  he  was  buried.     He  was  unmarried. 


1904  7°^. 


James  Ely  Miller,  B.A.   1904 

Born  March  24,  1883,  in  New  York  City 
Died  March  9,  1918,  in  Corbeny,  France 


James  Ely  Miller  was  born  March  24,  1883,  in  New  York 
City,  the  son  of  Charles  Addison  Miller  (B.A.  1859),  a 
merchant  and  later  a  broker  of  New  York,  and  Mary  (Ely) 
Miller.  His  father  was  the  son  of  Colonel  Seth  Miller  and 
Laura  (Todd)  Miller,  and  his  mother's  parents  were  David 
Jay  and  Caroline  (Duncan)  Ely.  Through  her  he  traced 
his  descent  to  Richard  Ely,  who  came  to  Lyme,  Conn., 
from  Plymouth,  England,  in  1628. 

He  was  prepared  for  Yale  at  the  Berkeley  School  in  New 
York.  He  was  a  member  of  the  1903  University  Football 
Team,  the  University  Crew  (1903  and  1904),  the  Univer- 
sity Glee  Club,  and  the  College  Choir. 

In  1904  he  became  connected  with  the  Knickerbocker 
Trust  Company,  and  after  serving  for  several  years  as 
assistant  secretary  of  the  company,  was,  in  December,  191 2, 
made  vice  president  of  the  Columbia  Trust  Company.  He 
continued  in  this  position  until  entering  service,  being  in 
charge  of  one  of  their  branch  offices.  He  was  a  member 
of  the  Protestant  Episcopal  Church  of  St.  James,  Long 
Island.  Captain  Miller  first  became  interested  in  aviation 
in  191 5.  He  attended  the  first  training  camp  at  Platts- 
burg,  subscribing  with  others  to  the  purchase  of  an  air- 
plane. He  qualified  successively  as  pilot,  fighter,  and 
instructor  in  the  state  organization,  which  was  mustered 
into  Federal  service  July  14,  191 6,  as  the  ist  Airplane 
Company  of  the  New  York  National  Guard.  On  Decem- 
ber 31  of  that  year.  Captain  Miller,  then  a  First  Lieutenant, 
was  the  first  of  seven  military  aviators  to  complete  a  trip 
of  one  hundred  miles  in  the  teeth  of  a  gale.  He  obtained 
a  commission  as  Captain  in  the  Aviation  Section  of  the 
Signal  Reserve  Corps  in  1917,  and  on  July  23  went  abroad 
in  command  of  the  ist  Reserve  Aero  Squadron.  Shortly 
after  his  arrival  he  was  put  in  charge  of  the  organization, 
building,  and  starting  of  the  American  flying  school  at 
Issoudun,  and  he  successfully  accomphshed  this  work  in 
sixty  days.  He  then  went  to  the  French  Aerial  Gunnery 
School  at  Casaux,  and  took  the  course  to  fit  himself  for 
aerial  combat.     In  March,  1918,  he  was  sent  to  fhe  front  in 


702  YALE   COLLEGE 

command  of  the  ist  Pursuit  Aero  Squadron  of  the  United 
States  Reserves.  On  March  8  his  squadron  was  installed 
in  its  quarters  at  the  front,  and  was  momentarily  expecting 
the  arrival  of  fighting  planes  from  Paris.  The  next  day 
Captain  Miller  was  invited  to  go  out  on  a  voluntary  patrol 
with  two  officers  of  another  squadron,  and  accepted  at  once. 
He  disappeared  while  in  combat  with  two  German  machines, 
and  it  was  not  until  a  month  later  that  word  came  through 
the  International  Red  Cross  that  he  was  killed  on  March  9, 
and  buried  in  the  Military  Cemetery  at  Laon.  A  memorial 
service  for  Captain  Miller  was  held  at  the  Church  of  the 
Incarnation  in  New  York  City  on  April  24. 

He  was  married  April  2,  1908,  in  New  York  City,  to 
Gladys  Godfrey,  daughter  of  Rudolph  Herman  and  Caro- 
line (Morgan)  Kissel.  They  had  one  daughter,  Gladys 
Caroline.  Besides  his  wife  and  daughter.  Captain  Miller 
is  survived  by  his  mother,  a  sister,  Mrs.  Edward  Swift 
Isham,  and  a  brother,  Charles  D.  Miller,  who  graduated 
from  the  College  in  1902.  He  was  a  nephew  of  James  R. 
Ely  (B.A.  1882),  a  brother-in-law  of  Wallace  Percy  Knapp 
(B.A.  1886)  and  Edward  S.  Isham  (B.A.  1891),  and  a 
cousin  of  David  Jay  Ely  (B.A.  1913). 


Alexander  Pope  Humphrey,  Jr.,  B.A.  1905 

Born  October  23,  1883,  in  Louisville,  Ky. 
Died  December  12,  1917,  at  Fort  Worth,  Texas 

Alexander  Pope  Humphrey,  Jr.,  was  born  October  23, 
1883,  in  Louisville,  Ky.,  his  parents  being  Alexander  Pope 
and  Mary  Moss  (Churchill)  Humphrey.  His  father 
received  the  degree  of  B.A.  from  Center  College,  Danville, 
Ky.,  in  1866,  and  that  of  LL.B.  from  the  University  of  Vir- 
ginia in  1868,  and  afterwards  followed  his  profession  in 
Louisville,  except  for  a  short  period  when  he  served  as 
judge  of  the  Louisville  Chancery  Court,  to  which  he  was 
appointed  in  1880.  He  was  the  son  of  Edward  Porter 
Humphrey,  a  Presbyterian  minister,  who  at  one  time  held 
a  professorship  in  the  Danville  (Ky.)  Theological  Sem- 
inary, and  Martha  (Pope)  Humphrey.  He  was  the  grand- 
son of  Rev.  Heman  Humphrey,  D.D.  (B.A.  1805),  second 
president  ©f  Amherst  College,  and  Sophia  (Porter)  Hum- 


1904-1905  703 

phrey,  who  was  of  a  well-known  family  of  New  England 
educators,  her  nephew,  Noah  Porter,  being  a  president  of 
Yale,  and  her  niece,  Miss  Sarah  Porter,  the  founder  of  a 
school  for  girls  at  Farmington,  Conn.  Through  his  mother 
he  is  descended  from  the  Virginia  family  of  Pope.  His 
great-grandfather  went  early  to  Kentucky  and  was  Lieu- 
tenant Colonel  of.  Jefferson  County  when  Daniel  Boone 
was  Colonel  of  that  county.  His  grandmother  was  Maria 
Fontaine,  of  French  Huguenot  descent.  One  of  her 
ancestors  was  an  early  pastor  of  the  Huguenot  Church  in 
Charleston,  S.  C.  Mary  Moss  Churchill  Humphrey  was 
the  daughter  of  Alexander  Pope  and  Mary  (McKinley) 
Churchill  and  a  descendant  of  the  Pope  and  Churchill 
families  of  Virginia.  Her  grandfather,  John  McKinley, 
was  a  Justice  of  the  Supreme  Court. 

He  prepared  at  the  Louisville  public  schools  and  at  the 
Flexner  School  in  that  city  and  at  the  Lawrenceville 
(N.  J.)  Academy.  He  entered  Yale  in  1^901,  and  after  his 
graduation  in  1905  took  up  the  study  of  law  at  the  Univer- 
sity of  Virginia.  There  he  became  a  member  of  The 
Raven,  a  society  composed  of  the  seven  best  scholars  at  the 
University,  and  received  the  degree  of  LL.B.  in  1907.  He 
then  returned  to  Louisville,  and  for  the  next  five  years  was 
associated  with  his  father  in  the  firm  of  Humphrey  & 
Humphrey.  In  the  autumn  of  191 2  he  purchased  a  farm 
in  Virginia,  near  Upperville,  where  he  was  afterwards 
engaged  in  raising  thoroughbred  horses. 

In  the  summer  of  191 7  Mr.  Humphrey  made  application 
for  entrance  into  the  Aviation  Corps  of  the  Army.  He 
was  above  the  age  limit  prescribed  for  that  branch  of  the 
service,  but  was  admitted  because  of  his  physical  condition 
and  his  reputation  for  coolness  and  daring  as  a  horseman. 
Early  in  August  he  entered  the  School  of  Military  Aero- 
lautics  at  Ithaca,  N.  Y.,  and  two  months  later,  after  com- 
'pleting  his  ground  school  work,  he  was  sent  with  his  squad 
to  Toronto  to  the  Royal  Flying  School.  From  that  point 
he  was  transferred,  on  November  25,  to  the  139th  Aero 
Squadron  at  Fort  Worth,  Texas,  to  continue  his  education 
as  an  airman.  On  December  12,  while  engaged  in  battle 
maneuvers,  he  lost  his  life  in  an  airplane  accident.  His 
body  was  taken  to  Louisville  for  burial  in  Cave  Hill  Ceme- 
tery. 

He  was  unmarried,  and  is  survived  by  his  parents,  a 
brother,  and  two  sisters. 


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Albert  John  Mohlman,  B.A.   1908 

Born  April  i8,  1885,  in  New  York  City 
Died  April  13,  1918,  in  Brielle,  N.  J. 

Albert  John  Mohlman  was  born  in  New  York  City, 
April  18,  1885,  the  son  of  John  Henry  .and  Louise  Clara 
(Hahn)  Mohlman.  His  father's  parents  were  Herman  G. 
Mohlman,  who  came  to  New  York  City  from  Germany  in 
1849,  and  Caroline  (Ebling)  Mohlman.  His  mother  was 
the  daughter  of  Albert  Hahn,  who  also  came  to  America  in 
1849,  and  Louise  (Schaper)  Hahn. 

He  was  prepared  for  college  at  the  Berkeley  School  in 
New  York  City,  at  the  Hotchkiss  School  at  Lakeville, 
Conn.,  and  the  Nathan  Hale  Academy.  He  was  captain  of 
the  Class  Hockey  Team  in  his  Freshman  and  Sophomore 
years,  and  was  manager  of  the  1908  Tennis  Team. 

In  the  fall  of  1908  he  went  to  Denver,  Colo.,  and  in  1909 
secured  a  position  with  the  Colorado  National  Bank  of 
Denver.  After  a  trip  East  he  invested  in  some  real  estate 
in  Colorado.  During  191 3-14  he  was  connected  with  the 
J.  S.  Brown  &  Brothers  Mercantile  Company  of  Denver. 
He  then  returned  to  his  home  in  Brielle,  N.  J.,  where  he 
lived  until  his  death,  which  occurred  April  13,  1918.  He 
had  been  ill  for  several  years  and  his  death  was  due  to  an 
abscess  of  the  brain.  Burial  took  place  in  the  Greenwood 
Cemetery  at  Brielle.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Church  of 
the  Heavenly  Rest,  New  York  City. 

He  was  unmarried.  Surviving  him  are  his  mother,  a 
sister  (the  wife  of  Frederick  T.  vanBeuren,  Jr.,  '98),  and 
a  brother,  George  A.  Mohlman,  who  graduated  from  Yale 
in  1904. 

Leonard  Bacon  Parks,  B.A.  1909 

Born  April  23,  1887,  in  Salem,  Ohio 
Died  October  29,  1917,  in  Montgomery,  Ala. 

Leonard  Bacon  Parks  was  born  in  Salem,  Ohio,  April 
23,  1887,  the  son  of  Sheldon  and  Clara  (Street)  Parks. 
His  father  graduated  from  Western  Reserve  University  in 
1879,  ^^^  bas  since  been  practicing  law  in  Cleveland.  His 
ancestors  came  from  England  to  America  in  1650. 


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Before  entering  Yale  in  1905,  he  studied  at  the  East 
Cleveland  High  School  and  at  Phillips  Academy,  Andover, 
Mass.  He  received  honors  in  Junior  year,  was  given 
philosophical  oration  appointments,  and  was  elected  to 
membership  in  Phi  Beta  Kappa.  He  played  on  the  Fresh- 
man Banjo  and  Mandolin  clubs,  and  in  Senior  year  was 
leader  of  the  Apollo  clubs  and  a  member  of  the  University 
Banjo  and  Mandolin  clubs.  He  was  active  in  various  forms 
of  athletics,  and  in  Junior  year  played  on  the  College 
Football  Team. 

After  graduating  he  spent  three  years  at  the  Harvard 
Law  School,  receiving  the  degree  of  Bachelor  of  Laws  in 
1912.  In  the  autumn  of  1909  and  1910  he  coached  the 
Needham  High  School  football  team,  and  the  next  year  he 
was  coach  of  the  team  at  the  Country  Day  School  for  Boys 
of  Boston;  in  the  winter  of  1910-11  he  was  the  official 
wrestling  instructor  at  Harvard,  and  that  year  he  also 
taught  wrestling  at  the  Country  Day  School.  He  worked 
in  his  father's  office  during  the  summer  vacations,  and  in 
December,  191 1,  passed  the  Ohio  Bar  examinations.  In 
June,  1912,  he  became  associated  with  his  father  in  the 
practice  of  law  in  Cleveland.  He  was  a  member  of  the 
Good  Government  Club  of  East  Cleveland,  and  served  on 
the  committee  of  management  of  the  Central  Boys'  Depart- 
ment of  the  Y.  M.  C.  A.  In  1914  he  was  elected  a  member 
of  the  Democratic  Committee  of  his  ward  in  East  Cleve- 
land. In  September,  1916,  he  went  to  the  Mexican  border 
as  a  Sergeant  in  Company  B  of  the  Ohio  Engineers, 
Eleventh  Divison,  and  did  not  return  to  Cleveland  until  early 
in  191 7.  On  July  14,  1917,  he  was  commissioned  as  a  First 
Lieutenant  in  Company  E  of  the  112th  Engineers  (for- 
merly the  1st  Ohio  Engineers),  and  six  weeks  later  was 
ordered  to  Camp  Sheridan,  Montgomery,  Ala.  His  death 
occurred  at  that  post  October  29,  191 7,  of  typhoid  pneu- 
monia, after  an  illness  of  four  weeks.  His  body  was  taken 
to  Cleveland  for  burial  in  Lake  View  Cemetery. 

Lieutenant  Parks  was  unmarried.  He  is  survived  by  his 
parents,  two  brothers,  Thomas  Thacher  Parks  (B.A.  1912) 
and  Sheldon  Parks,  Jr.,  and  a  sister,  Mrs.  Esther  Parks 
Hartley. 


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Earl  Trumbull  Williams,  B.A.  1910 

Born  August  13,  1888,  in  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 
Died  May  7,  1918,  in  Northampton,  Mass. 

Earl  Trumbull  Williams  was  born  in  Brooklyn,  N.  Y., 
August  13,  1888.  He  was  the  son  of  James  Harvey  Wil- 
liams, founder  of  the  firm  of  J.  H.  WilHams  &  Company, 
and  Harriet  Amelia  (Trumbull)  Williams.  His  father 
was  the  son  of  Harvey  Eliphalet  and  Frances  (Riggs) 
Williams  and  a  descendant  of  Augustin  Williams,  who 
came  to  America  from  England  early  in  the  seventeenth 
century.  His  mother  was  the  daughter  of  Earl  and  Esther 
A.  (Randall)  Trumbull. 

He  entered  Yale  from  The  Hill  School,  Pottstown,  Pa., 
and  in  his  Junior  year  received  honors  and  a  second  dispute 
appointment.  His  Senior  appointment  was  a  dissertation. 
He  was  an  editor  of  the  News,  treasurer  of  the  Sophomore 
German  and  Junior  Promenade  committees,  and  was  active 
in  Y.  M.  C.  A.  work.  He  played  on  the  Freshman  and 
Junior  Tennis  teams,  the  Sophomore  and  Junior  Hockey 
teams,  and  rowed  on  the  second  Sophomore  Crew  in  the 
fall  regatta. 

Mr.  Williams  went  abroad  with  several  classmates  imme- 
diately after  graduation,  and  on  his  return  in  the  fall  of 
1910  became  connected  with  J.  H.  Williams  &  Company, 
manufacturers  of  drop  forgings  in  Brooklyn.  He  became 
vice  president  of  the  company  in  191 1,  and  since  19 14  had 
been  located  at  their  branch  factory  in  Buffalo.  He  was  a 
member  of  the  Dutch  Reformed  Church  of  Brooklyn. 
Before  removing  to  Buffalo  he  was  for  three  and  a  half 
years  a  member  of  Troop  A,  Squadron  A,  New  York 
National  Guard.  In  August,  191 7,  he  entered  the  second 
Officers'  Training  Camp  at  Fort  Niagara,  N.  Y.,  and  was 
commissioned  a  First  Lieutenant  of  Field  Artillery  upon 
the  completion  of  the  course  in  November,  ranking  fifth  in 
his  battery  of  ninety,  from  which  but  four  captaincies  were 
scheduled.  On  December  15,  191 7,  he  was  assigned  to 
Battery  B  of  the  301st  Field  Artillery  at  Camp  Devens, 
Mass.  Lieutenant  Williams  died  May  7,  1918,  while  on 
leave  of  absence  from  his  regiment,  in  the  Dickinson  Hos- 
pital at  Northampton,  Mass.,  from  injuries  received  when  a 
heavy  limb  fell  on  him  during  a  severe  storm.     Interment 


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was  in  the  family  plot  in  the  Fort  Plain  (N.  Y.)  Cemetery. 
Lieutenant  Williams  made  an  unrestricted  bequest  of 
$25,000  to  the  University  and  left  $10,000  to  the  Yale 
Alumni  University  Fund  and  $10,000  to  the  Kingsley 
Trust  Association.  Shortly  after  his  death  his  mother 
gave  the  sum  of  $100,000  for  use  by  the  Yale  University 
Press.  This  has  been  utilized  to  purchase  the  old  Gov- 
ernor IngersoU  house  in  New  Haven,  as  a  home  for  the 
University  Press  and  as  a  memorial  to  her  son. 

Besides  his  mother  Lieutenant  Williams  is  survived  by  a 
brother,  James  Harvey  Williams  (B.A.  1904),  and  a  sister. 
He  was  unmarried. 


Malcolm  Bogue,  B.A.  191 1 

Born  January  18,  1889,  in  Omaha,  Nebr. 
Died  April  8,  1918,  in  Poughkeepsie,  N.  Y. 

Malcolm  Bogue  was  born  in  Omaha,  Nebr.,  January  18, 
1889,  the  son  of  Virgil  Gay  and  Sybil  Estdle  (Russell) 
Bogue.  His  father,  who  died  in  1916,  was  a  graduate  of 
Rensselaer  Polytechnic  Institute  in  1868  and  was  noted  as 
a  civil  and  consulting  engineer.  He  was  one  of  the 
pioneers  who  made  possible  the  opening  up  of  the  western 
coast  of  South  America  to  modern  commercial  conditions, 
and  as  a  young  man  he  began  and  nearly  finished  the 
famous  Aroya  Railroad  in  Peru.  He  was  the  son  of 
George  Chase  and  Mary  (Perry)  Bogue  and  a  descendant 
of  John  Booge,  a  native  of  Glasgow,  Scotland,  who  settled 
in  what  is  now  the  parish  of  Hadlyme,  Conn.,  about  1680. 
The  latter's  son,  Ebenezer,  graduated  from  the  College  in 
1748.  Early  in  the  eighteenth  century  the  family  name  was 
changed  to  Bogue.  Two  of  Rev.  Ebenezer  Booge's  sons 
were  Yale  graduates,  Aaron  J.  Bogue  being  a  member  of 
the  Class  of  1774  and  Publius  V.  Bogue  of  that  of  1787. 
Both  of  them  served  in  the  Revolution.  Various  members 
of  the  Perry  and  Bogue  families  were  prominent  in  the 
earlier  Colonial  life  of  New  England,  serving  in  the  French 
and  Indian  Wars.  Malcolm  Bogue's  ancestors  also  included 
Rev.  David  Bogue,  who  received  the  degree  of  M.A.  from 
the  University  of  Edinburgh  in  1771  and  that  of  D.D.  at 
Yale  in   1808.      His   mother's   parents   were  John   Leslie 


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Russell,  a  graduate  of  the  University  of  Vermont  in  1826, 
and  Mary  (Clark)  Russell.  She  was  descended  from  Rev. 
John  Russell,  who  emigrated  to  America  from  England  in 
1640  and  settled  in  Hadley.  An  interesting  incident  in  his 
life  was  the  shielding  of  the  regicides,  Goffe  and  Whalley. 
John  Russell's  son,  Samuel  Russell  (B.A.  Harvard  1681), 
was  one  of  the  early  trustees  of  Yale  College,  and  it  was  in 
his  house  that  Yale  College  was  founded.  Three  of  his 
sons,  John,  Samuel,  and  Ebenezer,  graduated  from  Yale  in 
1704,  1712,  and  1722,  respectively. 

He  was  fitted  for  Yale  at  the  Belmont  School  in  Cali- 
fornia. He  rowed  on  the  Freshman  Four-oar  Crew,  and 
in  Junior  year  was  a  member  of  the  Class  and  University 
Four-oar  crews.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Apollo  Banjo 
and  Mandolin  clubs,  and  took  part  in  religious  and  boys' 
club  work. 

After  graduation  he  traveled  in  Europe  for  several 
months,  studying  European  business  methods.  In  191 2  he 
entered  the  employ  of  the  Missouri  Pacific  Railway,  and 
for  the  next  year  was  engaged  in  engineering  work  in 
various  part^  of  the  Middle  West.  While  located  in 
Argenta,  Ark.,  in  March,  191 3,  he  contracted  malaria  and 
had  a  sunstroke.  He  resumed  work  too  quickly,  and  soon 
afterwards  suffered  a  general  breakdown  in  health,  but  six 
months  later  he  took  a  position  in  the  engineering  depart- 
ment of  the  Southern  Pacific  Railway  Company  in  Cali- 
fornia. Later  the  condition  of  his  health  necessitated  his 
giving  up  his  work  and  his  last  years  were  full  of  suffering 
and  spent  mostly  in  hospitals.  He  had  done  some  writing, 
using  information  which  he  obtained  in  Mexico  in  191 2  as 
the  basis  for  some  of  his  articles.  He  lived  with  his  people 
at  New  Rochelle,  N.  Y.,  when  not  in  the  hospital. 

His  death  occurred  April  8,  1918,  in  Poughkeepsie,  N.  Y., 
as  the  result  of  ursemic  poisoning  and  pneumonia.  Crema- 
tion took  place  in  Troy  and  his  ashes  were  interred  in 
Greenwood  Cemetery,  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 

Mr.  Bogue  was  married  February  25,  191 5,  in  New  York, 
to  Anne  Josephine  Coote  of  London,  England.  They  had 
no  children.  In  addition  to  his  wife,  he  is  survived  by  a 
sister  and  a  brother,  Samuel  Russell  Bogue  (B.A.  1903). 
His  mother  died  August  2,  1918.  He  was  a  cousin  of 
Robert  Russell  (B.A.  1900)  and  of  John  Alden  (B.A. 
1911). 


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John  Douglas  Crawford,  B.A.  191 1 

Born  February  25,  1888,  in  Randolph,  Mass. 
Died  May  27,  1918,  at  Cantigny,  France 


John  Douglas  Crawford  was  born  February  25,  1888,  in 
Randolph,  Mass.,  his  parents  being  John  Jennings  Cra,w- 
ford,  a  Boston  banker,  and  Ellen  Josephine  (Turner) 
Crawford.  His  father  died  in  1904,  and  later  his  mother 
married  Harrison  H.  Rountree  of  Woodlake,  Calif.  His 
paternal  grandparents  were  Jefferson  and  Catherine  Allen 
(Harper)  Crawford,  and  on  that  side  of  the  family  he  was 
descended  from  John  Crawford,  who  came  from  Scotland 
to  Pennsylvania  in  the  early  part  of  the  eighteenth  century, 
and  from  the  latter's  son,  Lieutenant  Colonel  William 
Crawford,  who  served  on  the  western  border  during  the 
Revolution  and  took  part  in  Anthony  Wayne's  campaign 
which  resulted  in  the  conquest  of  Ohio.  His  mother  was 
the  daughter  of  Seth  and  Ellen  Montgomery  (Manahan) 
Turner  and  a  descendant  of  Humphrey  Turner,  who  settled 
at  Plymouth,  Mass.,  in  1628,  having  emigrated  to  America 
from  England,  and  of  Colonel  Seth  Turner,  who  served  in 
the  Old  French  War  and  was  with  Wolfe  at  the  taking  of 
Quebec,  and  who  also  served  in  the  American  Army 
through  the  Revolution.  The  latter's  son,  Captain  Seth 
Turner,  served  through  three  campaigns  in  the  Revolution, 
and  other  ancestors  were  Henry  Bodwell,  who  distin- 
guished himself  at  the  battle  of  Bloody  Brook  in  King 
Philip's  War,  Captain  John  Montgomery,  an  officer  in  the 
Revolutionary  Army,  and  the  latter's  son.  Major  General 
John  Montgomery. 

He  received  his  preparatory  training  at  Thayer  Academy, 
Braintree,  Mass.,  and  at  the  Cheshire  (Conn.)  Academy. 
At  Yale  he  was  active  in  Dwight  Hall  work. 

Early  in  1912  he  entered  the  employ  of  E.  H.  Rollins  & 
Sons,  dealers  in  investment  bonds,  and,  after  spending  a 
year  and  a  half  in  the  Boston  office  and  working  as  a  sales- 
man in  Connecticut  for  a  short  time,  he  was  sent  to  Pitts- 
burgh, Pa.,  as  their  representative.  In  January,  191 5,  he 
went  to  England  to  take  temporary  charge  of  the  London 
office,  and  a  year  later  returned  to  this  country  and  became 
manager  of  the  Philadelphia  office  of  his  firm.  In  May, 
19 1 7,  he  entered  the  Officers'  Training  Camp  at  Fort  Sheri- 


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dan,  111.,  and  at  the  conclusion  of  the  three  months'  course 
was  commissioned  as  a  Second  Lieutenant  in  the  Infantry 
section  of  the  Officers'  Reserve  Corps.  In  January,  191 8, 
he  was  sent  to  France  on  unassigned  duty.  After  spending 
a  short  time  in  the  trenches,  he  attended  an  officers'  school 
behind  the  lines  from  about  the  first  of  April  to  the  middle 
of  May,  and  was  then  attached  to  Company  H  of  the  28th 
Infantry.  He  was  killed  in  action  at  Cantigny  on  May  -27, 
1918.  He  was  cited  for  bravery  in  the  Army  Orders  of 
June  15.  A  memorial  service  for  Lieutenant  Crawford 
was  held  in  the  First  Congregational  Church  of  Randolph 
on  July  7. 

He  was  a  member  of  the  Episcopal  Church,  having  been 
confirmed  by  the  Bishop  of  London  in  St.  Paul's  Cathedral. 
He  was  unmarried.  He  is  survived  by  his  mother,  a  sister, 
and  a  brother.  The  latter,  Seth  Turner  Crawford,  gradu- 
ated from  the  College  in  1907  and  from  the  Harvard  Law 
School  in  1910.     Dale  C.  Jennings,  '00,  is  a  cousin. 


Floyd  Eugene  Lamb,  B.A.  191 1 

Born  September  4,  1889,  in  Auburn,  N.  Y. 
Died  May  6,  1018,  in  Boston,  Mass. 

Floyd  Eugene  Lamb,  son  of  Dr.  Eugene  M.  Lamb  and 
Hebe  Arminta  (Morley)  Lamb,  was  born  September  4, 
1889,  in  Auburn,  N.  Y.,  where  his  father  was  then  prac- 
ticing as  a  dentist.  The  family  now  resides  in  Meridian, 
N.  Y.  Dr.  Lamb  was  the  son  of  Harrison  and  Elizabeth 
(Warrick)  Lamb  and  a  descendant  of  William  Lamb  of 
Harpersfield,  Delaware  County,  N.  Y.,  who  at  the  age  of 
twelve  was  captured  by  the  Indians  under  Brant  and  was 
with  them  for  seven  years,  when  he  escaped  and  found  his 
way  back  to  his  own  people.  His  wife's  parents  were 
Sprague  Morley,  who  graduated  from  Hobart  College  in 
1846  and  afterwards  practiced  law  in  Meridian,  N.  Y.,  for 
more  than  fifty  years,  and  Polly  (Buck)  Morley.  She  was 
descended  from  the  Whitney  family  of  Connecticut,  mem- 
bers of  which  came  from  Scotland  to  America  in  1620. 

He  was  fitted  for  Yale  at  the  Auburn  Academic  High 
School,  and  in  college  was  given  honors  Freshman  and 
Junior  years  and  received  high  oration  appointments.     He 


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was  a  member  of  Phi  Beta  Kappa,  and  participated  in  boys* 
club  work. 

During  the  first  four  years  after  graduation  he  taught 
German  at  the  Pomfret  (Conn.)  School.  In  the  fall  of 
191 5  he  entered  the  Harvard  Graduate  School,  where  he 
spent  a  year  studying  economics,  and  received  the  degree 
of  M.A.  in  1916.  He  was  then  employed  for  a  year  in  the 
Boston  office  of  the  Metropolitan  Life  Insurance  Company, 
in  April,  191 7,  accepting  a  position  as  instructor  in  German 
at  the  Country  Day  School  at  Newton,  Mass.  He  died  at 
the  home  of  a  friend  in  Boston,  May  6,  1918,  and  his  body 
was  taken  to  Meridian  for  burial.  In  June,  1914,  he  under- 
went an  operation  for  appendicitis,  and  he  had  never  fully 
regained  his  health.  His  death  was  due  to  tubercular 
trouble  which  developed  after  the  operation. 

Mr.  Lamb  was  unmarried.  Surviving  him  are  his 
parents  and  a  sister.  He  was  a  member  of  the  First 
Methodist  Episcopal  Church  of  Auburn.  The  summer  of 
191 3  he  spent  traveling  abroad. 


James  Webster  Waters,  B.A.  191 1 

Born  June  6,  1889,  in  Buffalo,  N.  Y. 
Died  March  25,  1918,  in  Washington,  D.  C. 

James  Webster  Waters  was  the  son  of  Henry  Doubleday 
Waters,  a  grain  merchant,  and  Jennie  Phoebe  (Webster) 
Waters,  and  was  born  June  6,  1889,  in  Buffalo,  N.  Y,  On 
the  paternal  side,  he  was  the  great-grandson  of  Wealthy 
Doubleday  Waters,  who  was  sixth  in  descent  from  Richard 
Warren,  a  signer  of  the  Mayflower  compact,  who  came 
from  England  to  America  in  the  Mayflower.  James 
Webster  Waters'  great-great-grandfather.  Major  Ammi 
Doubleday,  took  part  in  the  American  Revolution  and  his 
cousin.  Major  General  Abner  Doubleday,  served  with  the 
Union  Army  in  the  Civil  War.  Another  cousin,  Thomas 
Chalmers  McLean,  is  a  retired  Rear  Admiral.  His  mother's 
ancestors  came  from  Scotland  and  settled  in  New  Jersey. 
His  father's  parents  were  James  and  Lydia  Jane  (Maltbie) 
Waters,  and  his  mother  was  the  daughter  of  Ellis  and 
Charlotte  Wallace  (Whitney)  Webster. 

He  entered  Yale  in    1907,   after  graduating   from   the 


712  YALE   COLLEGE 

Hotchkiss  School,  Lakeville,  Conn.  His  Junior  and  Senior 
appointments  were  second  disputes.  He  belonged  to  the 
Apollo  and  University  Banjo  clubs  and  was  manager  of 
the  University  Orchestra. 

Soon  after  graduation  he  took  a  position  with  the  Barcalo 
Manufacturing  Company  of  Buffalo,  but  left  their  employ 
within  a  year  to  become  purchasing  agent  of  the  Queen 
City  Dairy  Company,  of  which  he  was  made  treasurer  in 
the  spring  of  1913.  In  October,  191 5,  he  resigned  to 
accept  the  position  of  purchasing  agent  and  assistant  to  the 
president  of  the  Clover  Leaf  Milling  Company.  He 
remained  with  them  until  November,  19 17,  and  then  went 
into  the  iron  and  steel  business  with  the  Frontier  Iron 
Works.  He  was  a  member  of  the  First  Presbyterian 
Church  of  Buffalo. 

In  January,  1918,  he  enlisted  as  a  Private  in  the  37th 
Engineers.  He  had  previously  endeavored  to  enter  active 
service,  but  was  rejected,  for  physical  reasons,  for  entrance 
into  the  first  Officers'  Training  Camp  at  Madison  Barracks, 
N.  Y.,  and  on  two  other  occasions  when  he  attempted  to 
erjlist.  On  March  10  he  was  sent  to  Fort  Slocum,  and  a 
week  later  was  ordered  to  take  five  men  to  the  headquar- 
ters of  the  37th  Engineers,  at  Fort  Myer,  Va.  He  con- 
tracted pneumonia  before  he  finished  this  assignment,  but 
completed  his  work,  and  after  reaching  Fort  Myer  was  sent 
to  the  Walter  Reed  Military  Hospital  in  Washington,  D.  C, 
where  he  died  on  March  25.  His  body  was  taken  to 
Buft'alo  for  burial  in  Forest  Lawn  Cemetery. 

Mr.  Waters  had  not  married.  He  is  survived  by  his 
father  and  mother  and  one  brother,  John  MacLean  Waters, 
a  non -graduate  member  of  the  Class  of  1916.  Charles 
Eraser  MacLean  (B.A.  1864)  and  Frank  Griffith  Webster 
and  Harold  Edward  Webster,  graduates  of  the  Scientific 
School  in  1903  and  1907,  respectively,  are  cousins. 


Julian  Cornell  Biddle,  B.A.   1912 

Born  April  19,  1890,  in  Philadelphia,  Pa. 
Died  August  18,  1917,  in  the  North  Sea 

Julian  Cornell  Biddle  was  born  April  19,  1890,  in  Phila- 
delphia, Pa.,  the  son  of  Arthur  Biddle  (B.A.  1873),  a  law- 


ig\i-igi2  713 

yer  of  the  firm  of  Biddle  &  Ward.  His  grandfather,  George 
Washington  Biddle,  for  many  years  leader  of  the  Phila- 
delphia Bar,  was  the  son  of  Clement  Cornell  Biddle,  a 
Colonel  in  the  War  of  1812,  and  of  Mary  (Barclay)  Biddle. 
Clement  C.  Biddle  was  the  son  of  Colonel  Clement  Biddle, 
the  "Quaker  Soldier,"  who  was  Quartermaster-General  in 
the  Revolutionary  Army  and  a  personal  friend  of  General 
Washington.  Colonel  Biddle  was  descended  from  William 
Biddle,  who  settled  in  New  Jersey  in  1681.  He  married 
Rebeckah  Cornell,  daughter  of  Gideon  Cornell,  chief  justice 
and  colonial  governor  of  Rhode  Island.  Arthur  Biddle 
married  his  second  cousin,  JuHa  Biddle,  whose  parents  were 
Thomas  A.  Biddle,  son  of  Thomas  Biddle  and  Christine 
(Williams)  Biddle,  and  Julia  (Cox)  Biddle,  granddaughter 
of  General  William  Lyman. 

Their  son  was  prepared  for  Yale  at  Mochmann's  School 
in  Dresden,  Germany,  the  DeLancey  School,  Philadelphia, 
and  at  St.  Mark's,  Southboro,  Mass.  In  college  he  received 
second  dispute  appointments,  contributed  to  the  News,  and 
participated  in  various  athletic  events.  He  was  a  charter 
member  and  secretary  of  the  Elizabethan  Club,  a  member 
of  the  Dramatic  Association,  and  took  part  in  'The  Tam- 
ing of  the  Shrew." 

After  graduation  he  served  for  six  months  as  secretari- 
at the  American  Embassy  at  Tokio,  Japan,  and  then  entered 
the  Philadelphia  banking  house  of  Montgomery,  Clothier  & 
Tyler.  He  was  a  member  of  St.  Peter's  Episcopal  Church, 
Philadelphia. 

In  October,  1916,  Mr.  Biddle  received  a  pilot's  license  for 
hydro-airplane  work  at  Essington,  Pa.  On  April  28,  1917, 
he  concluded  his  arrangements  with  the  American  repre- 
sentative of  the  Lafayette  Flying  Corps  and  forty-eight 
hours  later  sailed  for  Bordeaux.  After  some  delay  in 
Paris,  he  was  accepted  for  enlistment  in  the  Foreign  Legion 
and  was  sent  to  the  French  Military  Aviation  School  at 
Avord,  where  he  received  his  brevet.  He  was  then  sent  to 
Pau  for  acrobatic  flying.  He  completed  the  work  at  these 
two  schools  in  fifty-one  days.  On  July  31  he  was  ordered 
to  Plessis-Belleville  for  assignment  as  a  Battle  Pilot.  On 
August  7  he  was  sent  to  Souilly  and  the  next  day  to  Dun- 
kirk, where  he  was  assigned  to  Escadrille  No.  73,  Groupe 
de  Combat  No.  12.  On  August  18  he  disappeared  while 
on  a  flight  and  eight  days  later  his  body  was  washed  ashore 


714  YALE  COLLEGE 

at  Egmond-aan-Zee  in  Holland,  where  the  civil  authorities 
reported  that  the  abdomen  was  torn  by  shot.  He  appears 
to  have  been  the  first  American  who  volunteered  after  the 
United  States  entered  the  war,  to  have  been  killed  at  the 
front.  The  Aero  Club  of  America  has  posthumously 
awarded  him  its  medal  and  a  citation  covering  his  record 
was  published  in  the  Journal  Officiel  of  July  7,  1919. 

Lieutenant  Biddle  is  survived  by  his  mother,  a  brother, 
Alfred  Alexander  Biddle  (B.A.  1909),  and  a  sister.  He 
was  a  nephew  of  George  W.  Biddle  (B.A.  1863)  and 
Algernon  S.  Biddle  (B.A.  1868),  and  a  cousin  of  Spencer 
Biddle  (Ph.B.  1912). 


Denison  Morgan,  B.A.  1912 

Born  September  26,  1889,  in  New  Haven,  Conn. 
Died  May  6,  1918,  in  Portsmouth,  N.  H. 

Denison  Morgan,  son  of  Rev.  George  Brinley  Morgan, 
was  born  in  New  Haven,  Conn.,  September  26,  1889.  His 
father,  who  was  rector  of  Christ  Church,  New  Haven, 
received  the  degree  of  B.A.  from  Trinity  College  in  1870 
and  that  of  D.D.  there  in  1900.  He  was  the  son  of  Henry 
Kirks  and  Emily  Malbone  (Brinley)  Morgan  and  a 
descendant  of  Israel  Putnam.  Mrs.  Morgan  was  Mary 
Delavan  Nelson.  Her  parents  were  William  Ruf  us  Nelson 
(B.A.  1842)  and  Abby  EHzabeth  (Tuck)  Nelson  and  her 
first  American  ancestor.  Rev.  Stephen  Bachiler,  came  to 
this  country  from  England  in  1632  and  founded  the  town 
of  Hampton,  N.  H.,  in  1638. 

He  prepared  for  college  at  St.  Paul's  School,  Concord, 
N.  H.     He  played  in  the  University  Orchestra. 

Since  his  graduation  he  had  lived  principally  at  Ports- 
mouth, N.  H.  During  the  year  19 15- 16  he  studied  agricul- 
ture at  the  Massachusetts  Agricultural  College  at  Amherst. 
He  was  a  member  of  the  Episcopal  Church.  Mr.  Morgan 
died,  of  heart  trouble,  on  May  6,  1918,  at  Portsmouth.  He 
was  buried  in  Spring  Grove  Cemetery  in  Hartford,  Conn. 

He  is  survived  by  three  sisters,  one  of  whom  is  the  wife 
of  John  L.  Hall  (B.A.  1894,  LL.B.  1896),  and  another  of 
Thomas  Hooker,  Jr.  (B.A.  1903).  The  third  is  Mrs. 
Morgan  Firth  of  Milton,  Mass. 


1912  7^5 


Gordon  Loring  Rand,  B.A.   19 12 

Born  September  4,  1891,  in  Lawrence,  N.  Y. 
Died  February  5,  1918,  in  Tours,  France 

Gordon  Loring  Rand  was  bom  September  4,  1891,  at 
Lawrence,  Long  Island.  He  was  the  son  of  George  Curtis 
Rand,  a  coffee  merchant  of  the  firm  of  Hard  &  Rand,  and 
Eugenia  Isabel  (Blanchard)  Rand.  His  father's  parents 
were  George  Curtis  and  Almira  (Doane)  Rand  and  his 
mother  was  the  daughter  of  William  Gordon  and  Eugenie 
(Morange)  Blanchard. 

He  prepared  for  Yale  at  Pomfret  School,  Pomfret,  Conn. 
He  was  a  member  of  the  Freshman  Football  Squad, 
belonged  to  the  Corinthian  Yacht  Club,  and  was  president 
of  the  Pomfret  Club.  He  did  not  receive  his  degree  until 
November,  191 3,  when  he  was  enrolled  with  the  Class  of 
1912. 

Upon  leaving  Yale  he  became  a  member  of  his  father's 
firm.  After  returning  from  service  on  the  Mexican  border 
with  Troop  C,  ist  New  York  Cavalry,  early  in  191 7,  Mr. 
Rand  enlisted  in  the  American  Ambulance  Corps  and  left 
for  France.  He  received  the  Croix  de  Guerre  for  gallant 
conduct  on  the  western  front;  he  was  carrying  emergency 
dressings  when  he  was  seriously  wounded,  but  completed 
the  trip  and  finished  the  transport  of  wounded  assigned  to 
him,  before  going  to  the  hospital  to  be  treated  himself. 
Wounds  in  the  chest  and  side  from  a  bursting  shell  opened 
twice  after  his  first  discharge  from  the  hospital  and  he  had 
to  return  each  time.  In  September,  191 7,  after  his  final 
discharge  from  the  hospital,  he  joined  the  Aviation  Sec- 
tion of  the  Signal  Corps  (non-flying)  and  received  a  com- 
mission as  First  Lieutenant.  Shortly  before  his  death  on 
February  5,  1918,  at  Tours,  France,  he  was  forced  to  apply 
for  a  discharge  owing  to  ill  health  resulting  from  his 
wounds.  He  received  an  honorable  discharge  at  Blois  a 
few  days  before  his  death.  He  died  by  his  own  hand,  a 
result  of  acute  melancholia. 

He  was  unmarried.  Mr.  Rand  is  survived  by  his  mother, 
three  brothers,  William  Blanchard  Rand,  Curtis  Rand, 
^.i--'o9,  and  Erving  Hascall  Rand,  '11,  and  two  sisters,  one 
of  whom  is  the  wife  of  Albert  Francke  (Ph.B.  1891),  and 


7l6  YALE    COLLEGE 

the  Other  of  Payson  McLane  Merrill  (B.A.  1902).  The 
late  George  Curtis  Rand  and  Laurance  Blanchard  Rand, 
'02,  were  also  brothers.  Stewart  C.  Rand,  1909,  is  a 
cousin. 


James  Fenimore  Cooper,  Jr.,  B.A.   191 3 

Born  March  10,  1892,  in  Albany,  N.  Y. 
Died  February  17,  1918,  in  Wrightstown,  N.  J. 

James  Fenimore  Cooper,  Jr.,  was  born  in  Albany,  N.  Y., 
March  10,  1892.  He  was  the  son  of  James  Fenimore 
Cooper,  a  member  of  the  firm  of  Tracey,  Cooper  &  Town- 
send,  attorneys,  of  Albany,  and  great-grandson  of  the  Ameri- 
can author  of  the  same  name ;  the  latter  was  a  non-graduate 
member  of  the  Yale  Class  of  1806.  His  first  American 
ancestor,  James  Cooper,  came  to  America  with  William 
Penn  from  Stratford-on-Avon  in  1680  and  settled  near 
Philadelphia,  Pa.  His  father's  parents  were  Paul  Fenimore 
and  Mary  Fuller  (Barrows)  Cooper  and  his  mother,  Susan 
Linn  (Sage)  Cooper,  is  the  daughter  of  Dean  and  Sarah 
Augusta  (Manning)  Sage.  She  is  descended  from  Thomas 
Manning,  who  settled  at  Ipswich  in  1679,  having  come  to 
this  country  from  Dartmouth,  England,  and  from  David 
Sage,  who  came  to  Middletown,  Conn.,  from  Wales  in 
1652.  His  ancestors  had  filled  many  judicial,  political,  and 
military  ofiices  in  this  country. 

He  was  prepared  for  college  at  the  Albany  Academy  and 
at  the  Taft  School,  Watertown,  Conn.  His  Junior  appoint- 
ment was  a  high  oration.  He  had  articles  in  the  Yale 
Literary  Magazine  and  was  a  member  of  Chi  Delta  Theta 
and  secretary  of  the  Elizabethan  Club.  He  belonged  to  the 
Apollo  Banjo  and  Mandolin  clubs,  was  a  member  of  the 
Corinthian  Yacht  Club,  and  served  on  the  Class  Ivy  Com- 
mittee. 

Mr.  Cooper  spent  the  first  year  after  graduation  in 
Europe  and  in  Arizona,  and  then  entered  the  Harvard  Law 
School,  where  he  spent  two  years.  In  1916  he  took  up  the 
study  of  psychology  in  the  Harvard  Graduate  School,  but 
in  the  early  winter  went  again  to  Arizona  to  recuperate 
from  overwork.  While  there  he  taught  German  at  the 
Evans   School   at   Mesa.     He  was   in  Arizona   when   the 


1912-1913  717 

United  States  entered  the  war  and  came  East  immediately. 
He  entered  the  first  Officers'  Training  Camp  at  Madison 
Barracks,  from  which  he  was  graduated  as  a  First  Lieu- 
tenant of  Field  Artillery  in  August,  191 7.  He  was  then 
assigned  to  Battery  D  of  the  308th  Field  Artillery  at  Camp 
Dix,  N.  J.,  as  Senior  First  Lieutenant.  On  January  23, 
1918,  he  was  commissioned  Captain  and  given  command  of 
the  battery.  Early  in  February  he  became  ill  with  pneu- 
monia, from  which  he  died  at  the  Base  Hospital  at  Camp 
Dix  on  February  17,  191 8,  after  an  illness  of  nine  days. 
Interment  was  in  the  family  burying  ground  in  Christ 
Church  graveyard  at  Cooperstown,  N.  Y. 

He  had  contributed  an  article,  entitled  "Some  Unpub- 
lished Letters  of  James  Fenimore  Cooper,"  to  the  Yale 
Review  and  since  his  death  a  collection  of  his  poems  has 
been  published  by  the  Yale  University  Press  under  the  title 
"Afterglow."  In  1916  he  was  elected  Secretary  of  the 
Class  of  1913,  and  served  in  that  capacity  until  his  death. 

Captain  Cooper  was  unmarried.     He  is  survived  by  his 
parents   and   three  brothers,   Henry   S.   Fenimore   Cooper 
(B.A.  191 7),  and  Linn  Fenimore  Cooper  and  Paul  Fenimore 
Cooper,  both  members  of  the  Class  of  1921.     His  Yale  rela- 
tives include:    William  Heathcote  DeLancey  (B.A.  1817) 
Dean  Sage,   ^.^-'59;    William  Henry  Sage    (B.A.    1865) 
Henry  M.  Sage  (B.A.  1890)  ;  Henry  W.  Sage  (B.A.  1895) 
Andrew  G.  C.   Sage    (B.A.    1896)  ;    and  Dean  Sage  and 
DeWitt  L.  Sage,  both  graduates  of  the  College  in  1897. 


Arthur  Russell  Sewall,  B.A.   19 13 

Born  January  30,  1891,  in  Joplin,  Mo. 
Died  February  13,  1918,  in  Philadelphia,  Pa. 

Arthur  Russell  Sewall  was  born  January  30,  1891,  in 
Joplin,  Mo.,  the  son  of  Arthur  Wollaston  and  Emily  Frances 
(Izatt)  Sewall.  His  father,  who  is  now  president  of  the 
General  Asphalt  Company  of  Philadelphia,  is  the  son  of 
Kiah  B.  and  Lucretia  (Day)  Sewall  and  a  descendant  of 
Henry  Sewall,  who  came  to  Ipswich,  Mass.,  from  Coventry, 
England,  in  1634,  and  of  Jane  (Dummer)  Sewall.  His 
mother's   parents   were  Alexander   and  Ellen   Jane    (Rey- 


7l8  YALE    COLLEGE 

Holds)  Izatt,  whose  ancest©rs  came  to  this  country  from 
Nova  Scotia  and  England. 

He  was  fitted  for  Yale  at  the  Chestnut  Hill  Academy  in 
Philadelphia,  St.  George's  School,  Newport,  R.  I.,  and  the 
Salisbury  (Conn.)  School.  He  entered  Yale  in  1909,  and 
was  graduated  four  years  later. 

In  the  fall  of  1913,  after  spending  several  months  abroad, 
he  began  the  study  of  law  at  the  University  of  Pennsyl- 
vania. An  injury  to  his  knee  caused  him  continual  trouble, 
and  resulted  in  causing  him  to  lose  one  year  in  his  law 
course.  Tuberculosis  of  the  joint  later  developed,  finally 
spreading  to  his  lungs,  and  this  ultimately  caused  his  death, 
which  occurred  February  13,  191 8,  at  his  home  in  Phila- 
delphia. Interment  was  in  Evergreen  Cemetery,  Portland, 
Maine.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Church  of  St.  Luke  and 
the  Epiphany  in  Philadelphia  and  had  been  active  in  boys' 
club  work.  He  had  a  special  facility  in  languages,  ancient 
and  modern. 

Mr.  Sewall  was  unmarried.  His  father  and  grandmother 
survive  him.    His  mother  died  in  1893. 


Ebenezer  Bull,  B.-A.  191 5 

Born  November  13,  1891,  in  Springfield,  Mass. 
Died  May  10,  1918,  at  sea 

Ebenezer  Bull  was  the  son  of  Charles  Milton  Bull,  a 
creamery  man,  and  Agnes  Vosburg  (Mesick)  Bull  and  was 
born  in  Springfield,  Mass.,  November  13,  1891.  He  was 
fitted  for  college  at  the  high  schools  in  Granville,  N.  Y., 
and  Fair  Haven,  Vt.  In  Junior  year  he  received  general 
honors  and  a  second  dispute  appointment,  and  his  Senior 
appointment  was  a  dissertation. 

He  spent  the  first  year  after  graduation  at  Cornell  Uni- 
versity, taking  an  agricultural  course.  He  then  went  to 
Greeley,  Colo.,  and  entered  the  production  department  of 
the  Great  Western  Sugar  Company.  He  was  later  located 
in  Denver  for  a  time.  On  June  7,  191 7,  he  enlisted  at 
Fort  Logan  in  the  loth  Field  Artillery,  and  a  few  weeks 
later  was  made  a  Corporal  in  Battery  A  of  that  regiment. 
He  was  promoted  to  the  rank  of  Sergeant  on  October  i, 
and  early  in  January  was  detached  from  his  regiment,  then 


1913-1915  7^9 

stationed  at  Douglas,  Ariz.,  and  ordered  to  the  Officers' 
Training  School  at  Camp  Stanley,  Texas.  On  the  comple- 
tion of  his  course  there,  he  was  recommended  for  a  com- 
mission as  a  Second  Lieutenant  of  Field  Artillery  and  sent 
to  France  for  further  training.  His  death  occurred  from 
pneumonia,  May  10,  1918,  on  board  the  transport  Kroon- 
land.  Funeral  services  were  held  at  Poughkeepsie,  N.  Y., 
on  June  4,  and  interment  was  in  Fair  Haven,  Vt.,  the  fol- 
lowing day. 

Mr.  Bull  was  married  April  12,  19 18,  in  Poughkeepsie, 
to  Margaret  Elvira,  daughter  of  William  Franklin  Walker 
of  Fair  Haven,  Vt.  Besides  his  wife,  he  is  survived  by  his 
father,  two  brothers, — Major  Harold  R.  Bull,  U.  S.  A.,  a 
graduate  of  West  Point  in  1914,  and  DeWitt  M.  Bull  (Ph.B. 
1911), — and  two  sisters,  one  of  whom,  Dorothy  Bull,  is  a 
student  at  Vassar  College.  His  mother  died  April  9,  1918. 
He  was  a  member  of  the  First  Congregational  Church  of 
Fair  Haven. 


James  Seferen  Ennis,  Jr.,  B. A.  191 5 

Born  June  16,  1894,  in  New  York  City 
Died  May  2,  1918,  at  Fort  Worth,  Texas 

James  Seferen  Ennis,  Jr.,  was  born  in  New  York  City. 
June  16,  1894,  being  one  of  the  four  children  of  James 
Seferen  and  Katherine  (Breen)  Ennis.  His  father  was 
born  in  New  York  City  in  1869,  and  graduated  from  the 
College  of  Physicians  and  Surgeons  at  Columbia  in  1889. 
He  is  now  a  practicing  physician  in  New  York,  a  professor 
of  laryngology  in  the  Medical  Department  of  Fordham  Uni- 
versity, and  consulting  laryngologist  to  the  Fordham  divi- 
sion of  the  Bellevue  and  allied  hospitals.  His  father  was 
James  Ennis,  a  graduate  of  the  College  of  the  City  of  New 
York  and  a  naval  veteran  of  the  Civil  War,  whose  parents 
emigrated  from  Ireland  to  New  York  in  1837;  his  mother 
was  Elizabeth  Seferen  Ennis,  born  in  Nova  Scotia  in  1840, 
a  daughter  of  William  Seferen,  a  veteran  of  the  battle  of 
Waterloo,  who  came  to  Nova  Scotia  with  the  English  troops 
and  was  mustered  out  in  that  place  in  181 8.  Katherine 
Breen  Ennis  was  born  in  New  York  City  in  1872.  Her 
parents  came  to  America  from  Irelaftd  in  1863. 


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He  received  his  preparatory  training  at  the  Clason  Point 
MiHtary  Academy,  Westchester,  N.  Y.,  Canisius  College, 
Buffalo,  N.  Y.,  Holy  Cross  College,  and  the  DeWitt  Clinton 
High  School  in  New  York  City.  In  Junior  year  at  college 
he  was  awarded  the  second  Lucius  F.  Robinson  Latin  Prize 
and  was  given  honors  and  a  first  dispute  appointment,  and 
in  Senior  year  he  received  an  oration  appointment. 

For  a  year  after  graduation  Mr.  Ennis  was  engaged  in 
private  tutoring  at  East  Hampton,  N.  Y.,  and  in  New  York 
City.  He  also  gave  a  course  of  lectures  on  English  litera- 
ture and  the  poets,  and  took  courses  at  Columbia.  In 
December,  1916,  he  went  to  Toulouse,  France,  and  matricu- 
lated at  the  university  there.  He  took  courses  in  French 
literature,  Latin,  Greek,  and  archaeology.  Upon  our 
entrance  into  the  war,  he  returned  to  the  United  States, 
and  in  June,  191 7,  enlisted  as  a  Private  in  the  Aviation 
Section  of  the  Signal  Corps.  On  August  27  he  entered 
the  School  of  Military  Aeronautics  at  the  Massachusetts 
Institute  of  Technology,  from  which  he  was  graduated  in 
October,  191 7.  He  was  then  sent  with  the  first  fourteen 
men  in  his  class  to  Canada  to  be  trained  with  the  Royal 
Flying  Corps.  He  was  stationed  first  at  Camp  Mohawk 
and  later  at  Camp  Borden.  From  November  4,  1917,  to 
February  6,  1918,'he  was  on  sick  leave.  On  April  25,  1918, 
after  completing  his  training  at  Camp  Benbrook  and  Camp 
Hicks,  Fort  Worth,  Texas,  and  passing  his  Reserve  Mili- 
tary Aviator  tests,  he  was  commissioned  a  Second  Lieu- 
tenant in  the  Aviation  Section,  Signal  Officers'  Reserve 
Corps.  He  was  killed  on  May  2,  1918,  when  the  plane  in 
which  he  was  giving  dual  instruction  to  a  recently  arrived 
pupil  aviator,  suddenly  went  into  a  nose  dive,  one  hundred 
and  fifty  feet  above  the  earth  and  crashed  onto  the  ground. 
The  accident  occurred  at  Taliaferro  Field  No.  i  at  Fort 
Worth.  Lieutenant  Ennis'  body  was  taken  to  New  York 
City  for  burial  in  Calvary  Cemetery. 

He  was  a  member  of  the  Roman  Catholic  Church.  He 
was  unmarried.  Surviving  him  are  his  parents  and  two 
brothers. 


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Joseph  Frederick  Stillman,  Jr.,  B.A.   19 15 

Born  April  15,  1892,  in  Brookline,  Mass. 
Died  February  23,  1918,  at  St.  Albans,  England 

Joseph  Frederick  Stillman,  Jr.,  was  the  son  of  Joseph 
Frederick  Stillman,  a  retired  sugar  refiner,  and  Eliza  Mc- 
Cannon  (Schley)  Stillman,  and  was  born  in  Brookline, 
Mass.,  April  15,  1892.  His  father's  parents  were  Alfred 
and  Elizabeth  (Greenough)  Stillman.  Through  him  he 
traced  his  descent  to  George  Stillman,  who  came  to  this 
country  from  WiUshire,  England,  in  1684  and  settled  at 
Hadley,  Mass. ;  to  Benedict  Arnold,  governor  of  Rhode 
Island  from  1663  to  1678  and  owner  of  the  Old  Stone  Mill 
in  Newport;  and  to  Mary  Dyer,  "The  Quaker  Martyr," 
who  died  in  1660  in  Boston,  Mass.  His  mother  was  the 
daughter  of  George  Schley  (B.A.  1832)  and  Mary  S. 
(Hall)  Schley  and  a  descendant  of  John  Thomas  Schley, 
who  emigrated  to  America  from  The  Palatinate  in  1745, 
settling  at  Frederick,  Md. 

He  entered  Yale  from  St.  Paul's  School,  Concord,  N.  H., 
and  in  college  played  on  the  Freshman  and  University  Foot- 
ball teams  and  rowed  on  the  Freshman  and  the  Second 
crews.  He  received  a  second  dispute  appointment  Junior 
year  and  a  second  colloquy  at  Commencement. 

After  leaving  college  he  became  connected  with  the  bank- 
ing firm  of  Blodget  &  Company  of  New  York  City.  He 
was  a  member  of  St.  Bartholomew's  Church  of  that  city, 
and  during  1916-17  served  in  the  ist  Motor  Battery,  New 
York  National  Guard.  In  June,  191 7,  he  entered  the 
Aviation  Service,  and  for  the  next  two  months  attended 
the  Ground  School  at  Ohio  State  University,  Columbus, 
Ohio.  He  g^raduated  there  first  in  his  squad  and  was  then 
sent  to  Mineola,  Long  Island.  He  had  volunteered  for 
service  in  Italy,  but  about  the  middle  of  September  was 
sent  in  charge  of  a  contingent  to  England  to  finish  training. 
He  died  at  St.  Albans,  England,  on  February  23,  1918,  as 
the  result  of  burns  on  the  face  and  body  sustained  in  an 
airplane  accident,  which  occurred  on  February  8,  as  the 
result  of  a  collision  two  thousand  feet  in  the  air  during 
combat  maneuvers.  Although  very  severely  burned,  Mr. 
Stillman  brought  his  machine  to  the  ground,  making  a 
good  landing.     His  condition  after  the  accident  was  at  all 


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times  very  serious,  but  hope  for  his  recovery  was  being 
entertained  when  he  suddenly  died  of  embolism.  His  body 
was  brought  to  this  country  and  funeral  services  were  held 
in  New  York  City  on  March  24.  Interment  was  in  Wood- 
lawn  Cemetery,  New  York. 

He  was  unmarried.  He  leaves  his  parents,  three  sisters, 
and  two  brothers,  one  of  ^whom,  Major  Alfred  Stillman,  2d 
(B.A.  Harvard  1903),  saw  service  in  France.  The  other, 
Walter  N.  Stillman,  graduated  from  Yale  in  1905.  The 
late  George  S.  Stillman  (B.A.  1901)  was  also  a  brother. 
He  was  a  cousin  of  Leland  S.  Stillman  (B.A.  1894),  Philip 
T.  Stillman  (Ph.B.  1895),  Wilhelmus  M.  Stillman  (Ph.B. 
1902),  Lawrence  S.  Morrison  (B.A.  191 1),  Stanley  Mor- 
rison (B.A.  1915),  Henry  C.  Taylor  (B.A.  1917),  William 
P.  Morrison,  a  non-graduate  member  .  of  the  Class  of 
1917S.,  and  William  A.  Taylor,  Jr.  (B.A.  1919). 


Alexander  McKee  Munson,  B.A.  1916 

Born  January  8,  1894,  in  Detroit,  Mich. 
Died  December  19,  1917,  in  Stamford,  Conn. 

Alexander  McKee  Munson  was  born  in  Detroit,  Mich., 
January  8,  1894.  He  was  the  son  of  Robert  Hallam  Mun- 
son (B.A.  1879),  who  has  large  timber  and  oil  interests, 
and  whose  parents  were  Edgar  and  Lucy  Maria  (Curtis) 
Munson.  He  traced  his  ancestry  to  Thomas  Munson,  one 
of  the  Hartford  settlers  who  founded  the  colony  of  New 
Haven  in  1639.  Thomas  Munson  was  in  "Mason's  Army" 
and  served  in  the  Pequot  War;  he  was  a  signer  of  the 
"Fundamental  Agreement,"  signed  by  forty-eight  men,  of 
whom  twenty  were  ancestors  of  Robert  H.  Munson;  from 
1644  to  1663  ^^  was  in  command  of  the  forces  of  New 
Haven  Colony  and  in  1676  he  was  made  Captain  of  the 
forces  for  New  Haven  County  and  served  in  King  Philip's 
War.  His  son,  Samuel  Munson,  served  as  Ensign  in  King 
Philip's  War,  and  in  1684  was  the  first  rector  of  the  Hop- 
kins Grammar  School  in  New  Haven.  Other  ancestors  of 
the  same  period  were  Thomas  Yale,  Thomas  Curtis, 
Nathaniel  Merriman,  John  Hall,  Matthew  Gilbert,  William 
Judson,  and  William  Brewster.  Jesse  Munson  (1740-1813) 
^was  a  Lieutenant  in  the  Revolutionary  War;    two  of  his 


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sons  were  Major  Jeremiah  Munsoii  and  General  Augustine 
Munson.  Alexander  M.  Munson's  great-great-grandfather, 
Jared  Munson,  and  his  great-grandfather,  Rufus  Munson, 
were  both  soldiers  in  the  Revolution.  His  mother,  Olivia 
(McKee)  Munson,  was  the  daughter  of  Andrew  and  Eliza- 
beth (Wightman)  McKee.  Her  maternal  grandmother, 
Olivia  Carroll,  was  a  descendant  of  Charles  Carroll,  a  signer 
of  the  Declaration  of  Independence.  Olivia  McKee  was 
born  at  McKees  Rocks,  Pa.  She  was  descended  from 
Colonel  Thomas  McKee,  British  Army,  who  was  born  in 
Ireland;  he  was  prominent  in  the  Colonial  service  from  1750 
to  1765  and  was  a  grantee  of  tracts  of  land  in  Pennsyl- 
vania— at  Harrisburg,  Pittsburgh,  and  McKees  Rocks. 

Alexander  McKee  Munson  was  prepared  for  college  at 
St.  Paul's  School,  Concord,  N.  H.,  where  seven  years  were 
spent,  and  at  the  Anglo-Saxon  School,  Paris,  France,  where 
he  studied  for  a  year.  At  Yale  he  was  a  member  of  the 
Freshman  Hockey  Team,  captain  of  the  Sophomore  Crew, 
and  a  member  of  the  second  University  Crew  in  191 5.  He 
was  awarded  the  George  DeForest  Lord  Scholarship,  con- 
tributed to  the  Yale  Literary  Magazine,  and  was  secretary 
of  the  Elizabethan  Club.  During  the  summer  vacation  of 
191 5  he  joined  the  Harjes  Ambulance  Corps,  and  went  to 
France  with  his  brother,  Curtis  B.  Munson.  Fie  was  in 
the  Ambulance  Service  until  late  in  September  of  that  year 
and  then  returned  to  college.  He  was  later  a  member  of 
Battery  A,  Field  Artillery,  Connecticut  National  Guard, 
being  honorably  discharged  April  15,  1916. 

From  graduation  until  February,  191 7,  he  worked  con- 
tinuously in  a  New  York  office.  He  then  took  uj^he  study 
of  medicine,  applying  himself  very  closely.  The  following 
spring  he  suffered  a  serious  breakdown  in  health,  and  for 
two  months  was  at  Dr.  Foord's  Sanatorium  on  the  Hudson. 
In  July,  with  his  health  apparently  much  improved,  and 
under  medical  advice,  he  went  to  the  state  of  Washington, 
and  spent  two  months  on  and  near  his  father's  timber 
lands, — at  one  time  working  actively  for  three  weeks  in 
fighting  fires  on  these  lands.  Later  he  negotiated  all  the 
details  of  a  large  and  complicated  timber  sale  for  ship- 
building, being  the  sole  representative  of  the  owners  and 
showing  remarkable  business  talent  and  a  balanced  judgment 
beyond  his  years. 

On   December    19,    19 17,   he   was   struck   and   instantly 


724  YALE    COLLEGE 

killed  by  a  train  near  Stamford,  Conn.,  after  having  been 
seen  for  an  instant  by  the  engineer,  facing  the  locomotive 
with  both  arrns  outstretched  as  if  suddenly  surprised  and 
trying  to  stop  its  onrush.  Interment  was  in  Woodlawn 
Cemetery,  New  York.  It  was  evident  that  at  the  time  of 
his  death  he  was,  in  a  dazed  frame  of  mind,  going  to 
an  outlying  district  to  endeavor  to  get  himself  passed  for 
military  service.  Since  April,  191 7,  he  had  been  extremely 
depressed  because  his  physical  condition  was  such  that 
doctors  had  prevented  him  from  volunteering.  While  in 
Washington  he  succeeded  in  securing  a  doctor's  certificate 
of  fitness  for  service,  but  on  returning  to  New  York  found 
that  no  draft  board  would  give  him  permission  to  enlist. 
For  several  weeks  before  his  death  he  was  at  a  nerve  hos- 
pital. His  loss  of  health  was  undoubtedly  largely  due  to 
his  continued  close  application  to  his  duties  without  relaxa- 
tion since  191 5;  a  head  injury  from  a  horseback  accident 
in  1906  may  have  had  its  effect,  although  the  doctors  did 
not  definitely  so  determine. 

Mr.  Munson  was  a  member  of  the  Protestant  Episcopal 
Church.  He  was  unmarried.  His  parents,  his  brother, 
Curtis  B.  Munson  (B.A.  1916),  and  his  sister,  Helen  McKee 
Russell,  the  wife  of  Richard  M.  Russell  (B.A.  Harvard 
191 5),  survive  him.  Among  his  Yale  relatives  are:  C. 
LaRue  Munson  (LL.B.  1875)  ;  the  late  Howard  C.  HolHster 
(B.A.  1878)  ;  Edgar  Munson  (B.A.  1904,  LL.B.  1907)  ; 
George  S.  Munson  (B.A.  1904,  LL.B.  1907)  ;  Howard  K. 
HolHster,  a  non-graduate  member  of  the  Class  of  1910; 
John  B.  HolHster  (B.A.  1911);  and  George  B.  HolHster 
(B.A.  1917). 


Franklin  Crumbie  Fairchild,  B.A.   19 17 

Born  February  10,  1895,  in  Pelham,  N.  Y. 
Died  February  23,  1918,  at  Fort  Worth,  Texas 

Franklin  Crumbie  Fairchild  was  the  son  of  Benjamin 
Lewis  and  Anna  E.  (Crumbie)  Fairchild,  and  was  born 
February  10,  1895,  in  Pelham,  N.  Y.  His  father  graduated 
from  the  Law  Department  of  Columbian  (now  George 
Washington)  University  with  the  degree  of  LL.B.  in  1883 
and  that  of  LL.M.  in  1885,  and  afterwards  foHowed  his 


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profession  in  New  York  City.  He  was  a  representative 
in  the  54th  Congress  from  the  i6th  New  York  District 
from  1894  to  1897,  and  is  now  a  member  of  Congress  from 
the  24th  New  York  District.  His  parents  were  Benjamin 
and  Calista  (Scheaffer)  Fairchild,  and  his  ancestry  may 
be  traced  to  a  period  in  America  prior  to  the  Revolutionary 
War.  He  is  a  descendant  of  Thomas  Fairchild,  who  settled 
in  Connecticut  in  1632.  Franklin  Fairchild's  mother  died 
in  1902.  She  was  the  daughter  of  James  and  Ann  (Dun- 
ning) Crumble. 

Before  entering  Yale  in  19 13  he  attended  first  the  Bove 
and  then  the  Browning  School  in  New  York  City  and  later 
the  Hotchkiss  School  in  Lakeville,  Conn.  He  was  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Freshman  Debating  Team,  went  out  for  track  and 
lacrosse,  received  a  first  colloquy  appointment  Junior  year 
and  a  second  dispute  Senior  appointment,  and  was  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Courant  board. 

In  the  spring  of  19 17  he  went  to  the  first  Officers'  Train- 
ing Camp  at  Plattsburg,  and  there  received  training  in 
artillery.  At  the  close  of  the  camp  in  August,  191 7,  he 
was  transferred  to  the  Aviation  Service,  and  on  January 
19,  1918,  graduated  from  the  School  of  Military  Aero- 
nautics at  Princeton  University,  being  sent  from  there  to 
Love  Field,  Dallas,  Texas,  for  instruction  in  flying.  Shortly 
afterwards  he  was  transferred  to  Fort  Worth,  Texas,  to 
continue  flying  instruction  with  an  American  contingent 
attached  to  the  Royal  Flying  Corps.  He  met  instant  death 
on  February  23  at  Taliaferro  Field,  Fort  Worth,  when 
his  airplane  went  into  a  tail  spin  and  crashed  to  the  ground 
from  a  height  of  eight  hundred  feet  while  descending  from 
an  altitude  flight  of  eight  thousand  feet.  His  body  was 
taken  to  his  home  in  Pelham  and  later  interred  in  Woodlawn 
Cemetery. 

He  is  survived  by  his  father.  He  was  unmarried.  He 
belonged  to  the  Huguenot  Memorial  Presbyterian  Church 
at  Pelham  Manor. 


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Dumaresq  Spencer,  B.A.  191 7 

Born  December  4,  1895,  in  Chicago,  111. 
Died  January  22,  1918,  near  Belfort,  France 

Dumaresq  Spencer  was  born  in  Chicago,  111.,  December 
4>  1895,  his  parents  being  Earl  Winfield  Spencer,  a  stock 
and  bond  dealer,  and  Agnes  Lucy  Marian  (Hughes) 
Spencer.  His  father  was  the  son  of  Nathan  Spencer,  a 
farmer  of  Virgil,  N.  Y.,  and  Polly  Ann  (Price)  Spencer 
and  a  descendant  of  Isaac  Spencer,  whose  ancestors  emi- 
grated to  America  from  England  in  1633  and  settled  at 
Hartford,  Conn.  Isaac  Spencer's  father,  Amos  Spencer, 
was  a  Revolutionary  soldier  and  rose  from  the  ranks  to 
Captain.  Dumaresq  Spencer  was  also  descended  from 
Daniel  Price,  who  served  in  the  War  of  181 2,  and  whose 
ancestors  came  from  Holland.  His  mother  lived  on  the 
island  of  Jersey  before  her  marriage.  She  was  the  daughter 
of  Frederick  and  Mary  Ann  (LeBas)  Hughes. 

He  was  fitted  for  Yale  at  the  Deerfield  High  School  at 
Highland  Park,  111.,  and  at  Phillips  Academy,  Andover, 
Mass., ,  entering  college  as  a  resident  of  Highland  Park. 
He  played  on  the  Class  Baseball,  Hockey,  and  Basketball 
teams,  and  the  University  Lacrosse  Team,  and  was  man- 
ager of  the  University  Basketball  Team,  and  president  of 
the  Minor  Athletic  Association.  He  belonged  to  the  Uni- 
versity Dramatic  Association,  and  was  a  member  of  the 
Junior  Promenade  Committee. 

During  the  summer  of  191 6  he  served  at  Tobyhanna, 
Pa.,  with  the  Yale  Batteries.  He  later  joined  the  ist  Bat- 
tery, New  York  State  Naval  Militia,  but  early  in  the  sum- 
mer of  191 7  was  transferred  to  the  Lafayette  Flying  Corps. 
He  sailed  for  France  on  June  20,  1917.  On  October  21, 
after  undergoing  training  at  various  aviation  centers  in 
France,  he  was  granted  his  brevet  as  an  Aviation  Pilot  in  the 
Franco-American  Flying  Corps.  He  was  later  promoted 
to  Sergeant,  assigned  to  Escadrille  No.  150,  and  sent  to  the 
front  near  Belfort,  France.  He  was  killed  on  January  22, 
1918,  near  Belfort,  and  was  buried  there  on  January  25. 
His  commission  as  Ensign  in  the  U.  S.  Naval  Reserve  Fly- 
ing Corps  was  dated  January  20,  191 8.  He  was  post- 
humously cited  for  bravery  and  awarded  the  Croix  de 
Guerre,  with  bronze  star.     A  service  in  his  memory  was 


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held  on  February  3  at  Trinity  Protestant  Episcopal  Church, 
Highland  Park,  of  which  he  was  a  member.  The  Highland 
Park  Chapter  of  the  American  Legion  of  Honor  has  been 
named  the  Dumaresq  Spencer  Post. 

He  was  unmarried.  He  is  survived  by  his  parents,  three 
brothers, — Lieutenant  Commander  Earl  Winfield  Spencer, 
Jr.,  U.  S.  N.,  a  graduate  of  Annapolis  in  1910,  Egbert  H. 
Spencer  (B.A.  1914),  and  Frederick  L.  Spencer,  a  member 
of  the  Class  of  1923, — and  two  sisters. 


SHEFFIELD  SCIENTIFIG  SCHOOL 
Sutherland  Douglas  Twining,  Ph.B.   1859 

Born  September  4,  1835,  at  West  Point,  N.  Y. 
Died  February  8,  1918,  in  Buffalo,  N.  Y. 

Sutherland  Douglas  Twining  was  born  September  4, 
1835,  in  that  part  of  West  Point,  N.  Y.,  which  is  now  known 
as  the  Kinsley  reservation.  He  was  the  son  of  Alexander 
Catlin  Twining  (B.A.  1820,  M.A.  Middlebury  1839,  LL.D. 
Yale  1865)  ^^^  Harriet  Amelia  (Kinsley)  Twining.  His 
father  after  graduation  from  Yale  studied  at  the  Andover 
Theological  Seminary  and  served  as  tutor  at  Yale  from 
1823  to  1825,  later  taking  a  private  course  in  civil  engi- 
neering with  professors  at  the  U.  S.  Military  Academy  at 
West  Point.  For  nine  years  he  was  professor  of  mathe- 
matics and  natural  philosophy  at  Middlebury,  afterwards 
making  civil  engineering  his  profession.  Astronomy  was 
always  an  interesting  field  of  investigation  to  him  and  he  is 
known  among  astronomers  as  the  author  of  the  cosmic 
theory  of  the  meteors.  As  an  inventor  he  pioneered  to  a 
successful  result  the  industrial  manufacture  of  artificial  ice. 
He  was  one  of  the  projectors  of  the  famous  Connecticut 
letter  to  President  Buchanan  and  was  deeply  interested  in 
constitutional  questions,  a  study  of  which  culminated  in  a 
course  of  lectures  on  the  Constitution  of  the  United  States 
in  the  Yale  School  of  Law.  Harriet  Kinsley  Twining, 
whose  parents  were  Zebina  and  Anna  (Duncan)  Kinsley, 
traced  her  descent  to  Stephen  Kinsley  of  Bridgewater, 
Mass.,  who  was  a  representative  in  Braintree  in  1650  and 
also  first  ruling  elder  in  1653,  afterward  removing  to 
Dorchester  and  later  to  Milton,  where  he  became  a  repre- 
sentative in  1666,  dying  in  1673. 

In  his  early  years,  preparatory  to  entrance  into  college, 
he  studied  at  General  Russell's  Collegiate  and  Commercial 
Institute  and  at  the  Hopkins  Grammar  School  in  New 
Haven.  He  entered  the  Scientific  School  in  1855,  taking 
the  chemistry  course,  and  graduated  in  1859.  Not  being 
_in  good  health,  he  spent  the  following  years  in  assisting  his 
father  in  engineering  work  until  1862,  when  he  began  the 


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study  of  medicine  at  Yale,  interrupting  his  course  in  Jan- 
uary, 1863,  to  serve  for  eight  months  as  an  Acting  Medical 
Cadet  in  the  U.  S.  Army  at  McKim's  General  Hospital, 
Baltimore,  Md.  He  received  the  degree  of  Doctor  of 
Medicine  in  1864.  From  May  of  that  year  until  November, 
1865,  he  was  in  the  general  hospital  service  at  Alexandria, 
Va.,  having  an  appointment  as  an  Acting  Assistant  Surgeon. 

He  took  up  the  practice  of  medicine  in  Chicago,  111.,  in 
June,  1866,  and  was  actively  engaged  in  his  profession  in 
that  city  until  1905.  At  that  time  he  retired  and  removed 
to  the  home  of  his  sisters  in  New  Haven,  where  he  remained 
until  March,  1910,  when  he  took  up  his  home  in  Springfield, 
Mass.,  changing  his  home  again  in  May,  1914,  to  Westfield, 
N.  Y.  He  had  suffered  for  some  years  from  diabetes,  and 
in  September,  1917,  was  taken  to  the  State  Hospital  in 
Buffalo,  N.  Y.,  where  he  died  February  8,  1918.  He  was 
buried  in  the  New  Haven  City  Burial  Ground. 

While  living  in  Chicago  he  was  a  member  of  the  Taber- 
nacle Congregational  Church,  serving  at  different  times  as 
chairman  of  the  board  of  trustees,  senior  deacon,  and  super- 
intendent of  the  Sunday  school.  At  the  time  of  his  death 
he  belonged  to  the  Faith  Congregational  Church  of  Spring- 
field, Mass.  He  was  president  of  a  ward  branch  of  the 
Chicago  Civic  Federation,  and  had  been  a  member  of  the 
Chicago  Society  of  Internal  Medicine  and  the  Chicago 
Pathological  Society. 

Dr.  Twining  was  married  March  23,  1877,  in  Jordan, 
N.  Y.,  to  Gertrude  Maria,  daughter  of  Horace  and  Eliza- 
beth Olive  (Parmalee)  Tenney  of  Baldwinsville,  N.  Y. 
She  died  December  i,  1880,  leaving  no  children.  He  was 
married  a  second  time,  March  9,  1910,  to  Mina  (Beebe) 
Magill,  daughter  of  Adelbert  and  Eunice  (Waters)  Beebe. 
They  had  no  children.  Dr.  Twining's  eldest  brother  was 
Rev.  Kinsley  Twining  (B.A.  1853),  whose  son,  Kinsley 
Twining,  graduated  from  Yale  in  1901.  His  twin  brother, 
Theodore  Woolsey  Twining  (B.A.  1858),  died  during  the 
Civil  War,  while  serving  as  an  Acting  Assistant  Paymaster 
in  the  Navy.  His  grandfather,  Stephen  Twin.ing  (B.A. 
17Q5)'  who  married  Almira  Catlin  of  Litchfield,  Conn.,  was 
a  descendant  of  William  Twining,  who  came  from  England 
to  Yarmouth,  Mass.,  his  name  appearing  in  the  Plvmouth 
records  in  a  law  case  in  1641.  An  uncle.  Rev.  William 
Twining  (B.A.  1825),  had  two  sons  in  the  Civil  War.  Rev. 
Seagrove  W.   Magill    (B.A.    1831)    and   Professor  James 


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Hadley  (B.A.  1842)  were  uncles  by  marriage.  Two  first 
cousins  were  William  A.  Magill  (B.A.  1858)  and  Arthur 
Twining  Hadley  (B.A.  1876).  The  latter's  sons,  Morris 
Hadley  (B.A.  1916)  and  Hamilton  Hadley,  a  member  of 
the  Class  of  1918,  were  second  cousins.  Lynde  Catlin  (B.A. 
1786)  was  his  great-uncle;  a  number  of  his  descendants, 
cousins  of  Dr.  Twining,  attended  Yale.  Another  cousin 
was  Edward  VanSchoonhoven  Kinsley  (B.A.  1846). 


Robert  Livingston  Crooke,  Ph.B.   1866 

Born  September  2,  1840,  in  Flatbush,  N.  Y. 
Died  August  14,  1916,  in  North  Salem,  N.  Y. 

Robert  Livingston  Crooke,  son  of  Philip  Schuyler  and 
Margaret  (Catin)  Crooke,  was  born  at  Flatbush,  N.  Y., 
September  2,  1840.  He  was  of  English  and  Dutch  descent. 
His  father,  who  was  a  lawyer,  served  for  many  years  as 
supervisor  of  Kings  County  and  as  an  assemblyman  at 
Albany,  and  was  a  representative  in  Congress, 

He  prepared  for  college  at  the  Polytechnic  Institute  in 
Brooklyn,  N.  Y.  In  1861  he  enlisted  in  the  Army,  and  the 
next  year  entered  the  Sheffield  Scientific  School,  taking  a 
special  course  in  metallurgy. 

After  leaving  college  Mr.  Crooke  went  into  the  employ 
of  Crooke  Brothers  &  Company,  which  was  afterwards 
incorporated  as  the  Crooke  Smelting  &  Refining  Company. 
He  became  superintendent  and  after  1890  was  sole  owner. 
He  continued  to  operate  the  works  until  1896,  when  he  sold 
his  interests  to  the  National  Lead  Company,  remaining  as 
manager  until  1902.  For  the  next  few  years  he  was  pur- 
chasing agent  for  the  mixed  metal  department  of  a  manu- 
facturing company  and  he  was  afterwards  engaged  in 
farming  at  North  Salem,  N.  Y.  He  was  a  vestryman  of 
the  Protestant  Episcopal  Church,  and  belonged  to  the 
American  Institute  of  Mining  Engineers. 

Mr.  Crooke  died  August  14,  1916,  at  his  home  in  Crooke 
Haven,  North  Salem.  Interment  was  in  Greenwood  Ceme- 
tery, Brooklyn. 

He  was  married  October  29,  1874,  to  Elizabeth  Aymar 
Kissam.  They  had  two  daughters :  Cornelia  L.  and  Hannah 
K.    A  sister  married  James  Allen  Macdonald  (Ph.B.  1866). 


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Frederick  Converse  Beach,  Ph.B.  1868 

Born  March  27,  1848,  in  New  York  City 
Died  June  8,  1918,  in  Stratford,  Conn. 

Frederick  Converse  Beach  was  the  son  of  Alfred  Ely  and 
Harriet  Eliza  (Holbrook)  Beach  and  was  born  March  27, 
1848,  in  New  York  City.  His  father,  a  patent  attorney  and 
editor,  was  part  owner  of  the  Scientific  American  and  the 
vast  patent  business  of  Munn  &  Company;  in  1855  he 
received  a  gold  medal  for  inventing  a  typewriting  machine 
for  the  blind,  and  twelve  years  later  he  invented  and  demon- 
strated the  present  method  of  shield  tunneling  by  hydraulic 
rams.  His  parents  were  Moses  Yale  Beach,  publisher  of 
the  New  York  Sun  prior  to  1868,  and  Nancy  (Day)  Beach, 
and  he  traced  his  descent  to  John  Beach,  who  came  to 
America  from  England  about  1639,  settled  at -New  Haven, 
Conn.,  and  in  1660  moved  to  Stratford,  Conn.,  where  he 
died  about  1679  o^  1680.  On  the  distaff  side  he  was 
descended  from  Elder  William  Brewster  and  also  from 
Elihu  Yale.  Rev.  Alfred  Ely,  a  noted  divine,  was  his 
uncle.  His  wife  was  the  daughter  of  John  Fisk  and  Harriet 
(Converse)  Holbrook  of  Springfield,  Mass. 

He  was  educated  privately,  and  also  attended  a  private 
school  in  Stratford  originated  and  conducted  by  his  father, 
and  Mr.  Marshall  Strong's  Military  School  at  Bridgeport, 
Conn.  He  entered  Yale  in  1865,  taking  the  select  course  in 
the  Scientific  School. 

Mr.  Beach  had  worked  in  the  field  of  photography  since 
he  was  sixteen.  In  1866  he  suggested  to  the  U.  S.  Patent 
Office  the  utility  and  practicability  of  photo-lithography  of 
patent  drawings,  a  plan  which  was  later  adopted.  During 
1868-69  he  took  a  course  in  patent  office  practice  at  Wash- 
ington, D.  C,  in  the  latter  year  being  appointed  night  super- 
intendent of  the  tunnel  boring  under  Broadway,  built  by  the 
Beach  Pneumatic  Transit  Company,  of  which  his  father  was 
president.  After  the  tunnel  was  opened  to  the  public  in 
1870,  he  operated  a  pneumatic  car  and  explained  its  details. 
From  1 87 1  to  1876  he  was  engaged  in  the  manufacture  of 
electrical  instruments  in  New  York,  making  the  Tom  Thumb 
telegraph  for  boys,  which  was  instructive  and  popular.  He 
then  entered  the  Scientific  American  office,  where  he  took  his 
father's  place  in  the  old  partnership  of  Munn  &  Company, 


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and  at  the  time  of  his  death  was  an  editor  and  part  owner. 
He  had  been  mainly  interested  in  the  photographic  depart- 
ment, in  which  he  made  many  improvements.  He  was 
also  owner  and  editor  of  American  Photography,  which  he 
started  in  1889  as  The  American  Amateur  Photographer, 
and  since  1902  had  been  editor-in-chief  of  the  Encyclopedia 
Americana.  From  1877  to  1882  Mr.  Beach  experimented 
to  quite  an  extent  in  improving  the  telephone  and  was  the 
first  (about  1880)  to  transmit  sermons  by  telephone,  which 
was  done  from  Plymouth  Church  in  Brooklyn  to  his  father's 
house,  61  Union  Place,  New  York.  In  1884  he  founded 
the  Society  of  Amateur  Photographers  of  New  York,  for 
the  next  three  years  serving  as  its  president,  and  he  organ- 
ized the  following  year  the  American  Lantern  Slide  Inter- 
change and  became  its  general  manager.  He  joined  the 
Postal  Progress  League  soon  after  it  was  started  in  1902, 
and  as  its  president  (which  office  he  held  from  1909  till 
his  death)  did  an  excellent  work  in  securing  a  parcel  post 
for  the  country  and  in  bringing  about  various  reforms.  He 
compiled  a  work  on  "Inventions"  in  the  eighties,  and 
revised  the  photographic  subjects  in  the  Standard  Dic- 
tionary published  in  1895. 

Mr.  Beach  was  intensely  interested  in  aeronautics  during 
his  later  years.  He  donated  the  Scientific  American  trophy 
for  the  first  flight  by  a  heavier-than-air  machine.  This 
became  the  property  of  Glen  Curtiss  after  he  had  won  it 
three  times  in  succession.  As  president  of  the  Postal 
Progress  League,  Mr.  Beach  looked  forward  to  the  time 
when  aerial  transportation  of  mail  would  be  universal. 
Having  seen  the  pneumatic  tube  system  of  letter  trans- 
mission (which  was  invented  by  his  father)  put  into  prac- 
tical and  advantageous  operation  many  years  ago,  he  looked 
forward  with  interest  to  the  time  when  aerial  transport 
of  all  kinds  of  mail  should  occur  in  the  atmosphere.  He 
belonged  to  the  New  York  Electrical  Society,  the  New 
York  Camera  Club,  and  the  American  Institute  of  New 
York.  His  home  had  been  in  Stratford  since  1855,  and 
he  was  a  member  of  the  Congregational  Church  and  the 
First  Ecclesiastical  Society  of  that  town,  serving  as  chair- 
man of  the  Society's  Committee  for  eight  years.  In  1891 
he  was  elected  president  of  the  Stratford  Village  Improve- 
ment Association,  and  two  years  later  was  made  president 
of  the  local  school  board.     He  was  also  vice  president  of 


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the  Stratford  Public  Library  Association  and  president  of 
the  Housatonic  Yacht  Club. 

His  death  occurred  June  8,  1918,  at  his  home  in  Strat- 
ford, after  an  illness  of  over  seven  months,  due  to  arterio- 
sclerosis.   Interment  was  in  the  Union  Cemetery,  Stratford. 

Mr.  Beach  was  married  June  16,  1875,  in  that  town,  to 
Margaret  Allen,  daughter  of  Charles  and  Louise  A. 
(Wheeler)  Gilbert.  They  had  three  children:  Stanley 
Yale  (Ph.B.  1898)  ;  Alfred  Gilbert,  who  was  born  in  1879 
and  died  in  1890;  and  Ethel  Holbrook.  The  latter  was 
married  September  30,  1909,  to  James  Albert  Wales,  a 
graduate  of  Trinity  College  in  1901.  An  aunt  of  Mr. 
Beach's  married  Frederic  H.  Betts,  '64,  and  had  two  sons 
who  are  graduates  of  Yale  College,  Louis  F.  H.  Betts  in 
1891,  and  W.  Rosseter  Betts  in  1898;  Sheldon  E.  Hoadley 
(Ph.B.  191 5)  is  her  grandson.  Mr.  Beach  was  a  first  cousin 
of  Charles  Yale  Beach,  ex-'66  S. 


Charles  Thruston  Ballard,  Ph.B.   1870 

Born  June  3,  1850,  in  Louisville,  Ky. 
Died  May  8,  1918,  in  Glenview,  Ky. 

Charles  Thruston  Ballard  was  born  in  Louisville,  Ky.,  on 
June  3,  1850,  being  one  of  the  five  children  of  Andrew 
Jackson  and  Frances  Ann  (Thruston)  Ballard.  His  father 
attended  Transylvania  University,  practiced  law  in  Louis- 
ville for  many  years,  and  at  the  outbreak  of  our  Civil  War 
in  1861  was  appointed  by  President  Lincoln  clerk  of  the 
U.  S.  Circuit  and  District  courts  for  the  District  of  Ken- 
tucky. He  was  the  son  of  James  and  Susan  (Cox)  Ballard 
and  the  grandson  of  Bland  Ballard,  Jr.,  of  Spottsylvania 
County,  Va.,  who  was  a  Corporal  in  Major  George 
Slaughter's  battalion  that  came  to  Kentucky  from  Virginia 
in  1779  ^^^  who  was  killed  in  an  Indian  massacre  in  March, 
1788,  near  the  present  site  of  Shelbyville.  James  Ballard, 
his  brother.  Bland  W.  Ballard,  a  Private  under  his  father 
in  the  American  Revolution,  one  of  the  most  celebrated  of 
the  Indian  fighters  in  pioneer  days  in  Kentucky,  and  later  a 
Major  in  the  War  of  181 2,  and  their  half  sister  were  the 
only  members  of  the  family  who  survived  the  massacre. 
Frances  Ann  Thruston  Ballard's  parents  were  Charles  Wil- 


734  SHEFFIELD    SCIENTIFIC    SCHOOL 

Ham  and  Mary  Eliza  (Churchill)  Thruston.  Her  grand- 
father, Charles  Mynn  Thruston,  Jr.,  when  less  than  twelve 
years  of  age,  served  as  aide-de-camp  to  his  father,  then 
Captain,  but  later  Colonel,  Charles  Mynn  Thruston,  at  the 
battle  of  Piscataway.  in  the  Revolution,  and  later  married 
Frances  Eleanor,  daughter  of  John  and  Anne  Rogers  Clark 
and  sister  of  General  Jonathan  Clark,  General  George 
Rogers  Clark,  Captain  John  Clark,  and  Lieutenants 
Edmund  and  Raymond  Clark,  who  served  as  officers  in 
the  Revolution.  One  of  them, — Captain  John  Clark, — 
Charles  Thruston  Ballard  represented  in  the  Virginia 
Society  of  the  Cincinnati.  Another  of  her  brothers,  Gen- 
eral William  Clark,  was  too  young  to  serve  in  the  Revolu- 
tion, but  was  an  officer  under  General  Wayne  in  1794-95, 
and  the  Clark  of  the  Lewis  and  Clark  Expedition  across 
the  American  continent  in  1804-06.  Other  Revolutionary 
ancestors  of  Charles  Thruston  Ballard  were  Lieutenant 
Armistead  Churchill  of  the  Fauquier  County  (Va.)  Militia 
and  Lieutenant  William  Oldham,  who  served  in  Daniel 
Morgan's  company  in  the  siege  of  Boston  and  in  the  Cana- 
dian campaign  of  1775-76  and  who,  on  November  4,  1791, 
lost  his  life  as  Lieutenant  in  command  of  the  Kentucky 
Militia  at  the  battle  of  St.  Clair's  Defeat.  Colonel  Churchill 
came  to  Kentucky  in  1779  and  John  Clark  in  1785,  and  both 
settled  and  were  buried  on  the  present  site  of  Camp  Zachary 
Taylor,  near  Louisville.  Mr.  Ballard  was  a  member  of  the 
Society  of  Colonial  Wars  in  the  Commonwealth  of  Ken- 
tucky and  of  the  Kentucky  Society  of  the  Sons  of  the 
American  Revolution. 

He  was  fitted  for  college  at  the  Louisville  Male  High 
School  and  at  General  Russell's  Collegiate  and  Commercial 
Institute  in  New  Haven.  Conn.  At  Yale  he  took  the  select 
course  in  the  Sheffield  Scientific  School.  In  Senior  year 
he  was  captain  of  the  She^eld  Boat  Club,  and  in  1870  went 
on  the  first  of  Professor  Othniel  C.  Marsh's  expeditions 
to  the  Western  plains.  In  the  fall  of  that  year  he  returned 
to  Louisville  and  accepted  a  position  in  one  of  the  banks, 
later  becoming  cashier  in  the  office  of  the  U.  S.  Collector 
of  Internal  Revenue.  In  1878  he  organized  the  firm  of 
Jones,  Ballard  &  Ballard,  and  engaged  in  the  milling  busi- 
ness, using  one  of  the  first  patent  flour  manufacturing 
processes  which  appeared  on  the  market.  In  1884  they 
failed  in  business,  were  allowed  to  retain  certain  of  their 


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assets,  were  incorporated  as  the  Ballard  &  Ballard  Com- 
pany, and  later  paid  off  all  of  their  debts  with  interest. 
They  were  among  the  first  in  the  United  States  to  estab- 
lish profit  sharing  and  welfare  work  among  their  employees. 
Mr.  Ballard  remained  as  president  of  the  company  until 
his  death,  his  brother,  S.  Thruston  Ballard  (B.S.  Cornell 
1878),  succeeding  him.  He  had  always  taken  an  active 
part  in  the  political,  social,  and  civic  life  of  Louisville.  He 
was  a  Republican  in  politics,  and  was  deeply  interested  in 
the  affairs  of  that  party.  From  1907  to  1909  he  was  chair- 
man of  the  Board  of  Aldermen.  He  was  president  of  the 
Louisville  Board  of  Trade  and  of  the  Pendennis  Club,  and 
a  director  in  the  Fidelity  &  Columbia  Trust  Company,  the 
Union  National  Bank,  the  Federal  Chemical  Company,  and 
the  Louisville  Railway  Company.  He  was  senior  warden 
of  Christ  Church  Cathedral.  In  March,  191 6,  he  was 
elected  a  vice  president  of  the  Associated  Western  Yale 
Clubs.  He  had  traveled  extensively  in  this  country  and 
Europe. 

His  death  occurred  very  suddenly,  May  8,  1918,  at  the 
family  home.  Bushy  Park,  Glenview,  Ky.,  as  the  result  of 
myocarditis.  He  had  not  been  in  good  health  for  some 
time,  but  his  condition  was  not  such  as  to  affect  his  activities 
materially.  Interment  was  in  Cave  Hill  Cemetery,  Louis- 
ville. 

Mr.  Ballard  was  married  April  24,  1878,  in  New  Orleans, 
La.,  to  Emelina  Modest,  daughter  of  Gustave  Arvilien 
Breaux  (B.A.  Norwich  1847,  LL.B.  Harvard  1850)  and 
Emilie  (Locke)  Breaux,  They  had  eight  children:  Abby 
Churchill,  who  was  married  June  i,  1899,  to  Jefferson  Davis 
Stewart  of  Louisville;  Emilie  Locke  (born  September  18, 
1880;  died  December  10,  1886);  Mary  Thruston  (born 
November  25,  1882;  died  February  5,  1884);  Charles 
Thruston  (Ph.B.  1907),  who  served  as  an  Ensign  in  the 
U.  S.  Navy  during  the  war;  Gustave  Breaux,  a  non- 
graduate  member  of  the  Class  of  1909  S.,  who  held  a 
Captain's  commission  in  the  Coast  Artillery  Corps ;  Fanny 
Thruston,  who  was  married  on  August  31,  1912,  to  Charles 
Horner;  Churchill  (born  April  30,  1890;  died  February 
12,  1891)  ;  and  Mina,  who  was  married  on  June  6,  1914,  to 
Warner  LaValle  Jones.  His  wife,  five  children,  and  four 
grandchildren  survive.  He  also  leaves  two  brothers,  one 
of  whom,  S.  Thruston  Ballard,  was  his  associate  in  busi- 


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ness,  and  the  other,  R.  C.  Ballard  Thruston,  graduated  from 
Yale  with  the  degree  of  Ph.B.  in  1880.  His  only  sister, 
Abigail  Churchill  Ballard,  was  taken  ill  while  in  her  Junior 
year  at  Vassar  College  and  died  of  tuberculosis  in  April, 
1874. 


Alfred  Ronalds  Conkling,  Ph.B.  1870 

Born  September  28,  1850,  in  New  York  City- 
Died  September  18,  1917,  in  New  York  City 

Alfred  Ronalds  Conkling,  whose  parents  were  Frederick 
Augustus  and  Eleonora  (Ronalds)  Conkling,  was  born 
September  28,  1850,  in  New  York  City.  His  father,  a 
merchant,  of  the  firm  of  Conkling,  Barnes  &  Sheppard, 
was  a  member  of  the  New  York  Legislature  in  1854,  1859, 
and  i860,  and  a  Congressman  from  1861  to  1863;  he  was 
the  son  of  Judge  Alfred  Conkling  and  Eliza  (Cockburn) 
Conkling  and  a  descendant  of  Ananias  Conkling,  who  came 
to  this  country  from  Nottingham,  England,  in  1648,  settling 
at  Amagansett,  Long  Island.  His  mother,  who  was  the 
daughter  of  Thomas  A.  and  Maria  D.  (Lorillard)  Ronalds, 
traced  her  descent  to  James  Ronalds,  who  emigrated  to 
America  from  Scotland  about  1750  and  settled  at  New 
York. 

He  received  his  preparatory  training  at  private  schools 
in  Morristown,  N.  J.,  and  Yonkers,  N.  Y.,  and  at  the 
school  of  Professor  G.  W.  Clarke  in  New  York  City.  He 
entered  the  Scientific  School  in  1866,  but  did  not  complete 
his  course  until  1870,  during  1869-1870  being  also  a  student 
in  the  School  of  Medicine.  He  specialized  in  mining  and 
metallurgy,  and  after  graduation  spent  a  year  at  Harvard 
studying  mineralogy.  In  1873  he  took  a  semester  in  natural 
science  at  the  University  of  Berlin. 

From  1875  to  1877  he  was  a  geologist  with  the  U.  S. 
Engineer  Corps,  engaged  in  making  surveys  in  Colorado. 
The  next  two  years  were  spent  in  the  study  of  law  at 
Columbia,  where  he  received  the  degree  of  LL.B.  in  1879. 
He  then  began  the  practice  of  law  in  New  York  City,  in 
which  he  continued  until  his  death.  He  was  a  Republican 
in  politics.  During  1881-82  he  was  an  assistant  district 
attorney,  in  1887-88  an  alderman,  and  in  1892,  and  again 


1870-1B71  737 

in  1895,  a  member  of  the  New  York  Legislature.  Mr. 
Conkling  had  been  a  trustee  for  a  number  of  owners  of  real 
estate  in  New  York  City,  and  he  had  gained  a  reputation 
as  a  publicist  on  matters  dealing  with  city  government  and 
with  geology.  He  had  made  occasional  contributions  to 
newspapers  and  was  the  author  of  "Appleton's  Guide  to 
Mexico"  (1884),  "The  Life  and  Letters  of  Roscoe  Conk- 
ling"  (1889),  "City  Government  in  the  United  States" 
(1894),  and  "A  Handbook  for  Voters"  (1894).  He  was 
a  member  of  the  National  Municipal  League.  He  had 
traveled  extensively  both  in  this  country  and  abroad.  He 
died  in  New  York  City,  September  18,  1917,  and  was  buried 
in  Greenwood  Cemetery,  Brooklyn. 

Mr.  Conkling  was  married  April  11,  1896,  in  New  York 
City,  to  Ethel  Eastman,  daughter  of  Eastman  and  Eliza- 
beth (Bulkley)  Johnson,  from  whom  he  was  later  sep- 
arated. They  had  three  daughters,  all  of  whom  are  living: 
Muriel  Ronalds  Lorillard,  Olga  Louise  Gwendolyn,  and 
Vivian  E.  Mr.  Conkling's  brother,  Frederick  G.  Conkling, 
graduated  from  the  College  in  1869  and  died  two  years 
later.  Another  brother,  Howard  Conkling,  graduated  from 
the  New  York  Law  School  in  1896.  His  cousin,  Alfred  C. 
Coxe,  Jr.,  received  his  B.A.  at  Yale  in  1901. 


Joseph  Frederick  Klein,  Ph.B.   1871 

Born  October  10,  1849,  in  Paris,  France 
Died  February  11,  1918,  in  Bethlehem,  Pa. 

Joseph  Frederick  Klein  was  born  October  10,  1849,  i" 
Paris,  France,  the  son  of  Theobald  and  Wilhelmina 
(Musey)  Klein.  His  mother  was  born  in  Wiirttemberg, 
Germany,  in  1824;  she  was  left  an  orphan  at  three  years 
of  age  and  was  taken  to  Paris  to  be  cared  for  by  a  relative. 
On  the  paternal  side  he  was  of  Huguenot  descent.  His 
family  came  to  Bridgeport,  Conn.,  when  he  was  three  years 
old.  His  boyhood  was  spent  mainly  in  New  Haven,  Conn. 
In  1866-67  he  attended  General  Russell's  Collegiate  and 
Commercial  Institute  in  that  city.  He  then  worked  for  a 
year  for  the  W.  &  E.  T.  Fitch  Company,  at  the  same  time 
continuing  his  preparation  for  college.  In  his  Freshman 
year  he  received  the  first  prize  for  excellence  in  all  studies. 


738  SHEFFIELD   SCIENTIFIC   SCHOOL 

While  an  undergraduate  he  took  the  civil  engineering 
course.  After  securing  his  Bachelor's  degree  in  1871,  he 
continued  his  work  in  the  Scientific  School  for  two  years, 
specializing  in  mechanical  engineering,  and  in  1873  was 
given  the  degree  of  M.E. 

'  From  1873  to  1877  he  was  engaged  in  experimental  work 
at  Colt's  Patent  Fire  Arms  Manufacturing  Company  in 
Hartford,  Conn.,  and  during  the  next  five  years  he  held 
an  appointment  as  assistant  in  mechanical  engineering  in 
the  Sheffield  Scientific  School.  In  December,  1881,  he 
accepted  a  professorship  at  Lehigh  University,  becoming 
head  of  the  department  of  mechanical  engineering  at  that 
institution.  He  was  dean  of  the  faculty  from  1907  until 
his  death,  and  during  the  spring  of  1910  he  served  as  acting 
president  of  the  university.  He  had  contributed  a  number 
of  articles  to  magazines,  and  was  the  author  of  "Mechanical 
Technology  of  Machine  Construction"  (1884),  "Elements 
of  Machine  Design"  (1889),  "Tables  of  Co5rdinates  for 
Laying  out  Accurate  Profiles  of  Gear  Teeth"  (1892),  "The 
High  Speed  Steam  Engine"  (1892),  and  "The  Physical 
Significance  of  Entropy  or  of  the  Second  Law"  (1910). 
He  had  also  translated  from  the  German,  Weisbach-Her- 
mann's  "Mechanics  of  Machinery  of  Transmission,"  pub- 
lished in  two  volumes  in  1883,  and  Zeuner's  "Technical 
Thermodynamics,"  which  appeared  in  two  volumes  in  1907- 
He  was  a  member  of  the  American  Society  of  Mechanical 
Engineers  and  of  the  Episcopal  Church  of  Bethlehem,  Pa. 
He  died  suddenly,  of  heart  failure,  February  11,  1918,  at 
his  home  in  Bethlehem.  Interment  was  in  the  Moravian 
Cemetery  in  that  town. 

Professor  Klein  was  married  December  30,  1879,  in 
Thomaston,  Conn.,  to  Ada  Louise,  daughter  of  Jonathan 
Marsh  and  Emma  (Seeley)  Warner.  She  survives  him 
with  their  two  children:  Arthur  Warner  (M.E.  Lehigh 
1899)  and  Mina,  who  was  married  on  January  i,  1910,  to 
Noel  Guilbert  Cunningham  of  Watertown,  Conn.  Three 
brothers  and  one  sister  survive  him. 


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Thomas  William  Mather,  Ph.B.   1871 

Born  April  30,  1850,  in  Cromwell,  Conn. 
Died  July  3,  1917,  in  Cocoanut  Grove,  Fla. 

Thomas  William  Mather  was  the  son  of  William  Henry 
Mather,  a  farmer,  and  Mary  Ann  (Brower)  Mather,  and 
was  born  April  30,  1850,  in  Cromwell,  Conn.  He  was 
descended  from  Rev.  Richard  Mather,  who  settled  in 
Dorchester,  Mass.,  in  1635,  having  come  to  this  country 
from  England,  and,  on  his  mother's  side,  she  being  of 
Dutch  and  French  Huguenot  descent,  from  Anneke  Yantz, 
who  owned  the  Browery  in  New  York,  then  known  as  "the 
Domine's  Bowes."  His  father's  parents  were  Thomas 
Mather  of  Middletown,  Conn.,  a  West  Indian  merchant, 
and  Sally  A.  (Williams)  Mather.  His  mother  was  the 
daughter  of  Samuel  and  Charlotte  (DeWollfe)  Brower. 
He  was  one  of  four  children.  His  father  died  in  1856, 
and  his  mother  later  married  Rev.  Erastus  Colton. 

His  preparation  for  Yale  was  received  at  Rundel's  Acad- 
emy, Bloomfield,  N.  J.  He  took  the  civil  engineering 
course  in  the  Scientific  School,  and  was  given  the  degree 
of  Ph.B.  in  1 87 1  and  that  of  M.E.  two  years  later. 

From  1873  to  1882  Mr.  Mather  followed  his  profession 
as  a  mechanical  engineer.  He  was  for  a  time  a  draftsman 
with  Colt's  Patent  Fire  Arms  Manufacturing  Company  in 
Hartford,  Conn.,  afterwards  had  a  private  office  in  New 
Haven,  and  still  later  was  in  the  employ  of  that  city  as  an 
engineer.  In  1882  he  was  appointed  an  instructor  in 
mechanical  engineering  in  the  Sheffield  Scientific  School, 
and  served  in  that  capacity  for  the  next  twelve  years, 
resigning  to  become  principal  of  the  Boardman  Manual 
Training  High  School  of  New  Haven.  He  severed  that 
connection  in  1903,  and  had  since  been  engaged  in  hydraulic 
and  mechanical  engineering  and  in  the  cultivation  of  citrus 
fruits  in  southern  Florida,  being  a  member  of  the  firm  of 
Mather  &  Son,  in  which  his  youngest  son,  recently  an 
Ensign  in  the  Navy,  was  junior  partner.  During  1896-97 
he  was  president  of  the  American  Manual  Training  Society, 
and  for  the  next  three  years  was  Chief  Engineer  in  the 
Naval  Battalion  of  the  Connecticut  National  Guard.  He 
had  contributed  a  number  of  articles  to  scientific  journals 
and  was  the  author  of   "Strength  of  Materials,"   published 


740  SHEFFIELD    SCIENTIFIC    SCHOOL 

in  1896,  and  of  "Applied  Mechanics,"  which  appeared  in 
1902.  His  death  occurred  July  3,  191 7,  at  his  home  in 
Cocoanut  Grove,  Fla.,  following  an  illness  of  several  months 
due  to  a  general  decline  in  health.  He  was  buried  in  the 
Hamden  (Conn.)  Cemetery. 

Mr.  Mather  was  married  February  13,  1875,  in  New 
Haven,  Conn.,  to  Margaret  Wade,  daughter  of  William 
James  Linton,  who  received  the  honorary  degree  of  Master 
of  Arts  at  Yale  in  1891.  and  Emily  (Wade)  Linton.  Mrs. 
Mather's  home  before  her  marriage  was  in  New  Haven, 
and  in  Coniston,  Lancashire,  England.  They  had  six  chil- 
dren, all  of  whom  survive:  William  Linton  (Ph.B.  1896)  ; 
Richard  (Ph.B.  1897)  ;  Margaret,  who  studied  in  the  Yale 
School  of  the  Fine  Arts  during  1893-94,  graduated  from 
Vassar  in  1903,  and  was  married  January  12,  1904,  to 
Thaddeus  Merriman  (C.E.  Lehigh  1897)  ;  Ulric  Brower 
(Ph.B.  1904)  ;  Mary  Emily;  and  Thomas  Wade,  a  gradu- 
ate of  the  Scientific  School  in  1910.  Mrs.  Mather  is  also 
living. 

Amos  Avery  Browning,  Ph.B.   1875 

Born  March  20,  1850,  in  North  Stonington,  Conn. 
Died  August  26,  1917,  at  Oak  Bluffs,  Mass. 

Amos  Avery  Browning  was  born  March  20,  1850,  in 
North  Stonington,  Conn.,  the  son  of  William  Thomas 
Browning,  a  farmer  and  school  teacher,  whose  parents  were 
Thomas  and  Amy  (Prentice)  Browning.  He  was  a 
descendant  of  Nathaniel  Browning,  who  settled  in  Rhode 
Island  about  1640,  having  emigrated  to  this  country  from 
England.  His  mother  was  Nancy  Crary  (Avery)  Brown- 
ing, daughter  of  Amos  and  Dolly  (Crary)  Avery.  She 
was  a  descendant  of  Elder  William  Brewster  of  Plymouth, 
and  of  Rev.  James  Noyes,  pastor  of  the  first  church  at 
Stonington,  Conn.,  and  one  of  the  founders  of  Yale  Col- 
lege, and  of  Rev.  Salmon  Treat  (B.A.  Harvard  1694, 
Honorary  M.A.  Yale  1702),  first  pastor  of  the  first  church 
at  Preston,  Conn.,  as  well  as  of  James  Avery  of  Poquon- 
nock,  the  founder  of  the  Avery  family  in  America.  Other 
ancestors  in  the  Browning  line  were  Thomas  Hazard,  one 
of  the  organizers  of  the  Newport  Colony,  and  Robert 
Morey,    whose   great-great-grandfather   was   a   cousin   of 


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Roger  Williams.  Robert  Morey  was  a  shipbuilder  and 
owner  and  assisted  in  the  building  of  the  frigate  Constitu- 
tion. His  wife  was  Catherine  Guinedeau,  a  French  Hugue- 
not.   The  Brownings  in  Rhode  Island  were  Quakers. 

In  1878  he  entered  the  Yale  School  of  Law,  graduating 
in  1880,  and  was  soon  afterwards  admitted  to  the  bar  in 
Norwich,  where  he  remained  in  practice  until  his  death. 
He  was  clerk  of  bills  in  the  Connecticut  Legislature  in  1885 
and  1886.  He  was  city  attorney  of  Norwich  from  1889  to 
1893.  From  1898  to  19 14  he  was  referee  in  bankruptcy  for 
New  London  County.  He  had  also  been  town  counsel  for 
the  towns  of  Norwich,  Ledyard,  North  Stonington,  and 
Preston.  Since  April,  191 5,  he  had  been  receiver  of  the 
Thames  Loan  &  Trust  Company  and  he  was  at  the  time  of 
his  death  corporation  counsel  for  the  city  pf  Norwich.  He 
served  as  president  of  the  Board  of  Education  from  1906 
to  1912  and  as  president  of  the  Y.  M.  C.  A.  from  1905  to 
191 1.  He  was  treasurer  and  one  of  the  board  of  directors 
of  the  Wheeler  School  and  Library  of  North  Stonington 
from  1909  until  his  death.  He  was  a  director  of  the 
Merchants  National  Bank.  For  many  years,  and  at  the 
time  of  his  death,  he  was  a  deacon  in  the  Broadway  Con- 
gregational Church  and  a  teacher  in  its  Sunday  school. 

His  death  occurred  as  the  result  of  acute  uraemia  August 
26,  191 7,  at  Oak  Bluffs,  Mass.,  where  he  was  taking  a  brief 
vacation.  Interment  was  in  Maplewood  Cemetery  at 
Norwich. 

Mr.  Browning  was  married  June  12,'  1889,  in  Norwich, 
to  Grace,  daughter  of  Colonel  Edwin  Palmer  and  Harriet 
Newell  (Morgan)  Palmer.  They  had  two  daughters,  Helen 
Palmer  (Smith  191 6)  and  Alice  Crary,  who  completed  the 
associate  course  at  Wheaton  in  1916.  Mr.  Browning  is 
survived  by  his  wife  and  daughters,  two  brothers,  Thomas 
Browning  of  Norwich,  and  Dr.  William  Browning  of 
Brooklyn,  N.  Y.,  who  graduated  from  the  Sheffield  Scien- 
tific School  in  1876.  took  the  diploma  in  anatomy  at  the 
University  of  Pennsylvania  in  1878  and  received  the  Doc- 
torate in  Medicine  at  Leipzig  in  1881,  and  two  sisters,  Mrs. 
George  W.  Goff  of  East  Hampton,  Conn.,  and  Miss  Sarah 
P.  Browning  (Smith  1885)  of  Norwich. 


742  SHEFFIELD   SCIENTIFIC   SCHOOL 


Nathaniel  Chapin  Ray,  Ph.B.   1877 

Born  May  21,  1858,  in  Westfield,  Mass. 
Died  October  18,  1917,  in  San  Francisco,  Calif. 

Nathaniel  Chapin  Ray  was  born  in  Westfield,  Mass.,  May 
21,  1858,  the  son  of  Edward  Addison  Ray,  treasurer  of  the 
New  Haven  &  Northampton  Railroad,  and  Helen  Maria 
(Chapin)  Ray.  His  father  was  the  son  of  Benjamin  and 
Anne  (Dodge)  Ray  and  the  great-great-grandson  of 
Benjamin  Ray,  who  settled  at  Salem,  Mass.,  in  1630.  His 
mother's  parents  were  Captain  Nathaniel  Chapin,  who 
served  with  the  U.  S.  Artillery  in  the  War  of  181 2,  and 
Fanny  (Brown)  Chapin.  She  was  descended  from  Deacon 
Samuel  Chapin,  founder  of  Springfield,  Mass.,  in  1633. 

In  April,  1867,  the  family  removed  to  West  Haven, 
Conn.,  and  he  studied  at  General  Russell's  Collegiate  and 
Commercial  Institute  in  New  Haven  before  entering  Yale 
in  1873.  He  spent  two  years  with  the  Class  of  1876  S., 
and  then  joined  the  Class  with  which  he  was  graduated.  He 
took  the  civil  engineering  course. 

During  1877-78  he  lived  at  home.  In  June,  1878,  he  took 
a  position  as  topographer  for  engineering  parties  on  the 
Chicago,  Burlington  &  Quincy  Railway.  He  was  later 
employed  by  the  Chicago,  Rock  Island  &  Pacific  Railroad 
in  Iowa,  and  afterward  worked  for  the  Chicago  &  North- 
western Railway.  In  1883  he  was  in  charge  of  the  party 
sent  out  by  the  Union  Pacific  Railway  to  make  the  first 
railway  survey  ever  attempted  in  the  Yellowstone  Park, 
and  the  next  year  had  charge  of  the  party  opening  Boulder 
Cafion,  Colo.  In  1885,  while  in  charge  of  parties  for  the 
Union  Pacific  and  the  Oregon  Short  Line  railways,  he 
removed  to  Anaconda,  Mont,  going  thence  to  Butte,  where 
he  became  United  States  deputy  mineral  surveyor  for 
Idaho  and  Montana.  He  was  also  engaged  as  a  consulting 
engineer,  and  was  associated  with  a  group  of  Montana 
capitalists  having  mining  interests  in  California.  In  1892 
he  removed  to  California  and,  after  being  engaged  in 
various  mining  operations  for  some  years,  was  appointed 
chief  engineer  of  the  Yosemite  Valley  Railway  Company, 
being  in  full  charge  of  survey  and  then  of  construction.  He 
resigned  in  1905,  and  was  then  appointed  consulting  engi- 
neer for  the  almost  completed  road.     He  was  engaged  in 


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1877-1879  743 

mining  at  San  Francisco  for  the  next  few  years,  also  giving 
some  attention  to  politics.  Since  191 5  he  had  had  an 
appointment  as  a  senior  civil  engineer  with  the  Interstate 
Commerce  Commission.  He  made  his  headquarters  in  San 
Francisco,  and  had  charge  of  the  valuation  work  of  railroad 
properties  in  various  western  states.  He  served  as  a  repre- 
sentative in  the  California  Legislature  from  1900  to  1902. 
His  death  occurred  October  18,  191 7,  at  St.  Mary's  Hos- 
pital, San  Francisco,  after  an  illness  of  five  days  due  to 
pneumonia.  Interment  was  in  Oak  Grove  Cemetery,  West 
Haven. 

Mr.  Ray  was  married  June  24,  1885,  in  West  Haven,  to 
Adelaide  May,  daughter  of  Samuel  L.  and  Harriet  (Wil- 
mot)  Smith.  They  had  one  daughter,  Helen  Wilmot,  who 
was  born  and  died  in  1890.  Mr.  Ray  is  survived  by  his 
wife  and  one  sister,  Anna  Chapin  Ray,  a  graduate  of  Smith 
College  in  1885.  His  father  died  in  1906,  and  his  mother 
on  June  11,  1918. 


George  Augustus  Saunders,  Ph.B.  1879 

Born  September  4,  1859,  in  Cherry  Valley,  N.  Y. 
Died  July  i,  1917,  in  Mount  Vernon,  N.  Y. 

George  Augustus  Saunders,  son  of  Aretas  A.  Saunders, 
a  dentist,  and  Sarah  (Rogers)  Saunders,  was  born  in 
Cherry  Valley,  N.  Y.,  September  4,  1859.  His  father  was 
the  son  of  Augustus  Saunders,  who  went  to  New  York  in 
1814  from  Hopkinton,  R.  I.,  where  the  family  had  lived 
since  its  settlement,  and  Eunice  (Lewis)  Saunders  and  a 
descendant  of  Tobias  Saunders,  who  came  to  Taunton, 
Mass.,  in  1643.  His  mother's  parents  were  Thomas  George 
and  Patience  (Taggart)  Rogers.  Her  family  had  lived  in 
Rhode  Island  since  the  middle  of  the  seventeenth  century. 
She  traced  her  descent  to  William  Taggart,  who  settled  at 
Newport,  R.  I.,  later  going  to  Little  Compton. 

His  parents  removed  to  Newport,  R.  L,  in  1862,  and  he 
was  fitted  for  Yale  there  at  the  Rogers  High  School.  He 
took  the  course  in  civil  engineering  in  the  Sheffield  Scien- 
tific School,  and  at  the  end  of  Freshman  year  divided  a  prize 
for  excellence  in  all  studies  and  was  also  given  prizes  in 
mathematics  and  physics.    He  received  a  mathematics  prize 


744  SHEFFIELD  SCIENTIFIC   SCHOOL 

Junior  year  and  the  next  year  was  awarded  one  in  French 
and  another  in  civil  engineering. 

He  was  connected  with  the  BurHngton  &  Missouri  River 
Railroad  from  July,  1879,  to  February,  1882,  and  during 
this  period  worked  with  an  engineer  corps,  was  engaged  in 
construction  work  at  Washington,  Kans.,  was  employed  in 
the  operating  department  at  Lincoln,  Nebr.,  and  was  resident 
engineer  in  charge  of  construction  west  of  Indianapolis, 
Nebr.  He  spent  the  next  ten  years  as  secretary  of  the 
Climax  Fuse  Company  of  Avon,  Conn.,  a  concern  whose 
business  had  formerly  been  conducted  under  the  name  of 
R.  Andrews  &  Company.  In  1892  he  organized  and  became 
president  and  treasurer  of  the  E.  C.  Bennett  Company,  a 
joint  stock  company  doing  business  in  New  Haven,  the 
name  of  which  was  changed  in  1896  to  the  Veru  Bicycle  & 
Rubber  Company.  He  withdrew  from  this  company  in 
1900,  and  assumed  the  management  of  the  Glendora  Knit- 
ting Company  of  New  Haven.  After  the  dissolution  of 
the  corporation  in  1902,  he  was  for  six  years  treasurer  of 
The  Bradley  Company,  merchants  and  contractors  of  that 
city.  From  1908  to  1910  he  was  engaged  in  engineering 
work,  being  associated  successively  with  his  classmate, 
Nathaniel  T.  Bacon,  in  California,  the  Joy  Construction 
Company  of  Killingworth,  Conn.,  and  the  Russell  &  Erwin 
Manufacturing  Company  of  New  Britain,  Conn.  Since 
1910  he  had  been  located  in  Mount  Vernon,  N.  Y.,  as 
superintendent  of  the  Westchester  Lighting  Company.  He 
was  a  member  of  the  Mount  Vernon  Congregational  Church, 
and  served  as  superintendent  of  its  Sunday  school  from 
1910  to  1917.  He  died  suddenly,  of  apoplexy,  July  i,  1917, 
at  his  home  in  Mount  Vernon.  Burial  was  in  the  Island 
Cemetery  at  Newport,  R.  I.  In  1893  Mr.  Saunders  was 
actively  interested  in  the  development  of  the  Standard  Musi- 
cal String  Company  of  Andover,  N.  J.,  which  was  later 
merged  with  other  companies  to  form  the  National  Musical 
String  Company. 

His  marriage  took  place  June  28,  1882,  in  Avon,  Conn., 
to  Isabel  Tyler,  daughter  of  Albert  Franklin  and  Louisa 
Maria  (Alford)  Andrews.  They  had  three  children :  Wini- 
fred Andrews,  who  graduated  from  Mount  Holyoke  Col- 
lege in  1905  and  was  married  October  28,  1908,  to  Rev. 
Donald  Bradford  MacLane  (B.A.  1903)  ;  Aretas  Andrews, 
a  graduate  of  the  Scientific  School  in  1907;  and  Dorothea, 


1879-1B80  745 

who  was  married  May  11,  1910,  to  Rev.  Thomas  Benjamin 
Powell  (B.A.  Bucknell  1906,  B.D.  Yale  1909).  Mr. 
Saunders  is  survived  by  his  wife,  three  children,  and  four 
sisters,  one  of  whom,  Martha  S.  Saunders,  received  the 
degree  of  B.S.  at  Wellesley  College  in  1888. 


Henry  Starkweather,  Ph.B.   1880 

Born  May  25,  1858,  in  New  Haven,  Conn. 
Died  September  9,  1917,  in  New  Haven,  Conn. 

Henry  Starkweather  was  born  May  25,  1858,  in  New 
Haven,  Conn.,  the  son  of  John  Henry  Starkweather,  super- 
intendent of  the  New  Haven  Hospital  from  1879  to  1904, 
and  Hannah  Elizabeth  (Winchester)  Starkweather.  His 
father  was  the  son  of  Rev.  John  Starkweather,  a  graduate 
of  the  College  in  1825  and  of  Andover  Theological  Semi- 
nary in  1829,  and  Mercy  (Hubbard)  Starkweather  and  a 
descendant  of  Robert  Starkweather,  who  settled  at  Boston, 
Mass.,  in  1640,  having  come  to  this  country  from  Wales 
or  the  Isle  of  Man.  His  mother,  whose  parents  were 
Samuel  C.  and  Ruth  Elizabeth  (Gridley)  Winchester,  traced 
her  descent  to  John  Winchester,  who  came  to  Hingham, 
Mass.,  from  England  in  1635. 

He  was  prepared  for  Yale  at  the  Hillhouse  High  School 
in  New  Haven  and  took  the  mechanical  engineering  course 
in  the  Scientific  School. 

Mr.  Starkweather  had  been  engaged  in  various  forms  of 
engineering  work  since  his  graduation,  making  a  specialty 
of  shop  equipment.  From  1880  to  1884  he  was  employed 
as  a  draftsman  in  Youngstown,  Ohio,  and  Bay  City,  Mich., 
and  for  the  next  fourteen  years  he  was  connected  with  the 
Pratt  &  Whitney  Company,  manufacturers  of  machine 
tools,  of  Hartford,  Conn.,  as  a  draftsman  and  designer. 
In  September,  1898,  he  took  a  position  as  designer  of  special 
tools  with  the  Westinghouse  Electric  &  Manufacturing 
Company  of  Pittsburgh,  Pa.,  continuing  with  that  company 
until  1908.  He  had  since  been  employed  by  the  Winchester 
Repeating  Arms  Company  of  New  Haven  in  a  similar 
capacity.  His  death  occurred  suddenly,  following  an  acute 
heart  attack,  September  9,  191 7,  at  his  home  in  New  Haven, 
and  he  was  buried  in  Evergreen  Cemetery.     He  belonged 


746  SHEFFIELD   SCIENTIFIC   SCHOOL 

to  United  Church  (Congregational)  of  that  city.     In  1892 
he  spent  a  few  months  in  Europe. 

He  was  married  October  18,  1893,  in  Oxford,  N.  Y.,  to 
Jennie  Harriet,  daughter  of  Judson  Benjamin  and  Catharine 
Jane  (Brownson)  Galpin.  She  survives  him  without  chil- 
dren. He  also  leaves  his  father,  two  brothers,  and  a  sister. 
Another  brother,  George  Pratt  Starkweather  (Ph.B.  1891, 
M.E.  1894,  Ph.D.  1898),  was  assistant  professor  of  applied 
mechanics  in  the  Sheffield  Scientific  School  at  the  time  of 
his  death  in  1901.  Henry  W.  Starkweather,  '06  S.,  and 
Ernest  R.  Starkweather,  '13  S.,  are  nephews. 

Alexander  Bryan  Johnson,  Ph.B.  1882 

Born  September  16,  i860,  in  Albany,  N,  Y. 
Died  September  4,  1917,  in  East  Hampton,  N.  Y. 

Alexander  Bryan  Johnson  was  born  September  16,  i860, 
in  Albany,  N.  Y.,  the  son  of  Alexander  Smith  and  Catharine 
Maria  (Crysler)  Johnson.  His  father  graduated  from  the 
College  in  1835  and  spent  the  next  year  in  the  School  of 
Law.  He  followed  his  profession  as  a  lawyer  in  Utica  and 
New  York  City  until  1852,  when  he  was  elected  judge  of 
the  Court  of  Appeals  of  the  State  of  New  York.  He  later 
served  as  a  commissioner  of  appeals  and  as  judge  of  the 
Second  Judicial  Circuit.  He  was  a  regent  of  the  University 
of  the  State  of  New  York  and  received  an  honorary  LL.D. 
from  Hamilton  College  in  1859.  He  was  the  son  of  Alex- 
ander Bryan  Johnson,  a  native  of  Gosport,  England,  and 
later  a  distinguished  citizen  of  Utica,  N.  Y.,  and  Abigail 
Louisa  Smith  (Adams)  Johnson,  who  was  a  granddaughter 
of  John  Adams,  second  president  of  the  United  States,  and 
a  descendant  of  Henry  Adams,  who  came  from  Devonshire, 
England,  to  Massachusetts  about  1636.  His  wife  was  born 
at  St.  Catharines,  Ontario,  Canada,  the  daughter  of  Ralph 
Morden  and  Elsie  (Gansevoort)  Crysler.  She  was  de- 
scended from  representative  families  of  the  early  Dutch 
settlers  of  New  York  State, — the  Gansevoorts,  Schuylers, 
and  VanRensselaers. 

Alexander  Johnson  received  his  preparatory  training  at 
the  Utica  Academy.  He  took  the  biology  course,  and  in 
Freshman  year  was  given  a  second  prize  in  English  com- 
position.   He  served  on  the  Junior  Class  Supper  Committee 


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and  was  vice  president  of  the  Class  and  one  of  the  Class 
statisticians  in  Senior  year. 

In  1885  he  was  given  the  degree  of  M.D.  at  Columbia 
University,  having  spent  the  preceding  three  years  at  the 
College  of  Physicians  and  Surgeons.  He  was  an  honor 
man  in  his  Class.  After  serving  an  interneship  of  two 
years  at  Bellevue  Hospital,  New  York  City,  he  went  abroad 
in  1887  and  continued  his  studies  at  Heidelberg,  Vienna, 
and  Paris.  He  had  practiced  in  New  York  City  since  1888. 
He  devoted  several  years  to  X-ray  work  and  had  given 
especial  attention  to  surgery  of  the  abdomen.  Dr.  Johnson 
had  served  as  assistant  to  the  attending  physician  (Dr. 
Charles  McBurney)  at  Roosevelt  Hospital  and  as  attend- 
ing surgeon  to  its  out-patient  department,  and  was  from 
1900  to  1914  attending  surgeon  and  afterwards,  until  his 
death,  consulting  surgeon  to  the  New  York  Plospital.  He 
was  also  attending  surgeon  to  the  Mount  Moriah  Hospital 
and  consulting  surgeon  to  the  Nassau  County  Hospital. 
For  some  years  he  had  held  professorships  in  clinical  sur- 
gery at  Columbia  and  Cornell.  He  had  contributed  articles 
on  surgical  topics  to  Annals  of  Surgery  and  other  journals, 
and  in  1909  published  a  book  entitled  "Surgical  Diagnosis," 
which  brought  him  an  international  reputation.  His  "Sur- 
gical Therapeusis,'-'  a  comprehensive  work  in  five  volumes, 
was  published  by  the  Appletons.  He  belonged  to  numerous 
professional  societies,  among  them  the  New  York  County 
Medical  Society  and  the  New  York  and  American  Surgical 
associations.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Protestant  Episcopal 
Church.  He  was  deeply  interested  in  salmon  angling,  and 
had  edited  a  book  on  this  subject,  being  the  author  of  a 
number  of  articles  contained  in  it.  He  died  September  4, 
191 7,  at  East  Hampton,  Long  Island,  after  an  illness  of 
several  years  due  to  diabetes  and  heart  disease.  Interment 
was  in  Forest  Hill  Cemetery  at  Utica,  N.  Y. 

Dr.  Johnson  was  married  October  15,  1907,  in  New  York 
City,  to  Louise  Tilden  Blodgett,  daughter  of  David  and 
Anna  Mariah  (Blodgett)  White.  They  had  two  children, — 
Louise  Alexandra  and  Alexander  Bryan,  Jr.  In  addition 
to  his  wife  and  children.  Dr.  Johnson  is  survived  by  a  sister. 
Another  sister  was  the  wife  of  the  late  Horatio  Seymour 
(B.A.  1867),  and  had  a  son,  Horatio  Seymour,  who  gradu- 
ated from  the  Scientific  School  in  1907. 


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Charles  Stewart  Hall,  Ph.B.  1883 

Born  November  26,  1861,  in  Poland,  Ohio 
Died  April  14,  1918,  in  Warren,  Ohio 

Charles  Stewart  Hall  was  born  in  Poland,  Ohio,  Novem- 
ber 26,  1861,  his  parents  being  T.  K.  and  Elizabeth 
(Stuart)  Hall.  He  received  his  preparation  for  college  at 
the  Hopkins  Grammar  School  in  New  Haven,  and  entered 
the  Sheffield  Scientific  School  in  1880,  his  home  at  that  time 
being  in  Warren,  Ohio. 

After  graduation  he  was  connected  with  the  Youngstown 
(Ohio)  Bridge  Works  for  five  years,'  as  draftsman  and 
outside  foreman.  In  1888  he  removed  to  Wilmington,  Del., 
to  take  a  position  as  engineer  of  erection  with  the  Edge- 
moor  Bridge  Works.  He  remained  in  their  employ  for 
ten  years,  being  in  charge  of  the  construction  of  outside 
work,  and  from  1898  until  his  retirement  in  1910  was  con- 
nected with  the  New  York  Shipbuilding  Company,  whose 
plant  was  located  just  outside  of  Camden,  N.  J.  During 
the  greater  part  of  this  time  he  filled  the  position  of  gen- 
eral manager.  In  recent  years  he  had  traveled  extensively, 
making  a  trip  around  the  world  in  1912.  He  died  very 
suddenly,  of  heart  failure,  April  14,  1918,  at  his  home  in 
Warren,  Ohio.    Burial  was  in  the  local  cemetery. 

Mr.  Hall  was  unmarried.  He  is  survived  by  several 
sisters. 


Arthur  Chandler  Coates,  Ph.B.   1885 

Born  August  17,  1865,  at  Kennett  Square,  Pa. 
Died  January  23,  1918,  at  Colorado  Springs,  Colo. 

Arthur  Chandler  Coates  was  born  at  Kennett  Square,  Pa., 
August  17,  1865,  his  parents  being  Colonel  Kersey  Coates 
and  Sarah  Walter  (Chandler)  Coates.  His  father  practiced 
law  at  Lancaster,  Pa.  He  was  the  son  of  Lindley  and 
Deborah  (Simmons)  Coates  and  a  descendant  of  Moses 
Coates,  a  Quaker,  who  came  from  Ireland  to  Haverford, 
Pa.,  in  1 71 7.  His  wife  was  the  daughter  of  John  and 
Maria  Jane  (Walter)  Chandler.  She  was  descended  from 
William  Walter,  who  settled  in  Kennett  township  in  1765. 


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Arthur  Coates  was  prepared  for  Yale  at  Phillips  Acad- 
emy, Andover,  Mass.  He  entered  the  Scientific  School  in 
1882,  taking  the  select  course. 

For  several  years  after  graduation  he  was  associated  with 
his  brother,  J.  Lindley  Coates,  a  non-graduate  member  of 
the  Class  of  1883  S.,  in  the  management  of  the  Coates 
House  in  Kansas  City.  He  later  entered  the  insurance 
business.  He  made  his  home  with  his  brother  in  Philadel- 
phia, Pa.,  for  some  years.  His  death  occurred,  from 
tuberculosis,  at  Colorado  Springs,  Colo.,  on  January  23, 
1918.    He  was  buried  in  Elmwood  Cemetery,  Kansas  City. 

Mr.  Coates  was  married  in  that  city,  June  6,  1888,  to 
Isabel,  daughter  of  John  and  Mary  Doggett.  They  had  two 
daughters:  Gladys,  who  was  married  on  May  28,  191 3,  to 
Clayton  M.  Hamilton  of  New  York  City,  and  Mary  Isabel, 
whose  marriage  to  Captain  Benjamin  Hubbard  took  place 
September  7,  191 7.  Mr.  Coates  is  survived  by  his  daugh- 
ters, his  brother,  J.  Lindley  Coates,  and  a  sister,  Mrs.  Homer 
Reed.  The  latter's  sons.  Kersey  Coates  Reed  and  Homer 
Reed,  Jr.,  are  Yale  graduates,  the  former  being  a  member 
of  the  Class  of  1902  and  the  latter  of  that  of  1910  S. 


Willis  LaFayette  Perkins,  Ph.B.   1885 

Born  January  23,  1862,  in  Portland,  Maine 
Died  June  5,  1918,  in  Portland,  Maine 

Willis  LaFayette  Perkins  was  born  January  23,  1862,  in 
Portland,  Maine,  his  parents  being  Benjamin  Abbott  Per- 
kins, a  wholesale  druggist,  and  Sarah  W.  (Beals)  Perkins, 
daughter  of  Thomas  Beals.  He  traced  his  descent  to  Pierre 
deMorley  of  Upton,  Berks  County,  England,  and  to 
Edmund  Perkins,  born  in  Boston  about  1631.  His  great- 
grandfather, Lieutenant  Colonel  William  Perkins,  was  a 
Revolutionary  soldier.  He  was  commander  of  Fort  Inde- 
pendence (Castle  William)  when  his  son.  Dr.  LaFayette 
Perkins,  was  born  in  1786.  The  latter  was  named  for  the 
Marquis  de  LaFayette,  who  was  his  godfather.  He 
graduated  from  the  Harvard  Medical  School  in  181 4. 

He  was  prepared  for  college  at  the  Portland  High 
School  and  at  the  Eaglenest  School,  Newburyport,  Mass. 


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He  entered  Yale  with  the  Class  of  1884  S.,  but  later  joined 
the  Class  with  which  he  was  graduated.  He  took  the  select 
course.  In  Freshman  year  he  received  a  third  prize  in 
English  composition. 

From  1885  to  1891  he  was  employed  in  the  office  of 
Lawson  &  Company,  stock  brokers  of  Boston,  after  which 
he  spent  three  years  in  Florida,  principally  at  Jacksonville 
and  St.  Augustine,  in  the  freight  offices  of  the  Florida  East 
Coast  Railroad.  He  then  removed  to  Portland,  Maine,  his 
home  during  the  remainder  of  his  life.  For  two  years  he 
was  secretary  of  the  Thomas  P.  Beals  Company,  furniture 
manufacturers.  From  1896  to  1903  he  was  connected  with 
the  steamship  department  of  the  Grand  Trunk  Railroad. 
Since  1903  he  had  been  interested  in  the  wholesale  drug 
business,  at  the  time  of  his  death  being  treasurer  of  the 
John  W.  Perkins  Company.  He  was  a  member  of  the  State 
Street  Congregational  Church  of  Portland.  He  died  June 
5,  1918,  in  that  city,  of  cancer  of  the  liver.  He  had  not 
been  in  good  health  for  two  years,  although  after  under- 
going a  serious  operation  in  February,  191 7,  his  condition 
was  somewhat  improved.  He  was  confined  to  his  home  for 
only  about  ten  days  before  his  death.  Interment  was  in 
Evergreen  Cemetery,  Portland. 

Mr.  Perkins  was  married  in  191 2  to  Louella,  daughter  of 
Isaac  Newton  and  Susan  V.  (Loring)  Arnold,  who  sur- 
vives him.    He  was  a  cousin  of  Herbert  F.  Perkins  (B.A. 

1887). 


John  Metcalfe  Thomas,  Ph.B.   1886 

Born  May  24,  1864,  in  New  York  City 
Died  March  11,  1918,  in  New  York  City 

John  Metcalfe  Thomas  was  born  in  New  York  City,  May 
24,  1864,  his  parents  being  Theodore  Gaillard  and  Mary 
Theodosia  (Willard)  Thomas.  His  father  graduated  from 
the  Charleston  Medical  College  with  the  degree  of  M.D. 
in  1852,  taking  first  honors  in  his  class,  and  later  became 
a  prominent  physician  in  New  York.  He  was  the  son  of 
Rev.  Edward  Thomas,  an  Episcopal  clergyman,  and  Jane 
Marshall  (Gaillard)  Thomas  and  a  descendant  of  Pierre 
Gaillard,  who  came  from  France  to  South  Carolina  in  1685. 


i88  5-1890  75.1 

Mary  Theodosia  Willard  Thomas  was  a  native  of  Troy, 
N.  Y.,  and  the  daughter  of  John  and  Sarah  Lucretia  (Hud- 
son) Willard.  She  traced  her  descent  to  Thomas  Hooker, 
framer  of  the  Constitution  of  Connecticut,  who  emigrated 
to  America  from  England  in  1633,  settling  at  Boston,  Mass. 
Other  ancestors  were  Thomas  Walter,  the  botanist,  and 
Emma  Willard.  pioneer  of  the  higher  education  for  women 
in  America.  The  Gaillard  family  were  descendants  of  the 
French  Huguenots  who  settled  on  the  coast  of  South 
Carolina. 

He  entered  Yale  from  St.  John's  School,  Ossining,  N.  Y., 
taking  the  biology  course  in  the  Scientific  School.  He  was 
a  member  of  the  Sheffield  Tennis  Team,  vice  president  of 
the  Yale  Tennis  Association,  and  an  editor  of  the  Courant. 

Mr.  Thomas  had  been  engaged  in  the  real  estate  busi- 
ness in  New  York  City  and  at  Southampton,  Long  Island, 
since  graduation.  He  served  for  five  years  in  the  7th  Regi- 
ment, New  York  National  Guard,  and  was  a  member  of 
St.  Thomas'  Episcopal  Church.  His  death  occurred  at  his 
home  in  New  York  City,  March  11,  1918,  after  an  illness 
of  about  a  year,  due  to  intestinal  complications.  Burial 
was  in  the  Southampton  Cemetery. 

He  was  married  April  25,  1889,  in  New  York  City,  to 
Louisa  Carroll,  daughter  of  Oswald  Jackson,  University 
of  Pennsylvania  1855,  and  Ella  Moore  (Willing)  Jackson. 
She  survives  him  with  their  two  sons,  Theodore  Gaillard, 
2d  (B.A.  J913),  who  served  during  the  war  as  an  Ensign 
in  the  Navy,  and  Charles  Carroll.  He  also  leaves  a  brother, 
T.  Gaillard  Thomas,  who  graduated  from  Harvard  in  1904. 


Ernest  Elisha  Severy,  Ph.B.   1890 

Born  in  Lebanon,  Conn. 
Died  July  11,  1918,  in  Columbus,  Ohio 

Ernest  Elisha  Severy  was  a  native  of  Lebanon,  Conn. 
His  father  was  for  some  years  superintendent  of  the  Water- 
bury  (Conn.)  Water  Works.  He  entered  Yale  in  1886 
from  the  Waterbury  High  School,  but  after  spending  a 
year  with  the  Class  of  1889  S.,  joined  the  Class  of  1890  S. 
He  took  the  select  course. 

Mr.  Severy  began  teaching  in  the  fall  after  graduation 


752  SHEFFIELD    SCIENTIFIC    SCHOOL 

and  continued  in  that  profession  until  his  death.  He  was 
principal  of  the  Doyle  (Tenn.)  School  during  1890-91,  and 
then  spent  two  years  as  professor  of  modern  languages 
at  the  Southwest  Virginia  Institute  at  Bristol,  Tenn.  From 
1893  to  1896  he  studied  philology  in  Paris,  Berlin,  and 
Freiburg,  securing  the  degree  of  Ph.D.  from  the  University 
of  Freiburg  in  1895.  He  lived  in  Nashville,  Tenn.,  from 
1896  to  1908,  being  associate  principal  of  the  Bowen  Aca- 
demic School  until  1904  and  afterwards  head  master  of 
the  Severy  School.  In  1908  he  removed  to  Murfreesboro, 
Tenn.,  but  a  year  later  went  out  to  the  Philippines  to  take 
a  position  with  the  Bureau  of  Education.  He  taught  at 
Surigao  for  a  time.  In  February,  191 3,  he  returned  to  this 
country  because  of  ill  health,  and  soon  afterwards  became 
head  of  the  department  of  German  and  Latin  at  the  Helena 
(Ark.)  High  School.  He  remained  there  until  191 5,  spend- 
ing the  next  year  in  Columbus,  Ohio,  and  Tucson,  Ariz. 
In  the  fall  of  1916  he  accepted  the  chair  of  modern  lan- 
guages at  Simmons  College,  Abilene,  Texas.  He  took 
his  own  life  on  July  11,  1918,  in  Columbus,  Ohio,  where  he 
had  been  visiting  for  two  months.  His  body  was  cremated. 
Dr.  Severy  was  married  December  24,  1895,  to  Jessie 
McGowan  of  Valley  Falls,  N.  Y.  She  died  August  3,  1900, 
and  on  June  3,  1903,  his  second  marriage  took  place,  to 
Sarah  William  Buttler  of  Nashville,  who  survives  him. 
He  had  one  son  by  his  first  wife,  David  Hardy. 


Theodore  Caldwell  Janeway,  Ph.B.  1891 

Born  November  2,  1872,  in  New  York  City- 
Died  December  27,  1917,  in  Baltimore,  Md. 

Theodore  Caldwell  Janeway  was  born  November  2,  1872, 
in  New  York  City,  the  son  of  Edward  Gamaliel  Janeway. 
The  latter  graduated  from  Rutgers  in  i860  and  from  the 
College  of  Physicians  and  Surgeons  at  Columbia  in  1864, 
and  later  received  the  degree  of  LL.D.  from  Rutgers, 
Princeton,  and  Columbia.  He  was  a  physician  of  note,  and 
was  for  many  years  a  professor  at  the  University  and 
Bellevue  Hospital  Medical  College,  serving  as  dean  from 
1898  to  1906.  His  parents  were  George  Jacob  Janeway. 
M.D.,  a  graduate  of  the  University  of  Pennsylvania,  and 


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Matilda  (Smith)  Janeway,  and  he  was  the  grandson  of 
Rev.  Jacob  Jones  Janeway,  D.D.,  a  graduate  of  Columbia 
University  in  1794,  and  at  the  time  of  his  death  vice  presi- 
dent of  Rutgers  College.  The  earliest  member  of  the 
family  to  settle  in  this  country  was  William  Janeway,  who 
came  from  England  to  New  York  City  in  1695.  Theodore 
C.  Janeway's  mother  was  Frances  Strong  Rogers,  daughter 
of  Rev.  Ebenezer  Piatt  Rogers,  D.D.  (B.A.  1837),  and 
Elizabeth  (Caldwell)  Rogers.  Her  ancestors  came  from 
England  in  1635  and  settled  in  New  London,  Conn. 

He  received  his  preparatory  training  at  the  Columbia 
Grammar  School  and  the  Cutler  School  in  New  York. 
While  at  Yale  he  won  the  one  hundred  yard  dash  in  the 
Freshman  athletic  games  and  received  a  Senior  appoint- 
ment. He  was  obliged  to  leave  college  in  February,  1891, 
on  account  of  illness,  but  took  his  degree  with  the  Sheffield 
Class  of  1892;  by  vote  of  the  Corporation  he  was  later 
enrolled  as  a  member  of  the  Class  of  1891  S. 

He  graduated  from  the  College  of  Physicians  and  Sur- 
geons at  Columbia  University  in  1895,  and  the  next  year 
was  an  assistant  in  bacteriology  there.  In  1897  he  served  as 
an  interne  at  St.  Luke's  Hospital.  At  the  time  of  the  reor- 
ganization of  the  New  York  University  and  Bellevue  Hos- 
pital Medical  College  in  1898,  he  became  instructor  and 
then  lecturer  on  medical  diagnosis,  which  position  he  filled 
until  1906.  He  was  also  at  one  time  pathologist  to  St. 
Vincent's  Hospital.  In  1907,  at  the  time  of  the  endowment 
of  the  pathological  work  by  Mrs.  Russell  Sage  in  her 
creation  of  the  Russell  Sage  Institute  of  Pathology,  he 
was  appointed  associate  professor  of  medicine  at  Columbia. 
This  appointment  was  quickly  followed  by  his  elevation  to 
the  Bard  professorship  of  medicine  in  1909.  At  the  same 
time  he  was  engaged  in  the  reorganization  of  the  Presby- 
terian Hospital  along  modern  lines,  and  in  191 1  he  was 
named  senior  attending  physician  to  that  hospital.  In  Sep- 
tember, 191 1,  he  was  made  a  member  of  the  board  of  scien- 
tific directors  of  the  Rockefeller  Institute.  He  was  chosen 
professor  of  medicine  at  Johns  Hopkins  University,  and 
physician  in  chief  to  the  Johns  Hopkins  Hospital  to  initiate 
the  so-called  "full-time"  clinical  teaching  in  1914.  For 
several  years  he  was  a  member  of  the  central  council  of  the 
Charity  Organization  Society  and  he  helped  to  organize 
the  Employment  Bureau  for  the  Handicapped.     In   191 1 


754  SHEFFIELD    SCIENTIFIC    SCHOOL 

he  went  abroad  to  see  the  German,  French,  and  English 
clinics,  and  in  191 3  he  went  again  as  a  delegate  to  the 
seventeenth  International  Medical  Congress  in  London. 
Among  his  publications  was  a  work  on  "The  Clinical  Study 
of  Blood  Pressure,"  representing  the  branch  of  study  in 
which  he  was  most  interested;  he  was  the  author  also  of 
many  articles  which  were  published  in  the  American  Journal 
of  Medical  Sciences,  the  Medical  News,  the  Archives  of 
Internal  Medicine,  the  Columbia  University  Quarterly,  and 
elsewhere.  He  was  an  honorary  member  of  Phi  Beta 
Kappa  at  Johns  Hopkins,  a  member  of  the  American  Med- 
ical Association,  the  Medical  and  Chirurgical  Faculty  of 
Maryland,  the  Association  of  American  Physicians,  the 
American  Society  for  the  Advancement  of  Clinical  Investi- 
gation, and  the  New  York  Pathological  Society,  and  was  a 
Fellow  of  the  New  York  Academy  of  Medicine,  besides 
being  a  member  of  various  other  organizations.  In  191 2 
Yale  conferred  the  honorary  degree  of  M.A.  on  Dr.  Jane- 
way,  and  Washington  University  honored  him  with  the 
degree  of  Doctor  of  Science  in  191 5.  From  1909  to  1914 
he  was  an  elder  in  the  Madison  Avenue  Presbyterian 
Church,  and  he  was  later  a  member  of  the  First  Presby- 
terian Church  of  Baltimore. 

Upon  the  entrance  of  this  country  into  the  war,  Dr. 
Janeway  offered  his  services  to  the  Government  and  was 
appointed  a  Major  in  the  Medical  Reserve  Corps  and 
entered  upon  active  duty  in  the  office  of  the  Surgeon- 
General  July  2,  191 7.  He  was  director  of  research  on  the 
subject  of  heart  disease  among  the  soldiers,  and  his  work 
involved  frequent  trips  to  Army  cantonments  to  inspect 
conditions  at  these  camps.  Since  his  death  it  has  been 
learned  that  he  had  been  made  a  Colonel,  with  rank  from 
191 7.  He  had  also  served  as  a  member  of  the  Medical 
Board  of  the  Advisory  Commission  of  the  Council  of 
National  Defense,  and  of  the  Advisory  Committee  on  Public 
Health  of  the  Food  Commission.  Colonel  Janeway  died  in 
Baltimore  on  December  27,  1917,  from  pneumonia,  after 
an  illness  of  six  days.  Interment  was  in  Woodlawn  Cem- 
etery, New  York. 

He  was  married  September  27,  1898,  at  Bryn  Mawr,  Pa., 
to  Eleanor  Caroline,  daughter  of  William  Charles  and 
Eleanor  Tyson  (Yarn ell)  Alderson.  They  had  five  chil- 
dren :  Eleanor  Alderson,  a  member  of  the  Class  of  1922  at 


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Barnard  College;  Edward  Gamaliel,  Yale  1922;  Agnes; 
Charles  Alderson;  and  Frances  Rogers.  He  was  a  cousin 
of  John  Caldwell  Parsons  (B.A.  1855)  and  Francis  Parsons 
(B.A.  1893). 


Edward  Manning  Brown,  Ph.B.  1894 

Born  February  25,  1872,  in  Springfield,  Mass. 
Died  October  22,  1917,  in  Springfield,  Mass. 

Edward  Manning  Brown  was  the  son  of  Timothy  Man- 
ning Brown,  a  lawyer,  and  Elizabeth  (Chapman)  Brown, 
and  was  born  February  25,  1872,  in  Springfield,  Mass. 
Through  his  father,  he  was  descended  from  Nicholas 
Brown,  from  whom  Brown  University  took  its  name.  His 
mother  was  the  daughter  of  Reuben  Atwater  Chapman,  a 
chief  justice  of  the  Supreme  Court  of  Massachusetts,  and 
Elizabeth  Chapman.  She  was  of  Scotch-Irish  ancestry. 
Seven  of  her  ancestors  fought  in  the  Revolution. 

He  received  his  preparatory  training  in  the  public  schools 
of  Springfield,  and  was  a  graduate  of  the  Springfield  High 
School.  He  studied  at  the  Massachusetts  Institute  of 
Technology  during  1891-92.  From  1892  to  1894  he  was 
enrolled  as  a  special  student  in  the  Sheffield  Scientific 
School,  and  in  the  latter  year  was  given  the  degree  of  Ph.B. 
While  at  Yale  he  specialized  in  biology. 

In  1894  he  began  the  study  of  medicine  at  the  College  of 
Physicians  and  Surgeons  at  Columbia  University,  from 
which  he  was  graduated  with  the  degree  of  Doctor  of 
Medicine  in  1898.  The  next  two  years  were  spent  in  hos- 
pital and  clinical  work  at  Yonkers,  N.  Y.  Since  1900  he 
had  been  engaged  in  the  practice  of  his  profession  in  his 
native  town.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Massachusetts 
Medical  Society,  and  belonged  to  the  First  Baptist  Church 
of  Springfield.  His  death  occurred  October  22,  191 7,  in 
the  Springfield  Hospital,  after  an  illness  of  several  months. 
He  was  buried  in  Springfield. 

Dr.  Brown  was  married  July  21,  1899,  in  Albany,  N.  Y., 
to  Elizabeth  C,  daughter  of  Henry  Pettinger.  She  died 
April  10,  1907.  Their  two  children, — Edward  Pettinger 
and  Elizabeth  Chapman, — are  living,  and  Dr.  Brown  also 
leaves  a  brother,  Harold  C.  Brown  (B.A.  Williams  1901, 


756  SHEFFIELD    SCIENTIFIC    SCHOOL 

M.A.  Harvard  1903,  Ph.D.  Harvard  1905),  who  is  an  asso- 
ciate professor  at  Leland  Stanford  Junior  University,  and 
an  aunt. 


James  Spencer  Hall,  Ph.B.   1895 

Born  May  24,  1873,  in  Guilford,  Conn. 
•Died  June  8,  1917,  in  Bridgeport,  Conn. 

James  Spencer  Hall  was  born  May  24,  1873,  in  Guilford, 
Conn.  He  was  the  son  of  Marcus  Merriman  Hall,  a  painter 
and  decorator  of  Ansonia,  Conn.,  and  Anna  Elisa  (Taber) 
Hall.  His  father  was  the  son  of  Amos  and  Betsy  (Graves) 
Hall,  and  his  mother's  parents  were  John  and  Isabella 
(Bennett)  Taber.  His  first  American  ancestor  was  Walter 
Hall,  who  came  over  in  the  Mayflower;  he  was  also  a 
descendant  of  the  Colonel  Hall  who  fought  at  Bunker  Hill 
and  signed  the  Declaration  of  Independence. 

He  prepared  for  Yale  at  the  Ansonia  High  School.  His 
course  in  the  Scientific  School  was  that  in  civil  engineering. 

In  1895  he  was  employed  in  the  ofiBce  of  the  city  engi- 
neer in  Waterbury,  Conn.,  and  the  next  year  he  was  engaged 
in  similar  work  in  Middletown,  Conn.  He  removed  to 
Hartford,  Conn.,  in  1897,  and  after  being  for  a  time  asso- 
ciated with  Mr.  L.  W.  Burt,  became  an  assistant  in  the 
city  engineer's  office.  From  March,  1898,  to  October,  1901, 
he  served  as  superintendent  and  city  engineer  for  Ansonia, 
Conn.,  and  during  the  next  four  years  he  was  located  in 
Winston-Salem,  N.  C,  as  assistant  engineer  for  Mr.  J.  L. 
Ludlow,  a  construction  engineer.  In  March,  1906,  after 
practicing  for  a  few  months  in  Washington,  N.  C,  he 
became  connected  with  the  American  Construction  Cor- 
poration of  Norfolk,  Va.,  as  engineer,  secretary,  and  treas- 
urer. From  March  to  December,  1907,  he  acted  as  general 
manager  of  the  company.  During  this  time  he  laid  a  water 
main  seven  miles  long  under  water  from  Norfolk  to  the 
Jamestown  Exposition  ground.  He  was  afterwards,  for 
nearly  a  year,  associated  with  Mr.  R.  M.  Phelps  and  Mr. 
C.  W.  Petit  of  Washington,  N.  C.  From  November,  1908, 
to  October,  1909,  ill  health  kept  him  from  following  his  pro- 
fession. During  the  next  seven  months  he  was  engaged 
on  special  work  in  New  Haven  for  Mr.  F.  S.  Wardwell,  a 


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contractor  of  Stamford,  Conn.,  and  from  May,  1910,  ±0 
April,  191 3,  he  served  as  assistant  to  the  city  engineer  of 
Bridgeport,  Conn.  He  was  afterwards,  until  his  death, 
associated  with  Harvey  Hubbell,  Inc.,  dealers  in  electrical 
specialties  in  that  city.  He  was  a  member  of  Trinity  Epis- 
copal Church  of  Ansonia. 

Mr.  Hall  died  June  8,  1917,  in  Bridgeport,  after  an  ill- 
ness of  two  months  from  Bright's  disease.  He  was  buried 
in  the  Alderbrook  Cemetery  at  Guilford. 

On  June  8,  1899,  he  was  married  at  Newtown,  Conn.,  to 
Rita  A.,  daughter  of  William  and  Mary  (Leonard)  Flans- 
burgh.  She  survives  him  with  their  daughter,  Marion  A. 
Hall. 


Charles  Sing  Stephenson,  Ph.B.   1895 

Born  April  9,  1870,  in  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 
Died  June  24,  1918,  in  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 

Charles  Sing  Stephenson  was  born  April  9,  1870,  in 
Brooklyn,  N.  Y.,  the  son  of  William  Wilson  and  Mary 
Millington  (Sing)  Stephenson.  His  father  was  a  graduate 
of  New  York  University,  receiving  the  degrees  of  B.A. 
and  LL.B.  in  1854  and  1858,  respectively.  He  practiced 
law  in  New  York  City  and  was  a  member  of  the  New 
York  State  Legislature  from  1877  to  1879.  During  the 
Civil  War  he  served  with  the  165th  New  York  Volunteers, 
at  first  as  Captain  and  afterwards  as  Major,  and  in  1865 
was  made  a  Brevet  Lieutenant  Colonel.  His  father  was 
Mark  Stephenson  (M.D.  Columbia  1826). 

Charles  Stephenson  was  prepared  for  Yale  at  the  Bor- 
dentown  (N.  J.)  Military  Institute  and  at  Phillips  Academy, 
Exeter,  N.  H.  He  took  the  select  course  in  the  Scientific 
School,  where  he  was  a  member  of  the  Freshman,  Second, 
and  University  Glee  clubs,  and  a  substitute  on  the  Fresh- 
man Football  and  Baseball  teams. 

Mr.  Stephenson  spent  the  first  two  years  after  graduation 
in  the  real  estate  business.  In  1897  he  became  a  salesman 
for  John  F.  Brooks  &  Company,  and  from  1898  to  1900  he 
was  assistant  manager  of  a  department  of  the  National 
Wall  Paper  Company.  Since  receiving  the  degree  of  LL.B. 
at  the  New  York  Law  School  in  1901,  he  had  practiced  law 


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in  New  York  City.  He  belonged  at  one  time  to  Troop  C 
(later  Squadron  C)  of  the  New  York  National  Guard.  He 
died  at  his  home  in  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.,  June  24,  1918,  after 
a  long  illness.  Burial  was  at  Orient,  N.  Y.,  in  which  town 
he  lived  for  several  years. 

He  was  married  April  30,  1896,  in  Brooklyn,  to  Sarah, 
daughter  of  John  Lewis.  They  had  no  children.  In  addi- 
tion to  his  wife,  Mr.  Stephenson  is  survived  by  his  mother, 
a  brother,  and  four  sisters.  He  was  a  cousin  of  his  class- 
mate, Frank  B.  Stephenson.  Ezra  H.  Young,  '96,  is  a 
brother-in-law. 


Theophilus  Titus  Vandergrift,  Ph.B.  1895 

Born  September  8,  1871,  in  Pithole,  Pa. 
Died  in  May,  1917,  in  Lancaster,  Ohio 

Theophilus  Titus  Vandergrift  was  born  September  8, 
1871,  in  Pithole,  Venango  County,  Pa.  He  was  the  son  of 
T.  J.  Vandergrift,  an  oil  producer,  and  Margaret  Eleanor 
(O'Donnell)  Vandergrift.  He  received  his  preparatory 
training  at  Betts  Academy,  Stamford,  Conn.,  and  took  the 
select  course  in  the  Sheffield  Scientific  School. 

Since  graduation  he  had  been  engaged  in  the  oil  and  gas 
business  in  Ohio,  West  Virginia,  and  Pennsylvania,  and 
his  work  had  necessitated  considerable  travel  in  that  section 
of  the  country.  His  home  was  at  Caldwell,  Ohio,  for  a 
number  of  years  and  afterwards  at  Lancaster,  Ohio.  His 
death  occurred  in  May,  191 7,  in  Lancaster,  Ohio.  Burial 
was  in  Pittsburgh. 

He  was  married  June  15,  1904,  at  Weston,  W.  Va.,  to 
Bertha,  daughter  of  William  George  and  Alice  (Brannon) 
Bennett.  She  survives  him  with  their  daughter,  Alice 
Bennett. 


George  Huntington  Hulbert,  Ph.B.   1898 

Born  June  12,  1876,  in  Middletown,  Conn. 
Died  May  28,  1918,  in  New  Haven,  Conn. 

George  Huntington  Kulbert,  son  of  George  Huntington 
Hulbert,  a  manufacturer,  and  Henrietta  Lee  (Russell)  Hul- 
bert, was  born  June  12,  1876,  in  Middletown,  Conn.     His 


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grandfather.  William  Edward  Hiilbert  (B.A.  1824),  was 
the  son  of  Edward  and  Martha  Hulbert  and  the  erandson 
of  Rev.  Enoch  Hunting-ton,  a  graduate  of  the  College  in 
1759  and  for  twenty-ei^ht  years  a  member  of  the  Yale 
Corporation ;  he  married  in  183.'^  his  first  cousin,  Mary 
Gray.  youn,s^er  daus^hter  of  Enoch  Huntington  CB.A.  1785). 
and  had  two  sons,  the  elder  of  whom,  William  Edward 
Hulbert.  was  graduated  from  Yale  in  i8c;7.  Georg-e  H. 
Hulbert's  maternal  jgrandparents  were  General  William 
Huntineton  Russell  (B.A.  183^.  M.D.  1838)  and  Mary 
Elizabeth  (Hubbard)  Russell.  The  former,  who  conducted 
for  many  years  a  preparatory  school  in  New  Haven,  was 
the  son  of  Matthew  Talcott  Russell  (B.A.  1779)  ^"^  Mary 
(Hunting^ton)  Russell,  the  latter  being-  the  dausfhter  of 
Rev.  Enoch  Hunting^ton  (B.A.  1759)  and  a  niece  of  Samuel 
Hunting-ton.  who  received  honorary  deg-rees  from  Yale  in 
1770  and  1787,  was  a  sig-ner  of  the  Declaration  of  Inde- 
pendence, a  president  of  the  Continental  Congfress.  a  chief 
iustice  of  the  Supreme  Court,  and  g-overnor  of  Connecticut. 
Mary  Elizabeth  (Hubbard)  Russell  was  the  daugfhter  of 
Thomas  Hubbard  (Honorary  M.D.  1818),  professor  of 
sureerv  at  Yale  from  1829  to  18^8.  Other  ancestors  were 
Rev.  Thomas  Hooker,  one  of  the  founders  of  the  Connect- 
icut Colony.  Joseph  Talcott,  an  early  proprietor  of  Hartford, 
and  John  Howland,  who  was  the  thirteenth  in  rank  to  sign 
the  compact  on  board  the  Mavflozuer  in  1620. 

He  received  his  preparatory  training  at  the  Black  Hall 
(Conn.)  School,  and  entered  the  Scientific  School  as  a 
Junior  in  T8oq.  He  was  not  enrolled  at  Yale  during  1897-98, 
but  received  his  deg-ree  in  June  of  the  latter  year.  His 
course  was  that  in  chemistry, 

Tn  t8q8  he  was  employed  by  the  Government  as  a  chemist, 
being  stationed  at  Middletown,  Conn,  From  September, 
i8qq.  to  May.  igo7.  he  was  eneag-ed  in  maintenance  and 
construction  work  for  the  New  York.  New  Haven  &  Hart- 
ford Railroad  Company,  and  during  this  time  made  his 
home  in  New  Haven  and  Bristol.  In  June.  TQ07,  he 
reentered  the  employ  of  the  Government,  and  for  the  next 
five  years  was  eneaeed  in  civil  engineering  work.  He 
constructed  fortifications  at  Fort  Terry  and  Fishers 
Island,  N.  Y.  Since  1912  he  had  been  employed  by  the  New 
Haven  Water  Company  as  a  civil  engineer.  He  was  a 
member  of  the  First  Congregational  Church  of  Middletown. 


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His  death  occurred  May  28,  1918,  at  his  home  in  New 
Haven,  and  he  was  buried  in  Indian  Hill  Cemetery,  Mid- 
dletown.  While  he  had  suffered  from  heart  disease  for  some 
time,  his  death  was  entirely  unexpected. 

Mr.  Hulbert  was  married  February  13,  1907,  in  New 
York  City,  to  Nathalie  Ada,  daughter  of  Nathaniel  Ambrose 
and  Sara  (Carter)  Pratt  of  Deep  River,  Conn.  She  sur- 
vives him  with  a  son,  George  Huntington,  Jr.  Mr.  Hul- 
bert's  brother,  the  late  Russell  Hulbert,  spent  two  years  with 
the  Class  of  i8q6  and  graduated  from  the  School  of  Medi- 
cine in  1898.  He  was  a  nephew  of  Talcott  H.  Russell.  '69. 
Thomas  H.  Russell,  '72  S.,  Philip  G.  Russell,  'y(i,  Edward 
H.  Russell,  '78  S.,  and  Robert  G.  Russell,  ^jr-'84;  a  cousin 
of  Thomas  H.  Russell,  Jr.,  '06  S.  and  '10  M.,  William  H. 
Russell,  '12  and  '14  L.,  and  Edward  S.  Russell,  ^.i'-'i6S.; 
and  a  cousin  by  marriage  of  Hewette  E.  Joyce,  '12. 


Perry  Dean  Gribben,  Ph.B.   1903 

Born  October  31,  1880,  in  St.  Paul,  Minn. 
Died  February  21,  1918,  in  St.  Paul.  Minn. 

Perry  Dean  Gribben,  son  of  James  Perry  and  Jennie 
Butler  (Dean)  Gribben,  was  born  October  31,  1880,  in  St. 
Paul,  Minn.  He  was  the  grandson  of  Samuel  White  and 
Elizabeth  Mathews  (Morgan)  Gribben  and  the  great-grand- 
son of  John  Gribben,  a  Scotch-Irish  Presbyterian  of  County 
Down,  Province  of  Ulster,  Ireland,  who  married  Mary 
Whitesides  and  emigrated  to  America  in  1792.  They  first 
settled  in  Chester  County,  Pa.,  but  in  1800  moved  to  Craw- 
ford County,  in  1814  to  Allegheny  County,  Pa.,  and  in 
1824  to  that  part  of  Ohio  which  afterwards  became  Ashland 
County.  Elizabeth  Mathews  Morgan  Gribben  was  the 
daughter  of  William  Groom  and  Phoebe  (Campbell) 
Morgan  and  the  granddaughter  of  Robert  Morgan,  an 
Ensign  in  the  Revolutionary  War  and  one  of  the  signers  of 
the  Harford  County  (Md.)  Declaration  of  Independence, 
framed  March  22.  1775.  Her  maternal  grandparents.  John 
and  Elizabeth  (Mathews)  Campbell,  came  to  Philadelphia, 
Pa.,  from  Scotland  in  1777.  Jennie  Butler  (Dean)  Gribben 
was  the  daughter  of  Captain  William  Dean  and  Aurelia 
Burch    (Butler)    Dean,  both  of   Pittsburgh,   Pa.,   and  the 


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granddaughter  of  John  and  Elizabeth  (Dock)  Dean.  The 
latter's  father,  Phillips  Dock,  was  a  Revolutionary  soldier. 
Aurelia  Burch  (Butler)  Dean  was  the  daughter  of  Caljas  C. 
Butler,  whose  father,  John  Butler,  served  for  three  years 
in  the  Revolution. 

Perry  Dean  Gribben  attended  the  St.  Paul  Central  High 
School,  The  Hill  School  at  Pottstown,  Pa.,  and  Phillips 
Academy,  Andover,  Mass.,  before  entering  Yale.  He  took 
the  select  course.  He  served  as  chairman  of  the  Class 
Picture  Committee. 

In  October,  1903,  after  a  short  period  of  travel  in  Europe, 
he  became  engaged  in  business  with  his  father  as  secretary 
and  treasurer  of  the  Gribben  Lumber  Company  of  St.  Paul. 
He  continued  in  this  connection  until  December  4,  191 7, 
when  he  received  his  commission  as  First  Lieutenant  m  the 
Aviation  Section  of  the  Signal  Reserve  Corps.  On  January 
15,  1918,  he  was  sent  to  Fort  Omaha,  Nebr.  In  February  he 
returned  to  St.  Paul  on  a  ten  days'  detail.  His  death 
occurred  on  February  21  at  the  Cobb  Hospital  in  St.  Paul, 
as  the  result  of  injuries  received  in  an  automobile  accident 
the  previous  evening.  Interment  was  in  Oakland  Cemetery, 
St.  Paul.  He  was  a  member  of  Christ  Episcopal  Church  of 
that  city. 

Lieutenant  Gribben  was  married  August  15,  1914,  in  St. 
Paul,  Minn.,  to  Mary  Proal,  daughter  of  Edward  Nelson 
and  Mary  (Proal)  Saunders,  granddaughter  of  Rev.  Alan- 
son  Saunders  (B.A.  1827),  and  sister  of  Edward  N. 
Saunders,  Jr.,  '99  S.  She  survives  him  with  an  adopted 
daughter,  Charlotte  Proal  Gribben.  and  he  also  leaves  his 
parents.  Albert  W.  Lindeke  (B.A.  1894)  married  Mrs. 
Gribben's  sister.  Mrs.  Gribben  and  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Lindeke 
were  all  injured,  although  not  seriously,  in  the  accident  in 
which  Lieutenant  Gribben  lost  his  life. 


Oscar  Allen  Lewisohn,  Ph.B.   1904 

Born  October  29,  1884,  in  New  York  City- 
Died  December  3,  1917,  in  New  York  City 

Oscar  Allen  Lewisohn  was  born  October  29,  1884,  in 
New  York  City,  his  parents  being  Leonard  Lewisohn,  a 
capitalist  and  banker,  and  Rosalie  (Jacobs)  Lewisohn.  His 
father  was  born  in  Hamburg,  Germany,  in  1848. 


762  SHEFFIELD   SCIENTIFIC   SCHOOL 

He  was  fitted  for  college  at  the  Chapin  Collegiate  School 
and  the  Berkeley  School  in  New  York  City.  Entering  Yale 
in  1901,  he  took  the  select  course  in  the  Scientific  School, 
and  was  given  honors  in  German  Junior  year. 

He  was  married  June  4,  1907,  in  London,  England,  to 
Edna  May,  an  actress,  who  was  the  daughter  of  E.  C. 
Petty  of  Syracuse,  N.  Y.  In  1908  they  moved  to  England, 
remaining  in  that  country  until  September,  191 5,  when 
they  returned  to  America.  While  in  England  Mr.  Lewisohn 
had  a  town  house  in  London  and  a  country  place  in  Windsor 
Forest.  He  became  the  owner  of  a  large  racing  stable,  and 
horses  in  his  colors  were  frequent  winners  on  the  turf. 
He  brought  some  of  them  to  this  country  and  repeated  his 
successes.  His  death  occurred  December  3,  191 7,  at  the 
Mount  Sinai  Hospital,  New  York  City,  following  an  opera- 
tion for  an  intestinal  tumor.  Burial  was  in  the  Cypress 
Hills  Cemetery. 

In  addition  to  his  wife,  Mr.  Lewisohn  is  survived  by  three 
brothers,  one  of  whom,  Walter  Lewisohn,  graduated  from 
the  Scientific  School  in  iqoo,  and  four  sisters.  In  the  last 
few  years  he  had  devoted  himself  to  war  relief  work.  At 
the  time  of  his  death  he  was  arranging  to  have  his  place  in 
England  used  as  a  home  for  American  soldiers,  and  had 
made  application  for  a  commission  in  the  U.  S.  Army. 


John  Hasting-s  Thomas,  Ph.B.   1904 

Born  December  23,  1883.  in  West  Chester,  Pa. 
Died  January  29,  1918,  in  Pittsburgh,  Pa. 

John  Hastings  Thomas  was  born  at  West  Chester,  Pa., 
December  23,  1883,  the  son  of  George  Brinton  Thomas 
(B.A.  1857)  and  Linda  (Hastings)  Thomas.  Through  his 
father,  whose  parents  were  Isaac  Thomas  f M.D.  Univer- 
sity of  Pennsylvania  1820)  and  Mary  Hendricson  (Brin- 
ton) Thomas,  he  was  descended  from  William  Brinton, 
who  came  from  England  to  Delaware  County,  Pa.,  in  1684. 
His  father  was  for  over  forty  years  a  member  of  the  firm 
of  Hoopes  Brother  &  Thomas  of  the  Cherry  Hill  (later 
Maple  Avenue)  Nurseries,  but  is  now  retired.  In  the  Civil 
War  he  served  with  the  2d  Pennsylvania  Volunteers  as 
Captain  at  Antietam,  and  later  with  the  29th  and   I92d 


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Regiments.  Linda  (Hastings)  Thomas  was  his  second 
wife.  She  was  the  daughter  of  Matthew  and  Caroline 
(Mackie)  Hastings  and  a  descendant  of  Peter  Mackie, 
who  emigrated  to  America  from  Scotland. 

John  Hastings  Thomas  was  fitted  for  Yale  at  the  Friends' 
Graded  High  School,  West  Chester,  and  at  the  Haverford 
College  Grammar  School,  where  he  was  valedictorian  of  his 
class.  He  took  the  mechanical  engineering  course  in  the 
Sheffield  Scientific  School,  receiving  general  honors  in  the 
studies  of  Junior  year,  and  being  awarded  two-year  honors 
for  excellence  in  all  studies  and  dividing  a  prize  for  honors 
in  the  mechanical  engineering  section  in  Senior  year.  He 
was  a  member  of  Sigma  Xi.  He  played  on  the  Freshman 
Hockey  Team,  was  a  member  of  the  Class  Hockey  Team 
Junior  and  Senior  years,  and  substituted  on  the  University 
Hockey  Team  Senior  year.  In  1902-03  he  was  a  Corporal 
in  the  Yale  Cadet  Corps,  and  the  next  year  he  ranked  as  a 
Second  Lieutenant. 

Mr.  Thomas  had  been  connected  with  the  Pennsylvania 
Railroad  Company  since  August,  1904.  He  began  his  work 
as  a  special  apprentice  at  Altoona,  Pa.,  where  he  was  located 
until  September,  1909,  at  that  time  being  transferred  to 
Pittsburgh  as  motive  power  inspector.  He  held  this  latter 
position  until  July,  191 1,  when  he  was  made  foreman  of  the 
shops  at  Mifflin,  Pa.  Two  years  later  he  was  appointed 
assistant  general  foreman  of  the  Pitcairn  Shops,  and  he 
served  in  this  capacity  until  July  i,  191 7.  Since  that  time 
he  had  been  assistant  master  mechanic  at  the  Twenty-eighth 
Street  Shop  in  Pittsburgh.  His  death,  which  occurred  in 
the  Columbia  Hospital  in  that  city,  January  29,  1918,  was 
due  to  pneumonia,  resulting  from  long  continued  exertion 
in  connection  with  his  work.  He  was  buried  in  Oakland 
Cemetery  at  West  Chester. 

Mr.  Thomas  was  unmarried.  Surviving  him  are  his 
father,  five  sisters,  and  three  brothers,  one  of  whom  is  Isaac 
Biddle  Thomas  (Ph.B.  1892).  He  was  a  cousin  of  Charles 
C.  Dillingham  (B.A.  1850)  ;  Caleb  Brinton,  a  non-graduate 
member  of  the  Class  of  1853  S.;  Joseph  H.  Brinton  (Ph.B. 
1856)  ;  and  Dr.  Daniel  G.  Brinton  (B.A.  1858). 


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Joseph  Jansen  Hasbrouck,  Ph.B.   1906 

Born  May  4,  1885,  in  Kingston,  N.  Y. 
Died  June  5,  1918,  in  Kingston,  N.  Y. 

Joseph  Jansen  Hasbrouck  was  the  son  of  Abraham  Has- 
brouck, a  banker,  and  Martha  (Rider)  Hasbrouck,  and 
was  born  May  4,  1885,  in  Kingston,  N.  Y.  His  father 
was  the  son  of  Jansen  Hasbrouck  (B.A.  1831)  and 
Charlotte  (Ostrander)  Hasbrouck  and  the  grandson  of 
Abraham  Hasbrouck,  at  one  time  a  member  of  Congress. 
He  was  descended  from  Abraham  Hasbrouck,  a  Huguenot, 
who  with  his  brother  Jan  emigrated  to  America  from  Hol- 
land; they  were  among  the  twelve  patentees  and  original 
settlers  of  New  Paltz,  N.  Y.,  in  1677.  Other  ancestors 
were  Jonathan  D.  Ostrander  and  Catharine  H.  Ostrander, 
who  also  were  of  Dutch  descent.  One  of  his  relatives  was 
Abraham  Bruyn  Hasbrouck  (B.A.  1810),  who  was  presi- 
dent of  Rutgers  College  for  ten  years,  and  Dr.  Alfred 
Hasbrouck  (B.A.  1844)  was  a  cousin.  His  mother  was 
the  daughter  of  Nathaniel  and  Martha  (DuBois)  Rider. 

He  received  his  preparatory  training  at  the  Kingston 
Academy  and  at  Phillips-Andover.  In  the  Scientific  School 
he  took  the  course  in  civil  engineering.  He  won  his  "Y" 
Freshman  year  by  tying  for  second  place  in  the  high  jump 
in  the  Yale-Harvard  dual  meet,  and  repeated  the  feat  the 
next  year.  He  also  won  second  place  in  the  high  jump  in 
the  dual  meet  with  Princeton  in  Junior  year.  He  was  on 
the  Class  Swimming  Relay  Team  Freshman  and  Senior 
years,  and  served  on  the  Cap  and  Gown  Committee. 

During  the  first  two  years  after  graduation  Mr.  Has- 
brouck was  employed  by  several  different  mining  companies, 
including  the  Case  Mining  Company  of  Denver,  Colo.,  the 
Fortuna  Mine  at  Bingham  Canon,  Utah,  the  Boston  Con- 
solidated Copper  Company,  and  a  mining  company  at 
Bisbee,  Ariz.  He  also  worked  for  a  few  months  in  the 
ofiice  of  the  New  Jersey  Building  Loan  Company  of  New 
York  City.  In  1908  he  went  to  Sonora,  Mexico,  and  for 
a  time  was  connected  with  the  Cananea  Consolidated  Copper 
Company.  He  was  later  engaged  in  the  manufacture  of 
electric  lights  with  the  Wood  Manufacturing  Company  of 
Fairfield,  Conn.,  being  associated  in  business  with  Oliver  E. 
Wood,  ^;ir-'o8  S.     On  February  20,  191 5,  he  sailed  for  Peru 


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1906  765 

as  engineer  of  the  Peruvian  Expedition  conducted  by  Pro- 
fessor Hiram  Bingham  (B.A.  1898).  He  remained  in 
South  America  for  several  months  after  the  expedition 
returned,  but  his  health  eventually  failed  and  in  December, 
1916,  he  came  back  to  the  United  States.  He  was  then 
employed  by  the  Remington  Arms  Union  Metallic  Cartridge 
Company  at  Bridgeport,  Conn.  After  a  time  his  condition 
improved  somewhat  and  he  engaged  in  mining  enterprises 
in  Canada,  but  was  able  to  stand  the  strain  of  the  work 
but  a  short  time.  His  death  occurred  at  his  home  in  Kings- 
ton, June  5,  1918,  as  the  result  of  a  complete  nervous 
breakdown.  Interment  was  in  Wiltwyck  Cemetery  at 
Kingston. 

Mr.  Hasbrouck  was  a  member  of  the  Kingston  Presby- 
terian Church.  He  was  unmarried.  Surviving  him  are  his 
parents,  a  sister,  and  a  brother,  Louis  Hasbrouck  (Ph.B. 
1911).  An  uncle,  Louis  B.  Hasbrouck,  graduated  from 
the  College  in  1881  and  from  the  School  of  Law  in  1883. 
He  was  a  cousin  of  Jansen  H.  Preston  (Ph.B.  1911). 


Sylvester  Benjamin  Werzburg,  Ph.B.   1906 

Born  July  2,  1886,  in  New  Haven,  Conn. 
Died  June  27,  1918,  in  New  Haven,  Conn. 

Sylvester  Benjamin  Werzburg  was  born  in  New  Haven, 
Conn.,  July  2,  1886,  his  parents  being  Abraham  Werzburg, 
a  dry  goods  merchant,  and  Sarah  (Schwed)  Werzburg. 
He  was  fitted  for  Yale  at  the  Hillhouse  High  School  in 
New  Haven.  His  course  in  the  Scientific  School  was  that 
in  mechanical  engineering,  and  in  Freshman  year  he  was 
in  the  honor  division. 

In  July,  1906,  he  began  work  as  a  special  apprentice 
with  the  Winchester  Repeating  Arms  Company  of  New 
Haven.  He  was  made  an  assistant  foreman  in  1909,  and 
served  in  this  capacity  until  June,  1910,  when,  owing  to  poor 
health,  he  resigned  his  position.  In  the  fall  of  that  year 
he  decided  to  give  up  engineering,  and  entered  the  Yale 
School  of  Music.  He  continued  his  studies  there  until  1914, 
and  had  since  taught  music.  Since  1910  he  had  been  a 
violinist  in  the  New  Haven  Symphony  Orchestra.  Mr. 
Werzburg  belonged  to  the  Congregation  Mishkan  Israel. 


766  SHEFFIELD   SCIENTIFIC   SCHOOL 

His  death  occurred  at  the  Elm  City  Hospital.  New  Haven, 
June  27,  1918,  after  an  illness  of  one  week  due  to  meningitis. 
Burial  was  in  the  Mishkan  Israel  Cemetery. 

Mr.  Werzbur^  was  married  on  Au,8fust  25,  1913,  in  New 
Haven,  to  Charlotte,  daughter  of  Charles  and  Clara  (Lowen- 
stein)  Fleischne.  She  survives  him  with  an  infant  son. 
Charles,  and  he  also  leaves  his  parents,  two  brothers,  and  a 
sister. 


Stanley  Holland  Graves,  Ph.B.  1908 

Born  July  29,  1886,  in  BufiFalo,  N.  Y. 
Died  October  24,  1917,  in  Buffalo,  N.  Y. 

Stanley  Holland  Graves  was  born  July  29,  1886.  in  Buf- 
falo, N.  Y.,  the  son  of  Luther  Pomeroy  Graves,  a  partner  in 
Graves,  Bigwood  &  Company,  and  Nellie  (White)  Graves. 
His  father  was  the  son  of  Luther  Holland  and  Lucy 
(Adams)  Graves,  and  his  mother's  parents  were  Henry 
Smith  and  Ellen  (Beardsley)  White.  Among  his  early 
American  ancestors  were  Isaac  Graves,  who  came  to  this 
country  in  1645  from  England  and  settled  at  Hartford, 
Conn.,  and  Zoeth  Eldredge,  who  was  one  of  the  "minute- 
men." 

He  was  prepared  at  the  Lawrenceville  School,  Law- 
renceville,  N.  J.  In  the  Scientific  School  he  took  the  course 
in  mechanical  engineering. 

After  graduation  he  traveled  in  Europe  for  several 
months.  In  September,  1908.  he  began  work  with  the  firm 
'^f  Graves.  Manbert.  Georee  &  Co.,  wholesale  dealers  in 
lumber,  and  since  191 2  had  been  a  traveling  salesman  for 
this  concern.  He  was  a  member  of  the  North  (Presby- 
terian) Church  of  Buffalo. 

Mr.  Graves  died  October  24.  IQ17,  in  that  city,  after  an 
illness  of  many  months  due  to  malignant  endocarditis.  He 
was  buried  in  the  Forest  Lawn  Cemetery,  Buffalo. 

He  was  married  November  23,  19 10,  in  Buffalo,  to 
Rebecca  Vedder,  daughter  of  Sidney  and  Anna  Cora 
(Morris)  McDougall.  "  They  had  two  children:  Stanley 
Holland,  Ir.,  and  Frances  Charissa.  Besides  his  wife  and 
children,  Mr.  Graves  is  survived  by  his  mother,  three  sisters, 
and  three  brothers,  two  of  whom, — Luther  Pomeroy  Graves 


1906-1908  7^7 

(B.A.    1 91 6)    and    Nelson    Montgomery    Graves    (Ph.B. 
191 6), — are  graduates  of  Yale. 


Frank  Walter  Hulett,  Ph.B.  1908 

Born  February  25,  1884,  in  Chester,  Vt. 
Died  June  6,  1918,  in  France 

Frank  Walter  Hulett  was  born  in  Chester,  Vt.,  February 
25,  1884,  the  son  of  Ernest  Davis  Hulett,  who  is  engaged 
in  business  as  an  interior  decorator,  and  Grace  Olive 
(Smith)  Hulett.  He  was  fitted  for  Yale  at  the  Ansonia 
(Conn.)  High  School  and  at  the  New  Haven  High  School. 
While  in  the  Scientific  School  he  specialized  in  civil  engi- 
neering, and  during  the  first  two  and  a  half  years  after 
graduation  he  worked  for  the  Bureau  of  Lands  in  •  the 
Philippines.  In  May,  191 1,  he  returned  to  New  Haven, 
and  took  a  position  as  draftsman  with  the  New  York,  New 
Haven  &  Hartford  Railroad  Company.  He  remained  with 
this  company  but  a  short  time,  leaving  to  enter  the  employ 
of  The  Connecticut  Company.  In  June,  191 3,  he  removed 
to  Lewiston,  Maine,  to  become  head  of  the  electrical  and 
track  departments  of  the  Lewiston,  Augusta  &  Waterville 
Street  Railway.  He  continued  in  this  position  until  May, 
191 7,  when  he  enlisted  in  the  Engineer  Reserve  Corps.  He 
was  given  a  commission  as  Captain  on  June  23,  and,  after 
attending  the  second  Engineer  Officers'  Training  Camp  at 
Camp.  American  University,  Washington,  D.  C,  he  went 
overseas  with  the  303d  Engineers.  He  was  killed  in  action 
in  France,  June  6,  1918,  at  that  time  being  attached  to  the 
2d  Engineers. 

Captain  Hulett  at  one  time  served  as  secretary  of  the 
Lewiston  and  Auburn  Rotary  Club.  Before  enlisting  he 
was  active  in  Red  Cross  work  in  Lewiston,  and  served  on 
the  recruiting  committee  for  the  Maine  Heavy  Artillery 
Regiment.  He  was  married  June  21,  191 1,  in  New  Haven, 
to  Elly  Johanna  Emilie,  daughter  of  Carl  H.  A.  and  Emma 
J.  E.  (Sonnaeman)  Ibscher.  She  survives  him  with  a  son, 
Frank  Walter,  Jr. 


768  SHEFFIELD   SCIENTIFIC   SCHOOL 


Allen  Starr  Page,  Ph.B.   1908 

Born  March  14,  1888,  in  South  Orange,  N.  J, 
Died  September  6,  1917,  in  Oakland,  N.  J. 

Allen  Starr  Page  was  born  March  14,  1888,  in  South 
Orange,  N.  J.,  the  son  of  Edward  Day  Page  (Ph.B.  1875). 
His  father,  who  was  for  many  years  a  member  of  the  firm 
of  Faulkner,  Page  &  Company,  dry  goods  commission  mer- 
chants of  New  York  City,  and  was  also  prominently  con- 
nected with  other  interests,  died  December  25,  1918.  He 
was  the  son  of  Henry  Abel  and  Maria  (Clarke)  Page  and 
a  descendant  of  John  Page,  who  came  to  America  from 
England  in  the  middle  of  the  seventeenth  century,  settling 
at  Haverhill,  Mass.  His  first  wife,  the  mother  of  Allen  S. 
Page,  was  Cornelia  (Lee)  Page,  daughter  of  William 
Creighton  and  Cornelia  (Kidder)  Lee.  She  was  descended 
from  John  Leigh,  or  Lee,  who  settled  at  Agawam  (now 
Ipswich),  Mass.,  previous  to  1634. 

He  prepared  for  college  at  the  Friends'  Seminary  in  New 
York  City  and  took  the  select  course  in  the  Sheffield  Scien- 
tific School.  He  received  honors  in  English  and  history 
Senior  year. 

After  graduation  he  studied  at  the  Pulitzer  School  of 
Journalism  at  Columbia  University.  Li  191 5  he  bought  the 
Sussex  Register,  of  Newton,  N.  J.,  and  afterwards  served 
as  editor  of  this  publication.  This  paper  was  started  in 
1813  and  is  the  second  oldest  weekly  newspaper  in  New 
Jersey.  He  was  one  of  the  organizers,  in  191 5,  of  the 
Sussex  County  Charities  Aid  Association. 

He  died  September  6,  191 7,  at  his  home  in  Oakland,  N.  J., 
after  three  months'  illness  from  septicaemia.  He  was  buried 
in  the  Rosedale  Cemetery  at  Orange,  N.  J.  He  was 
unmarried.  Surviving  him  are  a  brother,  Leigh  Page 
(Ph.B.  1904),  and  a  sister. 

Edgar  Leidy  Beaty,  Ph.B.   1909 

Born  December  21,  1886,  in  Warren,  Pa. 
Died  October  23,  1917,  in  Phoenix,  Ariz. 

Edgar  Leidy  Beaty  was  the  son  of  Orris  Weston  and 
Ellen  Woodhouse  (Smith)  Beaty,  and  was  born  December 


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21,  1 886,  in  Warren,  Pa.  Through  his  father,  whose 
parents  were  David  and  Abagail  (Mead)  Beaty,  he  traced 
his  descent  to  Thomas  Beaty,  who  came  to  Newburgh, 
N.  Y.,  from  Scotland  in  the  latter  part  of  the  eighteenth 
century.  His  mother  was  the  daughter  of  Chauncey  and 
Mercy  (Mellen)  Smith  and  a  descendant  of  Samuel  Smith, 
who  settled  at  Wethersfield,  Conn.,  in  1634,  having  emi- 
grated to  this  country  from  Ipswich,  Suffolk  County, 
England. 

He  was  fitted  for  college  at  The  Hill  School,  Pottstown, 
Pa.  He  entered  Yale  in  1906,  taking  the  select  course  in 
the  Scientific  School.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Class  Golf 
Team  and  the  Yale  Swimming  Team,  and  established  a  new 
record  for  the  distance  plunge. 

Mr.  Beaty  died  of  tuberculosis,  October  23,  1917,  in 
Phoenix,  Ariz.,  and  was  buried  in  Oakland  Cemetery  in 
his  native  town.  Shortly  after  graduation  he  had  two 
successive  attacks  of  pleurisy,  and  from  the  effects  of  these 
he  never  recovered.  He  had  spent  the  greater  part  of  his 
time  at  Saranac  Lake,  N.  Y.,  going  to  Phoenix  only  a  few 
weeks  before  his  death. 

He  belonged  to  Trinity  Memorial  Church  of  Warren. 
He  was  unmarried,  and  is  survived  by  *his  mother,  two 
sisters,  and  a  brother. 


George  Russell  King,  Ph.B.   1909 

Born  August  i,  1886,  in  Evanston,  111. 
Died  December  22,  1917,  in  Chicago,  111. 

George  Russell  King  was  born  August  i,  1886,  in  Evans- 
ton,  111.  He  was  the  son  of  James  King,  of  the  James 
King  Manufacturing  Company  of  New  Haven,  Conn.,  and 
Adelaide  Lucy  Hotchkiss  King.  Through  his  father, 
whose  parents  were  George  and  Sarah  Abbie  King,  he 
traced  his  descent  to  James  King,  who  came  to  this  country 
from  England  and  settled  in  1678  at  Suffield,  Conn.,  where 
he  had  a  grant  of  land.  His  great-grandfather,  Colonel 
Jabez  King,  who  lived  and  died  in  Enfield,  was  noted  for 
his  public  service.  His  mother  was  the  daughter  of 
Elnathan  Street,  who  was  a  descendant  of  Nicholas  Street, 
pastor  of  Center  Church,  New  Haven,  from  1659  to  1667. 


770  SHEFFIELD   SCIENTIFIC   SCHOOL 

Nicholas  Street's  granddaughter  married  Theophilus  Yale, 
a  nephew  of  Elihu  Yale. 

He  received  his  preparatory  training  at  the  Lewis  Insti- 
tute, Chicago,  becoming  an  Associate  in  Arts  of  that  insti- 
tution in  1907,  and  joined  the  Class  of  1909  in  the  Sheffield 
Scientific  School  at  the  beginning  of  its  Junior  year.  He 
took  the  select  course. 

After  graduation  he  became  engaged  in  landscape  garden- 
ing, and  devoted  much  time  to  the  study  of  golf  course 
architecture.  He  had  offices  in  Wheaton  and  Elmhurst, 
111.,  and  resided  at  Elmhurst.  He  had  won  six  cups  in 
golf  matches.    He  belonged  to  Christ  Church  in  Elmhurst. 

Mr.  King  died  December  22,  1917,  in  the  Presbyterian 
Hospital,  Chicago,  after  an  illness  of  two  weeks  due  to 
lymphatic  leukemia.  Interment  was  in  the  Elmlawn  Ceme- 
tery at  Elmhurst. 

He  was  unmarried.  His  mother  and  a  sister  survive  him. 
Charles  L.  Curtiss  (M.D.  1903)  is  a  relative. 


Lloyd  Seward  Allen,  Ph.B.   19 10 

Born  February  15,  1889,  in  Auburn,  N.  Y. 
Died  May  i,  1918,  in  Dayton,  Ohio 

Lloyd  Seward  Allen  was  born  in  Auburn,  N.  Y.,  Feb- 
ruary 15,  1889,  his  parents  being  Frederick  Innis  and 
Cornelia  Margaret  (Seward)  Allen.  His  father,  who  was 
graduated  from  the  Sheffield  Scientific  School  in  1879  and 
is  now  practicing  law  in  New  York  City,  is  the  son  of  Wil- 
liam and  Sarah  Martha  (Palmer)  Allen  and  a  descendant  of 
George  Allen,  who  came  to  Weymouth,  Mass.,  in  1635  from 
Somersetshire,  England,  and  removed  to  Sandwich,  Mass., 
at  its  founding  in  1637.  Another  ancestor  was  Henry 
Palmer,  who  came  to  America  from  England;  he  was  in 
Watertown,  Mass.,  before  1636,  removed  to  Wethersfield, 
Conn.,  about  1637,  and  settled  about  1650  at  Greenwich, 
Conn.,  where  his  death  occurred  some  ten  years  later.  His 
mother  is  the  daughter  of  William  Henry  Seward,  who 
rose  to  the  rank  of  a  Brigadier  General  in  the  Civil  War, 
and  Janet  (Watson)  Seward  and  the  granddaughter  of 
William  Henry  Seward,  who  graduated  from  Union  Col- 
lege in  1820,  was  governor  of  New  York  from  1838  to 


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1909-1910  771 

1842,  a  United  States  senator  from  New  York,  and  Secre- 
tary of  State  under  Lincoln  and  Johnson,  and  received 
honorary  deg^rees  from  several  institutions,  including  Yale, 
which  conferred  an  LL.D.  upon  him  in  1854. 

He  lived  in  Auhurn  until  1901  and  then  went  to  Wash- 
injo^ton.  D.  C,  his  father  having  been  appointed  United 
States  Commissioner  of  Patents.  He  continued  his  school- 
ing in  that  city  until  IQ06,  when  he  entered  Phillips  Acad- 
emy. Andover,  Mass.,  where  he  received  his  final  preparation 
for  Yale.    He  took  the  select  course  in  the  Scientific  School. 

In  the  fall  after  e^raduation  he  went  to  Mesa,  Ariz.,  to 
take  a  position  as  instructor  in  mathematics  and  history 
at  the  Evans  Ranch  School.  He  remained  there  for  two 
years,  and  then  returned  to  Auburn,  where  he  became 
eneaeed  in  contract  and  construction  work.  In  1913  he 
went  to  New  York  City,  and  continued  in  the  same  line 
of  work.  He  enlisted  in  Squadron  A  C Cavalry)  of  the 
New  York  National  Guard  in  the  fall  of  1914,  and  after 
being-  mustered  into  the  U.  S.  Army  served  with  it  UDon 
the  Mexican  border  from  July.  IQIS.  until  its  return  to  New 
York.  In  December.  TQ15,  he  became  interested  in  the 
studv  of  aviation  and  the  construction  of  aeroplanes,  and 
accepted  a  position  in  an  aeroplane  factory  at  Lon^  Island 
Citv.  N.  Y.  He  developed  several  new  devices  in  aeroplane 
mechanism  and  finally  gave  up  his  position  to  devote  his 
entire  time  to  his  inventions.  In  November,  191 7,  he 
enlisted  in  the  Aviation  Section  of  the  SiRfnal  Corps  as  a 
Flvine  Cadet,  and  was  sent  to  the  Ground  School  at 
Princeton  University.  He  was  transferred  to  Dick  Field, 
Dallas.  Texas,  two  months  later  to  continue  his  training. 
About  April  i,  tqi8,  he  was  ordered  to  Wilbur  Wriofht 
Field.  Dayton.  Ohio.  His  death  occurred  May  i,  tqt8, 
when  the  machine  in  which  he  was  makin^f  a  practice  flight 
became  unmanageable  and  fell,  crashing  into  one  of  the 
school  buildinsfs  on  the  ground.  He  was  instantlv  killed. 
His  body  was  taken  to  Auburn  for  burial  in  Fort  Hill 
Cemeterv. 

K^-  Allen  was  not  married.  His  parents  survive  him, 
and  he  also  leaves  two  brothers,  one  of  them  beinsf  William 
Seward  Allen  CPh.B.  tqo6.  LL.B.  Harvard  1000).  He 
was  a  neohew  of  the  late  William  P.  Allen,  a  graduate  of 
the  Collecre  in  1880.  and  of  William  Henry  Seward,  Jr. 
(B.A.  1888). 


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D wight  Boyce  Pangburn,  Ph.B.   19 lo 

Born  November  27,  1889,  in  Washington.  D.  C. 
Died  August  24,  1917,  in  New  Haven,  Conn. 

Dw^ight  Boyce  Pangburn.  son  of  Lycurgus  Elmer  and 
Annie  Elizabeth  (Haves)  Pano;burn,  was  born  in  Wash- 
ington, D.  C,  November  27,  i88q.  His  father  received  the 
degrees  of- B.A.  and  M.A.  at  Tabor  College  in  1876  and 
1879,  respectively,  and  that  of  B.D.  at  Yale  in  1883.  After 
being  in  the  Congregational  ministry  for  nearly  twenty 
years,  he  retired  and  is  now  in  the  real  estate  business  in 
New  Haven,  Conn.  He  is  the  son  of  Eli  and  Tabitha 
(Boyce)  Pangburn.  His  paternal  ancestors  came  from 
Scotland  and  settled  in  Ohio,  and  his  maternal  ancestors 
came  from  England  and  settled  in  New  Ensfland.  His  wife 
is  the  daughter  of  Ezekiel  and  Martha  Adeline  (Kellogg) 
Hayes.  Through  his  mother,  Dwight  Pangburn  traced  his 
descent  to  George  Hayes,  who  came  to  America  from 
Scotland  in  1680  and  settled  at  Windsor,  Conn.,  and  to 
Nathaniel  Kellogg,  who  came  from  England  in  1637  and 
settled  at  Hartford.  Conn.  He  was  also  descended  from 
Rev.  Samuel  Russel,  at  whose  house  'in  Branford  the  ten 
ministers  met  to  found  Yale  College.  Rutherford  B.  Hayes, 
president  of  the  United  States  from  1877  to  1881,  belonged 
to  the  same  family.  One  ancestor,  Daniel  Hayes,  son  of 
George  Hayes,  was  captured  by  Indians  during  Queen 
Anne's  War,  carried  to  Canada,  and  kept  in  captivity  more 
than  five  years,  suffering  many  hardships.  Finally  he  was 
sold  to  a  Frenchman,  who  furnished  him  a  guide  through 
the  warring  tribes  to  his  home.  Many  of  Dwight  Pang- 
burn's  ancestors  and  relatives  served  in  the  army  during 
the  French  and  Indian  War  and  in  the  American  Revolu- 
tion. Captain  Joseph  Kellogg  served  in  the  Revolution 
and  was  one  of  those  who  turned  out  to  expel  the  enemy 
from  New  Haven.  He  was  under  General  Washington 
and  was  present  at  the  surrender  of  Cornwallis.  Among 
those  who  marched  from  Connecticut  towns  to  the  relief 
of  Boston  in  the  Lexington  alarm  were  four  Kelloggs. — 
Moses  and  Leverett  from  New  Hartford,  and  Martin  and 
Phineas  from  Wethersfield.  Pliny  Hayes,  a  physician, 
joined  the  U.  S.  S.  Hornet  as  Captain's  Clerk  and  Acting 
Surgeon's  Mate^  in  which  duty  he  made  the  famous  cruise 


1910-1911  773 

of  the  Constitution  and  the  Hornet  and  took  part  in  the 
action  between  the  Hornet  and  the  Peacock,  February  24, 
1813. 

He  received  his  preparatory  training  at  the  New  Haven 
High  School.  In  191  o  he  was  awarded  one  of  the  Sheffield 
graduate  scholarships,  and  for  the  next  two  years  continued 
his  studies  in  mechanical  engineering,  being  given  the 
degree  of  M.E.  in  1912.  During  the  last  year  of  his  gradu- 
ate work  he  served  as  a  laboratory  assistant,  and  since 
1912  he  had  been  an  instructor  in  the  Scientific  School, 
drawing  being  his  subject  at  the  time  of  his  death. 

Mr.  Pangburn  was  interested  in  motor  cycles  from  a 
scientific  standpoint,  and  during  1914-15  he  did  some  work 
as  consulting  and  testing  engineer  for  the  Hendee  Manu- 
facturing Company.  The  summer  of  191 4  was  spent  at 
their  plant  in  Springfield,  Mass.,  as  engineer  of  tests.  He 
had  published  a  number  of  articles  on  engineering  topics 
and  on  motor  cycles  from  the  engineering  and  selling  angles, 
and  at  the  time  of  his  death  was  collaborating  with  Profes- 
sor Richard  S.  Kirby  (Ph.B.  1896)  in  writing  a  text  book 
on  mechanical  drawing.  He  had  contributed  a  few  short 
stories  to  the  Youth's  Companion  and  to  the  St.  Nicholas 
Magazine.  He  was  a  charter  member  of  the  New  Haven 
Bird  Club,  and  was  a  recognized  authority  on  bird  life. 
He  was  a  member  of  the  American  Society  of  Mechanical 
Engineers,  the  Yale  Engineering  Association,  and  Plymouth 
Congregational  Church  of  Nev^Haven,  and  for  a  number 
of  years,  up  to  the  time  of  his  death,  he  was  treasurer  and 
secretary  of  the  Plymouth  Men's  Club.  He  died  of  dia- 
betes, August  24,  1917,  at  his  home  in  »that  'city,  after 
an  illness  of  more  than  three  years.  Burial  was  in  the 
family  plot  in  the  Grove  Street  Cemetery. 

Mr.  Pangburn  was  unmarried.  His  parents  and  a 
brother,  Clifford  H.  Pangburn  (B.A.  1912),  survive  him. 


Otto  Frederick  Kraetschmar,  Ph.B.   191 1 

Born  May  2,  1885,  in  Rockville,  Conn. 
Died  September  30,  1917,  in  Rockville,  Conn. 

Otto  Frederick  Kraetschmar  was  born  May  2,  1885,  in 
Rockville,  Conn.,  the  son  of  Gustav  Kraetschmar,  a  weaver, 


774  SHEFFIELD   SCIENTIFIC   SCHOOL 

and  Amalie  (Jurisch)  Kraetschmar.  His  parents  came  to 
this  country  in  1878  from  Germany  and  settled  at  Bound 
Brook,  N.  J.,  later  removing  to  Rockville.  His  father  was 
the  son  of  Karl  and  Charlotte  (Kossack)  Kraetschmar. 

He  received  his  preparatory  training  at  Williston  Semi- 
nary, Easthampton,  Mass.,  and  took  the  course  in  electrical 
engineering  in  the  Sheffield  Scientific  School. 

For  five  years  after  graduation  he  was  employed  in  the 
foreign  department  of  the  General  Electric  Company  at 
Schenectady,  N.  Y.  Because  of  ill  health  he  was  unable 
to  engage  in  any  activities  during  the  last  few  months  of 
his  life.  He  died  September  30,  191 7,  at  his  home  in  Rock- 
ville, from  tuberculosis.  Interment  was  in  the  Grove  Hill 
Cemetery  at  Rockville.  He  was  a  member  of  the  First 
English  Lutheran  Church  of  Schenectady.  He  organized  a 
"Junior  Leaeue"  in  connection  with  this  church  and  was 
its  first  president. 

He  was  unmarried.  He  is  survived  by  his  parents,  a 
brother,  and  two  sisters. 


Allen  Oakley  Smith,  Ph.B.  1912 

Born  January  16,  18^1,  in  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 
Died  July  21,  1917,  near  Claymont,  Del. 

Allen  Oakley  Smith  was  born  in  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.,  Jan- 
uary 16,  1 891,  the  son  of  Herbert  Stanton  and  Annie 
(Oakley)  Smith.  His  father  was  the  son  of  Stephen  Wil- 
liam and  Julia  (Stanton)  Smith,  and  his  mother  was  the 
daughter  of  George  W.  and  Julia  (Nichols)  Oakley. 
Samuel  Smith,  his  earliest  known  paternal  ancestor  in 
America,  came  from  Bristol,  England,  in  1626  and  settled 
at  Bristol,  R.  I. 

He  was  prepared  at  the  Manual  Training  High  School 
in  Brooklyn,  and  entered  the  Sheffield  Scientific  School  with 
the  Class  of  191 1,  but  did  not  graduate  until  191 2.  He 
entered  the  Yale  School  of  Forestry  with  the  Class  of  191 3, 
but  left  the  School  during  his  Senior  year  and  for  a  time 
was  with  a  reconnaissance  crew  in  the  Umpqua  National 
Forest  in  Oregon.  In  the  fall  and  winter  of  191 3  he  was  a 
tie  inspector  for  the  Port  Reading  Creosoting  Company  at 
Chrome,  N.  J.     He  then  resumed  his  studies  at  Yale,  and 


1911-1913  775 

received  the  degree  of  M.F.  in  1914.  Since  that  time,  with 
the  exception  of  a  short  period  spent  as  city  forester  of 
Mount  Vernon,  N.  Y.,  he  had  been  connected  with  the  firm 
of  Vitale  &  Rothery,  landscape  architects  and  forest  engi- 
neers of  New  York.  From  March,  1916,  until  entering 
military  training,  he  was  in  charge  of  the  development  of  a 
large  estate  at  Claymont  (near  Wilmington),  Del.  He  was 
a  member  of  the  American  Academy  of  Arborists  and  of 
the  American  Legion  of  Honor,  and  belonged  to  the  Park 
Congregational  Church  of  Brooklyn. 

He  entered  the  aviation  school  donated  to  the  Govern- 
ment by  the  duPont  Powder  Company  at  Claymont,  soon 
after  the  declaration  of  war.  On  July  21,  1917,  during  his 
last  day's  training  before  qualifying  as  a  Pilot,  he  was 
practicing  with  a  seaplane  on  the  Delaware  River.  In 
some  way  the  heavy  machine  became  unmanageable  while 
at  high  speed  and  plunged  with  him  into  the  water.  His 
body  was  recovered  the  following  day,  and  temporarily 
interred  at  the  receiving  vault  in  the  Brandywine  Cemetery 
at  Wilmington.  Cremation  followed,  August  16,  1917,  at 
Brooklyn. 

Mr.  Smith  was  unmarried.  He  is  survived  by  his  parents 
and  two  sisters.  William  Wallace  Nichols  (Ph.B.  1884)  is 
a  cousin. 


Samuel  Ashmead  Dyer,  Ph.B.  19 13 

Born  October  i,  1889,  in  Chester,  Pa. 
Died  September  24,  1917,  at  Saranac  Lake,  N.  Y. 

Samuel  Ashmead  Dyer  was  born  in  Chester,  Pa.,  October 
I,  1889,  the  son  of  Samuel  A.  Dyer,  who  was  engaged  in 
banking  at  Chester  and  served  with  the  Union  Army  during 
the  Civil  War,  with  the  rank  of  Colonel,  and  Nancy  (Baker) 
Dyer.  His  father  was  the  son  of  John  G.  and  Henrietta 
Dyer.  He  died  November  25,  1894,  and  on  December  20, 
1900,  Mrs.  Dyer  married  George  Hudson  Makuen  (B.A. 
1884,  M.D.  Jefferson  Medical  College  1889).  Her  parents 
were  George  and  Martha  Baker  and  she  was  descended  from 
John  Churchman,  who  emigrated  to  America  from  Essex, 
England,  in  1682  and  settled  at  Chester,  Pa. 

He  received  his  preparatory  training  at  the  DeLancey 


77^  SHEFFIELD    SCIENTIFIC    SCHOOL 

School  in  Philadelphia  and  at  The  Hill  School,  Pottstown, 
Pa.  He  entered  Yale  with  the  Class  of  1912  S.,  but  left  at 
the  end  of  the  first  term  of  Senior  year,  returning  in  the 
fall  and  completing  his  course  with  the  Class  of  1913  S. 
He  played  on  the  Freshman  Football  and  Baseball  teams, 
and  was  a  member  of  the  University  Football  Team  in  1912. 
He  was  vice  president  of  the  Class  of  1912  S.,  and  in  191 1 
he  was  vice  president  of  the  University  Football  Association. 

For  six  months  after  graduation  Mr.  Dyer  was  connected 
with  the  brokerage  firm  of  Remick-Hodges  &  Company  of 
New  York  City.  In  191 5  he  went  to  Wilkes  Barre,  Pa.,  and 
until  March,  1916,  was  engaged  in  the  real  estate  business. 
At  that  time  he  became  ill  with  tuberculosis  and  went  imme- 
diately to  Saranac  Lake,  N.  Y.,  remaining  there  until  his 
death  on  September  24,  191 7.  His  body  was  taken  to 
Chester  for  burial  in  the  Rural  Cemetery. 

He  was  married  June  29,  1914,  in  Kingston,  Pa.,  to  Ruth, 
daughter  of  John  Butler  and  Emily  (Dain)  Reynolds,  of 
Wilkes  Barre,  who  survives  him  with  their  daughter,  Nancy. 
He  also  leaves  his  mother  and  a  brother,  Richard  W.  Dyer, 
a  non-graduate  member  of  the  Class  of  1914. 


Albert  Emanuel  Johnson,  Ph.B.   1914 

Born  August  7,  1892,  in  Collinsville,  Conn. 
Died  May  8,  1918,  in  France 

Albert  Emanuel  Johnson,  son  of  Charles  John  and  Ida 
(Peterson)  Johnson,  was  born  August  7,  1892,  in  Collins- 
ville, Conn.  His  father,  who  is  employed  at  the  works  of 
the  Collins  Company,  is  the  son  of  John  B.  and  Carolina 
Johnson.  He  came  from  Sweden  with  his  family  in  1880. 
His  mother's  parents  were  Emanuel  and  Anna  Christina 
(Keagmuson)   Peterson. 

He  received  his  preparatory  training  at  the  Collinsville 
High  School,  and  entered  Yale  in  191 1.  His  course  in  the 
Scientific  School  was  that  in  civil  engineering.  He  was 
given  general  honors  Freshman  year. 

Immediately  after  graduation  he  took  a  position  as  civil 
engineer  with  The  Connecticut  Company,  and  was  employed 
in  this  capacity  until  June  22,  191 6,  when  he  joined  the 
New  Haven  Grays,  with  which  he  went  to  the  Mexican 


1913-1914  777 

border.  He  returned  to  New  Haven  November  8,  191 6, 
and  resumed  his  work  with  The  Connecticut  Company.  In 
March,  1917,  he  was  recalled  to  active  service,  being  made 
a  Corporal  on  April  17,  1917.  He  later  became  a  Sergeant 
in  Company  I  of  the  loist  Infantry.  On  May  22,  1917, 
while  stationed  at  Camp  Yale,  New  Haven,  he  was  commis- 
sioned as  a  Second  Lieutenant  and  shortly  afterwards  was 
promoted  to  the  rank  of  a  First  Lieutenant.  Early  in  Sep- 
tember he  was  assigned  to  the  Supply  Company  of  the  loist 
Regiment,  but  later  was  transferred  to  Company  C  of  the 
I02d  Infantry.  His  regiment  was  ordered  to  France  about 
September  20.  He  died  on  May  8,  1918,  as  the  result  of 
wounds  received  in  action  in  the  Seicheprey  Sector  on 
April  20.  He  was  buried  in  American  Cemetery  No.  108, 
Sebastopol,  Toul,  France. 

Lieutenant    Johnson    was    unmarried.      His    parents,    a 
brother,  and  a  sister  survive  him. 


Roswell  George  MacKenzie,  Ph.B.   1914 

Born  May  12,  1889,  in  New  Haven,  Conn. 
Died  December  8,  1917,  at  Indian  Neck,  Conn. 

Roswell  George  MacKenzie  was  the  son  of  George  Mal- 
colm MacKenzie,  a  machinist,  and  Bertha  Ethelyn  (Neale) 
MacKenzie,  and  was  born  May  12,  1889,  in  New  Haven, 
Conn.  His  father  was  the  son  of  James  Kenneth  and 
Jerusha  (Redman)  MacKenzie.  His  mother's  parents 
were  James  and  Elizabeth  (Thatcher)  Neale. 

He  entered  Yale  in   1910  from  the   New  Haven  High 
jchool,  taking  the  mechanical   engineering  course   in  the 
Sheffield  Scientific  School.     He  joined  the  Class  of  1914  S. 
"as  a  Junior. 

After  graduation  he  was  connected  with  The  Harvey 
Hubbell  Company,  Inc.,  of  Bridgeport,  Conn.,  as  a  mechan- 
ical engineer  until  August,  191 5,  when  he  entered  the 
employ  of  the  Winchester  Repeating  Arms  Company  of 
New  Haven.  He  held  a  position  as  efficiency  engineer 
with  this  company  at  the  time  of  his  death.  He  was 
drowned  while  duck  hunting  at  Indian  Neck,  Conn.,  Decem- 
ber 8,  191 7.  Interment  was  in  the  Green  Lawn  Cemetery 
at  East  Haven,  Conn. 


778  SHEFFIELD   SCIENTIFIC   SCHOOL 

Mr.  MacKenzie  was  unmarried.  He  belonged  to  Forbes 
Memorial  Chapel  of  New  Haven.  Surviving  him  are  his 
father,  a  brother,  and  a  sister.  He  was  a  cousin  of  Edward 
H.  Farren  (Ph.B.  1896). 


Charles  Edv^ard  Jones,  Ph.B.  1915 

Born  January  7,  1894,  in  Pittsfield,  Mass. 
Died  February  15,  1918,  at  Avord,  France 

Charles  Edward  Jones  was  the  only  son  of  Edward 
Archie  and  Isabel  A.  (Abbe)  Jones,  and  was  born  in  Pitts- 
field,  Mass.,  January  7,  1894.  His  father,  who  graduated 
from  the  Massachusetts  Institute  of  Technology  in  1887, 
is  now  president  and  treasurer  of  the  E.  D.  Jones  &  Sons 
Company,  manufacturers  of  paper  mill  machinery  of  Pitts- 
field.  His  parents  were  Edward  Dorr  Grififen  and  Ardilla 
(Herrick)  Jones,  and  his  early  American  ancestors  included 
Adonijah  Jones,  who  came  from  Wales  to  Otis,  Mass., 
and  Captain  Samuel  Pelton,  a  Revolutionary  soldier. 
Charles  E.  Jones'  mother  is  the  daughter  of  Charles  Morri- 
son and  Amelia  (Henry)  Abbe  and  a  descendant  of  John 
Abbe,  who  emigrated  to  this  country  from  England,  settling 
at  Salem,  Mass.,  and  of  Thomas  Abbe,  of  Enfield,  Conn., 
a  Captain  under  Washington  throughout  the  Revolution. 

He  was  prepared  for  Yale  at  The  Hill  School,  Pottstown, 
Pa.  He  entered  the  Scientific  School  in  1912,  taking  the 
mechanical  engineering  course. 

In  the  fall  after  graduating  he  began  a  graduate  course 
of  one  year  in  chemical  engineering  at  the  Massachusetts 
Institute  of  Technology.  In  September,  1916,  he  entered 
the  employ  of  his  father's  firm  in  Pittsfield,  with  the  inten- 
tion of  learning  the  business.  During  the  winter  of  1916-17 
he  served  on  the  Plattsburg  recruiting  committee  in  Pitts- 
field, and  in  May  went  to  the  first  Plattsburg  Officers' 
Training  Camp.  On  June  18,  1917,  he  applied  for  a  transfer 
to  the  Aviation  Service,  and  six  weeks  later  was  sent  to 
the  Ground  School  at  the  Massachusetts  Institute  of  Tech- 
nology. He  completed  the  course  there  on  October  6,  and 
was  then  ordered  to  Mineola,  Long  Island,  for  his  flying 
training.  After  spending  two  weeks  there,  he  was  sent  to 
Tours,  France,  on  December  26  being  transferred  to  the 


1914-1915  779 

Aviation  School  at  Avord.  On  February  15,  1918,  he  was 
flying  with  his  French  moniteur  in  a  Caudron,  when  the 
machine  crashed  to  the  ground  froiVi  a  height  of  about 
eighty  metres.  Cadet  Jones  died  shortly  afterwards  at  the 
hospital  in  the  Artillery  Camp  at  Avord  from  the  effects 
of  the  accident.  He  was  buried  in  the  Protestant  Cemetery 
near  that  town. 

.  His  parents  survive  him.  He  was  unmarried.  He 
belonged  to  the  First  Congregational  Church  of  Pittsfield, 
and  had  served  as  assistant  scoutmaster  of  a  group  of  Boy 
Scouts  in  that  city.  He  was  a  cousin  of  George  B.  Fowler 
(B.A.  1888,  LL.B.  1890)  and  of  Clarence  L.  Moseley 
(Ph.B.  1906). 


Frank  Gibbes  Montgomery,  Ph.B.  191 5 

Born  December  25,  1894,  in  Spartanburg,  S.  C. 
Died  March  6,  1918,  in  Hythe,  Kent  County,  England 

Frank  Gibbes  Montgomery  was  born  in  Spartanburg, 
S.  C,  December  25,  1894.  His  father,  Walter  Scott  Mont- 
gomery, attended  Wofford  College  at  Spartanburg,  com- 
pleting his  Junior  year,  and  then  entered  the  hardware 
business  in  that  town.  He  is  now  president  and  treasurer 
of  the  Spartan  Mills  at  Spartanburg  and  the  Laurens  Cotton 
Mills  at  Laurens,  S.  C.  His  parents  were  John  H.  and 
Susan  (Holcombe)  Montgomery,  and  he  was  descended 
from  William  Montgomery,  who  came  from  Ayr,  Scot- 
land, to  Philadelphia  about  1700.  Frank  Montgomery's 
mother  is  Bessie  (Gibbes)  Montgomery,  daughter  of  James 
Guignard  and  Elizabeth  (Waller)  Gibbes  and  a  descendant 
of  Robert  Gibbes,  who  settled  in  South  Carolina  before 
1700,  having  emigrated  to  this  country  from  England.  He 
was  proprietors'  deputy,  governor,  and  chief  justice  of  the 
state. 

Frank  Gibbes  Montgomery  was  prepared  for  college  at 
the  Hastoc  High  School  in  Spartanburg,  and  before  join- 
ing the  Class  of  1915  S.  as  a  Junior  was  for  three  years  a 
member  of  the  Class  of  1914  at  Wofford  College.  He  took 
the  electrical  engineering  course,  and  was  a  member  of  the 
Yale  branch  of  the  American  Institute  of  Electrical  Engi- 
neers.   He  passed  the  summer  of  1914  traveling  in  England. 


780  SHEFFIELD    SCIENTIFIC    SCHOOL 

The  fall  and  winter  of  191 5  he  spent  in  the  mills  at 
Spartanburg  and  Laurens.  During  the  summer  of  1916 
he  traveled  through  the  western  states  and  Hawaii,  return- 
ing in  September  to  Spartanburg,  where  he  again  took  up 
his  work  in  the  mill  offices.  At  the  time  he  entered  military 
service  he  held  the  position  of  assistant  to  the  treasurer. 
He  enlisted  as  a  Private  in  the  Aviation  Section  of  the 
Signal  Reserve  Corps  on  May  2,  19 17.  His  ground  train- 
ing in  this  country  was  received  at  the  School  of  Military 
Aeronautics  at  Columbus,  Ohio.  He  was  ordered  to  France 
and  sailed  July  23,  191 7.  He  spent  some  time  in  the  French 
aviation  schools  at  Issoudun,  Avord,  Tours,  and  Arcachon, 
receiving  his  French  brevet  and  being  made  a  Chasse  Pilot 
on  October  4,  191 7.  He  was  commissioned  a  First  Lieu- 
tenant in  the  Air  Service  on  November  30,  and  early  in 
February,  1918,  was  ordered  to  England  to  attend  the 
Aerial  Gunnery  School  at  Hythe,  Kent  County,  where  his 
death  occurred  in  an  airplane  accident  on  March  6,  1918. 
Interment  was  in  Shorncliff  Military  Cemetery  at  Hythe. 

Lieutenant  Montgomery  was  not  married.  In  addition 
to  his  parents,  he  is  survived  by  two  brothers  and  two 
sisters.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Church  of  the  Advent 
(Protestant  Episcopal)  at  Spartanburg. 


Harold  Ackley  Banker,  Ph.B.   19 16 

Born.  July  23,  1893,  in  Cranford,  N.  J. 
Died  May  18,  1918,  in  New  York  City 

Harold  Ackley  Banker  was  born  in  Cranford,  N.  J.,  July 
23,  1893,  the  son  of  John  W.  and  Eugenie  (Haight)  Banker. 

He  was  fitted  for  college  at  the  Cranford  High  School 
and  at  the  Pingry  School,  Elizabeth,  N.  J.,  entering  Yale 
with  the  Class  of  191. S  S.  Lie  was  prevented  by  illness  from 
graduating  in  that  Class,  but  received  his  degree  in  1916. 
He  took  the  select  course. 

On  graduation  he  became  associated  with  his  father  in 
the  paper  and  twine  business  in  New  York  City.  He  was 
married  on  November  7,  191 7,  in  Cranford,  to  Mary,  daugh- 
ter of  Cornelio  Stolk,  Jr.,  and  afterwards  resided  in  New 
York. 

Mr.  Banker's  death  occurred  suddenly  May  18,  19 18,  at 


I9I5-I9I6  781 

the  Memorial  Hospital,  New  York  City,  following  an  opera- 
tion. He  had  been  ill  for  several  months.  Besides  his 
wife  and  parents,  he  is  survived  by  his  brother,  Leslie  A. 
Banker  (Ph.B.  1909). 


Joseph  Emmet  Beauton,  Ph.B.   1916 

Born  March  13,  1895,  in  New  Haven,  Conn. 
Died  June  3,  1918,  in  France 

Joseph  Emmet  Beauton  was  the  son  of  William  Francis 
Beauton,  vice  president  and  manager  of  the  Nonpareil 
Laundry  Company  of  New  Haven,  Conn.,  and  was  born  in 
that  city,  March  13,  1895.  His  father's  parents  were 
James  and  Mary  (Ryan)  Beauton,  who  came  from  Ireland 
to  New  Haven  in  1864.  His  mother  was  Ella  Teresa 
(Ahearn)  Beauton;  she  was  the  daughter  of  Patrick  and 
Alice  Costello  (Irus)  Ahearn,  who  emigrated  to  America 
from  Ireland  in  1850  and  settled  at  New  Haven. 

He  prepared  for  Yale  at  the  New  Haven  High  School. 
He  took  the  select  course,  and  was  a  member  of  the  Foot- 
ball and  Baseball  squads. 

For  three  months  after  graduation  he  was  employed  by 
the  Winchester  Repeating  Arms  Company  of  New  Haven. 
He  was  a  Roman  Catholic  and  a  member  of  St.  Joseph's 
Church  of  that  city.  At  the  outbreak  of  the  war  he  enlisted 
in  the  Aviation  Section  of  the  Signal  Reserve  Corps,  as  a 
Private,  First  Class.  His  ground  school  training  was 
received  at  the  University  of  Illinois  at  Urbana  and  his 
flying  training  at  Scott  Field,  Belleville,  111.  In  December, 
191 7,  he  was  commissioned  as  a  First  Lieutenant  and  late 
in  February  sailed  for  France' with  the  looth  Aero  Squad- 
ron. He  died  in  that  country  on  June  3,  1918,  as  the  result 
of  injuries  sustained  in  an  airplane  accident. 

Lieutenant  Beauton  was  unmarried.  Surviving  him  are 
his  parents,  a  brother,  and  two  sisters. 


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Albert  Dillon  Sturtevant,  Ph.B.  1916 

Born  May  2,  1894,  in  Washington,  D.  C. 
Died  February  15,  1918,  in  European  waters 

Albert  Dillon  Sturtevant,  whose  parents  were  Charles 
Lyon  and  Bessie  (Dillon)  Sturtevant,  was  born  May  2, 
1894,  in  Washington,  D.  C.  His  father  received  the 
degrees  of  B.S.,  LL.B.,  and  M.L.  at  Columbian  University 
in  1885,  1888,  and  1889,  respectively,  and  is  now  the  senior 
member  of  the  firm  of  Sturtevant  &  Mason,  patent  lawyers 
of  Washington,  D.  C. ;  he  is  the  son  of  Albert  Lyon  and 
Susan  (Kinsley)  Sturtevant  and  a  descendant  of  Mary 
Chilton,  who  came  over  in  the  Mayflower,  settling  at 
Plymouth.  His  mother's  parents  were  M.  A.  Dillon,  who 
served  with  the  26.  New  Hampshire  Volunteers  during  the 
Civil  War,  receiving  the  Medal  of  Honor,  and  Theresa 
(Quinn)  Dillon. 

He  received  his  preparatory  training  at  the  Western  High 
School  in  Washington  and  at  Phillips  Academy,  Andover, 
Mass.,  graduating  in  the  Class  of  1912.  He  entered  Yale 
in  1912,  but  in  1914  joined  the  Class  with  which  he  was 
graduated.  His  course  was  that  in  mechanical  engineering. 
He  rowed  on  the  19 16  Freshman  Crew  and  was  a  member 
of  the  University  Crew  for  three  years,  being  its  captain  in 

1915- 

In  the  fall  of  1916  he  entered  the  Harvard  Law  School. 
He  had  previously  enrolled  in  the  Yale  Aviation  Corps 
formed  by  Payne  Whitney,  '98,  in  June,  1916,  and  after 
preliminary  training  on  Long  Island,  later  in  the  summer 
of  1 9 16  he  trained  on  the  government  machines  at  Gov- 
ernor's Island.  In  the  fall  of  1916  he  enrolled  with  Aerial 
Coast  Patrol  Unit  No.  i,  organized  by  F.  Trubee  Davison 
(B.A.  1918),  which  was  afterwards  known  as  the  Hunting- 
ton Unit.  He  was  commissioned  as  an  Ensign  in  the  U.  S. 
Naval  Reserve  Flying  Corps  on  March  26,  1917.  He  first 
went  with  his  unit  to  West  Palm  Beach,  Fla.,  remaining 
until  June,  191 7,  when  the  unit  was  ordered  to  Huntington, 
Long  Island.  There  he  received  his  final  aviation  training 
in  this  country.  As  the  individual  members  of  the  unit  were 
sufficiently  trained,  they  were  ordered  to  other  stations  or 
abroad.  He  was  one  of  the  first  to  go  abroad,  receiving  his 
orders  in  August  and  sailing  early  in  September.     He  spent 


1916  7^3 

two  months  in  France  in  intensive  training  and  in  Novem- 
ber was  detailed  to  the  British  Royal  Naval  Air  Service, 
being  assigned  to  the  station  at  Felixstowe,  England.  He 
was  pilot  of  a  naval  seaplane  and  engaged  in  flight  work  on 
the  North  Sea, — patrolling  and  bombing.  He  was  shot 
down  February  15,  1918,  in  a  combat  with  ten  enemy  planes 
and  no  trace  of  him,  any  of  his  crew,  or  his  machine  have 
been  found.  He  was  the  first  naval  aviator  in  the  service 
of  the  United  States  to  be  brought  down  in  action.  The 
medal  of  the  Aero  Club  of  America  was  awarded  to  him 
posthumously. 

He  is  survived  by  his  father,  a  sister,  and  two  brothers. 
He  was  unmarried.  He  belonged  to  the  Church  of  the 
Covenant  (Presbyterian)  of  Washington,  D.  C. 


John  Prout  West,  Ph.B.   1916 


Born  October  3,  1894,  in  Rutland.  Vt. 
Died  June  28,  1918,  near  Halluin,  France 


^B  John  Prout  West  was  born  October  3,  1894,  in  Rutland, 
^■Vt.  He  was  the  son  of  Charles  Henry  West,  treasurer  of 
^Khe  Rutland  Railway  Light  &  Power  Company,  and  Mary 
^^temith  (Prout)  West.  He  received  his  preparatory  train- 
^Bng  at  the  Rutland  High  School  and  at  Phillips  Academy, 
^■^ndover,  Mass.  He  took  the  mechanical  engineering 
^fcourse  in  the  Sheffield  Scientific  School,  from  which  he 
^graduated  in  19 16. 

He  spent  the  summer  of  191 6  with  the  Yale  Batteries  at 
Tobyhanna,  Pa.,  and  then  became  connected  with  the  Pol- 
lard Manufacturing  Company  at  Niagara  Falls,  N.  Y.,  as 
a  mechanical   engineer.      In    May,    1917,   he   entered   the 
Officers'  Training  Camp  at  Plattsburg,  N.  Y.,  leaving  there 
in  July  to  join  the  Royal  Flying  Corps,  in  which  he  enlisted 
IgLon  the  fourteenth  of  the  month.     His  preliminary  training 
I^Bvas  received  in  Canada,  and  on  October  12,  1917,  he  was 
■^^iven  his   commission   as   a   Second   Lieutenant.     He  left 
fl      Montreal  for  England  two  weeks  later,  and  was  afterwards 
stationed  at  Port  Meadow,  Oxford,  and  in  Scotland,  as  a 
member  of  the  Royal  Flying  Corps.    He  was  sent  to  France 
in  April,  1918.  and  from  that  time  until  his  death  was  con- 
tinuously at  the   front,   serving  with  the  88th   Squadron, 


784  SHEFFIELD   SCIENTIFIC    SCHOOL 

Royal  Air  Forces.  On  June  28,  1918,  he  was  killed  during 
an  encounter  with  an  enemy  airplane  near  Halluin,  France. 
His  body  fell  within  the  German  lines.  Lieutenant  West 
had  been  credited  with  three  enemy  planes. 

He  was  unmarried,  and  is  survived  by  his  parents  and  a 
sister. 


Marston  Edson  Banks,  Ph.B.   19 17 

Born  July  27,  1895,  in  Bridgeport,  Conn. 
Died  June  13,  1918,  in  Yaphank,  N.  Y. 

Marston  Edson  Banks  was  born  in  Bridgeport,  Conn., 
July  27,  1895,  the  son  of  Charles  Lincoln  and  Edith  Mar- 
garet (Marston)  Banks.  His  father  received  the  deg'ree 
of  B.S.  at  Lehigh  University  in  1888  and  that  of  M.D.  at 
Columbia  three  years  later.  He  has  been  practicing  his 
profession  in  Bridgeport  since  1891,  and  during  the  war 
held  a  Captain's  commission  in  the  Medical  Reserve  Corps. 
He  is  the  son  of  Moses  Edson  and  Amelia  (Collins)  Banks. 
Mrs.  Banks'  parents  were  Seward  Bainbridge  and  Harriet 
(Haskell)  Marston.  Through  her,  Marston  Banks  was 
descended  from  John  Alden  of  Plymouth.  Mass. 

Before  entering  Yale  in  1914  he  graduated  from  the 
Bridgeport  High  School.  His  course  in  the  Sheffield  Scien- 
tific School  was  that  in  mechanical  engineering.  He 
received  his  Ph.B.  cum  laude,  was  given  general  two-year 
honors  for  excellence  in  all  studies  at  graduation,  and  was 
a  member  of  Sigma  Xi.  In  Freshman  year  he  received 
honors  of  the  second  grade.  He  served  on  the  Y.  M.  C.  A. 
Industrial  Committee,  and  won  the  Yale  Sheffield  Monthly 
contributors'  charm. 

On  April  15.  191 7,  he  enlisted  in  the  U.  S.  Naval  Reserve 
Force  as  a  Machinist's  Mate,  Second  Class,  and  seven 
months  later  was  promoted  to  be  a  Machinist's  Mate.  First 
Class.  He  was  raised  to  the  grade  of  a  Chief  Carpenter's 
Mate  on  April  i,  1918.  His  death  occurred  June  13,  1918, 
at  the  Base  Hospital  at  Camp  Upton,  Yaphank,  N.  Y., 
during  an  operation  for  tonsillotomy.  Burial  was  in 
Mountain  Grove  Cemetery  at  Bridgeport.  Mr.  Banks 
spent  the  first  five  months  of  his  service  on  a  patrol  boat 
and  the  remainder  of  the  time  at  the  Bureau  of  Construction 
and  Repairs  at  the  New  Y^ork  Navy  Yard, 


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I9I6-I9I7  785 

He  was  a  member  of  St.  John's  Church  of  Bridgeport. 
He  was  unmarried.  His  parents  survive  him.  He  was  a 
cousin  of  Rev.  Geors^e  W.  Banks,  '63,  of  John  W.  Banks, 
'89  and  '93  L.,  and  of  Cecil  B.  Gardner,  '12. 

James  Horace  Higginbotham,  Ph.B.  1917 

Born  September  15,  1893,  in  Dublin,  Texas 
Died  February  23,  1918,  at  Fort  Worth,  Texas 

James  Horace  Higginbotham  was  born  September  15, 
i8q3,  at  Dublin,  Texas,  his  parents  being  Rufus  Wilson 
and  Hattie  Louise  (Smith)  Higginbotham.  His  father  is 
president  of  the  Higginbotham,  Bailey,  Logan  Company, 
merchants,  of  Dallas,  Texas.  He  is  the  son  of  John  James 
and  Lucy  Ann  (Taylor)  Higginbotham.  His  mother's 
parents  were  Horace  Aurelius  and  Alice  Jane  (Huey) 
Smith. 

He  was  prepared  for  Yale  at  the  Terrill  School  in  Dallas, 
and  entered  the  Sheffield  Scientific  School  in  IQ13.  During 
1912-13  he  was  a  student  at  the  University  of  Texas,  where 
he  was  a  member  of  the  Football  Team.  He  spent  three 
years  with  the  Class  of  1916S.,  taking  the  select  course, 
but  did  not  receive  his  degree  until  191 7.  In  1916  he  was 
a  member  of  the  University  Football  Team,  and  he  was 
also  interested  in  track.  ^ 

On  April  23,  1917.  he  enlisted  in  the  U.  S.  Naval  Reserve 
Force,  and  immediately  after  graduating  from  Yale  was 
sent  to  New  London,  Conn.  He  was  later  stationed  at  New 
Haven.  He  was  assigned  to  patrol  duty  and  had  obtained 
practice  in  mine  laying.  In  December,  191 7,  he  was  trans- 
ferred to  the  Naval  Aviation  Service  as  a  Cadet  and  while 
awaiting  a  call  to  the  Ground  School  at  the  Massachusetts 
Institute  of  Technology,  was  at  his  home  in  Dallas,  study- 
ing wireless  telegraphy  as  prescribed  for  aviators  and  also 
the  mechanism  of  airplanes.  On  February  22  he  was 
ordered  to  Fort  Worth,  Texas.  His  death  occurred  at 
Hicks  Field  the  next  day,  when  his  machine  fell  from  a 
height  of  about  one  thousand  feet.  He  had  made  several 
previous  flights  at  Fort  Worth.  A  board  of  inquiry 
reported  that  he  met  his  death  in  the  line  of  regular  duty. 
His  body  was  taken  to  Dallas  for  burial  in  Grove  Hill 
Cemetery. 

He  was  unmarried.     In   addition   to   his   parents,  he   is 


786  SHEFFIELD   SCIENTIFIC    SCHOOL 

survived  by  five  sisters  and  three  brothers.  Joe  M.  Hig-gin- 
botham,  Jr.,  who  received  the  degree  of  B.S.  from  Baylor 
University  in  1907  and  that  of  B.A.  at  Yale  the  next  year, 
is  a  cousin. 


Frank  Browne  Turner,  Ph.B.   191 7 

Born  September  21,  1895,  in  Wicomico,  Md. 
Died  January  30,  1918,  in  France 

Frank  Browne  Turner  was  the  son  of  Robert  Hall  Turner, 
a  farmer,  and  Mary  (Keech)  Turner,  and  was  born  Sep- 
tember 21,  1895,  at  Wicomico,  Md.  His  paternal  grand- 
parents were  John  R.  and  Mary  Hall  Turner,  and  his 
maternal  grandparents  were  James  A.  and  Emily  Beall 
Keech.  His  father's  ancestors  came  from  England  to  St. 
Mary's  County,  Md.  His  mother's  ancestors  founded 
Charlotte  Hall  Academy  in  St.  Mary's  County  and  the 
family  has  always  been  actively  interested  in  the  welfare 
of  the  school. 

Before  entering  Yale  in  191 4  he  attended  the  Oilman 
Country  School  in  Baltimore  and  the  Browning  School. 
New  York  City.  He  took  the  select  course.  In  Ereshman 
year  he  went  out  for  baseball. 

He  joined  the  New  York  Naval  Militia  in  April,  191 7, 
but  in  June  was  transferred  to  the  Aviation  Section  of  the 
Signal  Corps.  He  then  was  sent  to  the  Ground  School  at 
the  Massachusetts  Institute  of  Technology.  Upon  com- 
pleting a  three-months  course  there,  he  was  ordered  to 
Mineola,  Long  Island,  for  instruction  in  flying.  He  was 
commissioned  as  a  First  Lieutenant  in  the  Aviation  Section 
of  the  Signal  Corps  in  September,  191 7,  and  in  October 
went  overseas  in  charge  of  a  detachment  of  cadets.  He 
was  instantly  killed  in  an  airplane  accident  at  the  Third 
Aviation  Instruction  Center  in  France,  January  30,  1918. 
He  had  been  preparing  to  fly  in  a  type  of  machine  used  for 
bombing,  and  his  death  occurred  shortly  before  the  com- 
pletion of  his  advanced  training. 

Lieutenant  Turner  was  a  member  of  Trinity  Episcopal 
Church  of  Wicomico.  He  was  not  married.  Surviving 
him  are  his  parents,  a  sister,  and  two  brothers,  one  of 
whom,  William  C.  Turner,  received  the  degree  of  Ph.B.  at 
Yale  in  1914. 


GRADUATE  SCHOOL 
Wayne  Swartz,  M.A.   1905 

Born  July  25,  1878,  in  Wooster,  Ohio 
Died  March  26,  1918,  in  Bridgeport,  Conn. 

Wayne  Swartz,  son  of  Hiram  Buel  Swartz,  an  attorney, 
who  received  the  degrees  of  B.A.  and  LL.B.  from  the  Uni- 
versity of  Michigan  in  1872,  and  Martha  (Davies)  Swartz, 
was  born  July  25,  1878,  in  Wooster,  Ohio.  His  father  was 
the  son  of  Samuel  and  Mary  (Miller)  Swartz.  His 
mother's  parents  were  David  and  Anne  (Reese)  Davies. 

He  was  prepared  for  college  at  the  Wooster  High 
School,  and  in  1900  graduated  from  the  College  of  Wooster, 
receiving  the  degree  of  B.A.  He  then  spent  two  years 
as  an  instructor  in  English  literature  in  the  Coshocton 
High  School  at  Coshocton,  Ohio,  and  a  similar  period  as 
head  of  the  English  department  in  the  high  school  at  Chilli- 
cothe,  Ohio.  He  studied  history  in  the  Yale  Graduate 
School  from  1904  to  1907,  and  received  the  degree  of  M.A. 
in  1905.  From  1905  until  his  illness  in  1916  he  was  head 
of  the  English  department  in  the  high  school  at  Bridgeport, 
Conn.  He  died  March  26,  1918,  in  that  city,  after  an  ill- 
ness of  nearly  two  years,  due  to  tuberculosis.  He  was 
buried  in  the  Oak  Lawn  Cemetery  at  Southport,  Conn. 

On  November  30,  191 1,  he  was  married  to  Kathleen  E. 
Gilbert  of  Bridgeport,  who  survives  him.  His  parents,  two 
sisters, — one  of  whom,  Mary  Davies  (Swartz)  Rose,  took 
her  Ph.D.  at  Yale  in  1909, — and  a  brother  are  also  living. 


Charles  Eugene  Underwood,  M.A.  1910 

Born  April  2,  1875,  in  Pennville,  Ind. 
Died  July  3,  1917,  in  Indianapolis,  Ind. 

Charles  Eugene  Underwood,  son  of  Isaac  Underwood,  a 
merchant,  and  Martha  J.  (Taylor)  Underwood,  was  bom 
April  2,  1875,  in  Pennville,  Ind.  He  was  of  Welsh 
descent,  and  traced  his  ancestry  to  Zephaniah  Underwood, 


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a  native  of  Pennsylvania.  His  father's  parents  were  Wil- 
liam and  Mary  Williams  Thomas  Underwood,  and  his 
mother  was  the  daughter  of  Joshua  and  Elizabeth  (Lepley) 
Taylor.  His  father  was  elected  to  the  Indiana  Legislature 
in  i860  and  served  during  the  Civil  War.  From  1874  to 
1878  he  was  a  member  of  the  State  Senate. 

He  received  his  preparatory  training  in  the  Marion 
(Ind.)  High  School,  and  after  his  graduation  there  went  to 
Butler  College,  from  which  he  received  the  degree  of  B.A. 
in  1903,  and  that  of  M.A.  in  1904.  He  was  ordained  to  the 
ministry  February  23,  1899.  During  the  year  1904-05  he 
was  pastor  of  the  Christian  Church  in  Summitville,  Ind., 
going  from  there  to  the  Fourth  Christian  Church  of  Indian- 
apolis. From  1907  until  1910  he  was  a  graduate  student  at 
Yale,  where  he  received  the  degree  of  M.A.  in  1910,  and 
that  of  Ph.D.  in  1912.  During  1907-08  he  served  as  direc- 
tor of  religious  work  in  New  Haven,  and  from  1909  to 
191 1  he  was  pastor  of  the  North  Congregational  Church  at 
North  Woodbury,  Conn. 

After  leaving  Yale  he  became  professor  of  Old  Testa- 
ment literature  in  the  Bible  College  of  the  University  of 
Missouri.  During  1912-13  he  was  president  of  Eureka 
College,  Eureka,  111.,  and  since  1913  he  had  been  professor 
of  Old  Testament  language  and  literature  at  Butler  College. 
He  had  always  continued  active  in  the  affairs  of  the  Dis- 
ciples of  Christ  Church.  Besides  being  secretary  of  the 
Board  of  Education  of  that  body  from  1912  to  1917,  he  was 
a  member  of  its  State  Missionary  Board.  In  February, 
191 7,  he  was  engaged  in  active  field  work  for  the  "Men  and 
Millions"  movement  in  Oklahoma,  being  on  leave  of 
absence  from  his  college  duties. 

Professor  Underwood  died  at  his  home  in  Irvington, 
Indianapolis,  Ind.,  July  3,  191 7,  after  an  illness  of  several 
months  from  cancer  of  the  stomach.  Interment  was  in  the 
Crown  Hill  Cemetery  at  Indianapohs. 

He  was  married  June  25,  1902,  in  Marion,  Ind.,  to  Leola, 
daughter  of  Elias  and  Miranda  (Thrasher)  Dickey.  Mrs. 
Underwood  survives  with  their  son,  Eugene  Taylor.  A 
sister  also  survives. 


M.A.    I9IO-PH.D.    1894  789 


Charlotte  Fitch  Roberts,  Ph.D.  1894 

Born  February  13,  1859,  in  New  York  City 
Died  December  5,  1917,  in  Wellesley,  Mass. 

Charlotte  Fitch  Roberts  was  born  February  13,  1859,  in 
New  York  City.  She  was  the  daughter  of  Horace  and 
Mary  (Hart)  Roberts.  Her  grandparents  were  Horace 
and  Mary  (Nims)  Roberts  and  Holloway  L.  and  Mary 
(Carter)  Hart.  Horace  Roberts,  Sr.,  was  a  brilhant  law- 
yer of  Whittingham,  Vt. ;  and  both  he  and  his  wife,  the 
daughter  of  Lieutenant  Hull  Nims  and  Hannah  (Newton) 
Nims  of  Greenfield,  Mass.,  were  descendants  of  Godfrey 
Nims,  the  pioneer  settler  of  Old  Deerfield.  Rev.  Thomas 
Hooker  and  Rev.  Roger  Newton,  both  of  Connecticut, 
were  other  ancestors  of  Hannah  Newton. 

Miss  Roberts'  girlhood,  after  her  mother's  death,  was 
passed  at  the  Nims  homestead,  and  she  was  prepared  in 
Greenfield,  Mass.,  for  college.  She  was  graduated  from 
Wellesley  College  in  1880.  Subsequently  she  studied  at 
the  University  of  Cambridge,  England,  and  at  Yale  Univer- 
sity, from  which  she  received  the  degree  of  Ph.D.  in  1894. 
She  became  instructor  in  chemistry  in  Wellesley  College 
in  1882,  associate  professor  in  1886,  and  full  professor  in 
1894.  In  1899  Miss  Roberts  went  abroad  for  study  in 
Berlin,  Germany,  and  later  she  studied  at  Heidelberg  and 
in  France  and  England.  She  was  a  member  of  various 
scientific  societies  and  of  Phi  Beta  Kappa.  Miss  Roberts 
was  the  author  of  a  work  on  stereochemistry,  of  which 
Professor  Gooch  of  Yale  wrote:  "To  my  mind  it  is  the 
clearest  exposition  of  which  I  have  knowledge  of  the  prin- 
ciples and  conditions  of  stereochemistry,  and  there  is 
nothing  in  English  which  covers  similar  ground  so  broadly 
and  so  lucidly."  For  some  years  she  was  engaged  in 
research  into  the  life  and  work  of  Paracelsus,  his  place 
and  that  of  the  later  alchemists  in  the  development  of 
chemistry.  She  was  a  member  of  the  English  Alchemical 
Society  and  a  Fellow  of  the  American  Association  for  the 
Advancement  of  Science. 

She  was  a  member  of  the  Congregational  Church  at 
Wellesley,  Mass.  She  died  December  5,  191 7,  at  her  home 
in  Wellesley,  after  an  illness  of  five  days,  due  to  cere- 
bral  hemorrhage.      She   is    survived   by   a    foster-brother, 


79©  GRADUATE   SCHOOL 

Francis  Nims  Thompson,  judge  of  the  Probate  Court  in 
Greenfield.  Her  sister,  Mary  CordeUa  Roberts,  died  in 
1909. 

Mary  Augusta  Scott,  Ph.D.  1894 

Born  December  29,  185 1,  in  Dayton,  Ohio 
Died  March  28,  1918,  in  Baltimore,  Md. 

Mary  Augusta  Scott  was  born  in  Dayton,  Ohio,  Decem- 
ber 29,  185 1,  the  daughter  of  Abram  McLean  and  Julia 
Anne  (Boyer)  Scott.  Her  father's  parents  were  Hugh  and 
Jean  (Latta)  Scott,  and  her  mother  was  the  daughter  of 
Jacob  and  Elizabeth  (Lauck)  Boyer.  Her  ancestors  gave 
efficient  service  to  the  country  in  the  early  Colonial  days 
and  many  of  them  fought  in  the  Revolution. 

She  graduated  from  Vassar  College  in  1876,  receiving 
the  degree  of  B.A.,  and  took  her  M.A.  there  in  1882.  She 
was  vice  principal  of  the  Girls'  High  School  in  Washing- 
ton, D.  C,  from  1877  until  1882,  and  afterwards  served 
for  a  year  as  instructor  in  rhetoric  and  Anglo-Saxon  at 
Vassar  College.  From  1883  to  1888  she  was  head  of  the 
English  department  at  the  Packer  Collegiate  Institute, 
Brooklyn,  N.  Y.,  meanwhile  having  spent  the  year  1886-87 
at  Newnham  College,  Cambridge,  England.  From  1889 
to  1 89 1  she  was  English  mistress  at  the  Bryn  Mawr  School 
in  Baltimore,  Md.,  and  at  the  same  time  studied  Romance 
languages  at  Johns  Hopkins  University.  From  1892  to 
1894  she  studied  in  the  Yale  Graduate  School.  She  was 
the  first  woman  to  hold  a  Fellowship  at  Yale,  and  received 
the  degree  of  Ph.D.  in  1894.  From  1894  to  1897  she  was 
assistant  to  Dr.  Howard  A.  Kelly  at  the  Johns  Hopkins 
Medical  School.  Since  1897  she  had  been  teaching  Eng- 
lish at  Smith  College,  serving  as  an  instructor  until  1902, 
when  she  was  made  professor.  Miss  Scott  was  a  member 
of  Phi  Beta  Kappa,  the  Modern  Language  Association  of 
America,  the  Dante  Society  of  Cambridge,  Mass.,  and  the 
Hawick  Archaeological  Society  of  Hawick,  Scotland.  She 
was  the  author  of  "Hugh  Scott,  an  Immigrant  of  1670, 
and  his  Descendants"  (with  John  Scott;  1895);  "The 
Book  of  the  Courtyer;  a  Possible  Source  of  Benedick  and 
Beatrice"  (1901);  "The  Essays  of  Francis  Bacon,  with 
Introduction,  Notes,  and  Index"  (1908)  ;  and  "The  Italian 
Novella"   (1911).     Two  books  by  Dr.  Howard  A.  Kelly 


1894-1910  791 

were  edited  by  Miss  Scott, — "Operative  Gynecology,"  in 
1898,  and  "Walter  Reed  and  Yellow  Fever,"  in  1906.  She 
had  contributed  to  The  Dial  since  1898,  and  had  also 
written  many  reviews  and  critiques  for  literary  and  aca- 
demic journals. 

Miss  Scott  died  March  28,  1918,  in  Baltimore,  after  an 
illness  of  several  months  due  to  cancer.  Interment  was  in 
the  family  lot  in  Rock  Creek  Cemetery,  Washington,  D.  C. 
She  is  survived  by  four  brothers  and  two  sisters. 


DeLorme  Donaldson  Cairnes,  Ph.D.  1910 

Born  August  21,  1879,  in  Culloden,  Ontario,  Canada 
Died  June  14,  1917,  in  Ottawa,  Ontario,  Canada 

DeLorme  Donaldson  Cairnes  was  born  on  August  21, 
1879,  i"^  Culloden,  Ontario,  Canada.  He  was  the  son  of 
John  A.  and  Annette  (Chapin)  Cairnes.  His  mother  was 
the  daughter  of  James  M.  and  Helen  Chapin. 

He  received  his  preparatory  training  at  the  Collegiate 
Institute  in  Stratford,  and  was  graduated  with  the  degree 
of  B.S.  from  Queen's  University  in  1905.  He  took  his 
M.E.  there  in  1906.  In  1905  he  was  appointed  to  the  staff 
of  the  Geological  Survey,  Department  of  Mines  of  Canada, 
and  spent  the  winter  of  1907-08  at  the  Royal  School  of 
Mines  at  Freiberg,  Germany,  and  the  winter  of  1908-09  at 
the  University  of  Heidelberg.  He  then  began  work  in 
the  Yale  Graduate  School,  receiving  the  degree  of  Ph.D. 
in  19 10.  His  most  important  work  was  done  in  the  Yukon, 
where  he  spent  the  last  eleven  summers  of  his  life  in  geo- 
logical investigations  and  exploration  for  the  Canadian 
Geological  Survey.  The  results  of  his  work  have  been 
published  in  the  form  of  memoirs  and  reports  and  as  con- 
tributions to  scientific  journals. 

Dr.  Cairnes  died  July  14,  1917,  at  Ottawa,  after  an 
illness  of  two  weeks.  His  death  was  due  to  an  affection  of 
the  outer  ear,  which  resulted  in  blood  poisoning.  He  was 
buried  in  Vancouver,  British  Columbia. 

He  was  married  in  October,  1907,  to  Florence  Mary, 
daughter  of  Dr.  T.  M.  Fenwick  and  Mary  Fenwick  of 
Kingston,  Ontario,  who  died  in  November,  1914,  leaving 
no  children.  He  attended  St.  Andrew's  Presbyterian 
Church,  Ottawa. 


SCHOOL  OF  MEDICINE 
Walter  Seward  Hunger,  M.D.   1855 

Born  December  31,  1829,  in  Madison,  Conn. 
Died  June  16,  1918,  in  Watertown,  Conn. 

Walter  Seward  Hunger  was  born  December  31,  1829, 
in  Madison  (then  East  Guilford),  Conn.  He  was  the  son 
of  Walter  Price  Hunger,  a  farmer,  and  Elisa  (Seward) 
Hunger.  His  father  was  the  son  of  Wyllis  and  Hester 
(Hand)  Hunger,  and  his  mother's  parents  were  Jason  and 
Amelia  (Judson)  Seward. 

He  prepared  for  Yale  at  Lee's  Academy,  and  taught  for 
several  years  before  entering  the  School  of  Hedicine  in 
1853.  He  received  the  degree  of  H.D.  in  1855,  and  then 
practiced  for  a  few  years  in  Bergen,  N.  Y.  In  1858  he 
removed  to  Watertown,  Conn.,  where  he  afterwards  fol- 
lowed his  profession.  He  served  for  many  years  as  medical 
examiner  and  health  officer.  He  belonged  to  the  Congre- 
gational Church. 

Dr.  Hunger  died  June  i'6,  1918,  in  Watertown,  after  an 
illness  of  several  years  due  to  old  age.  Interment  was  in 
Evergreen  Cemetery,  Watertown. 

He  was  married  February  11,  1855,  at  Hadison,  to  Lucy 
Haria,  daughter  of  Zenas  and  Lovisa  (Heigs)  Wilcox, 
who  died  February  11,  1906.  Their  son,  Carl  Eugene 
Hunger  (Ph.B.  1880,  H.D.  Columbia  1883),  survives. 


Edwin  George.  Sumner,  M.D.  1855 

Born  May  15,  1830,  in  Tolland,  Conn. 
Died  September  13,  1916,  in  Mansfield  Center,  Conn. 

Edwin  George  Sumner  was  born  at  Tolland,  Conn.,  Hay 
15,  1830,  the  son  of  William  Augustus  Sumner,  a  farmer, 
and  Anna  (Washburn)  Sumner.  His  father's  parents  were 
William  and  Jemima  (Tarbox)  Sumner,  and  his  mother 
was  the  daughter  of  Levi  Washburn  of  Harlboro.  He 
traced  his  descent  to  William  Sumner,  who  came  to  this 


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i855  793 

country  from  Bicester,  Oxfordshire,  England,  in  1636, 
settling  at  Dorchester,  Mass. 

He  received  his  preparatory  training  at  the  Wilbraham 
(Mass.)  Academy,  and  before  entering  Yale  in  1852  he 
taught  school  at  Tolland  and  Vernon,  and  attended  for  five 
months  the  Medical  Department  of  New  York  University. 
Immediately  after  receiving  his  degree  at  Yale,  he  began 
practice  in  Mansfield,  Conn.,  three  years  later  removing  to 
Farmington,  Conn.,  where  he  practiced  for  a  similar  period. 
He  returned  to  Mansfield  at  the  outbreak  of  the  Civil  War, 
and  was  given  a  commission  as  an  Assistant  Surgeon  in 
the  2 1  St  Connecticut  Volunteers,  but  owing  to  a  severe  ill- 
ness in  his  family  saw  no  active  service.  He  continued  in 
practice  as  a  physician  for  several  years.  In  1864  he 
removed  to  Dayton,  Ohio,  where  the  next  eight  years 
were  spent  with  the  Wheeler  &  Wilson  Sewing  Machine 
Company.  His  home  had  been  on  a  farm  in  Mansfield 
Center  during  the  last  forty-five  years  of  his  life,  but  he 
was  in  the  habit  of  spending  the  winter  in  Dayton.  He  was 
a  member  of  the  Connecticut  Legislature  in  1875  and  again 
in  1883,  and  in  the  latter  year  was  chosen  county  com- 
missioner for  a  three-year  term.  He  served  for  many  years 
as  a  justice  of  the  peace,  and  had  held  many  minor  town 
offices.  For  a  number  of  years  he  was  a  member  of  the 
Mansfield  School  Board,  and  he  was  a  deacon  of  the  Baptist 
Church  of  Willimantic.  Dr.  Sumner  died  September  13, 
1916,  at  his  home  in  Mansfield  Center,  following  an  illness 
of  two  years  due  to  diabetes.  Interment  was  in  Mansfield 
Center. 

He  was  married  November  13,  1854,  in  that  town,  to 
Mary  S.,  daughter  of  Asa  Josiah  Hinckley  (B.A.  1829)  and 
Abby  Ann  (Jepson)  Hinckley.  She  died  April  5,  J  859, 
and  on  April  12,  i860,  in  Hartford,  Conn.,  he  married  her 
sister,  Ellen  M.  Hinckley,  who  was  a  student  at  Mount 
Holyoke  Seminary  (now  College)  during  1856-57.  She 
died  June  29,  191 5.  By  his  second  marriage  he  had  two 
daughters :  Mary  Hinckley,  who  was  married  September  5, 
1888,  to  Willard  D.  Chamberlin  of  Dayton,  Ohio,  and  Nellie 
Maria,  a  graduate  of  Oberlin  College  in  1891,  who  was 
married  September  5,  1894,  to  Virgil  L.  Brooks,  also  a 
resident  of  Dayton.    His  daughters  survive. 


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James  Augustus  Bigelow,  M.D.  1861 

Born  September  15,  1837,  in  Ashtabula,  Ohio 
Died  April  i,  1917,  in  Elkhart,  Ind. 

James  Augustus  Bigelow,  son  of  Augustus  Bigelow,  a 
farmer,  and  Frances  (Fenn)  Bigelow,  was  born  in  Ashta- 
bula, Ohio,  September  15,  1837.  When  he  was  two  years 
old  his  parents  returned  to  the  family  home  in  East  Canaan, 
Conn.,  and  there  his  boyhood  was  spent.  He  was  of  Eng- 
lish descent,  tracing  his  ancestry  to  John  Bigelow,  who 
came  to  Watertown,  Conn.,  in  1710. 

He  came  to  New  Haven  in  1859  and  began  the  study  of 
medicine  at  Yale.  He  had  previously  traveled  through  the 
West  and  visited  the  East  Indies.  At  the  beginning  of  the 
Civil  War  he  was  commissioned  a  Surgeon,  with  the  rank 
of  Major,  in  the  8th  Connecticut  Infantry.  He  was  later 
transferred  in  the  same  capacity  to  the  nth  Connecticut, 
in  which  he  served  until  the  end  of  the  war.  He  was  then 
offered  the  position  of  chief  surgeon  at  Bellevue  Hospital, 
New  York  City,  but  declined  as  he  was  anxious  to  follow 
other  lines  of  activity.  After  spending  some  years  in  Pitts- 
burgh, he  removed  to  Elkhart,  Ind.,  where  he  entered  the 
construction  business.  Later  he  took  a  position  with  a  paper 
manufacturing  concern,  leaving  their  employ  to  take  charge 
of  the  chemical  department  of  Mr.  H.  E.  Bucklen's  labora- 
tory. He  served  in  the  same  capacity  for  the  Bucklen  plant 
after  it  was  removed  to  Chicago,  and  later  in  Canada. 
About  1880  he  settled  on  a  farm  at  Hitchcock,  S.  Dak.,  but 
in  1886  returned  to  Elkhart.  For  a  time  he  was  a  traveling 
salesman  for  the  Miles  Company,  and  he  was  later  a  mem- 
ber of  its  office  staff.  At  the  time  of  his  retirement  some 
years  ago  he  was  a  bookkeeper  for  the  Godfrey  Lumber 
&  Coal  Company.  He  had  served  as  a  city  pouncilman,  park 
commissioner,  county  probation  officer,  and  a  member  of 
the  State  Board  of  Children's  Guardians.  He  had  traveled 
extensively  in  this  country  and  Canada  and  had  twice 
visited  England.  He  died  April  i,  191 7,  at  his  home  in 
Elkhart,  after  a  two  weeks'  illness  due  to  pneumonia.  He 
was  buried  in  Grace  Lawn  Cemetery  at  Elkhart. 

Mr.  Bigelow  was  married  July  22,  1871,  in  Edwardsburg, 
Mich.,  to  Mrs.  Mary  (Turnock)  Bender,  daughter  of  Ben- 
jamin and  Mary  Turnock  and  widow  of  Jefferson  Bender. 


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She  survives  him  with  their  only  child,  Frances,  who 
graduated  from  the  Palmer  School  of  Chiropractic  at 
Davenport,  Iowa,  with  the  degree  of  D.C.  in  191 1.  A  step- 
daughter, Mrs.  Annie  Bender  Reid,  is  also  living. 


Henry  Fleischner,  M.D.   1878 

Born  June  24,  1845,  in  Marienbad,  Austria 
Died  January  20,  1918,  in  New  Haven,  Conn. 

Henry  Fleischner  was  born  in  Marienbad,  Austria,  June 
24,  1845,  t^^  son  of  Samuel  Fleischner,  a  native  of  Diirr- 
maul,  Austria,  and  Charlotte  (Nadler)  Fleischner,  also  an 
Austrian  by  birth.  The  family  came  to  this  country  in 
1851,  and  Henry  Fleischner  received  his  early  education  at 
the  Lancasterian  School  in  New  Haven,  Conn.  Before 
entering  the  Yale  School  of  Medicine  in  1876  he  was 
engaged  in  various  pursuits,  among  them  literary  work 
with  a  New  York  paper. 

His  entire  life  since  graduation  had  been  spent  in  the 
practice  of  medicine  in  New  Haven.  In  recent  years  he  had 
given  his  attention  to  diseases  of  the  skin  and  was  highly 
regarded  as  a  specialist  in  this  direction.  Dr.  Fleischner 
was  one  of  the  organizers  of  the  New  Haven  Dispensary, 
serving  first  as  attending  physician  and  later  as  derma- 
tologist. In  1902  he  retired  from  active  service  and  was 
appointed  consulting  physician.  He  was  a  lecturer  in  the 
Yale  School  of  Medicine  on  foods  and  poisons  in  1880  and 
1881  and  on  dermatology  from  1882  to  1898.  From  Feb- 
ruary I,  1893,  to  February  i,  1909,  he  was  a  member  of 
the  Board  of  Health  of  New  Haven,  acting  for  the  majority 
of  the  sixteen  years  as  its  presiding  officer.  He  was  a 
persistent  advocate  of  more  advanced  measures  in  sanita- 
tion, and  urged  the  necessity  of  a  municipal  contagious 
disease  hospital,  the  establishment  of  a  bacteriological 
laboratory  and  other  allied  reforms  little  considered  at  that 
period,  but  now  accepted  as  necessities  by  all  well-ordered 
communities  of  any  size.  He  had  served  as  senior  attending 
physician  at  the  Hospital  of  St.  Raphael  since  1909,  and 
from  1 88 1  to  1899  was  attending  physician  at  the  New 
Haven  Hospital.  He  belonged  to  the  New  Haven  City 
and  County  Medical  societies,  the  Connecticut  State  Medical 


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Society,  and  the  American  Medical  Association.  His  death 
occurred  January  20,  191 8,  at  his  residence  in  New  Haven. 
He  had  been  ill  for  two  weeks  with  pneumonia.  Burial 
was  in  the  family  plot  at  B'nai  Sholom  Cemetery  at 
Highwood,  Conn. 

Dr.  Fleischner  was  married  January  3,  1882,  in  Bridge- 
port, Conn.,  to  Sarah,  daughter  of  Mary  and  John  Duffie  of 
Summit,  N.  J.,  who  survives  him  with  their  daughter,  Eliza- 
beth. The  latter  is  the  wife  of  Charles  Edwin  Sanford 
(M.D.  1906).  Emanuel  C.  Fleischner  (M.D.  1904)  and 
Henry  Fleischner,  2d.  a  graduate  of  the  College  in  1907 
and  of  the  School  of  Law  in  1909,  are  nephews. 


Eli  Percival  Flint,  M.D.   1879 

Born  December  31,  1849,  i"  Coventry,  Conn. 
Died  January  31,  1918,  in  Rockville,  Conn. 

Eli  Percival  Flint,  a  descendant  of  Thomas  Flint,  who  is 
said  to  have  come  from  Wales  to  Salem  Village,  now  South 
Danvers,  Mass.,  about  1640,  was  born  December  31,  1849, 
in  Coventry,  Conn.  His  father  was  Ralph  Flint,  a  farmer, 
whose  parents  were  Talcott  and  Prudence  (Foster)  Flint. 
His  mother  was  Esther  Lester  (Bromley)  Flint,  daughter  of 
Israel  and  Lucy  (Tracy)  Bromley;  on  the  maternal  side 
she  was  descended  from  Henerie  Hericke  (or  Herrick), 
who  emigrated  from  England  and  settled  in  Salem  in  1629. 

He  began  the  study  of  medicine  at  Yale  in  1877.  His 
early  education  was  received  at  Brookdale  Academy  in  his 
native  town,  the  East  Greenwich  (R.  L)  Academy,  and  the 
Natchaug  High  School,  Willimantic,  Conn.  Before  start- 
ing his  medical  course,  he  was  engaged  in  farming  and 
teaching  school  at  Coventry. 

Dr.  Flint  had  practiced  medicine  ever  since  his  gradua- 
tion from  Yale, — during  1879-1880  at  Mansfield,  Conn., 
for  the  next  twelve  years  at  South  Coventry,  and  since  1892 
in  Rockville,  Conn.  During  his  residence  in  South  Cov- 
entry he  served  as  medical  examiner  and  as  president  of 
the  Board  of  Health.  Since  1904  he  had  been  health  officer 
for  the  town  of  Vernon  and  had  represented  several  insur- 
ance companies  as  medical  examiner.  He  was  a  prominent 
member  of  the  Tolland  County  Medical  Association,  having 


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served  as  president  and  held  other  offices.  He  was  presi- 
dent pro  tern,  of  the  Connecticut  Medical  Association  at  one 
session.  He  was  also  a  member  of  the  Hartford  Medical 
Society,  the  American  Medical  Association,  and  the  Amer- 
ican Association  of  Life  Insurance  Examining  Surgeons. 
For  some  years  he  had  been  Secretary  of  his  Class  in  the 
School  of  Medicine,  and  he  was  a  deacon  of  the  Union  Con- 
gregational Church  of  Rockville.  He  died  at  his  home  in 
that  town,  January  31,  1918,  of  pleuropneumonia  after  a 
brief  illness.  Interment  was  in  Grove  Hill  Cemetery, 
Rockville. 

Dr.  Flint  was  married  June  28,  1873,  in  Willimantic, 
Conn.,  to  Rosa  Ella,  daughter  of  David  Bliss  and  Calista 
(Chapman)  Isham.  They  had  three  children:  Jessie  Ella, 
who  was  married  on  April  27,  1907,  to  Earl  M.  Smith  of 
Orchards,  Wash. ;  Eva  Elizabeth,  the  wife  of  Myron  W. 
Eastwood  of  Portland,  Ore. ;  and  Grace  Esther,  a  graduate 
of  the  Skidmore  School  of  Arts  in  191 5.  Mrs.  Flint,  their 
three  daughters,  two  brothers,  and  a  sister  are  living. 


Denis  William  Barry,  M.D.   1884 

Born  January  10,  1862,  on  Governor's  Island,  N.  Y. 
Died  December  6,  1917,  in  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 

Denis  William  Barry  was  the  son  of  Denis  Barry,  a 
U.  S.  Army  officer,  and  Ann  (Lyons)  Barry  and  was  born 
January  10,  1862,  on  Governor's  Island,  N.  Y.  His 
mother's  parents  were  Patrick  and  Anna  (Stewart)  Lyons, 
who  emigrated  to  this  country  from  Ireland  in  1851. 

He  received  his  early  education  at  St.  Peter's  Catholic 
Parochial  School  in  New  York  City,  and  in  1878  entered 
Stevens  Institute  of  Technology  at  Hoboken,  N.  J.,  for  a 
regular  course  in  mechanical  engineering.  Two  years  later 
he  abandoned  this  course,  and  in  1881  entered  Yale.  After 
obtaining  his  medical  degree  he  studied  abroad,  mostly  in 
Vienna,  and  during  one  of  the  early  Balkan  wars  (1886) 
he  served  as  a  surgeon  for  the  Servians.  He  returned  to 
America  in  1898,  and  for  some  time  was  connected  with 
Roosevelt  Hospital,  New  York  City,  as  a  specialist  on  skin 
diseases,  and  later  served  as  a  U.  S.  Army  Surgeon 
stationed  at  Yellowstone  Park.     About  a  year  later  he  went 


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to  Hoboken,  where  he  practiced  for  five  years.  He  then 
went  to  Santo  Domingo,  West  Indies,  and  was  surgeon  for 
five  sugar  plantations  at  San  Pedro  de  Macoris,  where  he 
remained  until  within  a  short  time  of  his  death.  It  was  Dr» 
Barry's  custom  to  come  North  every  two  years  and  study 
the  newer  developments  of  surgery  at  the  Post-Graduate 
Medical  School  in  New  York  City,  and  in  the  fall  of  191 7 
he  made  his  usual  visit  with  the  intention  of  offering  his 
services  to  the  Government.  On  December  3  he  became  ill 
with  pneumonia,  and  this,  with  other  complications,  caused 
his  death  three  days  later.  He  died  at  the  Skene  Sana- 
torium, Brooklyn,  and  was  buried  in  the  Holy  Cross  Cem- 
etery, Brooklyn. 

Dr.  Barry  was  unmarried  and  had  no  near  relatives.     He 
was  a  member  of  the  Roman  Catholic  Church. 


Frank  Judson  Bardwell,  M.D.  1891 

Born  July  i,  1868,  in  Tunkhannock,  Pa. 
Died  April  11,  1918,  in  Sayre,  Pa. 

Frank  Judson  Bardwell,  the  second  son  of  Daniel  Jones 
and  Frances  (Jenkins)  Bardwell,  was  born  July  i,  1868,  in 
Tunkhannock,  Pa.  His  father,  who  was  engaged  in  farm- 
ing in  that  town,  was  the  son  of  Daniel  Abbot  and  Susan- 
nah (Jones)  Bardwell.  He  was  a  descendant  of  Sergeant 
Robert  Bardwell,  who  emigrated  to  America  from  England 
in  1670  and  settled  at  Hatfield,  Mass.;  married  Mrs. 
Mary  Gull,  daughter  of  Lieutenant  Samuel  Smith  of 
Wethersfield,  Conn. ;  and  led  the  Hadley  and  Hatfield  con- 
tingents in  the  "Falls  fight."  Frances  Jenkins  Bard  well's 
parents  were  Elijah  and  Nancy  (Fitch)  Jenkins.  She  was 
also  of  English  descent,  her  ancestors  being  among  the 
early  settlers  in  Rhode  Island. 

His  preparatory  training  was  received  at  the  Tunkhan- 
nock High  School,  and  before  taking  up  the  study  of  medi- 
cine at  Yale  in  1888  he  taught  at  one  of  the  Tunkhannock 
Township  schools  for  a  year.  After  graduating  in  1891,  he 
served  his  interneship  in  the  Bridgeport  (Conn.)  City  Hos- 
pital, afterwards  practicing  for  two  years  in  that  city.  He 
then  returned  to  his  native  town,  where  he  had  since  fol- 
lowed his  profession.     He  was  a  member  and  ex-president 


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of  the  Wyoming  County  Medical  Society  and  of  the  Ameri- 
can Medical  Association.  He  was  coroner  in  1907-08  and 
a  pension  examiner  from  1908  to  1914.  At  the  time  of  his 
death  he  was  serving  as  chairman  of  the  Red  Cross  Com- 
mittee for  Wyoming  County,  Pa.,  and  also  of  the  County 
Committee  of  Public  Safety.  He  was  a  director  of  the 
Citizens  National  Bank  from  its  organization  in  October, 
1902,  until  his  death.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Presby- 
terian Church  of  Tunkhannock.  Dr.  Bardwell  died  April 
II,  1918,  at  the  Sayre  (Pa.)  Hospital,  after  an  operation 
for  gall  stones.  He  was  buried  in  Sunnyside  Cemetery  at 
Tunkhannock. 

His  marriage  took  place  in  that  town  November  22,  1894, 
to  Harriet,  daughter  of  William  Ernest  and  Sarah  Reese 
(Kerr)  Little.  They  had  a  son,  Judson,  and  a  daughter, 
Eleanor,  who  died  January  25,  1907,  aged  four  months. 
Dr.  Bardwell  is  survived  by  his  wife  and  son,  five  brothers, 
and  two  sisters.  One  brother,  Harry  Jenkins  Bardwell, 
received  the  degree  of  B.A.  at  Yale  in  1890. 


Jerome  Samuel  Bissell,  M.D.  1894 

Born  June  20,  1869,  in  Washington,  Conn. 
Died  September  13,  1917,  in  Westport,  Conn. 

Jerome  Samuel  Bissell,  born  in  Washington,  Conn.,  June 
20,  1869,  was  the  son  of  Samuel  Jerome  Bissell,  a  farmer, 
and  Catharine  A.  (Smith)  Bissell.  Through  his  father, 
who  was  the  son  of  Jerome  Samuel  Bissell,  he  traced  his 
descent  to  John  Bissell,  who  came  to  Plymouth,  Mass., 
from  England  in  1628;  in  1640  he  removed  to  East 
Windsor,  Conn.,  and  was  the  founder  of  that  township. 
On  the  maternal  side  he  was  descended  from  Jonas  and 
John  Piatt,  who  served  under  General  Israel  Putnam  dur- 
ing Burgoyne's  campaign  in  1777. 

Jerome  Samuel  Bissell  prepared  for  college  at  the  Gun- 
nery School  in  Washington  and  at  the  Connecticut  Literary 
Institute  at  Suffield,  Conn.,  after  which  he  taught  school  for 
two  years,  continuing  his  studies  at  Colgate  University.  He 
entered  the  Yale  School  of  Medicine  in  1891,  graduating  in 
1894. 

He  spent  three  months  in  a  hospital  in  New  York  City, 


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and  then  opened  an  office  in  Woodbury,  Conn.  In  1896  he 
removed  to  Torrington,  Conn.,  where  he  practiced  until 
191 6.  At  that  time  he  suffered  a  severe  nervous  breakdown, 
due  largely  to  overwork.  He  was  in  a. New  York  hospital 
for  three  months,  after  which  he  removed,  with  his  family, 
to  Ridgefield,  Conn.  He  died  September  13,  191 7,  in  West- 
port,  Conn.,  and  was  buried  in  Hillside  Cemetery  in  his 
native  town. 

Dr.  Bissell  was  a  member  of  the  Congregational  Church 
of  Morris,  Conn.,  the  American  Medical  Association,  the 
Connecticut  State  Medical  Society,  and  the  Litchfield  County 
Medical  Society,  of  which  latter  he  was  president  in  1902-03. 

He  was  married  December  25,  1894,  in  Thomaston,  Conn., 
to  Susie  A.,  daughter  of  Henry  and  Susan  (Gunn)  Waugh 
of  Morris,  Conn.  She  survives  him  with  their  daughter, 
Marjorie  Estelle.  He  also  leaves  a  brother,  Harvey  Piatt 
Bissell,  who  graduated  from  the  New  York  College  of 
Pharmacy  in  1893. 


Henry  Edward  Hungerford,  M.D.   1898 

Born  November  3,  1872,  in  Bristol,  Conn. 
Died  February  i,  1918,  at  Fort  Oglethorpe,  Ga. 

Henry  Edward  Hungerford  was  the  son  of  Charles 
Edward  Hungerford,  foreman  in  the  case  department  of 
the  E.  Ingraham  Company's  works  in  Bristol,  Conn.,  and 
Ida  Adalizer  (Stone)  Hungerford.  He  was  born  in  Bristol, 
November  3,  1872.  The  Hungerfords  are  of  English  origin 
and  trace  their  ancestry  to  Sir  Thomas  Hungerford,  who 
was  in  1377  the  first  regular  speaker  of  the  House  of 
Commons.  He  died  in  1398.  Thomas  Hungerford,  the  first 
of  the  family  in  the  new  world,  doubtless  came  to  this 
country  as  a  mariner.  In  1639  he  was  living  in  Hartford, 
Conn.,  and  in  1651  he  moved  to  Pequot,  now  New  London, 
Conn.,  and  shortly  afterwards  cleared  the  land  where  the 
fort  now  stands.  He  died  in  1663,  leaving  three  children. 
One  son.  Captain  John  Hungerford,  was  in  May,  i754' 
appointed  by  the  Assembly  as  Ensign  in  the  6th  Company 
as  "train  band,"  in  1758  being  appointed  Captain  of  the 
1st  Regiment.  His  son,  Thomas  Hungerford,  served  as  a 
Captain   in   the   Revolution.      Evits    Hungerford,    son   of 


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Thomas  Hungerford  and  grandfather  of  Charles  E.  Hun- 
gerford,  was  born  in  Bristol  in  1777  and  was  there  engaged 
in  farming  for  many  years.  Another  ancestor  was  James 
Smithson,  the  founder  of  the  Smithsonian  Institution  in 
Washington,  D.  C. 

In  1893,  after  receiving  his  preliminary  education  at  the 
Bristol  High  School,  he  entered  Carleton  College.  He 
remained  there  for  two  years,  leaving  because  of  an  attack 
of  typhoid  fever.  He  was  a  student  in  the  Yale  School  of 
Medicine  from  1895  to  1898,  since  which  time  he  had  prac- 
ticed his  profession  in  Waterbury,  Conn.  He  was  assistant 
physician  to  the  Waterbury  Hospital,  and  for  several  years 
he  served  as  a  member  of  the  Board  of  Health. 

On  August  II,  1917,  he  was  commissioned  as  a  First 
Lieutenant  in  the  Medical  Officers'  Reserve  Corps.  He 
entered  active  service  on  January  17,  1918,  being  assigned 
to  Company  15,  4th  Battalion,  at  Camp  Greenleaf,  Fort 
Oglethorpe,  Ga.  Soon  afterwards  he  was  taken  ill  with 
pneumonia,  which  proved  fatal  after  inoculation  had  been 
found  necessary.  His  death  occurred  at  Camp  Greenleaf 
on  February  i,  1918.  Burial  was  in  the  West  Side  Ceme- 
tery, Bristol. 

Dr.  Hungerford  was  married  March  27,  1899,  in  New 
Haven,  Conn.,  to  Shirley  Dare,  daughter  of  Mortimer  and 
Sarah  (Dutcher)  Serviss  of  Grasslake,  Mich.  She  survives 
him  with  two  sons,  Evits  Charles  and  Rollo  Leander.  His 
mother  is  also  living. 


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Charles  Carroll  Suifren,  LL.B.  1878 

Born  November  19,  1854,  in  Haverstraw,  N.  Y. 
Died  December  17,  1917,  in  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 

Charles  Carroll  Suffren  was  born  in  Haverstraw,  N.  Y., 
November  19,  1854,  the  son  of  Andrew  Edward  and  Mary 
Jane  (Sloat)  Suffern.  His  father  graduated  from  New 
York  University  with  the  degree  of  B.A.  in  1848  and  later 
attended  the  Ballston  Spa  Law  School.  He  practiced  law 
in  Haverstraw  for  a  number  of  years,  serving  as  district 
attorney  for  Rockland  County  from  1853  to  i860  and  as 
county  judge  from  i860  until  his  death  in  1881.  He  was 
the  son  of  Edward  Suffern,  also  judge  of  Rockland  County 
for  many  years,  and  Jane  (Cassidy)  Suffern;  and  the 
grandson  of  John  Suffern,  who  came  to  America  in  1763. 
He  was  active  in  the  American  cause  during  the  Revolution, 
being  justice  of  the  peace,  a  member  of  the  Committee  of 
Safety  for  Orange  County,  and  commissary  of  purchases. 
Later,  upon  the  formation  of  Rockland  County,  he  was 
chosen  first  judge  of  the  Court  of  Common  Pleas;  at  his 
death  the  office  went  to  his  son,  as  above  stated,  and  then 
to  his  grandson.  Judge  John  Suffern's  wife  was  Mary, 
daughter  of  Andrew  and  Frances  Myers  of  Burlington, 
N.  J.  The  family  name  was  originally  Suffren,  and  Charles 
Carroll  Suffren  adopted  this  form.  The  family  dates  from 
Lucca,  in  Provence,  France,  in  the  fourteenth  century. 
Charles  C.  Suffren's  mother  was  the  daughter  of  Stephen 
and  Katharine  (Ward)  Sloat  and  the  granddaughter  of 
Isaac  and  Leah  (Sobieski)  Sloat.  She  was  descended  from 
John  Sobiesky,  the  last  electoral  King  of  Poland,  whose  son 
Jacob  came  to  America  and  settled  in  Bergen  County,  N.  J., 
in  1663. 

He  received  his  early  education  at  the  Chilton  Hill  School, 
Elizabeth,  N.  J.,  and  at  Phillips  Academy,  Andover,  Mass. 
He  entered  Yale  with  the  College  Class  of  1875,  but  with- 
drew in  Sophomore  year,  returning  again  as  a  Junior  in 
1874.  He  left  temporarily  in  April,  1875,  and  spent  a  few 
months  in  his  father's  office.  In  1876  he  entered  the  School 
of  Law,  and  received  his  LL.B.  two  years  later. 


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He  was  admitted  to  the  Connecticut  Bar  in  June,  1878, 
and  to  the  Bar  of  New  York  in  December,  1878,  ranking 
first  in  the  examinations.  He  practiced  in  Haverstraw  from 
the  latter  month  until  October,  1889.  In  1878,  and  again 
in  1883-84,  he  was  assistant  district  attorney  of  Rockland 
County.  In  1881  he  was  for  a  short  time  acting  surrogate. 
He  removed  to  New  York  City  in  the  fall  of  1889,  and  for 
the  next  eight  years  practiced  in  that  city.  In  January, 
1898,  ill  health  caused  him  to  give  up  work  temporarily. 
He  became  connected  with  the  law  department  of  the 
Lawyers  Title  Insurance  Company  in  Brooklyn,  in  Novem- 
ber, 1900,  remaining  until  November,  1902,  when  he  became 
attorney  for  The  Title  Insurance  Company  of  New  York 
and  assistant  solicitor  and  manager  of  the  law  department 
in  their  Brooklyn  office.  He  served  in  this  capacity  until 
June,  191 3,  and  since  that  time  had  been  head  of  the  law 
firm  of  Suffren,  Humphreys  &  Orr  of  Brooklyn,  in  which 
his  partners  were  Chauncey  H.  Humphreys  and  Robert  E. 
Orr.  Mr.  Suifren  was  considered  an  authority  upon  ques- 
tions arising  in  real  estate  laws,  and  had  especial  knowl- 
edge of  the  old  Dutch  roads  and  farm  lands  in  the  borough 
of  Brooklyn.  He  was  a  director  of  the  Kings  County  Mort- 
gage Company,  and  a  member  of  the  American  and  Brook- 
lyn Bar  associations,  the  Kings  County  Historical  Society, 
and  of  St.  Paul's  Protestant  Episcopal  Church  of  Brooklyn. 
•He  died  after  an  illness  of  nine  months,  December  17, 
191 7,  at  his  home  in  Brooklyn,  as  the  result  of  arterio- 
sclerosis and  a  general  breakdown.  Interment  was  in  St. 
David's  Churchyard,  Radnor,  Pa. 

Mr.  Suffren's  marriage  took  place.  Jure  3,  1880,  in  Straf- 
ford, Pa.,  to  Martha,  daughter  of  John  Langdon  and  Martha 
Emlen  Wentworth.  She  survives  him  with  two  daughters, 
Edith  deCharny  (B.S.  Smith  1903),  who  was  married  Feb- 
ruary 5,  1907,  to  Thomas  Dorsey  Pitts  of  Baltimore,  Md., 
and  Martha  Wentworth,  a  graduate  of  Simmons  College  in 
1908  with  the  degree  of  B.S.  A  son,  John  Langdon  Went- 
worth, died  in  1884.  One  of  Mr.  Suffren's  sisters  married 
William  Cutler  Bowers  (B.A.  1874,  M.D.  Columbia  1877). 


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Ezra  Armstrong  Tuttle,  LL.B.  1880 

Born  October  23,  1852,  at  Sandy  Creek,  N.  Y. 
Died  November  3,  1917,  in  East  Moriches,  N.  Y. 

Ezra  Armstrong  Tuttle,  son  of  Abel  Tuttle,  a  farmer, 
and  Catharine  (Armstrong)  Tuttle,  was  born  October  23, 
1852,  at  Sandy  Creek,  N.  Y.  His  father's  parents  were 
John  and  Betsy  Hurd  Tuttle.  He  was  descended  from 
William  Tuttle,  who  settled  at  New  Haven,  Conn.,  in  1635, 
having  come  to  this  country  from  England,  and  from  Eliza- 
beth Tuttle.     His  mother  was  born  in  Scotland. 

He  received  his  early  education  in  his  native  town,  and 
later  attended  the  Normal  School  at  Oswego,  N.  Y. 
Before  entering  the  Yale  School  of  Law  in  1878,  he  was 
engaged  in  teaching  at  Bay  Shore  and  Sayville,  Long 
Island.  In  his  Junior  year  he  was  given  the  Betts  Prize, 
and  at  graduation  he  received  the  Townsend  and  Jewell 
prizes. 

He  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  1880,  and  became  a  clerk 
in  the  office  of  Davies,  Work,  McNamee  &  Hilton  in  New 
York  City.  He  was  later  engaged  in  private  practice,  and 
then  for  some  years  was  trial  counsel  for  the  Manhattan 
Elevated  Railroad.  Previous  to  1910  he  was  for  a  time 
senior  member  of  the  firm  of  Tuttle  &  Flint  of  New  York 
City.  He  afterwards  gave  his  attention  mainly  to  agricul- 
ture. He  was  vice  president  of  the  New  York  State  Agri- 
cultural Society,  and  served  on  the  Food  Investigating 
Commission  under  Governor  Dix,  and  as  deputy  commis- 
sioner of  foods  and  markets  under  Governor  Glynn.  His 
death  occurred  November  3,  191 7,  in  East  Moriches,  Long 
Island,  after  an  illness  of  sixteen  days  due  to  a  malignant 
abscess.  He  had  suffered  for  some  time  from  diabetes. 
He  was  buried  in  the  Oakdale  Cemetery  at  Bay  Shore, 
Long  Island. 

Mr.  Tuttle  was  married  June  20,  1888,  in  that  town,  to 
Anna  Eudora,  daughter  of  Jarvis  Rogers  Mowbray  (B.A. 
Union  College  1842,  M.D.  Bellevue  Hospital)  and  Ellen 
(Smith)  Mowbray  of  Islip,  Long  Island.  She  survives  him 
with  their  seven  children :  Edward  Mowbray,  assistant 
extension  professor  of  rural  education  at  Cornell,  from 
which  institution  he  has  received  the  degrees  of  B.S.  and 
B.A. ;  Nellie  Armstrong;  Olive  Natalie  (Mrs.  John  Thomas 


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Lloyd)  ;  Eudora  Farnham  (Mrs.  Ralph  A.  VanMeter) ; 
Arthur  Brewster,  who  served  with  the  io6th  Infantry  dur- 
ing the  recent  war ;  Walter  Sherman ;  and  Aletta  Mowbray. 
Mrs.  Tuttle's  brother,  the  late  Edward  B.  Mowbray,  grad- 
uated from  Yale  in  1892. 


Charles  Eggleston  Woodruff,  LL.B.  1880 

Born  July  31,  1854,  in  Berlin,  Conn. 
Died  May  29,  1914,  in  Milledgeville,  Ga. 

Charles  Eggleston  Woodruff  was  born  July  31,  1854,  in 
Berlin,  Conn.,  being  one  of  the  five  children  of  Eben  Coe 
Woodruff,  a  farmer,  and  Elizabeth  Lee  (Eggleston) 
Woodruff.  His  father  was  the  son  of  Eben  and  Rhoda 
(Coe)  Woodruff,  and  his  mother's  parents  were  James  and 
Elizabeth  (Lee)  Eggleston.      He  was  of  English  descent. 

He  received  his  preparatory  training  at  the  Hartford 
(Conn.)  Public  High  School,  and  later  was  an  assistant 
librarian  in  the  Hartford  Library.  He  entered  the  Yale 
School  of  Law  in  1877,  completing  his  course  three  years 
later. 

After  graduation  he  became  engaged  in  newspaper  and 
magazine  work.  He  established  the  New  Britain  (Conn.) 
Herald,  and  for  some  years  was  connected  with  that  paper. 
He  had  traveled  extensively  in  the  South  and  West,  after 
1904  making  his  headquarters  in  Atlanta,  Ga.,  and  writing 
for  nearly  a  score  of  papers  and  magazines,  especially  along 
insurance  and  political  lines.  Some  of  his  writing  was 
done  under  the  name  of  "Lee  Eggleston."  In  1907  he  was 
seriously  injured  in  an  accident,  and  he  had  never  recovered 
his  health,  being  forced  to  spend  most  of  the  time  in  a  hos- 
pital at  Atlanta,  Ga.  His  death  occurred  May  29,  1914,  in 
Milledgeville,  Ga. 

He  was  married  July  2,  1885,  in  New  Britain,  to  Mary 
Louise,  daughter  of  Samuel  Waldo  Hart  (Honorary  M.D. 
1855)  and  Cordelia  Smith  Hart.  They  had  two  children: 
Elise,  who  died  in  infancy,  and  Margaret.  Besides  his  wife 
and  daughter,  Mr.  Woodruff  is  survived  by  a  brother  and 
a  sister. 


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Harry  Alvan  Hall,  LL.B.  1881 

Born  October  7,  1861,  in  Karthaus,  Pa. 
Died  December  i,  1917,  in  Philadelphia,  Pa. 

Harry  Alvan  Hall  was  born  at  Karthaus,  Pa.,  October  7, 
1861,  the  son  of  Benjamin  McDowell  and  Susannah 
(Geary)  Hall.  His  father,  who  was  a  banker  at  St.  Mary's, 
Pa.,  was  the  son  of  James  and  Margaret  (Miller)  Hall 
and  a  descendant  of  James  Hall,  a  mathematician  of  Lon- 
donderry, who  emigrated  to  America  from  Ireland  in  1787. 
His  mother,  whose  parents  were  John  and  Juliana  (Garner) 
Geary,  was  descended  from  Anthony  Garner,  who  was 
superintendent  of  guns  in  the  Gontinental  Army  in  the 
Revolution.  He  participated  in  the  battles  of  Brandywine, 
Monmouth,  and  Germantown,  and  was  discharged  at  Valley 
Forge,  his  enlistment  having  expired.  He  immediately 
reenlisted  in  a  Pennsylvania  regiment  of  the  line,  but  was 
taken  ill,  and  subsequently  served  in  the  Gontinental  Navy, 
in  which  he  was  commissioned  Gaptain  just  before  the  close 
of  the  war. 

He  received  his  preparatory  training  with  a  private  tutor 
and  later  attended  Dickinson  Seminary  (now  Bucknell 
University).  He  began  the  study  of  law  at  Yale  in  1878, 
but  left  after  a  month  on  account  of  illness.  He  reentered 
in  the  fall  of  1879  and  was  given  his  degree  two  years  later. 

Mr.  Hall  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  New  Haven  in  June, 
1881,  and  then  began  the  practice  of  law  at  Ridgway,  Pa. 
In  June,  1883,  his  brother,  J.  K.  P.  Hall,  whose  law  office 
he  had  entered  as  an  assistant,  retired  and  turned  over  to 
him  his  extensive  practice,  and  he  soon  came  to  be  recog- 
nized as  one  of  the  leaders  of  the  Elk  Gounty  Bar.  He  had 
always  taken  an  active  part  in  politics.  He  was  a  delegate 
to  the  Democratic  National  conventions  of  1884  and  1888, 
and  a  delegate  at  large  in  1892.  In  1885  he  was  elected 
chief  burgess  of  St.  Mary's,  and  served  five  successive 
terms.  From  1890  to  1893  he  was  a  member  of  the  State 
Senate,  and  during  the  next  four  years  he  served  as  United 
States  attorney  for  the  western  district  of  Pennsylvania. 
Since  1906  he  had  been  president  judge  of  the  twenty-fifth 
judicial  district  of  the  state.  From  1893  to  1906  he  served 
as  general  counsel  in  the  United  States  for  the  Austro-Hun- 
garian  Empire,  and  from  1903  to  1906  he  also  acted  in  a 


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similar  capacity  for  the  Italian  Government.  The  Emperor 
of  Austria  conferred  the  officer's  cross  of  the  Order  of 
Francis  Joseph  upon  him  in  1905.  On  May  10,  1898,  he 
was  appointed  Captain  in  Company  H,  i6th  Regiment, 
Pennsylvania  Volunteer  Infantry.  He  was  promoted  to  be 
Major  of  this  regiment  six  months  later  for  gallantry  at 
the  battle  of  Coamo,  and  subsequently  went  to  Washington 
to  present  to  President  McKinley  Spanish  flags  captured  in 
that  action.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Protestant  Episcopal 
Church,  being  senior  warden  of  Grace  Church  of  Ridgway, 
judge  of  the  Ecclesiastical  Court  of  the  Diocese  of  Erie,  a 
member  of  the  standing  committee  and  of  the  board  of 
trustees  of  the  Diocese  of  Erie,  a  member  of  the  Cathedral 
Chapter,  and  a  deputy  to  the  General  Convention  in  1913, 
and  again  in  1916.  He  had  traveled  extensively  in  the 
principal  countries  of  the  world.  From  1905  to  1918  he 
was  president  of  the  Elk  County  Bar  Association.  He 
served  as  junior  vice  commander-in-chief  of  the  Spanish 
War  Veterans  in  1904,  and  was  commander-in-chief  of  the 
Military  and  Naval  Order  of  the  Spanish-American  War  in 
1905-06.  He  was  a  Fellow  of  the  American  Geographical 
Society,  and  a  member  of  the  Archseological  Society  of  the 
University  of  Pennsylvania,  the  Sons  of  the  Revolution, 
and  the  Society  of  Foreign  Wars.  He  was  the  author  of 
''Rights  of  Riparian  Owners  in  the  Navigable  Waters  of 
the  United  States,"  published  in  1894,  and  had  written 
many  magazine  articles  and  delivered  numerous  lectures 
and  addresses.  When  the  United  States  entered  the  war, 
he  engaged  actively  in  Red  Cross  work,  being  chairman  of 
the  Ridgway  chapter,  and  was  also  chairman  in  Elk  County 
for  the  Pennsylvania  Committee  of  Public  Safety.  His 
death  occurred  December  i,  191 7,  in  Philadelphia,  after  an 
illness  of  three  months  due  to  heart  disease.  Interment 
was  in  Pine  Grove  Cemetery,  Ridgway. 

Mr.  Hall  was  married  June  10,  1886,  in  Louisville,  Ky., 
to  Currin,  daughter  of  Colonel  Currin  McNairy  and  Mary 
J.^  (Williams)  McNairy  of  Nashville,  Tenn.  She  survives 
him,  without  children,  and  he  also  leaves  a  sister. 


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Andrew  James  Ewen,  LL.B.  1885 

Born  November  23,  1859,  in  Shelton,  Conn. 
.    Died  August  2,  1916,  in  Los  Angeles,  Calif. 

Andrew  James  Ewen,  son  of  James  and  Catherine  (Fair) 
Ewen,  was  born  in  Shelton,  Conn.,  November  23,  1859. 
His  father,  who  was  of  English  parentage,  the  son  of  an 
English  custom  house  officer,  came  to  this  country  in  1850, 
and  settled  at  Derby,  Conn.  His  mother  was  born  in 
Edinburgh,  Scotland. 

He  was  a  graduate  of  the  Derby  High  School  and 
studied  law  in  the  office  of  Wooster,  Torrance  &  Gager 
preparatory  to  entering  the  Yale  School  of  Law  in  1884. 
He  received  the  degree  of  LL.B.  in  1885  and  then  opened 
a  law  office  in  Derby,  where  he  practiced  until  1904,  when 
he  removed  to  Long  Beach,  Calif.  He  was  city  attorney  of 
Derby  for  a  number  of  years.  In  1905  he  entered  the 
employ  of  the  Title  Guarantee  Company  of  Los  Angeles, 
and  was  with  them  until  his  death.  His  home  had  been  in 
Los  Angeles  since  191 1.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Meth- 
odist Church.  Mr.  Ewen  died  of  paralysis,  August  2, 
1916,  at  his  home,  after  an  illness  of  but  a  few  days.  He 
was  buried  in  the  L  O.  O.  F.  Cemetery  at  Los  Angeles. 

He  was  married  June  24,  1885,  in  New  Haven,  Conn., 
to  Harriet  A.,  daughter  of  George  W.  and  Mary  (Wheeler) 
Lester,  who  survives  him  with  their  three  children :  Minnie 
E.  (Ewen)  Wallace,  G.  Lester  Ewen,  and  Mae  E.  (Ewen) 
Goetz. 

John  Grant  Tod,  LL.B.  1885 

Born  January  14,  1864,  in  Richmond,  Texas 
Died  February  20,  1918,  in  Galveston,  Texas 

John  Grant  Tod  was  born  January  14,  1864,  in  Richmond, 
Texas,  the  son  of  John  Grant  and  Abigail  Fisher  (West) 
Tod.  His  father  was  descended  from  William  and  Mar- 
garet Grant  Tod,  who  came  to  this  country  in  1797  from 
Scotland  and  settled  in  Virginia,  a  year  later  removing  to 
Kentucky.  His  father  served  in  the  United  States  Navy 
as  a  Midshipman  until  1833,  when  he  was  discharged  on 
account  of  ill  health,  and -later  entered  the  Texas  Navy,  in 


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which  he  was  Commodore;  he  had  various  railroad  inter- 
ests. He  was  educated  at  Center  College.  His  wife  was 
the  daughter  of  James  M.  and  Rebecca  Fisher  (Hazzard) 
West  and  a  descendant  of  Henry  Lewis,  who  came  from 
England  with  William  Penn  in  the  ship  Welcome,  and 
settled  in  Delaware,  where  his  descendants  still  reside. 

He  received  his  early  education  in  Harrisburg,  Texas, 
and  in  1883  began  the  study  of  law  at  Yale.  He  was  given 
the  degree  of  LL.B.  in  1885.  He  then  returned  to  Texas, 
taking  up  the  practice  of  law  at  Houston.  He  continued 
in  the  active  practice  of  his  profession  until  his  death.  He 
was  a  Democrat  in  politics,  and  from  1892  to  1896  served 
as  county  judge  of  Harris  County.  He  was  appointed  dis- 
trict judge  of  that  county  in  1896,  and  held  that  office  for 
four  years.  He  was  secretary  of  the  state  of  Texas  from 
1900  to  1902.  His  home  had  been  in  Harrisburg,  Texas, 
for  fifty-two  years.  He  belonged  to  the  Second  Presby- 
terian Church  of  Houston. 

Mr.  Tod  died  February  20,  1918,  in  the  Sealy  Hospital, 
Galveston,  Texas,  after  an  illness  of  six  weeks  due  to 
ursemic  convulsions.  He  was  buried  in  the  Glendale  Ceme- 
tery at  Harrisburg. 

He  was  married  in  that  town  June  11,  1890,  to  Osceola 
Ella,  daughter  of  Osceola  Richard  and  Mary  Frances 
(Brock)  Morriss.  They  had  two  daughters,  Mary  Grant 
and  Rosa,  both  of  whom  were  educated  at  the  Texas  Pres- 
byterian College,  the  elder  being  a  graduate  in  expression 
and  the  younger  receiving  the  degree  of  B.A.  in  1917. 
Besides  his  wife  and  daughters,  Mr.  Tod  is  survived  by  a 
sister,  Mrs.  C.  H.  Milby. 

Rollin  Chappell  Wooster,  LL.B.  1892 

Born  November  6,  1864,  in  New  Britain,  Conn. 
Died  August  21,  191 7,  in  Cedartown,  Ga. 

Rollin  Chappell  Wooster  was  born  November  6,  1864, 
in  New  Britain,  Conn.,  the  son  of  Timothy  Almida  Wooster. 
a  builder  and  contractor,  and  later  a  machinist  employed 
by  the  Russell  &  Erwin  Company  in  New  Britain,  and  Ellen 
Maria  (Woodruff)  Wooster.  His  father's  parents  were 
Joseph  Alva  and  Almeda  (Alden)  Wooster,  and  his  mother 
was  the  daughter  of  Ephraim  and  Betsey  Mori   (Miller) 


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Woodruff.  He  was  descended  from  John  and  Priscilla 
Alden  of  the  Mayflower  company,  and  from  Rev.  Noah 
Alden,  a  prominent  Baptist  minister,  who  was  ordained  at 
Stafford,  Conn.,  in  1755,  served  as  pastor  of  the  Baptist 
Church  at  BelHngham,  Mass.,  from  1766  until  his  death, 
and  rendered  service  during  the  Revolution.  Several  other 
of  his  ancestors,  including  Eliphalet  Curtiss,  served  in  the 
Revolution  and  the  War  of  181 2. 

He  received  his  preparatory  training  at  the  New  Britain 
High  School,  and  was  for  a  time  a  member  of  the  Class  of 
1888  at  Brown  University.  In  1891  he  entered  the  Yale 
School  of  Law,  receiving  the  degree  of  LL.B.  the  next  year. 

He  was  admitted  to  the  bar  about  1894  and  during  the 
next  few  years  practiced  law  in  New  Britain.  He  was  later 
engaged  in  commercial  work  of  various  kinds  in  New  York 
City,  being  at  one  time  connected  with  the  Martin  &  Hoyt 
Company.  He  had  spent  much  time  abroad.  In  1906  he 
was  ordained  as  a  Baptist  minister  at  Nashville,  Tenn.,  and 
for  the  next  few  years  was  assistant  pastor  of  the  Baptist 
Church  at  Jackson,  Miss.,  and  he  later  held  pastorates  in 
Raymond,  Miss.,  and  Columbia,  S.  C.  In  1909  he  was 
engaged  in  business  at  Dallas,  Texas,  at  that  time  being  a 
member  of  the  First  Baptist  Church.  From  1912  to  1916 
he  gave  his  attention  to  child  welfare  work  in  the  Bahama 
Islands,  Florida,  South  Carolina,  and  Georgia.  He  was 
afterwards,  until  his  death,  a  traveling  representative  for 
Lanier  University,  a  Baptist  co-educational  institution  for 
girls,  located  at  Atlanta,  Ga.  He  died  August  21,  1917,  at 
Cedartown,  Ga.,  of  lobar  pneumonia,  after  an  illness  of  four 
days.  Interment  was  in  the  Elmwood  Cemetery  at  Colum- 
bia, S.  C.  At  the  time  of  his  death  he  was  a  member  of 
the  First  Baptist  Church  of  Savannah,  Ga.,  and  was  also 
teacher  of  a  Bible  class  connected  with  the  church. 

Mr.  Wooster  was  twice  married.  His  first  marriage  took 
place  June  25,  1893,  to  May  Hayden,  daughter  of  Elisha 
and  Mary  (Hayden)  Hall,  of  New  Haven,  Conn.  They 
had  one  son,  Stanton  Hall,  who  was  a  member  of  the  Class 
of  191 5  S.  for  a  time,  leaving  Yale  to  enter  Annapolis, 
where  he  was  graduated  in  1917;  he  is  now  a  Lieutenant 
in  the  Navy.  On  January  28,  191 4,  Mr.  Wooster  was  mar- 
ried in  Augusta,  Ga.,  to  Cecile  Gaines  of  Columbia,  S.  C, 
who  survives  him  with  a  daughter,  Rollin  Virginia.  He 
also  leaves  three  sisters.  A  brother  died  in  1899.  Timothy 
L.  Woodruff  (B.A.  1879)  was  a  cousin. 


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William  Frederic  Foster,  LL.B.   1894 

Born  September  i6,  185 1,  in  London,  England 
Died  March  16,  1918,  in  Marseilles,  France 

William  Frederic  Foster  was  born  September  16,  1851, 
in  London,  England,  the  son  of  William  Francis  and  Mary 
Isabella  (Rousseau)  Foster.  His  father's  parents  were 
John  and  Caroline  (Isaacson)  Foster.  He  received  his 
preparatory  training  at  the  Harris  School,  Brighton,  Eng- 
land, and  afterwards  attended  Christ  College,  Finchley, 
England.  He  came  to  America  in  1891.  He  was  a  student 
in  the  Yale  School  of  Law  from  1892  to  1896,  receiving  the 
degree  of  LL.B.  in  1894,  that  of  LL.M.  in  1895,  and  that 
of  D.C.L.  in  1896,  graduating  with  honors  in  each  case. 

During  1896-97  he  served  as  an  instructor  in  contracts 
in  the  Yale  School  of  Law.  In  1898  he  was  appointed 
assistant  professor  of  mercantile  law,  and  served  in  that 
capacity  for  five  years,  from  1899  to  1903  also  being 
assistant  professor  of  real  property,  and  secretary  of  the 
Law  Faculty.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Connecticut  Bar. 
In  1904  he  removed  to  Hartford,  Conn.,  remaining  there 
one  year.  The  latter  part  of  his  life  was  devoted  to  literary 
work  and  was  spent  in  France,  principally  at  Marseilles, 
where  he  died  March  16,  1918,  after  an  illness  of  nine  days. 
Interment  was  in  the  Cemetery  of  St.  Pierre  at  Marseilles. 

He  was  married  in  Washington,  D.  C,  in  1892,  to 
Elenette  M.,  daughter  of  Samuel  Hammond  and  Melissa 
Jane  (Angle)  Wadsworth.     His  wife  survives  him. 


James  John  Quill,  LL.B.   1906 

Born  June  9,  1881,  in  Holyoke,  Mass. 
Died  March  8,  1918,  in  Battle  Creek,  Mich. 

James  John  Quill,  son  of  John  Quill,  a  merchant,  and 
Ellen  T.  (Mahoney)  Quill,  was  born  June  9,  1881,  in  Hol- 
yoke, Mass.  His  father's  parents  were  Timothy  and  Ellen 
Quill,  and  his  mother  was  the  daughter  of  Jeremiah  and 
Mary  Mahoney. 

He  graduated  from  the  Holyoke  High  School  in  1900. 
He  then  entered  Tufts  College,  but  after  a  year  went  to 


8l2  SCHOOL    OF    LAW 

Amherst  College  where  he  received  the  degree  of  B.S.  in 
1903.  He  then  entered  the  Yale  School  of  Law,  where  he 
received  the  degree  of  LL.B.  in  1906.  Throughout  his 
high  school  and  college  career  he  had  been  active  in  foot- 
ball, and  he  was  a  member  of  the  Yale  University  Football 
Team  in  1905.  At  Amherst  he  was  captain  of  the  Football 
Team  in  1901. 

Following  his  graduation  from  Yale  he  took  up  the  prac- 
tice of  law  in  New  York  City.  In  October,  1907,  he 
removed  to  Jersey  City,  N.  J.,  where  he  afterwards  followed 
his  profession.  He  was  appointed  clerk  of  the  Grand  Jury 
in  1909,  which  position  he  held  until  his  death.  He  belonged 
to  St.  Patrick's  Roman  Catholic  Church  of  Jersey  City. 

Mr.  Quill  died  at  a  sanatorium  in  Battle  Creek,  Mich., 
March  8,  1918,  after  an  illness  of  a  month  from  Bright's 
disease.  Interment  was  in  St.  Jerome's  Cemetery  at 
Holyoke. 

Mr.  Quill  was  unmarried.  He  is  survived  by  his  mother 
and  a  sister. 


Francis  Dustin  Hurtt,  LL.B.  1907 

Born  August  31,  1855,  in  Springfield,  Ohio 
Died  May  29,  1917 

Francis  Dustin  Hurtt  was  born  August  31,  1855,  in 
Springfield,  Ohio,  the  son  of  Francis  Washington  and 
Sarah  (Ives)  Hurtt.  His  father,  who  was  engaged  in 
teaching,  spent  his  early  life  in  southern  Ohio,  removing 
to  New  York  in  1865.  He  held  the  degree  of  M.A.  from 
Athens  College. 

In  1869  he  entered  the  College  of  the  City  of  New  York. 
He  entered  the  Yale  School  of  Law  in  1903,  but  was 
unable  to  graduate  with  the  Class  of  1906  on  account  of 
ill  health.  He  received  his  degree  the  following  year,  and 
spent  the  period  from  1907  to  191 1  in  graduate  work  in 
law  at  Yale.  Mr.  Hurtt  had  passed  the  Connecticut  and 
New  York  bar  examinations,  but  had  never  practiced  law. 
He  was  for  some  years  president  of  the  Pond  Extract 
Company.  He  had  been  in  poor  health  for  a  number  of 
years,  and  his  death  occurred  May  29,  191 7. 

He  is  survived  by  his  wife,  Julia  M.  Hurtt.  The  late 
Burgess  Scott  Hurtt  (BA.  1878)  was  his  brother. 


1 


1906-1911  '^^3 


Francis  Joseph  Hogan,  LL.B.   191 1 

Born  December  23,  1889,  in  Waterbury,  Conn. 
Died  July  22,  1917,  in  Waterbury,  Conn. 

Francis  Joseph  Hogan  was  born  December  23,  1889,  in 
Waterbury,  Conn.,  the  son  of  Patrick  Francis  and  Cath- 
erine (Whitney)  Hogan.  His  father  was  the  son  of 
Michael  Joseph  and  Bridget  (Howard)  Hogan,  and  his 
mother  was  the  daughter  of  Patrick  and  Bridget  (Reilly) 
Whitney. 

He  was  prepared  at  the  Waterbury  High  School,  from 
which  he  graduated  in  1907.  He  entered  the  Yale  School 
of  Law  in  1908,  and  received  the  degree  of  LL.B.  in  191 1. 

Since  that  time  he  had  been  practicing  law  in  Waterbury. 
He  had  been  active  in  Republican  politics,  and  in  191 5  was 
a  candidate  for  the  State  Senate.  He  was  for  six  years 
treasurer  of  the  local  order  of  the  Knights  of  Columbus. 
He  belonged  to  the  Church  of  St.  Francis  Xavier. 

His  death  occurred  July  22,  191 7,  in  Waterbury,  after 
an  illness  of  four  days  due  to  diabetes.  He  was  buried  in 
St.  Joseph's  Cemetery,  Waterbury. 

On  March  7,  1916,  Mr.  Hogan  was  married  in  that  city 
to  Helen  G.,  daughter  of  Patrick  and  Mary  (Cavanaugh) 
Curran.  Besides  his  wife  he  is  survived  by  his  father,  three 
sisters,  and  a  brother. 


William  George  Murray,  LL.B.  191 1 

Born  December  2,  1889,  in  Coxsackie,  N.  Y. 
Died  July  29,  1917,  in  Jewett  City,  Conn. 

William  George  Murray,  son  of  John  and  Delia 
(Brooder)  Murray,  was  born  December  2,  1889,  in  Cox- 
sackie, N.  Y.,  to  which  town  members  of  the  family  came 
from  Ireland  in  1869.  His  paternal  grandparents  were 
John  and  Mary  Murray  and  his  mother  was  the  daughter 
of  John  and  Ann  Brooder. 

He  received  his  preparatory  training  at  the  Norwich  Free 
Academy,  Norwich,  Conn.,  and  then  entered  the  Yale 
School  of  Law,  his  home  at  that  time  being  at  Jewett  City, 


8 14  SCHOOL   OF   LAW 

Conn.  He  spent  three  years  with  the  Class,  and  his  degree 
was  granted  to  him,  post  ohitum,  in  191 8. 

Upon  leaving  Yale  he  became  engaged  in  the  practice 
of  law  in  Norwich.  He  was  a  member  of  St.  Mary's 
Roman  Catholic  Church  of  Jewett  City. 

Mr.  Murray  died  July  29,  191 7,  in  Jewett  City,  after  an 
illness  of  three  months,  due  to  nephritis.  He  was  buried  in 
St.  Mary's  Cemetery  at  Lisbon,  Conn.  Surviving  him  are 
his  father  and  his  stepmother,  Mary  Carroll  Murray. 


1 


SCHOOL  OF  RELIGION 
Frank  Solomon  Fitch,  B.D.  1873 

Born  February  24,  1846,  in  Geneva,  Ohio 
Died  December  23,  1017,  in  Berkeley,  Calif. 

Frank  Solomon  Fitch  was  the  son  of  Martin  Luther 
and  Eliza  Hudson  (Coleman)  Fitch,  and  was  born  Feb- 
ruary 24,  1846,  in  Geneva,  Ohio.  His  father,  who  was 
the  son  of  Solomon  and  Mary  (Shepherd)  Fitch,  went  with 
his  family  to  northern  Ohio  when  two  years  old.  He  fought 
in  the  Civil  War.  His  grandfather,  Deacon  Joseph  Fitch 
of  New  Marlboro,  Mass.,  was  a  Revolutionary  soldier.  He 
was  descended  from  Rev.  James  Fitch,  who  was  pastor  of 
the  church  in  Saybrook,  Conn.,  at  the  time  when  the  "Say- 
brook  platform  of  Congregational  Churches"  was  drawn 
up;  later  he  served  for  about  fifty  years  as  pastor  of  the 
First  Congregational  Church  of  Norwich,  Conn.  Eliza 
Coleman  Fitch  was  the  daughter  of  Spencer  Dewitt  and 
Hannah  Coleman.  Her  grandfather  was  one  of  the  par- 
ticipants in  the  "Boston  Tea  Party";  he  later  became  an 
East  Indian  trader,  and  was  lost  at  sea  with  his  ship. 
Spencer  D.  Coleman  attended  Williams  College  and  Colum- 
bia University. 

He  received'  his  preparatory  and  college  training  at 
Oberlin  and  graduated  from  that  institution  with  the  degree 
of  B.A.  in  1870.  He  then  studied  in  the  Yale  School  of 
Religion,  receiving  the  degree  of  B.D.  in  1873.  He  was 
ordained  on  June  17,  1873,  President  Timothy  Dwight  of 
Yale  preaching  the  sermon.  His  first  pastorate  (1873-78) 
was  that  of  the  First  Congregational  Church  at  Stratford, 
Conn.,  and  his  second  (1878-1882)  that  of  the  Seventh 
Street  (later  the  Walnut  Hills)  Congregational  Church, 
Cincinnati,  Ohio.  In  January,  1883,  he  went  to  the  First 
Congregational  Church  at  Buffalo,  N.  Y.  Under  his 
leadership  this  church  grew  to  be  strong  and  influential 
and  was  moved  from  its  original  site  on  Niagara  Square 
to  its  present  location  at  the  corner  of  Bryant  Street  and 
Elmwood  Avenue.  The  Pilgrim,  Plymouth,  and  Fitch 
Memorial,  three  other  Congregational  churches  of  Buffalo, 


8l6  SCHOOL  OF  RELIGION 

were  started  and  fostered  by  him.  In  January,  1916,  he 
retired,  and  the  following  October  went  to  California 
because  of  ill  health.  From  November,  19 16,  to  March, 
1917,  he  supplied  the  pulpit  of  the  First  Congregational 
Church  of  San  Francisco.  In  1894  Oberlin  conferred  upon 
him  the  honorary  degree  of  D.D.  He  was  for  three  years 
president  of  the  New  York  Home  Missionary  Society,  and 
for  some  years  previous  to  his  death  he  was  chairman  of 
the  State  Board  of  Ministerial  Relief.  He  was  a  director 
of  the  American  Missionary  Association  for  fifteen  years 
and  a  corporate  member  of  the  American  Board  of  Com- 
missioners for  Foreign  Missions.  He  was  a  delegate  to 
the  International  Congregational  Council  held  in  Edinburgh 
in  1908,  at  which  he  was  one  of  the  speakers.  From  1896 
to  1 91 7  he  was  a  trustee  of  Oberlin  College. 

He  died  in  Berkeley,  Calif.,  December  23,  191 7,  after  an 
illness  of  seven  weeks  due  to  auricular  fibrillation  of  the 
heart.  Interment  was  in  the  Forest  Lawn  Cemetery, 
Buffalo. 

He  was  married  May  23,  1872,  in  Geneva,  Ohio,  to  Anna 
E.,  daughter  of  Pliny  Fisk  and  Anna  Maria  (Morgan) 
Haskell.  She  survives  him  with  their  two  daughters: 
Anna,  who  is  director  of  kindergartens  in  Buffalo,  and 
Florence  (B.A.  Oberlin  1897,  M.A.  University  of  Berlin 
1903,  Ph.D.  Berlin  1903),  dean  of  women  at  Oberlin  Col- 
lege. A  son,  Frank  Solomon,  Jr.,  died  at  the  age  of  seven 
years. 


Henry  Lyman  Griffin,  B.D.   1873 

Born  December  i,  1848,  in  WilHamstown,  Mass. 
Died  September  2.7,  1917,  in  Southwest  Harbor,  Maine 

Henry  Lyman  Griffin  was  born  December  i,  1848,  in 
WilHamstown,  Mass.  He  was  the  son  of  Rev.  Nathaniel 
Herrick  Griffin,  D.D.,  long  connected  with  Williams  College 
as  professor  and  librarian,  and  Hannah  (Bulkley)  Griffin. 
Through  his  father,  whose  parents  were  Nathaniel  and 
Azubah  (Herrick)  Griffin,  he  traced  his  descent  to  Jasper 
Griffin,  a  native  of  Wales,  who  came  to  Massachusetts  at 
an  early  age  and  finally  settled  at  Southold,  Long  Island, 
about  1675.     His  mother  was  the  daughter  of  Major  Solo- 


1 


1873-1^77  ^»7 

mon  Bulkley  and  Mary  (Wells)  Bulkley  and  a  descendant 
of  Rev.  Peter  Bulkley,  who  came  to  this  country  in  1634 
from  Odell,  England,  and  settled  at  Concord,  Mass. 

He  was  prepared  for  college  by  his  father  and  was  grad- 
uated from  Williams  in  1868.  He  received  his  M.A. 
degree  there  in  1871,  and  in  1906  that  institution  conferred 
an  honorary  D.D.  upon  him.  He  was  a  student  of  theol- 
ogy for  a  year  (1870-71)  at  the  Princeton  Theological  Sem- 
inary, and  graduated  from  the  Yale  School  of  Religion  in 
1873,  i^  which  year  his  ordination  as  a  Congregational 
minister  occurred.  He  was  pastor  of  a  church  in  New 
Britain,  Conn.,  from  1873  to  1877;  of  the  Hammond  Street 
Church,  Bangor,  Maine,  from  1881  to  1904;  and  of  the 
Congregational  Church  at  South  Brewer,  Maine,  from  1907 
until  a  few  months  before  his  death.  He  studied  at  the 
University  of  Berlin  from  1878  to  1881,  and  during  1904 
and  1905  he  studied  at  Leipzig  and  Marburg,  Germany,  and 
at  Oxford,  England.  From  1907  until  his  death  he  was 
lecturer  on  comparative  religion  at  the  Bangor  Theological 
Seminary,  of  which  he  had  been  a  trustee  since  1891. 

Dr.  Griffin  died  suddenly  at  Southwest  Harbor,  Maine, 
September  27,  191 7.  Interment  was  in  the  Mount  Hope 
Cemetery  at  Bangor.  In  the  summer  of  191 6  he  gave  to 
the  Bangor  Theological  Seminary  Library  several  hundred 
volumes  from  his  library  and  since  his  death  his  wife  has 
presented  to  the  seminary  the  remainder. 

He  was  married  in  Bangor,  September  18,  1884,  to  Lucy 
Frances,  daughter  of  George  C.  and  Martha  Jane  (Bartol) 
Pickering.  They  had  no  children.  Besides  Mrs.  Griffin, 
he  is  survived  by  two  brothers,  Edward  H.  Griffin,  for 
twenty-five  years  dean  of  the  college  department  and  pro- 
fessor of  history  and  philosophy  in  Johns  Hopkins  Univer- 
sity, and  Solomon  B.  Griffin,  for  over  forty  years  managing 
editor  of  the  Springfield  Republican. 


Foster  Russell  Waite,  B.D.  1877 

Born  October  20,  1850,  in  Chicopee,  Mass. 
Died  November  22,  1917,  in  Hartford,  Conn. 

Foster   Russell  Waite  was   born   October   20,    1850,  in 
Chicopee,  Mass.,  the  son  of  Albert  and  Jerusha  (Kellogg) 


8l8  SCHOOL   OF   RELIGION 

Waite.  He  graduated  from  Amherst  College  in  1874  and 
from  the  Yale  School  of  Religion  in  1877. 

He  was  ordained  to  the  Congregational  ministry  in 
Granby,  Mass.,  in  1879,  and  served  as  pastor  of  the  South 
Congregational  Church  of  East  Hartford,  Conn.,  for  the 
next  six  years.  In  1890  he  went  to  Talcottville,  Conn,, 
where  he  remained  as  pastor  of  the  Congregational  Church 
for  three  years.  In  1903  he  gave  up  pastoral  work  and 
became  superintendent  of  the  Hartford  (Conn.)  Orphan 
Asylum,  which  position  he  held  until  his  death.  While 
living  in  Hartford  he  belonged  to  Center  Church.  He  was 
connected  with  several  charitable  organizations. 

He  died  November  22,  1917,  in  the  Hartford  Hospital, 
from  pneumonia,  following  an  operation.  Burial  was  in 
the  Cedar  Hill  Cemetery  at  Hartford. 

Mr.  Waite  was  married  in  1884  to  Augusta  Whittlesey, 
daughter  of  Roger  N.  and  Thalia  (Whittlesey)  Coggswell 
of  New  Preston,  Conn.  Mr.  Waite  is  survived  by  his  wife 
and  their  three  children  :  Alan  Whittlesey  (B.A.  1912),  who 
returned  in  the  spring  of  1919  from  France  after  spending 
ten  months  in  foreign  service  as  a  Second  Lieutenant  in  the 
302d  Field  Artillery;  Evelyn  Buckingham;  and  Roger 
Thornton. 


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191 1  J.  W.  Waters,  28 

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1913    A.  R.  Sewall,  27 
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1915  J.  F.  Stillman,  Jr.,  25 

1916  A.  McK.  Munson,  23 

1917  F.  C.  Fairchild,  23 
1917    Dumaresq  Spencer,  22 

1859    S.  D.  Twining,  82 
1866    R.  L.  Crooke,  75 
1868    F.  C.  Beach,  70 
1870    C.  T.  Ballard,  67 

1870  A.  R.  Conkling,  66 

1871  J.  F.  Klein,  68 
1871     T.  W.  Mather,  67 

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Members   of  the  Scientific  and   Graduate  Schools,   and  of  the  Schools   of  Law, 

Medicine,  and  Religion  are  indicated  by  the  letters  s,  ma  or  dp,  I,  m, 

and   d,   respectively. 


Class 

Page 

Class 

Page 

i8S4 

Alexander,  Charles  T. 

548 

1850 

Dechert,  Henry  M. 

538 

IQIO^f 

Allen,  Lloyd  S. 

770 

X863 

DeForest,  Henry  C. 

587 

1904 

Arnold,  Lemuel  H.,  4th 

698 

1878 

Dexter,  Stanley  W. 

651 

1880 

Douglas,  John  M. 

657 

1897 

Babcock,  Samuel  D. 

683 

^854 

Dunham,  Austin  C. 

549 

1867 

Baldwin,  Frank  L. 

608 

1913-y 

Dyer,  Samuel  A. 

775 

1870  J 

Ballard,  Charles  T. 

72>2> 

1916.? 

Banker,  Harold  A. 

780 

1863 

Easton,  Morton  W. 

588 

1917.? 

Banks,  Marston  E. 

784 

1861 

Eaves,  David  W. 

576 

1891  m 

Bardwell,  Frank  J. 

798 

1873 

Elder,  Samuel  J. 

624 

1884  w 

Barry,  Denis  W. 

797 

1900 

Ellerbe,  Christopher  P. 

690 

1868  .y 

Beach,  Frederick  C. 

731 

^915 

Ennis,  James  S.,  Jr. 

719 

1909  J 

Beaty,  Edgar  L. 

768 

1885/ 

-  Ewen,  Andrew  J. 

808 

1916.S 

Beauton,  Joseph  E. 

781 

1863 

Belin,  Henry,  Jr. 

582 

1917 

Fairchild,  Franklin  C. 

724 

1876 

Benner,  Charles 

639 

i860 

Fairchild,  Horace  L. 

572 

1912 

Biddle,  Julian  C 

712 

1873  rf 

Fitch,  Frank  S. 

815 

i86im 

Bigelow,  James  A. 

794 

1878  m 

Fleischner,  Henry 

795 

1894  m 

Bissell,  Jerome  S. 

799 

1879  m 

Flint,  Eli  P. 

796 

191 1 

Bogue,  Malcolm 

707 

1894/ 

Foster,  William  F. 

811 

1850 

Booth,  Albert 

537 

1874 

Frissell,  Hollis  B. 

634 

1863 

Booth,  Edward  M. 

584 

1901 

Fulton,  Lewis  E. 

691 

1873 

Boyce,  S.  Leonard 

623 

i860 

Furbish,  Edward  B. 

573 

1897 

Boyle,  McKinley 

684 

1878 

Briggs,  Charles  E, 

648 

1858 

Gallaway,  Robert  M. 

565 

1866 

Brooks,  Edward  P. 

604 

1856 

Gay,  Julius 

558 

1894^ 

Brown,  Edward  M. 

755 

19085 

Graves,  Stanley  H. 

766 

1875^ 

Browning,  Amos  A. 

740 

1903^ 

Gribben,  Perry  D. 

760 

1866 

Buckingham,  John 

605 

1873  c? 

Griffin,  Henry  L. 

816 

1915 

Bull,  Ebenezer 

718 

1863 

Butler,  John  H. 

585 

18835 

Hall,  Charles  S. 

748 

1881/ 

Hall,  Harry  A. 

806 

1910  dp 

Cairnes,  DeLorme  D. 

791 

1895^ 

Hall,  James  S. 

756 

1869 

Carman,  Nelson  G. 

617 

1866 

Hall,  Lovell 

606 

.1894 

Cassidy,  Patrick  J. 

677 

1903 

Harmount,  William  L. 

696 

1877 

Chase,  Henry  S. 

646 

19065 

Hasbrouck,  Joseph  J. 

764 

1867 

Clark,  Abel  S. 

609 

1880 

Haviland,  William  T. 

658 

1887 

Clarke,  Francis  C. 

671 

1872 

Hemenway,  George  L, 

621 

1885^ 

Coates,  Arthur  C. 

748 

1901 

Henry,  George  G. 

692 

1857 

Cone,  James  B. 

564 

19175 

Higginbotham,  James  H. 

785 

1870.? 

Conkling.  Alfred  R. 

736 

1865 

Hill,  Ebenezer  J. 

600 

1913 

Cooper,  J.  Fenimore,  Jr. 

716 

i8S9 

Hinckley,  Henry  R. 

569 

191 1 

Crawford,  John  D, 

709 

1871 

Hird,  John  W. 

620 

1866  J 

Crooke,  Robert  L. 

730 

1911/ 

Hogan,  Francis  J. 

813 

'?^ 

Cunningham,  Joseph  T. 

673 

1873 

Houghton,  William  A. 

627 

1878 

Curtis,  George  L. 

649 

1876 

Howe,  Elmer  P. 

640 

830 


Class 

1904 
1898  J 

1908  J 
1905 

1898  W 

1907  / 
1873 

1891^ 

1894 

1914^ 

1882  J 

1898 

I915J 

1861 

1904 

1895 

1909  J 
1855 
1871^ 
1882 
1886 
i860 

1911  s 

1876 
I88I 

I9II 
I90I 
1904 -y 

I85I 

1884 
1853 

1914^ 

1876 
1865 

1871  s 

1867 
1904 

1908 

1856 

igiSs 
1912 
1878 
1855  m 
1916 

191 1 1 


Howland,  Francis  E. 
Hulbert,  George  H. 
Hulett,  Frank  W. 
Humphrey, 

Alexander  P.,  Jr. 
Hungerford,  Henry  E. 
Hurtt,  Francis  D. 

Irwin,  Lewis  W. 

Janeway,  Theodore  C. 
Jenkins,  James  S. 
Johnson,  Albert  E. 
Johnson,  Alexander  B. 
Johnson,  Warren  B. 
Jones,  Charles  E. 
Jones,  Frederick  R. 
Jones,  Oliver  L. 

Kendall,  James  M. 
King,  George  R. 
Kittredge,  George  A. 
Klein,  Joseph  F. 
Knapp,  Howard  H. 
Knapp,  Wallace  P. 
Knowlton,  Marcus  P. 
Kraetschmar,  Otto  F. 

Lake,  Edgar  J._ 
Lamb,  Benjamin  B. 
Lamb,  Floyd  E. 
Leidigh,  Paul  J. 
Lewisohn,  Oscar  A. 
Loomis,  Henry 

McCalniont,  Samuel  P. 
McCormick,  James 
MacKenzie,  Roswell  G. 
McKnight,  Everett  J. 
Man,  Edward  A.  S. 
Mather,  Thomas  W. 
Merriam,  James  F. 
Miller,  James  E. 
Mohlman,  Albert  J.' 
Monteith,  John 
Montgomery,  Frank  G. 
Morgan,  Denison 
Mower,  Thomas  E. 
Munger,  Walter  S. 
Munson, 

Alexander  McK. 
Murray,  William  G. 


INDEX 

* 

Page 

Class 

Page 

699 

19OI 

Neal,  Harold  C. 

695 

758 

1867 

Newlands,  Francis  G. 

613 

767 

1858 

Noble,  Frederick  A. 

567 

702 

igoSs 

Page,  Allen  S. 

768 

800 

1910s 

Pangburn,  Dwight  B. 

772 

812 

1882 

Pardee,  William  S. 

663 

1909 

Parks,  Leonard  B. 

704 

629 

1874 

Peck,  John  W. 

636 

1877 

Peet,  Theodore 

647 

752 

1885^ 

Perkins,  Willis  L. 

749 

678 

1854 

Pettibone,  Ira  W. 

551 

776 

1876 

Phelps,  Myron  H. 

644 

746 

1864 

Pierson,  Stephen  C. 

596 

685 

1872 

Potter,  Henry  S. 

622 

778 

1856 

Price,  John  T. 

561 

578 

1880 

Purington,  William  A. 

659 

700 

1880 

Purple,  William  R. 

660 

680 
769 

1906  / 

Quill,  James  J. 

811 

1912 

Rand,  Gordon  L. 

715 

737 

1877-? 

Ray,  Nathaniel  C. 

742 

662 

1898 

Reeve,  Howard  D. 

686 

670 

1894  dp 

Roberts,  Charlotte  F. 

789 

574 

1850 

Roberts,  Ellis  H. 

540 

773 

1896 

Rockwell,  James  D. 

681 

1848 

Rowell,  Joseph 

535 

642 

1879 

Rowland,  Henry  L. 

656 

661 

1896 

Rumrill,  Clinton  J. 

682 

710 
694 
761 

1869 

Russell,  Talcott  H. 

618 

1879^ 

Saunders,  George  A. 

743 

541 

1889 

Scott,  Edmund  D. 

675 

1894  dp 

Scott,  Mary  A. 

790 

667 

iSgos 

Severy,  Ernest  E. 

751 

546 

1913 

Sewall,  Arthur  R. 

717 

777 

i860 

Siglar,  Henry  W. 

576 

643 

1861 

Slingluff,  Fielder  C. 

578 

603 

1912  s 

Smith,  Allen  O. 

774 

739 

1894 

Sniffen,  Charles  J. 

678 

611 

1863 

Southworth, 

701 

George  C.  S. 

589 

704 

1874 

Spaulding,  Wayland 

637 

559 

1878 

Spencer,  Clinton 

654 

779 

1917 

Spencer,  Dumaresq 

726 

714 

1852 

Sprague,  Honier  B. 

542 

653 

1880^ 

Starkweather,  Henry 

745 

792 

1862 

Stebbins,  Henry  H. 

s8o 

1888 

Stein,  Leo 

674 

722 

1884 

Stein,  Sydney 

668 

813 

1856 

Steinman,  Andrew  J. 

563 

INDEX 


831 


Class 

189s  s  Stephenson,  Charles  S. 

1915  Stillman, 

J.  Frederick,  Jr. 

1863  Stimson,  Lewis  A. 

1898  Stocker,  Frank  R. 

1873  Strong,  Henry  A. 

1916J  Sturtevant,  Albert  D. 

1878/  Suffren,  Charles  C. 

1855  m  Sumner,  Edwin  G. 
1905  ma  Swartz,  Wayne 

1904  J  Thomas,  John  H. 

1886  s  Thomas,  John  M. 

1885  /  Tod,  John  G. 

1884  Tompkins,  Ray 

1901  Tredway,  Edward  E. 

igiy  s  Turner,  Frank  B. 

1880;  Tuttle,  Ezra  A. 

1859  J  Twining,  S,  Douglas 

1855  Tyler,  Charles  M. 


Page 

757 

721 
592 
687 
630 
782 
802 
792 
787 

762 
750 
808 
669 
695 
786 
804 
728 
553 


1910  ma  Underwood,  Charles  E.    787 


Class  Page 

1873  VanBuren,  James  H.  632 

1895  <y  Vandergrift, 

Theophilus  T.  758 

1878  Wager,  Ambrose  L.  655 

1877^  Waite,  Foster  R.  817 

191 1  Waters,  James  W.  711      \ 

1859  Weinberger,  John  S.  571 

igo6s  Werzburg,  Sylvester  B.  765 

igi6s  West,  John  P.  783 

1898  Williams,  Arthur  C.  689 

1910  Williams,  Earl  T.  706 

1882  Williams,  Henry  L.  665 

1864  Williams,  Moseley  H.  598 

1880/  Woodruff,  Charles  E.  805 

1855  Woodward,  P.  Henry  556 

1892/  Wooster,  Rollin  C.  809 

1868  Wright,  Henry  P.  615 

1863  Young,  Thomas  595 


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YALE  COLLEGE 
Thomas  Kirby  Davis,  B.A.  1845 

Born  February  ii,  1826,  in  Chambersburg,  Pa. 
Died  December  24,  191 8,  in  Wooster,  Ohio 

Thomas  Kirby  Davis,  son  of  William  Stewart  and  Joanna 
(Kirby)  Davis,  was  born  February  11,  1826,  in  Chambers- 
burg, Pa.  His  ancestors  on  both  sides  were  from  the  north  of 
Ireland.  His  great-grandfather,  William  Davis,  emigrated 
from  County  Tyrone  in  1730.  Inheriting  a  patriotic  and 
military  spirit,  he  enlisted  in  the  French  and  Indian  War 
when  not  over  eighteen  years  of  age.  Later  his  son  James 
also  volunteered,  and  they  both  served  their  country  dur- 
ing the  Revolution,  participating  in  the  battle  of  Trenton. 
William  Stewart  Davis,  who  was  the  eldest  son  of  William 
and  Sarah  (Stewart)  Davis,  left  the  ancestral  farm  near 
Strasburg,  Pa.,  and,  after  teaching  for  a  time,  removed  to  the 
county-seat,  Chambersburg,  where  he  filled  the  offices  of 
justice  of  the  peace  and  county  surveyor,  and  became  cashier 
of  the  Chambersburg  Savings  Bank.  His  wife  was  the  daugh- 
ter of  Thomas  and  Jean  (Withney)  Kirby.  She  was  descended 
from  William  Withney,  who  emigrated  to  this  country  in  1760 
and  settled  in  Pennsylvania. 

After  being  prepared  for  college  at  Chambersburg  Acad- 
emy, under  his  elder  brother,  William  VanLear  Davis,  he 
entered  the  Sophomore  class  at  Yale  in  September,  1842, 
graduating  as  valedictorian  in  1845.  He  was  Class  orator  and 
secretary  of  Phi  Beta  Kappa. 

The  first  year  after  leaving  college  he  was  in  charge  of  the 
Classical  Academy  in  Bedford,  Pa.,  but  although  strongly 
urged  to  continue  this  work,  he  felt  it  his  duty  to  carry  out 

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834  YALE    COLLEGE 

his  intention  of  entering  the  ministry.  He  studied  at  Prince- 
ton Theological  Seminary  from  1846  to  1849,  losing  a  part  of 
the  first  year  through  ill  health.  In  June,  1849,  ^^  was  licensed 
to  preach  by  the  Presbytery  of  Carlisle,  Pa.,  and  on  October 
2,  1850,  he  was  ordained  by  the  same  body.  During  part  of 
the  year  1849  h^  taught  at  Chambersburg  Academy,  preach- 
ing at  the  same  time  in  Fayetteville,  Pa.  The  first  pastorate  to 
which  he  was  called  was  that  of  the  churches  of  Bedford 
Springs  and  Schellsburg,  Pa.,  which  he  filled  from  June  i, 
1850,  to  June  I,  1855.  In  response  to  an  urgent  call  from  Cali- 
fornia for  ministers,  he  then  went  out  to  San  Francisco  and 
supplied  in  the  First  Presbyterian  Church  of  that  city  during 
the  summer.  This  service  was  followed  by  one  year's  home 
missionary  work  in  Los  Angeles,  where  he  was  the  only 
Protestant  minister,  in  fact  one  of  three  in  the  southern  half, 
of  California  at  that  time.  A  disturbance  around  Los  Angeles, 
between  the  Mexican  and  the  ''foreign"  population,  made  it 
imperative  for  him  to  leave  in  1856,  and  he  next  did  over  a 
year's  work  in  the  First  Church  of  Stockton,  Calif.  Returning 
to  the  East  in  October,  1857,  on  account  of  the  ill  health  of 
Mrs.  Davis,  he  completed  a  five  years'  pastorate  in  Middle- 
town,  Pa.,  leaving  because  of  his  own  ill  health.  While  regain- 
ing his  strength  in  Pittsburgh,  he  preached  there  regularly 
for  more  than  a  year  and  then  accepted  a  call  to  the  First 
Presbyterian  Church  of  Mansfield,  Ohio,  where  he  exerted  a 
remarkable  influence  for  the  cause  of  the  Union  and  for  free- 
dom, first  restoring  the  church  itself,  weakened  by  war  dis- 
sensions, to  a  sound  condition,  and  then  making  it  a  great 
power  for  the  National  cause  in  that  region. 

Dr.  Davis  was  one  of  the  founders  of  Wooster  University 
(now  the  College  of  Wooster),  was  instrumental  in  its  estab- 
lishment at  Wooster,  and  was  connected  with  it  for  over  half 
a  century.  During  its  earlier  years,  as  fiscal  secretary,  he 
raised  tens  of  thousands  of  dollars  and  enlisted  countless 
friends.  From  1877  until  almost  the  close  of  his  life  he  served 
as  librarian  of  the  institution.  At  the  time  of  his  death  he  was 
the  librarian  emeritus.  He  had  also  been  secretary  of  the 
board  of  trustees  and  of  the  executive  committee.  From  1867 
to  1 87 1  Dr.  Davis  was  connected  with  Vermilion  Institute 
at  Hayesville,  Ohio,  as  a  member  and  secretary  of  its  board 


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of  trustees  and  as  professor  of  languages.  In  the  seventies  he 
also  served  as  pastor  of  churches  at  Hayesville,  McKay,  Mt. 
Gilead,  Loudonville,  and  Perry ville,  Ohio,  and  during  1879- 
1880  he  held  the  pastorate  of  Westminster  Church,  Wooster. 
In  1880  Parsons  College  (Iowa)  and  Pennsylvania  College 
conferred  upon  him  the  degree  of  D.D.  In  1918  he  was  com- 
missioner to  the  General  Assembly  of  the  Presbyterian 
Church  and  received  an  ovation  as  the  oldest  minister  present. 
Dr.  Davis  was  the  author  of  several  books,  among  them, 
"Scripture  and  Logic — Which?"  (1890);  'The  Calvinistic 
System"  (1890);  "The  Future  Life"  (1907);  "A  History  of 
the  Davis  Family"  (191 2);  and  "Mind  and  Spirit:  a  Study  in 
Psychology"  (19 14).  He  had  written  many  articles  for  period- 
icals, one  of  which,  with  extracts  from  his  college  diary, 
appeared  in  the  Ta/e  Alumni  Weekly  for  December  4,  1907. 
His  death  occurred,  from  heart  failure,  on  December  24, 191 8, 
in  Wooster,  after  an  illness  of  two  weeks.  The  interment  was 
in  Oak  Hill  Cemetery  in  that  city.  He  retained  his  mental 
and  physical  faculties  to  the  end. 

Dr.  Davis  married  Mary  Hays,  daughter  of  John  and  Mary 
(Officer)  Proctor,  August  14,  1851,  in  Carlisle,  Pa.  His  wife 
died  March  28,  1908.  Five  children  survive:  William  Stewart, 
now  living  in  Cincinnati,  Ohio;  Miriam  Maud  (B.A.  Wooster 
University  1879),  of  Minneapolis;  Janet  Morris  (died  April 
28,  1 9 14),  who  was  the  wife  of  James  Wallace,  of  St.  Paul, 
Minn.;  Rev.  John  Proctor  Davis  (B.A.  1883,  M.A.  1886),  of 
Kansas  City,  Mo.;  Elizabeth  Rebecca,  who  attended  the 
Cooper  Institute  and  Teachers  College,  Columbia  Uni- 
versity, and  is  now  living  in  Wooster;  and  Alice  Senseney, 
who  holds  the  position  of  librarian  at  the  Berry  School 
Library,  Rome,  Ga.  A  daughter,  Mary  Officer,  died  in  1855; 
another  daughter,  Gertrude  Sinclair,  in  1862;  and  a  son, 
Robert  Sinclair,  in  1863.  Besides  his  five  children.  Dr.  Davis 
is  survived  by  a  brother,  Robert  Stewart  Davis,  of  Pitts- 
burgh, Pa.  One  grandson,  Robert  S.  Wallace,  graduated  from 
Macalester  College  in  1908  and  from  the  Yale  School  of  For- 
estry in  1 9 10,  and  two  other  grandsons  saw  service  in  the 
World  War. 


836  YALE    COLLEGE 

Daniel  Holmes,  B.A.  1848 

Born  September  ii,  1828,  in  West  Bloomfield,  N.  Y. 
Died  February  11,  191 9,  in  Brockport,  N.  Y. 

Daniel  Holmes  was  the  son  of  Daniel  and  Susan  (Hale) 
Holmes,  and  was  born  September  11,  1828,  in  West  Bloom- 
field,  N.  Y.  His  parents,  who  were  of  English  descent,  were 
natives  of  Massachusetts.  They  settled  in  Ontario  County, 
N.  Y.,  about  1 8 12.  The  father,  a  veteran  of  the  War  of  18 12, 
was  engaged  in  farming  and  also  kept  a  hotel.  Daniel  Holmes' 
maternal  grandfather,  Thomas  Hale,  of  Leominster,  Mass., 
was  a  drummer  boy  in  the  battle  of  Bunker  Hill. 

He  was  prepared  for  college  at  the  Brockport  (N.  Y.)  Col- 
legiate Institute  and  joined  the  Class  of  1848  at  Yale  as  a 
Junior.  After  graduation  he  taught  for  two  years  in  a  district 
school  in  Woodford  County,  Ky.,  and  then  spent  a  year  at  the 
academy  in  Canandaigua,  N.  Y.,  as  instructor  in  Latin.  In 
1853  he  received  the  degree  of  M.A.  at  the  University  of 
Rochester.  In  the  meantime  he  had  taken  up  the  study  of  law 
at  Brockport,  and  in  1853  was  admitted  to  the  bar  of  New 
York  State.  He  carried  on  his  law  practice  in  Brockport  for 
more  than  fifty  years,  being  the  pioneer  lawyer  of  the  village. 
He  was  a  member  of  the  New  York  State  Bar  Association 
and  of  the  Sons  of  the  American  Revolution.  In  1853  he  was 
elected  justice  of  the  peace,  in  1863  became  justice  of  sessions 
of  Monroe  County,  and  from  1852  to  i860,  with  the  excep- 
tion of  two  years,  was  clerk  of  the  village  of  Brockport.  In 
March,  1867,  he  became  secretary  and  treasurer  of  the  State 
Normal  School  at  Brockport,  which  was  organized  at  that 
time  to  take  the  place  of  the  old  Collegiate  Institute,  of  which 
he  had  been  secretary.  He  was  a  member  and  vestryman  of 
St.  Luke's  Episcopal  Church  and  served  as  senior  warden  for 
a  number  of  years.  He  had  traveled  extensively,  both  in  this 
country  and  abroad.  He  died  at  his  home  on  February  11, 
1 919,  after  several  months'  illness,  due  to  diseases  incident 
to  old  age.  He  was  buried  in  Pine  Grove  Cemetery,  Brockport. 

Mr.  Holmes  was  married  August  9,  1849,  ^^  Allen's  Hill, 
N.  Y.,  to  Mary  Jane,  daughter  of  Preston  and  Fanny  (Olds) 
Hawes,  of  Brookfield,  Mass.  They  had  no  children.  Mrs. 


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Holmes  was  a  well-known  novelist.  She  taught  school  at  the 
age  of  thirteen,  and  began  writing  at  fifteen.  Her  first  novel 
was  "Tempest  and  Sunshine,"  published  in  1854.  She  died 
October  6,  1907.  Mr.  Holmes  is  survived  by  two  nieces  and  a 
nephew. 

Oliver  Brown,  B.A.  1850 

Born  March  31,  1830,  in  South  Kingston,  R.  I. 
Died  June  6,  1919,  in  Alstead,  N.  H. 

Oliver  Brown,  whose  parents  were  Rev.  Oliver  Brown 
(B.A.  Harvard  1804,  M.A.  Harvard  1807)  and  Elizabeth 
(Eells)  Brown,  was  born  March  31,  1830,  in  South  Kingston, 
R.  I.  He  was  the  grandson  of  Asa  and  Deborah  (Grant) 
Brown,  and  a  descendant  of  Thomas  Brown,  who  settled  in 
Lynn,  Mass.,  about  1628.  Through  his  mother,  who  was  the 
daughter  of  Benjamin  and  Dorcas  (Denison)  Eells,  he  traced 
his  descent  to  John  Eells,  who  came  to  Dorchester,  Mass.,  in 
1634,  or  earlier. 

During  the  first  year  after  his  graduation  from  Yale  he 
was  principal  of  the  high  school  in  North  Stonington,  Conn. 
He  then  entered  the  law  office  of  John  B.  Haskin  in  New 
York  City  and  in  May,  1852,  he  was  admitted  to  the  bar 
of  New  York.  He  practiced  law  in  that  city  until  1854,  when 
he  resumed  his  teaching  in  North  Stonington.  He  later  entered 
Andover  Theological  Seminary  and  was  graduated  there  in 
1857.  In  December  of  the  same  year  he  was  ordained  pastor 
of  the  Orthodox  Church  (his  father's  church)  in  Kingston, 
where  he  remained  until  October,  1859.  From  1859  to  1862 
he  was  pastor  of  the  Orthodox  Church  in  Quincy,  Mass. 
He  subsequently  held  Congregational  pastorates  in  the  fol- 
lowing places:  South  Maiden  (now  Everett),  Mass.,  1862- 
63;  St.  John's,  New  Brunswick,  1864-67;  Foxlake,  Wis., 
1 867-1 870;  Breckenridge,  Mo.,  1870-75;  Kingston,  Mo., 
1872-75;  and  Kidder,  Mo.  1874-75.  During  the  year  1875- 
76  he  was  president  of  Thayer  College  (later  united  with 
Drury  College)  at  Kidder,  Mo.  The  following  year  he  was 
professor  of  mathematics  and  natural  science  at  Drury  Col- 
lege, Springfield,  Mo.,  and  from  1877  to  1886  he  was  profes- 


838  YALE    COLLEGE 

sor  of  Latin  and  Greek  at  the  same  institution.  He  was  then 
for  two  years  pastor  of  the  Congregational  Church  at  Mar- 
seilles, 111.,  and  subsequently  held  pastorates  in  the  following 
places:  Oneida,  111.,  1 888-1 890;  Magnolia  and  Modale,  Iowa, 
1889-1891;  Providence,  111.,  1891-92;  North  Yarmouth, 
Maine,  1892-94;  Pownal,  Maine,  1892-93;  West  Glover,  Vt., 
1894-96;  Andover,  Conn.,  1896-1901;  Peru,  Vt.,  1901-03; 
Lisbon,  Conn.,  1904-06;  Alstead  and  Langdon,  N.  H.,  1906- 

191 8.  Mr.  Brown  died  of  heart  failure  in  Alstead  on  June  6, 

1 9 19,  a  year  after  he  had  retired  from  the  ministry.  He  was 
buried  at  Andover,  Conn. 

He  was  married  August  29,  1855,  ^^  North  Stonington,  to 
Sarah  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Caleb  and  Lura  (Peabody) 
Grant.  She  died  in  1903.  Of  their  eight  children,  only  four 
lived  to  maturity.  The  eldest  of  these,  Minnie,  who  was  for 
several  years  a  missionary  in  Turkey,  died  about  1888.  A 
son,  Charles  Winchester,  and  two  daughters  survive. 


Theodore  Weston,  B.A.  1853 

Born  October  9,  183a,  in  Sandy  Hill,  N.  Y. 
Died  May  6,  1919,  in  New  York  City 

Theodore  Weston  was  born  October  9,  1832,  in  Sandy  Hill, 
N.  Y.  He  was  the  son  of  Frederick  Weston,  a  lawyer,  and 
Elizabeth  B.  (Hart)  Weston,  and  was  of  English  ancestry. 

He  entered  Yale  in  August,  1849,  ^^^  was  graduated  with 
the  Class  of  1853.  After  taking  his  degree  he  became  engaged 
in  civil  engineering.  From  1853  to  1856  this  consisted  in  sur- 
veys for  the  Genesee  Valley  Railroad  and  the  construction  of 
it,  followed  by  work  in  his  capacity  as  assistant  engineer  of 
the  New  York  State  canals.  From  1856  to  1859  he  was  in 
charge  of  the  construction  of  the  Brooklyn  (N.  Y.)  water 
works  and  later  he  had  charge  of  surveys  for  the  water  works 
of  Augusta,  Ga.,  returning  in  i860  to  the  Brooklyn  water 
works.  In  1861  he  left  the  Brooklyn  position  to  take  charge 
of  the  work  on  the  Croton  Aqueduct,  continuing  in  this 
capacity  until  1864.  For  nine  years  he  was  also  engineer  in 
charge  of  the  sewerage  and  drainage  of  New  York  City,  but  in 
1870  he  ended  this  connection  to  become  architect,  engineer, 


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superintendent,  and  trustee  of  the  Equitable  Life  Assurance 
Society,  constructing  and,  for  the  succeeding  twelve  years, 
managing  its  two  buildings  in  Boston  and  New  York  City. 
From  1884  to  1890  he  was  architect  of  the  Metropolitan 
Museum  of  Art  in  New  York  City,  of  which  institution  he  was 
an  incorporator,  secretary,  and  trustee.  Mr.  Weston  published 
in  1 861  a  "Report  upon  the  Water  Supply  for  Brooklyn"  and 
in  1866  a  translation  of  ''De  Aquis  Urbis  Romae'  by  Sextus 
Julius  Trontinus.  He  was  also  at  one  time  editor  of  a  jour- 
nal, '^he  Crayon^  since  suspended.  He  was  a  member  of  the 
American  Society  of  Civil  Engineers  and  the  New  York  Acad- 
emy of  Sciences  and  an  honorary  member  of  the  American 
Institute  of  Architects.  He  belonged  to  the  Church  of  the 
Ascension  of  New  York  City.  He  was  an  active  promoter  of 
the  first  Intercollegiate  Regatta  in  America,  rowed  by  Har- 
vard and  Yale  in  1852. 

Mr.  Weston  died  suddenly  after  an  illness  of  a  few  hours 
May  6,  1919,  at  his  home  in  New  York  City.  His  death  was 
due  to  acute  indigestion.  The  interment  was  in  Woodlawn 
Cemetery. 

He  was  married  October  9,  1861,  to  Sarah  Chauncey, 
daughter  of  Francis  Bayard  Winthrop  (B.A.  Yale  1804)  and 
Elizabeth  (Woolsey)  Winthrop,  of  Staten  Island,  N.  Y.,  and 
a  sister  of  Theodore  Winthrop  (B.A.  1848).  Mrs.  Weston  died 
March  5,  1864.  Her  mother  was  the  second  daughter  of  Wil- 
liam W.  Woolsey  and  Elizabeth  Dwight,  sister  of  President 
Timothy  Dwight  (B.A.  1769),  a  descendant  of  Jonathan 
Edwards  (B.A.  1720),  and  was,  herself,  the  sister  of  a  Presi- 
dent of  Yale,  Theodore  D.  Woolsey,  of  the  Class  of  1820. 
There  were  two  children  by  this  marriage:  Theodore  Win- 
throp, who  graduated  from  Yale  in  1885,  and  Emma,  who 
died  in  infancy.  On  February  21, 1878,  Mr.  Weston  was  again 
married.  His  second  wife  was  Catherine  Boudinot  Stimson, 
of  New  York  City.  She  was  the  daughter  of  Henry  Clark  and 
Julia  Maria  (Atterbury)  Stimson  and  a  sister  of  Lewis  A. 
Stimson,  '^1^^  Henry  A.  Stimson,  '65,  John  Ward  Stimson,  '72, 
and  Frederick  J.  Stimson,  '77.  Mr.  Weston's  children  by  his 
second  wife  are:  Frederick  Willoughby,  a  graduate  of  Yale 
in  1899,  ^"<i  Mary  Stimson,  who  was  married  November  25, 
1902,  to  William  F.  Dominick,  '98. 


840  YALE    COLLEGE 

Andrew  Dickson  White,  B.A.  1853 

Born  November  7,  1832,  in  Homer,  N.  Y. 
Died  November  4,  1918,  in  Ithaca,  N.  Y. 

Andrew  Dickson  White,  son  of  Horace  White,  a  banker 
and  railway  financier,  and  Clara  (Dickson)  White,  was  born 
November  7,  1832,  in  Homer,  N.  Y.  On  his  father's  side,  he 
was  descended  from  John  White,  who  settled  at  Nequasset, 
Maine,  just  east  of  the  Kennebec,  before  1650,  and  his  wife, 
Mary  Phips  (widow  of  James  Phips  and  mother  of  Sir  Wil- 
liam). His  maternal  ancestors  removed  from  Middlefield, 
Mass.,  to  Homer  early  in  the  nineteenth  century.  His  paternal 
grandfather,  Asa  White,  had  gone  there  from  Monson,  Mass., 
in  1798,  and,  establishing  a  grist  mill  and  later  a  cotton  mill, 
was  for  a  time  the  most  prosperous  citizen  of  the  rising  village. 
But  in  1 8 1 5,  insurance  being  yet  unknown,  he  was  ruined  by  a 
fire,  and  his  eldest  son  Horace  had  to  begin  again  at  the  be- 
ginning. Through  integrity  and  business  genius  his  rise  was 
rapid;  and,  linking  his  fortunes  with  those  of  the  growing 
town  of  Syracuse,  to  which  he  had  removed  with  his  family 
in  1839,  h^  became  one  of  the  financial  leaders  of  central  New 
York.  Andrew  White,  his  eldest  son,  named  for  his  maternal 
grandfather,  Andrew  Dickson,  at  one  time  a  member  of  the 
New  York  State  Legislature,  received  his  preparation  for  col- 
lege at  the  academy  in  Syracuse  and  at  a  private  school  in 
Ballston,  N.  Y.  He  then  entered,  at  his  father's  wish,  Hobart 
College,  but  in  1851  joined  the  Class  of  1853  at  Yale  as  a 
Junior.  He  won  the  Tale  Literary  Magazine  medal,  the  first 
Clark  Prize,  and,  at  graduation,  the  DeForest  gold  medal. 
He  was  a  member  of  Phi  Beta  Kappa. 

After  graduation  he  studied  abroad  for  three  years,  pur- 
suing courses  at  the  Sorbonne  and  the  College  de  France  in 
Paris,  and  at  the  University  of  Berlin;  during  a  part  of 
this  period  he  served  as  an  attache  of  the  American  Legation 
in  St.  Petersburg  (now  Petrograd).  This  was  during  the 
Crimean  War.  In  1856  he  returned  to  New  Haven  for  some 
months  of  further  study  at  Yale.  From  1857  onward  he  was 
professor  of  history  and  English  literature  at  the  University 
of  Michigan.  His  father's  death  in  i860  had  placed  the  respon- 


i853  841 

sibilities  of  the  estate  upon  him  and  he  secured  leave  from  his 
professorship  in  1863  and  returned  to  Syracuse,  although 
retaining  the  nominal  professorship  of  history  at  Michigan 
for  the  next  four  years.  Shortly  after  taking  up  this  tem- 
porary residence  in  Syracuse,  he  was  elected  to  the  New  York 
State  Senate  on  the  Republican  ticket.  While  serving  there 
as  chairman  of  the  Committee  on  Education,  he  became 
greatly  interested  in  the  educational  plans  of  his  fellow  sena- 
tor, Ezra  Cornell,  of  Ithaca,  a  Quaker  who  had  acquired 
wealth  through  his  share  in  the  development  of  the  electric 
telegraph,  and  together,  with  the  aid  of  the  great  land  grant 
made  the  state  by  the  nation  under  the  Morrill  Act  of  1862, 
they  founded  the  institution  since  known  as  Cornell  Univer- 
sity, Mr.  Cornell  endowing  it  with  $500,000  from  his  own 
fortune  and  transferring  to  it  the  lands  located  by  him  with 
the  scrip  accruing  to  New  York  State  from  the  Morrill  Act 
— lands  since  sold  for  several  millions  of  dollars.  Dr.  White 
himself  at  various  times  gave  largely  to  the  University — his 
gifts  amounting  in  all  to  some  $300,000;  and,  when,  after  his 
retirement  from  the  presidency  his  name  was  given  to  the 
newly-organized  School  of  History  and  Political  Science,  he 
gave  his  own  historical  library  of  twenty  or  thirty  thousand 
volumes  and  many  thousands  of  pamphlets.  He  served  as 
president  of  Cornell  from  1866  to  1885,  and  was  one  of  the 
leaders  in  the  movement  for  liberalizing  and  broadening  edu- 
cation in  the  United  States.  During  his  presidency  he  held  the 
chair  of  history  at  Cornell. 

In  1 87 1  he  was  sent  by  President  Grant  as  one  of  the  special 
commissioners  to  San  Domingo  to  report  on  its  proposed 
annexation,  and  in  1878  he  acted  as  commissioner  to  the  Paris 
Exposition.  From  1879  ^°  ^881  he  served  as  Minister  to  Ger- 
many, and  from  1892  to  1894  he  was  Minister  to  Russia. 
In  1896  he  was  a  member  of  the  Venezuelan  Boundary  Com- 
mission, and  in  1897  he  was  appointed  by  President  McKin- 
ley  as  Ambassador  to  Germany.  He  held  this  post  through 
the  Spanish-American  War  and  until  1902.  In  1899  he  served 
as  president  of  the  American  Delegation  to  The  Hague  Peace 
Conference.  In  1902  Dr.  White  ended  his  public  life,  and, 
returning  to  America  in  1904,  spent  the  remainder  of  his  years 
at  Ithaca.  On  June  16,  1915,  a  massive  bronze  statue  of  him 


842  YALE    COLLEGE 

was  unveiled  upon  the  campus  at  Cornell.  He  received  the 
honorary  degree  of  LL.D.  from  the  University  of  Michigan 
in  1867,  from  Cornell  in  1886,  from  Yale  in  1888,  from  Johns 
Hopkins  University  in  1902,  from  St.  Andrew's  (Scotland) 
in  1902,  from  Dartmouth  in  1905,  and  from  Hobart  in  191 1; 
that  of  L.H.D.  from  Columbia  in  1887,  of  Ph.D.  from  the 
University  of  Jena  in  1889,  and  that  of  D.C.L.  from  Oxford 
University  in  1902.  He  was  made  an  Officer  of  the  Legion  of 
Honor  by  the  French  Government  in  1878,  and  received  the 
Royal  Gold  Medal  from  the  Prussian  Academy  of  Sciences  in 
1902.  He  was  a  member  of  the  American  Academy  of  Arts 
and  Letters,  and  in  1884  he  became  the  first  president  of  the 
American  Historical  Association.  He  had  also  served  as  presi- 
dent of  the  American  Social  Science  Association  and  of  the 
American  Philosophical  Society,  as  a  regent  of  the  Smith- 
sonian Institution  for  thirty  years,  as  a  trustee  of  the  Carnegie 
Institute  and  of  the  Carnegie  Endowment  for  Peace,  and  as 
vice  president  of  the  Simplified  Spelling  Board.  He  became 
an  honorary  member  of  the  New  York  Yale  Club  in  January, 
191 7,  and  was  made  vice  president  of  the  New  York  Peace 
Society  in  February  of  that  year. 

An  authority  on  historical,  economic,  and  educational  sub- 
jects. Dr.  White  made  many  contributions  to  literature.  Two 
of  his  best  known  books  are:  "The  Warfare  of  Science,"  pub- 
lished in  1876  (translated  into  Swedish  in  1877),  and  again, 
enlarged  to  two  volumes,  as  "A  History  of  the  Warfare  of 
Science  with  Theology  in  Christendom,"  in  1896  (translated 
later  into  the  French,  Italian,  Spanish,  Portuguese,  and  Ger- 
man languages),  and  "Seven  Great  Statesmen,"  published  in 
1910.  He  contributed  to  many  leading  periodicals,  prepared 
many  outlines  and  syllabi  of  his  lecture  courses  in  history, 
submitted  many  reports,  the  results  of  careful  research  and 
investigation,  and  made  many  public  addresses.  His  papers, 
while  occasionally  upon  political  or  distinctly  literary  sub- 
jects, reveal  an  absorbing  interest  in  historical  matters,  in  the 
development  of  science,  and  especially  in  the  expansion  of 
education  along  the  broadest  lines.  "The  Autobiography  of 
Andrew  Dickson  White"  was  published  in  1905. 

His  death  occurred  on  November  4,  191 8,  at  Ithaca,  after  a 
short  illness  following  a  stroke  of  paralysis.  The  funeral  serv- 


1 853-1 854  843 

ices  were  held  in  Sage  Chapel,  Cornell  University,  and  the  in- 
terment was  in  the  memorial  chapel  adjoining.  By  the  terms 
of  his  will  a  bequest  of  $5,000  was  made  to  Yale,  while  his 
residuary  estate,  amounting  to  several  hundred  thousand 
dollars,  will  after  the  death  of  his  wife  go  to  Cornell. 

He  was  twice  married,  his  first  wife  being  Mary  A.,  daugh- 
ter of  Peter  and  Lucia  (Phillips)  Outwater,  of  Syracuse.  Their 
marriage  took  place  in  that  city,  September  24,  1857.  Four 
children  were  born  to  them:  Clara  Dickson,  who  was  married 
June  8,  1882,  to  Spencer  Baird  Newberry  (E.M.  Columbia 
1878,  Ph.D.  Columbia  1879)  ^"^  who  died  September  24, 
1907,  leaving  two  sons;  Frederick  Davies  (B.S.  Cornell  1882), 
who  studied  at  the  College  de  France  and  the  University  of 
Berlin  and  whose  death  occurred  in  1900;  Ruth  Mary,  who 
was  married  on  August  21,  1900,  to  Erwin  Sidney  Ferry  (B.S. 
Cornell  1893);  and  Andrew  Danforth  (born  April  21,  1874; 
died  December  7,  1877).  Mrs.  White  died  June  8,  1887,  and 
on  September  10,  1890,  Dr.  White  was  married  in  Swarth- 
more.  Pa.,  to  Helen  Magill  (B.A.  Swarthmore  1873;  Ph.D. 
Boston  University  1877;  Classical  Tripos,  Cambridge  Uni- 
versity, England,  1881).  She  is  the  daughter  of  Edward  Hicks 
Magill  (B.A.  Brown  1852,  M.A.  Brown  1853,  LL.D.  Haver- 
ford  1884),  president  of  Swarthmore  College  from  1871  to 
1889,  and  Sarah  (Beans)  Magill.  There  were  two  children  by 
this  marriage:  Hilda,  whose  death  occurred  in  infancy,  and 
Karin  Andreevna  (B.A.  Vassar  1916).  Dr.  White  is  survived 
by  his  wife  and  two  daughters. 


John  Cockrill  Shackelford,  B.A.  1854 

Born  August  4,  1829,  in  Saline  County,  Mo. 
Died  July  11,  1918,  in  Marshfield,  Mo. 

John  Cockrill  Shackelford  was  born  August  4,  1829,  in 
Saline  County,  Mo.,  the  son  of  Thomas  Shackelford,  a  farmer, 
and  Eliza  Cheves  (Pulliam)  Shackelford.  His  father  moved 
with  his  family  to  Missouri  from  Tennessee  in  18 17,  and  en- 
tered several  thousand  acres  of  farm  land.  He  was  made  one 
of  the  first  county  judges  of  Saline  County  and  his  influence 
was  strong  in  the  early  history  of  the  state.  He  died  when  his 


844        ~  YALE    COLLEGE 

son  John  was  only  six  years  old,  leaving  the  care  of  their 
large  family  and  of  the  farm  to  his  wife. 

After  attending  the  best  schools  in  his  own  state  and  study- 
ing law  in  the  office  of  an  older  brother,  Mr.  Shackelford  en- 
tered the  Law  School  at  Ballston  Spa,  N.  Y.  When  he  had 
been  there  nearly  two  years,  a  remarkable  experience  led  him 
to  give  up  law  for  the  ministry.  In  1850  he  entered  Yale, 
graduating  with  honors  four  years  later. 

He  then  returned  to  Missouri,  and  in  September,  1854, 
became  an  active  minister  in  the  Methodist  Episcopal 
Church,  South.  In  the  St.  Louis  Conference,  and  later  in  the 
Southwest  Missouri  Conference,  he  gave  himself  without 
stint  to  the  hard  work  of  the  pioneer  preacher.  His  health 
gave  way  after  ten  years  of  this  service  under  the  added 
strain  of  war  conditions  and  deep  personal  sorrow  because  of 
the  deaths  of  his  two  sons.  He  was  forced  to  seek  a  renewal  of 
strength  by  a  return  to  country  life.  From  "Rural  Retreat," 
his  farm  home  in  Lafayette  County,  he  continued  with  unre- 
mitting zeal  the  work  to  which  he  had  dedicated  his  life, 
preaching  in  near-by  churches,  writing  continuously  for  the 
church  and  local  papers,  and  leading  in  every  movement  for 
the  advancement  of  the  community.  In  1897  Mr.  Shackelford 
and  his  family  moved  to  Sweet  Springs,  Saline  County,  Mo. 
There  he  continued  his  work,  preaching  until  within  the  last 
few  years  of  his  life  whenever  he  was  called  upon  by  any 
denomination  in  the  town  or  surrounding  country.  After  his 
wife's  death  in  1907,  he  spent  part  of  his  time  in  the  home  of 
his  son-in-law.  Rev.  James  Clyde  Saylor,  a  minister  in  the 
Methodist  Episcopal  Church,  South,  always  lending  help  and 
support  to  Mr.  Saylor  and  his  wife  in  their  work.  His  death 
occurred  at  their  home  in  Marshfield,  Mo.,  on  July  11,  1918. 
His  body  was  taken  back  to  Sweet  Springs  and  interred  in  the 
family  lot  in  Fairview  Cemetery. 

Mr.  Shackelford  was  married  November  6,  1859,  in  Lafay- 
ette County,  Mo.,  to  Martha,  daughter  of  Lewis  and  Eliza- 
beth (Kinchelo)  Neale,  then  residents  of  Lafayette  County, 
but  formerly  of  Virginia.  His  wife's  death  occurred  December 
2,  1907.  Of  the  four  children  born  to  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Shackel- 
ford, the  two  sons,  Samuel  and  John  Wesley,  died  in  early 
childhood.  The  daughters,  Emma  Neale  and  Mary  Birdie, 
wife  of  Rev.  James  Clyde  Saylor,  survive. 


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Isaac  Clark,  B.A.  1856 

Born  June  30,  1833,  in  Canterbury,  Conn. 
Died  September  2,  1918,  in  Summit,  N.  J. 

Isaac  Clark,  whose  parents  were  Isaac  Clark,  a  non-gradu- 
ate member  of  the  Yale  Class  of  1820,  who  later  studied 
medicine  at  Harvard,  and  Susan  (Tracy)  Clark,  was  born  in 
Canterbury,  Conn.,  June  30,  1833.  His  father,  who  was  en- 
gaged in  practice  as  a  physician  at  Hampton,  Conn.,  was  the 
son  of  Roger  and  Lydia  (Bennett)  Clark.  Members  of  the 
Clark  family  came  from  Plymouth,  England,  in  the  Mary  and 
John  about  1632,  and  after  some  time  spent  in  Dorchester, 
Mass.,  settled  in  Northampton,  Mass.  Isaac  Clark's  maternal 
ancestors,  the  Tracys,  came  from  England  about  1700  and 
settled  in  Norwich  Colony.  The  family  home  was  in  Scotland, 
Conn.  Mrs.  Clark  was  the  daughter  of  Gideon  Tracy. 

He  was  fitted  for  Yale  at  the  Monson  (Mass.)  Academy. 
In  the  fall  of  1856,  upon  the  completion  of  his  college  course, 
he  began  teaching  in  Ellington,  Conn.,  and  remained  there 
until  July,  1858.  Later  in  the  year  he  entered  Union  Theologi- 
cal Seminary,  where  he  studied  until  May,  1859.  He  gradu- 
ated from  Andover  Theological  Seminary  in  1861,  and  on 
November  12  of  that  year  was  ordained  to  the  ministry  and 
installed  as  pastor  of  the  Presbyterian  Church  at  Elmira, 
N.  Y.,  where  he  preached  for  seven  years.  From  1868  to  1872 
he  filled  the  pulpit  of  the  First  Congregational  Church, 
Aurora,  111.  He  was  called  from  there  to  the  Elm  Place 
Church,  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.,  and  remained  there  for  two  years. 
In  1874  he  entered  upon  the  pastorate  of  the  Presbyterian 
Church  in  Rondout,  N.  Y.  He  resigned  in  1882  and  accepted 
his  last  charge  before  entering  upon  his  university  work, 
going  to  Northampton,  Mass.,  where  he  spent  nine  years  as 
pastor  of  the  Edwards  Memorial  Church  (Congregational). 
In  1 891  Dr.  Clark  became  professor  of  theology,  homiletics, 
and  English  exegesis  at  Howard  University,  Washington, 
D.  C.  Ten  years  later  he  was  made  dean  of  its  School  of 
Theology  and  served  in  this  capacity  until  191 6,  when  he  be- 
came dean  emeritus.  Howard  University  conferred  the  degree 
of  D.D.  upon  him  in  1896. 


846  YALE    COLLEGE 

Dr.  Clark  died  September  2, 191 8,  at  the  home  of  his  daugh- 
ter in  Summit,  N.  J.,  as  a  result  of  the  infirmities  of  old  age. 
His  illness  lasted  only  three  months,  and  his  mind  was  per- 
fectly clear  and  active  until  the  end.  Burial  was  in  the  Bridge 
Street  Cemetery,  Northampton. 

On  January  i,  1862,  he  was  married  in  Franklin,  Conn.,  to 
Sophia  Tracy,  daughter  of  Bela  Tracy  and  Juliette  (Hunting- 
ton) Hastings.  Mrs.  Clark  died  December  i,  19 14.  They  had 
four  children:  Alfred  Hastings  (born  August  21,  1864,  died 
December  16,  1887);  Alice  Huntington;  Mary  Sophia,  who 
was  married  July  16,  1896,  to  Robert  Gill  Proctor;  and 
Edward  Tracy  (B.A.  Amherst  1900). 


Edward  Franklin  Williams,  B.A.  1856 

Born  July  22,  1832,  in  Uxbridge,  Mass. 
Died  May  26,  1919,  in  Winnetka,  111. 

Edward  Franklin  Williams,  son  of  George  and  Delilah 
(Morse)  Williams,  was  born  July  22,  1832,  in  Uxbridge,  Mass. 
His  preparatory  training  was  received  at  the  Uxbridge  Acad- 
emy and  at  the  University  Grammar  School,  Providence,  R.  I. 
At  Yale  he  received  prizes  in  English  composition,  declama- 
tion, and  mathematics. 

In  1859,  after  teaching  for  three  years  in  Merwinsville, 
Conn.,  he  entered  the  Princeton  Theological  Seminary.  He 
graduated  from  that  institution  in  1861,  and  then  spent 
about  a  year  and  a  half  in  supply  work  at  Rockdale,  Mass. 
During  the  Civil  War  he  was  engaged  as  a  field  officer  in 
the  service  of  the  Christian  Commission,  attached  to  the 
Army  of  the  Potomac.  After  his  return  from  this  work  in 
July,  1865,  he  preached  for  short  periods  in  West  Hampton 
and  South  Deerfield,  Mass.,  and  was  ordained  at  Whitins- 
ville,  Mass.,  October  17,  1866.  For  a  year  he  was  principal  of 
the  Lookout  Mountain  Educational  Institution  at  Chatta- 
nooga, Tenn.  He  spent  the  summer  of  1867  in  Washington, 
actively  engaged  in  starting  Howard  University.  During  the 
winter  of  1867-68  Dr.  Williams  read  theology  with  Professor 
Temple  Howe  of  the  Chicago  Theological  Seminary,  and  for 
a  time  he  supplied  a  pulpit  in  St.  Charles,  111.  From  1869  to 


1856-1857  847 

1873  he  was  pastor  of  the  Tabernacle  Church  in  Chicago  and 
during  the  next  eighteen  years  he  held  the  pastorate  of  the 
South  Church  in  that  city.  He  was  pastor  of  the  Evanston 
Avenue  Congregational  Church  from  1901  to  19 10,  being 
elected  pastor  emeritus  when  this  church  was  merged  into  the 
Wellington  Avenue  parish.  He  was  one  of  the  charter  members 
of  the  Chicago  City  Missionary  Society,  and  until  his  death 
was  president  of  the  Chicago  Tract  Society.  For  nearly  fifteen 
years  he  had  given  weekly  lectures  on  the  history  of  phi- 
losophy and  the  problems  of  ethics  at  Wheaton  College,  and 
he  had  also  lectured  at  the  Chicago  Theological  Seminary. 
He  was  for  more  than  twenty  years  the  Western  representa- 
tive of  The  Congregationalist,  his  letters  to  this  publication 
being  written  under  the  nom  de  plume  of  "Franklin."  He  had 
made  several  trips  to  Europe  for  his  health,  spending  his  time 
in  travel  and  study.  His  book,  "Christian  Life  in  Germany," 
was  one  of  the  results  of  his  work  abroad.  He  was  also  the 
author  of  "The  Life  of  D.  K.  Pearsons,"  the  philanthropist, 
whom  he  knew  intimately,  and  of  "The  Christian  Religion — 
An  Appeal  for  its  Acceptance."  A  number  of  his  articles  were 
published  in  reviews  and  magazines.  Illinois  College  gave  him 
the  degree  of  D.D.  in  1883,  and  the  degree  of  LL.D.  was  con- 
ferred upon  him  by  Wheaton  College  in  1899  and  by  Adrian 
College  in  1909.  Dr.  Williams'  death  occurred  May  26,  1919, 
at  his  home  in  Winnetka,  111.,  and  his  body  was  taken  to  Hart- 
ford, Conn.,  for  burial. 

He  was  married  in  Hartford,  October  24,  1866,  to  Jane 
Clarissa  Pitkin,  who  died  October  27,  1908.  They  had  no 
children. 


Joseph  Taplin  Lovewell,  B.A.  1857 

Born  May  i,  1833,  ^^  Corinth,  Vt. 
Died  September  11,  191 8,  in  Topeka,  Kans. 

Joseph  Taplin  Lovewell  was  born  May  i,  1833,  in  Corinth, 
Vt.,  the  son  of  Nehemiah  and  Martha  (Willis)  Lovewell.  His 
father,  a  farmer  and  a  justice  of  the  peace,  was  the  son  of 
John  and  Vodica  Lovewell,  and  a  descendant  of  John  Love- 
well, noted  as  an  Indian  fighter,  who  was  killed  by  the 


YALE    COLLEGE 


Indians  at  Pigwacket,  May  8,  1725.  The  family  came  origi- 
nally from  Weymouth,  England,  and  settled  in  Dunstable, 
Mass.,  prior  to  1690. 

He  received  his  preparatory  training  at  the  Newbury  (Vt.) 
Seminary,  and  joined  the  Yale  Class  of  1857  as  a  Sophomore. 
He  was  a  member  of  Linonia  and  the  Glee  Club.  He  read  law, 
expecting  to  make  this  his  life  work,  but  finally  abandoned  the 
project  when  within  a  few  months  of  qualifying  for  the  bar. 

He  began  his  work  as  a  teacher  at  the  Ellington  Seminary, 
Ellington,  Conn.,  where  he  taught  for  a  year.  He  then  became 
superintendent  of  schools  in  Madison,  Wis.,  and  remained 
there  for  five  years,  after  which  he  was  head  of  the  Prairie  du 
Chien  (Wis.)  College  until  1867.  In  1868  he  was  appointed 
professor  of  science  at  the  Wisconsin  State  Normal  School  at 
Whitewater.  He  left  that  institution  in  1870  to  take  up  grad- 
uate work  in  physics  at  Yale,  and  in  1 874  was  given  the  degree 
of  Ph.D.  During  this  period  he  maintained  himself  by  teaching 
at  General  Russell's  School,  and  in  1874-75  he  was  an  in- 
structor in  physics  in  the  Sheffield  Scientific  School.  He  was 
then  offered  a  professorship  of  physics  at  Pennsylvania  State 
College.  His  wife's  death  occurred  two  years  later,  and  cir- 
cumstances led  him  to  seek  the  Middle  West,  where  his  life 
work  eventually  developed.  For  twenty-one  years  he  was 
actively  engaged  in  the  development  of  Washburn  College  at 
Topeka,  Kans.,  where  he  was  professor  of  chemistry  and 
physics,  dean  of  the  college,  and,  for  a  time,  acting  head  of 
the  institution.  A  personal  friend  of  Alexander  Graham  Bell, 
he  became  the  custodian  through  Dr.  Bell  of  the  earliest  types 
of  telephone  and  introduced  these  instruments  by  lecture  and 
demonstration  in  many  parts  of  the  country.  He  served  as 
state  meteorologist  of  Kansas  from  1885  to  1895  ^^^  estab- 
lished the  first  weather  stations  throughout  the  state.  Profes- 
sor Lovewell  was  chemist  for  the  Kansas  State  Temperance 
Union  and  the  Kansas  State  Board  of  Agriculture  during  the 
early  days  of  restricted  liquor  traffic  in  Kansas.  In  this  capac- 
ity he  analyzed  hundreds  of  samples  of  suspected  liquor  and 
was  called  to  all  parts  of  the  state  to  testify  against  alleged 
law  breakers.  In  1879  occurred  the  gold-shale  excitement  in 
Trego  County  and  elsewhere  in  Kansas,  and  Professor  Love- 
well's  high  reputation  as  an  assayer  and  for  absolute  integrity 


i857  849 

placed  him  in  a  judicial  position  in  conducting  subsequent 
investigations. 

In  1904,  having  resigned  his  position  at  Washburn  College, 
he  was  elected  secretary  of  the"  Kansas  Academy  of  Science. 
He  held  that  office  for  twelve  years,  retiring  at  the  age  of 
eighty-three.  He  then  fitted  up  a  laboratory  and  continued 
to  do  occasional  analytical  and  assay  work  until  the  time  of 
his  injury  two  years  later.  He  fell  on  an  icy  sidewalk  near  his 
home  on  January  5,  191 7,  fracturing  his  right  hip,  and  was 
practically  helpless  until  his  death  on  September  11,  191 8. 
Interment  was  in  Topeka.  While  an  officer  of  the  Kansas 
Academy  of  Science  he  published  annually  the  transactions 
of  the  institution,  which  included  many  of  his  own  scientific 
papers.  He  was  a  member  of  the  American  Association  for 
the  Advancement  of  Science,  the  Sons  of  the  American 
Revolution,  and  the  First  Congregational  Church  of  Topeka, 
of  which  he  was  for  years  senior  deacon. 

He  was  married  in  Hartford,  Wis.,  September  3,  1863,  to 
Margaret  Lois,  daughter  of  Cyrus  and  Amanda  (Case)  Bissell, 
of  Torrington,  Conn.  Her  death  occurred  December  3,  1876, 
and  on  June  30,  1885,  Professor  Lovewell  was  married  at 
Topeka  to  Caroline  Forbes,  daughter  of  Henry  E.  and  Caro- 
line Forbes  Barnes,  of  Stowe,  Vt.  She  survives  him,  and  he 
also  leaves  four  children:  the  eldest.  Bertha  Ellen  (now  Mrs. 
George  L.  Dickinson,  of  Pasadena,  Calif.),  who  graduated 
from  Washburn  College  with  the  degree  of  B.L.  in  1889, 
entered  the  Yale  Graduate  School  when  it  first  opened  to 
women  in  1892,  and  after  an  absence  of  several  years  returned 
and  took  the  degree  of  Ph.D.  in  1898;  a  son,  also  by  his  first 
wife,  Paul  Arthur  (B.A.  Washburn  1897),  editor  of  the  Mer- 
chants' Journal  of  Topeka;  and  two  daughters  by  his  second 
marriage,  Marguerite  Barnes,  of  New  York  City,  and  Caro- 
lyn Elizabeth,  a  student  of  music  at  Ann  Arbor,  Mich.  Four 
grandchildren  and  a  brother,  John  Lovewell,  a  graduate  of 
Yale  in  the  Class  of  1858,  are  also  living. 


850  YALE    COLLEGE 

Storrs  Ozias  Seymour,  B.A.  1857 

Born  January  24,  1836,  in  Litchfield,  Conn. 
Died  September  8,  191 8,  in  Litchfield,  Conn. 

Storrs  Ozias  Seymour,  born  January  24,  1836,  in  Litchfield, 
Conn,,  was  the  son  of  Origen  Storrs  Seymour  (B.A.  1824, 
LL.D.  Trinity  1866  and  Yale  1873)  ^^^  Lucy  Morris  (Wood- 
ruff) Seymour.  His  father,  who  was  the  only  son  of  Ozias  and 
Selima  (Storrs)  Seymour,  became  chief  justice  of  the  Supreme 
Court  of  Connecticut.  He  was  a  direct  descendant  of  Richard 
Seymour,  one  of  the  pioneer  settlers  of  Hartford,  Conn.,  in 
1636.  Storrs  Seymour's  mother,  a  daughter  of  Morris  and 
Candace  (Catlin)  Woodruff,  of  Litchfield,  traced  her  descent 
from  Matthew  Woodruff,  who  settled  in  Farmington,  Conn., 
in  1640. 

He  was  prepared  at  Phillips  Academy,  Andover,  Mass., 
and  was  graduated  from  Yale  in  1857.  He  was  a  member  of 
Linonia. 

His  course  at  Yale  was  followed  by  fourteen  months  of 
study  in  Europe.  From  1859  to  1861  he  studied  theology  at 
the  Berkeley  Divinity  School,  Middletown,  Conn.,  and  was 
ordained  a  deacon  in  the  Protestant  Episcopal  Church  on  May 
22,  1 861.  On  April  15,  1862,  he  was  advanced  to  the  priest- 
hood. His  active  service  in  the  ministry  began  at  St.  Peter's 
Church,  Milford,  Conn.,  of  which  he  was  rector  from  1861 
until  1864.  He  went  from  there  to  St.  Thomas'  Church  at 
Bethel,  Conn.,  where  he  remained  for  three  years.  In  January, 
1868,  he  began  a  rectorship  of  seven  years  at  Trinity  Church, 
Pawtucket,  R.  L,  and  he  afterwards  preached  for  five  years  in 
Trinity  Church,  Norwich,  Conn.  He  then  returned  to  Litch- 
field to  become  rector  of  St.  Michael's,  having  charge  of  this 
parish  from  April,  1879,  until  October,  1883,  when  he  went 
to  Trinity  Church,  Hartford,  for  ten  years  of  service.  This 
completed,  he  again  returned  to  St.  Michael's  at  Litchfield 
to  spend  the  remainder  of  his  active  ministry.  He  resigned  in 
191 5,  becoming  rector  emeritus.  He  was  a  member  of  the 
Connecticut  State  Board  of  Education  from  1880  to  1884, 
president  of  the  Litchfield  Historical  Society,  a  trustee  of  the 
Berkeley  Divinity  School  for  thirty-eight  years,  and  presi- 


i857  851 

dent  of  the  Standing  Committee  of  the  Diocese  of  Connecti- 
cut. He  received  the  degree  of  M.A.  from  Trinity  College  in 
1866,  and  in  1897  that  institution  conferred  upon  him  the 
honorary  degree  of  D.D.  Dr.  Seymour  died  on  September  8, 
191 8,  at  his  home  in  Litchfield  as  the  result  of  infirmities  inci- 
dent to  his  advanced  age.  The  interment  was  in  the  East 
Cemetery  in  that  town. 

He  was  married  at  Hastings-on-the-Hudson,  N.  Y.,  June 
20,  1 86 1,  to  Mary  Harrison,  daughter  of  the  Rev.  Abraham 
Browne  and  Lucy  Morse  (Harrison)  Browne,  of  Brooklyn, 
N.  Y.  She  was  the  author  of  several  books  for  children.  She 
died  June  26,  1913,  leaving  one  son,  Edward  Woodruff,  who 
survives  his  father.  Dr.  Seymour  is  also  survived  by  one 
brother,  Morris  Woodruff  Seymour,  '66.  Another  brother, 
Edward  Woodruff  Seymour,  graduated  from  Yale  in  1853; 
a  cousin,  George  Morris  Woodruff,  in  1857;  and  a  nephew, 
Origen  Storrs  Seymour,  2d,  in  1894. 


Arthur  Martin  Wheeler,  B. A.  1857 

Born  January  21,  1835,  in  Weston  (now  Easton),  Conn. 
Died  July  17,  191 8,  at  Grove  Beach,  Conn. 

Arthur  Martin  Wheeler,  who  was  born  July  21,  1835,  i" 
Weston  (now  Easton),  Conn.,  was  the  son  of  Willis  Wheeler, 
a  farmer,  and  Eliza  (Fairchild)  Wheeler.  Both  parents  were  of 
English  ancestry. 

He  received  his  preparatory  training  at  Phillips  Academy, 
Andover,  Mass.  At  Yale  he  was  a  member  of  Phi  Beta  Kappa 
and  Brothers  in  Unity. 

After  leaving  college,  he  taught  in  the  district  school  at 
Weston  for  two  years.  In  1859  he  entered  Andover  Theologi- 
cal Seminary,  where  one  year  was  spent.  From  1861  to  1864 
he  was  a  tutor  in  Greek  at  Yale,  and  during  the  next  four 
years  he  studied  in  France  and  Germany.  In  1865  the  pro- 
fessorship in  history  since  known  as  the  Durfee  professorship 
was  founded  at  Yale  and  he  was  appointed  to  the  chair.  He 
did  not,  however,  return  to  New  Haven  to  assume  his  duties 
until  1868.  He  served  continuously  from  that  time  until  1906, 


852  YALE    COLLEGE 

when  he  was  made  professor  emeritus.  From  1906  to  191 1  he 
held  a  lectureship  in  European  history.  His  well-known  lec- 
ture on  the  "Battle  of  Waterloo"  was  given  annually  under 
the  auspices  of  the  Yale  chapter  of  Phi  Beta  Kappa.  To  both 
Presidents  Porter  and  Dwight,  Professor  Wheeler  wais  of 
great  assistance  in  the  numerous  practical  affairs,  especially 
in  building,  that  came  before  them.  He  was  instrumental  in 
securing  Durfee  and  Osborn  Halls,  and  was  very  largely  in 
charge  of  the  actual  planning  and  building  of  Durfee,  Battell, 
Welch,  Lawrance,  and  Osborn  halls.  The  honorary  degree  of 
M.A.  was  conferred  upon  him  by  Yale  in  1887,  and  that  of 
LL.D.  by  Hamilton  in  1896.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Church 
of  Christ  in  Yale  College,  a  trustee  of  the  Hotchkiss  School, 
and  belonged  to  the  New  York  State  Historical  Society  and 
the  American  Historical  Association.  He  was  greatly  inter- 
ested in  Yale  rowing  affairs  and  for  years  was  a  referee  at  the 
boat  races  with  Harvard.  He  had  served  as  treasurer  of  the 
Dunham  Boating  Club  and  the  University  Boat  Club. 

Professor  Wheeler  died  on  July  17,  191 8,  at  his  summer 
home  at  Grove  Beach,  Conn.  Death  was  due  to  heart  trouble, 
from  which  he  had  suffered  for  a  long  time.  Interment  was 
in  Grove  Street  Cemetery,  New  Haven. 

He  was  married  October  i,  1879,  ^^  ^^^  Haven,  to  Har- 
riette  Skinner,  daughter  of  George  Washington  and  Mary 
(Knight)  Staples.  She  survives  him  as  do  also  his  two  sons 
and  his  daughter:  Arthur  Stanley  (B.A.  Yale  1902);  Ken- 
neth Knight,  a  non-graduate  member  of  the  Class  of  191 1  S.; 
and  Harriette  Staples,  who  was  married  September  30,  1914, 
to  Rowley  Wilhelm  Phillips. 

Ephraim  Morgan  Wood,  B.A.  1857 

Born  January  24,  1838,  in  Cincinnati,  Ohio 
Died  December  4,  191 8,  in  Dayton,  Ohio 

Ephraim  Morgan  Wood  was  born  January  24,  1838,  in 
Cincinnati,  Ohio,  the  son  of  William  Wood,  a  physician,  and 
Mary  (Morgan)  Wood.  His  mother's  family  came  from  Vir- 
ginia. During  his  course  at  Yale  he  was  a  member  of  Linonia, 
^nd  he  received  one  of  the  first  Berkeley  premiums  for  excel- 
lence in  English  composition. 


1857-185B  ^S3 

After  graduation  he  studied  law  in  Cincinnati,  and,  in 
i860,  was  admitted  to  the  bar.  The  Civil  War  interrupted  his 
practice,  and,  having  been  appointed  Captain  in  the  15th 
U.  S.  Infantry  in  1861,  he  served  in  Mississippi  until  ill 
health  caused  his  resignation.  He  then  became  a  manufac- 
turer of  linseed  oil  in  Dayton,  Ohio.  He  was  manager  of  the 
Dayton  Linseed  Oil  Works  for  some  years  and  later  presi- 
dent of  the  Dayton  Globe  Iron  Works  Company.  He  took  a 
prominent  part  in  the  civic  life  of  Dayton,  serving  as  presi- 
dent of  the  Board  of  Education,  the  City  Council,  and  the 
Board  of  Police  Commissioners.  He  was  a  member  of  the 
Episcopal  Church.  He  died,  of  paralysis,  on  December  4, 
191 8,  in  Dayton,  in  which  city  he  was  buried. 

His  marriage  took  place  in  Dayton  in  April,  1862,  to  Vic- 
toria Helen,  daughter  of  Joseph  and  Thirza  (Bailey)  Clegg. 
They  had  two  children,  one  of  whom,  Helen,  born  in  January, 
1863,  died  in  1866,  while  her  parents  were  in  Europe;  the 
other,  Charles  Morgan,  who  graduated  from  the  Sheffield 
Scientific  School  in  1891  and  took  his  M.A.  at  Columbia  in 
191 2,  survives. 


Thatcher  Magoun  Adams,  B.A.  1858 

Born  November  25,  1837,  in  New  York  City- 
Died  May  10,  1919,  in  New  York  City 

Thatcher  Magoun  Adams,  son  of  Rev.  William  Adams  and 
Martha  Bradshaw  (Magoun)  Adams,  was  born  November 
25,  1837,  in  New  York  City.  His  father,  a  graduate  of  Yale  in 
1827,  and  the  son  of  John  Adams  (B.A.  1795,  LL.D.  1854) 
and  Elizabeth  (Ripley)  Adams,  was  at  one  time  principal  of 
Phillips-Andover  and  later  became  professor  of  sacred  rhet- 
oric and  president  of  Union  Theological  Seminary.  New  York 
University  conferred  the  degree  of  D.D.  upon  him  in  1842, 
and  Princeton  gave  him  an  LL.D.  in  1869.  His  first  wife  was 
Susan  P.,  daughter  of  Thatcher  Magoun,  of  Medford,  Mass.; 
she  died  in  1835  ^^^  ^^'  Adams  later  married  her  sister, 
Martha  Bradshaw  Magoun.  Thatcher  Adams  was  a  descend- 
ant in  the  seventh  generation  of  Henry  Adams,  who  came 
from  Devonshire,  England,  to  Braintree,  Mass.,  in  1634. 


^54  YALE    COLLEGE 

He  was  prepared  for  college  by  Rev.  S.  H.  Taylor,  LL.D., 
of  Andover,  Mass.,  and  entered  Yale  with  the  Class  of  1857, 
but  left  during  the  second  term  of  Freshman  year.  Returning 
in  January,  1855,  he  joined  the  Class  of  1858,  but  again  with- 
drew during  his  Junior  year.  In  1866,  however,  he  received 
his  M.A.  from  Yale  and  was  enrolled  with  the  Class  of  1858. 
During  his  attendance  at  Yale  he  received  the  third  prize  in 
the  Freshman  debate  and  the  second  prize  in  the  Sophomore 
debate.  He  was  a  member  of  Brothers  in  Unity. 

During  1857-58  he  visited  the  Pacific  coast  in  a  clipper, 
rounding  the  Horn,  and  also  spent  some  time  in  Europe.  He 
began  the  study  of  law  in  1 8  59  in  New  York  City  with  William 
Curtis  Noyes,  and  in  January,  i860,  he  entered  the  office  of 
Judge  Bronson,  where  he  read  law  for  six  months.  He  then 
spent  six  months  in  Europe,  and,  in  May,  1861,  not  long  after 
his  return,  was  admitted  to  the  bar  of  New  York  and  began 
practice.  In  April,  1863,  he  formed  a  partnership  with  Mason 
Young  (B.A.  i860),  under  the  firm  name  of  Adams  &  Young. 
In  January,  1867,  the  firm  became  Anderson,  Adams  & 
Young.  The  partnership  was  dissolved  about  1871,  and  Mr. 
Adams  then  practiced  alone  until  1887,  when  he  became  a 
member  of  the  firm  of  Adams,  Lay  &  Comstock.  This  firm 
was  subsequently  dissolved  by  the  retirement  of  George  C. 
Lay,  and  Mr.  Adams  continued  with  Frederick  H.  Comstock. 
After  January  i,  19 13,  Mr.  Adams  continued  his  office  with 
Mr.  Comstock  until  his  death.  In  1902  he  became  a  special 
partner  in  the  brokerage  firm  of  Day,  Adams  &  Company, 
and,  in  191 2,  a  member  of  the  firm  of  Adams,  Livingston  & 
Davis,  which  was  succeeded  by  Adams,  Davis  &  Bartol. 

He  became  connected  with  the  Young  Men's  Christian 
Association  of  New  York  City  in  1867,  being  appointed  chair- 
man of  its  executive  committee  two  years  later,  and  made  a 
director  for  a  term  of  five  years  in  1870.  In  May,  1868,  he 
was  chosen  to  fill  the  office  of  secretary  of  the  New  York 
Institution  for  the  Instruction  of  the  Deaf  and  Dumb,  of 
which  he  was  later  for  several  years  vice  president  and  finally 
president.  He  was  a  member  of  the  board  of  governors  of  the 
Woman's  Hospital.  He  died  at  his  home  in  New  York  City, 
May  10,  1 91 9,  of  pneumonia,  after  an  illness  of  a  fortnight. 
The  funeral  services  were  held  at  the  Brick  Church  (Presby- 


1858  Ss5 

terian),  of  which  he  had  long  been  a  member,  and  the  inter- 
ment was  in  Woodlawn  Cemetery. 

He  was  married  on  January  5,  1861,  in  New  York  City,  to 
Frances  Charlotte,  daughter  of  George  S.  and  Frances  Caro- 
line (Wolcott)  Robbins.  Mrs.  Adams  died  October  13,  1909. 
Mr.  Adams  had  adopted  twin  daughters  of  General  Hood  of 
the  Confederate  Army:  Marion  Hood,  who  died  November 
19,  1 89 1,  and  Lilian  Hood,  who  was  married  June  14,  1894,  to 
William  Stone  Post.  Mr.  Adams  was  a  brother  of  William 
Adams,  a  non-graduate  member  of  the  Class  of  1861,  and  his 
Yale  relatives  also  include:  John  R.  Adams  (B.A.  1821), 
Ripley  P.  Adams  (B.A.  1825),  William  Adams  Brown,  '86, 
William  Adams,  '91  S.,  William  Adams  Delano,  '95,  Thatcher 
Magoun  Brown,  '97,  Moreau  Delano,  '98,  John  Brown 
Adams,  '99,  Thomas  S.  Adams,  '01  S.,  Eugene  Delano,  Jr., 
'08,  William  Adams,  Jr.,  '17,  and  Lewis  G.  Adams,  '20. 


William  Plumb  Bacon,  B.A.  1858 

Born  April  17,  1837,  in  Middletown,  Conn. 
Died  August  6,  1918,  in  Hartford,  Conn. 

William  Plumb  Bacon,  son  of  William  Walter  and  Jane 
(Plumb)  Bacon,  was  born  April  17, 1 837,  in  Middletown,  Conn. 
His  father  was  a  sales  agent  for  the  first  combination  safe 
lock  ever  placed  on  the  market.  He  was  the  son  of  Nathaniel 
and  Abigail  (Taylor)  Bacon  and  a  descendant  of  William 
Bacon,  of  Rutland  County,  England,  whose  son  Nathaniel 
emigrated  to  New  England  in  1648  or' 1649  ^"^  ^^^  ^^^  ^^ 
the  company  that  first  settled  Mattabesett,  now  Middle- 
town,  Conn.,  in  1650.  Abigail  (Taylor)  Bacon  was  the 
daughter  of  William  Taylor,  a  Revolutionary  soldier,  among 
whose  ancestors  were  Elder  William  Brewster  of  the  May- 
flower  company  and  Thomas  Prence,  for  many  years  governor 
of  Plymouth  Colony.  Jane  (Plumb)  Bacon,  who  was  the 
daughter  of  William  and  Aurelia  (Bowers)  Plumb,  traced  her 
descent  to  John  Plume,  who  came  to  America  from  England 
about  1635  ^^d  shortly  afterwards  settled  at  Wethersfield, 
Conn.  His  house  in  Wethersfield  was  located  where  the  State 


856  YALE    COLLEGE 

Penitentiary  now  stands.  William  P.  Bacon's  great-uncle  was 
Rev.  William  Plumbe  (B.A.  1769),  Chaplain  in  the  Conti- 
nental Army  for  over  four  years,  who  died  June  2,  1843, 
aged  ninety-four  years,  being  at  that  time  the  oldest 
graduate  of  the  College. 

He  was  prepared  for  college  at  General  Russell's  Collegiate 
and  Commercial  Institute  in  New  Haven.  He  became  secre- 
tary of  Linonia  in  1856,  and  in  his  Senior  year  served  as  com- 
modore of  the  Yale  Navy. 

In  December,  1858,  Mr.  Bacon  went  abroad,  and  after 
spending  a  year  in  Berlin  and  four  months  in  Paris,  studying 
languages,  he  traveled  through  Europe,  Asia,  and  Africa 
with  his  classmate,  Frederic  W.  Stevens.  He  returned  to 
America  in  June,  1861,  and  the  following  October  was  com- 
missioned as  First  Lieutenant  and  Battalion  Adjutant  in  the 
5th  Regiment,  New  York  Cavalry.  He  became  Regimental 
Adjutant  September  6,  1862,  and  two  months  later  was 
promoted  to  be  Major.  He  was  appointed  Lieutenant  Colonel 
March  29,  1864,  and  on  September  12,  1864,  was  honorably 
discharged.  He  was  in  the  battles  of  Bull  Run  (second), 
Gettysburg,  and  the  Wilderness,  and  in  fifty-three  minor 
engagements,  and  served  as  president  of  several  courts-mar- 
tial and  of  a  military  commission. 

From  September,  1864,  to  August,  1866,  he  was  at  leisure, 
remaining  in  New  Haven  until  September,  1865,  when  he 
removed  to  New  York  City.  For  a  few  months  in  1866  he 
was  bookkeeper  for  H.  J.  Messenger,  a  banker,  and  from 
January  i,  1867,  until  May  8,  1868,  he  was  bookkeeper  and 
cashier  for  Bonnell  &  Adams,  wholesale  grocers.  He  then  be- 
came engaged  in  the  banking  and  brokerage  business  with 
his  brother,  Theodore  C.  Bacon,  under  the  firm  name  of 
Bacon  Brothers.  In  August,  1868,  the  firm  became,  by  the 
admission  of  Daniel  E.  Starr,  Bacon  Brothers  &  Starr.  Mr. 
Starr  retired  from  the  firm  in  March,  1874,  and  Mr.  Theodore 
Bacon  in  November,  1877.  Colonel  Bacon  continued  the 
business  until  May  i,  1887,  when,  by  advice  of  his  physician, 
he  sold  his  seat  on  the  Stock  Exchange  and  retired.  During 
1888-89  ^^  rnade  an  exhaustive  investigation  of  the  subject 
of  artificial  drying  for  The  American  Drying  &  Seasoning 
Company  of  New  York  City.  On  November  i,  1890,  he  be- 


1858  857 

came  treasurer  of  the  Vulcan  Iron  Works  of  New  Britain, 
Conn.,  a  position  which  he  held  until  1907,  when  he  retired. 
He  had  served  as  Secretary  of  the  Class  of  1858  continuously 
since  graduation,  and  had  devoted  much  of  his  time  to  com- 
piling the  records  of  the  Class.  In  1898  he  issued  an  eight- 
page  list  of  the  Academic  Class  records  which  had  been 
printed  to  that  date,  with  some  analysis  of  them.  In  1905  he 
prepared  a  second  edition,  including  other  than  Academic 
records,  and  five  years  later,  at  the  request  of  the  Yale  Asso- 
ciation of  Class  Secretaries,  he  issued  his  "Bibliography  of 
Class  Books  and  Class  Records  (1792-19 10),  Yale  Univer- 
sity," a  revision  and  enlargement  of  the  lists  of  1 898  and  1 905. 
He  was  deeply  interested  in  genealogy.  In  1907  he  published 
a  genealogy  of  his  wife's  ancestors,  ''Whittemore-Clark," 
and  at  the  time  of  his  death  he  had  ready  for  the  press  a  vol- 
ume of  about  two  hundred  and  fifty  pages  showing  the  genea- 
logical record  of  his  own  ancestors.  This  Bacon-Plumb 
genealogy  is  to  be  published  in  the  near  future.  Colonel  Bacon 
belonged  to  the  Connecticut  branch  of  the  Order  of  the  Cin- 
cinnati, the  New  York  Genealogical  and  Biographical  Society, 
the  Connecticut  Historical  Society,  and  the  Military  Order 
of  the  Loyal  Legion. 

He  died  at  the  Hartford  (Conn.)  Hospital,  August  6,  191 8, 
after  a  double  operation.  His  body  was  taken  to  New  York 
for  burial  in  Woodlawn  Cemetery. 

He  was  married  November  9,  1864,  in  New  Haven,  to 
Emma  Parsons,  daughter  of  Rev.  Williams  Howe  Whitte- 
more  (B.A.  1825)  and  Maria  (Clark)  Whittemore,  and  sister 
of  Williams  C.  Whittemore  (B.A.  1855).  She  survives  him  with 
their  four  children:  Corinne,  who  graduated  from  Packer 
Institute,  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.,  in  1890,  and  received  the  degree 
of  B.L.S.  from  the  New  York  State  Library  School  in  1903; 
Adele,  who  was  married  March  15,  1890,  to  Clinton  Peters; 
WiUiam  Stevens;  and  Arthur  Whittemore  (Ph.B.  1903).  He 
was  a  brother  of  the  late  Wilbur  Russell  Bacon  (B.A.  1865). 


858  YALE    COLLEGE 

Samuel  Henry  Lee,  B.A.  1858 

Born  December  21,  1832,  in  Lisbon,  Conn. 
Died  October  20,  191 8,  in  Springfield,  Mass. 

Samuel  Henry  Lee,  son  of  William  and  Sarah  (Storrs)  Lee, 
was  born  December  21,  1832,  in  Lisbon,  Conn.  His  father, 
who  was  engaged  in  farming,  was  the  son  of  Rev.  Andrew  Lee 
(B.A.  1766,  D.D.  Harvard  1809),  a  member  of  the  Yale  Cor- 
poration from  1807  to  1823,  and  Eunice  (Hall)  Lee.  Rev. 
Andrew  Lee  was  the  son  of  Capt.  John  Lee,  Jr.,  a  lawyer  of 
Lyme,  Conn.,  and  a  descendant  of  Thomas  Lee,  who  settled 
at  Lyme  in  1641,  and  his  wife  was  the  daughter  of  Rev. 
Theophilus  Hall  (B.A.  1727).  His  eldest  son,  John  Lee,  gradu- 
ated at  Yale  in  1793;  one  daughter  married  Rev.  Ezra  Witter, 
also  a  member  of  that  class,  and  another  became  the  wife  of 
William  Perkins  (B.A.  1792) ;  a  grandson.  Dr.  Judah  Lee  Bliss, 
took  his  B.A.  at  Yale  in  1822.  Samuel  Lee's  maternal  grand- 
parents were  Samuel  P.  and  Persis  (Howe)  Storrs,  and  through 
his  mother  he  traced  his  descent  to  Samuel  Storrs,  of  Notting- 
hamshire, England,  who  came  to  America  in  1663,  settled  at 
Brattleboro,  and  moved  to  Mansfield,  Conn.,  in  1698. 

He  was  prepared  for  college  at  Williston  Seminary,  East- 
hampton,  Mass.  In  his  Junior  year  he  was  awarded  two  first 
prizes,  and  in  his  Senior  year  received  the  Townsend  Premium 
for  excellence  in  English  composition.  He  was  also  given  a 
second  dispute  appointment  Senior  year.  He  was  treasurer 
and  president  of  the  Beethoven  Society,  vice  president  of 
Brothers  in  Unity,  served  as  one  of  the  editors  of  the  Tale 
Literary  Magazine^  and  belonged  to  Phi  Beta  Kappa. 

After  graduation  he  taught  for  two  years  in  the  Normal 
School  at  New  Britain,  Conn.,  and  during  the  next  two  years 
studied  in  the  Yale  Theological  Seminary.  In  September, 
1862,  following  his  ordination  to  the  Congregational  minis- 
try, he  became  pastor  of  the  Congregational  Church  at  North 
Bridgewater,  Mass.,  and  so  continued  until  1866.  During 
May  and  June,  1865,  he  was  in  the  service  of  the  U.  S.  Chris- 
tian Commission,  near  Washington,  D.  C.  In  November, 
1866,  he  went  to  Greenfield,  Mass.,  and  in  the  following  June 
was  installed  as  pastor  of  the  Second  Congregational  Church, 


1858  859 

remaining  in  that  charge  until  1872,  when  he  became  pastor 
of  the  First  Congregational  Church  of  Cleveland,  Ohio. 
This  pastorate  he  left  to  become  professor  of  political  economy 
and  financial  secretary  of  Oberlin  College,  Oberlin,  Ohio,  but 
after  four  years  of  service  he  resigned  these  positions.  In 
October,  1883,  he  began  preaching  in  the  Center  Congrega- 
tional Church,  Brattleboro,  Vt.,  remaining  two  years,  and  in 
1885  he  moved  to  New  Haven,  where  he  was  engaged  in 
supply  work.  In  May,  1890,  he  again  took  up  educational 
work  as  professor  of  history  and  political  economy  at  the 
American  International  College,  Springfield,  Mass.,  of  which 
in  1893  he  became  president.  He  served  in  that  capacity  until 
his  resignation  in  1908,  when  he  was  made  president  emeritus. 
The  college  had  doubled  in  size  and  value  during  his  adminis- 
tration. He  was  twice  a  delegate  to  the  National  Council  of 
Congregational  Churches,  once  at  Oberlin,  and  once  at  New 
Haven.  In  1894  Yale  conferred  the  honorary  degree  of  M.A. 
upon  him. 

His  death  occurred  October  20, 191 8,  at  his  home  in  Spring- 
field, after  an  illness  of  three  days  due  to  heart  trouble. 
Burial  was  in  Oak  Grove  Cemetery,  that  city. 

He  was  married  to  Emma  Chloe,  daughter  of  Evits  and 
Emma  (Taylor)  Carter,  on  August  7,  1861,  in  Pleasant  Val- 
ley, Conn.  Mrs.  Lee  died  February  28,  1919.  Two  children 
survive:  Gerald  Stanley  Lee,  the  author,  who  was  graduated 
from  Middlebury  College  in  1885  and  afterwards  studied  for 
three  years  in  the  Yale  Divinity  School,  and  Christabel  (B.A. 
Wellesley  1888),  the  wife  of  the  late  Philo  Perry  Saflford  (B.A. 
Oberlin  1885,  LL.B.  Columbia  1888).  Another  daughter, 
Grace,  who  studied  for  three  years  at  Wellesley  College,  died 
December  28,  1900.  The  younger  son,  Theodore  Storrs,  a 
graduate  of  Amherst  in  1900  and  of  Union  Theological  Semi- 
nary in  1903, died  in  191 1. Two  grandsons  have  attended  Yale, 
Geoffrey  Lee  Safford  (B.A.  19 14),  whose  death  occurred  in 
1 9 16,  and  Theodore  Lee  Safford  (B.A.  1920). 


86o  YALE    COLLEGE 

Charles  Henry  Williams,  B.A.  1858 

Born  May  27,  1837,  in  Salem,  Mass. 
Died  March  28,  1919,  in  Salem,  Mass. 

Charles  Henry  Williams,  whose  parents  were  Rev.  William 
Williams  (B.A.  18 16)  and  Mary  (Parsons)  Williams,  was 
born  May  27,  1837,  i^  Salem,  Mass.  He  was  a  grandson  of 
Samuel  W.  Williams,  a  graduate  of  the  College  in  1772,  who 
served  first  as  a  Lieutenant  and  later  as  a  Captain  in  the 
Revolutionary  Army;  a  great-grandson  of  Col.  Elisha  Wil- 
liams (B.A.  1735),  who  represented  the  town  of  Wethersfield, 
Conn.,  in  many  sessions  of  the  General  Assembly;  and  a 
great-great-grandson  of  Rev.  Elisha  Williams  (B.A.  Harvard 
171 1),  rector  of  Yale  College  from  1726  to  1739.  Other  ances- 
tors were  Robert  Williams,  of  Norfolk,  England,  who  settled 
in  Roxbury,  Mass.,  about  1637,  Solomon  Stoddard,  and 
Jonathan  Edwards. 

His  preparation  for  Yale  was  received  at  the  Latin  School 
of  Oliver  Carlton  in  Salem.  He  received  a  third  prize  in  Latin 
and  a  first  dispute  appointment  Junior  year,  and  was  a  mem- 
ber of  Brothers  in  Unity. 

His  first  two  years  out  of  college  were  spent  in  Salem  re- 
gaining his  health,  but  during  1 859-1 860  he  acted  as  agent  of 
the  U.  S.  Equitable  Life  Assurance  Society.  From  i860  to 
1863  he  studied  at  Andover  Theological  Seminary,  graduat- 
ing in  1863  and  spending  the  two  years  following  in  miscel- 
laneous reading  and  in  preaching.  On  July  25, 1 867,  after  a  two 
years'  residence  in  Boston  and  its  vicinity,  he  was  ordained 
and  installed  pastor  of  the  Congregational  Church  of  Grant- 
ville  (now  Wellesley  Hills),  Mass.  He  removed  to  Boston  in 
December,  1868,  and  during  the  next  few  years  had  no  regular 
pastorate,  although  he  preached  in  various  churches.  In  1875 
he  accepted  a  call  to  the  Howard  Avenue  Congregational 
Church,  New  Haven,  and  continued  as  its  pastor  until  1880. 
He  lived  in  the  city  for  six  years  after  his  resignation,  and 
from  1886  to  1889  he  was  pastor  of  the  First  Church,  Meri- 
den.  Conn.  In  December,  1889,  he  went  to  California,  return- 
ing in  1890.  During  1892-93  he  held  the  pastorate  of  the  First 
Congregational  Church,  Hartford,  Conn.,  and  he  afterwards 


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I858-I859  861 

supplied  the  pulpits  of  various  churches.  He  gave  some  time 
to  literary  work,  acting  as  eastern  correspondent  of  the 
Christian  Union,  and,  for  twelve  years,  as  New  Haven  cor- 
respondent of  the  Congregationalist. 

In  1907  Mr.  Williams  was  run  over  by  an  automobile  at 
New  London,  Gonn.,  suffering  bruises,  a  broken  rib,  and  a 
compound  fracture  of  the  left  leg.  From  these  injuries  he  made 
a  gradual  recovery.  For  some  years  after  his  retirement  from 
the  ministry  he  made  his  home  in  Worcester,  Mass.,  but  since 
1917  he  had  lived  in  Salem.  He  died  suddenly  in  that  city, 
March  28,  1919,  his  death  being  due  to  heart  failure.  The 
burial  was  in  Harmony  Grove  Cemetery,  Salem.  He  leaves  no 
near  relatives.  He  had  never  married. 


Carlos  Clement  Carpenter,  B.A.  1859 

Born  July  15,  1835,  ^'^  Bolton,  Conn. 
Died  February  11,  1919,  at  Owosso,  Mich. 

Carlos  Clement  Carpenter,  son  of  Job  Talcott  and  Eliza 
Maria  (Palmer)  Carpenter,  was  born  in  Bolton,  Conn.,  on 
July  15,  1835.  ^^s  father,  who  was  a  farmer,  was  descended 
from  William  Carpenter,  who  came  from  London,  England, 
in  1638,  and  settled  in  Weymouth,  Mass.  His  mother  was  of 
English  descent,  her  ancestors  having  settled  at  Charlestown, 
Mass.,  in  1628.  Her  parents  were  Azel  Allen  and  Betsy  Ben- 
ton Palmer,  of  Windham,  Conn. 

He  was  prepared  for  college  at  the  Monson  (Mass.)  Acad- 
emy and  entered  Yale  with  the  Class  of  1858.  After  two  years 
he  left  to  teach,  but  reentered  in  1857  as  a  Junior  with  the 
Class  of  1859,  with  which  he  was  graduated.  He  was  awarded 
a  second  prize  in  English  composition  during  his  Sophomore 
year,  was  given  a  first  prize  in  the  Brothers'  Senior  prize 
debate,  and  received  a  Senior  dissertation  appointment.  He 
was  a  member  of  Brothers  in  Unity  and  of  the  Class  Com- 
mittee for  Presentation  Day. 

The  first  year  after  graduation  he  was  a  student  in  the 
Yale  Divinity  School  and  was  subsequently  licensed  to 
preach.  He  was  ordained  to  the  ministry  of  the  Congrega- 


862  YALE    COLLEGE 

tional  Church  in  i860.  His  first  charge  was  that  of  the  Con- 
gregational Church  at  Birmingham,  Conn.,  where  he  served 
from  i860  until  1865,  with  the  exception  of  an  interval  in 
1863  when  he  was  superintendent  of  the  Educational  Insti- 
tute at  Lookout  Mountain,  Chattanooga,  Tenn.  From  1865 
to  1867  he  was  pastor  of  the  Harvard  Congregational  Church 
at  Brookline,  Mass.  The  three  years  following  he  spent 
quietly  in  Birmingham,  seeking  to  regain  his  health.  Then 
for  eleven  years  he  filled  the  pastorate  of  the  Mount  Pleasant 
Unitarian  Church  at  Roxbury,  Mass.,  but  from  1881  until 
1890  he  was  again  out  of  the  active  ministry,  living  in  Boston, 
where  he  was  engaged  in  business.  Resuming  his  ministerial 
duties,  he  served  as  pastor  of  the  Harvard  Unitarian  Church, 
Charlestown,  Mass.,  until  1902.  Since  that  time  he  had  resided 
in  Owosso,  Mich.,  and  had  given  his  time  chiefly  to  writing. 
Mr.  Carpenter  died,  after  an  illness  of  a  month,  February  11, 
1919,  at  his  home  in  Owosso,  of  diseases  incident  to  old  age. 
The  burial  was  at  Forest  Hills  Cemetery,  Boston. 

He  was  married  twice.  His  first  marriage  took  place  August 
7,  i860,  to  Ellen  Leonora,  daughter  of  Apollos  Gunn.  Mrs. 
Carpenter  died  October  30,  1888,  and  in  1902  Mr.  Carpenter 
married  Mrs.  Maria  E.  Thomas,  who  survives  him.  He  also 
leaves  a  daughter  by  his  first  marriage,  Helen  DeForest,  now 
the  wife  of  Charles  Frederick  Stodder  of  Boston. 


Edv^rard  Taylor  Fairbanks,  B.A.  1859 

Born  May  12,  1836,  in  St.  Johnsbury,  Vt. 
Died  January  12,  1919,  in  St.  Johnsbury,  Vt. 

Edward  Taylor  Fairbanks  was  the  elder  of  the  two  sons  of 
Joseph  Paddock  and  Almira  (Taylor)  Fairbanks  and  was 
born  May  12,  1836,  in  St.  Johnsbury,  Vt.  His  father,  a  native 
of  Brimfield,  Mass.,  moved  later  to  St.  Johnsbury  and  engaged 
in  the  manufacture  of  scales,  an  industry  which  made  the 
town  of  St.  Johnsbury  and  the  name  of  Fairbanks  widely 
known.  His  father's  brother.  Sir  Thaddeus  Fairbanks,  was 
the  inventor  of  the  scales  and  these  two,  with  a  third  brother, 
founded  St.  Johnsbury  Academy.  His  grandparents  on  his 
father's  side  were  Joseph  and  Phoebe  Paddock  Fairbanks, 


i859  863 

and  he  was  descended  from  Jonathan  Fairbanks,  of  Yorkshire, 
England,  who  settled  in  Dedham,  Mass.,  in  1636.  His  mother 
was  the  daughter  of  Capt.  James  Taylor  and  Persis  (Hemphill) 
Taylor,  of  Derry,  N.  H.,  and  a  sister  of  Samuel  Harvey  Tay- 
lor (B.A.  Dartmouth  1832,  LL.D.  Brown  1854),  who  was  for 
many  years  principal  of  Phillips  Academy,  Andover,  Mass. 

His  preparation  for  college  was  received  at  the  St.  Johns- 
bury  Academy  and  at  Phillips-Andover.  Entering  Yale  in 
September,  1855,  he  was  graduated  in  1859.  He  was  given  a 
first  colloquy  appointment  Junior  year  and  at  Commence- 
ment received  a  second  colloquy.  During  his  last  two  years  at 
Yale  he  was  Secretary  and  Treasurer  of  his  Class.  He  deliv- 
ered the  oration  at  the  Wooden  Spoon  celebration  and  was 
historian  of  the  second  division  of  the  Class  on  Presenta- 
tion Day.  He  was  a  member  of  Brothers  in  Unity  and  of  the 
Nautilus  Boat  Club. 

He  spent  the  first  year  after  graduation  in  St.  Johnsbury, 
engaged  chiefly  in  teaching  at  the  academy  and  the  high 
school,  but  from  i860  to  1862  he  attended  Andover  Theologi- 
cal Seminary.  He  then  went  abroad  with  Heidelberg  as  his 
destination,  and  traveled  also  to  Egypt,  Arabia,  and  Syria, 
returning  in  1864.  Thereafter  his  residence  was  in  St.  Johns- 
bury,  except  one  short  period  in  1866,  when  he  was  preaching 
in  Chester,  Vt.  On  January  i,  1868,  he  was  installed  as  pastor 
of  the  First  Congregational  Church  of  St.  Johnsbury,  and  on 
January  30,  1874,  he  was  called  to  the  South  Congregational 
Church  of  the  same  town,  where  he  filled  the  pastorate  for 
twenty-eight  years.  Since  September,  1902,  he  had  been  libra- 
rian and  director  of  the  St.  Johnsbury  Athenaeum.  He  was 
also  president  of  the  board  of  trustees  of  the  Fairbanks  Mu- 
seum and  secretary  and  treasurer  of  St.  Johnsbury  Academy. 
In  1908  he  was  unanimously  elected  to  the  State  Senate  of 
Vermont  on  the  Republican  ticket.  In  191 2,  upon  the  one 
hundred  and  twenty-fifth  anniversary  of  the  settlement  of  St. 
Johnsbury,  a  pageant,  celebrating  twelve  important  epochs 
of  town  history,  was  given.  Dr.  Fairbanks  taking  a  leading 
part  in  the  episode  representing  the  organization  of  the  first 
church.  A  number  of  his  addresses  and  articles  have  been  pub- 
lished and  he  was  the  author  of  "The  Town  of  St.  Johnsbury, 
Events  and  Memoranda  of  One  Hundred  and  Twenty-five 


864  YALE    COLLEGE 

Years,"  published  in  1914.  In  appreciation  of  his  preparation 
of  this  work  without  remuneration,  his  townspeople  presented 
him,  upon  his  seventy-ninth  birthday,  with  a  loving-cup  and 
a  purse  of  gold.  He  was  Secretary  of  his  Class  at  Yale  from 
1869  to  1874  and  again  from  1884  to  1909,  publishing  in  this 
capacity  three  Class  records.  The  University  of  Vermont 
conferred  the  degree  of  D.D.  upon  him  in  1892. 

Dr.  Fairbanks  died  on  January  12,  1919,  at  his  home, 
"Sheepcote,"  after  several  months  of  failing  health.  The  inter- 
ment was  in  Mount  Pleasant  Cemetery,  St.  Johnsbury. 

He  was  married  on  July  9,  1862,  at  Derry,  N.  H.,  to  Emma 
Cornelia,  daughter  of  Guy  Carlton  and  Sally  M.  (Cady) 
Taplin,  of  Montpelier,  Vt.  She  died  September  6,  1917,  leav- 
ing one  daughter,  Cornelia  Taylor  (Mount  Holyoke  ex-gg), 
who  survives  her  father.  A  nephew,  Joseph  Fairbanks,  is  a 
member  of  the  Class  of  1903. 


Joseph  Hopkins  Twichell,  B.A.  1859 

Born  May  27,  1838,  in  Southington,  Conn. 
Died  December  20,  1918,  in  Hartford,  Conn. 

Joseph  Hopkins  Twichell,  whose  parents  were  Edward  and 
Selina  Delight  (Carter)  Twichell,  was  born  May  27,  1838,  in 
Southington,  where  his  father  was  engaged  in  farming  and 
manufacturing.  The  latter  was  the  son  of  Joseph  and  Phoebe 
(Atkins)  Twichell.  His  first  American  ancestor  on  his  father's 
side  was  Joseph  Twichell,  who  was  made  a  freeman  of  Massa- 
chusetts Colony  in  1634  and  later  went  with  Thomas  Hooker 
to  Hartford,  Conn.  Joseph  H.  Twichell's  maternal  grand- 
parents were  Reuben  and  Mary  Carter. 

His  preparatory  training  was  received  at  Lewis  Academy 
in  Southington.  At  Yale  he  won  two  prizes  in  English  com- 
position and  a  second  prize  in  declamation  in  his  Sophomore 
year,  and  a  Townsend  Premium  for  English  composition  in 
Senior  year.  He  was  one  of  the  Cochleaureati  for  the  Wooden 
Spoon  Exhibition,  delivering  the  presentation  address,  and 
was  a  member  of  Brothers  in  Unity.  He  was  stroke  on  the 
University  Crew  which  defeated  Harvard  in  1859. 


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After  graduation  he  studied  for  two  years  at  Union  Theolog- 
ical Seminary.  He  left  there  in  1861  to  enlist  as  Chaplain  of 
the  71st  Regiment,  New  York  Volunteers,  in  which  capacity 
he  served  until  1864.  On  January  30,  1863,  he  was  ordained 
to  the  Congregational  ministry  in  his  native  town  and  re- 
joined his  regiment  for  service.  After  receiving  his  discharge 
from  the  Army  in  1864,  he  attended  Andover  Theological 
Seminary  for  a  year.  In  December,  1865,  he  became  pastor  of 
the  Asylum  Hill  Congregational  Church  in  Hartford  and 
labored  there  for  forty-six  years,  resigning  in  July,  191 2. 

He  maintained  an  active  connection  with  Yale  during  his 
years  of  public  service.  He  was  elected  a  Fellow  of  the  Uni- 
versity in  June,  1874,  and  so  continued  until  19 13,  when  he 
resigned,  having  been  for  some  time  the  senior  member  of 
the  Corporation.  In  this  capacity,  he  delivered  the  inaugu- 
ration address  for  President  Dwight  in  1899,  and  preached 
the  sermon  upon  the  occasion  of  the  celebration  of  the  two 
hundredth  anniversary  of  the  founding  of  Yale.  In  1892  he 
was  sent  as  a  delegate  of  Yale  to  the  Tercentenary  of  Dublin 
University.  Yale  conferred  the  honorary  degrees  of  M.A.  and 
D.D.  upon  him  in  1886  and  1913,  respectively,  and  he 
received  the  degree  of  LL.D.  from  Trinity  College  in  191 2. 
He  was  Secretary  of  the  Class  of  1859  from  1874  to  1884. 

An  intimate  friend  of  Samuel  L.  Clemens  (Mark  Twain),  he 
accompanied  him  on  the  trip  described  in  **A  Tramp  Abroad," 
and  there  are  innumerable  anecdotes  told  of  the  relations  of 
the  two.  Besides  various  addresses  which  have  been  printed, 
he  had  published:  ''John  Winthrop"  (in  the  Makers  of 
America  Series);  "Some  Old  Puritan  Love  Letters"  (Corre- 
spondence of  John  and  Margaret  Winthrop),  as  editor,  in 
1893;  "Mark  Twain,"  an  article  in  Harper  s  Magazine  for 
May,  1896;  and  "Some  Qualities  of  Warner's  Humor,"  an 
article  in  'The  Century  for  January,  1903. 

Dr.  Twichell  died  at  his  home  in  Hartford  on  December  20, 
191 8.  The  funeral  services  were  held  in  his  own  church.  The 
burial  was  in  Cedar  Hill  Cemetery,  Hartford. 

On  November  i,  1865,  he  was  married  in  Orange,  N.  J., 
to  Julia  Harmony,  daughter  of  David  S.  and  Julia  (Curtis) 
Cushman.  Mrs.  Twichell  died  April  24,  1910.  Their  children 
are:  Edward  Carrington;  Julia  Curtis,  who  was  married  April 


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26,  1892,  to  Howard  Ogden  Wood;  Susan  Lee;  David  Cush- 
man  (B.A.  1898,  M.D.  Columbia  1903),  who  was  commis- 
sioned a  Captain  in  the  Medical  Reserve  Corps  July  10,  1917, 
and  served  as  such  until  receiving  his  discharge  in  December, 
1 91 8;  Harmony,  who  married  Charles  Edward  Ives  (B.A. 
1898);  Burton  Parker  (B.A.  1901,  LL.B.  1905),  who  served 
as  a  Y.  M.  C.  A.  educational  secretary  during  the  war  and  is 
now  (1920)  dean  of  students  at  Yale;  Sarah  Dunham;  Joseph 
Hooker  (B.A.  1906,  B.D.  Hartford  Theological  Seminary 
1910),  who  during  the  war  served  as  Chaplain  (First  Lieu- 
tenant) of  the  303d  Heavy  Field  Artillery,  first  at  Camp 
Devens,  Mass.,  and  later  with  the  American  Expeditionary 
Forces;  and  Louise  Hopkins,  who  married  John  Raymond 
Hall  (B.A.  1902)  on  June  8,  1909.  Howard  O.  Wood,  Jr.  (B.A. 
1916),  is  a  grandson. 


David  Lewis  Haight,  B.A.  i860 

Born  September  27,  1839,  i"  ^^^  York  City- 
Died  September  30,  191 8,  in  Cedarhurst,  N.  Y. 

David  Lewis  Haight,  son  of  Richard  R.  and  Sarah  R. 
Haight,  was  born  on  September  27,  1839,  in  New  York  City. 
He  received  a  first  colloquy  appointment  in  his  Senior  year  at 
Yale. 

Upon  leaving  college,  he  took  up  the  study  of  medicine  at 
the  College  of  Physicians  and  Surgeons  at  Columbia  Univer- 
sity. He  was  a  member  of  the  Sanitary  Commission  in  1862 
and  from  the  fall  of  1863  until  the  close  of  the  Civil  War 
served  as  an  Assistant  Surgeon  in  the  U.  S.  Army,  being 
stationed  at  the  Douglass  General  Hospital,  Washington, 
D.  C.  This  service  was  followed  by  five  years'  study  abroad. 
He  had  received  the  degree  of  M.D.  at  Columbia  in  1864, 
and  in  1869  returned  to  New  York  City,  where  he  began  to 
practice,  acting  also  as  a  physician  to  the  New  York  Dis- 
pensary. At  one  time  he  was  also  engaged  in  the  real  estate 
business.  He  made  his  home  at  the  University  Club,  New 
York  City,  from  the  time  of  its  erection  until  his  death,  which 
occurred  on  September  30,  191 8,  after  a  brief  illness,  at  the 
Rockaway  Country  Club,  Cedarhurst,  Long  Island. 

Dr.  Haight  was  unmarried. 


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William  Henry  Hale,  B.A.  i860 

Born  August  20,  1840,  in  Albany,  N.  Y. 
Died  May  3,  1919,  in  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 

William  Henry  Hale,  son  of  Silvester  and  Nancy  Arzelia 
(Eames)  Hale,  was  born  August  20,  1840,  in  Albany,  N.  Y., 
where  his  father  was  engaged  in  the  flour  and  feed  business. 
His  grandfather,  William  Hale,  a  Revolutionary  soldier,  was 
the  son  of  Dr.  Elizur  Hale  (B.A.  1742),  who  was  born  on  an 
estate  at  Glastonbury,  Conn.,  which  had  been  in  the  family 
since  the  seventeenth  century  and  which  still  belongs  to  a  col- 
lateral branch.  His  grandmother  was  Mary  (Burnham)  Hale. 
His  mother,  who  was  the  daughter  of  Mark  and  Harriet 
(Deming)  Eames,  was  also  of  Revolutionary  ancestry,  both 
of  her  grandfathers,  Anthony  Eames  and  Gideon  Deming, 
having  served  in  the  American  Army.  Gideon  Deming  was 
a  resident  of  Hartford,  Conn.,  and  later  of  Washington, 
Berkshire  County,  Mass. 

He  was  prepared  at  Albany  Academy  and  before  entering 
Yale  studied  for  a  time  at  Union  College.  He  joined  the  Yale 
Class  of  1 860  in  the  second  term  of  Junior  year.  He  won  the 
Clark  and  Berkeley  scholarships,  received  a  Senior  oration 
appointment,  and  was  elected  to  membership  in  Phi  Beta 
Kappa. 

His  course  at  Yale  was  followed  by  one  at  the  Albany  Law 
School,  from  which  he  was  graduated  in  1861  with  the  degree 
of  LL.B.,  at  the  same  time  being  admitted  to  the  New  York 
Bar.  He  then  took  up  graduate  work  in  comparative  philol- 
ogy and  higher  mathematics  at  Yale  and  received  the  degree 
of  Ph.D.  in  1863. 

He  practiced  as  an  attorney  in  Albany  for  some  years  pre- 
vious to  1888,  and  during  this  period  was  also  engaged  in 
financial  and  commercial  pursuits  in  Albany,  Chicago,  and 
elsewhere.  In  1873  he  became  chairman  of  the  committee  on 
physical  sciences  of  the  Board  of  Trade  in  Albany,  which 
cooperated  with  the  Signal  Service  Bureau,  and  he  was  at  one 
time  head  of  the  Albany  Mining  Company.  In  1888  he  re- 
moved to  Brooklyn,  where  he  continued  his  law  practice  for  a 
while.  In  1906  he  was  appointed  superintendent  of  public 


868  VALE  CdLLfiOfi 

baths  in  Brooklyn,  and  served  in  that  capacity  until  April, 
191 8.  He  went  as  a  delegate  to  the  International  Conference 
on  Baths  at  The  Hague  in  August,  191 2,  and  was  appointed  a 
delegate  to  the  conference  at  Brussels  in  1914,  but  this  was 
not  held  because  of  the  war. 

Dr.  Hale  was  one  of  the  original  Fellows  of  the  American 
Association  for  the  Advancement  of  Science,  and  was  one  of 
the  founders  of  the  National  Association  for  the  Promotion 
of  Hygiene  and  Public  Baths,  being  elected  its  secretary  in 
1913.  He  served  on  the  committee  having  charge  of  the  Ter- 
centenary Celebration  of  the  Founding  of  New  York  City. 
He  made  a  specialty  of  attending  scientific  meetings  and  re- 
porting them,  and  was  a  writer  on  scientific  subjects  for  the 
Scientific  American  and  other  periodicals.  He  had  edited  the 
scientific  department  of  the  Bachelor  of  Arts  Magazine^  and 
was  at  one  time  one  of  the  editors  of  the  International  Maga- 
zine on  Public  Baths.  For  several  years  he  was  American  cor- 
respondent oi  Nature,  a  London  publication. 

Dr.  Hale  died  suddenly  on  May  3,  191 9,  in  Brooklyn,  of 
myocarditis  and  arterio  sclerosis.  Burial  was  in  the  Albany 
Rural  Cemetery. 

On  February  25,  1892,  he  was  married  in  Brooklyn,  to 
Louisa  Gertrude,  daughter  of  John  and  Louisa  Washington. 
She  survives  him,  and  he  leaves  also  a  nephew.  Dr.  Wilfred 
Silvester  Hale,  of  Chicopee,  Mass.,  and  a  niece.  Miss  Eliza- 
beth Deming  Hale,  of  Albany.  He  had  no  children. 


William  Ingraham  Kip,  B.A.  i860 

Born  January  15,  1840,  in  Albany,  N.  Y. 
Died  October  13,  1918,  in  San  Francisco,  Calif- 
William  Ingraham  Kip,  whose  parents  were  William  Ingra- 
ham Kip,  for  many  years  Protestant  Episcopal  bishop  of 
California,  and  Maria  Elizabeth  (Lawrence)  Kip,  was  born 
January  15,  1840,  in  Albany,  N.  Y.  His  father  was  the  son  of 
Leonard  and  Maria  (Ingraham)  Kip.  He  graduated  from  Yale 
'in  1 83 1  and  received  the  degree  of  M.A.  from  Trinity  in  1846, 
that  of  D.D.  from  Columbia  in  1847,  ^^^  that  of  LL.D.  from 


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Yale  in  187I.  The  family  traced  its  descent  from  Hendrick 
Kype,  who  left  Amsterdam  in  1635  with  his  family  and  came 
to  New  York.  Maria  Lawrence  Kip  was  the  daughter  of 
Isaac  Lawrence,  a  New  York  banker. 

He  received  his  early  education  under  a  private  tutor.  He 
joined  the  Class  of  i860  at  Yale  as  a  Sophomore.  A  trip  to 
Europe  followed  graduation,  and  upon  his  return  he  took  up 
the  study  of  law  in  San  Francisco,  Calif.  In  1862  he  became 
secretary  of  the  American  Legation  at  Tokio,  Japan.  He  spent 
practically  all  of  the  next  year  in  China  and  East  India  and 
the  two  ensuing  years  in  Europe,  returning  to  the  United 
States  in  1865.  His  home  was  afterwards  in  California,  where 
he  led  a  quiet  life,  varied  by  trips  abroad  and  to  the  East. 
At  one  time  he  was  in  business  in  San  Francisco  as  a  commis- 
sion merchant  and  later  he  served  as  a  statistician  for  the 
Government,  but  for  a  number  of  years  he  had  had  no  busi- 
ness interests.  He  was  a  member  and  vestryman  of  St.  Luke's 
Church,  San  Francisco. 

Mr.  Kip  died  of  kidney  trouble,  at  the  Letterman  General 
Hospital  at  the  Presidio  of  San  Francisco,  on  October  13, 
191 8,  after  an  illness  of  a  few  weeks.  The  interment  was  in 
Cypress  Lawn  Cemetery. 

He  was  married  at  Nice,  France,  February  28,  1865,  to 
Elizabeth  Clementine  Kinney.  Mr.  Kip  is  survived  by  his 
wife,  one  son,  Lawrence,  and  two  daughters,  Elizabeth  Clem- 
entine, the  wife  of  Col.  Guy  L.  Edie,  U.  S.  A.,  and  Mary 
Burnet,  the  wife  of  Dr.  Ernest  L.  Robertson,  of  Kansas  City, 
Mo.  Three  grandchildren  also  survive. 

Orlando  Leach,  B.A.  i860 

Born  February  4,  1834,  in  East  Stoughton  (now  Avon),  Mass. 
Died  September  18,  191 8,  in  Avon,  Mass. 

Orlando  Leach  was  the  son  of  Simeon  Leach,  a  farmer,  and 
Parne  (Ford)  Leach  and  was  born  in  East  Stoughton  (now 
Avon),  Mass.,  February  4,  1834.  He  was  descended  from  Giles 
Leach,  of  Weymouth,  England,  who  emigrated  to  this  coun- 
try before  1665  and  settled  at  West  Bridgewater,  Mass. 
His  paternal  grandparents  were  Capt.  Lot  Leach  and  Olive 


Syo  YALE    COLLEGE 

(Keith)  Leach.  His  great-grandfather,  Capt.  Simeon  Leach, 
fought  in  the  Revolutionary  War.  His  mother's  parents  were 
James  and  Parnel  (Howard)  Ford. 

He  attended  the  Adelphian  Academy  in  North  Bridgewater 
(now  Brockton),  Mass.,  and  prepared  for  college  at  Kimball 
Union  Academy,  Meriden,  N.  H. 

After  receiving  his  degree,  Mr.  Leach  began  the  study  of 
law  in  the  office  of  Judge  Whittemore  in  Sandwich,  Mass.  In 
April,  1 86 1,  he  entered  the  employ  of  the  Government  as  a 
clerk  in  the  Custom  House  at  Boston,  but  at  the  same  time 
continued  his  legal  work.  During  the  summer  of  1862  he  de- 
voted much  time  to  the  enlistment  of  troops  for  the  Civil  War 
and  was  commissioned  as  Captain.  He  was  admitted  to  the 
bar  in  Boston  in  1863,  but  in  March,  1864,  was  detailed  to 
civil  service  duty  among  the  sea  islands  of  South  Carolina. 
In  the  spring  of  1866,  after  his  return  to  the  North,  he  became 
connected  with  R.  S.  Davis  &  Company,  a  Boston  firm  en- 
gaged in  the  publishing  of  schoolbooks.  Mr.  Leach  established 
a  branch  of  this  business  in  New  York  City  in  1867.  In  June, 
1883,  he  became  senior  member  of  the  firm  of  Leach,  Shewell 
&  Sanborn,  which  made  a  specialty  of  publishing  high  school 
and  college  textbooks.  In  this  connection  he  did  some  edi- 
torial work,  preparing  one  textbook,  "State  and  Local  Gov- 
ernment of  New  York,"  to  be  used  with  a  more  extended  work 
of  which  he  was  in  part  the  author.  He  retired  from  business 
in  January,  1899,  and  the  following  June  returned  to  his 
native  town.  His  niece.  Miss  Lillian  A.  Leach,  made  her  home 
with  him,  and  with  her  he  traveled  extensively  in  Europe  and 
in  America.  In  1911-12  they  made  a  trip  around  the  world. 
Mr.  Leach  had  served  as  Secretary  of  his  Class  since  1900,  and 
in  this  capacity  had  published  three  Class  Records.  He  had 
been  president  of  the  Avon  Cooperative  Bank  since  its  foun- 
dation, had  served  as  chairman  of  the  board  of  trustees  of  the 
Avon  Public  Library,  and  was  an  active  participant  in  all 
town  affairs.  He  was  an  Episcopalian  and  had  been  a  vestry- 
man of  the  Ascension  Memorial  Church,  New  York,  and  of  | 
St.  Paul's  Church,  Brockton,  Mass. 

He  died  at  his  home  in  Avon,  September  18,  191 8,  after  an 
illness  of  over  five  months  due  to  gastro-enteritis.  Interment 
was  in  the  local  cemetery. 


i86o  871 

Mr.  Leach  was  married  in  Plymouth,  N.  H.,  June  3, 1 863,  to 
Josephine,  daughter  of  James  F.  and  Rhoda  (Hill)  Langdon. 
She  died  September  4,  1884,  in  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.,  and  on  June 
6,  1888,  he  was  married  again,  in  New  York  City,  to  Martha, 
daughter  of  Marshall  Brewster,  of  Northampton,  Mass.  Her 
death  occurred  November  30,  1901.  There  were  no  children 
by  either  marriage.  Mr.  Leach  is  survived  by  four  nephews 
and  four  nieces. 


Henry  Grimes  Marshall,  B.A.  i860 

Born  January  2,  1839,  in  Milford,  Conn. 
Died  October  11,  1918,  in  Milford,  Conn. 

Henry  Grimes  Marshall,  son  of  Samuel  Andrew  Marshall, 
a  carriage  dealer,  and  Jerusha  (Grimes)  Marshall,  was  born  in 
Milford,  Conn.,  on  January  2,  1839.  ^^  was  the  grandson  of 
Joseph  and  Abigal  (Andrew)  Marshall,  and  a  descendant  in 
direct  line  from  Rev.  Samuel  Andrew,  rector  of  Yale  College 
from  1707  to  17 19.  Jerusha  Grimes  Marshall  was  the  daughter 
of  Stephen  Grimes. 

He  was  prepared  for  college  at  the  Milford  High  School. 
He  received  dispute  appointments  both  Junior  and  Senior 
years  at  Yale.  Upon  graduating  he  taught  for  a  year  in 
Stamford  and  Milford,  and  then,  for  a  year,  in  the  high 
school  at  Newark,  N.  J.  In  August,  1862,  he  joined  the  15th 
Regiment,  Connecticut  Volunteers,  as  a  Sergeant  in  Com- 
pany E.  He  was  advanced  to  First  Lieutenant,  and  then  to 
Captain,  of  Company  I,  29th  Connecticut  (Colored)  Volun- 
teers, with  which  regiment  he  remained  until  mustered  out 
November  25,  1865.  He  saw  service  in  South  Carolina  and 
Virginia,  where  he  was  connected  with  the  Army  of  the  James, 
near  Petersburg  and  Richmond. 

In  February,  1866,  Mr.  Marshall  entered  the  Yale  Di- 
vinity School,  but  the  following  autumn  went  to  Andover 
Theological  Seminary,  from  which  he  was  graduated  in  July, 
1868.  In  December  of  that  year,  following  his  ordination  to 
the  Congregational  ministry,  he  was  installed  pastor  of  the 
Congregational  Church  at  Avon,  Conn.,  where  he  remained 
until  January  i,  1872.  He  was  later  pastor  of  the  Congrega- 


87i  YALfe   COLLEGE 

tional  Church  at  Charlemont,  Mass.,  for  five  years;  at  Middle- 
bury,  Conn.,  for  eight  years;  and  at  Cromwell,  Conn.,  for 
nineteen  years.  In  October,  1904,  he  became  pastor  of  the 
Hampton  Congregational  Church,  but  resigned  after  nearly 
six  years  of  service.  He  then  removed  to  his  old  home  in  Mil- 
ford,  and  shortly  afterwards  was  chosen  president  of  the  Vil- 
lage Improvement  Society,  in  which  capacity  he  served  for 
several  years.  He  also  became  a  deacon  in  the  First  Congrega- 
tional Church,  and  commander  of  the  G.  A.  R.  post.  In 
191 1  he  was  elected  chaplain  of  the  Connecticut  House  of 
Representatives.  Mr.  Marshall  died  at  his  home  October  11, 
191 8,  of  Bright's  disease  and  hardening  of  the  arteries,  after 
an  illness  of  three  weeks.  He  was  buried  in  the  cemetery  at 
Milford.  He  had  been  partially  blind  for  about  a  year  before 
his  death. 

He  was  married  August  25,  1869,  in  Danbury,  Conn.,  to 
Marietta,  daughter  of  Judah  P.  and  Catherine  (Stevens) 
Crosby.  She  died  March  18,  1871,  leaving  one  son,  William 
Crosby  (Ph.B.  1890,  M.jE.  1894,  C.E.  1900),  who  was  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Yale  faculty  from  1896  to  1913  and  who  served  as  a 
Captain  in  the  Ordnance  Department  from  October,  1917, 
to  March,  1919.  Mr.  Marshall  was  married  again  December 
29,  1874,  in  Stratford,  Conn.,  to  Mrs.  Annette  Lummus 
(Emerson)  Barton,  daughter  of  Rev.  Edward  Brown  Emer- 
son, a  graduate  of  Dartmouth  in  1832  and  of  Andover 
Theological  Seminary  in  1835,  ^^^  ^"^  (Lummus)  Emerson, 
and  widow  of  John  Wait  Barton,  ex- 61.  There  was  one  son 
by  this  marriage,  Samuel  Andrew  (B.A.  1898,  M.D.  Johns 
Hopkins  1902).  His  wife  and  two  sons  survive.  Mrs.  Marshall 
is  a  sister  of  Samuel  F.  Emerson  (B.A.  1872). 


Edwin  Sidney  Williams,  B.A.  i860 

Born  June  8,  1838,  in  Elizabeth,  N.  J. 
Died  November  11,  1918,  in  San  Francisco,  Calif. 

Edwin  Sidney  Williams,  son  of  Wilmot  and  Jane  Arnot 
(Morton)  Williams,  was  born  June  8,  1838,  at  Elizabeth, 
N.  J.  He  was  of  Welsh  descent  on  his  father's  side,  while  his 


i860  873 

maternal  ancestors  were  English.  His  mother's  parents  were 
Elihu  and  Amelia  (Ballard)  Morton. 

He  was  fitted  for  Yale  at  Clark  and  Fanning's  School  in 
Washington  Square,  New  York  City,  and  in  the  preparatory 
department  of  Oberlin  College.  He  entered  Yale  with  his  Class 
and  was  graduated  in  1 860.  He  belonged  to  Brothers  in  Unity. 

His  hope  on  graduating  was  to  study  for  the  ministry,  but 
friends  strongly  advised  against  it  on  account  of  his  poor 
health.  He  tried  to  become  an  insurance  clerk  in  his  father's 
office,  and  then  a  Wall  Street  clerk,  but  finally  reverted  to  his 
original  decision  of  studying  theology.  He  was  graduated  from 
the  Theological  Department  at  Oberlin  in  1865,  having  done 
much  of  the  required  work  by  himself.  In  December,  1862, 
the  American  Missionary  Association  sent  him,  as  superin- 
tendent of  freedmen,  to  St.  Helena  Island,  South  Carolina,  to 
care  for,  and  to  preach  to,  twelve  hundred  slave  refugees  from 
Edisto  Island.  He  was  ordained  as  a  Congregational  minister 
in  Northfield,  Minn.,  June  10, 1 864.  His  first  pastorate,  cover- 
ing a  period  of  over  six  years,  was  there.  During  his  stay, 
Carleton  College  was  started  and  Northfield  chosen  for  its 
site,  largely  through  his  untiring  zeal.  In  1870  he  was  called  to 
the  Free  Christian  Church,  Andover,  Mass.,  where  he  re- 
mained for  a  year  and  a  half.  From  1872  to  1875  ^^  was  again 
in  the  Minnesota  field,  atGlyndon  and  Brainard.  For  the  eight 
years  following  he  was  located  in  Minneapolis,  at  first  as 
superintendent  of  the  Minneapolis  City  Mission,  and  then  as 
pastor  of  the  Park  Avenue  Congregational  Church.  He  also 
helped  to  organize  Vine  Congregational  Church.  He  went  to 
California  in  1887.  His  first  work  there  was  that  of  Congrega- 
tional city  missionary  in  Los  Angeles  and  that  of  the  '*uni- 
fication  of  the  city's  charity  interests,  to  do  away  with  redu- 
plication and  fraud."  At  that  time  he  began  writing  for  I'he 
Pacific,  and  contributed  to  its  pages  for  nearly  thirty  years. 
From  1888  to  1894  he  continued  his  activity  on  the  Pacific 
coast  by  representing  the  Congregational  Church  Building 
Society.  While  with  the  society,  he  founded  Mayflower  Con- 
gregational Church  and  was  its  first  pastor.  In  1891  he  was 
appointed  World's  Fair  commissioner  for  the  Columbian 
Exposition  held  in  Chicago.  Under  this  appointment,  he 
visited  Japan,  China,  India,  Turkey,  and  Egypt,  improving 


874  YALE    COLLEGE 

the  Opportunity  to  make  a  personal  study  of  .Christian  mis- 
sions. Before  retiring  from  the  active  ministry,  he  spent  nearly 
two  years  as  associate  pastor  of  the  First  Congregational 
Church  at  Oakland,  Calif. 

In  1898  he  purchased  a  ranch  of  sixteen  acres,  named 
"Three  Oaks,"  at  Saratoga,  Calif.,  in  the  Santa  Clara  valley. 
There  he  continued  his  life  of  service  to  the  church  and  the 
community.  He  was  the  originator  of  the  Saratoga  Blossom 
Festival,  started  twenty  years  ago.  Thousands  of  visitors 
now  come  every  year  to  attend  this  unique  nature  festival. 
In  191 2  the  degree  of  D.D.  was  conferred  upon  him  by  the 
College  of  the  Pacific.  The  last  two  years  of  his  life  were  ones 
of  weakness,  owing  to  advanced  age,  and  were  spent  in  the 
more  bracing  climate  of  San  Francisco.  There  his  death  oc- 
curred on  November  11,  191 8.  His  body  was  cremated,  and 
the  ashes  interred  at  Saratoga. 

Dr.  Williams  was  twice  married.  His  first  wife,  whom  he 
married  December  31,  1861,  was  Frances  A.,  daughter  of 
Ebenezer  Lee,  of  Garrettsville,  Ohio.  After  her  death  he  mar- 
ried, November  19,  1908,  in  New  York  City,  Helen  May, 
daughter  of  Bishop  Samuel  Fallows  and  Lucy  Bethia  (Hufit- 
ington)  Fallows,  of  Chicago,  111.  Mrs.  Williams  survives  him. 
He  had  one  child  only — by  his  first  marriage — a  daughter, 
Jennie,  who  died  in  infancy. 


James  Balloch  Chase,  B.A.  1862 

Born  August  12,  1837,  in  Woodstock,  Vt. 
Died  June  9,  1919,  in  Russell,  Iowa 

James  Balloch  Chase,  son  of  James  Balloch  and  Martha 
Maria  (Kniffin)  Chase,  was  born  August  12,  1837,  in  Wood- 
stock, Vt.  Within  a  year  his  parents  removed  to  New  Hamp- 
shire. His  father,  who  was  the  son  of  Jonathan  and  Hannah 
(Ralston)  Chase,  later  conducted  a  private  school  at  Lock- 
port,  N.  Y.,  and  there  he  was  prepared  for  college.  In  1852 
he  entered  Hobart  College,  but  because  of  poor  health  re- 
mained but  one  year.  The  next  seven  years  were  employed  in 
farm  work  in  the  summer  and  teaching  in  the  winter.  He 
joined  the  Class  of  1862  at  Yale  in  the  third  term  of  its 


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Sophomore  year,  and  was  graduated  in  1862  with  an  oration 
stand. 

During  the  first  three  years  after  taking  his  degree  he 
remained  in  New  Haven,  teaching  and  studying  theology. 
He  then  went  West  and  entered  on  a  diligent  life-work  as 
pastor,  preacher,  organizer  (he  organized  twenty-three 
churches),  and  teacher  in  the  states  of  Iowa  and  Nebraska. 
Three  years  were  passed  in  Council  Bluffs,  Iowa;  then  one 
year  in  Columbus  and  two  in  Fremont,  Nebr.  His  eyes  failed, 
and  a  two  years'  vacation  from  books  and  writing, — part  of 
it  occupied  with  the  work  of  superintendent  of  missions  in  the 
state, — was  followed  by  a  pastorate  of  four  years  at  Weeping 
Water.  For  two  years  he  was  a  professor  in  the  Congregational 
German  Theological  Seminary  at  Crete,  Nebr.  Again  in  1880 
his  eyesight  failed,  and  he  returned  to  the  ministry,  this  time 
at  Cherokee,  Iowa,  his  work  branching  out  to  various  contigu- 
ous points.  In  1884  he  went  to  Sioux  City,  where  he  had  an 
eventful  ministry  of  two  and  a  half  years.  From  1887  to  1890, 
in  Hull,  Iowa,  as  principal  of  the  Hull  Educational  Institute, 
he  taught  through  the  week,  while  preaching  three  times  on 
Sunday.  In  1890  his  wife  died.  Long  anxiety  and  watching  had 
broken  him  down,  and  he  was  compelled  to  resign  his  double 
task.  Some  years  later,  however,  he  returned  to  Hull  and  was 
there  from  1896  to  1899.  During  the  interval  between  these 
two  periods,  he  had  preached  at  Iowa  Falls,  Toledo,  and  Cor- 
rectionville,  Iowa.  In  19CX)  he  removed  from  Hull  to  Ocheye- 
dan.  From  July,  1902,  to  November,  1904,  he  filled  pastorates 
at  Sargents  Bluff  and  Sioux  City,  Iowa,  and  he  was  then  an 
invalid  for  six  months,  owing  to  a  severe  attack  of  acute 
bronchitis.  The  next  three  years  were  spent  in  Aurelia,  Green- 
ville, and  Harmony,  Iowa.  In  1907  he  went  to  Sioux  City, 
where  one  of  his  daughters  was  entering  college,  and  remained 
there  until  19 10,  working  as  bookkeeper  in  the  hardware  store 
of  Friend  Brothers  &  Company  and  preaching  during  part  of 
the  time  for  the  Presbyterian  Home  Missionary  Board  at 
Plymouth  Church  in  Plymouth  County.  On  April  24,  19 10, 
he  was  installed  pastor  of  the  Williams  Memorial  Church 
(Presbyterian),  which  had  just  been  organized.  There  he  re- 
mained until  191 2,  when  failing  strength  led  to  his  resignation. 
He  later  assumed  the  pastorate  of  a  small  church  at  LaGrange, 


876  YALE    COLLEGE 

Iowa,  where  he  remained  for  several  years.  In  June,  191 8,  he 
had  a  stroke  of  paralysis.  He  so  far  rallied  as  to  think,  talk, 
and  correspond  intelligently,  and  lived  for  about  a  year,  his 
death  occurring  June  9,  191 9,  at  Russell,  Iowa,  where  he  was 
buried. 

Mr.  Chase  was  twice  married,  his  first  marriage  taking 
place  in  New  Haven,  July  30,  1863,  to  Mary  Jane  Reynolds. 
She  died  June  30, 1 890.  Of  their  four  children,  the  eldest,  Mary 
Eliza,  died  in  1 869,  aged  four  years;  the  second,  James  Barnett, 
died  in  1879,  ^^^^  nine;  the  third,  William  Ezra  (B.A.  Iowa 
1 891),  is  a  farmer  in  Canada;  and  the  fourth,  Arthur  Reynolds, 
who  graduated  from  the  University  of  Iowa  with  the  degree 
of  B.A.  in  1895  ^^^  completed  an  engineering  course  at  Cor- 
nell in  1905,  was  killed  in  an  accident,  December  4,  1905.  Mr. 
Chase  was  married  June  16,  1891,  in  Sioux  City,  to  Elina  N., 
daughter  of  Richard  Harter  and  Nancy  D.  (Wheeler)  Friend. 
She  survives  him,  as  do  their  four  children :  Grace  Elina  (B.A. 
Morningside  1910),  the  wife  of  Arvil  G.  Hinshaw,  of  Fonte- 
nelle,  Iowa;  Ruth  Evangeline,  principal  of  the  grammar  de- 
partment in  Fontenelle;  Jonathan  Richard;  and  Robert 
Friend.  Nine  grandchildren  are  living. 


Holder  Borden  Durfee,  B.A.  1863 

Born  September  20,  1 840,  at  Fall  River,  Mass. 
Died  March  4,  1919,  at  Fall  River,  Mass. 

Holder  Borden  Durfee  was  born  September  20,  1840,  at 
Fall  River,  Mass.,  being  the  son  of  Nathan  and  Delana 
(Borden)  Durfee.  His  paternal  grandparents  were  Charles 
and  Welthe  (Hathaway)  Durfee,  and  his  maternal  grand- 
parents were  George  and  Phebe  (Borden)  Borden.  The 
earliest  Durfee  in  America  was  Thomas  Durfee,  who  came 
from  England  in  1660  and  settled  in  Rhode  Island.  Another 
ancestor  was  Richard  Borden,  who  came  from  England  in 
1635,  settled  in  Rhode  Island,  and  was  the  father  of  the  first 
child  born  of  English  parents  on  the  island.  Members  of  the 
Durfee  and  Borden  families  were  among  the  founders  and 
developers  of  Fall  River. 


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He  received  his  early  education  in  the  public  schools  of  that 
city  and  prepared  for  college  at  Phillips  Academy,  Andover, 
Mass.  After  graduating  from  Yale,  he  became  assistant  to  his 
father,  who  was  engaged  in  manufacturing  in  Fall  River. 
In  1866  he  became  associated  as  partner  with  Chace,  Nason 
&  Durfee  in  running  a  flour  mill  at  Fall  River.  He  was  also 
interested  in  the  manufacture  of  various  commodities,  par- 
ticularly cotton  goods.  He  served  as  promoter,  director,  presi- 
dent, and  treasurer  of  several  manufacturing  concerns, 
including  the  Border  City  Manufacturing  Company,  the  Ana- 
wan  Manufacturing  Company,  the  Fall  River  Iron  Works 
Company,  the  Fall  River  Manufactory,  the  Narragansett 
Mills,  and  the  Montaup  Mills.  In  1904  he  retired  from  active 
business  and  devoted  his  attention  to  his  duties  as  chairman 
of  the  board  of  investments  of  the  Fall  River  Five  Cents  Sav- 
ings Bank,  the  position  which  he  occupied  at  the  time  of  his 
death. 

From  1874  to  1878  he  was  a  national  bank  director.  From 
1870  to  1 87 1,  and  again  from  1876  to  1877,  ^^  was  a  member 
of  the  City  Council  of  Fall  River.  In  this  capacity  he  was  in- 
strumental in  introducing  pure  water  for  municipal  and 
domestic  purposes.  In  1872  he  was  assistant  engineer,  and 
during  1873-74,  chief  engineer  of  the  Fire  Department  of  Fall 
River.  He  instituted  a  reorganization  of  this  department, 
establishing  a  permanent  department  in  place  of  the  old  vol- 
unteer force.  He  served  as  chairman  of  the  committee  to  pre- 
pare the  "Centennial  History  of  the  City  of  Fall  River,"  pub- 
lished in  1877.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Congregational 
Church.  Mr.  Durfee's  death  occurred  March  4,  1919,  at  his 
home,  as  a  result  of  paralysis.  Interment  was  in  Oak  Grove 
Cemetery,  Fall  River. 

He  was  married  October  25,  1865,  in  that  city,  to  Sylvia 
Borden,  daughter  of  Joseph  and  Minerva  (Chace)  Durfee.  His 
wife  died  October  8,  1882.  Their  two  children,  Nathan  and 
Anne  Delana,  survive. 


878  YALE    COLLEGE 

Thomas  Hart  Fuller,  B.A.  1863 

Born  February  22,  1840,  in  Lisbon  (now  Sprague),  Conn. 
Died  June  8,  1919,  in  Washington,  D.  C. 

Thomas  Hart  Fuller,  third  son  of  Pearley  Brown  and  Esther 
Palmer  (Smith)  Fuller,  was  born  February  22, 1840,  in  Lisbon 
(now  the  town  of  Sprague),  Hanover  Society,  New  London 
County,  Conn.  His  father,  who  was  a  farmer  and  a  surveyor, 
spent  most  of  his  life  at  Hanover  and  Scotland,  Conn.  His 
paternal  grandparents  were  Luther  Elderkin  and  Polly  (Wit- 
ter) Fuller,  whose  ancestors,  of  English  and  Scotch  origin, 
came  from  England  in  1633,  ^^^  settled  at  Ipswich,  Mass. 
Jacob  Fuller,  Pearley  B.  Fuller's  great-grandfather,  married 
Anne  Harris,  whose  mother  was  Anne  Franklin,  a  sister  of 
Benjamin  Franklin,  and  settled  in  eastern  Connecticut. 
Thomas  H.  Fuller's  mother  was  the  daughter  of  Roger  and 
Alice  (Bingham)  Smith.  Through  his  mother  he  was  a  direct 
descendant  of  Elder  William  Brewster  of  the  Mayflower  com- 
pany, and  of  Rev.  John  Palmer,  who  was  imprisoned  for 
preaching  the  Separatist  doctrines. 

Aside  from  a  term  or  two  at  Williston  Seminary,  East- 
hampton,  Mass.,  he  received  his  preparatory  training  under 
the  direction  of  Rev.  Sanford  J.  Horton,  at  Windham,  Conn. 
At  Yale  he  was  elected  to  Phi  Beta  Kappa.  While  in  college  he 
taught  fall  terms  in  Jewett  City,  Conn.,  having  there  the 
honor  of  teaching  the  future  Professor  Andrew  W.  Phillips 
calculus.  Thus  started  a  life-long  friendship  between  teacher 
and  pupil,  described  as  follows  by  Professor  Phillips  himself  in 
1913  in  his  Commencement  address  at  the  Alumni  meeting: 
"In  the  Class  of  1863,  on  this  platform  to-day,  sits  the  beloved 
teacher  of  my  early  days,  Mr.  Thomas  Hart  Fuller,  the  man 
who  gave  me  the  inspiration  and  the  impetus  to  pursue  ad- 
vanced studies  for  which  he  laid  the  foundation  in  summer 
vacation  schools  which  he  taught  in  my  native  town  while  he 
was  a  Yale  student.  It  is  with  a  peculiar  satisfaction  and  joy 
that  I  pay  this  life-long  friend,  at  this  time,  my  tribute  of 
gratitude  and  affection.  He  it  was  who  opened  to  me  the  gates 
of  opportunity,  first  to  become  a  teacher  in  preparatory  school 


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work,  and  then  to  know  that  ideal  scholar  and  teacher,  Pro- 
fessor Hubert  A.  Newton." 

For  a  year  after  graduation  Mr.  Fuller  taught  school  in 
Ellington,  Conn.,  after  which  he  went  to  Europe.  Ten  months 
of  his  stay  abroad  were  devoted  to  the  study  of  modern  lan- 
guages in  Paris,  the  remainder  of  the  time  being  spent  in 
travel.  After  his  return  to  America  in  November,  1865,  he 
taught  in  the  Cheshire  (Conn.)  Academy,  until  the  summer 
of  1869.  For  the  three  years  following  he  was  principal  of  the 
Natchaug  School  at  Willimantic,  Conn.  In  1872  he  became 
principal  of  the  public  school  of  Birmingham,  Conn.  He  was 
appointed  principal  of  the  Wooster  School,  New  Haven, 
Conn.,  in  1877,  but  resigned  this  position  in  the  summer  of 
1878  on  account  of  ill  health,  which  for  some  years  incapaci- 
tated him  for  active  work.  He  represented  the  town  of  Scot- 
land in  the  Connecticut  Legislature  in  the  session  of  1879. 
He  spent  the  year  of  1 880-8 1  in  travel  with  his  brother,  Luther 
Fuller  (B.A.  1871),  and  with  him  visited  Europe,  Egypt, 
Palestine,  and  other  countries.  In  1885,  his  health  having 
improved,  he  was  appointed  to  a  position  in  the  Post  Office 
department  at  Washington,  D.  C.  He  received  an  appoint- 
ment as  United  States  Post  Office  inspector  in  1889  and  served 
in  that  capacity  in  various  parts  of  the  country  until  19 10, 
when  he  was  transferred  to  Washington.  He  was  in  the  em- 
ploy of  the  Government  until  his  death,  which  occurred 
June  8,  1919,  in  Washington,  as  a  result  of  prostatic  hyper- 
trophy, with  complications.  Interment  was  in  the  Fuller  lot 
in  the  cemetery  at  Scotland,  Conn. 

Mr.  Fuller  was  unmarried.  He  is  survived  by  his  brother, 
Luther  Fuller.  Other  Yale  relatives  are:  Ezra  Witter  (B.A. 
^793)>  ^  great-uncle;  Rev.  Dr.  Zedekiah  Smith  Barstow 
(B.A.  1813),  Dr.  Asa  Witter  Fuller  (M.D.  1839),  Rev.  Egbert 
Byron  Bingham  (B.A.  1863),  William  Clitus  Witter  (B.A. 
1865),  and  Dr.  William  Witter  (M.D.  1865),  all  cousins;  and 
Dr.  Homer  Gifford  Fuller  (Ph.B.  1901)  and  Hubert  Bruce 
Fuller  (B.A.  1901),  both  nephews. 


88o  YALE  COLLEGE 

John  Jacob  Edic,  B.A.  1864 

Born  September  21,  1836,  in  Marcy,  N.  Y. 
Died  July  31,  1918,  in  Leavenworth,  Kans. 

John  Jacob  Edic  was  born  September  21,  1836,  in  Marcy, 
N.  Y.  He  was  one  of  the  twelve  children  of  Jacob  Edic,  Jr., 
a  farmer,  who  fought  in  the  War  of  181 2,  and  Isabel  (Leaven- 
worth) Edic.  His  grandfather,  Jacob  Edic,  was  a  member  of  one 
of  the  thirty  families  who  in  1725  made  the  first  settlement 
west  of  the  "Schoharie  Countries,"  at  Burnettsfield,  after- 
wards renamed  German  Flatts.  He  served  as  a  Lieutenant 
under  General  Herkimer  and  Col.  Peter  Bellinger  in  the  battle 
of  Oriskany.  In  1777  he  married  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  George 
J.  Weaver,  and  afterwards  made  his  home  in  Schuyler,  Herki- 
mer County.  Isabel  Leavenworth  Edic  was  the  daughter  of 
Amos  and  Esther  (Warner)  Leavenworth  and  the  grand- 
daughter of  John  and  Mary  Leavenworth.  Amos  Leaven- 
worth enlisted  in  the  Revolutionary  Army  with  twenty-five 
other  members  of  the  Leavenworth  family  from  the  state  of 
Connecticut;  after  the  war  he  moved  to  Deerfield  (now 
Marcy),  N.  Y.  The  city  of  Leavenworth,  Kans.,  as  well  as 
Fort  Leavenworth,  were  named  after  General  Henry  Leaven- 
worth, a  cousin  of  Amos  Leavenworth. 

He  was  fitted  for  college  at  Fairfield  (N.  Y.)  Academy.  At 
Yale  he  was  a  member  of  Linonia  and  of  the  Varuna  Boat  Club. 

After  graduation  he  entered  the  Bellevue  Hospital  Medical 
College,  New  York  University,  where  he  received  the  degree 
of  M.D.,  February  28,  1867.  He  took  his  M.A.  there  also  in 
the  same  year.  He  practiced  medicine  for  a  short  time  in 
Utica,  N.  Y.,  and  then  removed  to  Leavenworth,  Kans., 
where  he  continued  in  active  practice  until  a  few  days  before 
his  death.  In  1880  he  was  chosen  president  of  the  Kansas 
State  Homeopathic  Medical  Society  and  was  a  member  of 
the  State  Board  of  Homeopathics.  In  1901  he  was  elected  to 
the  chair  of  principles  and  practice  of  medicine  in  the  Kansas 
City  Hahnemann  Medical  College.  From  1893  to  1895  ^^ 
served  on  the  Board  of  Police  Commissioners  of  Leavenworth. 
He  belonged  to  St.  Paul's  Episcopal  Church  of  that  city,  and 
was  serving  as  a  vestryman  when  the  church  was  dedicated- 


1864  88i 

He  died  suddenly  July  31,  191 8,  in  Leavenworth,  after  an 
illness  of  two  days  due  to  uraemic  poisoning.  He  was  buried  in 
Mount  Muncie  Cemetery  at  Leavenworth. 

Dr.  Edic  was  twice  married,  his  first  wife  being  Matilda 
Jenkins,  daughter  of  Bernard  and  Wilhelmenia  Wey.  Their 
marriage  took  place  in  Leavenworth,  August  3,  1872.  They 
had  one  daughter,  Isabel,  who  died  in  infancy.  Mrs.  Edic*s 
death  occurred  April  18,  1884,  and  on  June  30,  1897,  Dr.  Edic 
was  married  to  Susan  Harding,  daughter  of  William  and  Hen- 
rietta (Ickes)  Bowers,''of  Chester,  Pa.  They  had  no  children. 
Dr.  Edic  is  survived  by  his  second  wife  and  a  sister. 


Francis  Engelsby  Loomis,  B.A.  1864 

Born  July  26,  1842,  in  Hudson,  Ohio 
Died  October  8,  191 8,  in  Montreux,  Switzerland 

Francis  Engelsby  Loomis  was  born  July  26,  1842,  in  Hud- 
son, Ohio.  His  father,  Elias  Loomis  (B.A.  1830,  M.A.  and 
LL.D.  New  York  University  1854),  was  Munson  professor 
of  natural  philosophy  and  astronomy  at  Yale  from  i860  to 
1889.  Elias  Loomis  was  the  son  of  Rev.  Hubbel  Loomis  (Hon- 
orary M.A.  Union  1809  and  Yale  18 12)  and  Jerusha  (Burt) 
Loomis.  Rev.  Hubbel  Loomis  was  instrumental  in  founding 
the  institution  which  afterwards  became  Shurtleff  College. 
The  mother  of  Francis  E.  Loomis  was  Julia  E.  (Upson) 
Loomis,  daughter  of  Dr.  Daniel  Upson  and  Polly  (Wright) 
Upson,  of  Tallmadge,  Ohio,  and  granddaughter  of  Elizur 
Wright,  who  graduated  at  Yale  in  1781. 

Francis  E.  Loomis  joined  the  Class  of  1864  at  Yale  at  the 
beginning  of  the  second  term  of  Freshman  year,  having  pre- 
viously studied  at  Western  Reserve  College  in  his  native 
town.  At  Yale  he  was  a  member  of  Brothers  in  Unity  and  of 
Phi  Beta  Kappa.  In  Freshman  year  he  took  a  second  prize  in 
mathematics,  in  Sophomore  year  a  first  prize,  and  in  Senior 
year  a  second  prize.  He  received  an  oration  appointment  in 
Junior  year  and  a  high  oration  appointment  at  Commence- 
ment. 

After  graduation  he  studied  science  in  New  Hav^n  for  two 


882  YALE    COLLEGE 

years  and  received  the  degree  of  Ph.D.  from  Yale  in  1866. 
He  then  went  to  Germany  for  further  study  at  Berlin  and 
Gottingen,  and  received  the  degree  of  Ph.D.  from  the  Uni- 
versity of  Gottingen  in  1869.  He  spent  the  year  1 869-1 870 
in  Paris  attending  philosophical  lectures  at  the  Sorbonne, 
and  from  September,  1870,  to  June,  1871,  he  worked  on  sci- 
entific subjects  with  his  father  in  New  Haven.  He  was  pro- 
fessor of  physics  and  industrial  mechanics  at  Cornell  Univer- 
sity, Ithaca,  N.  Y.,  from  July,  1 871,  to  March,  1872,  when  he 
had  pneumonia  and  lost  one  lung.  He  then  resigned  his  pro- 
fessorship and  sailed  for  Europe,  hoping  to  regain  his  health. 
In  1874  he  went  to  Australia,  and  thence  to  the  United  States, 
expecting  to  benefit  by  the  sea  voyage.  He  was  in  New  Haven 
in  June,  1875,  ^^^  again  in  September,  1889.  ^^  spent  the 
remaining  years  of  his  life  in  Switzerland,  France,  and  Italy, 
where  he  believed  the  climate  was  beneficial  to  him.  He  went 
several  times  to  Algiers,  and  twice  to  Egypt.  It  was  a  dis- 
appointment to  him  that  he  could  not  continue  his  scientific 
work.  Reading  and  walking  were  his  chief  recreations.  He  was 
interested  in  literature,  history,  art,  and  archaeology.  He  was 
a  member  of  the  Connecticut  Academy  of  Arts  and  Sciences, 
and  had  published  the  following:  "Periodic  Stars,"  his  in- 
augural dissertation  for  the  degree  of  Ph.D.,  Gottingen,  1869; 
"Influence  of  Temperature  on  the  Modulus  of  Elasticity  of 
Certain  Metals,"  with  F.  Kohlrausch,  Memoirs,  Gottingen 
Academy  of  Sciences,  and  American  Journal  of  Science,  1870; 
"On  the  Temperature  and  Force  of  the  Wind  at  Wallingford, 
Conn.,"  and  "On  the  Temperature  and  Force  of  the  Wind  at 
New  Haven,  Conn.,"  Memoirs,  Connecticut  Academy  of 
Arts  and  Sciences.  In  1902  he  gave  to  Yale  University  ten 
thousand  dollars  to  found  the  Loomis  fellowship  in  physics, 
and  in  191 1  he  gave  to  the  Yale  School  of  Medicine  twenty 
thousand  dollars,  the  income  to  be  used  in  aiding  research. 

He  died  October  8,  1918,  in  Montreux,  Switzerland.  Inter- 
ment was  in  Clarens  Cemetery,  near  Montreux.  He  was  un- 
married. He  is  survived  by  his  brother,  Henry  Bradford 
Loomis  (B.A.  1875). 


1864  883 

John  William  Sterling,  B.A.  1864 

Born  May  la,  1844,  in  Stratford,  Conn. 
Died  July  5,  191 8,  in  Grand  Metis,  Que.,  Canada 

John  William  Sterling  was  the  son  of  John  William  Sterling, 
a  sea  captain,  and  Catharine  Tomlinson  (Plant)  Sterling,  and 
was  born.  May  12,  1844,  in  Stratford,  Conn.  His  father  fol- 
lowed the  sea  from  18 10  to  1835  ^^^  ^i^  splendid  seamanship 
was  in  request  on  both  sides  of  the  Atlantic.  He  was  the  son 
of  David  and  Deborah  (Strong)  Sterling,  a  grandson  of  Abi- 
jah  Sterling,  who  held  a  Captain's  commission  in  the  Revolu- 
tion, and  a  descendant  of  William  Sterling,  who  came  from 
England  and  settled  at  Bradford  or  Haverhill,  Mass.  Cath- 
arine Plant  Sterling's  parents  were  David  and  Catharine 
(Tomlinson)  Plant.  David  Plant  graduated  at  Yale  in  1804 
and  afterwards  studied  at  the  Litchfield  Law  School.  In  18 19 
and  1820  he  was  Speaker  of  the  Connecticut  House  of  Repre- 
sentatives; and  in  1821  he  was  elected  to  the  State  Senate, 
and  was  twice  reelected.  He  was  Lieutenant  Governor  of 
Connecticut  from  1823  to  1827,  and  during  the  next  two 
years  was  a  member  of  Congress.  His  father,  Solomon  Plant, 
was  a  soldier  in  the  French  War  of  1760.  Among  his  ances- 
tors was  John  Plant,  who  came  with  Governor  Saltonstall  to 
Branford,  Conn. 

He  was  prepared  for  college  at  the  Stratford  Academy.  In 
college  he  was  a  member  of  Brothers  in  Unity,  being  its  presi- 
dent Senior  year,  and  of  Phi  Beta  Kappa.  He  won  a  third 
prize  in  declamation  Sophomore  year  and  a  Townsend  Pre- 
mium Senior  year.  He  received  an  oration  appointment  at 
Junior  Exhibition  and  at  Commencement,  and  spoke  on  both 
occasions. 

The  year  after  graduation  was  devoted  to  a  course  of  gen- 
eral reading  in  the  Yale  Graduate  School.  He  then  entered 
the  Columbia  Law  School,  where  he  graduated  as  valedic- 
torian in  May,  1867.  He  was  then  admitted  to  the  bar  of 
New  York  State,  and  from  August,  1867,  to  May  i,  1868,  was 
in  the  law  offices  of  David  Dudley  Field  and  Dudley  Field 
in  New  York  City,  after  which  he  became  managing  clerk  in 
the  office  of  James  K.  Hill.  From  January,  1870,  until  the  fall 


884  YALE    COLLEGE 

of  1873  he  was  a  partner  in  the  firm  of  Field  &  Shearman.  In 
1873  he  went  into  partnership  with  Thomas  G.  Shearman 
under  the  name  of  Shearman  &  Sterling.  After  the  death  of 
Mr.  Shearman  in  1900,  he  became  senior  member  of  the  firm, 
his  partners  being  John  A.  Garver  (B.A.  1875,  LL.B.  Col- 
umbia 1877)  and  James  M.  Beck,  at  one  time  Assistant  Attor- 
ney-General of  the  United  States.  Mr.  Sterling  was  recog- 
nized as  one  of  the  leading  corporation  lawyers  in  the  country. 
He  had  a  thorough  knowledge  of  railroad  finance  and  was  an 
adviser  to  financiers,  and  an  executor  and  trustee  of  large 
estates.  He  was  a  member  of  the  New  England  Society,  the 
American  Arts  Society,  and  the  Congregational  Church  of 
Stratford. 

Hediedsuddenly,  of  heart  failure,  July  5, 191 8,  at  the  castle 
of  Lord  Mount  Stephen,  in  Grand  Metis,  Que.,  Canada, 
where  it  had  been  his  custom  to  spend  an  annual  vacation 
enjoying  the  fishing.  Interment  was  in  Woodlawn  Cemetery. 
His  bequest  of  $15,000,000  to  Yale  is  the  largest  and  most 
important  gift  in  the  history  of  the  institution.  The  Yale 
Corporation  at  its  first  meeting  after  his  death  adopted  the 
following  resolution:  "Voted,  to  place  on  record  and  to  extend 
to  the  surviving  sisters  and  to  the  Trustees  of  the  late  John 
W.  Sterling,  Esq.,  of  the  Class  of  1864,  Yale  College,  an  ex- 
pression of  the  President  and  Fellows'  appreciation  of  his 
munificent  bequest  *to  the  use  and  for  the  benefit  of  Yale 
University' — the  largest  and  most  important  gift  in  the  his- 
tory of  the  institution — and  of  the  deep  affection  for  his  alma 
mater  which  it  manifested,  and  to  assure  them  of  the  desire 
of  the  President  and  Fellows  to  cooperate  in  full  measure  in 
carrying  out  the  terms  of  the  bequest  so  as  to  create  the 
most  enduring  and  useful  memorials  to  Mr.  Sterling."  The 
Corporation,  with  the  approval  of  the  Trustees,  has  decided 
that  a  Sterling  Memorial  Library  shall  constitute  the  princi- 
pal memorial  to  Mr.  Sterling  at  the  University. 

Mr.  Sterling  had  never  married.  He  is  survived  by  two  sis- 
ters. Miss  Cordelia  Sterling  and  Mrs.  R.  W.  Bunnell,  both  of 
whom  reside  in  Stratford. 


1 864-1 865  885 

Taliaferro  Franklin  Caskey,  B.A.  1865 

Born  August  29,  1838,  near  Fort  Black,  Drake  County,  Ohio 
Died  April  22,  1919,  in  Southport,  Conn. 

Taliaferro  Franklin  Caskey  was  born  on  August  29,  1838, 
near  Fort  Black,  Drake  County,  Ohio.  He  was  the  son  of 
Archibald  and  Matilda  (Miller)  Caskey,  of  Cincinnati,  Ohio. 
His  father's  family  came  from  Scotland  and  the  north  of  Ire- 
land toward  the  close  of  the  eighteenth  century,  settling  in 
Ohio.  His  mother  belonged  to  a  Kentucky  family. 

He  was  fitted  for  Yale  at  the  Woodward  High  School  in  Cin- 
cinnati. He  received  two  first  prizes  in  English  composition 
during  his  Sophomore  year,  was  given  a  Junior  dissertation 
appointment  and  a  Townsend  Premium,  and  at  Commence- 
ment held  the  sixth  dissertation.  He  was  an  editor  of  the  Tale 
Literary  Magazine  and  a  member  of  the  Glyuna  Boat  Club, 
Linonia,  and  Phi  Beta  Kappa. 

In  September,  1865,  he  entered  Union  Theological  Sem- 
inary in  New  York,  and  was  graduated  there  in  May,  1868. 
He  did  much  missionary  and  Sunday  school  work  during  his 
course.  Following  his  ordination  to  the  priesthood  of  the 
Protestant  Episcopal  Church  in  1868,  he  became  assistant 
rector  of  the  Church  of  the  Holy  Trinity,  New  York,  and  had 
charge  of  a  mission  connected  with  it.  In  1871  he  was  com- 
pelled to  resign  because  of  failing  health.  Later  he  was  for  six 
months  rector  of  St.  Andrew's  Church,  Brooklyn.  In  May, 
1872,  he  was  called  to  Trinity  Church,  Williamsport,  Pa., 
where  he  remained  until  1877.  He  then  accepted  the  charge  of 
Trinity  Church,  Southport,  Conn.,  but  in  1879  g^ve  up  his 
parish  on  account  of  his  health,  and  went  abroad  for  six 
months.  For  nearly  two  years  after  his  return,  he  held  the 
rectorship  of  Grace  Church,  Honesdale,  Pa.  About  1882  he 
sailed  again  for  Europe,  and  for  eighteen  years  was  rector  of 
the  American  Church  of  St.  John  in  Dresden,  Germany,  of 
which  he  became  rector  emeritus  in  1900,  when  the  condition 
of  his  wife's  health  led  him  to  resign.  While  in  Dresden,  he 
declined  the  professorship  of  church  history  in  the  Theologi- 
cal Seminary  at  Fairbanks,  Minn.,  and  after  his  return  to  the 
United  States  he  refused  calls  to  several  parishes.  He  was  rec- 


886  YALE    COLLEGE 

tor  of  the  Church  of  the  Holy  Comforter,  Baltimore,  Md., 
until  the  fall  of  1907,  and  then  had  charge  of  St.  Mark's 
parish  in  Danville,  111.,  until  1909,  when  he  accepted  the 
rectorship  of  St.  John's  Church,  Barrytown-on-Hudson, 
N.  Y.  In  1914  he  became  rector  of  Christ  Church,  East  Nor- 
walk.  Conn.,  but  in  December,  1917,  resigned  and  was  made 
rector  emeritus.  In  1901  the  honorary  degree  of  M.A.  was 
conferred  upon  him  by  Yale,  and  in  1907  he  received  that  of 
D.D.  from  St.  John's  College. 

Dr.  Caskey  died  at  his  home  in  Southport,  on  April  22, 
1919,  after  an  illness  of  a  year  and  a  half.  The'interment  was 
in  Oaklawn  Cemetery,  Southport. 

He  was  twice  married.  His  first  marriage  took  place  on  June 
6,  1867,  in  New  Haven,  Conn.,  to  Emma  R.,  daughter  of  Levi 
and  Clymena  (Allen)  Gilbert.  She  died  on  May  9,  1876,  and 
on  May  21,1 879,  he  was  married  in  New  York  City,  to  Phoebe 
Lacey,  daughter  of  D.  Augustus  and  Eliza  D.  (Mumford) 
Lacey,  who  survives  him  with  their  two  children,  Lacey 
Davis  (B.A.  Yale  1901,  Ph.D.  Yale  1912)  and  Ethel  Young. 

James  Hutchinson  Kerr,  B.A.  1865 

Born  August  30,  1837,  i"  Chambersburg,  Pa. 
Died  June  10,  1919,  at  Colorado  Springs,  Colo. 

James  Hutchinson  Kerr  was  born  August  30,  1837,  In 
Chambersburg,  Pa.  He  was  the  son  of  John  Alexander  Kerr, 
who  was  born  in  1 8 1 1  on  his  father's  farm  in  the  stone  house 
near  Round  Top,  now  famous  for  its  position  in  the  battle- 
field of  Gettysburg,  and  Eliza  Jane  (Hutchinson)  Kerr,  of 
Oxford,  Pa.  He  traced  his  ancestry  to  the  Kerrs  of  Bally 
Kelly,  who  fled  from  Scotland  to  Ireland  in  1685,  ^^^  ^^  ^^^ 
Hutchinsons  of  Lanarkshire,  Scotland.  In  1689  ^^^  ancestors 
on  both  sides  took  part  in  the  famous  siege  of  Derry  against 
the  forces  of  James  II  of  England. 

His  parents  removed  to  Oxford,  Pa.,  in  1844,  ^^^  ^^  ^^- 
ceived  his  early  education  at  the  New  London  Academy. 
He  later  studied  geology  for  two  years  at  Rochester  and 
Albany,  N.  Y.,  and  in  1856  was  a  student  at  Westminster 
College  in  Lawrence  County,  Pa.  At  Yale  he  received  a 
Junior  mathematical  prize,  and  was  given  colloquy  appoint- 


1865  887 

ments  in  both  Junior  and  Senior  years.  During  the  last  year 
of  his  college  course  he  was  in  charge  of  the  natural  science 
department  of  General  Russell's  Collegiate  and  Commercial 
Institute  in  New  Haven,  and  for  two  years  following  gradua- 
tion he  was  principal  of  the  Jackson  (Mo.)  Collegiate  Insti- 
tute. In  1869  he  orgatiized  the  Fruitland  Normal  Institute, 
which  preceded  the  present  Cape  Girardeau  (Mo.)  Normal 
School,  of  which  he  was  principal  for  six  years.  At  the  same 
time  he  was  superintendent  of  the  public  schools  of  Cape 
Girardeau  County  for  four  years,  and  during  vacations  con- 
ducted, with  the  assistance  of  others,  nearly  two  hundred 
teachers'  institutes  in  the  Mississippi  Valley.  When  his  health 
failed  in  1875  ^^  moved  to  Colorado  Springs,  Colo.,  and  be- 
came professor  in  charge  of  Colorado  College.  In  the  same 
year  he  organized  the  mining  school  which  is  now  a  part  of 
Colorado  College  and  was  its  head  until  1880.  He  was  elected 
professor  of  chemistry  and  geology  in  1876.  He  had  served  as 
vice  president  of  the  College  and,  for  four  years,  as  acting 
president.  From  1876  to  1899  he  was  occupied  as  a  mining  and 
metallurgical  engineer,  erecting  eleven  reduction  works  in 
Mexico,  four  in  Central  America,  and  seven  in  South  America. 
He  had  traveled  extensively  in  Europe,  China,  and  Japan. 
In  1878  he  received  the  degree  of  M.A.  from  Yale.  From  1882 
to  1884  he  was  a  member  of  the  Colorado  House  of  Repre- 
sentatives. Since  1900  he  had  resided  with  his  invalid  wife  at 
the  Glockner  Sanatorium  at  Colorado  Springs,  and  his  death 
occurred  there  on  June  10,  1919. 

He  was  married  December  25, 1866,  to  Mary  Ella  Spear,  of 
Jackson,  Mo.  They  had  three  children:  Helen  May,  the  wife 
of  Henry  Myron  Blackner;  Guy  Manning,  who  received  the 
degrees  of  M.A.  and  Ph.D.  from  the  University  of  Gottingen; 
and  Maria  Louise,  who  died  in  1886. 


Henry  Waterman  Warren,  B.A.  1865 

Born  March  18,  1838,  in  Auburn,  Mass. 
Died  February  21,  19 19,  in  Holden,  Mass. 

Henry  Waterman  Warren,  son  of  Waterman  Goulding  and 
Mary  (Eddy)  Warren,  was  born  in  Auburn,  Mass.,  on  March 
18,  1838.  Through  his  father,  whose  parents  were  Deacon 


888  YALE    COLLEGE 

Samuel  Warren  and  Sally  (Goulding)  Warren,  he  was  de- 
scended from  John  Warren,  who  came  from  Nayland,  Eng- 
land, to  Boston  with  Governor  Winthrop  in  1630.  His  mother 
was  the  daughter  of  Samuel  and  Lydia  (Hart)  Eddy.  She  was 
descended  from  Rev.  William  Eddy,  of  Crainbrook,  Kent, 
England,  who  came  to  Plymouth  in  1630. 

After  attending  the  public  school  of  Holden,  Mass.,  Wor- 
cester Academy,  the  State  Normal  School  at  Westfield,  Mass., 
and  Williston  Seminary,  he  entered  the  Sophomore  class 
at  Yale  in  1862.  He  received  oration  appointments  and  was 
a  member  of  Phi  Beta  Kappa. 

His  first  work  after  graduation  was  teaching  in  the  public 
schools  of  Nashville,  Tenn.,  but  in  the  spring  of  1866,  with 
his  brother,  Berthier  Warren,  he  purchased  a  plantation  in 
Leake  County,  Miss.,  and  there  engaged  in  cotton  planting. 
He  remained  in  the  South  for  ten  years  and  during  this 
period  he  took  an  active  part  in  reconstruction.  He  served  as 
chairman  of  the  Board  of  Registration  for  Leake  County 
under  the  Reconstruction  Acts  of  Congress,  and,  in  1867, 
was  appointed  probate  judge  of  the  county.  In  that  year  he 
was  also  elected  a  member  of  the  Constitutional  Convention 
of  the  State.  From  1870  to  1875  ^^  was  connected  with  the 
State  Legislature,  as  chief  clerk,  member,  or  speaker  of  the 
House  of  Representatives.  In  1873  he  was  appointed  levee 
commissioner.  In  1874,  declining  an  appointment  as  chan- 
cellor for  the  Tenth  Chancery  District  of  the  state,  he  ac- 
cepted one  as  centennial  commissioner,  and  on  March  27, 
1876,  was  appointed  a  member  of  the  Centennial  Board  of 
Managers  for  the  state.  He  was  a  delegate  to  two  presidential 
conventions:  in  1868,  at  Chicago,  when  General  Grant  was 
first  nominated;  and  in  1876,  at  Cincinnati,  when  Rutherford 
B.  Hayes  was  nominated. 

In  1876  he  returned  to  Holden,  Mass.,  and  actively  engaged 
in  the  tanning  business  which  four  generations  of  his  ancestors 
had  carried  on,  and  which  at  that  time  bore  the  firm  name  of 
W.  G.  Warren's  Sons.  He  served  for  nine  years  as  town 
treasurer,  for  seven  years  as  member  of  the  Board  of  Select- 
men, and  for  two  years  as  water  commissioner,  and  in  1890 
was  elected  to  the  Board  of  Overseers.  In  1882  and  i88c  he 


1865-1866  889 

represented  his  district  in  the  Massachusetts  House  of  Rep- 
resentatives. He  became  president  of  the  Worcester  &  Holden 
Street  Railway  in  1905  and  served  in  that  capacity  for  three 
years. 

Mr.  Warren  died  of  heart  failure  on  February  21,  1919,  at 
his  home  in  Holden,  after  a  brief  illness.  The  interment  was 
in  Grove  Cemetery  in  Holden. 

On  November  8,  1877,  he  married  Dora  Louise,  daughter  of 
William  and  Mary  Ann  (Jefferson)  Howe,  who  survives  him 
with  four  children:  William  Howe  (B.A.  1901);  Blanche 
Louise  (B.A.  Smith  1904),  who  married  Rev.  Alfred  E. 
Alton;  Helen  Goulding  (B.A.  Smith  1906);  and  Waterman 
Goulding  (B.A.  Dartmouth  1913). 


Edward  Alexis  Caswell,  B.A.  1866 

Born  November  27,  1844,  in  New  York  City 
Died  June  25,  1919,  in  West  Chester,  Pa. 

Edward  Alexis  Caswell  was  born  November  27,  1844,  ^" 
Clinton  Place,  New  York  City,  a  quarter  rich  in  literary  and 
artistic  associations.  He  was  the  son  of  Nathan  Caswell,  a 
metal  broker,  and  Mary  Lincoln  (Bowman)  Caswell.  His 
father  was  the  son  of  Samuel  and  Mary  (Scaver)  Caswell, 
of  Taunton,  Mass.,  the  grandson  of  Ebenezer  and  Zibiah 
(White)  Caswell,  and  a  descendant  of  Peregrine  White,  the 
first  white  child  born  in  New  England.  His  maternal  grand- 
parents were  Samuel  and  Mary  (Power)  Bowman. 

He  entered  the  Freshman  class  at  Yale  in  1862.  He  re- 
ceived a  first  colloquy  appointment  in  his  Junior  year,  and 
was  a  member  of  the  University  Crew. 

Immediately  after  graduation  he  sailed  for  Europe,  where 
he  remained  for  six  years,  engaged  in  travel  and  the  study  of 
languages,  art,  and  music.  During  a  portion  of  this  time  he 
was  a  correspondent  for  several  American  newspapers.  In 
1873  he  returned  to  New  York  and  revived  and  expanded 
the  metal  brokerage  business  founded  by  his  father  and  con- 
ducted on  John  Street.  The  firm,  which  dealt  in  pig  lead  as  a 
specialty,  became,  and  still  is,  the  agent  of  Messrs.  A.  Strauss 
&  Company  of  London.  In  1880  Mr.  Caswell  called  the  first 


890  YALE    COLLEGE 

meeting  held  in  this  country  to  discuss  the  possibilities  of 
cremation,  and  organized  a  company  which  later  built  the 
Fresh  Pond  Crematory  on  Long  Island.  In  1892  he  organized 
the  Intercollegiate  Chess  League,  the  tournaments  of  which 
have  since  been  annual  events,  except  during  the  period  of 
the  war,  and  until  recently  he  had  given  his  personal  atten- 
tion to  their  management.  The  cup  for  which  teams  repre- 
senting Yale,  Princeton,  Harvard,  and  Columbia  play  an- 
nually, is  his  gift.  Mr.  Caswell  had  retained  his  interest  in 
art  and  music,  and  at  one  time  served  as  musical  critic  for 
'T'he  Sun.  In  collaboration  with  a  friend,  he  wrote  "Toil  and 
Self,"  a  social  and  economic  sketch,  published  in  1900.  At 
the  time  of  his  death  he  had  just  finished  writing  two  plays. 
He  was  a  member  of  the  Church  of  the  Holy  Communion  of 
New  York. 

He  died  June  25,  1919,  at  the  home  of  his  son  in  West 
Chester,  Pa.,  after  an  illness  of  about  four  days,  resulting 
from  a  stroke  of  paralysis.  Interment  was  in  Greenwood 
Cemetery,  Brooklyn. 

He  was  married  August  28,  1872,  at  Geneva,  Switzerland, 
to  Emma,  daughter  of  John  and  Caroline  E.  (Shipman) 
Fairbanks.  They  had  two  children,  Ethel,  who  died  in  1896, 
and  Kenneth  Lincoln,  who  graduated  from  the  Architectural 
Department  of  Columbia  University  in  1898  and  who  sur- 
vives his  father.  Mrs.  Caswell  died  in  New  York  City  on 
June  26,  1883. 


Ferdinand  VanDerveer  Garretson,  B.A.  1866 

Born  December  10,  1839,  in  New  Brunswick,  N.  J. 
Died  February  15,  19 19,  in  New  York  City- 
Ferdinand  VanDerveer  Garretson  was  born  December  10, 
1839,  in  New  Brunswick,  N.  J.  He  was  the  son  of  Garrett  I. 
Garretson,  who  was  engaged  in  the  mercantile  business  at 
Metuchen,  N.  J.,  and  Cornelia  DeHart  (Sedam)  Garretson, 
and  was  descended  from  Ryk  vanRyken,  who  emigrated  to 
this  country  from  Holland  in  1790  and  settled  in  New  Jersey. 
He  was  prepared  for  college  at  Kimball  Union  Academy, 
Meriden,  N.  H.,  and  at  Yale  received  prizes  in  debate  in 


i866  891 

Veshman,  Sophomore,  and  Junior  years.  He  was  a  member 
of  Brothers  in  Unity  and  the  Varuna  Boat  Club,  and  served 
on  the  Wooden  Spoon  and  Biennial  Jubilee  committees. 

After  graduation  he  attended  the  Yale  Divinity  School 
for  one  year  and  then  spent  two  years  at  Union  Theological 
Seminary  in  New  York  City.  He  was  ordained  by  the  Pres- 
bytery of  New  York  in  October,  1869.  On  June  2,  1869,  he 
sailed  for  Europe  in  the  employ  of  the  American  Sunday 
School  Union,  and,  for  the  greater  part  of  two  years,  engaged 
in  Sunday  school  work  in  Italy.  Upon  his  return  he  became 
pastor  of  Grace  Chapel  in  New  York  City,  and  also  acted  as 
secretary  of  the  foreign  department  of  the  American  Sunday 
School  Union.  From  1872  to  1875  ^^  fil^^<^  ^he  pastorate  of 
the  Congregational  Church  at  Ellsworth,  Maine,  but  for  the 
next  few  years  devoted  most  of  his  time  to  evangelical  work. 
During  this  period  he  made  his  home  at  Bangor,  Maine,  and 
Pcnacook,  N.  H.  In  1881  he  moved  to  Franconia,  N.  H., 
and  there  the  Congregational  Church  was  built  through  his 
influence.  He  also  raised  one  hundred  thousand  dollars  to 
build  and  equip  Dow  Academy  at  Franconia.  Later  he  was 
pastor  of  the  Allen  Street  Presbyterian  Church,  New  York 
City,  but  in  1891  accepted  a  call  to  service  in  the  West.  He 
was  for  a  time  pastor  of  the  First  Presbyterian  Church  of 
Whatcom  (now  Bellingham),  Wash.,  and  later  went  to  Ellens- 
burg,  Wash.  In  1896  he  was  again  in  the  East,  as  pastor  of 
the  First  Congregational  Church  of  Pownal,  Vt.  He  returned 
to  Washington  in  1902,  accepting  a  charge  at  Kelso,  and  from 
1906  to  191 1,  in  response  to  the  urgent  request  of  the  Fran- 
conia Congregational  Church  people,  filled  the  pastorate  of 
that  church  for  the  second  time.  Since  191 1  he  had  had  no 
pastorate,  but  the  winter  of  191 8  was  spent  in  Saginaw,  Mich., 
in  evangelistic  work.  Mr.  Garretson  died  at  the  home  of  his 
daughter  in  New  York  City,  February  15,  191 9,  of  arterio 
sclerosis,  after  a  short  illness.  The  interment  was  in  the  Ken- 
sico  Cemetery. 

On  August  12,  1868,  he  was  married  to  Nellie  M.,  daughter 
of  John  and  Ellen  (Brown)  Philbrook,  who  died  in  January, 
1917.  There  were  three  children:  Florence  Cora,  who  was 
married  on  September  15,  1890,  to  Arthur  Lockwood  Smith, 
and  died  June  14,  191 1,  le9-vin|  three  sons  and  ^  daughter; 


892  YALE    COLLEGE 

Jessica  Boynes  (B.A.  Barnard  1893,  LL.B.  New  York  Uni- 
versity 1898),  who  was  admitted  to  the  New  York  Bar, 
married  James  Wells  Finch  in  1897,  founded  the  Finch 
Boarding  and  Day  School  for  Girls  in  1900,  was  married  a 
second  time  on  January  4,  1913,  to  John  O'Hara  Cosgrove 
and  survives  her  father,  as  does  also  her  daughter;  and  Carl- 
ton, a  non-graduate  member  of  the  Class  of  1899  at  Williams 
College,  who  died  September  20,  191 2. 


Lewis  Lampman,  B.A.  1866 

Born  February  5,  1843,  ^t  Coxsackie,  N.  Y. 
Died  August  29,  191 8,  at  Coxsackie,  N.  Y. 

Lewis  Lampman,  son  of  Obadiah  and  Elizabeth  (VanDen- 
burgh)  Lampman,  was  born  at  Coxsackie,  N.  Y.,  on  Feb- 
ruary 5,  1843.  ^^s  father  was  a  merchant  and  farmer;  he  was 
the  son  of  John  P.  and  Abigail  (King)  Lampman,  and  his 
ancestors  came  from  Holland  and  England  about  1700. 
His  mother,  the  daughter  of  Peter  R.  VanDenburgh,  an 
officer  in  the  War  of  18 12,  and  Elizabeth  (VanLoan)  Van- 
Denburgh, was  of  Dutch  ancestry,  a  descendant  of  the  Van- 
Loans  and  VanDenburghs  who  settled  at  Coxsackie  shortly 
after  its  foundation. 

He  was  prepared  for  college  at  the  Coxsackie  Academy  and 
at  the  Claverack  Institute.  In  Freshman  year  at  Yale  he 
received  a  first  prize  for  debate,  in  Sophomore  year  one  for 
excellence  in  English  composition,  and  in  Junior  year  a  third 
prize  in  debate.  He  was  a  member  of  Brothers  in  Unity, 
served  on  the  Wooden  Spoon  and  the  Biennial  Jubilee  com- 
mittees, and  was  a  deacon  of  the  College  Church. 

After  leaving  college,  he  spent  one  year  at  Union  Theologi- 
cal Seminary  in  New  York.  During  this  period  he  acted  as  a 
private  tutor  to  several  students,  and,  in  this  capacity, 
accompanied  one  of  them  abroad.  When  he  returned  in  1869 
he  completed  his  course  at  the  seminary,  and  on  November 
10,  1870,  was  ordained  by  the  Nassau  Presbytery.  He  had 
been  called  to  the  First  Presbyterian  Church  at  Jamaica, 
Long  Island,  in  July,  1870,  and  remained  there  as  its  pastor 


I 866  893 

until  November  18,  1888.  For  the  next  eighteen  years  he  held 
the  pastorate  of  the  High  Street  Presbyterian  Church  of 
Newark,  N.  J.  On  November  25,  1906,  he  retired  from  the 
active  ministry  and  had  since  made  his  home  at  Coxsackie, 
where  he  managed  a  farm.  He  was  in  the  habit  of  spending 
the  winter  in  Florida.  Dr.  Lampman  drew  the  original  over- 
ture to  the  General  Assembly  of  the  Presbyterian  Church 
for  a  revision  of  the  Confession  of  Faith,  which  precipitated 
a  long  controversy,  and  all  through  that  long  struggle  he  was 
a  member  of  the  executive  committee  of  the  Liberal  move- 
ment. In  1893  he  received  the  degree  of  D.D.  from  New  York 
University,  and  in  1894  he  was  elected  a  director  of  Union 
Theological  Seminary.  He  served  as  a  director  of  the  National 
Bank  of  Coxsackie  for  ten  years,  and  made  addresses  on 
various  public  occasions.  Since  1895  he  had  been  a  member  of 
the  Century  Association  of  New  York. 

Dr.  Lampman  died  at  his  home  in  Coxsackie  on  August  29, 
191 8,  after  a  long  and  painful  illness,  due  to  cancer.  The 
interment  was  in  the  old  village  cemetery. 

He  was  married  December  5,  1871,  in  Coxsackie,  to  Ade- 
laide, daughter  of  Leonard  and  Maria  (Ely)  Bronk.  Mrs. 
Lampman  died  January  7,  1904,  and  their  daughter,  Maria 
Bronk,  on  December  11,  1919.  A  son,  Leonard  Bronk  (B.A. 
1896),  survives. 


William  Greenly  NicoU,  B.A.  1866 

Born  August  29,  1845,  i"  IsHp,  N.  Y. 
Died  March  21,  1919,  in  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 

William  Greenly  Nicoll,  whose  parents  were  William  and 
Sarah  Augusta  (Nicoll)  Nicoll,  was  born  August  29,  1845,  ^^ 
Islip,  Long  Island.  His  father  was  the  son  of  William  and 
Sarah  (Greenly)  Nicoll,  and  a  descendant  of  Matthias  Nicoll, 
of  Islip,  England,  one  of  the  first  settlers  of  Long  Island, 
whose  son  William  purchased  the  "Nicoll  patent"  at  Islip, 
Long  Island,  in  1683.  His  mother's  parents  were  Edward 
Augustus  and  Frances  B.  (Shelton)  Nicoll. 

After  preparing  at  the  Union  School,  Huntington,  Long 
Island,  he  entered  Yale,  where  he  was  a  member  of  Linonia 


894  YALE    COLLEGE 

and  of  the  Glyuna  Boat  Club.  In  the  fall  after  graduation 
he  began  the  study  of  law  at  Columbia  University,  and  was 
graduated  there  May  13,  1868,  taking  a  third  prize  at  the 
final  examination  and  receiving  the  degree  of  LL.B.  He  then 
practiced  law  in  New  York  City  for  eighteen  years.  Since 
1 88 1  he  had  resided  at  Babylon,  Long  Island,  and  had  prac- 
ticed his  profession  there.  He  was  supervisor  of  the  town  from 
April,  1893,  to  April,  1896,  and  was  referee  in  bankruptcy 
for  Suffolk  County  from  1899  to  1909,  and  surrogate  from 
1 9 10  to  1 91 6.  He  was  a  director  of  the  Babylon  National 
Bank  from  December,  1898,  to  January,  191 1.  He  was  a 
member  of  Christ  Episcopal  Church,  of  West  Islip,  and  had 
served  as  a  vestryman  and  warden. 

Mr.  Nicoll  died  suddenly,  of  pneumonia,  March  21,  1919, 
at  the  Peck  Memorial  Hospital,  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.  The  burial 
was  in  the  cemetery  of  Emmanuel  Church,  Great  River, 
Loiig  Island,  which  was  a  part  of  the  patent  granted  to  his 
ancestor,  William  Nicoll. 

He  was  twice  married.  His  first  marriage  took  place  on 
June  5,  1873,  in  New  Rochelle,  N.  Y.,  to  Phoebe  DeM., 
daughter  of  Thomas  and  Susan  (Penfield)  Disbrow,  who  died 
July  9,  1874,  leaving  one  daughter,  Phoebe  Disbrow,  who 
was  married  on  April  28,  1897,  to  George  Dart  Ashley,  of 
Camden,  N.  Y.,  and  has  one  child.  On  October  24,  1878,  he 
was  married  in  Elizabeth,  N.  J.,  to  Kate  Maurice,  daughter 
of  William  Hartwick  and  Mary  Spring  (Marsh)  Cornwell, 
who  survives  him.  There  were  two  daughters  by  the  second 
marriage:  Katharine,  who  married  William  Bridgman 
Churchman,  Jr.,  of  Philadelphia,  and  died  April  19,  1909, 
and  Dorothy,  who  was  married  on  September  24,  191 6,  to 
William  Haight  Hubert,  of  Bellport,  Long  Island,  and  sur- 
vives her  father. 

James  Whitin  Abbott,  B.A.  1868 

Born  August  29,  1846,  in  Whitinsville,  Mass. 
Died  January  22,  1919,  at  Clifton  Springs,  N.  Y. 

James  Whitin  Abbott  was  born  August  29, 1846,  in  Whitins- 
ville, Mass.  His  father,  Jacob  Jackson  Abbott,  was  the  son 
of  Jacob  and  Nancy  (Wesson)  Abbott,  and  was  descended 


i866-i868  895 

from  George  Abbott,  who  came  to  this  country  from  York- 
shire, England,  in  1640  and  in  1643  settled  at  Andover, 
Mass.  Jacob  J.  Abbott  was  a  graduate  of  Dartmouth  Col- 
lege in  1839  ^^^  of  Union  Theological  Seminary  in  1845  ^"^ 
in  1874  received  the  honorary  degree  of  D.D.  from  Bowdoin 
College,  of  which  he  was  a  trustee.  Until  after  the  close  of  the 
Civil  War,  he  was  superintendent  of  the  Washington  office 
of  the  Christian  Commission,  and  he  afterwards  filled  several 
New  England  pastorates.  He  was  considered  one  of  the  most 
learned  Hebrew  scholars  of  his  time.  The  mother  of  James 
W.  Abbott  was  Margaret  Fletcher  Whitin,  daughter  of  Col. 
Paul  Whiting,  the  founder  of  Whitinsville,  who  adopted  the 
present  form  of  the  family  name,  and  a  descendant  of  Nathan- 
iel Whiting,  of  whom  the  first  record  in  this  country  is  found 
in  Salem,  Mass.,  the  court  files  registering  him  as  a  land- 
holder at  Lynn  in  1638,  and  operator  of  the  first  cornmill 
at  Dedham,  Mass.,  in  1641.  In  1643  Nathaniel  Whiting  mar- 
ried Hannah  Dwight,  daughter  of  John  and  Hannah  Dwight, 
and  sister  of  Timothy  Dwight  of  Dedham. 

He  was  prepared  for  Yale  at  Phillips  Academy,  Andover, 
Mass.  He  received  first  dispute  appointments  both  Junior 
and  Senior  years  and  was  a  member  of  the  Junior  Promenade 
Committee.  The  two  years  following  graduation  were  spent 
in  the  Sheffield  Scientific  School  taking  the  course  in  civil 
engineering.  In  1870  he  received  the  degree  of  Ph.B.  and 
in  1871  that  of  M.A. 

In  October,  1871,  he  became  assistant  engineer  on  the 
Kings  County  Town  Survey,  Brooklyn," N.  Y.,  but  in  June, 
1872,  began  two  years  of  work  as  engineer  for  the  estate  of 
William  Walter  Phelps  in  Hackensack  and  Bergen  counties, 
N.  J.,  with  headquarters  at  Englewood.  In  January,  1875, 
he  and  his  brother,  Jacob  Jackson  Abbott  (Ph.B.  1872), 
established  the  firm  of  Abbott  Brothers  at  Lake  City, 
Colo.,  and  engaged  in  civil  and  mining  engineering  until  the 
financial  panic  of  1883,  which  resulted  in  ruin  for  the  Ab- 
bott camp.  In  May,  1885,  after  eighteen  months  in  the  East 
and  in  Kansas  City,  Mr.  Abbott  returned  to  Colorado  and 
took  charge  of  the  large  transportation  business  of  his 
brother-in-law,  David  Wood,  at  Ouray.  He  was  soon  ap- 
pointed clerk  of  the  District  Court  for  the  Seventh  Judicial 


896  YALE    COLLEGE 

District,  with  his  office  at  Ouray.  He  gave  up  his  connection 
with  his  brother-in-law's  interests  on  January  i,  1887,  and 
devoted  his  time  to  the  business  of  the  court  and  to  his  pro- 
fession until  1895,  although  in  1894  he  took  a  six  months' 
course  in  mining  at  the  University  of  California.  Elected 
manager  of  the  Ybarra  Gold  Mining  Company  of  Calenalli, 
Lower  California,  Mexico,  in  1895,  he  filled  this  position 
until  late  in  1896,  when  he  resumed  his  general  practice  as 
mining  engineer  in  California  and  Oregon,  returning  to  Colo- 
rado in  1899.  ^^om  August,  1900,  to  1905  he  was  special 
agent  for  the  United  States  Department  of  Agriculture, 
Highway  Division,  in  charge  of  the  Rocky  Mountain  and 
Pacific  Coast  branch.  In  this  work  he  won  a  national  repu- 
tation as  the  ''pioneer  good  roads  man"  of  the  West.  The 
reorganization  of  the  Government  road  work  in  1905  led 
to  his  return  to  the  practice  of  engineering.  For  the  six  years 
following  he  was  located  at  Pioche,  Nev.  In  191 2  he  moved 
to  Los  Angeles,  Calif.,  where  he  made  his  home  until  1916. 
He  was  a  member  of  the  American  Institute  of  Mining 
Engineers  and  of  the  Congregational  Church.  Among  his 
published  articles  were:  "The  Hydraulic  Elevator  in  Placer 
Mining"  {Engineering  and  Mining  Journal^  March,  1898); 
"Mountain  Roads,"  "Mountain  Roads  as  a  Source  of  Rev- 
enue," and  "The  Use  of  Mineral  Oil  and  Road  Construc- 
tion," published  in  the  Year  Books  of  the  U.  S.  Department 
of  Agriculture  for  1900,  1901,  and  1902,  respectively. 

While  in  San  Francisco  in  January,  1917,  Mr.  Abbott 
experienced  a  severe  sickness,  and  was  brought  to  Buffalo 
soon  after,  on  account  of  his  health.  He  was  an  irtvalid  un- 
til his  death  on  January  22,  191 9,  at  a  sanitarium  at  CHfton 
Springs,  N.  Y.  The  interment  was  in  the  family  lot  at  Pine 
Grove  Cemetery,  Whitinsville. 

He  was  married  in  Lake  City,  Colo.,  September  24,  1877, 
to  Florence,  daughter  of  Samuel  N.  and  Margaret  (Lyon) 
Wood,  who  survives  him.  Mrs.  Abbott  was  a  graduate  of 
Bethany  College,  Topeka,  Kans.,  in  1875.  Two  children  also 
survive  their  father:  Charles  Whitin  and  Ruth  Beatrice 
(B.A.  Wellesley  1904).  The  latter  was  married  June  20, 
1906,  to  Edward  H.  Letchworth,  of  Buffalo,  N.  Y.  Paul 


1868-1869  897 

W.  Abbott  (Ph.B.  1883)  is  a  brother.  One  brother,  Jacob  J. 
Abbott  (Ph.B.  1868),  died  in  1916,  and  another,  William 
W.  Abbott  (Ph.B.  1877),  in  1899. 

Horace  Adams  Hicks,  B.A.  1868 

Born  October  7,  1842,  in  Charlton,  Mass. 
Died  May  9,  1919,  in  Spencer,  Mass. 

Horace  Adams  Hicks,  son  of  Horace  P.  and  Susan  (Adams) 
Hicks,  was  born  October  7,  1842,  in  Charlton,  Mass.  His 
father,  who  was  engaged  in  the  manufacture  of  carriages,  was 
the  son  of  Solomon  Hicks  and  the  grandson  of  Samuel  and 
Elizabeth  Hicks.  His  mother  was  the  daughter  of  Rufus  and 
Susan  (Guilford)  Adams.  She  traced  her  descent  to  Samuel 
Bemis  and  David  Adams,  who  settled  at  Spencer,  Mass.,  in 
1721  and  1734,  respectively,  the  former  being  the  second 
settler  in  the  town. 

He  was  prepared  for  college  at  the  Worcester  (Mass.) 
High  School,  and  after  graduating  from  Yale  he  engaged  in 
the  manufacture  of  wagons  in  Spencer.  Several  years  later  he 
moved  to  Boston,  and  was  there  engaged  in  the  manufacture 
of  pianos.  In  1895  ^^  resumed  his  former  business  in  Spencer, 
and  his  death  occurred  there  on  May  9,  191 9,  after  an  illness 
of  a  few  days  due  to  heart  disease.  The  interment  was  in  the 
old  cemetery  in  Spencer. 

Mr.  Hicks  was  twice  married,  his  first  marriage  taking 
place  in  1873  to  Mrs.  Helen  J.  (Parker)  Caswell.  She  died 
June  26,  1881,  and  on  April  8,  1888,  he  was  married  to 
Josephine  A.  Green,  whose  death  occurred  June  19,  1916. 
One  daughter  by  his  first  marriage,  Mabel,  died  in  infancy, 
and  the  other,  Susan,  on  September  19,  191 5.  The  late  John 
W.  Hicks  (B.A.  1865)  was  a  cousin. 

James  Horn  Gilbert,  B.A.  1869 

Born  December  4,  1848,  in  New  York  City 
Died  July  28,  191 8,  in  Adanta,  Ga. 

James  Horn  Gilbert,  son  of  Jasper  Willett  and  Katharine 
Augusta  (Horn)  Gilbert,  was  born  December  4,  1848,  in  New 
York  City.  His  father,  who  was  the  son  of  Marinus  Willett 


898  YALE    COLLEGE 

and  Sarah  (Easton)  Gilbert,  was  a  prominent  lawyer  in 
Brooklyn  and  for  many  years  served  as  a  judge  of  the  Su- 
preme Court  of  New  York.  Members  of  the  Gilbert  family 
came  to  America  from  England  in  1660  and  settled  in  Hart- 
ford Colony.  James  H.  Gilbert's  maternal  grandparents 
were  James  and  Mary  (Thurston)  Horn.  His  mother's 
ancestors  settled  at  New  Amsterdam  in  the  eighteenth  cen- 
tury, having  come  to  this  country  from  Holland. 

After  preparing  for  college  under  Professor  J.  C.  Over- 
hiser  in  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.,  he  entered  Yale  with  the  Class  of 
1869.  He  spent  a  year  in  European  travel  after  graduation, 
and  entered  the  Columbia  Law  School  on  his  return  to  the 
United  States  in  October,  1870.  The  summer  of  187 1  was  also 
spent  abroad.  He  was  graduated  from  Columbia  with  the 
degree  of  LL.B.  in  1872  and  began  practice  in  the  office  of 
Butler,  Stillman  &  Hubbard  in  New  York  City.  He  later 
went  into  partnership  with  Alexander  Cameron  (B.A.  Yale 
1869)  in  that  city.  In  November,  1886,  his  health  having 
been  undermined  by  the  strain  of  his  New  York  practice,  he 
moved  to  Atlanta,  Ga.,  where  the  remainder  of  his  life  was 
spent  as  the  legal  representative  in  the  southern  district  of 
the  English-American  Loan  &  Trust  Company  and  of  the 
Mutual  Life  Insurance  Company  of  New  York.  For  some 
twenty  years  he  was  an  active  member  of  the  Georgia  Bar 
Association.  He  had  been  connected  with  enterprises  for  the 
upbuilding  of  Atlanta,  and  during  the  world  war  took  a 
prominent  part  in  the  Liberty  Loan  and  Red  Cross  drives. 

Mr.  Gilbert  died  July  28,  191 8,  at  his  home  in  Atlanta,  of 
heart  failure.  His  death  followed  a  short  illness.  The  inter- 
ment was  in  West  View  Cemetery,  Atlanta. 

His  first  marriage  took  place  on  December  27,  1887,  in 
Baltimore,  Md.,  to  Fanny  O.  Coulter,  by  whom  he  had  three 
children:  Jasper  Willett,  who  died  in  infancy;  William 
Thurston  (Ph.B.  Yale  1912),  who  saw  service  overseas  as  a 
First  Lieutenant  in  the  Infantry;  and  Margaret,  who  died  at 
the  age  of  two  years.  Mr.  Gilbert  was  married  a  second  time 
June  II,  1901,  in  Atlanta,  Ga.,  to  Jenny,  daughter  of 
Nathaniel  J.  and  Laura  F.  Hammond,  who  survives  him,  as 


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do  also  his  son  and  his  sister,  Miss  Ellen  G.  Gilbert,  of 
New  York.  He  was  a  brother  of  William  Thurston  Gilbert, 
of  the  Class  of  1878,  who  died  in  1909. 

William  Henry  Lawrence  Lee,  B.A.  1869 

Born  October  31,  1848,  in  New  York  City- 
Died  November  12,  191 8,  in  New  York  City- 
William  Henry  Lawrence  Lee  was  born  on  October  31, 
1848,  in  New  York  City,  the  son  of  Benjamin  Franklin  and 
Jane  Riker  (Lawrence)  Lee.  His  father  was  the  son  of  Dr. 
Daniel  Lee  and  Lydia  Ann  (Eliot)  Lee,  and  traced  his 
descent  to  Thomas  Lee,  who  emigrated  to  this  country  from 
England  in  1641  and  settled  in  Saybrook,  Conn.  His  mother's 
parents  were  Commodore  John  Lawrence  and  Patience 
(Riker)  Lawrence.  She  was  descended  from  Sir  Robert 
Laurens,  of  Ashton  Hall,  Lancaster,  England,  who  went  to 
Palestine  with  Richard  Coeur  de  Lion.  Her  grandfather, 
William  Lawrence,  lived  at  Newtown,  Long  Island. 

After  receiving  his  preparatory  training  at  Phillips- 
Andover,  he  entered  Yale  in  1865.  He  received  colloquy 
appointments  both  Junior  and  Senior  years. 

He  entered  the  Columbia  Law  School  in  the  fall  of  1869 
and  obtained  his  LL.B.  degree  in  1871.  On  May  19,  1871,  he 
was  admitted  to  the  bar,  and  after  six  months'  travel  in 
Europe,  became,  in  November  of  the  same  year,  managing 
clerk  in  the  office  of  Lee  &  Alvord  in  New  York  City.  He 
went  into  partnership  with  his  older  brother,  Benjamin 
Franklin  Lee,  in  May,  1875,  ^"^  ^  Y^^^  later  became  a  mem- 
ber of  the  firm  of  Turner,  Lee  &  McClure.  Upon  the  dissolu- 
tion of  this  partnership  on  February  i,  1888,  he  founded, 
with  his  brother,  the  firm  of  Lee  &  Lee,  but  withdrew  from  it 
June  I,  1 901,  and  had  since  practiced  alone.  He  was  president 
of  the  Pine  Tree  Realty  Company  and  a  pioneer  in  the  devel- 
opment of  Bar  Harbor,  Maine.  He  was  a  member  of  Calvary 
Protestant  Episcopal  Church  of  New  York  City. 

Mr.  Lee  died,  after  a  brief  illness  of  pneumonia,  at  his 
home  in  that  city,  November  12,  191 8.  The  interment  was 
in  Trinity  Cemetery. 


900  YALE    COLLEGE 

On  November  5,  1890,  he  married  Katharine  Milligan, 
daughter  of  James  Latimer  and  Fanny  King  McLane.  Two 
daughters  survive:  Ethel  McLane,  who  married  Richard 
Curzon  Hoffman,  Jr.,  and  Katharine  Lawrence.  A  son,  Wil- 
liam Lawrence,  died  September  13,  1896. 


Edward  Clarkson  Seward,  B.A.  1869 

Born  January  9,  1846,  in  Guilford,  Conn. 
Died  July  26,  1918,  in  New  Haven,  Conn. 

Edward  Clarkson  Seward,  son  of  Samuel  Lee  Seward,  a 
sea  captain,  and  Huldah  (Sanford)  Seward,  was  born  Jan- 
uary 9,  1846,  in  Guilford,  Conn.  His  father  was  the  son 
of  Timothy  and  Rebecca  (Lee)  Seward  and  was  descended 
from  Lieut.  William  Seward,  of  Bristol,  England,  who  settled 
at  Guilford  in  1655.  His  maternal  grandparents  were  Samuel 
and  Lucretia  (Chapman)  Sanford.  His  mother  was  descended 
from  Sacry  Sanford,  of  Saybrook,  Conn. 

He  was  prepared  for  college  at  the  Guilford  Institute. 
After  graduating  from  Yale,  he  taught  for  three  years  at 
Riverview  Military  Academy,  Poughkeepsie,  N.  Y.,  during 
part  of  this  period  being  vice  principal.  The  next  ten  years  he 
spent  as  an  instructor  in  mathematics  and  natural  science  at 
St.  John's  School,  Sing  Sing  (now  Ossining),  N.  Y.  He  had 
been  making  a  careful  study  of  practical  law  during  this  time, 
and  in  September,  1883,  he  began  to  practice  in  the  office  of 
Henry  A.  Seymour,  a  patent  solicitor  and  expert  of  Wash- 
ington, D.  C.  From  1886  to  1890  he  practiced  alone  in  Wash- 
ington, after  which  he  transferred  his  practice  to  New  York, 
where  he  entered  into  a  partnership  under  the  firm  name  of 
Brown  &  Seward.  His  professional  work  was  attended  with 
continuous  success.  After  his  retirement  about  ten  years  ago, 
he  returned  to  Guilford,  and  bought  *'Gablehurst"  for  his 
home.  He  took  an  active  interest  in  town  affairs,  becoming 
an  influential  member  of  the  town  school  board  and  serving 
as  secretary  and  treasurer  of  the  board  of  trustees  of  the 
Whitfield  State  Historical  Museum.  He  was  a  member  of  the 
Unitarian  Church. 
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1869-1870  9<^1 

from  blood-poisoning.  He  was  removed  to  the  New  Haven 
Hospital,  but  operations  were  of  no  avail,  and  his  death 
occurred  there  on  July  26,  191 8.  The  body  was  cremated  and 
the  ashes  buried  in  Alderbrook  Cemetery,  Guilford. 

He  was  married  on  July  2,  1870,  to  Ellen  S.,  daughter  of 
Andrew  and  Mary  (Norton)  Bacon,  who  died  May  9,  1872, 
leaving  one  son,  Robert  Bacon.  On  June  13,  1877,  his  second 
marriage  took  place  to  Sarah,  daughter  of  Joseph  and  Sarah 
(Everson)  Strang,  whose  death  occurred  June  19,  1893. 
They  had  three  children:  Edna  Strang,  who  is  now  Mrs. 
Robert  Curtis  Stevens,  of  Wallingford,  Conn.;  Emma  Stuart, 
who  died  March  17,  1910;  and  Edward  Clarkson  (B.A. 
Yale  1906;  LL.B.  New  York  Law  School  1907;  LL.M.  New 
York  Law  School  1908).  On  June  11,  1895,  M^-  Seward  wafe 
married  to  Mary  Grant  Saxton,  by  whom  he  had  three  chil- 
dren: Willard  Saxton,  a  member  of  the  Yale  Class  of  1923; 
Paul  Sanford,  who  is  preparing  for  college;  and  Wadsworth 
Rand,  who  died  April  16,  1906.  He  is  survived  by  his  wife, 
one  daughter,  and  four  sons. 


Nathan  Brov^n  Coy,  B.A.  1870 

Born  August  30,  1847,  i"  Ithaca,  N.  Y. 
Died  December  26,  1918,  in  Denver,  Colo. 

Nathan  Brown  Coy,  whose  parents  were  Edwin  Gustin 
and  Elizabeth  (Brown)  Coy,  was  born  at  Ithaca,  N.  Y., 
August  30,  1847.  I^is  father,  an  expert  mechanic  and  metal 
worker,  was  the  son  of  John  and  Betsey  (Howe)  Coy.  He  was 
of  Scotch-Irish  ancestry  on  the  paternal  side,  his  ancestors 
having  come  from  Londonderry,  Ireland,  to  Londonderry, 
N.  H.,  before  the  Revolution.  Their  descendants  have  lived 
for  many  years,  and  until  recently,  in  Hinsdale.  Betsey  Howe 
Coy  was  a  descendant  of  John  How,  who  perhaps  first  re- 
sided at  Watertown,  was  admitted  a  freeman  of  Sudbury 
May  13,  1640,  and  in  1642  was  marshal  and  one  of  the  town's 
selectmen.  In  May,  1656,  he  was  one  of  the  petitioners  for 
the  grant  which  constituted  Marlborough,  and  moved  to 
that  place  in  1657,  became  a  leading  citizen,  and  died  there, 
May  28,  1687.  He  was  the  son  of  John  How,  who  is  supposed 


902  YALE    COLLEGE 

to  have  lived  in  Hodinhull,  Warwickshire,  England;  and  was 
connected  with  the  family  of  Lord  Charles  How,  Earl  of 
Lancaster,  in  the  reign  of  Charles  L  Through  the  marriage 
of  Betsey  Howe's  great-grandfather,  Nehemiah  How  (1693- 
1747),  to  Margaret  Willard,  daughter  of  Capt.  Benjamin 
Willard,  Nathan  Coy  traced  his  descent  to  Major  General 
Simon  Willard,  who  had  command  of  the  First  Military 
Company  of  Concord  in  1637.  His  mother  was  the  daughter 
of  Nathan  Luce  and  Eliza  R.  (Corwin)  Brown. 

He  was  prepared  for  Yale  at  Williston  Seminary,  East- 
hampton,  Mass.  His  Junior  appointment  was  a  second  col- 
loquy. He  was  a  member  of  Linonia,  and  won  a  third  prize  in 
the  Linonia  Freshman  prize  debate. 

Mr.  Coy  spent  practically  his  whole  life  in  teaching;  at 
various  times,  however,  he  was  engaged  in  farming  in  Col- 
orado, in  an  endeavor  to  regain  his  health.  The  schools  at 
which  he  taught  in  the  years  immediately  following  his 
graduation  included  the  Prevost  French  Institute,  Fort 
Washington,  N.  Y.,  Hasbrouck's  Institute,  Jersey  City, 
N.  J.,  Hanover  College,  Hanover,  Ind.,  and  Betts  Military 
Academy,  Stamford,  Conn.  In  1873  he  received  the  degree 
of  M.A.  from  Hanover  College.  During  1875-76  he  held  an 
appointment  as  head  of  the  department  of  Latin  in  Phillips 
Academy,  Andover,  Mass.,  but  was  compelled  to  resign  this 
position  because  of  lung  trouble,  and  after  a  short  stay  in 
Bermuda  settled  in  Colorado.  In  1881  he  again  took  up 
teaching,  and  for  five  years  (1881-86)  was  head  of  the  de- 
partment of  classics  in  the  Denver  High  School.  In  1890 
he  was  elected  superintendent  of  public  instruction  of  the 
state  of  Colorado,  and  during  1891-92  he  served  also  as 
librarian,  ex  officio.  During  this  period  he  was  a  member  of 
the  Colorado  Board  of  World's  Fair  Managers  and  chief  of 
the  Educational  Exhibit,  and  a  member  of  the  board  of 
trustees  of  the  Colorado  State  Normal  School,  ex  officio.  He 
again  held  the  latter  position  by  gubernatorial  appointment 
from  1895  ^°  1901.  For  four  years  (1891-95)  he  was  editor 
of  the  Colorado  School  Journal  and  from  1893  to  1895  ^^^  its 
publisher  and  manager.  In  1892  he  served  as  president  of  the 
Colorado  State  Teachers'  Association,  the  Colorado  Center 
of  University  Extension,  and  the  State  Association  of  County 


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Superintendents  of  Schools.  In  this  year  he  published  the 
Eighth  Report  of  the  Department  of  Public  Instruction, 
Colorado,  for  the  two  years  ending  June,  1892.  He  was 
elected  first  president  of  the  Colorado  School  Masters'  Club 
in  1893,  and  in  the  same  year  delivered  in  Denver  an  address 
on  Child  Labor  and  Education  before  the  National  Associa- 
tion of  State  Labor  Commissioners.  From  1897  to  1901  he  was 
associate  professor  of  classics  in  Colorado  College  and  prin- 
cipal of  the  Preparatory  Department.  In  1902  he  was  prin- 
cipal of  the  San  Diego  (Calif.)  High  School,  and  in  that 
year  served  as  president  of  the  Classical  Conference  of  High 
Schools,  Colleges,  and  Universities,  held  in  southern  Cali- 
fornia. He  returned  to  Colorado  in  1904  and  afterwards 
managed  the  Denver  office  of  the  Fiske  Teachers'  Agencies. 
He  was  a  member  of  the  board  of  trustees  of  the  First  Con- 
gregational Church  of  Denver  from  1890  to  1895  and  its 
clerk  from  December,  1906,  until  his  death.  He  was  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Central  Cooperating  Committee  for  Northern 
Colorado  of  the  Laymen's  Missionary  Movement,  one  of  a 
local  committee  of  one  hundred  for  the  Men  and  Religion 
Forward  Movement  planned  for  191 1  and  191 2,  and  one  of  a 
board  of  five  trustees  of  the  Colorado  Association  of  Con- 
gregational Churches.  Other  organizations  with  which  he 
had  become  identified  in  recent  years  were  the  Denver  Phil- 
osophical Society  and  the  Colorado  State  Forestry  Asso- 
ciation. In  1885  he  was  president  of  the  Colorado  Yale 
Association,  of  which  he  was  a  charter  member. 

Mr.  Coy's  death  was  caused  by  pneumonia  and  occurred 
December  26,  191 8,  in  Denver,  after  a  five  days'  illness. 
Burial  was  in  Fairmount  Cemetery,  Denver. 

He  was  married  January  12,  1876,  in  New  Haven,  to  Helen 
Frances,  daughter  of  Ariel  Parish  (B.A.  1835)  ^^^  Anna 
(Woods)  Parish,  who  survives  him.  They  had  no  children. 
Mr.  Coy  was  a  brother  of  Edward  Gustin  Coy  (B.A.  1869) 
and  an  uncle  of  Sherman  L.  Coy  (B.A.  1901)  and  Edward 
H.  Coy  (B.A.  1910). 


904  YALE    COLLEGE 

Charles  Woodward  Gaylord,  B.A.  1870 

Born  August  28,  1846,  in  Wallingford,  Conn. 
Died  August  4,  191 8,  in  New  Haven,  Conn. 

Charles  Woodward  Gaylord  was  born  in  Wallingford, 
Conn.,  August  28,  1846,  his  parents  being  David  and  Bertha 
(Bartholomew)  Gaylord.  His  father  was  a  farmer  and  a 
descendant  of  Deacon  WiUiam  Gaylord,  one  of  five  settlers 
at  Windsor,  Conn.,  who  came  from  England  in  1630.  He  was 
the  son  of  John  and  Betsy  (Tuttle)  Gaylord.  Charles  Gay- 
lord's  mother  was  the  daughter  of  William  and  Hannah 
(Bronson)  Bartholomew  and  a  descendant  of  William 
Bartholomew,  who  came  to  Boston  in  the  ship  Grifin.  The 
latter  was  made  a  freeman  in  1634-35,  and  was  very  promi- 
nent in  aflfairs  in  Ipswich,  Mass. 

He  lived  on  his  father's  farm  until  he  was  eighteen  years  of 
age,  attending  a  district  school.  He  was  fitted  for  college  at 
the  Connecticut  Literary  Institute  at  Suffield,  and  graduated 
from  Yale  with  a  colloquy  stand.  In  college  he  was  a  mem- 
ber of  Linonia. 

The  two  years  following  graduation  were  spent  in  the 
study  of  medicine  at  Yale,  where  he  was  given  the  degree  of 
M.D.  in  July,  1872.  From  that  time  until  within  two  weeks 
of  his  death  he  practiced  his  profession  in  Branford,  Conn. 
He  had  always  taken  a  prominent  part  in  civic  affairs,  and 
had  served  as  a  member  of  the  Board  of  Education  and  the 
Board  of  Finance  and  as  president  of  the  board  of  trustees  of 
the  Blackstone  Memorial  Library.  He  belonged  to  the  Bran- 
ford  Congregational  Church.  Since  1900  he  had  served  as 
health  officer  and  medical  examiner,  and  in  1910  he  organ- 
ized the  Branford  Visiting  Nurse  Association,  of  which  he 
was  afterwards  the  president.  He  had  been  president  and 
secretary  of  the  New  Haven  County  Medical  Society,  and 
was  a  member  of  the  Connecticut  Medical  Society,  the 
American  Medical  Association,  and  the  National  Associa- 
tion for  the  Study  and  Prevention  of  Tuberculosis.  He  was 
also  a  director  and  member  of  the  medical  board  of  the  New 
Haven  County  Tuberculosis  Association,  which  controls 
the  Gaylord  Farm  Sanitarium,  located  at  his  old  home  in 
Wallingford. 


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He  died  suddenly,  after  an  operation  for  prostatectomy,  at 
the  New  Haven  Hospital  on  August  4,  191 8.  Interment  was 
in  Center  Cemetery,  Branford.  As  a  memorial  to  Dr.  Gay- 
lord,  a  health  center  has  been  established  in  the  town. 

He  was  married  February  27,  1873,  at  Essex  (now  Ivory- 
ton),  Conn.,  to  Anna  Pratt,  daughter  of  Asa  H.  and  Electa 
(Bushnell)  Rose.  She  died  February  19,  1916,  at  Branford. 
They  had  ten  children,  six  of  whom  survive  him:  Lynde 
Vincent;  Bertha  Rose;  Anna  Evangeline  (B.A.  Vassar 
1905);  Charles  William  (B.A.  i9ii,M.D.  1915),  who  served 
overseas  for  fourteen  months  as  a  First  Lieutenant  in  the 
Medical  Reserve  Corps;  Ruth  Marguerite,  who  was  mar- 
ried December  21,  191 8,  to  Gordon  Clarke  Swift  (B.A. 
1911);  Donald  David  (Ph.B.  1913,  M.F.  1915),  who,  after 
serving  abroad  with  the  loth  Engineers,  was  transferred  in 
the  spring  of  191 8  to  be  field  representative  of  the  Stars  and 
Stripes.  F.  St.  Clair  Dickinson  (B.A.  1906)  was  a  nephew 
of  Mrs.  Gaylord. 


Cassius  William  Kelly,  B.A.  1870 

Born  May  10,  1848,  in  Pleasantville,  Pa. 
Died  December  3,  191 8,  in  New  Haven,  Conn. 

Cassius  William  Kelly,  one  of  the  four  children  of  John 
and  Sarah  (Sigler)  Kelly,  was  born  May  10,  1848,  in  Pleas- 
antville, Pa.  Among  his  ancestors  were  a  number  of  promi- 
nent educators.  John  Kelly  was  a  business  man  living  suc- 
cessively at  Pleasantville,  at  Erie,  Pa.,  and  at  Titusville, 
Pa.,  his  home  at  the  time  of  his  death  in  1906.  He  was  the  son 
of  William  and  Mary  Kelly,  who  acquired  the  farm  at 
Kelly  Hill  by  actual  settlement  under  the  laws  of  Penn- 
sylvania. Sarah  (Sigler)  Kelly  was  the  daughter  of  Cornelius 
and  Margaret  Sigler. 

He  prepared  for  college  at  the  Erie  Academy,  and  entered 
Yale  with  the  Class  of  1869,  remaining  a  year.  After  teach- 
ing for  a  year,  he  joined  the  Class  of  1870  as  a  Sophomore. 
He  was  a  member  of  Phi  Beta  Kappa  and  Brothers  in 
Unity.  His  appointments  were  a  Junior  dissertation  and  a 
Senior  oration. 


9o6  YALE    COLLEGE 

He  taught  for  a  year  after  graduation  in  General  Russell's 
Collegiate  and  Commercial  Institute  in  New  Haven,  and 
then  took  a  course  in  engineering  in  the  Sheffield  Scientific 
School.  Immediately  after  receiving  the  degree  of  Ph.B. 
in  1872,  he  entered  the  City  Engineering  Department  of 
New  Haven,  with  which  he  was  connected  until  the  time  of 
his  death,  at  first  as  assistant  city  surveyor,  and  since  January 
18,  1893,  as  city  engineer.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Dwight 
Place  Congregational  Church,  New  Haven,  of  which  he  was 
for  several  years  clerk  and  deacon  and,  for  five  years,  a  mem- 
ber of  the  prudential  committee.  He  died  suddenly,  of  heart 
failure,  in  New  Haven,  December  3,  191 8,  and  was  buried  in 
Evergreen  Cemetery. 

Mr.  Kelly  was  married  October  2, 1876,  in  New  Haven,  to 
Frances  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  William  and  Milly  S.  (Lins- 
ley)  Hart.  She  and  two  of  their  daughters,  Miriam  Frances 
(B.A.  Mount  Holyoke  1908)  and  Elsie  Louise,  a  non-gradu- 
ate member  of  the  same  class,  who  was  married  June  20, 
1910,  to  Grey  Willis  Curtiss,  ex-o^  S.,  survive.  A  son,  Her- 
bert Cassius  (B.A.  1903),  died  February  4,  1909,  and  a 
daughter,  Myra  Linsley,  born  November  14,  1888,  died 
January  15,  1905. 


Henry  Pitt  Warren,  B.A.  1870 

Born  March  20,  1846,  in  Windham,  Maine 
Died  May  27,  1919,  in  Albany,  N.  Y. 

Henry  Pitt  Warren  was  born  March  20,  1846,  at  Wind- 
ham, Maine,  the  son  of  Rev.  William  Warren  and  Mary 
Hubbard  (Lamson)  Warren.  His  father,  who  received  the 
degrees  of  B.A.,  M.A.,  and  D.D.  from  Bowdoin  in  1837, 
1858,  and  1870,  respectively,  was  pastor  of  Congregational 
churches  in  Maine  and  Massachusetts  from  1839  to  1857, 
and  afterwards,  until  his  death  on  January  28,  1879,  ^^^^ 
secretary  of  the  American  Board  of  Foreign  Missions  for 
northern  New  England.  His  first  American  ancestor  was 
Arthur  Warren,  who  lived  in  Weymouth,  Mass.,  as  early  as 
1635.  Fifth  in  descent  from  the  original  settler  was  Lieut. 
William  Warren,  a  native  of  Littleton,  Mass.,  who  served  in 


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the  French  and  Indian  War  and  settled  in  Pepperell,  Mass., 
about  1760,  and  later  became  the  first  settler  of  Norridge- 
wock,  Maine.  The  latter's  son,  Major  Samuel  Warren,  of 
Pepperell,  an  early  settler  (1786)  of  Waterford,  Maine,  was 
the  grandfather  of  Henry  Pitt  Warren.  Mary  Lamson  War- 
ren, a  daughter  of  Capt.  Zachary  Gage  Lamson  and  Mary 
(Hubbard)  Lamson,  was  descended  from  William  Lamson, 
who  settled  in  Ipswich,  Mass.,  in  1637,  and  whose  descendants 
lived  there  for  four  generations  and  in  Beverly  for  two. 

Mr.  Warren  received  his  preparatory  training  at  Gorham 
Academy,  Maine,  and  at  Phillips  Academy,  Andover,  Mass. 
His  father,  an  uncle,  and  two  brothers  were  also  fitted  at 
Phillips-Andover.  He  entered  Amherst  College  in  1865  and 
remained  there  for  a  year,  then  joining  the  Yale  Class  of 
1869  as  a  Sophomore.  He  left  college  in  April,  1868,  and 
taught  for  a  year  in  Merrimac,  Mass.,  but  returned  to  Yale 
in  April,  1869,  as  a  member  of  the  Class  of  1870.  He  be- 
longed to  Brothers  in  Unity. 

Mr.  Warren's  life  had  been  devoted  to  teaching  in  second- 
ary schools.  From  September,  1870,  to  January,  1872,  he  was 
principal  of  the  Fifth  Street  Grammar  School,  New  Bedford, 
Mass.,  and  from  that  time  until  July,  1875,  ^^  was  principal 
of  the  Dover  (N.  H.)  High  School.  Ill  health  forced  him  to 
give  up  his  work  temporarily,  and  for  the  next  three  years 
he  lived  in  the  South,  much  of  the  time  in  a  sanitarium  in 
Asheville,  N.  C.  During  1878-79  he  was  superintendent  of  the 
schools  at  Dover,  N.  H.,  for  the  next  four  years  he  was 
principal  of  the  New  Hampshire  State  Normal  School  at 
Plymouth,  and  from  September,  1883,  to  January,  1887,  he 
taught  English  at  the  Lawrenceville  (N.  J.)  School.  He  then 
became  headmaster  of  The  Albany  Academy  at  Albany, 
N.  Y.,  and  served  in  this  capacity  until  his  death,  being 
very  successful  in  his  work.  In  May,  1913,  he  delivered  the 
historical  address  at  the  Centennial  exercises  of  the  academy. 
He  had  contributed  numerous  articles  to  newspapers  and 
other  periodicals,  was  the  author  of  "A  History  of  Water- 
ford,  Maine,"  published  in  1879,  and  in  1899  edited  "Stories 
from  English  History,"  for  use  in  schools.  He  was  a  trustee  of 
the  Albany  Institute  and  Historical  Society,  which  he  had 
helped  to  organize,  an  elder  in  the  State  Street  Presbyterian 


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Church,  and  a  member  of  the  Headmasters  Club.  He  received 
the  degree  of  L.H.D.  from  Rutgers  College  in  1892  and  from 
Williams  College  in  1908. 

He  died  May  27,  1919,  at  his  home  in  Albany  as  a  result  of 
an  affection  of  the  lung,  which  had  troubled  him  since  early 
manhood.  His  body  was  taken  to  Exeter,  N.  H.,  for  burial. 

Mr.  Warren  was  married  August  18,  1879,  to  Annie  Laurie, 
daughter  of  John  D.  and  Laura  P.  (Cass)  Lyman,  of  Exeter. 
She  survives  him  with  four  children:  Constance  (B.A. 
Vassar  1904,  M.A.  Columbia  1905);  Dorothy  Lyman,  a  stu- 
dent in  the  Yale  School  of  the  Fine  Arts  in  1905-06,  who  was 
married  on  September  6,  191 2,  to  Joseph  Charles  Andrews, 
of  New  York  City;  Samuel  (Ph.B.  191 1),  who  served  in 
France  with  the  3 2d  Engineers  for  more  than  a  year;  and 
Henry  Pitt,  Jr.  (B.A.  1913),  who  was  commissioned  a  Cap- 
tain in  1 9 17  and  spent  a  year  in  France  with  the  3 nth 
Infantry.  Another  son,  William,  died  in  infancy. 


Cornelius  Elting  Cuddeback,  B.A.  1871 

Born  March  10,  1849,  ^^  ^°^^  Jervis,  N.  Y. 
Died  September  18,  1918,  in  Port  Jervis,  N.  Y. 

Cornelius  Elting  Cuddeback,  whose  parents  were  Elting 
Cuddeback,  a  farmer,  and  Ann  Bevier  (Elting)  Cuddeback, 
was  born  March  10,  1849,  ^^  ^^^^  Jervis,  N.  Y.  His  father 
was  the  son  of  Benjamin  and  Blandina  (VanEtten)  Cudde- 
back and  a  descendant  of  Jacques  Caudebec,  a  French 
Huguenot  refugee,  who  came  to  the  United  States  previous  to 
1690  from  the  town  of  Caudebec  in  Normandy,  France,  and 
settled  on  land  which  became  part  of  the  town  of  Deerpark, 
N.  Y.,  for  which  he  and  others  obtained  a  patent  in  1690. 
Cornelius  Cuddeback's  maternal  grandparents  were  Rev. 
Cornelius  C.  Elting  and  Anna  Maria  (Bevier)  Elting.  His 
great-grandfather,  Philip  Bevier,  held  a  Captain's  com- 
mission in  the  Revolutionary  War.  His  mother's  ancestors 
came  from  France  and  Holland  and  settled  in  New  Paltz 
and  Hurley,  near  Kingston,  in  the  seventeenth  century. 

His  preparation  for  college  was  received  at  the  Mountain 


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House  Institute  in  his  native  town.  In  his  Sophomore  year 
at  Yale  he  received  prizes  in  English  composition.  He  was 
given  Junior  and  Senior  oration  appointments,  and  was  a 
member  of  Phi  Beta  Kappa. 

After  graduation  he  attended  the  Columbia  Law  School, 
teaching  at  the  same  time  in  private  schools  in  New  York 
City.  One  of  these  schools  was  the  Yale  Preparatory  School 
for  Boys.  Mr.  Cuddeback  received  the  degree  of  LL.B.  from 
Columbia  in  1873,  and  from  that  time  until  his  death  prac- 
ticed law  in  Port  Jervis.  He  enjoyed  a  large  practice,  engag- 
ing principally  in  corporation  law,  real  estate,  and  Surrogate 
Court  work.  He  was  a  member  of  the  New  York  State  Bar 
Association,  and  was  at  the  time  of  his  death  one  of  the 
oldest  members  of  the  Bar  of  Orange  County,  of  which  he 
was  one  of  the  organizers.  For  seventeen  years  prior  to, 
and  at  the  time  of  his  death,  he  was  associated  with  his  son, 
Samuel  M.  Cuddeback,  the  name  of  the  firm  being  C.  E. 
and  S.  M.  Cuddeback.  He  served  as  corporation  counsel  for 
the  village  of  Port  Jervis  for  ten  years,  and  for  a  long  time 
held  a  similar  position  in  the  town  of  Deerpark.  He  was 
attorney  for  the  receivers  of  the  Port  Jervis,  Monticello  & 
New  York  Railroad  Company  and  for  the  Port  Jervis  Water 
Works  Company,  and  an  officer  and  director  of  the  Barrett 
Bridge  Company,  the  First  National  Bank,  and  the  Port 
Jervis  Savings  and  Loan  Association  No.  i.  He  was  for 
several  years  president  of  the  Minisink  Valley  Historical 
Society,  holding  this  office  at  the  time  of  his  death.  In  1905 
he  took  a  six  weeks'  trip  abroad,  in  1908  he  spent  three 
months  in  foreign  travel  with  his  wife  and  daughter,  and  in 
1910  he  made  a  third  trip  with  his  wife.  He  was  a  member 
of  the  Deerpark  Reformed  Church  of  Port  Jervis,  and  for 
forty  years  served  as  an  elder  of  this  church,  of  which  his 
grandfather,  Cornelius  C.  Elting,  was  one  of  the  early 
pastors. 

He  died,  of  heart  trouble,  September  18,  1918,  in  Port 
Jervis,  and  was  buried  in  Laurel  Grove  Cemetery  in  that 
town. 

Mr.  Cuddeback  was  married  October  6,  1875,  ^^  Port 
Jervis,  to  Esther,  daughter  of  Rev.  Samuel  Wickham  Mills 
(B.A.  Rutgers  1838,  D.D.  Rutgers  1874)  and  Almeda  (Bailey) 


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Mills.  They  had  six  children:  Samuel  Mills  (B.A.  Rutgers 
1899,  M.A.Rutgers  1902)  ;Elting,  born  October  16, 1878,  died 
May  I,  1883;  Harry,  born  November  18,  1879,  ^^^^  October 
19,  1890;  Anna  Mills  (B.A.  Vassar  1902,  M.A.  Columbia 
1911);  Cornelius  Elting,  Jr.  (born  November  21,  1883,  died 
October  4,  1899);  and  Nellie  (born  August  4,  1887,  died 
February  7,  1888).  Mr.  Cuddeback  is  survived  by  his  wife 
and  two  children.  He  was  an  elder  brother  of  William  L. 
Cuddeback,  M.D.,  of  Port  Jervis. 


Alfred  Franklin  Henlein,  B.A.  1871 

Born  June  28,  1853,  in  Greenville,  Pa. 
Died  August  9,  191 8,  in  Greenville,  Pa. 

Alfred  Franklin  Henlein  was  born  in  Greenville,  Pa., 
June  28,  1853,  the  son  of  Benjamin  and  Emilie  (Ullman) 
Henlein.  Both  of  his  parents  were  born  in  Wiirttemburg,  Ger- 
many, and  came  to  this  country  in  September,  1852.  His 
father  was  a  merchant  and  farmer. 

He  received  his  preparatory  training  at  a  private  school  in 
Greenville.  In  Junior  year  he  was  awarded  a  first  colloquy 
appointment. 

After  graduating  from  Yale,  he  took  up  the  study  of  law 
in  his  native  town  and  in  1874  was  admitted  to  the  bar  of 
Mercer  County,  Pa.  He  practiced  law  in  Greenville  until 
January,  1896,  but  since  that  time  the  condition  of  his  health 
had  not  permitted  him  to  engage  actively  in  his  profession. 
From  1887  to  1896  he  was  one  of  the  general  counsel  for  the 
Pittsburgh,  Shenango  &  Lake  Erie  Railroad  Company.  He 
was  president  of  the  Greenville  National  Bank  from  1886  to 
1914  and  in  1894-95  served  as  a  national  bank  examiner  for 
Pennsylvania. 

He  died  August  9,  191 8,  in  Greenville,  after  an  illness  of 
four  years,  due  to  anaemia.  Interment  was  in  West  View 
Cemetery  at  Pittsburgh,  Pa. 

Mr.  Henlein  was  unmarried.  Surviving  him  are  three 
brothers  and  a  sister. 


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Frederick  Mead,  B.A.  1871 

Born  September  ii,  1848,  in  New  York  City- 
Died  November  6,  191 8,  in  Greenwich,  Conn. 

Frederick  Mead  was  born  in  New  York  City,  September  11, 
1848.  He  was  the  son  of  Frederick  and  Mary  Eliza  (Scribner) 
Mead  and  the  grandson  of  Darius  Mead  (B.A.  1807,  M.D. 
Pennsylvania  1809)  and  Lydia  K.  (Belcher)  Mead.  Darius 
Mead  served  in  the  Connecticut  State  Senate  in  1845  ^"d 
1846  and  in  the  latter  year  was  an  ex  officio  member  of  the 
Yale  Corporation.  His  ancestors  came  from  England  in  1640 
and  settled  in  Greenwich.  Frederick  Mead's  mother,  a  daugh- 
ter of  Samuel  and  Julia  (Ambler)  Scribner,  of  Baltimore,  Md., 
was  also  of  English  descent. 

He  was  prepared  for  college  under  Dr.  Benj  amin  W.  Dwight. 
He  received  first  colloquy  appointments  at  Junior  Exhibi- 
tion and  at  Commencement  and  was  a  member  of  the 
Beethoven  Society  and  of  Brothers  in  Unity.  He  was  cap- 
tain and  bow-oar  of  the  "gig-crew"  of  187 1. 

After  graduation  Mr.  Mead  joined  the  party  which  ac- 
companied Professor  Othniel  C.  Marsh  on  an  extended 
Western  tour  to  collect  fossil  remains  for  the  Peabody  Mu- 
seum of  Yale.  In  1874  he  received  the  degree  of  M.A.  from 
Yale.  From  1875  ^^^til  the  death  of  his  father  in  1898,  he  was 
a  partner  in  the  firm  of  Frederick  Mead  &  Company,  tea 
merchants,  during  which  time  he  also  acted  as  executor  for 
three  large  estates.  He  retired  from  active  business  in  1898. 
In  1884  ^^  was  elected  a  trustee  of  the  Importers'  and 
Grocers'  Exchange.  He  traveled  in  Europe  in  1891  and  again 
in  1 894.  In  1 892  he  was  foreman  of  the  grand  jury  which  made 
the  presentation  against  the  New  York  Police  Department. 
He  was  a  member  of  the  Presbyterian  Church. 

He  died  at  his  summer  home  in  Greenwich,  Conn.,  Novem- 
ber 6,  191 8,  after  an  illness  of  several  months  due  to  cancer, 
and  was  buried  in  Putnam  Cemetery,  Greenwich.  After 
absolute  gifts  aggregating  about  $180,000,  he  left  life  estates 
aggregating  $150,000,  and  gave  all  the  residue  of  his  estate, 
including  the  remainders  of  the  life  estates,  to  Yale  Uni- 
versity. The  executors  of  his  estate  have  already  turned  over 


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to  the  University  upwards  of  $160,000  and  have  stated  that 
substantial  further  payments  will  be  made,  in  addition  to 
the  principal  of  the  life  estate  trust  funds. 

On  October  10,  1898,  he  was  married,  in  Stamford,  Conn., 
to  Mrs.  Mary  Ellen  (Hill)  Bowman,  daughter  of  Charles 
Sumner  and  Harriet  A.  (Wainwright)  Hill,  of  Boston,  Mass., 
and  widow  of  Francis  C.  Bowman.  She  died  June  8,  1917. 
They  had  no  children.  Mr.  Mead  is  survived  by  a  sister, 
three  stepdaughters,  and  a  stepson. 


Erastus  Ely  Case,  B.A.  1872 

Born  May  28,  1847,  ^^  Canton,  Conn. 
Died  October  27,  1918,  in  Windsor,  Conn. 

Erastus  Ely  Case  was  the  son  of  Norton  and  Eliza  (Case) 
Case,  and  was  born  May  28,  1847,  in  Canton,  Conn.  His 
parents  were  both  descendants  in  the  seventh  generation  of 
John  and  Sarah  (Spencer)  Case,  who  were  among  the  first 
settlers  of  Simsbury,  Conn.  His  father,  who  was  the  son  of 
Noah  and  Olive  Case,  was  a  farmer.  He  held  various  town 
offices,  and  was  a  representative  in  the  State  Legislature. 
His  wife  was  the  daughter  of  Anson  and  Rachel  Case. 

Erastus  Ely  Case  was  fitted  for  college  at  Williston  Semi- 
nary, Easthampton,  Mass.  At  Yale  he  won  a  prize  for  excel- 
lence in  mathematics  Freshman  year.  His  appointments 
were  a  Junior  oration  and  a  Senior  dispute. 

He  began  the  study  of  medicine  in  his  Senior  year  at  Yale, 
and  completed  his  medical  course  at  the  New  York  Homeo- 
pathic Medical  College,  where  he  received  the  degree  of  M.D. 
in  1874.  He  practiced  medicine  in  Rockville,  Conn.,  until 
February,  1875,  when  he  moved  to  Hartford,  Conn.  In  Feb- 
ruary, 1900,  he  settled  in  Windsor,  Conn.,  although  retaining 
his  office  in  Hartford.  He  was  president  of  the  Connecticut 
Homeopathic  Medical  Society  during  1888-89,  and  from 
1895  ^^  1900  served  as  secretary  of  the  International  Hahne- 
m^nnian  Association,  of  which  in  1900  he  was  made  presi- 
dent. He  held  the  latter  office  for  a  year.  He  had  contributed 
articles  to  various  medical  journals,  several  of  which  were 
reprinted  in   German  publications.  At  the  request  of  his 


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associates  in  the  Hahnemannian  Association,  some  of  his 
articles  contributed  to  the  society  were  gathered  into  book 
form  and  published  in  191 5,  under  the  title,  "Clinical  Ex- 
periences." This  book  had  a  wide,  though  not  a  large,  circu- 
lation among  the  profession  and  won  much  approval  from 
his  associates  in  homeopathic  practice.  Dr.  Case  was  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Fourth  Congregational  Church  of  Hartford,  and 
later  of  the  Windsor  Congregational  Church. 

His  death  occurred  October  27,  191 8,  at  his  home  in 
Windsor,  and  was  caused  by  influenza  and  pneumonia.  He 
was  buried  in  Cedar  Hill  Cemetery,  Hartford. 

Dr.  Case  was  first  married  October  14,  1874,  in  East 
Granby,  Conn.,  to  Sarah  Maria,  daughter  of  James  Monroe 
and  Katharine  (Phelps)  Griswold.  She  died  January  15, 
1883.  He  was  married  a  second  time,  February  24,  1886,  in 
Hartford,  to  Mrs.  Emorette  (Case)  Holcomb,  widow  of 
Edward  Holcomb,  and  daughter  of  Everett  and  Emily 
(Haskins)  Case.  By  his  first  marriage  Dr.  Case  had  three 
children:  Herbert  Monroe  (B.S.  Massachusetts  Institute 
of  Technology  1899),  Helen  Eliza,  and  Clarence  Norton, 
who  studied  at  the  Connecticut  Agricultural  College  during 
1898-99.  He  had  one  son  by  his  second  marriage,  Everett 
Erastus  (Ph.B.  191 1). 


Ralph  Reamer  Rickly,  B.A.  1872 

Born  January  20,  1 851,  in  Tarlton,  Ohio 
Died  January  16,  1919,  in  Columbus,  Ohio 

Ralph  Reamer  Rickly  was  born  January  20,  1851,  in 
Tarlton,  Ohio,  the  son  of  Samuel  Strasser  and  Maria  M. 
(Reamer)  Rickly.  His  father,  who  was  born  in  Biitzberg, 
Canton  of  Berne,  Switzerland,  was  the  son  of  John  Jacob 
Rickli,  postmaster  of  his  native  Swiss  village,  and  Anna 
Strasser,  both  presumably  descendants  of  William  Tell  and 
the  Helvetii.  Samuel  Strasser  Rickly  was  a  graduate  of 
Marshall  College  in  1843.  ^^  was  a  minister,  teacher,  and 
banker  in  Columbus,  Ohio,  and  one  of  the  founders,  and 
first  president,  of  Heidelberg  University,  Tiffin,  Ohio.  Maria 
(Reamer)   Rickly  was   the   daughter  of  Henry  Reamer,   a 


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farmer,  and  Dorothy  Elizabeth  (Tritle)  Reamer.  At  least 
one  of  her  ancestors  fought  under  General  Washington  during 
his  entire  campaign. 

He  was  fitted  for  college  at  the  Columbus  High  School. 
He  spent  his  entire  life,  after  graduating  from  Yale,  in  Col- 
umbus, at  first  in  the  Capital  City  Bank  as  bank  teller  and 
bookkeeper  for  his  father.  He  was  also  a  notary  public  at 
that  time.  Later  he  was  cashier  of  the  Capital  City  Bank, 
and  secretary  of  the  Glenwood  &  Greenlawn  Street  Railway 
Company,  and  since  1905  he  had  been  president  of  the 
Capital  City  Bank.  He  devoted  considerable  time  to  the 
study  and  practice  of  Masonry,  and  was  signally  honored  by 
local,  state,  and  national  bodies.  He  had  traveled  somewhat 
in  Europe  and  very  extensively  in  America.  Mr.  Rickly  was 
color  bearer  of  the  Governor's  Guard,  Ohio  National  Guard, 
from  1877  to  1880. 

He  died  January  16,  1919,  at  his  home  in  Columbus,  and 
was  buried  in  Greenlawn  Cemetery.  Death  was  due  to 
paralysis  and  followed  an  illness  of  three  weeks. 

He  was  married  December  i,  1909,  in  Columbus,  to  Ida 
Virginia,  daughter  of  Jeremiah  and  Sarah  (Reamer)  Harri- 
son, of  Chambersburg,  Pa.  They  had  no  children.  His  wife 
survives  him. 


William  Oscar  Buck,  B.A.  1873 

Born  October  26,  1849,  i"  Bucksport,  Maine 
Died  February  17,  1919,  in  Neosho,  Mo. 

William  Oscar  Buck,  son  of  Joseph  L.  and  Harriet  (Bart- 
lett)  Buck,  was  born  October  2,6,  1849,  ^^  Bucksport,  Maine. 
His  father,  who  was  the  son  of  Joseph  and  Abigail  (Hill) 
Buck,  his  grandfather,  and  his  great-grandfather,  all  lived 
and  died  near  Bucksport,  shipbuilding  being  their  chief  busi- 
ness. Among  their  early  American  ancestors  were  William 
Buck,  who  came  to  this  country  in  1635,  ^^^  ^^^-  Jonathan 
Buck,  the  founder  of  Bucksport.  Harriet  Bartlett  Buck 
was  the  daughter  of  Thomas  and  Elizabeth  (Fitz)  Bartlett, 
who  came  from  Newburyport,  Mass.,  and  made  their  home 
in  Bangor,  Maine,  when  it  was  still  a  wilderness. 


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He  received  his  preparatory  training  at  the  East  Maine 
Conference  Seminary  in  Bucksport.  He  was  awarded  a  second 
mathematical  prize  Freshman  year,  and  a  third  in  his  Sopho- 
more year.  He  received  a  first  colloquy  appointment  at 
Junior  Exhibition  and  at  Commencement. 

Mr.  Buck  entered  the  Yale  School  of  Law  in  February, 
1874,  and  received  the  degree  of  LL.B.  in  1875.  In  October 
of  that  year  he  was  admitted  to  the  Maine  Bar,  and  after- 
wards practiced  his  profession  for  some  years  in  Bucksport, 
but  devoted  his  attention  chiefly  to  farming  and  fish  propa- 
gation. In  September,  1886,  he  was  appointed  clerk  of  the 
U.  S.  Fish  Commission,  nominally  stationed  in  Washington, 
but  actually  at  East  Orland,  Maine,  attached  to  the  Penob- 
scot Salmon  Breeding  Establishment.  He  removed  from 
Bucksport  to  Grand  Lake  Stream  in  1905.  In  1909  he  was 
put  in  charge  of  the  station  at  Neosho,  Mo.,  and  until  his 
death  continued  to  hold  the  position  of  superintendent. 
Mr.  Buck  was  the  author  of  the  following  articles  written  for 
the  American  Fisheries  Society:  **The  Fishway  at  Grand 
Lake  Stream,"  "Details  of  Salmon  Culture,"  'Tike-perch 
Notes  and  Suggestions,"  "Controlling  the  Movements  of 
Fish,"  and  "Fishways  for  the  Rank  and  File." 

His  death  occurred  February  17,  191 9,  at  his  home  in 
Neosho,  after  an  illness  of  two  days,  due  to  acute  stomach 
trouble.  His  body  was  taken  to  his  native  town  for  burial  in 
Silver  Lake  Cemetery. 

He  was  married  in  New  Haven,  Conn.,  June  29,  1874,  to 
Cecilia  A.,  daughter  of  Adolphus  and  Augusta  (Nedermann) 
Laue.  They  had  eight  children:  Evelyn  M.  (B.A.  Wellesley 
1900);  Alice  (born  September  2,  1876;  died  September  9, 
1876);  Florence  Emily,  a  student  at  Syracuse  University 
during  1900-01,  who  received  a  B.A.  degree  at  the  Univer- 
sity of  Maine  in  1904,  and  who  was  married  August  5,  1913, 
to  Robert  Irving  Adriance,  of  Winchester,  Mass.;  Henry 
Alfred  (B.S.  University  of  Maine  1902);  Cecil  (born  April 
24,  1882;  died  April  27,  1882);  Margaret  (born  October  22, 
1883;  died  January  23,  1884);  Winifred  Olive,  who  was  a 
student  at  Syracuse  University  from  1906  to  1908  and  who 
served  for  some  months  with  the  Red  Cross  in  France;  and 
Harriet  Josephine,  who  studied  at  Smith   College  during 


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1908-09  and  took  her  B.A.  at  Syracuse  University  in  1913. 
Besides  his  wife,  one  son,  and  four  daughters,  Mr.  Buck  is 
survived  by  four  grandchildren  and  a  sister. 


Samuel  Train  Dutton,  B.A.  1873 

Born  October  16,  1849,  ^^  Hillsboro  Bridge,  N.  H. 
Died  March  28,  1919,  in  Adantic  City,  N.  J. 

Samuel  Train  Dutton,  whose  parents  were  Jeremiah 
Dutton,  a  farmer,  and  Rebecca  H.  (Train)  Dutton,  was  born 
October  16,  1849,  ^^  Hillsboro  Bridge,  N.  H.  His  father  was 
the  son  of  Jeremiah  and  Betsy  (Baker)  Dutton.  The  Duttons 
came  from  Chester,  England,  to  Billerica,  Mass.,  and  went 
as  pioneers  into  New  Hampshire,  settling  in  Hillsboro. 
Samuel  Dutton's  mother  was  the  daughter  of  Ephraim  Train, 
a  farmer,  and  Eunice  (Wood)  Train. 

He  received  his  preparation  for  college  at  the  New  London 
Literary  and  Scientific  Institute  (now  Colby  Academy),  New 
London,  N.  H.  He  shared  the  third  prize  in  the  Linonian 
Freshman  Debate.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Glee  Club  and 
its  president  Senior  year. 

For  several  years  after  graduating  from  Yale  Mr.  Dutton 
served  as  superintendent  of  the  schools  of  South  Norwalk, 
Conn.,  and  in  1878  he  became  principal  of  the  Eaton  Gram- 
mar School  in  New  Haven.  From  1882  to  1890  he  was  super- 
intendent of  schools  in  New  Haven  and  during  this  time 
instituted  various  educational  reforms.  He  gained  many 
ideas  helpful  to  his  work  from  a  trip  to  California  in  1886, 
and  a  trip  to  Europe  the  following  year.  In  1 890  he  accepted 
the  superintendency  of  the  schools  of  Brookline,  Mass., 
and  served  in  this  capacity  for  the  next  ten  years,  bringing 
the  schools  to  a  high  state  of  efficiency.  He  was  one  of  the 
charter  members  of  the  Twentieth  Century  Club  in  Boston 
and  served  as  chairman  of  its  educational  department.  He 
was  prominent  in  establishing  Saturday  morning  lectures  on 
education  and  kindred  themes,  and  in  1896  was  appointed 
lecturer  in  pedagogy  at  Harvard.  In  September,  1900,  he 
became  professor  of  educational  administration  and  super- 
intendent of  schools  at  Teachers  College,  Columbia  Uni- 


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versity,  and  acted  in  this  capacity  until  191 5,  when  he  was 
made  professor  emeritus.  He  had  also  lectured  at  Harvard, 
Chicago,  Boston,  and  Baylor  universities  and  before  educa- 
tional societies  on  topics  connected  with  education.  In  19 10 
he  was  exchange  professor  to  the  Scandinavian  universities 
at  Christiania,  Upsala,  and  Copenhagen,  lecturing  several 
times  at  each  institution  on  American  education.  He  had 
published  a  number  of  books  and  magazine  articles  on  edu- 
cational subjects.  Among  his  books  are  ''Social  Phases  of 
Education"  (1899),  being  essays  selected  from  lectures  given 
at  Harvard,  Chicago,  and  Boston  universities  and  at  Vassar 
College,  "School  Management,"  and  "The  Administration  of 
Public  Education  in  the  United  States."  Of  the  last  named 
work  he  was  joint  author  with  his  colleague.  Professor  David 
S.  Snedden.  He  prepared  the  Morse  speller,  and  edited  a 
series  of  historical  readers:  "Indians  and  Pioneers,"  "The 
Colonies,"  and  others.  He  was  associate  editor  of  Christian 
Worky  and  author  of  a  pamphlet  on  "American  Education 
in  the  Turkish  Empire,"  reprinted  from  the  Journal  of  Race 
Development  for  January,  191 1.  From  1909  until  his  death  he 
was  trustee  and  managing  director  of  the  Wheeler  School 
and  Library  at  North  Stonington,  Conn.,  and  until  1912  he 
served  on  the  board  of  trustees  of  the  Choate  School,  Wal- 
lingford.  Conn.  He  was  trustee  and  treasurer  of  the  American 
College  for  Girls  at  Constantinople,  and  a  trustee  of  the  Can- 
ton (China)  Christian  College,  the  Asiatic  Institute,  and  the 
American  Scandinavian  Foundation.  He  was  honorary  sec- 
retary of  the  Japan  Society  from  its  foundation.  In  1900 
he  received  an  honorary  M.A.  from  Yale,  and  in  191 2  Bay- 
lor University  conferred  the  degree  of  LL.D.  upon  him. 
For  many  years  Dr.  Dutton  was  interested  in  the  perma- 
nent establishment  of  peace.  In  1906  he  was  secretary  of 
the  New  York  Peace  Society  and  in  1907  chairman  of  the 
executive  committee  of  the  National  Arbitration  and  Peace 
Congress.  He  spent  two  weeks  at  The  Hague  during  the 
second  Hague  Conference,  and  attended  the  i6th  Interna- 
tional Peace  Conference  at  Munich.  In  19 10  he  was  elected 
a  member  of  the  executive  committee  of  the  Berne  Bureau  of 
Universal  Peace.  He  was  executive  secretary  of  the  World's 
Court  League,  and  a  member  of  the  International  Com- 


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mittee  on  the  Balkan  War  in  19 13.  During  the  last  four  years 
of  his  life  he  was  actively  identified  with  the  American  Com- 
mittee for  Armenian  and  Syrian  Relief,  of  which  he  was  one 
of  the  organizers, — at  first  as  secretary,  and  later  as  chair- 
man of  the  executive  committee  and  vice  chairman  of  the 
International  Committee.  Dr.  Dutton  had  made  many  ex- 
tensive trips  through  Europe  and  the  Orient.  Since  1914 
his  home  had  been  at  Hartsdale,  N.  Y. 

He  died  very  suddenly  March  28,  191 9,  at  Atlantic  City, 
N.  J.  He  had  been  suffering  from  heart  trouble  for  several 
weeks.  Interment  was  in  Putnam  Cemetery  at  Greenwich, 
Conn.  A  memorial  service  for  Dr.  Dutton  was  held  in  the 
Horace  Mann  Auditorium  at  Teachers  College  on  April  24. 

He  was  married  on  October  8,  1874,  in  New  Haven,  to 
Cornelia  C,  daughter  of  John  G.  and  Elizabeth  (Dickinson) 
North.  She  survives  him  with  their  two  adopted  daughters: 
Lillian,  whose  marriage  to  Arthur  O.  Christensen,  who 
studied  at  Harvard  from  1902  to  1905  and  received  the 
degree  of  B.S.  from  the  Massachusetts  Institute  of  Tech- 
nology in  1 910,  took  place  April  24,  1920,  and  Maude 
Barrows,  who  was  married  April  12,  1909,  to  Rev.  Frederick 
Lynch,  D.D.  (B.A.  1894). 


Henry  Baldwin,  B.A.  1874 

Born  July  24,  1850,  in  Central  Village,  Conn. 
Died  November  28,  191 8,  in  Canterbury,  Conn. 

Henry  Baldwin  was  born  July  24,  1850,  in  Central  Village, 
Conn.,  the  son  of  Elijah  Baldwin  (B.A.  1841,  M.D.  Harvard 
1845)  ^"d  Sarah  Harris  (Mathewson)  Baldwin.  His  father, 
who  was  the  only  son  of  Elijah  Baldwin  (Honorary  M.D. 
1827)  and  Hannah  (Burnham)  Baldwin,  practiced  medicine 
in  Canterbury,  Conn.,  where  his  father  in  turn  had  practiced 
for  over  fifty  years.  Henry  Baldwin's  mother  was  the  daughter 
of  Bucklin  Mathewson,  who  traced  his  ancestry  to  James 
Mathewson,  who  settled  at  Providence,  R.  I.,  about  1658, 
and  Cifuentes  (Battey)  Mathewson,  one  of  whose  ancestors 
was  Judge  William  West,  a  Brigadier  General  in  the  Rev- 
olutionary War. 


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I 873-1 874  919 

He  graduated  from  Phillips  Academy,  Exeter,  N.  H.,  in 
1870,  and  entered  Yale  in  September,  1 871,  as  a  Sophomore. 
He  won  a  Berkeley  Premium  for  excellence  in  Latin  com- 
position that  year.  His  appointments  were  a  Junior  disser- 
tation and  a  Senior  dispute. 

After  graduating  he  began  the  study  of  medicine  with  his 
father,  but  was  soon  forced  to  abandon  this  work  because  of 
deafness,  from  which  he  had  suffered  since  childhood.  He 
took  up  farming  in  Canterbury  on  land  held  by  his  family  for 
more  than  two  hundred  years.  At  one  time  he  was  a  large 
trader  in  cattle.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Prohibition  Party 
and  a  worker  in  that  cause.  He  was  also  a  member  of  the 
American  Free  Trade  League,  and  was  actively  associated 
with  David  A.  Wells,  taking  the  stump  for  him,  when  Wells 
was  a  candidate  for  Congress  from  the  old  Third  Connecti- 
cut District.  He  belonged  to  the  Newent  Congregational 
Church  of  Lisbon,  Conn. 

His  death  occurred  at  his  home  in  Canterbury,  November 
28,  191 8,  as  the  result  of  cardio-nephritis.  Interment  was  in 
Canterbury. 

Mr.  Baldwin  had  never  married.  Surviving  him  are  his 
brother,  Abram  Baldwin,  and  three  sisters,  Mrs.  Sarah 
Baldwin  Hadley,  Miss  Lucy  Baldwin,  and  Dr.  Helen  Baldwin. 


Edward  Alexander  Bouchet,  B.A.  1874 

Born  September  15,  1852,  in  New  Haven,  Conn. 
Died  October  28,  1918,  in  New  Haven,  Conn. 

Edward  Alexander  Bouchet,  whose  parents  were  William 
Francis  and  Susan  (Cooley)  Bouchet,  was  born  September 
15,  1852,  in  New  Haven,  Conn.  His  father  was  born  in  New 
Haven  in  18 17,  and  his  mother,  who  was  the 'daughter  of 
Asher  and  Jane  (Drake)  Cooley,  was  born  in  Westport, 
Conn. 

He  was  fitted  for  college  at  the  Hopkins  Grammar  School 
in  New  Haven.  At  Yale  he  received  a  Junior  high  oration 
and  a  Senior  philosophical  oration  appointment,  and  was 
elected  to  Phi  Beta  Kappa.  He  ranked  sixth  in  his  Class  at 
graduation. 


920  YALE    COLLEGE 

In  the  fall  of  1874  he  returned  to  Yale  for  graduate  work  in 
experimental  physics,  calculus,  chemistry,  and  mineralogy, 
and  in  1876  received  the  degree  of  Ph.D.  During  the  next 
twenty-six  years  he  taught  physics  and  chemistry  in  the 
Institute  for  Colored  Youth  in  Philadelphia,  Pa.  From 
September,  1902,  to  November,  1903,  he  was  connected  with 
the  Sumner  High  School  in  St.  Louis,  Mo.,  as  teacher  of 
physics  and  mathematics.  He  was  business  manager  of  the 
Providence  Hospital,  a  private  hospital  located  in  that  city, 
from  November,  1903,  to  May,  1904,  and  during  the  next 
year  was  U.  S.  Inspector  of  Customs  at  the  Louisiana  Pur- 
chase Exposition  in  St.  Louis,  stationed  at  Ceylon  Court. 
From  October,  1906,  to  June,  1908,  he  was  director  of  aca- 
demics at  the  St.  Paul  Normal  and  Industrial  School  at 
Lawrenceville,  Va.,  and  in  September,  1908,  he  became 
principal  of  the  Lincoln  High  School  at  Gallipolis,  Ohio. 
He  was  a  member  of  the  Franklin  Institute  and  of  the 
American  Academy  of  Political  and  Social  Science.  In  1883 
he  was  elected  a  vestryman  of  St.  Thomas'  Church,  Phila- 
delphia, and  in  1889  became  secretary  of  the  vestry. 

He  died  at  his  home  in  New  Haven,  October  28,  191 8, 
after  an  illness  of  six  weeks  due  to  high  blood  pressure,  and 
was  buried  from  St.  Luke's  Protestant  Episcopal  Church  in 
that  city.  Interment  was  in  the  family  plot  in  Evergreen 
Cemetery. 

Mr.  Bouchet  was  unmarried.  He  is  survived  by  his  mother, 
two  sisters,  Mrs.  Fanny  Bouchet  Turner  and  Miss  Georgie 
Bouchet,  and  two  nephews. 


John  Green  Brady,  B.A.  1874 

Born  May  25,  1848,  in  New  York  City 
Died  December  17,  191 8,  in  Sitka,  Alaska 

John  Green  Brady,  son  of  James  and  Catherine  Brady, 
was  born  May  25,  1848,  in  New  York  City.  His  mother  died 
when  he  was  very  young,  and  his  father  later  married  again. 
He  ran  away  from  home,  and  when  eight  years  old  was  taken 
to  Randall's  Island,  where  he  was  sent  to  school.  In  August, 
1859,  he  was  sent  by  the  Children's  Aid  Society,  with  twenty- 


1874  9^1 

six  other  children,  to  Noblesville,  Ind.,  and  was  taken  by  Mr. 
John  Green,  at  that  time  a  state  senator,  to  his  farm  near 
Tipton,  Ind.,  and  put  to  work.  He  remained  with  his  foster 
father  until  1867,  when  he  obtained  a  position  as  school- 
master at  the  Fairbanks  School  at  Mud  Creek,  about  two 
miles  from  Sharpsville,  Ind.  He  received  his  preparatory- 
training  at  the  Waveland  (Ind.)  Collegiate  Institute.  He 
worked  his  way  through  college,  receiving  some  aid  from  a 
friend. 

In  the  fall  of  1874  Mr.  Brady  entered  Union  Theological 
Seminary,  where  he  was  graduated  in  1877.  He  spent  the 
summer  of  1875  °^  ^^^  ocean  and  in  London,  England. 
During  his  seminary  course  he  took  an  active  interest  in  city 
missionary  work.  In  the  summer  of  1877  he  went  to  Texas, 
where  he  selected  a  tract  of  land  of  seventeen  hundred  acres 
on  the  Prazos  River,  to  be  used  as  a  training  farm  for  boys  of 
the  streets,  from  twelve  to  sixteen  years  of  age,  but  lack  of 
funds  forced  him  to  abandon  this  project.  On  March  13, 
1878,  he  arrived  in  Sitka,  Alaska,  to  take  up  work  under  the 
Presbyterian  Board  of  Home  Missions.  After  laboring  for  a 
short  time  among  the  Indians,  he  concluded  that  the  most 
effective  way  to  convert  the  natives  to  Christianity  would  be 
to  couple  the  religious  instruction  with  industrial  aid  and 
training,  but  these  methods  were  not  approved  by  the  board, 
and  in  1880  he  severed  his  relations  with  it.  He  later  put  into 
effect  the  theory  which  had  caused  the  rupture  with  the 
missionary  board  and  established  sawmills  and  opened  schools 
at  Sitka.  From  1884  to  1889  he  was  U.  S.  Commissioner  to 
Alaska,  and  also  held  the  position  of  manager  of  the  Sitka 
Trading  Company.  He  was  appointed  Governor  of  Alaska  in 
1897  by  President  McKinley.  He  received  his  second  ap- 
pointment from  McKinley,  and  his  third,  in  1905,  from 
President  Roosevelt.  In  1906  he  resigned  as  governor  and 
gave  his  attention  to  mining.  He  became  interested  in  the 
plans  of  Mr.  H.  D.  Reynolds  of  Boston  for  the  development 
of  Alaska,  and  invested  all  his  money  in  the  enterprise.  On 
October  11,  1907,  it  was  announced  that  the  Reynolds  Bank 
at  Valdez  had  failed,  and  after  investigating  the  causes  of 
the  failure,  Mr.  Brady  spent  several  years  in  work  that 
eventually  restored  the  property  to  the  stockholders.  Dur- 


922  YALE    COLLEGE 

ing  that  time  he  went  to  New  York  to  live,  but  later  returned 
to  Sitka.  In  1909  and  for  several  years  following,  he  lectured 
on  Alaska,  emphasizing  the  vast  resources  and  possibilities 
of  the  country.  He  was  president  of  the  Alaskan  Society  of 
Natural  History  and  Ethnology  from  1894  to  1898,  and  had 
also  served  as  honorary  president  of  the  Alaskan  Geographi- 
cal Society  of  Puget  Sound. 

He  died  at  his  home  in  Sitka,  December  17,  191 8.  He  had 
been  ill  with  diabetes  for  several  years,  but  in  1917  suffered  a 
fall  from  the  upper  deck  of  a  boat  on  his  way  to  the  beach 
below  Sitka,  where  he  was  found  by  natives  when  the  rising 
tide  had  almost  reached  him.  He  never  recovered  from  the 
effects  of  this  accident.  Burial  was  in  the  family  plot  in  the 
cemetery  at  Sitka,  the  last  rites  being  conducted  by  the 
natives  he  had  guided  for  so  many  years. 

His  marriage  took  place  October  20,  1887,  in  Cochranton, 
Pa.,  to  Elizabeth  Jane,  daughter  of  Hugh  and  Matilda 
(Coley)  Patton.  She  survives  him  with  their  five  children: 
John  Green,  Jr.,  Hugh  Picken  (B.A.  1914),  Sheldon  Jackson 
(B.A.  1916),  Mary  Beattie  (B.A.  Vassar  1916),  and  Eliza- 
beth Patton  (B.S.  Simmons  1918). 

William  Henry  Hotchkiss,  B.A.  1875 

Born  April  17,  1 851,  in  Bristol,  Conn. 
Died  November  30,  191 8,  in  Buffalo,  N.  Y. 

William  Henry  Hotchkiss  was  born  April  17,  1851,  in 
Bristol,  Conn.,  his  parents  being  Henry  Kirke  Hotchkiss,  a 
merchant  of  Ansonia,  Conn.,  and  Eleanor  E.  (Beckwith) 
Hotchkiss.  His  father,  who  was  a  descendant  of  the  Hotch- 
kiss family  of  New  Haven,  was  the  son  of  David  Miles  and 
Zernah  (Stevens)  Hotchkiss. 

His  boyhood  was  spent  at  his  grandfather's  farm  at  Pros- 
pect and  at  Ansonia.  He  prepared  for  Yale  at  the  Wilbra- 
ham  (Mass.)  Academy  and  at  Phillips  Academy,  Exeter, 
N.  H.  He  won  the  first  prize  in  mathematics  Freshman  year, 
received  a  Junior  high  oration  and  a  Senior  oration  appoint- 
ment, and  was  given  a  Senior  composition  prize.  He  was  a 
member  of  Phi  Beta  Kappa. 

For  two  years  after  graduation  he  was  principal  of  the 


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preparatory  department  of  Olivet  College  at  Olivet,  Mich. 
He  then  entered  the  dry  goods  business,  becoming  manager 
of  his  father's  store  in  Ansonia.  He  removed  to  Buffalo,  N.  Y., 
in  the  fall  of  1881  and  entered  into  partnership  in  the  dry 
goods  business  with  Mr.  James  N.  Adam,  under  the  name  of 
J.  N.  Adam  &  Company.  When  his  partner  entered  munici- 
pal politics,  Mr.  Hotchkiss  became  manager  of  the  firm  and 
bought  out  the  William  Hengerer  Company.  Later  he  sold 
the  business  to  the  Associated  Merchants  Company  of  New 
York.  In  1904  he  acquired  a  large  interest  in  the  EUicott 
Square  Company,  of  Buffalo,  of  which  he  then  became  presi- 
dent. Since  that  time  he  had  occupied  himself  mainly  with 
developing  real  estate  and  traveling  with  his  family.  He  was 
a  director  of  the  Marine  National  Bank,  the  City  Trust 
Company,  and  the  Niagara  Gorge  Railroad,  and  was  one  of 
the  original  members  of  the  City  Terminal  Commission. 
At  different  times  during  191 5  he  had  suffered  the  amputa- 
tion of  both  legs,  on  account  of  disease.  He  regained  his 
strength,  however,  and  was  able  to  look  after  his  own  af- 
fairs, and  to  attend  meetings  of  the  Terminal  Commission, 
and  even  visited  California  after  the  second  operation.  He 
died  at  his  home  in  Buffalo,  on  November  30,  1918,  of  apo- 
plexy. Interment  was  in  Forest  Lawn  Cemetery  in  that  city. 
Mr.  Hotchkiss  was  married  July  10,  1876,  in  Aurora,  111., 
to  Mary,  daughter  of  Rev.  Lewis  Benedict  and  Frances  B. 
(Wheat)  Benedict.  She  survives  him  with  one  daughter, 
Margaret  Linton  (B.A.  Smith  College  1904),  who  married 
Capt.  Raymond  Eugene  Streit  of  New  Canaan,  Conn. 
Another  daughter,  Eleanor  Benedict  (B.A.  Smith  1901), 
was  married  on  July  i,  1905,  to  Roderick  Potter  (B.A.  1902). 
Mrs.  Potter  died  in  Buffalo,  February  17,  19 19. 


William  Stuart  Kenny,  B.A.  1875 

Born  January  26,  1855,  in  Baltimore,  Md. 
Died  March  27,  1919,  in  Chicago,  111. 

William  Stuart  Kenny  was  born  January  26,  1855,  in 
Baltimore,  Md.,  the  son  of  John  and  Emilie  A.  C.  (Parrott) 
Kenny.  His  father,  who  was  of  Irish  ancestry,  attended 


9^4  YALE    COLLEGE 

Mount  St.  Mary's  College,  Emmittsburg,  Md.,  and  later 
practiced  as  a  physician,  his  death  occurring  in  St.  Louis 
about  1859.  His  mother  was  also  a  student  at  Mount  St. 
Mary's  College.  Her  father  removed  to  York,  Pa.,  from 
Baltimore  in  the  latter  part  of  the  fifties. 

His  preparatory  training  was  received  at  General  Rus- 
sell's School  in  New  Haven,  Conn.  After  graduating  from 
Yale,  Mr.  Kenny  spent  nine  months  in  travel,  and  in  1876 
entered  the  law  office  of  John  Gibson  in  York,  Pa.  In  March, 
1878,  he  was  admitted  to  the  Pennsylvania  Bar,  but  seven 
months  later  moved  to  Bismarck,  N.  Dak.,  where  he  became 
connected  with  the  First  National  Bank  as  teller.  In  Feb- 
ruary, 1882,  he  settled  in  Chicago,  111.,  and  there  engaged  in 
banking.  He  spent  the  period  from  January  i  to  November  i, 
1887,  traveling  in  California,  and  during  the  next  two  years  he 
was  engaged  in  banking  in  Denver,  Colo.  He  then  gave  up 
banking  and  returned  to  Chicago,  where  he  entered  the  plate 
and  window  glass  business.  For  a  number  of  years  he  was 
connected  with  the  James  H.  Rice  Company,  as  president  and 
manager. 

He  died  March  27,  191 9,  in  Chicago,  and  was  buried  in 
Prospect  Hill  Cemetery  at  York.  He  was  a  member  of  St. 
John's  Protestant  Episcopal  Church  of  that  city. 

His  marriage  took  place  in  Dover,  Maine,  September  10, 
1902,  to  Annie  Peaks  (B.A.  Wellesley  1896),  daughter  of 
Joseph  B.  and  Eliza  (Chadbourne)  Peaks,  who  survives  him. 
They  had  no  children. 


George  Paull  Torrence,  B.A.  1875 

Born  June  25,  1854,  in  Cincinnati,  Ohio 
Died  November  21,  191 8,  in  Oxford,  Ohio 

George  Paull  Torrence  was  born  June  25,  1854,  in  Cin- 
cinnati, Ohio,  being  one  of  the  eight  children  of  James 
Findlay  and  Ann  Rebecca  (Findlay)  Torrence.  Both  parents 
were  of  Scotch-Irish  stock,  members  of  the  two  families 
having  come  from  near  Belfast,  Ireland,  and  settled  in  the 
Cumberland  Valley,  Pa.,  about  1725.  His  father,  James 
Findlay  Torrence,  who  was  born  in  Cincinnati  August  22, 


1 875  925 

1 8 14,  was  the  son  of  Judge  George  Paull  Torrence  and  Mary 
Brownson  (Findlay)  Torrence;  he  was  a  merchant  during 
most  of  his  life,  a  public  citizen,  prominent  in  all  municipal 
activities,  one  of  the  founders  of  the  Young  Men's  Mercantile 
Library  and  its  president  for  many  years,  president  and 
honorary  life  member  of  the  Chamber  of  Commerce,  and  later 
president  of  a  fire  insurance  company.  His  mother,  Ann 
Rebecca  (Findlay)  Torrence,  was  the  daughter  of  Thomas 
and  Ann  Perry  Bell  Findlay  of  Harford  County,  Md.  George 
Paull  Torrence  was  a  member  of  the  Sons  of  Colonial  Wars 
through  Capt.  George  Paull,  who  held  Fort  Burd  in  the 
Indian  Wars.  His  great-grandfather.  Col.  John  Findlay, 
led  the  regiment  whose  arrival  saved  Baltimore  in  1812,  and 
another  ancestor.  General  James  Findlay,  built  Fort  Findlay 
in  Ohio.  Three  members  of  the  Findlay  family  were  at  the 
same  time  members  of  Congress. 

He  received  his  preparatory  training  in  the  public  schools 
of  Cincinnati  and  at  the  private  school  of  Dr.  N.  E.'  Soule  in 
the  same  city.  He  entered  Yale  in  1871  and  took  a  prominent 
part  in  all  college  activities.  He  belonged  to  the  Berkeley 
Association  and  was  a  member  of  the  Class  Ivy  Committee. 

For  three  years  after  graduation  he  studied  at  the  Berkeley 
Divinity  School,  Middletown,  Conn.,  being  ordained  a 
deacon  in  the  Protestant  Episcopal  Church  on  May  29, 
1878.  From  June  9, 1878,  to  April  13, 1879,  ^^  was  in  charge 
of  St.  Peter's  Church,  Oxford,  Conn.  On  May  30,  1879,  ^^ 
was  ordained  to  the  priesthood  in  St.  Paul's  Church,  New 
Haven,  and  a  few  weeks  later  he  became  rector  of  Grace 
Church,  Long  Hill,  and  of  Trinity  Church,  Nichols  Farms, 
Conn.  From  June  i,  1881,  to  April  6,  1890,  he  served  as 
rector  of  St.  Thomas'  Church,  Bethel,  Conn.,  and  from  1890 
to  January  i,  1896,  he  was  rector  of  St.  James'  Church, 
Zanesville,  Ohio.  For  the  next  ten  months  he  was  engaged  in 
supply  work  in  Cincinnati  and  Newark,  Ohio,  New  Haven, 
Conn.,  and  elsewhere.  From  November  8,  1896,  to  November 
12,  1899,  he  was  in  charge  of  St.  John's  Church  Mission  in 
Cambridge,  Ohio.  On  December  i,  1899,  he  became  arch- 
deacon of  the  Diocese  of  Michigan  City,  with  residence  in 
Marion,  Ind.,  having  the  care  of  missions  in  seven  counties. 
After  serving  for  five  years  in  this  capacity  he  resigned  to 


926  YALE    COLLEGE 

accept  the  charge  of  Gethsemane  Church,  Marion,  Ind.  On 
May  I,  1 9 10,  he  became  rector  of  St.  John's  Church,  LaFay- 
ette,  Ind.,  and  since  November  i,  191 6,  he  had  been  rector 
of  Trinity  Church,  Hamilton,  Ohio,  having  charge  also  of 
Holy  Trinity  Mission  at  Oxford.  In  1895  he  was  a  delegate 
from  southern  Ohio,  and,  in  1907,  from  the  Diocese  of  Michi- 
gan City,  to  the  General  Convention  of  the  Protestant  Epis- 
copal Church.  He  was  dean  of  the  Convocation  held  in 
southern  Ohio  and  a  member  of  the  Standing  Committee  in 
the  dioceses  of  Michigan  City  and  Indianapolis.  He  was  at 
one  time  a  member  of  the  Board  of  School  Visitors  in  Trum- 
bull and  Bethel,  Conn.,  and  in  1895,  by  appointment  of  the 
Court  of  Common  Pleas,  he  became  a  member  of  the  Board 
of  Visitors  of  the  county  institutions  in  Muskingum  County, 
Ohio.  From  1908  to  19 10  he  was  president  of  the  Federated 
Charities  in  Marion,  and  from  1910  to  191 5  he  served  on  the 
board  of  directors  of  the  Charity  Organization  Society  in 
LaFayette. 

He  died  very  suddenly,  of  heart  failure,  in  Oxford,  Novem- 
ber 21,  1918.  Interment  was  in  Spring  Grove  Cemetery, 
Cincinnati. 

His  marriage  took  place  September  3,  1879,  ^^  New  Haven, 
Conn.,  to  Mary  Ferguson,  a  non-graduate  member  of  the 
Class  of  1876  at  Mount  Holyoke  College.  Mrs.  Torrence, 
who  is  the  daughter  of  Peter  and  Maria  Jeannette  (Bixby) 
Ferguson,  survives  him  with  five  children:  Ann  Rebecca 
(B.A.  Wellesley  1903),  who  was  married  on  February  2, 
1910,  to  Rev.  William  H.  Standring  (B.A.  Cornell  1899), 
whose  death  occurred  September  19,  19 10;  Jeannette,  who 
was  married  on  June  27,  1906,  to  Archie  Price;  George  Paull, 
Jr.  (B.S.  Purdue  1908);  Mary  Ferguson  (B.A.  Wellesley 
191 6);  and  John  Ferguson,  who  was  for  two  years  a  student 
at  Purdue  and  later  studied  medicine  at  the  University  of 
Cincinnati.  A  daughter,  Elizabeth  Findlay,  died  in  infancy. 
Mr.  Torrence  was  the  uncle  of  Rev.  George  Paull  Torrence 
Sargent  (B.A.  1905),  and  a  cousin  of  George  Torrence 
Harrison  (B.A.  1869)  and  William  Henry  Harrison  (Ph.B. 
1904). 


I 875-1876  927 

William  Hampton  Patton,  B.A.  1876 

Born  March  lo,  1853,  in  Waterbury,  Conn. 
Died  December  26,  1918,  in  Hartford,  Conn. 

William  Hampton  Patton  was  the  son  of  William  Patton 
and  was  born  March  10,  1853,  in  Waterbury,  Conn.  He  en- 
tered Yale  from  Williston  Seminary,  Easthampton,  Mass., 
and  received  a  colloquy  appointment  Senior  year. 

Both  before  and  after  graduation  Mr.  Patton  was  devoted 
to  the  study  of  natural  sciences,  especially  zoology  and  bot- 
any. He  had  two  years  of  graduate  work  in  zoology  at  Yale, 
followed  by  two  years  of  independent  study  at  his  home  in 
Waterbury.  During  the  summer  of  1879  ^^^  from  June, 
1880,  to  April,  1 88 1,  he  was  a  special  agent  of  the  U.  S. 
Entomological  Commission  at  Washington,  D.  C.  From 
1882  to  1885  he  resided  in  the  following  places:  New  York 
City,  Utica,  N.  Y.,  Rochester,  N.  Y.,  and  West  Randolph, 
Vt.  In  1885  he  returned  to  Connecticut,  suffering  from  ill 
health  due  to  too  close  application  to  work,  and  for  a  num- 
ber of  years  before  his  death  he  had  been  an  inmate  of  the 
Hartford  Retreat  for  the  Insane.  From  1879  ^^  ^884  he 
had  many  articles  published  in  the  Proceedings  of  the  Boston 
i Society  of  Natural  History,  and  he  had  also  contributed  ex- 
tensively to  other  scientific  journals  of  the  United  States  and 
Canada.  He  was  a  member  of  the  American  and  British  As- 
fsociations  for  the  Advancement  of  Science,  a  Fellow  of  the 
(Entomological  Society  of  London,  a  charter  member  of  the 
Biological  Society  of  Washington,  D.  C,  and  a  member  of 
I  the  Canadian  Entomological  Society  and  the  Connecticut 
[Academy. 

Mr.  Patton's  death  occurred  in  Hartford,  December  26, 
191 8,  as  the  result  of  valvular  disease  of  the  heart  and  arterio 
sclerosis.  He  was  unmarried. 


928  YALE    COLLEGE 

William  Thaddeus  Strong,  B.A.  1876 

Born  September  24,  1854,  in  New  Haven,  Conn. 
Died  April  22,  1919,  in  Brookline,  Mass. 

William  Thaddeus  Strong  was  born  September  24,  1854, 
in  New  Haven,  Conn.  His  father.  Rev.  Edward  Strong 
(B.A.  1838,  D.D.  Hamilton  College  1864),  was  the  son  of 
Rev.  William  Lightbourn  Strong  (B.A.  1802,  M.A.  Middle- 
bury  1804),  who  preached  for  thirty- four  years  in  Somers 
and  Redding,  Conn.,  and  in  Vienna,  N.  Y.,  and  Harriet 
(Demming)  Strong,  and  a  descendant  of  Elder  John  Strong. 
Edward  Strong  studied  theology  at  Union  Seminary  and  at 
Yale  and  afterwards  served  for  many  years  in  the  Congre- 
gational ministry.  His  first  wife,  the  mother  of  William  T. 
Strong,  was  Margaret  Scott,  daughter  of  Thaddeus  and 
Eliza  (Taylor)  Sherman.  She  was  a  descendant  of  Capt. 
John  Fairman,  who  emigrated  to  this  country  from  Dedham, 
Essex,  England,  about  1636,  settling  at  Watertown,  Mass., 
and  of  Roger  Sherman  (Honorary  M.A.  1768),  at  one  time 
treasurer  of  Yale,  a  signer  of  the  Declaration  of  Independence, 
and  a  member  of  the  Continental  Congress  and  the  U.  S. 
Senate. 

He  was  prepared  for  college  at  Williston  Seminary,  East- 
hampton,  Mass.  He  received  an  oration  appointment  both 
Junior  and  Senior  years. 

After  fitting  for  college  the  son  of  his  cousin.  Chief  Justice 
William  Strong,  of  Washington,  D.  C,  and  receiving,  for  a 
special  course,  the  diploma  of  the  Westfield  (Mass.)  State 
Normal  School,  he  became  a  junior  master  in  the  Boston 
Latin  School,  where  he  remained  for  seven  years.  During 
this  period  he  was  a  frequent  contributor  to  the  Boston 
daily  press.  In  1881  he  secured,  upon  examination,  the  degree 
of  M.A.  from  Yale.  He  went  abroad  in  1884,  and  for  two 
years  served  as  secretary  of  the  American  Legation  and 
charge  d'affaires  at  Vienna,  Austria.  He  remained  in  Europe 
until  1888,  and  during  this  period  studied  at  the  universi- 
ties of  Leipsic,  Munich,  and  Bonn,  and  at  The  Sorbonne,  and 
also  gave  some  time  to  newspaper  writing.  Upon  his  return 
to  America  he  became  instructor  in  modern  languages  at 


1876  9^9 

Yale,  and  served  in  this  capacity  for  two  years.  From  1890 
to  191 5,  when  he  retired  from  teaching,  he  was  instructor  in 
French,  German,  and  Spanish  at  the  English  High  School  in 
Boston.  Through  his  marriage  to  Baroness  Rose  Posse  in 
19P4  he  became  greatly  interested  in  the  work  of  the  Posse 
Normal  School  of  Gymnastics,  and  from  the  time  of  the 
incorporation  of  the  school  in  191 1  he  served  on  the  board  of 
directors.  In  1908-09  he  spent  a  year  in  Spain  studying  at 
the  University  of  Madrid.  For  several  years  he  was  an 
associate  examiner  for  the  College  Entrance  Examination 
Board.  He  had  served  as  chairman  of  the  Boston  group  of 
the  New  England  Modern  Language  Association,  as  presi- 
dent of  the  Cercle  Frangais  de  Victor  Hugo,  as  vice  presi- 
dent of  the  Castilian  Club  of  Boston,  and  as  a  director  of  the 
local  branch  of  the  Alliance  Frangaise  and  El  Club  Espanol. 
Aside  from  his  work  on  the  daily  press,  his  principal  articles 
were  a  contribution  sent  to  the  U.  S.  Government,  at  its 
request,  regarding  the  dual  system  of  ventilation  in'  the 
Vienna  Court  Opera  House,  to  be  used  for  future  govern- 
ment buildings  in  Washington,  and  an  article  on  the  "Fueros," 
published  in  the  Political  Science  Quarterly,  Columbia  Uni- 
versity, in  1893.  In  his  college  days  Mr.  Strong  had  been 
active  in  athletics,  later  he  became  an  expert  figure  skater, 
and  when  the  bicycle  was  at  the  height  of  its  popularity  he 
toured  Europe  on  his  wheel.  In  191 5,  accompanied  by  his 
wife,  he  motored  across  the  continent,  and  for  this  accom- 
plishment under  trying  conditions  received  a  medal  from 
The  Motor  Age.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Old  South  Church, 
Boston. 

He  died  at  his  home  in  Brookline,  Mass.,  April  22,  1919, 
after  a  short  illness  from  influenza.  Interment  was  in  Mount 
Auburn  Cemetery  at  Cambridge. 

His  marriage  took  place  July  6,  1904,  in  Boston,  to  Rose 
Moore,  daughter  of  Foster  Waldo  and  Catharine  Moore  (Bal- 
lou)  Smith,  and  widow  of  Baron  Nils  Posse,  of  Stockholm, 
Sweden.  She  survives  him  without  children.  Mr.  Strong  was 
a  nephew  of  William  Strong  (B.A.  1828),  Newton  D.  Strong 
(B.A.  1831),  and  Samuel  W.  Strong  (B,A.  1843). 


930  YALE    COLLEGE 

Charles  Henry  Shelton,  B.A.  1877 

Born  May  14,  1854,  in  Jaffna  Patam,  Ceylon,  British  East  India 
Died  December  11,  191 8,  in  La  Jolla,  Calif. 

Charles  Henry  Shelton  was  born  May  14,  1854,  in  Jaffna 
Patam,  Ceylon,  British  East  India,  where  his  father,  Charles 
Smith  Shelton  (B.A.  1840,  M.D.  1847),  had  gone  as  a  medi- 
cal missionary  in  1848.  The  latter  was  the  youngest  child  of 
George  and  Betsy  (Wooster)  Shelton.  During  the  Civil  War 
he  served  as  Surgeon  to  a  Missouri  Engineer  Corps.  Charles 
H.  Shelton's  mother,  Henrietta  Mills  (Hyde)  Shelton,  was 
the  third  daughter  of  Zabdiel  and  Julia  (Ely)  Hyde,  of  New 
York  City,  and  a  descendant  of  Rev.  Ezra  Stiles  Ely  (B.A. 
1804).  He  was  brought  to  America  when  two  years  of  age 
and  prior  to  the  Civil  War  lived  in  Connecticut,  Iowa,  and 
Illinois.  From  the  age  of  twelve  he  earned  his  own  living,  at 
one' time  serving  as  page  for  the  Illinois  State  Senate. 

Receiving  his  preparatory  training  at  Hasbrouck's  Classi- 
cal and  Commercial  Institute,  Jersey  City,  N.  J.,  he  entered 
Yale  as  a  member  of  the  Class  of  1877.  He  rowed  on  the  first 
crew  in  Freshman  year. 

He  taught  school  for  a  year  at  Cornwall-on-the-Hudson, 
N.  Y.,  and  in  1880  received  the  degree  of  M.D.  from  the 
New  York  Homeopathic  Medical  College.  In  1879,  while 
still  a  medical  student,  he  began  practicing  in  Jersey  City, 
where  he  continued  in  his  profession  until  1883.  From  that 
time  until  19 14  he  practiced  in  Montclair,  N.  J.  For  four 
years  he  was  vice  president  and  a  member  of  the  medical 
staff  of  the  Homeopathic  Hospital  of  Essex  County,  located 
at  Newark,  N.  J.,  and  he  had  served  as  president  of  the  Anti- 
Compulsory  Vaccination  League  of  New  Jersey,  as  vice 
president  of  the  State  Homeopathic  Medical  Society,  and  as 
secretary  of  the  Essex  County  Medical  Society. 

Dr.  Shelton's  home  had  been  in  California  since  1914.  In 
1917  he  was  chosen  chairman  of  the  Civilian  and  Refugee 
Relief  Committee  of  San  Diego  County.  His  death  occurred 
at  his  home  in  La  Jolla,  December  11,  191 8,  as  a  result  of 
heart  disease.  His  body  was  cremated  in  San  Diego. 

He  was  married  June  15,  1882,  in  Jersey  City,  to  Hen- 


1877-1878  931 

rlette  Adele,  daughter  of  Augustus  Z.  and  Cynthia  M. 
(Wood)  Hugglns.  She  survives  with  three  children:  Henry 
Wood  (B.A.  1904);  Nettie  May,  who  has  studied  at  the 
New  York  Academy  of  Design,  at  Cooper  Institute,  and  at 
the  Art  Students'  League;  and  Willis  Huggins  Post,  a  non- 
graduate  member  of  the  Yale  Class  of  191 2.  A  son,  Charles 
Keith,  -born  June  30,  1891,  died  November  8,  1893.  Four 
nephews  of  Dr.  Shelton  are  graduates  of  Yale:  Shelton  and 
Arthur  H.  Bissell,  both  of  whom  received  the  degree  of  B.A. 
in  1897,  Ernest  S.  VanTassel  (B.A.  1903),  and  A.  Shelton 
Keith  (Ph.B.  1913). 


Arthur  Dickinson  Chandler,  B.A.  1878 

Born  March  22,  1854,  in  Woodstock,  Conn. 
Died  April  19,  1919,  in  East  Orange,  N.  J. 

Arthur  Dickinson  Chandler  was  born  March  22,  1854,  in 
'Woodstock,  Conn.,  where  his  father,  Amasa  Chandler,  was 
engaged  in  farming.  The  latter  was  the  son  of  Capt.  John 
[Chandler  and  Deborah  (Eddy)  Chandler.  The  family  came 
[from  England  in  1637  and  settled  in  Roxbury,  Mass.  Arthur 
[Chandler's  mother  was  Sarilla  (Peyster)  Chandler. 

He  was  fitted  for  college  at  Woodstock  Academy.  He  was 

member  of  Linonia,  played  on  the  Freshman  and  Sopho- 

lore  Football  teams,  and  was  stroke  and  captain  of  the 

{Class  Crew  Freshman  and  Sophomore  years.  In  1875  ^^  rowed 

on  the  University  Crew.  In  Senior  year  he  was  editor  of  the 

Courant  and  a  member  of  the  Class  Picture  Committee. 

Mr.  Chandler  had  been  engaged  in  literary  work  most  of 
his  life.  For  two  years  after  leaving  Yale  he  was  on  the  staff 
of  The  Independent,  and  from  1880  to  1889  ^e  was  business 
manager  of  The  Christian  Union  and  The  Outlook.  He  then 
served  as  business  manager  of  the  New  York  World  for  a 
year,  and  was  subsequently  publisher  of  The  Review  of 
Reviews  and  Gassier  s  Engineering  Magazine.  In  1898  he  was 
publisher  of  the  Newark  Daily  Advertiser,  and  was  interested 
in  several  electric  light  plants  and  trolley  roads.  In  1899  he 
became  publisher  of  the  North  American  Review  and  manager 
of  the   periodical   department   of  the   publishing  house  of 


932  YALE    COLLEGE 

Harper  &  Brothers.  He  served  in  the  latter  capacity  for  fif- 
teen years,  during  which  time  he  became  a  director  and  sec- 
retary of  the  North  American  Review  Publication  Company, 
and  a  director  of  Harper  &  Brothers.  For  four  years  he  was 
president  of  the  Board  of  Education  of  Orange,  N.  J.,  and 
for  a  long  time  he  served  as  a  trustee  of  the  Jamesburg  Home 
for  Boys,  a  place  of  detention  for  delinquents.  Realizing  the 
need  of  a  clearing  house,  he  founded  the  Cooperative  Farm 
for  Boys,  at  Allaire,  N.  J.,  where  the  more  promising  boys 
of  the  Jamesburg  Home  were  put  on  parole  in  his  custody. 
During  the  later  years  of  his  life  he  gave  most  of  his  time  to 
the  management  of  this  farm. 

His  death,  which  was  due  to  hardening  of  the  arteries, 
occurred  April  19,  1919,  in  East  Orange,  N.  J.  He  was  buried 
in  his  native  town. 

Mr.  Chandler's  marriage  took  place  June  28,  1883,  in 
Honesdale,  Pa.,  to  Lucretia  Dimmick,  daughter  of  N.  F. 
Marsh,  M.D.,  and  Mary  E.  (Dimmick)  Marsh,  who  survives 
him.  They  had  two  children:  Howard  Marsh,  a  graduate  of 
Stevens  Institute  of  Technology  in  1909,  who  died  in  191 1, 
and  Virginia  M.,  who  died  in  infancy.  Mr.  Chandler  was  a 
brother  of  Edward  Benjamin  Chandler,  who  received  the 
degree  of  Ph.B.  from  Yale  in  1875. 


Henry  Winslow  Lamb,  B.A.  1878 

Born  May  11,  1854,  in  Norwich,  Conn. 
Died  September  16,  191 8,  in  TarifFville,  Conn. 

Henry  Winslow  Lamb,  son  of  Winslow  M.  and  Alice  M. 
(Clark)  Lamb,  was  born  May  11,  1854,  in  Norwich,  Conn. 
Both  parents  were  of  English  ancestry.  His  father,  a  mer- 
chant, who  spent  most  of  his  life  in  Norwich  and  New  Haven, 
Conn.,  was  the  son  of  James  R.  and  Angelina  (Morgan) 
Lamb.  His  mother  died  September  24,  1920. 

He  received  his  early  training  at  the  Norwich  Grammar 
School  and  at  Bacon  Academy,  Colchester,  Conn.,  and  before 
entering  Yale  he  spent  two  years  with  his  father  in  the  whole- 
sale grain  business.  In  college  he  divided  the  second  prize  in 
the  Delta  Kappa  elocution  contest.  He  was  a  member  of  the 


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1878  933 

Senior  Promenade  Committee.  He  did  not  receive  the  degree 
of  B.A.  until  1 88 1,  but  at  that  time  was  enrolled  with  his 
original  class. 

In  the  fall  of  1878  he  returned  to  Yale  for  a  course  in  the 
School  of  Law,  receiving  the  degree  of  LL.B.  in  1880.  He 
practiced  for  a  time  in  New  Haven,  and  was  later  connected 
with  the  New  York  Independent.  Subsequently  he  was  prin- 
cipal of  the  West  Hartford  (Conn.)  High  School  for  a  year. 
In  January,  1885,  he  went  into  business  in  New  Haven, 
becoming  connected  with  two  firms,  W.  M.  Lamb  &  Company 
and  Lamb,  Ball  &  Company,  which  were  later  consolidated 
under  the  name  of  H.  W.  Lamb.  Mr.  Lamb  was  also  at  one 
time  a  member  of  the  firm  of  Smith  &  Lamb,  of  Warren,  R.  I. 
In  1895  h^  visited  Europe,  and  later  he  made  a  trip  around 
the  world  with  his  wife. 

In  1910  he  took  up  his  residence  in  Tariffville,  Conn., 
where  he  died  September  16,  191 8,  of  liver  trouble.  He  had 
been  in  poor  health  for  a  year.  Interment  was  in  Evergreen 
Cemetery,  New  Haven. 

He  was  married  February  18,  1897,  in  that  city,  to  Mrs. 
Emilie  A.  (Smith)  Hotchkiss,  daughter  of  Harrison  and 
Mary  A.  Smith,  and  widow  of  A.  D.  Hotchkiss.  She  survives 
him  without  children. 


James  RIedell  Tucker,  B.A.  1878 

Born  December  14,  1856,  in  Durham,  Conn. 
Died  May  15,  1919,  in  East  Hartford,  Conn. 

James  Riedell  Tucker  was  born  December  14,  1856,  in 
Durham,  Conn.  He  was  the  son  of  Henry  Tucker,  a  farmer, 
and  Rosillah  (Riedell)  Tucker.  His  paternal  grandparents, 
who  were  of  English  origin,  were  James  and  Ruth  Coe 
Tucker.  His  mother's  parents  were  James  Riedell,  of  Boston, 
and  Mary  (Gleason)  Riedell,  daughter  of  Dr.  John  Gleason, 
who  was  of  French  descent. 

He  received  his  preparatory  training  at  the  Durham 
Academy.  He  was  not  given  his  degree  until  1892,  but  at  that 
time  was  enrolled  with  the  Class  of  1878. 

After  leaving  Yale,  he  became  principal,  first  of  the  Barre 


934  YALE    COLLEGE 

(Mass.)  High  School,  then,  in  September,  1888,  of  Bacon 
Academy,  Colchester,  Conn.,  and,  in  1898,  of  the  East 
Hartford  (Conn.)  High  School,  where  he  remained  fourteen 
years.  He  then  spent  a  year  as  principal  of  the  high  school  at 
Stafford  Springs,  Conn.  He  took  graduate  work  in  political 
economy  and  history  at  the  Chautauqua  University,  being 
the  first  graduate  in  1891,  and  he  was  also  a  graduate  student 
in  Latin,  philosophy,  and  comparative  philology  at  Trinity 
College,  Hartford,  where  he  received  the  degree  of  M.A.  in 
1900.  In  1902  the  Arkansas  Normal  College  granted  him  the 
degree  of  Ph.D.  From  1913  to  the  time  of  his  death  he  was 
engaged  in  conducting  tours  abroad  and  in  this  country,  and 
in  delivering  illustrated  lectures  on  Yellowstone  Park,  Rome, 
Venice,  the  Alps,  and  Holland. 

While  conducting  a  party  of  Farmington  High  School 
students  to  Washington,  D.  C,  Dr.  Tucker  became  ill  and 
had  to  return  home.  He  died  after  a  three  weeks'  illness. 
May  15, 1919,  in  East  Hartford,  as  a  result  of  cerebral  hemor- 
rhage. Interment  was  in  South  Salem,  N.  Y. 

Dr.  Tucker  had  been  president  of  the  East  Connecticut 
Teachers'  Association  and  of  the  Hartford  County  Teachers' 
Association  and  treasurer  of  the  Connecticut  Association  of 
High  School  and  Classical  Teachers.  He  was  a  member  of  the 
First  Congregational  Church,  East  Hartford,  and  superin- 
tendent of  its  Sunday  school.  He  was  also  active  in  the 
Christian  Endeavor  Society  and  in  the  missionary  work  of 
the  church. 

His  marriage  took  place  November  27,  1883,  ^^  South 
Salem,  to  Martha  J.,  daughter  of  Judge  Cyrus  Lawrence  and 
Clarinda  (Bouton)  Lawrence.  His  wife  survives  him  without 
children. 


Lewis  Alfred  Piatt,  B.A.  1879 

Born  May  31,  1854,  in  Waterbury,  Conn. 
Died  January  aij  1919,  in  Miami,  Fla. 

Lewis  Alfred  Piatt  was  born  May  31,  1854,  in  Waterbury, 
Conn.,  being  the  son  of  Clark  Murray  and  Amelia  Maria 
(Lewis)  Piatt.  Clark  M.  Piatt  learned  the  button  manu- 
facturing business  in  the  factory  run  by  his  father,  Alfred 


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Piatt,  who  was  a  pioneer  button  manufacturer  and  the  first 
man  in  Waterbury  to  manufacture  brass  and  copper  wire, 
and  who  later  devised  an  improved  method  (for  which  he 
also  built  the  machinery)  for  making  buckwheat  flour.  His 
earliest  paternal  ancestor,  Richard  Piatt,  settled  in  Milford, 
Conn.,  in  1639.  Amelia  Lewis  Piatt,  whose  ancestors  came 
from  England  about  1660  and  soon  afterwards  settled  in 
Simsbury,  Conn.,  was  the  daughter  of  Selden  and  Lockey 
(Spencer)  Lewis. 

He  received  his  preparatory  training  at  the  Connecticut 
Literary  Institute  at  Suffield  and  at  Williston  Seminary, 
Easthampton,  Mass.  At  Yale  he  was  a  member  of  the  Col- 
lege Choir,  the  Class  Glee  Club,  and  the  University  Base- 
ball Team.  He  received  a  second  colloquy  appointment 
Senior  year,  and  was  an  editor  of  the  Record  Junior  and 
Senior  years. 

His  life  after  leaving  college  was  passed  at  Waterbury. 
He  entered  the  button  factory  of  Piatt  Brothers  &  Company, 
and  later  also  became  a  member  of  the  Patent  Button  Com- 
pany and  a  partner  in  R.  H.  Brown  &  Company,  hardware 
manufacturers  of  New  Haven.  He  was  secretary  of  Piatt 
Brothers  &  Company  during  the  time  when  his  father  was 
president,  and  succeeded  his  father  at  the  latter's  death  on 
December  20,  1900.  At  the  time  of  his  own  death  he  was 
still  president  of  this  company,  and  was  also  treasurer  of  the 
Patent  Button  Company.  Mr.  Piatt  was  a  director  of  the 
Fourth  National  Bank,  the  Colonial  Trust  Company,  and 
the  West  Side  Savings  Bank  of  Waterbury.  From  1910 
to  191 2  he  was  a  member  of  the  Connecticut  State  Senate, 
having  been  elected  on  the  Republican  ticket.  He  had  served 
three  terms  as  president  of  the  Waterbury  Club  and  from 
1917  until  his  death  was  president  of  the  Yale  Alumni  Asso- 
ciation of  the  Naugatuck  Valley. 

He  died  in  Miami,  Fla.,  January  21,  191 9,  after  a  long 
period  of  poor  health.  Interment  was  in  Riverside  Cemetery, 
Waterbury. 

Mr.  Piatt's  marriage  to  Ellen  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Sid- 
ney and  Ellen  (Clark)  Brainard,  took  place  June  20,  1882,  in 
New  Haven.  His  wife  survives  him  without  children.  He  also 
leaves  one  sister,  Mrs.  Jay  H.  Hart,  whose  son,  Alfred  Hart, 
graduated  from  Yale  in  1903. 


936  YALE    COLLEGE 

Mardon  Dewees  Wilson,  B.A.  1879 

Born  November  i8,  1851,  in  Philadelphia,  Pa. 
Died  April  2,  1 919,  in  Fruitvale,  Calif. 

Mardon  Dewees  Wilson,  son  of  William  Wilson,  a  farmer, 
and  Hannah  Catherine  (Robbins)  Wilson,  was  born  in  Phila- 
delphia, Pa.,  November  18,  1851.  His  father  was  the  son  of 
Mardon  and  Ann  Pim  (Dewees)  Wilson,  and  a  descendant 
of  David  Wilson,  who  came  to  this  country  from  England 
about  1720.  His  mother  was  the  daughter  of  Samuel  James 
and  Hannah  (Moser)  Robbins.  She  was  of  mixed  English 
and  German  stock;  her  first  American  ancestor  on  the 
paternal  side  reached  Philadelphia  about  1725. 

After  two  years  in  the  Philadelphia  High  School,  he  entered 
his  uncle's  printing  office,  where  he  worked  for  six  years. 
During  the  years  1874  and  1875,  ^^  attended  Phillips  Acad- 
emy, Andover,  Mass.,  preparatory  to  entering  Yale  in  1875. 
He  won  a  second  dispute  appointment  Junior  year  and  was 
president  of  the  Berkeley  Association  Senior  year. 

Upon  receiving  his  degree  at  Yale,  he  entered  the  Divin- 
ity School  of  the  Episcopal  Church  in  Philadelphia,  from 
which  he  was  graduated  in  June,  1882.  During  the  last  two 
years  of  his  theological  course  he  served  as  assistant  at  the 
Church  of  the  Redeemer,  Bryn  Mawr,  Pa.  Immediately 
after  his  ordination,  in  accordance  with  his  life-long  deter- 
mination to  choose  the  harder  places  of  usefulness  in  life 
and  go  where  he  was  most  needed,  he  accepted  an  oppor- 
tunity to  take  charge  of  the  church  work  in  Astoria,  Ore. 
There  he  was  soon  given,  in  addition  to  the  rectorship  of 
Grace  Church,  an  appointment  as  assistant  secretary  and 
treasurer  of  the  diocese  and  the  superintendency  of  the  pub- 
lic schools  in  Clatsop  County.  When  he  left  Astoria  in  1886, 
the  church  of  which  he  had  been  rector  had  become  one  of 
the  most  important  in  the  state,  and  a  new  edifice  in  the  most 
desirable  location  had  replaced  the  original  building  on  the 
edge  of  Chinatown.  In  September,  1886,  he  became  rector 
of  St.  Luke's  Church,  Vancouver,  Wash.,  which  was  about 
to  be  closed  because  of  lack  of  support.  During  his  six  years' 
ministry  in  Vancouver,  the  church  life  revived  and  became 
an  important  asset  in  the  diocese. 


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Mr.  Wilson  served  as  secretary  and  registrar  of  the  Convo- 
cation, and  as  secretary  of  the  Board  of  Missions  of  the  Dio- 
cese of  Washington,  and  was  a  member  of  the  Standing  Com- 
mittee of  the  diocese,  a  member  of  the  Board  of  Examining 
Chaplains,  and  for  a  time  editor  of  the  diocesan  paper.  In. 
1893  he  accepted  a  call  to  St.  Andrew's  Church,  Oakland, 
Calif.,  from  which  charge  he  was  called  in  1895  to  St.  Peter's 
Church,  San  Francisco,  where  he  served  for  four  years.  In 
1896  he  was  made  secretary  of  the  diocese,  which  office  he 
retained  until  his  death,  being  reelected  unanimously  for 
twenty-three  consecutive  years.  For  several  years  he  was 
also  editor  and  business  manager  of  the  Pacific  Churchman^ 
the  Church  paper  for  the  Pacific  coast.  Failing  health  at 
length  led  him  to  resign  the  charge  of  St.  Peter's  and  seek 
a  change  of  climate.  During  1 899-1 900  he  was  headmaster 
and  chaplain  of  St.  Matthew's  Military  School  in  San  Mateo, 
and  the  next  year  he  held  what  was  at  that  time  the  unique 
position  of  civilian  chaplain  at  the  U.  S.  Army  Hospital  at 
the  Presidio  of  San  Francisco,  where  he  ministered  to  the 
sick  and  wounded  men  brought  back  from  the  Philippines 
during  the  Spanish-American  War.  He  was  in  charge  of 
Christ  Church  at  San  Jose,  Calif.,  from  1902  to  1904,  and  for 
the  four  years  following  rector  of  San  Anselmo  Chapel,  Ross, 
Calif.  In  1904  he  was  elected  a  delegate  to  the  General  Con- 
vention to  represent  the  Diocese  of  California.  In  1909  he 
took  charge  of  the  struggling  Mission  of  St.  Philip,  in  Fruit- 
vale,  Oakland,  Calif.,  where  his  efforts  were  crowned  with 
such  success  that  at  the  time  of  his  death  the  mission  had 
become  a  strong,  self-supporting  parish.  For  several  years 
he  was  a  victim  of  inflammatory  rheumatism  with  unusual 
complications,  but  in  spite  of  severe  suffering,  he  kept  up  his 
connection  with  and  supervision  of  the  church  work.  His 
death  occurred  April  2,  1919,  at  his  home,  Shepherdcroft,  in 
Fruitvale.  He  was  buried  in  lona  Churchyard,  in  Cypress 
Lawn  Cemetery,  San  Mateo  County,  Calif. 

Mr.  Wilson  was  married  August  10,  1882,  in  New  Haven, 
Conn.,  to  Annie,  daughter  of  William  and  Anne  Wilson, 
who  survives  him.  They  had  two  children,  Alice  Elizabeth, 
who  is  also  living,  and  William  Mardon,  whose  death  occurred 
in  his  third  year. 


938  YALE  COLLEGE 

Frank  Otho  Spencer,  B.A.  1880 

Born  May  14,  1858,  in  Cleveland,  Ohio 
Died  May  11,  1919,  in  Euclid,  Ohio 

Frank  Otho  Spencer,  son  of  Albert  Kingsley  and  Charlotte 
M.  (PoUey)  Spencer,  was  born  May  14,  1858,  in  Cleveland, 
Ohio.  His  father,  who  was  cashier  of  the  First  National  Bank 
of  that  city,  was  the  son  of  Lyman  Monroe  and  Phoebe 
(Kingsley)  Spencer  and  a  descendant  of  Thomas  Spencer, 
who  came  to  America  from  Bedfordshire,  England,  in  1633 
and  settled  at  Cambridge.  His  mother  was  the  daughter  of 
Jonathan  and  Clarissa  (Johnson)  Policy,  and  was  descended 
from  the  Poleys  of  Suffolk  County,  England,  who  came  to 
America  about  1700,  settling  at  Whitehall,  N.  Y. 

He  entered  Yale  from  the  Cleveland  Central  High  School, 
and  while  in  college  received  first  colloquy  appointments  in 
both  his  Junior  and  Senior  years. 

Directly  after  graduation  he  entered  the  employ  of  the 
First  National  Bank  of  Cleveland,  and  remained  there  as  a 
clerk  for  eighteen  months.  During  the  next  four  years  he  was 
secretary  of  the  Leader  Sewing  Machine  Company.  From 
1885  to  1 891  he  was  engaged  in  the  brokerage  business,  and 
during  this  period  took  an  active  part  in  local  and  state 
politics,  serving  three  terms  in  the  City  Council,  and  one 
term  in  the  Ohio  State  Senate.  He  was  the  local  manager  of 
the  Manhattan  Life  Insurance  Company  from  1891  to  1898, 
and  for  the  next  seven  years  was  a  special  deputy  collector  of 
customs  in  Cleveland.  From  1905  to  1907  he  was  connected 
with  the  Thomas,  Roberts,  Stevenson  Company,  of  Phila- 
delphia, Pa.,  manufacturers  of  stoves.  During  the  next  few 
years  he  traveled  extensively  in  Europe.  In  191 5  he  retired 
from  active  business,  but  at  the  time  of  his  death  was  living 
in  Euclid,  Ohio,  where  he  held  a  position  under  the  county 
auditor. 

He  died  suddenly  on  May  11,  191 9,  at  Euclid,  from  heart 
trouble.  Interment  was  in  Lake  View  Cemetery,  Cleveland. 

On  December  9,  1903,  he  was  married  at  Budapest,  Hun- 
gary, to  Margaret,  daughter  of  Frederick  and  Hermanie 
Turnovsky.  They  had  one  son,  Frederick  Albert,  who,  with 


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his  mother,  survives.  Mr.  Spencer  leaves  also  a  brother,. 
Albert  Kingsley  Spencer,  a  non-graduate  member  of  the 
Class  of  1889  S.  Other  relatives  who  have  attended  Yale 
are:  Spencer  L.  Murfey,  '10  S.,  and  Clarence  A.  Murfey, 
'11  S.,  sons  of  his  sister,  Florence  Spencer  Murfey. 


Roscoe  Rush  Giltner,  B.A.  1881 

Born  October  25,  1857,  in  Turbotville,  Pa. 
Died  December  14,  191 8,  in  Portland,  Ore. 

Roscoe  Rush  Giltner  was  born  October  25,  1857,  in  Tur- 
botville, Pa.,  the  son  of  Jacob  S.  and  Martha  Matilda  (Hause) 
Giltner.  His  father,  who  graduated  from  the  University  of 
Pennsylvania  with  the  degree  of  M.D.  in  1846,  took  a  gradu- 
ate course  there  in  1875,  specializing  in  surgery.  He  served 
his  country  during  the  Civil  War,  and  was  director  and 
commander-in-chief  of  the  hospital  at  Nashville,  Tenn., 
with  the  rank  of  Colonel,  at  its  close.  He  moved  to  Oregon  in 
1866,  and  became  city  and  county  physician  and  visiting 
physician  to  the  Asylum  for  the  Insane  in  Portland.  He  was 
a  member  of  the  School  Board  and  was  instrumental  in  the 
establishment  of  the  Portland  High  School  and  in  securing 
the  passage  of  a  bill  in  the  Legislature  allowing  colored 
children  to  attend  the  public  schools.  His  parents  were 
Conrad  and  Rebecca  (Snyder)  Giltner,  and  his  wife  was  the 
daughter  of  Abraham  and  Mary  Ann  (Keeley)  Hause.  His 
ancestors  came  from  Holland  in  1738  and  settled  in  the 
colony  of  Pennsylvania,  and  his  grandfather,  John  Christian 
Giltner,  with  his  five  brothers  fought  in  the  Revolutionary 
War,  as  did  Mrs.  Giltner's  grandfather,  John  Hause. 

He  received  his  preliminary  training  in  the  public  schools 
of  Portland  and  at  Portland  Academy.  He  entered  Yale  with 
the  Class  of  1880,  but  joined  that  of  1881  in  his  Sophomore 
year. 

After  his  graduation,  he  returned  to  Portland,  and  took  up 
the  study  of  law  in  the  office  of  Williams  &  Thayer.  He  was 
admitted  to  practice  in  the  courts  of  the  state  in  1883,  when 
he  opened  his  own  office.  In  1896  he  formed  a  partnership 
with  Russell  E.  Sewall  which  lasted  until  his  death.  Coin- 


940  YALE    COLLEGE 

cidental  with  his  legal  work  from  1886  to  1888,  Mr.  Giltner 
was  interested  in  the  electric  light  business  with  Mitchell  & 
McMullen,  and  he  was  instrumental  in  the  installation  of 
light  plants  at  Vancouver,  Victoria,  and  New  Westminster, 
British  Columbia;  Boise,  Idaho;  and  Spokane,  Wash.  In 
1894,  when  the  city  was  just  developing,  he  was  elected 
city  attorney  of  Portland,  and  was  the  first  city  attorney  to 
occupy  offices  in  the  new  city  hall.  He  was  deputy  district 
attorney  of  Multnomah  County  from  1898  to  1900,  during 
which  time  he  did  the  trial  work  of  the  office,  conducting 
some  of  the  most  important  criminal  trials  in  the  history  of 
the  county.  From  1904  to  1908  he  was  interested  in  the  log- 
ging industry  on  the  Columbia  River,  and  he  was  respon- 
sible for  the  construction  of  the  Columbia-Nehalem  Valley 
Railroad  in  that  territory.  He  was  a  Presbyterian  by  faith. 

His  death  occurred  December  14,  191 8,  at  his  home  in 
Portland,  after  an  illness  of  six  weeks,  due  to  blood  poison- 
ing contracted  by  inoculation  of  anti-influenza  serum. 
Burial  was  in  Riverview  Cemetery,  Portland. 

Mr.  Giltner  married  Sophronia  Alice,  daughter  of  John 
Calvin  and  Harriet  (Veach)  Wallace,  of  Cottage  Grove,  Ore., 
January  27,  1902,  at  Kalama,  Wash.  They  had  no  children, 
but  three  young  Americans  have  been  educated  by  their 
efforts  and  three  more  are  being  educated.  Besides  his  wife, 
Mr.  Giltner  is  survived  by  two  sisters,  Emma  Giltner  White 
(B.A.  and  M.A.  Woman's  College  of  Baltimore,  Md.)  and 
Martha  Giltner  Cook  (B.A.  Wellesley  1885),  and  a  brother, 
Frank  Forrest  Giltner,  a  non-graduate  member  of  the  Class 
of  1882. 


William  Lammon  Harkness,  B.A.  1881 

Born  August  8,  1858,  in  Bellevue,  Ohio 
Died  May  10,  1919,  in  New  York  City- 
William  Lammon  Harkness  was  born  August  8,  1858,  in 
Bellevue,  Ohio,  the  son  of  Daniel  Morrison  Harkness,  a 
merchant,  and  Isabella  (Harkness)  Harkness.  His  father, 
who  was  the  son  of  David  and  Eliza  Cook  (Morrison)  Hark- 
ness, served  during  the  Civil  War  as  a  Captain  in  the  72d 
Regiment,  Ohio  Volunteers.  His  ancestors  came  from  Scot- 


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land  in  17 10,  and  settled  at  Pelham,  Mass.  The  parents  of 
Isabella  Harkness  were  Lamon  Grey  and  Julia  (Follette) 
Harkness.  She  was  of  Scotch-Irish  descent,  her  ancestors 
having  come  from  Scotland  to  Pelham,  Mass.,  in  17 10. 

He  received  his  preparatory  training  in  the  Bellevue  pub- 
lic schools  and  at  the  Brooks  School,  Cleveland,  Ohio.  He  was 
a  member  of  the  Freshman  Glee  Club  and  of  the  Class  Sup- 
per Committee. 

Mr.  Harkness  was  never  actively  engaged  in  business. 
Immediately  after  graduation  he  returned  to  Bellevue,  but 
in  1896  moved  to  New  York  City,  where  he  became  well- 
known  as  a  financier  and  yachtsman.  He  was  the  owner  of 
the  yacht  Gunilda.  In  1910  he  went  on  a  cruising  trip  through 
the  Mediterranean  accompanied  by  his  wife  and  children  and 
a  party  of  guests,  including  Chester  W.  Lyman  (B.A.  1882). 
Later  he  invited  another  party  and  cruised  about  Norway  and 
Sweden,  going  to  St.  Petersburg.  This  party  included  Samuel 
Lewis  Smith,  '89,  and  the  late  Alvah  S.  Chisholm,  '93.  The 
yacht  Gunilda  was  lost  in  Lake  Superior  in  191 1.  After  the 
death  of  his  cousin,  C.  W.  Harkness,  Mr.  Harkness  bought  his 
yacht,  the  Agawa,  changing  the  name  to  the  Cythera.  When 
America  entered  the  war  he  gave  her  to  the  Government  for 
use  during  the  war,  and  after  that  time  she  was  used  on  the 
other  side  continuously,  being  returned  to  Mr.  Harkness 
early  in  the  spring  of  1919. 

Mr.  Harkness  died,  of  heart  trouble,  at  his  residence  in 
New  York  City,  May  10,  1919,  and  was  buried  in  Woodlawn 
Cemetery.  About  a  year  before  his  death  he  made  a  gift  of 
1400,000  to  Yale  for  the  construction  and  maintenance  of  a 
recitation  and  administration  building  on  the  site  now  occu- 
pied by  Dwight  Hall.  Mr.  Harkness  was  a  member  of  the 
Congregational  Church  in  his  native  town,  and  had  a  pew  in 
St.  Bartholomew's  Church  in  New  York  and  in  St.  Paul's 
Church  in  Cleveland.  He  had  served  on  the  council  of  the 
New  York  Yale  Club. 

His  marriage  took  place  June  22,  1897,  in  Cleveland,  to 
Edith,  daughter  of  Edwin  Butler  and  Susan  Converse  Hoyt 
Hale.  She  survives  him  with  their  two  children,  Louise  and 
William  Hale.  The  latter  is  a  member  of  the  Class  of  1922 
at  Yale.  Mr.  Harkness  was  a  cousin  of  Charles  W.  Harkness 
(B.A.  1883)  and  Edward  S.  Harkness  (B.A.  1897). 


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Henry  Nelson  Tuttle,  B.A.  1881 

Born  November  17,  1858,  in  Chicago,  111. 
Died  December  6,  191 8,  in  Chicago,  111. 

Henry  Nelson  Tuttle  was  born  November  17,  1858,  in 
Chicago,  111.  His  father,  Nelson  Tuttle,  a  merchant,  was  the 
son  of  Jeremiah  Joyce  and  Patty  (Griswold)  Tuttle,  whose 
ancestors  came  from  Devonshire,  England,  in  1635,  ^^'^ 
settled  near  Boston,  Mass.  His  mother,  Charlotte  Louise 
(Emerson)  Tuttle,  was  the  daughter  of  Rev.  Samuel  Moody 
Emerson  (B.A.  Williams  18 10)  and  Charlotte  (Bulkley) 
Emerson.  Her  ancestors  came  from  Durham,  England,  to 
Ipswich,  Mass.,  in  1635.  For  seven  successive  generations  the 
Emersons  were  Congregational  ministers. 

His  preparation  for  college  was  received  in  Chicago  at  the 
Chicago  and  Palmer  academies,  at  the  Greylock  Institute, 
South  Williamstown,  Mass.,  and  under  a  private  tutor. 
At  Yale  he  received  a  first  colloquy  appointment,  and  was 
coxswain  of  the  1881  Crew. 

From  1 88 1  to  1883  he  studied  law  in  the  office  of  Lawrence, 
Campbell  &  Lawrence  in  Chicago,  and  in  May,  1883,  ^^^ 
admitted  to  the  Illinois  Bar.  After  practicing  alone  for  three 
years,  he  joined  the  firm  of  Marston,  Augur  &  Tuttle,  of 
Chicago,  and  remained  a  member  of  this  firm  for  twenty 
years.  For  thirty  years  before  his  death,  his  home  had  been 
in  Lake  Forest,  111.,  where  from  1891  to  1893  he  served  as 
alderman  and,  in  1903,  as  a  member  of  the  School  Board. 
He  belonged  to  the  Second  Presbyterian  Church  of  Chicago. 
In  1884  he  traveled  in  England  and  France. 

His  death  occurred  December  6,  191 8,  in  Chicago,  as  a 
result  of  carcinoma.  Interment  was  in  Lake  Forest. 

Mr.  Tuttle  was  married  November  8,  1888,  in  Chicago,  to 
Fannie,  daughter  of  John  Villiers  and  Emeret  (Cooley) 
Farwell.  She  survives  him  with  their  three  children:  Henry 
Emerson  (B.A.  1914);  Arthur  Farwell  (B.A.  1915),  who  saw 
service  overseas  as  a  Lieutenant  in  the  332d  Field  Artillery; 
and  Grace  Emeret,  who  was  married  June  15,  191 8,  to  Capt. 
Kent  Chandler.  Mrs.  Tuttle  is  a  sister  of  John  V.  Farwell 


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(B.A.  1879),  Frank  C.  Farwell  (B.A.  1882),  and  Arthur  L. 
Farwell  (B.A.  1884).  Albert  D.  Farwell,  '09,  John  V.  Farwell, 
3d,  '18,  and  Ralph  Isham  Farwell,  '19,  are  her  nephews. 


Edwin  Bradford  Cragin,  B.A.  1882 

Born  October  23,  1859,  in  Colchester,  Conn. 
Died  October  21,  191 8,  in  New  York  City- 
Edwin  Bradford  Cragin,  whose  parents  were  Edwin 
Timothy  and  Ardelia  Ellis  (Sparrowe)  Cragin,  was  born 
October  23,  1859,  in  Colchester,  Conn.  His  father  was  the  son 
of  Deacon  Simeon  Cragin  and  Betsy  (Dakin)  Cragin,  and  his 
maternal  grandparents  were  Bradford  and  Ardelia  (Ellis) 
Sparrowe.  He  was  a  descendant  of  Governor  William  Brad- 
ford, one  of  the  leaders  of  the  band  of  Pilgrims  who  came  in 
the  Mayflower  to  Plymouth  Rock,  and  of  John  Cragin,  an 
early  settler  in  Woburn,  Mass. 

He  was  fitted  for  college  at  Bacon  Academy  in  his  native 
town.  At  Yale  he  received  a  Junior  high  oration  and  a  Senior 
oration  appointment. 

In  1883  he  entered  the  College  of  Physicians  and  Surgeons 
at  Columbia  University,  from  which  he  received  the  degree 
of  M.D.  in  1886,  taking  the  first  Harsen  Prize  of  five  hundred 
dollars  for  proficiency  in  examination.  From  June  i,  1886, 
to  December  i,  1887,  he  served  as  interne  at  the  Roosevelt 
Hospital.  Since  that  time  he  had  practiced  his  profession  in 
New  York  City,  attaining  prominence  as  a  gynecologist  and 
[obstetrician  early  in  his  career.  He  was  for  a  number  of  years 
lin  charge  of  the  department  of  gynecology  and  of  the  out- 
patient department  at  the  Roosevelt  Hospital,  and  in  1889 
[he  became  assistant  gynecologist  of  the  hospital  proper.  From 
[June,  1889,  ^^  November,  1893,  he  was  assistant  surgeon  at 
ithe  New  York  Cancer  Hospital.  On  December  18,  1893,  he 
[was  appointed  assistant  secretary  of  the  faculty  of  the  Col- 
jlege  of  Physicians  and  Surgeons,  and  in  April,  1898,  he  was 
elected  to  the  chair  of  obstetrics,  with  the  title  of  lecturer 
iiin  obstetrics.  He  was  for  many  years  attending  physician  at 
the  Sloane  Maternity  Hospital,  of  whose  board  of  trustees 


944  YALE    COLLEGE 

he  was  the  president.  In  May,  1899,  he  resigned  his  positions 
at  the  Roosevelt  Hospital  and  as  secretary  of  the  faculty  of 
the  College  of  Physicians  and  Surgeons,  in  order  to  take  up 
the  duties  of  professor  of  obstetrics  at  the  latter  institution. 
On  July  I,  1904,  he  was  made  professor  of  gynecology  at 
Columbia.  He  was  later  appointed  consulting  obstetrician  at 
the  Sydenham,  the  Lincoln,  and  the  Italian  hospitals,  and  in 
1909  became  consulting  gynecologist  at  the  Presbyterian, 
Lincoln,  and  Sloane  hospitals,  St.  Luke's  Hospital,  New- 
burgh,  N.  Y.,  and  the  New  York  Infirmary  for  Women  and 
Children.  He  was  vice  president  of  the  New  York  Academy  of 
Medicine,  a  member  of  the  New  York  Medical  and  Surgical 
Society,  the  New  York  Obstetrical  Society,  the  American 
Gynecological  Society,  the  American  Medical  Association, 
and  many  other  professional  societies.  In  191 6  he  was  elected 
vice  president  of  the  Academy  of  Medicine.  He  was  a  Fellow 
of  the  American  College  of  Surgeons  and  chairman  of  the 
advisory  board  of  the  Students'  Club  at  the  College  of  Physi- 
cians and  Surgeons.  He  was  the  author  of  "Essentials  of 
Gynecology,"  joint  author  of  "The  American  Text  of  Gyne- 
cology," and  in  1916  published  a  textbook,  entitled  "The 
Practice  of  Obstetrics."  He  was  an  elder  of  the  Central  Pres- 
byterian Church  and  a  supporter  of  foreign  missions,  par- 
ticularly in  China.  He  was  also  a  member  of  the  board  of 
trustees  of  the  Syrian  Protestant  College  in  Beirut.  In  1907 
he  received  an  honorary  M.A.  from  Yale. 

He  died,  of  heart  and  kidney  trouble,  October  21,  191 8,  at 
his  home  in  New  York  City,  and  was  buried  in  Linwood 
Cemetery  in  his  native  town.  A  one  hundred  thousand  dollar 
fund  in  memory  of  Dr.  Cragin  is  being  raised  to  continue  and 
enlarge  the  work  of  the  social  service  department  of  the 
Sloane  Hospital,  a  service  started  by  him  and  in  which  he  was 
especially  interested. 

His  marriage  took  place  May  23,  1889,  in  Colchester,  to 
Mary  R.,  daughter  of  Rev.  Samuel  George  Willard  (B.A. 
1846),  for  twenty  years  a  member  of  the  Yale  Corporation 
and  its  Prudential  Committee,  and  Cynthia  (Barrows)  Wil- 
lard. Mrs.  Cragin,  who  is  a  sister  of  Samuel  P.  Willard  (B.A. 
1879),  survives  with  three  children:  Miriam  Willard  (B.A. 
.Smith  1912);  Alice  Gregory  (B.A.  Smith  1915),  who  was 


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1882-1883  945 

married  October  3,  1918,  to  Raymond  W.  Lewis  (B.A.  191 1, 
M.D.  Columbia  191 5);  and  Edwin  Bradford,  Jr.,  who  is  a 
member  of  the  Class  of  1922  at  Yale. 

Edward  A.  Beddall,  B.A.  1883 

Born  November  2,  1859,  in  New  Philadelphia,  Pa. 
Died  June  6,  1919,  in  Sunbury,  Pa. 

Edward  A.  Beddall  was  born  November  2,  1859,  in  New 
Philadelphia,  Schuylkill  County,  Pa.,  the  son  of  Thomas  and 
Mary  (Shakespeare)  Beddall.  He  was  next  to  the  youngest  in 
a  family  of  twelve  children.  His  father,  a  pioneer  coal  opera- 
tor, the  son  of  John  and  Mary  Beddall,  was  born  in  England, 
and  with  his  wife,  the  daughter  of  Joseph  and  Elizabeth 
(Thompson)  Shakespeare,  who  was  born  near  Stratford- 
on-Avon,  came  by  sailing  vessel  to  America  in  1837,  settled 
in  Pottsville,  Pa.,  and  later  moved  to  New  Philadelphia. 

He  was  prepared  for  Yale  at  Pennington  Seminary  and 
under  private  tutors.  After  graduation  he  read  law  with  the 
late  Judge  Mason  Weidman  of  Pottsville,  and  was  admitted 
to  the  Schuylkill  County  Bar  in  1885  and  to  practice  in  the 
Supreme  Court  of  Pennsylvania  in  1889.  Since  then  he  had 
practiced  his  profession  in  Pottsville.  He  took  an  active  part 
in  the  management  of  various  coal  operations  in  Pennsylvania 
and  West  Virginia  in  which  he  was  interested.  Politically, 
he  was  a  Republican,  and  in  1905  he  was  a  candidate  for 
judge  of  the  Orphans  Court.  He  was  a  member  of  the  First 
Presbyterian  Church  of  Pottsville,  and  had  served  as  a  mem- 
ber of  its  board  of  trustees.  He  was  a  lover  of  nature,  and 
during  the  later  years  of  his  life  devoted  much  time  to  the 
culture  of  flowers.  He  was  particularly  successful  in  propa- 
gating new  species  of  dahlias. 

Mr.  Beddall  died,  from  heart  disease,  at  the  home  of  his 
daughter  in  Sunbury,  Pa.,  June  6,  1919,  after  an  illness  of 
six  months.  Interment  was  in  the  Charles  Baber  Cemetery 
at  Pottsville. 

He  was  married  October  22,  1885,  at  Shamokin,  Pa.,  to 
Carrie  Ellen,  daughter  of  Henry  and  Barbara  (Shissler) 
Guiterman.    They    had    two    children:    Helen    Shakespeare 


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(B.A.  Wellesley  1909),  who  married  Charles  W.  Clement  and 
resides  in  Sunbury,  and  Thomas  Henry  (Ph.B.  1912),  who 
served  with  the  American  Expeditionary  Forces  as  a  First 
Lieutenant  in  the  Gas  and  Flame  Regiment.  Mr.  Beddall 
leaves  his  wife,  two  children,  and  one  grandchild,  Edward  A. 
Beddall,  2d. 


Clarence  Melbury  Smith,  B.A.  1883 

Born  April  18,  1859,  in  Granger,  N.  Y. 
Died  April  28,  191 8,  in  New  Haven,  Conn. 

Clarence  Melbury  Smith,  son  of  William  Mervale  Smith, 
M.D.,  and  Emma  Jane  (Spinks)  Smith,  was  born  April  18, 
1859,  in  Granger,  N.  Y.  His  father,  a  delegate  to  the  National 
Republican  Convention  of  i860,  by  which  Abraham  Lincoln 
was  nominated  for  President,  served  in  the  Civil  War  as 
Regimental  and  Brigade  Surgeon,  and  from  1880  to  1892 
was  health  officer  of  the  Pdrt  of  New  York,  serving  also  during 
this  period  as  a  member  of  the  Board  of  Health  of  the  State, 
as  well  as  of  the  City,  of  New  York.  His  first  American 
ancestor  was  William  Smith,  born  in  161 5,  of  the  Cheshire 
family  of  Smiths,  founded  by  Sir  Thomas  Smith;  he  came  to 
America  on  the  ship  Expectation  in  1635  ^^^  settled  in  Hart- 
ford, Conn.,  in  1644  removed  to  Wethersfield,  where  he  be- 
came clerk  of  the  military  company,  and,  in  the  same  year, 
married  Elizabeth  Stanley,  daughter  of  a  Cheshire  family; 
they  moved  to  Middletown,  Conn.,  in  1645,  ^^^  subsequently 
to  Farmington,  Conn.,  where  William  Smith  died  in  1670. 
His  son  Benjamin  married  Ruth  Loomis,  of  Westfield,  Mass.; 
he  and  his  brother  Johonab  were  captains  in  the  militia  and 
took  part  in  King  Philip's  War.  Benjamin  Smith  moved  to 
Westfield  after  his  marriage,  and  in  1685  purchased  large 
tracts  of  land  in  West  Springfield  which  he  successfully  cul- 
tivated. He  became  prosperous  and  died  in  1738,  leaving 
six  children,  one  of  whom,  Benjamin,  married  Dorcas  Brown, 
daughter  of  Reuben  Brown,  the  founder  of  Sandisfield,Mass. 
One  of  his  grandsons,  Reuben  Smith,  married  in  1790 
Jemima  House,  daughter  of  Benaj ah  House,  a  Captain  in  the 
Revolutionary  Army.   Their  son,   Reuben   H.   Smith,    the 


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grandfather  of  the  subject  of  this  sketch,  married  Orpha  E. 
VanBlarcon  of  Paterson,  N.  J.,  after  completing  his  service  in 
the  War  of  1 8 12,  during  which  he  was  wounded;  he  became  a 
physician  and  surgeon  in  Allegany  County,  N.  Y.  One  of 
Clarence  M.  Smith's  ancestors  was  Capt.  Hans  VanBlarcon, 
who  emigrated  from  Holland  to  America  in  1636  and  settled 
at  Hoboken,  N.  J. 

He  was  prepared  for  Yale  at  the  Friendship  (N.  Y.) 
Academy  and  at  the  Hopkins  Grammar  School  in  New  Haven. 
After  his  graduation  in  1883  he  studied  in  the  Columbia 
Law  School,  from  which  he  received  the  degree  of  LL.B. 
in  1885.  He  practiced  law  in  New  York  until  1893,  acting 
also  for  two  years  as  private  secretary  to  Francis  A.  Hen- 
dricks, collector  of  the  Port  of  New  York.  He  was  for  a  time 
in  the  law  office  of  Judge  James  R.  Angel,  later  being  asso- 
ciated in  practice  with  his  brother,  Frank  Sullivan  Smith. 
In  1894  he  went  to  Denver,  Colo.,  for  the  benefit  of  his 
health,  and  until  1898  was  solicitor  of  the  Equitable  Life 
Assurance  Association,  having  charge  of  certain  branches  of 
the  business  in  Utah,  Wyoming,  Colorado,  New  Mexico,  and 
Arizona,  and  later  in  California,  Oregon,  Washington, 
Nevada,  and  Michigan.  In  1898  he  settled  in  California,  his 
home  being  at  Redlands  until  his  death.  He  had  traveled 
extensively  in  Europe.  As  a  member  of  the  New  York  Ath- 
iletic  Club,  he  won  the  championship  of  the  United  States  in  a 
[half-mile  race,  and  later  won  an  international  championship 
iat  the  Ballsbridge  grounds  at  Dublin,  Ireland,  and  again  at 
Windsor  Castle,  England.  For  several  terms  he  was  presi- 
ident  of  the  American  Football  Union,  and  for  two  years  was 
[a  member  of  the  Clifton  Boat  Club  of  New  York.  He  was  a 
[member  of  the  International  Institute  of  Shanghai,  China, 
and  president  of  the  New  York  Society  of  San  Bernardino 
jCounty,  Calif. 

Mr.  Smith  died  April  28, 191 8,  at  New  Haven,  of  pleurisy, 
fafter  less  than  a  week's  illness.  He  was  buried  in  the  Hillside 
'Cemetery  at  Redlands. 

On  September  9,  1896,  he  married  Millie  Maude,  daughter 
of  Dan  H.  and  Emma  Eugenia  (Everett)  Ball,  of  Marquette, 
Mich.  Mrs.  Smith's  ancestors  included  Roger  Chandler,  who 
came  to  America  in  1658;  Jonathan  Chandler,  a  Revolution- 


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ary  soldier;  John  Marshall,  chief  justice  of  the  Supreme 
Court  of  the  United  States;  and  Noah  Marshall,  who  served 
as  a  member  of  the  Connecticut  Colonial  Legislature  in 
1771,  1774,  and  1775.  She  died  on  April  15,  1905.  They  had 
three  children:  WiUiam  Melbury  (B.A.  1920);  Dan  Clarence 
Andrew,  a  member  of  the  Class  of  1921;  and  Mabel  Emma, 
who  is  about  to  enter  the  University  of  Wisconsin.  Mr. 
Smith's  brother,  Frank  Sullivan  Smith,  who  graduated  from 
Yale  in  1872,  died  November  15, 1920. 


Joseph  Glasby  HoUiday,  B.A.  1884 

Born  September  14,  1 861,  in  St.  Louis,  Mo. 
Died  January  22,  1919,  in  St.  Louis,  Mo. 

Joseph  Glasby  HoUiday,  one  of  the  three  children  of  Samuel 
Newton  and  Maria  Fithian  (Glasby)  HoUiday,  was  born 
September  14, 1 861,  in  St.  Louis,  Mo.  His  father,  who  received 
the  degree  of  B.A.  at  Cumberland  University  in  1855  and  later 
took  up  the  practice  of  law,  was  the  seventh  of  the  nine 
children  of  Joseph  and  Nancy  (McCune)  HoUiday  and  a 
grandson  of  William  HoUiday,  who  was  born  in  County 
Down,  Ireland,  and  came  to  America  in  1772.  Maria  Glasby 
HoUiday  was  the  daughter  of  Alban  H.  and  Nancy  (Adams) 
Glasby.  Her  grandfather,  WUliam  Glasby,  was  a  native  of 
Pennsylvania,  and  his  wife,  Ruth  Ann  Reid,  was  of  English 
Quaker  ancestry. 

Joseph  G.  HoUiday  received  his  preparatory  training  at 
Smith  Academy,  St.  Louis.  He  was  given  a  Junior  first  dis- 
pute and  a  Senior  oration  appointment,  and  divided  the  Scott 
Prize  in  French  Senior  year.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Class 
Supper  Committee. 

After  graduating,  he  studied  law  at  Washington  Univer- 
sity, St.  Louis,  where  he  received  the  degree  of  LL.B., 
magna  cum  laude,  in  1886.  Since  that  time  he  had  practiced 
law  in  St.  Louis,  at  first  with  his  father,  and  later  alone,  devot- 
ing himself  principally  to  probate  matters.  In  1907  he  was 
president  of  the  Yale  Alumni  Association  of  St.  Louis.  He 
w^s  a  member  of  the  Presbyterian  Church  (South),  and  for 


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twenty-eight  years  served  as  deacon  and  elder  of  the  Central 
Presbyterian  Church  in  St.  Louis. 

His  death  occurred  in  that  city,  January  22,  1919,  as  a 
result  of  a  combination  of  diseases,  culminating  in  pleurisy. 
Interment  was  in  Bellefontaine  Cemetery. 

He  was  married  July  15,  1885,  in  Kansas  City,  Mo.,  to 
Harriet  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Richard  Nichols  and  Harriet 
(Wiles)  Alexander.  His  wife  survives  him  with  their  six  chil- 
dren: Samuel  Newton  (B.A.  1908);  Ida  Rebecca  (B.A.  Smith 
1 9 10),  who  was  married  April  10,  191 2,  to  Charles  Edward 
Bascom,  ^a:-'oo  S.;  Joseph  Harrison  (B.A.  19 13),  who  served 
for  a  time  in  the  Aviation  Service  and  later  was  a  candidate 
for  a  commission  at  the  Central  Officers'  Training  School  at 
Camp  Zachary  Taylor,  Kentucky;  Florence  Alexander,  who 
was  married  October  26, 19 14,  to  F.  H.  Coester,  a  Captain  in 
the  U.  S.  Army;  Elizabeth  Harriet;  and  Richard  Alexander. 
Mr.  Holliday  was  a  cousin  of  Joseph  W.  Wear  (B.A.  1899), 
James  H.  Wear  (B.A.  1901),  and  Arthur  Y.  Wear  (B.A.  1902). 
A  sketch  of  the  latter's  life  appears  on  another  page  of  this 
record. 


William  Williams  Crehore,  B.A.  1886 

Born  February  3,  1864,  in  Cleveland,  Ohio 
Died  September  13,  191 8,  in  Los  Angeles,  Calif. 

William  Williams  Crehore,  who  was  the  oldest  son  of  John 
avenport  and  Lucy  (Williams)  Crehore,  was  born  February 
3,  1864,  in  Cleveland,  Ohio.  His  father  was  the  son  of  George 
and  Hannah  (Davenport)  Crehore.  The  first  member  of  the 
Crehore  family  to  settle  in  America  came  from  England  to 
Milton,  Mass.,  in  the  seventeenth  century.  William  Crehore's 
mother  was  the  daughter  of  William  and  Laura  (Fitch) 
Williams,  of  Cleveland,  and  a  descendant  of  the  Tudor, 
Porter,  and  Mygatt  families. 
He  received  his  early  training  at  the  Cleveland  High  School 
nd  under  the  instruction  of  his  father,  entering  Yale  as  a 
Sophomore  with  the  Class  of  1885.  He  suffered  a  compound 
fracture  of  the  leg  in  a  railroad  accident  to  the  Yale  Glee 
Club's  car  in  1885,  which  forced  him  to  drop  back  a  year  and 


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graduate  with  the  Class  of  1886.  In  Senior  year  he  received  a 
first  dispute  appointment  and  special  honors  and  a  first  prize 
in  mathematics.  He  was  a  member  of  the  University  Glee 
Club  and  the  College  Choir. 

He  tutored  in  a  private  family  for  a  year  after  graduation, 
and  then  returned  to  New  Haven  to  study  engineering  in 
the  Sheffield  Scientific  School  on  one  of  the  Larned  scholar- 
ships. He  graduated  with  the  degree  of  Ph.B.  in  June,  1888, 
and  during  the  next  two  years  was  principal  of  the  Hemenway 
High  School  at  Norfolk,  Va.  In  1890  he  went  to  Pottstown, 
Pa.,  to  take  a  position  with  the  Philadelphia  Bridge  Works, 
and  later  spent  several  months  in  the  bridge  engineer's  office 
of  the  Baltimore  &  Ohio  Railroad,  at  Baltimore.  He  then 
became  assistant  to  the  engineer  and  chief  draftsman  of  the 
Wallis  Iron  Works  at  Jersey  City,  N.  J.  In  the  autumn  of 
1892  he  established  himself  in  New  York  as  a  civil  and 
mechanical  engineer  and  as  a  consulting  engineer  on  con- 
struction. He  designed  and  supervised  the  construction  of 
factory  buildings,  power  houses,  hotels,  office  buildings,  and 
other  structures  in  New  York  and  in  other  cities  throughout 
the  country.  The  American  Tract  Society  building,  the 
Y.  M.  C.  A.  building,  and  the  St.  Nicholas  Skating  Rink  are 
among  the  two  hundred  New  York  buildings  which  he  de- 
signed and  approved.  He  found  a  solution  to  many  of  the 
engineering  difficulties  involved  in  the  construction  of  some 
of  the  conspicuous  buildings  in  New  York.  The  dome  of  the 
New  York  Clearing  House,  the  roof  of  the  St.  Nicholas 
Skating  Rink,  and  a  business  block  on  Seventeenth  Street 
which  rests  on  a  quicksand  are  representative  evidence  of  his 
ability  in  coping  with  engineering  problems.  In  1894  he  formed 
the  Structural  Engineering  Company,  becoming  its  president. 
This  company  was  dissolved  in  1904.  In  1899  he  moved  from 
Hackensack  to  Elizabeth,  N.  J.,  and  since  the  fall  of  191 5  he 
had  lived  in  Beaumont,  Calif.,  where  he  had  gone  after  several 
years  of  failing  health.  Since  1906  he  had  been  president  of 
the  Typewriting  Telegraph  Company.  He  was  an  associate 
member  of  the  American  Society  of  Civil  Engineers  and  a 
member  of  the  Yale  Engineering  Association  and  of  the 
Authors'  League  of  America.  Mr.  Crehore  was  the  author  of 
''Tables  and  Diagrams  for  Engineers  and  Architects,"  pub- 


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lished  in  1894,  and  "Protection  Brood,"  published  in  191 2. 
He  also  contributed  an  article  on  "Theoretical  Considerations 
of  Design,"  to  the  second  edition  of  Foster's  "Wooden 
Trestle  Bridges,"  and  a  chapter  on  "Modern  High  Build- 
ings," to  the  tenth  edition  of  Professor  DuBois'  "Strains  in 
Framed  Structures."  He  belonged  to  the  Episcopal  Church. 

He  died  in  Los  Angeles,  Calif.,  September  13,  191 8,  of 
pulmonary  tuberculosis.  Services  were  conducted  by  the  dean 
of  the  Pro-Cathedral  and  were  attended  by  several  Yale  men. 
The  remains  were  cremated  and  brought  East. 

Mr.  Crehore  was  married  July  11,  1888,  in  Noroton, 
Conn.,  to  Anna,  daughter  of  Frank  W.  and  Anna  Judson 
(Marten)  Ballard.  They  had  nine  children:  Edith  Mayes, 
who  was  married  March  31,  1917,  to  Elwood  Earl  Totten, 
who  served  with  the  Coast  Artillery  in  France  for  nearly  two 
years;  John  Davenport,  a  Second  Lieutenant  (Military 
Aviator)  in  the  Regular  Army,  who  returned  from  service  in 
Germany  in  August,  1919;  Austen  Ballard,  who  was  on  the 
French  front  with  the  Lafayette  Flying  Corps,  Escadrille 
Spad  94,  from  November,  19 17,  to  January,  191 9,  and  was 
decorated  with  the  Croix  de  Guerre,  with  palms;  William 
Williams,  Jr.  (B.A.  1917),  who  held  a  Captain's  commission 
in  the  25th  Balloon  Company  and  spent  seven  months  with 
the  American  Expeditionary  Forces;  Frank  Halsted,  who 
enlisted  as  a  Cadet  in  the  Air  Service  and  trained  at  a  ground 
school;  Lucy  Fitch;  Amy  Hope  Ballard;  Anna  Marten;  and 
Elizabeth  Peirce.  Mr.  Crehore  is  survived  by  his  wife  and 
children,  whose  home  is  in  Westfield,  N.  J.,  a  brother,  Albert 
Cushing  Crehore  (B.A.  1890),  of  Cleveland,  and  a  sister, 
Mary,  the  wife  of  Dr.  Frederick  Bedell  (B.A.  1890),  of 
Cornell  University. 


Wilson  Brooks,  B.A.  1887 

Born  April  7,  1866,  in  Derby,  Conn. 
Died  October  9,  19 18,  in  Chicago,  111. 

Wilson  Brooks  was  born  in  Derby,  Conn.,  April  7,  1866. 
His  father,  William  Eustis  Brooks  (B.A.  Colby  1862,  D.D. 
Colby  1890),  the  son  of  George  and  Anna  (Eustis)  Brooks, 


952  YALE    COLLEGE 

was  enrolled  in  the  Yale  Divinity  School  with  the  Class 
of  1865.  He  was  a  Congregational  minister,  and  from  1880 
to  1885  was  president  of  Tillotson  Collegiate  and  Normal 
Institute,  Austin,  Texas.  During  the  Civil  War  he  was  a 
Captain  in  the  i6th  Maine  Volunteers.  His  ancestors  came 
from  the  north  of  Ireland  to  America  about  1740.  Wilson 
Brooks'  mother,  Angie  Richardson  (Wilson)  Brooks,  was  the 
daughter  of  Rev.  Adam  Wilson,  D.D.,  and  Sallie  (Ricker) 
Wilson.  Her  father's  ancestors  came  to  this  country  about 
1720,  while  her  mother's  family,  the  Rickets,  came  from 
England  about  1670  and  settled  near  Dover,  N.  H. 

His  boyhood  was  spent  in  Clinton  and  West  Haven,  Conn., 
and  in  Austin,  Texas.  He  prepared  himself  for  college  under 
his  father's  instruction. 

Since  graduation  Mr.  Brooks'  home  had  been  in  Chicago. 
From  1887  ^^  1^9^  he  was  engaged  in  the  publication  of  the 
Chicago  Red  Book,  under  the  firm  name  of  Brooks  &  Burton. 
In  the  fall  of  1890  he  was  elected  a  member  of  the  Illinois 
Legislature,  where  he  served  for  two  years.  From  1891  to 
1894  he  was  in  the  cement  contracting  business,  as  secretary  of 
the  Glanitel  Pavement  Company,  and  during  the  next  seven 
years  he  was  secretary  of  the  Tecumseh  Mutual  Life  Asso- 
ciation. He  was  also  secretary  and  treasurer  of  the  Maxwell 
Clay  Company  of  Chicago,  and  chairman  of  the  executive 
committee  of  the  West  End  Improvement  Club.  In  Septem- 
ber, 1900,  he  was  elected  Great  Chief  of  Records  (national 
secretary)  of  the  Great  Council  of  the  United  States  of  the 
Improved  Order  of  Red  Men,  a  position  which  required  his 
entire  time  and  extensive  travel  through  the  United  States. 
In  1906  he  visited  Panama  and  established  the  Order  in  the 
Canal  Zone.  He  was  a  Republican,  and  active  in  various 
campaigns  up  to  the  time  of  his  election  to  the  Improved 
Order  of  Red  Men.  He  delivered  many  addresses  of  a  frater- 
nal nature  which  were  published. 

His  death  occurred  October  9,  191 8,  in  Chicago,  as  a  result 
of  a  compound  fracture  of  the  leg  and  other  injuries  received 
in  an  automobile  accident.  Burial  was  in  Mount  Hope  Ceme- 
tery, Chicago. 

Mr.  Brooks  was  married  June  21,  1894,  in  Austin,  Texas, 
to.  Mary   Townsend,   daughter   of  Jonathan   Andrew   and 


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Emily  C.  (Townsend)  Baker.  He  is  survived  by  his  wife  and 
two  adopted  sons,  Joseph  Baker  and  William  Newton.  Mr. 
Brooks  also  leaves  two  brothers,  William  E.  Brooks,  of  St. 
Louis,  and  Clayton  Kingman  Brooks  (B.A.  Colby  1898), 
and  a  sister,  Ida  May  (Mrs.  E.  E.  Rouse,  of  Benton  Harbor, 
Mich.).  A  son,  Frederick  Wiley,  born  March  8,  1905,  died 
December  26,  19 10. 


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William  Savage  Burns,  B.A.  1887 

Born  January  18,  1866,  in  Litchfield,  111. 
Died  May  2,  1919,  in  Bath,  N.  Y. 


William  Savage  Burns,  the  eldest  son  of  William  Stewart 
and  Sophie  Lake  (Savage)  Burns,  was  born  January  18, 
1866,  in  Litchfield,  111.  His  father,  who  was  a  civil  engineer 
in  early  life,  served  three  years  in  the  Civil  War  with  the 
4th  (Union)  Missouri  Cavalry,  and  was  Acting  Assistant 
Inspector  General  of  the  i6th  Army  Corps.  William  Stewart 
[Burns'  father,  Andrew  Burns,  came  from  the  north  of  Ire- 
land, and  his  mother,  Mary  (MacLachlan)  Burns,  from 
[Scotland.  His  wife  was  the  daughter  of  Moses  Buckley  and 
[Sophie  (Lake)  Savage.  Her  ancestors  were  English  and  were 
;arly  settlers  in  Middletown,  Conn. 

He  was  fitted  for  college  at  the  Haverling  High  School, 
[Bath,  N.  Y.  In  Freshman  year  he  received  a  Berkeley  Prize 
[for  Latin  composition.  He  was  elected  to  Phi  Beta  Kappa, 
[and  received  high  oration  appointments  in  Junior  and  Senior 
years.  He  was  Class  Historian,  and  a  frequent  contributor 
[to  the  Record. 

He  taught  three  months  in  the  Haverling  High  School 
Lt  Bath  after  graduating  from  Yale,  and  then  for  one  year 
'was  instructor  in  Latin  and  English  at  the  Granville  (Ohio) 
Academy.  In  the  fall  of  1889  ^^  entered  the  New  York  State 
Library  School  in  Albany,  from  which  he  received  the  degree 
of  B.L.S.  in  1 891 .  In  October  of  that  year  he  became  librarian 
of  the  State  Normal  School  in  Ypsilanti,  Mich.  From  1892 
to  1895  h^  w^s  cataloguer  in  the  State  Library  at  Albany, 
N.  Y.  In  1893  he  was  engaged  by  the  American  Library 
Association   to  prepare   a  catalogue  of  the  Albany   State 


954  YALE    COLLEGE 

Library  to  be  exhibited  at  the  World's  Fair  at  Chicago. 
From  1895  to  1907  he  was  cataloguer  and  indexer  in  the 
office  of  the  Superintendent  of  Public  Documents  (a  branch 
of  the  Government  Printing  Office)  in  W.ashington,  D.  C. 
He  resigned  this  position  in  1907  and  returned  to  Bath, 
where  he  spent  the  remainder  of  his  life,  endeavoring  to  regain 
his  health.  He  was  a  trustee  of  the  Davenport  Library  in 
Bath,  and  a  former  member  of  the  American  Library  Asso- 
ciation, the  New  York  State  Library  Association,  and  the 
District  of  Columbia  Library  Association,  of  which  latter  he 
was  treasurer  during  1904-05.  He  contributed  two  short 
articles  to  the  Library  Journal  iox  September,  1903,  and  May, 
1907,  respectively,  and  compiled  a  Bibliography  of  the 
Writings  of  the  Class  of  1887  in  Yale  College,  for  the  Vicen- 
nial Record  of  the  Class,  which  was  reprinted  separately  in 
1909.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Presbyterian  Church  of  Bath. 

Mr.  Burns  died  suddenly,  after  a  paralytic  stroke.  May  2, 
1919,  in  that  town,  and  was  buried  in  Nondaga  Cemetery. 

He  had  never  married.  He  is  survived  by  a  sister.  Miss 
S.  Fanny  Burns  of  Bath.  He  was  a  cousin  of  Charles  Cameron 
Clarke  (B.A.  1883)  and  Francis  Cameron  Clarke  (B.A.  1887). 


Robert  Alexander  Gardiner,  B.A.  1887 

Born  October  16,  1863,  in  New  Brighton,  N.  Y. 
Died  April  26,  1 919,  in  New  York  City 

Robert  Alexander  Gardiner  was  born  October  16,  1863, 
at  New  Brighton,  Staten  Island,  N.  Y.  His  father,  David 
Lion  Gardiner  (B.A.  Princeton  1836),  who  was  a  lawyer  and 
an  aide  de  camp  to  President  John  Tyler,  was  the  son  of 
Senator  David  Gardiner  and  Juliane  (McLackland)  Gardiner, 
and  a  descendant  of  Lion  Gardiner,  who  arrived  at  Boston, 
November  28,  1635,  ^"  ^^^  own  boat,  a  north  sea  barque  of 
twenty-five  tons.  Lion  Gardiner  commanded  Saybrook  Fort 
from  1635  to  1639,  ^^^  bought  Gardiner's  Island  from  the 
Indians  in  1639.  This  was  the  first  English  settlement  in  New 
York  State.  James  II  of  England  made  it  a  Lordship  and 
Manor,  and  Queen  Anne  made  it  an  "Independent  Planta- 


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tion";  it  is  said  to  be  the  only  manor  in  America  which  has 
remained  intact.  The  present  proprietor,  the  thirteenth  Lord 
of  the  Manor,  is  a  cousin  of  Robert  A.  Gardiner.  The  latter's 
mother  was  Sarah  Gardiner  (Thompson)  Gardiner,  daughter 
of  David  and  Sarah  Diodati  (Gardiner)  Thompson,  and  a 
descendant  ofjudge  Thompson,  of  Saglikos  Manor,  Bayshore, 
Long  Island. 

Before  entering  Yale  he  attended  various  preparatory 
schools  abroad,  including  a  school  in  Geneva,  the  Magnelin 
School  at  Vevey,  Switzerland,  and  the  Lycee  de  Tours,  Tours, 
France.  He  also  studied  under  private  tutors  in  New 
Haven.  In  college  he  was  a  member  of  the  Senior  Promenade 
Committee. 

After  graduating,  he  was  for  a  short  period  at  the  Colum- 
bia Law  School,  but  most  of  his  time  had  been  devoted  to 
the  management  of  his  estates  and  to  extensive  traveling. 
He  divided  his  time  between  London  and  New  York.  Mr. 
Gardiner  was  not  only  well-known  in  financial  circles,  but 
also  in  the  art  world,  as  a  collector  of  rare  prints  and  engrav- 
ings. He  had  refused  many  offers  for  positions  in  Wall  Street 
firms  and  for  diplomatic  posts.  He  was  a  member  of  the 
Travelers  Club  of  Paris,  the  Society  of  Colonial  Wars,  the 
Colonial  Order  of  the  Acorn,  and  the  American  Geographical 
Society  of  New  York. 

He  died,  of  intestinal  influenza,  April  26,  1919,  at  his  home 
in  New  York  City.  Interment  was  in  the  old  cemetery  at 
East  Hampton,  Long  Island. 

His  marriage  took  place  in  London,  February  22,  1909, 
to  Norah  Loftus  of  Mt.  Loftus,  Kilkenny,  Ireland,  daughter 
of  John  Loftus  Murphy  and  Belinda  Creagh  (now  Mrs. 
Lindsay  Coates).  Mrs.  Gardiner's  father  assumed  the  name 
of  Loftus  on  inheriting  the  estate  of  his  uncle.  Sir  Francis 
Loftus;  he  was  justice  of  the  peace,  high  sheriff,  and  deputy 
lieutenant  for  County  Kilkenny.  Mr.  Gardiner  is  survived  by 
his  wife  and  two  children,  Alexandra  Diodati  and  Robert 
David  Lion. 


956  YALE    COLLEGE 

Asa  Oran  Gallup,  B.A.  1888 

Born  September  24,  1865,  in  Alexandria,  Va. 
Died  October  18,  19 18,  in  Bronxville,  N.  Y. 

Asa  Oran  Gallup  was  born  September  24,  1865,  in  Alex- 
andria, Va.,  being  the  son  of  Asa  Oran  and  Wealthy  Philena 
(Palmer)  Gallup.  His  paternal  grandparents  were  Lodowick 
and  Margaret  (Phelps)  Gallup,  and  among  his  ancestors  on 
that  side  of  the  family  were  John  Gallup,  who  came  from 
England  to  America  and  settled  at  Mystic,  Conn.,  about 
1 63 1,  and  Nathan  Gallup,  a  Colonel  in  the  27th  Connecticut 
Regiment  during  the  Revolution.  His  mother  was  the  daugh- 
ter of  Elisha  and  Lovicy  (Davis)  Palmer,  and  a  descendant 
of  Samuel  Davis,  who  fought  under  Washington,  and  of 
Walter  Palmer,  who  settled  at  Stonington,  Conn.,  in  1629, 
having  come  to  this  country  from  Nottinghamshire,  England. 

He  was  prepared  for  college  at  Howard  University,  Wash- 
ington, D.  C,  at  the  Dwight  School  in  New  York  City,  and 
under  a  private  tutor  in  Oneida,  N.  Y.  He  received  a  Junior 
dissertation  ^and  a  Senior  oration  appointment,  and  was 
given  one-year  honors  in  English  at  graduation. 

The  first  year  after  taking  his  degree  he  taught  at  a  private 
school  in  Evanston,  Ind.  In  September,  1889,  he  was  ap- 
pointed examiner  in  science  for  the  New  York  State  Univer- 
sity at  Albany,  and  from  June,  1890,  to  July,  1 891,  he  was  in 
the  Regents'  office,  at  first  as  report  clerk  and  then  as  chief 
clerk.  From  1893  to  1895  he  was  deputy  secretary  of  Regents 
at  Albany,  and  on  September  10,  1895,  he  was  appointed 
Regents'  deputy  secretary  for  New  York  City.  From  1895  to 
1904  he  was  president  of  the  directors,  and  treasurer  of  the 
New  York  Preparatory  School  System,  and  lecturer  on 
English  and  political  and  elementary  science  at  the  Dwight 
Preparatory  School  in  New  York.  Since  1900  he  had  been 
secretary  and  treasurer,  and  manager  of  the  Lake  Placid 
Club  in  the  Adirondacks,  and  during  1906-07  he  was  also 
general  manager  of  the  Belle  Terre  Club,  Port  Jefferson, 
Long  Island.  From  1902  to  1904  he  was  manager  of  the  sales 
department  of  the  American  Real  Estate  Company  of  New 


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York  City.  In  1903  he  received  the  degree  of  LL.B.  from  the 
New  York  Law  School,  and  passed  the  New  York  Bar 
examinations.  He  did  not,  however,  engage  in  the  active 
practice  of  law  until  some  years  later.  In  1908  he  was  elected 
a  director  of  the  Lake  Placid  Board  of  Trade  and  president 
of  the  Lake  Placid  section  of  the  Anti-Saloon  League.  He 
also  served  in  that  year  as  a  presidential  elector  on  the 
Republican  ticket.  In  191 2  he  was  elected  a  member  of  the 
Board  of  Education  at  Lake  Placid.  In  August,  191 2,  he  be- 
came secretary  of  the  Exposition  Pier  Company,  at  Atlantic 
City,  N.  J.,  but  was  forced  to  resign  in  September,  on  account 
of  illness  due  to  neurasthenia.  In  I9i4he  was  promoting  a 
club  for  transient  visitors  to  New  York  City,  and  the  Oseetah 
Lake  Club  in  the  Adirondacks.  At  this  time  he  also  practiced 
law  in  Oneida,  N.  Y.  Toward  the  end  of  19 14  he  removed  from 
Oneida  and  became  connected  with  the  Hotel  Gramatan, 
Bronxville,  N.  Y.,  first  as  vice  president  of  the  hotel  company 
and  then  as  its  manager.  In  1916  he  became  interested  in  de- 
veloping the  Ampersand  and  Algonquin  properties  at  Saranac 
Lake  for  the  Ga-Ko-Mas  Club.  He  was  a  member  and  trustee 
of  the  Adirondack  Baptist  Church  of  Lake  Placid,  and  chair- 
man of  its  improvement  committee. 

Mr.  Gallup  died  October  18,  191 8,  in  Bronxville,  after  a 
lingering  illness  due  to  cardio  vascular  disease.  Interment 
was  in  Alene,  N.  Y. 

His  marriage  to  Almira,  daughter  of  Manford  Joel  and 
Almira  (Hall)  Dewey,  occurred  June  29,  1889,  in  Oneida, 
N.  Y.  His  wife  survives  with  their  two  children.  Arietta 
Marie  (B.A.  Vassar  191 2),  who  was  married  October  14, 
1914,  to  Nathaniel  Ambrose  (B.A.  Dartmouth  1914),  and  Asa 
Oran,  Jr.  (B.A.  1917).  Mr.  Gallup  was  a  nephew  of  Nathan 
Gallup  (B.A.  1823),  a  cousin  of  William  M.  Gallup  (B.A. 
1886),  and  a  brother-in-law  of  Harry  M.  Dewey  (B.A.  1899) 
and  George  A.  Dewey  (B.A.  1902). 


958  YALE    COLLEGE 

Howard  Hunter  Williams,  B.A.  i 

Born  November  ii,  1869,  in  North  Adams,  Mass. 
Died  December  10,  191 8,  in  Plainfield,  N.  J. 

Howard  Hunter  Williams,  son  of  Charles  Howard  and 
Mary  (Hunter)  Williams,  was  born  November  11,  1869, 
in  North  Adams,  Mass.  His  father,  a  lawyer,  was  the  son  of 
Isaac  and  Lucretia  (Dawes)  Williams,  and  his  mother  was 
the  daughter  of  James  and  Janet  Hunter.  His  ancestors  were 
of  English  Puritan  and  Scotch  blood,  and  he  traced  his 
descent  to  Richard  Warren  and  Sir  William  Wallace,  who 
came  over  in  the  Mayflower. 

He  received  his  early  training  at  Drury  Academy  in  his 
native  town.  He  had  an  oration  stand  both  at  Junior  Exhibi- 
tion and  at  Commencement,  and  received  one-year  honors  in 
political  science,  history,  and  law  at  Commencement. 

He  studied  at  the  Columbia  Law  School  after  graduation 
and  in  June,  1891,  was  admitted  to  the  New  York  Bar.  He 
was  later  admitted  to  the  bars  of  Connecticut  and  Massa- 
chusetts, and  to  the  United  States  Supreme  Court  Bar.  He 
devoted  his  attention  mainly  to  corporation  and  insurance 
law,  being  engaged  in  practice  with  his  father  from  1891 
until  the  latter's  death  in  19 10.  He  was  afterwards  associated 
in  practice  with  his  brother,  James  Dawes  Williams  (B.A. 
1894).  He  was  executive  counsel  for  the  United  States  Fire 
Insurance  Company,  vice  president  of  the  Union  Paper 
Company,  president  of  the  American  Reserve  Fund,  and 
director  of  all  three  of  the  above  organizations,  as  well  as  of 
the  Alliance  Trust  &  Guaranty  Company,  the  United  States 
Realty  Company,  and  the  International  Insurance  Company 
of  New  York.  He  was  a  member  of  the  New  York  and  New 
Jersey  Bar  associations,  the  Lawyers'  Club,  and  the  American 
Academy  of  Political  Science.  He  had  served  as  secretary  of 
the  Republican  organization  in  his  district,  and  had  taken  an 
active  part  in  civic  and  charitable  work  in  Plainfield.  He  was 
chairman  of  the  legal  committee  of  the  Charity  Organization 
Society,  a  member  of  the  executive  committee  of  the  Red 
Cross,  and  chairman  of  the  Armenian  Relief  Committee. 

He  died  at  his  home  in  Plainfield,  December  10,  191 8,  of 


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bronchial  pneumonia,  following  influenza.  Interment  was  in 
Hillside  Cemetery,  Plainfield. 

Mr.  Williams  was  married  April  14,  1898,  in  Milton,  Pa., 
to  Adele  Margaret,  daughter  of  Charles  Heber  and  Joy 
Carter  Dickerman.  He  is  survived  by  his  wife  and  two  sons, 
Charles  Dickerman,  who  is  a  member  of  the  Class  of  1922  at 
Yale,  and  Howard  Hunter,  Jr.  He  was  a  grandnephew  of 
Henry  L.  Dawes  (B.A.  1839)  ^^^  ^  cousin  of  Edward  K. 
Rawson  (B.A.  1868)  and  Chester  M.  Dawes  (B.A.  1876). 

Louis  Lawton  Hopkins,  B.A.  1891 

Born  July  14,  1869,  in  Jersey  City,  N.  J. 
Died  November  2,  191 8,  in  New  York  City 

Louis  Lawton  Hopkins,  one  of  the  six  children  of  Charles 
A.  and  Sarah  Louise  (Austin)  Hopkins,  was  born  July  14, 
1869,  in  Jersey  City,  N.  J.  His  father  held  the  position  of 
general  agent  of  the  Mutual  Life  Insurance  Company  of 
New  York  from  1876  to  1902.  Stephen  Hopkins  of  Rhode 
Island,  one  of  the  signers  of  the  Declaration  of  Independence, 
was  an  ancestor. 

He  received  his  preparatory  training  at  the  English  and 
Classical  School  in  Providence,  R.  I.  In  college  he  was  given 
a  first  colloquy  appointment  both  Junior  and  Senior  years. 
He  was  a  member  of  the  Yale  Glee  Club  and  the  College 
Choir. 

He  spent  two  years  at  the  Harvard  Law  School  after 
graduation, 'and  then  entered  the  insurance  business.  From 
1894  to  1906  he  was  manager  of  the  Mutual  Life  Insurance 
Company  of  Boston,  Mass.,  and  for  the  next  seven  years 
served  as  general  manager  of  the  Union  Central  Life  Insur- 
ance Company  in  New  York  City.  In  1914  he  became  vice 
president  of  the  Johnston  &  Collins  Company  of  New  York, 
and  from  191 5  to  April,  191 6,  he  was  vice  president  and  treas- 
urer of  Craigie  &  Hopkins,  Ltd.,  exporters.  At  the  time  of  his 
death  he  was  vice  president  of  the  Industrial  Management 
Company  of  New  York  City.  Mr.  Hopkins  was  a  trustee  of 
the  Northfield  (Mass.)  Seminary.  He  was  a  member  of  the 
Loyal  Legion  and  a  deacon  of  the  Fifth  Avenue  Presbyterian 
Church. 


960  YALE    COLLEGE 

His  death  occurred  November  2,  191 8,  in  New  York  City, 
as  a  result  of  injuries  received  in  a  street  car  accident.  He 
had  not  been  in  good  health  for  the  past  two  years. 

Mr.  Hopkins  was  married  April  4,  1895,  in  New  York  City, 
to  Maude  I.,  daughter  of  Daniel  H.  and  Mary  M.  (Beers) 
Hopkinson.  She  survives  with  one  daughter,  Marian. 


Arthur  Marvin,  B.A.  1891 

Born  August  25,  1867,  at  Fly  Creek,  N.  Y. 
Died  September  26,  191 8,  in  Washington,  D.  C. 

Arthur  Marvin,  son  of  George  Harmon  and  Ann  Eliza 
(Miller)  Marvin,  was  born  August  25,  1867,  at  Fly  Creek, 
N.  Y.  His  father,  who  was  a  Methodist  minister,  was  the  son 
of  Rev.  Martin  Marvin  and  Sarah  (Eddy)  Marvin.  His 
mother  was  the  daughter  of  Henry  and  Mary  (Soule)  Miller, 
and  a  descendant  of  George  Soule,  who  came  to  this  country 
on  the  Mayflower.  His  father  was  descended  from  Matthew 
Marvin,  who  came  to  America  on  the  Increase  in  1635,  was 
one  of  the  early  settlers  of  Hartford,  Conn.,  and  in  1650 
became  one  of  the  pioneer  settlers  at  Norwalk,  Conn.  A 
namesake  of  Matthew  Marvin,  a  descendant  of  his  older 
brother,  Reinold  Marvin,  graduated  from  Yale  in  1785. 
Henry  Miller,  Arthur  Marvin's  maternal  grandfather,  was 
one  of  the  early  settlers  of  Dubuque,  Iowa;  he  was  a  member 
of  the  famous  ''Greybeard  Regiment"  of  Civil  War  times. 

He  received  his  preparatory  training  at  the  Cooperstown 
(N.  Y.)  High  School.  He  then  studied  at  Syracuse  Univer- 
sity, entering  Yale  as  a  Sophomore  with  the  Class  of  1891. 
His  Senior  appointment  was  a  dissertation. 

From  1 891  to  1892  he  taught  Latin  and  German  in  the 
Ball  High  School,  Galveston,  Texas,  and  during  the  next  five 
years  he  was  an  instructor  in  German  and  English  in  the 
Hopkins  Grammar  School  in  New  Haven.  He  received  the 
degree  of  M.A.  from  Yale  in  1896.  From  1897  to«i905  he  was 
principal  of  the  Union  Classical  Institute  in  Schenectady, 
N.  Y.,  which  combines  the  preparatory  department  of  Union 
University  and  the  high   school  of  Schenectady.   He  was 


1891  9^1 

instrumental  in  securing  the  erection  of  a  new  high  school 
building  in  Schenectady.  In  September,  1905,  he  was  ap- 
pointed registrar  of  the  Sheffield  Scientific  School,  with  the 
rank  of  an  assistant  professor.  He  held  this  position  for  nine 
years,  and  then  was  associated  successively  with  R.  Hoe  & 
Company  of  New  York  City  and  the  Niles-Bement-Pond 
Company.  From  March,  19 16,  until  April,  191 8,  he  was  with 
the  Pratt  &  Whitney  Company  (a  subsidiary  of  the  Niles- 
Bement-Pond  Company),  of  Hartford,  Conn.,  assisting  in  the 
installation  of  a  new  time  and  cost  system.  Since  April,  1918, 
he  had  been  stationed  in  Washington,  D.  C,  as  head  of  the 
Materiel  Control  Branch,  Project  Section  of  Estimates  and 
Requirements,  Ordnance  Department.  He  had  previously 
been  connected  for  several  months  with  the  Supply  and 
Equipment  Division  of  the  Quartermaster  Corps.  He  died 
at  the  Garfield  Hospital  in  Washington,  September  26,  191 8, 
after  an  illness  of  three  weeks,  due  to  a  nervous  breakdown. 
Burial  was  in  the  Milford  (N.  Y.)  Cemetery. 

Mr.  Marvin  was  the  editor  of  a  students'  edition  of  Irving's 
"Alhambra,"  published  in  1895,  and  of  Selected  Essays  from 
Irving's  "Sketch  Book,"  published  in  1901.  In  December, 
1903,  he  presented  to  the  Convention  of  Associated  Academic 
Principals  in  Syracuse,  a  report  on  the  * 'Proposed  Study  of 
English  in  the  Secondary  Schools  of  New  York  State." 
He  was  a  member  of  the  Modern  Language  Association  and 
of  the  National  Educational  Association  and  a  trustee  of  the 
Suffield  (Conn.)  School.  In  April,  19 10,  he  was  elected  a  gov- 
ernor of  the  Connecticut  Society  of  the  Founders  and  Patriots 
of  America,  and  in  191 1  was  reelected.  He  was  a  member  of 
Trinity  Protestant  Episcopal  Church,  New  Haven. 

His  marriage  took  place  August  25,  1891,  in  Cooperstown, 
N.  Y.,  to  Perthenia  Weeks,  daughter  of  Charles  Lee  and 
Henrietta  Hood  (Weeks)  Root.  Mrs.  Marvin's  death  oc- 
curred in  August,  1920.  Their  four  children  survive: 
Dorothea,  who  graduated  from  the  Connecticut  College  for 
Women  in  1920;  Donald,  a  member  of  the  Yale  Class  of 
1922;  Beatrice  Blanche;  and  Vincent.  Mr.  Marvin's  mother 
is  also  living.  Lyttleton  Fox,  '02,  is  a  cousin. 


962  YALE    COLLEGE 

Ralph  Carr  Powell,  B.A.  1892 

Born  January  21,  1869,  in  Cincinnati,  Ohio 
Died  June  28,  1919,  in  Pittsburgh,  Pa. 

Ralph  Carr  Powell,  son  of  Henry  and  Susan  (Berrall) 
Powell,  was  born  January  21,  1869,  in  Cincinnati,  Ohio. 
His  father,  who  was  a  manufacturer,  was  the  son  of  William 
and  Elizabeth  (Carr)  Powell.  He  came  to  Ohio  from  England 
in  1835,  while  his  wife,  whose  parents  were  William  and  Mary 
(Skrine)  Berrall,  came  from  London  to  Cincinnati  in  1852. 

He  received  his  preparatory  training  at  the  Woodward 
High  School  in  Cincinnati.  At  Yale  he  was  for  a  year  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Banjo  and  Mandolin  Club. 

After  graduating  he  studied  science  at  Cincinnati  Uni- 
versity in  preparation  for  the  Civil  Service  examinations,  and 
in  January,  1895,  ^^  received  an  appointment  as  fourth 
assistant  examiner  in  the  Patent  Office  in  Washington,  D.  C. 
In  July,  1895, 1^^  was  promoted  to  the  grade  of  third  assistant 
examiner.  In  1898  he  received  the  degree  of  LL.B.  from  the 
National  Law  School,  Washington,  D.  C,  and  he  was  later 
admitted  to  the  bars  of  the  District  of  Columbia  and  New 
York  State.  He  left  the  Patent  Office  in  January,  1902,  and 
formed  a  partnership  with  Richard  P.  Elliott  under  the  firm 
name  of  Elliott  &  Powell,  for  the  practice  of  patent  law. 
From  October,  1902,  to  January,  1906,  he  was  junior  partner 
in  the  firm  of  Emory,  Booth  &  Powell,  patent  lawyers,  in 
Boston,  Mass.  He  then  opened  an  office  of  his  own,  for  the 
practice  of  patent  law,  in  New  York  City.  In  December,  191 1, 
he  left  New  York  and  became  a  partner  in  the  patent  law 
firm  of  Kay,  Totten  &  Powell  of  Pittsburgh,  Pa.,  where  he 
practiced  until  his  death.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Patent 
Bar  Association. 

He  died  June  28,  1919,  in  Pittsburgh,  as  a  result  of  intes- 
tinal trouble,  for  which  he  had  twice  undergone  operations. 
Burial  was  in  Spring  Grove  Cemetery,  Cincinnati,  the  family 
burial  place. 

Mr.  Powell  was  married  November  15, 1899,  in  Washington, 
to  Marion  Carlotta,  daughter  of  Charles  Albert  and  Katharine 
(Neely)  Festetits.  She  survives  him  with  their  two  children: 
Ralph  Carr,  Jr.,  ^nd  Katharine  Festetits. 


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Ralph  Birdsall,  B.A.  1893 

Born  December  ay,  1 871,  in  Stockton,  Calif. 
Died  September  23,  191 8,  in  Cooperstown,  N.  Y. 

Ralph  Birdsall,  whose  parents  were  Rev.  Elias  Birdsall 
(B.D.  Nashotah  Seminary,  Michigan,  1856)  and  Cornelia 
(Bennett)  Birdsall,  was  born  December  27,  1871.  His  father, 
who  was  the  son  of  Theophilus  and  Maria  Theresa  (Sher- 
wood) Birdsall,  went  to  California  in  the  early  days  when 
gold  mining  was  at  its  height.  He  was  one  of  the  first  mis- 
sionaries of  the  Episcopal  Church  to  reach  the  Pacific  coast, 
where  he  became  a  successful  rector  of  churches  in  Stockton, 
San  Francisco,  and  Los  Angeles,  and  also  served  as  editor  of 
the  Pacific  Churchman.  His  first  American  ancestor  was  a 
French  Huguenot  who  settled  at  Oyster  Bay,  Long  Island, 
about  1660.  Ralph  Birdsall's  maternal  grandfather  was  Philo 
Bennett,  who  served  in  the  War  of  18 12,  and  represented 
Otsego  and  Chenango  counties,  N.  Y.,  in  the  Legislature 
about  1833,  and  whose  father,  Ebenezer  Bennett,  was  one  of 
the  pioneers  of  Otsego  County,  going  there  from  Connecticut 
in  1788.  The  latter,  who  fought  in  the  War  of  the  Revolution, 
traced  his  descent  from  Thomas  Bennitt,  who  came  from 
Stratford-on-Avon,  England,  and  settled  at  Stratford,  Conn., 
in  1639. 

He  received  his  preparatory  training  at  St.  Paul's  School 
and  at  McPherron  Academy,  both  in  Los  Angeles.  He  received 
a  Junior  first  colloquy  and  a  Senior  second  colloquy  appoint- 
ment. 

After  graduating  he  was  for  two  years  night  editor  of  the 
New  Haven  Morning  News.  In  1895  he  entered  the  General 
Theological  Seminary  in  New  York  City,  and  during  1896-97 
he  was  a  student  at  the  Berkeley  Divinity  School,  Middle- 
town,  Conn.  During  the  year  1897  he  was  private  secretary  to 
Rt.  Rev.  John  Williams,  Protestant  Episcopal  bishop  of 
Connecticut.  In  1898  he  was  ordained  a  deacon  in  the  Prot- 
estant Episcopal  Church  by  William  Croswell  Doane,  first 
bishop  of  Albany,  and  appointed  assistant  minister  of  St. 
Paul's  Church,  Albany.  He  was  ordained  to  the  priesthood  by 
Bishop  Doane  the  following  year,  and  from  1899  to  1902  was 


964  YALE    COLLEGE 

rector  of  St.  Andrew's  Church  in  Albany.  In  1902  he  went  to 
England.  From  1903  until  his  death  he  was  rector  of  Christ 
Church,  Cooperstown,  N.  Y.  In  19 11  he  received  the  degree 
of  M.A.  from  Yale,  and  in  the  same  year  he  made  a  brief 
visit  to  Italy  with  Mrs.  Birdsall.  In  1913  he  was  appointed 
archdeacon  of  the  Susquehanna  and  in  1913  and  1916  he 
was  deputy  to  the  General  Convention  from  the  Diocese  of 
Albany.  In  19 18  he  received  an  appointment  as  lecturer  on 
the  Page  Foundation  at  the  Berkeley  Divinity  School, 
Middletown,  and  in  the  same  year  was  given  the  honorary 
degree  of  B.D.  by  that  institution.  He  was  a  trustee  and 
secretary  of  the  Susan  Fenimore  Cooper  Foundation,  a 
vocational  school  for  boys  and  girls,  at  Cooperstown.  Mr. 
Birdsall  was  the  author  of  "Fenimore  Cooper's  Grave" 
(191 1),  "Sermons  in  Summer"  (1912),  and  "The  Story  of 
Cooperstown"  (1917). 

During  the  second  year  of  his  residence  in  Cooperstown, 
his  health  broke  down  from  the  effects  of  years  of  overwork 
and  he  developed  tuberculosis.  After  a  year  of  rest  he  was 
entirely  recovered,  but  was  never  robust  enough  to  justify 
himself  in  taking  a  larger  parish.  During  the  remaining  years 
of  his  life  he  received  calls  to  the  Church  of  the  Heavenly 
Rest,  New  York  City,  the  Church  of  the  Saviour,  Philadel- 
phia, St.  John's  Church,  St.  Paul,  Minn.,  Christ  Church, 
Winnetka,  111.,  and  to  be  dean  of  the  Cathedral  of  All  Saints, 
Albany,  and  of  the  Cathedral  at  Omaha,  Nebr.  When  war 
was  declared  he  was  among  the  first  to  volunteer  his  services, 
but  was  not  accepted  in  any  branch  because  of  his  health. 
He  then  threw  himself  into  all  patriotic  campaigns,  traveling 
through  Otsego  County,  making  speeches,  and  engaging  in 
other  forms  of  war  work  until  the  strain  brought  about  a  re- 
currence of  his  old  trouble.  He  died,  of  tubercular  meningitis, 
in  Cooperstown,  September  23,  191 8.  A  Birdsall  Memorial 
Fund  has  been  established  in  the  village  and  it  is  the  inten- 
tion to  erect  a  fitting  memorial  in  the  churchyard  of  Christ 
Church,  where  he  was  buried. 

He  was  married  August  25,  1904,  in  Cooperstown,  to 
Jessie    Cicely,   daughter   of  Judge   Harry   Maurrelle   Reid 


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and  Gertrude  (Carleton)  Reid.  His  wife  and  two  children, 
Gertrude,  a  student  at  St.  Agnes'  School,  Albany,  and  Ralph, 
Jr.,  survive  him. 

Ross  Burchard,  B.A.  1893 

Born  April  8,  1870,  in  New  York  City- 
Died  November  14,  1918,  in  Norwalk,  Conn. 

Ross  Burchard  was  born  April  8,  1870,  in  New  York  City, 
the  son  of  Boardman  and  Lunette  (Ross)  Burchard.  His 
father  was  in  the  wholesale  dry  goods  business  throughout 
his  life.  His  paternal  grandfather,  Charles  Burchard,  was  of 
French  descent,  his  ancestors  having  been  natives  of  Alsace- 
Lorraine.  His  paternal  grandmother,  who  was  of  Irish  descent, 
was  Bridget  (Dixon)  Burchard.  Lunette  Ross  was  the 
daughter  of  George  and  Hannah  (Francisco)  Ross,  who  were 
of  Scotch  ancestry. 

Ross  Burchard  was  prepared  for  Yale  by  a  tutor  in  South 
Norwalk,  Conn.  In  college  he  was  a  member  of  the  Senior 
Class  Football  Team. 

For  two  years  after  graduation  he  was  in  Chicago  with 
the  dry  goods  house  of  J.  V.  Farwell  &  Company,  and  from 
1895  to  1 91 2  he  was  employed  as  purchasing  agent  by  the 
same  company  in  New  York  City.  In  191 2  he  was  engaged  in 
real  estate  business  in  Norwalk,  Conn.,  but  since  January  i, 
1913,  he  had  been  with  Sweet,  Orr  &  Company,  Inc.,  of  New 
York  City,  manufacturers  of  workingmen's  clothing.  His 
position  was  in  connection  with  the  purchase  of  materials. 
He  was  a  director  of  the  company. 

He  died  suddenly  of  apoplexy  at  his  home  in  Norwalk, 
November  14,  191 8.  Burial  was  in  Riverside  Cemetery  in 
that  city. 

On  October  27,  1904,  he  was  married  in  Newburgh,  N.  Y., 
to  Mabel,  daughter  of  Clayton  Emmett  and  Charity  Louise 
(Manning)  Sweet.  He  is  survived  by  his  wife  and  a  daughter, 
Mabel. 


966  YALE    COLLEGE 

Albert  Anson  Bigelow,  B.A.  1894 

Born  July  31,  1872,  in  St.  Paul,  Minn. 
Died  February  7,  191 9,  near  Marco  Island,  Fla. 

Albert  Anson  Bigelow,  one  of  the  six  children  of  Charles 
Henry  and  Alida  (Lyman)  Bigelow,  was  born  July  31,  1872, 
in  St.  Paul,  Minn.  His  father,  who  was  for  thirty-five  years 
president  of  the  St.  Paul  Fire  &  Marine  Insurance  Company, 
was  the  son  of  Anson  A.  Bigelow.  His  maternal  grandparents 
were  George  W.  and  Susan  B.  (Wood)  Lyman. 

He  was  fitted  for  college  at  the  St.  Paul  High  School.  He 
received  a  second  colloquy  appointment  Junior  year,  and 
was  given  a  first  colloquy  at  Commencement.  He  played  on 
the  Freshman  Baseball  Team  and  later  on  the  University 
Team,  and  was  a  member  of  the  University  Banjo  Club. 

After  graduation  he  was  employed  by  Farwell,  Ozmun, 
Kirk  &  Company,  wholesale  hardware  merchants  of  St. 
Paul,  where  he  was  in  charge  of  the  sporting  department. 
He  later  became  a  partner  in,  and  vice  president  of,  the 
Louisville  (Ky.)  Paper  Company.  In  191 5  he  retired  from 
business  in  order  to  travel  and  study  abroad.  But  war  pre- 
venting the  carrying  out  of  this  intention,  he  gave  his  whole 
time  and  strength  to  the  service  of  his  country  and  to  the 
community  in  which  he  lived.  He  became  secretary  of  the 
local  chapter  of  the  American  Red  Cross  and  chairman  of  the 
County  Draft  Board.  In  January,  191 6,  he  had  been  elected 
second  vice  president  of  the  Yale  Alumni  Association  of 
Kentucky,  and  he  was  one  of  the  prime  movers  in  the  various 
entertainments  arranged  for  Yale  undergraduates  at  Camp 
Zachary  Taylor.  He  was  vice  president  of  the  Welfare  League, 
of  which  he  was  one  of  the  organizers,  and  an  officer  of  the 
Babies'  Milk  Fund  Association. 

He  died  of  heart  failure,  February  7,  191 9,  while  in  swim- 
ming near  Marco  Island,  Fla.,  where  he  had  gone  from  his 
home  in  Louisville  to  recuperate  from  an  attack  of  influenza. 
Burial  was  in  Cave  Hill  Cemetery,  Louisville. 

His  marriage  took  place  October  17,  1900,  in  Louisville, 
to  Ann  Rachel,  daughter  of  John  T.  and  Annie  Amelia 
(^Kirlin)    Macau)  ^y.    She    survives    him    without    children. 


1894  9^7 

He  also  leaves  his  mother  and  two  brothers,  F.  R.  Bigelow, 
who  succeeded  his  father  as  president  of  the  St.  Paul  Fire 
&  Marine  Insurance  Company,  and  Charles  H.  Bigelow, 
Jr.,  president  of  Farwell,  Ozmun,  Kirk  &  Company,  of  St. 
Paul.  Mr.  Bigelow  was  a  cousin  of  Nelson  P.  Bigelow  (B.A. 
1884). 


Calvin  Burr,  B.A.  1894 

Born  April  21,  1872,  in  Auburn,  N.  Y. 
Died  August  14,  191 8,  in  Auburn,  N.  Y. 

Calvin  Burr,  son  of  Charles  Porter  Burr,  a  banker,  and 
Frances  Powers  (Beardsley)  Burr,  was  born  April  21,  1872. 
His  mother  was  the  daughter  of  Nelson  Beardsley  (B.A. 
1827)  and  Frances  (Powers)  Beardsley. 

He  received  his  preparatory  training  at  Phillips  Academy, 
Andover,  Mass.  He  had  a  second  colloquy  stand  at  Com- 
mencement. 

From  1894  to  1896  Mr.  Burr  studied  at  the  Harvard  Law 
School,  and  he  afterwards  practiced  law  in  Catskill,  N.  Y. 
On  his  return  from  a  trip  abroad  in  1909-19 10,  he  became 
associated  with  William  Salomon  &  Company,  bankers  of 
New  York  City,  but  severed  his  connection  with  them  in 
191 2.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Episcopal  Church.  Mr.  Burr 
died  August  14,  1918,  in  Auburn,  and  was  buried  there  in 
Fort  Hill  Cemetery. 

He  was  married  December  7,  1898,  in  New  York  City,  to 
Mabel  L.,  daughter  of  William  B.  and  Matilda  (Langdon) 
Hayden.  She  survives  him  with  a  son,  Calvin  Burr,  Jr. 
Nelson  B.  Burr  (Ph.B.  1893)  is  a  brother.  His  Yale  relatives 
also  include:  John  H.  Woodruff  (B.A.  1863),  Alonzo  G. 
Beardsley  (B.A.  1875),  Porter  Beardsley  (B.A.  1886),  Harry 
J.  Beardsley  (B.A.  1900),  Carleton  H.  Woodruff  (Ph.B. 
1900),  Glover  Beardsley  (B.A.  1903),  and  Douglass  Woodruff 
(B.A.  1905). 


968  YALE    COLLEGE 

Joseph  Piatt  Cooke,  B.A.  1894 

Born  December  15,  1870,  in  Honolulu,  H.  T. 
Died  July  26,  191 8,  in  Honolulu,  H.  T. 

Joseph  Piatt  Cooke  was  born  December  15,  1870,  in 
Honolulu,  Oahu,  H.  T.  He  was  one  of  the  four  children  of 
Joseph  Piatt  Cooke  (B.A.  1863)  and  Harriet  Emilita  (Wilder) 
Cooke,  and  was  descended  from  Joseph  Piatt  Cooke  (B.A. 
1750),  of  Danbury,  Conn.,  who  was  a  Colonel  in  the  Con- 
necticut Militia  in  the  Revolutionary  War.  Dr.  Joseph  Piatt 
Cooke  (B.A.  1827)  was  his  great-uncle.  His  father  was  the 
eldest  son  of  Amos  Starr  and  Juliette  (Montague)  Cooke, 
who  went  to  Hawaii  from  Danbury  in  April,  1837,  as  mem- 
bers of  the  eighth  company  of  missionaries.  Fourteen  years 
later  Amos  S.  Cooke  and  Samuel  N.  Castle,  who  had  gone 
out  in  the  same  company,  formed  a  business  partnership, 
under  the  name  of  Castle  &  Cooke,  which  became  an  im- 
portant factor  in  the  industrial  and  commercial  life  of  Hawaii. 
Joseph  Piatt  Cooke,  Sr.,  was  a  student  at  Oahu  College 
before  he  entered  Yale;  after  graduation  he  took  his  father's 
place  in  the  firm  of  Castle  &  Cooke,  with  which  he  was  con- 
nected until  his  death  on  August  28,  1879.  Harriet  Wilder 
Cooke  was  the  daughter  of  William  Chancy  and  Harriet 
(Waters)  Wilder. 

He  received  his  early  education  at  Punahou,  and  at  the 
age  of  fifteen  went  to  Oakland,  Calif.  His  preparatory  train- 
ing was  received  at  the  Oakland  High  School  and  at  Phillips- 
Andover.  At  Yale  he  was  given  a  high  oration  appointment 
both  Junior  and  Senior  years.  He  was  elected  to  Phi  Beta 
Kappa,  and  won  two-year  honors  in  political  science  and  law. 

For  two  years  after  graduation  he  was  in  the  San  Fran- 
cisco office  of  Alexander  &  Baldwin,  Ltd.,  agents  for  sugar 
plantations,  but  in  December,  1896,  he  returned  to  Honolulu 
as  treasurer  and  manager  of  the  firm,  and  soon  became  an 
outstanding  figure  in  the  sugar  industry  in  Hawaii.  During 
1910-11  he  was  president  of  the  Sugar  Factors'  Company, 
and  in  191 1,  at  the  death  of  Henry  P.  Baldwin,  his  father-in- 
law  and  partner,  he  became  president  of  the  firm  of  Alexander 
&  Baldwin,  Ltd.  In  19 13  he  was  made  president  of  the 
Hawaiian  Sugar  Planters'  Association.  He  was  one  of  the 


1894  9^9 

first  supporters  of  the  Pan-Pacific  movement  in  Hawaii, 
and  was  a  member  of  the  Territorial  Board  of  Immigration 
for  three  years.  He  was  also  on  the  Advisory  Land  Law 
Commission  and  was  president  of  the  Honolulu  Chamber  of 
Commerce.  Mr.  Cooke  was  not  only  a  leader  in  commercial 
affairs,  but  was  also  a  prominent  philanthropic  worker. 
There  was  no  movement  for  civic  betterment  or  charity  in 
Honolulu  in  which  he  did  not  take  a  generous  and  leading 
part.  He  was  connected  by  ties  of  relationship  and  early 
friendship  with  all  the  principal  kamaaina  families  of  Hawaii. 
He  was  a  leader  among  the  local  Republicans,  and  had 
served  as  president  of  the  Hawaiian  Taft  Association.  In 
191 5  he  was  elected  vice  president  of  the  Yale  Alumni 
Association  of  Hawaii,  and  in  191 6  received  reelection.  At 
the  time  of  his  death  he  was  chairman  of  the  Finance  Com- 
mittee of  the  Hawaiian  Evangelical  Association,  an  out- 
growth of  the  New  England  missionary  crusades  to  Hawaii 
which  were  begun  almost  a  century  earlier.  He  had  also 
served  as  a  trustee  and  deacon  of  Central  Union  Church, 
Honolulu. 

He  died  suddenly  July  26,  191 8,  in  Honolulu,  after  a  long 
period  of  poor  health  due  to  a  nervous  breakdown.  Interment 
was  in  the  missionary  plot  at  Kawaiahao  Cemetery. 

His  marriage  took  place  July  18,  1895,  ^^  Haiku,  Maui, 
H.  T.,  to  Maud  Mansfield,  daughter  of  Henry  Perrine  and 
Emily  McKinney  (Alexander)  Baldwin,  and  sister  of  William 
D.  Baldwin,  '97,  Arthur  D.  Baldwin,  '98,  Frank  F.  Baldwin, 
^^-'99  S.,  Fred  C.  Baldwin,  '04,  and  Samuel  A.  Baldwin,  '08. 
She  survives  him  with  their  six  children:  Joseph  Piatt,  Jr., 
who  entered  Yale  with  the  Class  of  1920,  went  abroad  in 
May,  1917,  with  the  Yale  Ambulance  Unit,  spent  six  months 
with  the  French  Army,  and  then  enlisted  in  the  U.  S.  Air 
Service,  in  which  he  was  later  commissioned  a  Second  Lieu- 
tenant; Emily  Montague;  Henry  Baldwin,  a  member  of  the 
Yale  Class  of  1923;  Douglas  Alexander;  Fred  Wilder;  and 
Maud  Perrine.  Mr.  Cooke  was  a  brother  of  William  G. 
Cooke,  '97,  and  a  cousin  of  C.  Montague  Cooke,  Jr.,  '97, 
Clarence  H.  Cooke,  ^^-'97  S.,  George  P.  Cooke,  '05,  Richard 
A.  Cooke,  '06,  and  Wallace  M.  Alexander,  '92  S.  The  latter 
succeeds  him  as  president  of  the  firm  of  Alexander  &  Baldwin. 


970  YALE   COLLEGE 

Charles  Frederic  Crawford,  B.A.  1894 

Born  April  25,  1872,  in  Rockford,  111. 
Died  January  22,  1919,  in  Chicago,  111. 

Charles  Frederic  Crawford,  whose  parents  were  Col. 
Charles  Crawford,  a  stock  broker,  and  Sarah  Louise  (Blake- 
man)  Crawford,  was  born  April  25,  1872,  in  Rockford,  111. 
His  father  was  the  son  of  William  Theon  and  Almira  (Clark) 
Crawford,  and  a  descendant  of  Aaron  Crawford,  who  settled 
at  Rutland,  Mass.,  in  17 13,  having  come  to  this  country  from 
County  Donegal,  Ireland,  where  the  Crawfords,  a  Scotch 
family,  had  a  grant  of  land.  Colonel  Crawford  was  commis- 
sioned by  Abraham  Lincoln  and  made  Chief  Paymaster  of 
the  Plains,  in  which  capacity  he  served  for  four  years  during 
the  Civil  War,  and  afterwards,  for  a  year,  to  pay  off  troops 
in  the  Regular  Army.  An  ancestor,  Capt.  John  Crawford, 
fought  in  the  battle  of  Lexington,  and  William  Crawford, 
Charles  F.  Crawford's  great-great-great-grandfather,  was 
commissioned  as  Captain  by  Governor  John  Hancock,  of 
Massachusetts.  His  mother  was  the  daughter  of  Abijah  and 
Sally  (Tomlinson)  Blakeman.  Her  earliest  American  ancestor 
was  Rev.  Adam  Blakeman,  who  came  to  New  England  from 
Staffordshire,  England,  in  1638,  and  held  a  prominent  posi- 
tion among  Colonial  ministers.  Gideon  Tomlinson,  another 
relative  on  the  maternal  side,  was  graduated  from  Yale  in 
1802,  was  elected  to  the  Connecticut  House  of  Representa- 
tives in  1 8 17,  two  years  later  became  a  member  of  the  U.  S. 
House  of  Representatives,  where  he  served  eight  years,  during 
part  of  which  time  he  was  Speaker  of  the  House,  from  1827 
to  1 83 1  held  office  as  governor  of  Connecticut,  and  in  1831 
was  elected  to  the  U.  S.  Senate,  where  he  remained  for  six 
years. 

He  received  his  early  training  at  the  Michigan  Military 
Academy  at  Orchard  Lake,  Mich.,  and  at  the  Beloit  (Wis.) 
Academy.  He  was  a  member  of  the  College  Choir. 

During  the  first  year  after  graduation  he  was  employed  by 
E.  B.  Miller  &  Company,  tea  and  coffee  importers  of  Chicago, 
111.,  and  from  1895  to  1897  he  was  manager  of  the  tea  depart- 
ment of  J.  H.  Bell  &  Company  in  that  city.  The  next  year 


i894  971 

was  spent  in  the  stock  brokerage  business  in  New  York 
City,  but  since  1899  he  had  been  a  tea  broker  in  Chicago,  and 
a  member  of  the  Chicago  Stock  Exchange.  He  had  also  been 
treasurer  of  E.  Schneider  &  Company,  manufacturers  of 
mining  candles,  glycerine,  stearic  acid,  and  soporified  red  oil, 
in  Chicago. 

He  died  January  22,  19 19,  in  Chicago,  his  death  resulting 
from  an  injury.  Burial  was  in  Rose  Hill  Cemetery  in  that 
city. 

He  was  married  in  Chicago,  October  9,  1901,  to  Estelle  I., 
daughter  of  Anthony  and  Isidora  (Schneider)  Schmitt. 
They  had  five  sons:  Charles  Anthony,  Eugene  Frederic  (born 
September  3,  1904,  died  October  4,  1918),  Walter  Callender, 
John  Blakeman,  and  Bruce  Stirling.  His  wife  died  on  June  24, 
191 5.  Mr.  Crawford  was  a  nephew  of  the  late  Frederick 
Bowman  Crawford,  a  non-graduate  member  of  the  Class  of 
1874  S. 

George  Marshall  Crawford,  B.A.  1894 

Born  July  10,  1872,  in  Emporia,  Kans. 
Died  December  9,  191 8,  in  Topeka,  Kans. 

George  Marshall  Crawford  was  born  July  10,  1872,  in 
Emporia,  Kans.  His  father,  Samuel  Johnson  Crawford,  was 
the  third  governor  of  Kansas,  and  resigned  during  his  second 
term  to  take  command  of  the  19th  Kansas  Regiment  in  the 
Indian  uprising  of  1868.  He  had  previously  served  as  Colonel 
from  1 86 1  to  1864.  His  parents  were  William  and  Jane  (Mor- 
row) Crawford.  His  wife,  Isabel  (Chase)  Crawford,  was  the 
daughter  of  Enoch  and  Mary  Jane  Chase.  Through  her, 
George  M.  Crawford  traced  his  descent  to  Aequila  Chase, 
who  came  to  America  from  Scotland  in  1640. 

He  studied  at  the  Columbian  Preparatory  School,  Wash- 
ington, D.  C,  and  under  a  private  tutor  before  entering  Yale. 
He  became  a  reporter  on  the  Topeka  (Kans.)  Capitol  soon 
after  his  graduation,  and  held  this  position  until  September, 
1897,  when  he  formed  a  partnership  with  his  brother-in-law 
and  became  business  manager  of  the  Mail  Printing  House. 
Later  he  was  made  business  manager  of  the  Capper  Publica- 
tions, and  continued  in  this  capacity  until  his  death.  He  was 


972  YALE    COLLEGE 

editor  of  The  Knights  and  Ladies  of  Security^  the  official 
publication  of  the  national  order  of  that  name,  and  a  member 
of  the  board  of  trustees  of  the  Knights  and  Ladies  of  Security 
Home  and  Hospital  Association.  He  belonged  to  the  Topeka 
Chamber  of  Commerce. 

His  death  occurred  at  his  home  in  Topeka,  December  9, 
191 8,  as  a  result  of  pneumonia,  following  an  attack  of  influ- 
enza. He  was  buried  in  that  city. 

Mr.  Crawford  was  married  November  6, 1895,  in  Emporia, 
to  Hortense,  daughter  of  Rev.  Bernard  Kelly  and  Isabel 
(Barnes)  Kelly.  She  survives  him  with  two  children,  George 
Marshall,  Jr.,  and  Isabel,  and  he  also  leaves  his  mother  and 
a  sister,  Mrs.  Arthur  Capper.  The  son,  who  is  the  Class  Boy 
of  1894,  studied  at  the  University  of  Michigan  from  191 5  to 
1917.  He  enlisted  as  a  Private  in  the  Kansas  National  Guard 
two  days  after  the  United  States  entered  the  war,  served  as  an 
enlisted  man  until  November,  191 7,  when  he  was  made  a 
Second  Lieutenant,  and  was  subsequently  promoted  to  a 
First  Lieutenancy.  He  spent  a  year  with  the  American  Expe- 
ditionary Forces,  and  was  discharged  in  May,  191 9.  The 
daughter  attends  Mount  Vernon  Seminary,  Washington,  D.C. 


Gervase  Green,  B.A.  1894 

Born  December  27,  1869,  at  St.  Helen's,  Lancashire,  England 
Died  November  19,  191 8,  in  Englewood,  N.  J. 

Gervase  Green  was  born  December  27, 1869,  at  St.  Helen's, 
Lancashire,  England.  He  came  to  America  in  his  youth  and 
was  prepared  for  college  at  the  Mount  Hermon  (Mass.) 
School.  His  appointments  were  a  second  dispute  Junior  year 
and  a  dissertation  at  Commencement.  He  also  won  one-year 
honors  in  philosophy  in  his  Senior  year. 

In  the  fall  of  1894  he  returned  to  Yale  for  three  years  of 
graduate  study  on  the  Macy  Fellowship,  and  in  1897  received 
the  degree  of  Ph.D.  For  six  years  he  was  connected  with  the 
Yale  faculty;  during  the  year  1896-97  he  was  a  lecturer  in 
philosophy,  in  1897  he  was  made  assistant  in  philosophy  and 
pedagogy,  and  in  the  spring  of  1899  he  was  appointed  instruc- 
tor in  philosophy.  He  taught  at  Yale  until  1902,  and  then 


1^94  973 

went  abroad  to  study  at  the  University  of  Berlin  and  in 
Paris.  In  September,  1903,  he  returned  and  went  to  Omaha, 
Nebr.,  where  he  studied  law  and  worked  on  a  history  of 
colonial  law  and  government  until  the  following  spring. 
Since  1906  he  had  been  engaged  in  the  practice  of  law  in  New 
York  City,  being  connected  with  White  &  Case,  counselors- 
at-law,  from  1906  to  191 5.  In  November,  1908,  he  was 
admitted  to  the  New  York  Bar.  In  June,  191 5,  he  started  an 
independent  practice  in  New  York  City,  in  which  he  con- 
tinued until  19 17,  when  he  resumed  his  connection  with 
White  &  Case. 

He  died  suddenly  in  Englewood,  N.  J.,  November  19,  191 8, 
and  was  buried  in  Woodlawn  Cemetery,  New  York.  Mr. 
Green  was  unmarried. 


Charles  William  Saunders,  B.A.  1894 

Born  August  26,  1870,  in  Athens,  Ont.,  Canada 
Died  November  10,  1918,  in  Chicago,  111. 

Charles  William  Saunders,  whose  parents  were  William  J. 
Saunders,  a  mill  superintendent,  and  Mary  (Slack)  Saunders, 
was  born  in  Athens,  Ont.,  Canada,  August  26,  1870.  His 
father's  parents,  William  and  Jane  (McVitie)  Saunders, 
came  to  America  from  Scotland.  His  mother  was  the  daughter 
of  Charles  and  Isabel  (McGilvery)  Slack.  One  of  her  ancestors, 
Philip  Slack,  fought  in  the  War  of  1812. 

He  entered  Yale  from  the  Penn  Yan  (N.  Y.)  Academy, 
and  received  a  first  colloquy  appointment  Junior  year  and 
a  second  dispute  at  Commencement.  After  graduation  he 
studied  law  in  the  office  of  Judge  F.  A.  Gaskill  in  Worcester, 
Mass.,  and  in  1896  was  admitted  to  the  bar.  He  practiced  in 
Worcester  in  association  with  Mr.  Herbert  Parker,  attorney- 
general  for  Massachusetts,  until  1902,  and  later  practiced  for 
eleven  years  in  Clinton,  Mass.  In  1913,  his  health  failing,  he 
stayed  for  a  time  with  his  parents  in  Worcester,  but  since 
1 91 6  he  had  been  located  in  Chicago  as  an  attorney  for  the 
Chicago  Title  &  Trust  Company.  He  belonged  to  the  South 
Chicago  Congregational  Church,  of  which  his  brother-in- 
law,  Rev.  Ray  Evan  Butterfield,  was  at  the  time  the  pastor. 


974  YALE    COLLEGE 

He  died  suddenly  as  a  result  of  perforation  of  the  stomah, 
due  to  ulceration,  November  lo,  191 8,  at  the  home  of  his 
sister,  Mrs.  Butterfield,  in  Chicago.  He  had  suffered  from 
stomach  trouble  for  some  years,  but  kept  at  his  work  until 
the  day  before  his  death.  Interment  was  in  Hope  Cemetery, 
Worcester. 

Mr.  Saunders  was  unmarried.  He  is  survived  by  his  parents 
and  sister. 


George  Jacobus,  B.A.  1895 

Born  May  12,  1872,  in  New  Brighton,  Pa. 
Died  February  27,  19 19,  in  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 

George  Jacobus  was  born  May  12,  1872,  in  New  Brighton, 
Pa.,  the  son  of  Charles  Jacobus  (B.A.  Hobart  1864,  M.A. 
Hobart  1867)  and  Elizabeth  Church  (Snow)  Jacobus.  His 
father,  the  son  of  Isaac  and  Miranda  (Jones)  Jacobus,  was 
for  many  years  a  teacher,  later  being  engaged  in  the  pub- 
lishing business.  He  traced  his  descent  to  Roeloff  Jacobus, 
who  came  to  America  from  Holland  about  1740  and  settled  in 
Essex  County,  N.  Y.  George  Jacobus'  mother  was  the 
daughter  of  Dr.  Asa  B.  Snow  and  Emily  (Church)  Snow, 
and  a  lineal  descendant  on  the  maternal  side  of  Richard 
Warren,  who  came  over  on  the  Mayflower. 

His  preparatory  training  was  received  at  Phillips  Academy, 
Exeter,  N.  H.  In  college  he  won  a  Hurlbut  Scholarship  Fresh- 
man year,  a  Berkeley  Premium,  and  a  Senior  mathematical 
prize.  His  appointments  were  philosophical  orations.  He  was 
a  member  of  Phi  Beta  Kappa  and  the  University  Glee  Club. 

For  twelve  years  after  graduation  he  was  connected  with 
St.  Paul's  School,  Garden  City,  Long  Island,  N.  Y.,  as  head 
of  the  classical  department.  In  1907  he  went,  with  most  of 
the  faculty  and  students  of  St.  Paul's  School,  to  Pawling, 
N.  Y.,  and,  as  a  member  of  the  Pawling  School  Corporation, 
helped  to  found  the  Pawling  School,  where  he  taught  Latin 
and  Greek  for  two  years.  Since  1909  he  had  been  head  of  the 
Latin  department  at  Adelphi  Academy  in  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 
Mr.  Jacobus  was  exceptionally  gifted  in  music.  He  was  a 
soloist  and  had  been  a  member  of  the  choir  in  several  Brook- 


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lyn  churches,  and  had  had  marked  success  in  training  the  glee 
clubs  at  the  Pawling  School.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Clinton 
Avenue  Congregational  Church,  and  for  several  years  served 
on  its  board  of  deacons  and  music  committee. 

His  death  occurred  at  his  home  in  Brooklyn,  February  27, 
19 1 9,  as  a  result  of  pernicious  anaemia,  and  his  body  was 
taken  to  Gilead,  Maine,  for  burial.  Mr.  Jacobus  fought  his 
disease  for  five  years,  submitting  to  eight  blood  transfusions. 

He  was  married  June  20,  1901,  in  West  Bethel,  Maine,  to 
Marion  Elsie  Chapman  (B.A.  Smith  1898),  daughter  of 
William  C.  and  Martha  (Baldwin)  Chapman.  His  wife  sur- 
vives him  with  two  daughters,  Katharine  Louise,  a  member 
of  the  Class  of  1923  at  Smith  College,  and  Margaret  Ather- 
ton,  a  student  at  Adelphi  Academy.  He  also  leaves  a  brother, 
Clement  Snow  Jacobus  (B.A.  1905),  a  sister,  Mrs.  Louise 
Jacobus  Wood  (B.A.  Vassar  1899),  and  his  father,  Professor 
Charles  Jacobus,  of  Waukesha,  Wis. 

Arthur  Behn  Shepley,  B.A.  1895 

Born  March  25,  1873,  i"  ^^'  Louis,  Mo. 
Died  December  30,  191 8,  in  St.  Louis,  Mo. 

Arthur  Behn  Shepley  was  born  March  25,  1873,  in  St. 
Louis,  Mo.,  where  his  father,  John  Rutledge  Shepley,  was 
prominent  as  a  lawyer.  The  latter  graduated  from  Bowdoin 
in  1837,  was  a  member  of  the  Class  of  1839  ^^  the  Harvard 
Law  School,  and  received  an  honorary  LL.D.  from  Bowdoin 
in  1868.  His  father,  Ether  Shepley,  who  married  Ann  Foster, 
was  also  a  lawyer,  and  at  one  time  served  as  a  U.  S.  Senator, 
and  later  as  chief  justice  of  the  Supreme  Court  of  Maine. 
Arthur  Shepley 's  mother  was  Mary  Augusta  (Clapp)  Shep- 
ley, daughter  of  Benjamin  and  Catherine  (Behn)  Clapp,  and 
a  descendant  of  John  Shepley,  who  came  to  America  from 
England  in  1637  and  settled  at  Salem.  Benjamin  Clapp  was 
Western  representative  of  the  American  Fur  Company,  and 
served  as  a  volunteer  midshipman  during  the  War  of  1 812. 

He  was  prepared  for  college  at  St.  Paul's  School,  Concord, 
N.  H.  He  received  a  high  oration  appointment  both  Junior 
and  Senior  years  and  was  elected  to  membership  in  Phi  Beta 
Kappa. 
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976  YALE    COLLEGE 

Two  years  after  graduation  he  received  the  degree  of  LL.B. 
from  Washington  University,  St.  Louis,  and  began  the  prac- 
tice of  law  in  that  city.  On  May  4,  1898,  he  enlisted  in  Bat- 
tery A,  Missouri  Volunteers,  and  served  with  it  during  the 
Spanish  War.  The  battery  was  encamped  at  Chickamauga 
Park  until  July  24,  when  it  left  for  Porto  Rico.  On  his  return 
to  St.  Louis  Mr.  Shepley  became  a  partner  in  the  law  firm 
of  Nagel  &  Kirby.  For  some  time  he  had  held  the  Madill 
professorship  of  equity  at  the  Washington  University  Law 
School.  Mr.  Shepley  served  as  vice  president  of  the  Yale 
Alumni  Association  of  St.  Louis  in  19 14  and  again  in  191 5, 
and  in  1917  he  was  elected  vice  president  of  the  University 
Club  of  St.  Louis.  He  was  a  member  of  the  executive  com- 
mittee of  the  St.  Louis  branch  of  the  Hughes  National  Col- 
lege League.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Protestant  Episcopal 
Church  and  belonged  to  Christ  Church  Cathedral. 

He  died  of  pneumonia,  December  30,  191 8,  in  St.  Louis, 
and  interment  was  in  Bellefontaine  Cemetery. 

He  was  married  May  20,  1903,  in  that  city,  to  Emily, 
daughter  of  Ephron  and  Camille  (Kayser)  Catlin.  Mrs. 
Shepley,  two  daughters,  Emily  and  Mary,  and  a  son,  Arthur 
Behn,  survive  him.  He  was  a  brother  of  John  F.  Shepley,  '80. 
John  R.  Shepley  (B.A.  1917)  and  Ethan  A.  H.  Shepley  (B.A. 
191 8)  are  nephews,  and  among  other  Yale  relatives  are 
Leonard  Shepley  (Ph.B.  1919)  and  Charles  Nagel,  Jr.,  a 
member  of  the  Class  of  1922. 


George  Xavier  McLanahan,  B.A.  1896 

Born  July  29,  1872,  in  New  Hamburg,  N.  Y. 
Died  October  29,  1918,  in  Baltimore,  Md. 

George  Xavier  McLanahan,  only  son  of  George  William 
and  Helen  Spencer  (Day)  McLanahan,  was  born  July  29, 
1872,  in  New  Hamburg,  N.  Y.  His  father  was  the  son  of 
James  Xavier  and  Ann  Matilda  (McBride)  McLanahan. 
James  X.  McLanahan,  a  graduate  of  Dickinson  College, 
Carlisle,  Pa.,  and  a  lawyer  by  profession,  was  a  grandson  of 
Senator  Andrew  Gregg  of  Pennsylvania.  The  family  came 
from  County  Antrim,  Ireland,  about  1700^  and  settled  in 


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Antrim,  Franklin  County,  Pa.  Helen  Day  McLanahan  was 
the  daughter  of  Samuel  Sherwood  Day  (B.A.  1827),  a  banker 
of  Catskill,  N.  Y.,  and  Cornelia  (Spencer)  Day. 

As  a  boy  George  X.  McLanahan  lived  for  a  time  in  Switzer- 
land, and  also  attended  a  school  in  Dresden,  Germany.  He 
entered  Yale  from  Phillips  Academy,  Andover,  Mass.  In 
college  he  was  chairman  of  the  Record  board  and  a  Class 
Historian. 

From  1896  to  1898  he  studied  at  the  Harvard  Law  School, 
and  the  following  year  attended  the  Columbia  Law  School. 
He  passed  the  New  York  Bar  examinations  in  October,  1898, 
and  the  next  year  received  the  degree  of  LL.B.  from  Harvard. 
From  October,  1899,  until  he  was  taken  ill  in  May,  1901,  Mr. 
McLanahan  was  connected  with  the  law  firm  of  Curtis, 
Mallet-Prevost  &  Colt  in  New  York  City,  as  managing  clerk. 
In  July,  1 90 1,  he  left  the  United  States,  with  Mrs.  McLanahan, 
for  a  three  months'  stay  in  Scotland,  and  on  his  return  went 
to  Washington,  D.  C,  to  take  a  course  in  the  School  of  Law 
^and  Diplomacy  at  George  Washington  University.  He  re- 
ceived the  degree  of  LL.M.  from  that  institution  in  1902,  and 
I  that  of  D.C.L.  the  following  year.  In  19 10  he  became  a  mem- 
J^ber  of  the  firm  of  McLanahan  &  Burton,  the  name  of  which 
IHltras  changed  in  19 13  to  McLanahan,  Burton  &  Culbertson, 
l^^nd  subsequently  back  to  McLanahan  &  Burton.  He  was  for 
]  ^  fourteen  years  a  director  of  the  Union  Trust  Company  of 
ashington,  and  was  at  one  time  vice  president  of  the  Wash- 
gton  Herald^  a  daily  paper  which  he  helped  to  organize  in 
906,  and  of  which  he  was  for  four  years  (1908-12)  the  owner, 
n  191 2  he  made  a  trip  to  Mexico  with  John  Hays  Hammond 
h.B.  1876),  and  in  191 8  he  was  in  California.  His  summers 
ere  spent  at  Watch  Hill,  R.  I.  He  was  treasurer  of  the 
ashington  Society  of  Fine  Arts,  a  trustee  of  Berea  College, 
erea,  Ky.,  treasurer  and  a  trustee  of  the  Columbia  Insti- 
tion  for  the  Deaf,  and  a  member  of  several  committees  of 
e  local  Y.  M.  C.  A.  He  was  interested  in  many  forms  of 
ligious  work,  especially  in  work  among  the  lepers  of  India, 
e  was  a  deacon  of  the  Church  of  the  Covenant  in  Wash- 
ngton.  He  had  always  taken  a  keen  interest  in  Yale  affairs, 
and,  among  other  things,  had  served  as  president  of  the  Yale 
Alumni  Association  of  Washington  and  as  its  representative 


978  YALE    COLLEGE 

on  the  Alumni  Advisory  Board.  As  a  member  of  the  board  of 
governors  of  the  Yale  Publishing  Association,  he  had  dis- 
played much  interest  in  the  development  of  ^he  Tale  Review^ 
and  had  been  instrumental  in  securing  several  considerable 
additions  to  its  editorial  endowment  fund.  He  was  a  member 
of  the  National  Council  of  the  Psi  Upsilon  Fraternity,  and 
held  the  office  of  president  of  the  Andover  Reunion  Board. 
A  scholarship  of  $io,cx)0  has  now  been  established  at  Phillips- 
Andover  in  his  memory. 

His  death  occurred,  after  a  long  illness,  in  the  Johns  Hop- 
kins Hospital,  Baltimore,  Md.,  October  29,  191 8.  Burial  was 
in  Rock  Creek  Cemetery,  Washington. 

Mr.  McLanahan  was  married  in  New  Haven,  Conn., 
November  8,  1898,  to  Caroline  Suydam,  daughter  of  Denning 
and  Louise  (Suydam)  Duer,  who  survives  him  with  two  sons, 
Duer,  a  member  of  the  Yale  Class  of  1923,  and  George 
Xavier,  Jr.,  and  two  daughters,  Helen  and  Louise  Suydam. 
He  also  leaves  his  mother  and  a  sister,  the  wife  of  F.  Kings- 
bury Curtis  (B.A.  1884). 


Lucius  George  Fisher,  Jr.,  B.A.  1897 

Born  March  4,  1879,  in  Chicago,  111. 
Died  December  11,  191 8,  in  Chicago,  111. 

Lucius  George  Fisher,  Jr.,  whose  parents  were  Lucius 
George  Fisher,  a  manufacturer,  and  Katharine  (Eddy) 
Fisher,  was  born  March  4,  1879,  in  Chicago,  111.  His  father 
was  the  son  of  Lucius  George  and  Caroline  (Field)  Fisher, 
who  went  West  from  Vermont  in  1837,  and,  after  visiting 
Chicago  and  Milwaukee,  settled  at  the  place  now  known  as 
Beloit,  Wis.  There  his  grandfather  helped  to  found  and  name 
the  city  of  Beloit,  and  later  he  helped  to  found  Beloit  Col- 
lege, of  which  he  was  a  trustee  until  he  died.  The  maternal 
grandparents  of  Lucius  G.  Fisher,  Jr.,  were  Rev.  Alfred 
Eddy  and  Catharine  (Wilcox)  Eddy.  His  mother  traced  her 
ancestry  to  Samuel  E.  Eddy,  who  landed  at  Plymouth 
Colony  from  the  ship  Handmaid^  October  29,  1630.  A  grand- 
son of  this  Samuel  Eddy  married  a  granddaughter  of  John 
and  Priscilla  Alden. 


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He  received  his  preparatory  training  at  the  Collegiate 
Institute  of  Chicago,  where  he  studied  one  year,  and  at 
Phillips  Academy,  Andover,  Mass.,  where  he  was  enrolled 
for  three  years.  In  college  he  received  a  Junior  first  colloquy 
appointment,  and  was  leader  of  the  Banjo  Club. 

After  graduation  he  was  engaged  in  the  real  estate  business 
for  about  a  year.  He  then  entered  the  employ  of  the  Union 
Bag  &  Paper  Company,  first  in  Watertown,  Mass.,  then  at 
Sandy  Hill,  N.  Y.,  and  later  in  the  New  York  office.  In  1904 
he  resigned  his  position,  returned  to  his  home  in  Chicago, 
became  a  member  of  the  Wheeler,  Fisher  &  Company,  eastern 
and  central  selling  agents  for  the  Union  Bag  &  Paper  Com- 
pany, and  upon  the  death  of  his  father  in  19 15  succeeded  him 
in  the  presidency  thereof.  He  also  had  charge  of  his  father's 
interests  in  an  irrigation  project  in  New  Mexico.  In  June, 
1908,  he  went  on  a  business  trip  to  South  America,  in  connec- 
tion with  interests  which  he  represented.  On  account  of  ill 
health  the  last  two  years  of  his  life  were  spent  in  travel  and  in 
cruises  on  his  yacht. 

Mr.  Fisher  died  December  11,  1918,  in  Chicago.  He  had 
been  ill  for  some  time  with  carcinoma,  and  underwent  an 
operation  the  previous  February.  Interment  was  in  Graceland 

«tmetery,  Chicago. 
He  was  unmarried.  His  three  sisters  survive  him:  Alice  (Mrs. 
exis  C.  Foster,  of  Denver,  Colo.),  Ethel  (Mrs.  William  War- 
ren Dixon,  of  Chicago),  and  Katharine,  the  wife  of  Homer  L. 
Dixon,  '01  S.,  of  Chicago. 


■  Minot  Lester  Wallace,  B.A.  1897 

Born  October  19,  1876,  in  Bridgeport,  Conn. 
Died  April  4,  191 9,  at  Noroton  Heights,  Conn. 

Minot  Lester  Wallace  was  born  October  19,  1876,  in 
Bridgeport,  Conn.  His  father,  Minot  Mitchel  Wallace,  a 
wholesale  baker,  was  the  son  of  Gilbert  Wallace.  His  mother, 
Ada  Louise  (Austin)  Wallace,  was  the  daughter  of  Ezra  and 
Rhoda  Janet  (Jones)  Austin,  and  a  descendant  of  Deodate 
Pratt  Jones,  who  enlisted  in  the  Revolutionary  Army  when 
only  fourteen  years  of  age,  going  as  a  drummer  boy,  and 
served  throughout  the  war.  His  mother  died  when  he  was 


980  YALE    COLLEGE 

only  a  few  days  old  and  he  was  brought  up  by  her  sister,  Mrs. 
George  M.  Spring,  of  Derby,  Conn. 

He  entered  Yale  from  the  Derby  High  School,  and  in 
Junior  year  received  a  second  dispute  appointment. 

During  the  first  year  after  graduation  he  was  engaged  in 
private  tutoring,  the  next  year  he  was  headmaster  of  the 
Rectory  School  for  Boys  at  New  Milford,  Conn.,  and  from 
1899  to  1 901  he  was  principal  of  the  Columbia  School  for 
Boys  in  Washington,  D.  C.  In  the  fall  of  1901  he  became 
instructor  in  classics  and  history  at  Helicon  Hall,  a  school 
for  boys  at  Englewood,  N.  J.,  and  he  later  held  similar  posi- 
tions at  the  Morristown  (N.  J.)  School  and  the  Hamilton 
Institute  for  Boys  in  New  York  City.  During  the  years  1904 
and  1905  he  was  engaged  in  the  advertising  business  in 
Derby,  but  he  later  resumed  teaching,  and  at  the  time  of  his 
death  he  had  been  for  seven  years  an  instructor  in  Latin  and 
mathematics  in  the  Stuyvesant  High  School,  New  York  City. 
He  also  had  the  position  of  assistant  to  the  principal,  and  had 
charge  of  the  school  in  the  latter's  absence.  He  was  a  member 
of  St.  James'  Episcopal  Church,  Derby. 

He  died  at  his  home  at  Noroton  Heights,  Conn.,  April  4, 
1919,  of  acute  Bright's  disease  and  hardening  of  the  arteries, 
after  an  illness  of  six  weeks.  Burial  was  in  Oak  Grove  Ceme- 
tery, Derby. 

His  marriage  took  place  in  Skaneateles,  N.  Y.,  August  6, 
1903,  to  Edith,  daughter  of  Rev.  John  Woodworth  Craig 
and  Clara  Mayher  (Thomas)  Craig.  Mrs.  Wallace  survives 
him  with  their  daughter,  Janet. 


Arthur  Gustavus  Ward,  B.A.  1898 

Born  May  2,  1874,  at  Evans  Mills,  N.  Y, 
Died  December  14,  1918,  in  Albany,  N.  Y. 

Arthur  Gustavus  Ward  was  born  May  2,  1874,  at  Evans 
Mills,  N.  Y.,  the  son  of  Buel  Fuller  Ward,  a  farmer,  and 
Roxee  Ann  /Weichard)  Ward.  His  paternal  grandparents 
were  James  and  Lovina  (Barbur)  Ward.  Through  his  father 
he  traced  his  descent  to  Thomas  Ward,  who  was  a  pioneer 
settler  of  the  town  of  Leray,  N.  Y.  His  mother  was  the 
daughter  of  John  and  Hannah  (Woodward)  Weichard,  and 


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a  descendant  of  Richard  Woodward,  who  came  to  Water- 
town,  Mass.,  in  1635. 

He  spent  his  early  life  at  Carthage,  N.  Y.,  and  was  pre- 
pared for  Yale  at  Phillips  Academy,  Exeter,  N.  H.  He  left 
college  in  February  of  his  Senior  year,  and  spent  two  years  in 
the  Klondike,  at  Fort  Selkirk,  Alaska,  in  gold  mining.  He 
received  his  degree  in  1900,  and  by  vote  of  the  Corporation 
was  enrolled  with  the  Class  of  1898.  In  his  first  year  at  Yale 
he  was  in  the  honor  division,  and  Junior  year  he  received  a 
second  dispute  appointment. 

From  1900  to  1907  he  was  a  student  in  the  department  of 
modern  languages  in  the  Yale  Graduate  School,  receiving 
the  degree  of  M.A.  in  1904  and  that  of  Ph.D.  in  1907.  His 
thesis  for  his  doctorate  was  entitled  "Friedrich  Hebbel's 
Esthetic  Ideas."  From  1901  to  1905  he  was  instructor  in 
German  in  Yale  College,  and  from  1905  to  191 1  instructor 
in  German  in  the  Sheffield  Scientific  School.  Since  that  time 
he  had  been  teaching  at  the  State  Normal  College  in  Albany, 
N.  Y.,  where  at  the  time  of  his  death  he  was  head  of  the 
French  department.  The  summers  of  1895,  1901,  1904,  and 
191 2  he  spent  abroad,  and  during  1909-1910  he  studied  in 
Germany.  He  was  a  member  of  Trinity  Methodist  Episcopal 
Church  of  Albany. 

He  died  in  that  city  December  14,  191 8,  and  was  buried  in 
Fairview  Cemetery  at  Carthage.  For  several  months  he  had 
been  at  the  Albany  Hospital  under  treatment  for  a  nervous 
breakdown,  due  to  overwork. 

On  June  21,  1904,  he  was  married  in  Carthage,  to  Louise 
Stewart,  daughter  of  Charles  Abner  and  Jennie  (VanPelt) 
Horr.  His  wife  died  suddenly  December  19,  19 15.  He  is  sur- 
vived by  two  daughters,  Gertrude  and  Roxee,  four  sisters, 
and  two  brothers. 


Samuel  Pearson  Brooke,  B.A.  1899 

Born  August  30,  1875,  in  Nottingham,  England 
Died  November  17,  191 8,  at  Fort  Douglas,  Utah 

Samuel  Pearson  Brooke  was  born  August  30,  1875,  ^^ 
Nottingham,  England,  the  son  of  Robert  Brooke,  a  contractor, 
and  Martha  Brooke.  When  quite  young  he  came  from  Eng- 


982  YALE    COLLEGE 

land  to  Portland,  Ore.,  with  his  uncle,  John  Henry  Smith. 
He  received  his  preparatory  training  at  the  Bishop  Scott 
Academy  in  Portland.  In  college  he  was  a  member  of  the 
Freshman  Football  Team  up  to  the  time  of  an  accident  to 
his  knee.  He  received  a  dissertation  appointment  at  Com- 
mencement. 

He  went  West  after  graduation  and  took  up  engineering  as 
a  vocation.  He  was  engaged  in  railroad  engineering  in  Wyom- 
ing and  Idaho,  and  in  fortification  work  at  Bainbridge  Island, 
Wash.,  and  was  an  inspector  on  a  jetty  being  constructed  at 
Gray's  Harbor,  Wash.  In  November,  1900,  he  was  located 
at  Everett,  Wash.,  as  inspector  in  the  dredging  of  Everett 
Harbor.  In  1901  he  became  associated  with  his  uncle,  Mr. 
J.  H.  Smith,  in  the  construction  of  the  Oregon,  Southeastern, 
and  other  railway  systems  throughout  the  East  and  West. 
On  the  death  of  his  uncle  in  1905  he  became  superintendent 
for  Willet  &  Burr,  contractors  in  San  Francisco,  Calif.  In 
recent  years  he  had  been  in  charge  of  the  Street  Repair 
Department  of  that  city.  On  October  8,  1900,  he  became  a 
citizen  of  the  United  States. 

He  received  a  commission  as  Captain  in  the  403d  Engineers 
on  October  26,  191 8,  and  was  assigned  to  Fort  Douglas,  Utah. 
Almost  immediately  after  reporting  for  duty  at  Fort  Doug- 
las, he  contracted  bronchial  pneumonia,  and  died  there 
November  17, 191 8.  He  was  buried  with  military  honors  in  the 
Presidio  National  Cemetery  in  San  Francisco. 

Mr.  Brooke  was  married  September  21,  1904,  in  Harrison- 
ville,  Mo.,  to  Pearl,  daughter  of  C.  M.  E.  and  Ellen  Shaw. 
He  is  survived  by  his  wife,  a  son,  John  Henry,  a  sister,  and  four 
brothers. 


William  Jessup  Torrey,  B.A.  1899 

Born  June  24,  1875,  ^^  Scranton,  Pa. 
Died  January  15,  1919,  in  Scranton,  Pa. 

William  Jessup  Torrey,  whose  parents  were  James  Hum- 
phrey Torrey,  a  non-graduate  member  of  the  Amherst  Class 
of  1873  and  who  received  an  honorary  M.A.  from  that  institu- 
tion in  1888,  and  Ella  Carling  (Jay)  Torrey,  was  born  June  24, 
1875,  ^^  Scranton,  Pa.  His  father,  a  lawyer  of  the  firm  of 


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I 899  983 

Welles  &  Torrey,  was  the  son  of  Rev.  David  Torrey,  D.D.,  a 
graduate  of  Amherst  in  1843  and  of  Andover  Theological 
Seminary  in  1846,  and  Mary  Elizabeth  (Humphrey)  Torrey; 
he  traced  his  descent  to  William  Torrey,  who  came  to  Wey- 
mouth, Mass.,  from  Combe  St.  Nicholas,  England,  in  1640. 
His  mother  was  the  daughter  of  Douglas  Nelson  and  Eliza- 
beth (Carling)  Jay,  and  a  descendant  of  Peter  Jay,  who  was 
a  brother  of  John  Jay,  the  first  Chief  Justice  of  the  United 
States. 

He  entered  Yale  from  the  School  of  the  Lackawanna  in 
Scranton  as  a  member  of  the  Class  of  1898.  He  left  at  the  end 
of  his  Sophomore  year,  and,  returning  a  year  later,  graduated 
with  the  Class  of  1899. 

After  graduation  he  studied  law  in  the  office  of  Welles  & 
Torrey  and  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  August,  1901.  In 
March,  1902,  he  entered  into  partnership  with  his  father  and 
Mr.  Welles,  and  since  that  time  had  practiced  law  in  Scran- 
ton. He  had  taken  a  prominent  part  in  public  affairs  and 
was  a  member  of  the  Common  Council  from  1908  to  191 1, 
when  that  body  was  legislated  out  of  existence.  In  January, 
1 91 6,  he  became  attorney  in  Pennsylvania  for  the  Delaware 
&  Hudson  Company  and  in  July,  191 8,  he  was  made  assistant 
attorney  to  the  federal  manager  of  the  Delaware  &  Hudson 
Railroad.  He  was  also  a  member  of  Draft  Exemption  Board 
No.  3,  and  active  in  Liberty  Loan  campaigns  and  other 
war  work.  He  was  a  member  of  the  American  Bar,  the  Penn- 
sylvania State  Bar,  and  the  Lackawanna  Bar  associations, 
and  belonged  tq  the  Second  Presbyterian  Church  of  Scranton. 
From  1901  to  1906  he  served  as  Quartermaster  Sergeant  of 
the  13th  Regiment,  National  Guard  of  Pennsylvania. 

He  died  suddenly  of  heart  failure,  after  a  brief  illness, 
January  15,  19 19,  at  his  home  in  Scranton.  Burial  was  in  the 
Dunmore  Cemetery  in  that  city. 

Mr.  Torrey  was  not  married.  He  is  survived  by  his  parents, 
two  sisters,  and  a  brother,  Douglas  Jay  Torrey  (B.A.  1907). 
Other  Yale  relatives  are:  William  Jessup  (B.A.  181 5),  William 
H.  Jessup  (B.A.  1849),  WiUiam  H.  Jessup  (B.A.  1884), 
Augustus  P.  Thompson  (Ph.B.  1896),  Charles  P.  Thompson, 
Jr.  (Ph.B.  1908),  Paul  Thompson  (Ph.B.  1908),  William  H. 
Jessup,  Jr.  (B.A.  1915),  and  James  M.  Jessup  (B.A.  1916). 


984  YALE    COLLEGE 

Jesse  Wright  Miller,  B.A.  1900 

Born  December  6,  1875,  ^"  Houston,  Texas 
Died  June  21,  19 19,  in  Los  Angeles,  Calif. 

Jesse  Wright  Miller  was  born  in  Houston,  Texas,  Decem- 
ber 6,  1875,  ^^^  son  of  Charles  Miller,  a  planter,  and  Annexa 
(Braslear)  Miller.  He  was  prepared  for  college  at  Phillips 
Academy,  Andover,  Mass. 

He  studied  law  at  the  University  of  Texas  during  1900-01, 
taking  a  two-year  course  in  one  year,  and  then  taught  Eng- 
lish in  the  Philippines  under  the  Civil  Government  for  a  year. 
After  resigning  this  position  he  was  engaged  in  work  for  the 
Canton-Hankow  Railway  in  China  for  several  months.  He 
spent  the  summer  of  1903  in  topographical  work  for  the  Com- 
mission on  Additional  Water  Supply  at  Fishkill  Village, 
N.  Y.,  and  later  was  employed  as  a  draftsman  by  the  United 
States  Coal  &  Coke  Company  at  Tug  River,  W.  Va.  From 
1904  to  1 9 10  he  was  engaged  in  mining  in  Mexico,  during 
two  years  of  this  period  being  connected  with  the  Balsas 
Valley  Company,  operating  mines  in  the  state  of  Guerrero, 
at  first  as  superintendent  and  later  as  resident  manager. 
During  1906-07  he  managed  the  mines  of  Juan  Pedrazzini  in 
Arizpe,  Sonora.  In  the  spring  of  1908,  after  spending  some 
time  in  Ontario,  Canada,  and  in  Texas,  he  became  superin- 
tendent of  the  Rosario  Mining  &  Smelting  Company  at 
Orique,  Chihuahua,  but  resigned  after  a  few  months  to  accept 
the  position  of  general  manager  of  the  Balsas  Valley  Com- 
pany. A  year  later  he  became  connected  with  the  Maria 
Gold  Mining  Company,  for  which  he  designed  a  mill  and 
cyanide  plant  at  Chinacatas,  Durango.  In  1910  he  spent 
some  time  in  Colombia,  South  America,  examining  placer 
mines.  From  1914  to  191 8  he  was  connected  with  the  Cotton 
Exchange  in  Houston,  Texas.  He  was  a  member  of  the 
American  Institute  of  Mining  Engineers  and  of  several  other 
scientific  societies.  He  was  the  author  of  a  number  of  maga- 
zine articles.  In  1913  he  received  the  degree  of  M.A.  from 
Yale.  He  was  unmarried. 

Mr.  Miller  was  instantly  killed  June  21,  1919,  in  Los 
Angeles,  Calif.,  when  the  automobile  in  which  he  was  riding 
was  struck  by  a  street  car. 


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1900  9^5 

William  Ernst  Minor,  B.A.  1900 

Born  February  lo,  1877,  in  Cincinnati,  Ohio 
Died  January  25,  1919,  in  Washington,  D.  C. 

William  Ernst  Minor  was  born  February  lo,  1877,  in 
Cincinnati,  Ohio,  the  son  of  James  Ramsay  and  Elizabeth 
Butler  (Ernst)  Minor.  His  father,  who  was  president  of  the 
Minor  &  Dixon  Company,  wholesale  grocers,  was  the  son  of 
Thomas  H.  and  Rebecca  (Baldridge)  Minor,  and  a  descendant 
of  Dudas  Minor,  who  settled  at  Albemarle  County,  Va.,  in 
1660,  having  come  to  America  from  England.  His  mother 
was  the  daughter  of  William  and  Sara  (Butler)  Ernst,  and 
traced  her  ancestry  to  John  Ernst,  who  came  to  this  country 
from  Alsace  in  1728,  settling  at  Lancaster,  Pa. 

He  was  fitted  for  college  at  the  Franklin  School  in  Cin- 
cinnati and  at  Phillips  Academy,  Andover,  Mass.  He  was  a 
member  of  the  Senior  Promenade  Committee,  and  a  sub- 
stitute on  the  Crew  and  the  Football  and  Track  teams.  He 
was  appointed  manager  of  the  Glee  Club,  but  later  resigned. 

On  leaving  college,  he  went  into  the  oil  business,  becoming 
connected  with  the  Standard  Oil  Company  at  Lafayette, 
Ind.,  where  he  subsequently  held  the  position  of  assistant  to 
the  general  manager.  He  was  then  for  three  years  with  the 
Standard  Oil  Company  in  Cincinnati,  doing  general  work  in 
the  office  and  refinery,  and  traveling  as  salesman  and  auditor. 
In  1903  he  became  manager  of  the  western  division  of  the 
William  C.  Robinson  &  Son  Oil  Company  of  Baltimore,  with 
offices  in  Cincinnati.  Two  years  later,  in  company  with 
George  S.  Haydock  (B.A.  1897)  and  Louis  E.  Voorheis 
(Ph.B.  1897),  he  organized  the  Standard  Carbonic  Com- 
pany. He  sold  out  his  interest  in  the  company  in  1907,  and 
became  sales  manager  and  vice  president  of  the  Indian  Refin- 
ing Company,  Inc.,  continuing  in  this  connection  until  191 1. 
Since  that  time  he  had  been  vice  president  and  -manager  of 
the  Reliance  Coal  &  Coke  Company  of  Cincinnati. 

He  died  after  an  operation  for  appendicitis,  January  25, 
19 1 9,  at  the  Providence  Hospital  in  Washington,  D.  C, 
where  he  had  been  for  four  days.  Burial  was  in  Spring  Grove 
Cemetery  at  Cincinnati. 


986  YALE    COLLEGE 

His  marriage  took  place  November  10,  1903,  in  that  city, 
to  Margaret  Shoenberger,  daughter  of  Col.  John  Campbell 
Sherlock  and  Margaret  C.  (Shoenberger)  Sherlock.  They  had 
four  children:  William  Ernst,  Jr.,  Margaret  Sherlock,  James 
Ramsay,  and  John  C.  Sherlock.  His  wife  and  children  survive 
him.  He  was  a  brother  of  James  B.  Minor,  '03,  and  a  cousin 
of  William  Ernst,  '14  S. 


Robert  Bruce  Wilson,  B.A.   1901 

Born  June  2,  1877,  ^"  Portland,  Ore. 
Died  June  19,  1919,  near  Medford,  Ore. 

Robert  Bruce  Wilson,  whose  parents  were  Robert  Bruce 
and  Caroline  Elizabeth  (Couch)  Wilson,  was  born  June  2, 
1877,  in  Portland,  Ore.  His  father  graduated  from  the  Uni- 
versity of  Virginia,  and  later  practiced  as  a  physician.  He 
was  the  son  of  Holt  and  Mary  (Haggard)  Wilson,  and  a 
descendant  of  John  Wilson,  a  Colonel  in  the  Virginia  service 
during  the  Revolution.  Caroline  Couch  Wilson  was  the 
daughter  of  John  Heard  and  Caroline  Elizabeth  (Flanders) 
Couch. 

He  received  his  preparatory  training  at  the  Lawrenceville 
(N.  J.)  School,  at  the  Portland  Academy,  and  under  a  private 
tutor.  He  entered  the  Yale  School  of  Forestry  after  graduat- 
ing from  the  College  in  1901,  and  received  the  degree  of  M.F. 
in  1904. 

During  the  next  four  years  he  was  in  the  Government 
Forest  Service,  resigning  in  March,  1908,  at  which  time  he 
held  the  position  of  supervisor  of  the  Cascade  National 
Forest.  He  had  since  been  engaged  in  ranching  and  fruit 
growing  in  southern  Oregon,  and  his  death  occurred  sud- 
denly, from  a  cerebral  hemorrhage,  June  19, 191 9,  on  his  ranch 
near  Medford.  Interment  was  in  Riverview  Cemetery  at 
Portland. 

He  was  unmarried.  Surviving  him  are  a  brother,  George 
Flanders  Wilson,  and  four  sisters,  Virginia  and  Clementina 
L.  Wilson,  Mary  Caroline  Burns,  and  M.  Louise  Linthicum. 


I 900-1901  987 


Jesse  Sydney  Wyler,  B.A.  1901 

Born  September  7,  1879,  in  Cincinnati,  Ohio 
Died  October  28,  191 8,  in  Cincinnati,  Ohio 

Jesse  Sydney  Wyler  was  the  son  of  I.  A.  Wyler,  a  mer- 
chant, and  Addie  (Lowman)  Wyler,  and  was  born  September 
7,  1879,  ^^  Cincinnati,  Ohio.  His  paternal  grandparents  were 
Adam  Wyler,  who  came  to  Cincinnati  from  Germany  in 
1834,  and  Celia  Wyler.  His  mother  was  the  daughter  of 
James  and  Bertha  Lowman,  who  also  came  to  Cincinnati  in 
the  early  thirties. 

He  received  his  preparatory  training  at  the  Walnut  Hills 
High  School  and  the  Franklin  School  in  Cincinnati.  In  col- 
lege he  was  given  two-year  special  honors  in  history,  a  Junior 
high  oration,  and  a  Senior  oration  appointment. 

He  entered  the  Medical  Department  of  the  University  of 
Cincinnati  in  1901,  and  received  the  M.D.  degree  from  that 
institution  in  1904,  tying  for  the  valedictory.  He  passed  the 
competitive  examination  for  the  position  of  interne  at  the 
Cincinnati  Hospital,  and  served  there  for  eighteen  months, 
after  which  he  studied  ophthalmology  for  two  years  at  the 
University  of  Vienna.  He  acted  as  an  assistant  in  the  eye 
clinic,  first  to  Professor  Fuchs  in  Vienna,  then  to  Pro- 
fessors Hirschberg  and  GreefF  in  Berlin,  and  later  held  a 
similar  position  in  London.  Upon  his  return  to  the  United 
States  in  1907,  he  opened  an  office  in  Cincinnati  for  the  prac- 
tice of  ophthalmic  surgery,  in  which  he  had  since  been  en- 
gaged. He  had  held  various  hospital  appointments,  and  in 
1 914  was  made  a  Fellow  of  the  American  College  of  Surgeons. 
He  belonged  to  a  number  of  professional  societies  both  in 
this  country  and  abroad,  among  others  the  American  I^edical 
Association  and  the  Wiener  Ophthalmologische  Gesellschajt. 
He  contributed  many  technical  articles  dealing  with  diseases 
of  the  eye  to  various  medical  journals.  Dr.  Wyler  made 
several  attempts  to  get  a  commission  in  the  Army,  but  was 
not  accepted  because  of  the  condition  of  his  health.  For  more 
than  a  year  he  examined  the  eyes  of  men  entering  the  Avia- 
tion School  at  Cincinnati,  and  finally  accepted  an  appoint- 
ment as  contract  surgeon.  During  the  epidemic  of  influenza 


988  YALE    COLLEGE 

he  offered  his  services,  and  at  the  time  of  his  death  was  taking 
care  of  the  S.  A.  T.  C.  men  at  the  General  Hospital  in  Cin- 
cinnati, where  he  contracted  influenza,  which  developed  into 
pneumonia.  This  caused  his  death  October  28,  191 8.  In 
accordance  with  his  wishes  his  remains  were  cremated. 

Dr.  Wyler  was  married  November  30,  1908,  in  Cincinnati, 
to  Florence,  daughter  of  Carl  Iglauer,  a  graduate  of  Bamberg 
Municipal  University,  Germany,  in  1865,  and  Rosa  (Stix) 
Iglauer.  His  wife  survives  him  with  two  children,  Katherine 
and  Carl  Iglauer.  He  also  leaves  a  brother,  Arthur  L.  Wyler, 
of  Cincinnati. 


Arthur  Yancey  Wear,  B.A.   1902 

Born  March  i,  1880,  in  St.  Louis,  Mo. 
Died  November  6,  1918,  in  Pouilly,  France 

Arthur  Yancey  Wear,  son  of  James  Hutchinson  and 
Nannie  E.  (Holliday)  Wear,  was  born  March  i,  1880,  in  St. 
Louis,  Mo.  His  father,  who  was  engaged  in  the  wholesale  dry 
goods  business  until  his  death  in  1893,  was  the  son  of  William 
Gault  and  Amanda  Wear.  He  was  descended  from  Jonathan 
Wear,  of  Tennessee,  who,  with  four  brothers,  served  in  the 
Revolutionary  War,  all  of  them  being  participants  in  the 
battle  of  King's  Mountain;  one  of  his  uncles,  also  named 
Jonathan  Wear,  fought  under  General  Jackson  at  New 
Orleans  in  the  War  of  1812.  Nannie  Holliday  Wear's  parents 
were  John  J.  and  Lucretia  Green  (Force)  Holliday.  The 
former  was  of  Scotch-Irish  and  the  latter  of  French  Huguenot 
descent.  Among  Mrs.  Wear's  early  American  ancestors  was 
Henry  Dawson,  who  with  unfailing  loyalty  rendered  patriotic 
servicetto  the  cause  of  American  independence,  first  as  Ensign, 
then  as  Quartermaster,  and  who  was  promoted  to  the  rank 
of  Lieutenant  during  the  Revolution  for  gallant  conduct. 
She  is  the  granddaughter  of  Dr.  Force,  an  eminent  physician, 
whose  ancestors  fled  from  France  after  the  revocation  of  the 
Edict  of  Nantes  and  settled  in  Virginia  with  the  Huguenot 
Colony  in  1700,  later  moving  to  Kentucky. 

He  was  fitted  for  Yale  at  Smith  Academy,  St.  Louis,  and 
entered  college  in  the  fall  of  1898.  He  received  Junior  and 


1901-1902  9^9 

Senior  second  colloquy  appointments,  was  a  member  of  the 
Freshman,  College,  and  University  Baseball  teams,  and 
served  as  secretary  and  treasurer  of  the  Freshman  Football 
Association. 

After  graduation  he  entered  the  bond  department  of  the 
Germania  (now  the  Commonwealth)  Trust  Company  in  St. 
Louis  as  assistant  bond  officer.  Later  he  became  a  salesman 
for  the  Richard  Hanlon  Millinery  Company,  a  wholesale 
house,  but  since  1903  he  had  been  in  the  dry  goods  com- 
mission business  in  St.  Louis  under  the  firm  name  of  Wear 
Brothers.  His  brother,  Joseph  Walker  Wear  (B.A.  1899), 
was  associated  with  him  until  1914.  He  was  a  member  of  the 
Westminster  Presbyterian  Church  of  St.  Louis. 

He  received  his  commission  as  a  Captain  of  Infanjtry  at  the 
first  Officers'  Training  Camp  at  Fort  Riley,  Kansas,  and  was 
then  assigned  to  Company  L  of  the  356th  Infantry  at  Camp 
Funston,  Kansas,  as  Commanding  Officer.  In  June,  191 8,  he 
went  overseas  with  his  regiment,  and  participated  in  the  St. 
Mihiel  fighting  with  the  89th  Division.  On  October  15,  Cap- 
tain Wear  was  found  to  be  in  a  serious  condition,  induced  by 
the  hardships  of  the  St.  Mihiel  drive.  He  was  sent  to  the 
hospital  for  examination,  and  X-ray  tests  showed  that  he 
was  suffering  from  duodenal  ulcers  of  the  stomach.  Although 
he  was  then  told  that  it  would  require  from  nine  to  ten 
months  of  great  care  to  recover  from  them,  he  left  the  hospital 
in  time  to  lead  the  2d  Battalion  of  the  356th  Infantry,  89th 
Division,  in  the  Meuse-Argonne  operations,  continuing  in 
command  of  the  battalion  until  November  6,  the  day  of  his 
death. 

He  was  unmarried.  He  is  survived  by  his  mother,  two  sis- 
ters, and  two  brothers,  one  already  noted,  and  James  Hutch- 
inson Wear  (B.A.  1901).  He  was  a  cousin  of  Joseph  G. 
Holliday  (B.A.  1884),  Samuel  N.  Holliday  (B.A.  1908), 
and  Joseph  H.  Holliday  (B.A.  1913). 


990  YALE    COLLEGE 


William  Alexander  Blount,  Jr.,  B.A.   1903 

Born  May  23,  1879,  in  Pensacola,  Fla. 
Died  October  28,  191 8,  in  Pensacola,  Fla. 

William  Alexander  Blount,  Jr.,  was  born  In  Pensacola, 
Fla.,  on  May  23,  1879.  ^^^  father,  William  Alexander  Blount 
(B.A.  and  LL.B.  University  of  Georgia  1872  and  1875,  respec- 
tively), a  lawyer  of  the  firm  of  Blount  &  Blount,  was  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Constitutional  Convention  of  Florida  in  1885, 
city  attorney  of  Pensacola  for  ten  years,  a  member  of  the 
Florida  State  Senate  from  1903  to  1905,  vice  president  and 
general  counsel  of  the  Florida  East  Coast  Railway  Company, 
and  president  of  the  National  Conference  of  Commissioners 
on  Uniform  State  Laws.  His  parents  were  Alexander  Clement 
and  Julia  Elizabeth  (Washington)  Blount.  He  was  descended 
from  James  Blount,  an  Englishman  who  settled  in  Chowan 
County,  N.  C,  in  1669.  The  mother  of  William  A.  Blount, 
Jr.,  was  Cora  Nellie,  daughter  of  Fernando  James  and  Maria 
Louise  (Tattine)  Moreno.  She  was  of  Spanish  ancestry,  her 
great-grandfather  having  emigrated  from  Spain  prior  to  1793 
and  settled  in  Louisiana. 

He  prepared  for  college  at  St.  Paul's  School,  Garden  City, 
Long  Island,  where  he  took  many  medals  for  athletic  excel- 
lence. At  Yale  he  played  on  the  Freshman  Football  Team, 
was  a  substitute  on  the  University  Nine,  and  in  Senior  year 
coached  the  1906  Freshman  Eleven.  He  was  a  member  of  the 
Apollo  Glee  Club,  the  University  Glee  Club,  and  the  Dramatic 
Association.  He  received  a  first  colloquy  Junior  and  a  second 
dispute  Senior  appointment. 

Upon  leaving  college,  he  entered  the  Law  Department  of 
the  University  of  Alabama,  at  the  same  time  acting  as  foot- 
ball coach.  He  completed  a  two-year  course  in  one  year,  and 
was  graduated  with  the  degree  of  LL.B.  on  August  i,  1904. 
He  then  entered  into  a  co-partnership  with  his  father  and  his 
uncle,  A.  C.  Blount,  in  the  firm  of  Blount  &  Blount,  of  Pen- 
sacola, and  subsequently  entered  the  firm  of  Blount  &  Blount 
&  Carter.  In  1909  he  severed  his  connection  with  this  firm, 
and  became  cashier  and  vice  president,  and  subsequently 
president^  of  the  Pensacola  State  Bank.  Two  years  later  he 


1903  991 

resigned,  and  opened  an  office  of  his  own  for  the  practice  of 
law.  He  served  as  state's  attorney  for  the  First  Judicial  Cir- 
cuit of  Florida,  and  in  191 7  was  elected  county  solicitor  of 
Escambia  County.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Catholic  Church 
of  Pensacola. 

Mr.  Blount  died  October  28, 191 8,  after  a  two  weeks'  illness 
of  influenza,  contracted  while  he  was  giving  his  entire  time 
to  the  relief  of  the  poor  in  his  city  who  were  stricken  by  the 
epidemic.  Interment  was  in  St.  Michael's  Cemetery,  Pen- 
sacola. 

He  was  married  June  14,  1910,  in  Pensacola,  to  Mary 
Louise,  daughter  of  Marion  A.  and  Leontine  (Swaine)  Quina. 
His  wife  and  two  daughters,  Cora  Louise  and  Marian  Quina, 
survive  him.  His  brother,  Fernando  Moreno  Blount,  is  a 
non-graduate  member  of  the  Class  of  1904,  going  from  Yale 
to  the  Massachusetts  Institute  of  Technology,  where  he 
graduated  in  architecture  in  1906. 


Joseph  Newcomb  Kinney,  B.A.   1903 

Born  November  ao,  1881,  in  Cincinnati,  Ohio 
Died  December  11,  1918,  in  Cincinnati,  Ohio 

Joseph  Newcomb  Kinney  was  born  in  Cincinnati,  Ohio, 
November  20,  1881,  the  son  of  Charles  Button  and  Jeanette 
(Grove)  Kinney.  His  father,  who  was  engaged  in  the  trans- 
portation business,  was  the  son  of  Joseph  Newcomb  and 
Altha  Louise  (Button)  Kinney,  and  his  maternal  grandpar- 
ents were  Martin  and  Jane  (Coffman)  Grove. 

He  entered  Yale  from  the  Franklin  School  in  Cincinnati. 
In  college  he  was  a  member  of  the  LTniversity  Orchestra, 
and  held  a  first  colloquy  Junior  appointment  and  a  second 
dispute  Senior  appointment. 

In  the  fall  of  1903  he  entered  the  Cincinnati  Law  School, 
receiving  the  degree  of  LL.B.  from  that  institution  in  1906. 
He  was  honor  man  of  his  Class,  graduating  with  the  highest 
average  in  the  Class  for  three  years.  The  summer  of  1905  he 
spent  traveling  in  France,  England,  and  Scotland.  He  began 
the  practice  of  law  in  Cincinnati  in  1906,  and  in  January,  1909, 
with  Philip  and  Stanley  C.  Roethinger,  established  the  firm 


992  YALE    COLLEGE 

of  Roethinger  &  Kinney.  He  was  also  associated  with  the 
legal  branch  of  the  Union  Central  Life  Insurance  Company  of 
Cincinnati  from  191 1  to  191 6.  In  February,  191 8,  he  entered 
the  service  of  the  Government,  becoming  connected  with  the 
Insurance  Section,  Bureau  of  War  Risk  Insurance,  in  Wash- 
ington, D.  C.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Episcopal  Church. 
He  served  for  a  year  and  a  half  as  a  member  of  Troop  C  of 
Cincinnati. 

His  death  occurred,  as  a  result  of  pneumonia,  December  11, 
191 8,  in  Cincinnati,  and  he  was  buried  in  Spring  Grove  Cem- 
etery in  that  city. 

He  was  married  August  2,  1910,  at  Fort  Screven,  Ga., 
to  Louise  Arnold,  daughter  of  Lewis  O.  and  Fannie  (Foote) 
Maddux,  who  survives  him.  They  had  one  daughter,  Frances 
Maddux,  who  is  also  living. 


James  Knight  Nichols,  B.A.   1903 

Born  March  28,  188 1,  in  Milwaukee,  Wis. 
Died  December  17,  191 8,  in  Bingham  ton,  N.  Y. 

James  Knight  Nichols,  youngest  of  the  five  children  of 
Rev.  Gideon  Parsons  Nichols  (B.A.  Union  i860,  D.D.  Lake 
Forest  1881)  and  Delia  Briggs  (Nichols)  Nichols,  was  born 
in  Milwaukee,  Wis.,  March  28,  1881.  His  father,  who  was  a 
Presbyterian  minister,  was  the  son  of  Abiel  Nichols,  of 
Windsor,  Mass.,  and  Jerusha  (Parsons)  Nichols,  and  a 
descendant  of  Cornet  Joseph  Parsons,  of  Northampton, 
Mass.  His  mother  was  the  daughter  of  Rev.  James  Nichols, 
a  graduate  of  LTnion  College  with  the  degree  of  B.A.  in  1837, 
who  served  as  a  Chaplain  in  the  Civil  War,  and  Sarah  Jane 
(Hastings)  Nichols.  Her  great-grandfather,  General  William 
Shepard,  served  throughout  both  the  French  and  Indian 
and  the  Revolutionary  wars. 

After  being  prepared  at  the  high  school  in  Binghamton, 
N.  Y.,  to  which  city  his  family  had  removed  in  1881,  and  at 
the  Lawrenceville  (N.  J.)  School,  he  entered  Yale  with  the 
Class  of  1903.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Freshman  Glee  Qub 
and  an  editor  of  the  News. 

During  his  college  years  Mr.  Nichols  had  written  for  the 


1903  993 

New  York  Sun,  the  Boston  Globe,  and  the  Tale  Alumni 
Weekly,  and  from  graduation  until  September  i,  1905,  he 
was  on  the  staff  of  the  Hartford  (Conn.)  Courant,  of  which, 
in  1904,  he  became  night  editor.  He  then  entered  the  Harvard 
Law  School,  where  he  was  graduated  in  1908.  He  spent  a 
few  weeks  abroad  that  summer.  He  was  admitted  to  the  New 
York  Bar  in  September,  1908,  and  thereupon  took  up  the 
practice  of  law  in  Binghamton,  at  first  in  the  office  of  Lyon 
&  Painter,  and  afterwards  as  a  member  of  the  firm  of  Nichols 
&  Lewis.  He  was  attorney  for  Broome  County  from  1909 
to  191 2,  assistant  corporation  counsel  for  the  city  of  Bing- 
hamton from  1912  to  191 4,  and  at  the  time  of  his  death  held 
office  as  special  city  judge.  He  was  active  in  politics,  and 
for  several  years  was  secretary  of  the  Broome  County  and 
Binghamton  Republican  committees.  He  was  interested  in 
charitable  enterprises  and  had  served  as  treasurer  of  the 
tribune  Fresh  Air  Fund  for  Binghamton.  He  was  a  member 
ot  the  First  Presbyterian  Church  of  that  city,  of  which  his 
father  was  for  many  years  pastor. 

When  the  United  States  entered  the  war  in  191-7,  he  tried 
to  gain  admission  to  an  Officers'  Training  Camp,  but  was 
rejected  on  account  of  being  overweight  for  his  height.  He 
was  very  active  as  a  Four-Minute  Speaker  and  in  other 
forms  of  war  work  in  Binghamton.  On  February  26,  1918,  he 
went  to  New  Orleans  as  a  representative  of  the  Intelligence 
Division  of  the  War  Trade  Board,  which  office  he  held  until 
the  following  October.  He  represented  the  War  Trade  Board, 
the  Federal  Reserve  Board,  the  Departments  of  State,  the 
Treasury,  Commerce,  and  Agriculture,  the  War  Industries 
Board,  the  Alien  Property  Custodian,  the  Food  Administra- 
tion, and  the  Shipping  Board  on  the  Executive  Postal  Cen- 
sorship Committee  at  New  Orleans.  His  work  consisted  of 
counter-espionage  against  German  commercial  and  political 
activities  between  the  United  States  and  Mexico,  Cuba, 
Central  America,  and  the  west  coast  of  South  America.  His 
service  in  this  office  was  of  great  value  to  the  Government. 
He  wrote  a  Manual  for  Workers,  which  was  adopted  and 
used  by  all  the  other  stations  where  similar  work  was  done. 
In  October,  191 8,  he  entered  the  Coast  Artillery  Officers* 
Training  School  at  Fort  Monroe,  Virginia.  He  received  his  dis- 


994  YALE    COLLEGE 

charge  on  November  23,  and  shortly  afterwards  returned  to 
his  home  in  Binghamton.  A  few  days  later  he  was  taken  ill 
with  appendicitis  and  underwent  an  operation.  Peritonitis 
followed  and  finally  pneumonia  developed,  causing  his  death 
on  the  seventeenth  of  December.  The  interment  was  in  the 
family  plot  in  Spring  Forest  Cemetery,  Binghamton.  On 
the  day  after  his  death  a  memorial  meeting  in  his  honor  was 
held  by  the  Bar  Association  of  Broome  County. 

Mr.  Nichols  was  unmarried.  He  is  survived  by  his  mother, 
two  sisters,  and  two  brothers.  Rev.  Robert  Hastings  Nichols 
(B.A.  1894)  and  Major  Henry  J.  Nichols,  Medical  Corps, 
U.  S.  A.,  who  graduated  from  the  College  in  1899. 


Timothy  Francis  Bkrry,  B.A.   1904 

Born  November  13,  1882,  in  New  Haven,  Conn. 
Died  September  29,  191 8,  in  Waterbury,  Conn. 

Timothy  Francis  Barry  was  born  November  13,  1882,  in 
New  Haven,  Conn.,  where  his  father,  Patrick  Barry,  was  em- 
ployed by  the  Edward  Malley  Company.  His  mother's 
maiden  name  was  Mary  Ford. 

He  was  fitted  for  Yale  at  the  Hillhouse  High  School,  New 
Haven,  where  he  graduated  in  1899.  He  was  then  engaged  in 
newspaper  work  for  a  year,  and  during  his  college  course  he 
was  for  four  months  editor  of  the  Saturday  Chronicle  of  New 
Haven,  and,  throughout  his  Senior  year,  a  reporter  for  the 
New  Haven  'Palladium.  He  also  worked  for  the  New  Haven 
Union  and  '^he  Register,  and  was  correspondent  for  the  Boston 
Globe,  the  New  York  Sun,  the  Philadelphia  Press,  and  other 
papers. 

He  continued  to  work  on  the  staff  of  the  New  Haven  Palla- 
dium after  graduation,  and  on  August  29,  1904,  was  advanced 
to  the  position  of  city  editor.  On  November  5,  1905,  he  went 
to  Waterbury,  Conn.,  to  accept  a  position  on  the  Republican. 
He  served  successively  as  city  editor,  night  editor,  and  man- 
aging editor  of  this  paper  until  19 17,  and  during  this  period 
was  also  the  Waterbury  correspondent  for  'The  Metal  Indus- 
try (New  York  City)  and  press  agent  for  the  Poli  Theaters  In 
Waterbury.  In  the  summer  of  19 16  he  attended  the  Plattsburg 


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1903-1904  995 

Training  Camp,  where  he  was  a  Corporal  in  Company  D,  yth 
Regiment.  In  19 17  he  became  secretary  of  the  Waterbury 
Chamber  of  Commerce,  a  position  which  he  filled  until  his 
death  and  where  he  was  accomplishing  valuable  results.  Dur- 
ing the  war  he  was  a  member  of  the  executive  chapter  of  the 
American  Red  Cross,  served  as  chairman  of  the  War  Bureau 
Publicity  Committee,  the  Four-Minute  Men,  the  Red  Cross 
membership  campaign,  and  the  Waterbury  branch  of  the 
Military  Training  Camps  Association,  and  was  local  director 
for  the  Committee  of  Food  Supply  and  a  member  of  the 
Waterbury  committee  of  the  State  Council  of  Defense. 

He  died  of  nephritis,  September  29,  191 8,  in  the  Waterbury 
Hospital,  as  a  result  of  injuries  sustained  in  a  trolley  accident 
two  days  before.  Burial  was  in  St.  Lawrence  Cemetery, 
Waterbury.  He  was  a  member  o^  St.  Margaret's  Roman 
Catholic  Church. 

On  October  27,  1909,  he  was  married  in  New  Haven,  to 
Grace  Elizabeth  Williams,  daughter  of  Francis  W.  and 
Frances  (Stock)  Tiernan.  She  survives  him  with  one  daughter, 
Frances  Marie.  He  also  leaves  a  brother  and  three  sisters. 


Frederick  Campbell  Colston,  B.A.  1904 

Born  January  25,  1884,  in  Baltimore,  Md. 
Died  November  19,  191 8,  near  Verdun,  France 

Frederick  Campbell  Colston,  one  of  the  six  children  of 
Frederick  Morgan  and  Clara  (Campbell)  Colston,  was  born 
January  25,  1884,  in  Baltimore,  Md.  His  father,  who  was  a 
banker  and  broker,  studied  at  Columbian  (now  George  Wash- 
ington) University  from  1850  to  1852.  He  was  the  son  of 
Josiah  and  Eliza  Pendleton  (Tutt)  Colston,  and  a  descendant 
of  James  Colston,  who  came  to  America  from  Devonshire, 
England,  in  1663  and  settled  in  Talbot  County,  Md.  Other 
ancestors  were  members  of  the  Pendleton,  Mason,  and  Chi- 
chester families  of  Virginia.  Clara  Campbell  Colston's  parents 
were  John  Archibald  Campbell,  former  associate  justice  of 
the  U.  S.  Supreme  Court  and  assistant  secretary  of  war  of  the 
Confederate  States,  and  Anne  Esther  (Goldthwaite)  Camp- 
bell. She  was  descended  from  John  Campbell,  a  Scotchman, 


996  YALE    COLLEGE 

who  settled  in  North  Carolina  about  1750,  and  from  Thomas 
Goldthwaite,  born  in  England,  who  came  to  Massachusetts  in 
1630. 

Before  entering  Yale  he  attended  Marston's  University 
School  in  Baltimore  and  the  Lawrenceville  (N.  J.)  School. 
In  college  he  was  a  member  of  the  Apollo  Banjo  and  Man- 
dolin clubs  and  the  University  Tennis  Team,  winning 
the  intercollegiate  tennis  championship  with  his  classmate, 
Edward  J.  Clapp,  in  the  fall  of  1903.  His  appointments  were 
orations. 

After  graduation  he  studied  in  the  University  of  Maryland 
Law  School.  He  graduated  third  in  his  class  in  1906,  winning 
the  thesis  prize.  During  this  time  he  was  also  connected  with 
the  law  department  of  the  Baltimore  &  Ohio  Railroad.  Since 
September,  1907,  he  had  been  associated  in  the  practice  of 
law  with  the  firm  of  Venable,  Baetjer  &  Howard  of  Baltimore. 
He  played  in  many  tennis  tournaments,  being  for  several 
years  amateur  champion  of  Maryland,  and  at  one  time  fifth 
among  the  amateurs  of  the  country.  He  belonged  to  Christ 
Protestant  Episcopal  Church  of  Baltimore. 

He  first  entered  military  service  in  January,  1916,  when  he 
became  one  of  the  original  members  of  Battery  A,  Maryland 
National  Guard.  This  command  served  during  the  summer  of 
191 6  at  Tobyhanna,  Pa.  In  the  fall  of  that  year  Mr.  Colston 
secured  a  commission  as  a  First  Lieutenant  of  Field  Artillery 
in  the  Officers'  Reserve  Corps,  being  discharged  from  the 
battery  at  that  time.  He  attended  the  first  Officers'  Training 
Camp  at  Fort  Myer,  Virginia,  and  was  graduated  there  in 
August,  1917,  with  the  rank  of  Captain.  He  was  first  assigned 
to  the  315th  Field  Artillery  at  Camp  Lee,  Petersburg,  Va.,  be- 
coming Regimental  Adjutant,  but  was  subsequently  assigned 
to  the  Headquarters  of  the  155th  Brigade  of  Field  Artillery, 
attached  to  the  80th  Division  (then  in  training  at  the  same 
camp),  with  which  he  served,  until  his  death,  as  Operations 
Officer.  After  a  short  course  at  Fort  Sill,  Oklahoma,  in  the 
spring  of  191 8,  he  rejoined  his  division  and  sailed  with  it  to 
France  in  May.  During  the  summer  he  was  in  training  in 
Brittany.  The  division  moved  to  the  front  in  September,  was 
in  reserve  in  the  St.  Mihiel  operations,  and  was  engaged  in 
tire  fighting  in  the  Argonne  region  until  the  signing  of  the 


1904  997 

armistice.  Captain  Colston  died  November  19,  191 8,  at  a 
hospital  near  Verdun,  of  pneumonia,  after  an  illness  of  only- 
four  days.  He  was  buried  in  the  French  Military  Cemetery 
No.  492  at  Fromereville  (Meuse).  The  day  before  his  death 
orders  were  received  transferring  him  to  the  Headquarters 
of  the  7th  Army  Corps  as  Artillery  Operations  Officer  of  that 
corps.  This  promotion  was  in  recognition  of  the  excellence 
of  his  work  during  the  Argonne  drive. 

He  was  unmarried.  His  parents,  three  sisters,  and  two 
brothers  survive  him.  His  brothers  are  both  Yale  men,  George 
Anderson  Colston  having  graduated  with  the  Class  of  1898, 
and  J.  A.  Campbell  Colston  with  the  Class  of  1907  S.  Cap- 
tain Colston  was  a  nephew  of  John  W.  Beckley  (B.A.  i860). 


Douglas  Bannan  Green,  B.A.   1904 

Born  June  26,  1 881,  in  Pottsville,  Pa. 
Died  August  2,  191 8,  near  Sergy,  France 

Douglas  Bannan  Green,  only  son  of  David  Bright  and 
Catharine  Priscilla  (Brooke)  Green,  was  born  June  26,  1881, 
in  Pottsville,  Pa.  His  father  was  a  lawyer  and  judge  of  the 
Court  of  Common  Pleas  of  Schuylkill  County,  Pa.  He  received 
the  degree  of  B.A.  from  Yale  in  1852,  and  served  in  the  Civil 
War  as  Adjutant  of  the  129th  Infantry,  Pennsylvania  Volun- 
teers, and  as  Lieutenant  Colonel  of  the  Pennsylvania  Militia. 
He  was  the  third  son  of  John  and  Catharine  (Bright)  Green, 
and  the  great-grandson  of  William  Green  (i  743-1 828),  a 
Quaker,  who  came  to  this  country  from  Cork,  Ireland,  settling 
in  Philadelphia  in  1760.  William  Green  had  left  his  own  country 
(England)  because  of  religious  persecution.  Catharine  Brooke 
Green  was  the  daughter  of  Lewis  Phillips  and  Margaret 
(Weaver)  Brooke.  She  was  descended  from  Roger  Brooke, 
who  was  living  at  Holme,  Yorkshire,  England,  in  1534.  Her 
first  ancestor  to  come  to  America  was  John  Brooke,  who 
arrived  on  the  ship  Brittania  in  1699  and  settled  in  Gloucester, 

N-  J- 

Douglas  B.  Green  received  his  preparatory  training  at  the 
Pottsville  High  School  and  at  Phillips  Academy,  Andover, 
Mass.  In  college  he  had  a  colloquy  stand  both  Junior  and 


998  YALE    COLLEGE 

Senior  years.  He  played  on  the  Freshman  Baseball  Team  and 
was  a  member  of  the  College  Nine  in  his  Sophomore,  Junior, 
and  Senior  years,  being  captain  of  the  team  during  his  last 
two  years. 

He  was  admitted  to  the  New  York  Bar  after  studying  two 
years  at  the  New  York  Law  School,  where  he  received  the 
degree  of  LL.B.  in  1906.  He  then  became  associated  with  the 
law  firm  of  Hitchings  &  Palliser  in  New  York  City.  He  at- 
tended the  first  Plattsburg  Training  Camp  from  May  to 
August,  1917,  receiving  a  commission  as  First  Lieutenant  in 
the  National  Army  at  its  close.  He  was  then  assigned  to 
Company  H,  i68th  Infantry  (Iowa  unit),  4.26.  Division,  at 
Camp  Upton,  New  York,  and  the  following  November  he  went 
overseas  with  the  division.  He  was  mortally  wounded  on 
August  1, 191 8,  while  leading  his  section  over  the  top  in  the 
final  dash  on  Sergy.  He  was  evacuated  to  Field  Hospital  No. 
165,  near  Sergy,  where  he  died  the  next  day.  He  was  buried 
in  a  town  cemetery  at  Bezu-St.  Germaine,  Aisne  District.  A 
memorial  service  was  held  for  him  Sunday,  January  19,  1919, 
in  the  Episcopal  Church  at  Pottsville.  A  number  of  his  Yale 
classmates  attended  the  service. 

Lieutenant  Green  was  not  married.  He  is  survived  by  two 
sisters.  His  mother  died  December  14,  1919.  Among  his  Yale 
relatives  are  two  uncles,  Albert  G.  Green  (B.A.  1849)  ^^^ 
Erastus  R.  Green  (B.A.  1851),  and  two  cousins,  Henry  D. 
Green  (B.A.  1877)  and  Herbert  R.  Green  (B.A.  1885). 

Allen  Perry  Lovejoy,  B.A.   1904 

Born  January  16,  1882,  in  Janesville,  Wis. 
Died  September  30,  191 8,  in  Janesville,  Wis. 

Allen  Perry  Lovejoy  was  born  January  16,  1882,  in  Janes- 
ville, Wis.,  the  son  of  Allen  Perry  and  Julia  Isbell  (Stow) 
Lovejoy.  His  father,  whose  parents  were  Nathan  and  Tem- 
perance (Wing)  Lovejoy,  was  a  native  of  Maine,  but  when  a 
young  man  moved  to  Wisconsin,  where  he  became  identified 
with  the  lumber  industry  and  developed  other  extensive 
interests,  in  which  he  was  actively  engaged  until  his  death  in 
March,  1904.  Allen  Lovejoy  traced  his  descent  from  John 


1904  ,   999 

Lovejoy,  who  settled  at  Andover  in  1636,  being  the  seven- 
teenth settler,  and  was  one  of  the  first  freeholders  of  Massa- 
chusetts and  an  officer  in  the  Colonial  Army.  His  great-grand- 
father and  great-great-grandfather  in  this  branch  were  both 
officers  in  the  American  Army  in  the  Revolution.  Temper- 
ance Wing  Lovejoy  was  descended  from  Rev.  John  Wing, 
whose  widow  Deborah  and  four  sons  came  to  America  in 
1637  and  settled  at  Sandwich,  Mass.  Allen  Lovejoy's  mother 
was  the  daughter  of  Henry  and  Susan  (FoUiatt)  Stow,  and 
traced  her  descent  from  John  Stow,  who  came  from  Hawk- 
hurst,  Kent  County,  England,  and  settled  in  Roxbury,  Mass., 
in  1634,  and  among  whose  descendants  are  numbered  three 
Yale  presidents  and  one  of  her  founders.  John  Stow's  great- 
great-grandson,  Stephen  Stow,  gave  his  life  nursing  American 
soldiers  sick  with  smallpox  who  were  landed  at  Milford  from 
a  British  prison  ship.  Four  sons  of  Stephen  Lovejoy  served 
in  the  Revolutionary  Army,  one  being  John  Stow,  the  great- 
great-grandfather  of  Allen  Perry  Lovejoy.  Susan  FoUiatt 
Snow  was  descended  from  Robert  FoUiatt,  who  settled  at 
Salem,  Mass.,  some  time  before  1659. 

Allen  Lovejoy  received  his  preparatory  training  at  the 
Janesville  High  School  and  at  the  Beloit  (Wis.)  Academy. 
In  college  he  was  given  an  oration  appointment  both  Junior 
and  Senior  years,  and  received  honors  in  history.  In  his  Senior 
year  he  divided  with  Alexander  Gordon  the  John  Hubbard 
Curtis  Prize  for  English  composition,  and  was  awarded  second 
place  in  the  competition  for  the  John  Addison  Porter  Prize  in 
American  history. 

He  had  varied  interests,  but  was  especially  occupied  with 
the  lumber  business,  owning  and  operating  concerns  in 
Duluth,  Minn.,  and  Superior,  Wis.,  as  well  as  being  connected 
with  other  lumber  interests  in  Wisconsin  and  in  the  South 
and  West.  In  1907  his  brother,  Henry  Stow  Lovejoy,  '07, 
became  associated  with  him  and  at  a  later  date  the  firm  name 
of  A.  P.  &  H.  S.  Lovejoy  was  assumed.  Mr.  Lovejoy  was  a 
director  of  the  Langlade  Lumber  Company  and  the  Merrill 
Lumber  Company,  secretary  and  director  of  the  Janesville 
Machine  Company,  and  vice  president  and  director  of  the 
First  National  Bank  of  Janesville  and  of  the  Bank  of  Com- 
merce of  Superior,  Wis.  The  many  positions  of  trust  which  he 


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held  bear  witness  to  the  place  he  occupied  in  the  community. 
He  was  the  first  president  and  for  many  years  director  of  the 
Janesville  Commercial  Club,  vice  president  and  director  of 
the  Apollo  Club,  a  musical  organization,  a  member  of  the 
advisory  board  of  Mercy  Hospital,  and  for  ten  years  a  trustee 
of  Beloit  College.  He  belonged  to  the  First  Presbyterian 
Church,  and  was  both  a  trustee  and  an  elder  in  it. 

At  the  outbreak  of  the  war  he  sacrificed  his  own  business 
interests  to  devote  much  of  his  time  to  war  work.  He  was  a 
member  and  warm  supporter  of  the  Wisconsin  State  Guard,  a 
director  of  the  local  Red  Cross  chapter,  a  member  of  the 
American  Protective  League,  and  head  of  the  War  Savings 
Stamp  campaign  for  Janesville.  He  managed  the  second, 
third,  and  fourth  Liberty  Loan  campaigns  for  Janesville,  all 
of  which  secured  their  quota  by  a  generous  margin.  He  con- 
tracted his  last  illness  in  his  efforts  to  further  the  fourth  Loan. 
Every  detail  for  the  drive  was  in  readiness  at  the  time  of  his 
death  and  he  was  not  replaced  as  chairman,  but  the  campaign 
was  carried  to  a  successful  conclusion  just  as  he  had  planned  it. 

His  death  occurred  September  30,  191 8,  in  Janesville,  after 
a  week's  illness  of  Spanish  influenza.  Interment  was  in  Oak 
Hill  Cemetery  at  Janesville.  Under  his  will  Yale  was  made  a 
beneficiary  by  a  bequest  of  $50,000,  and  Beloit  College  and 
his  church  for  lesser  amounts. 

On  June  28,  1910,  he  was  married  in  Dayton,  Ohio,  to 
Isabel  Carr,  daughter  of  Rev.  John  Hampden  Thomas,  D.D., 
ex- 6^,  and  Linda  Staley  (Rogers)  Thomas.  He  is  survived  by 
his  wife  and  three  sons,  Allen  Perry,  Jr.,  John  Thomas,  and 
Robert  Carr.  He  was  a  nephew  of  Rev.  Frederick  L.  Chapell 
(B.A.  i860),  Horace  C.  Wait  (B.A.  1876),  and  Arthur 
Williams  (B.A.  1877). 

John  Smith  McFadden,  B.A.   1904 

Born  April  9,  1877,  at  Johnson's  Mills,  New  Brunswick,  Canada 
Died  October  10,  191 8,  in  St.  John,  New  Brunswick,  Canada 

John  Smith  McFadden  was  born  April  9,  1877,  at  Johnson's 
Mills,  New  Brunswick,  Canada,  where  his  father,  Gideon 
Smith  McFadden,  is  now  engaged  in  farming.  The  latter's 
parents  were  John  McFadden,  of  Bath,  Maine,  and  Zilphia 


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(Ring)  McFadden,  of  Sackville,  New  Brunswick;  his  grand- 
father, Thomas  McFadden,  came  from  Ayshire,  Scotland,  in 
1775.  John  S.  McFadden's  mother  was  Lelia  Ada,  daughter 
of  John  Smith  and  Lucy  Ann  (Bucknell)  Lowe.  His  mother's 
ancestors  settled  in  the  eastern  part  of  Maine  in  1776,  and 
her  parents  moved  from  the  United  States  to  Canada  in  1826. 

He  attended  the  Dorchester  (New  Brunswick)  High  School 
and  the  Fredericton  Normal  School,  Wolfville,  Nova  Scotia. 
He  received  the  degree  of  B.A.  from  Acadia  University  in 
1902,  and  entered  Yale  in  September,  1903.  His  Senior 
appointment  was  a  philosophical  oration. 

In  September,  1904,  he  entered  the  Rochester  (N.  Y.) 
Theological  Seminary,  and  was  graduated  from  that  institu- 
tion in  May,  1907.  The  following  September  he  became  pastor 
of  the  United  Baptist  Church  of  Petitcodiac,  New  Brunswick, 
where  he  was  ordained  by  an  ecclesiastical  council.  He  held 
this  pastorate  until  July,  1909,  when  he  became  pastor  of  the 
Baptist  Church  at  River  Herbert,  Nova  Scotia.  He  held  this 
pastorate  for  two  years,  and  then  accepted  a  charge  at  Clem- 
entsport.  Nova  Scotia.  Since  August,  1916,  he  had  served  as 
pastor  of  the  Baptist  Church  in  Andover,  Victoria  County, 
New  Brunswick. 

He  died  of  tuberculosis  of  the  lungs  at  the  County  Hospital, 
St.  John,  New  Brunswick,  October  10,  191 8.  He  was  buried 
in  Forest  Glen  Cemetery  at  Petitcodiac,  New  Brunswick. 

Mr.  McFadden  was  married  October  9,  1907,  in  Forest 
Glen,  New  Brunswick,  to  Muriel  Tupper,  daughter  of  Thomas 
Whitfield  and  Jennie  (Bleakney)  Colpitts,  who  died  June  20, 
1917.  Their  four  children  survive:  Margaret  Jean,  Dorothy, 
John  Lawrence,  and  Eleanor  Katherine.  Mr.  McFadden's 
parents,  two  sisters,  and  a  brother  are  also  living. 


Charles  Jarvis  Chapman,  B.A.   1905 

Born  January  6,  1883,  in  Portland,  Maine 
Died  June  25,  19 19,  in  Brookline,  Mass. 

Charles  Jarvis  Chapman  was  born  January  6,  1883,  in 
Portland,  Maine.  He  was  the  son  of  Charles  Jarvis  Chapman 
(B.A.  Bowdoin   1868,  M.A.  Bowdoin   1871)   and  Annie  D. 


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(Hinds)  Chapman.  His  father  was  a  merchant  and  banker  of 
Portland,  and  served  as  mayor  of  the  city  from  1886  to 
1889. 

He  was  fitted  for  Yale  at  the  Portland  High  School  and 
at  Phillips-Andover.  He  played  in  the  Apollo  Banjo  and 
Mandolin  Club. 

In  September,  1905,  he  started  on  a  trip  around  the  world 
with  Lawrence  Darr  (B.A.  1905),  returning  in  July,  1906. 
Mr.  Chapman  then  entered  the  employ  of  Darr,  Luke  & 
Moore,  bankers  and  brokers,  becoming  manager  of  the 
Boston  office.  He  was  later  connected  successively  with 
Thompson,  Towle  &  Company;  Richardson,  Hill  &  Company; 
and,  for  five  years  before  his  death,  with  E.  M.  Hamblin  & 
Company,  all  banking  and  brokerage  firms  of  Boston. 

He  died  June  25,  1919,  at  his  home  in  Brookline,  Mass.,  of 
pneumonia,  after  an  illness  of  only  five  days.  The  interment 
was  in  Evergreen  Cemetery,  Portland. 

His  marriage  took  place  in  Portland,  May  18,  1907,  to 
Marguerite,  daughter  of  Samuel  D.  and  Emeline  Carleton 
(Rollins)  Rumery.  She  survives  him  with  their  two  sons, 
Charles  Jarvis,  Jr.,  and  Lawrence  Darr.  He  also  leaves  a 
sister  and  three  brothers. 


William  Wurts  White,  B.A.   1905 

Born  July  17,  1882,  in  Providence,  R.  I. 
Died  October  2,  191 8,  in  Providence,  R.  I. 

William  Wurts  White,  whose  parents  were  William  Wurts 
and  Kate  (Merwin)  White,  was  born  July  17,  1882,  in  Provi- 
dence, R.  L  His  father  was  the  son  of  John  Richards  White 
(B.A.  University  of  Pennsylvania  1832)  and  Caroline  (Wurts) 
White;  he  graduated  from  the  University  of  Pennsylvania  in 
i860,  and  was  a  member  of  the  firm  of  John  R.  White  &  Son, 
coal  merchants.  His  maternal  grandfather  was  Elias  Merwin. 

Entering  Yale  from  St.  Mark's  School,  Southboro,  Mass., 
in  1 90 1,  he  was  graduated  in  1905.  During  his  Freshman 
year  he  played  on  the  Class  Football  and  Baseball  teams, 
being  captain  of  the  latter.  He  was  later  a  member  of  the 
Second  Baseball  Team,  the  University  Football  Squad,  the 


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Tennis  Team,  and  the  Class  Hockey  Team.  He  belonged  to 
Linonia,  and  received  a  Senior  second  colloquy  appointment. 

After  graduation  he  became  a  partner  in  C.  A.  Kilvert  & 
Company,  bankers  and  brokers  of  Providence.  He  retained 
this  connection  until  1913,  when  the  firm  of  W.  W.  White  & 
Company,  dealers  in  investment  securities,  was  formed.  At 
his  death  he  was  senior  partner  of  the  firm.  He  was  a  director 
of  the  Mechanics  National  Bank  of  Providence  and  of  the 
Pennsylvania  Electric  Company  of  New  York.  He  was  a 
governor  and  treasurer  of  the  Providence  Stock  Exchange, 
treasurer  of  the  Rhode  Island  committee  of  the  National 
Security  League,  a  member  of  the  Providence  Chamber  of 
Commerce,  and  a  trustee  of  the  Rhode  Island  School  of  De- 
sign. In  March,  1917,  he  was  elected  a  governor,  and,  in  May, 
191 8,  became  president  of  the  Agawam  Hunt  Club  of  Provi- 
dence. In  191 8  he  served  on  the  executive  committee  of  the 
Rhode  Island  branch  of  the  Military  Training  Camps  Asso- 
ciation. Mr.  White  died  of  pneumonia  resulting  from  Spanish 
influenza,  in  Providence,  October  2,  191 8. 

He  was  married  October  29,  1908,  in  New  York  City,  to 
Janet,  daughter  of  William  Reynolds  Innis  (B.A.  1880)  and 
Dora  (Studebaker)  Innis,  and  sister  of  William  S.  Innis  (B.A. 
1 9 14).  She  survives  him  with  their  three  children:  William 
Wurts,  3d,  Dora  Innis,  and  Janet,  and  he  also  leaves  a  brother. 
Another  brother  was  the  late  John  Richards  White  (B.A. 
1903)- 

Kenelm  Winslow,  B.A.   1905 

Born  July  28,  1884,  in  New  York  City 
Died  August  22,  191 8,  in  France 

Kenelm  Winslow,  eldest  son  of  Francis  Dana  and  Emma 
(Carroll)  Winslow,  was  born  July  28,  1884,  in  New  York 
City.  His  father,  who  received  the  degree  of  Ph.B.  from  Yale 
in  1878  and  that  of  LL.B.  from  Columbia  in  1880,  is  a  stock- 
broker in  New  York  City.  He  was  descended  from  Kenelm 
Winslow,  who  came  to  this  country  in  1620  from  Droitwich, 
England,  and  settled  at  Marshfield,  Mass. 

He  was  fitted  for  college  at  the  Cutler  School  in  New  York 
City,  and  entered  Yale  in  1901,  He  was  vice  president  of  the 


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French  Club  in  Sophomore  year,  and  acted  in  the  French 
plays  each  year. 

Upon  graduation  he  became  connected  with  the  firm  of 
Winslow  &  Company,  bankers  and  brokers  of  New  York 
City,  being  taken  into  partnership  January  i,  1908.  He 
resided  at  Tuxedo  Park,  N.  Y.,  and  was  a  member  of  the 
Episcopal  Church  of  St.  Mary. 

In  1 91 6  he  attended  the  Officers'  Training  Camp  at  Platts- 
burg,  N.  Y.  He  received  his  commission  as  First  Lieutenant 
of  Infantry  April  2,  191 7,  and  on  August  15,  after  a  four 
months'  course  at  Fort  McPherson,  Georgia,  was  promoted 
to  a  Captaincy.  He  was  stationed  at  Camp  Gordon,  Georgia, 
with  Company  I,  327th  Infantry,  until  going  overseas  with 
his  regiment  in  April,  191 8.  Captain  Winslow  died  in  France 
August  22,  191 8.  He  was  buried  in  the  American  Military 
Cemetery,  Millery,  Meurthe  et  Moselle. 

He  was  married  December  4,  1906,  to  Emily,  daughter  of 
Albert  E.  and  Marie  Louise  (Chase)  Foster,  of  New  York 
City.  Their  four  children,  Kenelm,  Jr.,  Francis  Dana,  2d, 
Albert  Foster,  and  Emily  Hone,  are  living.  Mrs.  Winslow 
was  married  July  7,  1920,  to  Herbert  Reed  Lawrence,  of 
New  York.  Captain  Winslow  was  a  brother  of  Carroll  D. 
Winslow  (Ph.B.  1910),  and  a  cousin  of  Fayette  W.  Brown 
(Ph.B.  1878)  and  George  T.  Brown,  ex-^s  S. 


Lester  Clement  Barton,  B.A.   1906 

Born  June  ay,  1884,  in  Maywood,  111. 
Died  July  19,  191 8,  at  Belleau  Wood,  France 

Lester  Clement  Barton,  eldest  son  of  George  Preston  and 
Lucy  (Nichols)  Barton,  was  born  June  27,  1884,  in  Maywood, 
a  suburb  of  Chicago,  111.  His  father  was  born  in  Lorraine, 
N.  Y.,  in  1 85 1,  the  son  of  Sidney  William  and  Fanny  Abiah 
(Bliss)  Barton,  graduated  from  the  University  of  Rochester 
in  1876,  and  afterwards  practiced  law  in  Chicago  for  thirty- 
eight  years,  making  a  specialty  of  the  law  of  patents.  In 
recent  years  his  home  has  been  in  California.  His  grandfather, 
Ozias  Barton,  the  son  of  Jonathan  Barton,  a  Revolutionary 
soldier,  married  Sally  Lamson,  daughter  of  Jonathan  Lam- 


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son,  who  also  had  served  in  the  Revolution.  Ozias  Barton 
took  part  in  the  defense  of  Sackett's  Harbor  in  the  War  of 
1812.  Jonathan  Barton  was  a  son  of  Timothy  Barton,  and 
his  wife's  maiden  name  was  Hannah  Dix;  he  was  of  the 
Salem  and  Oxford  (Mass.)  family  to  which  Clara  Barton, 
founder  of  the  Red  Cross,  belonged.  Rev.  Enos  Bliss  (B.A. 
1787)  was  Lester  C.  Barton's  great-grandfather.  He,  like  the 
Bartons,  was  of  Pilgrim  and  Puritan  stock.  His  wife,  Betsey 
(Breed)  Bliss,  was  the  daughter  of  David  Breed,  a  descendant 
of  Allen  Breed,  who  came  from  England  in  1630  and  settled 
at  Lynn,  Mass.,  and  Elizabeth  (Clement)  Breed,  who  was  a 
daughter  of  Jeremiah  Clement,  of  Windham,  Conn.,  and 
Mary  (Moseley)  Clement.  The  Moseley  line  dates  back  to 
John  Moseley,  who  was  living  in  Dorchester,  Mass.,  in  1630. 
Lucy  Nichols  Barton  was  the  daughter  of  Col.  William  Thomas 
Nichols  and  Thyrza  (Crampton)  Nichols,  and  was  born  in 
Rutland,  Vt.,  in  i860.  Colonel  Nichols,  who  was  descended 
from  early  New  England  stock,  was  a  lawyer  by  profession; 
he  served  as  a  member  of  the  Vermont  House  of  Repre- 
sentatives and  Senate,  and  during  the  Civil  War  was  Colonel 
of  the  14th  Vermont,  which  regiment  he  commanded  under 
General  Stannard  and  led  in  the  charge  on  the  third  day  of 
the  battle  of  Gettysburg;  in  1869  he  moved  to  Illinois  and 
founded  Maywood.  Thyrza  Crampton  Nichols  was  de- 
scended from  Neri  Crampton,  who,  as  a  young  Lieutenant, 
was  with  Ethan  Allen  at  the  surrender  of  Fort  Ticonderoga. 

He  attended  the  public  schools  in  Chicago,  graduating 
from  the  Chicago  Manual  Training  School  in  1901,  and  then 
spent  a  year  at  Phillips  Academy,  Andover,  Mass.,  where  he 
took  a  prize  in  Latin  and  graduated  with  high  standing. 
During  the  winter  vacation  of  his  Senior  year  at  Yale  he 
made  a  quite  remarkable  trip  alone  on  foot  through  Virginia 
and  North  Carolina,  climbing  Mount  Mitchell.  He  partici- 
pated in  football,  rowing,  and  basketball. 

He  early  became  quite  expert  in  photography,  and  while 
in  college,  and  later,  he  traveled  and  did  publicity  work  at 
soldiers'  training  camps  and  for  cities  and  boards  of  trade. 
This  work,  and  his  love  of  nature,  manifested  since  his  boy- 
hood, took  him  on  extended  trips  during  the  three  years 
subsequent  to  his  graduation:  one  summer  he  spent  in  Colo- 


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rado;  he  made  an  extended  tour  of  the  Canadian  Northwest; 
and  at  the  time  our  fleet  was  sent  to  the  Pacific  in  1907  he  was 
in  attendance  and  took  large  numbers  of  photographs  at 
San  Diego  and  along  the  coast. 

His  legal  studies  comprised  one  year  at  the  Law  School 
of  the  University  of  Chicago  the  first  year  after  his  gradua- 
tion from  Yale  and  two  years  (1909  and  1910)  at  the  Har- 
vard Law  School.  He  was  admitted  to  the  Illinois  Bar  the 
latter  year.  He  was  first  employed  as  attorney  by  Charles 
Hall  Ewing,  representing  the  Helen  Culver  Estate.  In  this 
work,  and  later,  as  assistant  state's  attorney  for  Cook  County, 
he  was  engaged  in  the  trial  of  jury  cases,  civil  and  criminal. 
In  1 91 6  he  opened  an  office  and  engaged  in  a  general  prac- 
tice on  his  own  account.  He  attended  the  Fourth  Presbyte- 
rian Church  of  Chicago. 

When  war  was  declared  he  almost  immediately  offered 
himself  at  the  first  Officers*  Training  Camp  at  Fort  Sheridan, 
Illinois,  but  was  required  to  wait,  on  account  of  a  sprained 
knee,  until  the  second  camp,  which  he  entered  on  August  27, 
1917.  On  November  27,  1917,  he  was  commissioned  a  Second 
Lieutenant  of  Field  Artillery  and  immediately  ordered  to 
France.  He  sailed  by  way  of  Halifax  and  England  and  reached 
France  January  7,  191 8.  There  followed  the  regular  intensive 
training  at  Saumur,  and  in  April,  191 8,  he  was  assigned  to 
Battery  B,  loist  Field  Artillery,  26th  Division,  then  stationed 
at  Toul.  Early  in  May  he  had  a  leave  and  visited  his  sister 
Thyrza  (Mrs.  Sherman  W.  Dean),  a  Y.  W.  C.  A.  worker  in 
Paris,  and  his  half-brother,  William  S.  Barton,  a  Sergeant  in 
the  Ambulance  Service.  He  was  sent  forward  as  Liaison  Officer 
with  the  Infantry  on  July  17,  and  worked  under  fire  until  the 
afternoon  of  the  19th,  when,  as  he  went  forward  to  rescue  a 
wounded  soldier,  he  was  hit  by  an  enemy  shell  and  instantly 
killed.  He  fell  at  the  north  edge  of  Belleau  Wood,  opposite 
the  village  of  Torcy.  He  was  given  a  citation,  posthumously, 
for  "gallant  conduct  and  devotion  to  duty  in  the  field  on 
July  18  and  19,  191 8,  at  Bois  Belleau  and  Torcy,  while  on 
daring  reconnaissance."  The  bulletins  which  Lieutenant  Bar- 
ton sent  regularly  from  France  are  being  printed  privately 
for  his  family  and  friends. 

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previously  he  left  a  half-sister,  Amelia  P.  Barton,  a  brother, 
Hubert  Crampton  Barton,  of  South  Amherst,  Mass.,  and  a 
half-brother,  Ralph  Dix  Barton.  Another  half-brother,  Ray- 
mond Welles  Barton,  enlisted  in  the  Naval  Reserve  at  the 
age  of  nineteen  and  died  in  service,  October  4,  1 9 1 8,  at  Hamp- 
ton Roads,  Va. 


John  Gilmore  Dunlap,  B.A.   1906 

Born  March  19,  1884,  in  Philadelphia,  Pa. 
Died  December  3,  191 8,  in  Los  Angeles,  Calif. 

John  Gilmore  Dunlap  was  born  March  19,  1884,  in  Phila- 
delphia, Pa.,  the  son  of  James  and  Ida  Amanda  (Gilmore) 
Dunlap.  His  father,  who  was  of  Irish  parentage,  was,  at  the 
time  of  his  death  in  1917,  president  of  the  James  Dunlap 
Carpet  Company,  having  previously  been  associated  with  his 
father  and  brother  in  the  firm  of  John  Dunlap  &  Sons,  carpet 
manufacturers.  His  mother's  ancestry  was  Scotch.  Her 
family  came  to  Philadelphia  shortly  after  1800. 

He  was  fitted  for  college  at  the  Central  High  School  in 
Philadelphia  and  at  Phillips  Academy,  Andover,  Mass.  At 
the  end  of  the  first  term  of  Freshman  year  he  had  a  first  divi- 
sion stand,  and  he  received  a  first  colloquy  Junior  year.  His 
Senior  appointment  was  a  second  dispute.  He  wrote  for  the 
Courant^  and  represented  Yale  on  the  Whist  Team  in  Senior 
year. 

After  graduation  he  studied  law  at  the  University  of 
Pennsylvania,  receiving  the  degree  of  LL.B.  in  1908.  He  then 
began  practice  in  the  office  of  Francis  Fisher  Kane  (B.A. 
Princeton  1886,  LL.B.  Pennsylvania  1889)  in  Philadelphia, 
but  subsequently  gave  up  the  law  to  become  associated  with 
John  E.  D.  Trask  as  assistant  secretary  of  the  Pennsylvania 
Academy  of  Fine  Arts.  After  several  years  he  removed  to 
Pittsburgh  and  entered  the  employ  of  the  Pittsburgh  Screw 
&  Bolt  Company,  but  in  191 5  again  became  associated 
with  Mr.  Trask  as  sales  manager  of  the  Fine  Arts  Depart- 
ment of  the  Panama-Pacific  International  Exposition  in 
San  Francisco,  Mr.  Trask  being  the  director  of  the  depart- 
ment. After  the  exposition  was  closed  he  studied  telegraphy 


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in  order  to  become  an  agent  for  the  Acheson,  Topeka  &  Santa 
F6  Railroad,  a  position  which  he  held  at  his  death.  Before 
going  to  California,  he  was  a  member  of  Company  B,  Engi- 
neers, Pennsylvania  National  Guard.  He  belonged  to  the 
Susquehanna  Avenue  Presbyterian  Church  of  Philadelphia. 
His  death  occurred  December  3,  191 8,  in  Los  Angeles, 
Calif.,  after  an  illness  of  eight  days  due  to  influenza  and 
pneumonia.  He  was  buried  in  West  Laurel  Hill  Cemetery, 
Philadelphia.  Mr.  Dunlap  was  unmarried.  He  is  survived  by 
a  brother,  James  Dunlap,  who  is  a  non-graduate  member  of 
the  Class  of  191 2  at  Yale,  and  two  sisters,  Agnes  D.  (Mrs. 
D.  P.  B.  Marshall)  and  Margaret  D.  (Mrs.  Gordon  G.  Bloss). 


John  Richard  Halsey,  B.A.   1906 

Born  April  4,  1884,  in  White  Haven,  Pa. 
Died  October  25,  191 8,  in  Wilkes  Barre,  Pa. 

John  Richard  Halsey  was  born  April  4,  1884,  in  White 
Haven,  Pa.,  being  one  of  the  six  children  of  Gaius  Leonard 
and  Sarah  Elizabeth  (LeVan)  Halsey.  His  father,  a  graduate 
of  Tufts  with  the  degree  of  B.A.  in  1867,  was  at  one  time  a 
reporter  for  the  Stenographic  Record  in  the  House  of  Repre- 
sentatives in  Washington,  D.  C,  and  in  Harrisburg,  Pa., 
and,  for  nearly  eleven  years,  judge  of  the  Luzerne  County 
Court.  Judge  Halsey's  father  was  Dr.  Richard  Church  Hal- 
sey, a  graduate  of  Jefferson  Medical  College  and  an  eminent 
physician  of  White  Haven  and  Nesquehoning,  who  served  as 
a  Surgeon  in  the  Civil  War.  His  mother  was  Annie  (Sprowl) 
Halsey.  John  Richard  Halsey  traced  his  ancestry  on  his 
father's  side  to  an  English  family  of  the  time  of  William  the 
Conqueror.  Thomas  Halsey,  the  fifth,  the  progenitor  of  the 
American  Halseys,  came  from  Hertfordshire,  England,  and 
settled  in  Lynn,  Mass.  The  family  was  prominent  in  the  his- 
tory of  Colonial  settlements.  From  Thomas  Halsey  the  line 
descends  to  Richard  Church  Halsey  in  the  eighth  generation, 
the  grandfather  of  John  Richard  Halsey,  who  seems  to  have 
been  the  first  member  of  the  family  to  settle  in  Pennsylvania. 
Sarah  LeVan  Halsey  was  the  daughter  of  John  W.  LeVan, 
who  was  one  of  the  original  contractors  for  the  building  of 


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breakers  for  the  mining  of  coal  in  the  state  of  Pennsylvania, 
and  Catherine  (Weiss)  LeVan.  The  LeVans  were  of  French 
Huguenot  extraction.  They  first  settled  in  Connecticut,  and 
later  moved  to  the  shores  of  the  Susquehanna. 

John  R.  Halsey  was  prepared  for  college  at  the  White 
Haven  School  and  at  the  Hillman  Academy  in  Wilkes  Barre. 
He  was  a  member  of  the  Freshman  Glee  Club,  and  received 
a  second  dispute  appointment  both  Junior  and  Senior  years. 

In  the  fall  of  1906  he  took  up  the  study  of  law  in  the  office 
of  James  L.  Lenahan  and  Charles  B.  Lenahan  (B.A.  1896)  in 
Wilkes  Barre,  and  on  February  19,  19 10,  was  admitted  to 
the  Pennsylvania  Bar.  Subsequently  he  was  admitted  to 
practice  in  both  the  Supreme  and  Superior  courts  of  the 
state.  He  became  associated  with  his  father  as  junior  member 
of  the  firm  of  Halsey  &  Halsey  in  19 10,  and  continued  in  this 
connection  until  his  father's  death  a  year  later,  since  which 
time  he  had  carried  on  an  independent  practice.  He  was  local 
counsel  and  attorney  for  the  Lehigh  Valley  Railroad  Company, 
a  member  of  the  Board  of  Censors  of  the  Courts  of  Luzerne 
County  and  also  of  the  County  Board  of  Auditors  and  the 
Poor  Board,  and  a  director  of  the  Dallas  (Pa.)  Water  Com- 
pany and  of  the  First  Printing  Company  at  White  Haven. 
For  several  years  previous  to  his  death  he  served  as  secretary 
and  treasurer  of  the  Yale  Alumni  Association  of  the  Wyom- 
ing Valley.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Chamber  of  Commerce 
and  the  Law  and  Library  Association  of  Wilkes  Barre.  He 
had  taken  an  active  part  in  politics.  He  was  elected  chairman 
of  the  Republican  Committee  of  Luzerne  County  in  191 2,  and 
also  had  charge  of  the  campaigns  the  next  two  years  and 
again  in  1917  and  191 8,  having  resigned  in  191 5  to  accept 
the  Republican  nomination  for  district  attorney  for  the 
county.  In  1913  and  1914  he  was  a  member  of  the  State 
Republican  Committee,  and  in  1916  he  went  as  a  delegate  to 
the  National  Convention  at  Chicago.  For  three  years  he  was 
judge  of  the  election  in  the  tenth  ward  of  the  city  of  Wilkes 
Barre. 

His  death  occurred  in  the  Wilkes  Barre  City  Hospital, 
October  25,  191 8.  He  had  recently  undergone  an  operation 
for  mastoiditis,  and  while  in  the  hospital  contracted  Spanish 
influenza,  which,  because  of  his  weakened  condition,  caused 


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his  death.  Interment  was  in  the  family  plot  in  the  White 
Haven  Cemetery. 

Mr.  Halsey  was  unmarried.  He  is  survived  by  his  mother, 
a  brother,  Joseph  Gaius  Halsey  (B.A.  1917),  who  was  in  France 
for  ten  months  as  a  member  of  the  69th  Balloon  Company, 
1st  Army,  and  three  sisters,  Ruth  Alice,  who  spent  one  year 
at  Vassar,  Anna  Catherine,  a  graduate  of  Vassar  in  the  Class 
of  1905,  and  Jean  Louise,  who  is  the  wife  of  William  Hogen- 
camp  Wurts  (B.A.  1906). 


Thomas  Dalgliesh  Macmillan,  B.A.   1906 

Born  October  29,  1872,  in  Glasgow,  Scotland 
Died  June  22,  1919,  in  Peking,  China 

Thomas  Dalgliesh  Macmillan,  one  of  the  twelve  children  of 
William  and  Mary  (Waugh)  Macmillan,  was  born  October 
29,  1872,  in  Glasgow,  Scotland.  He  received  his  preparatory 
training  at  the  Mount  Hermon  School,  Mount  Hermon, 
Mass.,  and  entered  Lehigh  University  with  the  Class  of  1904. 
He  came  to  Yale  at  the  beginning  of  his  Junior  year,  joining 
the  Class  of  1906. 

The  year  after  graduation  he  spent  as  assistant  secretary 
of  the  Young  Men's  Christian  Association  in  Kansas  City, 
Mo.  Then  followed  six  years  of  teaching  in  Japan,  first  at 
Osaka,  and  afterwards  for  four  years  at  the  Higher  School  of 
Commerce  at  Nagasaki.  In  1913  he  returned  to  the  United 
States  for  further  study  in  English  and  Scottish  literature  at 
Harvard,  where  he  received  the  degree  of  M.A.  in  1914.  The 
next  year  he  was  master  of  English  at  the  Harrisburg  (Pa.) 
Academy,  after  which  he  taught  in  the  Hartford  (Conn.) 
Public  High  School  for  a  year.  Since  August,  1917,  he  had 
been  professor  of  English  at  Tsing  Hua  College  at  Peking, 
China.  He  belonged  to  the  Church  of  England. 

He  died  at  the  Union  Medical  Hospital,  Peking,  on  June 
22,  1919,  after  an  illness  of  three  months,  which  began  with 
an  attack  of  influenza.  He  was  buried  in  the  British  Cemetery 
outside  the  West  City. 

On  June  24,  191 5,  he  was  married  in  Northampton,  Mass., 
Xo  Eva  Bryant  Adams  (B.A.  Smith  1915),  daughter  of  Frank  . 


1906  lOII 

Belville  Adams  (M.D.  Michigan  1884)  and  Mary  Sophia 
(Bryant)  Adams,  who  survives  him  without  children.  He  also 
leaves  three  brothers  and  four  sisters. 

John  Case  Phelps,  B.A.  1906 

Born  June  29,  1883,  in  Bingham  ton,  N.  Y. 
Died  October  18,  191 8,  near  Grand  Pr6,  France 

John  Case  Phelps,  whose  parents  were  William  George  and 
Caroline  Ives  (Shoemaker)  Phelps,  was  born  June  29,  1883, 
in  Binghamton,  N.  Y.,  where  his  father  is  president  of  the 
First  National  Bank.  The  latter's  parents  were  John  Case  and 
Martha  (Bennett)  Phelps.  His  ancestors  include  William 
Phelps,  who  emigrated  from  Tewksbury,  England,  because 
of  the  persecutions  of  Archbishop  Laud  in  1630;  Lieut.  Joseph 
Phelps,  who  fought  in  the  French  and  Indian  Wars;  and  Capt. 
David  Phelps,  who  was  at  the  taking  of  Ticonderoga  in  the 
Revolution  and  who  was  captured  at  the  battle  of  Long 
Island,  confined  in  the  prison  ship  Jersey,  and  escaped.  Caro- 
line Shoemaker  Phelps  was  the  daughter  of  Lazarus  Denison 
and  Esther  (Wadhams)  Shoemaker.  Her  father,  who  grad- 
uated from  Yale  in  1840,  was  elected  to  the  Pennsylvania 
State  Senate  in  1866  and  later  (1871-75)  was  a  representa- 
tive in  Congress.  John  C.  Phelps  was  descended  on  the 
maternal  side  from  Lieut.  Hendrick  Jochim  Schoonmaker, 
a  famous  Indian  fighter;  Col.  Nathan  Denison,  of  the  Con- 
tinental Army;  and  Lieut.  Elijah  Shoemaker,  who  was  killed 
at  the  battle  of  Wyoming  in  1778. 

He  was  prepared  for  Yale  at  Phillips-Andover.  In  college 
he  was  a  member  of  the  Apollo  Banjo  Club. 

Mr.  Phelps  spent  the  summer  of  1906  traveling  in  Europe 
with  his  classmate,  William  B.  Sprague,  returning  in  time  to 
enter  the  Harvard  Law  School  in  the  fall.  In  October,  1907, 
he  left  Harvard  to  enter  the  New  York  Law  School,  where 
he  remained  for  two  years.  He  spent  the  winter  of  1909-1910 
in  New  York  City  and  in  Binghamton,  reading  law,  and  in 
July,  1910,  he  entered  the  law  office  of  Hinman,  Havard  & 
Kattell  in  Binghamton.  He  was  admitted  to  the  bar  the 
following  October.  On  his  return  from  a  five  months'  trip  to 


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Egypt  and  the  East  with  Francis  C.  Robertson,  '06,  in  1913, 
he  started  an  independent  law  practice  in  Binghamton. 

He  attended  the  first  Plattsburg  Camp  in  191 6,  and  in  May, 
1917,  entered  the  Officers'  Training  Camp  at  Madison  Bar- 
racks, New  York.  The  following  August  he  was  commissioned 
a  Captain  of  Infantry  in  the  Officers*  Reserve  Corps  and  as- 
signed to  duty  with  Company  A,  309th  Infantry,  at  Camp 
Dix,  New  Jersey.  He  went  overseas  in  May,  191 8,  in  com- 
mand of  his  company,  the  regiment  being  a  part  of  the  78th 
Division.  He  took  part  in  the  drive  south  of  Sedan  in  the  last 
week  of  September,  and  on  October  18  was  killed  in  action 
near  Grand  Pre.  An  attack  was  started  early  that  morning, 
with  a  small  piece  of  woods  north  of  the  Argonne  Forest  as 
the  objective.  Captain  Phelps  was  leading  his  company 
against  a  German  machine  gun  nest  when  he  was  wounded 
in  the  shoulder.  While  stopping  for  first  aid  treatment,  he 
received  a  wound  through  the  back  and  into  the  heart,  and 
was  killed  instantly.  He  was  cited  by  General  Pershing  ''for 
courage  and  brilliant  leadership  on  September  28"  at  St. 
Mihiel. 

He  was  unmarried.  He  is  survived  by  his  father  and  two 
brothers,  Denison  S.  Phelps,  ^;f-'io,  and  William  G.  Phelps, 
Jr.  (B.A.  1914).  He  was  a  nephew  of  Levi  I.  Shoemaker  (B.A. 
1882)  and  Z.  Bennett  Phelps  (B.A.  1895)  and  a  cousin  of 
William  W.  Phelps  (B.A.  i860),  John  J.  Phelps  (B.A.  1883), 
Sheffield  Phelps  (B.A.  1886),  Harold  M.  Shoemaker  (B.A. 
1905),  and  William  D.  Phelps,  ex-i^. 


Philip  Johnston  Scudder,  B.A.   1906 

Born  October  31,  1884,  in  Chicago,  111. 
Died  August  26,  191 8,  in  Fismes,  France 

Philip  Johnston  Scudder,  son  of  Moses  Lewis  and  Clarina 
Johnston  (Williams)  Scudder,  was  born  October  31,  1884,  in 
Chicago,  111.  His  father,  a  graduate  of  Wesleyan  University 
in  1863,  was  at  one  time  president  of  the  Lincoln  Traction 
Company  of  New  York  City.  His  paternal  grandparents  were 
Moses  Lewis  and  Sarah  Ann  (Pratt)  Scudder,  and  he  was 
descended  from  Thomas  Scudder,  of  London,  England,  who 


1906  IOI3 

came  to  this  country  in  1635  ^"^  settled  at  Salem,  Mass. 
His  mother's  parents  were  Simeon  B.  and  Cornelia  Bartow 
(Johnston)  Williams,  who  traced  their  descent  from  Elder 
Brewster,  of  the  Mayflower  company.  General  Joseph 
Williams,  of  Washington's  Army,  and  other  early  settlers. 

He  was  prepared  at  the  Cutler  School  in  New  York  City 
and  at  the  Lawrenceville  (N.  J.)  School.  He  had  a  first  di- 
vision stand  the  first  term  of  Freshman  year,  and  received 
Junior  and  Senior  first  colloquy  appointments.  He  was  a 
member  of  the  Cross  Country  Team  and  of  the  University 
Track  Team,  winning  first  place  in  the  mile  run  in  the  fall 
track  meet  in  1905. 

In  August,  1906,  he  entered  the  office  of  the  Investors' 
Agency,  in  New  York  City,  of  which  his  father  was  at  the 
time  president,  and  his  brother,  Marvyn,  secretary  and  treas- 
urer; in  1908,  a  younger  brother,  Lawrence,  became  asso- 
ciated with  them.  Philip  Scudder's  work  was  confined  chiefly 
to  preparing  statistical  reports  on  corporations,  and  ap- 
praising securities  for  the  New  York  State  Comptroller  in 
transfer  tax  proceedings,  and  he  eventually  became  secre- 
tary and  treasurer  of  the  organization.  He  was  in  charge  of 
the  official  appraisal  of  securities  held  by  insurance  com- 
panies of  the  United  States  from  1907  through  1917.  In 
August,  1 9 10,  he  was  made  secretary  of  the  St.  Joseph, 
South  Bend  &  Southern  Railroad  Company.  He  was  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Presbyterian  Church  of  Huntington,  Long  Island. 

In  December,  1906,  he  joined  Company  K  of  the  yth 
Infantry  Regiment,  New  York  National  Guard.  He  went  to 
the  Mexican  border  as  a  Private  in  this  organization  in  June, 
1 91 6,  and  served  there  for  five  months.  He  was  a  candidate 
at  the  first  Officers'  Training  Camp  at  Plattsburg,  N.  Y., 
and  received  a  commission  as  First  Lieutenant  of  Infantry 
at  its  close.  He  was  then  assigned  for  duty  to  Company  E, 
307th  Infantry,  at  Camp  Upton,  Long  Island,  and  in  March, 
191 8,  sailed  with  that  company  for  France.  On  August  26, 
during  the  battle  of  Fismes,  he  was  shot  through  the  head 
and  neck,  and  died  that  same  day  in  a  German  hospital.  A 
memorial  service  was  held  in  the  Madison  Avenue  Presbyte- 
rian Church  on  December  6,  191 8. 

Lieutenant  Scudder  was  unmarried.  He  is  survived  by  two 


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brothers,  Marvyn  Scudder  (B.A.  1899)  and  Lawrence  W. 
Scudder  (Ph.B.  1908).  Other  Yale  relatives  were  his  uncle, 
Lawrence  Williams  (Ph.B.  1880),  and  his  cousins,  Lawrence 
Williams,  Jr.  (Ph.B.  1917),  and  Wheeler  Williams  (Ph.B. 
1918). 

William  Lord  Squire,  B.A.   1906 

Born  August  30,  1884,  in  Meriden,  Conn. 
Died  April  4,  191 9,  in  Meriden,  Conn. 

William  Lord  Squire  was  born  August  30,  1884,  in  Meriden, 
Conn.  His  parents  were  Wilbur  Henry  Squire,  head  of  The 
W.  H.  Squire  Company,  insurance  agents,  and  Alice  Eliza- 
beth (Wolcott)  Squire,  and  his  paternal  grandparents  were 
William  Lyman  Squire,  a  former  treasurer  of  the  New  York, 
New  Haven  &  Hartford  Railroad  Company,  and  Lucy 
Cowles  (Butler)  Squire.  He  was  descended  from  George 
Squire,  of  Fairfield,  Conn.,  an  emigrant  to  America  in  1643. 
His  mother  was  the  daughter  of  Robert  Robbins  and  Harriet 
Bliss  (Lord)  Wolcott,  whose  ancestors  came  from  Tolland, 
England,  in  1638. 

After  receiving  his  preparatory  training  at  the  Meriden 
High  School,  he  entered  Yale,  maintaining  a  first  division 
stand  throughout  Freshman  year  and  becoming  a  member  of 
the  Freshman  Glee  Club.  He  held  the  Hurlbut  Scholarship, 
and  won  the  McLaughlin  Prize,  the  third  Barge  Mathemat- 
ical Prize,  and  the  Berkeley  Prize  for  excellence  in  Latin 
composition.  He  received  oration  appointments  Junior  and 
Senior  years,  and  was  one  of  the  TenEyck  speakers.  He  was 
assistant  editor  of  the  Yale  Daily  News,  contributed  to  the 
Tale  Literary  Magazine  and  the  Courant,  and  at  times  during 
his  college  course  wrote  for  the  Meriden  Pennant  and  the 
Meriden  Daily  Journal. 

After  graduation  he  spent  a  year  teaching  at  Talladega 
College,  Talladega,  Ala.,  and  the  following  summer  traveled 
in  Germany,  Belgium,  and  England  with  his  younger  brother, 
Roger.  He  then  began  to  study  for  the  ministry  at  Union 
Theological  Seminary,  New  York  City,  but  was  compelled 
to  give  up  his  course  on  account  of  ill  health.  From  January, 
1^08,  to  191 1,  he  was  head  of  the  department  of  classics  and 


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mathematics  at  the  Miami  Military  Institute,  Germantown, 
Ohio.  During  the  summer  vacation  of  1909  he  conducted  the 
Metallak  Tutoring  School  at  First  Connecticut  Lake,  New 
Hampshire.  In  the  fall  of  191 1  he  entered  the  Harvard 
Graduate  School  to  pursue  courses  in  English,  and  took  the 
M.A.  degree  there  in  191 2;  he  had  already  received  his  M.A. 
at  Yale  in  1910.  He  was  assistant  in  English  at  Harvard 
University  in  1913  and  1914,  while  studying  for  his  Ph.D. 
In  191 5  he  became  instructor  in  English  at  Trinity  College, 
Hartford,  Conn.,  and  remained  there  until  the  summer  of 
191 7,  when  he  joined  the  faculty  of  the  U.  S.  Naval  Academy 
at  Annapolis,  Md.  This  position  he  resigned  in  June,  191 8, 
because  of  ill  health.  In  addition  to  his  professional  activities, 
he  was  secretary  and  a  director  of  The  W.  H.  Squire  Com- 
pany. He  was  a  member  of  the  First  Congregational  Church 
of  Meriden. 

For  nearly  a  year  Mr.  Squire  had  suffered  from  a  nervous 
breakdown,  causing  melancholia.  On  April  4,  1919,  he  dis- 
appeared from  his  home,  and  a  week  later  his  body  was  found 
in  the  Merimere  reservoir  in  Meriden.  The  interment  was  in 
Walnut  Grove  Cemetery  in  that  city. 

He  was  unmarried,  and  is  survived  by  his  parents,  two 
grandparents,  two  brothers, — Robert  Allan  Squire  (B.A. 
1904)  and  Roger  Wolcott  Squire  (B.A.  191 2), — and  a  sister. 


Ralph  Damon  Kochersperger,  B.A.   1907 

Born  July  15,  1885,  in  Philadelphia,  Pa. 
Died  September  30,  191 8,  in  Loomis,  N.  Y. 

Ralph  Damon  Kochersperger,  son  of  Samuel  A.  and 
Harriet  Johnson  (Baker)  Kochersperger,  was  born  July  15, 
1885,  in  Philadelphia,  Pa.  His  father  was  of  German  and 
Huguenot,  and  his  mother  of  British  and  Huguenot,  descent. 
An  ancestor  on  the  maternal  side  was  Col.  Timothy  Matlack, 
one  of  the  "Fighting  Quakers";  other  ancestors  fought  in 
the  Revolution,  the  War  of  18 12,  and  the  Civil  War. 

He  entered  Yale  from  St.  Paul's  School,  Garden  City,  Long 
Island,  N.  Y.  He  received  an  oration  appointment  both  Junior 
and  Senior  years.  Immediately  after  graduation  he  became 


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connected  with  the  Sterling  Coal  Company,  of  New  York 
City,  and  after  a  time  was  made  manager  of  shipping,  which 
position  he  held  at  the  time  of  his  death.  In  the  summer  of 
1909  he  spent  two  months  in  travel  in  Europe,  and  in  the 
winter  of  191 1  he  made  a  short  trip  to  Panama. 

He  died  September  30,  191 8,  in  Loomis,  N.  Y.,  after  a 
prolonged  illness.  Burial  was  in  Mount  Peace  Cemetery, 
Philadelphia. 

Mr.  Kochersperger  was  unmarried.  He  is  survived  by  his 
mother. 


Frank  Ronald  Simmons,  B.A.  1907 

Born  May  16,  1885,  in  Providence,  R.  I. 
Died  August  12,  191 8,  in  Marseilles,  France 

Frank  Ronald  Simmons  was  born  May  16,  1885,  in  Provi- 
dence, R.  I.,  where  his  father,  Frank  Daniel  Simmons,  is 
engaged  in  the  coal  and  real  estate  business,  being  president 
of  the  Eastern  Coal  Company.  The  latter's  father  was  Stephen 
Simmons.  His  ancestors  came  to  America  in  the  Mayflower^ 
and  settled  at  Little  Compton,  R.  I.  Frank  Ronald  Simmons' 
mother,  Mary  Elizabeth  (Little)  Simmons,  is  the  daughter 
of  Robert  B.  and  Mary  (Brown)  Little.  She  is  of  English 
descent,  her  ancestors  having  been  early  settlers  in  Prov- 
idence. 

He  received  his  preparatory  training  at  the  Classical  and 
Hope  High  schools  in  Providence,  Phillips  Academy,  Andover, 
Mass.,  and  under  a  private  tutor.  In  college  he  was  a  con- 
tributor to  the  Yale  Record^  and  received  a  second  colloquy 
Senior  appointment. 

For  three  years  after  graduation  he  studied  architecture  at 
the  Massachusetts  Institute  of  Technology.  In  the  summer  of 
1909  he  worked  in  the  office  of  Martin  &  Hall,  architects,  in 
Providence.  In  19 10  he  sailed  for  Europe,  traveling  during 
the  summer  with  his  family,  and  in  the  fall  continuing  the 
study  of  architecture  at  the  Ecole  des  Beaux  Arts  in  Paris. 
Concussion  of  the  brain  in  191 1  caused  him  to  give  up  his 
studies  for  a  time,  but  he  was  able  to  resume  them  in  191 2. 
He  became  active  in  war  work  in  1914,  and  for  three  years  he 


1907  loiy 

was  director  of  the  Comite  des  Etudiants  Americains  of  the 
Beaux  Arts,  and  secretary  of  the  Committee  of  the  Tuber- 
culeux  de  la  Guerre.  In  April,  1917,  he  enlisted  in  the  Army 
as  a  Private,  and  became  principal  assistant  to  Captain 
(later  Brigadier  General)  Churchill  in  the  Intelligence  De- 
partment. The  success  attained  by  the  American  Military 
Mission  was  due  in  great  part  to  the  ability  and  discretion  of 
Mr.  Simmons.  In  June,  19 17,  he  succeeded  Captain  Churchill 
as  American  representative  of  the  Inter-Allied  Bureau, 
Intelligence  Section,  General  Staff,  and  two  months  later  he 
received  the  commission  of  First  Lieutenant.  After  the 
moving  of  General  Pershing's  headquarters  into  the  army 
zone,  he  was  put  in  charge  of  the  American  Mission  of  the 
Inter-Allied  Bureau  in  Paris.  The  following  March  he  was 
promoted  to  the  rank  of  Captain,  and  in  July  he  was  assigned 
to  a  responsible  position  in  the  Intelligence  Section,  Serv- 
ices of  Supply,  and  went  to  southern  France,  with  head- 
quarters at  Bordeaux.  He  there  contracted  pneumonia  and  his 
death  occurred  August  12,  1918,  in  Marseilles,  where  he 
was  buried  with  military  honors. 

Captain  Simmons  was  unmarried.  His  parents  survive  him. 

Thomas  God'dard  Wright,  B.A.  1907 

L  Born  August  17,  1885,  at  Fort  Ann,  N.  Y. 

P  Died  March  8,  1919,  in  New  Haven,  Conn. 

Thomas  Goddard  Wright  was  born  at  Fort  Ann,  N.  Y., 
August  17,  1885.  He  was  the  youngest  of  the  five  children  of 
the  late  Rev.  William  Russell  Wright  (B.A.  University  of 
Pennsylvania  1868,  M.A.  Crozer  Theological  Seminary  1871) 
and  Alma  Jane  (Boardman)  Wright,  who  survives  him.  His 
father,  whose  parents  were  Rev.  Thomas  Goddard  Wright 
and  Julia  Ann  Sheppard  (Green)  Wright  and  whose  paternal 
grandparents  were  Rev.  David  Wright,  Jr.,  and  Abigail 
(Goddard)  Wright,  was  a  descendant  of  Governor  John 
Haynes  of  Connecticut  and  Mabel  (Harlakenden)  Haynes, 
who  was  eleventh  in  descent  from  Edward  III,  King  of  Eng- 
land. His  mother,  whose  parents  were  Burnett  Barzillai  and 
Henrietta  (Porter)   Boardman,  is  a  descendant  of  Francis 


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Cooke,  who  came  to  this  country  in  the  Mayflower.  At  least 
three  of  his  ancestors  were  Yale  graduates,  namely,  his 
great-great-grandfather,  David  Wright  (B.A.  1777),  his 
great-great-great-great-grandfather,  Russell  Hubbard  (B.A. 
175 1),  and  the  latter's  father,  Daniel  Hubbard  (B.A.  1727), 
a  lawyer  in  New  Haven,  Conn. 

Dr.  Wright  was  prepared  for  college  at  the  Hartford 
(Conn.)  Public  High  School.  His  appointments  were  a  second 
dispute  Junior  year  and  a  dissertation  Senior  year.  He  was 
given  honors  of  the  third  grade  Junior  year.  While  in  college 
he  took  part  in  track  athletics. 

He  returned  for  graduate  work  at  Yale  in  September,  1907, 
and  from  1908  until  his  death,  March  8,  1919,  was  a  member 
of  the  English  faculty.  From  1908  to  191 1  he  was  an  assistant 
in  English  composition  in  the  Scientific  School,  and  in  191 1 
he  was  appointed  instructor  in  English,  which  position  he 
held  at  the  time  of  his  death.  In  the  summer  of  191 1  he  gave 
two  courses  in  English  composition  at  the  University  of  Maine. 
In  1 917  he  received  the  degree  of  Ph.D.  from  Yale,  and  was 
appointed  curator  of  the  Aldis  collection  of  American  litera- 
ture in  the  University  library.  In  the  summer  of  191 8  he  was 
head  of  the  department  of  English  at  the  summer  session  of 
Middlebury  College.  Dr.  Wright  was  the  author  of  **Exer- 
cises  in  the  Use  of  the  Dictionary,"  published  in  1917,  and 
of  "Literary  Culture  in  Early  New  England,"  a  work  based 
on  his  Ph.D.  thesis,  which  won  the  John  Addison  Porter 
Prize  of  five  hundred  dollars  and  has  been  published  since 
his  death  by  the  Yale  University  Press.  He  also  assisted  in 
the  first  preparation,  as  well  as  in  a  later  revision,  of  "Eng- 
lish Composition  in  Theory  and  Practice,"  and  collaborated 
in  the  preparation  of  the  glossary  for  "The  College  Chaucer," 
edited  by  Henry  Noble  MacCracken,  president  of  Vassar 
College,  and  published  in  1913.  He  was  a  member  of  the  First 
Baptist  Church  of  New  Haven,  the  Civic  Association,  and 
the  Modern  Language  Association. 

During  the  fall  and  winter  of  191 8-19,  in  addition  to  carry- 
ing a  very  heavy  schedule  of  teaching  necessitated  by  the 
short-handed  condition  of  his  department  due  to  the  war, 
Dr.  Wright  entered  actively  into  various  forms  of  outside 
work  in  the  city.  He  took  part  in  the  drives  for  funds.  Red 


1907-1908  IOI9 

Cross  and  United  War  work,  etc.,  gave  many  hours  of  service 
as  a  member  of  the  Legal  Advisory  Board  in  connection  with 
the  second  draft,  and  served  as  a  volunteer  orderly  in  the 
New  Haven  Hospital  during  the  influenza  epidemic.  Con- 
stant overwork  undermined  his  health  and  greatly  lessened 
his  chances  of  recovery  when  he  was  taken  sick  in  February, 
1919.  He  died  in  New  Haven  on  March  8,  after  a  ten  days* 
illness  of  influenza  ending  in  meningitis.  Interment  was  in 
Evergreen  Cemetery,  New  Haven. 

On  June  7,  19 13,  he  was  married  in  Woonsocket,  R.  I.,  to 
Mabel  Hyde  Kingsbury  (B.A.  Vassar  1906),  daughter  of 
Edward  Newell  Kingsbury  (B.A.  Amherst  1878,  M.D.  Hahne- 
mann Medical  College  1881)  and  Clara  Amelia  (Coffin)  Kings- 
bury. They  had  one  son,  Kingsbury,  who  died  in  infancy. 
Dr.  Wright  is  survived  by  his  wife,  his  mother,  two  sisters, 
Mrs.  Roy  D.  Stafl^ord,  of  Shanghai,  China,  and  Mrs.  Frank 
A.  Salisbury,  of  Phelps,  N.  Y.,  and  a  brother,  Capt.  Burnett 
Boardman  Wright,  of  Long  Island  City,  N.  Y.  Among  his 
Yale  relatives  were  his  great-uncle,  Giles  Potter  (B.A.  1855), 
and  the  latter's  son,  Edward  W.  Potter  (B.A.  1884). 


Arly  Luther  Hedrick,  B.A.   1908 

Born  December  25,  1889,  in  Robinson,  Ark. 

I  Died  March  5,  1919,  in  Brest,  France 

1,  Arly  Luther  Hedrick,  son  of  Ira  Grant  and  Louise  Nancy 
iLuther)  Hedrick,  was  born  in  Robinson,  Ark.,  December 
p5,  1889.  His  father,  who  is  a  civil  engineer,  graduated  from 
mkansas  University  in  1892,  and  received  the  degree  of 
Doctor  of  Science  from  McGill  University  in  1905.  His  parents 
are  Henderson  and  Mary  Anne  (Bryan)  Hedrick;  his  paternal 
great-great-grandfather  was  born  in  Holland  and  the  latter's 
wife  in  Germany.  They  came  to  the  United  States  in  1755. 
They  had  seven  sons,  several  of  whom  served  in  the  Revolu- 
tion, one  of  them  having  a  Captain's  commission.  These  sons 
settled  in  various  parts  of  the  country,  Ira  Hedrick's  grand- 
father making  his  home  in  North  Carolina.  Henderson  Hed- 
rick and  his  two  brothers  served  in  the  Union  Army  during 
the   Civil   War.   Louise  Luther  Hedrick's   father,   Newton 


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Luther,  was  a  member  of  the  Confederate  Army.  Her  mother 
was  Adeline  (Anglin)  Luther. 

Entering  Yale  from  the  Prosso  Preparatory  School,  Kansas 
City,  Mo.,  he  was  graduated  in  1908.  He  then  accepted  a 
position  as  timekeeper  and  material  accountant  for  the  firm 
of  Kahmann  and  McMurry,  bridge  contractors,  of  Kansas 
City,  but  remained  with  them  only  until  January,  1909.  He 
was  then  employed  on  a  preliminary  survey  for  the  Midland 
Valley  Railroad  in  southern  Oklahoma.  In  June,  1909,  he 
was  made  assistant  resident  engineer  for  his  father's  firm, 
Hedrick  &  Cochrane,  consulting  engineers,  of  Kansas  City, 
and  was  engaged  on  the  construction  of  a  bridge  of  reinforced 
concrete  arches,  at  Cedar  Rapids,  Iowa.  From  January  until 
May,  1910,  he  was  a  draftsman  for  this  firm,  and  he  then 
acted  as  field  engineer  for  them  in  Dallas,  Texas.  In  Septem- 
ber, 1 9 10,  he  went  to  the  University  of  Wisconsin  and  stud- 
ied engineering  until  July,  191 1,  after  which  he  resumed  his 
connection  with  Hedrick  &  Cochrane,  as  an  assistant  engineer. 
A  few  years  later  he  became  junior  member  of  the  firm  of 
Hedrick  &  Hedrick,  consulting  engineers,  of  Kansas  City. 
His  last  work  in  civil  life  was  the  designing  of  the  Twenty- 
sixth  Street  Viaduct  in  that  city,  and  since  his  death  the 
Board  of  Public  Works  has  dedicated  the  viaduct  in  his 
memory. 

Shortly  after  the  United  States  entered  the  war,  in  July, 
1917,  he  recruited  Company  A,  ist  Battalion,  Missouri 
Engineers,  which  was  mustered  into  service  on  August  5,  as 
part  of  the  i  loth  Engineers.  He  was  given  a  commission  as 
Captain  on  July  30,  1917,  and  shortly  afterwards  assigned  to 
Company  D,  i  loth  Engineers,  at  Camp  Doniphan,  Oklahoma. 
He  went  overseas  in  the  spring  of  191 8,  a  month  in  advance 
of  his  regiment,  in  order  to  attend  a  French  training  school. 
He  took  part  in  every  battle  in  which  the  35th  Division  was 
engaged,  being  gassed  slightly  in  the  Argonne  drive.  In 
February,  1919,  while  with  his  regiment  at  Brest,  France, 
awaiting  transportation  home,  he  was  taken  sick  with  spinal 
meningitis.  He  had  been  in  command  of  his  regiment  f  r  only 
a  few  days  before  this  illness,  and  did  not  therefore  receive  his 
commission  as  Major,  for  which  he  had  been  recommended. 
His  death  occurred  March  5,  191 9.  He  was  posthumously 


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1908  I02I 

awarded  the  Distinguished  Service  Cross  for  his  heroic  service 
in  the  Argonne. 

He  was  married  September  21,  191 1,  in  Bay  City,  Mich., 
to  Geraldine  Olive,  daughter  of  Charles  O.  and  Eva  (Mac- 
beth) German,  who,  with  their  daughter,  Barbara  Jane, 
survives  him.  His  father  and  two  sisters  are  also  living. 


James  Laughlin  Phillips,  B.A.   1908 

Born  May  30,  1884,  in  Pittsburgh,  Pa. 
Died  October  20,  191 8,  in  Washington,  D.  C. 

James  Laughlin  Phillips  was  born  May  30,  1884,  in  Pitts- 
burgh, Pa.,  the  son  of  Duncan  Clinch  and  Eliza  Irwin 
(Laughlin)  Phillips.  His  father,  a  graduate  of  Brown  Uni- 
versity in  the  Class  of  1861,  was  a  Major  in  the  United  States 
Army  from  1862  to  1863.  He  was  the  son  of  Elias  and  Mary 
Ormsby  (Ormsby)  Phillips,  and  was  engaged  in  business  as 
a  window  glass  manufacturer.  Among  his  early  American 
ancestors  were  John  Phillips,  who  served  as  an  aide-de-camp 
to  Washington,  and  Oliver  and  John  Ormsby,  who  were 
prominent  in  the  Colonial  history  of  Pittsburgh.  Eliza  Laugh- 
lin Phillips'  father,  James  Laughlin,  was  a  pioneer  in  the 
steel  industry  and  the  founder  of  the  Jones  &  Laughlin  Steel 
Company  of  Pittsburgh;  her  mother  was  Anne  (Irwin) 
Laughlin. 

He  was  fitted  for  college  at  the  Washington  School  and  at 
The  Hill  School,  Pottstown,  Pa.  He  received  a  first  colloquy 
appointment  Junior  year  and  a  second  dispute  Senior  year. 

In  191 1,  after  spending  several  years  in  travel  in  this 
country  and  abroad,  he  took  a  position  with  the  banking 
house  of  N.  W.  Halsey  &  Company,  of  New  York  and 
Washington,  but  remained  with  them  for  only  six  months. 
He  was  then  for  a  time  executive  secretary  of  the  National 
Civic  Federation,  but  resigned  in  the  spring  of  191 2  to  take 
an  active  part  in  the  Republican  Presidential  campaign.  He 
was  vice  chairman  of  the  Republican  Finance  Committee 
during  the  campaign  of  191 6.  He  was  a  member  of  the  board 
of  directors  of  the  Riggs  National  Bank  of  Washington. 

From  the  outbreak  of  the  war  until  April  i,  191 8,  he  was 


I022  YALE    COLLEGE 

secretary  and  associate  director  of  the  Intercollegiate  Intelli- 
gence Bureau  in  Washington,  and  when  this  organization  was 
taken  over  by  the  War  and  Labor  departments  he  became, 
on  April  29,  associate  director  of  the  Bureau  of  Personnel  of 
the  American  Red  Cross,  in  charge  of  all  applications  for 
foreign  service.  His  death  occurred  October  20,  191 8,  in  Wash- 
ington, as  a  result  of  pneumonia,  following  influenza,  and 
he  was  buried  in  Rock  Creek  Cemetery. 

He  was  married  at  Nantucket,  Mass.,  September  8,  1917, 
to  Alice  Conyngham,  daughter  of  Charles  Ailing  and  Helen 
(Conyngham)  Gifford.  His  widow  was  married  on  May  i, 
1920,  to  Charles  Alfred  Johnson,  of  Denver,  Colo.  Mr. 
Phillips  is  survived  by  a  son,  Gifford,  his  mother,  and  a 
brother,  Duncan  Phillips,  '08.  He  was  a  cousin  of  Irwin  B. 
Laughlin  (B.A.  1893)  and  the  late  Thomas  McKennan  Laugh- 
lin  (Ph.B.  1897). 


Charles  McLean  Smith,  B.A.   1908 

Born  July  6,  1886,  in  Hartford,  Conn. 
Died  October  4,  191 8,  in  Bazoilles-sur-Meuse  (Vosges),  France 

Charles  McLean  Smith  was  born  July  6,  1886,  in  Hartford, 
Conn.  He  was  the  only  son  of  Frank  George  and  Harriet  Sey- 
mour (Cutler)  Smith,  and  the  grandson  of  George  and  Lucy 
Robbins  (Griswold)  Smith.  Through  his  father,  his  ancestry 
may  be  traced  to  the  early  settlers  of  the  town  of  Wethers- 
field,  Conn.  His  mother  is  the  daughter  of  William  and  Mary 
(Eaton)  Cutler,  and  a  descendant  of  Capt.  Seth  Pierce,  a 
Revolutionary  soldier. 

He  entered  Yale  from  the  Hartford  Public  High  School.  His 
appointments  were  a  Junior  second  dispute  and  a  Senior  first 
dispute.  He  received  special  honors  in  physical  sciences. 

During  the  first  two  years  after  graduation  he  studied 
electrical  engineering  at  the  Massachusetts  Institute  of  Tech- 
nology. On  July  I,  1 910,  he  entered  one  of  the  engineering 
offices  of  the  General  Electric  Company  in  Pittsfield,  Mass., 
working  on  transformer  calculations  and  designs  until  July, 
191 1,  and  then  on  special  testing  of  electrical  heating  and 
cooking  devices.  In  December  of  that  year  he  was  trans- 


1908  I023 

ferred  to  the  research  laboratory  started  by  the  company  in 
Great  Barrington,  Mass.  He  was  later  for  about  a  year  con- 
nected with  the  New  York  Edison  Company,  and  had  been 
making  various  tests  for  them  since  October,  191 2.  For  four 
and  a  half  years  before  entering  military  service  he  was  asso- 
ciated with  his  father  in  the  insurance  agency  of  Frank  G. 
Smith  &  Son,  of  Hartford.  He  was  a  member  of  the  First 
Church  of  Christ  in  Hartford  and  a  charter  member  of 
the  Connecticut  State  Guard,  assigned  to  Company  C,  ist 
Regiment. 

On  February  27,  191 8,  he  was  inducted  into  service  and 
sent  to  Camp  Devens,  Ayer,  Mass.  In  March  he  was  trans- 
ferred to  Camp  Upton,  Yaphank,  Long  Island,  and  assigned 
to  the  Headquarters  Company  of  the  Heavy  Field  Artillery. 
At  this  time  he  was  honorably  discharged  from  the  Connecti- 
cut State  Guard.  From  Camp  Upton  he  was  ordered  overseas 
with  Company  G,  308th  Infantry,  77th  Division,  sailing 
April  6,  191 8.  During  the  engagements  of  the  77th  Division 
in  the  Argonne  Forest  about  September  28,  he  was  wounded 
in  the  right  thigh.  On  September  30  he  was  removed  from 
Red  Cross  Hospital  No.  no  to  Base  Hospital  No.  116  at 
Bazoilles-sur-Meuse  (Vosges),  where  he  died  October  4.  He 
was  buried  in  Grave  No.  124,  A.  E.  F.  Cemetery  No.  6,  at 
Bazoilles-sur-Meuse. 

He  was  unmarried.  He  leaves  his  parents  and  a  sister. 


Ralph  Fernhead  Stoddard,  B.A.  1908 

Born  July  27,  1885,  in  New  York  City- 
Died  October  16,  191 8,  in  Minneapolis,  Minn. 

Ralph  Fernhead  Stoddard  was  born  in  New  York  City, 
July  27,  1885,  ^^^  son  of  Charles  Willis  and  Josephine  (Fern- 
head) Stoddard.  His  father  was  a  manufacturer,  engaged  in 
business  in  Belleville,  N.  J.,  under  the  firm  name  of  the  Purity 
Products  Company;  he  was  the  son  of  Morgan  and  Lavinia 
(Germond)  Stoddard,  and  a  descendant  of  Sir  Hugh  de  la 
Staudard  (name  afterwards  corrupted  to  Stoddard),  who 
went  from  Normandy  to  England  with  the  Conqueror  in 

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I024  YALE    COLLEGE 

1066.  His  mother's  parents  were  William  and  Louisa  Jane 
(Pickering)  Fernhead.  She  was  of  English  ancestry,  tracing 
her  descent  to  Joseph  Pickering,  who  came  to  America  in 
1822  and  settled  at  Windsor,  Conn.,  where  he  became  en- 
gaged in  the  manufacture  of  paper. 

He  was  prepared  for  college  at  the  Belleville  High  School. 
He  received  a  philosophical  oration  appointment  both  Junior 
and  Senior  years,  won  the  Scott  Hurtt  Scholarship  and  hon- 
ors in  English,  and  was  elected  to  Phi  Beta  Kappa. 

After  graduation  he  taught  Greek  and  Latin  in  the  Thacher 
School,  Ojai,  Calif.,  from  1908  to  191 1.  During  this  period 
he  made  a  yearly  trip  East  during  the  summer  and  tutored 
in  New  England.  On  the  death  of  his  father  in  December, 
191 1,  he  resigned  his  position  and  came  East  to  enter  upon 
a  business  career,  and  for  three  years  was  a  salesman  for  the 
Baker-Vawker  Company,  makers  of  loose  leaf  systems,  in 
New  York  City.  From  1916  to  1918  he  was  assistant  master 
in  the  mathematics  department  of  the  Lawrenceville  (N.  J.) 
School.  At  the  time  of  his  death  he  had  been  teaching  for 
a  month  at  the  Blake  School,  Minneapolis,  Minn.,  where  he 
was  head  of  the  mathematics  department.  He  was  a  member 
of  the  Dutch  Reformed  Church  of  Belleville,  N.  J. 

He  died  of  pneumonia,  following  influenza,  after  an  ill- 
ness of  ten  days,  October  16,  191 8,  in  Minneapolis.  Burial 
was  in  Lakewood  Cemetery  in  that  city. 

His  marriage  took  place  in  Detroit,  Mich.,  June  28,  191 8, 
to  Fay,  daughter  of  Franklin  Simon  and  Jessie  (Lucas)  Wenk. 
They  had  no  children.  His  wife,  mother,  and  a  brother 
survive  him. 


Henry  Walter  Webb,  B.A.   1908 

Born  March  9,  1886,  in  New  York  City 
Died  January  18,  1919,  in  New  York  City 

It  has  been  impossible  to  secure  the  desired  information 
for  an  obituary  sketch  of  Mr.  Webb  in  time  for  publication 
in  this  volume.  A  biographical  statement  will  appear  in  a 
subsequent  issue  of  the  Obituary  Record. 


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Frank  Burnett  Condon,  B.A.   1909 

Born  August  28,  1886,  in  Unionville,  Conn. 
Died  June  2,  191 9,  in  New  York  City 

Frank  Burnett  Condon,  son  of  Richard  H.  and  Susan  (Bur- 
nett) Condon,  was  born  August  28,  1886,  in  Unionville,  Conn. 
His  father,  who  was  the  son  of  John  and  Catherine  (Hogan) 
Condon,  was  born  in  Limerick,  Ireland,  but  came  to  this 
country  in  1872,  and  was  afterwards  engaged  in  the  flour  and 
grain  business  with  George  Richards  &  Company  in  Union- 
ville. His  mother's  parents  were  George  and  Bridget  (Lyman) 
Burnett.  Her  grandparents,  Edward  and  Mary  Lyman,  came 
to  America  from  Westmeath,  Ireland,  in  1848,  and  settled  at 
Burlington,  Conn. 

Frank  B.  Condon  received  his  preparatory  training  at  the 
Unionville  High  School  and  at  Williston  Seminary,  Easthamp- 
ton,  Mass. 

He  took  a  position  with  the  Munson  Steamship  Line  in 
New  York  City  a  few  days  after  leaving  college,  entering  the 
Cuban  department  of  the  company.  He  became  freight 
solicitor  and  operator  of  sugar  steamers,  and  in  1917  he  was 
made  assistant  manager  of  the  sugar  transportation  depart- 
ment, a  position  which  he  held  at  the  time  of  his  death.  He 
was  a  member  of  the  Roman  Catholic  Church  and  of  the 
Reform  Club. 

Mr.  Condon  died  June  2,  191 9,  in  New  York  City,  after  an 
operation  for  appendicitis.  The  interment  was  in  Woodlawn 
Cemetery. 

He  was  married  June  23,  I9i3,in  New  York  City, to  Amelia, 
daughter  of  William  Louis  and  Louisa  (Schumacher)  Berls, 
who  survives  him  with  an  infant  daughter,  Janet  Louise. 


Burrell  Richardson  HuflF,  B.A.   1909 

Born  August  8,  1887,  ^^  Greensburg,  Pa. 
Died  January  12,  1919,  at  St.  Dizier,  Haute-Marne,  France 

Burrell  Richardson  Huff  was  born  August  8,  1887,  in 
Greensburg,  Pa.,  being  one  of  the  eight  children  of  George 
Franklin  and  Henrietta   (Burrell)  Huff.  His  father,  whose 


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parents  were  George  and  Caroline  (Boyer)  HufF,  was  one  of 
the  foremost  citizens  of  Greensburg.  He  organized  several 
banks,  was  an  officer  or  director  in  numerous  local  enterprises, 
and  had  large  interests  in  the  coke  and  coal  industries  of 
Westmoreland  County,  being  mainly  instrumental  in  the 
establishment  of  a  number  of  mining  and  manufacturing 
companies.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Pennsylvania  State 
Senate  from  1884  to  1888,  and  later  served  as  a  member  of 
Congress  for  a  number  of  years.  His  wife  was  the  daughter 
of  Jeremiah  Murray  Burrell,  at  one  time  judge  of  the  Tenth 
Judicial  District  of  Pennsylvania,  and  afterwards  U.  S. 
assistant  judge  for  the  territory  of  Kansas,  and  Anna  Eliza- 
beth (Richardson)  Burrell,  and  a  descendant  of  William 
Richardson  and  Henrietta  Hubley. 

He  was  prepared  for  college  at  the  Emerson  Institute, 
Washington,  D.  C,  and  at  the  Westminster  School,  Simsbury, 
Conn.  He  received  Junior  and  Senior  first  dispute  appoint- 
ments, was  a  member  of  the  Apollo  Glee  Club,  and  rowed  on 
the  1909  Class  Crew. 

He  spent  a  year  abroad  immediately  after  graduation, 
traveling  through  France,  Germany,  Austria,  Italy,  and 
Greece,  arriving  finally  in  Constantinople.  He  later  went  to 
Egypt.  During  the  winters  of  191 1  and  1912  he  was  in  Wash- 
ington, acting  as  private  secretary  to  his  father,  at  whose 
death  in  191 2  he  became  treasurer  of  the  George  F.  HufF 
Estate.  He  was  also  treasurer  of  the  L.  B.  Huff  Estate; 
president  of  the  United  Brick  Company,  the  Keystone  Clay 
Products  Company,  and  the  Tunnel  Supply  Company;  a 
director  of  the  Keystone  Coal  &  Coke  Company  and  the  St. 
Clair  Supply  Company;  and  an  officer  in  several  other  con- 
cerns. For  two  years  he  was  occupied  in  organizing  a  polo 
and  hunt  club  in  Greensburg.  He  was  a  member  and  vestry- 
man of  Christ  Episcopal  Church. 

He  enlisted  as  a  Private  in  the  Medical  Corps  on  August  8, 
1917,  and  was  assigned  to  Base  Hospital  No.  27  (the  Pitts- 
burgh Unit).  Although  he  had  already  made  application  to 
the  second  Officers'  Training  Camp,  he  seized  this  opportu- 
nity of  getting  to  France,  as  the  unit  sailed  September  27.  He 
was  promoted  to  the  rank  of  Sergeant  within  three  weeks, 
and  to  Sergeant,  First  Class,  within  three  months.  His  unit 


1909  I027 

was  installed  at  Angers,  where  he  was  put  in  charge  of  rail- 
way transportation,  with  an  office  in  the  railway  station. 
His  thorough  knowledge  of  French  made  his  services  val- 
uable, and  he  was  recommended  for  a  commission  in  the 
Sanitary  Corps,  the  Liaison  Service,  the  Intelligence  Section, 
and  the  Railway  Transportation  Corps,  but  was  ordered  to 
the  Chief  Surgeon's  Office,  District  of  Paris,  in  April,  before 
these  recommendations  materialized.  He  was  then  sent  on  a 
special  mission  by  the  Hospitalization  Section  of  the  Chief 
Surgeon's  Office  to  Chateau  Guyon,  and  Royat,  where  he 
took  over  buildings  and  material  from  the  Service  de  Saute, 
French  Army,  and  from  private  owners  for  the  use  of  the 
Medical  Corps.  On  his  return  to  Paris  he  acted  as  Sergeant 
Major  for  five  weeks,  dispatching  ambulances,  and  acted  as 
Liaison  Officer  with  the  French  Ambulance  Service.  On  June 
27,  191 8,  he  was  commissioned  First  Lieutenant  in  the  Sani- 
tary Corps  and  appointed  Evacuating  Officer  for  the  Paris 
District.  He  had  complete  charge  of  the  evacuations  from  the 
Paris  District  from  July  14  to  October  10,  and  during  the 
Chateau-Thierry  offensive  he  was  largely  responsible  for  the 
hospitalization  in  Paris,  of  large  numbers  of  wounded  arriving 
from  the  front.  He  was  assigned  to  St.  Dizier,  Haute-Marne, 
early  in  October,  and  was  in  charge  of  the  transportation  of 
all  those  carried  by  hospital  trains  from  the  First  Army  to 
base  hospitals  in  the  rear.  Through  his  faithful  and  devoted 
work  for  the  thousands  of  American  soldiers  and  officers  en- 
trusted to  his  care  for  safe  and  quick  transportation,  he  was 
responsible  for  saving  many  lives. 

He  died,  of  acute  heart  trouble,  on  January  12,  191 9,  at  the 
Camp  Hospital  at  American  Regulating  Station  B,  St. 
Dizier.  His  death  followed  a  short  illness  of  influenza  and 
pneumonia.  He  was  buried  with  full  military  honors  on 
January  15  in  a  small  military  cemetery  overlooking  the 
Marne  River.  He  was  recommended  for  a  Captaincy  in  the 
Sanitary  Corps  about  the  time  of  the  signing  of  the  armi- 
stice, when  promotions  ceased,  and  was  again  recommended 
for  promotion  a  few  days  before  his  death. 

Lieutenant  Huff  was  unmarried.  He  is  survived  by  his 
mother,  a  brother,  Julian  Burrell  Huff  (B.A.  1904),  and 
a  sister,  Mrs.  Murray  A.  Cobb,  of  Washington,  D.  C.  George 
F.  Huff,  Jr.  (Ph.B.  1909),  is  a  cousin. 


I028  .  YALE    COLLEGE 

Maxwell  Oswald  Parry,  B.A.   1909 

Born  December  28,  1886,  in  Indianapolis,  Ind. 
Died  July  8,  191 8,  at  Chateau  Thierry,  France 

Maxwell  Oswald  Parry  was  born  December  28,  1886,  in 
Indianapolis,  Ind.,  the  son  of  David  McLean  and  Hessie 
Daisy  (Maxwell)  Parry.  His  father  was  the  son  of  Thomas 
and  Lydia  (McLean)  Parry,  and  the  grandson  of  Henry 
Parry,  a  proficient  civil  engineer.  He  was  president  of  the 
Parry  Manufacturing  Company  of  Indianapolis  and  in  1902 
became  president  of  the  National  Association  of  Manufactur- 
ers. The  Parrys  came  to  this  country  from  Wales  in  the 
seventeenth  century,  and  settled  in  Pennsylvania.  David 
McLean  Parry  was  directly  descended  from  General  John 
Cadwalader,  of  the  Revolutionary  Army.  Maxwell  Parry's 
maternal  grandparents  were  John  M.  and  Isabel  Maxwell, 
his  mother  being  a  descendant  of  George  Read,  of  Delaware, 
one  of- the  signers  of  the  Declaration  of  Independence,  whose 
ancestors  had  come  from  England  in  the  seventeenth  century 
and  settled  in  Cecil  County,  Md. 

Before  entering  Yale  in  1905,  he  attended  the  Culver  (Ind.) 
Military  Academy,  the  American  College,  Strassburg,  Ger- 
many, and  the  Hotchkiss  School,  Lakeville,  Conn.  He  re- 
ceived a  second  dispute  Junior  and  a  second  colloquy  Senior 
appointment,  and  won  the  first  TenEyck  Prize  at  the  Junior 
Exhibition.  He  contributed  to  the  Courant  and  the  Record^ 
was  fence  orator  Sophomore  year,  and  in  Senior  year  was 
electedClassOratorand  a  member  of  the  Triennial  Committee. 
He  took  part  in  the  various  plays  of  the  Dramatic  Association, 
and  was  president  of  that  organization  Senior  year. 

For  a  time  after  graduation  he  was  secretary  and  adver- 
tising manager  of  the  Parry  Automobile  Company,  of  Indian- 
apolis, and  he  afterwards  became  secretary  of  the  Golden 
Hill  Estates  Company.  Later  he  took  graduate  work  at  Har- 
vard, and  in  191 2  he  was  given  an  M.x^.  at  Yale.  Literature 
and  the  drama  deeply  interested  him.  He  wrote  a  number  of 
plays  including  "Boys  o'  Gettysburg,"  "The  Lie  Beautiful," 
"The  Flower  of  Assisi"  (in  memory  of  his  classmate,  William 
Whiting  Borden),  "Dad,"  and  "Stingy."  The  latter  was  pro- 


1909  I029 

duced  at  the  Punch  and  Judy  Theatre  in  New  York  early  in 
1919  by  the  Stuart  Walker  Players.  Mr.  Parry  had  pub- 
lished many  articles  and  dramatic  reviews  in  the  Indianapolis 
News,  and  had  contributed  somewhat  to  magazines.  He  was 
a  member  of  the  Drama  League  and  of  the  Little  Theatre 
Society,  and  had  also  been  connected  with  the  Washington 
Square  Players.  He  belonged  to  the  First  Baptist  Church  of 
Indianapolis. 

He  entered  the  Air  Service  on  August  27,  1917,  and  after 
completing  a  course  at  the  Ground  School  at  Columbus,  Ohio," 
was  attached  to  the  Royal  Flying  Corps  for  training.  He  flew 
at  different  camps  in  Canada,  and  was  then  assigned  to  the 
147th  Aero  Squadron  at  Camp  Hicks,  Fort  Worth,  Texas. 
He  went  abroad  with  this  unit  early  in  191 8,  and  about  the 
first  of  July  was  ordered  to  the  Chateau-Thierry  front. 
About  two  days  after  their  arrival.  Lieutenant  Parry  and  five 
other  members  of  the  squadron  met  and  conquered  the  fa- 
mous "Richthofen  Circus,"  and  within  the  next  week  Lieuten- 
ant Parry  had  in  all  three  enemy  planes  to  his  credit.  On 
July  8  he  attacked  alone  a  German  formation  of  thirteen 
Fokkers  and  was  killed.  He  was  at  first  reported  missing  in 
action,  and  it  was  not  until  March,  1919,  that  definite  word 
of  his  death  was  received  through  the  War  Department.  He 
was  buried  by  the  Germans  in  the  Military  Cemetery  at 
Vandeuill.  The  French  Government  has  awarded  him  the 
Croix  de  Guerre,  with  palm,  and  the  American  Distinguished 
Service  Cross  has  also  been  given  to  him. 

Lieutenant  Parry  was  unmarried.  He  is  survived  by  his 
mother,  six  sisters,  and  two  brothers,  one  being  Addison  J. 
Parry  (Ph.B.  1912). 

William  Sharp,  B.A.   1909 

Born  October  26,  1886,  in  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 
Died  October  10,  191 8,  in  Chicago,  111. 

William  Sharp,  son  of  Sidney  Wales  and  Maude  Livingston 
(Bate)  Sharp,  was  born  October  26,  1886,  in  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 
His  father,  a  stockbroker  of  the  firm  of  Cox  &  Sharp  of  New 
York  City,  is  the  son  of  William  and  Hannah  (Keeney) 
Sharp,  and  a  descendant  of  Andrus  Hause  Scharp,  who  came 


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to  America  from  Holland  and  settled  at  Beverwyck  (now 
Albany),  N.  Y.,  in  1660,  but  moved  to  Kinderhook  before 
1670.  William  Sharp's  maternal  grandparents  were  John 
Jones  and  Hannah  (Stratton)  Bate.  Through  his  mother,  who 
is  of  English  ancestry,  he  traced  his  descent  to  William  Bate, 
who  settled  at  Camden,  N.  J.,  in  1685,  ^"^  to  William  Strat- 
ton, who  settled  in  Cumberland  County,  N.  J.,  in  161 5. 

He  entered  Yale  from  the  Pingry  School,  Elizabeth,  N.  J., 
and  received  honors  in  the  work  of  Freshman  year.  His  ap- 
pointments were  a  Junior  dissertation  and  a  Senior  first 
dispute. 

After  leaving  college,  he  was  for  about  two  years  in  the 
employ  of  his  father's  firm  in  New  York  City.  He  was  later 
with  the  Western  Dry  Goods  Company  in  Seattle,  Wash., 
for  a  short  time,  but  afterwards  returned  to  New  York,  and 
became  secretary  of  the  Lamb  Calculator  Company,  the 
Calculator  Manufacturing  Company,  and  the  E.  Z.  E. 
Productor  Company,  During  the  last  year  before  his  death 
he  was  located  in  Chicago,  III.,  as  Western  manager  for  the 
Swan  &  Finch  Company  (a  subsidiary  of  the  Standard  Oil 
Company),  of  New  York.  At  one  time  he  was  president  of 
the  Cranford  (N.  J.)  Casino. 

He  died  of  pneumonia,  October  10,  191 8,  at  his  home  in 
Chicago.  Burial  was  in  Fairview  Cemetery  at  Westfield,  N.  J. 

His  marriage  took  place  October  8,  1914,  in  New  York 
City,  to  Katharine,  daughter  of  Henry  V.  and  Mary  (Christ- 
mas) Wood.  Mrs.  Sharp  survives  him  without  children.  He 
also  leaves  his  parents  and  a  sister,  Helen,  the  wife  of  his 
classmate,  Lawrence  Tyler  Post.  He  was  a  nephew  of  Morti- 
mer S.  Bate  (B.A.  1882)  and  a  cousin  of  Henry  Fletcher 
(B.A.  1898)  and  Robert  S.  Fletcher  (B.A.  1901). 


Robert  Coyne  Clifford,  B.A.   1910 

Born  February  14,  1889,  in  St.  Louis,  Mo. 
Died  February  15,  1919,  in  Bordeaux,  France 

Robert  Coyne  Clifford,  son  of  Robert  Henry  Clifford,  a 
drygoods  commission  merchant,  and  Nannie  Hutton  (Ber- 
thoud)  Clifford,  was  born  in  St.  Louis,  Mo.,  on  February  14, 


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1889.  His  father,  who  was  a  native  of  Belfast,  Ireland,  and 
came  to  America  in  1873,  was  the  son  of  Samuel  and  Elsa 
(Coyne)  Clifford.  His  maternal  grandparents  were  Augustus 
Nicholas  and  Catherine  A.  (Israel)  Berthoud.  His  mother 
was  of  French  and  English  ancestry,  tracing  her  descent  to 
William  and  Lucy  Greene  Bakewell,  of  Bakewell,  England, 
who  settled  in  Pennsylvania  in  1802,  and  from  the  Marquis 
St.  Pre,  who  was  a  refugee  from  the  French  Revolution  in 

1793- 

He  was  prepared  for  college  at  the  Smith  Academy  in  St. 
Louis.  At  Yale  he  was  active  in  tennis  and  track,  and  con- 
tributed to  the  News. 

In  the  summer  of  19 10  Mr.  Clifford  worked  for  the  South- 
ern New  England  Telephone  Company,  and  in  the  fall  ac- 
cepted a  position  with  the  Bell  Telephone  Company  of 
Missouri.  He  worked  for  them  in  various  capacities  until 
September,  191 2,  and  then  entered  the  employ  of  the  United 
States  Cast  Iron  Pipe  &  Foundry  Company.  In  June,  1913, 
he  became  their  district  sales  manager  for  the  St.  Louis 
territory,  and  two  years  later  was  also  put  in  charge  of  the 
office  in  Kansas  City,  still  making  his  headquarters  in  St. 
Louis.  This  position  he  resigned  in  September,  1913,  to  be- 
come manager  of  the  rail  department  of  the  Walter  A.  Zel- 
nicker  Supply  Company,  manufacturers  of  railway  supplies 
in  St.  Louis.  He  was  a  member  of  St.  Peter's  Episcopal  Church 
in  that  city. 

In  May,  1917,  he  entered  the  first  Officers'  Training  Camp 
at  Fort  Riley,  Kansas,  and  on  August  15,  1917,  was  commis- 
sioned a  First  Lieutenant  of  Field  Artillery  in  the  Officers' 
Reserve  Corps.  He  was  sent  overseas  for  further  training  on 
September  12,  and  from  October  to  December,  1917,  attended 
the  Field  Artillery  School  at  Saumur,  France.  After  complet- 
ing the  course  there,  he  was  assigned  to  the  103d  Field  Artil- 
lery, and  later  served  as  Liaison  Officer  between  the  Heavy 
Artillery  of  his  division  (the  26th)  and  that  of  the  32d  French 
Army  Corps.  He  fought  in  the  Toul  sector,  participating  in 
the  battle  of  Belleau  Wood,  and  in  the  Argonne,  where  he  was 
severely  gassed  a  week  before  the  armistice  was  signed.  He 
then  spent  several  weeks  in  a  hospital  at  Bordeaux,  and  after 
his  recovery  was  made  Adjutant  of  the  Embarkation  Camp 


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there.  On  February  9,  191 9,  Lieutenant  Clifford  was  sent  to 
the  Base  Hospital  at  Bordeaux  suffering  from  lobar  pneu- 
monia, and  his  death  occurred  six  days  later,  on  February 
15.  His  illness  was  a  result  of  being  gassed. 

He  was  unmarried,  and  is  survived  by  his  mother  and  a 
brother,  Berthoud  Clifford  (B.A.  1913).  A  sister,  whose  death 
occurred  January  9,  1919,  was  the  wife  of  Truman  Post 
Young  (B.A.  1899).  Lieutenant  Clifford  was  a  cousin  of 
Morris  F.  Tyler  (B.A.  1870),  Victor  M.  Tyler  (B.A.  1898), 
Leonard  S.  Tyler  (B.A.  1905),  Donald  C.  Bakewell  (B.A. 
1908),  and  William  B.  Wharton  (B.A.  1910). 


Robert  Burr  King,  B.A.   1910 

Born  December  26,  1886,  in  Unionville,  Conn. 
Died  April  21,  1919,  in  Hartford,  Conn. 

Robert  Burr  King  was  born  on  December  26,  1886,  in 
Unionville,  Conn.  His  parents  were  Emmet  Colegrove  King, 
who  received  the  degree  of  M.D.  from  the  New  York  Homeo- 
pathic Medical  College  and  afterwards  practiced  as  a  physi- 
cian in  Hartford,  Conn.,  and  Ida  Caroline  (Ransom)  King. 
He  was  the  grandson  of  Milo  Pinckney  and  Louise  (Cole- 
grove)  King,  and  a  descendant  of  Rufus  and  Micah  King,  of 
Devon,  England,  who  were  early  settlers  in  America.  His 
mother's  parents  were  E.  Newton  and  Caroline  (Burr)  Ran- 
som. She  traced  her  descent  to  Benjamin  Burr,  an  emigrant 
from  England  in  1630,  who  was  one  of  the  early  settlers  in 
Hartford. 

Receiving  his  preparatory  training  at  the  Hartford  Public 
High  School,  he  entered  Yale  with  the  Class  of  1909,  but 
after  six  months  joined  the  Class  of  1910  as  a  Freshman. 
He  obtained  honors  in  the  studies  of  Freshman  year,  was 
given  honors  in  English  composition  Sophomore  year,  and 
received  dissertation  appointments.  He  did  some  work  for 
Dwight  Hall,  and  contributed  to  the  Tale  Record. 

Since  graduation  he  had  been  an  examiner  for  the  Phoenix 
Fire  Insurance  Company,  of  Hartford.  He  was  a  member  of 
the  First  (Center)  Congregational  Church  of  that  city. 

Mr.  King  died  April  21,  1919,  at  his  home  in  Hartford, 


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1910  I033 

from  heart  disease,   after  a  long  illness  following  influenza. 
The  interment  was  in  Cedar  Hill  Cemetery  at  Hartford. 

He  was  married  September  9,  1916,  in  Windsor,  Vt.,  to 
Margaret  Eloise,  daughter  of  Marsh  O.  and  Clara  A.  (Mc- 
Indoe)  Perkins,  who  survives  him.  He  also  leaves  a  brother, 
Richard  R.  King,  ex-u.  William  B.  Soper  (B.A.  1904)  and 
Horace  A.  Soper  (Ph.B.  1908)  are  cousins. 


Garnett  Morgan  Noyes,  B.A.   1910 

Born  April  17,  1888,  in  Warren,  Pa. 
Died  September  24,  191 8,  in  Petersburg,  Va. 

Garnett  Morgan  Noyes,  son  of  Charles  Henry  and  Effie 
(Morgan)  Noyes,  was  born  April  17,  1888,  in  Warren,  Pa. 
His  father,  who  was  at  one  time  president  judge  of  the  37th 
Judicial  District  of  Pennsylvania,  was  the  son  of  Lucius 
George  and  Clarissa  M.  (Phelps)  Noyes.  He  was  descended 
from  Rev,  James  Noyes,  born  in  Wiltshire,  England,  in  1608, 
who  came  to  America  in  1634,  settling  first  at  Medford,  Mass., 
but  removing  the  next  year  to  Newbury,  Mass.  Another 
ancestor  was  Rev.  James  Noyes,  a  graduate  of  Harvard  in 
1659  and  one  of  the  founders  and  first  trustees  of  Yale. 
Effie  Morgan  Noyes  was  the  daughter  of  Dr.  William  Henry 
Morgan,  a  graduate  of  the  Baltimore  College  of  Dentistry  in 
1848  and  later  dean  of  the  Dental  Department  of  Vanderbilt 
University,  and  Sarah  A.  (Noel)  Morgan.  Her  grandfather, 
Joseph  Morgan,  fought  in  the  War  of  1812,;  her  great-great- 
grandfather, Abraham  Morgan,  was  a  Colonel  in  the  Revolu- 
tionary /Vrmy;  and  her  great-great-great-grandfather,  previ- 
ous to  the  Revolution,  was  a  Lieutenant  in  the  company  of 
Captain  Van  Swearingen,  holding  a  commission  from  George 

m. 

Garnett  M.  Noyes  was  prepared  for  Yale  at  the  Warren 
High  School,  the  Mohegan  Lake  School,  and  Phillips-Exeter. 
He  received  a  first  colloquy  Junior  and  a  second  dispute 
Senior  appointment.  He  was  manager  of  the  Tennis  Team 
and  the  University  courts  and  president  of  the  Exeter  Club. 

The  first  year  after  graduation  he  spent  with  the  Charlotte 
Harbor  &  Northern  Railway  at  Boca  Grande  and  Arcadia, 


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Fla.,  returning  to  Warren  in  191 1.  He  was  then  associated 
with  the  United  Mercantile  Agency  in  his  home  city  until 
March,  191 2,  and  since  that  time  had  been  engaged  in  bus- 
iness there  under  his  own  name,  dealing  in  victrolas,  kodaks, 
and  photographic  supplies. 

InMay,i9i7, he  entered  the  first  Officers' Training  Camp  at 
Madison  Barracks,  New  York,  but  was  discharged  on  account 
of  physical  disability  after  six  weeks'  service.  On  July  26, 
191 8,  he  was  inducted  into  service  at  Warren,  and  became  a 
Private  in  Company  C,  ist  Provisional  Guard  and  Special 
Duty  Battalion,  155th  Depot  Brigade,  at  Camp  Lee,  Virginia. 
There  he  contracted  Spanish  influenza,  which  developed  into 
pneumonia,  his  death  occurring  September  24,  191 8.  The 
interment  was  in  Oakland  Cemetery  in  his  native  town. 

Mr.  Noyes  was  unmarried.  He  is  survived  by  his  mother, 
two  brothers,  Charles  M.  Noyes  (B.A.  1913)  and  Morgan  P. 
Noyes  (B.A.  1914),  and  two  sisters,  Lucia  Noyes  LaFetra 
and  Helen  Noyes. 


Roy  Lee  Wilkirson,  B.A.  1910 

Born  January  i,  1889,  in  Holland,  Texas 
Died  October  12,  191 8,  in  Grandview,  Texas 

Roy  Lee  Wilkirson  was  born  January  i,  1889,  in  Holland, 
Texas,  where  his  father,  Oscar  Lee  Wilkirson,  is  engaged  in 
the  lumber  business.  The  latter  is  the  son  of  J.  B.  and 
Paulina  Wilkirson.  Roy  Wilkirson's  mother,  Ida  (Moss) 
Wilkirson,  was  the  daughter  of  xAugustine  and  Docas  (Wil- 
son) Moss.  The  family  moved  to  Grandview,  Texas,  when 
he  was  very  young,  and  he  received  his  early  training  in  the 
local  schools.  He  graduated  from  Baylor  University,  Waco, 
Texas,  with  the  degree  of  B.S.  in  1909,  and  joined  the  Yale 
Class  of  1 9 10  at  the  beginning  of  Senior  year.  He  received  a 
Senior  dissertation  appointment. 

After  graduating  from  Yale,  he  became  manager  of  the 
O.  L.  Wilkirson  Lumber  Company  of  Hillsboro,  Texas.  He 
continued  in  this  connection  until  his  death,  which  occurred 
October  12,  191 8,  in  Grandview,  where  he  had  gone  to  attend 


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the  funeral  of  a  brother.  He  was  ill  with  influenza  for  only 
three  days.  The  interment  was  in  Grandview. 

He  was  married  November  30,  191 5,  in  Hillsboro,  to 
Thenia,  daughter  of  William  E.  and  Mary  (Bond)  Spell. 
His  wife  survives  him,  and  he  also  leaves  a  daughter,  Mary 
Bond. 


Stanley  Franklin  Schwaner,  B.A.   191 1 

Born  May  10,  1889,  in  New  London,  Conn. 
Died  September  26,  1918,  in  New  London,  Conn. 

Stanley  Franklin  Schwaner,  son  of  Charles  Henry  Schwaner, 
a  merchant,  and  Caroline  Louise  (Sander)  Schwaner,  was 
born  May  10,  1889,  in  New  London,  Conn.  His  father  was 
the  son  of  Charles  and  Mary  (Rach)  Schwaner,  and  his 
mother's  parents  were  Charles  and  Louise  (Herter)  Sander. 

He  was  prepared  for  Yale  at  the  Bulkley  School  in  New 
London  and  at  the  Hopkins  Grammar  School  in  New  Haven. 
He  received  a  second  dispute  appointment  Senior  year. 
During  the  summer  of  1909  he  took  a  medical  course  at  the 
University  of  Chicago. 

After  graduation  he  spent  two  years  in  New  London  with 
the  mercantile  firm  of  Schwaner  Brothers  Company,  Inc. 
During  19 13-14  he  was  located  in  Chicago,  111.,  as  vice  presi- 
dent of  the  United  States  Steel  Construction  Company,  and 
during  the  next  year  he  was  vice  president  of  the  F.  B.  A. 
Biscuit  Company  of  New  York  City.  In  191 5  he  returned  to 
New  London  and  resumed  his  connection  with  the  Schwaner 
Brothers  Company,  of  which  at  the  time  of  his  death  he  was 
president  and  treasurer.  He  was  a  member  of  St.  James' 
Episcopal  Church,  New  London. 

Mr.  Schwaner  died  of  pneumonia,  following  influenza,  in 
New  London,  September  26,  191 8.  The  interment  was  in 
Cedar  Grove  Cemetery  in  that  city. 

He  was  unmarried,  and  is  survived  by  his  parents,  three 
brothers,  and  a  sister. 


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James  Kirby  Burrell,  B.A.  191 2 

Born  September  i6,  1890,  in  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 
Died  November  7,  191 8,  in  Dayton,  Ohio 

James  Kirby  Burrell  was  born  in  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.,  Sep- 
tember 16,  1890,  the  son  of  Harry  and  Helen  (Merwin) 
Burrell.  His  paternal  grandparents  were  Seymour  and 
Catherine  (Heron)  Burrell,  and  he  was  descended  from  John 
Burrell,  who  came  to  America  from  Hertfordshire,  England, 
about  1637  and  settled  at  Wethersfield,  Conn.  His  mother 
was  the  daughter  of  Milton  H.  Merwin,  who  graduated  from 
Hamilton  College  in  1852,  later  practiced  law  in  Watertown, 
N.  Y.,  and  became  a  justice  of  the  Appellate  Court  of  the 
State  of  New  York,  and  Helen  E.  (Knapp)  Merwin,  and  a 
descendant  of  Miles  Merwin,  who  settled  at  Milford,  Conn., 
in  1645,  having  come  to  this  country  from  England. 

He  was  fitted  for  college  at  the  Brooklyn  Latin  School. 
He  received  honors  Freshman  year  and  high  oration  appoint- 
ments, and  held  the  Alfred  Barnes  Palmer  Scholarship.  He 
was  a  member  of  Phi  Beta  Kappa. 

In  December,  191 2,  he  became  connected  with  Kidder, 
Peabody  &  Company,  bond  brokers,  of  New  York  City,  and 
was  associated  with  this  firm  until  he  entered  military  service. 
He  was  for  some  time  secretary  of  the  University  Club  of 
Brooklyn,  and  belonged  to  the  Church  of  the  Pilgrims. 

He  enlisted  at  Camp  Upton,  Yaphank,  Long  Island, 
on  October  8,  1917,  and  on  November  29  was  transferred  to 
the  Aviation  Section,  Signal  Corps.  He  was  in  training  at  the 
School  of  Military  Aeronautics  at  Princeton,  N.  J.,  until 
February  12,  191 8,  when  he  was  sent  to  Camp  Dick,  Dallas, 
Texas.  Two  months  later  he  was  ordered  to  Wilbur  Wright 
Field,  Dayton,  Ohio,  to  complete  his  training.  He  was  com- 
missioned as  a  Second  Lieutenant  in  the  Air  Service,  on  June 
15,  1 91 8,  and  was  assigned  to  the  Dayton-Wright  Airplane 
Company  to  test  new  battle  planes.  Late  in  October,  191 8, 
he  was  transferred  to  Wilbur  Wright  Field  to  give  special 
instruction  to  ground  officers,  and  he  was  killed  there  in  an 
airplane  accident  on  November  7.  His  body  was  taken  to 
his  home  for  burial  in  Greenwood  Cemetery. 


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His  marriage  took  place  October  13,  191 8,  in  Brooklyn,  to 
Mary  Agnes,  daughter  of  Sanders  and  Mary  (Poey)  Shanks. 
His  wife  and  mother  survive  him.  He  was  grandnephew  of 
Edward  J.  Burrell  (B.A.  1869)  and  a  cousin  of  Loomis  Bur- 
rell  (Ph.B.  1894)  and  of  David  H.  Burrell,  Jr.  (Ph.B.  1896). 


Salter  Storrs  Clark,  Jr.,  B.A.  1912 

Born  September  20,  1890,  in  Yonkers,  N.  Y. 
Died  October  19,  191 8,  near  Grand  Pre,  France 

Salter  Storrs  Clark,  Jr.,  one  of  the  five  children  of  Salter 
Storrs  Clark  (B.A.  1873,  LL.B.  Columbia  1876)  and  Maria 
Caroline  (Goddard)  Clark,  was  born  September  20,  1890,  in 
Yonkers,  N.  Y.  His  father,  a  lawyer  with  the  Title  Guarantee 
&  Trust  Company  of  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.,  is  the  son  of  Lucius  E. 
and  Abigail  (Rich)  Clark,  and  a  descendant  of  William  Clark, 
one  of  the  settlers  of  East  Haddam,  Conn.;  of  Strong  San- 
ford,  a  Revolutionary  soldier;  and  of  Thomas  Painter,  a 
prisoner  on  the  'Jersey  during  the  Revolution.  His  mother's 
parents  were  James  Edward  and  Catharine  Frederica  (Jen- 
nings) Goddard.  She  was  the  granddaughter  of  Major 
IHezekiah  Goddard,  who  was  Paymaster  of  Connecticut 
[during  the  War  of  1812,  the  great-granddaughter  of  Daniel 
f  Goddard,  who  fought  in  the  Revolution,  and  a  descendant 
of  William  Goddard,  of  London,  England,  who  came  to 
[America  in  1665.  Her  maternal  ancestors  settled  in  Norwich, 
^onn.,  in  1636. 

He  entered  Yale  from  the  Westfield  (N.  J.)  High  School. 
[He  received  a  first  dispute  Junior  and  an  oration  Senior 
[appointment,  and  was  also  given  honors  in  the  studies  of 
[Junior  year.  He  was  a  member  of  Phi  Beta  Kappa  and  of  the 
University  Orchestra. 

From  1912  to  1915  he  was  with  the  Mortgage  Realty  & 
Investment  Company,  of  Westfield,  and  during  the  next 
three  years  was  connected  with  the  Guaranty  Trust  Com- 
pany, in  New  York  City. 

As  soon  as  the  United  States  entered  the  war,  he  several 
times  applied  for  admission  to  officers'  training  camps,  but 
was  rejected  on  account  of  defective  vision.  In  February, 


1038  YALE    COLLEGE 

191 8,  he  was  drafted,  and  was  assigned  to  the  Intelligence 
Corps  at  Camp  Dix,  N.  J.,  where  he  received  his  training  in 
Company  A,  311th  Infantry.  He  went  to  England  in  May, 
and  reached  France  June  i,  1918.  His  regiment  first  saw 
active  service  in  September,  in  the  St.  Mihiel  salient;  and 
thereafter  was  engaged  in  the  heavy  fighting  through  the 
Argonne  Forest  and  around  Grand  Pre.  His  rank  was  that  of 
Private,  First  Class,  with  duties  of  Signalman,  attached  to 
Company  Headquarters.  He  was  killed  in  action  October  19, 
191 8,  near  Grand  Pre,  and  was  buried  near  Marcq.  On 
December  8  a  memorial  service  was  held  in  the  Congrega- 
tional Church  of  Christ,  Westfield,  of  which  Mr.  Clark  was  a 
member  and  the  church  clerk. 

He  was  unmarried.  He  is  survived  by  his  parents  and  two 
brothers,  Carolus  Thomas  Clark  (B.A.  1909)  and  Edward 
Goddard  Clark  (B.A.  191 1).  His  younger  brother,  Coleman 
Tileston  Clark,  a  member  of  the  Class  of  191 8,  was  killed 
in  action  near  Soissons,  France,  May  29,  191 8.  He  was  a 
nephew  of  Rev.  John  Calvin  Goddard  (B.A.  1873)  and  a 
cousin  of  Charles  A.  Goddard  (B.A.  1910). 


Harry  Mendel,  B.A.  191 2 

Born  December  14,  1892,  in  Bridgeport,  Conn. 
Died  January  i,  1919,  in  New  Haven,  Conn. 

Harry  Mendel  was  born  December  14,  1892,  in  Bridgeport, 
Conn.  His  father,  Jacob  Mendel,  who  was  engaged  in  the 
clothing  business  in  Bridgeport,  was  born  in  Rogola,  Russia, 
the  son  of  Harry  and  Gertrude  Anna  (Leventhan)  Mendel. 
His  mother  was  Lena  (Weinberg)  Mendel,  daughter  of  Wil- 
liam and  Augusta  (Marks)  Weinberg.  She  was  born  in  New 
York  City. 

He  was  prepared  for  college  at  the  Bridgeport  High  School. 
He  won  the  third  Barge  Mathematical  Prize,  was  given 
honors  Freshman  year,  received  a  high  oration  Junior  and  a 
first  dispute  Senior  appointment,  and  was  elected  to  Phi 
Beta  Kappa. 

During  the  first  year  after  graduation  he  was  engaged  in 
tutoring  and  also  taught  at  the  Hargrove  School  in  Fair- 


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field,  Conn.  In  1914  he  entered  the  Yale  Graduate  School, 
specializing  in  mathematics.  During  1916-17  he  was  associated 
with  Eugene  F.  Farley  (B.A.  1900,  LL.B.  191 1),  and  at  the 
same  time  was  a  student  in  the  Yale  School  of  Law.  During 
the  year  preceding  his  death  he  had  been  associated  with 
Joseph  Koletski  (Ph.B.  1912,  LL.B.  1914),  in  New  Haven. 
He  was  a  justice  of  the  peace.  During  the  war  he  gave  his 
services  to  various  draft  boards,  was  a  member  of  the  local 
Legal  Advisory  Board,  and  took  an  active  part  in  the  various 
Liberty  Loan  and  R^d  Cross  drives. 

He  died  of  pneumonia,  January  i,  1919,  at  his  home  in 
New  Haven,  after  an  illness  of  three  days,  and  was  buried  in 
"the  Jewish  Cemetery  in  Westville,  Conn.  He  was  taken  ill 
while  in  Hartford,  Conn.,  undergoing  examinations  for  admis- 
sion to  the  bar.  He  successfully  passed  these  examinations. 

His  marriage  to  Lillian,  daughter  of  Barnett  and  Bessie 
(Rabinowitz)  Harris,  took  place  April  14,  1914.  His  wife 
survives  with  a  daughter,  Harriet,  born  April  24,  191 9.  He 
also  leaves  his  parents.  A  brother,  William  Mendel,  graduated 
from  the  Sheffield  Scientific  School  in  1920. 


Clarence  Emir  Allen,  Jr.,  B.A.   1913 

Born  November  18,  1891,  in  Salt  Lake  City,  Utah 
Died  July  15,  1918,  at  Chateau-Thierry,  France 

Clarence  Emir  Allen,  Jr.,  was  the  son  of  Clarence  Emir 
Allen  (B.A.  Western  Reserve  University  1876),  a  manager  of 
mines  for  the  United  States  Mining  Company  in  Salt  Lake 
City,  Utah,  and  Corinne  Marie  (Tuckerman)  Allen.  He  was 
born  November  18,  1891,  in  Salt  Lake  City,  and  was  of 
Puritan  ancestry,  being  descended  from  Benjamin  Colgrove, 
who  came  to  America  from  England  and  settled  at  Providence, 
R.  L,  and  from  Thomas  Ellinwood,  of  Brimfield,  Mass.  His 
father's  parents  were  Edwin  A.  and  Helen  M.  Allen,  and  his 
mother  was  the  daughter  of  Dr.  Jacob  Tuckerman  and 
Elizabeth  (Ellinwood)  Tuckerman. 

Before  entering  Yale,  he  attended  Gordon  Academy,  Salt 
Lake  City,  and  the  Pomona  College  Preparatory  School, 


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Claremont,  Calif.  He  received  a  Junior  philosophical  oration 
and  a  Senior  high  oration  appointment,  and  was  elected  to 
membership  in  Phi  Beta  Kappa  and  Sigma  Xi.  He  was  a 
member  of  the  Senior  Council.  He  was  prominent  in  athletics, 
being  a  member  of  the  Football  Squad,  the  Wrestling  and 
Water  Polo  teams,  and  of  the  University  Crew. 

He  was  a  tutor  at  the  Roxbury  Tutoring  School  at  Gales 
Ferry,  Conn.,  during  the  summer  after  graduation,  and  in 
the  fall  entered  the  Columbia  Law  School.  The  next  summer 
he  was  connected  with  the  Bureau  of  Municipal  Research  in 
New  York  City,  and  tutored  again  at  Gales  Ferry.  During 
1 9 14  and  191 5  he  attended  the  Law  Department  of  Leland 
Stanford  Junior  University,  and  while  on  the  coast  he  took 
part  in  the  wrestling  championships  at  the  Panama-Pacific 
Exposition,  being  second  in  the  heavyweight  class.  He  came 
East  in  the  summer  of  191 5,  to  tutor  once  more  at  Gales 
Ferry,  returning  to  the  Pacific  Coast  in  the  fall,  and  he  had 
also  been  engaged  in  tutoring  at  the  Valley  Ranch  in  New 
Mexico.  In  March,  1916,  he  entered  the  law  office  of  Pillsbury, 
Madison  &  Sutro  of  San  Francisco,  with  which  firm  he  was 
associated  until  1917.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Congregational 
Church. 

He  received  a  commission  as  a  Second  Lieutenant  in  the 
Regular  Army,  in  August,  191 7,  upon  the  conclusion  of  a 
course  at  the  first  Officers'  Training  Camp  at  Plattsburg, 
N.  Y.  He  was  then  assigned  to  the  30th  Infantry,  stationed 
at  Camp  Greene,  Charlotte,  N.  C.  In  the  early  spring  of  191 8 
he  was  promoted  to  a  First  Lieutenancy  in  Company  I  of  the 
30th  Infantry,  and  went  to  France  with  his  regiment  in 
March,  Lieutenant  Allen  was  killed  July  15,  191 8,  in  the 
second  battle  of  the  Marne.  He  was  recommended  for  the 
Distinguished  Service  Cross  for  the  supreme  coolness  and 
courage  which  he  displayed  in  this  battle.  He  had  already 
been  awarded  the  Croix  de  Guerre.  Lieutenant  Allen  was 
buried  in  the  Bois  d'Aigremont  about  two  hundred  yards 
from  the  spot  where  he  fell,  on  the  north  side  of  the  Marne, 
three  kilometers  from  the  town  of  Crezancy. 

He  was  unmarried  and  is  survived  by  his  parents  and 
several  sisters  and  brothers,  one  being  John  Alban  Allen 
(B.A.  1915).  Robert  T.  Roberts  (Ph.B.  1902)  is  his  cousin. 


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Francis  Theodore  Bennett,  B.A.   1913 

Born  October  22,  1888,  in  New  Haven,  Conn. 
Died  December  11,  191 8,  in  New  Haven,  Conn. 

Francis  Theodore  Bennett,  son  of  William  Lyon  Bennett 
(B.A.  1869,  LL.B.  1 871)  and  Frances  Theodosia  (Welles) 
Bennett,  was  born  in  New  Haven,  Conn.,  October  22,  1888. 
His  father,  a  lawyer  and  at  one  time  judge  of  the  Superior 
Court  of  Connecticut,  is  the  son  of  Thomas  and  Mary 
Ann  (Hull)  Bennett.  The  family  has  been  identified  with 
New  Haven  since  Colonial  times. 

He  received  his  preparatory  training  at  the  Choate  School, 
Wallingford,  Conn.,  and  at  Phillips-Andover.  He  was  given 
a  first  colloquy  Junior  and  a  second  dispute  Senior  appoint- 
ment. He  contributed  to  the  Tale  Courant.  After  completing 
the  academic  course,  Mr.  Bennett  entered  the  Yale  School  of 
Law  in  September,  1913,  and  was  graduated  in  June,  191 5, 
receiving  the  degree  of  LL.B.  During  the  summer  of  1914  he 
made  a  trip  to  Europe  with  his  classmate,  Alonzo  Elliott. 
They  tramped  through  Switzerland,  reaching  Germany  just 
as  the  war  broke  out.  Mr.  Bennett  was  arrested  as  a  British 
spy,  but  finally  reached  England  and  returned  to  America. 
Since  that  time  he  had  practiced  law  in  New  Haven,  being 
associated  with  the  firm  of  Mansfield  &  Day.  He  had  taken 
an  active  part  in  politics,  and  on  November  5,  191 8,  was 
elected  on  the  Democratic  ticket  to  the  Connecticut  Gen- 
erd  Assembly.  He  had  been  chairman  of  the  loth  Ward 
Democratic  Committee,  and  a  commissioner  of  the  Superior 
Court.  He  was  a  member  of.  the  New  Haven  County  Bar 
Association  and  of  the  Protestant  Episcopal  Church. 

He  died  December  11,  191 8,  at  Grace  Hospital,  New 
Haven,  after  an  illness  of  only  one  week's  duration  due  to 
pleurisy  and  pneumonia.  The  interment  was  in  Evergreen 
Cemetery. 

He  was  unmarried,  and  is  survived  by  his  father  and  a 
sister,  Mrs.  Ethel  Bennett  Schiffer,  of  New  Haven.  Another 
sister,  Mary  Elizabeth  (Bennett)  Sanderson,  the  wife  of 
James  C.  Sanderson,  '07,  died  August  8,  1920.  Among  his 
Yale   relatives   are   his   uncles,  Thomas  G.  Bennett  (Ph.B. 


1042  YALE    COLLEGE 

1871)  and  Joseph  H.  Bennett  (B.A.  1873),  and  his  cousins, 
Winchester  Bennett  (Ph.B.  1897)  ^^^  Eugene  B.  Bennett 
(Ph.B.  1904). 

John  Joseph  Fitzgerald,  B.A.   191 3 

Born  December  2,  1888,  in  Waterbury,  Conn. 
Died  October  30,  191 8,  in  San  Antonio,  Texas 

John  Joseph  Fitzgerald,  one  of  the  nine  children  of  Timothy 
J.  and  Margaret  J.  (Kenney)  Fitzgerald,  was  born  December 
2,  1888,  in  Waterbury,  Conn.  His  father  was  the  son  of 
Thomas  and  Bridget  (Driscoll)  Fitzgerald,  and  his  maternal 
grandparents  were  John  J.  and  Julia  Kenney. 

He  was  prepared  for  college  at  the  Crosby  High  School  in 
Waterbury  and  at  Phillips  Academy,  Exeter,  N.  H.  At  Yale 
he  held  the  Holmes  Scholarship,  and  was  secretary  and 
managing  editor  of  the  Record.  He  spent  four  years  with  the 
Class  of  1913,  but  did  not  receive  his  degree  until  1914.  His 
name  was  later  enrolled  with  his  original  class. 

After  leaving  Yale,  he  took  a  position  in  the  advertising 
department  of  the  Crowell  Publishing  Company  of  New  York 
City,  where  he  remained  until  his  enlistment  in  May,  1917. 
He  attended  the  first  Plattsburg  Training  Camp  and  was 
selected  for  further  training  in  the  second  camp  at  that  post, 
from  which  he  was  commissioned  a  First  Lieutenant  of 
Infantry.  While  at  Plattsburg  he  was  secretary  and  chairman 
of  the  Plattsburger^  the  camp  record  book.  A  few  months  after 
receiving  his  commission,  he  was  transferred  to  the  Aviation 
Section,  Signal  Reserve  Corps,  and  assigned  to  the  staff  of 
the  Air  Personnel  Division  under  Lieut.  Col.  Hiram  Bingham 
(B.A.  1898),  in  Washington,  D.  C.  On  February  26,  191 8,  he 
was  assigned  to  the  School  of  Military  Aeronautics  at  Austin, 
Texas,  for  his  ground  school  training,  and  four  months  later 
was  transferred  to  Kelly  Field,  San  Antonio,  Texas.  His 
death  occurred  at  Fort  Sam  Houston,  San  Antonio,  Texas, 
October  30,  191 8,  of  pneumonia,  following  influenza.  He  had 
nearly  completed  his  course  in  flying  when  he  was  taken  ill. 
He  was  buried  in  St.  Joseph's  Cemetery  in  Waterbury. 

He  was  married  March  27,  191 8,  in  Baltimore,  Md.,  to 
.Kathleen  Raymond,  daughter  of  Frank  Lockwood  and  C. 


^9^3  I043 

Wilson  (Byrn)  Shepherd,  who  survives  him.  He  also  leaves 
his  mother,  six  sisters,  and  two  brothers.  His  father  died 
in  1909. 

Arthur  Elbert  Hopkins,  B.A.   1913 

Born  April  24,  1888,  in  Northfield,  Conn. 
Died  October  16,  191 8,  in  Torrington,  Conn. 

Arthur  Elbert  Hopkins,  son  of  Elbert  Augustus  Hopkins, 
a  farmer,  and  Ella  A.  (Sutphin)  Hopkins,  was  born  April  24, 
1888,  in  Northfield,  Conn.  His  father's  parents  were  Joseph 
Harris  and  Delia  (Atwood)  Hopkins.  He  was  descended  from 
John  Hopkins,  who  emigrated  to  America  from  England 
and  settled  in  Hartford  about  1635,  ^^^  from  Asa  Hopkins, 
who  married  Abigail  Harris,  daughter  of  Joseph  Harris,  of 
Litchfield,  who  was  killed  by  Indians  while  working  in  his 
fields  a  mile  west  of  Litchfield  Hill,  and  is  said  to  have  been 
the  only  white  man  killed  by  Indians  in  the  town.  The  place 
has  since  been  known  as  Harris  plain.  Arthur  E.  Hopkins' 
mother  was  the  daughter  of  William  Henry  and  Eliza  (Sut- 
ton) Sutphin,  of  Michigan.  Her  ancestors  on  her  father's 
side  came  from  Ziitphen,  Holland. 

He  was  prepared  for  college  at  the  Mount  Hermon  (Mass.) 
School,  from  which  he  received  at  the  time  of  his  graduation 
the  Greek  Prize  and  the  Cambridge  Prize  for  general  excel- 
lence. At  Yale  he  received  high  oration  appointments  both 
Junior  and  Senior  years,  obtained  honors  in  the  studies  of 
Junior  year,  and  was  awarded  the  William  Winthrop  Prize 
and  the  Daniel  Lord  Scholarship.  He  was  a  member  of  Phi 
Beta  Kappa. 

He  taught  Latin  and  Greek  at  the  Mount  Hermon  School 
for  four  years  after  graduation,  and  in  March,  191 8,  went  to 
Wilbraham  Academy  at  Wilbraham,  Mass.,  as  master  of 
Latin.  This  position  he  held  at  the  time  of  his  death,  which 
occurred  October  16,  1918,  in  Torrington,  Conn.,  of  pneu- 
monia. He  was  buried  in  his  native  town.  He  was  a  member 
of  Center  Congregational  Church  of  Torrington. 

Mr.  Hopkins  was  married  August  5,  1914,  in  that  town, 
to  Florence  Anna,  daughter  of  John  Carl  and  Agnes  (Beecher) 
Iffland,  who  survives  him.  His  father,  a  brother,  and  a  sister 
are  also  living. 


I044  YALE    COLLEGE 

George  Chester  Hubbard,  B.A.   1913 

Born  May  22,  1890,  in  Chamberlain,  S.  Dak. 
Died  October  12,  191 8,  in  Washington,  D.  C. 

George  Chester  Hubbard  was  born  May  22,  1890,  in  Cham- 
berlain, S.  Dak.  His  father,  William  Beardsley  Hubbard 
(B.A.  Beloit  1876,  M.A.  Beloit  1881),  graduated  from  the 
Yale  Divinity  School  in  1881.  At  the  time  of  his  death  on 
December  4,  1919,  he  was  pastor  of  the  Congregational 
Church  at  Centerbrook,  Conn.  His  parents  were  Rev.  George 
Boardman  Hubbard  (B.A.  1842)  and  Jane  (Beardsley)  Hub- 
bard. He  was  descended  from  Rev.  William  Hubbard,  who 
came  to  America  from  England  with  his  father,  William 
Hubbard,  in  1630;  was  educated  at  Harvard  University, 
receiving  his  Bachelor's  degree  in  1642;  and  was  afterwards 
pastor  of  the  church  in  Ipswich,  Mass.  He  was  New  England's 
earliest  historian.  His  great-grandson.  Dr.  John  Hubbard, 
was  a  resident  of  New  Haven;  in  1730  the  honorary  degree  of 
M.A.  was  conferred  upon  him  by  Yale.  Dr.  Hubbard's  son, 
Rev.  John  Hubbard  (B.A.  1744),  was  pastor  of  the  First 
Church  in  Meriden  from  1767  to  1786.  Other  ancestors 
include  Leverett  Hubbard,  Daniel  Hubbard,  and  Nathaniel 
Hubbard,  graduates  of  the  College  in  1744,  1748,  and  1759, 
respectively.  Governor  Bradford  of  Plymouth  Colony,  and 
Governor  Leverett  of  Massachusetts  Colony.  George  C. 
Hubbard's  mother,  Mary  Ella  (Tuttle)  Hubbard,  is  the 
daughter  of  Edmund  and  Betsy  (Hubbard)  Tuttle,  and  a 
descendant  of  William  Tuttle,  who  came  to  America  from 
England  in  1635.  He  settled  in  New  Haven,  and  owned 
and  lived  on  land  which  is  now  a  part  of  the  Yale  Campus. 
Mrs.  Hubbard  also  traces  her  descent  to  Rev.  Thomas 
Hooker,  Rev.  James  Pierpont,  and  Capt.  David  Hitchcock, 
of  Cheshire. 

After  receiving  his  preparatory  training  at  the  Sherburn 
(Minn.)  High  School  and  at  the  Morgan  School,  Clinton, 
Conn.,  he  worked  for  a  year  in  the  Comstock-Cheney  factory 
at  Ivory  ton.  Conn.  He  entered  Yale  in  1909,  received  first 
dispute  appointments,  and  was  a  member  of  the  University 
Orchestra. 


I913  I045 

For  two  years  after  graduation  Mr.  Hubbard  was  con- 
nected with  the  Blake  Tutoring  School  of  Tarrytown  and 
New  York  City,  and  during  the  following  year  he  studied 
English  and  Old  French  in  the  Yale  Graduate  School.  He 
taught  mathematics  at  Cook  Academy,  Montour  Falls,  N.  Y., 
in  1916-17,  and  the  next  year  was  an  instructor  in  that 
subject  at  the  Ogdensburg  (N.  Y.)  Free  Academy.  He  had 
been  reappointed  to  this  position  for  another  year,  when,  on 
July  16,  191 8,  he  was  voluntarily  inducted  into  the  Quarter- 
master Corps,  for  limited  service.  Later  he  was  assigned  to 
the  Instructors'  Division  at  *  Camp  Meigs,  Washington, 
D.  C,  and  his  death  occurred  at  the  Walter  Reed  Hospital  in 
that  city, October  12,  191 8,  of  pneumonia,  following  influenza. 
He  was  buried  in  the  Nott  Cemetery  at  Centerbrook.  He  was 
a  member  of  the  Centerbrook  Congregational  Church. 

He  was  unmarried  and  is  survived  by  his  mother,a  brother, 
John  T.  Hubbard,  who  served  as  a  First  Lieutenant  in  the 
American  Expeditionary  Forces,  and  two  sisters,  Miss  Bertha 
L.  Hubbard,  of  Derby,  Vt.,  and  Mrs.  J.  Franklin  Candy,  of 
Geneva,  Ohio.  The  latter's  husband  graduated  from  the 
Yale  Divinity  School  in  191 5.  His  Yale  relatives  other  than 
those  noted,  were  his  great-uncle,  Joseph  Stillman  Hubbard 
(B.A.  1843),  and  George  H.  Hubbard  (B.A.  1881),  Norman 
S.  Hubbard  (B.A.  1916),  and  Theodore  V.  Hubbard  (B.A. 
1918). 

John  Bernard  McNeills,  B.A.   1913 

Born  June  22,  1890,  in  Girardville,  Pa. 
Died  November  15,  191 8,  at  Modesto,  Calif. 

John  Bernard  McNeills,  whose  parents  were  Bernard  and 
[Margaret  (McLaughlin)  McNeills,  was  born  in  Girardville, 
(Pa.,  June  22,  1890.  His  father  was  born  in  Donegal,  Ireland, 
the  son  of  William  and  Margaret  McNeills.  His  maternal 
grandparents  were  Thomas  and  Catherine  McLaughlin. 

He  was  fitted  for  Yale  at  the  Waterbury  (Conn.)  High 
School  from  which  he  graduated  with  honors  in  1909.  He  was 
not  in  college  Junior  year,  but  was  graduated  with  his  Class 
in  19 1 3.  He  received  a  Junior  first  colloquy  and  a  Senior  first 
dispute  appointment. 


1046  YALE    COLLEGE 

After  graduatio.n  he  went  to  California,  where  he  worked 
for  a  while  among  the  Japanese,  teaching  them  and  helping 
them  in  many  ways.  He  also  devoted  some  time  to  literary 
work,  and  wrote  articles  for  the  Sunset,  Extension,  and  other 
magazines.  In  the  spring  of  1917  he  became  an  accountant 
in  the  office  of  the  Constructing  Quartermaster,  U.  S.  Army, 
at  Fort  Mason,  California.  He  resigned  this  position  the  fol- 
lowing November,  and  purchased  a  ranch  near  Modesto, 
Calif.,  where  he  was  engaged  in  farming  until  his  death, 
which  occurred  there,  November  15,  191 8,  of  pneumonia, 
following  influenza,  after  an  iilness  of  two  weeks.  The  inter- 
ment was  in  St.  Stanislaus'  Cemetery  at  Modesto. 

Mr.  McNeills  was  a  member  of  the  Roman  Catholic 
Church  of  the  Immaculate  Conception,  of  Waterbury. 

He  was  unmarried  and  is  survived  by  his  mother,  four 
sisters,  and  three  brothers. 


Eugene  Frederic  Rowe,  B.A.   191 3 

Born  June  16,  1891,  In  Cincinnati,  Ohio 
Died  October  7,  191 8,  in  Memphis,  Tenn. 

Eugene  Frederic  Rowe  was  born  June  16,  1891,  in  Cin- 
cinnati, Ohio.  His  father,  Casper  Hartman  Rowe,  is  president 
of  the  Market  National  Bank,  of  that  city*  His  paternal  grand- 
parents were  Thomas  Augustus  Rowe,  who  came  to  America 
from  England,  and  Magdalen  (Hartman)  Rowe,  who  was  of 
German  birth.  Their  home  was  in  Cincinnati.  Eugene  Rowe's 
mother,  Fanny  L.  (Sarran)  Rowe,  was  the  daughter  of  Felix 
and  Eugenie  (Huser)  Sarran,  and  a  descendant  of  Andre 
Huser,  who  came  to  Cincinnati  from  France. 

He  received  his  early  training  at  the  Asheville  (N.  C.) 
School.  In  college  he  was  given  a  Junior  first  colloquy  and  a 
Senior  second  dispute  appointment.  He  played  on  the  Class 
Baseball  Team. 

After  graduation  he  worked  for  six  months  in  the  Market 
National  Bank  in  Cincinnati.  He  then  became  connected 
with  the  American  Diamalt  Company,  manufacturers  of  malt 
extract  in  that  city,  holding  the  position  of  assistant  general 


I913  I047 

manager.  He  enlisted  November  28,  1917,  as  a  First  Class 
Private  in  the  Aviation  Section  of  the  Signal  Corps  at  Fort 
Omaha,  Nebraska.  In  January,  191 8,  he  was  sent  to  the 
Ground  Officers'  Training  School  at  Kelly  Field,  Texas,  later 
being  transferred  to  the  School  of  Military  Aeronautics  atOhio 
State  University  at  Columbus  as  a  Cadet.  On  January  28, 
1918,  when  within  a  few  days  of  securing  a  commission,  he 
contracted  pneumonia,  and  was  honorably  discharged  on  May 
13,  on  account  of  disability  resulting  from  this  illness.  He  was 
ill  for  almost  eight  months,  and,  while  somewhat  improved, 
left  Cincinnati  in  September,  and  started  South  for  the 
winter,  intending  to  remain  a  short  time  in  Memphis,  Tenn., 
to  visit  his  wife's  family.  He  was  taken  ill  with  influenza  on 
the  train.  This  was  followed  by  pneumonia,  which  caused  his 
death  on  October  7,  in  Memphis.  Interment  was  in  Spring 
Grove  Cemetery,  Cincinnati. 

His  marriage  took  place  in  Memphis,  March  27,  19 17,  to 
Estelle,  daughter  of  Caruthers  and  Elizabeth  (Winston) 
Ewing.  She  survives  him  with  a  daughter,  Eugenie.  He  also 
leaves  his  parents,  a  brother,  Stanley  M.  Rowe  (B.A.  1912), 
and  a  sister,  Madeleine  Eugenie.  He  was  a  cousin  of  Stuart 
R.  Allen,  ex-i-j  S.,  and  of  Wallace  E.  Sarran  (Ph.B.  1919). 


Gordon  Lockwood  Schenck,  B.A.   191 3 

Born  April  23,  1 891,  in  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 
Died  October  8,  191 8,  at  Moulin  Charlevaux,  France 

Gordon  Lockwood  Schenck  was  born  April  23,  1891,  in 
Brooklyn,  N.  Y.,  the  son  of  Charles  Newton  and  Helen  (Lock- 
wood)  Schenck.  His  father,  who  is  engaged  in  banking,  is  the 
son  of  Oscar  and  Cornelia  Ann  (Brett)  Schenck,  a  great- 
grandson  of  Major  Henry  Schenck,  who  served  with  dis- 
tinction in  the  Revolutionary  War,  and  a  descendant  of 
Johannes  Schenck,  who  came  to  America  in  1638  from  Middle- 
burg,  Holland,  and  settled  at  Bushwick,  Long  Island.  He  was 
also  a  direct  descendant  of  Sir  Francis  Rombout,  one  of  New 
York  City's  earliest  settlers  and  successful  merchants, — a 
judge  in  the  Admiralty,  an  elder  in  the  Dutch  Church,  which 


1048  YALE    COLLEGE 

he  liberally  helped  to  support,  a  schepen  under  Dutch  regime, 
an  alderman  under  English  rule,  and  finally  (1679)  mayor 
of  the  city.  Helen  Lockwood  Schenck  is  the  daughter  of 
Franklin  T.  and  Helen  H.  (Carpenter)  Lockwood.  Among  her 
ancestors  were  Abraham  Freeman,  who  was  born  in  England 
in  1743,  held  a  commission  as  Captain  in  the  Revolutionary 
Army,  and  died  in  Lancaster  County,  Pa.;  and  Capt.  Joseph 
Carpenter,  who  died  in  the  service  of  his  countrv  in  the  War 
ofi8i2. 

He  entered  Yale  from  Adelphi  Academy,  Brooklyn.  He  was 
given  honors  in  the  studies  of  Freshman  year  and  received 
oration  appointments.  He  sang  in  the  Choir  and  on  the  Fresh- 
man Glee  Club,  was  a  member  of  the  Freshman  and  Univer- 
sity Track  teams,  was  active  in  the  work  of  the  Yale  Hall 
Boys'  Club,  and  belonged  to  the  University  Dramatic  Asso- 
ciation, taking  part  in  "The  Knight  of  the  Burning  Pestle." 

After  leaving  college  he  took  a  position  with  the  Munson 
Steamship  Company  in  New  York  City.  In  1916  he  became  a 
bond  salesman  for  Low,  Dixon  &  Company  in  that  city, 
where  he  was  employed  until  the  L^nited  States  entered  the 
war.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Yale  Civic  Service  League  and 
of  the  Clinton  Avenue  Congregational  Church  in  Brooklyn. 

In  May,  1917,  he  entered  the  first  Plattsburg  Training 
Camp,  receiving  a  commission  as  Second  Lieutenant  at  its 
close,  Augvist  15,  "19 1 7.  After  studying  under  French  officers 
at  Cambridge,  Mass.,  for  several  weeks,  he  joined  the  308th 
Infantry  at  Camp  Upton,  New  York.  He  went  abroad  with  the 
77th  Division  in  April,  191 8,  and  on  August  23  was  placed  in 
command  of  Company  C  of  his  regiment.  He  was  killed  on 
October  8  while  with  the  "Lost  Battalion"  in  the  x'\rgonne 
Forest.  The  Distinguished  Service  Cross  has  been  posthu- 
mously awarded  to  him  "for  extraordinary  heroism  in  action." 
A  service  in  his  memory  was  held  at  the  Clinton  Avenue 
Congregational  Church,  Brooklyn,  on  November  24,  191 8. 

Lieutenant  Schenck  was  unmarried.  His  parents  and  a 
brother  survive  him. 


I913-19H  I049 

Franklin  Prime  Cheeseman,  B.A.   1914 

Born  August  13,  1889,  in  Portersville,  Pa. 
Died  September  20,  191 8,  in  Pittsburgh,  Pa. 

Franklin  Prime  Cheeseman,  son  of  Samuel  Lewis  and 
Clara  E.  (Watson)  Cheeseman,  was  born  August  13,  1889,  in 
Portersville,  Pa.,  where  the  first  member  of  the  family  to  come 
to  America,  Joseph  Cheeseman,  an  Englishman,  settled  in 
1815.  His  father,  whose  parents  were  John  and  Abigail 
(Coulter)  Cheeseman,  graduated  at  the  Slippery  Rock  (Pa.) 
Normal  School  in  1891,  and  from  1896  to  1899  was  superin- 
tendent of  the  schools  of  Butler  County,  Pa.  In  1913  he  was 
a  member  of  the  Pennsylvania  House  of  Representatives. 
Clara  Watson  Cheeseman  is  the  daughter  of  William  and 
Mary  E.  (Sarver)  Watson.  Alexander  Watson,  who  came 
from  Scotland  to  Freeport,  Pa.,  in  1846,  was  the  first  member 
of  the  family  in  America. 

Before  entering  Yale,  he  studied  at  the  Slippery  Rock 
Normal  School,  from  which  he  was  graduated  in  1908,  Ohio 
University,  and  the  Grove  City  (Pa.)  College.  He  received  the 
degree  of  B.A.  from  the  latter  institution  in  1913,  and  joined 
the  Yale  Class  of  19 14  at  the  beginning  of  Senior  year.  He 
had  taught  for  two  years  before  completing  his  course  at 
Grove  City  College. 

In  the  fall  of  1914  he  entered  the  Pittsburgh  Law  School, 
where  he  spent  one  year,  during  which  time  he  was  also 
engaged  in  teaching.  During  191 5  and  191 6  he  was  employed 
in  the  sales  department  of  the  Aluminum  Cooking  Utensil 
Company  at  New  Kensington,  Pa.  He  had  intended  to  resume 
the  study  of  law  later  on.  He  joined  the  Air  Service  December 
10, 1917,  and  was  sent  to  Kelly  Field,  San  Antonio,  Texas,  for 
training.  He  remained  there  until  May  i,  1918,  when  he  was 
assigned  to  the  66th  Aero  Squadron  at  Lonoke,  Ark.  He  later 
suflFered  a  nervous  collapse  and  after  spending  some  time  at 
the  Base  Hospital  at  Little  Rock,  Ark.,  was  ordered  home.  He 
reached  Pittsburgh  in  such  a  serious  condition  that  he  was 
sent  to  a  hospital  in  that  city.  His  condition  was  at  first 
somewhat  improved,  and  his  recovery  was  hoped  for.  Pneu- 
monia developed,  however,  causing  his  death  on  September 
20,  191 8.  Burial  was  in  Slippery  Rock. 


1050  YALE    COLLEGE 

He  was  unmarried.  His  parents  survive  him,  and  he  also 
leaves  two  brothers,  W.  Carl  Cheeseman,  of  Butler,  Pa.,  and 
John  W.  Cheeseman,  of  Slippery  Rock,  and  two  sisters, 
Mary  E.  and  Ruth  W.  Cheeseman,  also  of  Slippery  Rock. 
He  belonged  to  the  Presbyterian  Church  in  that  town. 


Donald  Paige  Frary,  B.A.   1914 

Born  August  9,  1893,  in  Charlemont,  Mass. 
Died  April  6,  1919,  in  Paris,  France 

Donald  Paige  Frary,  only  son  of  Edward  Sanderson  and 
Caroline  Louise  (Paige)  Frary,  was  born  August  9,  1893,  in 
Charlemont,  Mass.  His  father,  who  completed  a  partial  course 
at  the  Worcester  (Mass.)  Polytechnic  Institute  in  1890,  is 
the  owner  of  the  Frary  Spool  Company,  of  Berlin,  N.  Y.  His 
parents  were  Hubert  H.  and  Elizabeth  (White)  Frary,  and 
among  his  early  American  ancestors  were  John  Frary,  who 
came  from  England  about  1640,  settling  at  Dedham,  Mass., 
and  Peregrine  White,  who  was  born  on  the  Mayflower.  Donald 
Frary's  maternal  grandparents  were  John  W.  and  Sarah 
(Williams)  Paige.  His  mother  died  in  19 10.  Through  her,  he 
was  descended  from  Edward  Winslow,  an  early  governor  of 
Plymouth  Colony. 

He  received  his  preparatory  training  at  the  Berlin  High 
School  and  at  the  Worcester  (Mass.)  Academy.  He  was  given 
a  Berkeley  Premium,  divided  the  Donald  Annis  Prize,  and 
received  honors  Freshman  and  Junior  years  and  philosophical 
oration  appointments.  He  was  a  member  of  Phi  Beta  Kappa, 
contributed  to  the  Yale  Literary  Magazine  and  the  Courant, 
was  superintendent  of  the  Goffe  Street  Boys'  Club,  librarian 
of  Dwight  Hall,  and  played  in  the  Yale  Orchestra. 

He  spent  the  first  year  after  graduation  at  Changsha, 
teaching  at  Yale-in-China.  On  his  return  to  this  country  in 
the  summer  of.  1915,  he  went  into  business  with  his  father  in 
Berlin,  but  later  in  the  same  year  entered  the  Yale  Graduate 
School.  In  1 91 6  he  became  an  instructor  in  history  at  Yale, 
and  served  in  that  capacity  for  the  next  two  years,  con- 
tinuing his  work  in  the  Graduate  School  during  this  period. 
He  received  the  degree  of  M.A.  in  191 8.  He  had  contributed 


1914  io5^ 

several  articles  to  the  Review  of  Reviews^  and  was  joint  author, 
with  Professor  Charles  Seymour  (B.A.  1908),  of  "How  the 
World  Votes:  The  Development  of  Modern  Electoral  Sys- 
tems," published  in  1918.  He  had  been  a  trustee  of  the  Yale 
Foreign  Missionary  Society  since  191 5,  and  was  a  member  of 
the  Berlin  Baptist  Church. 

Mr.  Frary  went  to  France  early  in  December,  191 8,  as  one 
of  the  assistants  in  the  Reference  Division  of  the  Inquiry  of 
the  State  Department,  and  was  assigned  the  special  duty  of 
keeping  the  President  in  touch  with  the  situation  in  Bulgaria. 
Before  leaving  this  country,  he  spent  some  months  in  New 
York  City  working  for  the  Inquiry.  He  had  previously  made 
several  unsuccessful  attempts  to  enlist.  He  died,  of  pneumonia, 
at  American  Army  Hospital  No.  3  in  Paris,  April  6,  19 19, 
after  an  illness  of  several  days.  The  body  was  sent  to  his  home, 
and  burial  was  in  the  village  cemetery. 

He  was  unmarried.  Surviving  him  are  his  father  and  a 
sister.  An  aunt  is  the  wife  of  Charles  Upson  Clark  (B.A.  1897). 


Harold  Ludington  Hemingway,  B.A.  19 14 

Born  May  25,  1893,  in  New  Haven,  Conn. 
Died  October  ai,  191 8,  near  Verdun,  France 

Harold  Ludington  Hemingway,  son  of  James  Smith  Hem- 
ingway, treasurer  of  the  New  Haven  Savings  Bank,  and 
Louise  Watson  (Ludington)  Hemingway,  was  born  May  25, 
1893,  in  New  Haven,  Conn.  His  father's  parents  were  Samuel 
and  Marietta  (Smith)  Hemingway,  and  his  mother  is  the 
daughter  of  Jesse  C.  and  Nancy  (Huntley)  Ludington. 
Among  his  ancestors  were  Ralph  Hemingway,  who  came-  to 
America  from  Yorkshire,  England,  between  1640  and  1650, 
and  settled  in  the  Massachusetts  Bay  Colony;  the  latter's 
son,  Samuel  Hemingway,  who  settled  in  East  Haven,  Conn., 
in  1660;  and  Jacob  Hemingway  (B.A.  1704).  Through  his 
mother  he  was  descended  from  William  Ludington,  who  came 
from  Warwickshire,  England,  to  East  Haven,  and  died  in 
1662. 

He  was  fitted  for  Yale  at  the  Hopkins  Grammar  School 
and  at  Phillips  Academy,  Andover,  Mass.  His  appointments 


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were  a  Junior  dissertation  and  a  Senior  oration.  He  was  a 
member  of  the  Football  and  Crew  squads,  winning  a  cup  in 
the  spring  regatta  of  1912. 

For  a  time  after  graduation  he  was  connected  with  the 
New  Haven  Savings  Bank,  but  in  191 5  he  accepted  a  position 
with  Estabrook  &  Company,  bankers,  of  Boston.  He  was  in 
charge  of  their  Connecticut  office  at  the  time  when  he  entered 
the  first  Plattsburg  Training  Camp  in  1917.  On  August  15, 
1917,  he  received  a  commission  as  a  Second  Lieutenant  of 
Infantry.  He  was  then  ordered  to  Camp  Devens,  Ayer,  Mass., 
being  sent  from  there  to  Camp  Bartlett,  Westfield,  Mass., 
where  he  was  assigned  to  Company  K,  104th  Infantry,  26th 
Division.  He  sailed  for  France  with  this  regiment  on  October 
3,  and  went  into  action  February  5,  191 8.  He  was  promoted 
to  a  First  Lieutenancy  on  July  26,  and  was  afterwards  in 
command  of  Company  F.  He  died  October  21,  191 8,  of 
wounds  received  in  action  the  previous  day.  On  the  day  of  his 
death  the  order  came  advancing  him  to  the  rank  of  Captain 
for  gallantry  in  action.  He  was  recommended  for  the  Distin- 
guished Service  Cross  for  conspicuous  bravery  in  "directing 
and  assisting  in  the  removing  of  the  wounded  under  machine 
gun  fire"  at  the  battle  of  St.  Mihiel.  He  was  buried  in  the 
cemetery  at  Glorieux  Hospital,  just  outside  of  Verdun. 

He  was  unmarried,  and  is  survived  by  his  parents,  a  sister, 
and  a  brother,  James  S.  Hemingway,  Jr.,  who  graduated  from 
Yale  in  1920.  He  was  a  cousin  of  Charles  S.  Hemingway  (B.A. 
1873),  Samuel  B.  Hemingway  (B.A.  1904),  Louis  L.  Heming- 
way (B.A.  1908),  and  Donald  H.  Hemingway  (B.A.  1914). 


Edward  Clarence  Miller,  Jr.,  B.A.   1914 

Born  November  18,  1892,  in  East  Orange,  N.  J. 
Died  January  14,  1919,  in  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 

Edward  Clarence  Miller,  Jr.,  one  of  the  two  children  of 
Edward  Clarence  and  Laura  (Brown)  Miller,  was  born 
November  18,  1892,  in  East  Orange,  N.  J.  His  father,  who  is 
president  of  the  Magnolia  Metal  Company,  of  New  York 
City,  is  the  son  of  Thomas  Porter  and  Eliza  Emma  Miller, 
.who  were   of  Puritan   stock.   Three   ancestors,  John  Tilly, 


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Elizabeth  Tilly,  and  John  Howland,  came  over  in  the  May- 
flower  company  in  1620,  and  another,  John  Miller,  came  from 
England  in  the  Hopewell  in  the  year  1635.  -^^^  maternal 
grandparents  were  Robert  Alexander  and  Arabella  Brown, 
of  Americus,  Ga.,  whose  forbears  were  Scotch-Irish  people 
who  first  settled  in  Virginia  and  moved  early  in  the  last 
century  to  southwestern  Georgia. 

He  received  his  preparatory  training  at  the  Riverview 
Military  Academy,  Poughkeepsie,  N.  Y.,  where  at  the  time 
of  his  graduation  he  was  adjutant  of  the  battalion.  He  was 
captain  of  the  Fencing  Team  in  Senior  year,  and  received  a 
first  colloquy  appointment  at  Commencement. 

After  his  graduation  in  19 14,  he  entered  the  Columbia  Law 
School  and  took  the  first  year  course.  During  his  vacation  he 
worked  at  Matawan,  N.  J.,  in  an  antimony  smelter  that  was 
being  started  by  the  Magnolia  Metal  Company,  and  he  be- 
came so  much  interested  in  this  work  that  he  decided  to  give 
up  his  law  course,  and  returned  to  Yale  to  take  a  course  in 
metallurgy  and  chemistry  in  the  Sheflield  Scientific  School. 
While  there  he  took  part  in  the  organization  of  the  Artillery 
Corps  at  Yale,  and  was  commissioned  as  Second  Lieutenant. 
In  March,  1916,  he  assumed  the  management  of  the  antimony 
smelting  plant  at  Matawan,  and  from  that  time  until  his 
death  in  191 9,  he  was  continuously  in  charge,  developing  the 
plant  and  building  up  a  new  American  industry.  He  displayed 
unusual  ability  in  his  work,  and  showed  a  true  spirit  of  enter- 
prise and  leadership.  While  at  the  Columbia  Law  School  he 
had  joined  the  2d  Battalion,  Naval  Militia  of  New  York,  and 
when  the  United  States  entered  the  war  was  in  active  service 
for  some  time.  His  duties  at  Matawan,  however,  were  of  such 
a  nature  and  were  so  important  that  the  Navy  Department 
granted  him  an  indefinite  furlough,  with  the  right  to  wear  his 
uniform. 

At  the  time  of  the  influenza  epidemic  which  prevailed 
during  the  winter  of  191 8-19,  he  was  stricken,  and  after  three 
days  of  illness  pneumonia  developed,  causing  his  death  on 
January  14,  1919. 

He  was  unmarried,  and  is  survived  by  his  parents  and  a 
brother,  Arthur  F.  Miller,  a  non-graduate  member  of  the 
Class  of  1919. 


1054  YALE    COLLEGE 

Kenneth  Rand,  B.A.   1914 

Born  May  8,  1891,  in  Minneapolis,  Minn. 
Died  October  15,  1918,  in  Washington,  D.  C. 

Kenneth  Rand,  whose  parents  were  Alonzo  Turner  and 
Louise  (Casey)  Rand,  was  born  May  8,  189 1,  in  Minneapolis, 
Minn.  His  father,  who  is  president  of  the  Minneapolis  Gas 
Light  Company,  is  the  son  of  Alonzo  C.  and  Mary  L.  (John- 
son) Rand.  Members  of  the  family  came  from  England  to 
Boston,  Mass.,  several  generations  ago.  Louise  (Casey)  Rand, 
who  died  in  1892,  was  born  in  Toledo,  Ohio,  the  daughter  of 
Theodore  B.  Casey. 

He  traveled  and  lived  abroad  much  of  the  time  during  his 
boyhood,  and  entered  Yale  from  Phillips  Academy,  Andover, 
Mass.  His  appointments  were  a  Junior  first  dispute  and  a 
Senior  dissertation.  He  also  received  honors  in  his  Junior 
year.  His  literary  genius  began  to  manifest  itself  as  early  as 
his  Freshman  year.  He  first  began  to  contribute  to  the  Tale 
Record  and  the  Tale  Literary  Magazine  in  Sophomore  year. 
He  became  chairman  of  the  board  of  the  latter  publication  in 
Junior  year,  and  also  served  as  literary  editor  of  the  Courant. 
He  was  Class  Poet  and  a  member  of  the  board  of  governors  of 
the  Elizabethan  Club.  His  ''Dirge  of  the  Sea  Children,"  a 
book  of  poems,  appeared  while  he  was  still  in  college.  After 
graduation  he  gave  his  attention  to  writing  and  had  published 
two  volumes  of  verse,  ''The  Rainbow  Chaser  and  Other 
Poems"  (1914)  and  "The  Dreamer"  (1915).  He  had  also 
contributed  poems  to  The  Bellman  and  to  "The  Yale  Book  of 
Student  Verse,"  covering  the  years  1910  to  1919  and  pub- 
lished in  1 91 9  by  the  Yale  University  Press.  His  last  poem 
was  entitled  "Limited  Service  Only."  He  spent  several  years 
after  his  graduation  in  New  Haven,  and  took  courses  in 
English  literature  at  the  University. 

Mr.  Rand  made  various  attempts  to  enter  every  branch  of 
the  service,  both  Army  and  Navy,  but  was  not  accepted 
because  of  defective  eyesight.  He  then  tried  to  enlist  in  the 
Canadian  Army,  but  was  rejected  for  the  same  reason.  On 
July  18, 191 8,  he  applied  for  induction  into  the  Quartermaster 
Corps  and  was  accepted  for  limited  service,  and  ordered  to 


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1914  1055 

Camp  Meigs,  Washington,  D.  C,  where  he  was  assigned  to 
the  reclamation  warehouse.  He  had  served  about  sixty  days 
when  he  was  stricken  with  influenza  and  removed  to  the 
Walter  Reed  Hospital  in  Washington,  where  he  died  of 
pneumonia,  October  15,  1918.  His  body  was  taken  to 
Minneapolis  for  burial. 

His  wife,  Florence  Glendenning  Jackson,  formerly  of 
Macon,  Ga.,  survives  him.  His  father. is  also  living.  Rufus  R. 
Rand,  Jr.  (Ph.B.  1916),  is  a  cousin. 


Henry  Treat  Rogers,  2d,  B.A.  1914 

Born  October  7,  1892,  in  Cleveland,  Ohio 
Died  August  29,  191 8,  in  Cincinnati,  Ohio 

Henry  Treat  Rogers,  2d,  one  of  the  three  children  of  James 
Hotchkiss  Rogers,  a  musician,  and  Alice  Abigail  (Hall) 
Rogers,  was  born  October  7,  1892,  in  Cleveland,  Ohio.  His 
father's  family,  on  both  the  paternal  and  maternal  sides,  is 
of  early  New  England  origin.  Mr.  Rogers'  father,  Martin 
Lorenzo  Rogers,  a  non-graduate  member  of  the  Class  of  1837,' 
was  a  native  of  Tolland,  Mass.,  and  the  family  were  early 
settlers  there,  while  his  mother,  Harriet  Elizabeth  (Hotch- 
kiss) Rogers,  was  descended  from  the  Hotchkisses  and  Streets 
who  settled  in  Fair  Haven,  Conn.,  in  1640.  Henry  Rogers' 
great-grandfather,  Martin  Rogers,  was,  as  a  very  young  boy, 
in  the  Revolutionary  Army.  His  mother's  parents  were 
Thomas  Quinn  and  Sarah  Alice  (Munhall)  Hall.  She  was  of 
Irish  ancestry,  tracing  her  descent  on  the  maternal  side, 
through  her  great-grandmother,  Abigail  Rice  Moore,  to  Peter 
Moore,  who  was  a  cousin  of  Thomas  Moore,  the  poet.  Caesar 
Rodney,  one  of -the  signers  of  the  Declaration  of  Independ- 
ence, was,  on  his  mother's  side,  a  Moore  of  the  same  family. 

He  received  his  preparatory  training  at  the  Central  High 
School  in  Cleveland.  At  Yale  he  was  given  a  first  dispute 
Junior  and  a  dissertation  Senior  appointment,  won  a  Benja- 
min F.  Barge  Mathematical  Prize,  and  was  awarded  a  charm 
for  work  in  two  Record  business  competitions.  He  was  presi- 
dent   of   the   Yale   Society  for   the    Study  of  Socialism,  a 

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member  of  the  Dramatic  Association,  and  took  the  part  of 
Petrishchev  in  ''Fruits  of  Culture." 

In  the  fall  of  19 14  he  entered  the  Law  School  of  Western 
Reserve  University.  He  was  graduated  from  that  institution 
in  June,  191 6,  and,  following  his  admission  to  the  Colorado 
Bar,  entered  the  law  offices  of  Rogers,  Ellis  &  Johnson  in 
Denver. 

He  enlisted  at  Fort  Omaha,  Nebraska,  June  5,  1917,  and 
shortly  afterwards  entered  the  Aviation  Ground  School  at 
the  University  of  Illinois.  He  graduated  there  on  September 
I,  and  after  spending  a  brief  period  at  Fort  Wood,  New  York, 
was  assigned  to  overseas  duty.  He  went  abroad  on  September 
25,  and  on  July  25,  191 8,  was  given  his  commission  as  a 
First  Lieutenant  in  the  Air  Service.  From  October,  1917,  to 
May,  191 8,  he  was  at  the  Second  Aviation  Instruction  Center, 
and  he  was  afterwards  at  St.  Maixent.  His  death  occurred 
in  Cincinnati,  Ohio,  August  29,  191 8. 

He  was  not  married.  His  parents  survive  him,  and  he  also 
leaves  a  brother,  Stewart,  and  a  sister,  Marion.  He  was  a 
nephew  of  Henry  Treat  Rogers  (B.A.  1866)  and  a  second 
cousin  of  Jerome  Burtt  (Ph.B.  1914)  and  Edwin  A.  Burtt 
(B.A.1915). 

Oliver -Mead  Stafford,  Jr.,  B.A.   1914 

Born  May  i,  1891,  in  Cleveland,  Ohio 
Died  February  22,  1919,  in  Cleveland,  Ohio 

Oliver  Mead  Stafford,  Jr.,  son  of  Oliver  Mead  and  Maude 
Evelyn  (Frankland)  Stafford,  was  born  in  Cleveland,  Ohio, 
May  I,  1 89 1.  His  father  is  vice  president  and  executive  officer 
of  several  companies  in  Cleveland,  among  them  the  Broad- 
way Savings  &  Trust  Company,  the  Woodland  Avenue 
Savings  &  Trust  Company,  and  the  Cleveland  Worsted 
Mills  Company.  His  mother  belongs  to  a  branch  of  the 
McClellan  family  from  which  Gen.  George  B.  McClellan  was 
descended.  His  grandfather,  Jonas  Stafford,  was  a  native 
of  Vermont  and  a  veteran  of  the  War  of  1812.  His  grand- 
mother, Lucy  (Fish)  Stafford,  was  born  on  Pequot  Hill,  Conn., 
and  belonged  to  the  Fish  family  who  were  among  the  original 


1914-1915  1057 

settlers.  His  uncles,  Edmund  Fish  Stafford  and  Henry  Fish 
Stafford,  served  as  volunteers  in  the  Civil  War.  Both  lost  their 
lives  through  their  service. 

He  received  his  preparatory  training  at  the  University 
School  in  Cleveland  and  at  the  Telluride  Institute  at  Olm- 
sted, Utah.  While  in  college  he  was  a  member  of  the  Apollo 
Glee  Club,  the  College  Choir,  the  New  Haven  Symphony 
Orchestra,  and  the  New  Haven  String  Orchestra,  and  was 
soloist  and  conductor  of  the  Yale  University  Orchestra.  He 
was  a  member  of  the  Bowling  Team,  went  out  for  wrestling 
and  track,  contributed  to  the  News,  and  received  an  oration 
appointment  Senior  year. 

Directly  after  graduation  he  entered  the  employ  of  the 
Cleveland  Worsted  Mills  Company.  In  order  to  fit  himself  for 
a  place  in  the  management,  he  began  in  the  wool  sorting 
rooms,  and  for  four  years  he  passed  from  one  department  to 
another,  as  a  regular  employee,  working  full  hours.  In  June, 
191 8,  he  was  made  production  manager  for  all  of  the  plants  of 
the  company,  of  which  he  had  become  a  director  in  1916.  He 
was  also  a  director  of  the  Woodland  Avenue  Savings  &  Trust 
Company.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Second  Presbyterian 
Church  and  musical  director  of  the  Broadway  Mission  Sun- 
day School,  organized  by  his  father  in  1872. 

His  death  occurred  February  22,  19 19,  at  his  home  in 
Cleveland,  after  a  brief  illness  of  influenza.  Interment  was  in 
Lake  View  Cemetery  in  that  city. 

He  was  unmarried.  He  is  survived  by  his  parents,  a  brother, 
Frankland  F.  Stafford,  a  non-graduate  member  of  the  Class 
of  191 9,  and  two  sisters,  Mrs.  A.  Phelps  Crum  and  Mrs. 
MacRea  Parker. 


William  Hopkins  Chandler,  B.A.   191 5 

Born  January  9,  1894,  in  Madura,  South  India 
Died  October  6,  191 8,  near  Exermont,  France 

William  Hopkins  Chandler,  son  of  Rev.  John  Scudder 
Chandler  (B.A.  1870,  B.D.  1873)  and  Henrietta  Shelton 
(Rendall)  Chandler,  was  born  in  Madura,  South  India, 
January  9,  1894.  His  father's  life  has  been  spent  largely  in 


1058  YALE    COLLEGE 

India  as  a  missionary  of  the  American  Board  at  Madura. 
His  parents  were  Rev.  John  Eddy  Chandler  (B.A.  1844)  and 
Charlotte  (Hopkins)  Chandler  and  he  was  a  descendant  of 
William  Chandler,  who  settled  in  Roxbury,  Mass.,  in  1637. 
The  family  moved  to  Woodstock,  Conn.,  in  1687,  where  the 
line  has  remained.  William  H.  Chandler's  mother,  who  was 
the  second  wife  of  Rev.  John  S.  Chandler,  was  the  daughter 
of  Rev.  John  Rendall  and  Jane  (Ballard)  Rendall,  also  mis- 
sionaries in  Madura. 

He  was  prepared  for  Yale  at  the  Newton  (Mass.)  High 
School.  He  received  honorable  m.ention  in  the  Hugh  Chamber- 
lain Greek  Prize  entrance  competition,  was  given  honors  in 
his  studies  and  won  the  second  Berkeley  Premium  Freshman 
year,  and  received  honors  and  a  philosophical  oration  appoint- 
ment Junior  year.  His  Senior  appointment  was  a  high  oration. 
He  was  elected  to  Phi  Beta  Kappa,  held  the  Hurlbut,  Cox, 
and  Daniel  Lord  scholarships,  won  a  News  essay  prize,  and 
was  an  editor  of  the  Courant.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Chess 
Team  and  the  Football  and  Cross  Country  squads. 

After  graduation  he  entered  Union  Theological  Seminary 
to  prepare  for  the  ministry  of  the  Congregational  Church,  and 
during  this  time  also  took  a  course  at  Columbia.  He  attended 
the  first  Plattsburg  Training  Camp,  being  commissioned  a 
Second  Lieutenant  of  Field  Artillery  August  15,  1917-  He 
went  abroad  the  next  month,  and,  after  attending  a  Field 
Artillery  School  of  Instruction,  was  assigned  to  Battery  D  of 
the  7th  Field  Artillery.  In  July,  191 8,  he  received  a  severe  face 
wound  and  spent  the  next  few  months  in  hospitals  in  France 
and  England.  He  was  killed  in  action  near  Exermont,  France, 
on  October  6,  191 8,  only  a  few  days  after  he  had  rejoined  his 
regiment  at  the  front.  He  was  buried  in  the  American  Ceme- 
tery at  Cheppy  (Meuse). 

Lieutenant  Chandler  was  married  August  18,  1917,  to 
Maud  Beresford  Scale,  Mount  Holyoke  191 5,  daughter  of 
W.  Beresford  Scale.  She  survives  him,  as  do  his  parents  and 
two  brothers.  Rev.  Robert  E.  Chandler  (B.A.  1904)  and  John 
R.  Chandler  (B.A.  191 1).  He  was  a  nephew  of  Rev.  Edward 
H.  Chandler  (B.A.  1885). 


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Kirke  Williams  Gushing,  B.A.   191 5 

Born  March  5,  1894,  in  Cleveland,  Ohio 
Died  May  25,  1919,  in  South  Kensington,  R.  I. 

Kirke  Williams  Gushing  was  born  in  Cleveland,  Ohio,  on 
March  5,  1894.  He  was  the  son  of  Henry  Piatt  Gushing,  who 
received  the  degrees  of  B.A.,  M.S.,  and  Ph.D.  from  Gornell  in 
1882,  1884,  and  1907,  respectively,  and  who  is  a  professor  of 
geology  at  Western  Reserve  University.  The  latter  is  the 
son  of  Henry  K.  Gushing,  M.D.,  and  Betsey  M.  Gushing,  and 
a  descendant  of  Matthew  Gushing,  who  came  to  America 
from  England  in  1638  and  settled  at  Hingham,  Mass.  Kirke 
W.  Gushing's  mother,  Florence  (Williams)  Gushing,  is  the 
daughter  of  Samuel  Gardner  Williams  (B.A.  Hamilton  1852, 
Ph.D.  Hamilton  1867),  a  prominent  educator,  and  Electa  W. 
(Glark)  Williams. 

He  received  his  preparatory  training  at  the  University 
School  in  Cleveland  and  then  entered  Kenyon  College, 
Gambler,  Ohio,  where  he  took  his  Ph.B.  in  1914.  At  Kenyon 
he  was  a  member  of  Phi  Beta  Kappa,  was  editor-in-chief  of 
The  ReveilUy  the  annual  book,  president  of  the  Science  Club, 
secretary  of  the  Philomathesian  Literary  Society,  and  took 
part  in  ''The  Knight  of  the  Burning  Pestle."  He  joined  the 
Yale  Class  of  191 5  as  a  Senior.  He  was  given  a  philosophical 
oration  appointment  and  was  elected  to  Sigma  Xi. 

In  the  fall  of  191 5  he  entered  the  Harvard  Medical  School, 
and  in  June,  191 7,  was  elected  to  the  honorary  medical 
fraternity  of  Alpha  Omega  Alpha.  He  joined  the  Medical 
•Reserve  Corps  as  a  Private  on  September  15,  191 7,  and  was 
discharged  December  2,  191 8.  On  March  10,  191 9,  he  received 
the  degree  of  M.D.  from  Harvard.  He  was  drowned  at  Long 
Pond,  South  Kensington,  R.  L,  May  25,  1919,  when  the 
canoe  in  which  he  was  paddling  alone  capsized.  He  sank 
before  help  could  reach  him.  The  interment  was  in  the  family 
lot  in  Lakeview  Cemetery,  Cleveland.  He  was  a  member  of 
Trinity  Cathedral  (Protestant  Episcopal)  in  that  city. 

Dr.  Gushing  is  survived  by  his  parents  and  a  sister,  Cor- 
nelia B.  Gushing.  He  was  a  nephew  of  Dr.  Harvey  Gushing, 
'91,  and  a  cousin  of  William  W.  Grehore,  '86,  Albert  C.  Gre- 


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hore,  '90,  Perry  W.  Harvey,  '91,  Allyn  F.  Harvey  and  Edward 
M.  Williams,  both  '93,  Louis  W.  Ladd,  '95,  Lewis  M.  Wil- 
liams, '98,  Mervin  C.  Harvey,  '99,  and  William  W.  Crehore, 
Jr.,  '17. 

George  Washington  Ewing,  Jr.,  B.A.   191 5 

Born  September  3,  1891,  in  Babylon,  N.  Y. 
Died  October  27,  191 8,  near  Verdun,  France 

George  Washington  Ewing,  Jr.,  was  born  September  3, 
1 89 1,  at  Babylon,  Long  Island,  N.  Y.,  the  son  of  George 
Washington  Ewing,  3d,  and  Betty  (Sherley)  Ewing.  His 
father  was  the  son  of  George  Washington  Ewing,  2d,  and 
Mary  (Sweetser)  Ewing,  a  grandson  of  George  W^ashington 
and  Harriet  (Bourie)  Ewing,  and  a  great-grandson  of  Alex- 
ander and  Charlotte  (Griffith)  Ewing.  The  Ewings  were  of 
Irish  extraction,  descended  from  Irish  patriots  who  were 
obliged  to  leave  their  native  country  because  of  their  political 
sentiments.  The  branch  to  which  Alexander  Ewing  belonged 
settled  in  the  Genesee  Valley  about  1700.  He  served  three 
years  in  the  Revolutionary  War  and  also  fought  in  the  War  of 
181 2.  His  wife  was  of  Welsh  descent,  the  daughter  of  William 
Griffith.  Her  brother,  William  Griffith,  was  a  Captain  in  the 
War  of  1 8 12.  Betty  Sherley  Ewing  is  the  daughter  of  Louis 
A.  and  Laura  (Brannin)  Sherley,  and  the  granddaughter  of 
Zachery  Madison  and  Nanine  Henrietta  (Tarascon)  Sherley. 
She  is  of  French  descent,  her  great-grandparents  being 
John  Anthony  Tarascon,  who  had  a  line  of  ships  which  plied 
between  the  West  Indies  and  Philadelphia,  and  Marie  de  la 
Point,  whose  mother  was  a  Mile.  Bertrand,  daughter  of  a 
private  secretary  of  Napoleon  I.  The  Bertrands  were  ban- 
ished to  Santo  Domingo,  but  later  settled  in  Philadelphia. 
The  Sherleys  settled  in  Kentucky  early  in  the  nineteenth 
century. 

He  received  his  preparatory  training  at  the  Gunnery 
School,  Washington,  Conn.,  the  University  School,  Balti- 
more, Md.,  and  the  Gilman  County  School,  Roland  Park, 
Baltimore.  He  was  given  a  Junior  second  colloquy  appoint- 
ment. He  was  a  member  of  the  Football,  Baseball,  and  Tennis 
squads,  manager  of  the  Wrestling  Team,  captain  of  the  Class 


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Baseball  Team,  and  secretary  of  the  Minor  Athletic  Associa- 
tion. He  served  as  president  of  the  Maryland  Club  and  as 
vice  president  of  the  Southern  Club. 

After  graduation  he  became  connected  with  Brooke, 
Stokes  &  Company,  bankers,  representing  them  in  Baltimore. 
He  attended  the  Plattsburg  Training  Camp  in  the  summer  of 
191 6,  and  on  April  27,  191 7,  received  a  commission  as  a  Sec- 
ond Lieutenant  of  Cavalry  in  the  U.  S.  Reserve.  The  next 
month  he  entered  the  Training  Camp  at  Fort  Myer,  Virginia. 
Upon  the  completion  of  the  course  he  was  transferred  to  the 
Regular  Army  (having  chosen  this  commission  in  preference 
to  promotion  to  a  First  Lieutenancy  in  the  Reserve)  and 
placed  in  command  of  the  3d  Cavalry  at  Fort  Sam  Houston, 
Texas.  He  sailed  with  this  regiment  in  October,  1917,  and  on 
arriving  in  France  was  assigned  to  detached  service  in  Paris. 
In  March,  191 8,  he  passed  the  examinations  for  the  Air 
Service,  and  was  given  a  commission  as  a  First  Lieutenant. 
He  received  his  flying  training  at  Issoudun  and  Orly.  In 
October,  191 8,  he  was  assigned  to  the  185th  Squadron,  ist 
Pursuit  Group,  and  on  the  twenty-seventh  of  the  month  was 
killed  in  action  near  Verdun. 

Lieutenant  Ewing  was  married  October  5, 191 8,  in  Paris,  to 
Jacqueline  Thomas,  who  survives  him.  He  also  leaves  his 
mother,  two  brothers.  Jack  Sweetser  and  Sherley  Ewing,  and 
a  sister,  Peggy  Haggin  Ewing.  A  brother,  Lieut.  Louis  R. 
Ewing,  was  killed  in  an  airplane  accident  at  the  front  in  the 
summer  of  191 8.  Among  his  Yale  relatives  were  Stephen  H. 
Philbin  and  Ewing  R.  Philbin,  who  graduated  from  the  Col- 
lege in  1910  and  191 1,  respectively,  and  J.  Holladay  Philbin, 
William  G.  E.  Tytus,  and  Ewing  T.  Webb,  all  members  of 
the  Class  of  19 13. 


Robert  Hov^ard  Gamble,  B.A.   191 5 

Born  January  17,  1893,  in  Narberth,  Pa. 
Died  September  12,  191 8,  in  St.  Mihiel,  France 

Robert  Howard  Gamble  was  the  son  of  Robert  Grattan 
Gamble,  who  studied  at  the  University  of  Virginia  during 
1882-83  and  graduated  from  the  University  of  Maryland  with 


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the  degree  of  M.D.  in  1884,  and  Frances  Eaton  (White) 
Gamble,  and  was  born  January  17,  1893,  in  Narberth,  Pa. 
His  father  is  the  son  of  Col.  Robert  H.  Gamble,  of  Tallahas- 
see, Fla.,  and  Martha  Chaire  Gamble,  and  a  descendant  of 
Robert  Gamble,  who  came  to  America  from  Londonderry, 
Ireland,  in  1735,  settling  in  Augusta  County,  Va.  His  mother 
is  the  daughter  of  Charles  Atwood  White  (B.A.  1854)  and 
Frances  Spencer  (Eaton)  White  and  the  granddaughter  of 
Henry  W^hite  (B.A.  1821).  Her  first  American  ancestor  was 
Miles  Standish.  Robert  Howard  Gamble's  great-grandfather, 
Capt.  Robert  Gamble,  fought  in  the  Revolutionary  W^ar,  lead- 
ing his  men  in  the  capture  of  Stony  Point.  He  is  also  a  direct 
descendant  of  Roger  Sherman,  treasurer  of  Yale  from  1765 
to  1776,  who  enjoys  the  singular  place  in  history  of  having 
signed  the  four  supreme  papers  of  American  independence — 
the  Articles  of  Association  of  the  Congress  of  1774,  the  Arti- 
cles of  Confederation,  the  Declaration  of  Independence,  and 
the  Constitution. 

He  was  prepared  for  college  at  the  Haverford  (Pa.)  School 
and  at  Phillips  Academy,  Andover,  Mass.  At  Yale  he  was  a 
member  of  the  Soccer  Team  for  four  years,  being  captain  in 
his  Senior  year. 

After  graduation  he  became  connected  with  the  freight 
department  of  the  Pennsylvania  Railroad  Company.  In  the 
summer  of  191 5  he  took  a  course  of  training  at  Plattsburg. 
He  enlisted  on  August  27, 1917,  and  after  undergoing  training 
at  Fort  Oglethorpe,  Georgia,  was  commissioned  a  Provisional 
Second  Lieutenant  in  the  Regular  Army  in  December,  1917, 
being  assigned  to  the  nth  Infantry  at  Chickamauga  Park, 
Ga.  The  following  April  he  sailed  for  France  with  Company 
A,  nth  Infantry.  He  was  in  the  first  American  drive  which 
resulted  in  the  retaking  of  the  St.  Mihiel  salient.  He  was 
killed  in  action  September  12,  191 8,  and  was  buried  in  the 
soldiers'  cemetery  near  Bois  St.  Claude,  a  short  distance 
southeast  of  the  village  of  Vieville-en-Hay.  His  body  has 
since  been  removed  to  the  St.  Mihiel  Cemetery  atThiaucourt. 

Lieutenant  Gamble  was  unmarried.  He  is  survived  by  his 
parents,  a  brother,  Charles  W.  Gamble,  a  member  of  the 
Class  of  1920,  and  two  sisters,  Frances  W.,  wife  of  David  Lewis 
Daggett  (B.A.  1910,  LL.B.  1913),  and  Eleanor  S.  Gamble. 


191 5  1063 

He  was  a  grandnephew  of  Henry  D.  White  (B.A.  1851), 
Roger  S.  White  (B.A.  1859,  LL.B.  1862),  Thomas  H.  White 
(B.A.  i860,  M.D.  1862),  Oliver  S.  White  (B.A.  1864,  LL.B. 
1873),  and  George  E.  White  (B.A.  1866).  John  Rogers  (B.A. 
1887,  Ph.B.  1888)  and  Henry  L.  Stimson  (B.A.  1888)  are 
uncles  by  marriage. 

William  Huntting  Jessup,  B.A.   1915 

Born  October  15,  1891,  in  Scranton,  Pa. 
Died  October  5,  1918,  near  Apremont,  France 

William  Huntting  Jessup  was  born  October  15,  i89i,in 
Scranton,  Pa.,  being  one  of  the  three  children  of  William 
Henry  Jessup  (B.A.  1884)  and  Lucy  Ada  (Stotesbury)  Jessup. 
His  father,  who  is  a  lawyer,  is  the  son  of  William  Huntting 
Jessup  (B.A.  1849)  ^^^  Sarah  Wilson  (Jay)  Jessup,  the  grand- 
son of  William  Jessup,  LL.D.  (B.A.  1815),  and  a  descendant 
of  Samuel  Huntting  (B.A.  1767)  and  of  John  Jessup,  who 
came  to  America  from  England  and  settled  at  Southampton. 
His  maternal  grandparents  were  James  May  and  Lucy 
Butler  Stotesbury. 

He  was  prepared  for  Yale  at  the  Scranton  High  School 
and  at  the  Black  Hall  School  at  Old  Lyme,  Conn.  In  college 
he  received  second  colloquy  Junior  and  Senior  appointments. 
He  was  a  member  of  the  University  Glee  Club,  president  of 
the  Yale  Glee,  Banjo  and  Mandolin  Clubs,  an  editor  of  the 
Banner  and  Pot  Pourri,  and  a  member  of  the  Cap  and  Gown 
Committee. 

After  graduation  he  became  connected  with  the  firm  of 
Henry  W.  Brown  &  Company,  insurance  brokers,  in  Phila- 
delphia, Pa.  He  was  a  member  of  the  First  Presbyterian 
Church  of  Scranton.  On  May  10,  1917,  he  entered  training 
at  Fort  Niagara,  New  York.  He  received  a  commission  as  a 
Second  Lieutenant  in  the  Field  Artillery  on  August  15,  1917, 
and  on  September  8  sailed  for  France  as  an  unattached  officer. 
After  spending  some  time  at  the  Field  Artillery  School  of 
Instruction  at  Saumur,  he  served  for  a  while  with  the  loist 
Field  Artillery,  and  was  then  assigned  to  the  6th  Field  Artillery. 
On  October  5,  191 8,  he  was  killed  in  action  near  Apremont,  a 


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small  village  in  the  Argonne  Forest.  Shortly  before  his  death 
he  had  been  promoted  to  the  rank  of  First  Lieutenant.  His 
family  have  received,  since  his  death,  an  order  citing  him  "for 
gallantry  in  action  and  especially  meritorious  service." 

Lieutenant  Jessup  was  unmarried.  He  is  survived  by  his 
parents,  a  brother,  James  M.  Jessup  (B.A.  1916),  and  a  sister. 
Among  his  Yale  relatives  are:  Samuel  B.  Mulford  (B.A.  1842), 
Rev.  Henry  H.  Jessup  (B.x^.  1851),  Samuel  Jessup  (B.A. 
i860),  and  Douglas  J.  Torrey  (B.A.  1907). 


Henry  Blair  Keep,  B.A.   1915 

Born  September  25,  1892,  in  Chicago,  111. 
Died  October  5,  191 8,  in  the  Bois  du  Fays,  France 

Henry  Blair  Keep,  one  of  the  three  children  of  Chauncey 
and  Mary  (Blair)  Keep,  was  born  September  25,  1892,  in 
Chicago,  111.  His  father,  a  retired  business  man,  is  the  son  of 
Henry  and  Phebe  (McCluer)  Keep,  and  traces  his  descent  to 
John  Keep,  who  came  to  America  from  England  and  settled 
at  Longmeadow,  near  Springfield,  Mass.,  in  the  year  1660. 
His  mother's  parents  were  Lyman  and  Mary  F.  (DeGrofF) 
Blair.  She  is  of  Dutch  and  English  descent. 

He  entered  Yale  from  The  Hill  School,  Pottstown,  Pa.  He 
was  a  member  of  the  Freshman  Baseball  and  Football  squads 
and  the  University  Baseball  Squad,  and  was  head  cheer  leader. 
He  served  on  the  Sophomore  German  and  Senior  Promenade 
committees. 

For  several  years  after  graduating,  he  served  as  Class  Agent 
for  the  Yale  Alumni  University  Fund  Association,  and  until 
the  time  he  entered  service  was  connected  with  McCord  & 
Company,  a  manufacturing  concern  in  Chicago. 

He  entered  the  first  Officers'  Training  Camp,  at  Fort  Sheri- 
dan, Illinois,  and  received  a  commission  as  First  Lieutenant 
at  the  close  of  the  camp  on  August  27,  19 17.  He  was  then 
ordered  to  Camp  Greene,  Charlotte,  N.  C,  and  assigned  to 
the  58th  Infantry,  4th  Division.  On  May  6,  191 8,  he  sailed  for 
France  with  Company  B,  12th  Machine  Gun  Battalion,  4th 
Division,  upon  his  arrival  being  sent  to  a  machine  gun  in- 
struction camp.  In  June  he  was  assigned  to  the  loth  Machine 
Gun  Battalion,  4th  Division,  and  on  July  18,  at  the  beginning 


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of  the  Allied  drive  at  Chateau-Thierry,  he  was  sent  to  the 
front  lines,  in  command  of  his  company.  At  the  close  of  the 
drive  he  was  promoted  to  the  rank  of  Captain.  Thereafter  he 
was  almost  continuously  in  the  fighting  line,  and  at  the  time 
of  his  death  had  been  for  fifteen  days  with  his  company  in  the 
section  between  the  Meuse  River  and  the  Argonne  Forest. 
His  death  was  due  to  a  shell  which  entered  a  shell  hole  where 
he  and  the  other  officers  of  his  company  were  sleeping  on  the 
night  of  October  5,  191 8.  He  was  buried  in  the  southwest 
corner  of  the  Bois  du  Fays,  immediately  west  of  the  town  of 
BrieuUes  on  the  Meuse  River.  His  wife  and  his  parents  have 
made  a  gift  of  over  $50,000  to  the  University  to  establish  a 
memorial  to  Captain  Keep. 

His  marriage  took  place  December  2, 19 16,  in  New  Orleans, 
La.,  to  Katharine  Jennings,  daughter  of  James  and  Cora 
Morris  (Jennings)  Legendre.  He  is  survived  by  his  wife  and 
a  son,  Henry  Blair,  Jr.  He  also  leaves  his  parents  and  two 
sisters,  one  of  whom  is  the  wife  of  Robert  A.  Gardner  (B.A. 
191 2)  and  the  other  of  James  C.  Hutchins,  Jr.  His  Yale  rela- 
tives include:  William  McCormick  Blair,  '07,  Chauncey  B. 
Blair,  '09,  E.  Seymour  Blair,  '11,  Watson  K.  Blair,  '13,  and 
Wolcott  Blair,  ^a;-' 17. 


James  Alexander  Moseley,  Jr.,  B.A.  191 5 

Born  June  4,  1894,  in  Ralegh,  N.  C. 
Died  July  28,  191 8,  at  the  River  Ourcq,  France 

James  Alexander  Moseley,  Jr.,  was  born  June  4,  1894,  in 
Raleigh,  N.  C,  his  parents  being  James  Alexander  and  Annie 
Nicholas  (Conigland)  Moseley.  His  father,  whose  parents  were 
James  Madison  and  Sarah  Elizabeth  (Hobbs)  Moseley,  was  at 
the  head  of  the  James  A.  Moseley  Cotton  Goods  Depart- 
ment of  Frederick  Victor  &  Achelis,  in  New  York  City  until 
his  death  in  19 13.  On  the  paternal  side  he  was  descended  from 
one  of  four  Moseley  brothers,  who  came  to  America  from 
England  in  1635  and  settled  in  North  Carolina.  Edward 
Moseley,  famous  in  Colonial  annals  for  his  wide  influence  and 
patriotic  service,  as  well  as  for  the  wonderful  library  in  his 
home,  Moseley  Hall,  on  the  Cape  Fear  River,  N.  C,  was  one 
of  this  family.  His  maternal  grandfather,  Edward  Conigland, 


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came  to  America  from  Ireland  when  a  youth,  and  settled  at 
Glen  Ivy,  near  Halifax,  N.  C,  where  he  became  distinguished 
in  the  practice  of  law.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Reconstruc- 
tion Convention  of  1866.  His  wife  was  Mary  Wyatt  (Ezell) 
Conigland.  On  the  maternal  side,  the  great-great-grand- 
father of  James  A.  Moseley,  Jr.,  was  John  Nicholas,  of  the  Vir- 
ginian family  so  closely  connected  with  the  political  success 
of  Thomas  Jefferson.  After  serving  throughout  the  Revolu- 
tionary War  John  Nicholas  settled  on  his  estate  in  Northamp- 
ton County,  N.  C,  which  is  still  owned  by  his  descendants. 
One  uncle,  G.  H.  Moseley,  with  his  father,  fought  on  the 
Confederate  side  in  the  Civil  War,  the  latter  being  killed  in 
action  at  Malvern  Hill. 

The  family  moved  to  Glen  Ridge,  N.  J.,  in  1900,  and  he 
entered  Yale  from  the  high  school  in  that  town.  He  was 
awarded  the  Scott  Prize  in  German  Junior  year,  and  received 
a  first  dispute  Junior  and  a  high  oration  Senior  appointment. 

After  graduation  he  spent  a  year  at  the  Philadelphia  Textile 
School,  and  three  months  in  the  Eagle  &  Phoenix  Mills  at 
Columbus,  Ga.,  and  then  became  connected  with  the  cotton 
goods  department  of  Frederick  Victor  &  Achelis  in  New  York. 
He  was  a  member  of  the  Roman  Catholic  Church  of  the 
Sacred  Heart,  of  Bloomfield,  N.  J. 

He  entered  the  first  Plattsburg  Officers'  Training  Camp  in 
May,  1917,  and  in  November  was  given  his  commission  as  a 
First  Lieutenant  of  Inf^try.  In  January,  191 8,  he  went  over- 
seas as  a  casual.  After  six  weeks'  training  in  an  officers'  school 
and  a  tour  of  the  French  front,  he  was  assigned  to  the  i66th 
Infantry,  2d  Division,  and  was  later  sent  to  instruct  in  the 
126th  Infantry,  32d  Division,  with  which  he  went  into  Alsace. 
There  he  found  orders  to  rejoin  Company  C  of  the  i66th 
Infantry.  He  was  recommended  for  decoration  for  carrying 
one  of  his  wounded  men  three  hundred  yards  under  shell  fire 
and  gas,  and  the  Distinguished  Service  Cross  has  been  post- 
humously awarded  to  him.  He  was  struck  by  a  shell  at  the 
River  Ourcq,  July  28,  and  died  an  hour  later.  He  was  buried 
at  Chateau  de  la  Foret,  near  Beauvardes,  and  his  body  was 
later  removed  to  the  Communal  Cemetery,  Department  of  the 
Aisne. 

He  was  not  married.  He  is  survived  by  his  mother,  a  sister, 
and  a  brother,  Nicholas  Moseley  (B.A.  1919). 


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Alexis  Painter  Nason,  B.A.  191 5 

Born  June  12,  1894,  in  New  Brunswick,  N.  J. 
Died  October  i,  191 8,  at  Sancourt,  France 

Alexis  Painter  Nason  was  born  in  New  Brunswick,  N.  J., 
June  12,  1894,  the  son  of  Frank  Lewis  and  Thalia  Abigail 
(Painter)  Nason.  His  father  graduated  from  Amherst  in  1882, 
in  which  year  he  spent  one  term  in  the  Yale  Divinity  School. 
He  was  afterwards  an  instructor  at  the  Rensselaer  Polytech- 
nic Institute,  and  later  assistant  state  geologist  of  New  Jersey 
and  Missouri.  He  is  at  present  engaged  in  practice  as  a  con- 
sulting mining  engineer.  His  parents  were  Lewis  Clark  and 
Maria  Julia  (Stickles)  Nason.  Lewis  Clark  Nason  entered 
Middlebury  College,  but  left  because  of  failing  eyesight,  and 
removed  from  Rochester,  Vt.,  to  New  London,  Wis.,  in  1855. 
At  the  outbreak  of  the  Civil  War  he  enlisted  in  Company  A, 
1st  Wisconsin  Volunteers.  He  became  a  chronic  invalid,  but 
continued  in  the  hospital  service.  His  death  occurred  in 
February,  1863,  and  he  was  buried  in  the  National  Cemetery 
at  Chattanooga,  Tenn.  The  Nasons  came  originally  from  the 
Isle  of  Man,  and  settled  around  Dorchester  about  1630. 
The  Stickles  were  early  Dutch  pioneers  who  settled  in  New 
Jersey  early  in  the  seventeenth  century.  A  part  of  the  family 
ater  removed  to  the  vicinity  of  Potsdam,  N.Y.Thalia  Painter 

ason  graduated  at  Wellesley  in  1882.  Her  death  occurred  in 
906.  She  was  the  daughter  of  Henry  Wheeler  Painter  (M.D. 
1856)  and  Abigail  Maria  (Kitchin)  Painter,  a  granddaughter 
of  Alexis  Painter  (B.A.  181 5)  and  Maria  (McMahon)  Painter, 
and  a  great-granddaughter  of  Thomas  Painter,  who  fought  in 
the  Revolution.  Her  ancestors  were  early  settlers  in  New 
Haven. 

He  entered  Yale  from  the  New  Haven  High  School.  He 
received  a  first  dispute  Junior  and  a  second  dispute  Senior 
appointment.  After  graduation  he  was  connected  for  a  short 
time  with  one  of  the  magnetic  iron  ore  concentrating  mills  of 
Witherbee,  Sherman  &  Company  at  Mineville,  N.  Y.,  but  in 
October,  191 5,  he  took  a  position  as  chemist  with  the  Canada 
Sugar  Refinery  in  Montreal. 

He  enlisted  in  the  training  school  for  officers  in  Montreal  in 


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June,  191 6,  and  in  due  course  received  his  commission  as 
Lieutenant  in  the  5th  Royal  Highlanders  of  Canada  (allied 
with  the  Black  Watch),  and  served  in  that  capacity  until 
May  1,1917,  when  he  reduced  his  rank  in  order  to  be  assigned 
to  immediate  overseas  duty.  He  went  abroad  soon  after- 
wards as  a  member  of  the  20th  Canadian  Reserve  Battalion, 
and  after  taking  a  cadet's  course  at  Bexhill,  England,  was 
stationed  for  a  time  at  the  camp  at  Bramshott,  Hants,  Eng- 
land. He  was  later  recommissioned  and  assigned  to  his  former 
regiment,  with  which  he  was  sent  to  France  about  August  15, 
1 91 8.  On  the  morning  of  October  i  Lieutenant  Nason's 
battalion  attacked  the  village  of  Sancourt.  During  the  second 
charge  of  the  machine  gun  posts  he  was  shot  through  the 
body  and  killed  instantly.  He  was  buried  in  the  field,  but  the 
body  was  afterwards  moved  to  a  cemetery  north  of  the  village. 
He  was  the  last  officer  of  the  company,  all  the  others  having 
been  killed  or  wounded  in  this  action. 

He  was  engaged  to  Miss  Doris  Spackman,  of  Montreal. 
He  is  survived  by  his  father,  his  stepmother,  and  a  brother. 
Among  his  Yale  relatives  are  Philip  G.  Bartlett  (B.A.  1881), 
Henry  McM.  Painter  (B.A.  1884,  Ph.B.  1885,  M.D.  Colum- 
bia 1888),  and  Alexis  P.  Bartlett  (B.A.  1894).  He  belonged 
to  Christ  Episcopal  Church  of  West  Haven. 


Lucius  Comstock  Boltwood,  B.A.  19 16 

Born  May  3,  1894,  in  Grand  Rapids,  Mich. 
Died  October  14,  191 8,  in  Raon  I'Etape  (Vosges),  France 

Lucius  Comstock  Boltwood  was  born  May  3,  1894,  in 
Grand  Rapids,  Mich.,  the  son  of  Lucius  Boltwood  (B.A.  1883, 
LL.B.  1886)  and  Etta  Monique  (Comstock)  Boltwood,  a 
graduate  of  St.  Margaret's  School,  Waterbury,  Conn.,  in 
1887.  His  father  is  a  lawyer,  practicing  in  Grand  Rapids  with 
two  brothers  under  the  firm  name  of  Boltwood  &  Boltwood. 
Lucius  C.  Boltwood's  paternal  grandparents  were  Lucius 
Manlius  Boltwood  (B.A.  Amherst  1843)  ^^^  Clarinda  Board- 
man  (Williams)  Boltwood,  whose  grandfather  fought  in  the 
American  Revolution.  Through  them  he  was  descended  from 
Robert  Boltwood,  who  came  to  America  in  1648,  settling 
at  Hadley,  Mass.   His  great-grandmother,  Fanny  Haskins 


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(Shepard)  Boltwood,  was  own  cousin  to  Ralph  Waldo  Emer- 
son. His  mother  is  the  daughter  of  Charles  Carter  Comstock, 
Congressman  from  Michigan  from  1885  ^^  1887  and  a  pioneer 
.furniture  manufacturer  at  Grand  Rapids,  and  Cornelia  Olive 
f(Guild)  Comstock,  whose  grandfather,  Joel  Guild,  of  Herki- 
^mer,  N.  Y.,  served  in  the  Revolutionary  Army. 

He  received  his  preparatory  training  at  the  Grand  Rapids 
Central  High  School.  He  completed  the  four-year  course  at 
Yale  in  three  years,  receiving  first  dispute  appointments.  In 
the  summer  of  1914,  while  on  a  motor-cycle  trip  through 
Europe,  he  entered  France  from  Belgium  the  day  war  was 
declared,  and  in  the  evening  was  taken  for  a  German  spy  by 
a  French  mob  at  Meaux  and  nearly  beaten  to  death  before 
being  rescued  by  the  police. 

He  entered  the  Law  School  of  the  University  of  Michigan 
n  the  fall  of  191 5,  and  was  graduated  there  in  191 8,  being  one 
!of  seven  students  to  receive  the  degree  of  Juris  Doctor.  He 
belonged  to  three  honorary  law  societies,  the  Order  of  the 
Coif,  the  Quadrangle,  and  Woolsack,  and  was  appointed  to 
the  staff  of  the  Michigan  Law  Review. 

When  the  United  States  entered  the  war  he  tried  to  enroll  in 
one  of  the  first  officers'  training  camps,  but  was  rejected 
because  of  a  slight  defect  in  eyesight.  He  was  accepted  for  the 
second  camp  but  never  received  a  call.  Being  determined  to 
get  into  active  service,  he  then  took  eight  more  examinations 
for  Aviation  and  for  different  branches  of  the  Navy,  but  was 
rejected  each  time  on  account  of  his  eyes.  In  June,  191 8,  he 
was  drafted  and  went  to  Camp  Custer,  Michigan,  and  after 
only  two  weeks  of  training  was  assigned  to  Company  D,  338th 
Regiment,  85th  Division,  soon  to  go  overseas.  While  at  Camp 
Mills,  Long  Island,  however,  he  became  ill  and  was  unable  to 
go  to  France  with  his  unit.  He  was  transferred  to  the  Head- 
quarters Company  of  the  323d  Regiment,  8ist  Division,  which 
left  on  July  30,  a  few  days  after  the  85th.  After  reaching 
France,  he  trained  for  four  weeks  at  Tanley,  from  which  place 
he  was  sent  to  the  front  at  Moyen  Moutier  and  the  Vosges 
Mountains,  where  he  became  ill  with  influenza  October  5. 
Five  days  later  he  was  sent  to  a  field  hospital  at  Raon  I'Etape, 
where  he  died  of  pneumonia  on  October  14,  and  was  buried  in 
the  cemetery  there. 


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His  marriage  took  place  April  27,  1918,  in  Grand  Rapids, 
to  Marian  Sarah  Berkey  (B.A.  Smith  1916),  daughter  of 
Charles  H.  and  Laura  (Phelps)  Berkey.  Besides  his  wife,  he  is 
survived  by  his  parents  and  a  brother,  Chester  Guild  Boltwood, 
who  served  as  a  First  Class  Ordnance  Sergeant  during  the 
war  and  entered  Yale  in  1919.  His  Yale  relatives  include:  his 
great-uncles,  Edward  Boltwood  (B.A.  i860)  and  Thomas  K. 
Boltwood  (B.A.  1864);  his  uncles,  George  S.  Boltwood  (B.A. 
1882,  LL.B.  1885)  and  Charles  W.  Boltwood  (B.A.  1890, 
LL.B  1892);  and  his  second  cousins,  Edward  Boltwood  (B.A. 
18.92,  LL.B.  1894)  and  Bertram  B.  Boltwood  (Ph.B.  1892, 
Ph.D.  1897). 


Daniel  Waters  Cassard,  B.A.   1916 

Born  March  11,  1894,  in  Chicago,  111. 
Died  July  16,  191 8,  near  Dormans,  France 

Daniel  Waters  Cassard  was  the  son  of  Morris  and  Anna 
(Waters)  Cassard,  and  was  born  March  11,  1894,  in  Chicago, 
111.  Morris  Cassard,  who  has  retired  from  business,  is  the  son 
of  Gilbert  H.  and  Mary  Morris  (Rust)  Cassard,  and  a  descend- 
ant of  Francis  Cassard,  who  was  procureur  to  the  Parliament 
of  Brittany  under  Louis  XIV.  His  great-great-grandfather, 
Rev.  Thomas  Asbury  Morris,  D.D.,  of  Virginia,  was  for  six- 
teen years  senior  bishop  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church. 
Daniel  Cassard's  maternal  grandparents  were  Daniel  Howard 
and  Mary  (Leffingwell)  Waters.  Through  his  mother  he  was 
descended  from  Laurence  Waters,  one  of  the  first  settlers  of 
Lancaster,  Mass.,  and  William  Lejffingwell,  who  graduated  at 
Yale  in  1786. 

He  was  fitted  for  college  at  the  Westminster  School,  Sims- 
bury,  Conn.  At  Yale  he  was  a  member  of  the  Freshman  Glee 
Club.  His  appointments  were  a  second  dispute  Junior  year 
and  a  first  dispute  Senior  year.  He  became  engaged  in  the 
bond  business  soon  after  graduation. 

He  joined  the  Air  Service  in  the  early  summer  of  1917,  and 
in  December,  after  six  months'  training  with  the  Royal  Flying 
Corps  in  Canada  and  Texas,  received  a  commission  as  a  First 
Lieutenant  in  the  147th  Aero  Squadron,  ist  Pursuit  Group. 


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He  was  sent  abroad  in  March,  191 8,  and  during  the  next  six 
weeks  was  at  the  3d  Aviation  Instruction  Center  in  France. 
He  entered  active  service  at  the  front  with  the  ist  Pursuit 
Group  of  the  147th  Aero  Squadron  about  June  10,  and  on 
July  16,  while  on  patrol  duty,  with  four  other  Americans, 
attacked  a  German  squadron  of  ten  or  twelve  machines. 
During  the  battle  he  was  shot  and  fell  near  Dormans,  in  the 
Chateau-Thierry  sector,  where  he  was  buried.  The  French 
government  has  posthumously  awarded  him  the  Croix  de 
Guerre,  with  palm. 

He  was  unmarried.  Besides  his  parents  he  leaves  two  broth- 
ers, Morris  Cassard,  Jr.  (B.A.  191 5),  and  Dudley  Vernon 
Cassard,  a  member  of  the  Class  of  1922.  He  was  a  member  of 
the  Congregational  Church  of  Simsbury,  Conn. 


Robert  Henry  Coleman,  B.A.   1916 

Born  February  15,  1894,  in  Louisville,  Ky. 
Died  October  9,  191 8,  at  Brest,  France' 

Robert  Henry  Coleman,  son  of  John  Coleman,  a  capitalist, 
and  Susan  (Norton)  Coleman,  was  born  February  15,  1894, 
in  Louisville,  Ky.  His  father  was  the  son  of  Capt.  John  Cole- 
man and  Margaret  (Bannon)  Coleman,  the  former  an  emi- 
grant to  this  country  from  Ireland.  His  mother's  parents  were 
George  Washington  and  Martha  (Henry)  Norton,  of  Russell- 
ville,  Ky. 

After  receiving  his  preparatory  training  at  The  Hill  School, 
Pottstown,  Pa.,  the  Taft  School,  Watertown,  Conn.,  and  at 
Phillips-Andover,  he  entered  Yale  with  the  Class  of  191 6. 
He  completed  his  course  in  three  years,  and  was  given  his 
degree  in  191 5,  but  has  now  been  enrolled  with  his  original 
class.  He  received  a  first  colloquy  Junior  and  a  second  dis- 
pute Senior  appointment.  He  played  on  the  191 6  Class  Base- 
ball Team,  and  was  an  editor  of  the  News. 

He  entered  the  Harvard  Law  School  in  191 5,  and  spent  two 
years  there.  In  the  fall  of  19 17  he  joined  the  U.  S.  Naval 
Reserve  Force,  and  for  three  months  was  stationed  at  New- 
port, R.  I.  In  November,  1917,  he  was  discharged  from  the 
Navy  in  order  that  he  might  enter  the  Army  Aviation  Corps. 

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He  was  sent  to  the  Ground  School  at  Princeton  University, 
and  on  the  completion  of  his  course  there  was  transferred  to 
Dallas,  Texas,  for  flying  training.  He  was  commissioned  as  a 
Second  Lieutenant  in  the  Air  Service  on  June  15,  191 8,  at 
Scott  Field,  Belleville,  111.  He  was  later  stationed  at  the 
Wilbur  Wright  Field,  Dayton,  Ohio.  He  sailed  for  France 
on  September  12,  1918,  and  was  stricken  with  influenza  on 
the  voyage.  This  developed  into  pneumonia  and  his  death 
occurred  at  the  Marine  Hospital,  Brest,  France,  on  October  9. 
He  was  buried  in  the  Lambezellac  Cemetery  at  Brest. 

Lieutenant  Coleman  was  a  member  of  the  Roman  Catholic 
Church.  He  was  unmarried,  and  is  survived  by  his  mother,  a 
sister,  the  wife  of  Walter  S.  Clark  (Ph.B.  1902),  and  three 
brothers,  one  of  whom,  John  Coleman,  graduated  from  the 
College  in  19 13.  He  was  a  nephew  of  George  W.  Norton,  Jr. 
(Ph.B.  1885). 


George  Waite  Goodwin,  B.A.  1916 

Born  July  31,  1895,  i"  Glens  Falls,  N.  Y. 
Died  July  15,  191 8,  in  Chateauroux,  France 

George  Waite  Goodwin  was  born  July  31,  1895,  in  Glens 
Falls,  N.  Y.  His  father,  Scott  DuMont  Goodwin,  the  son  of 
Albert  and  Jane  (Laing)  Goodwin,  was  graduated  from  Yale 
in  1869  and  from  the  Albany  Law  School  in  1870.  From  that 
time  until  his  retirement  several  years  ago  he  practiced  law 
continuously  in  Albany.  Albert  Goodwin  was  descended  from 
Ozias  Goodwin  and  Mary  (Woodward)  Goodwin,  his  wife, 
who  came  from  England  and  settled  at  Hartford,  Conn.,  prior 
to  1639.  George  W.  Goodwin's  mother,  Sarah  Coffin  (Waite) 
Goodwin,  was  the  daughter  of  George  Pierson  and  Harriet 
(Coffin)  Waite,  who  was  a  descendant  of  John  Tilley  and 
John  Howland,  who  came  to  America  in  the  Mayflower. 

He  entered  Yale  from  Phillips  Academy,  Andover,  Mass. 
In  college  he  received  third  division  honors  Freshman  year,  a 
dissertation  appointment  Junior  year,  and  a  first  dispute 
Senior  appointment.  During  1914-15  he  was  a  member  of  the 
University  Orchestra. 

He  was  a  student  at  the  Harvard  Law  School  for  a  year 


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after  graduation.  In  May,  19 17,  he  enlisted  in  the  American 
Ambulance  Field  Service,  arriving  in  Paris  on  July  4,  1917. 
He  served  with  the  French  Army  as  an  ambulance  driver  in 
and  about  Verdun,  Bras,  and  Vacherauville  for  four  months. 
On  November  5,  1917,  he  was  accepted  in  the  Aviation  Sec- 
tion, Signal  Reserve  Corps,  at  Paris  as  a  Flying  Cadet.  He 
was  given  his  commission  as  a  Second  Lieutenant  in  the  Air 
Service  on  May  18,  1918.  His  death  occurred  on  July  15, 1918, 
in  Base  Hospital  No.  9  at  Chateauroux  (Indre)  as  a  result 
of  injuries  received  in  a  mid-air  accident  when  he  was  run 
into  by  another  pilot  at  the  flying  field  at  Chateauroux.  He 
was  buried  with  full  military  honors  in  the  American  Ceme- 
tery there.  One  of  the  fellowships  established  for  American 
students  in  French  universities  by  the  American  Field  Service 
in  1920  has  been  named  in  memory  of  Lieutenant  Goodwin. 

He  was  not  married.  His  father,  a  brother,  Edward  Scott 
Goodwin  (B.A.  1919),  and  two  sisters  survive  him.  One  sister 
is  the  wife  of  Henry  C.  Yale,  ex-oy  S.  His  mother  died  in 
January,  1914.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Second  Presbyterian 
Church  of  Albany. 


George  Knight  Houpt,  B.A.  19 16 

Born  January  28,  1894,  in  Buffalo,  N.  Y. 
Died  July  18,  1918,  in  Leghorn,  Italy 

George  Knight  Houpt,  son  of  Wilber  Eugene  Houpt  (B.A. 
1883)  and  Grace  Louise  (Knight)  Houpt  (B.A.  Oxford,  Ohio, 
College  1882),  was  born  January  28,  1894,  in  Buffalo,  N.  Y., 
where  his  father  is  engaged  in  the  practice  of  law.  The  latter 
is  also  attorney  for  the  Terminal  Station  Commission  and 
treasurer  of  the  George  Irish  Paper  Company,  of  Buffalo,  and 
secretary  of  ^  the  Specialty  Paper  Mills,  Ltd.,  of  Ontario, 
Canada.  He  is  the  son  of  Parley  and  Maria  (Sharpsteen) 
Houpt.  His  first  American  ancestor  was  Philip  Houpt,  who 
came  to  America  about  1760,  settling  in  Dutchess  County, 
N.  Y.  George  Houpt's  mother  was  the  daughter  of  George  A. 
and  Lucia  (Hussey)  Knight.  Her  father  was  a  direct  descend- 
ant of  Sir  Giles  Knight,  who  came  to  America  from  England 
in  the  same  ship  with  William  Penn  and  settled  in  Philadel- 


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phia.  Lucia  Hussey  Knight  is  of  that  branch  of  the  Hussey 
family  to  which  both  Daniel  Webster  and  John  Greenleaf 
Whittier  belonged. 

George  Houpt  prepared  for  Yale  at  the  Lafayette  High 
School  and  the  Nichols  School  in  Buffalo.  In  college  he  was 
leader  of  the  Freshman  Glee  Club,  a  member  and  soloist  of  the 
University  Glee  Club,  and  a  member  of  the  College  Choir,  and 
one  of  its  soloists.  He  was  on  the  Freshman  Track  Squad. 
He  was  granted  the  degree  of  B.A.,  post  obitum,  honoris 
causa,  in  June,  191 9.  \ 

He  left  Yale  in  February,  1916,  to  enlist  in  the  Harjes 
Ambulance  Corps,  a  branch  of  the  French  Army,  and  sailed 
for  France  on  February  26.  He  became  a  member  of  American 
Section  No.  5  of  the  Harjes  Unit,  and  was  decorated,  with  his 
section,  with  the  Croix  de  Guen^e  for  service  in  Verdun.  He 
also  saw  service  in  the  Marne,  at  Soissons,  at  Compiegne,  at 
Dead  Men's  Hill,  and  in  Alsace.  His  enlistment  expired  in 
September,  191 6,  when  he  was  honorably  discharged.  He 
immediately  went  to  Paris  and  became  a  student  of  Jean 
deReszke,  with  whom  he  continued  his  studies  until  April, 
191 8.  Then  deReszke  told  him  he  was  fitted  to  make  his 
debut,  except  for  a  few  lessons  in  mise  en  scene  which  he 
wished  him  to  take  from  Mario  Ancona,  for  fourteen  years  the 
leading  baritone  at  the  Metropolitan,  who  was  then  living 
at  Florence,  Italy.  Mr.  Houpt's  application  to  the  study  of 
music  was  intense  and  the  results  were  prodigious.  Nearly  a 
year  before  his  death,  deReszke  referred  to  him  as  "one  of 
the  few  great  artists  of  the  world."  Every  artist  whom  he 
met  recognized  his  talents.  Gustav  Vestrini,  an  Italian  critic 
and  composer,  as  well  as  others,  said  that  there  was  no 
voice  in  Italy  which  compared  with  Mr.  Houpt's.  His  pro- 
nunciation of  English  was  so  pure  and  perfect  that  he  was 
engaged  by  Professor  Weill  of  The  Sorbonne  to  ijiake  a  series 
of  records  in  English  which  were  to  be  used  in  teaching  the 
English  language  in  the  French  schools  and  universities.  By 
the  summer  of  191 8,  he  had  learned  the  baritone  roles  in 
fifteen  operas,  and  had  perfected  nine  of  these,  for  his  debut, 
which  had  been  arranged  by  Ancona  to  take  place  in  La  Scala 
Theatre  in  Milan  immediately  after  the  war.  He  had  re- 
enlisted  in  the  American  Army  in   191 8,  although  he  was 


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exempt  from  service  because  he  had  forfeited  his  citizenship 
by  joining  the  French  Army  in  1916.  While  studying  in  Paris, 
he  sang  at  soldiers'  and  sailors'  clubs  and  at  various  enter- 
tainments and  gatherings  for  the  welfare  of  men  in  the  service. 
His  last  singing  in  public  was  at  the  wedding  of  his  classmate, 
Arthur  B.  Lane,  in  Florence,  Italy,  June  19,  191 8. 

He  died  July  18,  191 8,  at  a  hospital  about  four  miles  from 
Leghorn,  Italy,  after  a  week's  illness  due  to  cerebro-spinal 
meningitis,  which  disease  he  had  contracted  while  in  service  at 
Verdun  in  March,  191 6.  He  was  buried  in  the  English  Ceme- 
tery at  Leghorn.  Memoirs  of  his  life  and  art  have  been  pre- 
pared for  publication. 

Mr.  Houpt  was  unmarried.  He  is  survived  by  his  parents 
and  a  sister,  Lucia  M.  Houpt  (B.A.  Smith  19 12),  the  wife  of 
Richard  E.  Connell,  of  New  York  City.  He  was  a  nephew  of 
Edward  H.  Knight  (B.A.  1898). 


Casper  Marvin  Kielland,  B.A.   1916 

Born  May  6,  1892,  in  Buffalo,  N,  Y. 
Died  July  11,  191 8,  near  Amboise,  France 

Casper  Marvin  Kielland,  son  of  Soren  Theodor  Munch 
Bull  Kielland  and  Anna  May  (Harris)  Kielland,  was  born 
May  6,  1892,  in  Buffalo,  N.  Y.  His  father  was  born  in  Sta- 
vanger,  Norway,  received  the  degree  of  C.E.  from  the  Univer- 
sity of  Engineering,  Gothenburg,  Sweden,  and  was  created  a 
Knight  of  St.  Olaf  by  the  King  of  Norway  in  19 10.  In  his 
younger  days,  he  practiced  his  profession  in  Europe  and 
Africa.  He  became  a  citizen  of  the  United  States  in  1888.  He 
is  at  present  consul  for  Norway  at  Buffalo.  His  parents  were 
Lauritz  C.  and  Johanna  (Munch)  Kielland,  of  Stavanger. 
He  is  closely  related  to  the  distinguished  Norwegian  families 
of  Bull,  Munch,  Kruse,  and  Kielland,  who  have  all  played 
important  parts  in  the  political  and  cultural  development  of 
Norway  and  Denmark.  His  wife  is  the  daughter  of  Marvin 
Harris,  who  was  a  prominent  citizen  of  Kendall,  N.  Y.,  and  a 
member  of  the  State  Legislature.  The  family  is  of  New 
England  Puritan  origin,  the  first  American  member,  James 
Harris,  having  come  to  Massachusetts  about  1636. 


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He  was  prepared  for  college  at  the  Technical  High  School 
in  Buffalo,  the  Detroit  (Mich.)  University  School,  and  under 
a  private  tutor.  For  about  a  year  he  was  in  the  employ  of  the 
Washburn-Crosby  Company  in  Buffalo.  In  191 2  he  entered 
Lehigh  University,  where  he  was  a  member  of  the  191 6  Class 
Baseball  Team  and  served  on  the  Sophomore  Cotillion  Com- 
mittee. At  the  end  of  his  second  year  he  left  Lehigh  to  come 
to  Yale.  He  played  on  the  University  Lacrosse  Team.  In 
1916  he  was  awarded  a  prize  and  diploma  by  the  Rice  Leaders 
of  the  World  Association  for  a  paper  on  business  ideas. 

In  the  fall  after  graduation  he  entered  the  service  of  Red- 
mond &  Company,  a  New  York  banking  firm,  with  whom  he 
remained  until  he  enlisted  in  the  Aviation  Service,  June  14, 
1917.  He  attended  the  Ground  School  at  Harvard,  and,  hav- 
ing completed  the  course  of  instruction  there,  was  sent  to 
Selfridge  Field,  Mount  Clemens,  Mich.,  where,  on  September 
29,  he  received  a  commission  as  a  First  Lieutenant  in  the 
Aviation  Section,  Signal  Reserve  Corps,  and  served  as  an 
instructor  until  the  late  fall  of  191 7.  While  at  Mount  Clemens, 
he  sustained  a  severe  accident,  due  to  the  filing  of  his  control 
wires  by  a  German  spy.  Because  of  his  injuries  he  was  unable 
to  resume  his  training  for  several  months,  but  left  for  Eng- 
land December  17,  1917.  After  spending  about  a  month  at  an 
English  station,  he  was  sent  to  Issoudun,  France,  to  complete 
his  training,  and  there  he  was  assigned  ultimately  to  chasse 
work.  He  spent  some  time  instructing,  and  was  then  detailed 
to  patrol  duty  over  Paris  and  **ferry  piloting"  from  Paris  to 
the  front.  In  April,  191 8,  he  was  ordered  to  Italy  in  charge  of 
a  special  aviation  squadron.  Two  months  later  he  returned  to 
France,  and  was  sent  to  the  Aviation  Center  at  Tours  to  serve 
as  an  .instructor.  He  fell  in  his  machine  near  the  town  of 
Amboise  on  July  11,  191 8,  and  was  killed  almost  instantly. 
He  was  buried  with  military  honors  in  the  Military  Cemetery, 
adjoining  St.  Syphorien's  Cemetery  at  Tours. 

Lieutenant  Kielland  was  unmarried.  Surviving  him  are  his 
parents,  at  present  residing  in  Buffalo;  three  sisters,  Mrs. 
Edwin  P.  Seaver,  Jr.,  of  New  Bedford,  Mass.,  who  graduated 
from  Vassar  in  1908;  Mrs.  Robert  Brueckner  (Cornell  1913), 
of  Amanzimtoti,  Natal,  South  Africa;  and  Miss  Anna  H. 
Kielland,  of  Buffalo;  and  one  brother,  Rolf  H.   Kielland 


1916  I077 

(Pennsylvania  1913),  an  attorney  residing  at  Doylestown, 
Pa.  He  belonged  to  the  Church  of  the  Redeemer  (Lutheran) 
of  BufFalo. 


Russell  Jay  Meyer,  B.A.   1916 

Born  October  29,  1892,  in  Ada,  Ohio 
Died  September  27,  191 8,  near  Montfaucon,  France 

Russell  Jay  Meyer,  whose  parents  were  William  Henry  and 
Harriet  Coit  (Grafton)  Meyer,  was  born  October  29,  1892,  in 
Ada,  Ohio.  Both  parents  are  dead.  His  father,  who  was  local 
agent  for  the  Pennsylvania  Railroad  and  a  director  of  the 
First  National  Bank  and  of  the  Ada  Coal  &  Lumber  Com- 
pany, was  the  son  of  William  and  Margaret  (Walther) 
Meyer.  William  Meyer  came  to  the  United  States  from  Hesse, 
and  his  wife  from  Wintzenbach,  Alsace.  They  settled  in 
Findlay,  Ohio.  Russell  Meyer's  maternal  grandparents  were 
William  Benjamin  and  Eliza  Jane  (Pingree)  Grafton.  His 
mother  was  of  English  ancestry,  being  descended  from  Moses 
Pingree,  who  came  from  near  London  and  settled  at  Ipswich, 
Mass.,  prior  to  1641.  Her  great-great-grandfather,  John 
Pingree,  held  a  Lieutenant's  commission  in  the  Revolutionary 
War.  Among  other  ancestors  were  Governor  Simon  Brad- 
street,  Governor  Thomas  Dudley,  and  Francis  Peabody. 

He  was  prepared  for  college  at  the  high  schools  at  Urbana 
and  Ada,  Ohio.  Before  entering  Yale  in  191 2  he  was  for  two 
years  a  member  of  the  Class  of  1914  at  Ohio  Northern  Uni- 
versity. At  Yale  he  was  a  member  of  the  Freshman  Glee  Club 
and  received  a  second  colloquy  Junior  and  a  first  colloquy 
Senior  appointment. 

On  June  24,  191 6,  he  was  appointed  a  First  Lieutenant  of 
Infantry  and  assigned  to  the  Headquarters  of  the  2d  Ohio 
Infantry,  with  which  he  served  on  the  Mexican  border  from 
September  4,  1916,  to  March  24,  1917.  He  was  called  into 
Federal  service  again  on  July  15,  1917,  and  ordered  to  Camp 
Sheridan,  Alabama,  where,  after  the  dissolution  of  the  2d 
Ohio  Regiment,  he  was  assigned  to  Company  K,  146th  In- 
fantry, and  detailed  as  Battalion  Adjutant.  Shortlyjthere- 
after  he  was  transferred  to  Company  M  of  his  regiment,  and 


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sailed  for  France  in  June,  191 8.  He  was  killed  in  action  near 
Montfaucon,  France,  September  27,  191 8. 

Lieutenant  Meyer  was  unmarried.  He  is  survived  by  four 
brothers,  all  of  whom  saw  service  in  France,  and  a  sister. 
One  brother,  William  Walter  Meyer  (B.A.  Ohio  Northern 
University  191 1),  received  the  degrees  of  M.A.  and  LL.B. 
from  Yale  in  1912  and  191 5,  respectively;  another,  George  A. 
Meyer,  graduated  from  Wittenberg  College  in  1916  and  took 
his  B.A.  at  Yale  in  1917;  a  third,  Karl  Frederick  Meyer,  is 
a  member  of  the  Class  of  1922  L.;  while  the  fourth,  Charles 
Grafton  Meyer,  is  in  the  College  Class  of  1922. 


Langdon  Laws  Ricketts,  B.A.   1916 

Born  September  24,  1893,  in  Cincinnati,  Ohio 
Died  October  4,  191 8,  at  Blanc  Mont  Ridge,  France 

Langdon  Laws  Ricketts  was  born  September  24,  1893,  in 
Cincinnati,  Ohio.  His  father,  Benjamin  Merrill  Ricketts, 
who  holds  the  degrees  of  B.A.  and  M.D.,  is  a  surgeon,  en- 
gaged in  practice  in  Cincinnati.  His  mother,  Elizabeth  (Laws) 
Ricketts,  whose  death  occurred  August  5,  1920,  was  the 
daughter  of  James  H.and  Sarah  Amelia  (Langdon)  Laws,  and 
a  descendant  of  Philip  Langdon,  who  was  born  in  Yorkshire, 
England,  and  settled  in  Boston  in  1640.  Her  great-great- 
grandfather, John  Langdon,  who  was  born  in  Salem,  Mass., 
and  died  at  Wilbraham,  was  a  signer  of  the  non-consumption 
pledge  of  1774,  a  Sergeant  in  Colonel  Danielson's  Massachu- 
setts Regiment,  and  a  Captain  in  Jackson's  Continental 
Regiment,  and  also  served  in  the  French  and  Indian  War. 
John  Langdon's  wife,  Eunice  Torrey,  was  the  granddaughter 
of  Capt.  William  Torrey,  who  was  born  in  Somersetshire, 
England,  and  died  at  Weymouth,  Mass.,  in  1690.  William 
Torrey  served  as  Captain  of  the  Train  Band  of  the  Colony, 
as  magistrate,  and,  from  1644  to  1649,  as  deputy  to  the  Gen- 
eral Court  of  Massachusetts,  and  was  appointed  chief  military 
officer  in  Hingham,  Mass.,  August  12,  1640. 

He  entered  Yale  from  the  Asheville  (N.  C.)  School.  In 
college  he  was  a  member  of  the  University  Track  Team, 
winning  his  numerals. 


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After  graduation  he  entered  the  employ  of  the  The  Fleisch- 
man  Company  at  Cincinnati,  leaving  them  to  enlist.  He 
joined  the  U.  S.  Marine  Corps  July  13,  1917,  and  was  sent  to 
Parris  Island,  S.  C,  for  training.  He  was  transferred  in  Octo- 
ber to  Quantico,  Va.,  where  he  qualified  as  an  expert  rifleman, 
and  served  as  an  instructor  on  the  rifle  range.  He  sailed  for 
France  December  8,  1917,  landing  at  St.  Nazaire.  He  was 
made  a  Corporal  in  the  i8th  Company,  5th  Regiment,  U.  S. 
Marine  Corps,  and  took  part  in  the  fighting  in  the  Bois  de 
Belleau.  For  his  conduct  near  Chateau-Thierry,  when  his 
division  stopped  the  enemy  rush  at  that  point,  he  received  a 
citation  in  General  Orders.  He  also  engaged  in  battles  at 
Chateau-Thierry,  Soissons,  St.  Mihiel,  and  Blanc  Mont  Ridge, 
and  was  killed  in  action  October  4,  191 8,  during  the  second 
day  of  the  advance  in  the  Champagne  north  of  Somme-Py 
in  the  Argonne.  He  was  buried  October  13  on  Blanc  Mont 
Ridge,  where  he  lost  his  life.  A  Croix  de  Guerre,  with  silver 
star,  awarded  to  him  by  the  French  Government,  was  re- 
ceived after  his  death,  and  he  was  also  made  a  member  of  the 
Legion  of  Honor.  In  a  letter  from  the  Captain  of  his  company 
it  was  stated  that  he  would  have  been  recommended  for  a 
commission,  had  he  lived. 

He  was  a  member  of  Grace  Episcopal  Church,  Avondale, 
Cincinnati.  He  was  engaged  to  be  married  to  Miss  Mary  C. 
Barber,  of  Chicago,  but  his  sudden  departure  before  an 
expected  furlough,  prevented  the  marriage,  for  which  all 
preparations  had  been  made.  His  father  and  a  brother, 
James  L.  Ricketts,  survive  him.  He  was  a  cousin  of  Harry  L. 
Laws  (B.A.  1902)  and  Stuart  B.  Sutphin  (B.A.  1903). 


Philip  Livingston  Rose,  B.A.  1916 

Born  July  27,  1894,  in  New  York  City- 
Died  October  4,  1918,  near  Verdun,  France 

Philip  Livingston  Rose  was  born  July  27, 1894,  in  New  York 
City,  the  only  child  of  John  Henry  Rose  (B.A.  Hobart  1889, 
M.D.  New  York  University  1892)  and  Susan  Tarleton  Gold- 
thwaite.  His  father,  who  has  practiced  as  a  physician  and  sur- 
geon in  Hartford,  Conn.,  where  for  some  years  he  was  visiting 


I080  YALE    COLLEGE 

physician  to  St.  Francis'  Hospital,  served  from  December, 
1917,  to  January,  1919,  as  a  Captain  and  Major  in  the 
Medical  Corps.  He  is  the  son  of  Robert  Selden  Rose  and 
Frances  T.  Cammann,  and  a  descendant  of  Robert  Selden 
Rose,  who  was  private  secretary  to  Alexander  Spotswood,  a 
Colonial  governor  of  Virginia.  This  ancestor  was  in  English 
orders  and  came  to  America  from  the  family  estate,  Kilravock 
Castle,  tenanted  continuously  from  the  thirteenth  century  up 
to  the  present  time  by  the  Roses.  An  ancestor  on  the  maternal 
side  was  Philip  Livingston  (B.A.  1737),  a  signer  of  the  Declara- 
tion of  Independence.  Philip  Livingston  Rose's  mother  is  the 
daughter  of  the  late  Dr.  Henry  Goldthwaite,  resident  physi- 
cian of  the  former  Fifth  Avenue  Hotel,  New  York  City,  visit- 
ing physician  to  the  Woman's  and  City  hospitals,  an  instruc- 
tor at  the  Bellevue  Hospital  Medical  College,  and  a  Major  in 
the  Confederate  Army.  Henry  Goldthwaite,  associate  justice 
of  the  Supreme  Court  of  Alabama,  and  George  Goldthwaite, 
chief  justice  of  the  same  court  and  a  United  States  senator, 
were  respectively  his  great-grandfather  and  great-granduncle. 
His  earliest  maternal  ancestor  was  Thomas  Goldthwaite,  who 
came  from  Goldthwaite  Hall,  Kirkby  Malzeard,  West  Riding 
of  Yorkshire,  in  Governor  John  Winthrop's  expedition  and 
settled  in  Salem,  Mass.,  in  1630.  Col.  Thomas  Goldthwaite,  a 
prominent  figure  in  the  Colonial  wars  and  in  social  and  politi- 
cal circles  in  Boston,  who  at  the  opening  oi  the  Revolution 
remained  loyal  to  King  George  and  returned  to  England, 
where  he  lived  and  died  at  Walthamstow,  was  another  ances- 
tor. Through  his  great-grandmother,  Philip  Rose  was  a  lineal 
descendant  of  Joseph  Graham,  a  Major  in  the  North  Carolina 
Rangers  in  the  Revolution,  who  afterwards  became  a  Major 
General.  Another  member  of  this  family  was  William  A.  Gra- 
ham, governor  of  North  Carolina,  a  member  of  the  United 
States  Senate,  and  secretary  of  the  Navy  under  President 
Fillmore,  when  he  was  largely  instrumental  in  Commodore 
Perry's  expedition  to  Japan.  Through  his  great-grandmother, 
Eliza  Witherspoon,  Lieutenant  Rose  was  a  descendant  of  John 
Witherspoon,  president  of  Princeton  and  a  signer  of  the  Dec- 
laration of  Independence.  On  his  maternal  grandmother's  side 
he  was  descended  from  Capt.  William  Tarleton,  of  Piermont, 
N.  H.,  an  officer  in  the  Revolutionary  Army,  and  afterwards 


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Colonel  of  State  Militia,  a  member  of  the  Legislature,  and 
high  sheriff  of  Grafton  County. 

He  was  fitted  for  college  at  the  Hartford  Public  High  School, 
the  Pomfret  (Conn.)  School,  the  Bellefonte  (Pa.)  Academy, 
and  the  Harstrom  School,  South  Norwalk,  Conn.  At  Yale  he 
was  a  member  of  the  Freshman  and  Apollo  Glee  clubs  and  the 
University  Mandolin  Club. 

After  graduation  he  entered  the  employ  of  the  New  Eng- 
land Westinghouse  Company  at  Chicopee  Falls,  Mass.,  where 
he  remained  until  the  summer  of  1917,  when  he  went  to  the 
first  Plattsburg  Training  Camp.  He  sailed  for  France  Septem- 
ber 12,  1 9 17,  shortly  after  receiving  his  commission  as  a 
Second  Lieutenant  of  Field  Artillery,  and  spent  several  months 
at  the  Saumur  Artillery  School.  Upon  the  completion  of  his 
course  there  he  was  assigned  to  Battery  D  of  the  loist  Field 
Artillery,  from  which  he  was  later  transferred  to  Battery  E, 
6th  Field  Artillery.  He  was  severely  gassed  June  19,  191 8, 
while  serving  with  this  regiment,  but  recovered  and  returned 
to  the  front,  where  he  remained  until  he  was  killed  in  action 
October  4,  191 8,  in  the  vicinity  of  Verdun.  At  the  time  of  his 
death  he  was  leading  his  liaison  detail  through  the  Montrebeau 
woods.  He  was  killed  instantly  by  a  shell  in  the  northeast 
corner  of  the  woods,  nearest  to  Hill  No.  240.  Lieutenant  Rose 
was  keeping  close  contact  with  the  i8th  Infantry  and  his 
mission  was  hazardous;  however,  he  laudably  fulfilled  it  up  to 
the  time  of  his  death.  His  commission  as  First  Lieutenant  was 
signed  five  days  after  he  lost  his  life. 

He  was  a  member  of  Trinity  Church  (Protestant  Episcopal) 
of  Hartford.  He  was  unmarried.  He  is  survived  by  his  mother 
and  father.  R.  Selden  Rose  (B.A.  1909)  is  a  cousin. 


Alexander  Dickson  Wilson,  B.A.   1916 

Born  February  15,  1892,  in  Bingham  ton,  N.  Y. 
Died  September  29,  191 8,  in  Brieulles,  France 

Alexander  Dickson  Wilson  was  born  February  15,  1892,  in 
Binghamton,  N.  Y.,  the  son  of  Leslie  McLean  Wilson,  presi- 
dent of  the  Empire  Grain  &  Elevator  Company  of  that  city, 
and  Nellie  (Orr)  Wilson.  His  father  is  the  son  of  Thomas 


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and  Mary  (McLean)  Wilson.  The  latter  is  a  descendant 
of  Alexander  McLean,  who  came  to  this  country  from  the 
north  of  Ireland  in  1820.  Alexander  Wilson's  mother  is  the 
daughter  of  Albert  Skeer  and  Priscilla  (Worden)  Orr.  She 
traces  her  descent  to  early  settlers  of  the  Wyoming  Valley  in 
Pennsylvania,  who  went  there  from  Connecticut  about  1640. 

He  received  his  preparatory  training  at  Phillips  Academy, 
Exeter,  N.  H.,  and  at  the  Princeton  Preparatory  School.  He 
played  on  the  Freshman  Football  Team,  and  was  a  member  of 
the  University  Football  Team  for  three  years,  being  captain  in 
his  Senior  year.  He  also  belonged  to  the  University  TrackTeam 
for  two  years,  and  was  a  member  of  the  University  Basketball 
Team.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Sophomore  German  Com- 
mittee, the  Junior  Promenade  Committee,  and  the  University 
Dining  Hall  Committee,  and  was  a  cup  man. 

He  took  a  position  with  the  Empire  Grain  &  Elevator 
Company  in  Binghamton  in  July,  1916.  In  May,  1917,  he 
entered  upon  a  three  months'  course  of  training  at  Madison 
Barracks,  Sacketts  Harbor,  N.  Y.,  receiving  a  commission 
as  a  Second  Lieutenant  of  Infantry  in  August.  He  was  later 
assigned  as  Aide-de-Camp  to  General  F.  D.  W^ebster,  17th 
Infantry  Brigade,  at  Camp  Zachary  Taylor,  Kentucky,  and 
in  October  was  promoted  to  the  rank  of  First  Lieutenant.  He 
went  abroad  in  May,  T918,  with  the  8th  Brigade,  U.  S. 
Regulars,  and  three  or  four  months  later  was  made  Com- 
manding Officer  of  Company  A,  59th  Infantry,  8th  Brigade, 
4th  Division.  On  September  28  he  was  promoted  to  a  Cap- 
taincy in  the  same  organization.  He  was  killed  in  action,  at 
BrieuUes,  France,  September  29,  191 8,  and  was  buried  in  the 
American  Cemetery  near  Septarges  Wood.  He  had  been 
wounded  in  the  arm  early  that  morning,  but  refused  to  retire 
for  first  aid,  and  later  in  the  day  was  killed  instantly. 

Captain  W^ilson  was  unmarried.  He  is  survived  by  his 
parents,  six  brothers,  and  two  sisters. 


#  lgi6  1083 

Reginald  Stanley  Young,  B.A.   1916 

Born  February  25,  189a,  in  Poughkeepsie,  N.  Y. 
Died  October  9,  191 8,  in  the  Argonne  Forest,  France 

Reginald  Stanley  Young  was  born  February  25,  1892,  in 
Poughkeepsie,  N.  Y.  He  was  the  son  of  Edmund  Young,  who 
was  in  the  real  estate  business  before  his  retirement  in  1900, 
and  Jessie  Gray  (Stanley)  Young.  He  was  the  grandson  of 
Henry  Lathrop  and  Mary  Eliot  (Dwight)  Young,  and  a 
descendant  of  John  Dwight,  who  came  to  America  from  Ded- 
ham,  England,  late  in  1634,  settling  in  Dedham,  Mass.  His 
mother  is  the  daughter  of  Reginald  Heber  and  Helen  Louise 
(Wakely)  Stanley.  His  first  American  ancestor  on  the 
maternal  side  was  John  Stanley,  who  came  from  England  to 
Houston,  Texas,  in  1850. 

He  was  fitted  for  Yale  at  the  Hotchkiss  School,  Lakeville, 
Conn.  He  spent  four  years  with  the  Class  of  191 6,  but  did  not 
receive  his  degree  until  1917.  His  name  is  now  enrolled  in  the 
Class  of  1 91 6.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Freshman  and  Uni- 
versity Cross  Country  teams  and  the  University  Track  Team. 

In  the  summer  of  191 6  he  attended  the  Plattsburg  Training 
Camp,  and  in  August,  1917,  after  a  three  months'  course  of 
training  at  Madison  Barracks,  New  York,  he  received  a  com- 
mission as  Second  Lieutenant.  He  was  then  assigned  to  Camp 
Dix,  New  Jersey,  but  on  October  4  was  transferred  to  the  38th 
Company,  Machine  Gun  Battalion,  i6th  Infantry,  ist 
Division,  at  Syracuse,  N.  Y.,  and  sailed  for  France  the  next 
month.  In  the  Aisne-Marne  offensive  of  July  18,  all  the  other 
officers  of  his  company  were  either  killed  or  wounded,  and  the 
command  of  the  entire  company  fell  to  Lieutenant  Young. 
He  led  it  for  five  days,  until  it  was  relieved  by  a  fresh  organi- 
zation. He  was  killed  in  action  in  the  Argonne  October  9, 191 8, 
while  leading  his  men  up  Hill  240.  He  was  struck  by  a  machine 
gun  bullet  and  died  instantly.  He  was  buried  with  military 
honors  in  the  American  Cemetery  near  Exermont,  France, 
about  half  a  mile  from  where  he  fell. 

Lieutenant  Young  was  unmarried.  He  is  survived  by  his 
parents  and  a  brother.  Among  his  Yale  relatives  were  Daniel 
Cady  Eaton  (B.A.  i860).  Mason  Young  (B.A.  i860),  and 
Mason  Young,  ex-gy. 


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Sidney  Alvord  Beardslee,  B.A.   191 7 

Born  December  20,  1893,  in  Hartford,  Conn. 
Died  November  23,  191 8,  in  Toul,  France 

Sidney  Alvord  Beardslee  was  born  December  20,  1893,  in 
Hartford,  Conn.,  the  son  of  Clark  Smith  Beardslee  (B.A. 
Amherst  1876,  M.A.  Amherst  1879,  D.D.  Berea  1898,  D.D. 
Amherst  19 10)  and  Emma  Gillette  (Alvord)  Beardslee. 
His  father,  who  was  professor,  first  of  Biblical  dogmatics  and 
ethics,  and  later  of  Biblical  homiletics,  in  the  Hartford 
Theological  Seminary,  was  the  son  of  Samuel  Augustus  and 
Lois  Diana  (Smith)  Beardslee,  of  Coventry,  N.  Y.;  he  traced 
his  ancestry  to  William  Beardsley,  who  came  to  America  from 
England  in  1635,  settling  in  Stratford,  Conn.  Emma  Gillette 
(Alvord)  Beardslee  was  the  daughter  of  Henry  and  Mary 
Williams  (Gillette)  Alvord,  of  Bolton,  Conn.;  a  granddaughter 
of  Saul  Alvord  (B.A.  1800);  and  a  descendant  of  Alexander 
Alvord,  who  came  to  America  from  England  and  settled  in 
Windsor,  Conn.,  before  1645. 

He  received  his  preparatory  training  at  the  Hartford  Pub- 
lic High  School,  and  entered  Yale  with  the  Class  of  191 6, 
holding  the  E.  C.  Jones  Scholarship.  He  left  during  Freshman 
year  because  of  illness,  but  returned  in  the  fall  as  a  member 
of  the  Class  of  1917.  He  was  granted  the  degree  of  B.A.,^oj/ 
obitunij  honoris  causa ,  in  June,  1919.  As  an  undergraduate  he 
was  actively  interested  in  boys'  club  work.  He  was  at  Toby- 
hanna  as  a  Corporal  in  the  Headquarters  Company  of  the 
Yale  Batteries  in  the  summer  of  191 6.  He  entered  the  Hart- 
ford Theological  Seminary  in  the  autumn  of  19 17,  and  from 
February  10,  191 8,  to  April  28,  191 8,  preached  at  the  South 
Congregational  Church  in  Granby,  Conn. 

He  was  drafted  April  30,  191 8,  and  sent  to  Fort  Slocum, 
New  York,  being  transferred  after  a  few  days  to  Camp  Mc- 
Clellan,  Alabama.  On  June  15,  191 8,  he  sailed  for  France 
with  Company  L,  114th  Infantry,  29th  Division.  After  his 
arrival  overseas  he  was  in  the  trenches  opposite  Miilhausen 
for  a  time,  and  then  for  a  month  was  attached  to  the  Bat- 
talion Intelligence  Section.  He  rejoined  his  company  at  the 
front  on  August  i,  but  a  month  later  was  sent  to  the  Officers' 


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Training  School  at  Langres,  where  he  was  given  his  com- 
mission as  a  Second  Lieutenant  as  of  October  31,  191 8.  He 
then  left  for  the  front,  assigned  to  Company  G  of  the  47th 
Infantry,  which  he  apparently  reached  two  or  three  days  be- 
fore the  armistice.  He  was  taken  sick  with  influenza,  prob- 
ably on  the  day  after  the  armistice,  and  was  removed  to  Red 
Cross  Base  Hospital  No.  82  at  Toul,  where  he  died,  of  pneu- 
monia, November  23,  1918.  He  was  buried  in  the  American 
Cemetery  about  two  miles  outside  of  Toul. 

Lieutenant  Beardslee  was  not  married.  His  mother  died  in 
1913  and  his  father  in  19 14.  He  is  survived  by  five  brothers 
and  two  sisters:  Rev.  Raymond  A.  Beardslee  (B.A.  1905); 
Rev.  Claude  G.  Beardslee  (B.A.  1909),  who  served  abroad  as 
a  Second  Lieutenant  in  the  Field  Artillery;  Rev.  Lyndon  S. 
Beardslee  (B.A.  Williams  191 2);  Mrs.  John  H.  Kingsbury, 
who  graduated  from  Mount  Holyoke  College  in  1914  and  is 
now  a  missionary  at  Bardezag,  Turkey;  Mrs.  James  H.  Potter, 
a  graduate  of  Mount  Holyoke  in  191 8  and  at  present  a  mis- 
sionary at  Vellore,  India;  Martin  B.  Beardslee,  a  non-grad- 
uate member  of  the  Amherst  Class  of  1921  and  a  former 
Private  in  the  Tank  Corps,  A.  E.  F.;  and  Clark  S.  Beardslee 
(B.A.  1920),  who  served  abroad  during  the  war  as  a  Second 
Lieutenant  of  Field  Artillery.  He  was  a  grandnephew  of  Rev. 
Ezra  H.  Gillett  (B.A.  1841)  and  a  cousin  of  George  B. 
Alvord  (B.A.  1895)  ^nd  Samuel  M.  Alvord  (B.A.  1896).  He 
was  a  member  of  the  Asylum  Hill  Congregational  Church  of 
Hartford. 

Louis  Bennett,  Jr.,  B.A.   1917 

Born  September  22,  1894,  in  Weston,  W.  Va. 
Died  August  24,  191 8,  in  Wavrin,  France 

Louis  Bennett,  Jr.,  was  the  only  son  of  Louis  and  Sallie 
(Maxwell)  Bennett  and  was  born  September  22,  1894,  in 
Weston,  W.  Va.  His  father,  whose  death  occurred  August  2, 
191 8,  was  a  prominent  lawyer  and  capitalist.  He  was  born  in 
Weston  in  1849,  ^^s  appointed  a  Midshipman  in  the  Confed- 
erate Navy  in  1 865,  and  received  the  degrees  of  B.A.  and  LL.B. 
at  the  University  of  Virginia  in  1870  and  1871,  respectively. 
After  serving  as  prosecuting  attorney  for  Lewis  County  from 


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1 88 1  to  1889,  he  was  elected  to  the  West  Virginia  House  of 
Delegates  in  1890,  being  speaker  the  next  year,  and  was  the 
Democratic  nominee  for  governor  of  the  state  in  1908.  He  was 
president  of  the  Lewis  County  Bank  and  the  Electric  Light 
Company  and  at  the  time  of  his  death  was  prominently  identi- 
fied with  many  leading  industries.  His  father,  Jonathan  M. 
Bennett,  whose  ancestors  came  from  Scotland  before  the  Revo- 
lution and  settled  in  Virginia,  was  also  a  well-known  lawyer. 
He  served  as  auditor  of  Virginia  and  after  the  Civil  War  was 
one  of  the  three  commissioners  to  pass  on  "the  Virginia  debt" 
question.  His  wife,  Margaret  Elizabeth  Jackson,  daughter  of 
Capt.  George  M.  Jackson,  a  soldier  in  the  War  of  18 12,  was  a 
near  relative  of  General  "Stonewall"  Jackson,  and  it  was 
through  her  husband's  influence  that  the  latter  received  his 
appointment  to  West  Point.  Sallie  Maxwell  Bennett,  who 
attended  Vassar  College,  is  the  daughter  of  James  Maxwell,  of 
Wheehng,  W.  Va.,  who  at  the  time  of  his  death  in  1885  was 
president  of  the  National  Bank  of  West  Virginia  and  of  the 
Board  of  Education,  and  had  many  other  interests.  In  his 
memory,  Mrs.  Maxwell  and  her  two  daughters  erected  and 
presented  the  first  Y.  M.  C.  A.  building  in  Wheeling. 

Louis  Bennett,  Jr.,  had  traveled  extensively  in  Europe  while 
still  a  school  boy.  He  was  fitted  for  college  at  the  Cutler  School 
in  New  York  City  and.  at  St.  Luke's  School,  Wayne,  Pa.  At 
Yale  he  received  a  Junior  second  colloquy  appointment.  He 
was  a  member  of  the  University  Wrestling  and  Lacrosse  teams, 
and  won  a  prize  for  wrestling  at  a  novice  meet  and  at  the  New 
England  Intercollegiate  meet.  He  also  participated  in  football, 
crew,  and  track. 

In  the  summer  of  191 6,  after  a  trip  West  with  his  father  to 
look  up  some  mining  interests,  being  already  interested  in 
aeronautics  and  a  member  of  the  Aero  Club  of  America,  he  en- 
rolled with  the  Burgess  Company  at  Marblehead,  Mass.,  only 
to  be  called  to  Tobyhanna,  Pa.,  to  join  Battery  C  of  the  Yale 
Batteries,  of  which  he  was  a  member.  He  obtained  a  leave  of 
absence  to  take  up  aviation  training  in  New  York,  but  just  as 
he  had  succeeded  in  securing  instruction  with  the  Rodman 
Wanamaker  group  on  Long  Island,  he  was  recalled  to  the 
Battery  to  be  mustered  out,  and  then  returned  to  college. 
During  his  Senior  year  he  kept  up  his  interest  in  aviation  and 


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had  a  small  plane  at  Yale.  When  the  United  States  entered  the 
war  in  the  spring  of  1917,  he  had  conceived  the  idea  of  raising 
an  aviation  corps  of  his  own  to  take  to  France,  and  at  once 
left  for  West  Virginia,  where  he  persuaded  his  father  to  finance 
the  scheme.  After  several  unsuccessful  attempts  to  see  the  Sec- 
etary  of  War,  he  went  to  the  governor  of  West  Virginia,  who 
t  once  saw  the  value  of  his  project,  commissioned  him  Cap- 
in,  and,  under  the  authority  of  the  State  Board  of  Defense, 
he  West  Virginia  Flying  Corps  was  organized.  Several  of  Mr. 
Bennett's  Yale  classmates  and  friends  joined  him,  he  secured 
land,  built  a  hangar,  secured  airplanes  and  instructors,  and  by 
June,  1917,  had  his  corps,  consisting  of  twenty- three  men  who 
had  passed  the  Government  tests,  in  training  and  living  under 
mihtary  regulations.  An  accident  to  his  plane  in  August  caused 
Princeton,  when  the  Government  had  just  closed  their  avia- 
tion school,  to  offer  to  sell  him  their  equipment.  He  bought  it 
all,  only  to  find  on  his  return  to  Wheeling  that  the  Govern- 
ment would  not  accept  his  corps  as  a  unit  to  go  to  France  on 
the  ground  that  it  would  not  be  feasible  to  recognize  state 
organizations  of  this  nature.  In  his  desire  to  see  early  active 
service,  after  making  arrangements  for  the  completion  of  the 
training  of  the  men  in  his  unit,  he  obtained  his  pilot's  license, 
as  well  as  a  "special  pilot's"  license,  went  to  Toronto,  and 
joined  the  Royal  Flying  Corps.  After  training  at  Camp  Bor- 
den, Ontario,  and  at  Fort  Worth,  Texas,  he  was  commissioned 
Second  Lieutenant,  and  in  January,  191 8,  sailed  for  England. 
In  March  he  was  promoted  to  First  Lieutenant  and  then  went 
to  Marshe  for  instruction  in  aerial  gunnery.  He  was  finally 
allowed  to  go  to  France  ahead  of  his  squadron,  and  in  July, 
191 8,  was  assigned  to  the  40th  Squadron,  Royal  Air  Force, 
an  organization  which  had  a  long  list  of  German  planes  to  its 
credit.  He  was  not  given  his  own  plane  until  about  August. 
Between  the  fifteenth  and  the  twenty-fourth  of  the  month  he 
brought  down  three  enemy  aeroplanes  and  nine  observation 
balloons,  four  of  these  in  one  day,  for  which  he  was  congratu- 
lated by  Major  General  Salmond  and  recommended  for  the 
Distinguished  Flying  Cross.  On  August  24,  191 8,  two  German 
observation  balloons  being  reported,  he  and  another  American 
aviator,  who,  however,  developed  engine  trouble  before  reach- 
ing the  German  lines  and  returned  to  the  aerodrome,  thus 

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leaving  Bennett  unprotected,  went  out  on  voluntary  patrol. 
Captain  Dixon,  the  flight  officer,  on  hearing  that  he  was  alone, 
at  once  ordered  out  his  own  machine  to  follow  him,  but  was 
too  late,  both  Lieutenant  Bennett's  machine  and  the  balloons 
having  disappeared.  Later,  word  was  received  from  the  front 
that  after  destroying  both  balloons  his  plane  had  last  been 
seen  going  down  in  flames.  In  September  a  German  prisoner 
reported  to  the  squadron  that  Lieutenant  Bennett  was  a  pris- 
oner of  war  with  a  broken  leg  and  other  injuries,  and  later 
conflicting  reports  of  his  death  were  received.  His  mother 
went  abroad  in  December,  191 8,  to  investigate  the  matter  and 
finally  was  given  permission  to  go  to  France.  She  finally  es- 
tablished the  fact  that  her  son  had  died  on  August  24  at  the 
field  hospital  at  Wavrin,  near  Lille,  not  far  from  where  he  had 
fallen,  and  where  he  is  buried.  Later  it  is  hoped  to  bring  his 
body  home  for  burial  beside  his  father  in  the  place  of  his  birth. 
Mrs.  Bennett  has  given  to  the  people  of  Wavrin  as  a  memorial 
a  church  to  be  used  as  a  community  center.  This  was  the  first 
church  completed  in  the  devastated  regions  of  France.  A  mon- 
ument reciting  the  deeds  of  "this  brave  soldier  who  gave  his 
life  for  France"  stands  at  the  door.  Sir  Douglas  Haig  espe- 
cially mentioned  the  bravery  of  Lieutenant  Bennett  in  his  dis- 
patches, and  Mrs.  Bennett  is  in  receipt  of  a  letter  expressing 
the  sympathy  of  the  King  and  Queen  of  England  in  her  loss. 
She  has  also  received  the  "preliminary  riband"  for  the  British 
Medal  of  Valor.  It  is  interesting  to  note  that  the  West  Aircraft 
Company,  which  had  large  Government  orders  during  the  war, 
as  well  as  several  flying  clubs,  were  started  largely  through  his 
efforts. 

He  was  unmarried.  His  mother  and  a  sister  survive  him. 
He  was  a  member  of  the  Episcopal  Church, 

Oliver  Baty  Cunningham,  B.A.   1917 

Born  September  17,  1894,  in  Chicago,  111. 
Died  September  17,  1918,  near  Thiaucourt,  France 

Oliver  Baty  Cunningham,  only  child  of  Frank  Simpson  and 
Lucy  Eleanor  (Baty)  Cunningham,  was  born  September  17, 
1894,  in  Chicago,  111.  His  father  is  president  of  the  firm  of 
Butler  Brothers,  dealers  in  wholesale  merchandise  in  that 


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city;  his  parents  were  Oliver  W.  Cunningham,  whose  ances- 
tors were  Scotch-Irish,  and  Bethia  A.  (Simpson)  Cunningham, 
who  was  of  English  descent.  His  mother  is  the  daughter  of 
Thomas  Baty,  who  was  of  English  parentage,  and  Sarah 
(Graham)  Baty. 

He  attended  grammar  schools  at  Riverside  and  Evanston, 
111.,   and  was  prepared   for  college   at  the  Howe  Military 

cademy  at  Howe,  Ind.,  and  The  Hill  School,  Pottstown,  Pa. 
In  college  he  received  honors  of  the  first  grade  Freshman  year 
and  philosophical  oration  appointments  both  Junior  and 
Senior  years.  He  won  the  Francis  Gordon  Brown  Memorial 
Prize  Junior  year,  and  was  elected  to  Phi  Beta  Kappa.  He 
was  a  member  of  the  Elizabethan  Club,  the  Sophomore  Ger- 
man Committee,  the  News  Board,  and  the  Student  Council, 
and  was  manager  of  the  Dramatic  Association. 

He  spent  the  summer  of  191 6  with  Battery  C  of  the  Yale 
Batteries,  at  Tobyhanna,  Pa.  On  May  15, 1917,  he  entered  the 
first  Officers'  Training  Camp  at  Fort  Sheridan,  Illinois,  where 
in  August  he  received  a  commission  as  a  Provisional  Second 
Lieutenant  in  the  Regular  Army.  On  August  29  he  was 
assigned  to  the  i6th  Field  Artillery  at  Camp  Robinson, 
Sparta,  Wis.,  and  about  November  i  was  transferred  to  the 
15th  Field  Artillery,  with  which  regiment  he  went  abroad  in 
December.  After  spending  three  months  at  the  Valdahon 
Training  Camp,  he  served  as  Regimental  Adjutant  and 
Operations  Officer  until  September  2,  191 8,  when,  at  his  own 
request,  he  was  transferred  to  Battery  D.  He  was  killed  on 
September  17  at  Thiaucourt,  while  acting  as  Liaison  Officer 
with  an  infantry  unit.  His  grave  lies  on  a  crossing  of  the  main 
road  leading  from  Thiaucourt  to  Regnieville.  He  had  been 
promoted  to  the  rank  of  First  Lieutenant  about  November 
15, 1917,  and  to  that  of  Captain  on  September  11,  191 8.  News 
of  the  latter  promotion  did  not  come  until  after  his  death. 
The  Distinguished  Service  Cross  has  been  awarded  to  him 
posthumously  "for  repeated  acts  of  extraordinary  heroism 
near  Ville-Montoire,  Chateau-Thierry,  and  St.  Mihiel, 
France,  July  21  to  September  17,  1918."  A  memorial  service 
in  honor  of  Captain  Cunningham  was  held  on  October  25, 
191 8,  in  St.  Mark's  Episcopal  Church,  Evanston,  of  which  he 
was  a  member.  He  left  five  hundred  dollars  to  the  Russell 


1090  YALE    COLLEGE 

Trust  Association  of  Yale  University  and  the  remainder  of 
his  property,  amounting  to  about  $1 1,500,  to  the  Yale  Alumni 
University  Fund.  His  father  has  established  a  fund  of  $40,000 
in  his  memory,  the  income  of  which  is  to  be  used  for  the  pres- 
ent for  the  publication  of  books  through  the  Yale  University 
Press  under  the  auspices  of  the  Elizabethan  Club.  Provision 
is  made  for  the  possible  use  of  the  fund  later  in  the  erection 
of  a  building  at  Yale  in  his  memory. 

He  was  unmarried.  His  parents  survive  him. 


Henry  Thomas  Donahoe,  B.A.  1917 

Born  September  26,  1894,  in  Anaconda,  Mont.  • 
Died  February  28,  19 19,  in  New  York  City- 
Henry  Thomas  Donahoe  was  born  September  26,  1894,  in 
Anaconda,  Mont.  His  father,  Michael  Donahoe,  who  was 
born  in  Cortland  County,  N.  Y.,  went  to  Butte,  Mont.,  in 
1886,  as  joint  agent  of  the  Northern  Pacific,  Union  Pacific, 
and  Montana  Union  railways.  In  1888  he  joined  the  Anaconda 
Copper  Mining  Company,  in  which  he  acted  as  vice  president 
and  assistant  general  manager  until  1900.  He  was  also  vice 
president  and  general  manager  of  the  Butte,  Anaconda  & 
Pacific  Railway  from  the  date  of  its  construction  in  1893  until 
T900,  when  he  moved  to  San  Francisco  to  look  after  his  per- 
sonal interests.  After  the  earthquake  of  1906,  he  moved  to 
Seattle,  Wash.,  continuing  to  live  there  until  his  death  in 
1 9 10.  In  1892  he  married  Anna  Meloy,  who  was  born  in 
ShuUsburg,  Wis.,  and  now  resides  in  Seattle. 

Their  son,  Henry  T.  Donahoe,  prepared  for  college  at  the 
Newman  School,  Hackensack,  N.  J.,  and  for  a  few  months  was 
a  member  of  the  Class  of  191 6  at  the  University  of  Washing- 
ton. He  entered  Yale  as  a  Freshman  in  1913.  He  had  a  second 
dispute  stand  both  Junior  and  Senior  years.  He  served  on  the 
1917  Class  Book  Committee,  and  was  interested  in  the  work 
of  the  Boys'  Club.  He  was  a  member  of  Battery  B,  loth 
Field  Artillery,  Connecticut  National  Guard,  going  to  Toby- 
hanna.  Pa.,  with  that  organization  in  1916.  He  later  joined 
the  Yale  Reserve  Officers'  Training  Corps. 
He  enlisted  as  a  Private,  First  Class,  in  the  Quartermaster 


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Corps,  October  9, 191 7,  in  Seattle,  having  previously  attended 
the  Officers'  Training  Camp  at  The  Presidio  of  San  Francisco 
from  May  15  to  August  15,  19*17.  He  was  made  a  Sergeant  in 
December  and  assigned  to  duty  as  a  drill  instructor  in  the 
48th  Receiving  Company  at  Camp  Joseph  E.  Johnston, 
Jacksonville,  Fla.  In  April,  191 8,  he  was  a  student  in  the 
Officers'  Training  Camp  there,  and  on  July  22,  191 8,  was 
[commissioned  a  Second  Lieutenant  in  the  Quartermaster 
Corps  and  assigned  to  duty  in  the  Office  of  the  Quartermaster- 
General  in  New  York  City.  He  first  acted  as  officer  in  charge 
of  the  Supplies  and  Transportation  Section,  being  appointed 
Property  Officer  when  the  office  was  converted  into  the  Office 
of  the  Director  of  Purchase  and  Storage.  He  was  promoted  to 
the  rank  of  First  Lieutenant  November  7,  191 8.  On  February 
20,  191 9,  he  received  his  honorable  discharge  from  the  Army. 
He  was  taken  ill  with  pneumonia  that  same  day  and  died 
eight  days  later,  on  February  28,  at  the  Hotel  Wolcott  in 
New  York  City.  Interment  was  in  Mount  Calvary  Cemetery 
in  Seattle. 

He  belonged  to  the  Roman  Catholic  Church.  He  was  not 
married.  He  is  survived  by  his  mother,  a  sister,  and  two 
brothers,  C.  W.  Donahoe,  Princeton  1917,  and  Walter  A. 
Donahoe,  a  member  of  the  Yale  Class  of  1923. 


Cleveland  Cady  Frost,  B.A.   1917 

Born  April  3,  1896,  in  Berea,  Ky. 
Died  September  30,  191 8,  at  sea 

Cleveland  Cady  Frost,  one  of  the  five  children  of  William 
Goodell  Frost  (B.A.  Oberlin  1876,  M.A.  Oberlin  1879,  Ph.D. 
University  of  Wooster  1891,  D.D.  Oberlin  1894  and  Harvard 
1907,  LL.D.  Oberlin  1908  and  Kentucky  State  University 
1915)  and  Eleanor  (Marsh)  Frost  (B.L.  Oberlin  1891),  was 
born  April  3,  1896,  in  Berea,  Ky.  His  father,  who  was  for 
twelve  years  professor  of  Greek  at  Oberlin  College,  retired  in 
1920  as  president  of  Berea  College,  an  office  which  he  had 
held  since  1891.  Dr.  Frost  is  the  son  of  Rev.  Lewis  P.  Frost, 
who  was  born  in  Riga,  N.  Y.,  and  graduated  from  Oberlin 
College  in  1848,  and  Maria  (Goodell)  Frost,  and  a  descendant 


lOpa  YALE    COLLEGE 

of  Deacon  Edmund  Frost,  who  came  to  New  England  in 
1635,  settling  at  Cambridge,  Mass.  Dr.  Frost's  mother  was 
the  granddaughter  of  Lieutenant  Zachariah  Goodell,  a  Revolu- 
tionary soldier  from  Connecticut.  Eleanor  Marsh  Frost  was 
the  daughter  of  Alexander  and  Susan  (Hay  ward)  Marsh.  She 
traced  her  descent  to  Alexander  Marsh,  who  settled  at 
Braintree,  Mass.,  in  1632,  having  come  to  America  from 
England,  and  to  Rev.  John  Wilson,  who  came  to  Boston  with 
Governor  Winthrop  in  1630. 

He  received  his  preparatory  training  at  the  Berea  Academy 
and  at  the  Taft  School,  Watertown,  Conn.,  and  was  a  member 
of  the  Class  of  1916  at  Berea  College  before  entering  Yale  as 
a  Sophomore  in  1914.  His  appointments  were  orations.  He 
did  some  religious  work  in  the  Yale  Hope  Mission.  He  was  a 
Private  in  Battery  B,  loth  Field  Artillery,  Connecticut 
National  Guard,  and  served  at  Tobyhanna,  Pa.,  in  the 
summer  of  191 6. 

He  left  college  May  8,  1917,  to  enter  the  first  Training 
Camp  at  Fort  Benjamin  Harrison,  Indiana.  He  was  dis- 
charged July  2  on  account  of  physical  disability,  and  was 
operated  on  a  week  later  at  Battle  Creek,  Mich.  On  August 
27,  1917,  he  entered  the  second  Training  Camp  at  Fort 
Benjamin  Harrison,  and  three  months  later  was  commissioned 
a  First  Lieutenant  of  Field  Artillery.  He  reported  for  duty 
with  the  89th  Division  at  Camp  Funston,  Kansas,  on  De- 
cember 15,  and  was  attached  to  the  341st  Field  Artillery, 
pending  the  arrival  of  the  new  draft,  as  an  instructor  in  the 
School  of  Fire.  In  the  summer  of  191 8  he  was  assigned  as  an 
instructor  in  the  Yale  Reserve  Officers'  Training  Corps,  and 
in  August  went  with  members  of  that  organization  to  the 
Field  Artillery  Replacement  Depot  at  Camp  Jackson,  South 
Carolina,  as  Battalion  Commander  of  the  ist  Provisional 
R.  O.  T.  C.  Battery.  He  embarked  on  September  19  from 
Norfolk  on  the  T'iconderoga,  a  heavily  loaded  freighter, 
having  one  hundred  and  twenty-five  men  of  the  4th  Battery 
and  the  4th  Regiment,  S.  A.  R.  D.,  under  his  command.  The 
ship  left  New  York  Harbor  on  September  22.  She  was  com- 
pelled to  drop  behind  the  convoy  because  of  defective  engines, 
and  on  September  30  was  torpedoed  by  a  submarine,  1700 
miles  from  shore.  Only  three  officers  and  fourteen  soldiers 


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1917  I093 

were  saved.  One  of  the  first  shots  killed  Lieutenant  Frost, 
who  was  standing  on  the  captain's  bridge.  The  captain  of  the 
vessel  was  severely  wounded,  but  was  one  of  the  eight  naval 
men  who  finally  survived.  Lieutenant  Frost  probably  died  at 
once,  as  his  dead  body  was  seen  by  some  of  the  survivors 
before  they  left  the  vessel. 

He  spent  the  year  of  1909-19 10  in  Europe  with  his  family. 
He  had  done  much  exploring  work  in  the  mountain  region  of 
Kentucky,  and  contributed  an  article  to  the  Outlook  of  April, 
19 17,  on  "Traveling  on  Horseback  in  the  Kentucky  Moun- 
tains." He  was  planning  to  become  a  special  aid  to  his  father 
in  the  educational  projects  of  Berea.  He  belonged  to  the 
Berea  Union  Church. 

He  was  not  married.  His  parents,  three  brothers,  and  a 
sister  survive  him. 


Roswell  Hayes  Fuller,  B.A.  19 17 

Born  December  16,  1894,  in  Winnetka,  111. 
Died  September  29,  191 8,  near  Verdun,  France 

Roswell  Hayes  Fuller  was  born  December  16,  1894,  in 
Winnetka,  111.,  his  parents  being  Frank  Revilo  and  Laura 
(Hayes)  Fuller.  His  father,  who  was  vice  president  of  Ful- 
ler, Morrison  &  Company,  wholesale  druggists,  in  Chicago, 
was  the  son  of  Oliver  Franklin  and  Phebe  Ann  (Shipley) 
Fuller.  He  died  December  6,  191 5.  His  first  American  ancestor 
was  Edward  Fuller  who  came  to  America  in  the  Mayflower. 
Mrs.  Fuller  is  the  daughter  of  Samuel  Snowden  Hayes,  who 
planned  the  park  system  of  Chicago,  was  city  comptroller, 
and  wrote  the  1848  Constitution  of  Illinois,  and  Elizabeth  J. 
(Taylor)  Hayes.  She  traces  her  ancestry  to  George  Hayes,  of 
Windsor,  Conn.,  who  came  to  America  from  England  in 
174 — .  Roswell  Fuller  was  also  descended  from  Samuel 
Finley,  one  of  the  first  presidents  of  Princeton ;  Isaac  Snowden, 
one  of  the  founders  of  Philadelphia;  Sidney  Breese,  of  New 
Haven,  who  was  one  of  the  group  who  demanded  the  keys 
to  the  powder  house  to  go  to  the  relief  of  Lexington;  Oliver 
Fuller  (B.A.  1762),  Rev.  Joel  Hayes  (B.A.  1773),  and  Samuel 
Sidney  Breese  (Honorary  B,A.  1789),  all  of  whom  served  in 


I094  YALE    COLLEGE 

the  Revolution;  Samuel  F.  B.  Morse  (B.A.  1810);  and  Edward 
E.  Salisbury  (B.A.  1832). 

He  received  his  preparatory  training  at  the  New  Grier 
High  School  at  Winnetka,  the  Chicago  Latin  School,  the 
Interlaken  School,  and  at  Phillips-Andover.  He  was  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Apollo  and  the  University  Banjo  and  Mandolin 
clubs  and  of  the  University  Golf  Team.  He  played  football 
while  in  college. 

He  left  college  April  17,  19 17,  to  enlist  in  the  Naval  Avia- 
tion Forces.  Two  months  later,  after  serving  on  a  training 
ship  in  the  Hudson  River  and  undergoing  training  at  Bay 
Shore,  Long  Island,  he  secured  his  discharge  from  the  Navy 
and  entered  the  Army  Aviation  Service.  He  received  his 
ground  school  training  at  Champaign,  111.,  and  his  flying 
instruction  at  the  Wilbur  Wright  Field,  Dayton,  Ohio,  and 
in  November,  1917,  was  commissioned  a  First  Lieutenant  in 
the  Aviation  Section,  Signal  Reserve  Corps.  He  was  then 
attached  to  the  20th  Aero  Squadron,  serving  first  as  Assistant 
Supply  Officer  and  later  as  Adjutant  of  the  4th  Provisional 
Wing  at  Garden  City,  N.  Y.  He  was  sent  abroad  in  Decem- 
ber, and  after  spending  several  months  in  England  and 
Scotland,  as  Adjutant  of  the  4th  Wing  of  the  Provisional 
Army,  was  made  instructor  in  acrobatic  flying  at  Issoudun, 
France,  where  he  served  six  months.  He  went  to  the  front  in 
July,  191 8,  and  served  with  the  ist  Pursuit  Group  of  the 
93d  Aero  Squadron  through  the  St.  Mihiel  drive,  afterwards 
being  sent  to  Vaucouleurs,  near  Verdun.  On  September  29, 
the  day  before  the  Argonne-Meuse  attack,  it  became  neces- 
sary for  the  American  command  to  know  by  which  of  two 
roads  the  Germans  were  coming  out  of  Metz.  Lieutenant 
Fuller  and  another  aviator  volunteered  to  secure  the  in- 
formation and  made  the  journey  of  nearly  one  hundred  miles 
over  enemy  territory.  They  were  successful  in  obtaining  the 
information,  and  when  they  were  attacked  both  from  the  air 
and  the  ground  Lieutenant  Fuller  gave  his  companion  a 
signal  to  fly  for  France  with  the  news,  and  he  himself  engaged 
the  entire  formation.  When  last  seen  he  was  circling  in  a  duel 
with  three  enemy  planes,  with  others  coming  to  the  attack. 
It  was  at  first  reported  that  he  had  been  taken  prisoner,  but 
it  was  later  learned  that  he  had  been  killed,  and  buried  with 


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1917  I095 

full  military  honors  by  the  Germans  in  the  cemetery  at 
Brandeville.  He  was  officially  credited  with  two  enemy 
planes  on  the  day  on  which  he  lost  his  life.  Memorial  services 
were  held  in  Christ  Church,  Winnetka,  on  December  22, 
1918. 
He  was  unmarried.  His  mother  and  a  sister  survive  him. 


John  McHenry,  Jr.,  B.A.  1917 

Born  November  3,  1895,  i"  Pikesville,  Md. 
Died  October  3,  191 8,  near  Somme-Py,  France 

John  McHenry,  Jr.,  was  born  November  3,  1895,  ^^  Pikes- 
ville, Md.  His  father,  John  McHenry,  graduated  from  Yale 
in  1885,  since  which  time  he  has  been  connected  with  the 
Mercantile  Trust  &  Deposit  Company  in  Baltimore,  Md. 
He  has  been  treasurer  of  the  company  for  a  number  of  years. 
His  parents  were  James  Howard  McHenry  (B.A.  Princeton 
1840)  and  Sarah  Nicholas  (Cary)  McHenry.  His  first  ancestor 
in  this  country  was  Daniel  McHenry  (1725-1783),  who 
emigrated  to  Maryland  in  1772  from  Ballymena,  County 
Antrim,  Ireland.  Daniel  McHenry's  older  son,  James  (1752- 
1803),  was  secretary  to  Washington  ahd  aide  to  Lafayette 
during  the  Revolutionary  War,  a  member  of  the  Constitu- 
tional Convention  of  1787,  and  Secretary  of  War  from  1796 
to  1800.  James  Howard  McHenry,  who  was  a  grandson  of 
James  McHenry,  spent  his  life  as  a  gentleman  farmer  on  his 
estate  in  Baltimore  County.  His  wife  was  a  grandniece  of 
Thomas  Jefferson,  and  a  direct  descendant  of  Miles  Cary, 
who  came  from  England  to  Warwick  County,  Va.,  in  1640. 
The  mother  of  John  McHenry,  Jr.,  is  Priscilla  Pinkey 
(Stewart)  McHenry,  daughter  of  Charles  Morton  Stewart,  a 
banker  and  commission  merchant,  whose  fleet  of  sailing 
vessels  brought  coffee  from  South  America  for  over  forty 
years.  He  was  president  of  the  board  of  trustees  of  Johns 
Hopkins  University  and  the  hospital  connected  with  it  for 
many  years  previous  to  his  death  in  1900.  His  father,  David 
Stewart,  was  a  graduate  of  Union  College  in  18 19  and  a 
U.  S.  Senator.  Among  the  ancestors  of  Josephine  (Lurman) 
Stewart,  the  maternal  grandmother  of  John  McHenry,  Jr., 


1096  YALE    COLLEGE 

were  Col.  John  Custis,  of  Arlington,  Va.,  brother-in-law  of 
Mrs.  Washington,  and  Governor  Yardley,  Colonial  governor 
of  Virginia.  Her  cousin,  John  Donnell  Smith,  born  in  1830,  is 
one  of  the  oldest  living  Yale  graduates  and  a  botanist  of 
international  reputation. 

He  entered  Yale  from  Marston's  University  School  for  Boys 
at  Baltimore.  He  spent  his  summers  for  six  years,  before  and 
after  entering  Yale,  first  as  one  of  the  boys  and  then  for  two 
years  as  a  counsellor,  at  Camp  Pasquaney,Bridgewater,N.H., 
a  camp  conducted  by  Edward  S.  Wilson,  '85  S.  In  college 
he  rowed  on  the  Class  Crew  Sophomore  and  Junior  years. 

He  left  Yale  in  April,  1917,  to  join  the  U.  S.  Naval  Reserve 
Force,  and  served  for  a  month  on  board  the  Kanawha,  a 
converted  yacht.  In  June,  1917,  he  was  commissioned  a 
Second  Lieutenant  in  the  U.  S.  Marine  Corps  and  was  sent 
to  the  Officers'  Training  School  at  Quantico,  Va.,  being 
assigned  to  the  Mobile  Artillery  Force,  loth  Regiment.  In 
May,  191 8,  at  his  own  request,  he  was  transferred  to  a  re- 
placement battalion  with  which  he  went  abroad  later  in  the 
month.  He  immediately  joined  the  6th  Marines,  and  was  in 
the  fighting  in  Belleau  Woods  during  June  and  July,  being 
wounded  in  the  second  battle  of  the  Marne,  July  19,  1918. 
He  was  taken  to  the  American  Red  Cross  Hospital  No.  i  at 
Neuilly,  where  he  remained  for  some  time,  being  ordered  to 
Biarritz  for  convalescence.  On  September  27,  191 8,  he  re- 
joined his  command  as  First  Lieutenant,  to  which  rank 
he  had  been  promoted  on  July  i.  He  was  killed  instantly  on 
October  3,  while  leading  his  platoon  in  an  attack  on  Blanc 
Mont  Ridge,  near  Somme-Py,  and  was  buried  where  he  fell. 
His  body  has  now  been  removed  to  Romagne  Cemetery. 

He  was  unmarried.  His  parents,  two  sisters,  and  a  brother, 
James  McHenry  (B.A.  1920),  survive  him.  Among  his  Yale 
relatives  are:  Wilson  Cary  McHenry  (B.A.  1880),  Fairfax 
Harrison  (B.A.  1890),  Francis  Burton  Harrison  (B.A.  1895), 
Archibald  C.  Harrison  (B.A.  1898),  James  H.  McHenry 
(B.A.  1914),  Charles  M.  Stewart  (B.A.  1917),  Gustav  L. 
Stewart,  Jr.,  a  non-graduate  member  of  the  Class  of  1920, 
and  John  Stewart,  a  member  of  the  Class  of  1921, 


1917  1097 

Jarvis  Jenness  OfFutt,  B.A.  1917 

Born  October  26,  1894,  in  Omaha,  Nebr. 
Died  August  13,  191 8,  in  Valheureux,  France 

Jarvis  Jenness  Offutt  was  the  son  of  Charles  and  Bertha 
(Yost)  Offutt,  and  was  born  October  26,  1894,  in  Omaha, 
Nebr.  His  father,  who  was  a  graduate  of  Georgetown  College, 
Ky.,  in  the  Class  of  1874,  was  a  lawyer  by  profession.  He 
served  two  terms  in  the  Legislature  of  Kentucky,  and  was 
twice  elected  Speaker  of  the  House.  In  1888  he  moved  to 
Omaha,  where  he  continued  the  practice  of  law  until  his  death 
in  1898.  Charles  Offutt's  parents  were  Charles  Lemuel  and 
Aga  (Jarvis)  Offutt.  His  wife  is  the  daughter  of  Caspar  Enoch 
and  Anna  Marietta  (Jenness)  Yost.  Her  father,  who  gradu- 
ated from  the  University  of  Michigan  with  the  degree  of  LL.B. 
in  1863,  has  been  for  a  long  time  president  of  the  northwestern 
group  of  the  American  Telephone  &  Telegraph  Company. 
An  ancestor  of  the  same  name  was  commissioned  a  Major  in 
October,  1776,  and  saw  active  service  on  the  Delaware,  par- 
ticipating in  the  battles  of  Princeton  and  Trenton.  On  the 
maternal  side  an  ancestor  was  Richard  Treat,  who  served  the 
state  of  Connecticut  as  deputy  (i  644-1 657)  and  as  magistrate 
(1657-1665)  and  was  a  member  of  Governor  Winthrop's 
Council  during  1663-64.  Mrs.  Offutt  is  also  descended  from 
Robert  Sedgwick,  who  came  from  England  in  1624  and  settled 
in  Boston,  Mass.,  where  he  became  captain  of  the  Artillery 
Company,  and  who  at  the  time  of  his  death  was  governor  of 
the  island  of  Jamaica. 

He  received  his  preparatory  training  at  the  Central  High 
School  in  Omaha,  the  Lawrenceville  (N.  J.)  School,  and  the 
Chateau  de  Lancy  in  Geneva,  Switzerland.  His  appointments 
were  a  Junior  high  oration  and  a  Senior  dissertation,  and  he 
was  elected  to  Phi  Beta  Kappa.  He  was  a  member  of  the 
Freshman  and  University  Track  teams,  and  won  his  "Y"  in 
his  Junior  year.  He  belonged  to  the  Apollo  and  University 
Banjo  and  Mandolin  clubs.  In  the  summer  of  1916  he  served 
as  Supply  Sergeant  in  Battery  B  of  the  Yale  Batteries  at 
Tobyhanna,  Pa. 

He  entered  the  Officers'  Training  Camp  at  Fort  Snelling, 


1098  YALE    COLLEGE 

Minnesota,  in  May,  I9i7,and  a  month  later  was  transferred  to 
the  Air  Service,  being  one  of  three  hundred  men  sent  from  the 
United  States  to  Camp  Borden,  Ontario,  to  undergo  training 
with  the  Canadian  Royal  Flying  Corps.  He  later  went  with 
them  to  Camp  Hicks,  Fort  Worth,  Texas,  where  he  was  com- 
missioned on  November  8,  1917,  as  a  First  Lieutenant  in  the 
Aviation  Section,  Signal  Corps.  From  October,  1917,  to 
January,  191 8,  he  was  a  member  of  the  22d  Aero  Squadron. 
In  January,  191 8,  he  went  to  England  to  complete  his  training 
at  Waddington  and  Marske-by-the-Sea,  after  which  he  was 
assigned  to  special  duty  as  ferry  pilot  in  the  Royal  Air  Force, 
taking  new  machines  across  the  channel  to  France,  and  re- 
turning with  old  ones  for  repair.  At  his  own  request,  he  was 
ordered  to  the  front  late  in  July.  He  was  in  an  airplane  acci- 
dent on  August  13,  and  was  taken  to  the  British  Officers' 
Military  Hospital  near  Valheureux,  where  his  death  occurred 
the  same  day.  He  was  buried  in  the  British  Cemetery  at 
Bagneux,  just  outside  of  Gezaincourt,  France,  and  his  body 
was  later  removed  to  the  U.  S.  Military  Cemetery  at  Vaux- 
sur-Somme,  near  Amiens.  At  the  time  of  his  death  he  was 
serving  with  the  56th  Squadron,  Royal  Air  Force. 

Lieutenant  Offutt  was  not  married.  He  is  survived  by  his 
mother,  a  sister,  and  a  brother,  Caspar  Y.  Offutt  (B.A.  191 5). 


John  Williams  Overton,  B.A.  1917 

Born  October  10,  1894,  in  Nashville,  Tenn. 
Died  July  19,  191 8,  at  Vierzy,  France 

John  Williams  Overton,  son  of  Jesse  Maxwell  Overton 
(B.A.  Harvard  1886)  and  Saidee  (Williams)  Overton,  was 
born  October  10,  1894,  in  Nashville,  Tenn.  His  father,  who  is 
president  of  the  Alabama  Fuel  &  Iron  Company,  of  Birming- 
ham, Ala.,  is  the  son  of  John  and  Harriet  (Maxwell)  Overton, 
and  a  descendant  of  General  William  Overton,  who  was  a 
"Roundhead"  and  in  command  of  the  city  of  Hull,  when 
General  Monk  became  reconciled  to  Charles  II  in  1660.  He 
refused  to  surrender  the  city,  and  died  soon  after  the  Restora- 
tion (in  prison?).  His  son,  William,  being  of  the  same  party 
^s  his  father,  escaped  to  Virginia  in  1661.  The  first  American 


1917  I099 

ancestor  of  Harriet  Maxwell  Overton  was  William  Claiborne, 
who  came  from  England  about  1625  and  settled  in  Virginia, 
becoming  first  governor  of  the  Colony.  John  Williams  Over- 
ton's maternal  grandparents  were  John  Philip  and  Elizabeth 
(Cheney)  Williams,  and  his  first  American  ancestor  on  his 
mother's  side  was  Col.  George  Read,  who  came  from  England 
to  Virginia  in  1635  ^^^  ^^^  ^^^  °^  ^^^  early  treasurers  of  the 
Colony.  Elizabeth  Cheney  Williams  was  descended  from  Miles 
Morgan,  who  landed  in  Boston  from  England  in  1636. 

He  was  fitted  for  college  at  the  University  School  in  Nash- 
ville and  at  The  Hill  School,  Pottstown,  Pa.  In  college  he 
contributed  to  the  News,  the  Record,  and  the  Eli  Book.  He 
was  a  member  of  the  Freshman  Track  Team,  and  later  be- 
came captain  of  the  University  Track  and  Cross  Country 
teams.  He  won  the  Intercollegiate  Cross  Country  Champion- 
ship in  191 5  and  191 6  and  the  National  1000-yard  Champion- 
ship in  1916.  He  won  his  numerals  and  a  "  Y."  In  the  summer 
of  191 6  he  was  a  member  of  the  Headquarters  Company  of 
the  Yale  Batteries  at  Tobyhanna. 

He  was  given  a  commission  as  a  Second  Lieutenant  in  the 
U.  S.  Marine  Corps  at  the  Brooklyn  Navy  Yard  on  May  21, 
1917,  and  a  month  later  was  called  into  active  service  at 
Winthrop,  Md.  He  entered  the  Marine  Officers'  School  at 
Quantico,  Va.,  on  July  20,  and  was  graduated  there  on  Octo- 
ber 20.  Within  a  few  weeks  he  was  assigned  to  the  119th 
Company,  ist  Replacement  Battalion,  with  which  he  sailed 
for  France  early  in  February.  He  was  on  duty  at  the  Marine 
Training  Area  at  Chatillon-sur-Cher  during  March  and  April, 
and  then  took  the  course  at  the  ist  Army  Corps  School  at 
Gondrecourt,  from  which  he  was  graduated  on  June  i.  He 
was  ordered  to  report  to  the  42d  French  Chasseurs  in  the 
Vosges  sector  for  observation  work  and  spent  ten  days  there. 
He  was  then,  at  his  own  request,  transferred  to  the  front  and 
on  June  14  was  assigned  to  the  80th  Company,  6th  Regiment 
of  Marines.  From  that  time  until  July  1 1  he  was  in  active 
service  at  Belleau  Wood  and  around  Chateau-Thierry.  On 
July  16  he  was  ordered  with  his  regiment  to  Soissons,  where  he 
participated  in  the  second  battle  of  the  Marne.  On  July  19, 
while  leading  the  80th  Company  in  the  attack  east  of  Vierzy,  a 
fragment  of  high  explosive  shell  struck  him  in  the  heart,  caus- 


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ing  instant  death.  He  was  buried  on  the  field  where  he  fell, 
but  after  the  armistice  his  body  was  removed  to  a  cemetery 
near  Parcy-et-Tigny,  and  afterwards  to  the  American  Ceme- 
tery at  Plaiser,  France.  He  was  promoted  to  the  rank  of  First 
Lieutenant  on  July  i ,  but  the  notification  came  after  his  death. 
The  Distinguished  Service  Cross  has  been  posthumously 
awarded  to  him.  On  March  13,  1919,  a  tree  was  dedicated  on 
the  campus  of  Robertson  Academy,  Nashville,  to  the  memory 
of  Lieutenant  Overton.  The  services  were  conducted  by  the 
pastor  of  the  Glen  Leven  Presbyterian  Church,  of  which  he 
was  a  member. 

He  was  unmarried.  His  parents  and  two  sisters  survive  him. 
Among  his  Yale  relatives  are  Calvin  M.  McClung  (Ph.B. 
1876),  Robert  G.  McClung  (B.A.  1891),  Lee  McClung  (B.A. 
1892),  Henry  Dickinson  (Ph.B.  1905),  and  Jacob  M.  Dickin- 
son, Jr.  (B.A.  1912). 


John  Francisco  Richards,  II,  B.A.  1917 

Born  July  31,  1894,  in  Kansas  City,  Mo. 
Died  September  26,  191 8,  near  Varennes,  France 

John  Francisco  Richards,  II,  was  the  son  of  George 
Blackwell  Richards  (B.L.  Cornell  1887)  and  Belle  (Hastings) 
Richards,  and  was  born  July  31,  1894,  in  Kansas  City,  Mo. 
His  father,  who  is  vice  president  of  the  Richards  &  Conover 
Hardware  Company,  is  the  son  of  John  F.  and  Martha 
(Harrilson)  Richards.  His  first  American  ancestor  was  Wil- 
liam Bird  Richards,  who  came  from  England  to  Virginia  prior 
to  1750.  Belle  Hastings  Richards  is  the  daughter  of  Stew- 
art and  Annie  (Courtenay)  Hastings,  and  a  descendant 
of  Thomas  Hastings,  who  was  descended  from  the  Earl 
of  Huntingdon  and  who  left  England  in  1634  because  of 
religious  persecution  and  settled  in  New  England,  and  of 
Humphrey  Courtenay,  of  London,  who  came  to  Boston  in 
1825. 

He  entered  Yale  from  the  Hotchkiss  School,  Lakeville, 
Conn.  He  received  a  Junior  second  colloquy  and  a  Senior 
first  colloquy  appointment.  He  was  manager  of  the  Freshman 
Musical  Association,  a  member  of  the  University  Wrestling 


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Team,  and  circulation  manager  of  the  Record.  He  also  went 
out  for  track,  winning  third  place  in  the  fall  track  meet  of 

He  enlisted  in  the  Aviation  Section,  Signal  Corps,  May  22, 

1917,  and  began  a  course  of  training  at  the  Ground  School  at 
the  University  of  Texas.  After  eight  weeks  he  was  sent  to  the 
flying  field  at  Rantoul,  111.,  but  two  days  later  was  ordered 
abroad.  He  arrived  in  France  on  August  15,  and  after  receiv- 
ing his  flying  training  at  Tours,  Avord,  and  Issoudun,  was, 
on  November  28,  given  his  commission  as  a  First  Lieutenant. 
In  January,  1918,  he  was  assigned  to  the  ist  Aero  Squadron, 
which  was  on  the  Toul  front  during  the  winter  and  spring  of 
that  year.  He  went  through  the  St.  Mihiel  drive  in  September, 

191 8,  and  was  killed  September  26,  191 8,  while  on  an  artillery 
surveillance  mission  in  the  Argonne  Forest.  The  report  of  his 
death  was  not  confirmed  for  a  number  of  weeks,  and  for  a 
time  it  was  believed  that  he  was  either  a  prisoner  or  wounded. 
He  was  buried  near  Varennes,  France,  not  far  from  where  he 
fell.  A  memorial  service  for  Lieutenant  Richards  was  held  in 
St.  Paul's  Church,  Kansas  City,  December  29,  191 8.  He  was 
a  nephew  of  Brigadier  General  William  S.  Scott,  commander 
of  the  Port  of  Bordeaux. 

Lieutenant  Richards  was  unmarried.  He  is  survived  by  his 
parents,  a  sister,  Mrs.  Charles  N.  Seidlitz,  and  a  brother, 
Stewart  Hastings  Richards,  a  member  of  the  Class  of  1921  S. 


Russell  Slocum,  B.A.  1917 

Born  October  31,  1895,  in  Poughquag,  N.  Y. 
Died  January  25,  1919,  in  Columbia,  S.  C. 

Russell  Slocum,  son  of  Charles  H.  and  Ella  Mary  (Odell) 
Slocum,  was  born  October  31,  1895,  ^^  Poughquag,  N.  Y. 
His  father,  who  is  treasurer  of  Dutchess  County,  N.  Y.,  is  the 
son  of  Hiram  and  Mary  (Olivett)  Slocum,  and  a  descendant  of 
Ruscum  Slocum,  a  wealthy  Southern  planter  who  came  to 
America  from  England.  His  mother  is  the  daughter  of  George 
and  Annie  (Burtels)  Odell.  Her  ancestors  were  early  settlers 
in  Concord,  Mass. 

He  was  fitted  for  college  at  the  Riverview  Military  Acad- 


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emy  in  Poughkeepsle,  N.  Y.  He  received  a  Junior  second 
colloquy  and  a  Senior  second  dispute  appointment. 

He  entered  the  Officers'  Training  Camp  at  Madison  Bar- 
racks on  May  12,  1917,  and  three  months  later  was  given  a 
commission  as  Second  Lieutenant  in  the  Regular  Army.  He 
was  then  assigned  to  Company  M,  48th  Infantry,  at  New- 
port News,  Va.  On  October  26,  1917,  while  stationed  at  Lee 
Hall,  Va.,  he  was  promoted  to  a  First  Lieutenancy.  While 
there  he  served  also  as  an  officer  of  the  Summary  Court.  In 
September,  191 8,  he  was  transferred  to  Camp  Sevier,  South 
Carolina,  with  his  regiment  and  three  months  later  to  Camp 
Jackson,  Columbia,  S.  C,  where  he  died,  of  pneumonia, 
January  25,  1919.  He  was  buried  in  the  Methodist  Episcopal 
Cemetery  in  his  native  town. 

Lieutenant  Slocum  was  unmarried.  He  is  survived  by  his 
parents  and  a  sister,  Mrs.  R.  C.  Mann,  of  Pawling,  N.  Y. 


William  Noble  Wallace,  B.A.   1917 

Born  January  13,  1895,  in  Indianapolis,  Ind. 
Died  October  9,  191 8,  near  St.  Etienne,  France 

William  Noble  Wallace  was  born  January  13,  1895,  in 
Indianapolis,  Ind.,  the  son  of  Henry  Lane  and  Margaret 
(Noble)  Wallace.  His  father,  who  graduated  from  Wabash 
College  with  the  degree  of  B.S.  in  1874,  has  retired  from  bus- 
iness. His  grandparents  were  General  Lew  Wallace,  the  noted 
Mexican  and  Civil  War  soldier,  and  well-known  author,  and 
Susan  Akin  (Elston)  Wallace.  He  was  a  descendant  of  Peter 
Wallace,  Sr.,  whose  widow,  Elizabeth,  a  Scotch  Highlander, 
came  to  America  from  County  Meath,  Ireland,  in  1724,  and 
settled  in  Lancaster  County,  Pa.,  moving  to  Rockbridge,  Va., 
in  1739.  His  mother  is  the  daughter  of  William  H.  L.  and 
Anna  (McCord)  Noble.  Her  first  American  ancestor  was 
General  (then  Ensign)  Arthur  St.  Clair,  who  came  from 
Scotland  with  Admiral  Boscawen  in  1758,  and,  after  serving 
with  General  Wolf  at  Quebec,  settled  in  Boston,  later  moving 
to  Ligoner  Valley,  Pa. 

William  Noble  Wallace  received  his  preparatory  training 
At  The  Hill  School,  Pottstown,  Pa.,  and  entered  Yale  Uni- 


1917  II03 

versity  in  19 13.  He  was  a  member  of  the  University  Wrestling 
Team  for  two  years.  From  June  to  December,  191 6,  he  served 
in  the  vicinity  of  Verdun  with  the  American  Field  Ambulance, 
Section  Sanitaire  No.  i.  He  then  returned  to  New  Haven,  and 
completed  his  college  course,  receiving  his  degree  with  his 
Class. 

Immediately  after  graduating,  he  enlisted  in  the  U.  S. 
Marine  Corps,  receiving  the  commission  of  Second  Lieutenant 
in  the  Marine  Reserve  on  July  5,  1917.  On  August  27, 1917,  he 
was  commissioned  a  Second  Lieutenant  in  the  Regular  Ma- 
rines and  assigned  to  the  34th  Company,  3d  Battalion,  at 
Quantico,  Va.  He  then  spent  three  months  in  the  Officers' 
Training  Camp  at  that  station.  He  was  graduated  on  Novem- 
ber 2,  1 9 17,  and  assigned  to  the  34th  Company,  ist  Replace- 
ment Battalion.  On  February  10,  191 8,  he  embarked  on 
the  U.  S.  S.  VonStuben.  Throughout  the  voyage  he  was 
on  the  "depth  bomb"  watch,  entitling  him  to  the  Navy 
Campaign  Medal  Ribbon.  His  organization  landed  at  Brest, 
France,  and  immediately  moved  to  a  training  area.  He  was 
graduated  from  the  French  school  at  Meusne  in  March,  and 
was  then  sent  to  the  ist  Army  Corps  School  at  Gondrecourt, 
from  which  he  was  graduated  at  the  head  of  his  class  in  April, 
this  distinction  entitling  him  to  ten  days  at  the  front  with  a 
French  division.  When  he  returned  to  his  organization,  he  was 
assigned  as  Adjutant  on  the  staff  of  Major  R.  P.  Williams, 
13d  Replacement  Battalion,  and  served  in  that  capacity  from 
(June  3  to  June  11,  191 8.  On  that  date  he  was  transferred  to 
.the  83d  Company,  6th  Regiment.  He  was  in  the  battles  of 
Chateau-Thierry  and  Belleau  Woods.  On  July  19,  while 
[leading  his  men  in  the  attack  before  Vierzy  (the  preliminary 
[advance  on  Soissons),  he  was  wounded  by  shrapnel.  He  was 
sent  to  Base  Hospital  No.  43,  and  rejoined  his  regiment 
October  7.  On  October  9  he  was  killed  in  action  by  a  high 
explosive  shell  near  St.  Etienne.  In  his  last  battle  he  was 
Battalion  Scout  Officer;  his  company  had  been  ordered  to 
retire  for  replacement  but,  owing  to  his  indifference  to  high 
explosive  fire,  he  was  ordered  to  remain  and  sketch  the  front 
line.  He  had  accomplished  his  mission  and  was  returning  to 
Battalion  Headquarters  when  struck.  It  is  expected  that  his 
remains  will  be  brought  back  to  the  United  States  for  burial 

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in  Oak  Hill  Cemetery,  Crawfordsville,  Ind.,  to  rest  under  his 
grandfather's  military  monument. 

Lieutenant  Wallace  was  promoted  to  the  rank  of  First 
Lieutenant  July  i,  191 8,  and  the  next  day  was  made  a  Pro- 
visional Captain.  On  September  13,  1916,  while  in  the  Amer- 
ican Field  Ambulance  Service,  his  section  was  decorated  with 
the  Croix  de  Guerre^  with  palm,  and  t\v^  fourragre  of  the 
Medaille  Militaire.  His  regiment  in  the  Marines  was  cited 
by  the  French  after  Belleau  Woods  and  the  attack  on  Sois- 
sons. 

He  was  not  married.  He  is  survived  by  his  parents  and  a 
brother.  Lew  Wallace,  Jr.  (Ph.B.  1914). 


Benjamin  Strickler  Adams,  B.A.   1918 

Born  August  27,  1895,  i'^  ^^-  Louis,  Mo. 
Died  January  12,  1918,  in  Hoboken,  N.  J. 

Benjamin  Strickler  Adams  was  born  August  27,  1895,  in 
St.  Louis,  Mo.,  the  son  of  Benjamin  Strickler  Adams,  a 
graduate  of  Nashville  University  and  secretary  of  the  Repub- 
lic Iron  &  Steel  Works,  and  Madge  H.  (Updike)  Adams. 

He  was  prepared  for  college  at  the  Phillips  School  and 
Smith  Academy,  both  in  St.  Louis,  Mo.,  at  Silligs  Institute, 
Vevey,  Switzerland,  and  at  The  Hill  School,  Pottstown,  Pa. 
He  went  out  for  football,  and  wrote  for  the  News  while  in 
college.  In  the  summer  of  1916  he  was  made  a  Sergeant  in  the 
Yale  Batteries  at  Tobyhanna,  Pa.  He  left  Yale  in  April,  1917, 
to  enter  the  Officers'  Training  Camp  at  Fort  Riley,  Kansas, 
but  contracted  pneumonia  while  there  and  was  forced  to  leave 
within  a  week  of  the  time  he  would  have  been  made  a  com- 
missioned officer.  He  returned  to  college  in  the  fall,  and  be- 
came a  Captain  in  the  Yale  Reserve  Officers'  Training  Corps. 
In  November,  1917,  he  reenlisted  at  Fort  Myer,  Virginia,  as  a 
Private  in  the  12th  Field  Artillery,  in  which  he  was  shortly 
made  a  Corporal.  He  was  taken  ill  with  pneumonia  in  Decem- 
ber, and  died  at  St.  Mary's  Hospital  in  Hoboken,  N.  J., 
January  12,  191 8.  Interment  was  in  St.  Louis.  He  was  granted 
the  degree  of  B.A.,  post  obitum,  in  June,  191 8. 


Mr.  Adams  was  a  member  of  the  Second  Presbyterian 
Church  of  St.  Louis.  He  is  survived  by  his  mother  and  two 
sisters.  His  father  died  in  1906.  The  late  George  Whitman 
Updike  (B.A.  1897)  was  a  relative. 


Joy  Curtis  Bournique,  B.A.   191 8 

Born  June  4,  1895,  in  Chicago,  111. 
Died  September  24,  1918,  in  Pensacola,  Fla. 

Joy  Curtis  Bournique  was  born  June  14,  1895,  ^^  Chicago, 
111.,  the  son  of  Eugene  A.  and  Stella  Grace  (Curtis)*  Bournique. 
His  father  is  head  of  the  real  estate  firm  of  Eugene  A.  Bour- 
nique &  Company  of  Chicago.  He  is  the  son  of  Augustus 
Eugene  and  Elizabeth  Ann  (Corning)  Bournique,  and  the 
grandson  of  August  Joseph  and  Pauline  (Sewyer)  Bournique, 
who  came  to  New  York  City  from  Alsace-Lorraine  in  1845, 
and  removed  to  Chicago  in  1856,  and  of  Hiram  Vicomte 
Nelson  Corning,  of  Yarmouth,  Nova  Scotia,  and  Ruth  (Chase) 
Corning,  of  Montreal,  both  of  whom  went  to  Chicago  in 
1846.  The  maternal  grandparents  of  Joy  C.  Bournique  were 
John  Fitch  and  Harriett  (Wilson)  Curtis,  and  he  was  de- 
scended on  his  mother's  side  from  Robert  Wilson,  who  was  a 
descendant  of  Sir  Francis  Drake  and  who  came  to  America 
from  England  in  1647,  settling  in  Windsor,  Conn.,  and  of 
John  and  Abia  Curtis,  of  Suffield,  Conn.,  who  went  to  Ver- 
mont in  1765. 

He  was  prepared  at  the  Lake  Forest  (111.)  Academy  and  at 
the  Tome  School,  Port  Deposit,  Md.  He  went  out  for  foot- 
ball and  track,  and  received  a  second  colloquy  Junior  appoint- 
ment. He  was  granted  the  degree  of  B.A.,  post  obitum^  honoris 
causa^  in  June,  1919. 

After  leaving  college  in  November  of  his  Junior  year,  he 
became  a  member  of  the  Chicago  Board  of  Trade,  and  for 
three  months  was  connected  with  the  firm  of  Clement  Curtis 
&  Company,  stock  and  bond  brokers  in  Chicago. 

He  enlisted  in  the  U.  S.  Naval  Reserve  Force  in  April, 
191 8,  and  after  serving  on  the  Alcalda  at  Newport,  R.  I.,  for 
a  time,  was  in  June  transferred  to  New  London,  Conn.,  and 
promoted  from  a  Second  to  a  First  Class  Gunner's  Mate. 


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He  was  transferred  to  the  Naval  Aviation  Service  in  March, 
19 1 8,  and  underwent  a  three  months'  course  of  training  at  the 
Massachusetts  Institute  of  Technology.  He  was  given  his 
commission  as  Ensign  on  September  7,  1918,  and  after  spend- 
ing two  and  a  half  months  at  the  Naval  Air  Station  at  San 
Diego,  Calif.,  was  assigned  to  the  Naval  Air  Station  at  Pensa- 
cola,  Fla.,  as  a  flying  instructor.  He  was  killed  on  September 
24,  191 8,  when  his  hydroplane  fell  into  Pensacola  Bay,  and 
the  body  was  not  recovered.  The  accident,  in  which  two  other 
naval  aviators  lost  their  lives,  occurred  within  a  short  dis- 
tance of  the  Pensacola  Training  Station.  A  memorial  service 
was  held  itf  Trinity  Episcopal  Church,  Highland  Park,  111., 
October  27,  191 8. 

Mr.  Bournique  was  unmarried.  He  is  survived  by  his  par- 
ents and  two  sisters,  Helen  Elizabeth  and  Ruth  Curtis 
Bournique.  He  was  a  first  cousin  of  Charles  E.  Moore  (Ph.B. 
1903)  and  of  John  G.  Curtis,  a  member  of  the  Class  of  1 921. 


George  Lane  Edwards,  Jr.,  B.A.   1918 

Born  October  8,  1895,  in  Kirkwood,  Mo. 
Died  October  24,  1918,  in  Guignicourt,  France 

George  Lane  Edwards,  Jr.,  was  born  October  8,  1895,  ^^ 
Kirkwood,  Mo.,  the  son  of  George  Lane  and  Florence  Noble 
(Evans)  Edwards.  His  father,  who  was  senior  member  of  the 
firm  of  A.  G.  Edwards  &  Sons,  stock  and  bond  brokers  in 
St.  Louis,  was  the  son  of  General  Albert  Gallatin  Edwards 
and  Mary  Ewing  (Jenckes)  Edwards.  His  first  American 
ancestor  was  William  Edwards,  who  came  from  England  on  the 
ship  Merchants'  Hope  in  1635,  and  settled  in  Virginia  on  lands 
granted  by  the  King  for  services  rendered.  Mrs.  Edwards  is 
the  daughter  of  Charles  Orrick  and  Helen  M.  (Caldwell) 
Evans,  and  a  descendant  of  Nicholas  Byram,  who  came  to 
America  from  Kent,  England,  in  1645,  settling  near  Trenton, 
N.J. 

He  prepared  for  Yale  at  the  Taft  School,  Watertown,  Conn., 
and  in  college  went  out  for  boxing  and  football,  and  was 
active  in  the  Y.  M.  C.  A.  and  in  the  Boys'  Club.  His  Junior 
appointment  was  a  dissertation.  In  the  summer  of  1916  he 


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served  as  a  Sergeant  in  the  Connecticut  Infantry  at  Nogales, 
Ariz. 

He  left  college  in  May,  1917,  and  enlisted  in  the  American 
Field  Service,  being  assigned  to  T.  M.  U.  133  at  Longpont. 
He  was  sent  to  the  Officers'  School  at  Meaux,  France,  on 
August  26,  1917,  was  graduated  there  on  September  22,  1917, 
and  was  then  appointed  Commandant  Adjutant  of  T.  M.  211. 
In  November,  1917,  he  was  commissioned  a  Second  Lieuten- 
ant in  the  Motor  Transport  Corps,  U.  S.  Army,  and  in  Octo- 
ber, 191 8,  he  was  promoted  to  a  First  Lieutenancy.  At  the 
time  of  his  death,  which  occurred  October  24,  191 8,  at 
Guignicourt,  not  far  from  Neufchateau,  France,  he  was 
commanding  Company  C,  Section  Groupe  T.  M.  251.  Fol- 
lowing the  unloading  of  a  transport,  near  Lor,  part  of  his 
company  underwent  a  violent  bombardment,  and  Lieuten- 
ant Edwards  immediately  hastened  to  the  point  of  danger. 
After  having  directed  the  personnel  and  the  material  to  a 
place  of  safety,  he  wished  to  go  over  the  bombarded  road  and 
make  sure  that  none  of  his  men  had  remained  there.  It  was 
at  this  moment  that  he  was  hit  by  a  shell  and  so  badly 
wounded  that  he  expired  at  a  hospital  at  Guignicourt  shortly 
afterwards  without  having  regained  consciousness.  He  was 
buried  at  Guignicourt.  He  has  been  posthumously  awarded 
the  Croix  de  Guerre^  with  palm. 

He  was  unmarried.  Surviving  him  are  his  mother  and  a 
sister,  Mary  Elizabeth,  eight  years  his  junior.  His  father  died 
July  II,  1919. 


Henry  Norman  Grieb,  B.A.   191 8 

Born  July  2,  1895,  in  Philadelphia,  Pa. 
Died  August  26,  1917,  at  Bourges,  France 

Henry  Norman  Grieb,  whose  parents  were  William  G. 
Grieb,  president  of  the  Ajax  Rubber  Company,  Inc.,  of  New 
York  City,  and  Sarah  Ann  (Gesemyer)  Grieb,  was  born  in 
Philadelphia,  Pa.,  July  2,  1895.  His  father  is  the  son  of  John 
and  Johannah  (Hess)  Grieb,  who  came  to  Philadelphia  from 
Germany  in  1850.  His  mother  is  the  daughter  of  Charles 
William  and  Mary  Edith  (Marple)  Gesemyer.  She  traces  her 


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ancestry  to  Samuel  GrifFeth,  who  came  to  America  from 
England  about  1750,  and  settled  in  Hatboro,  Bucks  County, 
Pa. 

He  graduated  from  the  William  Penn  Charter  School  in 
Philadelphia,  Phillips  Academy,  Exeter,  N.  H.,  and  the 
Hotchkiss  School,  Lakeville,  Conn.,  at  each  of  which  schools 
he  played  football,  was  on  the  track  teams,  and  took  part  in 
musical  and  other  extra-curriculum  work.  He  was  given  hon- 
ors of  the  third  grade  in  Freshman  year  at  Yale,  and  contrib- 
uted to  the  Record.  The  degree  of  B.A.,  post  obitum^  was 
granted  him  in  1918. 

He  was  a  member  of  the  Yale  Reserve  Officers'  Training 
Corps  at  the  time  he  left  the  University  in  May,  1917,  to  go 
abroad  with  an  ambulance  unit.  Upon  his  arrival  in  France 
he  joined  the  French  Foreign  Legion  Aviation  Service.  He 
was  given  his  aviator's  license  June  13,  1917,  and  was  making 
a  trial  flight  when  his  motor  died  and  a  forced  landing  was 
necessary.  An  automobile  crashed  into  the  aeroplane  while 
he  was  working  on  the  motor,  and  he  suffered  fractured  ribs 
and  contusion  of  the  lungs.  His  death  occurred  August  26, 
1917,  at  the  Bourges  Hospital.  He  was  buried  with  full  mili- 
tary honors  in  Bourges,  France. 

He  is  survived  by  his  parents,  three  sisters,  and  three 
brothers,  two  of  whom, — Frederick  Harold  Grieb,  ex-\^^ 
and  Benjamin  Curtis  Grieb,  1921, — have  studied  at  Yale. 
Henry  W.  Johnstone  (B.A.  191 6)  is  a  brother-in-law. 


Kenneth  MacLeish,  B.A.   191 8 

Born  September  19,  1894,  in  Glencoe,  111. 
Died  October  14,  191 8,  in  Schoore,  Belgium 

Kenneth  MacLeish  was  born  September  19,  1894,  in  Glen- 
coe, 111.  His  father,  Andrew  MacLeish,  who  was  born  in 
Glasgow,  Scotland,  is  now  the  only  surviving  member  of 
the  original  firm  of  Carson,  Pirie,  Scott  &  Company,  whole- 
sale and  retail  dry  goods  merchants,  of  Chicago.  His  parents 
were  Archibald  and  Agnes  (Lindsay)  MacLeish.  Kenneth 
MacLeish's  mother,  Martha  (Hillard)  MacLeish,  a  graduate 
of  Vassar  in  1878,  is  the  daughter  of  Rev.  Elias  Brewster 


1918  II09 

Hillard  (B.A.  1848)  and  Julia  (Whittlesey)  Hillard,  the  grand- 
daughter of  Frederick  Whittlesey  (B.A.  1822),  and  the  great- 
granddaughter  of  Roger  Whittlesey  (B.A.  1787).  Another 
ancestor  who  attended  Yale  was  Rev.  John  Smalley  (B.A. 
1756).  Mrs.  MacLeish's  great-uncle,  Chester  Hillard,  was 
taken  prisoner  in  the  War  of  1812  and  held  for  many  months 
on  an  island  off  the  French  coast.  Several  ancestors  served  in 
the  Revolution.  Kenneth  MacLeish  was  also  descended  from 
Elder  William  Brewster,  who  came  to  Plymouth  in  the  May- 
flower y  Governor  Thomas  Dudley  of  Massachusetts,  who  came 
to  the  United  States  in  1630  with  the  Massachusetts  Bay 
Company,  and  Thomas  Wells,  who  came  to  Connecticut 
from  England  in  1636  and  was  governor  of  Connecticut  from 
1655  to  1658. 

He  received  his  preparatory  training  at  the  Hotchkiss 
School,  Lakeville,  Conn.,  and  at  Treat's  Tutoring  School, 
Helenwood,  Tenn.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Freshman  and 
University  Track  teams  and  of  the  University  Water  Polo 
Team.  He  won  a  prize  in  pole  vaulting  in  the  Harvard  Fresh- 
man meet.  He  was  active  in  the  work  of  the  Yale  Hope  Mis- 
sion. In  1919  the  degree  of  B.A.,  post  obiturriy  honoris  causa, 
with  enrollment  in  the  Class  of  191 8,  was  conferred  upon  him. 

He  left  Yale  March  24,  1917,  to  enlist  in  the  Naval  Air 
[Force  at  New  London,  Conn.,  as  Electrician  (2d  Class).  He 
[began  active  service  at  West  Palm  Beach,  Fla.,  April  i,  1917, 
land  two  months  later  was  transferred  to  Huntington,  Long 
Island.  On  August  22,  1917,  he  was  ordered  to  the  Naval 
(Operating  Base  at  Hampton  Roads,  Va.,  as  instructor  in 
flying,  and  on  September  4  was  given  his  commission  as 
[Ensign.  He  was  assigned  to  overseas  duty  on  October  18,  and 
[after  spending  several  months  in  England  for  training  on 
I  land-machines,  went  to  the  front  March  27,  191 8,  on  a 
[Chasse  machine  attached  to  the  British  Royal  Naval  Air 
Service.  From  April  20  to  May  24  he  was  attached  to  the  U.  S. 
!  Naval  Air  Station  at  Dunkirk,  France,  and  on  June  i  he 
received  his  commission  as  Lieutenant  (junior  grade).  While 
at  Dunkirk  he  took  part  in  the  historic  Zeebrugge  fight  and 
lothef  bombing  expeditions.  After  a  rest  he  was  sent  to  the 
front  again.  In  June,  191 8,  he  was  at  the  7th  Aviation  In- 
struction Center  in  France,  taking  a  course  in  day-bombing 


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work,  and  from  July  8  to  July  21  he  was  at  the  front  in  a 
day-bombing  machine,  attached  to  the  Royal  Air  Forces.  He 
was  then  assigned  to  Paris,  to  accept  and  test  machines  sent 
over  to  the  Naval  Aviation  Forces,  Northern  Bombing 
Group.  On  August  2  he  was  promoted  to  a  Senior  Grade 
Lieutenancy,  and  early  in  September  was  sent  to  Eastleigh, 
England,  the  great  U.  S.  Naval  Aviation  and  Repair  Base. 
Here  he  was  First  Flight  Officer,  with  the  duty  of  inspecting 
and  accepting  the  new  planes  sent  from  the  United  States. 
He  went  to  the  front  on  October  3,  and  when  last  seen,  Octo- 
ber 14,  191 8,  was  in  combat  with  a  superior  number  of  enemy 
planes  over  Leffinghe,  a  small  Belgian  village.  He  entered  this 
combat  with  the  213th  Squadron,  Royal  Naval  Air  Force. 
It  was  at  first  believed  that  he  had  been  captured,  but  it  was 
later  learned  that  he  had  been  shot  down  with  three  other 
aviators,  and  was  buried  near  Schoore,  on  the  roadtoLeke, 
Belgium.  His  body  was  found  on  a  farm  in  West  Flanders,  at 
Schoore,  December  26,  191 8,  by  three  Belgians,  who  informed 
the  American  Embassy  at  Brussels.  The  Navy  Cross  has  been 
posthumously  awarded  to  him,  and  in  December,  1919,  the 
U.  S.  S.  Destroyer  MacLeish  was  christened  in  his  honor. 

Lieutenant  MacLeish  was  unmarried.  He  is  survived  by  his 
parents,  two  brothers,  Archibald  MacLeish,  who  graduated 
from  Yale  in  191 5,  and  Norman  MacLeish,  Williams  191 5.  He 
was  a  member  of  the  First  Baptist  Church  of  Evanston. 


Leslie  Malcolm  MacNaughton,  B.A.   1918 

Born  October  2,  1894,  at  Fort  Edward,  N.  Y. 
•  Died  March  13,  1918,  at  Hampton  Roads,  Va. 

Leslie  Malcolm  MacNaughton,  son  of  Fred  and  Julia 
Maria  (Finne)  MacNaughton,  was  born  October  2,  1894,  at 
Fort  Edward,  N.  Y.  His  father,  whose  parents  were  Malcolm 
and  Phoebe  (McDowall)  MacNaughton,  is  president  of  the 
Fort  Edward  Commercial  Association.  He  traces  his  ancestry 
to  Alexander  Thomas,  a  Captain  in  Colonel  Topham's 
Regiment  of  Rhode  Island  Militia  in  the  Revolutionary  War, 
whose  parents  came  to  America  from  Scotland  and  settled  in 
B-hode  Island.  Julia  Finne  MacNaughton  was  the  daughter  of 


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Alvinza  Lyon  and  Mary  Bacon  (Mclntyre)  Finne,  whose  for- 
bears were  English  and  Dutch. 

He  was  fitted  for  college  at  the  Fort  Edward  High  School 
and  at  The  Hill  School,  Pottstown,  Pa.  He  was  a  member  of 
the  Freshman  Football  Team,  of  the  Class  Crew  in  191 5,  of 
the  Second  Crew  in  191 6,  and  of  the  University  Crew  in 
1917.  Late  in  1919  he  was  awarded  a  memorial  "Y"  by  the 
Board  of  Control  of  the  Athletic  Association.  In  June,  191 8, 
he  was  granted  the  degree  of  B.A.,  post  obitum. 

He  joined  the  Connecticut  National  Guard  October  29, 
191 5,  as  a  Private  in  Battery  B,  loth  Field  Artillery.  He  was 
discharged  in  April,  1916,  but  reenlisted  on  July  17,  1916, 
and  spent  the  summer  at  Tobyhanna,  Pa.,  with  Battery  B 
of  the  Yale  Batteries.  He  received  his  discharge  September 
18,  1916.  In  April,  1917,  he  left  college  to  join  Aerial  Coast 
Patrol  Unit  No.  3,  with  the  rank  of  Yeoman.  He  was  first 
stationed  at  Mastic,  Long  Island,  and  in  September,  1917, 
entered  upon  an  eight  weeks'  course  of  training  at  the  Massa- 
chusetts Institute  of  Technology.  In  November  he  was  trans- 
ferred to  Pensacola,  Fla.,  where,  on  January  23,  1918,  he 
received  a  commission  as  Ensign  in  the  Naval  Air  Force.  He 
was  transferred  on  February  7  to  Hampton  Roads,  Va., 
where  he  lost  his  life  in  a  seaplane  accident,  March  13, 191 8. 
His  machine  fell  three  hundred  feet,  and  was  crushed  by  the 
impact  of  the  water.  Interment  was  in  Prospect  Hill  Cemetery 
t  Schuylerville,  N.  Y. 

Mr.  MacNaughton  was  married  March  2,  191 8,  at  Hudson 

alls,  N.  Y.,  to  Madeleine  Cordelia  Gibson  (B.A.  Wellesley 
916),  daughter  of  James  Campbell  and  Era  Belle  (Vaughn) 

ibson.  He  is  survived  by  his  wife,  his  parents,  a  sister,  and 

brother.  He  was  a  member  of  St.  James'  Church  (Protestant 

piscopal)  of  Fort  Edward. 

Holmes  Mallory,  B.A.   191 8 

Born  December  23,  1895,  i"  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 
Died  March  18,  191 8,  in  New  York  City 

Holmes  Mallory  was  born  December  23,  1895,  ^^  Brooklyn, 
N.  Y.,  the  son  of  Robert  and  Elizabeth  Dennison  (Holmes) 
Mallory.  His  father,  formerly  of  the  Mallory  Steamship  Line, 


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is  now  a  partner  In  the  banking  firm  of  Spencer,  Trask  & 
Company.  He  is  the  son  of  Charles  Henry  and  Eunice  (Clift) 
Mallory,  of  Mystic,  Conn.  Charles  Henry  Mallory  was  the 
founder  of  the  Mallory  Steamship  Line;  his  father,  Charles 
Mallory,  was  actively  engaged  in  the  construction  of  gun- 
boats for  the  Union  government  during  the  Civil  War.  Holmes 
Mallory's  maternal  grandparents  were  Jabish  and  Emeline 
(Williams)  Holmes,  and  through  his  mother  he  was  descended 
from  Roger  Williams. 

He  was  prepared  for  college  at  the  Hotchkiss  School, 
Lakeville,  Conn.,  and  at  Betts  Academy,  Stamford,  Conn.  He 
was  press  manager  of  the  Yale  Dramatic  Association,  and  in 
Junior  year  received  a  first  colloquy  appointment.  He  was 
given  the  degree  of  B.A.,  post  obitum,  in  1918. 

Mr.  Mallory  left  college  at  the  end  of  his  Junior  year,  and 
from  October  3  to  December  15,  1917,  served  as  a  civilian 
employee  at  the  Headquarters  of  the  Eastern  Department 
on  Governor's  Island,  N.  Y.  He  then  enlisted  as  a  Private  in 
the  Regular  Army,  and  was  transferred  to  the  Ordnance 
Corps.  He  was  promoted  to  the  rank  of  Sergeant,  January  i, 
1918,  and  at  the  time  of  his  death  was  serving  in  the  Military 
Intelligence  Police  at  Governor's  Island.  He  died  March  18, 
191 8,  in  New  York  City,  of  heart  failure,  following  a  severe 
case  of  grippe  caused  by  overwork.  Burial  was  in  Putnam 
Cemetery  at  Greenwich,  Conn. 

He  was  a  member  of  the  First  Presbyterian  Church  of 
Brooklyn.  He  was  engaged  to  be  married  to  Miss  Helen 
Adams  Barrett,  of  Greenwich.  Besides  his  parents,  he  is 
survived  by  a  sister  and  two  brothers,  Robert  Mallory,  Jr. 
(B.A.  1909),  and  Charles  H.  Mallory  (B.A.  191 5),  both  of 
whom  were  Lieutenants  (senior  grad*)  in  the  Naval  Air 
Force  during  the  war.  He  was  a  cousin  of  Philip  R.  Mallory 
(B.A.  1908),  and  among  other  Yale  relatives  were  Charles 
M.  Williams  (Ph.B.  1892)  and  John  H.  Mallory,  ^^^-'09. 


1918  III3 

Leonard  Sowersby  Morange,  B.A.   1918 


Born  May  i8,  1896,  in  Philadelphia,  Pa. 
Died  August  11,  191 8,  at  Shotwick,  England 


|„„,..,.... 

^pPhiladelphia,  Pa.,  the  son  of  Edward  Austin  and  Julia 
(Sowersby)  Morange.  His  father,  who  is  junior  partner  in  the 
firm  of  Gates  &  Morange,  scenic  artists  in  New  York  City,  is 
the  son  of  Edward  Benjamin  and  Ellen  Francis  (Leonard) 
Morange,  and  a  descendant  of  Jaques  Morange,  who  came  to 
America  from  Bordeaux,  France,  about  1795  and  settled  in 
New  York  City.  His  mother  is  the  daughter  of  Francis  Robin- 
son and  Eliza  (Jeffs)  Sowersby.  Her  first  American  ancestor 
was  Paul  Sowersby,  who  came  from  Moulton,  England,  to 
St.  Catherine,  Canada,  about  1800. 

Before  entering  Yale,  he  studied  at  the  Mount  Vernon 
(N.  Y.)  High  School  and  at  Phillips  Academy,  Exeter,  N.  H. 
In  his  Junior  year  he  was  listed  as  a  scholar  of  the  first  rank, 
and  received  a  first  dispute  appointment. 

He  left  Yale  in  May,  1917,  after  spending  a  few  weeks  in 
the  Reserve  Officers'  Training  Corps,  and  on  May  13  entered 

Hhe  Officers'  Training  Camp  at  Madison  Barracks,  New  York, 
^fter  a  time,  being  desirous  of  entering  the  Aviation  Service 
nd  in  order  that  he  might  go  overseas  earlier,  he  asked  for 
his  discharge,  to  take  the  examinations  of  the  British  Royal 
Flying  Corps.  He  received  his  honorable  discharge  July  18, 
1917,  and  passed  the  examinations  for  entrance  into  the 
Royal  Flying  Corps  two  days  later.  He  received  his  aviation 
training  in  Cafiada  and  Texas,  and  was  given  his  commission 
as  a  Second  Lieutenant  November  27,  1917.  On  December  18, 
1917,  he  sailed  from  St.  John,  New  Brunswick,  on  the  S.  S. 
Grampian y  and  landed  in  Glasgow,  Scotland,  December  31, 
proceeding  thence  to  Tern  Hill,  England.  There  he  completed 
his  advanced  training,  and  in  February,  191 8,  was  ready  for 
active  service,  having  received  a  First  Lieutenant's  com- 
mission. He  also  took  what  was  known  as  the  "Gosport 
course,"  and  was  among  the  few  of  his  large  group  to  success- 
fully pass,  receiving  what  was  considered  the  highest  certifi- 
cate of  flying  in  the  British  Air  Service.  He  was   made   a 


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member  of  the  staff  of  the  55th  Training  Squadron,  stationed 
at  Lilbourne,  England,  and  was  assigned  as  instructor  in  ad- 
vanced training  and  aerial  acrobatics.  In  this  work  he  trained 
many  British  and  American  pilots  who  later  did  important 
work  in'the  air  in  France.  On  June  14,  191 8,  his  squadron  was 
ordered  to  Shotwick,  near  Chester,  England,  where  he  was 
later  transferred  to  the  51st  Training  Depot  Squadron.  On 
the  morning  of  August  11,  191 8,  he  received  his  orders  to 
complete  his  work  at  Shotwick  by  August  15  and  then  to  pro- 
ceed to  France  for  active  service  at  the  front.  The  same  day, 
while  in  the  air  with  one  of  his  pupils,  another  plane  collided 
with  his  own,  instantly  killing  the  cadet  with  him  and  knock- 
ing Lieutenant  Morange  unconscious  and  causing  his  instant 
death  when  the  plane  crashed  to  the  ground.  He  was  buried 
in  the  churchyard  at  Shotwick,  a  few  miles  from  the  graves 
of  his  maternal  ancestors.  The  Leonard  Morange  Post  464  of 
the  American  Legion,  of  Bronxville,  was  incorporated  in  Sep- 
tember, 1919. 

Lieutenant  Morange  was  not  married.  His  parents,  a 
brother,  Irving  S.  Morange,  who  served  overseas  for  fifteen 
months  as  a  Lieutenant  in  the  ist  Aero  Squadron,  and  a 
sister,  Leila  S.  Morange,  survive  him.  He  belonged  to  Trinity 
Church  (Protestant  Episcopal)  of  Mount  Vernon. 


•    Frank  Stuart  Patterson,  B.A.  1918 

Born  September  3,  1897,  in  Dayton,  Ohio 
Died  June  19,  191 8,  in  Dayton,  Ohio 

Frank  Stuart  Patterson,  son  of  Frank  Jefferson  and  Julia 
Perrine  (Shaw)  Patterson,  was  born  in  Dayton,  Ohio,  Sep- 
tember 3, 1897.  His  father,  who  received  the  degrees  of  B.A. 
and  B.S.from  Dartmouth  in  1873  and  1897,  respectively,  was 
connected  with  the  National  Cash  Register  Company  at  the 
time  of  his  death  in  1901.  He  was  descended  from  John  Pat- 
terson, of  County  Donegal,  Ireland,  who  came  to  America  in 
1728  and  settled  near  Lancaster,  Pa.  Julia  Shaw  Patterson 
is  the  daughter  of  George  W.  and  Mary  (Perrine)  Shaw. 
She  is  of  French  Huguenot  descent,  tracing  her  ancestry  to 
Daniel  Perrin,  who  came  from  the  Island  of  Jersey  in  1665 


h 

^H  1918  1115 

^Vand  settled  at  Elizabeth,  N.  J.  After  Mr.  Patterson's  death 
|f  she  married  Harrie  Gardner  Carnell,  treasurer  of  the  National 
Cash  Register  Company. 

He  was  prepared  for  college  at  the  Adirondack-Florida 
School,  Rainbow  Lake,  N.  Y.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Uni- 
versity Gun  Team. 

Mr.  Patterson  left  Yale  in  May,  1 917,  to  enter  the  Aviation 
Service,  and  on  July  13,  after  receiving  his  ground  school 
training  at  the  Massachusetts  Institute  of  Technology,  he 
was  assigned  to  the  Flying  School  at  Mineola,  Long  Island. 
He  was  given  his  Second  Lieutenant's  commission  in  August, 
and  on  September  i  was  transferred  as  a  pilot  to  the  School 
for  Aerial  Observers  at  Fort  Sill,  Oklahoma.  Three  days 
later  he  was  promoted  to  the  rank  of  First  Lieutenant  in  the 
Aviation  Section,  Signal  Reserve  Corps.  On  June  19,  191 8, 
he  was  killed  in  an  airplane  accident  at  Wilbur  Wright  Field, 
Dayton,  Ohio,  to  which  place  he  had  been  assigned  from 
Hicks  Field,  Texas,  and  where  he  was  serving  as  an  expert 
tester.  Burial  was  in  Woodland  Cemetery  at  Dayton. 

He  was  a  member  of  the  Third  Street  Presbyterian  Church 
of  that  city.  He  was  unmarried  and  is  survived  by  his  mother, 
a  sister,  and  a  brother,  Jefferson  Patterson  (B.A.  1913). 
Other  Yale  relatives  are:  Howard  VanDoren  Shaw  (B.A. 
1890),  George  W.  Shaw  (Ph.B.  1895),  Carleton  Shaw  (B.A. 

1904),   Joseph    G.   Crane  (B.A.   1907),  George  S.  Greene, 
K-06  S.,  and  Jefferson  Crane,  ex-og. 


Curtis  Seaman  Read,  B.A.  191 8 

Born  August  21,  1895,  in  Rye,  N.  Y. 
Died  February  26,  191 8,  in  Dunkirk,  France 


Curtis  Seaman  Read,  son  of  William  Augustus  and  Caro- 
ine  Hicks  (Seaman)  Read,  was  born  August  21,  1895,  in  Rye, 
T.  Y.  His  father,  whose  parents  were  George  W.  and  Roland 
Augusta  (Curtis)  Read,  was  a  member  of  the  firm  of  Ver- 
milye&  Company  and  later  established  the  New  York  banking 
house  of  William  A.  Read  &  Company.  He  died  April  7,  1916. 
Curtis  Read's  maternal  grandparents  were  Samuel  Hicks  and 
Hannah  R.  (Husband)  Seaman.  His  first  American  ancestor 


Ill6  YALE    COLLEGE 

on  his  father's  side  was  Henry  Curtis,  who  came  from  England 
to  Windsor,  Conn.,  in  1640,  and  through  his  mother  he  was 
descended  from  Robert  Hicks,  who  came  to  America  in  the 
ship  Fortune y  arriving  at  Plymouth,  Mass.,  November  11, 
1 62 1.  Other  early  ancestors  were  Rev.  John  Bartow,  who  came 
to  Westchester,  N.  Y.,  from  Devon,  England,  in  1700,  and 
Capt.  John  Seaman,  who  held  colonial  office  in  Hempstead, 
Long  Island,  under  Governor  Stuyvesant.  Of  his  Quaker 
ancestry,  one  line  claimed  descent  from  John  de  Seaman, 
one  of  the  first  Crusaders,  and  another  from  Sir  Ellis  Hicks, 
knighted  by  the  Black  Prince  on  the  field  of  Poitiers  in  1356. 

Curtis  Read  received  his  preparatory  training  at  the  Bovee 
School  in  New  York  City,  the  Choate  School,  Wallingford, 
Conn.,  and  at  the  Pomfret  (Conn.)  School.  In  college  he 
participated  in  baseball,  was  assistant  manager  of  the 
University  Football  Team  in  191 6  and  manager  in  1917, 
winning  his  "Y,"  sang  on  the  Freshman  Glee  Club,  and  was 
active  in  the  work  of  the  Yale  Hope  Mission.  Yale  granted 
him  the  degree  of  B.A.,  post  obitum,  in  June,  191 8. 

He  left  college  March  24, 1917,  to  join  the  Yale  Aerial  Coast 
Patrol  Unit  No.  i.  He  was  first  stationed  at  West  Palm  Beach, 
Fla.,  and  was  later  transferred  to  Huntington,  Long  Island, 
where  he  received  a  commission  as  a  Naval  Aviator,  with 
the  rank  of  Ensign,  in  September,  1917.  He  was  then  ap- 
pointed an  instructor  in  the  Naval  Aviation  Unit  at  Newport 
News,  Va.,  where  he  remained  until  being  assigned  to  foreign 
service  in  November.  He  was  stationed  for  a  time  at  the  Bomb- 
ing School  at  Montchic,  France,  from  which  he  was  transferred 
on  February  24,  191 8,  to  Dunkirk.  His  death  occurred  there 
two  days  later  as  a  result  of  injuries  received  in  a  seaplane 
accident  while  he  was  on  active  duty.  He  was  the  first  Ameri- 
can officer  to  be  killed  at  Dunkirk,  and  was  buried  there  with 
full  military  honors.  Several  months  after  his  death  the  Dis- 
tinguished Service  Medal  of  the  Aero  Club  of  America  was 
awarded  to  him. 

Mr.  Read  was  unmarried.  He  is  survived  by  his  mother, 
four  brothers,  and  two  sisters,  one  of  whom  is  the  wife  of  his 
classmate,  Archibald  G.  Mcllwaine,  2d.  His  Yale  relatives 
include  his  brother,  Russell  Bartow  Read,  a  member  of  the 
Class  of  1920,  and  his  cousin,  George  Cromwell,  '83. 


1918  1117 

Alvln  Hill  Treadwell,  B.A.   1918 

Born  August  i6,  1896,  in  Oxford,  Ohio 
Died  November  16,  191 8,  in  Treves,  Germany 

Alvin  Hill  Treadwell  was  born  August  16,  1896,  in  Oxford, 
Ohio.  His  father,  Aaron  Louis  Treadwell  (B.S.  Wesleyan 
University  1888,  Ph.D.  University  of  Chicago  1898),  was 
professor  of  biology  and  geology  at  Miami  University  from 
1 89 1  to  1900,  and  has  since  been  professor  of  biology  and 
zoology  at  Vassar  College.  He  is  the  son  of  Aaron  and  Lois 
(Mead)  Treadwell,  and  is  descended  from  Edward  Tread- 
well, who  settled  at  Ipswich,  Mass.,  in  1637.  Alvin  H.  Tread- 
well's  mother  is  Sarah  Maria  (Hill)  Treadwell,  daughter  of 
William  Burr  and  Caty  (Selleck)  Hill,  and  a  descendant  of 
William  (?)  Hill,  who  went  from  Massachusetts  to  Connec- 
ticut with  Hooker's  colony  in  1636. 

He  was  fitted  for  college  at  the  Poughkeepsie  (N.  Y.) 
High  School,  and  was  for  two  years  a  member  of  the  Class 
of  191 8  at  Wesleyan,  entering  Yale  as  a  Junior.  He  was  listed 
as  a  scholar  of  the  second  rank  in  the  studies  of  Junior  year. 
He  went  out  for  track,  winning  the  Willisbrook  Cup  for  the 
two-mile  event  in  1917.  He  was  granted  the  degree  of  B.A., 
post  obituniy  honoris  causa^  in  June,  1919. 

He  was  a  Private  in  the  Yale  Reserve  Officers'  Training 
'orps  previous  to  leaving  college  in  May,  19 17,  to  enter  the 
)fficers'  Training  Camp  at  Madison  Barracks,  New  York.  In 
LUgust  he  was  transferred  to  the  Aviation  Service,  and  after 
taking  a  ground  school  course  at  Cornell  University,  was  sent 
to  France  in  September.  He  was  then  in  training  at  Tours, 
md  on  March  2,   191 8,  received  his  commission  as  First 
lieutenant.  He  was  with  the  French  Army  as  a  Pilot  in  Aero 
Iquadron  154,  when,  about  August  8,  191 8,  he  brought  down 
German  plane  and  won  the  Croix  de  Guerre,  with  palm.  On 
lUgust  12  he  was  transferred  to  the  American  Army,  and 
assigned  to  the  213th  Aero  Squadron,  of  which,  about  the 
middle  of  October,  beoause  of  his  exceptional  bravery  and 
levotion  to  duty,  he  was  appointed  Flight  Commander.  He 
'was  reported  missing  in  action  after  an  air  combat  on  Novem- 
ber 6.  On  the  day  of  his  disappearance,  he  was  seen  fighting 


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an  enemy  machine,  well  over  the  German  lines.  With  one 
other  machine  he  attacked  three  planes,  one  of  which  was 
destroyed;  the  ensuing  fight  lasted  until  both  the  American 
planes  disappeared  in  a  low-lying  ground  mist  in  the  region 
of  Louppy-sur-Loison,  south  of  Montmedy  and  east  of  the 
Meuse.  Lieutenant  Treadwell  was  shot  through  the  lower 
right  lung,  the  bullet  entering  his  back.  He  was  taken  to  the 
German  hospital  at  Treves,  Prussia,  on  November  ii,  and 
he  died  there  on  November  i6.  He  was  buried  at  Stadticher 
Friedhot,  Grave  32,  Treves.  His  father  received  after  his 
death  a  citation  for  "gallantry  in  action  on  October  10, 
191 8,"  signed  by  General  Pershing.  Among  Lieutenant  Tread- 
well's  papers  was  found  an  official  copy  of  General  Orders 
crediting  him  with  the  destruction  in  combat  of  an  enemy 
Fokker  near  Bantheville,  at  an  altitude  of  2500  metres,  on 
September  29,  191 8. 

He  was  a  member  of  the  Reformed  Church  of  America,  of 
Arlington,  N.  Y.  He  was  unmarried,  and  is  survived  by  his 
parents.  His  Yale  relatives  include:  Albert  B.  Hill  (Ph.B. 
1869),  William  Barlow  Hill  (Ph.B.  1886),  Orson  H.  Marchant 
(Ph.B.  1904),  Jonathan  S.  Randle  (Ph.B.  1909),  Arthur  B. 
Hague  (B.A.  1914),  and  Albert  H.  Hague  (Ph.B.  1914). 


Glenn  Dickenson  Wicks,  B.A.  191 8 

Born  January  30,  1893,  in  Utica,  N.  Y. 
Died  October  5,  191 8,  in  Esnes,  France 

Glenn  Dickenson  Wicks  was  born  January  30, 1 893,  in  Utica, 
N.  Y.,  the  son  of  Charles  Wells  and  Lucie  Canterbury 
(Glenn)  Wicks.  His  father  has  been  engaged  in  farming  and 
manufacturing,  and  is  at  present  a  member  of  the  New  York 
State  Senate.  He  is  the  son  of  Charles  Chidsey  and  Nancy 
(Bicknell)  Wicks,  a  grandson  of  John  Wicks,  who  was  a  sea 
captain  in  the  West  India  trade  and  who  settled  in  Oneida 
County,  N.  Y.,  in  1800,  and  a  great-grandson  of  John  Wicks, 
who  came  from  Wyckford,  England,  in  1750,  settling  in 
Montauk,  Long  Island.  Lucie  Glenn  Wicks  is  the  daughter  of 
Hugh  and  Eliza  (Manning)  Glenn.  Hugh  Glenn  came  to 
Indianapolis,  Ind.,  from  Glennvale,  Ireland,  in  1840. 


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He  received  his  preparatory  training  at  the  Hotchkiss 
School,  Lakeville,  Conn.  He  was  given  a  first  colloquy  Junior 
appointment,  and  was  manager  of  the  Yale  Rifle  Team. 
The  degree  of  B.A.,  post  obitum,  honoris  causa,  with  enroll- 
ment  in  the  Class  of  191 8,  was  conferred  on  him  in  1919. 

He  left  Yale  in  the  spring  of  1 917  to  enlist  in  the  Aviation 
Service  as  a  Private.  He  graduated  from  the  School  of  Mili- 
tary Aeronautics  at  Austin,  Texas,  in  September  and  was 
sent  immediately  to  England,  where  he  underwent  training 
.at  Oxford  University,  Grantham,  and  Thetford,  Norfolk.  In 
June,  1 91 8,  he  was  given  a  commission  as  First  Lieutenant 
in  the  Aviation  Section,  Signal  Reserve  Corps,  U.  S.  Army, 
with  rank  from  May  13,  191 8.  He  brought  down  his  first 
German  airplane  on  August  19.  He  was  serving  with  the  4th 
Pursuit  Group,  17th  Aero  Squadron,  attached  to  the  Royal 
Air  Force,  at  the  time  of  his  death  on  October  5,  191 8.  His 
machine  fell  in  flames  inside  the  German  lines,  at  Esnes, 
France,  and  he  was  burned  to  death.  He  had  brought  down 
two  airplanes  and  several  balloons  during  the  period  of  his 
service. 

Lieutenant  Wicks  was  unmarried.  He  is  survived  by  his 
parents  and  a  brother,  Lieut.  Roger  M.  Wicks,  U.  S.  A.,  who 
was  a  member  of  the  Class  of  191 8  for  a  time  and  left  Yale  to 
enter  West  Point,  where  he  was  graduated  in  191 8. 


Clarence  Alexander  Brodie,  B.A.   1919 

Born  January  31,  1895,  in  Manistee,  Mich. 
Died  October  i,  191 8,  at  Sivry-des-Buzancy,  France 


IMManistee,  Mich.,  the  son  of  Rev.  Andrew  Melrose  Brodie, 
""D.D.,  S.T.D.,  now  pastor  of  the  First  Presbyterian  Church 
of  Wichita,  Kans.  The  latter  is  the  son  of  Alexander  and 
Martha  (Heapy)  Brodie.  Alexander  Brodie  came  to  New  York 
from  Scotland  in  1832.  Dr.  Brodie  went  to  France  in  1919 
for  several  months'  service  under  the  Y.  M.  C.  A.  for  a  com- 
mission of  the  Federation  of  Churches.  Clarence  Brodie's 
mother,  Charlotte  (Moore)  Brodie,  is  the  daughter  of  Jere- 
miah and  Sarah  (Bradford)  Moore.  She  traces  her  ancestry  to 


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Joseph  Hills,  who  came  to  America  in  1636  and  settled  in 
Charlestown,  Mass. 

His  preparatory  training  was  received  at  the  Watertown 
(N.  Y.)  High  School,  the  Wichita  High  School,  and  theOber- 
lin  (Ohio)  Academy.  He  spent  a  year  at  the  University  of 
Chicago,  and  then  entered  Yale  as  a  Sophomore  in  191 6.  He 
was  granted  the  degree  of  B.A.,  post  obitum^  honoris  cans  a  ^  in 
June,  1919. 

He  enlisted  as  a  Private  (Aviation  Cadet)  June  3,  1917, 
and  on  September  24,  19 17,  after  qualifying  as  a  Reserve 
Military  Aviator  at  Mount  Clemens,  Mich.,  was  commis- 
sioned a  First  Lieutenant  in  the  Aviation  Section,  Signal 
Reserve  Corps.  He  went  abroad  in  October,  191 7,  and  for 
seven  months  was  stationed  at  the  3d  Aviation  Instruction 
Center.  From  June  21  to  July  30,  191 8,  he  was  on  duty  at 
the  front  as  a  Pilot  of  the  French  124th  Spad  Escadrille.  After 
service  with  the  13th  American  Pursuit  Squadron  in  the  St. 
Mihiel  and  Argonne  offensives,  he  was  killed  in  action  near 
Sivry-des-Buzancy,  France,  on  October  i,  1918,  while  on  a 
patrol.  He  was  buried  by  the  enemy  in  the  village  churchyard 
the  next  day.  On  May  2,  1919,  the  remains  were  removed  to 
the  American  National  Cemetery  at  Romagne,  France. 

Lieutenant  Brodie  was  unmarried.  He  is  survived  by  his 
parents,  a  brother,  and  a  sister.  He  belonged  to  the  First 
Presbyterian  Church  of  Wichita. 

Parker  Dickson  Buck,  B.A.   1919 

Born  October  10,  1897,  in  Syracuse,  N.  Y. 
Died  April  i,  191 9,  in  San  Antonio,  Texas 

Parker  Dickson  Buck,  son  of  Henry  Bennett  Buck,  who 
received  the  degrfee  of  B.A.  from  the  University  of  Pennsyl- 
vania in  1888  and  later  graduated  from  the  Maryland  Law 
School,  after  which  he  took  up  the  practice  of  law,  and  Jennie 
(Dickson)  Buck,  was  born  October  10,  1897,  in  Syracuse, 
N.  Y.  His  paternal  grandparents  were  John  Marion  Buck,  a 
banker,  and  Eleanor  E.  (Coe)  Buck,  and  his  first  American 
ancestor  on  his  father's  side  was  Thomas  Sunderland,  who 
came  to  America  from  England  with  Calvert  in  the  Ark  and 
Dove  in  1634,  settling  in  St.  Mary's  County,  Md.  Another 


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ancestor  was  Charles  Thomson,  secretary  of  the  first  Congress. 
Parker  Buck's  mother  is  the  daughter  of  William  M.  Dickson, 
a  lawyer  and  judge,  and  Annie  M.  (Parker)  Dickson.  She 
traces  her  descent  from  Andrew  Stewart,  of  the  royal  house 
of  Stewart,  Lord  of  Ochiltree  at  the  end  of  the  sixteenth  cen- 
tury, whose  descendant,  James  Ochiltree,  came  to  America 
from  Ireland  in  1740,  and  settled  in  Rockbridge  County,  Va. 
She  is  also  descended  from  General  Andrew  Porter,  of 
Philadelphia,  who  was  Colonel  of  the  4th  Pennsylvania 
Artillery  during  the  Revolution,  and  from  General  Benjamin 
Logan,  who  settled  in  Kentucky  with  Daniel  Boone. 

He  was  fitted  for  college  at  the  Syracuse  North  High 
School  and  under  tutors  in  Munich  and  Dresden,  and  spent  a 
year  at  Syracuse  University  before  entering  Yale  in  191 5.  In 
college  he  was  on  the  Freshman  Crew  Squad  and  was  captain 
of  the  Sophomore  Crew.  He  left  Yale  at  the  end  of  Junior 
year  to  enter  military  service,  but  was  granted  the  degree  of 
B.A.,^oj-/  obitum^  honoris  causa^  in  June,  1919. 

Mr.  Buck  enlisted  in  the  Aviation  Service  in  December, 
1917,  but  was  not  called  until  June,  1918.  He  received  his 
ground  school  training  at  the  Massachusetts  Institute  of 
Technology,  going  from  there  in  September,  191 8,  to  Camp 
ick,  Dallas,  Texas,  where  he  was  a  member  of  Cadet 
uadron  8.  About  a  month  later  he  was  transferred  to  Kelly 
ield  No.  2,  San  Antonio,  Texas.  On  April  i,  1919,  he  was 
killed  near  Kelly  Field,  when  the  airplane  in  which  he  was 
flying  with  an  instructor  fell  to  earth.  It  was  to  have  been 
his  last  flight  before  he  received  his  commission  as  Second 
Lieutenant.  He  had  completed  the  last  test,  and  was  descend- 
ing when  the  accident  occurred.  Burial  was  in  Oakwood 
I  Cemetery  at  Syracuse. 
L  His  mother  and  one  brother,  Henry  Bennett  Buck,  survive 
|im.  Mrs.  Buck  has  made  a  gift  of  one  thousand  dollars  to 
E  ale  for  the  purpose  of  establishing  the  Parker  Dickson  Buck 
Fund.  The  income  is  to  be  awarded  each  year  on  Lincoln's 
lirthday  as  a  prize  to  the  student  in  the  College  who  writes 
the  best  short  essay  or  poem  on  patriotism  during  his  Sopho- 
more year.  Mr.  Buck  was  unmarried.  He  was  a  nephew  of 
the  late  Judge  William  L.  Dickson,  of  Cincinnati,  Ohio,  a 
graduate  of  Yale  in  1878. 


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Allan  Wilkins  Douglass,  B.A.  1919 

Born  September  25,  1895,  i"  Plainfield,  N.  J. 
Died  September  12,  191 8,  near  Limey,  France 

Allan  Wilkins  Douglass  was  born  September  25,  1895,  '^^ 
Plainfield,  N.  J.,  the  son  of  Edwin  Thomas  and  Ednah  (Wil- 
kins) Douglass.  His  father  has  for  many  years  been  associated 
in  an  executive  capacity  with  important  shipping  interests  of 
the  Great  Lakes,  and  is  now  a  member  of  the  Eastern  Grain, 
Mill  &  Elevator  Corporation  in  Buffalo,  N.  Y.,  and  in  charge 
of  the  marine  operations  of  that  company.  He  is  the  son  of 
Gibson  Lemuel  and  Anna  Maria  (Ojers)  Douglass,  and  a 
descendant  of  Thomas  Douglass,  who  was  born  in  New  Fair- 
field, Conn.,  about  1750  and  who  fought  in  the  Revolutionary 
War.  The  maternal  grandparents  of  Allan  Wilkins  Douglass 
were  Herve  Dwight  and  Julia  Emily  (Smith)  Wilkins,  and 
his  first  American  ancestor  on  his  mother's  side  was  Bray 
Wilkins,  who  came  to  America  from  England  before  1639  ^^^ 
settled  at  Dorchester,  Mass.  Capt.  Stephen  Wilkins,  the 
great-great-grandson  of  Bray  Wilkins,  fought  as  a  Private  in 
the  French  and  Indian  War  (1758)  and  as  Lieutenant  and 
Captain  in  the  Revolution. 

Allan  Wilkins  Douglass  was  prepared  for  college  at  the 
Nichols  School,  Buffalo,  and  at  the  Hotchkiss  School,  Lake- 
ville.  Conn.  At  Yale  he  was  manager  of  the  Freshman  Glee 
Club,  rowed  on  the  Sophomore  Crew,  winning  the  Regatta 
Cup  in  191 6,  and  received  a  second  colloquy  Junior  appoint- 
ment. He  left  college  in  April,  1917,  but  was  given  the 
degree  of  B.A.,  post  obitum,  honoris  causa,  in  June,  1919. 

He  attended  the  first  Officers'  Training  Camp  at  Madison 
Barracks,  New  York,  and  after  three  months'  training  there 
was  recommended  for  the  second  Officers'  Training  Camp  at 
Fort  Niagara,  New  York,  where,  on  November  8,  1917,  he 
was  commissioned  as  a  First  Lieutenant  of  Field  Artillery. 
He  was  then  ordered  to  Camp  Devens,  Massachusetts,  where 
he  remained  until  April,  191 8,  when  he  was  transferred  to 
Camp  Jackson,  South  Carolina.  Three  weeks  later  he  was 
assigned  to  Camp  Sevier,  South  Carolina,  where  he  took 
command  of  Battery  A,  113th  Field  Artillery,  whose  captain  . 


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was  then  in  France.  He  sailed  from  New  York  with  his  bat- 
tery on  May  25, 191 8.  The  regiment  was  at  Camp  Coetquidan, 
near  Guer,  France,  until  the  last  of  August,  and  then  moved 
to  the  St.  Mihiel  front  and  was  assigned  to  operate  with  the 
89th  Division.  After  arriving  at  the  front,  Lieutenant  Doug- 
lass was  appointed  Aide-de-Camp  to  General  Winn,  in  which 
capacity  he  served  for  about  ten  days.  At  his  own  request  he 
was  then  assigned  to  Battery  E  of  the  1 13th  Field  Artillery  as 
Orientation  Officer.  He  was  killed  in  battle  near  Limey, 
September  12,  1918,  and  was  buried  in  the  St.  Mihiel  Military 
Cemetery  at  Thiaucourt,  France,  Grave  No.  176.  In  the 
General  Orders  of  the  30th  Division  (of  which  the  113th 
Field  Artillery  was  a  part),  issued  February  8,  191 9,  he  was 
cited  for  meritorious  conduct  as  follows:  "After  being  struck 
by  a  shell  splinter,  he  continued  the  work  of  removing  the 
dead  and  wounded  horses  and  moving  the  carriages  to  a  place 
of  safety.  Later  he  was  again  struck  by  a  shell  and  killed 
while  in  the  performance  of  his  duty.  His  courage  and  utter 
disregard  for  personal  safety  inspired  the  men  of  his  section 
to  continue  their  work  successfully."  Lieutenant  Douglass 
was  posthumously  awarded  by  General  Pershing  the  follow- 
ing citation:  "For  distinguished  and  exceptional  gallantry  at 
Limey,  France,  on  September  12,  191 8,  in  the  operations  of 
the  American  Expeditionary  Forces." 

He  was  married  March  2,  191 8,  in  Canton,  Mass.,  to 
Rachel  Priest,  daughter  of  George  Hosea  and  Bertha  (Priest) 
Capen,  who  survives  him.  His 'parents  and  two  sisters  are 
also  living.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Westminster  Presbyte- 
rian Church  of  Buffalo. 


[Alexander  Agnew  McCormick,  Jr.,  B.A.   1919 

Born  December  15,  1897,  in  Chicago,  111. 
Died  September  24,  191 8,  near  Calais,  France 

Alexander  Agnew  McCormick,  Jr.,  son  of  Alexander  Agnew 
and  Maud  (Warner)  McCormick,  was  born  in  Chicago,  111., 
December  15,  1897.  His  father,  who  was  formerly  a  journalist 
in  Chicago,  is  the  son  of  Alexander  Agnew  and  Katherine 


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(McQuiston)  McCormick.  His  mother  is  the  daughter  of  Ezra 
Joseph  and  Jane  (Remsen)  Warner. 

He  received  his  preparatory  training  at  the  University  of 
Chicago  High  School.  At  Yale  he  was  given  a  second  dispute 
Junior  appointment  and  was  assignment  editor  of  the  News. 
He  received  the  degree  of  ^.h., post  obitum^  honoris  causa^  in 
June,  1919. 

He  enlisted  April  16,  19 17,  as  a  Seaman  (2d  Class)  in  the 
U.  S.  Naval  Aviation  Forces,  and  for  the  next  eight  months 
trained  at  Buffalo,  N.  Y.,  with  Aerial  Coast  Patrol  Unit 
No.  2,  which  was  organized  at  Yale  shortly  after  the  United 
States  declared  war  on  Germany.  On  November  2,  1917,  he 
was  commissioned  an  Ensign,  and  assigned  to  Pensacola, 
Fla.,  where  on  January  30,  191 8,  he  was  made  Division 
Commander.  He  was  promoted  to  the  rank  of  Lieutenant 
(junior  grade)  on  March  23,  191 8,  and  sailed  June  27,  191 8, 
for  France,  where  he  was  assigned  to  Squadron  214  of  the 
Royal  Air  Force.  While  serving  with  this  organization  with 
the  Northern  Bombing  Group,  he  was  killed  in  action  near 
Calais,  September  24,  1918.  He  was  buried  at  Calais.  The 
Navy  Cross  has  been  posthumously  awarded  to  him,  and  in 
his  honor,  the  name  McCormick  has  been  assigned  to  a 
destroyer  built  in  1920. 

Lieutenant  McCormick  was  unmarried.  His  parents  sur- 
vive him.  Ezra  J.  Warner  (B.A.  1899)  is  an  uncle. 


George  Webster  Otis,  B.A.  1919 

Born  June  28,  1895,  in  Evanston,  111. 
Died  February  18,  1919,  in  Savenay,  France 

George  Webster  Otis  was  born  in  Evanston,  111.,  June  28, 
1895,  ^h^  son  of  Joseph  Edward  and  Emily  Porter  (Webster) 
Otis.  His  father,  who  attended  the  Sheffield  Scientific  School 
for  a  year  as  a  member  of  the  Class  of  1890,  is  vice  president 
of  the  Central  Trust  Company  of  Illinois.  He  is  the  son  of 
Joseph  Edward  and  Maria  (Taylor)  Otis  and  a  descendant  of 
John  Otis,  who  came  to  America  from  England  in  1634, 
settling  in   Massachusetts.   The   maternal  grandparents  of 


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George  Webster  Otis  were  George  Huntington  and  Ellen 
Frances  (Pickford)  Webster.  His  first  American  ancestor  on 
his  mother's  side  was  John  Webster,  who  came  to  Massachu- 
setts Bay  Colony  from  Warwickshire,  England,  in  1633,  and 
three  years  later  removed  to  Connecticut,  of  which  colony  he 
later  became  governor. 

He  received  his  preparatory  training  at  the  Oxford  and 
Harvard  schools  in  Chicago,  at  Phillips  Academy,  Andover, 
Mass.,  and  at  the  Harstrom  School,  Norwalk,  Conn.  He  was 
a  member  of  the  Freshman  Track  Team,  and  was  given  a 
second  colloquy  Junior  appointment.  He  belonged  to  the 
Yale  Reserve  Officers'  Training  Corps.  He  left  college  in  June, 
1917,  but  was  granted  the  degree  of  B.A.,  post  obitum^  honoris 
causa  J  in  June,  191 9. 

On  June  5,  1917,  he  enlisted  as  a  Private  in  the  17th  U.  S. 
Engineers  (Railway)  at  Atlanta,  Ga.,  and  was  later  promoted 
to  the  rank  of  Wagoner.  He  went  abroad  in  July,  1917,  and 
shortly  after  his  arrival  in  England  was  taken  ill  and  sent  to 
an  English  hospital.  He  later  rejoined  his  regiment  in  France, 
serving  with  its  transportation  section  at  St.  Nazaire  until 
September  25,  191 8,  when  he  entered  the  Saumur  Artillery 
School.  He  was  graduated  December  21,  191 8,  but  his  com- 
mission was  not  issued  owing  to  the  signing  of  the  armistice. 
He  died  February  18,  1919,  at  the  Base  Hospital  at  Savenay, 
France,  of  pneumonia,  which  followed  an  operation  for  ap- 
pendicitis, and  was  buried  in  the  cemetery  at  St.  Nazaire. 
His  body  was  brought  to  America  in  September,  1920,  and 
funeral  services  were  held  on  September  26  in  the  chapel  at 
Rosehill  Cemetery,  Chicago. 

Mr.  Otis  was  not  married.  He  is  survived  by  his  parents,  a 
sister,  and  three  brothers.  One  brother,  Joseph  E.  Otis,  Jr., 
■graduated  from  Yale  in  191 6,  and  another,  Stuart  Hunting- 
ton Otis,  is  a  member  of  the  Class  of  1923.  He  was  a  nephew 
of  George  H.  Webster,  ex-<^i,  Stuart  Webster  (B.A.  1892), 
and  Herman  A.  Webster  (Ph.B.  1900),  and  a  cousin  of  James 
SanfordOtis  (B.A.  1919),  Winthrop  Buckingham  (B.A.  1920), 
and  Otis  Buckingham,  1923. 


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Hezekiah  Scovil  Porter,  B.A.  1919 

Born  June  4,  1896,  in  Higganum,  Conn. 
Died  July  22,  191 8,  near  Chateau-Thierry,  France 

Hezekiah  Scovil  Porter  was  born  in  Higganum,  Conn., 
June  4,  1896,  the  son  of  Wallace  Porter.  His  maternal  grand- 
father was  Hezekiah  Scovil. 

He  was  fitted  for  Yale  at  the  Choate  School,  Wallingford, 
Conn.  He  left  college  in  the  spring  of  1917,  but  was  granted 
the  degree  of  B.A.,  post  obitum,  honoris  causa,  in  June,  1919. 

In  May,  1917,  he  enlisted  as  a  Private  in  the  5th  Connecti- 
cut Cavalry,  which  trained  at  Niantic,  Conn.,  during  the 
summer  and  was  federalized  as  the  loist  Machine  Gun 
Battalion  in  the  fall.  He  was  assigned  to  Company  B,  and 
went  abroad  with  his  organization  in  October,  1917.  He  was 
sent  to  the  front  in  February,  191 8,  and  on  July  22,  191 8,  he 
was  killed  in  action  near  Chateau-Thierry. 

Mr.  Porter  was  not  married.  He  is  survived  by  two  broth- 
ers, Whitney  S.  and  Philip  Porter,  and  three  sisters,  Mrs.  C. 
W.  Walker,  Adelaide  Porter,  and  Esther  Porter.  His  brother 
Philip  was  in  the  Air  Service  during  the  war.  Joseph  S.  Porter 
(B.A.  1899)  and  Donald  W.  Porter  (B.A.  1908)  are  first 
cousins. 

Stephen  Potter,  B.A.   1919 

Born  December  26,  1896,  in  Saginaw,  Mich. 
Died  April  25,  191 8,  in  the  North  Sea 

Stephen  Potter,  son  of  Henry  Camp  Potter,  Jr.,  formerly 
vice  president  of  the  Peoples  State  Bank  of  Detroit,  Mich., 
and  Bertha  (Hamilton)  Potter,  was  born  in  Saginaw,  Mich., 
December  26,  1896.  His  father,  who  died  January  4,  1909, 
was  the  son  of  Henry  Camp  and  Sarah  (Farwell)  Potter.  His 
mother,  who  died  August  19,  1902,  was  the  daughter  of  John 
Allen  and  Harriet  Hale  (Rowland)  Hamilton.  The  ancestry  of 
Stephen  Potter,  traced  through  both  paternal  and  maternal 
lines,  leads  to  the  best  Anglo-Saxon  sources,  whose  American 
representatives  came  to  this  country  in  the  early  days  of  its 
history.  His  great-great-grandfather,  Stephen  Potter,  was  a 


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Captain  in  the  Revolutionary  Army.  His  great-grandfather, 
Samuel  Farwell,  and  his  grandfather,  Henry  Camp  Potter,  a 
graduate  of  Union  College,  were  the  executive  heads  of  the 
organization  which  built  the  Flint  &  Pere  Marquette  Rail- 
road through  the  forests  and  plains  of  Michigan.  Through 
his  mother,  he  traced  his  descent  from  Edward  Fuller,  who 
came  on  the  Mayflower  and  one  of  whose  descendants  was 
Chief  Justice  Fuller;  from  Elder  William  Wentworth,  who  was 
a  signer  of  the  Exeter  Combination  of  1639,  ^^^  ^^  ^he  found- 
ers of  Dover,  N.  H.,  and  an  ancestor  of  governors  bearing  his 
name;  from  Major  Thomas  Savage,  fourth  on  the  roll  of  the 
Ancient  and  Honorable  Artillery  of  Boston,  one  of  the  found- 
ers of  Old  South  Church,  Boston,  and  one  of  the  first  cham- 
pions of  free  schools;  and  from  Thomas  Weld,  a  graduate  of 
Trinity  College,  Cambridge,  celebrated  for  his  work  among 
the  Indians,  his  Hebrew  translations,  and  services  rendered 
to  the  colonies  in  England. 

Stephen  Potter  was  fitted  for  college  at  the  Gunnery 
School,  Washington,  Conn.,  and  at  Phillips  Academy,  Exeter, 
N.  H.  He  received  a  second  colloquy  Junior  appointment, 
and  was  a  member  of  the  Freshman  Football  Team  and  the 
University  Track  Squad  in  191 6.  He  was  granted  the  degree 
of  B.A.,  post  obitum,  honoris  causa^  in  June,  1919. 

He  was  a  member  of  the  second  Yale  unit  which  left  college 
in  April,  191 7,  to  join  the  Naval  Air  Service.  With  the  other 
members  of  the  organization  he  was  in  training  at  BuflFalo, 
N.  Y.,  and  received  his  commission  as  Ensign  in  the  U.  S. 
Naval  Air  Service  November  2,  1917.  He  went  abroad  at 
once,  on  his  arrival  in  France  being  assigned  to  the  advanced 
school  at  Monchic.  On  completing  the  course  there  he  was  sent 
to  the  Naval  Air  Station  at  Felixstowe,  England,  for  patrol 
duty  in  the  North  Sea.  The  Navy  Department  credits  him 
with  having  on  March  19,  191 8,  shot  down  the  first  German 
seaplane  destroyed  by  an  American  naval  aviator.  He  was 
shot  down  and  killed  in  a  battle  with  seven  German  planes 
on  April  25,  191 8.  He  was  last  seen  on  the  surface  amid  flames, 
which  suddenly  turned  to  a  huge  cloud  of  smoke.  When  this 
cleared  not  even  the  wreckage  was  visible.  Before  his  death 
he  had  been  recommended  for  promotion  for  his  excellent 
work. 


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Mr.  Potter  was  not  married.  He  is  survived  by  two  broth- 
ers, John  Hamilton  Potter  (Ph.B.  191 1)  and  Rowland  Far- 
well  Potter  (B.A.  1916).  William  F.  Potter  (Ph.B.  1914)  is  a 
cousin. 

Bryan  Hobart  Ripley,  B.A.  1919 

Born  July  26,  1 898,  in  Unionville,  Conn. 
Died  March  30,  191 8,  in  New  Haven,  Conn. 

Bryan  Hobart  Ripley  was  born  in  Unionville,  Conn.,  July 
26,  1898.  His  father,  Eugene  Bradford  Ripley,  who  died  in 
1 901,  was  a  paper  manufacturer,  being  at  one  time  president 
of  the  Platner  &  Porter  Manufacturing  Company  and  later 
of  the  Ripley  Manufacturing  Company.  He  was  the  son  of 
Rev.  Erastus  Ripley  and  Harriet  Rose  (Riggs)  Ripley,  and  a 
descendant  of  William  Ripley,  who  came  to  America  from 
Hingham,  England,  in  1638  and  settled  in  Hingham,  Mass. 
Erastus  Ripley,  a  graduate  of  Andover  Theological  Seminary 
in  1843,  went  with  his  entire  class,  known  as  the  Iowa  band, 
as  missionaries  to  Iowa;  they  founded  Iowa  College  (now 
Grinnell),  and  Erastus  Ripley  was  the  first  professor,  opening 
the  college  with  three  pupils  in  1848.  Bryan  H.  Ripley's 
mother  is  Mary  Virgia  (Bryan)  Ripley,  daughter  of  Joseph 
W.  and  Missouri  (Fenley)  Bryan.  Her  ancestors  came  to 
America  from  Scotland,  and  settled  in  Fairfax  County,  Va. 

His  preparation  for  Yale  was  received  at  the  Hartford 
(Conn.)  Public  High  School.  He  was  given  honors  of  the 
second  rank  Freshman  year;  won  the  first  Lucius  F.  Robinson 
Latin  Prize;  held  a  Connecticut  High  School  and  the  Robert 
Callender  scholarships;  and  was  awarded  a  philosophical 
oration  Junior  appointment.  He  was  elected  to  Phi  Beta 
Kappa  after  his  death,  and  the  degree  of  B.A.,  post  obitum, 
was  granted  to  him  in  June,  1919.  He  died,  of  pneumonia,  at 
the  Yale  Infirmary  on  March  30,  191 8.  Interment  was  in 
the  Hillside  Cem.etery  at  Unionville.  Because  of  serious  heart 
trouble  he  was  refused  admission  to  the  service,  when  he 
tried  to  enlist  during  the  war. 

He  is  survived  by  his  mother,  a  sister,  and  a  brother, 
Eugene  Bradford  Ripley  (Ph.B.  1916),  who  served  overseas 
as  a  Captain  in  the  i6th  Field  Artillery.  He  was  a  member 
of  Center  (First)  Church  of  Hartford. 


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Albert  Gardiner  Clark,  Ph.B.  1868 

Born  April  20,  1847,  ^^  Cincinnati,  Ohio 
Died  April  20,  191 9,  in  Dawsonville,  Ga. 

Albert  Gardiner  Clark  was  born  in  Cincinnati,  Ohio,  April 
20,  1847,  ^^^  was  one  of  the  six  children  of  Henry  and  Mary 
(Skyrin)  Clark.  His  father  was  a  druggist,  a  director  in  the 
Franklin  Bank,  and  a  trustee  of  the  Glendale  Association, 
holding  the  legal  title  to  the  association's  real  estate.  He  was 
a  descendant  of  Sylvanus  Clark,  whose  father,  Eleazer  Clark, 
came  to  America  from  England  in  1759  and  settled  in  Lyme, 
Conn.  Mary  Skyrin  Clark  was  the  daughter  of  John  Skyrin, 
an  Englishman,  and  Ann  (Drinker)  Skyrin.  The  latter  was  of 
English  descent,  her  first  American  ancestor  being  Henry 
Drinker,  of  Philadelphia,  Pa. 

He  received  his  preparatory  training  in  Cincinnati  and  in 
Bridgeport,  Conn,  He  took  the  select  course  in  the  Scientific 
School,  and  was  Class  Poet. 

For  several  years  after  graduation  he  was  engaged  in  the 
mercantile  business  at  Cincinnati,  and  then  took  up  the 
study  of  law  in  that  city.  He  later  served  as  vice  presi- 
dent and  a  director  of  the  Cincinnati  Street  Railway,  general 
manager  and  a  director  of  the  Cincinnati  Brush  Light  Com- 
pany, a  member  of  the  executive  committee  and  a  director  of 
the  Bell  Telephone  Company  of  Cincinnati,  a  director  of  the 
Ohio  Bell  Telephone  Company,  constructor  and  vice  presi- 
dent of  the  White  Line  Electric  Street  Railway  Company  of 
Dayton,  Ohio,  vice  president  and  a  director  of  the  Mount 
Adams  Eden  Park  Street  Railway  Company  of  Cincinnati,  a 
member  of  the  executive  committee  and  a  director  of  the 
Peoples  Street  Railway  Company  of  Baltimore,  Md.,  vice 
president  of  the  Central  Trust  &  Safe  Deposit  Company  of 
Cincinnati,  and  secretary  and  a  member  of  the  board  of 
directors  of  The  Rockwood  Pottery.  He  was  intimately  asso- 
ciated with  electrical  development,  being  brought  in  contact 


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with  Van  Derpoohl,  Daft,  Brush,  and  others  who  were  pio- 
neers in  this  work.  He  was  the  first  to  extract  zinc  commercially 
from  purely  western  ores,  shipping  zinc  ore  from  Leadville, 
Colo.,  to  Bruce,  Kans.,  for  smelting,  and  returning  the 
residue  to  Denver  for  extraction  of  gold,  silver,  etc.  The  latter 
part  of  his  life,  which  was  devoted  mainly  to  mining,  was 
spent  in  Denver  and  in  Dawsonville,  Ga.  He  had  been  treas- 
urer and  a  director  of  the  Cincinnati  May  Musical  Festival 
Association  and  treasurer  of  the  board  of  governors  of  the 
Queen  City  Club,  Cincinnati.  He  was  at  one  time  president 
of  the  Glendale  School  Board  and  of  the  board  appointed  to 
construct  water  works  in  Glendale.  He  had  traveled  much  in 
this  country. 

Mr.  Clark's  death  occurred  April  20,  191 9,  in  Dawsonville, 
and  he  was  buried  in  Spring  Grove  Cemetery  in  Cincinnati. 

He  was  married  October  30,  1873,  in  Cincinnati,  to  Jean- 
nette,  daughter  of  Pollock  and  Maria  (Morten)  Wilson.  She 
survives  him  with  their  four  children:  Henry  Skyrin  (Ph.B. 
1899),  Albert  Gardiner,  Carroll  Morten,  and  Mary  Skyrin. 


Henry  Shaler  Williams,  Ph.B.   1868 

Born  March  6,  1847,  i"  Ithaca,  N.  Y. 
Died  July  30,  191 8,  in  Havana,  Cuba 

Henry  Shaler  Williams  was  born  in  Ithaca,  N.  Y.,  on  March 
6,  1847.  ^^^  father,  Josiah  Butler,  son  of  Josiah  and  Charity 
(Shaler)  Williams,  was  descended  from  Thomas  Williams, 
who  emigrated  to  this  country  from  Wales  prior  to  1656  and 
settled  at  Wethersfield,  Conn.  He  was  president  of  the  Mer- 
chants &  Farmers  Bank  and  of  the  First  National  Bank  of 
Ithaca,  served  as  chairman  of  the  committee  on  revising  the 
state  laws  on  banking,  was  a  state  senator  from  1852  to  1855, 
and  was  one  of  the  original  trustees  of  Cornell  University. 
Henry  S.  Williams'  mother,  Mary  Huggeford  (Hardy) 
Williams,  was  the  daughter  of  Charles  Elias  and  Louisa 
(Walker)  Hardy.  She  traced  her  descent  from  Elias  Hardy, 
born  in  1746  in  London,  England,  who  settled  in  Virginia 
and  later  moved  to  St.  John,  New  Brunswick,  where  his  six 
children  were  born. 


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He  was  prepared  for  college  at  the  Ithaca  Academy,  and 
entered  Yale  College  with  the  Class  of  1868,  but  at  the  end  of 
Sophomore  year  transferred  to  the  Junior  class  in  the  Shef- 
field Scientific  School.  He  was  a  member  of  Linonia.  He 
remained  at  Yale  after  graduation  as  an  assistant  in  paleon- 
tology, and  received  the  degree  of  Ph.D.  in  187 1. 

The  following  year  he  held  the  chair  in  natural  science  at 
Kentucky  University  (now  known  as  Transylvania  College), 
and  during  the  next  eight  years  was  engaged  in  business 
with  his  father  and  brothers  in  Ithaca.  In  1879  he  became 
connected  with  Cornell  University  as  assistant  professor  of 
geology,  a  title  which  was  changed  in  1880  to  professor  of 
paleontology,  and  in  1884  he  was  promoted  to  a  full  professor- 
ship. After  1886  the  chair  also  included  geology.  Professor 
Williams  also  discharged  the  duties  of  secretary  of  the 
faculty,  and  from  1887  to  1892  was  dean  of  the  general  fac- 
ulty. In  1892  he  accepted  the  Silliman  professorship  of  geol- 
ogy and  mineralogy  at  Yale,  where  he  remained  until  1904. 
He  came  to  Yale  at  the  time  when  the  Manual  of  Geology  was 
taking  final  form,  and  took  part  in  the  statement  of  the 
theory  and  facts  of  evolution  which  brought  the  teaching  of 
the  Manual  into  harmony  with  the  leading  scientific  thought 
of  the  day.  He  returned  to  Cornell  in  1904  as  head  of  the 
department  of  geology  and  director  of  the  museum  of  geology. 
In  1912  he  was  made  professor  emeritus  of  geology. 

He  was  one  of  the  two  authorities  on  the  American  Devo- 
nian faunas  and  formations,  and  also  did  valuable  work  on  the 
Silurian  and  Mississippian  systems.  For  many  years  he  main- 
tained an  intimate  connection  with  the  U.  S.  Geological 
Survey,  having  charge  of  the  Devonian  laboratory.  He  repre- 
sented the  United  States  at  the  International  Congress  of 
Geology  in  1888,  and  was  also  secretary  of  the  Congress  for 
a  number  of  years.  He  spent  most  of  the  last  two  years  of  his 
life  in  Cuba,  visiting  his  son,  A.  Shaler  Williams,  and  his  re- 
search in  the  oil  fields  there  resulted  in  the  opening  of  a  num- 
ber of  oil  wells  on  the  island.  His  literary  work  was  extensive. 
He  was  the  author  of  upwards  of  ninety  papers  and  books 
comprising  nearly  three  thousand  pages,  and  was  associate 
editor  of  the  American  Journal  of  Science  and  the  Journal  of 
Geology   and   a   frequent   contributor   to   other   periodicals. 


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Among  his  works  were  "Correlation  Papers,  Devonian  and 
Carboniferous"  (1891)  and  "A  Geological  Biology"  (1895). 
He  was  the  founder  of  the  Sigma  Xi  Society,  and  was  also 
actively  interested  in  the  organization  of  the  Geological 
Society  of  America  and  the  Paleontological  Society.  He  was 
a  member  and  elder  of  the  First  Presbyterian  Church  of 
Ithaca. 

He  died,  of  pleurisy,  July  30,  191 8,  at  Havana,  Cuba,  after 
an  illness  of  several  months.  The  interment  was  in  Lakeview 
Cemetery,  Ithaca.  A  memorial  service  in  honor  of  Professor 
Williams  was  held  in  Sage  Chapel  at  Cornell  University  on 
October  20,  191 8,  and  a  bronze  tablet  to  his  memory  has  been 
placed  in  the  chapel.  Many  tributes  to  Professor  Williams  and 
his  scientific  work  have  appeared  since  his  death. 

He  was  married  October  18,  1871,  in  New  Haven,  Conn., 
to  Harriet  Hart,  daughter  of  Cyprian  and  Charlotte  (Brad- 
dock)  Willcox.  They  had  four  children:  Charlotte  Willcox; 
Roger  Henry  (Ph.B.  Cornell  1895,  M.A.  Yale  1903,  LL.B. 
and  Jur.D.  New  York  University  191 2  and  1913,  respectively); 
Arthur  Shaler  (B.A.  1901,  M.E.  Cornell  1904);  and  Edith 
Clifford.  Besides  his  wife  and  children.  Professor  Williams  is 
survived  by  two  brothers, — Roger  B.  Williams,  a  graduate  of 
the  College  in  1868,  and  Otis  L.  Williams,  Cornell  '88, — and 
five  sisters, — Augusta  H.,  Charlotte  E.,  Jane  E.  (Mrs.  Jared 
F. Newman),  Ella  Susan,  and  Clara  M.  (Mrs.  John  H.  Tanner) . 


Charles  Augustus  Brinley,  Ph.B.   1869 

Born  August  23,  1847,  i"  Hartford,  Conn. 
Died  March  2,  1919,  in  Philadelphia,  Pa. 

Charles  Augustus  Brinley,  son  of  George  and  Frances 
Ellen  (Terry)  Brinley,  was  born  August  23,  1847,  ^^  Hart- 
ford, Conn.  His  father,  who  received  the  honorary  degree  of 
M.A.  from  Yale  in  1868,  was  the  son  of  George  Brinley,  a 
descendant  of  Francis  Brinley  who  came  to  America  from 
Datchet,  England,  in  1652,  and  settled  at  Newport,  R.  I., 
and  Catharine  (Putnam)  Brinley,  who  was  the  granddaughter 
of  General  Israel  Putnam.  His  mother's  parents  were  General 
Nathaniel  Terry  and   Catharine   (Wadsworth)  Terry.   The 


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latter  was  a  daughter  of  Col.  Jeremiah  Wadsworth,  of  Hart- 
ford, commissary  and  agent  of  the  French  Army  and  Assist- 
ant Quartermaster-General  of  the  Continental  Army  during 
the  American  Revolution. 

He  was  prepared  at  the  Hartford  Public  High  Schoql,  and 
spent  one  year  on  a  geological  survey  of  California  under 
Professor  Josiah  D.  Whitney  (B.A.  1839)  before  entering 
Yale  in  1866.  He  took  the  course  in  chemistry  and  metal- 
lurgy, and  divided  a  prize  in  English  composition  Senior  year. 

In  1872,  after  spending  three  years  in  graduate  work  at 
Yale,  he  became  chemist  for  the  Midvale  Steel  Company  of 
Philadelphia,  Pa.  He  was  made  superintendent  of  their  plant  in 
1874,  and  served  in  that  capacity  until  1882,  when  he  accepted 
the  position  of  general  manager  of  the  Franklin  Sugar  Refinery 
in  that  city.  He  continued  in  this  connection  for  ten  years.  In 
1892  he  temporarily  retired  from  business,  and  spent  the  next 
few  years  in  activities  in  relation  to  civic  betterment  and  edu- 
cation. He  became  president  of  the  University  Extension 
Society  in  1896,  and  was  influential  in  establishing  it  upon  a 
substantial  and  permanent  basis.  He  was  the  author  of 
"Citizenship"  (1893)  and  "The  Voters'  Handbook"  (1894). 
In  1898  he  returned  to  active  business  and  undertook  the 
organization  of  The  American  Pulley  Company,  becoming 
managing  director  and  later  president.  He  continued  as  direct- 
ing head  of  this  company  until  his  death,  building  up  from 
the  beginning  an  industry  which  has  become  one  of  the 
important  manufacturing  establishments  of  Philadelphia.  He 
was  a  trustee  of  the  Franklin  Institute,  a  manager  of  the 
Western  Savings  Fund  Society,  and  a  director  of  the  Pennsyl- 
vania Institute  for  the  Deaf  and  Dumb.  He  was  a  member  of 
the  Mayflower  Society,  the  Sons  of  the  American  Revolution, 
the  Shakespeare  Society  of  Philadelphia,  and  of  St.  Peter's 
Church  (Protestant  Episcopal)  of  Philadelphia.  He  had  made 
four  trips  abroad. 

Mr.  Brinley  died  March  2,  191 9,  at  his  home  in  Philadel- 
phia, of  heart  failure,  after  an  illness  of  about  a  month. 
Burial  was  in  West  Laurel  Cemetery,  Philadelphia. 

He  was  married  April  24,  1877,  in  that  city,  to  Mary  Good- 
rich, daughter  of  Theodore  and  Mary  Francis  (Wolcott) 
Frothingham,  who  died  July  8,  191 1.  They  had  four  children: 


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Charles  Edward  (B.A.  1900,  Ph.B.  1901);  Mary  Frothing- 
harrij  who  was  married  November  15,  1905,  to  John  Walling- 
ford  Muir;  Katharine;  and  Alice  Wolcott,  whose  marriage  to 
Charles  Goodhue  King  took  place  February  25,  1908. 


Henry  Hoyt  Perry,  Ph.B.   1869 

Born  December  8,  1849,  '^^  Southport,  Conn. 
Died  May  23,  1919,  in  Southport,  Conn. 

Henry  Hoyt  Perry,  son  of  Oliver  Henry  and  Harriette  E. 
(Hoyt)  Perry,  was  born  December  8,  1849,  ^^  Southport, 
Conn.  His  father  graduated  from  Yale  in  1834,  and  in  1854 
was  Secretary  of  State  for  Connecticut.  In  1875  Yale  con- 
ferred the  honorary  degree  of  Master  of  Arts  upon  him.  He 
was  the  son  of  Walter  and  Elizabeth  Burr  (Sturges)  Perry. 
Henry  H.  Perry's  maternal  grandparents  were  Eli  T.  and 
Mary  (White)  Hoyt. 

He  was  prepared  for  Yale  under  a  private  tutor,  and  in  the 
Sheffield  Scientific  School  specialized  in  chemistry  and  civil 
engineering.  He  rowed  on  the  Class  Crew  in  Senior  year. 

•His  life  was  spent  in  his  native  town,  where  he  was  engaged 
in  the  insurance  business.  Since  1882  he  had  also  been  con- 
nected with  the  Southport  Savings  Bank,  at  first  as  teller  and 
afterwards  as  director  and  treasurer.  He  held  many  posi- 
tions of  trust  in  Southport.  At  the  time  of  his  death  he  was 
a  director  of  the  Wakeman  Memorial  Association  and  the 
Pequot  Library  Association  and  a  director  and  treasurer 
of  the  Oaklawn  Cemetery  Association.  He  was  a  member  of 
the  Southport  Congregational  Church,  and  had  served  on 
the  business  committee  and  as  church  treasurer  for  many 
years.  His  death  occurred  at  his  home,  on  May  23,  191 9, 
after  an  illness  of  four  months  due  to  epithelioma.  The  inter- 
ment was  in  Oaklawn  Cemetery,  Southport. 

He  was  twice  married,  his  first  wife  being  Florence  P., 
daughter  of  William  and  Pamela  (Black)  Sanborn.  They 
were  married  September  9,  1874,  in  Ashtabula,  Ohio,  and 
Mrs.  Perry  died  July  19,  1881.  They  had  two  children,  a 
daughter,  Carolyn  Sanborn,  who  was  married  in  1907  to 
Edward  H.  Roberts,  of  Minneapolis,  Minn.,  and  a  son, 
Oliver  Henry  Perry  (Ph.B.  1899),  who  died  November  29, 


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1900.  Mr.  Perry's  second  marriage  took  place  August  29, 
1883,  in  Glastonbury,  Conn.,  to  Isabel  H.,  daughter  of 
Charles  Carroll  and  Henrietta  (Edwards)  Douglas,  who  sur- 
vives him.  His  daughter  is  also  living.  He  was  a  brother  of 
John  Hoyt  Perry  (B.A.  1870)  and  Winthrop  Hoyt  Perry  (B.A. 
1876,  LL.B.  1882),  and  an  uncle  of  George  B.  Perry  (B.A. 
1898),  John  W.  Perry,  ^^-'01  S.,  Richard  A.  Perry,  ^^^-'05, 
andHoytO.Perry  (B.A.  1916). Douglas  S.Seelye(Ph.B.i9i8) 
is  a  nephew  by  marriage. 

Robert  Schuyler  VanRensselaer,  Ph.B.   1869 

Born  October  27,  1847,  ^"  Burlington,  N.  J. 
Died  January  24,  19 19,  in  Punxsutawney,  Pa. 

Robert  Schuyler  VanRensselaer  was  born  in  Burlington, 
N.  J.,  October  27,  1847,  ^^e  son  of  Robert  Schuyler  VanRens- 
selaer, superintendent  of  the  Camden  and  Amboy  Division 
of  the  Pennsylvania  Railroad,  and  Sara  Charlton  (Kidd) 
VanRensselaer.  His  father's  parents  were  Col.  Jacob  Rutsen 
VanRensselaer,  of  Claverack,  N.  Y.,  and  Cornelia  (dePey- 
ster)  VanRensselaer.  Colonel  VanRensselaer  was  associated 
with  Governor  DeWitt  Clinton  in  building  the  Erie  Canal, 
was  a  member  of  the  Legislature,  and  was  oflfered  and  refused 
the  nomination  for  the  Lieutenant-Governorship  of  the  state. 
He  was  the  second  son  of  Brigadier  General  Robert  VanRens- 
selaer, proprietor  of  Claverack  Manor,  and  Cornelia  (Rutsen) 
VanRensselaer,  who  was  the  daughter  of  Col.  Jacob  Rutsen 
and  Alida  (Livingston)  Rutsen,  the  granddaughter  of  Gilbert 
and  Cornelia  (Beekman)  Livingston,  and  the  great-grand- 
daughter of  Robert  Livingston,  First  Lord  of  the  Manor. 
General  Robert  VanRensselaer's  parents  were  Col.  Johannes 
VanRensselaer  and  Angelica  (Livingston)  VanRensselaer, 
whose  grandfather.  Col.  Pieter  Schuyler,  was  deputy  royal 
governor  of  New  York;  his  grandparents  were  Hendrick  and 
Catharine  (VanBrugh)  VanRensselaer.  Hendrick  VanRens- 
selaer was  the  second  son  of  Jeremias  VanRensselaer,  the 
Director  of  Rensselaerswyck  and  later  the  Third  Patroon, 
who  was  born  near  Amsterdam,  Holland,  in  1630  and  died 
at  Watervliet,  N.  Y.,  in  1674;  he  married  Maria,  daughter 
of  Oloff  Stevenson  VanCortlandt. 
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He  was  prepared  for  Yale  at  New  Brunswick,  N.  J.,  at 
Burlington  Military  College,  and  under  private  tutors. 
Entering  the  Sheffield  Scientific  School  in  the  fall  of  1866, 
he  took  the  civil  engineering  course. 

After  graduation  he  became  an  engineer  on  the  northwest- 
ern branch  of  the  Pennsylvania  Railroad,  from  Bellwood 
across  the  Allegheny  Mountains  into  the  Berwind  and  White 
coal  regions.  He  surveyed  the  northwestern  branch  of  the 
Pennsylvania  Road  across  the  Allegheny  Mountains,  and  also 
surveyed  many  branch  railroads.  For  some  years  previous 
to  his  death  he  was  engaged  in  surveying  and  mapping  for 
the  Rochester  &  Pittsburgh  Coal  &  Iron  Company  at  Punx- 
sutawney.  Pa.  At  the  same  time  he  served  as  borough  engi- 
neer of  Punxsutawney,  and  was  also  for  a  while  county  road 
viewer.  He  had  been  licensed  as  a  lay  reader  by  Bishop  White- 
head and  was  senior  warden  of  Christ  Protestant  Episcopal 
Church  of  Punxsutawney,  which  he  had  organized.  His 
correspondence  for  sixteen  years  with  the  Home  Govern- 
ment in  the  Netherlands  is  still  preserved  in  Amsterdam 
and  is  an  authority  for  events  in  the  early  days  of  the  Dutch 
settlement.  His  minute  chronicle  of  events  in  America  is 
entitled  the  "Netherland  Mercury." 

Mr.  VanRensselaer  died  January  24,  1919,  at  Punxsu- 
tawney, after  an  illness  of  three  days.  He  was  buried  in  the 
Circle  Hill  Cemetery  in  that  town. 

He  was  married  in  Camden,  N.  J.,  December  29,  1879,  ^^ 
Arietta  Deborah,  daughter  of  Samuel  and  Anna  Eliza  (Han- 
cock) Archer.  She  survives  him  with  their  two  children, 
LeRoy  Campbell  and  Nina  Archer. 


Charles  Peter  Brooks,  Ph.B.  1870 

Born  August  21,  185 1,  in  Washingtonville,  N.  Y. 
Died  November  30, 191 8,  in  Salt  Lake  City,  Utah 

Charles  Peter  Brooks,  son  of  Charles  Edward  and  Adeline 
(Cannon)  Brooks,  was  born  in  Washingtonville,  N.  Y.,  Au- 
gust 21,  1 85 1.  His  father,  who  was  a  farmer,  had  served  as 
supervisor  of  the  town  of  Blooming  Grove,  N.  Y.,  and  as 
superintendent  of  Orange  County.  He  was  the  son  of  John  I. 


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and  Hannah  Brooks  and  a  descendant  of  Jonathan  Brooks. 
The  latter  came  to  this  country  from  the  north  of  Ireland  and 
settled  in  New  York  about  1729,  in  company  with  the  ances- 
tors of  Governor  DeWitt  Clinton,  to  whom  he  w^s  related. 
The  mother  of  Charles  P.  Brooks  was  the  daughter  of  Mott 
and  Mary  (Smith)  Cannon.  She  was  of  Huguenot  descent. 
Her  ancestors  were  driven  from  France  in  1700  and  settled 
in  New  York  City  shortly  afterwards. 

He  received  his  preparatory  training  at  the  Chester  (N.  J.) 
Academy,  the  New  Paltz  (N.  Y.)  Academy,  and  the  Mount 
Retirement  Academy,  Deckerstown,  N.  J.  He  took  the-  civil 
engineering  course  in  the  Scientific  School. 

In  December,  1870,  he  entered  the  City  Engineer's  Office 
in  New  Haven,  Conn.,  where  he  remained  for  a  year  and  a 
half,  especially  engaged  in  sewer  work.  In  1872  he  took  a 
position  as  assistant  engineer  for  the  Texas  &  Pacific  Rail- 
road, on  preliminary  and  location  work  through  Texas,  New 
Mexico,  and  Arizona.  The  division  engineer  recognizing  his 
ability,  he  was  sent  to  Masilla,  N.  Mex.,  to  establish  the  head 
office  for  the  division,  and  from  there  he  was  sent  in  1873  to 
the  head  office  of  the  road  at  Marshall,  Texas.  An  epidemic 
of  yellow  fever  broke  out  there  and  he  was  forced  to  leave. 
He  then  went  to  Chicago  to  meet  Mr.  Richard  Henry  Browne 
(a  graduate  of  Trinity  College,  Dublin,  in  Arts  and  Engi- 
neering in  1870),  who  had  also  been  an  assistant  engineer  on 
the  Texas  &  Pacific  Railroad,  and  with  whom  he  had  agreed 
to  form  a  partnership.  Together  they  went  to  Salt  Lake  City, 
Utah,  in  1874,  opening  an  office  as  civil  and  mining  engineers 
under  the  name  of  Browne  &  Brooks.  Mr.  Brooks  became 
U.  S.  Deputy  Mineral  Surveyor  for  Utah,  Idaho,  Nevada, 
and  California.  As  engineer  of  the  city  of  Salt  Lake,  he 
planned  and  built  during  the  period  from  1889  to  1891  the  first 
system  of  sewerage  there.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Salt  Lake 
City  Board  of  Health  from  1890  to  1903,  county  surveyor  for 
Salt  Lake  County  during  1890-91,  and  a  member  of  the 
Board  of  Public  Works  from  1905  to  191 2.  Mr.  Brooks  was 
well  known  in  mining  and  engineering  circles  throughout  the 
West,  and  had  been  identified  professionally  with  nearly 
every  big  mining  suit  in  Utah  for  the  past  thirty  years,  either 
as  expert  witness  or  as  consulting  engineer.  In  1916  he  accom- 


1 138  SHEFFIELD    SCIENTIFIC    SCHOOL 

panied  former  Senator  Thomas  Kearns  to  Panama,  having 
been  sent  unofficially  by  General  Scott  to  make  a  report  on 
the  slides.  Mr.  Brooks'  large  experience  in  dealing  with  sub- 
terranean forces  led  him  to  advance  a  new  theory  as  to  the 
causes  of  the  slides — one  fundamentally  different  from  the 
general  theory  on  which  the  Government  engineers  are  en- 
deavoring to  deal  with  the  problem.  This  theory  was  incor- 
porated in  Mr.  Kearns'  report,  which  has  been  accepted  by 
the  United  States  Senate. 

He  was  a  charter  member  of  the  University  Club  of  Salt 
Lake-City,  serving  as  president  during  1890-91,  and  was  also 
a  member  of  the  American  Institute  of  Mining  Engineers  and 
of  the  Kiwanis  Club.  He  died  of  heart  failure,  November  30, 
191 8,  in  Salt  Lake  City,  after  an  illness  of  six  weeks.  Burial 
was  in  Mount  Olivet  Cemetery,  Salt  Lake  City. 

His  first  marriage  took  place  September  28,  1876,  in  that 
city,  to  Millicent  Amelia,  daughter  of  William  Samuel  and 
Mary  (Hampton)  Godbe.  They  had  three  daughters,  Clara, 
who  graduated  from  Pratt  Institute,  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.,  in 
1 901,  and  was  married  July  2,  1902,  to  James  Henry  Pitts,  a 
civil  and  mining  engineer;  Miriam,  who  studied  for  three 
years  at  the  New  England  Conservatory  of  Music,  and  was 
married  November  14,  191 5,  to  Willard  Guy  Jenkins,  then  an 
undergraduate  at  the  University  of  Ohio;  and  Marjorie, 
whose  marriage  to  Levi  Jennings  Riter  (B.S.  Cornell  1908) 
took  place  June  8,  19 10.  Mrs.  Brooks  died  September  27, 
1889,  and  on  December  15,  1891,  Mr.  Brooks  was  married 
in  Salt  Lake  City  to  her  sister.  Miss  Miriam  Godbe.  He  is 
survived  by  his  wife  and  daughters.  He  was  the  last  of  a 
family  of  eleven  brothers  and  sisters. 


John  George  Watson,  Ph.B.  1870 

Born  August  21,  1847,  ^^  Gait,  Ontario,  Canada 
Died  October  11,  1918,  at  Ayr,  Ontario,  Canada 

John  George  Watson,  son  of  John  and  Mary  (Urie)  Watson, 
was  born  at  Gait,  Ontario,  Canada,  August  21,  1847.  ^^^ 
father,  a  manufacturer  of  agricultural  implements,  was  the 
son  of  Archibald  and  Margaret  (Ure)  Watson;  he  was  born 


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in  Glasgow,  Scotland,  and  came  to  Canada  in  1840,  settling 
at  Ayr,  Ontario,  in  1847.  His  mother's  parents  were  John  and 
Mary  Urie.  Her  family  came  from  Scotland,  and  was  one 
of  the  first  to  settle  on  the  Grand  River  in  Onondaga  Town- 
ship, Brant  County,  Ontario. 

He  was  a  student  in  the  preparatory  department  of  Oberlin 
College  from  1861  to  1863,  and  during  the  next  four  years 
studied  in  the  grammar  school  in  his  native  town  under  Dr. 
Lassie.  He  entered  the  Sheffield  Scientific  School  in  1867,  and 
took  the  mechanical  engineering  course. 

Immediately  after  graduation  he  became  connected  with 
the  John  Watson  Manufacturing  Company  of  Ayr.  He  held 
the  position  of  mechanical  superintendent  for  a  time,  and 
from  1903  until  his  death,  that  of  president.  He  was  a  prom- 
inent Liberal  in  politics,  and  was  for  many  years  a  member  of 
the  Public  School  Board,  a  member  of  the  board  of  manage- 
ment of  the  Public  Library,  and  a  justice  of  the  peace  for  the 
County  of  Waterloo.  He  was  appointed  postmaster  of  the 
town  of  Ayr  in  1903,  and  continued  in  that  office  until  his 
death,  which  occurred  in  Ayr  October  11,  191 8,  after  an 
illness  of  three  days.  He  was  buried  in  the  local  cemetery.  He 
was  a  member  of  the  Knox  United  (Presbyterian)  Church. 

On  May  9,  1871,  he  was  married  in  Ayr,  to  Margaret 
Boyd,  daughter  of  William  and  Ellen  Hall.  The  elder  of  their 
two  children,  John  William  Watson,  survives.  The  younger, 
Daisie  Ellen,  died  February  18,  1901. 


William  Cecil  Durand,  Ph.B.  1871 

Born  June  15,  1851,  in  Milford,  Conn. 
Died  July  22,  19 18,  in  Milford,  Conn. 

It  has  been  impossible  to  secure  the  desired  information 
for  an  obituary  sketch  of  Mr.  Durand  in  time  for  publication 
in  this  volume.  A'^sketch  will  appear  in  a  subsequent  issue  of 
the  Obituary  Record. 


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Claudius  Victor  Pendleton,  Ph.B.   1874 

Born  September  12,  1850,  in  Bozrah,  Conn. 
Died  September  17,  1917,  in  Yantic,  Conn. 

Claudius  Victor  Pendleton  was  the  son  of  Charles  M.  and 
Susan  Eliza  (Bingham)  Pendleton,  and  was  born  September 
12,  1850,  in  Bozrah,  Conn.  His  father,  who  was  a  farmer, 
served  in  the  Connecticut  Legislature  during  1877-78.  He  was 
the  son  of  Adam  and  Hannah  (Marsh)  Pendleton,  the  grand- 
son of  Capt.  Joshua  Pendleton  and  Anna  (Clarke)  Pendleton, 
and  the  great-grandson  of  Col.  William  Pendleton.  Among 
his  ancestors  were  Capt.  James  Pendleton,  who  was  born  in 
England  in  1627  and  was  admitted  as  a  freeman  at  Water- 
town,  Mass.,  in  1648,  and  Brian  Pendleton,  who  was  born  in 
England  in  1599  and  came  to  America  with  his  family  before 
1634,  settling  in  Massachusetts.  Claudius  Pendleton's  mater- 
nal grandparents  were  Alexander  and  Susan  (Waterman) 
Bingham. 

His  early  education  was  received  at  the  Norwich  Free 
Academy.  Since  graduation  he  had  been  engaged  in  work  as  a 
civil  engineer  and  surveyor,  and  at  the  time  of  his  death  he 
was  superintendent  of  construction  for  the  Berlin  (Conn.) 
Iron  Bridge  Company  and  the  American  Bridge  Company. 
He  was  a  member  of  the  Congregational  Church. 

He  died  September  17,  1917,  in  Yantic,  Conn.,  where  he 
had  been  living  for  some  years.  His  death  was  due  to  laryn- 
gitis and  dyspepsia.  Burial  was  in  the  Yantic  Cemetery  at 
Norwich. 

He  was  married  March  20,  1879,  in  Bozrah,  to  Phebe  J., 
daughter  of  William  F.  and  Phebe  A.  (Johnson)  Bailey.  They 
had  five  children:  William  B.,  who  was  born  in  1880  and  died 
in  1907;  Lena  May  (born  December  9,  1881;  died  August  5, 
1882);  Susan  Bingham,  born  and  died  in  1883;  Claudius 
Victor,  Jr.,  of  Norwich,  Conn.;  and  Clarence  Marsh  (born 
November  16,  1891;  died  June  6,  1899).  Besides  his  wife  and 
son,  Mr.  Pendleton  leaves  two  brothers,.  Charles  M.  and 
Alexander  B.  Pendleton.  Albert  J.  Bailey  (LL.B.  1906)  is  a 
nephew  and  Dr.  Cyrus  E.  Pendleton  (M.D.  1903)  a  cousin. 


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Edward  Day  Page,  Ph.B.   1875 

Born  May  lo,  1856,  in  Haverhill,  Mass. 
Died  December  25,  191 8,  in  Oakland,  N.  J. 

Edward  Day  Page  was  born  in  Haverhill,  Mass.,  May  10, 
1856,  his  parents  being  Henry  Abel  Page,  of  the  dry  goods 
commission  house  of  Faulkner,  Page  &  Company,  and  Maria 
(Clarke)  Page.  His  paternal  grandparents  were  Abel  and 
Marianna  (Kimball)  Page,  and  his  first  American  ancestor 
on  his  father's  side  was  John  Page,  who  came  to  America 
from  England  about  the  middle  of  the  seventeenth  century 
and  settled  in  Haverhill.  His  mother  was  the  daughter  of 
Andrew  and  Maria  (Brooks)  Clarke,  and  a  descendant  of 
Richard  Kimball,  who  came  to  America  from  Ipswich,  Eng- 
land, in  1634,  settling  first  in  Watertown,  but  later  removing 
to  Ipswich,  Mass.,  where  he  died  in  1675. 

He  received  his  early  education  at  home,  and  entered  the 
Scientific  School  as  a  Junior  in  1873,  taking  the  select  course. 
He  served  successively  as  vice  president  and  president  of  the 
Sheffield  Debating  Society,  and  was  president  of  his  Class  in 
Senior  year. 

For  many  years  he  was  connected  with  his  father's  firm, 
Faulkner,  Page  &  Company,  in  New  York  City,  being  senior 
partner  in  191 1,  when  he  retired  and  the  firm  was  liquidated. 
He  was  afterwards  a  special  partner  in  the  firm  of  Holbrook, 
Corey  &  Company  of  New  York.  He  had  served  as  president 
and  director  of  the  South  Orange  &  Maplewood  Traction 
Company,  treasurer  and  director  of  the  Montrose  Realty  & 
Improvement  Company  and  of  the  Vygeberg  Company, 
director  of  the  Whittenton  Manufacturing  Company,  presi- 
dent of  the  Merchants  Protective  Association  of  New  York, 
and  a  director  of  the  Merchants  Club.  He  was  also  from  1899 
until  his  death  in  191 8  chairman  of  the  committee  on  com- 
mercial law  of  the  Merchants  Association  of  New  York,  and 
in  1908  conducted  in  that  capacity  a  widespread  campaign  of 
merchants  against  the  currency  proposals  embodied  in  the 
so-called  Aldrich  Bill.  From  1901  to  1906  he  was  a  council- 
man for  the  borough  of  Oakland,  N.  J.,  and  in  1910  was 
unanimously  elected  mayor.  In  1909  he  served  as  a  member  of 


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Governor  Hughes'  commission  to  investigate  speculation  in 
comrhodities  and  securities.  Mr.  Page  was  a  Fellow  of  the 
Royal  Statistical  Society,  and  a  member  of  the  British  Eco- 
nomic Association  of  Great  Britain,  the  Societe  d'Economie 
Sociale  of  France,  the  American  Economic  Association,  the 
American  Statistical  Society,  the  American  Academy  of  Polit- 
ical and  Social  Science,  and  the  Social  Science  Association, 
and  had  been  chairman  of  the  executive  committee  of  the 
Peoples  Institute,  president  of  the  Social  Reform  Club  of 
New  York,  and  treasurer  of  the  Municipal  Art  Society  of  New 
York.  He  was  also  a  member  of  the  Century  and  the  Reform 
clubs,  and  of  the  Chamber  of  Commerce  of  New  York.  He 
had  only  recently  severed  his  connection  with  the  U.  S.  Ord- 
nance Department,  for  which  he  had  served  as  a  textile 
expert.  He  was  a  contributor  of  various  articles  to  textile 
papers,  the  Evening  Post,  the  Commercial  and  Financial 
Chronicle,  the  American  Legal  News,  and  the  World's  Work. 
He  had  delivered  addresses  before  the  Alumni  Association  of 
the  Philadelphia  Textile  School,  the  convention  of  the  Com- 
mercial Law  League,  the  School  of  Commerce  of  New  York 
University,  at  meetings  of  the  Wholesale  Dry  Goods  Asso- 
ciation, and  to  various  classes  in  executive  problems  at  the 
Y.  M.  C.  A.  in  New  York  City.  In  1907  he  founded  a  lecture 
course  at  the  Sheffield  Scientific  School  on  commercial  ethics, 
delivered  the  initial  lecture,  and,  for  the  year  1910-11,  the 
entire  series.  Mr.  Page  had  made  five  trips  abroad. 

His  death  occurred  December  25,  191 8,  at  his  home  in 
Oakland,  as  a  result  of  heart  disease.  He  was  just  recovering 
at  the  time,  from  an  attack  of  influenza  and  pleurisy.  Inter- 
ment was  in  Rosedale  Cemetery,  Orange,  N.  J. 

Mr.  Page  was  first  married  May  i,  1883,  in  South  Orange, 
N.  J.,  to  Cornelia,  daughter  of  William  Creighton  and 
Cornelia  (Kidder)  Lee,  who  died  October  8,  191 5.  He  was 
married  a  second  time  in  New  York  City,  February  6,  191 8, 
to  Mary  Russell,  daughter  of  James  Earl  and  Anna  M.  (Patti- 
son)  Hall,  who  survives  him.  He  also  leaves  two  children  by 
his  first  marriage:  Leigh  (Ph.B.  1904,  Ph.D.  1913)  and 
Phyllis,  who  was  married  in  June,  1917,  to  Nelson  C.  Leitch. 
A  second  son,  Allen  Starr  Page  (Ph.B.  1908),  died  September 
6,  1917. 


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Calvin  Morgan  McClung,  Ph.B.  1876 

Born  May  12,  1855,  in  St.  Louis,  Mo. 
Died  March  12,  1919,  in  Knoxville,  Tenn. 

Calvin  Morgan  McClung,  son  of  Franklin  Henry  McClung, 
a  wholesale  merchant,  of  the  firm  of  Cowan,  McClung  & 
Company,  and  Eliza  Ann  (Mills)  McClung,  was  born  in  St. 
Louis,  Mo.,  May  12,  1855.  His  father  was  the  son  of  Matthew 
and  Eliza  Jane  (Morgan)  McClung.  He  was  of  Scotch-Irish 
ancestry,  being  a  descendant  of  Matthew  McClung,  who 
came  to  America  from  the  north  of  Ireland  about  1746-47 
and  settled  in  Lancaster  County,  Pa.  His  great-grandfather, 
Calvin  Morgan,  was  born  in  Washington  Township,  Conn., 
July  20,  1773.  His  mother's  parents  were  Adam  Lee  and 
Matilda  (Holtzman)  Mills.  She  traced  her  descent  to  Richard 
Mills,  of  Essex  County,  N.  J. 

He  received  his  early  education  in  private  schools  in  Knox- 
ville, and  in  1867  entered  the  preparatory  department  of 
East  Tennessee  University  (now  the  University  of  Tennessee), 
receiving  in  1874  the  degree  of  B.A.  from  that  institution. 
He  then  entered  the  Sheffield  Scientific  School  as  a  special 
student  in  chemistry,  and  took  the  degree  of  Ph.B.  in  1876. 

During  the  year  following  his  graduation  from  Yale,  Mr. 
McClung  did  graduate  work  at  East  Tennessee  University, 
where  he  was  given  the  degree  of  M.A.  in  1877.  In  the  same 
year  he  entered  the  office  of  Cowan,  McClung  &  Company, 
and  five  years  later  he  bought  a  controlling  interest  in  the 
wholesale  hardware  firm  of  McClung,  Powell  &  Company, 
which  afterwards  became  C.  M.  McClung  &  Company.  In 
1905  this  company  was  incorporated,  and  Mr.  McClung 
became,  and  continued  until  his  death  to  be,  the  president. 

He  was  a  director  of  the  East  Tennessee  National  Bank 
and  of  the  Knoxville  Cotton  Mills.  He  was  a  trustee  of  the 
Lawson  McGhee  Library  and,  from  1909  to  191 5,  of  the  Ten- 
nessee School  for  the  Deaf  and  Dumb.  He  was  deeply  inter- 
ested in  the  early  history  of  the  United  States, — particularly 
of  the  Southwest  Territory,  of  Tennessee,  and  of  Virginia, 
and  of  Western  exploration, — and  collected  many  books  and 
papers  on  the  subject,  which  have  been  given  by  his  widow 


1 144  SHEFFIELD    SCIENTIFIC    SCHOOL 

to  the  Lawson  McGhee  Library,  and  are  to  be  known  as  the 
Calvin  M.  McClung  Historical  Collection.  He  was  a  member 
of  the  American  Historical  Association,  the  Tennessee 
Historical  Society,  and  the  Virginia  Historical  Society.  He 
had  traveled  extensively  in  the  United  States,  Canada, 
Europe,  and  Asia. 

He  was  married,  first,  March  3,  1881,  in  Knoxville,  to 
Annie,  daughter  of  Charles  M.  and  Cornelia  (White)  McGhee, 
who  died  September  i,  1898.  He  was  married  again  March 
16,  1905,  in  Atlanta,  Ga.,  to  Barbara,  daughter  of  Augustus 
Dixon  and  Octavia  (Hammond)  Adair. 

His  death  occurred  suddenly,  after  an  attack  of  acute 
indigestion,  on  March  12,  1919,  at  his  home  in  Knoxville. 
Interment  was  in  the  Old  Gray  Cemetery  in  that  city.  Besides 
his  widow  two  daughters  by  his  first  marriage  survive  him, — 
Lida  M.,  the  wife  of  William  Cary  Ross  (Ph.B.  1900),  and 
[May]  Lawson,  who  was  married  December  15,  1904,  to 
Thomas  G.  Melish.  He  leaves  also  two  sisters,  and  two 
brothers,  one  of  whom  is  Robert  Gardner  McClung  (B.A. 
1 89 1,  LL.B.  Harvard  1894).  Another  brother,  Lee  McClung 
(B.A.  1892,  M.A.,  honorary,  1905),  died  in  1914. 


Horace  Cobb  Howard,  Ph.B.   1877 

Born  April  16,  1855,  in  Townshend,  Vt. 
Died  July  11,  191 8,  in  Waverley,  Mass. 

Horace  Cobb  Howard,  son  of  Aurelius  C.  and  Hannah 
Eunice  (Cobb)  Howard,  was  born  in  Townshend,  Vt.,  April 
16,  1855.  His  father  was  a  real  estate  dealer,  and  at  one  time 
served  as  a  member  of  the  Vermont  Legislature.  He  was  of 
English  ancestry,  and  on  the  paternal  side  traced  his  descent 
to  Francis  Cooke,  who  came  to  America  on  the  Mayflower. 
His  father's  ancestors  lived  in  Uxbridge,  Mass. 

He  received  his  preparatory  training  at  the  Lawrence 
Preparatory  School,  at  Phillips-Andover,  and  at  Williston 
Seminary,  Easthampton,  Mass.  He  took  the  select  course, 
and  in  Senior  year  divided  a  prize  in  English  literature. 

He  studied  law  for  two  years  after  graduation,  but  during 


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the  greater  part  of  his  life  had  been  confined  to  sanitariums. 
He  died  at  the  McLean  Hospital,  Waverley,  Mass.,  July  11, 
191 8,  and  was  buried  in  the  family  plot  in  Townshend,  Vt. 
His  death  was  due  to  an  ulcer  of  the  stomach. 

Mr.  Howard  was  not  married.  He  was  a  member  of  the 
Baptist  Church  of  Townshend.  Howard  E.  Slack  (B.A.  191 8) 
is  a  nephew. 


.     Granger  Farwell,  Ph.B.  1878 

Born  May  25,  1857,  in  Chicago,  111. 
Died  May  16,  1 919,  in  Chicago,  111. 

Granger  Farwell  was  the  son  of  Judge  William  Washington 
Farwell  and  Mary  Elizabeth  (Granger)  Farwell,  and  was 
born  May  25,  1857,  in  Chicago,  111.  His  paternal  grand- 
parents were  John  and  Almira  (Williams)  Farwell,  and  his 
first  American  ancestor  on  his  father's  side  was  Henry  Far- 
well,  who  came  from  Bishops  Hill,  near  Taunton,  Somerset- 
shire, England,  and  settled  in  Concord,  Mass.  His  mother 
was  the  daughter  of  Otis  P.  and  Elvira  (Gates)  Granger. 

He  received  his  preparatory  training  at  schools  in  Chicago 
and  in  Evanston,  and  took  the  select  course  in  the  Sheffield 
Scientific  School. 

In  1880,  after  studying  law  for  two  years  in  his  father's 
office,  he  entered  the  employ  of  James  H.  Pearson  &  Com- 
pany, lumber  dealers  of  Chicago,  in  which  firm  he  became  a 
partner  in  1882.  He  continued  in  this  connection  until  1890, 
when  he  helped  to  organize  the  brokerage  firm  of  Lobdell, 
Farwell  &  Company.  In  1898  he  established  the  firm  of 
Granger  Farwell  &  Company,  brokers,  of  which  he  remained 
the  head  until  becoming  president  of  the  Farwell  Trust  Com- 
pany in  1907.  He  retired  from  business  in  191 1,  but  retained 
his  place  as  director  in  a  number  of  companies,  including  the 
Diamond  Match  Company,  the  Utah  Gas  &  Coke  Company, 
the  Price  Brothers  Company,  Ltd.,  the  State  Bank  of  Lake 
Forest,  and  the  Monarch  Coal  Company  of  Wyoming,  of 
which  he  was  also  president.  He  continued  also  in  the  position 
of  trustee  of  the  Harvey  Land  Association  of  Chicago.  He 


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was  twice  elected  president  of  the  Chicago  Stock  Exchange. 
In  1906  he  was  president  of  the  Chicago  Bureau  of  United 
Charities.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Fourth  Presbyterian 
Church  of  Chicago. 

He  was  commissioned  as  a  Major  in  the  Quartermaster 
Reserve  Corps  December  i,  191 6,  and  was  called  to  active 
service  June  i,  1917,  being  assigned  as  assistant  to  the 
Department  Quartermaster,  Central  Department,  Chicago. 
About  January  i,  191 8,  he  became  executive  officer  and  in 
this  capacity  had  charge  of  the  office  management  of  the 
Quartermaster's  staff,  as  well  as  supervision  over  the  receipt, 
transfer,  and  disbursement  of  its  funds.  Major  Farwell  was 
discharged  from  service  January  10,  1919,  shortly  afterwards 
being  reinstated  in  the  Reserve. 

His  death  occurred  suddenly  at  the  Virginia  Hotel,  Chicago, 
on  May  16,  1919,  as  a  result  of  an  embolism  of  the  lung.  It  is 
thought  that  his  health  had  been  undermined  by  his  intense 
application  to  his  duties  while  in  the  Army.  He  was  buried  in 
the  Lake  Forest  Cemetery.  According  to  the  terms  of  Mr. 
Farwell's  will  a  sum  of  money  is  left  for  the  establishment  of 
an  educational  trust,  "to  aid  in  the  education  of  deserving 
students  .  .  .  attending  either  Yale  University,  Bryn  Mawr 
College,  or  any  of  the  high,  technical,  or  manual  training 
schools  located  in  the  City  of  Chicago." 

Mr.  Farwell  was  married  December  23,  1880,  in  Chicago, 
to  Sarah  Child,  daughter  of  James  Gardner  and  Sarah 
(Child)  Goodrich.  She  survives  him  with  their  five  daughters: 
Leslie,  who  was  married  June  15,  1907,  to  Edward  Buffum 
Hill;  Ruth  Goodrich,  who  was  married. to  Franklin  Conning 
Kenly,  December  11,  1914;  Olive,  whose  marriage  to  Henry 
George  Boston  took  place  March  21,  1914;  Sarah  Granger; 
and  Helen,  who  was  married  in  Paris  February  25,  1919,  to 
Richard  D.  Stevenson,  ^;c-'i4.  The  two  youngest  daughters 
served  abroad  as  nurses  during  the  war.  Mr.  Farwell  was  a 
cousin  of  John  Villiers  Farwell  (B.A.  1879),  Frank  C.  Farwell 
(B.A.  1882),  Arthur  L.  Farwell  (B.A.  1884),  Walter  Farwell 
(B.A.  1885),  and  Albert  D.  Farwell  (B.A.  1909).  , 


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1 878-1 879  1 147 

Ebin  Jennings  Ward,  Ph.B.   1878 

Born  September  2,  1854,  in  Marseilles,  III. 
Died  January  ao,  1919,  in  Phoenix,  Ariz. 


Ebin  Jennings  Ward  was  born  in  Marseilles,  111.,  September 
2,  1854,  the  son  of  Daniel  and  Julia  (Jennings)  Ward.  He 
was  of  distinguished  Revolutionary  stock.  His  father,  who 
was  a  physician,  was  a  descendant  of  William  Ward,  who 
came  to  America  from  England. 

He  entered  Yale  from  the  old  Chicago  (III.)  High  School, 
and  divided  the  prize  for  the  best  entrance  examination. 
After  graduating  from  the  Sheffield  Scientific  School  in  1878, 
he  took  two  years  of  graduate  work  in  civil  engineering, 
receiving  the  degree  of  C.E.  from  Yale  in  1880.  He  was  after- 
wards connected  with  the  engineer  corps  of  the  Chicago  & 
Alton  Railroad  in  the  construction  of  a  bridge  across  the 
Missouri  River,  the  Chicago  &  Northwestern  Railroad,  and 
the  Northern  Pacific.  From  1890  to  1896  he  was  assistant 
engineer  in  the  Sanitary  District,  Chicago,  after  which  he 
began  practice  as  a  consulting  engineer  in  Marseilles,  111. 
He  served  as  mayor  of  the  city  in  1897,  and  again  in  1907. 
Since  July,  191 2,  when  he  retired  from  business,  he  had  spent 
most  of  his  time  in  traveling.  He  was  the  author  of  a  pam- 
phlet entitled  ''Genealogy  of  the  Family  of  Josiah  Ward, 
Sixth  Generation  from  William  Ward."  He  died  of  influenza 
and  pneumonia  in  Phoenix,  Ariz.,  January  20,  1919,  and  was 
buried  in  Riverside  Cemetery  at  Marseilles. 

Mr.  Ward  was  married  October  5,  1881,  in  Glasgow,  Mo., 
to  Anne  Randolph,  daughter  of  Isaac  Pleasants  and  Ann 
(Ward)  Vaughan.  She  survives  him  with  a  daughter,  Julia 
Jennings.  Four  other  children  died  in  early  infancy. 

Joseph  Bidleman  Bissell,  Ph.B.  1879 

Born  September  3,  1859,  in  Lakeville,  Conn. 
Died  December  2,  191 8,  in  New  York  City 

Joseph  Bidleman  Bissell  was  born  September  3,  1859,  in 
Lakeville,  Conn.  His  parents  were  William  Bissell  (B.A. 
1853,  M.D.  1856)  and  Mary  Green  (Bidleman)  Bissell.  His 
father  practiced  medicine  for  a  time  in  Elizabethport,  N.  J., 


II48  SHEFFIELD    SCIENTIFIC    SCHOOL 

but  later  settled  in  Lakeville,  where  he  practiced  his  pro- 
fession until  his  death  in  July,  191 9.  Joseph  B.  Bissell  was  the 
grandson  of  Amos  and  Lydia  B,  (Hall)  Bissell,  and  traced  his 
ancestry  to  John  Bissell,  who  came  to  America  from  England 
in  1636  and  settled  in  Windsor,  Conn.  His  mother's  parents 
were  William  and  Hannah  (Roseberry)  Bidleman,  and 
through  her  he  was  descended  from  Michael  Roseberry,  who 
came  to  America  from  England  about  1640  and  settled  in 
Pennsylvania.  Among  his  ancestors  who  served  in  the  Revo- 
lution were  Benjamin,  Zebulon,  and  Daniel  Bissell,  and,  on 
the  maternal  side,  Joseph  Beaver,  who  held  a  commission  as 
Colonel  in  the  2d  Regiment,  New  Jersey  Militia. 

He  was  prepared  for  Yale  at  the  Rocky  Dell  Academy, 
Lime  Rock,  Conn.,  and  at  the  Amenia  (N.  Y.)  Academy.  He 
took  the  biology  course  in  the  Scientific  School.  He  was  one* 
of  the  editors  of  the  News. 

After  graduation  he  entered  the  College  of  Physicians  and 
Surgeons  at  Columbia  University,  where  he  received  the 
degree  of  M.D.  in  1883.  During  the  next  year  and  a  half  he 
served  as  an  interne  at  the  Charity  Hospital  in  New  York 
City.  In  1885,  after  studying  surgery  for  a  year  in  the  hospitals 
of  Vienna  and  Munich,  he  began  practice  in  New  York  City. 
Shortly  after  his  return  he  became  an  instructor  in  ortho- 
pedic surgery  at  the  Post-Graduate  Medical  School  and  the 
New  York  Polyclinic  Medical  School.  In  recent  years  he  had 
been  clinical  professor  of  surgery  at  the  University  and 
Bellevue  Hospital  Medical  College,  and  professor  of  surgery 
at  Fordham  University.  At  the  time  of  his  death  he  was  also 
visiting  surgeon  to  Bellevue  and  St.  Vincent's  hospitals; 
consulting  surgeon  to  the  Hospital  for  Deformities  and  Joint 
Diseases  and  to  the  German  Hospital  and  Dispensary;  con- 
sulting gynecologist  to  the  Ossining  (N.  Y.)  Hospital;  and 
consulting  radiologist  to  the  House  of  Calvary.  About  eight 
years  ago  he  established  the  Radium  Institute  of  New  York, 
a  sanitarium  for  the  treatment  of  cancer  with  radium,  and 
became  its  surgical  director.  He  was  elected  president  of  the 
American  Radium  Society  in  June,  191 8.  He  was  a  frequent 
contributor  to  medical  journals,  a  Fellow  of  the  New  York 
Academy  of  Medicine,  and  a  member  of  the  New  York 
County  Medical  Society. 


1879  II49 

Dr.  Bissell  first  joined  the  Medical  Reserve  Corps  in  1914. 
He  was  given  his  commission  as  Major  on  November  i,  1917. 
In  191 5  he  went  to  England  to  undertake  special  treatment  of 
wounds  at  St.  Mary's  Hospital,  London,  and  to  instruct  the 
English  surgeons  in  the  use  of  radium  on  wounds  where  septic 
poisoning  had  set  in.  After  extended  war  work  in  England 
and  France,  work  characterized  as  invaluable  by  his  asso- 
ciates, he  went  in  July,  191 8,  to  Camp  Custer,  Michigan. 
After  a  six  weeks'  course  there  he  received  an  appointment 
as  chief  surgeon  to  Fort  McHenry,  near  Baltimore,  Md.  He 
died  on  December  2,  191 8,  at  Mount  Sinai  Hospital  in  New 
York  City  after  an  illness  of  three  days  due  to  an  infection  of 
the  blood.  Interment  was  in  the  Holy  Sepulchre  Cemetery 
at  East  Orange,  N.  J. 

Dr.  Bissell  was  married  November  20,  1889,  in  Harrison, 
N.  J.,  to  Josephine,  daughter  of  Peter  and  Mary  (Kurz) 
Hauck.  She  survives  him  with  four  children,  Karl  Hauck, 
Eugenie,  Joseph  Bidleman,  Jr.,  and  Katharine.  The  elder 
daughter  was  married  on  April  6, 191 5,  to  Laurance  Millet,  of 
Worcestershire,  England,  and  New  York.  Major  Bissell  was  a 
brother  of  Dr.  William  Bascom  Bissell  (B.A.  1888)  and 
Edward  Clarence  Bissell  (B.A.  1892).  Edward  Bissell  (B.A. 
1 851)  was  an  uncle,  and  Clark  Bissell  (B.A.  1806),  a  great- 
uncle. 

Thaddeus  Henry  Spencer,  Ph.B.  1879 

Born  November  7,  1857,  in  Suffield,  Conn. 
Died  June  3,  1919,  in  Holyoke,  Mass. 

Thaddeus  Henry  Spencer,  son  of  Thaddeus  Hezekiah  and 
Lucy  Elizabeth  (Wells)  Spencer,  was  born  November  7, 
1857,  in  Suffield,  Conn.  His  father  was  the  son  of  Hezekiah 
and  Cecilia  Spencer,  and  was  descended  from  the  Spencer 
family  who  settled  in  the  town  of  Suffield  in  1689.  He  was  a 
member  of  the  firm  of  Spencer  Brothers  of  New  York  City, 
served  three  times  as  a  representative  in  the  Connecticut 
State  Legislature,  and  for  thirty  years  was  treasurer  of  the 
Connecticut  Literary  Institute.  Lucy  Wells  Spencer  was  the 
daughter  of  William  Davis  and  Abbey  (Gavitt)  Wells. 
The  Wells  family  were  among  the  earliest  settlers  of  Rhode 


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Island,  buying  land  of  the  Indians  prior  to  the  time  of  Roger 
Williams. 

Thaddeus  Henry  Spencer  received  his  early  education  in 
the  schools  of  New  York  City  and  Brooklyn,  and  was  pre- 
pared for  college  at  the  Connecticut  Literary  Institute  in 
Suffield.  He  took  the  mechanical  engineering  course  in  the 
Scientific  School. 

In  July,  1879,  h^  started  work  in  the  machine  shop  of 
Colt's  Armory  in  Hartford,  Conn.,  but  after  a  year  entered 
the  employ  of  the  Holyoke  (Mass.)  Machine  Company,  as  a 
draftsman,  remaining  there  until  February,  1882.  He  then 
became  office  manager  of  the  Wauregan  Paper  Company,  of 
Holyoke,  and  served  in  that  capacity  until  December,  1887, 
when  he  accepted  a  similar  position  with  the  Fairfield  Paper 
Company,  then  newly  incorporated  and  situated  in  Fairfield, 
Mass.  From  January,  1893,  until  his  death,  he  was  assistant 
treasurer  of  the  Valley  Paper  Company,  of  Holyoke.  For  one 
year  he  was  also  treasurer  of  the  Bay  Head  Orchard  Com- 
pany. He  had  served  as  town  clerk  in  Russell  (Fairfield), 
Mass.  He  was  a  deacon  of  the  Second  Baptist  Church  of 
Holyoke,  and  had  been  clerk  of  the  parish  and,  for  six  years, 
superintendent  of  the  Sunday  school. 

He  died  June  3,  191 9,  in  Holyoke,  and  was  buried  in  Wood- 
lawn  Cemetery  in  his  native  town. 

Mr.  Spencer  was  married  in  Hartford,  October  8,  1885,  to 
Fannie  Brown,  daughter  of  Edward  and  Maria  (Deming) 
Kellogg.  Mrs.  Spencer  survives  with  their  two  children, 
Thaddeus  Harold  (Ph.B.  191 1)  and  Miriam  Isabel.  The  son 
served  during  the  war  as  a  Second  Lieutenant  in  the  Engineers. 


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Jeme  Tien  Yow,  Ph.B.   1881  f 

Born  April  26,  1 861,  in  Canton,  China  . 

Died  April  24,  191 9,  in  Hankow,  China  3 

Jeme  Tien  Yow  was  one  of  the  four  children  of  Jeme  Hing 
Hung,  a  merchant,  and  Chun  Kio,  of  Canton,  China,  and 
was  born  April  26,  1861,  in  Canton.  His  father  was  a  native 
of  that  city  and  his  mother  was  born  at  Shao  Hing  Foo,  Kwan- 
tung  Province.  His  father's  parents,  Jeme  Shea  Lune  and 


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Tao  Chen,  came  originally  from  the  Province  of  Anhwei,  but 
later  settled  in  Canton.  His  maternal  grandparents  were  Chun 
Yii  Yen  and  Liang  Teng. 

Mr.  Jeme  was  a  member  of  the  first  detachment  of  students 
of  the  Chinese  Educational  Mission  to  the  United  States, 
sent  out  in  1872,  and  received  his  preparatory  training  at  the 
Hillhouse  High  School  in  New  Haven,  Conn.  Before  coming 
to  America,  he  studied  for  a  short  time  at  the  Chinese  Educa- 
tional Mission  School  at  Shanghai.  He  took  the  civil  engineer- 
ing course  in  the  Sheffield  Scientific  School,  and  in  Junior 
year  divided  a  prize  in  mathematics,  receiving  honorable 
mention  in  this  subject  Senior  year. 

Practically  all  of  his  life  since  his  return  to  China  had  been 
devoted  to  the  construction  of  railways.  He  was  the  pioneer 
among  Chinese  engineers  and  on  account  of  his  long  service 
with  the  Chinese  Government  railways,  his  position  was 
unique  and  he  enjoyed  the  complete  confidence  of  his  Govern- 
ment. He  first  became  a  national  figure  in  1909,  when  he 
completed  the  Peking-Kalgan  Railway,  a  line  one  hundred 
and  twenty-five  miles  in  length,  built  through  difficult  moun- 
tainous country  and  connecting  the  capital  of  China  with  the 
historical  frontier  mart  of  Mongolia.  He  was  the  first  Chinese 
engineer  to  build  a  railway  without  foreign  help  in  any 
capacity. 

Shortly  after  returning  to  Shanghai  in  1881,  he  was  sent 
to  the  Foochow  Arsenal.  While  there  he  took  a  course  in 
navigation  in  the  Naval  School,  upon  the  completion  of  which 
in  July,  1882,  he  was  placed  on  board  of  a  cruiser  in  the 
Chinese  Navy  for  further  training  to  become  a  naval  cadet. 
After  a  short  period  on  the  cruiser  he  was  asked  to  return  to 
the  Arsenal  as  a  teacher  in  the  Naval  School.  Soon  afterwards 
war  was  declared  with  France  and  the  French  Squadron  be- 
gan their  attack  on  the  Arsenal,  causing  confusion  in  the 
school.  Just  at  this  time  the  Viceroy  of  Canton  asked  to 
have  Mr.  Jeme  sent  to  Canton  to  assist  in  the  building  of 
fortifications  there.  In  this  capacity  he  made  a  complete 
survey  of  the  coast  line  and  had  it  mapped  out  for  the  first 
time.  After  peace  was  declared  with  France  he  was  attached 
to  the  Canton  Military  and  Naval  Academy  as  an  instructor, 
and  he  continued  in  this  connection  until  1888,  when  he  was 
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called  north  to  join  the  railway  service  at  Tientsin.  During 
the  next  seven  years  he  was  assistant  engineer  of  the  Chinese 
Railway  Company  at  Tientsin.  From  1895  to  1901  he  was 
connected  with  the  Imperial  Railways  of  North  China,  at 
first  as  assistant  and  later  as  resident  engineer.  During  the 
Boxer  trouble  in  1900,  when  all  northern  railways  were  com- 
pelled to  suspend  work,  he  was  engaged  as  a  construction 
engineer  with  the  Pinghsiang-Liling  Railway  in  Kiangsi  Prov- 
ince. In  September,  1902,  he  resigned  this  position  to  accept 
an  appointment  as  chief  engineer  of  the  Imperial  Hsiling  Rail- 
way, the  construction  of  which  he  was  able  to  complete  in 
four  months  and  in  recognition  of  which  he  was  awarded  the 
rank  of  a  Prefect.  His  next  important  work  was  in  connec- 
tion with  the  taking  over  of  the  Tao-Ching  Railway  by 
the  Chinese  Government.  This  railway  is  a  branch  of  the 
Peking-Hankow  Line  and  taps  the  great  anthracite  coal 
deposits  of  Shansi  Province.  Mr.  Jeme  represented  his  Gov- 
ernment in  the  valuation  of  the  line,  and  upon  the  com- 
pletion of  the  work  was  asked  to  join  a  commercial  railway 
starting  from  Swatow  on  the  coast.  He  subsequently  went  to 
Swatow,  but  stayed  there  only  about  two  months,  leaving  to 
accept  the  position  of  consulting  engineer  to  the  Shanghai- 
Nanking  Railway  Administration.  In  May,  1905,  he  was  ap- 
pointed chief  engineer  and  vice  director  of  the  Peking-Kalgan 
Railway,  of  which  about  two  years  later  he  became  the 
director.  After  the  completion  of  the  railway  in  1909  he 
was  retained  to  carry  on  the  work  of  extension,  and  con- 
tinued in  this  connection  until  the  end  of  191 1,  when  the 
Revolution  disorganized  all  departments  of  the  Government 
service.  When  the  railway  was  opened  to  traffic,  he  received 
a  great  ovation  from  the  people  of  Peking.  As  a  recognition 
of  his  work  he  was  given  the  honorary  degree  of  Chin  Shin 
(Doctor  of  Engineering)  by  the  Government  and  made  an 
.adviser  to  the  Ministry  of  Education  and  consulting  engineer 
to  the  Ministry  of  Communications.  In  1910  he  was  appointed 
chairman  of  the  Board  of  Civil  Service  Examiners,  for  which 
jhe  had  previously  served  for  several  years  as  an  assistant 
examiner.  In  1909  Dr.  Jeme  had  gone  to  Ichang,  Hupeh 
Province,  to  take  the  post  of  chief  engineer  of  the  Szechuen 


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Railway  Company,  a  privately  owned  concern,  which,  how- 
ever, was  taken  over  by  the  Government  in  191 1.  In  19 10, 
while  at  Ichang,  he  was  informed  that  he  had  been  elected 
president  of  the  Canton  section  of  the  Canton-Hankow 
Line,  for  which  he  subsequently  also  acted  as  chief  engi- 
neer. Since  1910  he  had  been  in  addition  consulting  engineer 
to  the  Lock-Tung  Railway.  When  the  Revolution  broke  out 
n  191 1,  he  was  devoting  his  energy  to  the  extension  of  the 
ailway  at  Canton,  and  through  his  efforts  the  work  was 
uccessfully  continued  throughout  the  Revolution.  With  the 
abdication  of  the  Manchus  and  the  country  somewhat 
restored  to  order,  the  Canton-Hankow-Szechuen  Railway 
System  was  formed  and  Dr.  Jeme  was  appointed  associate 
director-general.  He  became  director-general  in  June,  1914, 
and  retained  that  position  until  his  death.  He  had  served 
as  chairman  of  the  Technical  Committee  of  the  Ministry 
of  Communications  and  as  vice  chairman  of  the  National 
Communications  Conference,  was  an  honorable  member  of 
the  Board  on  Railway  Laws  and  Regulations,  a  member 
of  the  National  Transportation  Committee,  the  Institute  of 
Civil  Engineers  of  England,  and  the  American  Society  of 
Civil  Engineers,  and  the  founder  and  president  of  the  Chinese 
Institute  of  Engineers.  He  also  belonged  to  the  Royal  Acad- 
emy of  Arts,  the  Shanghai  Engineering  Society  (European), 
and  the  Chinese  Railway  Association,  and  was  president  of 
the  Hankow  Foreign  Educated  Men's  Club.  He  was  twice 
decorated  by  the  Chinese  Republican  Government  and  in 
1916  received  the  degree  of  LL.D.  from  the  British  Univer- 
sity of  Hong  Kong.  He  went  to  Peking  in  February,  191 9, 
as  the  representative  of  China  on  the  Allied  Technical  Board. 

His  death,  which  occurred  April  24,  1919,  in  Hankow,  was 
due  to  dysentery  and  heart  failure.  His  health  had  failed 
rapidly  during  the  last  year  of  his  life.  On  his  death  the 
President  issued  a  mandate  in  which  he  commanded,  among 
other  things,  that  the  National  Historian  Committee  record 
Dr.  Jeme's  deeds  in  the  history  of  the  nation.  He  is  to  be 
buried  at  Peking. 

Dr.  Jeme  was  married  March  27,  1887,  in  Canton,  to  Tan 
Chrysanthemum,  of  Macao,  who    survives  him  with   two 


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daughters,  Jeme  Shun  Hiang  and  Jeme  Shun  Tie,  and  five 
sons,  Jeme  Mun  Kwang,  Jeme  Mun  Chung  (Ph.B.  191 8), 
Jeme  Mun  Yew,  Jeme  Mun  Tsao,  and  Jeme  Mun  Yii.  Another 
daughter,  the  eldest  child,  Jeme  Shun  Yung,  died  March  23, 
1 9 14,  at  the  age  of  twenty-seven,  one  year  after  her  marriage 
to  Jick  Gam  Wong  (B.C.E.  Michigan  191 1).  A  brother  and 
sister  are  living.  Daniel  McClean  Chung  (Ph.B.  i9i2),ason 
of  Mun-Yew  Chung  (B.A.  1883),  is  a  nephew  of  Mrs.  Jeme. 


John  Heyward  Trumbull,  Ph.B.  1881 

Born  August  13,  1 861,  in  Talcahuano,  Chile 
Died  August  26,  19 18,  in  Quilpu6,  Chile 

John  Heyward  Trumbull  was  born  in  Talcahuano,  Chile, 
August  13,  1 861,  the  son  of  James  Hedden  and  Eulogia 
(Lindsay)  Trumbull.  His  father  was  the  son  of  John  M. 
and  Eliza  (Bruen)  Trumbull,  and  a  descendant  of  John  Trum- 
bull, who  came  to  America  from  Newcastle-on-Tyne  in  1637, 
settling  at  Rowley,  Mass.  He  received  the  degree  of  B.A. 
from  Yale  in  1848  and  that  of  M.D.  from  Columbia  Uni- 
versity in  1852,  and  then  went  to  Chile,  settling  first  at  Val- 
paraiso, and  later  in  Talcahuano,  where  he  resided  for  up- 
wards of  thirty  years.  Eulogia  Lindsay  Trumbull  was  the 
daughter  of  Richard  Lindsay,  who  was  of  Irish  blood. 

He  received  his  preparatory  training  at  Lauderbach  Acad- 
emy, Philadelphia,  Pa.,  and  took  the  biology  course  in  the 
Sheffield  Scientific  School.  He  was  assistant  treasurer  of 
Linonia  in  his  Junior  year. 

Following  his  graduation  he  entered  the  University  of 
Pennsylvania,  where  he  received  the  degree  of  M.D.  in  May, 
1884.  In  December  of  that  year  he  received  the  degree  of 
Physician  and  Surgeon  from  the  University  of  Chile.  He 
afterward  practiced  medicine  in  Talcahuano,  where  he  had 
been  a  member  of  the  Municipality  on  two  occasions,  each  for 
a  period  of  three  years.  He  was  for  many  years  health  officer 
of  the  Port  of  Talcahuano  and  physician  and  surgeon  at  the 
Talcahuano  Hospital.  From  1892  to  1894  he  was  chief  sur- 
geon of  the  Chilean  Navy.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Board  of 
Hygiene   and   of  the  Board  of  Public  Charities,  and  had 


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served  as  both  secretary  and  president  of  the  Talcahuano 
Social  Club.  Since  his  retirement  he  had  lived  at  Concepcion, 
Chile. 

His  death  occurred  August  26,  1918",  in  Quilpue,  Chile,  as  a 
esult  of  heart  disease.  Burial  was  in  the  Protestant  Cemetery 
at  Valparaiso. 

Dr.  Trumbull  married  late  in  life,  a  widow,  Mrs.  Elton,  of 
Concepcion.  He  is  survived  by  three  sisters.  He  was  a  brother 
of  the  late  Ricardo  Lindsay  Trumbull  (Ph.B.  1881,  LL.B. 
1883),  a  nephew  of  Rev.  David  Trumbull  (B.A.  1842),  and  a 
cousin  of  David  Trumbull  (B.A.  1876),  John  Trumbull 
(B.A.  1878),  Stephen  Trumbull  (B.A.  1880),  and  William 
Trumbull  (B.A.  1883,  LL.B.  1889).  Professor  George  J. 
Brush  (Ph.B.  1852),  of  the  Sheffield  Scientific  School,  was  his 
uncle  by  marriage.  The  Danas  and  Sillimans  were  cousins, 
tracing  their  ancestry  to  the  same  progenitor.  Governor 
Jonathan  Trumbull  of  Connecticut. 


Horace  Ellsworth  Andrews,  Ph.B.   1882 

Born  February  14,  1863,  in  Cleveland,  Ohio 
Died  December  i,  1918,  in  New  York  City 

Horace  Ellsworth  Andrews  was  born  in  Cleveland,  Ohio, 
February  14,  1863.  He  was  the  second  son  of  Samuel  Andrews, 
who  had  come  from  Oaksey,  England,  shortly  after  his  mar- 
riage to  Mary  Cole,  to  go  into  business  in  America.  Mr. 
Andrews  was  the  first  discoverer  of  the  Pennsylvania  oil 
wells,  and  at  once  associated  himself  with  his  friend,  Mr. 
John  D.  Rockefeller,  and  they  became  the  founders  of  the 
present  Standard  Oil  Company. 

Horace  E.  Andrews  entered  Yale  from  Brooks  Academy  in 
Cleveland.  He  took  the  course  in  chemistry  in  the  Sheffield 
Scientific  School,  being  graduated  with  honors.  He  was  a 
member  of  the  Senior  Class  Committee,  and  served  as  one  of 
the  Class  historians  at  Commencement. 

For  two  years  after  graduation  he  had  charge  of  his  father's 
affairs  in  Cleveland.  In  1885  he  went  abroad  and  studied 
metallurgy  in  Freiburg,  Saxony.  After  his  return  to  the 
United  States  he  became  interested  in  the  street  railway 


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business,  and  at  the  time  of  his  death  was  one  of  the  most 
widely  known  electric  railroad  men  in  the  country.  In  1896 
he  was  elected  president  of  the  Cleveland  Electric  Railway 
Company,  and  held  that  position  until  his  removal  to  New 
York.  He  was  responsible  for  the  development  of  the  electric 
railway  lines  in  central  New  York,  including  Utica  and  the 
Mohawk  Valley.  At  the  time  of  his  death  he  was  president 
and  a  director  of  the  New  York  State  Railways,  the  Mohawk 
Valley  Company,  the  Rochester  Railway  &  Light  Company, 
the  Schenectady  Railway  Company,  and  a  director  of 
the  Cleveland  Electric  Railway  Company,  the  New  York 
Central  Railroad  Company,  the  Michigan  Central  Railroad 
Company,  the  Cleveland,  Cincinnati,  Chicago  &  St.  Louis 
Railroad  Company,  the  Pittsburgh  &  Lake  Erie  Railroad 
Company,  the  West  Shore  Railroad  Company,  the  Missouri, 
Kansas  &  Texas  Railroad  Company,  and  the  Havana  Electric 
Railway  Company.  He  was  a  trustee  of  Teachers  College, 
Columbia  University,  the  Provident  Loan  Society,  and  the 
Charity  Organization  Society,  of  whose  central  council  he 
was  also  a  member.  He  was  a  member  of  the  board  of  gover- 
nors of  the  Automobile  Club  of  America  and  of  the  executive 
committee  of  the  New  York  County  chapter  of  the  American 
Red  Cross.  Soon  after  the  war  broke  out  he  helped  organize 
the  War  Relief  Clearing  House  for  France  and  her  Allies,  and 
when  this  country  entered  the  war  he  gave  the  greater  part  of 
his  time  to  the  work  of  the  Red  Cross  and  the  War  Camp 
Community  Service. 

He  died  of  pneumonia  at  his  home  in  New  York  City, 
December  i,  1918.  Interment  was  in  St.  James,  Long  Island. 

Mr.  Andrews  was  married  December  1 1, 1889,  in  Cleveland, 
to  Antoinette  H.,  daughter  of  General  John  Henry  Devereux 
and  Antoinette  (Kelsey)  Devereux.  She  survives  him  with 
two  daughters,  Dorothy  Devereux  and  Margery  Devereux. 
A  son,  Horace  Devereux,  born  June  11,  1897,  died  February 
4,  191 5,  in  the  eighteenth  year  of  his  age. 


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Duane  Judson  Kelsey,  Ph.B.   1884 

Born  February  29,  1864,  in  Killingworth,  Conn. 
Died  December  13,  1917,  in  New  Haven,  Conn. 


^V  Duane  Judson  Kelsey  was  born  in  Killingworth,  Conn., 
^^February  2,9,  1864,  his  parents  being  Hosmer  and  Lodiska 
(Parmelee)  Kelsey.  His  father,  who  was  a  manufacturer  of 
axe  handles,  was  the  son  of  Daniel  and  Roxa  (Hill)  Kelsey, 
and  a  descendant  of  William  Kelsey,  who  came  from  Eng- 
land in  1629  and  settled  in  Cambridge.  His  mother's  parents 
were  Chauncey  and  Jerusha  (Graves)  Parmelee. 

He  received  his  early  training  in  the  schools  of  Killingworth, 
and  took  the  mechanical  engineering  course  in  the  Sheffield 
Scientific  School.  After  graduating  he  returned  for  further 
work  and  received  the  degree  of  M.E.  in  1887. 

In  1886  he  became  an  assistant  draftsman  in  the  office  of 
the  City  Engineer  of  New  Haven,  but  resigned  after  a  short 
time,  and  until  1888  was  an  assistant  draftsman  for  the  Yale 
&  Towne  Manufacturing  Company  of  Stamford,  Conn. 
During  the  next  two  years  he  was  an  expert  gun  and  cartridge 
machine  designer  for  the  Winchester  Repeating  Arms  Com- 
pany, and  since  1 899  he  had  been  in  business  in  New  Haven  as 
a  designer  and  manufacturer  of  special  drawing  instruments. 
He  was  a  deacon  in  the  Humphrey  Street  Congregational 
Church  of  New  Haven,  and  was  a  delegate  to  the  National 
Council  of  Congregational  Churches  in  1904. 

He  died  of  heart  trouble,  December  i^,  1917,  in  New 
Haven,  and  was  buried  in  Evergreen  Cemetery. 

He  was  married  April  27,  1887,  in  Killingworth,  to  Carrie 
L.,  daughter  of  William  and  Sarah  (Griswold)  Stevens,  who 
survives  him.  They  had  two  children:  Maurice,  who  died  in 
infancy,  and  Esther,  whose  death  occurred  in  early  childhood. 


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Fred  Spencer  Bullene,  Ph.B.   1885 

Born  August  23,  1863,  in  Kansas  City,  Mo. 
Died  September  26,  191 8,  in  Kansas  City,  Mo. 

Fred  Spencer  Bullene  was  born  August  23,  1863,  in  Kansas 
City,  Mo.  His  parents  were  Thomas  Brockway  and  Amarette 
(Hickok)  Bullene.  He  was  fitted  for  college  at  Phillips  Acad- 
emy, Andover,  Mass.,  and  took  the  chemistry  course  at  Yale. 

After  graduation  he  traveled  abroad  for  six  months  and 
then  entered  the  banking  business  in  Kansas  City.  He  served 
as  clerk  for  a  time,  later  becoming  teller.  After  three  years  he 
became  connected  with  the  Kansas  City  'Times,  and  later  was 
the  Topeka  correspondent  of  the  Kansas  City  Star.  He  re- 
tained this  latter  connection  until  returning  to  the  banking 
business  as  cashier  of  the  City  Center  Bank  of  Kansas  City. 
He  later  entered  the  printing  business  at  Kansas  City. 

His  death  occurred  September  26,  191 8,  in  Kansas  City, 
following  an  illness  of  two  years.  During  the  last  nine  months 
of  his  illness  he  was  confined  to  his  bed  with  paralysis.  Burial 
was  in  Elmwood  Cemetery. 

Mr.  Bullene  was  unmarried. 


Harrie  Sheldon  Leonard,  Ph.B.   1886 

Born  October  21,  1865,  in  Washington,  D.  C. 
Died  July  26,  1918,  in  New  York  City 

Harrie  Sheldon  Leonard,  whose  parents  were  Elias  Newton 
Leonard,  a  manufacturing  jeweler  with  H.  Lemken  &  Com- 
pany, and  Margaret  Elizabeth  (Lowe)  Leonard,  was-  born  in 
Washington,  D.  C,  October  21,  1865.  He  was  a  direct  de- 
scendant of  John  Leonard,  who  settled  in  Springfield,  Mass., 
in  1639,  ^^^  who  was  the  brother  of  Thomas  Leonard,  the 
owner  of  the  first  iron  works  in  America  at  or  near  what  is 
now  known  as  Taunton,  Mass.,  in  1636.  His  mother  was  the 
daughter  of  Warren  Webster  Lowe,  and  a  descendant  of 
James  Lowe,  who  came  to  America  from  England  with  Cecil 
Calvert,  second  Lord  Baltimore,  in  1633,  settling  in  Maryland. 

Before  entering  Yale  he  attended  the  public  schools  in 
Washington  and  also  received  instruction  under  a  private 


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tutor.  At  Yale  he  took  the  mechanical  engineering  course 
Junior  year  and  the  civil  engineering  course  Senior  year.  He 
divided  the  first  prize  in  mathematics  Freshman  year,  and 
received  a  Senior  appointment. 

After  graduation  he  was  occupied  in  railroad  work  and  in 
the  mortgage  loan  business  in  North  Dakota  and  at  Birming- 
ham, Ala.,  until  1890,  during  this  period  being  for  a  time 
editor  of  the  Lidgerwood  (N.  Dak.)  Broad  Axe.  During  the 
next  eight  years  he  was  manager  of  the  New  Haven  Wire 
Manufacturing  Company,  and  upon  resigning  this  position 
entered  the  Boston  office  of  the  Westinghouse  Electric  & 
Manufacturing  Company.  In  1899  he  became  connected 
with  the  Winchester  Repeating  Arms  Company,  of  New 
Haven,  and  served  successively  as  assistant  treasurer,  vice 
president,  and  a  director.  He  retired  in  19 17  because  of  ill 
health,  and  afterwards  resided  in  New  York  City.  He  was  a 
member  of  the  New  Haven  Chamber  of  Commerce  and  of 
the  Roman  Catholic  Church. 

His  death  occurred  at  his  home  in  New  York  City,  July  26, 
1918,  as  a  result  of  apoplexy.  Burial  was  in  Calvary  Cemetery, 
Brooklyn. 

He  was  married  March  i,  1887,  in  New  Haven,  to  Mary 
Camden,  daughter  of  Daniel  Hicks  and  Mary  (Taylor) 
Veader.  Mrs.  Leonard  survives  with  their  two  children, 
Veader  Newton  (Ph.B.  1907,  M.D.  Johns  Hopkins  191 1)  and 
Margaret  Elizabeth,  who  was  married  on  February  14,  1912, 
to  Clifford  Calvert  Townley,  son  of  Calvert  Townley  (Ph.B. 
1886).  The  son,  who  was  the  '86  S.  Class  Boy,  served  abroad 
in  the  Medical  Corps  during  the  war,  ranking  as  a  Major  at 
its  close. 


Wilfred  Elizur  Griggs,  Ph.B.   1887 

Born  May  2,  1866,  in  Waterbury,  Conn. 
Died  July  24,  191 8,  in  Waterbury,  Conn. 

Wilfred  Elizur  Griggs  was  born  May  2,  1866,  in  Water- 
bury, Conn.,  where  his  father,  Henry  Charles  Griggs,  was 
engaged  in  manufacturing.  The  latter  was  also  president  of 
the  Dime  Savings  Bank  and  a  director  of  the  Waterbury 


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National  Bank,  and  served  as  a  member  of  the  General 
Assembly  of  Connecticut  in  1882  and  1886.  His  parents  were 
Charles  Griggs,  a  direct  descendant  of  Thomas  Griggs,  who 
came  from  England  in  1639  ^^^  settled  in  Roxbury,  Mass., 
and  Frances  C.  (Drake)  Griggs,  a  direct  descendant  of  Sir 
Francis  Drake.  Wilfred  Griggs'  mother,  Mary  Bassett  (Foot) 
Griggs,  was  the  daughter  of  Jared  Foot  (B.A.  1820)  and 
Rebekah  (Beecher)  Foot  and  a  granddaughter  of  Joseph 
Foot  (B.A.  1787,  M.D.,  honorary,  1816).  She  traced  her 
descent  from  Nathaniel  Foot,  who  was  born  in  England  in 
1593  and  came  to  Watertown,  Mass.,  about  1633.  Another 
ancestor  was  Roger  Wolcott,  a  Colonial  governor  of  Connecti- 
cut. Through  the  Drake  line,  comes  a  rather  remarkable 
lineage,  unbroken  to  the  Plantaganets. 

He  prepared  at  the  Waterbury  English  and  Classical  School, 
and  in  the  Sheffield  Scientific  School  took  the  mechanical 
engineering  course.  He  was  vice  president  of  the  Tennis 
Association  in  Junior  year.  In  his  pre-college  days,  with  his 
brother  Robert,  he  published  two  amateur  newspapers. 
Young  America  and  T^he  Connecticut  Amateur^  the  official 
papers  of  the  Connecticut  Press  Association  and  the  New 
England  Amateur  Journalistic  Association. 

In  1889  he  completed  a  course  in  architecture  at  Columbia, 
receiving  the  degree  of  Ph.B.  He  had  practiced  his  profession 
since  that  time,  at  first  in  New  York  City  for  a  year  and  a 
half,  and  afterwards  in  Waterbury.  For  a  few  years  he  was 
associated  with  Mr.  R.  W.  Hill,  and  in  1901  he  formed  a 
partnership  with  Mr.  William  E.  Hunt  under  the  firm  name 
of  Griggs  &  Hunt,  but  this  partnership  was  later  discontinued. 
Among  some  of  the  buildings  which  he  designed  were  the 
Fisk  University  buildings,  the  Waterbury  Court  House,  and 
the  Hotel  Elton  in  Waterbury.  He  was  president  of  the  Con- 
necticut chapter  of  the  American  Institute  of  Architects  in 
1910-11.  He  had  traveled  extensively  in  Europe.  From  1900 
to  1905  he  was  a  member  of  the  Waterbury  Board  of  Edu- 
cation. He  belonged  to  the  First  Congregational  Church  of 
that  city,  and  served  as  Secretary  of  the  Class  of  1887  S. 
from  1887  to  1912. 

His  death  occurred  July  24,  191 8,  at  his  home  in  Water- 
bury, after  an  illness  of  three  months  due  to  Bright's  disease, 
Burial  was  in  Riverside  Cemetery,  Waterbury. 


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He  was  married  April  21,  1892,  in  Paris,  France,  to  Flora 
Victoria,  daughter  of  William  and  Amanda  (Baker)  Hartley, 
of  New  York  City.  She  survives  him  with  their  daughter, 
Catharine  Hartley.  Two  brothers,  Robert  F.  Griggs,  ex-Sgy 
and  David  C.  Griggs  (Ph.B.  1892),  are  living.  Another 
brother,  Charles  J.  Griggs  (B.A.  1886,  LL.B.  1888),  died  in 
1905. 

James  Henry  Hayden,  Ph.B.   1887 

Born  February  23,  1867,  in  New  York  City- 
Died  December  19,  1918,  in  Washington,  D.  C. 

James  Henry  Hayden  was  one  of  the  four  children  of  Henry 
Hubbard  and  Mary  Lenita  (Cairns)  Hayden,  and  was  born 
in  New  York  City,  February  23,  1867.  His  father,  who  was  a 
manufacturer,  of  the  firm  of  Holmes,  Booth  &  Hayden,  was 
the  son  of  Festus  and  Sophia  (Harrison)  Hayden,  and  a 
descendant  of  John  Hayden,  of  Devonshire,  England,  who 
came  to  America  in  1630  and  settled  in  Massachusetts.  He 
was  a  great-grandson  of  Col.  Lemuel  Harrison  of  the  American 
Revolutionary  Forces.  His  mother,  who  was  born  in  Buenos 
Ayres,  Argentine  Republic,  was  the  daughter  of  Robert 
William  and  Mary  Lenna  (Price)  Cairns,  both  of  whom  were 
of  English  descent. 

He  entered  Yale  from  St.  Paul's  School,  Concord,  N.  H., 
and  took  the  civil  engineering  course.  He  was  captain  of  the 
Class  Crew  in  Freshman  and  Junior  years,  and  served  as 
Secretary  of  the  Class  in  Junior  and  Senior  years. 

He  graduated  from  the  Yale  School  of  Law  in  1889,  and  was 
admitted  to  the  bar  in  that  year.  He  had  since  practiced  law 
in  Washington,  for  some  years  as  a  member  of  the  firm  of 
Hayden,  McCammon,  Hayden  &  Dalzell.  His  brother, 
Robert  Cairns  Hayden  (LL.B.  1894),  was  his  partner  in  the 
firm.  Mr.  Hayden  was  counsel  for  Admiral  Sampson  and 
other  captors  in  the  prize  cases  growing  out  of  the  captures 
made  in  the  late  war  with  Spain,  and  appeared  in  a  number 
of  cases  before  International  Tribunals.  He  was  a  member 
of  the  American  Bar  Association,  the  American  Society  of 
International  Law,  the  Bar  Association  of  the  District 
of  Columbia,  the  Sons  of  the  American  Revolution,  and  of 


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several  organizations  promotive  of  military  preparedness. 
For  several  years  he  had  been  a  member  of  the  Alumni 
Advisory  Board,  representing  the  Yale  Alumni  Association 
of  Washington,  of  which  organization  he  was  at  one  time 
president.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Protestant  Episcopal 
Church,  being  a  communicant  of  St.  John's  Church,  Wash- 
ington. 

His  death  occurred  suddenly  in  Washington,  December  19, 
191 8.  Burial  was  in  Riverside  Cemetery,  Waterbury,  Conn. 

Mr.  Hayden  was  unmarried.  He  is  survived  by  a  brother 
and  a  sister. 


William  Harper  Butler,  Ph.B.  1890 

Born  February  9,  1863,  in  Olean,  N.  Y. 
Died  August  18,  191 8,  in  Dunkirk,  N.  Y. 

William  Harper  Butler,  son  of  Nelson  S.  Butler,  a  dry 
goods  merchant,  was  born  February  9,  1863,  in  Olean,  N.  Y. 
His  paternal  grandparents  were  Alexander  and  Lydia  (Tar- 
bell)  Butler.  His  mother  is  Elizabeth  A.  (Wade)  Butler, 
daughter  of  Aaron  and  Polly  (Brown)  Wade.  He  was  a 
descendant  of  General  John  Tarbell,  of  Cambridge,  Mass. 

He  was  prepared  for  Yale  at  Phillips-Andover,  and  entered 
the  Sheffield  Scientific  School  in  1887.  After  a  short  grad- 
uate course  in  chemistry  at  Yale,  Mr.  Butler  went  to  northern 
Michigan  to  engage  in  the  concentration  of  magnetic  ores  for 
the  Edison  Company,  and  from  1891  to  1893  he  was  at  the 
Edison  Works  at  Schenectady,  N.  Y.  He  then  became  super- 
intendent of  the  Akron  Electrical  Company,  of  Akron,  Ohio, 
manufacturers  of  dynamos,  motors,  and  a  fire  alarm  system. 
After  spending  thirteen  years  in  the  building  and  operating 
of  telephone  exchanges  in  Ohio,  he  became  engaged  in  the 
sand  and  gravel  business  with  W.  C.  Jones  in  Lincoln,  111. 
After  a  year  he  gave  up  this  connection  to  become  Chicago 
representative  of  the  General  Compressed  Air  &  Vacuum 
Machinery  Company,  of  St.  Louis,  Mo.,  and  then  took  up 
the  manufacture  of  vacuum  machinery  operated  by  elec- 
tricity with  the  Federal  Electric  Company,  of  Chicago.  In 
1 9 10  he  began  work  with  the  American  Rotary  Valve  Com- 


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pany,  of  that  city,  and  after  a  short  time  was  transferred 
to  the  New  York  office  of  the  company.  During  191 6-17  he 
was  an  inspector  of  munitions  in  St.  Catharines,  Ontario,  for 
the  Canadian  Government. 

Mr.  Butler  died  August  18,  191 8,  at  the  Brooks  Hospital, 
Dunkirk,  N.  Y.  He  had  been  in  ill  health  for  six  months,  and 
four  days  before  his  death,  was  operated  on  for  gall  bladder 
trouble.  He  was  buried  in  Mount  View  Cemetery  in  his 
native  town.  He  belonged  to  the  First  Methodist  Church 
there. 

He  was  married  December  29,  1908,  in  Cincinnati,  Ohio,  to 
Blanche  Law,  daughter  of  A.  M.  L.  and  Mary  Wasson.  They 
were  divorced  in  1913.  There  were  no  children.  Mr.  Butler  is 
survived  by  a  sister,  Miss  F.  Louise  Butler,  of  Portland,  N.  Y., 
and  his  mother. 


Robert  Schuttler  Hotz,  Ph.B.  1891 

Born  September  i,  1870,  in  Chicago,  111. 
Died  August  25,  191 8,  in  Chicago,  111. 

Robert  Schuttler  Hotz  was  born  in  Chicago,  111.,  September 
I,  1870.  His  parents  were  Christopher  and  Catherme  (Schut- 
tler) Hotz.  His  father,  who  was  born  in  Wertheim,  Baden, 
Germany,  was  the  son  of  Gottfried  and  Elizabeth  Hotz,  and 
a  graduate  of  the  Polytechnic  School  at  Karlsruhe  with  the 
degree  of  M.E.  in  1864.  He  came  to  America  in  1867  and  took 
up  his  residence  in  Chicago.  After  practicing  engineering  for  a 
time,  he  entered  the  manufacturing  business.  He  had  always 
taken  an  active  part  in  the  civic  life  of  the  city.  Robert  S. 
Hotz's  maternal  grandparents  were  Peter  and  Dorothy  Schut- 
tler. The  former  came  to  the  United  States  from  Germany  in 
1837,  settling  first  at  Buffalo,  N.  Y.,  and  later  removing  to 
Chicago. 

He  received  his  preparatory  training  at  the  Skinner  and 
Harvard  schools  in  Chicago,  and  at  Yale  took  the  mechanical 
engineering  course.  For  a  number  of  years  after  graduation  he 
was  connected  with  the  firm  of  Schuttler  &  Hotz,  manufac- 
turers of  wagons,  acting  as  vice  president  from  1894  to  1905. 
In  1905  he  sold  his  interests  in  the  concern  and  went  to  Paris, 


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where  he  spent  two  years.  He  returned  to  Chicago  in  1907, 
having  secured  the  agency  of  the  Saurer  auto  trucks,  built  in 
Arbon,  Switzerland.  In  May,  191 1,  he  was  elected  president 
of  the  Hazel  Pure  Food  Company,  but  resigned  after  a  few 
months  to  become  president  of  the  Lausden  Company.  He 
later  became  a  member  of  the  firm  of  Hotz  &  Rehm,  dealers 
in  investments,  and  was  also  vice  president  of  the  Star 
Motor  Delivery  Company  and  president  of  the  Hermo  Elec- 
trical Company.  He  was  the  author  of  *'Potentia,"a  report  of 
the  Potentia  movement  in  Europe  for  the  year  1909-19 10. 
He  was  on  the  executive  board  of  the  Chicago  Citizens  Asso- 
ciation and  was  a  member  of  the  Presbyterian  Church. 

He  died  August  25,  191 8,  in  Chicago,  and  was  buried  in 
Rosehill  Cemetery  in  that  city.  His  death  was  due  to  internal 
injuries  received  in  an  accident  several  years  before. 

His  marriage  took  place  December  17,  1896,  in  Chicago, 
to  Lila  Frances,  daughter  of  Joseph  Presly  and  Elizabeth 
Ross,  who  survives  him.  They  had  two  children,  a  son,  Robert 
Schuttler,  Jr.,  and  a  daughter,  Lila  Ross,  who  are  also 
living.  The  son,  who  is  a  non-graduate  member  of  the  Class 
of  1919  S.,  entered  the  Naval  Reserve  Force  in  May,  1917, 
and  was  discharged  as  a  Lieutenant  (junior  grade)  in  Jan- 
uary, 1919. 


William  Ernest  Walker,  Ph.B.   1891 

Born  November  19,  1868,  in  Covington,  Ky.  . 
Died  December  25,  1918,  in  Chicago,  111. 

William  Ernest  Walker,  whose  parents  were  Samuel 
Johnston  Walker,  a  dealer  in  real  estate,  and  Amanda 
(Morehead)  Walker,  was  born  in  Covington,  Ky.,  November 
19, 1 868.  He  was  the  grandson  of  Henry  and  Caroline  (Cooper) 
Walker.  His  paternal  ancestors  came  to  America  from  Eng- 
land and  settled  in  Virginia.  His  mother  was  the  daughter  of 
Charles  Slaughter  Morehead,  governor  of  Kentucky  from 
1855  to  1858,  and  Margaret  (Leavey)  Morehead.  General 
Lawrence  Leavey  of  the  Revolutionary  Army  was  a  great- 
great-uncle. 

He  was  fitted  for  college  in  Lakeville,  Conn.,  and  at  Yale 


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was  a  member  of  the  Freshman  Football  Team  and  treas- 
urer of  the  Freshman  Crew. 

He  went  abroad  shortly  after  graduation,  and  upon  his 
return  in  1892  entered  the  office  of  Henry  Ives  Colt,  an  archi- 
tect, with  whom  he  remained  six  years.  Later  he  became 
associated  with  the  architectural  department  of  the  Chicago 
Board  of  Education  as  superintendent  of  construction.  In 
[uly,  1902,  he  resigned  and  opened  his  own  office  as  an  archi- 
^tect  in  Chicago,  where  he  practiced  his  profession  up  to  within 
a  few  months  of  his  death,  which  occurred,  from  heart  disease, 
December  25,  191 8,  in  Chicago,  after  an  illness  of  three 
months.  The  original  cause  of  his  heart  trouble  was  traced  to 
severe  injuries  received  in  an  accident  in  his  college  days.  In 
1913  Mr.  Walker  built  a  concrete  bungalow  on  the  top  of  a 
nine-story  apartment  building,  overlooking  Lake  Michigan, 
and  there  he  made  his  home  during  the  closing  years  of  his  life. 

Mr.  Walker  was  a  member  of  St.  Chrysostom's  Church  of 
Chicago.  He  was  married  May  10,  1905,  in  that  city,  to  Mil- 
dred Curtis,  daughter  of  Edward  Kendall  and  Annie  Trimble 
Rogers.  She  survives  him  with  one  daughter,  Edith  Morehead. 
He  also  leaves  three  sisters  and  two  brothers, — Charles  M. 
Walker  (B.A.  1884)  and  Samuel  J.  Walker  (B.A.  1888). 

Gaston  Gunter,  Ph.B.  1893 

Born  November  7,  1 874,  in  Montgomery,  Ala. 
Died  January  29,  191 9,  in  Montgomery,  Ala. 

Gaston  Gunter  was  born  in  Montgomery,  Ala.,  November 
7,  1874,  the  son  of  William  Adams  Gunter  (B.A.  University 
of  Alabama  1853,  LL.B.  University  of  Virginia  1854)  and 
Ellen  Florence  (Poellnitz)  Gunter.  He  was  of  Scotch,  English, 
and  German  blood.  His  father,  who  is  a  distinguished  member 
of  the  bar  of  Montgomery,  is  the  son  of  Charles  G.  Gunter, 
one  of  the  earliest  landowners  and  settlers  in  the  county  of 
Montgomery,  and  Eliza  Adams  Gunter.  His  mother  was  the 
daughter  of  Charles  A.  and  Mary  Peay  Poellnitz,  and  traced 
her  ancestry  to  Baron  Charles  Hans  Frederick  Bruno  von 
Poellnitz,  who  came  with  Baron  Frederick  von  Steuben  to 
America  in  1777.  After  the  Revolution  he  settled  in  the 
Darlington  District  in  South  Carolina. 


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He  received  his  preparatory  training  at  schools  in  Mont- 
gomery and  in  New  Jersey.  He  took  the  civil  engineering  course 
in  the  Sheffield  Scientific  School. 

After  graduation  he  was  for  a  time  engaged  on  improvement 
work  of  Alabama  rivers,  with  the  United  States  Engineering 
Corps.  In  1894  he  began  the  study  of  law  in  his  father's  office, 
and  in  1895,  ^^ter  attending  a  summer  session  of  the  Uni- 
versity of  Virginia  Law  School,  he  was  admitted  to  the  bar. 
In  the  same  year  he  became  associated  with  his  father  in  the 
practice  of  law  in  Montgomery  under  the  firm  name  of 
Gunter  &  Gunter.  He  served  in  the  Spanish-American  War 
from  June,  1898,  to  March,  1899,  as  Captain  of  Company  K, 
3d  Alabama  Volunteer  Infantry.  From  1901  to  19 10  he  was 
a  member  of  the  City  Council  of  Montgomery,  being  presi- 
dent of  the  council  from  1906  to  19 10,  and  from  1907  to  19 10 
he  was  a  member  of  the  State  Legislature.  In  1908  he  was 
elected  mayor  of  Montgomery,  and  in  19 10  became  judge  of 
the  City  Court.  He  had  also  served  as  presiding  judge  of  the 
Circuit  Court.  At  the  time  of  his  death  he  was  presiding 
justice  of  the  Fifteenth  Judicial  Court.  He  had  traveled 
extensively  throughout  the  United  States. 

Judge  Gunter  died  of  pneumonia,  following  influenza,  on 
January  29,  191 9,  in  Montgomery.  He  was  buried  in  Oak- 
wood  Cemetery  in  that  city. 

He  was  unmarried.  Surviving  him  are  his  father,  three 
sisters, — Mrs.  Darrington  Semple,  of  New  York  City,  Mrs. 
George  Rowan,  of  Jacksonville,  Ala.,  and  Mrs.  J.  Kirk  Jack- 
son, of  Birmingham,  Ala., — and  three  brothers, —  William  A. 
Gunter,  Jr.,  Charles  P.  Gunter,  of  Montgomery,  and  Dr. 
Clarence  Gunter,  of  Globe,  Ariz. 


Percy  V^eir  Arnold,  Ph.B.   1896 

Born  May  22,  1874,  in  Cold  Spring,  N.  Y. 
Died  January  25,  1919,  in  Langres,  France 

Percy  Weir  Arnold  was  the  son  of  Brigadier  General 
Abraham  Kerns  Arnold,  U.  S.  A.,  and  Sarah  J.  (Benjamin) 
Arnold  and  was  born  May  22,  1874,  at  Cold  Spring,  N.  Y.,  of 
English  and  Dutch  ancestry.  He  was  the  grandson  of  John 


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Arnold  and  a  descendant  of  Johannes  Arnold,  who  came  to 
America  from  Rotterdam,  Holland,  in  1740  and  settled  in 
Pennsylvania.  His  maternal  grandparents  were  William 
jMassens  and  Sarah  J.  Benjamin.  His  great-great-grand- 
Lther  was  Aaron  Benjamin,  and  his  first  American  ancestor 
^6n  his  mother's  side  was  Matthias  Nicoll,  the  first  English 
secretary  of  the  Colony  of  New  York,  who  came  from  an 
ancient  family  of  Islippe,  Northamptonshire,  England.  He 
was  also  descended  from  Benjamin  Nicoll,  born  in  1778,  who 
was  a  lawyer  in  New  York  City,  a  vestryman  of  Trinity 
Church,  and  one  of  the  founders  of  King's  College  (Columbia) . 

His  early  life  was  spent  at  garrisons  in  the  West  and  South, 
and  he  was  prepared  for  Yale  under  a  tutor.  He  took  the  civil 
engineering  course  in  the  Scientific  School.  He  served  on  the 
Class  Day  Committee. 

He  enlisted  in  Troop  F,  ist  U.  S.  Cavalry,  at  Fort  Riley, 
Kansas,  on  August  31,  1896,  and  served  with  this  regiment 
until  receiving  his  commission  as  Second  Lieutenant  on  July 
6,  1898,  when  he  was  assigned  to  Battery  C,  7th  Field  Artil- 
lery. He  subsequently  served  with  the  12th,  ist,  and  7th 
Cavalry  regiments.  He  was  in  Porto  Rico  until  1900,  when 
he  was  transferred  to  the  Philippines.  He  was  promoted  to  the 
rank  of  First  Lieutenant  on  February  2, 1901,  and  after  spend- 
ing some  months  in  1902-03  on  detached  service,  attending 
the  Infantry  and  Cavalry  School  at  Fort  Leavenworth,  Kan- 
sas, was,  on  September  15,  1904,  advanced  to  the  rank  of 
Captain.  He  was  again  assigned  to  the  Philippines,  and 
sailed  in  March,  1905.  From  January  to  July,  1907,  he  was  on 
detached  service  at  Singapore,  Straits  Settlements.  He  re- 
turned to  the  United  States  in  October,  1907,  being  stationed 
at  Fort  Riley,  Kansas,  until  April,  191 1,  when  he  again  went 
to  the  Philippines,  where  he  was  stationed  at  Fort  William 
McKinley,  Rizal,  as  adjutant  of  the  7th  Cavalry.  In  19 14  he 
was  assigned  to  the  14th  Cavalry  at  Fort  Clark,  Texas,  and 
was  on  duty  as  border  patrol  in  the  Eagle  Pass,  Del  Rio,  and 
the  Big  Bend  District.  While  at  Del  Rio  he  was  appointed 
adjutant  of  the  14th  Cavalry.  In  May,  1917,  he  was  sent  as  an 
instructor  to  the  Officers'  Training  Camp  at  Plattsburg,  N.  Y. 
On  July  15,  1917,  he  was  promoted  to  the  rank  of  Major  of 
Cavalry,  U.  S.  A.,  and  a  month  later  was  assigned  to  the  301st 

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Il68  SHEFFIELD    SCIENTIFIC    SCHOOL 

Infantry  at  Camp  Devens,  Ayer,  Mass.,  as  a  Lieutenant 
Colonel  in  the  National  Army.  In  March,  1918,  he  was  given 
the  command  of  the  301st  Headquarters  Trains  and  Military 
Police,  76th  Division,  with  the  rank  of  Colonel.  He  reached 
France  in  command  of  this  organization  in  August,  191 8,  and 
served  with  the  76th  Division  for  three  months,  after  which 
he  attended  the  Line  Officers'  School  at  Langres.  Early  in 
December  he  took  command  of  the  103d  Infantry,  25th 
Division.  His  death  occurred  January  25,  1919,  in  Langres, 
as  the  result  of  a  fall.  He  had  been  billeted  in  an  old  school- 
house  and  stumbled  on  the  unlighted  circular  stairway,  fell, 
and  suffered  a  compound  fracture  of  the  skull.  He  died  the 
following  day  without  regaining  consciousness.  He  was  buried 
at  Langres  with  full  military  honors. 

Colonel  Arnold  was  married  June  15,  1916,  in  El  Paso, 
Texas,  to  Bessie  Gardiner,  daughter  of  Col.  Charles  William 
Taylor,  U.  S.  A.,  and  Juliet  (Hart)  Taylor.  She  survives  him 
without  children.  He  also  leaves  his  mother  and  a  brother. 


Daniel  Dow  Schenck,  Ph.B.   1897 

Born  December  9,  1875,  in  Toledo,  Ohio 
Died  October  12,  191 8,  in  Toledo,  Ohio 

Daniel  Dow  Schenck  was  born  in  Toledo,  Ohio,  December 
9,  1875,  ^^^  s°^  ^^  Schuyler  Charles  Schenck,  who  was  an 
agent  for  the  coal  department  of  the  Delaware,  Lackawanna 
&  Western  Railway  Company,  and  Harriet  Elizabeth  (Dow) 
Schenck.  He  was  of  English,  Scotch,  and  Dutch  ancestry, 
being  the  grandson  of  William  and  Mary  (Falley)  Schenck, 
and  a  descendant  of  Richard  Falley,  who  came  to  America 
from  the  Island  of  Guernsey  about  1720  and  settled  in  Boston, 
Mass.,  later  removing  to  Westfield,  Mass.  His  great-great- 
grandfather, Richard  Falley,  Jr.,  held  a  Lieutenant's  com- 
mission in  the  Revolutionary  War.  His  maternal  grandparents 
were  Hezekiah  R.  and  Nancy  Elizabeth  (Farrington)  Dow. 

He  prepared  for  Yale  at  Phillips  Academy,  Andover,  Mass., 
and  took  the  select  course  in  the  Scientific  School. 

After  graduation  he  entered  the  coal  business  with  his 
father.   In   1913  he  became  a  sales  agent  for  the  Delaware, 


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Lackawanna  &  Western  Coal  Company,  in  which  position 

he  continued  until  his  death.  On  the  death  of  his  father  in 

913  he  also   became   president   of  the  Toledo  &  Indiana 

ailroad  Company  and  of  the  S.  C.  Schenck  Company.  He 

as  a  director  of  the  First  National  Bank  and  the  Union 
Savings  Bank,  of  Toledo.  He  was  a  trustee  of  the  First 
Congregational  Church  and  of  the  Toledo  Hospital,  and  had 

rved  as  vice  president  of  the  local  Yale  alumni  association. 

He  died  of  pneumonia,  following  an  attack  of  influenza,  on 
October  12,  191 8,  in  Toledo,  and  was  buried  in  Woodlawn 
Cemetery  in  that  city. 

Mr.  Schenck  was  unmarried.  He  is  survived  by  a  brother, 
Lewis  R.  Schenck,  '04,  and  by  two  sisters,  Mrs.  Bartelle  S. 
Hamilton,  of  Toledo,  and  Mrs.  Walter  L.  Haskell,  of  Mil- 
waukee, Wis. 

John  Milton  Fiske,  Jr.,  Ph.B.   1899 

Born  April  30,  1877,  in  Toledo,  Ohio 
Died  December  19,  1918,  in  Pasadena,  Calif. 

John  Milton  Fiske,  Jr.,  was  born  in  Toledo,  Ohio,  April  30, 
1877.  His  father,  John  Milton  Fiske,  formerly  a  fruit  and 
nursery  farmer  in  California  and  Arizona,  is  the  son  of  Leon- 
ard and  Amelia  Fiske,  of  Bethel,  Vt.  His  mother  is  Ellie 
(Brooks)  Fiske,  daughter  of  Judson  and  Judith  (French) 
Brooks.  She  traces  her  ancestry  to  Henry  Brooks,  an  early 
settler  in  Concord,  Mass. 

He  received  his  preparatory  training  at  the  Hyde  Park 
School,  Chicago,  111.,  and  under  a  private  tutor.  Before  enter- 
ing Yale  he  studied  for  a  time  at  the  University  of  Chicago. 
He  took  the  mechanical  engineering  course  in  the  Scientific 
School. 

Immediately  after  graduation  he  accepted  a  position  as 
clerk  in  the  office  of  Churchill  &  Company,  grain  merchants 
of  Chicago.  In  January,  1900,  he  entered  the  employ  of  the 
Lehigh  Valley  Coal  Company  of  Chicago  as  clerk,  in  1901 
becoming  a  traveling  salesman  for  the  company  in  Illinois  and 
Iowa.  He  was  appointed  sales  agent  at  Milwaukee,  Wis.,  in 
February,  1902,  and  held  this  position  until  his  death.  He 
was  a  member  of  St.  Paul's  Church,  of  Milwaukee. 


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His  death  occurred  December  19, 191 8,  in  Pasadena,  Calif., 
and  his  body  was  taken  to  Chicago  for  burial  in  Rosehill 
Cemetery. 

He  was  married  in  Chicago,  October  28,  1902,  to  Zoe 
Gertrude,  daughter  of  Judge  Richard  Stanley  Tuthill,  LL.D. 
(B.A.  Middlebury  1863),  and  Harriet  (McKey)  Tuthill.  They 
had  three  daughters,  Judith  Brooks  (born  November  13, 
1903,  died  December  20,  1909),  Dorothea,  and  Mary  Eliza- 
beth. Besides  his  wife  and  two  daughters,  Mr.  Fiske  is  sur- 
vived by  his  parents.  He  was  a  nephew  of  Joseph  Judson 
Brooks  (B.A.  1867)  and  a  cousin  of  Charles  T.  Brooks  (B.A. 
1889),  Joseph  Judson  Brooks  (Ph.B.  1893),  Frank  F.  Brooks 
(Ph.B.  1896),  and  Alexander  M.  Brooks  (Ph.B.  1900). 


Charles  James  Freeborn,  Ph.B.  1899 

Born  November  11,  1877,  in  San  Francisco,  Calif. 
Died  February  13,  1919,  in  Paris,  France 

Charles  James  Freeborn  was  born  November  11,  1877,  in 
San  Francisco,  Calif.,  the  son  of  James  and  Eleanor  (Smith) 
Freeborn.  He  was  of  Scotch  descent  on  the  paternal  side,  his 
ancestors  making  their  home  in  St.  John,  New  Brunswick, 
after  their  arrival  in  America.  His  father,  who  was  a  director 
of  the  Bank  of  California  and  one  of  the  owners  of  the  Alaska 
Treadwell  Mining  Company,  was  the  son  of  William  and 
Ellen  Freeborn.  His  maternal  grandparents  were  Stephen 
Henry  and  Maria  Henrietta  (Higginson)  Smith. 

He  was  fitted  for  college  at  the  Westminster  School,  Sims- 
bury,  Conn.,  and  took  the  select  course  in  the  Sheffield 
Scientific  School. 

Mr.  Freeborn  had  been  engaged  chiefly  in  manufacturing 
since  graduation.  In  May,  1901,  after  some  months  of  travel 
in  France,  Uruguay,  Brazil,  and  the  Argentine  Republic, 
where  he  lived  on  a  cattle  ranch  for  some  time,  he  became  con- 
nected with  the  Scott's  Emulsion  factory.  After  a  time  he 
took  charge  of  the  German  branch  of  the  manufacturing 
end  of  that  business,  and  was  located  at  Frankfort.  He  left 
this  concern  in  March,  1902,  and  in  1903  went  to  Grange- 
ville,  Idaho,  as  a  partner  in  the  Cove  Placer  Mining  Com- 
pany, which  failed  after  two  years.  Since  1905  he  had  been  a 


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partner  in  a  firm  engaged  in  the  manufacture  of  powdered 
milk,  and  he  was  also  connected  with  the  manufacture  of  a 
valveless  motor.  He  was  general  manager  of  the  Freeborn 
Estate  Company,  and  had  been  in  San  Francisco  at  different 
times  since  1906,  attending  to  his  interests  there,  although 
practically  all  of  the  latter  part  of  his  life  was  spent  abroad, 
mainly  at  Paris. 

He  joined  the  American  Ambulance  Service  in  December, 
1914,  and  was  attached  to  the  service  of  its  chief,  Mr.  A. 
Piatt  Andrew.  His  special  duties  were  in  connection  with  the 
ambulance  sections  at  the  front  and  the  home  base.  In  the 
summer  of  191 6  he  went  to  California  to  raise  funds  for 
the  Field  Service,  and  later  he  organized  and  had  charge  of 
the  Paris  Ambulance  Section,  which  section  had  charge  of  the 
removing  of  French  wounded  from  the  trains  to  the  hospitals 
in  and  about  Paris  and  at  Juilly.  After  this  section  had  been 
well  organized  he  became  Commandant  Adjoint  of  S.  S.  U.  2 
at  Pont-a-Mousson.  It  was  while  engaged  in  work  with  this 
section  at  Verdun  that  he  was  awarded  the  Croix  de  Guerre^ 
with  divisional  citation.  Just  before  the  United  States  entered 
the  war,  he  went  to  the  French  School  at  Meaux  for  instruc- 
tion in  camion  driving,  repairing,  and  extended  organization. 
He  received  a  certificate  on  the  completion  of  the  course,  and 
then  rejoined  his  section  at  the  front.  In  July,  191 7,  he  was 
commissioned  as  a  First  Lieutenant  in  the  Quartermaster 
Department,  U.  S.  Army,  being  assigned  to  Colonel  Wilson, 
head  of  the  American  Military  Mission,  at  Marshal  Petain's 
Headquarters.  He  was  later  assigned  to  special  intelligence 
work  at  the  front.  He  had  also  represented  the  American 
Red  Cross  in  much  of  its  liaison  work.  During  the  last  great 
offensive,  the  services  that  he  rendered  were  so  highly  appre- 
ciated that  the  palm  was  added  to  his  Croix  de  Guerre  by  the 
French  military  authorities.  He  was  also  honored  with  the 
Cross  of  the  Legion  of  Honor.  In  December,  191 8,  he  was 
promoted  to  a  Captaincy,  and  he  was  demobilized  the  fol- 
lowing month.  His  death  occurred  on  February  13,  three 
weeks  after  his  discharge,  at  his  home  in  Paris,  from  pneu- 
monia, following  influenza.  He  was  buried  in  Mountain  View 
Cemetery  at  Oakland,  Calif. 

He  was  unmarried.  He  is  survived  by  his  mother,  who  lives 
abroad,  a  brother,  and  a  sister. 


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John  Gibson  Hazard,  Ph.B.  1899 

Born  February  19,  1877,  in  Peace  Dale,  R.  I. 
Died  December  27,  1918,  in  Syracuse,  N.  Y. 

John  Gibson  Hazard,  whose  parents  were  John  Newbold 
Hazard  (B.A.  Brown  1857,  M.A.  Brown  1890)  and  Augusta 
(GiirlofF)  Hazard,  was  born  in  Peace  Dale,  R.  I.,  February 
19,  1877.  His  father  died  in  1900,  having  been  for  many  years 
president  of  the  Peace  Dale  Manufacturing  Company,  a 
director  of  the  Wakefield  Trust  Company,  and  president  of 
the  Narragansett  Pier  Railroad.  He  was  the  son  of  Rowland 
Gibson  and  Caroline  (Newbold)  Hazard,  and  a  descendant  of 
Thomas  Hazard,  who  came  to  America  from  England  in 
.  1635,  ^^^  settled  in  Boston,  Mass.  In  1639  Thomas  Hazard 
and  eight  others  signed  a  contract  preparatory  to  the  settle- 
ment of  Rhode  Island. 

John  Gibson  Hazard  studied  for  three  years  at  Thudicum's 
School,  Geneva,  Switzerland,  and  entered  Yale  from  The  Hill 
School,  Pottstown,  Pa»  He  took  the  chemistry  course  in  the 
Sheffield  Scientific  School.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Freshman 
Crew. 

He  accepted  a  position  as  chemist  with  the  Semet-Solvay 
Company  of  Syracuse,  N.  Y.,  in  the  fall  of  1899,  but  on 
account  of  ill  health  spent  the  winter  in  California,  returning 
to  Syracuse  in  the  spring  of  1900.  In  December,  1901,  he 
again  went  to  California  because  of  poor  health,  and  lived  in 
Santa  Barbara  for  two  years.  In  1904  he  resumed  his  work 
with  the  Semet-Solvay  Company,  and  in  July,  1907,  became 
secretary  of  this  company  and  of  the  By-Products  Coke  Cor- 
poration. At  the  time  of  his  death  he  was  vice  president  of 
the  Semet-Solvay  Company  and  the  Solvay  Security  Com- 
pany, a  director  of  the  Solvay  Process  Company  and  of  the 
Syracuse  Trust  Company,  secretary  of  the  Kentucky  Sol- 
vay Company,  and  president  of  the  Ironton  Coke  Company 
in  Syracuse  and  the  Pennsylvania-Solvay  Coke  Company. 

Hi^  death  occurred  December  27,  191 8,  in  Syracuse,  as  a 
result  of  typhoid  pneumonia.  He  had  been  in  poor  health  for 
about  a  year.  Interment  was  in  the  family  plot  at  Oakwood 
Cemetery,  Syracuse. 


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He  was  married  July  10,  1901,  in  Peace  Dale,  to  Ada 
Bosarte,  daughter  of  Enoch  E.  and  Emma  A.  (Bosarte) 
J>DeKalb.  He  is  survived  by  his  wife,  a  daughter,  Barbara 
Peace,  and  two  sons,  John  Newbold  and  Gibson  DeKalb. 
He  also  leaves  three  sisters  and  a  brother.  He  was  a  cousin  of 
Rowland  Hazard  (B.A.  1903)  and  of  T.  Pierrepont  Hazard 
(B.A.1915). 


Henry  Forrest  Button,  Ph.B.   1900 

Born  April  i,  1880,  in  Gainesville,  Fla. 
Died  September  13,  1918,  in  New  York  City 

Henry  Forrest  Button  was  born  in  Gainesville,  Fla.,  April 
I,  1880,  the  son  of  Henry  Forrest  and  Kate  May  (Cathan) 
Button.  His  father  was  b9rn  in  Mount  Holly,  Vt.,  in  1837, 
and  served  with  the  8th  Vermont  Regiment  during  the  Civil 
War,  at  first  as  Captain  of  Company  H  and  afterwards  as 
Lieutenant  Colonel.  He  was  so  severely  wounded  in  the  battle 
of  Opequon  that  he  was  unable  to  continue  in  the  service  and 
was  honorably  discharged  November  16,  1864.  His  death 
occurred  in  19 17. 

He  was  fitted  for  college  at  the  East  Florida  Seminary  and 
at  Phillips  Academy,  Andover,  Mass.  At  Yale  he  took  the 
select  course.  He  received  a  prize  for  excellence  in  French  in 
Junior  year,  and  was  given  honors  in  German,  French,  history, 
political  economy,  and  English  at  Commencement. 

He  made  a  trip  around  the  world  the  year  after  graduation, 
and  on  his  return  t?)ok  a  short  course  in  commercial  law  at  the 
University  of  Virginia.  Buring  1902-03  he  was  treasurer  of 
El  Recrea  Mining  Company,  with  headquarters  in  Matanzas, 
Cuba,  and  from  1903  to  1905  he  was  treasurer  of  the  Jackson- 
ville &  South  Western  Railroad  Company,  with  offices  in 
Jacksonville,  Fla.  He  was  vice  president  of  the  Chase  &  But- 
ton Oil  Company  of  Muncie  and  Union  City,  Ind.,  during  the 
next  two  years.  In  recent  years  he  had  spent  much  time  in 
travel  and  in  the  study  of  English  and  French  literature. 

Mr.  Button  left  Gainesville  a  few  weeks  before  his  death, 
apparently  in  good  health,  to  take  a  motor  trip  to  New  York. 
He  was  suddenly  stricken  with  pneumonia  and  died  in  New 


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York  City,  September  13,  191 8.   Interment  was  in  Town- 
shend,  Vt. 

He  was  married  in  June,  19 14,  and  is  survived  by  a 
daughter,  Katherine,  born  October  23,  19 16.  His  mother  is 
also  living. 

Walter  Duren,  Ph.B.   1901 

Born  September  20,  1880,  in  Newark,  N.  J. 
Died  July  5,  191 8,  in  Philadelphia,  Pa. 

Walter  Duren  was  the  son  of  George  Bancroft  and  Mary 
Elizabeth  (Newberry)  Duren  and  the  grandson  of  Robert  A. 
Duren.  He  was  born  in  Newark,  N.  J.,  September  20,  1880, 
and  received  his  preparatory  training  at  the  Newark  Acad- 
emy. His  father,  who  served  with  the  Union  Army  during  the 
Civil  War,  was  in  the  dry  goods  business  in  New  York  City 
for  about  fifty  years.  His  mother  is  the  daughter  of  Captain 
Newberry  and  Christina  C.  Newberry.  His  ancestors,  the 
Durrants,  came  to  Massachusetts  from  England  in  the  seven- 
teenth century. 

At  Yale  he  served  on  the  Class  Book  Committee.  Since 
graduation  he  had  been  engaged  in  the  banking  and  brokerage 
business  in  New  York  City,  although  during  the  war  he 
devoted  his  time  to  work  for  the  Government.  He  died,  of 
acute  gastritis,  in  Philadelphia,  Pa.,  July  5,  1918. 

Mr.  Duren  was  married  October  14,  1903,  in  New  Haven, 
Conn.,  to  Miss  Emily  Claudia  Wilson,  daughter  of  Mrs. 
Augustus  K.  Kimberley.  They  were  later  divorced,  and  in  19 10 
Mrs.  Duren  was  married  to  Heaton  Ridgw^y  Robertson  (B.A. 
1904,  Ph.B.  1906);  she  died  December  6,  191 5.  Mr.  Duren  is 
survived  by  his  mother,  two  daughters,  a  sister,  and  two 
brothers. 

Edward  Woods  Hunt,  Ph.B.  1901 

Born  January  11,  1880,  in  Chicago,  111. 
Died  September  25,  191 8,  in  New  York  City 

Edward  Woods  Hunt  was  born  January  11,  1880,  in  Chi- 
cago, 111.  He  was  adopted  in  infancy  by  his  aunt,  Janey 
C.  W.  Hunt,  whose  husband  was  Edward  Manley  Hunt,  a 
hardware  merchant  of  Tacoma,  Wash.  He  was  of  English 


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descent  on  the  maternal  side,  and  his  ancestors  fought  at 
Concord  and  Lexington  in  the  Revolutionary  War,  several 
distinguishing  themselves  under  Washington. 

He  entered  Yale  from  Phillips  Academy,  Andover,  Mass., 
and  took  the  select  course.  After  graduation  he  spent  a  year 
in  the  Wall  Street  district  of  New  York,  and  in  1903  went  to 
Korea  and  China  to  engage  in  metallurgical  engineering. 
In  1908  he  came  back  to  this  country  and  spent  a  year  at 
Austin,  Nev.,  engaged  in  mining  and  acting  as  county  recorder 
and  auditor.  He  was  then  for  a  time  secretary  of  the  Birming- 
ham, Ensley  &  Bessemer  Railroad,  of  Birmingham,  Ala.  His 
next  change  took  him  to  Guatemala  City,  Guatemala,  Central 
America,  where  he  acted  as  commissionaire  for  firms  in  the 
States.  He  remained  there  three  years,  devoting  the  last 
year  to  filling  Government  contracts  for  mahogany  for  war 
purposes. 

He  died  of  Spanish  influenza,  after  an  illness  of  seven  days, 
on  September  25,  191 8,  at  the  private  hospital  of  Dr.  McMil- 
lan, in  New  York  City.  Burial  was  in  Tacoma,  Wash.,  after 
cremation  at  the  Fresh  Pond  Crematory  on  Long  Island. 

Mr.  Hunt  was  married  December  23,  1914,  to  Ethelle 
Baker,  daughter  of  Henry  Eatman,  of  Eutaw,  Ala.,  who 
survives  him. 


John  Franklin  Trumbull,  Ph.B.   1902 

Born  July  29,  1881,  in  Springfield,  Mass. 
Died  October  17,  1918,  in  Dijon,  France 

John  Franklin  Trumbull  was  the  eldest  son  of  James  Van 
Allen  Trumbull",  for  ten  years  superintendent  of  the  Stoning- 
ton  division  of  the  New  York,  New  Haven  &  Hartford  Rail- 
road Company,  and  Nancy  Bell  (Burch)  Trumbull.  He  was 
born  July  29,  1881,  in  Springfield,  Mass.  He  was  the  grand- 
son of  John  Franklin  and  Ann  Eliza  (Smith)  Trumbull,  and  a 
descendant  of  John  Trumbull,  who  came  from  Newcastle-on- 
Tyne,  Northumberland,  England,  and  settled  first  in  Cam- 
bridge, Mass.,  where  he  resided  until  May,  1655,  when  he 
moved  to  Charlestown,  Mass.,  his  home  during  the  remainder 
of  his  life.  His  maternal  grandparents  were  Billings  and 
Nancy  Maria  (Chesebro)  Burch,  and  his  mother  traced  her 


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ancestry  to  William  Chesebrough,  who  came  to  America  from 
Lincolnshire,  England,  and  settled  in  Stonington,  Conn.,  in 

1649- 

He  received  his  early  training  at  the  Hartford  (Conn.) 
Public  High  School,  and  took  the  civil  engineering  course  in 
the  Sheffield  Scientific  School.  He  won  a  prize  in  drawing  and 
received  honorable  mention  in  French  in  Freshman  year.  He 
was  a  member  of  the  Freshman  Crew  and  of  the  Class  Day 
Committee. 

During  the  summer  of  1902  he  was  employed  by  the  New 
York,  New  Haven  &  Hartford  Railroad  Company  on  im- 
provement work  at  Fall  River,  Mass.  In  the  fall  of  that  year 
he  returned  to  Yale  for  a  short  graduate  course,  but  discon- 
tinued this  in  February,  1903,  to  join  the  engineering  staff  of 
the  Mexican  International  Railway  as  levelman  and  topog- 
rapher of  an  expedition  to  locate,  if  practicable,  a  line  from 
the  central  Mexican  plateau  to  the  Pacific  Ocean,  Mr.  Trum- 
bull's work  being  largely  north  of  Durango.  The  appropriation 
for  this  work  became  exhausted  before  the  desired  result  was 
accomplished,  and  the  party  was  disbanded.  Returning  to 
Connecticut,  Mr.  Trumbull  again  joined  the  engineering 
force  of  the  New  Haven  Road  and  was  assigned  to  improve- 
ment work  at  New  Haven.  He  was  for  a  time  employed  in  the 
field,  but  was  soon  placed  in  charge  of  the  design  and  drafting. 
In  1907  he  became  chief  assistant  to  the  superintendent  of 
trolley  construction,  and  in  this  capacity  he  was  directly 
concerned  with  the  New  Haven  Road's  extensive  trolley 
construction  and  reconstruction  program  of  that  period.  In 
1909,  in  recognition  of  his  ability  in  this  work,  he  was  made 
chief  clerk  to  the  chief  engineer  of  the  steam  road,  and  con- 
tinued in  this  position,  handling  steam  road  and  trolley 
maintenance  and  construction  work  in  great  variety  until 
July  I,  191 5,  when,  following  a  competitive  examination, 
open  to  all  engineers  of  the  state,  in  which  he  stood  highest, 
he  became  chief  engineer  of  the  Public  Utilities  Commission 
of  Connecticut.  In  September,  1917,  he  was  granted  an 
indefinite  leave  of  absence  to  enter  the  Engineer  Reserve 
Corps,  in  which  he  had  accepted  a  Captain's  commission  two 
months  before.  On  December  10,  after  three  months'  training 
^t  the  American  University  in  Washington,  D.  C,  he  was 


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ordered  to  temporary  duty  with  the  301st  Engineers  at  Camp 
Devens,  Ayer,  Mass.  On  December  26  he  was  promoted  to 
the  rank  of  Major  and  assigned  to  the  25th  Engineers  at  that 
cantonment.  A  month  or  so  later  he  was  transferred  to  the 
Engineer  Officers'  Training  Camp  at  Camp  Lee,  Virginia,  as 
an  instructor.  During  May  and  June,  191 8,  he  was  at  Fort 
Benjamin  Harrison,  Indiana,  where  the  60th  Engineers  was 
being  organized,  and  in  June  he  sailed  for  France  in  command 
of  this  regiment.  The  strain  of  his  work  aggravated  a  trouble 
from  which  he  had  long  suffered  and  it  was  at  length  found 
necessary  for  him  to  undergo  an  operation.  He  died  of  acute 
nephritis  October  17,  191 8,  in  Dijon,  and  was  buried  in  the 
American  Cemetery  there. 

Major  Trumbull  was  a  member  of  the  Congregational 
Church  and  of  the  Connecticut  Society  of  Civil  Engineers. 
Since  June,  1 917,  he  had  been  Secretary  and  Treasurer  of  the 
Class  of  1902  S.  He  was  married  June  5,  1909,  in  Hartford, 
Conn.,  to  Mary  Marguerita,  daughter  of  Theophilus  and 
Grace  (Windsor)  Persse,  who  survives  him  with  two  children, 
Grace  Windsor  and  Nancy  Burch.  His  brother,  James  B. 
Trumbull,  is  a  non-graduate  member  of  the  Class  of  1907  S. 


Frederic  Eben  Whitney,  Ph.B.   1902 

Born  January  28,  1879,  in  Lynn,  Mass. 
Died  February  20,  1919,  in  Germantown,  Pa. 

Frederic  Eben  Whitney,  son  of  Abram  Whitney,  a  shoe 
manufacturer,  and  Eliza  Ann  (Whitcomb)  Whitney,  was  born 
January  28,  1879,  ^^  Lynn,  Mass.  His  father's  parents  were 
Christopher  and  Dolly  (Brooks)  Whitney,  and  his  first  Amer- 
ican ancestor  was  John  Whitney,  who  came  to  America  from 
Richmond-on-the-Thames,  England,  in  1635,  ^"^  settled  in 
Watertown,  Mass.  His  maternal  grandparents  were  Benja- 
min and  Polly  (Thacher)  Whitcomb,  and  his  first  American 
ancestor  on  his  mother's  side  was  Rev.  Thomas  Thacher, 
who  came  from  Salisbury,  England,  in  1635,  and  settled  in 
Boston;  studied  at  Cambridge  under  Dr.  Chauncy;  and  was 
the  first  minister  of  the  Old  South  Church  in  Boston. 

He  entered  Yale  from  Phillips  Academy,  Andover,  Mass., 


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and  took  the  biology  course.  He  received  honorable  mention 
in  French  Freshman  year,  and  was  a  member  of  the  Fresh- 
man and  the  College  Football  teams. 

He  had  been  engaged  in  teaching  since  graduation.  For 
two  years  he  was  at  the  Putnam  (Conn.)  High  School,  the 
next  year  was  assistant  principal  of  the  North  Attleboro 
(Mass.)  High  School,  and  since  that  time  had  been  an  in- 
structor in  the  Germantown  Academy.  Mr.  Whitney  went  to 
Germantown  Academy  in  1905  as  instructor  in  science  and 
mathematics.  When  the  new  laboratory  was  built  he  took 
charge  of  the  arrangement  and  equipment,  and  soon  brought 
the  science  department  to  a  higher  degree  of  efficiency  than 
it  had  ever  before  reached.  He  took  an  active  part  in  all 
interests  of  the  school.  He  represented  it  in  the  Inter-Aca- 
demic Athletic  Association,  was  the  faculty  member  on  the 
staff  of  the  Academy  Monthly^  treasurer  of  the  Belfry  Club, 
and,  for  the  last  two  years  of  his  life,  chairman  of  the  com- 
mittee on  discipline.  The  Class  of  1919  at  the  academy  has 
established  in  his  memory  a  prize  in  physics  which  is  to  be 
awarded  each  year  to  the  boy  having  the  highest  average  in 
physics  for  that  year. 

He  died  of  pneumonia  February  20,  1919,  in  Germantown, 
Pa.  Interment  was  in  Spring  Grove  Cemetery,  Andover,  Mass. 

He  was  married  December  24,  1906,  in  Putnam,  Conn.,  to 
Florence  Ethel,  daughter  of  Francis  Ellsworth  and  Mary 
Agnes  (Hascall)  Burnette.  She  survives  him  with  two  chil- 
dren, Frederic  Thacher  and  Ethel  Burnette.  He  also  leaves  his 
mother  and  a  sister. 


Courtney  Burton,  Ph.B.   1903 

Born  November  9,  1 881,  in  Massillon,  Ohio 
Died  April  13,  1919,  in  Cleveland,  Ohio 

Courtney  Burton  was  born  in  Massillon,  Ohio,  November 
9,  1 88 1.  Jonathan  Prescott  Burton,  his  father,  was  a  coal 
operator,  and  the  son  of  William  and  Rosanna  (Thompson) 
Burton.  His  first  American  ancestor  was  Anthony  Burton, 
who  came  from  England  with  William  Penn  in  1682,  settled 
in  Penns  Manor,  Pa.,  and  in  1695  ^^^^  ^^^  ^^  town  of  Bristol. 


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ourtney  Burton's  mother,  Mary  E.  (Zerbe)  Burton,  is  the 
daughter  of  Jonathan  and  Christiana  (Gorgas)  Zerbe.  She 
traces  her  ancestry  to  William  Rittenhouse,  who  came  to 
America  from  Arnhem,  Holland,  in  1687,  and  established  at 
Germantown,  Pa.,  the  first  paper  mills  in  America. 

He  received  his  preparatory  training  at  The  Hill  School, 
Pottstown,  Pa.  After  graduating  from  the  Sheffield  Scientific 
School,  he  went  into  the  coal  business  in  Cleveland,  Ohio, 
with  the  Burton,  Beidler  &  Phillips  Company,  mining  both 
anthracite  and  bituminous  coal.  He  was  secretary  and  treas- 
urer of  the  company,  and  later  became  vice  president  of  The 
Kennon  Coal  and  Mining  Company,  vice  president  of  the 
Ridgeway  Burton  Company,  and  vice  president  and  treas- 
urer of  the  Trevorton  Colliery  Company.  He  was  secretary  of 
the  Church  Club  of  Trinity  Cathedral,  Cleveland. 

He  died  of  influenza  April  13,  1919,  in  Cleveland,  after  a 
two  weeks'  illness.  Interment  was  in  Lakeview  Cemetery  in 
that  city. 

His  marriage  took  place  January  31,  191 2,  in  Cleveland,  to 
Sarita  Howell,  daughter  of  Earl  Williams  Oglebay,  who 
attended  Bethany  College,  and  Sallie  (Howell)  Oglebay.  He 
leaves  his  wife,  a  son,  Courtney,  Jr.,  his  mother,  two  sisters, 
and  a  brother,  Jonathan  Prescott  Burton  (Ph.B.  1896). 


Theodore  Hugh  Nevin,  Ph.B.   1903 

Born  April  28,  1878,  in  Sewickley,  Pa. 
Died  February  13,  1919,  in  Pittsburgh,  Pa. 

Theodore  Hugh  Nevin,  son  of  Charles  Finley  Nevin,  a 
manufacturer  of  paint  and  white  lead,  and  Elizabeth  Ann 
(Grafton)  Nevin,  was  born  April  28,  1878,  in  Sewickley,  Pa. 
He  was  the  grandson  of  Theodore  Hugh  and  Hannah  (Irwin) 
Nevin,  and  a  descendant  of  Daniel  Nevin,  who  came  to 
America  from  Ireland  before  1770  and  settled  in  the  Cumber- 
land Valley  in  Pennsylvania.  His  mother  was  the  daughter  of 
I.  W.  and  Esther  (McCollough)  Grafton,  and  a  descendant  of 
Richard  Grafton,  an  Englishman  who  settled  in  Pennsyl- 
vania in  1 77 1. 

He  was  prepared  for  college  at  Phillips  Academy,  Andover, 


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Mass.,  and  worked  for  a  year  at  banking  before  coming  to 
Yale.  He  was  vice  president  of  his  class  Junior  year,  and 
served  as  a  member  of  the  Bicentennial  Committee  and  the 
Reception  Committee  and  as  chairman  of  the  Graduation 
Committee. 

During  the  summer  of  1903  he  took  a  two  months'  trip 
abroad,  and  on  his  return  in  November  started  work  with  the 
Sewickley  Valley  Trust  Company.  From  August,  1904,  to 
March,  1906,  he  was  with  the  Safe  Deposit  &  Trust  Company 
of  Pittsburgh,  Pa.,  after  which  he  was  with  the  People's 
National  Bank  in  that  city,  at  first  as  assistant  receiving 
teller  and  later  as  teller.  He  belonged  to  the  First  Presby- 
terian Church  of  Sewickley.  During  the  war  he  held  a  com- 
mission as  a  First  Lieutenant  in  the  Chemical  Warfare 
Service.  His  first  assignment  was  to  Camp  A.  A.  Humphreys, 
Accotink,  Va.,  but  he  was  later  transferred  to  Camp  Ken- 
drick,  Lakehurst,  N.  J.,  where  he  was  honorably  discharged 
December  11,  1918. 

His  death  occurred  from  heart  disease,  on  February  13, 
19 1 9,  in  Pittsburgh,  and  he  was  buried  in  Sewickley. 

Mr.  Nevin  was  married  in  Manchester,  N.  H.,  February  10, 
1909,  to  Elizabeth  A.,  daughter  of  Welcome  and  Georgeanna 
(Robinson)  Jencks.  She  survives  him  with  their  son,William 
McCollough.  He  was  a  nephew  of  Alexander  B.  Nevin,  '74. 


Harrison  Prindle,  Ph.B.   1903 

Born  July  17,  1881,  in  New  Haven,  Conn. 
Died  January  4,  1919,  at  sea 

Harrison  Prindle  was  born  in  New  Haven,  Conn.,  July  17, 
1 88 1,  the  son  of  Lucius  Henry  Prindle,  a  bond  and  invest- 
ment broker,  and  Frances  Elizabeth  (Harrison)  Prindle. 
His  father's  parents  were  William  Henry  and  Elizabeth  Fry 
(Shelley)  Prindle.  His  first  American  ancestor  on  the  paternal 
side  was  Rev.  John  Howland,  who  crossed  in  the  Mayflower 
and  settled  in  Plymouth;  the  first  of  the  name  of  Prindle  was 
Rev.  Lewis  Prindle,  an  Episcopal  clergyman,  who  came  from 
Scotland  to  Derby,  Conn.  His  mother  is  the  daughter  of 
Francis  Edwin  Harrison  (B.A.  1849)  ^^^  Eliza  Jane  (Gill) 
Harrison.  Through  her  he  was  descended  from  Richard  Harri- 


son,  who  came  to  America  from  West  Kirby  about  1645  ^^^ 
settled  in  Branford,  Conn.,  and  from  John  Bruen,  of  West 
Tarvise,  near  Chester,  England. 

He  entered  Yale  from  thfe  New  Britain  (Conn.)  High 
School,  and  took  the  course  in  metallurgy  in  the  Sheffield 
Scientific  School. 

Since  graduation  he  had  been  engaged  in  the  steel  business, 
being  especially  interested  in  blast  furnaces.  In  July,  1903,  he 
became  connected  with  the  National  Tube  Company  of 
McKeesport,  Pa.,  where  he  remained  for  thirteen  months,  and 
he  then  spent  a  similar  period  with  the  Elgin  furnace  depart- 
ment of  the  Jones  &  Laughlin  Steel  Company,  in  various 
capacities.  He  was  next  with  the  Pennsylvania  Steel  Com- 
pany of  Harrisburg,  Pa.,  the  Lackawanna  Steel  Company 
in  Buffalo,  N.  Y.,  the  United  States  Steel  Corporation  plant 
in  Gary,  Ind.,  the  Iroquois  Iron  Company,  of  Chicago,  111., 
as  assistant  superintendent,  and  the  Bethlehem  Steel  Com- 
pany, for  which  he  was  superintendent  of  the  Lebanon  Fur- 
naces at  Lebanon,  Pa.  In  September,  191 8,  he  accepted  a 
position  with  Perin  &  Marshall,  consulting  engineers  of  New 
York  City,  and  sailed  December  21,  1918,  on  the  Siberia 
Maru  for  Shanghai.  He  was  to  erect  a  blast  furnace  at  Han- 
kow, China.  He  died  suddenly  at  sea,  January  4,  1919,  and 
was  buried  March  19,  1919,  in  the  Grove  Street  Cemetery, 
New  Haven. 

His  marriage  took  place  November  24,  1910,  in  Buffalo, 
N.  Y.,  to  Mary  Beatrice,  daughter  of  William  Joseph  and 
Isabel  (Boulton)  Burke.  He  is  survived  by  his  wife,  two  chil- 
dren, Harrison  and  Mary  Katherine,  his  parents,  and  a 
brother,  William  Edwin  Prindle  (Ph.B.  191 1).  He  was  a 
nephew  of  Frank  Sperry  Harrison  (Ph.B.  1886). 


Robert  Wright  Read,  Ph.B.   1903 

Born  January  29,  1882,  in  Bridgeport,  Conn. 
Died  February  23,  1919,  at  Atlantic  City,  N.  J. 

Robert  Wright  Read  was  the  son  of  Frederick  Wright 
Read,  who  was  in  the  carpet  manufacturing  business  in 
Bridgeport,  Conn.,  and  Harriet  Lydia  (HoUister)  Read. 
He  was  born  January  29,  1882,  in  Bridgeport.  He  was  the 


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grandson  of  Charles  A.  and  Cynthia  (Wright)  Read,  and  a 
descendant  of  Capt.  John  Read,  who  came  to  America  from 
Cornwall,  England,  in  1660,  and  settled  in  Providence,  R.  I. 
His  mother  was  the  daughter  of  Judge  David  Frederick 
HoUister  (B.A.  1851)  and  Mary  Esther  (Jackson)  HoUister, 
and  a  niece  of  Gideon  H.  HoUister  (B.A.  1840).  She  traced 
her  ancestry  to  Lieut.  John  HoUister,  who  came  to  America 
from  England  in  1642  and  settled  in  Wethersfield,  Conn. 

He  was  prepared  at  the  University  School  in  Bridgeport, 
and  took  the  select  course  in  the  Sheffield  Scientific  School. 
He  was  a  member  of  the  Freshman,  the  Apollo,  and  the 
University  Glee  clubs. 

On  leaving  Yale  he  entered  the  sales  department  of  the 
Pennsylvania  Steel  Company  at  Steelton,  Pa.,  and  in  March, 
1904,  was  sent  to  Philadelphia  to  serve  as  a  salesman  in 
their  branch  office.  In  1914  he  was  transferred  to  the  New 
York  office  of  the  company  and  was  made  assistant  sales 
manager,  a  year  later  becoming  sales  manager  in  the  Harris- 
burg  office.  He  left  the  Pennsylvania  Steel  Company  in  June, 
1 91 6,  to  become  sales  representative  for  several  steel  manu- 
facturing concerns  under  the  firm  name  of  The  Read-Ritten- 
house  Company  of  Philadelphia,  in  which  firm  he  was  a 
partner.  He  was  a  trustee  of  the  First  Presbyterian  Church  of 
Ardmore,  Pa. 

He  died  February  23,  191 9,  at  Atlantic  City,  N.  J.,  after  a 
week's  illness  of  pneumonia.  Interment  was  in  the  West 
Laurel  Hill  Cemetery  in  Philadelphia. 

Mr.  Read  was  married  October  2,  1909,  at  Old  Field  Acres, 
Setauket,  Long  Island,  N.  Y.,  to  Marjorie,  daughter  of  Clinton 
Lawrence  and  Jessie  (Goodrich)  Rossiter.  She  survives  him 
with  a  daughter,  Marjorie,  and  a  son,  Robert  Wright.  Mr. 
Read  was  a  brother  of  Harry  HoUister  Read  (Ph.B.  1901). 


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Frank  Atwater  Ward,  Ph.B.   1903 

Born  February  8,  1882,  in  New  Haven,  Conn. 
Died  May  4,  1919,  at  ChStillon-sur-Seine,  France 


rank  Atwater  Ward  was  born  February  8,  1882,  in  New 
Haven,  Conn.,  the  son  of  Frank  Minott  and  Caroline  Augusta 
(Atwater)  Ward.  His  paternal  ancestors  came  to  America 
early  in  the  seventeenth  century.  His  father,  who  was  engaged 
in  the  realty  and  banking  business,  died  in  Los  Angeles, 
Calif.,  in  1895.  His  mother  was  the  daughter  of  William  At- 
water (B.A.  1827)  and  Catharine  A.  (Ault)  Atwater,  and  the 
granddaughter  of  Rev.  Jeremiah  Atwater,  D.D.  (B.A.  1793), 
the  first  president  of  both  Middlebury  College  and  Dickinson 
College,  and  Clarissa  (Storrs)  Atwater,  whose  father.  Rev. 
Eleazar  Storrs,  graduated  from  Yale  in  1762.  She  was  a  grand- 
niece  of  Rev.  Charles  Atwater  (B.A.  1805),  a  niece  of  John 
Phelps  Atwater  (B.A.  1834),  and  a  cousin  of  John  Storrs 
Atwater  (B.A.  1875).  ^^^  ancestry  may  be  traced  to  Robert 
Atwater,  of  Royton,  Kent,  England,  and  to  John  Atwater,  an 
early  settler  in  New  Haven.  Among  her  ancestors  who  served 
in  the  Revolution  were  Reuben  Atwater,  of  the  loth  Regi- 
ment, and  David  Atwater,  who  was  killed  in  battle  in  1777. 
He  entered  Yale  from  the  Taft  School,  Watertown,  Conn. 
Immediately  after  graduation  he  went  on  a  thousand-mile 
yachting  cruise,  and  in  the  fall  of  1903  entered  the  Yale 
School  of  Law.  He  remained  only  two  months,  leaving  to 
enter  the  automobile  business,  as  secretary  and  treasurer  of 
the  Duerr-Ward  Company,  of  New  York  City.  From  Sep- 
tember, 1904,  to  July,  1905,  he  was  in  business  for  himself, 
selling  office  specialties.  He  then  took  up  newspaper  work, 
beginning  as  a  reporter  for  the  Brooklyn  Standard-Union. 
He  was  later  for  a  few  months  a  copy  reader  on  the  Brooklyn 
"Times.  In  1906  he  moved  to  Baltimore,  Md.,  and  for  the  next 
few  years  contributed  stories  to  various  magazines.  He 
returned  to  newspaper  work  in  1910,  writing  editorials  for  the 
Baltimore  Star.  He  did  feature  work  at  the  Democratic 
National  Convention  in  191 2,  and  in  1913  was  appointed  a 
member  of  the  Publicity  Committee  of  the  Star  Spangled 
Banner  Centennial,  held  in  Baltimore  in  1914. 

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He  entered  military  service  in  August,  1917,  attending  the 
second  Officers'  Training  Camp  at  Fort  Myer,  Virginia. 
He  received  a  commission  as  a  Second  Lieutenant  on  Novem- 
ber 27,  1917,  and  was  stationed  at  Camp  Stanley,  Leon 
Springs,  Texas,  until  January  10,  191 8,  when  he  was  assigned 
to  the  Headquarters  Company  of  the  51st  Pioneer  Infantry 
at  Camp  Wadsworth,  South  Carolina.  While  stationed  there 
he  was  badly  injured  in  a  baseball  game,  and  was  in  the 
hospital  for  several  weeks.  On  his  recovery  he  was  assigned 
to  the  52d  Pioneer  Infantry,  shortly  afterwards  being  trans- 
ferred to  the  56th,  with  which  regiment  he  went  overseas. 
He  served  in  the  Argonne,  and  after  the  armistice  was  as- 
signed to  the  Infantry  Weapon  School,  2d  Army  Corps,  at 
Chatillon-sur-Seine,  France,  as  senior  grenade  instructor. 
He  received  an  appointment  to  the  General  Staff  in  Paris 
May  I,  1 91 9,  and  was  about  to  leave  for  his  new  post  when 
taken  ill  with  spinal  meningitis.  He  died  at  Chatillon-sur- 
Seine  on  May  4,  and  was  buried  in  the  American  Cemetery 
there. 

Lieutenant  Ward  was  married  July  18,  1906,  in  Baltimore, 
Md.,  to  Beata,  daughter  of  Edward  G.  and  Beata  (Mayer) 
McDowell.  His  widow  has  since  remarried.  A  daughter, 
Catharine  Beata,  survives.  A  son,  Frank  McDowell,  born 
April  28,  1908,  died  February  20,  1912. 


Joseph  McBath  Bettes,  Ph.B.   1904 

Born  October  25,  1884,  J"  Paris,  Texas 
Died  September  21,  1918,  in  Paris,  Texas 

Joseph  McBath  Bettes,  son  of  Harry  Stevens  Bettes, 
president  of  the  H.  S.  Bettes  Hardware  Company,  of  Paris, 
Texas,  and  Mary  (McBath)  Bettes,  was  born  in  that  town 
October  25,  1884.  He  was  prepared  at  Phillips  Academy, 
Exeter,  N.  H.  At  Yale  he  was  a  member  of  the  Freshman 
Football  Team,  the  Class  Crew  (Junior  year),  and  the  Senior 
Promenade  Committee,  chairman  of  the  Class  Day  Com- 
mittee, vice  president  of  the  Junior  class,  and  president  of 
the  Senior  class. 

In  November,  1904,  he  began  working  for  the  H.  S.  Bettes 


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Hardware  Company,  as  a  common  laborer,  being  transferred 
later  to  the  shipping  room,  and  finally  becoming  vice  presi- 
dent of  the  company,  in  which  capacity  he  served  for  several 
years.  In  1909  he  began  buying  farms  in  Oklahoma,  forming 
a  co-partnership  with  his  father  and  his  brother-in-law,  Wil- 
liam L.  Studley,  ex-o^  S.,  and  opened  an  office  in  Muskogee, 
Okla.,  under  the  firm  name  of  the  Bettes  Land  &  Investment 
Company,  with  the  purpose  of  caring  for  his  farms  and  carry- 
ing on  a  city  realty  business.  In  1914  he  returned  to  the  hard- 
ware business,  in  which  he  continued  until  his  death,  which 
occurred  suddenly,  after  an  operation,  September  21,  191 8, 
in  Paris.  He  was  buried  in  that  town. 

Mr.  Bettes  was  married  November  14,  1905,  in  New  York 
City,  to  Nell,  daughter  of  Richard  Eugene  and  Laura  (Mest) 
Cochran.  She  survives  him  with  four  sons:  Joseph  McBath, 
Jr.,  Richard  Harrison,  Harrison  Cochran,  and  John  Mest. 
His  father  is  also  living. 


Owen  Austin  Garnsey,  Ph.B.   1904 

Born  December  5,  1881,  in  Toledo,  Ohio 
Died  July  23,  1918,  in  New  York  City- 
Owen  Austin  Garnsey  was  born  in  Toledo,  Ohio,  December 
5,  1 88 1,  the  son  of  Squire  Garnsey,  who  was  treasurer  of  the 
Santa  Cecilia  Sugar  Company  and  other  firms,  and  Ellen  M. 
(Ford)  Garnsey.  His  father's  parents  were  James  H.  and 
Catherine  (Marshall)  Garnsey,  and  his  first  American  ances- 
tor on  his  father's  side  was  Joseph  Garnsey,  who  came  from 
the  Island  of  Guernsey  in  1639  ^^^  settled  in  Milford,  Conn. 
His  mother  was  the  daughter  of  Charles  Ford,  8  th,  and  Fidelia 
(Bates)  Ford.  She  traced  her  descent  to  John  Ford,  who  came 
to  Weymouth,  Mass.,  from  Weymouth,  England,  in  1635. 
He  received  his  preparatory  training  at  the  Toledo  High 
School  and  at  Lawrenceville.  He  took  the  select  course  in  the 
Sheffield  Scientific  School  and  was  a  member  of  the  Fresh- 
man, the  Apollo,  and  the  University  Glee  clubs  and  chairman 
of  the  Class  Book  statisticians. 

In  November,  1905,  he  went  to  Greenville,  Maine,  where 
he  engaged  in  lumbering  and  the  manufacture  of  veneers, 


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assisting  in  the  erection  of  a  large  sawmill.  He  then  became 
assistant  secretary  and  treasurer  of  the  Veneer  Box  &  Panel 
Company,  of  Greenville,  and  remained  with  this  firm  until 
October,  1906,  when  he  moved  to  New  York.  In  1907  he 
became  associated  with  his  father  in  business  in  New  York 
City.  In  this  connection  he  was  engaged  in  carrying  on  con- 
tracting work  for  a  large  plantation  in  Mexico,  and  was  for  a 
time  assistant  secretary  and  treasurer  of  the  Minatitian  Con- 
tracting Company.  He  was  later  president  of  this  company, 
but  owing  to  the  effect  of  the  war  on  the  business  he  had 
practically  abandoned  it.  He  had  also  at  one  time  done  con- 
tracting work  for  an  Ohio  firm.  He  was  interested  in  sugar 
growing  in  Cuba,  and  had  traveled  in  Mexico  and  Cuba.  At 
the  time  of  his  death  he  was  working  for  the  War  Trade 
Board  in  New  York  City,  and  prior  to  taking  up  this  work 
he  had  been  in  the  stock  brokerage  business. 

He  died  in  New  York  City,  July  23,  191 8,  of  apoplexy, 
brought  on  by  high  blood  pressure,  after  an  illness  of  only  a 
few  hours. 

Mr.  Garnsey  was  married  April  24,  1906,  in  New  York  City, 
to  Florence  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Francis  Granger  and  Maria 
(Angell)  Hall,  and  a  sister  of  Francis  G.  Hall,  Jr.,  ex-(^g  S., 
John  R.  Hall  (B.A.  1902),  and  Edwin  A.  Hall  (Ph.B.  1904). 
His  wife  survives  him  with  their  two  daughters,  Ruth  Hall 
and  Virginia. 


Harry  Allen  Abbe,  Ph.B.   1905 

Born  October  21,  1883,  in  New  Britain,  Conn. 
Died  May  22,  1919,  at  Saranac  Lake,  N.  Y. 

Harry  Allen  Abbe  was  born  in  New  Britain,  Conn.,  October 
21^  1883,  the  son  of  Albert  Howard  Abbe,  a  hardware  mer- 
chant, and  Nellie  (Parker)  Abbe.  His  father  was  the  son  of 
Albert  and  Maria  (Abbe)  Abbe,  and  a  descendant  of  John 
Abbe,  who  came  to  America  from  England  in  1634  and  settled 
in  Wenham,  Mass.  His  maternal  grandparents  were  Emory 
and  Eunice  (Stebbins)  Parker. 

He  entered  the  Scientific  School  from  the  New  Britain 
High  School,  and  took  the  mechanical  engineering  course 


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He  received  general  honors  in  all  subjects  in  Junior  year. 
He  was  a  member  of  the  Class  Golf  Team  Junior  year  and  of 
[the  Picture  Committee  Senior  year. 

Soon  after  graduation  he  became  connected  with  the  West- 
inghouse  Air  Brake  Company  at  Wilmerding,  Pa.,  as  a  special 
apprentice,  and  after  two  months  he  was  sent  to  the  Chicago 
office  on  inspection  work.  In  February,  1906,  he  was  sent  to 
the  test  department  at  Pittsburgh.  He  there  contracted 
typhoid  fever  and  was  unable  to  work  for  four  months.  In 
August,  1907,  he  went  to  Schenectady,  N.  Y.,  to  superintend 
and  inspect  the  installation  of  Westinghouse  brakes  at  the 
shops  of  the  American  Locomotive  Company,  and  afterwards 
did  similar  work  in  other  cities.  In  April,  1909,  because  of 
poor  health,  he  took  up  farm  life  in  Greene,  Maine.  He  was 
at  that  time  treasurer  of  the  Mountain  Purity  Spring  Com- 
pany. In  November,  19 10,  he  started  work  again  in  the  New 
York  office  of  the  Westinghouse  Air  Brake  Company,  but 
after  a  few  months  he  went  to  Roswell,  N.  Mex.,  on  account 
of  his  health.  When  his  condition  was  somewhat  improved 
he  became  engaged  in  the  installation  of  irrigation  pumping 
plants  on  artesian  wells  at  Roswell.  In  the  summer  of  191 2  he 
returned  to  New  Britain,  going  in  the  fall  to  Hagerstown,  Md., 
as  engineer  of  maintenance  of  way  and  construction  engineer 
for  the  Hagerstown  &  Frederick  Railroad  Company.  He 
accepted  a  position  as  electrical  engineer  for  the  Syracuse  & 
Suburban  Railroad  in  Manlius,  N.  Y.,  in  October,  1914,  and 
four  years  later  became  superintendent  of  the  Syracuse 
Northern  Electric  Railway,  Inc.  He  was  a  member  of  the 
American  Electric  Railway  Association. 

His  death  occurred  at  Saranac  Lake,  N.  Y.,  May  22,  1919, 
following  an  attack  of  influenza.  He  was  ill  for  two  months 
before  his  death.  Interment  was  in  Fairview  Cemetery,  New 
Britain.  He  was  a  member  of  the  First  Congregational  Church 
of  that  city. 

He  was  married  November  20,  1913,  in  Schenectady,  N.  Y., 
to  Elsie  Mayhew,  daughter  of  Edward  Folger  and  Mary 
(Booth)  Peck.  His  wife  survives  him  with  their  two  sons, 
Edward  Howard  and  William  Parker.  He  also  leaves  his 
mother  and  a  brother,  Albert  Parker  Abbe  (B.A.  1908). 


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Edward  Emanuel  Lindeman,  Ph.B.   1905 

Born  September  2,  1880,  in  New  York  City- 
Died  June  12,  1 91 9,  in  Atlantic  City,  N.  J. 

Edward  Emanuel  Lindeman  was  born  In  New  York  City 
September  2,  1880.  His  father,  Herman  Lindeman,  who  was 
a  merchant,  was  born  in  the  Netherlands,  and  his  mother, 
Augusta  (Baumgarden)  Lindeman,  was  born  in  Saxony, 
Germany.  He  was  prepared  at  home  under  a  private  tutor. 
He  took  the  biology  course  in  the  Scientific  School,  and  was 
vice  president  of  the  Sheffield  Debating  Society. 

On  leaving  Yale,  he  entered  the  Johns  Hopkins  Medical 
School,  where  he  received  the  degree  of  M.D.  in  1908.  He  had 
acted  at  various  times  as  assistant  surgeon  of  the  United 
States  Public  Health  and  Marine  Hospital  Service,  assistant 
and  instructor  in  pharmacology  in  the  Medical  Department 
of  the  University  of  Michigan,  state  pathologist  and  bacteri- 
ologist of  Florida,  and  house  officer  of  the  Boston  (Mass.) 
City  Hospital.  In  19 10  he  was  assistant  physician  of  the 
Massachusetts  State  Infirmary  at  Tewksbury,  as  well  as 
director  of  the  Pathological  Laboratory  in  that  town.  He 
gave  up  this  work  in  January,  191 1,  and  later  began  the 
practice  of  medicine  in  New  York  City.  For  a  time  before  his 
death  he  served  as  resident  physician  in  the  Children's  Medi- 
cal Service  Department  of  Bellevue  Hospital.  While  there  he 
devoted  himself  to  the  study  of  blood  transfusion,  in  which  he 
became  a  specialist,  and  invented  the  syringe  cannula  method 
of  blood  transfusion.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Society  of 
Pathology  of  the  Johns  Hopkins  Medical  School  and  also 
belonged  to  a  number  of  other  professional  societies.  He  was 
the  author  of  an  article,  "The  Treatment  of  Hookworm 
Disease,"  published  in  the  Journal  of  the  American  Medical 
Association  for  May  8,  1910.  Dr.  Lindeman  was  attending 
the  convention  of  the  American  Medical  Association  in  At- 
lantic City,  when  he  was  drowned  while  in  bathing,  June  12, 
1919.  He  had  suffered  from  heart  disease  for  several  years. 

He  was  unmarried. 


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Ernest  Wilson  Levering,  Ph.B.  1906 

Born  October  30,  1882,  in  Lafayette,  Ind. 
Died  May  28,  191 9,  in  Paris,  France 

,  Ernest  Wilson  Levering,  son  of  George  K.  and  Jane  (Wil- 
son) Levering,  was  born  October  30,  1882,  in  Lafayette,  Ind. 
The  parents  of  George  K.  Levering  were  Abraham  and 
Amelia  Francis  (Kiess)  Levering,  and  he  traced  his  ancestry 
to  Major  John  Levering,  who  fought  in  the  Revolution  and. 
whose  death  occurred  at  his  home  in  Philadelphia  in  1832. 
His  wife  is  the  daughter  of  Alexander  and  Henrietta  A. 
(Hanna)  Wilson,  and  a  descendant  of  James  Hanna,  who 
came  to  America  from  County  Monaghan,  Ireland,  in  1753, 
and  settled  in  Havre  de  Grace,  Md.,  and  who  had  a  Revo- 
lutionary record. 

He  received  his  preparatory  training  at  Phillips  Academy, 
Andover,  Mass.,  graduating  there  in  1903.  He  then  entered 
the  Sheffield  Scientific  School,  taking  the  mechanical  engi- 
neering course.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Freshman  and 
Apollo  Glee  clubs. 

In  the  summer  of  1906  he  made  a  trip  by  canoe  to  Hudson 
Bay,  after  which  he  entered  the  employ  of  the  Atlas  Engine 
Works  of  Indianapolis,  Ind.,  at  first  in  the  drafting  room,  and 
then  in  the  machine  shop,  becoming  in  1909  assistant  pur- 
chasing agent.  In  January,  1913,  he  left  this  firm  and  went 
into  business  for  himself  as  a  manufacturers'  agent  for 
engineering  supplies,  with  headquarters  in  Indianapolis. 
He  was  a  member  of  the  Episcopal  Church. 

He  was  commissioned  a  First  Lieutenant  in  the  Ordnance 
Reserve  Corps  on  August  16,  1917,  and  was  promoted  to  a 
Captaincy  in  the  Ordnance  Department,  American  Base 
Depot  in  France,  of  the  National  Army  on  February  12, 
191 8.  From  October,  1917,  to  May,  191 8,  he  was  on  duty  in 
the  Procurement  Division,  American  Base  Depot  in  France, 
at  Washington,  D.  C,  and  he  was  later  transferred  to  the 
Purchasing  Department  at  the  Rock  Island  Arsenal,  Rock 
Island,  111.  He  went  overseas  in  September,  191 8,  and  became 
a  member  of  the  General  Staff  at  Tours,  France.  He  was 
made  head  of  the  Materiel  Section,  C.  and  M.  Division, 


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American  Base  Depot  in  France,  November  24,  191 8,  and 
was  promoted  to  the  rank  of  Major  in  May,  1919.  He  died  of 
pneumonia  in  a  Red  Cross  hospital  in  Paris,  France,  on  May 
28,  1919,  after  an  illness  of  five  weeks.  He  was  buried  in 
Invernes  Cemetery,  near  Paris.  Since  his  death  his  mother  has 
received  from  the  French  Minister  of  Public  Instruction  and 
Fine  Arts  a  citation  and  certificate  of  the  Order  of  University 
Palms,  grade  of  oflicer  of  the  Academy,  "silver  palms,"  which 
had  been  awarded  posthumously  to  her  son  for  distinguished 
service. 

Major  Levering  was  unmarried. 


Hubert  Coffing  Williams,  Ph.B.   1906 

Born  August  22,  1884,  in  Lakeville,  Conn. 
Died  September  13,  1918,  at  Ancemont,  France 

Hubert  Coffing  Williams  was  born  in  Lakeville,  Conn., 
August  22,  1884,  the  son  of  Hubert  and  Clare  Kingman 
(Coffing)  Williams.  His  father  graduated  from  the  Columbia 
Law  School  in  1874,  and  later  practiced  law  at  Lakeville. 
He  served  as  a  member  of  the  Connecticut  House  of  Repre- 
sentatives in  the  sessions  of  1895  ^^^  ^^97j  ^^^  ^^^  post- 
master at  Lakeville  for  several  terms.  He  was  the  son  of 
Edwin  B.  and  Maria  L.  (Holley)  Williams,  and  a  descendant 
of  David  Williams,  who  was  living  in  Groton,  Conn.,  prior 
to  1728.  Hubert  C.  Williams'  maternal  grandparents  were 
George  and  Fanny  (Williams)  Coffing.  His  first  American 
ancestor  on  his  mother's  side  was  Isaac  Coffing,  traditionally 
of  Philadelphia  about  1700. 

He  entered  the  Sheffield  Scientific  School  from  the  Hotch- 
kiss  School  at  Lakeville,  and  took  the  forestry  course.  He 
rowed  on  the  Freshman  Crew,  and  was  captain  of  the  Uni- 
versity Four-Oar  Crew  and  a  member  of  the  Senior  Prom- 
enade Committee. 

He  was  a  student  in  the  Yale  School  of  Forestry  from  1906 
to  1908,  receiving  the  degree  of  M.F.  in  the  latter  year.  He 
then  accepted  a  position  with  the  Goodman  Lumber  Com- 
pany, of  Goodman,  Wis.,  resigning  in  the  spring  of  191 1. 
While  at  Goodman  he  also  served  as  postmaster  of  the  town. 


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In  May,  191 1,  he  entered  the  United  States  Forest  Service  as 
a  forest  assistant,  and  was  assigned  to  the  Idaho  National 
Forest,  with  headquarters  at  McCall,  Idaho.  In  191 5  he  was 
acting  supervisor  of  the  Wasatch  Forest  in  Utah.  In  July, 
1 91 6,  he  was  appointed  supervisor  of  the  Idaho  National 
Forest,  and  served  in  this  capacity  for  a  few  months,  after 
which  he  became  supervisor  of  the  Payette  Forest.  While 
holding  this  position  he  did  considerable  work  in  grazing 

^—reconnaissance. 

^B:  In  1917  he  accepted  a  commission  as  a  First  Lieutenant  in 
Company  C  of  the  loth  Engineers  (Fores'try),  with  which  he 
went  abroad  in  September,  1917.  While  with  this  regiment  he 
served  as  Insurance  Officer,  Company  Supply  Officer,  Censor, 
and  Athletic  Director.  Later  he  was  made  Garden  Officer  and 
put  in  charge  of  a  two-hundred  acre  farm.  He  applied  for 
transfer  to  more  active  service,  and  was  accordingly  assigned 
to  the  1 1 6th  Engineers  and  later  to  the  30th  Engineers, 
known  as  the  ist  Gas  Regiment.  He  was  wounded  in  the  St. 
Mihiel  drive  on  September  12,  and  was  immediately  taken  to 
Mobile  Hospital  No.  i  at  Ancemont,  where  an  operation  was 
performed.  His  death  occurred  on  September  13.  He  was 
buried  in  La  Morlette  Cemetery  at  Ancemont. 

He  was  not  married.  His  mother  and  a  sister  survive  him. 
In  his  memory  his  mother  has  established  a  loan  fund  for 
needy  students  in  the  Yale  School  of  Forestry. 


Talcott  Hunt  Clarke,  Ph.B.   1907 

Born  May  11,  1884,  in  Rochester,  N.  Y. 
Died  December  5,  1918,  in  Detroit,  Mich. 

Talcott  Hunt  Clarke,  son  of  Archibald  Smith  Clarke,  a 
wholesale  coal  merchant,  and  Mellicent  (Hunt)  Clarke,  was 
born  May  11,  1884,  in  Rochester,  N.  Y.  His  father  was  the 
son  of  De  La  Fayette  and  Mary  Adele  (Snyder)  Clarke,  and  a 
descendant  of  William  and  Elizabeth  (James)  Clarke,  who 
came  to  America  from  England  about  1690  and  settled  in 
Anne  Arundel  County,  Md.  His  maternal  grandparents  were 
Daniel  Talcott  and  Celia  Maria  (Davis)  Hunt,  and  his  first 
American  ancestor  on  his  mother's  side  was  Benjamin  Frank- 


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lin  Hunt,  whose  father  came  from  England  about  1808  and 
settled  near  Rodman,  N.  Y. 

He  was  prepared  at  the  Lawrenceville  (N.  J.)  School,  and 
took  the  mining  engineering  course  in  the  Sheffield  Scientific 
School.  He  entered  with  the  Class  of  1906  S.  and  was  affili- 
ated with  it  throughout  his  course,  although  he  did  not  take 
his  degree  until  1907.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Apollo  Glee 
Club  in  Junior  year,  and  also  belonged  to  the  Yale  Gun 
Team. 

His  first  position  was  with  the  Orient  Coal  &  Coke  Com- 
pany of  Orient,  Pa.  In  the  fall  of  1906  he  became  a  member 
of  the  surveying  camp  of  the  Tidewater  Coal  Company  of 
Ohio,  at  Leivasy,  W.  Va.j  where  he  spent  eight  months  in 
surveying  work.  In  December,  1907,  he  entered  the  employ 
of  H.  K.  Wick  &  Company,  coal  dealers,  of  Buffalo,  N.  Y., 
and  two  years  later  became  secretary  of  the  firm.  While  in 
Buffalo  he  joined  the  74th  Infantry,  New  York  National 
Guard,  and  served  as  Private,  Corporal,  and  Second  Lieuten- 
ant. He  was  a  member  of  the  Regimental  Rifle  Team  for  two 
years  and  of  the  New  York  State  Rifle  Team  in  1910.  In 
May,  191 1,  he  entered  the  purchasing  department  of  the 
Republic  Rubber  Company,  of  Youngstown,  Ohio,  and 
shortly  afterwards  was  promoted  to  the  position  of  assistant 
purchasing  agent.  He  became  a  partner  in  the  Clarke  Auto 
&  Tire  Company,  of  Youngstown,  in  March,  1916.  He  was 
an  associate  member  of  the  American  Institute  of  Mining 
Engineers,  and  belonged  to  St.  John's  Protestant  Episcopal 
Church  in  Youngstown. 

In  December,  191 6,  he  was  commissioned  a  Captain  in  the 
Quartermaster  Reserve  Corps,  but  was  not  called  into  active 
service  until  May  9,  1917,  when  he  was  assigned  to  the  Motor 
Transport  Repair  Shops  at  Fort  Sam  Houston,  Texas,  where 
he  acted  as  purchasing  and  salvage  officer.  He  was  transferred 
to  Detroit,  Mich.,  in  March,  191 8,  and  on  August  30  was 
promoted  to  the  rank  of  Major  in  the  Motor  Convoy  Service 
and  made  officer  in  charge  at  Detroit.  His  death  occurred  in 
that  city  on  December  5,  191 8,  from  pneumonia,  following 
influenza.  Burial  was  in  Oak  Hill  Cemetery,  Youngstown. 

He  was  married  October  28,  1909,  in  New  York  City,  to 
Helen  Hudson,  daughter  of  Spencer  and  .Harriette  Holley 


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(Dall)  Aldrich.  She  survives  him  with  four  daughters,  Helen 
Aldrich,  Harriet  Talcott,  Elizabeth  Hunt,  and  Mellicent 
alcott.  A  son,  Spencer  Aldrich,  born  February  15,  1917, 
died  at  the  age  of  six  months.  Archibald  Clarke,  '11  S.,  is  a 
brother. 

Carleton  Benjamin  Jones,  Ph.B.   1907 

Born  October  10,  1884,  ^^  Collins ville,  Conn. 
Died  October  9,  191 8,  in  Collinsville,  Conn. 

Carleton  Benjamin  Jones  was  the  son  of  Benjamin  Frank- 
lin Jones,  a  Civil  War  veteran  (Corporal,  Company  H,  22d 
Regiment,  Volunteer  Infantry)  and  a  bookkeeper  for  the  Col- 
lins Company,  of  Collinsville,  Conn.  He  was  born  October  10, 
1884,.  in  Collinsville.  His  father's  parents  were  John  Jones, 
who  came  to  America  from  Yorkshire,  England,  first  settling 
in  Rochester,  N.  Y.,  but  removing  to  New  Hartford,  Conn., 
about  1835,  ^^^  Sarah  Hill  Jones.  His  mother,  Mary  Eliza- 
beth (Clark)  Jones,  was  the  daughter  of  Andrew  Clark,  Jr.,  a 
member  of  the  Class  of  1841  at  Brown  University,  and  Mary 
Theodosia  (Garrette)  Clark.  She  traced  her  ancestry  to  Rev. 
Thomas  Clark,  who  was  born  in  Boston  in  1652,  graduated 
at  Harvard  in  1670,  and  afterwards  lived  in  Chelmsford, 
Mass. 

He  was  fitted  for  Yale  at  the  Collinsville  High  School  and 
at  Williston  Seminary,  Easthampton,  Mass.  He  took  the 
civil  engineering  course  in  the  Scientific  School. 

Immediately  after  graduation  he  became  assistant  engineer 
with  the  Collins  Company,  manufacturers  of  edge  tools  in 
Collinsville.  Later  a  chemical  laboratory  was  installed  by  the 
company  and  he  was  given  charge  of  all  analytical  and 
chemical  work.  He  also  introduced  the  etching  of  the  name 
and  trade  mark  on  the  knives  produced  by  this  company. 
Since  191 2  he  had  held  the  position  of  chairman  of  the  Col- 
linsville Board  of  Assessors.  In  January,  1914,  he  was  chosen 
deacon  of  the  First  Congregational  Church  of  Collinsville, 
and  on  November  7, 191 6,  he  was  elected  judge  of  the  Probate 
Court  for  the  district  of  Canton,  being  the  candidate  of  both 
parties.  He  joined  Company  E,  Connecticut  State  Guard,  as 
Sergeant  in  March,  1917,  and  in  May,  191 8,  he  acted  a§ 


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chairman  of  the  Red  Cross  drive  for  war  funds,  almost  doub- 
ling the  quota  assigned  the  town.  He  had  also  taken  an 
active  part  in  the  Y.  M.  C.  A.  and  Liberty  Loan  campaigns. 
At  the  time  of  his  death  he  was  president  of  the  Law  and 
Order  League,  vice  president  of  the  Canton  Memorial  Asso- 
ciation, and  secretary  of  the  Cemetery  Association,  in  addi- 
tion to  his  other  activities. 

He  died  of  pneumonia,  following  influenza,  in  CoUinsville, 
October  9,  191 8,  and  was  buried  in  the  village  cemetery. 

His  marriage  took  place  June  12,  191 1,  in  Wallingford, 
Conn.,  to  Elizabeth  Hardy,  daughter  of  Henry  Franklin 
Hall  (LL.B.  1872)  and  Lucy  (Hardy)  Hall,  of  Wallingford. 
His  wife  and  son,  John  Hardy,  survive  him.  A  daughter, 
Elizabeth  Hardy,  died  September  30,  1919,  of  paralysis,  fol- 
lowing diphtheria. 

Chester  Peter  Siems,  Ph.B.   1907 

Born  November  4,  1884,  in  St.  Paul,  Minn. 
Died  October  23,  1918,  in  New  York  City 

Chester  Peter  Siems  was  born  in  St.  Paul,  Minn.,  Novem- 
ber 4,  1884.  His  father,  Peter  Siems,  who  was  a  partner  in  the 
firm  of  Shepard,  Siems  &  Company,  railroad  contractors,  and 
later  senior  partner  in  the  firm  of,  Siems  &  Shields,  and  still 
later  of  Siems  &  Company,  came  to  America  from  Schleswig- 
Holstein,  Germany,  in  1865,  and  settled  in  Dakota  Terri- 
tory. His  parents  were  Claus  Voss  and  Antje  (Peters)  Siems. 
Chester  P.  Siems'  mother  was  Josephine  Almira  (Gleason) 
Siems,  daughter  of  Harris  and  Nancy  (White)  Gleason.  She 
was  descended  from  John  White,  who  came  to  America  from 
Chelmsford,  Essex,  England,  in  1632  and  settled  in  Cam.- 
bridge,  Mass. 

He  received  his  preparatory  training  at  Phillips  Academy, 
Andover,  Mass.,  and  at  the  Harstrom  School,  Norwalk, 
Conn.  His  course  in  the  Sheflield  Scientific  School  was  that 
in  civil  engineering. 

During  the  first  year  after  graduation  he  followed  that  pro- 
fession, working  for  the  Spokane,  Portland  &  Seattle,  and  the 
Northern  Pacific  railroads.  In  September,  1908,  he  became 


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a  member  of  the  firm  of  Slems  &  Company,  which  was  en- 
gaged in  railroad  contracting,  carrying  out  contracts  for  the 
Great  Northern,  the  Northern  Pacific,  and  other  railroads  in 
the  West.  At  different  times  he  was  in  charge  of  construction 
work  in  Washington,  Montana,  and  North  Dakota,  and  for  a 
time  he  was  in  charge  of  the  St.  Paul  office.  In  August,  191 1, 
he  was  one  of  four  to  organize  the  firm  of  Siems-Carey  Com- 
pany to  engage  in  railroad  construction  work.  He  was  elected 
president  and  treasurer  of  the  company,  with  headquarters 
in  St.  Paul.  In  the  spring  of  191 2  he  was  instrumental  in 
organizing  the  Siems-Carey  Company,  Ltd.,  a  Canadian  con- 
struction company,  and  became  president  and  treasurer  of 
this  company  also.  He  was  a  director  of  the  Marsch,  Siems- 
Carey,  Smith  Company,  Ltd.,  contractors  for  the  Chicago, 
Milwaukee  &  St.  Paul,  the  Grand  Trunk,  and  the  Canadian 
Pacific  railroads;  was  chairman  of  the  Siems-Carey  Railway 
&  Canal  Company;  and  head  of  many  other  enterprises  con- 
nected with  railway  and  canal  construction  in  this  country 
and  in  China,  including  the  Siems-Carey,  H.  S.  Kerbaugh 
Corporation,  a  firm  operating  in  the  Northwest.  At  the  time 
of  his  death  he  was  actively  engaged  on  a  large  Government 
contract  in  the  Northwest,  building  a  railroad  at  Lake 
Pleasant,  on  the  Olympic  peninsula,  to  enable  the  Govern- 
ment to  tap  the  spruce  trees  of  that  region. 

He  died  of  pneumonia,  following  influenza,  at  his  home  in 
New  York  City,  October  23,  191 8.  Interment  was  in  the 
family  mausoleum  in  Oakland  Cemetery,  St.  Paul. 

His  marriage  took  place  in  that  city,  May  11,  191 1,  to 
Vernon-Marguerite,  daughter  of  Samuel  M.  and  Elizabeth 
(Rogers)  Magoffin.  They  had  three  children, — Vernon- 
Marguerite  Magoffin,  Dorothy  Shelby,  and  Chester  Peter, 
Jr., — all  of  whom  survive.  Mrs.Siems  was  married  January  i, 
1920,  to  Rushton  Peabody,  of  New  York  City.  Mr.  Siems' 
brother,  Allan  G.  Siems,  is  a  non-graduate  member  of  the 
Class  of  1910  in  the  School  of  Law. 


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Loutfi  Hagop  Babikian,  Ph.B.   1908 

Born  September  14,  1885,  in  Aintab,  Syria 
Died  in  191 5,  near  Deir-i-Zor,  Turkey 

Loutfi  Hagop  Babikian  was  born  in  Aintab,  Syria,  Sep- 
tember 14,  1885,  the  son  of  Hagop  Garabed  Babikian,  a 
merchant  of  that  city,  and  Mariam  Klunjian.  He  received 
his  early  training  in  the  schools  of  Aintab,  and  was  a  graduate 
of  the  Central  Turkey  College  in  1905.  He  then  came  to 
America  and  entered  the  Sheffield  Scientific  School,  taking 
the  course  in  mining  engineering.  He  received  honors  in 
English  in  Freshman  year,  and  in  Junior  year  was  awarded 
general  two-year  honors  for  excellence  in  all  studies. 

For  a  time  after  graduating  from  Yale  he  was  located  in 
Denver  and  Elkton,  Colo.  In  1910  he  returned  to  Central 
Turkey  College  to  teach  mathematics  and  mineralogy,  and 
was  appointed  to  an  assistant  professorship  there.  He  had 
contributed  articles  on  scientific  subjects  to  the  Armenian 
papers,  and  was  the  author  of  a  book  on  the  minerals  of 
Turkey,  published  in  the  Turkish  language,  in  which  he  gave 
the  results  of  his  own  investigations.  He  had  made  many 
excursions  to  mineral  districts  in  the  Province  of  Aleppo, 
and  had  reported  the  results  of  his  investigations  to  the 
Turkish  Government,  in  consequence  of  which  he  was  plan- 
ning to  open,  under  its  auspices,  different  mines  in  various 
parts  of  that  district.  When  the  war  broke  out  and  the  Turk- 
ish Government  planned  to  exterminate  the  Armenian  nation, 
through  the  destruction  of  the  intellectuals  of  the  race.  Pro- 
fessor Babikian  was  designated  as  one  to  be  assassinated  as  a 
dangerous  man.  Consequently  he  was  deported  to  Deir-i-Zor 
in  1 91 5  with  some  other  teachers  of  the  college  and  was  killed 
by  the  Chechens  near  the  River  Khabur.  His  mother  was 
also  deported  by  the  Turks,  and  was  killed  in  the  wilderness 
with  her  son. 


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George  Lewis  Emmons,  Ph.B.   1908 

Born  December  i8,  1886,  in  Lynn,  Mass. 
Died  October  5,  191 8,  in  Schenectady,  N.  Y. 

George  Lewis  Emmons,  eldest  son  of  George  Edward 
Emmons,  vice  president  and  general  manager  of  the  General 
Electric  Company,  of  Schenectady,  N.  Y.,  and  Helen  (Lewis) 
Emmons,  was  born  in  Lynn,  Mass.,  December  18,  1886.  His 
father  is  the  son  of  Octavius  and  Elizabeth  A.  (Ejillaby) 
Emmons,  and  his  mother's  parents  were  George  and  Helen 
M.  (Lewis)  Lewis.  The  Lewis  family  were  early  settlers  in 
Farmington,  Conn.,  and  his  paternal  ancestors  lived  in 
Westchester,  Conn.  His  great-grandfather,  James  Lewis, 
graduated  from  Yale  in  1824. 

He  was  prepared  for  college  at  The  Hill  School,  Potts- 
town,  Pa.,  and  the  Taft  School,  Watertown,  Conn.  He  took 
the  select  course  in  the  Sheffield  Scientific  School,  receiving 
honors  for  excellence  in  all  studies  both  Junior  and  Senior 
years.  He  was  manager  of  the  Class  Baseball  Team. 

Since  graduation  he  had  been  connected  with  the  Schenec- 
tady plant  of  the  General  Electric  Company.  He  was  in  the 
production  department  for  two  years,  was  then  assistant  to 
the  production  manager  for  a  year  and  a  half,  and  was  after- 
wards transferred  to  the  purchasing  department.  At  the 
time  of  his  death  he  was  supervisor  of  the  stock  and  order 
department. 

His  death  occurred  October  5,  191 8,  at  his  home  in  Schen- 
ectady, as  a  result  of  Spanish  influenza,  following  an  illness  of 
less  than  a  week.  Burial  was  in  Fair  View  Cemetery,  New 
Britain,  Conn. 

He  was  married  June  3,  1913,  in  Bridgeport,  Conn.,  to 
Beatrice,  daughter  of  Daniel  and  Mary  (Jones)  Davenport, 
from  whom  he  was  later  divorced.  He  was  married  a  second 
time  in  May,  1917,  in  Easton,  Pa.,  to  Kathryn,  daughter  of 
Charles  and  Mary  George.  His  wife,  parents,  and  a  brother 
survive  him. 


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Alexis  Augustus  Kelsey,  Ph.B.   1908 

Born  February  6,  1884,  in  Westbrook,  Conn. 
Died  December  26,  191 8,  in  West  Hartford,  Conn. 

Alexis  Augustus  Kelsey  was  born  in  Westbrook,  Conn., 
February  6,  1884,  the  son  of  Augustus  Wei  ton  Kelsey,  a  sea 
captain,  and  Harriet  (Pratt)  Kelsey.  His  paternal  grand- 
parents were  Capt.  Orson  Kelsey  and  Abigail  (Bushnell) 
Kelsey .^  His  mother,  whose  parents  were  Alexis  and  Sybil 
(Hill)  Pratt,  traced  her  descent  to  Lieut.  William  Pratt,  who 
came  to  America  from  England  in  1633,  and  settled  first  in 
Newtown,  Mass.,  later  removing  to  Saybrook,  Conn. 

He  entered  Yale  from  the  Morgan  School,  Clinton,  Conn., 
and  took  the  chemistry  course  in  the  Sheffield  Scientific 
School. 

During  the  first  year  after  graduation  he  held  a  position  as 
minor  chemist  with  the  Winchester  Repeating  Arms  Company 
in  New  Haven,  and  the  next  year  he  was  chief  assistant  chem- 
ist for  the  New  York,  New  Haven  &  Hartford  Railroad  Com- 
pany. He  resigned  this  position  in  the  spring  of  1910,  and  was 
for  a  time  a  special  agent  for  the  Mutual  Life  Insurance 
Company  of  New  York,  with  headquarters  in  Hartford. 
In  the  fall  of  19 10  he  became  a  chemist  with  the  Henry 
Souther  Engineering  Company  of  Hartford.  From  191 1  to 
May,  191 8,  he  taught  in  the  public  schools  of  Hartford:  he 
taught  for  two  years  in  the  New  Park  Avenue  School,  was 
vice  principal  of  the  Chauncey  Harris  School  during  1913-14, 
and  from  i9i4to  1918  was  principal  of  the  New  Park  Avenue 
School.  During  the  last  few  months  preceding  his  death  he 
was  employed  by  Colt's  Patent  Fire  Arms  Manufacturing 
Company  in  Hartford  as  a  chemist.  He  had  traveled  exten- 
sively in  the  West. 

He  died  of  influenza  at  his  home  in  West  Hartford,  De- 
cember 26,  191 8.  Interment  was  in  Cedar  Hill  Cemetery, 
Hartford. 

He  was  married  in  that  city,  April  20,  191 1,  to  Louise 
Roberts,  daughter  of  Frederick  P.  and  Caroline  (Roberts) 
Tracy.  His  wife  survives  him. 


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John  Upshur  Moorhead,  Ph.B.   1908 

Born  March  13,  1885,  in  Pittsburgh,  Pa. 
Died  March  28,  1919,  in  Washington,  D.  C. 


ohn  Upshur  Moorhead  was  born  in  Pittsburgh,  Pa., 
March  13,  1885,  the  son  of  Frank  Turner  Moorhead  (Ph.B. 
1878)  and  Katharine  (Upshur)  Moorhead,  and  the  grandson 
of  John  Moorhead,  an  iron  master,  and  director  of  banks 
and  numerous  corporations,  and  Annie  (Turner)  Moorhead. 
Through  his  father  he  was  a  descendant  of  Turner  Moorhead, 
who  came  to  America  from  Scotland  early  in  the  seventeenth 
century  and  settled  in  North  Carolina.  The  latter's  grandson, 
Samuel  Moorhead,  removed  to  Chambersburg,  Pa.,  in  1720. 
With  his  brother,  Frank  T.  Moorhead  was  for  many  years 
a  member  of  the  firm  of  Moorhead,  Brother  &  Company, 
owners  of  the  Vesuvius  Iron  Works  at  Sharpsburg,  Pa.; 
he  was  later  connected  with  James  D.  Dyer  &  Company  in 
Pittsburgh.  John  Upshur  Moorhead's  maternal  grandparents 
were  Rear  Admiral  John  H.  Upshur,  U.  S.  N.,  and  Katharine 
(Williams)  Upshur.  Katharine  Williams  Upshur  was  the 
daughter  of  Capt.  William  George  Williams,  U.  S.  A.,  who 
was  killed  at  the  battle  of  Monterey  in  1846,  and  America 
Pinkney  (Peter)  Williams,  whose  parents  were  Thomas  and 
Martha  (Custis)  Peter,  daughter  of  John  Parke  Custis,  who 
was  aide-de-camp  to  his  stepfather.  General  Washington, 
at  the  battle  of  Yorktown,  and  Eleanor  (Calvert)  Custis. 
Eleanor  Calvert  Custis  was  the  daughter  of  Benedict  and 
Elizabeth  Calvert,  and  the  granddaughter  of  Charles  Calvert, 
fifth  Lord  Baltimore. 

He  was  prepared  at  the  Washington  School,  Washington, 
D.  C.  He  entered  the  Sheffield  Scientific  School  with  the  Class 
of  1907,  but  owing  to  sickness  did  not  complete  his  course 
until  1908.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Class  Tennis  Team,  and 
in  Junior  year,  with  J.  A.  C.  Colston  as  partner,  won  the 
University  championship  in  doubles. 

Upon  graduation  he  became  a  member  of  the  New  York 
Stock  Exchange,  and  until  his  death  was  senior  member  of 
the  firm  of  Moorhead  &  Elmore,  dealers  in  listed  and  unlisted 
investment  securities,  of  Washington.  He  was  appointed  a 


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First  Lieutenant  in  the  Ordnance  Reserve  Corps  on  April  5, 

191 8,  with  assignment  to  the  War  Department  in  Washing- 
ton, and  on  May  2,  191 8,  was  promoted  to  the  rank  of  Cap- 
tain. He  crossed  the  ocean  three  times  during  the  submarine 
warfare  as  confidential  courier  between  the  War  Depart- 
ment and  General  Pershing's  Headquarters.  On  January  15, 

1 91 9,  he  was  honorably  discharged  from  the  Army  and 
immediately  resumed  his  business  interests. 

He  died  suddenly  March  28,  1919,  at  his  residence  in 
Washington,  after  an  illness  of  about  ten  days.  Interment  was 
in  the  Arlington  National  Cemetery,  Virginia.  He  was  buried 
with  full  military  honors. 

Mr.  Moorhead  took  a  keen  interest  in  athletics,  and  was 
one  of  the  leading  tennis  players  in  the  District  of  Columbia, 
winning  several  Chevy  Chase  tennis  tournaments.  He  was 
vice  president  of  the  Washington  Tennis  Association.  He  was 
a  communicant  of  St.  Paul's  Episcopal  Church,  Washing- 
ton, and  was  at  one  time  a  vestryman.  He  was  a  member  of 
the  Aztec  Society,  Mexican  Wars,  through  his  grandfather, 
Rear  Admiral  John  H.  Upshur. 

Mr.  Moorhead  was  married  February  2,  1910,  in  Wash- 
ington, to  Lilian,  daughter  of  John  J.  and  Lillian  (Coffey) 
Chew.  She  survives  with  their  three  sons,  John  Upshur,  Jr., 
Thomas  Chew,  and  Henry  Parke  Custis.  He  also  leaves  his 
mother.  He  was  a  nephew  of  John  Moorhead  (Ph.B.  1880) 
and  a  cousin  of  John  Alston  Moorhead  (Ph.B.  1904)  and 
William  H.  Hunt,  Jr.  (Ph.B.  1909).  William  H.  Hunt  (B.A. 
1878)  is  an  uncle  by  marriage. 


William  Wallace  Newcomb,  Ph.B.  1908 

Born  June  23,  1886,  in  New  York  City- 
Died  October  9,  191 8,  in  St.  Nazaire,  France 

William  Wallace  Newcomb,  only  son  of  William  Wallace 
and  Caroline  (Cristadoro)  Newcomb,  was  born  in  New  York 
City,  June  23,  1886.  He  was  a  grandson  of  Thomas  W.  and 
Nomina  Newcomb,  and  a  descendant  of  Capt.  Andrew  New- 
comb, who  came  to  America  from  England  prior  to  1663, 
when  first  mention  is  made  of  him  in  Boston.  The  family  is 
related  to  Professor  Simon  Newcomb,  the  astronomer,  and  to 


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Dr.  Wesley  Newcomb,  the  conchologist.  His  mother's  parents 
were  Antonio  and  Caroline  (Rendell)  Cristadoro.  His  mater- 
nal great-grandmother,  Caroline  Matilda  Smith,  was  de- 
scended from  Samuel  Seabury  (B.A.  1748),  first  Protestant 
tpiscopal  bishop  of  the  Diocese  of  Connecticut. 
He  was  fitted  for  Yale  at  the  Brooklyn  Polytechnic  Pre- 
paratory School,  and  in  the -Sheffield  Scientific  School  took 
the  course  in  electrical  engineering.  The  first  few  months 
after  graduation  were  spent  in  electrical  line  inspection  for 
the  New  York  Central  Railroad,  and  during  1909-1910 
he  was  a  member  of  the  efficiency  corps  of  the  Brighton  Mills 
at  Passaic,  N.  J.  He  then  entered  business  in  New  York  City. 
For  a  year  he  had  a  position  with  the  Federal  Advertising 
Agency,  and  from  1911  to  1913  he  was  manager  of  the  adver- 
tising department  of  the  Simmons  Boardman  Publishing 
Company  and  in  charge  of  the  copy  service  department  of 
the  Railway  Age  Gazette.  He  was  later  for  several  years 
secretary  and  a  director  of  the  McCall  Publishing  Company. 
In  1917  he  became  New  York  manager  of  the  brokerage  firm 
of  Jackson  &  Curtis,  and  continued  in  this  connection  until 
entering  military  service.  He  was  commissioned  a  Captain  in 
the  Ordnance  Department  on  July  16,  1917,  and  during  the 
next  few  months  was  stationed  at  the  Frankford  (Pa.) 
Arsenal  and  at  Washington,  D.  C.  He  was  then  ordered 
abroad,  and  his  death  occurred  at  St.  Nazaire  on  October  9, 
191 8,  three  days  after  the  arrival  of  his  transport  in  France. 
His  death  was  due  to  pneumonia,  following  an  attack  of 
influenza.  He  was  buried  in  Military  Cemetery  No.  21  at  St. 
Nazaire. 

Captain  Newcomb  was  unmarried.  His  mother  survives  him. 


John  Morton  Walker,  Ph.B.   1908 

Born  November  15,  1886,  in'Denver,  Colo. 
Died  December  9,  1918,  in  Clamecy,  France 

John  Morton  Walker,  the  eleventh  of  the  name,  was  the 
only  son  of  the  late  John  Morton  Walker,  president  of 
Humphrey's  Commission  Company,  of  Denver,  Colo.,  and 
Caroline  (Holme)  Walker.  He  was  born  November  15,  1886, 
in  Denver.  His  paternal  grandparents  were  John  and  Sarah 


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(Coates)  Walker,  and  his  first  American  ancestor  on  his 
father's  side  was  John  Walker,  who  came  from  England  and 
settled  in  Philadelphia,  Pa.  His  mother,  who,  is  the  daughter 
of  Richard  and  Elizabeth  (Fishback)  Holme,  traces  her 
descent  from  John  Huber,  who  came  to  America  from  Switzer- 
land in  1747  and  settled  in  Philadelphia,  and  who  served  as  a 
Colonel  in  the  Revolutionary  War.  Another  ancestor  was  John 
Valentine  Hagner,  of  Wiirttemburg,  Germany,  who  came  to 
Philadelphia  about  1740. 

He  prepared  for  college  at  the  Denver  High  School  and  at 
Dr.  Holbrook's  School,  Ossining,  N.  Y.  He  entered  Yale 
College  in  September,  1905,  but  withdrew  in  June,  1906, 
to  enter  the  Sheffield  Scientific  School,  where  he  took  the 
sanitary  engineering  course.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Class 
Tennis  Team. 

After  graduation  he  was  for  several  years  engaged  in 
engineering  and  in  the  mercantile  business  in  Denver.  About 
1914  he  became  connected  with  the  W.  A.  Hover  Drug 
Company,  a  wholesale  drug  house  of  that  city,  where  he 
occupied  the  position  of  traffic  manager  until  the  United 
States  entered  the  war.  On  May  5,  1917,  he  volunteered  for 
service  in  the  Engineer  Reserve  Corps.  Failing  to  hear  from 
his  application,  he  was  requested  to  volunteer  for  service  in 
the  Medical  Reserve  Corps,  for  which  he  was  fitted  by  reason 
of  his  experience  in  the  drug  business.  He  was  sent  to  Fort 
Robinson,  Nebraska,  on  August  i,  191 7,  and  on  November 
21,  1917,  was  assigned  to  Medical  Supply  Depot  Company 
No.  6  at  Chicago,  III.  He  was  sent  overseas  August  13,  191 8, 
and  after  being  stationed  for  two  months  at  Cosne  (Nievre), 
France,  was  ordered  to  Clamecy,  where,  on  November  i,  1918, 
he  was  made  First  Sergeant  at  Camp  Hospital  No.  93.  He 
died  of  lobar  pneumonia,  after  an  illness  of  thirteen  days,  at 
Clamecy,  December  9,  191 8,  and  was  buried  in  the  American 
Cemetery  there. 

Mr.  Walker  was  engaged  to  be  married  to  Miss  Drusilla 
Rutherford,  of  Denver.  He  leaves  his  mother  and  a  sister.  He 
was  a  nephew  of  Peter  Hagner  Holme  (B.A.  1898).  He  be- 
longed to  the  Church  of  the  Ascension  (Protestant  Epis- 
copal) of  Denver,  and  was  active  in  church  and  philanthropic 
work. 


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Bishop  White,  Ph.B.   1908 

Born  October  14,  1885,  ^"  West  Hartford,  Conn. 
Died  October  27,  1918,  in  West  Hartford,  Conn. 

Bishop  White  was  the  son  of  Niles  Glover  and  Mary 
rnelia  (Bishop)  White,  and  was  born  in  West  Hartford, 
nn.,  October  14,  1885.  He  was  the  grandson  of  Glover  M. 
nd  Mary  Post  (Markham)  White,  and  a  descendant  of 
Philip  White,  who  came  to  America  from  England  prior  to 
1760  and  settled  in  Lynn,  Mass.  His  great-great-grandfather, 
another  Philip  White,  was  a  Revolutionary  soldier.  Through 
his  paternal  grandmother,  his  ancestry  might  be  traced 
through  three  different  lines  to  the  Mayflower.  His  mother 
is  the  daughter  of  Elisha  Chapman  and  Charlotte  Griffin 
(Fowler)  Bishop,  and  a  descendant  of  John  Bishop,  who 
came  to  America  from  Guildford,  England,  in  1639,  and  settled 
in  Guilford,  Conn.  John  Bishop  was  the  second  person  to 
sign  the  Plantation  Covenant  of  June  i,  1639,  ^"<i  was  one 
of  the  four  men  who  had  the  direction  of  the  affairs  of  the 
Colony  until  the  formation  of  the  church. 

He  received  his  preparatory  training  at  the  Hotchkiss 
School,  Lakeville,  Conn.,  and  took  the  biology  course  in  the 
Sheffield  Scientific  School. 

For  a  short  time  after  graduating,  he  was  connected  with  a 
New  York  bank,  but  soon  went  into  business  for  himself  as  a 
manufacturers'  representative  in  the  automobile  accessory 
field.  This  brought  him  into  contact  with  the  Weed  Chain 
Tire  Grip  Company,  and  he  became  associated  with  that 
company  in  191 1.  When  the  American  Chain  Company  was 
incorporated  in  191 2,  Mr.  White  went  to  Sherrill,  N.  Y.,  to 
organize  and  manage  the  plant,  which  later  absorbed  the 
Weed  Chain  Tire  Grip  Company,  after  the  business  had  been 
transferred  to  Bridgeport.  He  then  became  vice  president 
and  general  manager  of  the  new  corporation,  a  position  which 
he  was  filling  at  the  time  of  his  death.  He  was  also  a  director 
of  the  Bridgeport  Trust  Company,  treasurer  of  the  Pratt  & 
Cady  Company,  vice  president  of  White  &  Clark,  Inc.,  and 
a  director  of  the  Colonial  National  Bank,  the  three  last- 
jiamed  being  Hartford  concerns.  He  was  a  member  of  the 


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General  Society  of  Mechanics  and  Tradesmen  of  the  City  of 
New  York.  In  1917  he  served  as  a  special  assistant  to  the 
governor  of  Connecticut  on  work  in  connection  with  the 
military  census,  and  he  was  also  a  member  of  the  Industrial 
Survey  Committee  of  the  State  Council  of  Defense. 

He  died  of  pneumonia,  after  a  brief  illness,  at  his  home  in 
West  Hartford,  October  27,  191 8.  Burial  was  in  Cedar  Hill 
Cemetery,  Hartford. 

Mr.  White  was  married  in  191 6  to  Mary  A.  Shiras,  of 
Mount  Vernon,  N.  Y.,  who  survives  him  with  two  sons, 
Bishop  and  Shiras.  His  parents,  five  sisters,  and  a  brother, 
Prentice  White,  '15  S.,  are  also  living.  The  late  Ernest  S. 
Bishop,  M.D.  (B.A.  1889),  was  an  uncle. 


Robert  Edward  Dakin,  Ph.B.   1909 

Born  July  2,  1888,  in  Gaylordsville,  Conn. 
Died  December  15,  1918,  in  Danbury,  Conn. 

Robert  Edward  Dakin  was  the  son  of  Edward  and  Mary 
(Smith)  Dakin,  and  was  born  July  2,  1888,  in  Gaylordsville, 
Conn.  He  prepared  for  Yale  at  the  New  Milford  (Conn.) 
High  School,  and  took  the  civil  engineering  course  in  the 
Sheffield  Scientific  School.  He  received  honors  in  French. 

In  the  fall  of  1909  he  entered  the  employ  of  the  New  York, 
New  Haven  &  Hartford  Railroad,  being  connected  with  the 
office  of  the  construction  engineer,  and  he  later  worked  for 
The  Connecticut  Company,  with  headquarters  in  New 
Haven.  In  191 2  he  was  an  assistant  engineer  for  the  New 
Haven  Road,  in  charge  of  hydraulic  plant  reconstruction  at 
Gaylordsville.  At  the  time  of  his  death  he  was  working  as 
assistant  engineer  with  the  company  in  charge  of  the  con- 
struction of  a  dam  on  the  Housatonic  River,  at  Stevenson, 
Conn.  He  had  also  been  connected  with  the  J.  A.  P.  Crisfield 
Company,  and  among  other  things  had  designed  and  con- 
structed a  reinforced  concrete  cantilever  bridge  over  the 
Pomperang  River  near  Sandy  Hook,  Conn.,  and  at  the  same 
time  was  organizing  forces  and  directing  surveys  for  other 
power  and  storage  projects.  He  was  an  associate  member  of 
the  American  Society  of  Civil  Engineers. 


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He  died,  of  pneumonia,  at  his  home  in  Danbury,  Conn., 
December  15,  191 8.  Burial  was  in  Morningside  Cemetery  in 
Gaylordsville, 

He  was  married  September  13,  1913,  in  Gaylordsville,  to 
Marion  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Charles  and  Caroline  (Helsten) 
Evans.  She  survives  him  with  a  son,  Theodore.  He  also  leaves 
his  mother.  A  ten-months  old  son,  Edward,  died,  of  pneu- 
monia, five  days  before  his  father's  death. 


John  Leavens  Lilley,  Ph.B.   1909 

Born  July  i,  1885,  in  Waterbury,  Conn. 
Died  October  6,  ic/»8,  in  Washington,  D.  C. 

John  Leavens  Lilley  was  born  in  Waterbury,  Conn., 
July  I,  1885.  His  father,  George  Leavens  Lilley,  who  was 
the  son  of  John  Leavens  and  Caroline  W.  (Adams)  Lilley, 
attended  the  Worcester  Polytechnic  Institute  in  1876  and 
1877.  He  served  in  the  Connecticut  Legislature  in  1900,  from 
1903  to  1909  was  a  member  of  Congress,  and  was  governor  of 
Connecticut  from  January  5,  1909,  until  his  death  on  April 
21,  1909.  He  traced  his  ancestry  to  George  Lilley,  who  came 
to  America  from  England  about  1635  ^^^  settled  at  Reading, 
Mass.  John  L.  Lilley's  mother,  Anna  E.  H.  (Steele)  Lilley, 
is  the  daughter  of  Norman  and  Sarah  (Hitchcock)  Steele. 
She  is  descended  from  George  Steele,  who  came  to  America 
from  England  between  1621  and  1634  and  settled  in  Cam- 
bridge, Mass.,  later  removing  to  Hartford,  Conn.,  where  he 
was  a  proprietor  of  lands  in  1639.  George  Steele's  grandson, 
John  Steele,  married  Melatiah  Bradford,  granddaughter  of 
Governor  William  Bradford  of  Plymouth  Colony. 

He  entered  Yale  from  the  Taft  School,  Watertown,  Conn., 
and  took  the  select  course  in  the  Sheffield  Scientific  School. 
He  was  a  member  of  the  Track  Squad. 

After  graduation  he  studied  law  at  Yale  and  at  Columbia, 
but  because  of  serious  eye  trouble  was  unable  to  complete  his 
course,  although  he  had  passed  all  the  examinations  except 
one.  This  he  was  given  the  privilege  of  taking  at  a  later  date, 
and  in  191 2  Columbia  granted  him  the  degree  of  LL.B.  From 
that  time  until  entering  military  service  he  was  connected 


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with  Callaway,  Fish  &  Company,  a  brokerage  firm  of  New 
York  City.  He  was  commissioned  a  First  Lieutenant  in  the 
Air  Service  February  27,  191 8,  and  detailed  for  duty  in 
Washington,  D.  C.  He  died  in  that  city,  October  6,  191 8,  after 
a  five  days'  illness  of  influenza.  Burial  was  in  Riverside 
Cemetery,  Waterbury.  Early  in  October  he  had  been  pro- 
moted to  the  rank  of  Captain. 

His  marriage  took  place  June  6,  1913,  in  Scranton,  Pa., 
to  Helen,  daughter  of  William  Gildersleeve  and  Helen  E. 
(Ackley)  Parke.  She  survives  him  with  their  two  children, 
Helen  and  George  Leavens.  He  also  leaves  his  mother  and 
two  brothers,  one  of  whom,  Theodore  Lilley,  graduated  from 
the  Sheffield  Scientific  School  in  1910,  and  the  other,  Fred- 
erick P.  Lilley,  from  Annapolis  m  1907. 


Donald  Gardner  Russell,  Ph.B.   1909 

Born  May  3,  1890,  in  Wallingford,  Conn. 
Died  October  17,  191 8,  in  Neuilly,  France 

Donald  Gardner  Russell  was  born  May  3,  1890,  in  Walling- 
ford, Conn.,  the  son  of  William  Spencer  Russell  (M.D. 
1880),  a  physician  of  that  town,  and  Eliza  (Cook)  Russell. 
His  father  is  the  son  of  Henry  E.  Russell,  and  a  descendant 
of  Daniel  Hitchcock,  a  soldier  in  the  Revolutionary  Army. 

Before  entering  the  Sheffield  Scientific  School,  he  studied  at 
the  Choate  School  in  Wallingford  and  at  the  Hopkins  Gram- 
mar School  in  New  Haven.  He  took  the  select  course,  receiv- 
ing honors  for  excellence  in  all  the  studies  of  Junior  year,  and 
at  graduation  was  given  general  two-year  honors  for  excel- 
lence in  all  studies.  He  was  a  member  of  Sigma  Xi. 

After  graduation  he  went  West,  and  for  a  time  was  em- 
ployed by  the  Ray  Consolidated  Mining  Company  in  Ray, 
Ariz.  Later  he  was  engaged  on  road  construction  for  the 
Government  between  Globe  and  Roosevelt,  Ariz.  In  the  fall 
of  1910  he  returned  to  New  Haven  and  entered  the  Yale 
School  of  Medicine,  from  which  he  received  the  degree  of 
M.D.,  cum  laude,  in  June,  1914.  He  was  given  the  Ferris 
Anatomical  Prize  his  first  year,  and  in  Senior  year  divided  the 
Keese  Prize,  and  received  honorable  mention  in  the  Campbell 


i 


1909  1207 

Gold  Medal  contest.  During  the  year  1914-15  he  was  house 
surgeon  at  the  New  Haven  Hospital.  He  was  a  member  of 
the  New  Haven  County  Medical  Society,  and  had  served  as 

ice  president  of  the  Yale  Medical  Alumni  Association. 
In  191 5  he  spent  eight  months  at  a  base  hospital  at  Pasay, 

ranee,  working  under  Dr.  Joseph  M.  Flint,  later  head  of  the 
Yale  Mobile  Hospital  Unit.  He  then  returned  to  America, 
and  joined  his  father  in  practice  in  Wallingford.  He  was  com- 
missioned a  First  Lieutenant  in  the  Medical  Reserve  Corps 
in  July,  1917,  his  commission  being  transferred  to  the  Medical 
Corps  of  the  Regular  Army  the  following  October.  He  was  at 
the  Army  Medical  School  in  Washington,  D.  C,  for  three 
months,  and  also  took  a  course  at  the  Rockefeller  Institute. 
He  went  abroad  to  join  the  American  Expeditionary  Forces 
in  October,  1917.  His  first  assignment  to  duty  was  with  the 
British  orthopedic  service  at  the  Black  Rock  Military  Hos- 
pital in  Ireland,  where  he  was  soon  given  a  great  deal  of 
operative  responsibility  owing  to  his  previous  training  in 
France.  In  March,  191 8,  he  was  detached  from  Dublin  and 
ordered  to  France  as  orthopedist  to  the  ist  Division  at  the 
front.  During  the  summer  he  suffered  from  an  attack  of 
appendicitis  and  was  operated  upon  in  a  field  hospital.  After 
his  recovery  he  remained  with  the  ist  Division  until  the  early 
part  of  October,  when  he  was  given  an  assignment  as  ortho^ 
pedist  to  the  6th  Army  Corps.  While  in  Paris  on  his  way  to 
report  for  this  duty,  he  was  taken  ill  with  influenza,  which 
developed  into  pneumonia,  and  died  in  Red  Cross  Hospital 
No.  I  at  Neuilly  on  October  17.  In  the  early  summer  he  had 
taken  and  passed  the  examinations  for  his  Majority,  and  was 
awaiting  advancement  to  that  grade  when  his  death  occurred. 
He  was  buried  at  Suresnes. 

He  was  married  January  i,  191 6,  in  Huntington,  W.  Va., 
to  Eugenia  H.  Lyons,  a  Red  Cross  nurse  whom  he  met  in 
France.  She  survives  him  with  a  daughter,  Elizabeth  Craw- 
ford, and  he  also  leaves  his  parents  and  a  sister,  Elinor  Tyler 
Russell. 


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Burt  Stearns,  Ph.B.   1909 

Born  December  27,  1886,  in  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 
Died  November  25,  191 8,  in  Denver,  Colo. 

Burt  Stearns,  son  of  Thomas  Beale  Stearns,  treasurer  of 
the  Stearns-Roger  Manufacturing  Company,  manufacturers 
of  mining  and  milling  machinery,  and  Lilian  (Burt)  Stearns, 
was  born  in  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.,  December  27, 1886.  His  paternal 
grandparents  were  Joel  Wilder  and  Elizabeth  (Beale)  Stearns, 
and  his  first  American  ancestor  on  his  father's  side  was 
Charles  Stearns,  who  came  from  England  in  1636  and  settled 
in  Watertown,  Mass.  His  mother  is  the  daughter  of  James  M. 
and  Fidelia  (Porter)  Burt.  Her  family  lived  in  New  Boston, 
Mass. 

He  entered  Yale  from  St.  Paul's  School,  Concord,  N.  H., 
as  a  member  of  the  Class  of  1908  S.,  but  later  joined  the  class 
with  which  he  was  graduated.  He  took  the  select  course,  and 
served  on  the  Class  Supper  Committee. 

In  September,  1909,  he  became  connected  with  the  Stearns- 
Roger  Manufacturing  Company  in  Denver,  Colo.,  and  in 
January,  191 1,  was  made  secretary  and  treasurer  of  the  com- 
pany, in  which  connection  he  continued  until  his  death. 
He  built  a  large  cyanide  mill  for  the  company  at  the  Copper 
Chief  Mine  at  Clarkdale,  Ariz.,  in  191 5,  and  from  March  i, 
1917,  to  March  i,  191 8,  he  was  in  Delta,  Utah,  representing 
his  company,  which  was  constructing  a  large  sugar  factory 
there.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Denver  Chamber  of  Commerce 
and  of  St.  John's  Episcopal  Church  in  that  city. 

His  death  occurred  as  a  result  of  influenza  and  pneumonia, 
November  25,  191 8,  in  Denver,  and  he  was  buried  in  Fair- 
mount  Cemetery. 

He  was  married  November  1 5, 19 13,  in  Denver,  to  Dorothy, 
daughter  of  James  H.  and  Mary  A.  (Clark)  Brown,  who  sur- 
vives him  with  a  daughter,  Carolyn  Burt.  His  mother  is  also 
living. 


Roy  Emerson  Farnham,  Ph.B.   1910 

Born  December  i6,  1888,  in  Syracuse,  N.  Y. 
Died  October  17,  191 8,  in  Hartford,  Conn. 

Roy  Emerson  Farnham  was  the  son  of  Emerson  H.  and 
Corralinn  (Kellogg)  Farnham,  and  was  born  December  16, 
1888,  in  Syracuse,  N.  Y.  His  father,  whose  parents  were  David 
and  Juliet  (Mason)  Farnham,  was  of  English  descent.  His 
mother  is  the  daughter  of  Charles  P.  and  Betsy  (Heming- 
way) Kellogg.  One  of  her  early  American  ancestors  was  Wil- 
let  Hemingway,  who  came  to  America  from  England  and 
settled  in  New  Haven,  Conn.,  where  many  of  his  descendants 
are  now  living. 

He  received  his  preparatory  training  at  the  New  Haven 
High  School.  At  Yale  he  took  the  chemistry  course  in  the 
Sheffield  Scientific  School. 

From  July  i,  19 10,  to  April  6,  191 2,  he  was  an  assistant 
chemist  for  the  Winchester  Repeating  Arms  Company  in 
New  Haven.  He  then  became  connected  with  the  New  De- 
parture Manufacturing  Company  of  Bristol,  Conn.,  as  head 
chemist  and  chief  metallurgist.  Early  in  1916  he  became 
superintendent  of  the  ball  department  of  the  company,  and 
continued  in  this  connection  until  his  death,  which  occurred 
at  the  Hartford  (Conn.)  Hospital,  October  17,  191 8,  follow- 
ing a  brief  illness  due  to  influenza.  Interment  was  in  the  Fair 
Haven  Union  Cemetery  in  New  Haven. 

He  was  married  October  17,  19 14,  in  New  Haven,  to  Bessie 
May,  daughter  of  John  Thomas  and  Mary  (Preston)  Lan- 
caster. His  wife,  who  is  a  sister  of  John  H.  Lancaster  (LL.B. 
1910),  survives  him.  He  also  leaves  his  mother  and  a  sister. 


Sheppard  Bliss  Gordy,  Ph.B.   1910 

Born  October  27,  1889,  in  Ansonia,  Conn. 
Died  October  9,  191 8,  in  Chillicothe,  Ohio 

Sheppard  Bliss  Gordy,  the  eldest  son  of  Elijah  Sheppard 
and  Jennie  Pratt  (Cotter)  Gordy,  was  born  in  Ansonia, 
Conn.,  October  27,  1889.  His  father  is  Connecticut  manager 
of  The  Fidelity  Mutual  Life  Insurance  Company,  of  Phila- 


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delphia,  with  offices  at  Ansonia  and  New  Haven,  Conn., 
treasurer  and  manager  of  The  Underwriters  Agency  Com- 
pany, and  president  of  Philip  Hugo  &  Son,  Inc.,  both  of  New 
Haven.  He  is  the  son  of  Elijah  Melson  and  Martha  (Shep- 
pard)  Gordy,  who  was  of  an  old  Maryland  family.  Jennie 
Cotter  Gordy's  parents  were  Samuel  A.  and  Harriet  (An- 
drews) Cotter.  On  her  father's  side  she  is  descended  from 
Lieut.  William  Pratt,  who  came  to  Hartford,  Conn.,  with 
Thomas  Hooker;  from  Thomas  Rogers,  who  came  over  on 
the  Mayflower^  and  from  William  Leete,  an  early  governor 
of  Connecticut.  Her  maternal  ancestors  include  William 
Andrews,  who  came  to  New  Haven  with  John  Davenport; 
Samuel  Holden  Parsons  (B.A.  Harvard  1756,  Honorary  M.A. 
Yale  178 1),  a  Major  General  in  the  Revolutionary  War; 
and  Stephen  Titus  Hosmer  (B.A.  1782),  a  chief  justice  of 
Connecticut. 

He  entered  Yale  from  the  Derby  (Conn.)  High  School. 
He  was  a  member  of  the  Water  Polo  Team  and  was  placed 
on  the  All  American  Team  for  two  years.  He  was  a  member 
of  the  Class  Statisticians'  Committee.  His  course  was  that 
in  mining  engineering.  In  the  fall  of  1910  he  returned  for  two 
years  of  graduate  work,  and  received  the  degree  of  E.M.  in 
June,  1912. 

Immediately  afterwards  he  went  to  Rancagua,  Chile,  to 
take  a  position  with  the  Braden  Copper  Company.  In  July, 
1 916,  he  resigned  as  general  mine  foreman  to  become  an 
examining  engineer  in  South  America  for  Guggenheim  Broth- 
ers. He  continued  in  this  connection  for  ten  months,  and  then, 
after  a  few  months  with  the  Chile  Copper  Company,  took  a 
similar  position  with  the  Andes  Exploration  Company  in 
Chile.  He  was  given  a  leave  of  absence  in  June,  191 8,  to  enter 
military  service.  About  a  month  after  his  return  to  this 
country  he  went  to  Dayton,  Ohio,  where  he  remained  two 
weeks  studying  the  De  Haviland  4  at  the  Wright  Airplane 
Factory.  On  August  26  he  was  sent  to  Camp  Sherman,  Chilli- 
cothe,  Ohio,  and  assigned  to  the  24th  Company,  6th  Training 
Battalion,  158th  Depot  Brigade.  He  died  of  pneumonia, 
following  influenza,  at  Camp  Sherman,  on  October  9,  191 8, 


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after  an  illness  of  ten  days.  Burial  was  in  Pine  Grove  Ceme- 
tery, Ansonia. 

Mr.  Gordy  was  not  married.  He  is  survived  by  his  parents, 
a  brother,  and  two  sisters. 


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Earl  Alton  Hinkley,  Ph.B.   1910 

Born  November  17,  1890,  in  St.  George,  Maine 
Died  March  31,  1919,  in  Branford,  Conn. 


Earl  Alton  Hinkley,  son  of  William  Crockett  Hinkley, 
superintendent  of  t'he  Norcross  Brothers  Company,  of  Stony 
Creek,  Conn.,  and  Eva  June  (Spargo)  Hinkley,  was  born 
November  17,  1890,  in  St.  George,  Maine.  His  father  was 
the  son  of  Shubal  and  Elizabeth  (Crockett)  Hinkley,  and  a 
descendant  of  Thomas  Hinckley,  the  last  governor  of  Plym- 
outh Colony.  His  mother  was  born  in  Penzance,  England, 
and  came  to  America  in  1874.  Her  parents  were  William  T. 
and  Amelia  (Simmons)  Spargo. 

He  entered  Yale  from  the  Branford  (Conn.)  High  School. 
His  course  in  the  Scientific  School  was  that  in  mining  engi- 
neering, and  after  graduating  in  1910  he  returned  to  Yale  to 
continue  his  studies,  and  received  the  degree  of  E.M.  in  191 2. 
He  was  then  engaged  in  mining  engineering  at  McGill,  Nev., 
for  a  time,  after  which  he  was  employed  by  the  Magna  Cop- 
per Company  at  Superior,  Ariz.  He  later  spent  three  years  in 
Kennecott,  Alaska,  as  mill  superintendent  and  metallurgist 
for  the  Kennecott  Copper  Company.  In  the  latter  part  of 
1917  he  was  compelled  to  give  up  this  work  because  of  poor 
health,  and  returned  to  Stony  Creek,  where  he  was  for  about 
a  year.  The  last  six  months  of  his  life  were  spent  at  his 
mother's  home  in  Branford,  where  his  death  occurred  March 
31,  1919,  as  the  result  of  Bright's  disease'.  Interment  was  in 
Center  Cemetery,  Branford. 

He  was  married  in  Valdez,  Alaska,  October  12,  19 15,  to 
Elizabeth,  daughter  of  John  and  Katherine  (Sweeney) 
Heffernan,  who  survives  him.  He  also  leaves  his  mother  and 
a, sister,  the  wife  of  Earle  A.  Barker  (LL.B.  1909). 


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Gilbert  Nelson  Jerome,  Ph.B.   1910 

Born  November  15,  1889,  in  New  Haven,  Conn. 
Died  July  11,  1918,  in  Blamont,  France 

Gilbert  Nelson  Jerome  was  born  in  New  Haven,  Conn., 
November  15,  1889.  His  father,  Yan-phou  Lee,  was  born  at 
Fragrant  Hills,  Canton,  China,  the  son  of  a  mandarin  who 
held  office  as  literary  sub-chancellor;  he  was  one  of  the  one 
hundred  and  twenty  youths  sent  in  1873  by  the  Chinese 
Government  to  be  educated  in  America;  he  graduated  from 
Yale  with  the  degree  of  B.A.  in  1887,  and  is  at  present  en- 
gaged in  business  in  New  York  City.  His  mother,  Elizabeth 
Maud  Jerome,  whose  name  he  bore,  is  the  daughter  of  Ben- 
jamin Nelson  and  Elizabeth  (Gilbert)  Jerome.  Her  father  was 
a  member  of  the  distinguished  Jerome  family  of  New  London 
and  New  York.  Her  maternal  grandfather,  Hezekiah  Gilbert, 
was  the  son  of  Amos  Gilbert,  one  of  the  original  founders  of 
the  2d  Company,  Governor's  Foot  Guard,  of  Revolutionary 
fame,  and  Elizabeth  Ann  (Ailing)  Gilbert,  and  was  sixth  in 
descent  from  Matthew  Gilbert,  who  was  prominent  in  the 
early  history  of  New  Haven  Colony.  Soon  after  the  Civil 
War  Hezekiah  Gilbert  gave  a  piece  of  land  from  the  Gilbert 
estate  and  founded  the  Bethany  Mission,  appointing  to  its 
board  of  trustees  several  Yale  men.  In  the  past  fifty  years 
many  Yale  students  have  been  engaged  in  volunteer  religious 
work  there.  Elizabeth  Ann  Ailing  Gilbert  was  a  descendant 
of  Roger  Ailing,  who  came  from  Bradford,  England,  and  was 
treasurer  of  New  Haven  Colony  in  1661,  and  whose  son,  John 
Ailing,  was  the  third  treasurer  of  Yale  College. 

He  received  his  preparatory  training  at  the  New  Haven 
High  School.  He  took  the  electrical  engineering  course  in  the 
Scientific  School,  and  in  Junior  year  was  a  member  of  the 
Cercle  Fran^ais. 

During  the  first  year  after  graduation  he  did  volunteer 
work  with  boys  at  the  New  Haven  Y.  M.  C.  A.,  and  the  next 
year  acted  as  social  and  office  secretary  of  the  organization. 
From  191 2  to  1914  he  attended  the  Springfield  Y.  M.  C.  A. 
College,  graduating  with  the  degree  of  Bachelor  of  Humanics. 
He  next  held  a  position  in  the  boys'  work  department  of  the  In- 
ternational Committee  of  the  Y.  M.  C.  A.  in  New  York  City.  In 


1910  Ills 

the  fall  of  191 5  he  returned  to  New  Haven  as  executive  head 
of  the  New  Haven  Council  of  the  Boy  Scouts  of  America.  He 
had  contributed  several  articles  on  boys'  work  to  American 
Touth  and  had  illustrated  "Tales  Telal"  by  H.  M.  Burr.  His 
war  poem,  "The  Airplane,"  took  fifth  place  in  the  Paris  Herald 
prize  contest,  in  which  there  were  five  hundred  contestants. 

When  the  United  States  entered  the  war,  he  volunteered 
for  the  Air  Service  and  was  sent  to  the  Massachusetts  Insti- 
tute of  Technology  for  ground  training.  He  completed  his 
course  there  in  August,  1917,  standing  third  in  his  class,  and 
was  immediately  sent  abroad.  He  studied  at  Tours,  Issoudun, 
and  Cazaux,  and  in  February,  191 8,  was  given  his  commis- 
sion as  First  Lieutenant.  He  was  then  sent  to  Orly,  near 
Paris,  to  ferry  planes  around  France,  having  demonstrated 
his  ability  to  handle  engines.  In  June,  191 8,  he  was  attached 
to  Spad  90,  8th  French  Army.  Three  weeks  later,  on  July  11, 
he  was  sent  out,  with  another  member  of  his  escadrille,  to 
patrol  the  French  lines,  and  it  was  at  Blamont,  while  en- 
gaged in  this  duty,  that  he  lost  his  life.  He  was  attacked  by 
four  enemy  planes  which  he  successfully  repulsed.  The  action 
led  him  over  Blamont,  and  while  endeavoring  to  locate  a  nest 
of  anti-aircraft  guns,  he  was  struck  and  instantly  killed.  He 
was  buried  with  full  military  honors  in  the  German  military 
cemetery  at  Blamont,  but  in  the  summer  of  1919  his  body  was 
moved  to  the  Argonne  Cemetery  at  Romagne-sous-Mont- 
faucon,  Meuse.  A  memorial  window  was  dedicated  to  Lieu- 
tenant Jerome  in  Plymouth  Church,  New  Haven  (of  which 
he  was  a  member),  on  January  4,  1920. 

He  was  unmarried.  A  sister,  Jennie  Gilbert  Jerome,  grad- 
uated from  Mount  Holyoke  College  in  191 1.  She  lives  with 
her  mother  in  New  Haven. 


Harold  Wily  Reeder,  Ph.B.   1910 

Born  June  17,  1888,  in  Detroit,  Mich. 
Died  December  14,  1918,  in  Chicago,  III. 

Harold  Wily  Reeder  was  the  son  of  Thomas  E.  Reeder, 
president  of  the  Federal  Motor  Truck  Company,  and  Elise 
(Le  Beau)  Reeder,  and  was  born  June  17,  1888,  in  Detroit, 
'Mich.  Before  entering  Yale  he  attended  the  Groff  School  and 


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the  University  of  Detroit.  He  took  the  select  course  in  the 
Sheffield  Scientific  School. 

He  enrolled  in  the  U.  S.  Naval  Reserve  Force  on  June  25, 
191 8,  as  a  Seaman,  Second  Class,  and  was  released  from  active 
duty  on  December  4,  191 8,  while  attached  to  the  Naval 
Auxiliary  Reserve  School  in  Chicago,  111.  His  death  occurred 
in  that  city  on  December  14,  after  a  brief  illness  due  to  pneu- 
monia. He  was  buried  in  Graceland  Cemetery,  Chicago,  but 
his  body  was  later  removed  to  Hollywood,  Calif. 

For  some  time  previous  to  his  enlistment  in  the  Navy,  Mr. 
Reeder  was  assistant  sales  manager  of  the  automobile  parts 
department  of  the  Hughes  &  Merton  Company,  of  San 
Francisco,  Calif. 

He  was  married  July  21,  1913,  to  Helen  Walsh,  who  sur- 
vives him  with  a  daughter,  Elise  E.  Mrs.  Reeder  is  now  living 
in  Los  Angeles. 


Warren  William  Upson,  Ph.B.   1910 

Born  November  22,  1887,  in  Kensington,  Conn. 
Died  September  3,  191 8,  in  Bennington,  Vt. 

Warren  William  Upson,  son  of  Willis  Henry  Upson,  a 
banker,  and  Clara  E.  (Warner)  Upson,  was  born  November 
22,  1887,  in  Kensington,  Conn.  His  father  was  the  son  of 
William  and  Mary  (Hart)  Upson,  and  traced  his  ancestry 
to  Thomas  Upson,  who  came  to  America  from  England  in 
1636  and  became  one  of  the  proprietors  of  Hartford,  Conn. 
Through  his  paternal  grandmother  he  traced  his  descent  to 
Stephen  Hart,  who  was  one  of  the  original  settlers  of  Farming- 
ton,  Conn.  His  mother's  parents  were  Erastus  and  Eliza 
(Whitloes)  Warner. 

Before  entering  the  Sheffield  Scientific  ScKool,  he  attended 
Upson  Seminary,  a  school  conducted  by  his  great-uncle, 
Rev.  Henry  Upson  (B.A.  1859),  at  New  Preston,  Conn.,  and 
the  New  Britain  (Conn.)  High  School.  He  took  the  civil 
engineering  course,  and  was  a  member  of  the  Senior  Picture 
Committee. 

Since  leaving  Yale  he  had  been  in  business  as  a  building 
contractor.  Immediately  after  graduation  he  took  a  position 


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1910  1215 

with  the  H.  Wales  Lines  Company,  of  Meriden,  Conn.  In 
February,  1913,  he  formed  a  partnership  with  John  Wise  of 
Hartford,  under  the  firm  name  of  Wise  &  Upson,  and  con- 
tinued in  that  connection  until  his  death.  He  was  an  associate 

ember  of  the  American  Society  of  Civil  Engineers,  and  be- 
onged  to  the  Kensington  Congregational  Church. 

He  died  in  Bennington,  Vt.,  September  3,  191 8,  of  acute 
anterior  poliomyelitis, -after  a  week's  illness.  Interment  was  in 
Grove  Cemetery,  Naugatuck,  Conn. 

He  was  married  September  19,  1914,  in  Woodmont,  Conn., 
to  Marjorie  Tolles,  daughter  of  Ira  Perley  and  Eliza  (Tolles) 
Bennett  and  sister  of  LeRoy  P.  Bennett  (Ph.B.  1913).  She 
survives  him  with  two  sons,  Warren  William,  Jr.,  and  Bennett 
Buckingham. 


Dudley  Blanchard  Valentine,  Ph.B.  1910 

Born  June  7,  1889,  in  Oakland,  Calif. 
Died  April  16,  1919,  in  Live  Oak,  Calif. 

Dudley  Blanchard  Valentine  was  born  June  7,  1889,  in 
Oakland,  Calif.,  his  parents  being  John  J.  Valentine,  presi- 
dent of  the  Wells-Fargo  Express  Company,  and  Alice  (Blan- 
chard) Valentine.  His  father  was  the  son  of  William  Cren- 
shaw and  Eliza  (Cunningham)  Valentine,  and  a  descendant  of 
John  Valentine,  who  came  to  America  from  England  in  the 
middle  of  the  seventeenth  century  and  settled  in  Virginia. 
Alice  Blanchard  Valentine's  parents  were  Dudley  and  Abbie 
M.  Blanchard.  She  traces  her  ancestry  to  William  Brewster 
and  John  Alden  of  the  Mayflower  company. 

He  was  fitted  for  Yale  at  the  Oakland  High  School  and  at 
The  Hill  School,  Pottstown,  Pa.,  where  he  was  graduated  in 
1907.  He  took  the  civil  engineering  course  in  the  Scientific 
School,  and  received  his  degree  in  19 10.  He  was  one  of  the 
Class  Book  historians. 

In  October,  19 10,  after  spending  the  summer  traveling  in 
this  country,  he  entered  the  American  National  Bank  of 
San  Francisco  as  a  clerk.  He  resigned  the  position  in  January, 
1 914,  to  go  to  Honolulu,  and  the  following  April  formed  a 
partnership  with   the  late  Charles  L.  Buckingham  (Ph.B. 


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191 1).  They  purchased  a  ranch  of  two  hundred  and  twenty 
acres  at  Live  Oak,  Calif.,  where  they  began  conducting  exten- 
sive orchard  operations. 

He  enlisted  in  the  Aviation  Section,  Signal  Reserve  Corps, 
on  November  30,  191 7,  and  in  April,  191 8,  after  undergoing 
training  at  the  School  of  Military  Aeronautics  at  Ohio  State 
University,  was  commissioned  a  Second  Lieutenant  and 
assigned  to  Kelly  Field,  San  Antonio,  Texas.  He  left  Kelly 
Field  the  following  July  and  in  August  went  overseas.  He  was 
stationed  at  the  Air  Service  Headquarters  at  Tours,  France, 
until  March,  1919.  He  returned  early  in  April,  1919,  to  spend 
a  thirty-day  furlough  at  his  home  in  Oakland.  During  this 
period  he  visited  his  ranch  at  Live  Oak,  and  was  accidentally 
drowned  on  April  16  while  in  swimming.  Burial  was  in  Moun- 
tain View  Cemetery  at  Oakland. 

Lieutenant  Valentine  was  unmarried.  He  is  survived  by 
his  mother,  a  sister,  and  two  brothers. 


Walter  Edwin  Brooke,  Ph.B.   191 1 

Born  April  16,  1885,  in  Plymouth,  Ind. 
Died  October  2,  191 8,  in  Logan,  Utah 

Walter  Edwin  Brooke  was  the  eldest  son  of  Eddy  Sherman 
and  Lillian  (Outcalt)  Brooke  and  was  born  in  Plymouth, 
Ind.,  April  16,  1885.  His  father,  who  is  also  a  native  of  that 
town,  was  for  about  twenty  years  engaged  in  the  publication 
of  the  Plymouth  Republican.  He  is  the  third  son  of  Jarred 
Evans  Brooke,  who  practiced  medicine  in  Indiana  for  fifty 
years,  and  Mary  Rebecca  (Williams)  Brooke,  and  the  grand- 
son of  Mark  and  Mary  (Koonz)  Brooke,  of  Limerick,  Mont- 
gomery County,  Pa.  Mark  Brooke  was  the  son  of  James  and 
Elizabeth  (Stettler)  Brooke.  Lillian  Outcalt  Brooke  is  the 
only  daughter  of  Benjamin  and  Belle  (Schlosser)  Outcalt. 
Her  paternal  grandparents,  Frederick  and  Jane  (Demotte) 
Outcalt,  lived  in  Ohio. 

Walter  Edwin  Brooke  received  his  grammar  school  edu- 
cation in  his  native  town.  At  the  age  of  fifteen  he  moved  with 
his  parents  to  Salt  Lake  City,  Utah,  where  he  graduated  from 
the  high  school  in  1904.  The  fall  of  the  same  year  he  entered 


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the  Armour  School  of  Technology  in  Chicago,  where  he 
pursued  for  two  years  studies  preparatory  to  electrical  engi- 
neering. Having  to  pay  his  own  way  to  a  large  extent,  his 
health  gave  way  on  account  of  the  long  and  hard  hours,  and 
he  was  obliged  to  return  to  Salt  Lake  City.  There  he  worked 
as  a  clerk  in  the  post  office  for  two  years.  In  1909  he  entered 
the  Sheffield  Scientific  School  at  Yale,  and  graduated  with  the 
Class  of  191 1,  receiving  his  Ph.B.  degree.  He  continued  in 
graduate  work  for  two  years,  but  was  again  compelled  to  go 
home  to  recuperate  his  health  and  funds.  During  his  course 
at  Yale  he  became  greatly  interested  in  the  welfare  of  the 
student  away  from  home  and  inaugurated  a  series  of  fire-side 
talks  at  Byers  Hall.  He  became  chairman  of  the  Byers  Hall 
Committee. 

In  1914  he  apcepted  an  appointment  as  instructor  in  eco- 
nomics at  the  Agricultural  College  of  Utah.  At  the  time  of  his 
death  he  held  an  assistant  professorship  in  the  economics 
department,  and  was  teaching  economics  and  sociology.  His 
interest  in  the  problems  of  student  life  continued,  and  he  was 
looked  upon  and  sought  out  as  the  students'  friend  and  advo- 
cate. He  had  a  great  interest  in  agriculture,  and  had  prepared 
a  book,  entitled  "The  Agricultural  Papers  of  George  Wash- 
ington," which  was  in  press  at  his  death  and  has  since  been 
published  and  adopted  as  a  textbook  in  Utah. 

Professor  Brooke  died  October  2,  191 8,  at  Logan,  Utah. 
His  death  was  caused  by  an  accident  that  in  some  way  forced 
all  the  blood  out  his  heart  while  he  was  in  the  act  of  diving 
from  a  spring  board  in  the  pool  at  the  college.  He  was  not  seen 
'to  dive  or  fall,  and  was  removed  from  the  water  immediately, 
but  not  before  death  had  taken  place.  He  was  buried  in  Mount 
Olivet  Cemetery,  Salt  Lake  City.  He  was  a  member  of  the 
First  Presbyterian  Church  of  that  city. 

He  was  not  married.  He  is  survived  by  his  father  and 
mother  and  a  brother,  Lloyd  W.  Brooke  (B.A.  Harvard  1909). 


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Charles  Luman  Buckingham,  Ph.B.   191 1 

Born  July  30,  1890,  in  New  York  City- 
Died  December  24,  191 8,  in  Live  Oak,  Calif. 

Charles  Luman  Buckingham,  whose  parents  were  Charles 
L.  and  Margaret  (Hine)  Buckingham,  was  born  in  New  York 
City,  July  30,  1890.  His  father,  a  well-known  lawyer  in  New 
York  City,  traced  his  ancestry  to  Thomas  Buckingham,  who 
emigrated  to  Boston  in  1637  and  was  one  of  the  founders  of 
New  Haven  and  Milford,  Conn. 

He  was  prepared  for  Yale  at  St.  Paul's  School,  Garden 
City,  Long  Island,  and  at  the  Pawling  (N.  Y.)  School.  He 
rowed  on  the  Freshman  and  University  crews,  and  in  Senior 
year  was  a  member  of  the  College  Football  Team.  He  was 
president  of  his  Class  Junior  and  Senior  years,  and  was  a 
member  of  the  Aurelian  Honor  Society. 

In  the  spring  of  191 2  he  went  out  to  San  Francisco,  where 
he  entered  the  employ  of  the  Yuba  Construction  Company, 
manufacturers  of  gold  dredge  machinery.  He  left  this  com- 
pany in  1914,  and,  with  the  late  Dudley  B.  Valentine  (Ph.B. 
ipio),  bought  the  Riviera  orchard  at  Live  Oak,  Sutter 
County,  Calif.,  where  they  developed  a  combination  orchard 
and  dairy  farm. 

He  died  of  pneumonia  at  his  home  in  Live  Oak,  December 
24,  191 8,  and  his  body  was  taken  to  San  Francisco  for  burial. 

His  marriage  took  place  September  6,  1913,  in  San  Fran- 
cisco, to  Emelite  Dorothy,  daughter  of  Arthur  and  Emelite 
(Ralston)  Page.  He  is  survived  by  his  wife  and  two  children, 
Dorothy  Ralston  and  Charles  Page.  His  brother-in-law, 
Arthur  Ralston  Page,  ex-iS  S.,  left  college  in  April,  1917,  to 
join  the  U.  S.  Naval  Reserve  Force. 

Charles  Buford  Fennell,  Ph.B.   191 1 

Born  May  lo,  1890,  in  Kansas  City,  Mo. 
Died  October  25,  191 8,  in  Stockholm,  Sweden 

Charles  Buford  Fennell  was  born  May  10,  1890,  in  Kansas 
City,  Mo.,  where  his  father.  Col.  John  C.  Fennell,  who  is  of 
Irish  ancestry,  is  vice  president  of  the  Emery,  Bird,  Thayer 
Dry  Goods  Company.  His  paternal  grandparents  were  Wil- 


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Ham  and  Mary  Fennell.  His  mother  is  Mary  (Peacock) 
Fennell,  daughter  of  William  and  Miranda  Peacock,  and  a 
descendant  of  Richard  Oldham,  who  came  to  America  from 
gland  in  1745  and  settled  in  Kentucky. 

He  received  his  preparatory  training  at  the  Linwood  School, 

ansas  City,  at  St.  Paul's  School,  Concord,  N.  H.,  and  at 
Dr.  Coit's  School,  Munich,  Germany. 

Following  his  graduation  from  Yale  he  spent  a  year  at  the 
Harvard  Law  School,  and  later  was  employed  in  the  adver- 
tising department  of  the  Emery,  Bird,  Thayer  Dry  Goods 
Company.  During  the  year  191 5-16  he  studied  history  and 
French  in  the  Yale  Graduate  School,  and  he  subsequently 
traveled  in  China,  Japan,  and  Korea.  On  August  23,  1917,  he 
was  appointed  secretary  of  embassy  or  legation  (class  four) 
and  on  September  6,  1917,  was  assigned  to  Stockholm, 
Sweden,  where  at  the  time  of  his  death  on  October  25,  1918, 
he  was  serving  as  third  secretary  of  the  American  Legation. 
Pneumonia  was  the  cause  of  his  death.  The  body  was  brought 
to  Kansas  City  for  burial. 

Mr.  Fennell  was  unmarried.  He  is  survived  by  his  parents. 
His  mother  has  made  a  gift  of  $25,000  to  Yale  "for  the  pur- 
pose of  establishing  the  Charles  B.  Fennell  fund  at  Yale 
University  in  memory  of  her  son." 


Ammi  Wright  Lancashire,  Ph.B.   191 1 

Born  June  28,  1887,  in  Saginaw,  Mich. 
Died  September  27,  191 8,  in  Philadelphia,  Pa. 

Ammi  Wright  Lancashire,  only  son  of  Dr.  James  Henry 
Lancashire  and  Sarah  (Wright)  Lancashire,  was  born  in 
Saginaw,  Mich.,  June  28,  1887.  His  father,  who  graduated 
from  the  College  of  Physicians  and  Surgeons  at  Columbia  in 
1883,  is  engaged  in  the  investment  business  in  New  York 
City.  He  is  the  son  of  Rev.  Henry  Lancashire  and  Jane  (Stead) 
Lancashire,  and  a  descendant  of  James  Henry  Lancashire,  of 
London,  England,  who  came  to  Montreal  in  1826.  Ammi  Lan- 
cashire's maternal  grandparents  were  Ammi  Willard  and 
Harriet  (Barton)  Wright. 

Before  entering  the  Sheffield  Scientific  School,  where  he 


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took  the  select  course,  he  studied  for  a  year  at  the  Lawrence- 
ville  (N.  J.)  School  and  at  Phillips  Academy,  Andover,  Mass., 
where  he  spent  three  years,  and  was  graduated  in  1908.  He 
served  on  the  Byers  Hall  and  Senior  Promenade  committees. 

During  the  summer  and  autumn  of  191 1  he  traveled  ex- 
tensively in  Europe,  studying  business  and  banking  condi- 
tions. On  his  return  he  became  connected  with  the  Old  Detroit 
National  Bank  in  Detroit,  Mich.,  but  after  six  months  he 
resigned  and  took  a  position  in  the  investment  department  of 
the  Detroit  Trust  Company,  where  he  remained  for  a  year. 
He  was  afterwards  associated  with  his  father  in  the  invest- 
ment business  in  New  York  City.  In  the  autumn  of  191 5  he 
accompanied  the  war  correspondent,  E.  Alexander  Powell, 
on  a  trip  to  England  and  France. 

On  July  5,  1917,  he  received  a  commission  as  Ensign  in  the 
U.  S.  Naval  Reserve  Force  and  was  assigned  to  duty  in  the 
Cable  Censor's  Department  in  New  York  City.  He  began  to 
study  navigation  at  once,  applied  for  sea  duty  in  the  spring 
of  191 8,  and  on  June  6  was  transferred  to  the  U.  S.  S. 
Kansas,  After  four  months'  training  on  the  Kansas  he  was 
assigned  to  regular  duty  on  that  ship.  While  the  Kansas  was 
in  the  Philadelphia  Navy  Yard,  he  contracted  influenza  which 
developed  into  pneumonia,  and  died  in  the  Naval  Hospital  in 
that  city,  September  27, 191 8.  Burial  was  in  Woodmere  Ceme- 
tery, Detroit,  Mich.  By  his  will,  a  bequest  of  ^20,000  was 
made  to  Phillips-Andover. 

Mr.  Lancashire  was  unmarried.  He  is  survived  by  his 
parents  and  three  sisters,  Harriet  (Mrs.  E.  Laurence  White), 
Helen  (Mrs.  Umberto  Coletti),  and  Lila. 


LeRoy  Martin,  Ph.B.   191 1 

Born  March  31,  1890,  in  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 
Died  February  a8,  191 9,  in  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 

LeRoy  Martin  was  born  in  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.,  March  31, 
1890,  the  son  of  Thomas  Betts  and  Elizabeth  Murdock 
(Stirling)  Martin.  His  father,  who  was  engaged  in  the  whole- 
sale dry  goods  commission  business,  was  the  son  of  Henry 
and  Margaret  (Betts)  Martin,  He  traced  his  ancestry  to 


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Thomas  and  Harriet  (Stretch)  Martin,  who  came  to  Phila- 
delphia, Pa.,  from  London,  England,  about  1822.  LeRoy 
Martin's  maternal  grandparents  were  Joseph  and  Elizabeth 
(Wilson)  Stirling,  and  his  first  American  ancestor  on  his 
mother's  side  was  Joseph  Stirling,  who  came  from  Scotland 
ibout  1840  and  settled  in  Philadelphia. 

He  received  his  early  training  at  the  Brooklyn  Polytechnic 
Preparatory  School,  and  at  Phillips  Academy,  Andover, 
Mass.  He  took  the  select  course  in  the  Sheffield  Scientific 
School.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Freshman  Hockey  Team 
and  the  University  Hockey  Squad,  was  business  manager  of 
the  Sheffield  Monthly^  and  belonged  to  the  City  Government 
Club. 

Since  graduation  he  had  been  associated  with  his  brothers 
in  the  wholesale  dry  goods  commission  business  in  New  York 
City.  He  died,  of  influenza,  at  his  home  in  Brooklyn,  Febru- 
ary 28,  1919,  and  was  buried  in  Greenwood  Cemetery. 

His  marriage  to  Ruth,  daughter  of  Thomas  Ormiston  and 
Elizabeth  (Hutchinson)  Callender,  took  place  April  11,  1917, 
in  Brooklyn.  She  survives  him  with  their  infant  son,  Roy 
Callender.  He  also  leaves  his  mother,  three  sisters,  and  three 
brothers, — Henry  C.  Martin,  Stirling  Martin,  and  Clyde 
Martin,  graduates  of  the  Scientific  School  in  1902,  19 10,  and 
1913,  respectively. 


Robert  Lincoln  Campbell,  Ph.B.   191 2 

Born  November  8,  1888,  in  Portland,  Ore. 
Died  December  17,  191 8,  at  Riverside,  Calif. 

Robert  Lincoln  Campbell,  one  of  the  six  children  of  Benja- 
min and  Clarissa  L  (Gillett)  Campbell,  was  born  November 
8,  1888,  in  Portland,  Ore.  His  father,  whose  parents  were 
Alexander  Hamilton  and  Harriett  (McCulloch)  Campbell,  is 
a  vice  president  of  the  New  York,  New  Haven  &  Hartford 
Railroad  Company,  and  lives  in  New  York  City.  His  mother 
is  the  daughter  of  Robert  Maxwell  and  Martha  Ellen  (Hitt) 
Gillett.  His  earliest  maternal  ancestor  to  settle  in  America 
was  Robert  Elliot,  who  came  from  Glasgow,  Scotland,  to 
Lydon,  Canada,  in  1836. 


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He  was  prepared  for  college  at  the  Lawrenceville  (N.  J.) 
School  and  under  a  private  tutor.  He  was  a  member  of  the 
University  and  Freshman  Glee  clubs,  and  sang  in  the  Uni- 
versity Quartette  during  his  last  two  years.  He  served  on  the 
editorial  board  of  the  Tale  Daily  News,  being  managing 
editor  his  Senior  year,  and  was  a  member  of  the  Aurelian 
Honor  Society,  the  Elizabethan  Club,  and  the  Class  Book 
Committee.  He  took  the  select  course. 

Soon  after  graduation  he  entered  the  bond  department  of 
Hayden,  Stone  &  Company,  and  was  at  first  located  in  their 
Boston  office  and  later  in  New  Haven.  In  January,  1913,  he 
became  a  salesman  for  the  New  York  Trap  Rock  Company  of 
New  York  City,  and  was  connected  with  this  company  until 
November,  191 5.  The  next  year  he  spent  in  the  traffic  de- 
partment of  the  Eastern  Steamship  Corporation  at  Pier  18, 
North  River,  New  York  City.  He  was  later  connected  with 
Lawson  &  Company,  Inc.,  but  in  December,  1917,  resigned 
this  position  to  enter  the  Signal  Corps  as  a  Production  Expert. 
He  was  assigned  to  the  Equipment  Division,  Accounts  Sec- 
tion, in  Washington,  D.  C,  and  on  February  2,  191 8,  was 
given  a  commission  as  a  Second  Lieutenant  in  the  Air  Service. 
In  June,  191 8,  he  was  promoted  to  the  rank  of  a  First  Lieu- 
tenant and  assigned  as  assistant  to  the  acting  director  of  the 
Bureau  of  Aircraft  Production.  Three  months  later  he  was 
transferred  to  March  Field,  Riverside,  Calif.,  where  he  was 
killed  December  17,  191 8.  His  death  was  due  to  injuries 
received  when  he  was  struck  by  the  propeller  of  his  airplane 
just  after  he  had  made  a  forced  landing.  Interment  was  in 
Woodlawn  Cemetery,  New  York  City. 

His  marriage  took  place  October  18,  1913,  in  New  Haven, 
Conn.,  to  Margaret  Benisse,  daughter  of  Harry  Grant  and 
Henriette  DeLorme  (Fellowes)  Thompson,  and  sister  of 
Graham  F.  Thompson,  ex-o'j  S.  She  survives  him  with  a 
daughter,  Margaret  Fellowes.  He  also  leaves  his  parents  and 
three  brothers,  one  of  whom,  Royston  E.  Campbell,  is  a  non- 
graduate  member  of  the  Class  of  1920  S.  A  son,  Robert 
Elliot,  born  December  12,  191 7,  died  February  20,  191 8. 


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William  Harmon  Chapman,  Ph.B.   1912 

Born  November  19,  1889,  in  New  Britain,  Conn. 
Died  September  26,  191 8,  in  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 


^H  William  Harmon  Chapman  was  born  November  19,  1889, 
^Pb  New  Britain,  Conn.,  the  son  of  William  Edward  and  Nellie 
(Harmon)  Chapman.  His  paternal  grandparents  were  Wil- 
liam Chapman,  who  came  to  New  Britain  from  Nottingham, 
England,  about  1855,  and  Mary  (Clark)  Chapman.  His 
mother  is  the  daughter  of  Andrew  Baldwin  and  Mary  Smed- 
ley,-  and  a  descendant  of  Charles  Smedley,  who  came  to 
America  from  England  about  18 16  and  settled  at  Shelburne, 
Mass.  She  was  adopted  in  infancy  by  Martin  Harmon,  of 
Shelburne  Falls. 

He  was  fitted  for  college  at  the  New  Britain  High  School. 
He  took  the  biology  course  in  the  Scientific  School,  and  in 
Freshman  year  received  special  honors.  He  was  active  in  the 
work  of  the  Orange  Street  Boys'  Club. 

After  graduation  he  began  the  study  of  medicine  at  the 
College  of  Physicians  and  Surgeons  at  Columbia  University, 
and  in  June,  1917,  was  given  the  degrees  of  M.D.  and  M.A. 
He  at  once  became  affiliated  with  the  medical  staff  of  the 
Methodist  Episcopal  Hospital  in  Brooklyn.  He  was  com- 
missioned a  First  Lieutenant  in  the  Medical  Reserve  Corps 
on  July  16,  1917,  and  a  few  weeks  later  was  assigned  to  duty 
as  an  assistant  instructor  in  calisthenics  at  Fort  Benjamin 
Harrison,  Indiana.  In  October  he  was  sent,  because  of  his 
knowledge  of  chemistry,  to  the  Infantry  School  of  Arms  at 
Fort  Sill,  Oklahoma,  where  he  was  made  divisional  instructor 
in  gas  defense.  He  was  later  sent  to  Texas  to  instruct  the 
troops  of  the  13th  and  i6th  Cavalry  regiments  along  the 
border,  and  to  do  hospital  work  in  Base  Hospital  No.  3, 
Brownsville,  and  at  Fort  Ringgold.  On  June  19,  191 8,  he  was 
promoted  to  the  rank  of  Captain.  In  August  he  was  assigned 
to  the  133d  Regiment,  34th  Division,  stationed  at  Camp 
Cody,  New  Mexico,  and  later  moved  with  the  division  to 
Camp  Dix,  New  Jersey.  Almost  on  the  eve  of  their  departure 
for  Europe  the  influenza  epidemic  broke  out,  and  Dr.  Chap- 
man threw  himself  into  the  work  of  caring  for  his  men.  The 


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Strain  of  the  work  proved  too  great,  and  in  a  few  days  he 
himself  succumbed  as  he  was  on  his  way  to  the  port  of  em- 
barkation. Pneumonia  quickly  developed,  and  he  was  taken 
to  the  Methodist  Episcopal  Hospital  in  Brooklyn,  where  his 
death  occurred  September  26,  191 8.  Interment  was  in  Fair- 
view  Cemetery,  New  Britain. 

He  was  a  member  of  the  South  Congregational  Church  of 
that  city  from  boyhood.  During  one  year  of  his  course  at 
Columbia,  he  lived  at  the  church  house  of  the  Church  of  the 
Heavenly  Rest  in  New  York  City,  and  worked  with  the  boys 
of  the  church.  Later  he  organized  a  young  men's  club  and 
Bible  class  at  the  Westminster  Presbyterian  Church  of 
Brooklyn,  and  eventually  united  with  that  church. 

Dr.  Chapman  was  married  July  26,  1917,  in  Brooklyn,  to 
Anna  Mary  Kellogg  (B.A.  Mount  Holyoke  191 2),  daughter 
of  William  S.  and  Amy  R.  Kellogg,  who  survives  him.  He 
also  leaves  his  parents  and  a  brother,  Lewis  Wesley  Stephen 
Chapman,  who  hopes  to  enter  Yale  in  1921. 


John  Russell  Leahy,  Ph.B.   191 2 

Born  September  15,  1892,  in  New  Haven,  Conn. 
Died  January  7,  1919,  in  New  Haven,  Conn. 

John  Russell  Leahy  was  born  in  New  Haven,  Conn., 
September  15,1 892.  His  father,  Matthew  William  Leahy,  who 
is  connected  with  Thomas  Cunningham  &  Company,  cigar 
manufacturers,  is  the  son  of  Matthew  William  and  Margaret 
(O'Brien)  Leahy.  His  mother  is  Catherine  (Cunningham) 
Leahy,  daughter  of  Thomas  and  Catherine  (Brady)  Cun- 
ningham. 

He  was  prepared  for  Yale  at  the  New  Haven  High  School. 
He  took  the  select  course  in  the  Scientific  School  and  received 
honors  in  English  composition  and  general  one-year  honors 
for  excellence  in  all  studies.  He  was  a  member  of  the  City 
Government  Club. 

After  graduation  he  taught  for  one  term  in  the  New 
Haven  High  School.  For  some  years  before  his  death  he  had 
suffered  from  tuberculosis,  and  during  the  past  three  years 
the  condition  of  his  health  had  not  permitted  any  active  work. 


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He  had  planned  to  devote  his  life  to  writing,  and  had  con- 
tributed to  the  newspapers  and  magazines  when  hig  health 
■permitted.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Roman  Catholic  Church, 
being  a  communicant  of  St.  Joseph's  Church,  New  Haven. 
;He  died,  of  pneumonia,  at  his  home  in  that  city,  January  7, 
1919.  Burial  was  in  the  family  plot  in  St.  Bernard's  Cemetery. 
Mr.  Leahy  was  unmarried.  Surviving  him  are  his  parents 
and  a  sister,  Madeleine  L.  Leahy,  who  received  a  certificate 
from  the  Yale  School  of  Music  in  191 5.  He  was  a  cousin  of 
Dr.  William  M.  Kenna,  '90  S.  and  '92  M.,  Frank  Kenna, 
'05  L.,  William  E.  Geary,  '08  S.,  and  Arthur  V.  Geary,  '11. 


John  MacArthur,  Ph.B.   1912 

Born  January  14,  1891,  in  Columbia,  Pa. 
Died  August  9,  191 8,  at  Origny-en-Thierache,  France 

John  MacArthur  was  one  of  the  three  children  of  Charles 
Prevost  and  Mary  Layton  (Ward)  MacArthur,  and  was 
born  in  Columbia,  Pa.,  January  14,  1891.  His  father,  who  is 
the  son  of  John  and  Matilda  (Prevost)  MacArthur,  graduated 
at  the  University  of  Pennsylvania  in  1882  and  is  at  present 
located  in  Buffalo,  N.  Y.,  as  engineer  of  maintenance  of  way 
for  the  Pennsylvania  Railroad.  His  mother's  parents  were 
Henry  and  Martha  (Bush)  Ward.  Through  her  he  was  de- 
scended from  Andrew  Ward,  who  came  to  New  England 
with  Governor  Winthrop  in  the  Suffolk  emigration  in  1630, 
settling  first  at  Watertown,  Conn.,  but  six  years  later  remov- 
ing to  Wethersfield;  in  March,  1636,  he  was  appointed  one  of 
a  commission  of  eight  to  govern  the  colony  for  a  year;  he  died 
in  Fairfield  in  1665.  On  the  paternal  side  his  earliest  American 
ancestor  was  John  MacArthur,  who  came  from  Scotland  to 
Philadelphia  in  1823. 

He  entered  the  Sheffield  Scientific  School  from  the  Lafay- 
ette High  School  in  Buffalo.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Class 
Baseball  Team. 

In  June,  191 2,  Mr.  MacArthur  became  a  college  appren- 
tice with  the  Westinghouse  Electric  &  Manufacturing  Com- 
pany at  Turtle  Creek,  Pa.,  but  left  their  employ  the  following 
May  to  join  the  Thompson-MacArthur  Regulator  Company, 


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manufacturers  of  electric  regulators  in  Buffalo,  as  a  member 
of  the  ftrm.  He  was  connected  with  the  engineering  depart- 
ment of  the  duPont  Powder  Company  in  Wilmington,  Del., 
from  January  to  June,  191 6,  and  then  went  to  Tobyhanna, 
Pa.,  with  the  Yale  Batteries.  Later  in  the  summer  he  was  sent 
to  Forth  Worth,  Texas,  as  a  Second  Lieutenant  of  Field 
Artillery  in  the  Connecticut  National  Guard.  He  was  honor- 
ably discharged  from  the  National  Guard  in  March,  1917. 
He  enlisted  in  the  Signal  Corps  on  August  11,  19 17,  and  after- 
wards underwent  training  at  the  School  of  Military  Aero- 
nautics at  Princeton,  N.  J.,  and  with  the  Royal  Flying  Corps 
at  Forth  Worth,  Texas.  His  commission  as  a  Second  Lieuten- 
ant in  the  Air  Service  was  received  January  17,  191 8,  and 
he  went  overseas  early  in  March  with  the  27th  Aero  Squadron, 
with  which  he  was  shortly  sent  to  rfie  front. 

Lieutenant  MacArthur  was  considered  one  of  the  most 
promising  military  aviators  in  the  service  and  had  won  spe- 
cial mention  in  dispatches  for  his  brilliant  air  fighting.  He  led 
a  number  of  successful  attacks  against  the  enemy  and  at  the 
time  of  his  death  was  officially  credited  with  seven  planes. 
His  final  combat  was  an  air  battle  on  July  20,  191 8,  about 
thirty  miles  inside  the  German  lines.  On  the  morning  of  that 
day  he  had  taken  his  formation  of  six  planes  on  a  "strafing" 
expedition  upon  the  aerodrome  and  hangars  of  the  Richthofen 
Circus.  A  strong  wind  arose  and  when  they  were  returning 
they  met  several  formations  of  enemy  planes  and  engaged 
them  in  combat.  Lieutenant  MacArthur  was  shot  through 
the  lungs,  taken  prisoner,  and  removed  to  a  German  hospital, 
where  his  death  occurred  on  August  9.  Definite  word  of  his 
death  was  not  received  by  his  family  until  December,  191 8. 
He  was  buried  by  the  Germans  at  Origny-en-Thierache, 
France.  The  Distinguished  Service  Cross  was  awarded  to 
him  on  August  19,  1919.  He  had  also  received  the  Croix  de 
Guerre^  with  palm,  and  been  made  a  chevalier  of  the  Legion 
of  Honor  by  the  French  Government.  In  addition,  he  was 
given  the  war  medal  and  diploma  of  the  Aero  Club  of  America. 

Lieutenant  MacArthur  was  unmarried.  He  is  survived  by 
his  parents,  a  sister,  Mary,  who  is  the  wife  of  Evans  E. 
Bartlett  (B.A.  191 2),  and  a  brother,  Charles  P.  MacArthur, 
Jr.  (Ph.B.  1917). 


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Lucian  Piatt,  Ph.B.   1912 

Born  January  28,  1892,  in  Baltimore,  Md. 
Died  October  9,  191 8,  at  Camp  A.  A.  Humphreys,  Vd. 


^^^°^ucian  Piatt  was  born  January  28, 1892,  in  Baltimore,  Md. 

^P  He  was  the  son  of  Walter  Brewster  Piatt  (Ph.B.  1874,  M.D. 
Harvard  1879),  ^  surgeon  and,  since  1888,  superintendent  of 
the  Robert  Garrett  Hospital  for  Children,  Baltimore.  His 
grandfather,  Gideon  Lucian  Piatt  (M.D.  1838),  was  the  son 
of  Gideon  Piatt  and  a  direct  descendant  of  Richard  Piatt,  one 
of  the  founders  of  the  town  of  Milford,  Conn.,  in  1639.  ^^^ 
grandmother,  Caroline  (Tudor)  Piatt,  was  the  daughter  of 
William  Franklin  Tudor.  She  was  eighth  in  descent  from  Elder 
William  Brewster,  one  of  the  founders  of  Plymouth  Colony, 
and  its  first  pastor,  and  was  also  a  direct  descendant  of  Owen 
Tudor,  who  came  to  Windsor,  Conn.,  about  1645.  The  latter's 
grandson,  Rev.  Samuel  Tudor,  graduated  from  Yale  in  1728, 
and  had  a  son,  Dr.  Elihu  Tudor,  who  took  his  B.A.  in  1750. 
Lucian  Piatt's  mother,  Mary  (Perine)  Piatt,  is  the  daughter 
of  Elias  Glenn  and  Eliza  (Washington)  Perine.  She  traces 
her  ancestry  to  John  Washington,  who  came  to  America  from 
Hertfordshire,  England,  in  1653,  and  settled  at  "Bridges 
Creek,"  in  what  is  now  Westmoreland  County,  Va. 

He  received  his  early  training  at  the  Gilman  Country 
School  in  Baltimore  and  at  Phillips  Academy,  Andover, 
Mass.  His  course  was  that  in  mining  engineering  and  in 
Freshman  year  he  was  given  prizes  in  physics  and  chemistry. 
He  was  a  member  of  the  Aurelian  Society,  Sigma  Xi,  and  the 
Elizabethan  Club,  chairman  of  the  Tak  Scientific  Monthly, 
vice  president  of  the  City  Government  Club,  president  of  the 
Maryland  Club,  secretary  of  the  Yale  Dining  Club,  and  a 
Class  Historian. 

In  1 9 14,  after  two  years  of  graduate  work  at  Yale,  he  re- 
ceived the  degree  of  Engineer  of  Mines.  From  i9i2toi9i4he 
also  acted  as  assistant  in  mineralogy  and  geology  in  the 
Scientific  School.  He  spent  the  next  eight  months  at  Franklin 
Furnace,  N.  J.,  in  the  employ  of  the  New  Jersey  Zinc  Com- 
pany. He  then  became  connected  with  the  Kennecott  Copper 
Corporation,  being  engaged  in  mining  engineering  work  at 


1228  SHEFFIELD    SCIENTIFIC    SCHOOL 

Latouche,  Alaska,  from  March,  191 5,  to  June,  191 7,  and  from 
then  on,  at  Kennecott,  Alaska.  He  passed  the  examinations 
for  a  Provisional  Second  Lieutenancy  of  Engineers  in  the 
Regular  Army,  at  Fort  Liscom,  Alaska,  on  January  25,  1918. 
He  was  given  his  commission  on  July  10,  191 8,  and  in  August 
reported  at  Camp  A.  A.  Humphreys,  Virginia.  He  was  in 
training  there  for  overseas  service  when  stricken  with  in- 
fluenza. This  developed  into  pneumonia,  and  his  death 
occurred  October  9,  191 8,  after  a  few  days'  illness.  Interment 
was  in  Greenmount  Cemetery,  Baltimore. 

Lieutenant  Piatt  was  not  married.  He  is  survived  by  his 
parents,  a  sister,  and  two  brothers,  one  of  whom,  Washington 
Piatt,  graduated  from  Yale  with  the  Class  of  191 1  S. 


John  Whitley  Underhill,  Ph.B.   191 2 

Born  December  31,  1888,  in  Elmira,  N.  Y. 
Died  July  12,  191 8,  in  Tenafly,  N.  J. 

John  Whitley  Underhill  was  born  in  Elmira,  N.  Y.,  Decem- 
ber 31,  1888,  the  son  of  Eliphalet  Howard  and  Ida  Arvilla 
(Whitley)  Underhill,  His  father  is  assistant  secretary  of  the 
National  Association  of  Cotton  Manufacturers,  of  New  York 
City.  His  parents  were  Charles  and  Sara  Colegrove  Miller 
Underhill,  and  his  first  American  ancestor  was  Capt.  John 
Underhill,  who  came  from  England  to  Boston,  Mass.,  in  1621. 
His  mother  is  the  daughter  of  John  Harrison  and  Miami 
(Hedges)  Whitley.  One  of  her  ancestors  served  as  a  Captain 
in  a  Vermont  regiment  during  the  Revolution. 

He  received  his  preparatory  training  at  the  Reading 
(Mass.)  High  School,  and  entered  the  University  of  Maine 
with  the  Class  of  191 2.  He  remained  there  only  two  years, 
coming  to  Yale  in  his  Junior  year.  He  took  the  civil  engi- 
neering course  in  the  Scientific  School. 

During  the  academic  year  191 2-13  he  studied  civil  engi- 
neering at  the  Massachusetts  Institute  of  Technology.  In 
October,  1913,  he  took  a  position  as  estimator  with  the  R. 
H.  Howes  Construction  Company,  of  New  York  City,  and  in 
April,  191 5,  he  was  made  analysis  clerk  and  timekeeper  for 
this  company  at  Montpelier,  Vt.  He  became  an  estimator  for 


in 


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the  John  Nelson  Construction  Company,  of  Montpelier,  in 
February,  191 6,  and  the  following  May  was  made  manager 
of  the  company.  While  holding  this  position  he  contracted 
r  and  supervised  the  erection  of  the  fire  station  for  the  War 
epartment  at  Fort  Ethan  Allen,  and  the  dormitory  build- 
ngs  at  the  state  school  in  Brandon,  Vt.  In  February,  1917, 
he  was  forced  to  give  up  active  business  on  account  of  heart 
trouble  and  general  failing  health.  His  death  occurred  at  his 
home  in  Tenafly,  N.  J.,  July  12,  191 8.  Interment  was  at  the 
Union  (N.  J.)  Hill  Crematory. 

Mr.  Underhill  was  not  married.  He  is  survived  by  his  par- 
ents, two  sisters,  Merta  and  Norma  Underhill,  both  graduates 
of  Smith  College  in  1909,  and  two  brothers,  one  of  whom  is 
Charles  W.  Underhill  (Ph.B.  1914). 


Herbert  Walter  Bauch,  Ph.B.   191 3 

Born  August  4,  1890,  in  Oak  Harbor,  Ohio 
Died  October  28,  191 8,  in  Oak  Harbor,  Ohio 

Herbert  Walter  Bauch  was  born  at  Oak  Harbor,  Ohio, 
August  4,  1890.  He  was  the  son  of  Carl  Traugott  Bauch, 
president  of  The  Bauch  Company,  a  department  store,  and 
Louise  Ernestine  (Franck)  Bauch,  and  the  grandson  of  Rev. 
Julius  Bauch,  who  came  to  Oak  Harbor  from  Silesia,  Ger- 
many, in  1856.  His  mother  is  the  daughter  of  Ernst  Franck, 
C.E.,  formerly  of  Langenberg,  Germany,  who  settled  at  Oak 
Harbor  in  1845,  ^^^  Louise  Franck. 

He  received  his  preparatory  training  at  the  Oak  Harbor 
High  School,  the  Ferris  Institute  at  Big  Rapids,  Mich.,  and 
the  Weintz  Preparatory  School  at  Annapolis,  Md.  He  then 
spent  two  and  a  half  years  at  the  U.  S.  Naval  Academy, 
joining  the  Class  of  1913  in  the  Sheffield  Scientific  School 
in  the  middle  of  Junior  year.  He  took  the  course  in  civil 
engineering. 

•  In  September,  1913,  he  became  treasurer  of  The  Bauch 
Company  at  Oak  Harbor,  and  continued  in  this  connection 
until  his  death,  which  occurred  in  that  city  on  October  28, 
191 8,  as  a  result  of  pneumonia,  following  influenza.  He  was 
buried  there  in  Salem  Cemetery.  He  belonged  to  St.  John's 
Lutheran  Church  of  Oak  Harbor. 


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He  was  married  in  New  Haven,  Conn.,  May  31,  1914,  to 
Helen  Mary,  daughter  of  Thomas  Joseph  and  Bertha  Theresa 
(Kirwan)  D'Arcy,  who  survives  him  without  children.  He 
also  leaves  his  parents  and  a  sister  Alice  (Mrs.  Ray  H.  Zorn). 


Joseph  Andrew  Glover,  Ph.B.   191 3 

Born  November  20,  1892,  in  New  Britain,  Conn. 
Died  July  20,  191 8,  in  the  Bois  de  Belleau,  France 

Joseph  Andrew  Glover,  son  of  Nicholas  F.  and  Mary 
(Quilty)  Glover,  was  born  November  20,  1892,  in  New 
Britain,  Conn.,  where  his  father  was  formerly  in  business, 
but  is  now  retired. 

He  entered  Yale  from  the  New  Britain  High  School,  and 
took  the  select  course  in  the  Scientific  School.  In  the  fall  of 
1 9 13  he  returned  to  New  Haven,  and  for  the  next  three  years 
studied  law  at  Yale.  He  was  admitted  to  the  Connecticut  Bar 
June  20, 19 1 6,  and  began  the  practice  of  his  profession  in  New 
Britain,  becoming  a  partner  in  the  firm  of  Roche  &  Glover, 
the  senior  member  of  which  was  Henry  P.  Roche  (B.A.  Holy 
Cross  1909,  LL.B.  Yale  191 2).  He  was  a  member  of  the 
Roman  Catholic  Church  and  a  communicant  of  St.  Mary's 
Church,  New  Britain. 

Mr.  Glover  attended  the  first  Plattsburg  Training  Camp, 
and  was  given  a  commission  as  a  Second  Lieutenant  of  Infan- 
try at  its  close,  August  15,  1917.  A  few  weeks  later  lie  was 
assigned  to  Company  C  of  the  103d  Infantry,  and  after  being 
stationed  for  a  short  time  at  Camp  Devens  and  at  Westfield, 
Mass.,  was  ordered  overseas  and  sailed  late  in  September. 
He  was  appointed  Summary  Court  Officer  of  his  regiment 
while  in  France,  and  served  in  this  capacity  until  his  death. 
Early  in  the  winter  of  191 8  he  was  at  a  British  training  camp 
in  that  country,  specializing  in  bayonet  work.  He  later  re- 
joined his  regiment  and  was  killed  in  action  in  the  Bois  de 
Belleau  on  July  20,  191 8.  He  was  buried  in  the  Chateau- 
Thierry  Cemetery. 

Lieutenant  Glover  was  unmarried.  He  is  survived  by  his 
parents,  two  sisters.  Rose  C.  and  Margaret  Glover,  and  a 
brother,  James  F.  Glover. 


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William  Francis  Kennedy,  Ph.B.   191 3 

Born  July  21,  1891,  in  County  Meath,  Ireland 
Died  February  23,  191 9,  in  Verneuil,  France 


I  William  Francis  Kennedy  was  born  July  21,  i89i,in  County 
Meath,  Ireland,  one  of  the  thirteen  children  of  Allen  Joseph 
and  Mary  (McGuinness)  Kennedy.  His  father,  who  has 
retired  from  business  and  is  living  in  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.,  is  the 
son  of  Angus  and  Mary  (Campbell)  Kennedy.  He  came  to 
America  from  Scotland  in  1897.  His  wife's  parents  were 
Patrick  and  Mary  (Barnes)  McGuinness. 

William  F.  Kennedy  received  his  preparatory  training  at 
the  Bridgeport  (Conn.)  High  School.  His  course  in  the  Scien- 
tific School  was  that  in  electrical  engineering. 

He  spent  two  and  a  half  years  after  graduating  from  Yale 
as  an  engineering  student  apprentice  at  the  Lynn  (Mass.) 
plant  of  the  General  Electric  Company.  In  May,  191 6,  he 
entered  the  employ  of  the  Studebaker  Corporation  in  Detroit, 
Mich.,  as  an  assistant  engineer  engaged  chiefly  on  experi- 
mental work.  He  was  a  member  of  St.  Mary's  Roman 
Catholic  Church  of  Bridgeport. 

In  November,  191 7,  he  enlisted  as  a  Private  in  Unit  301  of 
the  Motor  Transport  Corps,  and  the  next  month,  after  being 
stationed  for  a  short  time  at  Camp  Meigs,  Washington,  D.  C, 
was  ordered  abroad.  His  death  occurred  February  23,  1919, 
at  Verneuil,  France,  after  an  illness  of  fourteen  days  due  to 
pneumonia.  He  was  buried  in  the-  American  Cemetery  there, 
but  late  in  1920  his  body  was  brought  to  America. 

Mr.  Kennedy  was  unmarried.  His  father,  five  sisters,  and 
seven  brothers  survive  him. 


Howard  Willis  Arnold,  Ph.B.   1914 

Born  August  3,  1894,  in  Elberon,  N.  J. 
Died  July  28,  191 8,  at  the  River  Ourcq,  France 

Howard  Willis  Arnold,  son  of  Oscar  M.  and  Mamie  (Gold- 
smith) Arnold,  was  born  August  3,  1894,  in  Elberon,  N.  J, 
His  father,  who  is  president  of  Arnold,  Schiflf  &  Company 
manufacturers  of  umbrellas  and  parasols,  of  New  York  City 

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is  the  son  of  Hezekiah  W.  Arnold,  who  served  with  the 
Union  Army  during  the  Civil  War,  and  Julia  (Gans)  Arnold. 
His  first  American  ancestor  was  Mayer  Arnold,  who  came 
from  Wiirttemberg,  Germany,  in  1797,  and  settled  in  Phil- 
adelphia, Pa.;  he  served  in  the  War  of  18 12.  Mrs.  Arnold's 
parents  were  Louis  and  Hannah  (Fuller)  Goldsmith.  She 
traces  her  ancestry  to  Jacob  Fuller,  who  came  to  Chicago 
from  Bavaria  in  1834. 

He  was  fitted  for  college  at  the  Hamilton  Institute  in  New 
York  City  and  at  Phillips  Academy,  Exeter,  N.  H.  He  con- 
tributed to  the  Tale  Daily  News,  was  a  member  of  the  Fresh- 
man Track  Squad,  and,  in  Junior  and  Senior  years,  of  the 
University  Track  and  Cross  Country  squads. 

Soon  after  graduation  he  took  an  engineering  position  with 
the  New  York  Municipal  Railway  Corporation,  and  in  191 6 
was  with  the  Godwin  Construction  Company  of  New  York 
City  as  an  assistant  in  their  engineering  department.  In  the 
fall  of  that  year  he  became  manager  of  the  Campaign  Store  of 
the  Hughes  Alliance  in  New  York  City.  In  January,  1917,  he 
was  elected  treasurer  of  T.  C.  Desmond  &  Company,  Inc., 
engineers  and  contractors,  with  offices  in  New  York  City. 

He  had  attended  the  Plattsburg  camps  which  were  held 
prior  to  the  entry  of  the  United  States  into  the  war  and  in 
April,  1917,  successfully  passed  the  examination  for  a  com- 
mission as  Second  Lieutenant  of  Infantry.  He  was  appointed 
to  the  Officers'  Training  Camp  at  Plattsburg  on  May  10,  and 
on  the  completion  of  the  course  on  August  15,  1917,  was 
promoted  to  the  rank  of  First  Lieutenant.  He  was  assigned 
to  Company  K,  165th  Infantry  (formerly  the  69th  New  York), 
42d  Division,  at  Camp  Mills,  and  on  October  28,  1917,  went 
overseas  with  this  organization.  He  was  killed  in  action  at 
the  River  Ourcq  on  July  28,  191 8,  and  was  buried  at  Seringes 
et  Nesles,  Department  of  the  Aisne. 

Lieutenant  Arnold  was  unmarried.  He  is  survived  by  his 
parents,  a  brother,  and  a  sister. 


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1914  1233 


Edwin  Howard  Brown,  Jr.,  Ph.B.   1914 


Born  August  21,  1892,  in  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 
Died  December  13,  1918,  in  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 

Edwin  Howard  Brown,  Jr.,  was  born  August  ai,  1892,  in 
Brooklyn,  N.  Y.  He  was  the  youngest  son  of  Edwin  Howard 
Brown,  assistant  manager  of  the  H.  L.  Judd  Company,  man- 
ufacturers of  brass  goods  and  upholstery  hardware,  and  Clara 
Merideth  (Richardson)  Brown.  His  paternal  grandparents 
were  Edwin  and  Caroline  (Winters)  Brown,  and  his  first 
American  ancestor  on  his  father's  side  was  William  Brown, 
of  New  York.  His  mother  is  the  daughter  of  William  and 
Mary  (Brady)  Richardson. 

He  received  his  preparatory  training  at  the  Wallingford 
(Conn.)  High  School  and  at  the  Hopkins  Grammar  School  in 
New  Haven.  He  was  enrolled  in  the  Class  of  1913  at  Williams 
College  for  a  year  before  entering  the  Sheffield  Scientific 
School.  At  Yale  he  took  second  honors  in  his  work  Freshman 
year.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Apollo  Glee  Club  Junior  year. 

After  he  was  graduated  he  held  a  clerical  position  with  the 
H.  L.  Judd  Company  from  September  8, 1914,  until  February, 

1917,  when  he  entered  the  employ  of  the  Wright-Martin  Air- 
plane Company  as  an  accountant. 

His  death  occurred  at  his  home  in  Brooklyn,  December  13, 

191 8,  after  a  week's  illness  of  double  pneumonia.  Burial  was 
in  Wallingford. 

He  was  married  September  30,  191 7,  in  Brooklyn,  to  Mar- 
ion Lord,  daughter  of  Joseph  and  Minnie  Sellers,  who  sur- 
vives him  with  an  infant  son,  Edwin  Howard,  3d.  He  also 
leaves  his  parents,  a  sister,  and  a  brother. 


James  Robertson  Carey,  Jr.,  Ph.B.   1914 

Born  May  ii,  1893,  in  Salem,  Ohio 
Died  September  4,  191 8,  near  Chatillon,  France 

James  Robertson  Carey,  Jr.,  was  born  in  Salem,  Ohio,  May 
1 1 ,  1 893,  his  parents  being  James  Robertson  Carey,  a  member 
of  the  Class  of  1874  at  Western  Reserve  University  and  later 
a  student  at  the  Harvard  Law  School,  and  Carrie  (Hamp- 


1234  SHEFFIELD    SCIENTIFIC    SCHOOL 

son)  Carey.  On  the  paternal  side  he  was  of  English  ancestry, 
and  on  the  maternal,  of  English  and  Scotch.  His  father,  who 
is  engaged  in  the  practice  of  law,  is  the  son  of  Abel  Carey, 
M.D.,  and  Maria  (Penman)  Carey.  His  mother's  parents  were 
Robert  VanBuren  and  Elizabeth  (Beatty)  Hampson. 

He  received  his  preparatory  training  at  the  Salem  High 
School  and  at  Phillips  Academy,  Andover,  Mass.  He  was  a 
member  of  the  Freshman  German  Committee  and  chairman 
of  the  Byers  Hall  German  Committee.  He  was  active  in  the 
work  of  the  Yale  Hall  Boys'  Club. 

After  graduation  he  became  a  clerk  in  the  treasury  depart- 
ment of  The  Pennsylvania  Railroad  in  Pittsburgh,  Pa.  He 
took  an  active  part  in  Y.  M.  C.  A.  work,  being  a  member  of 
the  Boys'  Work  Committee,  and  for  a  time  after  its  organ- 
ization was  a  member  of  the  Sewickley  Valley  Guard.  He 
attended  the  Sewickley  Presbyterian  Church. 

In  May,  191 7,  he  entered  the  Officers'  Training  Camp  at 
Fort  Niagara,  New  York,  but  was  soon  transferred  to  the  Air 
Service.  He  then  attended  the  School  of  Military  Aeronautics 
at  Cornell  University,  and  after  the  completion  of  his  course 
there  was  ordered  to  Mineola,  N.  Y.  He  sailed  for  France  on 
October  14,  1917.  He  continued  his  training  at  Issoudun, 
France,  and  at  Campo-Ovest,  Foggia,  Italy,  returning  to 
Issoudun  in  April,  191 8.  He  received  his  commission  as  a 
First  Lieutenant  May  16,  191 8,  and  was  sent  to  the  front. 
His  death  occurred  near  Chatillon  on  September  4,  191 8. 
While  flying  from  the  base  to  the  front  his  machine  turned 
over  and  plunged  to  the  earth  and  he  was  killed  in  the  fall. 
He  was  buried  at  Chatillon-sur-Seine. 

Lieutenant  Carey  was  not  married.  He  is  survived  by  his 
parents,  a  sister,  and  a  brother,  Hampson  Carey,  ex- id  S. 

Chester  Harding  Plimpton,  Ph.B.   1914 

Born  March  22,  1893,  in  Buffalo,  N.  Y. 
Died  September  27,  191 8,  near  Thiaucourt,  France 

Chester  Harding  Plimpton  was  born  March  22,  1893,  in 
BuflFalo,  N.  Y.  His  father,  George  Arthur  Plimpton,  the  son 
of  Chester  Plimpton,  was  a  wholesale  druggist,  being  senior 
partner  in  the  firm  of  Plimpton,  Cowan  &  Company.  His 


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mother,  Jenny  Faulkner  (Harding)  Plimpton,  is  the  daughter 
of  Frederic  and  Jane  (Faulkner)  Harding.  His  first  American 
ancestor  on  his  father's  side  was  Joseph  Plimpton,  who  came 
from  Plimpton,  England,  and  settled  at  Southbridge,  Mass. 
Through  his  mother  he  was  descended  from  Joseph  Harding, 
who  came  from  England  to  Easthampton,  Mass.,  in  1660. 
Ancestors  on  both  sides  fought  in  the  Revolution. 

He  entered  Yale  from  The  Hill  School,  Pottstown,  Pa.  He 
was  an  editor  of  the  Tale  News  and  a  member  of  the  Aurelian 
Society,  the  Sheffield  Student  Council,  the  Y.  M.  C.  A. 
Executive  Committee,  and  of  the  Senior  Promenade  Com- 
mittee. He  was  also  a  member  of  the  Freshman  Track  Team, 
won  several  prizes  and  cups  in  track  meets,  and  was  football 
cheer  leader,  a  member  of  the  College  Crew  in  1913,  and 
president  of  the  Interfraternity  Council. 

For  two  and  a  half  years  after  graduation  he  was  in  the 
motive  power  department  of  The  Pennsylvania  Railroad 
Company  at  Altoona,  Pa.  He  resigned  this  position  to  become 
plant  engineer  for  the  American  Malleables  Company  of  Lan- 
caster, N.  Y.,  where  he  remained  until  September  13,  191 7, 
when  he  was  commissioned  from  civil  life  as  a  Second  Lieuten- 
ant in  the  Engineer  Reserve  Corps.  He  attended  the  second 
Plattsburg  camp,  and  on  October  1 1  was  assigned  to  the  21st 
Engineers  (Light  Railway)  at  Camp  Grant,  Rockford,  111. 
This  regiment  went  overseas  December  26,  1917,  and  on 
January  5,  191 8,  Mr.  Plimpton  was  promoted  to  the  rank  of 
First  Lieutenant.  He  was  in  the  drive  on  the  St.  Mihiel  salient 
on  September  12,  191 8.  He  was  killed  near  Thiaucourt  on 
September  27  and  was  buried  in  the  National  Cemetery  there. 
His  body  is  to  be  moved  later  to  the  National  Cemetery  at 
Romagne. 

At  the  time  of  his  death  he  was  Acting  Captain  of  Com- 
pany F,  21  St  Engineers,  and  was  to  have  been  appointed  to 
a  Captaincy  within  two  weeks.  He  had  been  sent  with  a 
few  men  to  repair  and  bring  in  captured  German  equipment, 
and  was  at  his  post  when  killed.  A  high  velocity  shell  exploded 
twenty  feet  from  him,  and  a  splinter  from  it  entered  his  side, 
causing  instant  death.  A  memorial  service  for  Lieutenant 
Plimpton  was  held  in  the  Church  of  the  Ascension  in  Buffalo 
on  March  22,  1919,  which  would  have  been  his  twenty-sixth 


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birthday.  He  was  a  communicant  of  this  church.  Announce- 
ment that  the  Distinguished  Service  Cross  had  been  posthu- 
mously awarded  to  him  was  made  in  August,  1920. 

He  was  unmarried.  His  mother  and  a  brother  survive  him. 


Eldon  William  Sanford,  Ph.B.   1914 

Born  October  16,  1892,  in  Hamden,  Conn. 
Died  July  23,  191 8,  in  Hamden,  Conn. 

Eldon  William  Sanford,  only  child  of  Robert  Asa  Sanford,  a 
lumber  dealer,  and  Lilian  Pamela  (Stevens)  Sanford,  was 
born  October  16,  1892,  in  Hamden,  Conn.  His  father  is  the 
son  of  John  W.  and  Phoebe  (Wooding)  Sanford,  and  a  de- 
scendant of  Lord  Sanford,  of  Northumberland  County,  Eng- 
land. His  mother's  parents  were  William  Henry  and  Sarah 
(Griswold)  Stevens. 

He  was  prepared  for  Yale  at  the  New  Haven  High  School. 
In  addition  to  the  regular  course  at  the  Sheffield  Scientific 
School  he  carried  extra  work  in  histology,  botany,  and  psy- 
chology. He  received  general  honors  in  his  Freshman  and 
Junior  years,  and  was  a  member  of  Sigma  Xi.  In  the  fall  of 
1914  he  entered  the  Graduate  School  at  Yale,  becoming  at 
the  same  time  an  assistant  in  instruction  in  the  Sheffield 
Scientific  School.  In  191 6  he  received  the  degree  of  M.A.  from 
Yale,  and  a  year  later  that  of  Ph.D.  During  the  summer  of 
1 91 6  he  did  special  work  in  anatomy  at  the  University  of 
Wisconsin. 

He  became  an  assistant  in  anatomy  at  the  Johns  Hopkins 
Medical  School,  Baltimore,  Md.,  in  the  fall  of  1917.  When 
blood  poisoning  broke  out  among  our  troops,  he  was  one  of 
those  assigned  to  investigate  the  cause,  and  while  studying  the 
disease  and  experimenting,  he  contracted  it  through  accidental 
inoculation  of  the  poisonous  fluid.  His  death  occurred  July 
23,  191 8,  at  his  home  in  Hamden,  and  he  was  buried  in  the 
Centerville  Cemetery. 

Dr.  Sanford  was  unmarried.  He  is  survived  by  his  parents. 
While  living  in  Baltimore  he  attended  the  Associate  Congre- 
gational Church,  and  had  become  president  of  its  Christian 
Endeavor  Society  and  superintendent  of  the  Sunday  school. 


I 


Philip  Dietz,  Ph.B.  191 5 

Born  February  22,  1891,  in  New  York  City 
Died  July  30,  191 8,  in  Deutsch-Rumbach,  Germany 

Philip  Dietz  was  born  February  22,  1891,  in  New  York 
City.  In  1898  he  was  taken  into  the  home  of  Miss  Flora  L. 
Northrup  and  adopted  by  her  in  1903.  He  afterwards  made 
his  home  in  Roselle,  N.  J.,  where  he  was  prepared  for  college 
in  the  high  school.  He  entered  the  Sheffield  Scientific  School 
with  the  Class  of  191 2,  but  left  at  the  end  of  two  years,  re- 
turning later  to  graduate  with  the  Class  of  191 5  S.  He  was  on 
the  football  squad  for  three  years,  and  was  a  member  of  the 
Basketball  Team  in  1912-13  and  of  the  1912  S.  and  1914  S. 
Class  Baseball  teams. 

In  1 9 13  he  took  the  summer  course  of  the  Yale  School  of 
Forestry  at  Milford,  Pa.,  and  in  1 913-14  was  enrolled  in  the 
School  of  Forestry  at  New  Haven.  During  1915-16  he  taught 
in  a  boys'  school  at  Peekskill,  N.  Y.,  and  then,  after  a  summer 
course  of  training  for  Y.  M.  C.  A.  work  at  Silver  Bay,  he  was 
appointed  assistant  physical  director  of  the  Navy  Y.  M.  C.  A. 
in  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 

On  June  25, 1917,  he  enlisted  in  the  Aviation  Section  of  the 
Signal  Corps,  and  was  sent  to  the  School  of  Military  Aero- 
nautics at  Ohio  State  University.  After  eight  weeks  his 
squadron  was  ordered  to  Mineola,  N.  Y.,  to  organize,  with 
men  from  other  ground  schools,  the  first  detachment  of 
aviators  to  be  sent  to  Italy.  They  sailed  from  New  York  on 
September  18,  1917,  but  on  reaching  Liverpool  orders  were 
changed,  and  members  of  the  detachment  sent  to  diflferent 
training  camps.  Mr.  Dietz  was  sent  first  to  Oxford  and  was 
later  stationed  at  the  flying  fields  at  Stamford,  Andover, 
and  Salisbury,  England,  and  at  the  School  of  Aerial  Gunnery 
at  Turnberry,  Scotland.  He  was  given  his  commission  as  a 
First  Lieutenant  in  the, Air  Service  on  April  6,  191 8,  and  two 
months  later  went  to  the  front,  attached  to  the  99th  Aero 
Squadron,  British  Royal  Air  Force.  He  was  killed  in  action 
July  30,  191 8,  at  Deutsch-Rumbach,  near  Rappoltsweiler 
(now  Ribeauville,  Alsace),  Germany,  while  making  a  raid 
over  the  lines  with  some  other  machines  from  his  squadron. 


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It  was  at  first  reported  that  he  was  missing  in  action,  but 
his  death  was  later  confirmed.  He  was  buried  at  Deutsch- 
Rumbach. 

Lieutenant  Dietz  was  unmarried.  A  sister,  Mrs.  John  D. 
Tjebkes,  lives  in  Parkersburg,  Iowa. 


Sheldon  Eliot  Hoadley,  Ph.B.  191 5 

Born  November  20,  1893,  in  New  York  City 
Died  October  13,  191 8,  in  the  Argonne  Forest,  France 

Sheldon  Eliot  Hoadley  was  born  November  20,  1893,  in 
New  York  City,  where  his  father,  Russell  Hotchkiss  Hoadley, 
who  graduated  from  Columbia  with  the  degree  of  B.S.  in 
1 89 1,  is  engaged  in  business  as  a  real  estate  broker.  His  par- 
ents were  Russell  H.  and  Alice  H.  (Wesson)  Hoadley.  The 
first  member  of  the  Hoadley  family  to  settle  in  America  was 
William  Hoadley,  who  was  born  in  England  in  1630  and  later 
lived  in  Branford,  Conn.  He  was  elected  several  times  to  the 
General  Assembly.  His  death  occurred  in  1709.  Sheldon  E. 
Hoadley 's  mother  was  Mary  Eliot  (Betts)  Hoadley,  daughter 
of  Frederic  Henry  Betts  (B.A.  1864,  LL.B.  Columbia  1866), 
upon  whom  Yale  conferred  an  honorary  LL.D.  in  1901,  and 
Mary  Louise  (Holbrook)  Betts. 

He  received  his  early  training  at  the  Fay  School,  South- 
boro,  Mass.,  The  Hill  School,  Pottstown,  Pa.,  and  the  Evans 
School  at  Mesa,  Ariz.  He  took  the  select  course  in  the  Shef- 
field Scientific  School.  He  was  a  member  of  the  University 
Swimming  Team  for  three  years,  rowed  on  the  Second  Class 
Crew  in  Freshman  and  Junior  years,  and  was  a  member  of 
the  University  Glee  Club  and  vice  president  of  the  University 
Club. 

After  graduation  he  became  connected  with  the  Bankers 
Trust  Company  in  New  York  City.  He  was  a  member  of  St. 
Bartholomew's  Church.  He  attended  the  first  Plattsburg 
Training  Camp,  and  in  August,  1917,  was  commissioned  a 
Second  Lieutenant  of  Field  Artillery  and  assigned  to  the  77th 
Division  at  Camp  Upton,  New  York.  On  April  25,  191 8,  he 
sailed  for  France,  and  at  the  time  of  his  death  he  was  serving 


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as  a  First  Lieutenant  in  Battery  D,  305th  Field  Artillery.  He 
was  killed  in  action  in  the  Argonne  Forest,  on  October  13, 191 8, 
and  was  buried  in  the  American  Cemetery  at  Romagne- 
sous-Montfaucon  (Meuse). 

Lieutenant  Hoadley  was  unmarried.  He  is  survived  by  his 
father.  He  was  a  grandnephew  of  Charles  H.  Wesson  (B.A. 
1863)  and  Frederic  Wesson  (B.A.  1868),  and  a  nephew  of 
Howland  Hoadley  (B.A.  1889),  Louis  F.  H.  Betts  (B.A.  1891), 
and  Wyllys  R.  Betts  (B.A.  i 


Herman  Frederick  Benjamin  Schulze,  Ph.B.  191 5 

Born  May  19,  1887,  in  Washington,  D.  C. 
Died  January  2,  1919,  in  Martinsburg,  W.  Va. 

Herman  Frederick  Benjamin  Schulze  was  born  in  Wash- 
ington, D.  C,  May  19,  1887,  being  the  son  of  Gustave  Hugo 
and  Theresa  (Becker)  Schulze.  His  parents  came  from  Ger- 
many in  1865  and  1869,  respectively.  His  father,  who  is  one 
of  the  directors  of  the  Oriental  Building  Association  in  Wash- 
ington, is  the  son  of  Frederick  Benjamin  and  Johanne 
(Boehme)  Schulze.  His  mother  was  the  daughter  of  August 
and  Theresa  (Wiisterfeld)  Becker. 

He  entered  Yale  from  the  Princeton  (N.  J.)  Preparatory 
School.  He  took  the  chemistry  course  and  received  honors  in 
all  studies  in  Freshman  year. 

In  September,  191 5,  he  started  work  as  a  chemist  with  the 
Blair  Limestone  Company  at  Martinsburg,  W.  Va.  He  re- 
signed this  position  in  September,  1916,  and  was  afterwards, 
for  a  year,  connected  with  the  Birdsey  Somers  Company, 
corset  manufacturers,  in  Bridgeport,  Conn.  He  then  returned 
to  the  Blair  Limestone  Company  as  chief  chemist  and  man- 
ager of  the  agricultural  lime  department.  He  was  a  member 
of  St.  John's  Lutheran  Church  of  Martinsburg. 

His  death  occurred  January  2,  1919,  at  Martinsburg,  as  a 
result  of  pneumonia,  following  influenza.  He  had  been  ill  ten 
days.  He  was  buried  in  Prospect  Hill  Cemetery,  Washington. 

He  was  married  on  May  19,  191 7,  in  that  city,  to  Mildred 
Charlotte,  daughter  of  the  late  Joseph  A.  Kolb  and  Anna  V. 
Kolb,  who  survives  with  an  infant  son,  Hugo.  He  also  leaves 


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his  father,  three  sisters,  Miss  Hanna  Schulze  and  Mrs.  William 
T.  Heyser,  of  Washington,  and  Mrs.  Thomas  J.  Trodden,  of 
Atlanta,  Ga.,  and  a  brother,  Gustave  H.  Schulze,  Jr.,  of 
Washington. 

Thomas  Vincent  Stilwell,  Ph.B.   191 5 

Born  April  30,  1894,  in  New  York  City 
Died  July  18,  191 8,  in  Vierzy,  France 

Thomas  Vincent  Stilwell  was  born  in  New  York  City, 
April  30,  1894.  He  was  one  of  the  five  children  of  Arthur 
Augustus  and  Katharine  (Meehan)  Stilwell.  His  father,  who 
was,  until  his  death  in  1906,  a  member  of  the  firm  of  A.  A. 
Stilwell  &  Company,  of  New  York  City,  importers  and  ex- 
porters of  oils  and  chemicals,  was  the  son  of  Richard  E. 
and  Harriet  L.  (Redman)  Stilwell,  and  a  descendant  of 
Nicholas  Stillwell,  an  Englishman,  who  came  to  America 
from  Leyden  in  1638  and  settled  on  Staten  Island.  Thomas 
V.  Stilwell's  maternal  grandparents  were  Edward  J.  and 
Mary  Francis  (Moore)  Meehan,  and  his  first  American  ances- 
tor on  his  mother's  side  was  Dr.  Robert  Moore,  who  came 
from  Ireland  about  1820  and  settled  in  New  York. 

Before  entering  Yale  he  studied  at  the  Horace  Mann 
School  and  at  the  Collegiate  School  in  New  York  City.  He 
was  a  member  of  the  191 5  S.  Champion  Class  Baseball  Team. 
He  took  the  select  course. 

After  graduation  he  became  connected  with  his  father's 
firm  as  secretary.  He  belonged  to  the  Reformed  Church  of 
Harlem.  He  entered  the  first  Officers'  Training  Camp  at 
Plattsburg,  N.  Y.,  on  May  14,  1917,  and  received  a  commis- 
sion as  Second  Lieutenant  of  Infantry  in  the  Regular  Army 
on  August  15,  1917.  He  was  sent  abroad  immediately,  and 
was  later  assigned  to  Company  A  of  the  23d  Infantry.  He 
fought  at  Chateau-Thierry  with  the  2d  Division,  and  con- 
tinued with  that  division  until  he  fell  at  Vierzy,  July  18, 191 8. 
He  was  buried  in  the  American  Cemetery  at  Ploisy. 

He  was  unmarried.  He  is  survived  by  his  mother.  She  has 
made  a  gift  of  ^5,000  to  Yale  for  a  scholarship  in  the  Sheffield  ^ 
Scientific  School,  in  memory  of  her  son.  John  Stilwell  (Ph.B. 
1907)  is  a  second  cousin.  ^ 


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'ilfrid  Corrigan  Bourke,  Ph.B.   1916 

Born  April  17,  1895,  in  Kansas  City,  Mo. 
Died  October  14,  191 8,  at  Fort  Sill,  Okla. 


h 

^^  Wilfrid  Corrigan  Bourke  was  born  April  17,  1895,  in  Kan- 
sas City,  Mo.,  the  son  of  James  Calvin  and  Mary  E.  (Cor- 
rigan) Bourke.  His  father  was  a  graduate  of  the  United  States 
Military  Academy  at  West  Point  and  of  the  Columbia  Law 
School,  in  the  classes  of  1887  and  1889,  respectively. 

He  prepared  for  Yale  at  the  Westport  High  School  and  at 
the  University  Preparatory  School  in  Kansas  City.  In  Fresh- 
man year  he  was  a  candidate  for  crew.  In  Senior  year  he 
enlisted  in  the  Yale  Batteries,  and  spent  the  summer  of  1916 
at  Tobyhanna,  Pa.,  with  Battery  A,  loth  Field  Artillery, 
Connecticut  National  Guard. 

In  May,  1917,  he  enrolled  in  the  first  Officers'  Training 
Camp  at  Fort  Riley,  Kansas,  being  discharged  from  it 
August  15,  1 917,  to  accept  a  commission  as  Second  Lieu- 
tenant, Field  Artillery,  Officers'  Reserve  Corps.  He  was 
immediately  attached  to  Battery  D,  341st  Field  Artillery, 
89th  Division,  at  Camp  Funston,  Kansas,  and  remained  with 
that  organization  until  the  summer  of  191 8,  when  he  was 
attached  to  the  164th  Depot  Brigade  at  Camp  Funston, 
pending  a  vacancy  in  the  Aerial  Observers'  School.  In  July, 
191 8,  he  left  the  164th  Depot  Brigade,  and  was  sent  to  the 
loth  Battalion,  Field  Artillery  Replacement  Depot,  at  Camp 
Jackson,  South  Carolina.  The  following  month  he  was 
ordered  to  the  School  for  Aerial  Observers  at  Post  Field,  Fort 
Sill,  Oklahoma.  He  had  but  one  more  week  necessary  to  com- 
plete his  course  as  observer,  when  he  was  killed,  October  14, 
1918.  He  had  started  with  his  pilot.  Lieutenant  Brown,  Air 
Service,  to  fire  an  artillery  problem,  and  their  airplane  was  just 
leaving  Post  Field  when  it  ran  into  the  wire  cable  that  held  a 
captive  observation  balloon  above  the  field.  The  propeller 
and  one  wing  were  broken  off,  and  the  airplane  slid  down 
the  wire,  nose  first,  to  the  ground.  Lieutenant  Bourke  was 
seated  in  the  front  of  the  plane,  and  was  instantly  killed. 
His  pilot. died  later  at  the  hospital.  Lieutenant  Bourke  was 


1242  SHEFFIELD    SCIENTIFIC    SCHOOL 

buried  in  Mount  St.  Mary's  Cemetery.  He  was  a  member  of 
the  Roman  Catholic  Church. 

He  was  unmarried,  and  is  survived  by  his  mother,  who 
makes  her  home  in  Kansas  City,  and  a  brother,  Thomas  C. 
Bourke,  '14  S.,  who  served  with  the  American  Expedi- 
tionary Forces  as  a  First  Lieutenant  in  the  129th  Field 
Artillery,  35th  Division. 


Julian  Chambers  Warner,  Ph.B.  1916 

Born  April  15,  1895,  i"  Hartford,  Conn. 
Died  August  18,  191 8,  at  Saranac  Lake,  N.  Y. 

Julian  Chambers  Warner,  only  child  of  Herbert  Otis  and 
Mary  Ruth  (Chambers)  Warner,  was  born  April  15,  1895,  ^" 
Hartford,  Conn.,  where  his  father  is  assistant  cashier  for  the 
Connecticut  Mutual  Life  Insurance  Company.  His  paternal 
grandparents  were  Otis  and  Mary  Jane  (Doolittle)  Warner. 
His  mother  is  the  daughter  of  Francis  and  Mary  (Bulkeley) 
Chambers.  His  first  American  ancestor  on  his  father's  side 
was  William  Warner,  who  came  from  Boxted,  Essex  County, 
England,  about  1637,  and  settled  at  Ipswich,  Mass.;  one  of 
his  descendants  was  Robert  Warner,  of  Wethersfield,  who 
served  as  a  Corporal  in  Colonel  Chester's  6th  Connecticut 
Regiment  during  the  Revolution.  On  his  mother's  side  he 
was  descended  from  Rev.  Peter  Bulkley,  who  came  from 
Odell,  Bedfordshire,  England,  in  1636,  and  was  the  founder 
of  Concord,  Mass. 

He  was  fitted  for  college  at  the  Hartford  Public  High  School. 
At  Yale  he  participated  in  the  work  at  the  Orange  Street 
Boys'  Club.  He  took  the  mechanical  engineering  course, 
receiving  honors  in  mathematics  Junior  year  and  two-year 
honors  for  excellence  in  all  studies  at  graduation. 

He  spent  the  year  of  191 6-1 7  in  graduate  work  at  Yale, 
serving  as  assistant  in  the  mechanical  engineering  depart- 
ment. During  the  summer  course  in  1917,  he  was  an  in- 
structor in  mechanical  technology  at  Lehigh  University. 
He  was  a  communicant  of  Trinity  Protestant  Episcopal 
Church,  Hartford. 

He   received   a   commission   as   First   Lieutenant   in    the 


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Ilrdnance  Department,  U.  S.  Army,  June  7,  1917,  but  had 
een  absent  from  duty  on  sick  leave  for  about  a  year  before 
is  death  which  occurred  August  18,  1918,  at  Saranac  Lake, 
r.  Y.  Interment  was  in  Cedar  Hill  Cemetery,  Hartford. 
Mr.  Warner  was  not  married.  His  parents  survive  him. 

Charles  Wolcott  Willey,  Ph.B.   1916 

Born  March  2,  1894,  in  Norwich,  Conn. 
Died  October  4,  1918,  at  sea 

Charles  Wolcott  Willey  was  born  in  Norwich,  Conn., 
March  2,  1894,  his  parents  being  Herbert  and  Grace  Eleanor 
(Carroll)  Willey.  His  father,  who  is  in  the  wholesale  tobacco 
business  in  Norwich,  is  the  son  of  Abraham  W.  and  Katherine 
(Brockway)  Willey.  He  is  a  descendant  of  Isaac  Willey, 
who  came  to  America  from  Wales  with  John  Winthrop  in 
1630,  settling  first  in  Massachusetts,  but  later  removing  to 
Connecticut  with  the  younger  Winthrop.  He  was  given  a 
tract  of  land  at  New  London  which  was  held  by  the  family  for 
about  two  hundred  years  and  at  one  time  was  the  site  of  the 
home  of  Hiram  Willey,  a  former  mayor  of  New  London  and 
from  1 861  to  1869  United  States  district  attorney  for  Con- 
necticut. Hiram  Willey  was  a  great-uncle  of  Charles  Wolcott 
Willey;  his  grandfather,  Abraham  Willey,  fought  in  the 
Revolution.  An  uncle  of  Charles  Wolcoit  Willey,  who  bore 
the  same  name  as  his  own,  was  killed  in  the  Civil  War.  His 
maternal  grandparents  were  Charles  H.  Carroll,  who  served 
as  a  First  Sergeant  in  the  Civil  War,  and  Emily  (Rathbone) 
Carroll.  His  great-grandfather,  Josepli  W.  Carroll,  also 
served  in  the  Union  Army  throughout  the  war,  as  did  several 
great-uncles.  His  first  American  ancestor  on  his  mother's 
side  came  from  England  about  1765,  and  settled  in  West- 
minster, Vt. 

He  received  his  preparatory  training  at  the  Norwich  Free 
Academy,  and  first  entered  Yale  as  a  member  of  the  Class  of 
191 5  S.,  later  joining  the  class  with  which  he  was  graduated. 
He  took  the  select  course. 

In  July,  191 6,  he  became  a  salesman  for  the  General 
Roofing  Manufacturing  Company  at  York,  Pa.  He  was  later 


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transferred  to  Pittsburgh  as  one  of  their  district  salesmen, 
and  remained  in  their  employ  until  the  summer  of  1917,  when 
he  became  connected  with  the  Robert  Swan  Construction 
Company  in  that  city.  He  belonged  to  the  First  Baptist 
Church  of  Norwich,  of  which  his  family  have  been  members 
for  nearly  a  century. 

He  enlisted  in  the  U.  S.  Naval  Reserve  Force  as  a  Machinist 
(First  Class)  on  June  22,  191 8,  and  began  training  for  a  com- 
mission at  the  Stevens  Institute  of  Technology.  An  overseas 
trip  was  a  feature  of  the  course,  and  in  September  he  was 
assigned  for  duty  on  the  Herman  Frasch,  a  cargo  boat.  Mr. 
Willey  was  lost  at  sea  October  4,  191 8,  when  this  ship,  bound 
for  France  with  a  convoy,  collided  with  the  U.  S.  S.  George 
S.  Henry  J  which  was  homeward  bound,  and  was  sunk.  His 
rank  at  the  time  of  his  death  was  that  of  a  Warrant  Machinist. 

Mr.  Willey  was  married  July  20,  191 8,  in  Reading,  Pa.,  to 
Ena  Margaret,  daughter  of  William  Jefferson  and  Emma 
Lewis,  of  Pittsburgh.  She  survives  him,  and  he  also  leaves  his 
parents,  a  sister,  Bernice  E.  Willey,  and  a  brother,  Herbert 
H.  Willey. 


Henry  Bailey  Garland,  Ph.B.   1917 

Born  August  4,  1895,  in  Pittsburgh,  Pa. 
Died  October  7,  191 8,  in  Pittsburgh,  Pa. 

Henry  Bailey  Garland  was  one  of  the  five  children  of  John 
Whyte  and  Eliza  McFaden  (Bailey)  Garland,  and  was  born 
August  4,  1895,  ^^  Pittsburgh,  Pa.  His  father,  who  came  to 
the  United  States  from  Dungannon,  Ireland,  and  is  now 
president  of  the  Garland  Corporation  in  Pittsburgh,  is  the  son 
of  Robert  and  Eliza  Jane  (Atwell)  Garland.  His  mother's 
parents  were  Henry  John  and  Catherine  Graydon  (McFaden) 
Bailey,  and  her  first  American  ancestor  was  James  Davis,  who 
came  from  County  Tyrone,  Ireland,  in  1735,  and  settled  in 
what  is  now  Tinicum  Township,  Bucks  County,  Pa. 

He  received  his  preparatory  training  at  the  Shadyside 
Academy  in  Pittsburgh,  and  entered  Yale  with  the  Class  of 
1 91 6  S.  While  with  that  class  he  was  a  member  of  the  Fresh- 
man Mandolin  Club  and  the  Class  Baseball  and  Basketball 


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teams.  He  was  chairman  of  the  Convention  Committee  of  the 
Y.  M.  C.  A.  and  belonged  to  the  Yale  Battery.  He  took  the 
select  course.  In  the  spring  of  191 6  he  was  obliged  to  leave 
college  on  account  of  poor  health,  but  returned  a  year  later 
and  was  given  his  degree  in  June,  1917. 

The  condition  of  his  health  prevented  his  entering  any 
business  activity  after  graduation.  He  died  of  diabetes 
October  7,  191 8,  in  Pittsburgh,  and  was  buried  in  Homewood 
Cemetery.  He  was  a  member  of  Calvary  Protestant  Episcopal 
Church,  Pittsburgh. 

He  was  unmarried.  He  is  survived  by  his  parents,  two 
brothers,  Robert  M.Garland  (Ph.B.  191 5)  and  Wallace  G. 
Garland,  1923  S.,  and  a  sister,  Virginia  Louise  Garland. 
He  was  a  cousin  of  Chisolm  Garland,  ex-i'^  S.,  and  of 
Charles  S.  Garland,  '20. 


John  Morrison,  Ph.B.  1917 

Born  April  24,  1896,  in  Cincinnati,  Ohio 
Died  October  15,  1918,  at  MoUeville  Farm,  France 

John  Morrison,  son  of  Harley  James  and  Roberta  Alex- 
andria (Johnston)  Morrison,  was  born  April  24,  1896,  in 
Cincinnati,  Ohio.  His  father  is  at  present  consulting  chemist 
of  The  Procter  &  Gamble  Company  at  Ivorydale,  Ohio,  with 
which  he  has  been  connected  since  his  graduation  from  the 
Sheffield  Scientific  School  in  1887.  His  parents  were  John 
and  Elizabeth  Anne  (Procter)  Morrison.  The  Morrisons  are 
of  Scotch-Irish  ancestry,  the  earliest  member  of  the  family  to 
settle  in  this  country  being  John  Morrison,  who  came  to 
Cincinnati  in  1854.  The  father  of  Elizabeth  A.  Morrison  was 
English,  while  her  mother  was  of  Irish  origin.  Roberta 
Alexandria  (Johnston)  Morrison  is  the  daughter  of  Robert 
Alexander  Johnston  (B.A.  Hanover  College  1855,  LL.B. 
Cincinnati  1858)  and  Elizabeth  Talley  (Moore)  Johnston. 
Her  first  American  ancestor  was  Rev.  John  Moore,  who  came 
to  America  from  Kent,  England,  in  1651,  settled  in  Lynn, 
Mass.,  and  died  at  Newton,  Long  Island,  in  1657. 

John  Morrison  prepared  for  college  at  the  Hughes  High 
School  in  Cincinnati  and  at  the  Howe  School,  Howe,  Ind. 


1246  SHEFFIELD    SCIENTIFIC    SCHOOL 

He  took  the  select  course  in  the  Sheffield  Scientific  School, 
and  received  honors  in  biology  and  physics  Freshman  year. 
He  went  out  for  crew,  and  was  on  the  editorial  boards  of 
the  Yale  Record  and  the  Yale  Sheffield  Monthly.  He  was  a 
member  of  the  Class  Book  Committee,  and  did  some  Y.  M. 
C.  A.  work. 

In  the  summer  of  191 6  he  went  to  Tobyhanna,  Pa.,  with 
the  Yale  Batteries,  serving  as  a  Private  in  the  Headquarters 
Company.  He  attended  the  first  Officers'  Training  Camp  at 
Fort  Benjamin  Harrison,  Indiana,  and  was  commissioned  as 
a  Second  Lieutenant  of  Field  Artillery  at  its  close  in  August, 
1 91 7.  Soon  afterwards  he  was  assigned  to  the  Headquarters 
Company  of  the  322d  Field  Artillery  at  Camp  Sherman, 
Chillicothe,  Ohio.  He  reached  France  in  June,  191 8,  and 
was  sent  for  training  to  Camp  Coetquidan,  Brittany.  He  was 
in  action  northwest  of  Verdun  almost  continuously  from 
September  26  until  his  death  on  October  15.  He  was  post- 
humously awarded  the  Distinguished  Service  Cross  **for  ex- 
traordinary heroism  in  action  near  MoUeville  Farm,  France, 
October  14-15,  191 8.  As  liaison  officer  between  the  Infantry 
and  Artillery,  Lieutenant  Morrison  exemplified  in  the  highest 
degree  the  spirit  of  bravery,  devotion  to  duty,  and  self  sacri- 
fice. He  crawled  beyond  the  front  line  in  the  face  of  intense 
machine  gun  and  artillery  fire  with  a  telephone  strapped  to 
his  back  in  order  to  direct  the  preparatory  fire  of  the  artillery. 
On  the  following  day  he  accompanied  the  advanced  infantry 
battalion  in  the  attack  and  under  most  difficult  circumstances 
established  and  maintained  liaison  with  the  artillery.  In  the 
faithful  performance  of  these  duties  this  gallant  officer  lost 
his  life."  Lieutenant  Morrison  was  also  awarded  the  Croix 
de  Guerre.,  with  palm.  He  was  buried  at  Romagne-sous- 
Montfaucon,  Meuse,  France. 

He  was  not  married.  His  parents  survive  him.  He  also 
leaves  a  brother,  Robert  A.  J.  Morrison  (Ph.B.  1920).  He  was 
a  nephew  of  William  P.  Morrison,  '85,  Edwin  Morrison,  '89  S., 
Hunter  Morrison,  '99  S.,  and  Robert  Morrison,  ex-^']  S. 


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Edmund  Anthony  Parrott,  Ph.B.   1917 

Born  June  13,  1896,  in  San  Francisco,  Calif. 
Died  September  26,  1918,  over  Dun-sur-Meuse,  France 

Edmund  Anthony  Parrott,  son  of  John  and  Mary  Emily 
(Donohoe)  Parrott,  was  born  June  13,  1896,  in  San  Francisco, 
Calif.  He  received  his  preparatory  training  at  the  College  de 
Champittet  in  Ouchy,  Switzerland,  at  Beaumont  College,  Old 
Windsor,  Berkshire  County,  England,  and  under  a  private 
tutor.  He  took  the  mining  engineering  course  in  the  Sheffield 
Scientific  School.  He  was  granted  the  degree  of  Ph.B.,  post 
obitum,  honoris  causa,  with  enrollment  in  the  Class  of  19 17  S., 
in  June,  1919. 

He  enlisted  in  the  Aviation  Section  of  the  Signal  Corps  in 
the  summer  of  19 17,  and  after  undergoing  training  in  Califor- 
nia was  sent  abroad.  In  the  fall  of  1917  he  attended  an  avia- 
tion school  in  France,  and  upon  completing  his  course  there 
went  to  Italy  for  advanced  training.  He  was  then  given  his 
commission  as  a  First  Lieutenant  and  assigned  to  the  20th 
Aero  Squadron.  He  was  killed  in  action  September  26,  1918, 
over  Dun-sur-Meuse,  France. 

Lieutenant  Parrott  was  unmarried.  He  is  survived  by  his 
mother,  five  brothers,  and  four  sisters.  Robert  Young  Hayne 
(B.A.  1910)  is  a  relative. 


VanHorn  Peale,  Ph.B.   19 17 

Born  December  14,  1896,  in  New  York  City 
Died  August  10,  191 8,  in  Paris,  France 

VanHorn  Peale  was  born  December  14,  1896,  in  New  York 
City,  the  son  of  Rembrandt  Richard  Peale  (B.S.  Lehigh 
University  1883)  and  Eudora  (Batcheler)  Peale.  His  father 
is  president  of  the  firm  of  Peale,  Peacock  &  Kerr,  Inc.,  coal 
operators,  in  New  York  City.  He  was  fitted  for  college  at  the 
Browning  School  in  that  city.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Fresh- 
man Glee  Club  and  the  Senior  Promenade  Committee,  and 
managed  the  1919  Freshman  Football  Team.  He  took  the 
mining  engineering  course. 


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He  enlisted  in  Squadron  A,  Cavalry,  New  York  National 
Guard,  in  May,  1917,  and  on  July  14  was  promoted  to  the 
rank  of  Corporal.  When  that  organization  was  absorbed 
into  the  105th  Machine  Gun  Battalion  on  October  13,  1917, 
he  was  assigned  to  Company  B  and  stationed  at  Camp  Wads- 
worth,  South  Carolina.  On  January  31,  191 8,  he  was  trans- 
ferred to  the  27th  Engineers  (Mining),  then  stationed  at 
Camp  Meade,  Maryland.  He  was  made  a  Corporal  on  March 
I  and  a  Sergeant  in  the  Headquarters  Detachment  of  his 
regiment  on  May  9,  and  sailed  for  France  about  the  first  of 
July,  191 8.  He  died  of  pneumonia  in  a  military  hospital  in 
Paris,  August  10,  191 8. 

Mr.  Peale  was  unmarried.  His  parents  survive  him. 


Charles  Reading  Shear,  Ph.B.   1917 

Born  June  29,  1893,  in  Waco,  Texas 
Died  November  25,  191 8,  in  Waco,  Texas 

Charles  Reading  Shear  was  born  June  29,  1893,  in  Waco, 
Texas,  where  his  father,  Henry  Herbert  Shear,  was  president 
of  The  Shear  Company,  wholesale  grocers,  until  his  death  on 
September  28,  191 8.  The  latter  was  the  son  of  Jay  C.  and 
Sarah  E.  (Reading)  Shear,  and  a  descendant  of  Adam  Runkle, 
who  came  to  America  from  Holland  in  pre-Revolutionary 
days,  settling  in  New  Jersey.  Charles  R.  Shear's  mother, 
Mary  Knight  (Turner)  Shear,  is  the  daughter  of  Thomas  and 
Elizabeth  (Knight)  Turner.  She  is  descended  from  William 
Turner,  who  fought  in  the  War  of  the  Revolution. 

He  received  his  early  training  at  the  Waco  High  School  and 
at  the  Terrill  School  at  Dallas,  Texas.  He  was  with  the  Class 
of  191 6  S.  until  October  of  Senior  year,  when  a  serious  illness, 
followed  by  months  of  ill  health,  required  a  temporary  with- 
drawal from  college.  He  completed  his  course  with  the  Class 
of  1917  S.  He  was  a  member  of  the  University  Gymnastic 
Team,  being  assistant  manager  Junior  year,  and  manager 
Senior  year.  At  the  declaration  of  war  with  Germany  he  made 
many  attempts  to  enlist,  but  because  of  a  weak  heart  his 
efforts  were  of  no  avail.  Practically  every  member  of  his 
class  had  left  Yale  to  enter  service,  and  in  addition  to  his 


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duties  as  Class  Treasurer  he  assumed  many  of  the  duties  of 
the  absent  class  officers. 

After  graduation  he  went  into  business  with  his  father,  as 
house  salesman  for  The  Shear  Company.  At  the  time  of  his 
death  he  was  a  director  and  secretary  of  the  company. 

He  died  at  his  home  in  Waco,  November  25, 191 8.  Although 
he  had  been  ill  for  two  weeks  with  influenza,  his  death,  due 
to  heart  complications,  was  unexpected.  Burial  was  in  Oak- 
wood  Cemetery  at  Waco. 

His  marriage  took  place  April  3,  191 8,  in  Waco,  to  Ellen 
Norah,  daughter  of  Patrick  and  Delia  (Hubby)  Gorman. 
He  is  survived  by  his  wife,  his  mother,  and  two  brothers, 
Harold  H.  Shear,  ^;c-'ii  S.,  and  Coman  K.  Shear  (Ph. B.  1914). 


Arthur  Fuller  Souther,  Ph.B.   1917 

Born  January  13,  1896,  in  Cleveland,  Ohio 
Died  July  19,  191 8,  near  East  Greenwich,  R.  I. 

Arthur  Fuller  Souther,  son  of  John  Ira  Souther  (B.A.  1884, 
B.S.  Worcester  Polytechnic  Institute  1881)  and  Kate  Amelia 
(Fuller)  Souther,  was  born  January  13,  1896,  in  Cleveland, 
Ohio,     His  grandfather.  Rev.  Samuel  Souther,  a  graduate  of 
Dartmouth  in   1842  and  of  Bangor  Theological  Seminary 
in  1846,  was  the  son  of  Samuel  and  Mary  (Webster)  Souther, 
and  a  descendant  of  Nathaniel  Souther,  who  became  secretary 
pf  Plymouth   Colony  in    1633,   and  of  Thomas  Stickney, 
Colonel  of  a  New  Hampshire  regiment  during  the  Revolu- 
tion. Samuel  Souther  lost  his  life  in  the  Civil  War,  while 
serving  as  Colonel  of  the  57th  Regiment,  Massachusetts 
Volunteers;  his  wife  was  Mary  Frances  Towle,  a  descendant 
f  Robert  Clement,  who  settled  at  Haverhill,  Mass.,  in  1642. 
\rthur  F.  Souther's    maternal   grandparents  were  Samuel 
Augustus  and  Julia  Elizabeth  (Clark)  Fuller.  Through  his 
nother  he  traced  his  descent  to  Samuel  Fuller,  who  came  to 
Plymouth  from  England  in  1620. 

He  prepared  for  Yale  at  the  Yates  School  in  Lancaster, 
*a.,  and  at  the  University  School  in  Cleveland.  He  took  the 
elect  course  in  the  Scientific  School,  was  a  member  of  the 
reshman  and  Apollo  Glee  clubs,  and  went  out  for  soccer. 


1250  SHEFFIELD    SCIENTIFIC    SCHOOL 

swimming,  and  tennis,  being  a  member  of  the  University- 
Soccer  Team  for  three  years.  Before  our  entry  into  the  war 
he  served  as  a  non-commissioned  officer  in  the  Yale  Batteries, 
spending  the  summer  of  1916  in  camp  atTobyhanna,  Pa. 

On  May  9,  191 7,  he  enlisted  as  a  Landsman  in  the  New 
York  Naval  Militia,  and  on  January  2,  191 8,  after  undergoing 
instruction  at  the  Naval  Air  Stations  at  Bay  Shore,  Long 
Island,  and  Miami,  Fla.,  received  a  commission  as  Ensign  in 
the  U.  S.  Naval  Reserve  Force.  He  then  served  for  several 
months  as  flight  instruction  officer  at  Miami,  and  was  after- 
wards on  special  duty  as  a  test  pilot.  On  May  i,  191 8,  he 
was  promoted  to  the  rank  of  Lieutenant  (junior  grade).  He 
died  July  19,  191 8,  near  East  Greenwich,  R.  L,  when  his 
airplane  fell  one  hundred  feet  into  the  water.  The  body  was 
recovered  and  buried  in  Lake  View  Cemetery,  Cleveland. 
He  was  a  member  of  the  Episcopal  Church. 

Mr.  Souther  was  unmarried.  He  is  survived  by  his  mother, 
a  sister,  Helen,  the  wife  of  Newton  Keith  Hartford  (B.S. 
Harvard  1909),  and  a  brother,  Hugh  Stirling  Souther,  who 
graduated  from  Yale  with  the  Class  of  19 14  S.  He  was  a 
nephew  of  William  Towle  Souther  (B.A.  1873)  and  Samuel  A. 
Souther,  ^^-'74,  and  a  cousin  of  Richard  Clement  Whittier 
(Ph.B.  1905)  and  of  Norrie  Fuller  Munger  (Ph.B.  1914). 


Truman  Dunham  Dyer,  Ph.B.   191 8 

Born  January  26,  1896,  in  Warren,  Ohio 
Died  December  11,  1918,  in  Montgomery,  Ala. 

Truman  Dunham  Dyer  was  born  in  Warren,  Ohio,  January 
26,  1896,  his  parents  being  Albion  Morris  and  Ella  Maria 
(Dunham)  Dyer.  His  father,  who  was  engaged  in  literary 
work,  was  the  son  of  Elbridge  G.  and  Margaret  (Teryer)  Dyer, 
and  a  descendant  of  Thomas  Dyer,  who  came  to  America 
from  England  about  1660,  settling  in  Saco,  Maine.  His 
maternal  grandparents  were  Truman  and  Angle  (Griswold) 
Dunham. 

He  received  his  preparatory  training  at  the  University 
School  in  Cleveland,  Ohio,  and  at  Phillips  Academy,  Andover, 
Mass.  He  took  the  select  course  in  the  Scientific  School,  and 


5>tporal  in  the  Yale  R.  O.  T.  C.  In  June,  1919,  he  was 
granted  the  degree  of  Ph.B.,  post  obitum,  honoris  causa^ 
with  enrollment  in  the  Class  of  191 8  S. 

He  entered  the  service  as  a  Private  at  Columbus  Barracks, 
Columbus,  Ohio,  August  8,  191 8,  and  was  shortly  sent  to 
Camp  Sheridan,  Montgomery,  Ala.,  and  assigned  to  the  67th 
Infantry.  In  September  he  was  appointed  Corporal  in  Com- 
pany K,  and  in  November  was  accepted  for  the  Officers' 
Training  Camp  at  Atlanta,  Ga.,  but  the  signing  of  the  armi- 
stice prevented  his  going.  He  died  of  pneumonia  December  11, 
191 8,  at  Camp  Sheridan.  Interment  was  in  Evergreen  Ceme- 
tery, New  Haven,  Conn. 

Mr.  Dyer  was  married  January  10, 191 8, in  New  York  City, 
to  Gwendolyn,  daughter  of  Rev.  Elmer  Addison  Dent  (Ph.B. 
University  of  Ohio  1888,  B.D.  Yale  1891,  B.D.  Boston  Uni- 
versity 1892).  They  had  a  son,  Truman  Dunham,  Jr.,  born 
December  i,  191 8,  who  survives.  Mrs.  Dyer  has  since  remar- 
ried. Mr.  Dyer's  mother,  a  sister,  and  two  brothers,  Elbridge 
G.  Dyer  (Ph.B.  1910)  and  Sydney  D.Dyer,  ^at-'ii,  are  living. 


Alfred  Austin  Farwell,  Ph.B.   191 8 

Born  May  14,  1894,  in  Turners  Falls,  Mass. 
Died  December  29,  191 8,  at  Camp  Merritt,  N.  J. 

Alfred  Austin  Farwell  was  born  in  Turners  Falls,  Mass., 
May  14,  1894.  His  father,  Norman  Porter  Farwell,  a  banker, 
is  the  son  of  John  Davis  and  Caroline  R.  (Richardson) 
Farwell,  and  a  descendant  of  Henry  Farwell,  who  came  to 
America  from  England  in  1635,  ^'^^  settled  in  Concord,  Mass. 
His  mother,  Elizabeth  Maria  (Austin)  Farwell,  is  the  daughter 
of  Gamaliel  and  Rebecca  (Holmes)  Austin.  She  traces  her 
ancestry  to  Thomas  Austin,  a  Revolutionary  soldier  who 
came  to  Connecticut  from  England  in  1760. 

He  prepared  at  the  Turners  Falls  High  School,  and  was  a 
member  of  the  Class  of  19 17  at  the  Massachusetts  Agricul- 
tural College  for  a  year  before  coming  to  Yale.  He  was  given 
honors  of  the  second  grade  for  excellence  in  all  studies  in 
Freshman  year,  and  general  honors  for  two  years'  work  in 
Icivil  engineering.  He  was  a  First  Lieutenant  in  the  Yale 


1252  SHEFFIELD    SCIENTIFIC    SCHOOL 

R.  O.  T.  C.  He  was  given  the  degree  of  Ph.B.,  post  obitum, 
honoris  causa,  with  enrollment  in  the  Class  of  191 8  S.,  at 
Commencement  in  19 19. 

He  attended  the  second  Plattsburg  Training  Camp,  and 
on  November  27,  191 7,  was  commissioned  a  Second  Lieuten- 
ant of  Field  Artillery.  He  was  assigned  to  active  duty  over- 
seas the  following  January,  and  after  attending  an  Officers' 
School  was  attached  first  to  Battery  A,  6th  Field  Artillery, 
and  later  to  the  ist  Trench  Mortar  Battery  of  that  regiment. 
He  returned  to  the  United  States  December  26,  191 8,  and 
after  visiting  his  family  went  to  Camp  Merritt,  New  Jersey. 
He  died  at  the  hospital  there  on  December  29,  and  was 
buried  in  Springdale  Cemetery  at  Turners  Falls.  Lieutenant 
Farwell  was  injured  while  abroad  when  his  horse  reared  and 
fell  backwards  upon  him.  He  was  also  badly  shell-shocked  and 
gassed,  and  these  injuries  later  proved  unexpectedly  serious, 
and  eventually  caused  his  death. 

Mr.  Farwell  belonged  to  the  Turners  Falls  Unitarian 
Church.  He  was  unmarried.  Besides  his  parents  he  leaves  two 
brothers  and  three  sisters.  John  Villiers  Farwell  (B.A.  1879), 
Francis  C.  Farwell  (B.A.  1882),  Arthur  L.  Farwell  (B.A.  1884), 
and  Robbins  B.  Stoeckel  (B.A.  1893)  are  among  his  Yale 
relatives. 


Edv^rard  Hines,  Jr.,  Ph.B.   1918 

Born  July  24,  1896,  in  Chicago,  111. 
Died  June  4,  191 8,  in  Chaumont,  France 

Edward  Hines,  Jr.,  son  of  Edward  and  Loretta  (O'Dowd) 
Hines,  was  born  July  24,  1896,  in  Chicago,  111.  His  paternal 
grandparents  were  Peter  Hines,  who  was  born  in  Ireland  and 
later  lived  in  Buffalo,  N.  Y.,  and  Rose  (McGary)  Hines.  His 
mother  is  the  daughter  of  John  J.  and  Margaret  (Dal ton) 
O'Dowd.  She  traces  her  ancestry  to  the  Goodbodys,  who 
came  to  America  from  Dublin,  Ireland,  and  settled  in  Detroit, 
Mich. 

He  was  fitted  for  college  at  the  University  School,  Chicago, 
and  at  Phillips  Academy,  Andover,  Mass.  He  took  the  select 
course  in  the  Sheffield  Scientific  School.  The  degree  of  Ph.B., 
post  obitum,  honoris  causa,  was  awarded  to  him  in  June,  1919- 


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1918  1253 

Te  left  Yale  in  May,  1917,  to  attend  the  Officers'  Training 
)amp  at  Fort  Sheridan,  Illinois.  At  its  close  in  August  he  was 
offered  the  choice  of  a  commission  as  a  First  Lieutenant  in  the 
National  Army  or  as  a  Second  Lieutenant  in  the  Regular 
.Army;  he  chose  the  latter  appointment  and  was  assigned  to 
Gettysburg,  Pa.  He  went  to  France  with  the  4th  Machine 
Gun  Battalion,  2d  Division,  in  December,  1917,  and  for  a  time 
served  as  assistant  adjutant  of  the  battalion.  In  April,  after 
several  months  in  the  trenches,  he  contracted  rheumatism, 
but  refused  to  leave  his  command  until  he  became  so  weak 
that  he  had  to  be  carried  to  his  quarters.  Pneumonia  devel- 
oped later,  and  this,  with  other  complications,  caused  his 
death,  which  occurred  June  4,  191 8,  at  Base  Hospital  No.  15 
at  Chaumont,  France,  in  which  town  he  was  buried.  He  was 
made  a  First  Lieutenant  October  20, 1917,  but  the  commission 
did  not  reach  him  until  he  was  on  his  death  bed.  He  had  been 
recommended  for  further  promotion,  and  would  probably 
have  received  a  Captain's  commission  in  a  short  time. 

Mr.  Hines  was  a  member  of  the  Roman  Catholic  Church. 
He  was  unmarried.  He  is  survived  by  his  parents,  two  brothers, 
Ralph  J.  Hines,  a  non-graduate  member  of  the  Class  of  1920  S., 
and  Charles  M.  Hines,  and  a  sister,  Loretta  Hines. 


Joseph  Sarsfield  Sweeny,  Ph.B.   1918 

Born  March  12,  1895,  i"  Coeur  d'Alene,  Idaho 
Died  October  3,  191 8,  in  Bois  Septsarges,  France 

Joseph  Sarsfield  Sweeny  was  born  March  12,  1895,  in 
Coeur  d'Alene,  Idaho,  the  son  of  Charles  and  Emeline  Agnes 
(O'Neil)  Sweeny.  His  father,  who  was  president  of  the  Federal 
Mining  Company,  was  the  son  of  John  and  Mary  (Deese) 
Sweeny.  His  maternal  grandparents  were  Michael  and  Mary 
(Sarsfield)  O'Neil. 

He  was  prepared  at  the  Taft  School,  Watertown,  Conn., 
and  at  the  Newman  School,  Hackensack,  N.  J.  At  Yale  he 
took  the  select  course  in  the  Sheffield  Scientific  School.  He 
went  out  for  baseball  and  basketball  and  in  1916  was  actively 
interested  in  Boys'  Club  work.  He  spent  the  summer  of  1916 
at  Tobyhanna,  Pa.,  as  a  Sergeant  in  Battery  C  of  the  Yale 
Batteries,  and  the  next  year  was  a  member  of  the  Yale  R.  O, 


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T.  C.  He  received  the  degree  of  Ph.B.,  post  obitum^  honoris 
causa,  with  enrollment  in  the  Class  of  191 8  S.,  at  Commence- 
ment in  1919. 

He  entered  the  Officers'  Training  Camp  at  The  Presidio  of 
San  Francisco,  Calif.,  in  May,  1917,  but  left  after  five  weeks 
to  take  the  Regular  Army  examinations.  He  was  offered  a 
commission  in  the  Cavalry  but  refused  it,  and  after  attending 
the  second  Training  Camp  at  Fort  Oglethorpe,  Georgia,  was, 
on  November  27,  1917,  made  a  Captain  in  the  Field  Artillery. 
After  receiving  his  commission,  he  was  sent  to  Camp  Jackson, 
South  Carolina,  where  he  served  in  the  Headquarters  Com- 
pany. He  was  later  stationed  at  Camp  Greene,  North  Caro- 
lina, and  in  June,  1918,  went  abroad  with  the  i6th  Field 
Artillery.  He  was  killed  in  action  at  Bois  Septsarges  in  the 
Verdun  sector  on  October  3,  191 8.  He  was  buried  in  the 
Argonne  American  Cemetery  at  Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, 
Meuse. 

Captain  Sweeny  was  married  February  2,  191 8,  in  Balti- 
more, Md.,  to  Louise,  daughter  of  Owen  and  Anna  (Hellman) 
Daly,  who  survives  him,  with  a  son,  J,  Sarsfield,  born  No- 
vember 14, 191 8.  He  also  leaves  two  sisters  and  three  brothers. 
His  father  died  on  May  30,  1916,  and  his  mother  on  January 
3>  1919- 

Wallace  Charles  Winter,  Jr.,  Ph.B.   1918 

Born  May  4,  1896,  in  St.  Paul,  Minn. 
Died  March  8,  191 8,  in  Pont-Faverger,  France 

Wallace  Charles  Winter,  Jr.,  was  born  May  4,  1896,  in  St. 
Paul,  Minn.,  the  son  of  Wallace  Charles  and  Florence  Lillian 
(Robbins)  Winter.  His  father,  who  graduated  from  the 
Sheffield  Scientific  School  in  1893,  is  at  present  senior  partner 
in  the  brokerage  firm  of  Farnum,  Winter  &  Company,  of 
Chicago,  111.  His  parents  were  Edwin  Wheeler  and  Elizabeth 
(Cannon)  Winter.  Mrs.  Winter  graduated  from  Vassar  in 

He  received  his  preparatory  training  at  the  Hotchkiss 
School,  Lakeville,  Conn.,  and  took  the  select  course  in  the 
Scientific  School.  He  played  on  the  Freshman  Football  Team, 
winning  his  numerals.  He  was  granted  the  degree  of  Ph.B., 


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post  obitum,  honoris  causa^  with  enrollment  in  the  Class  of 
1918  S.,  in  June,  1919. 

He  left  college  in  May,  1917,  to  join  the  French  Aviation 
Service,  and  after  undergoing  preliminary  training  became  a 
Pilote  du  Chasse  in  Escadrille  No.  156.  He  was  killed  in  action 
in  aerial  combat  with  German  biplanes  on  March  8,  191 8, 
falling  at  Pont-Faverger,  a  small  village  not  far  from  Rheims. 
He  was  buried  by  the  enemy  in  Terre  Rouge  Cemetery, 
but  on  November  28,  1919,  his  body  was  removed  to  the 
American  Military  Cemetery  at  Belleau.  At  the  time  of  his 
death  he  ranked  as  a  Sergeant  in  the  French  Army  Aviation, 
but  was  about  to  be  transferred  to  the  U.  S.  Army,  having 
been  commissioned  a  First  Lieutenant  in  the  Air  Service.  His 
discharge  from  the  French  Army  had  not  been  received,  how- 
ever. He  had  been  decorated  with  the  Croix  de  Guerre  for 
bravery  in  a  combat  with  German  flyers  in  January. 

Mr.  Winter  was  not  married.  He  is  survived  by  his  parents 
and  two  brothers,  Daniel  R.  Winter,  ex-io^  and  Edwin  W. 
Winter,  2d,  a  member  of  the  Class  of  1921.  He  was  a  nephew 
of  Charlton  M.  Lewis,  '86,  and  Harry  M.  Robbins,  '02,  and  a 
cousip  of  William  W.  Dean,  '18,  and  Winter  Mead,  '19. 


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Walter  Orestes  Cartwright,  M.A.   1905 

Born  May  28,  1857,  in  South  Reading  (now  Wakefield),  Mass. 
Died  February  19,  1919,  in  Wakefield,  Mass. 

Walter  Orestes  Cartwright  was  born  May  28, 1857,  in  South 
Reading  (now  Wakefield),  Mass.,  the  son  of  Joseph  and 
Hannah  Stevens  (Day)  Cartwright.  His  father,  who  served  in 
the  Civil  War,  was  descended  from  James  Cartwright,  who 
came  to  this  country  from  England  and  settled  at  Wakefield. 

His  preparatory  training  was  received  at  Phillips  Academy, 
Andover,  Mass.,  and  in  1881  he  graduated  from  Brown  Uni- 
versity with  the  degree  of  B.A.  He  taught  at  West  Epping, 
N.  H.,  during  the  next  year  and  at  the  Chauncy  Hall  School 
in  Boston  from  1882  to  1887.  The  next  year  was  spent  as 
principal  of  the  East  Douglas  (Mass.)  High  School,  from 
1888  to  1890  he  was  sub-master  of  the  high  school  at  Haver- 
hill, Mass.,  and  during  1890-91  he  was  head  of  the  depart- 
ment of  mathematics  at  the  Vermont  Academy  at  Saxton's 
River,  Vt.  He  then  went  to  Washington,  D.  C.,  to  become 
chief  of  the  Education  Division  in  the  Indian  Office.  He  held 
this  position  until  1893,  and  during  the  year  following  was 
principal  of  the  high  school  at  Fairfield,  Maine.  He  was 
district  superintendent  of  schools  for  Harwich,  Brewster, 
Orleans,  and  Eastham,  Mass.,  from  1894  to  1897,  and  for 
Georgetown,  Groveland,  and  Rowley,  Mass.,  during  the  next 
five  years.  In  1902  he  became  supervisor  of  the  schools  of 
Wallingford,  Conn.,  and  at  the  same  time  took  graduate 
work  at  Yale,  receiving  the  degree  of  M.A.  in  1905.  From 
1906  to  1908  he  was  an  agent  for  the  Connecticut  State  Board 
of  Education,  after  which  he  became  department  manager  for 
the  Bullard  Company,  a  publishing  house  in  Boston.  The 
last  few  years  of  his  life  were  spent  as  principal  of  a  school 
in  the  Saxonville  district  of  Framingham,  Mass.,  and  during 
this  period  his  home  was  at  Wakefield.  For  a  number  of  years 

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I905-I9I2  1257 

previous  to  his  death  he  had  been  a  trustee  of  the  Wakefield 
Public  Library. 

Mr.  Cartwright  died  in  Wakefield,  February  19,  1919,  from 
pneumonia,  after  an  illness  of  a  week.  Burial  was  in  the 
Lakeside  Cemetery  at  Wakefield. 

He  was  married  June  24,  1885,  in  West  Epping,  N.  H.,  to 
Abbie,  daughter  of  Israel  F.  and  Olevia  Dow  Norris.  She 
survives  him  with  a  son,  Lieut.  Kenneth  Cartwright,  U.  S.  N. 
(B.S.  Massachusetts  Institute  of  Technology  1912).  Another 
son,  Paul,  a  member  of  the  Class  of  191 8  at  Brown  Univer- 
sity, died  in  Brest,  France,  October  8,  191 8,  while  serving  as  a 
Lieutenant  in  the  Air  Service,  and  a  daughter,  Marjorie,  who 
graduated  from  the  Museum  of  Fine  Arts  in  Boston  in  1917, 
died  November  2,  1919. 


Edward  Franklin  Lane,  M.A.   1912 

Born  September  27,  1886,  in  Gastonville,  Pa. 
Died  October  17,  19 18,  in  Waterloo,  N.  Y. 

Edward  Franklin  Lane,  son  of  Sylvanus  and  Martha  M. 
Lane,  was  born  September  27,  1886,  in  Gastonville,  Pa.  His 
parents  and  grandparents  on  both  sides  were  born  in  this 
country.  His  father  was  a  graduate  of  Mount  Union  College, 
and  also  received  the  degree  of  M.A.  from  that  institution. 
He  taught  for  some  years,  at  one  time  being  the  principal  of 
the  Somerset  County  (Pa.)  Normal  School,  and  later  became 
a  minister  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church. 

He  received  his  preparatory  training  at  the  Marion  Col- 
legiate Institute  at  Marion,  N.  Y.,  and  at  the  Canandaigua 
(N.  Y.)  High  School.  He  taught  the  village  school  at  Chapin- 
ville  after  completing  his  high  school  course,  and  in  the 
autumn  of  1905  entered  Syracuse  University,  where  he  was 
graduated  in  1909  with  the  degree  of  B.A.  At  Syracuse  he  was 
a  member  of  the  Semitic  Club,  the  Maltbie  Babcock  Society, 
the  Philosophical  Society,  and  Phi  Beta  Kappa.  He  was 
admitted  to  the  Central  New  York  Conference  of  the  Metho- 
dist Episcopal  Church  in  October,  1909,  and  during  the  next 
two  years  was  pastor  of  the  Methodist  Church  at  DeRuyter, 
N.  y.   In  October,   191 1,  he  entered  Yale  University  for 


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graduate  work,  and  the  following  June  was  granted  his  M.A. 
After  leaving  Yale  he  became  pastor  of  the  Methodist  Epis- 
copal Church  at  Sodus  Point,  N.  Y.,  and  remained  there  for 
four  years.  He  then  accepted  the  pastorate  of  the  Methodist 
Episcopal  Church  at  Waterloo,  N.  Y.,  where  his  death  oc- 
curred October  17, 191 8,  after  a  week's  illness  due  to  influenza. 
He  was  buried  in  the  local  cemetery. 

Mr.  Lane  was  a  member  of  the  Hamilton  Club  of  the 
Central  New  York  Conference,  and  was  for  two  years  presi- 
dent of  the  Geneva  District  Epworth  League.  He  was  not 
married.  His  mother  and  a  brother,  Rev.  W.  W.  Lane,  pastor 
of  the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church  at  Clyde,  N.  Y.,  survive 
him. 


Shosaku  Oshima,  M.A.   191 5 

Born  March  15,  1882,  in  Suruga,  Japan 
Died  April  18,  191 8,  in  Sendai,  Japan 

Shosaku  Oshima  was  born  on  March  15,  1882,  at  Imasawa, 
Numazu,  Suruga,  Japan.  His  family  have  been  engaged  in 
farming  in  Suruga  for  generations.  His  father,  Naokichi 
Oshima,  was  born  in  1838  and  died  in  1914.  His  mother,  Sei 
Machida,  was  born  in  1842  and  died  in  1902.  He  had  a  brother 
and  five  sisters,  but  none  of  them  are  now  living. 

He  came  to  America  in  1903,  and  after  attending  the 
Lowell  (Calif.)  High  School,  entered  Leland  Stanford  Junior 
University,  where  he  was  graduated  with  the  degree  of  B.A. 
in  1913.  He  afterwards  studied  in  the  Yale  Divinity  School 
for  three  years,  at  the  same  time  taking  work  in  the  Graduate 
School.  In  191 5  he  was  given  the  degree  of  M.A.  In  October, 
1916,  he  became  a  teacher  in  the  theological  department  of 
the  Aoyama  Gakuin,  a  Methodist  institution  at  Tokio,  and 
continued  in  that  work  until  his  death. 

He  died  by  his  own  hand  at  Sendai,  Japan,  April  18,  191 8, 
and  was  buried  in  the  Shounji  Cemetery  in  his  native  place. 

He  was  unmarried.  A  nephew,  Chuzo  Sugiyama,  is  living  at 
Suruga. 


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M.A.  I9I2-PH.D.  1886  1259 

Edward  Bull  Clapp,  Ph.D.   1886 

Born  April  14,  1856,  in  Cheshire,  Conn. 
Died  February  7,  19 19,  in  Berkeley,  Calif. 

Edward  Bull  Clapp,  son  of  Rev.  Charles  Wells  Clapp  and 
Jane  Pray  (Bassett)  Clapp,  was  born  April  14,  1856,  in 
Cheshire,  Conn.  His  father  graduated  from  Western  Reserve 
in  1845,  ^^d  was  later  a  minister  of  the  Congregational 
Church.  He  was  descended  from  Capt.  Roger  Clapp,  who  was 
born  in  Salcombe  Regis,  Devonshire,  England,  in  1606,  and 
was  one  of  the  first  settlers  of  Dorchester,  Mass.,  in  1630. 
The  Bassett  family  were  early  settlers  in  New  Haven,  Conn., 
John  Bassett  and  his  son  Robert  having  been  residents  there 
as  early  as  1643. 

He  received  his  preparatory  training  at  Grinnell,  Iowa,  and 
in  1875  graduated  from  Grinnell  College  with  the  degree  of 
B.A.  Three  years  later  he  took  his  M.A.  there.  He  had  also 
been  a  graduate  student  at  the  University  of  Berlin  and  at 
Yale,  and  in  1886  was  granted  the  degree  of  Ph.D.  at  Yale. 
He  was  a  member  of  Phi  Beta  Kappa. 

From  1882  to  1890  he  was  professor  of  Greek  at  Illinois 
College,  and  during  the  next  three  years  was  assistant  profes- 
sor of  the  same  subject  at  Yale.  He  then  accepted  the  chair 
of  Greek  at  the  University  of  California,  and  remained  in  that 
connection  until  his  death,  having  been  made  emeritus  pro- 
fessor in  1 9 17.  His  service  at  the  University  of  California  was 
interrupted  by  a  second  year  in  Germany  and  by  a  year 
(1907-08)  as  a  visiting  professor  at  the  American  School  of 
Classical  Studies  at  Athens.  He  had  served  as  chairman  of  the 
editorial  board  of  the  University  of  California's  publications 
in  classical  philology,  and  was  the  author  of  a  number  of 
papers  on  Greek  subjects.  In  1899  ^^  published  an  edition 
of  the  last  six  books  of  the  Iliad.  He  was  a  member  of  the 
American  Philological  Association,  the  Archaeological  Insti- 
tute of  America,  and  the  Philological  Association  of  the 
Pacific  Coast,  of  which  latter  organization  he  was  twice 
president.  Illinois  College  conferred  the  degree  of  LL.D.  upon 
him  in  1914.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Congregational  Church. 

Dr.  Clapp's  death  occurred  in  Berkeley,  Calif.,  February 
7, 1919,  after  an  illness  of  two  years. 


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He  was  married  December  22,  1886,  to  May  Mattoon, 
daughter  of  Elizur  Wolcott  (B.A.  1839)  ^^^  Martha  Lyman 
(Dwight)  Wolcott,  of  Jacksonville,  111.  She  survives  him  with 
two  daughters:  Edith  Dwight  (B.A.  University  of  California 
191 2),  now  Mrs.  John  C.  Snook,  of  Casper,  Wyo.,  and  Miriam 
Wolcott,  also  a  graduate  of  the  University  of  California. 
The  latter  is  the  wife  of  Richard  Dyer-Bennett,  and  lives  in 
England.  Professor  Clapp  is  also  survived  by  his  mother, 
two  sisters,  a  brother,  Clement  Long  Clapp,  who  studied  in 
the  Yale  Graduate  School  during  1872-73,  and  six  grand- 
children. He  was  a  cousin  of  John  D.  Bassett,  ex-%o,  and 
Samuel  E.  Bassett,  '98,  and  a  second  cousin  of  Elliott  Bassett 
Brown,  '19. 

Joseph  Barrell,  Ph.D.   1900 

Born  December  15,  1869,  in  New  Providence,  N.  J. 
Died  May  4,  1919,  in  New  Haven,  Conn. 

Joseph  Barrell  was  born  December  15,  1869,  in  New  Provi- 
dence, N.  J.,  the  son  of  Henry  Ferdinand  and  Elizabeth 
(Wisner)  Barrell.  His  father's  parents  were  George  and 
Eliza  (Leycraft)  Barrell,  and  his  mother  is  the  daughter 
of  Henry  Board  and  Mary  Ann  (Wood)  Wisner.  His  great- 
grandfather, Capt.  George  Leycraft,  fought  in  the  Revolution 
in  Colonel  Lamb's  Artillery,  and  was  one  of  the  founders  of 
the  Society  of  the  Cincinnati.  His  great-great-grandfather, 
Henry  Wisner,  3d,  was  a  Lieutenant  Colonel  in  the  Revolu- 
tionary Army.  His  earliest  American  ancestor  on  the  paternal 
side  came  to  this  country  in  1637  from  Suffolk,  England, 
and  settled  in  Boston,  Mass.  His  mother  is  of  Swiss,  Dutch, 
English,  and  Welsh  descent.  The  Wisners  came  to  America 
from  Switzerland  in  17 14. 

He  received  his  preparatory  training  at  Stevens  Prepara- 
tory School  in  New  Providence.  He  then  taught  for  a  year  in 
the  public  schools  of  Chatham  Township,  N.  J,,  but  left  this 
work  to  enter  Lehigh  University,  from  which  he  was  grad- 
uated with  the  degree  of  B.S.  in  1892.  The  following  year  he 
received  the  degree  of  E.M.,  and  four  years  later  that  of 
M.S.  From  1893  to  1897  he  was  an  instructor  in  mining  and 
metallurgy  at  Lehigh.  In  1894  he  became  an  assistant  mining 


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engineer  for  the  Lehigh  Valley  Coal  Company,  and  he  was 
later  successively  connected  with  the  Butte  &  Boston,  and 
the  Boston  &  Montana  Mining  companies.  He  was  a  field 
assistant  in  the  United  States  Geological  Survey  from  1899  to 
1 901.  In  1900  he  received  an  appointment  as  assistant  pro- 
fessor of  geology  at  Lehigh  University  and  remained  there 
until  1903,  during  most  of  this  time  being  in  charge  of  the 
department  of  natural  sciences.  He  had  taken  his  Ph.D.  at 
Yale  in  1900,  and  in  1903  he  was  appointed  assistant  pro- 
fessor of  structural  geology  at  the  University.  In  1908  he  was 
promoted  to  a  full  professorship  and  continued  in  this  con- 
nection until  his  death.  Professor  Barrell  was  an  honorary 
member  of  Phi  Beta  Kappa,  a  Fellow  of  the  American  Asso- 
ciation for  the  Advancement  of  Science,  and  a  member  of  the 
Geological  Society  of  America,  the  Washington  Academy  of 
Science,  the  American  Society  of  Arts  and  Sciences,  and  the 
Connecticut  Academy  of  Sciences.  In  191 6  Lehigh  Univer- 
sity conferred  the  honorary  degree  of  Doctor  of  Science  upon 
him.  On  April  30,  191 9,  he  was  elected  to  the  National 
Academy  of  Sciences. 

He  died  May  4,  1 919,  at  his  home  in  New  Haven  of  spinal 
meningitis,  which  developed  from  an  attack  of  pneumonia. 
Interment  was  in  Evergreen  Cemetery,  New  Haven.  Among 
his  bequests  was  a  gift  of  certain  geological  books  and  speci- 
mens to  the  geological  department  of  Yale. 

On  December  27,  1902,  he  was  married  in  Bethlehem,  Pa., 
to  Lena  Hopper,  daughter  of  Herbert  Clarendon  and  Anna 
Doremus  (Hopper)  Bailey.  She  survives  him  with  their  four 
sons:  Joseph,  Herbert  Bailey,  William  Colburn,  and  Richard 
Lull.  His  mother  is  also  living. 


Ralph  Davis  Gilbert,  Ph.D.   1904 

Born  June  10,  1878,  in  Gilead,  Conn. 
Died  April  24,  191 9,  in  Winchester,  Mass. 

Ralph  Davis  Gilbert,  the  son  of  John  Randolph  and  Mary 
(Davis)  Gilbert,  was  born  June  10,  1878,  in  Gilead,  Conn. 
His  father,  who  was  a  farmer,  was  a  descendant  of  Jonathan 
Gilbert,  born  in    161 8,  who  came  to  America  from  England 


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some  time  before  1645  ^^^  settled  at  Hartford,  Conn.  His 
mother  was  the  daughter  of  Noah  C.  Davis,  and  a  direct 
descendant  of  John  Alden.  Her  people  came  from  Southamp- 
ton, England,  and  settled  at  Salem,  Mass.,  in  1638.  Among 
his  ancestors  who  attended  Yale  were  Samuel  Gilbert  (B.A. 
1759),  Charles  Champion  Gilbert  (B.A.  18 17),  and  Rev. 
Edwin  Randolph  Gilbert  (B.A.  1829),  a  member  of  the  Yale 
Corporation  from  1849  ^o  1874. 

He  was  prepared  for  college  at  Gilead  and  Storrs  Conn. 
In  1900  he  received  the  degree  of  B.A.  from  Boston  Univer- 
sity and  that  of  B.S.  from  the  Massachusetts  Agricultural 
College.  He  was  an  assistant  in  chemistry  at  Yale  from  1902 
to  1904,  while  pursuing  his  studies  for  his  Ph.D.  At  the  time  of 
his  death  he  was  secretary  of  the  Bowker  Fertilizer  Com- 
pany and  vice  president  of  the  Bowker  Insecticide  Company, 
of  Boston,  Mass. 

Mr.  Gilbert  died  April  24,  1919,  at  his  home  in  Winchester, 
Mass.,  after  an  illness  of  several  weeks  due  to  pneumonia. 
He  was  buried  in  his  native  town. 

He  was  married  November  19,  191 2,  at  Bellows  Falls,  Vt., 
to  Helen  Winifred,  daughter  of  Herbert  Daniel  and  Margaret 
(Ball)  Ryder.  She  survives  him  with  three  daughters,  Deborah 
Champion,  Elizabeth,  and  Katharine. 


Charles  Wales  Drysdale,  Ph.D.   19 12 

Born  November  i,  1885,  in  Montreal,  Que.,  Canada 
Died  July  10,  1917,  in  British  Columbia 

Charles  Wales  Drysdale  was  born  November  i,  1885,  ^" 
Montreal,  Que.,  Canada,  the  son  of  William  Drysdale,  a 
publisher,  and  Mary  Maltbie  (Wales)  Drysdale.  His  father 
was  the  son  of  Adam  and  Mary  (Black)  Drysdale,  who 
settled  at  Montreal  in  1837.  His  mother's  parents  were  Charles 
and  Letitia  (Treadwell)  Wales.  Her  family  went  from  the 
United  States  to  Canada  in  the  last  century. 

He  was  fitted  for  college  at  the  Montreal  High  School,  and 
in  1909  graduated  with  the  degree  of  B.S.  from  McGill  Uni- 
versity. He  studied  geology  in  the  Yale  Graduate  School 
during  the  next  three  years,  and  in  19 12  was  given  his  Ph.D. 


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Since  that  time  he  had  been  connected  with  the  Geological 
Survey  of  Canada,  and  was  a  member  of  the  staff  of  the  Vic- 
oria  Memorial  Museum   at  Ontario.  He  belonged  to  the 
tanley  Presbyterian  Church  in  Montreal. 
Dr.  Drysdale  was  drowned  July  10,  191 7,  in  the  Kootenay 
River  in  British  Columbia.  The  body  was  not  recovered. 
He  was  married  May  14,  191 2,  at  McKays  Corners,  Glace 
ay,  Cape  Breton,  Nova  Scotia,  to  Plessah  Beryl  Ogilvie, 
ho  survives  him  with  three  children,  Dornagilla,  Athalie, 
nd  Alpin  Ogilvie. 


Louis  Selbert,  Ph.D.   1916 

Born  May  26,  1888,  in  Cincinnati,  Ohio 
Died  November  26,  191 8,  in  Columbia,  Mo. 

Louis  Selbert,  son  of  John  and  Catherine  Broderick  Sel- 
bert, was  born  in  Cincinnati,  Ohio,  May  26,  1888.  His  grand- 
parents, John  and  Mary  Selbert,  came  to  this  country  from 
Alsace  in  1850,  and  settled  at  Tell  City,  Ind.,  where  they 
were  among  the  first  pioneers.  John  Selbert  erected  the  first 
saw  mill  there,  and  later  moved  to  Cincinnati,  where  his 
youngest  son,  John,  was  born.  John  Selbert,  Jr.,  was  an 
artist  who  died  at  the  age  of  thirty,  leaving  four  children, 
the  youngest  of  whom  was  Louis  Selbert.  On  the  maternal 
side  the  latter  was  of  French  and  German  descent.  Both  of 
his  mother's  parents  were  born  in  Cincinnati. 

He  was  prepared  for  college  at  the  Woodward  High  School, 
Cincinnati,  and  received  his  B.A.  and  M.A.  degrees  from  the 
University  of  Cincinnati  in  1909  and  1910,  respectively.  He 
then  went  to  the  University  of  Paris  as  an  honor  student  on  a 
scholarship  of  the  Alliance  Frangaise,  and  he  later  received 
an  honor  certificate  from  the  Sorbonne.  On  returning  to 
America  in  191 1,  he  entered  the  Yale  Graduate  School.  After 
a  year  there  he  became  an  instructor  at  the  University  of 
Missouri,  but  in  1914  returned  to  Yale  as  an  instructor  in 
French.  He  also  resumed  his  graduate  work  and  in  1916 
received  his  doctorate.  Since  that  time  he  had  been  professor 
of  Romance  languages  at  the  University  of  Missouri.  He  was  a 
member  of  Phi  Beta  Kappa.  Dr.  Selbert  visited  France  four 

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times  and  worked  at  the  Sorbonne  during  each  visit.  He  was 
there  when  the  war  broke  out  and  volunteered  for  military 
service,  but  was  not  accepted  because  he  could  not  pass  the 
physical  examination.  He  served,  however,  as  an  interpreter 
until  he  was  obliged  to  leave  to  resume,  his  work  at  the  Uni- 
versity of  Missouri. 

He  died  November  26,  191 8,  at  his  home  in  Columbia, 
Mo.,  after  an  illness  of  ten  days,  from  pneumonia  following 
Spanish  influenza.  His  body  was  buried  in  Spring  Grove 
Cemetery,  Cincinnati. 

He  was  married  in  that  city,  April  5,  1917,  to  Norma, 
daughter  of  Louis  W.  and  Caroline  (Muth)  Sauer,  who  sur- 
vives him.  His  mother  lives  in  Cincinnati. 


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;Clara  Hemenway  (Holman)  Wright,  Mus.B.  191 2 

Born  March  i6,  1887,  in  Southport,  Conn. 
Died  September  7,  191 8,  in  New  York  City- 
Clara  Hemenway  (Holman)  Wright  was  born  March  16, 
1887,  in  Southport,  Conn.,  the  daughter  of  Rev.  William 
Henry  Holman  and  Clara  Erskine  (Colburn)  Holman.  Her 
father,  whose  parents  were  Edwin  and  Sarah  Elizabeth 
(Hemenway)  Holman,  graduated  from  Harvard  in  1875  ^^^ 
from  Union  Theological  Seminary  in  1877.  Her  mother  was 
the  daughter  of  George  Dwight  and  Anna  Frances  (Clement) 
Colburn.  Mrs.  Wright  was  of  English  descent,  tracing  her 
ancestry  to  William  Bradford  of  the  Mayflower  company. 

She  received  her  early  education  at  the  Seaside  Seminary 
in  Southport  and  at  the  Courtland  School,  Bridgeport,  Conn. 
She  was  a  student  in  the  Yale  School  of  Music  from  1909  to 
1914,  and  was  given  the  degree  of  Bachelor  of  Music  in  191 2. 
She  was  a  member  of  the  Southport  Congregational  Church. 
Her  death  occurred  in  New  York  City,  September  7,  191 8, 
and  she  was  buried  in  the  Oaklawn  Cemetery,  Fairfield,  Conn. 
Her  home  at  the  time  of  her  death  was  in  Glens  Falls,  N.  Y. 

She  was  married  October  i,  1914,  at  Southport,  Conn.,  to 
Cecil  Wright,  son  of  Rev.  O.  O.  Wright  and  Annie  (Kings- 
bury) Wright.  Mr.  Wright  studied  in  the  Yale  School  of 
Music  from  1905  to  1907  and  in  Paris  under  the  French 
organist  Widor  during  1911-12.  He  is  a  teacher  of  singing 
and  an  organist  and  has  been  head  of  the  vocal  departments 
of  the  Troy  and  Schenectady  (N.  Y.)  Conservatories  of 
Music.  Mrs.  Wright  also  left  a  son,  Bradford,  born  August 
28,  191 8.  She  was  a  sister  of  Margaret  Holman  (Mrs.  Robert 
Smiley  McClelland)  and  Ruth  Colburn  Holman  (Mrs.  George 
A.  Sherwood),  graduates  of  Smith  College  in  1902  and  1906, 
respectively,  and  a  cousin  of  Norton  A.  Kent,  '95,  and  Albert 
E.  Kent,  '97. 

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Albert  Wyman  Hayward,  M.F.   1912 

Born  August  30,  1888,  in  Eagle  Mills,  Ark. 
Died  November  23,  191 8,  in  Rudyard,  Mont. 

Albert  Wyman  Hayward  was  born  August  30,  1888,  at 
Eagle  Mills,  Ark.,  the  son  of  Cassius  David  Hayward,  a 
lumberman,  and  Emma  Louise  (Wyman)  Hayward.  His 
father  was  the  son  of  Albert  James  and  Mary  (Frisbie) 
Hayward,  and  his  mother's  parents  were  Daniel  and  Anna 
(Phelps)  Wyman.  One  of  his  ancestors  was  Ephraim  Hay- 
ward, who  served  in  the  Revolutionary  Army  for  over  seven 
years.  His  mother's  ancestors,  the  Wymans,  came  to  this 
country  in  1640  from  West  Mill,  Herts,  England,  settling  in 
Burlington,  Mass.,  where  the  old  Wyman  House,  built  in 
1666,  still  stands.  John  Wyman  was  one  of  the  founders  of 
Woburn,  Mass.  Another  ancestor  on  the  maternal  side, 
George  Phelps,  came  to  America  from  Tewksbury,  Gloucester- 
shire, England,  in  1630,  and  settled  in  Dorchester,  Mass. 
The  Frisbies  were  of  French  Huguenot  stock,  and  came  to 
this  country  at  an  early  date. 

He  received  his  preparatory  training  at  the  Davenport 
(Iowa)  High  School,  and  in  1910  was  graduated  from  Grinnell 
College  with  the  degree  of  Ph.B.  He  then  entered  the  Yale 
School  of  Forestry.  After  receiving  his  forestry  degree  in  191 2, 
he  became  connected  with  the  Dover  Lumber  Company  of 
Dover,  Idaho.  Four  years  later  he  left  their  employ  to  become 
assistant  manager  for  the  Roger-Templeton  Lumber  Com- 
pany of  Great  Falls,  Mont.  He  was  afterwards  resident 
manager  of  their  yards  at  Laredo  and  Rudyard. 

Mr.  Hayward  died  November  23,  191 8,  in  Rudyard,  Mont., 
after  an  illness  of  ten  days  due  to  Spanish  influenza,  followed 
by  pneumonia.  He  was  buried  in  Oakdale  Cemetery,  Daven- 
port, Iowa. 

He  was  married  June   11,   1914,  at  Van  Wert,  Ohio,  to 

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Gillia  Mae,  daughter  of  Gustaf  Adolph  and  Margaret  Ander- 
son. They  had  two  children,  Margaret  Louise  and  Ann 
Mercedes,  who,  with  their  mother,  survive.  Mr.  Hay  ward 
leaves  also  his  parents  and  a  brother.  He  was  a  member  of 
the  Edwards  Congregational  Church  of  Davenport. 


Davis  Winans  Lusk,  M.F.   1912 

Born  October  28,  1888,  in  Newark,  N.  J. 
Died  October  21,  191 8,  at  Fort  Hancock,  N.  J. 

Davis  Winans  Lusk  was  born  October  28,  1888,  in  Newark, 
N.  J.,  the  son  of  Rev.  Davis  William  Lusk,  B.A.,  D.D.,  secre- 
tary and  superintendent  of  home  missions  in  the  Presbytery 
of  Newark,  stated  clerk  and  treasurer  of  the  Presbytery  of 
Newark,  president  of  the  board  of  trustees  of  both  the 
Presbyterian  Hospital  in  Newark  and  the  Job  Haines  Home 
for  Aged  People  at  Bloomfield,  N.  J.,  and  a  member  of  the 
board  of  directors  of  the  Bloomfield  Theological  Seminary. 
His  mother  was  Martha  Louise  (Winans)  Lusk,  a  graduate 
of  the  New  Jersey  State  Normal  School  at  Trenton,  and  for  a 
few  years  prior  to  her  marriage  a  teacher  in  the  public  schools 
of  Newark  and  East  Orange.  Her  death  occurred  December 
22,  1 919.  Davis  Winans  Lusk's  paternal  grandparents  were 
Jonathan  and  Jane  N.  (Davis)  Lusk,  and  his  mother  was  the 
daughter  of  William  Henry  and  Sarah  Maria  (Dickerson) 
Winans.  On  his  father's  side  he  was  of  Scotch  ancestry,  his 
first  ancestor  to  come  to  America  having  settled  in  New 
Jersey  and  shortly  afterwards  removed  to  western  Penn- 
sylvania. On  the  maternal  side  he  was  of  Dutch  and  English 
descent  and  traced  his  ancestry  to  the  Revolution  and  to  the 
Mayflower. 

He  was  prepared  at  the  Bordentown  Military  Institute,  and 
received  the  degree  of  B.A.  from  Lafayette  College  in  1910. 
He  entered  the  Yale  School  of  Forestry  in  the  fall  of  that  year, 
and  after  his  graduation  in  191 2  was  employed  for  a  time  as  a 
field  assistant  at  the  Connecticut  State  Agricultural  Experi- 
ment Station  in  New  Haven.  He  later  worked  for  the  state 
forester  of  New  Hampshire  and  for  the  Laurentide  Paper 
Company  of  Grandmere,  Quebec.  He  then  accepted  a  position 


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as  a  forester  under  the  Canadian  Government,  and  was  first 
stationed  at  Kamloops,  British  Columbia,  being  transferred 
later  to  Ottawa,  Ontario. 

He  enlisted  in  May,  191 8,  and  was  stationed  for  a  time  at 
Camp  Dix,  New  Jersey.  For  two  months  before  his  death  he 
had  been  at  Fort  Hancock,  New  Jersey,  connected  with 
Company  C,  15th  Battalion,  U.  S.  Guards;  he  was  to  have 
taken  his  examination  for  admission  to  the  Officers'  Train- 
ing School,  Engineer  Corps,  on  the  day  he  died.  He  was  a 
member  of  the  Forest  Hill  Presbyterian  Church  and  of  the 
Canadian  Society  of  Forest  Engineers. 

His  death  occurred  October  21,  191 8,  at  Fort  Hancock, 
from  bronchial  pneumonia,  after  an  illness  of  less  than  twenty- 
four  hours.  He  was  buried  in  Mount  Pleasant  Cemetery, 
Newark. 

Mr.  Lusk  was  unmarried.  He  is  survived  by  his  father  and 
two  sisters,  Mary  Edith  Lusk  and  Mildred  Dickerson  Lusk 
Lang,  wife  of  Fred  Paul  Lang,  who  served  during  the  war  as  a 
Junior  Lieutenant  in  the  U.  S.  Naval  Air  Service  and  was 
stationed  in  France  for  nine  months. 


Joseph  Brown  Bowen,  M.F.  1917 

Born  April  15,  1891,  in  Providence,  R.  I. 
Died  September  7,  1918,  near  the  Bois  Bourliou,  France 

Joseph  Brown  Bowen,  son  of  Edward  S.  and  Elma  Sophia 
(Brown)  Bowen,  was  born  April  15,  1891,  in  Providence, 
R.  L  His  father,  who  was  president  of  the  Newell  Coal  & 
Lumber  Company,  was  the  son  of  Clovis  H.  and  Nancy  W. 
(Steere)  Bowen.  Among  his  early  ancestors  in  this  country 
was  Dr.  Richard  Bowen,  who  came  to  America  in  1639  ^^^^ 
Swansea,  Wales,  and  settled  at  Weymouth,  Mass.  His  great- 
grandfather was  Col.  Joseph  Bowen,  of  the  Revolutionary 
Army.  Elma  Brown  Bowen's  parents  were  Joseph  F.  and 
Adelaide  V.  (Ballou)  Brown.  She  traces  her  ancestry  to 
Roger  Williams,  who  landed  at  Nantasket  in  1631. 

He  received  his  preparatory  training  at  the  Pawtucket 
(R.  L)  High  School.  He  graduated  from  Brown  University 


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with  the  degree  of  B.A.  in  191 5,  and  two  years  later  he 
received  the  degree  of  M.F.  at  Yale. 

Immediately  after  completing  his  work  in  the  Yale  School 
of  Forestry  he  volunteered  for  the  Aviation  Service.  He  was 
trained  as  a  military  pilot  at  Princeton,  N.  J.,  and  Fort 
Worth,  Texas,  and,  having  received  his  Second  Lieutenant's 
commission  on  February  19,  191 8,  went  abroad  as  a  member 
of  the  148th  Aero  Squadron.  On  his  arrival  in  England,  he  was 
detached  from  this  squadron  and  sent  to  a  camp  of  the  Royal 
Flying  Corps  at  Castle  Bromwich,  for  special  instruction  as  a 
fighting  scout.  When  he  had  completed  his  work  there,  the 
British  authorities  wished  to  retain  Lieutenant  Bowen  as  a 
permanent  staff  officer,  but  he  was  assigned  to  active  duty 
and  sent  to  join  the  32d  Aero  Squadron  of  the  Royal  Air 
Forces,  being  one  of  four  American  officers  attached  to  this 
squadron.  On  September  7,  191 8,  he  was  engaged  in  a  volun- 
tary patrol,  flying  alone  at  a  great  height  on  the  allied  side 
of  the  lines.  That  evening  he  was  posted  as  missing,  and  some 
days  later,  as  killed  in  action.  It  had  then  been  learned  that 
he  had  been  shot  down  by  a  German  Fokker  scout  near  the 
Bois  Bourliou,  just  west  of  Cambrai.  His  grave  lies  half  a 
mile  south  of  Prouville,  near  Cambrai. 

Lieutenant  Bowen  was  unmarried.  He  is  survived  by  his 
mother,  a  brother,  and  two  sisters.  His  father  died  on  Novem- 
ber 5,  1919. 


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Aaron  Shimer  Oberly,  M.D.   i860 

Born  April  7,  1837,  near  Easton,  Pa. 
Died  February  15,  1919,  in  Avon,  Conn. 

Aaron  Shimer  Oberly  was  born  April  7,  1837,  near  Easton, 
Pa.,  the  son  of  John  S.  Oberly,  a  farmer,  and  Catharine 
(Shimer)  Oberly.  His  ancestors  were  early  settlers  at  Easton. 

He  received  his  preparatory  training  in  private  schools  and 
studied  in  the  Yale  School  of  Medicine  from  1857  to  i860. 
During  part  of  this  period  he  also  took  courses  in  the  Sheffield 
Scientific  School. 

In  July,  1 861,  he  entered  the  Navy  as  an  Assistant  Surgeon. 
He  served  throughout  the  Civil  War,  being  present  at  the 
bombardment  and  passage  of  Forts  Jackson  and  St.  Philip 
and  at  the  passage  of  the  batteries  at  Port  Hudson  by  Far- 
ragut's  fleet.  He  took  part  in  engagements  at  Grand  Gulf, 
Donaldsonville,  Baton  Rouge,  and  the  siege  of  Port  Hudson, 
and  was  also  present  at  both  bombardments  of  Fort  Fisher. 
He  was  Fleet  Surgeon  of  the  Asiatic  Squadron  from  1881  to 
1884,  and  on  January  24,  1889,  was  retired  from  causes  in- 
cident to  exposure  on  the  Asiatic  Station.  At  the  time  of  his 
retirement  he  was  a  Medical  Inspector  with  rank  of  Com- 
mander, later  being  Medical  Director,  with  rank  of  Captain. 
In  the  line  of  duty  as  a  naval  officer,  he  wrote  various  articles 
on  hygienic  and  surgical  subjects. 

Captain  Oberly 's  home  was  at  Easton,  and  he  belonged 
to  the  Brainerd  Presbyterian  Church  there.  He  had  spent 
much  time  abroad  since  his  retirement.  He  died  at  his  summer 
home  in  Avon,  Conn.,  February  15,  19 19,  after  an  illness  of 
about  a  year,  due  to  cystitis  and  cerebral  hemorrhage. 
Interment  was  in  the  Avon  Cemetery. 

He  was  married  October  16,  1866,  in  New  Haven,  Conn., 
to  Anna  Maria,  daughter  of  Chester  Randolph  and  Harriet 

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A.  (Webster)  Woodford,  of  Avon.  She  survives  him  with  two 
daughters,  Florence  Maria,  who  married  Charles  Day  Davis, 
of  Easton,  and  Beatrice  Catharine.  He  also  leaves  two  grand- 
children. 

Herbert  Martin  Bishop,  M.D.   1865 

Born  January  15,  1844,  in  New  London,  Conn. 
Died  April  23,  1919,  in  Los  Angeles,  Calif. 

Herbert  Martin  Bishop  was  born  in  New  London,  Conn., 
January  15,  1844,  the  son  of  Charles  and  Cynthia  (Davison) 
Bishop.  His  father's  parents  were  Charles  and  Charlotte 
(Lattimer)  Bishop.  He  was  of  English  ancestry,  being  de- 
scended from  Eleazer  Bishop,  who  came  from  the  Isle  of 
Jersey  in  1676,  and  settled  in  New  London.  One  of  his  ances- 
tors, Capt.  Nicholas  Bishop,  raised  a  company  to  go  to  the 
defense  of  Boston  at  the  opening  of  the  Revolutionary  War. 

Before  entering  the  Yale  School  of  Medicine  in  1863,  he 
studied  at  the  Bartlett  High  School,  New  London,  and  under 
private  tutors.  During  the  Civil  War  he  served  as  Assistant 
Surgeon  of  the  ist  Connecticut  Cavalry.  He  was  mustered  out 
in  August,  1 865,  and  then  spent  a  year  in  graduate  work  at  the 
New  York  Homeopathic  Medical  College,  where  he  received 
the  degree  of  M.D.  in  1867.  He  practiced  in  Norwich,  Conn., 
until  1892,  and  afterwards  in  Los  Angeles,  Calif.  He  was 
successively  treasurer,  secretary,  vice  president,  and,  in  1882, 
president  of  the  Connecticut  Homeopathic  Medical  Society, 
and  in  1896  was  elected  president  of  the  California  State 
Homeopathic  Society.  He  was  also  a  member  of  the  Acad- 
emy of  Science  and  the  American  Institute  of  Homeopathy. 
He  had  contributed  articles  to  medical  journals,  some  of 
which  were  quoted  in  French  and  English  periodicals.  In 
1888  he  was  appointed  a  member  of  the  Government  Pension 
Examining  Board.  He  was  surgeon  and  commander  of  Sedg- 
wick Post  No.  I,  Grand  Army  of  the  Republic  in  Connecticut, 
in  1885,  ^^^  he  was  later  a  member  of  the  California  Com- 
mandery  of  the  Military  Order  of  the  Loyal  Legion.  He  was 
a  member  of  Christ  Episcopal  Church,  Norwich. 

Dr.  Bishop  died  April  23,  1919,  in  Los  Angeles,  after  an 


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illness  of  a  week  due  to  a  general  breaking  down.  Interment 
was  in  the  McCullough  family  burial  ground  at  Wellsville, 
Ohio. 

He  was  married  in  Norwich,  January  30,  1869,  to  Ella 
Eudora,  daughter  of  Jedediah  Spalding.  They  were  later 
divorced,  and  on  January  15,  1900,  Dr.  Bishop  was  married  a 
second  time,  in  Chicago,  111.,  to  Elizabeth  McCullough  Blair, 
whose  death  occurred  January  22,  1917.  Dr.  Bishop  is  sur- 
vived by  two  sons  by  his  first  marriage, — Herbert  Cecil,  a 
graduate  of  the  Boston  School  of  Dentistry,  and  Julian 
Jedediah  (LL.B.  1893), — and  a  brother. 


George  Francis  Lewis,  M.D.   1865 

Born  May  20,  1840,  in  New  Hartford,  Conn. 
Died  February  24,  191 9,  in  CoUinsville,  Conn. 

George  Francis  Lewis,  son  of  Daniel  B.  Lewis,  a  mechanic, 
was  born  May  20,  1840,  in  New  Hartford,  Conn.  His  father 
was  the  son  of  Judah  and  Anna  (Boardman)  Lewis.  His 
mother  was  Adeline  M.  (Lawrence)  Lewis,  whose  parents  were 
Putnam  and  Ruth  (Williams)  Lawrence.  Through  her  he  was 
descended  from  John  Lawrence,  who  probably  came  from 
Suffolk  County,  England,  and  w^s  a  resident  of  Watertown, 
Mass.,  in  1635. 

He  received  his  early  education  at  the  Claverack  Institute 
near  Hudson,  N.  Y.  Before  entering  the  Yale  School  of 
Medicine  in  1863  he  taught  school  at  Darien  and  Pine 
Meadow,  Conn.,  and  was  in  the  office  of  Dr.  William  W. 
Welch  (M.D.  1839)  in  Norfolk,  Conn. 

After  his  graduation  in  1865  he  took  up  the  practice  of 
medicine  in  CoUinsville,  Conn.,  and  continued  there  until  his 
death,  although  he  was  obliged  to  give  up  most  of  his  work 
during  the  last  few  years  of  his  life.  In  addition,  he  conducted 
a  drug  store  from  1892  until  1906.  He  had  been  medical 
examiner  since  1883,  and  he  was  town  health  officer  from  the 
origin  of  the  office  in  1893  until  1898,  and  again  from  1906  to 
1917.  He  was  president  of  the  Hartford  County  Medical 
Society  during  1895-96  and  of  the  CoUinsville  Medical  Society 
during  1904-05,  and  was  a  Fellow  of  the  State    Medical 


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Society.  He  was  greatly  interested  in  and  was  instrumental 
in  securing  legislation  for  the  quarantine  and  inspection  of 
tuberculous  cattle.  He  was  a  vestryman  of  Trinity  Protestant 
Episcopal  Church  in  CoUinsville. 

■  His  death  occurred  at  his  home  in  that  town,  February  24, 
1919,  after  an  illness  of  several  years  due  to  arterio-sclerosis 
and  other  troubles.  Interment  was  in  the  family  plot  in  the 
Cemetery  at  Canton  Center,  Conn. 

Dr.  Lewis  was  married  November  27,  1867,  in  CoUinsville, 
to  Mary  Adeline,  daughter  of  Richard  and  Eliza  Ann  (Smith) 
Pratt.  She  survives  with  their  daughter,  Mary  Pratt  (B.L. 
Smith  1895).  A  son,  Edwin  Pratt,  died  March  15,  1900. 


John  Frederick  Barnett,  M.D.   1869 

Born  June  26,  1846,  in  West  Haven,  Conn. 
Died  June  4,  1919,  in  New  Haven,  Conn. 

John  Frederick  Barnett  was  born  June  26,  1846,  in  West 
Haven,  Conn.  His  father,  William  Noyes  Barnett,  who  was  a 
bookseller  and  publisher  in  Charleston,  S.  C,  was  the  son  of 
Samuel  and  Susan  (Noyes)  Barnett.  His  mother  was  Mary 
Sullivan,  daughter  of  Paul  and  Catherine  (Hamilton)  Prit- 
chard,  of  Charleston,  S.  C.  She  was  of  Huguenot  descent. 

He  received  his  preparatory  training  at  the  Hopkins 
Grammar  School  in  New  Haven,  and  entered  Yale  with 
the  College  Class  of  1868.  He  withdrew  in  his  Freshman  year 
and  in  1867  entered  the  Yale  School  of  Medicine. 

Upon  receiving  his  degree  in  1869,  he  was  appointed 
resident  physician  and  surgeon  to  the  Hartford  (Conn.) 
Hospital.  In  May,  1870,  he  received  an  appointment  under 
the  English  Admiralty  and  cared  for  emigrant  passengers  in 
the  Black  Ball  Line  vessels  from  Liverpool  to  New  York. 
He  spent  the  winter  of  1870  in  the  West  Indies  and  began 
private  practice  in  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.,  in  1872,  but'^returned 
in  1875  to  West  Haven,  where  he  had  since  made  his  home. 
He  served  for  over  twenty  years  as  health  officer  of  the  town 
of  Orange,  and  later  as  medical  examiner.  He  belonged  to  the 
Connecticut  State  Medical  Society  and  the  New  Haven 
Medical  Society.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Board  of  Education 


1274  SCHOOL    OF    MEDICINfi 

of  the  town  of  Orange  for  over  twenty-five  years,  and  had  for 
a  long  time  been  a  vestryman  of  Christ  Church  (Protestant 
Episcopal)  in  West  Haven. 

His  death  occurred  June  4,  191 9,  at  the  New  Haven 
Hospital,  following  a  stroke  of  apoplexy.  Interment  was  in  the 
Grove  Street  Cemetery,  New  Haven. 

On  January  5,  1887,  he  was  married  at  Ottawa,  Ontario, 
Canada,  to  Mary  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  William  Keeley,  a 
merchant  of  Kingston,  Ontario,  and  Julia  (Gillard)  Keeley. 
His  widow  and  a  son,  Frederick  Herbert,  survive.  A  daughter, 
Ottilie,  who  was  born  March  16,  1893,  died  in  infancy.  Dr. 
Barnett  also  leaves  a  brother.  Rev.  Francis  W.  Barnett,  of 
Newtown,  Conn.,  a  graduate  of  Brown  University  in  1872  and 
of  the  Berkeley  Divinity  School  in  1876.  Another  brother, 
the  late  William  Edward  Barnett,  took  his  B.A.  at  Yale  in 
1864.  William  L.  Barnett  (B.A.  1898,  LL.B.  1901)  and  Rev. 
Francis  B.  Barnett  (B.A.  1902)  are  nephews. 


Frederick  Bellosa,  M.D.   1872 

Born  September  10,  1843,  i"  Carlsruhe,  Baden,  Germany 
Died  October  20,  191 8,  in  New  Haven,  Conn. 

Frederick  Bellosa  was  born  September  10,  1843,  i^  Carls- 
ruhe, Baden,  Germany,  the  son  of  Franz  Bellosa.  Before 
coming  to  America  in  1869,  he  studied  at  the  Lyceum  at 
Carlsruhe  and  at  the  University  of  Heidelberg.  He  began 
his  work  in  the  Yale  School  of  [Medicine  in  1870,  and 
graduated  in  1872. 

Since  then  he  had  practiced  his  profession  in  New  Haven. 
In  1 91 6  he  was  elected  president  of  the  New  Haven  Medical 
Association.  He  had  previously  been  first  vice  president 
of  the  association,  and  was  also  a  member  of  the  Connecticut 
State  and  New  Haven  County  Medical  associations.  At  one 
time  he  was  a  surgeon  in  the  Governor's  Horse  Guard.  He  was 
a  member  of  the  German  Lutheran  Church.  He  had  traveled 
in  Germany,  France,  and  England. 

Dr.  Bellosa  died  in  New  Haven,  October  20,  191 8,  and  was 
buried  in  Evergreen  Cemetery.  He  had  suffered  from  gall 
stones  for  five  years. 


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He  was  married  in  New  Haven,  May  28,  1874,  to  Josephine 
C,  daughter  of  Christian  and  Josephine  Schwartz.  She  sur- 
vives him  with  their  daughter,  Josephine  C,  the  wife  of  Dr. 
W.  Edwin  Butler,  of  New  Haven. 


John  Herman  Eden,  M.D.   1873 

Born  February  15,  1850,  in  New  York  City- 
Died  May  19,  1919,  in  Great  Neck,  N.  Y. 

John  Herman  Eden,  son  of  D.  Henry  and  Marie  (Wallace) 
Eden,  was  born  February  15,  1850,  in  New  York  City.  His 
father,  who  came  to  this  country  from  Bremen,  Germany, 
in  1835,  was  one  of  the  first  members  of  the  New  York 
Produce  Exchange.  He  died  April  2,  1885,  and  was  buried 
in  the  Lutheran  Cemetery,  Brooklyn,  with  his  wife,  who  died 
September  29,  1861. 

He  received  his  preparatory  training  at  Williston  Seminary, 
Easthampton,  Mass.,  and  spent  one  term  at  Princeton  Uni- 
versity as  a  member  of  the  Class  of  1873  before  entering  the 
Yale  School  of  Medicine  in  1870.  He  graduated  as  valedic- 
torian of  his  Class  in  1873. 

He  began  the  practice  of  medicine  in  New  York  City  in 
1874,  and  remained  there  until  1880,  when  he  moved  to 
Fordham  (now  a  part  of  greater  New  York),  where  he 
practiced  for  fifteen  years.  From  1882  to  1890  he  was  on  the 
staff  of  the  Fordham  Hospital,  and  he  had  also  been  con- 
nected with  the  Bellevue  Hospital  and  Home  for  Incurables. 
In  recent  years  he  had  given  but  little  time  to  his  profession, 
but  had  devoted  his  attention  largely  to  his  real  estate  inter- 
ests in  New  York.  Since  1890  he  had  been  manager  of  the 
Edenwald  Land  Companies.  His  home  had  been  at  Great 
Neck,  Long  Island,  since  1905,  and  during  the  last  ten  years 
of  his  life  he  was  treasurer  of  All  Saints'  Episcopal  Church 
there.  He  had  previously  been  a  member  of  St.  Bartholomew's 
Church  in  New  York  and,  for  eight  years,  treasurer  of  St. 
James'  Church,  Fordham.  He  died  suddenly,  from  heart 
disease,  at  Great  Neck,  May  19,  1919,  and  was  buried  in 
God's  Acre,  All  Saints*  Churchyard. 

He  was  married  June  25,  1873,  in  New  Haven,  Conn.,  to 


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Mary  Daggett,  daughter  of  Jared  Goodsell  and  Julia  Ann 
(Barnes)  Chidsey.  She  survives  him  with  three  children: 
Maud  Julia,  the  wife  of  Ralph  Thomas  Rokeby,  formerly  of 
Arthingworth  Manor,  Leicestershire,  England,  but  now  a 
resident  of  New  York;  Ruth  Agnes,  the  wife  of  Morgan 
Hatton  Grace,  formerly  of  Wellington,  New  Zealand,  but  now 
living  at  Great  Neck;  and  John  Herman  (Ph.B.  1912).  Mrs. 
Eden  is  a  sister  of  Robert  G.  Chidsey,  '77,  and  a  great-grand- 
daughter of  Philip  Daggett  (B.A.  1762),  a  brother  of  Naphtali 
Daggett  (B.A.  1748),  president  of  Yale  from  1766  to  1777. 


Calvin  Sloane  May,  M.D.   1873 

Born  June  I,  1848,  in  Naugatuck,  Conn. 
Died  April  26,  191 9,  in  New  York  City 

Calvin  Sloane  May  was  the  son  of  James  Wilson  and 
Abagail  Polly  (Hotchkiss)  May,  and  was  born  June  i,  1848, 
in  Naugatuck,  Conn.  His  father,  who  was  traffic  manager  for 
the  St.  Paul  Railroad,  was  the  son  of  Calvin  and  Mary 
(Sloane)  May,  and  his  mother  was  the  daughter  of  Major 
Orrin  Hotchkiss,  who  served  in  the  War  of  18 12,  and  Polly 
M.  (Hickox)  Hotchkiss.  He  was  a  descendant  in  the  fourth 
generation  of  Alexander  Sloane,  a  Lieutenant  Colonel  in  the 
Continental  Army,  and  of  Capt.  Gideon  Hotchkiss,  who 
served  with  a  Connecticut  regiment  during  the  Revolution. 
Another  ancestor  was  John  May,  who  came  from  Mayfield, 
Sussex,  England,  and  settled  at  Roxbury,  Mass.,  in  1636,  and 
whose  sister,  Dorothy  May,  was  the  wife  of  Governor  Brad- 
ford of  Plymouth  Colony.  His  mother's  family  lived  in 
Prospect,  Conn. 

He  received  his  preparatory  training  at  the  Naugatuck 
High  School.  He  was  a  student  in  the  Yale  School  of  Medicine 
during  1870-71  and  again  during  1872-73,  spending  the 
intervening  period  working  to  obtain  money  for  his  tuition. 

In  April,  1873,  two  months  before  his  graduation,  he  was 
appointed  and  began  service  as  house  physician  and  surgeon 
at  the  New  Haven  Hospital.  In  November,  1873,  he  became 
assistant  physician  at  the  Connecticut  State  Hospital  for  the 
Insane  at  Middletown.  He  was  acting  superintendent  of  the 


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Institution  in  1877.  From  1878  to  1881  he  was  superintendent 
and  physician  at  the  State  Hospital  for  the  Insane  at  Dan- 
vers,  Mass.,  and  during  1 879-1 880  he  was  lecturer  on  mental 
diseases  at  the  Harvard  Medical  School.  Since  1882  he  had 
practiced  in  New  York  City.  Each  summer  from  1882  to 
1919  he  was  house  doctor  for  the  United  States  Hotel  at 
Saratoga  Springs,  N.  Y.  He  was  a  Fellow  of  the  New  York 
Academy  of  Medicine,  president  of  the  National  Association 
of  College  Men  and  the  Saratoga  Historical  Society,  a  mem- 
ber of  the  New  York  Historical  Society,  the  New  York  Gene- 
alogical Society,  the  Sons  of  the  Revolution,  the  Society  of 
Colonial  Wars,  and  belonged  to  St.  Thomas'  Episcopal 
Church,  New  York  City. 

Dr.  May  died  suddenly  at  his  home  in  New  York,  April  26, 
191 9.  He  had  never  fully  recovered  from  an  illness  of  the 
winter  before.  Burial  was  in  Grove  Cemetery,  Naugatuck. 

He  was  married  at  St.  John,  New  Brunswick,  Canada, 
February  27,  1877,  ^^  Rebecca  Partridge,  daughter  of  Andre 
and  Delia  (Rich)  Cushing.  They  had  one  daughter,  Eleanor 
Cushing  (B.A.  Wellesley  1903),  who,  with  her  mother,  sur- 
vives. 


Samuel  Wendell  Williston,  M.D.   1880 

Born  July  10,  1852,  in  Roxbury,  Mass. 
Died  August  30,  191 8,  in  Chicago,  111. 

Samuel  Wendell  Williston,  son  of  Samuel  and  Jane  Augusta 
(Turner)  Williston,  was  born  July  10,  1852,  in  Roxbury,  now 
a  part  of  Boston,  Mass.  In  1857  his  parents  emigrated  to 
Kansas  to  join  a  colony  at  Manhattan  which  had  left  Massa- 
chusetts the  previous  year.  His  father,  who  was  a  skillful 
mechanic  and  blacksmith,  was  born  on  Little  Cranberry 
Island,  Hancock  County,  Maine,  the  son  of  John  and  Sarah 
(Stanley)  Williston,  and  was  descended  from  John  Williston, 
who  was  living  in  Ipswich,  Mass.,  in  1668.  His  mother  was  the 
daughter  of  John  and  Margaret  (Stee)  Turner.  Her  parents 
were  born  in  England,  near  London.  They  came  to  the  United 
States  towards  the  close  of  the  War  of  181 2,  and  settled  in 
Paterson,  N.  J. 


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In  1872  Dr.  Williston  graduated  from  the  Kansas  Agricul- 
tural College,  receiving  the  degree  of  B.S.,  and  in  1875  ^^ 
took  his  M.A.  there.  He  was  assistant  in  paleontology  and 
osteology  at  Yale  from  1876  to  1885,  receiving  the  degree  of 
M.D.  in  1880  and  that  of  Ph.D.  in  1885.  He  was  a  demon- 
strator of  anatomy  at  Yale  during  1885-86,  assistant  professor 
of  that  subject  for  the  next  two  years,  and  professor  from  1888 
to  1890.  He  was  for  two  years  (i 888-1 890)  health  officer 
for  the  city  of  New  Haven.  He  left  Yale  in  1890  to  become 
the  first  dean  of  the  University  of  Kansas  Medical  School, 
which  he  helped  to  organize  and  where  he  remained  until  1902, 
serving  also  as  professor  of  historical  geology  and  anatomy. 
Since  that  time  he  had  been  connected  with  the  University 
of  Chicago  as  head  of  the  department  of  paleontology.  From 
191 6  until  his  death  he  was  director  of  Walker  Museum  at  the 
University  of  Chicago.  Yale  conferred  the  degree  of  Sc.D. 
upon  Professor  Williston  in  191 3.  He  was  the  author  of  many 
scientific  works,  including  books  and  articles  on  entomology, 
anatomy,  zoology,  geology,  paleontology,  and  sanitation. 
He  was  a  member  of  the  National  Academy  of  Sciences,  the 
American  Academy  of  Arts  and  Sciences,  the  American 
Philosophical  Society,  and  the  London  Zoological  Society,  and 
a  Fellow  of  the  Geological  Society  of  London.  He  represented 
the  United  States  at  the  International  Congress  of  Scientists 
held  at  Monaco  in  1913. 

Dr.  Williston's  death  occurred  at  the  Presbyterian  Hos- 
pital, Chicago,  on  August  30,  191 8,  following  an  operation  for 
cancer.  Interment  was  in  Sunset  Hill  Cemetery  at  Manhattan, 
Kans. 

He  was  married  December  20,  1881,  in  New  Haven,  to 
Annie  Isabelle,  daughter  of  James  Trusdell  and  Wealthy  Ann 
(Clark)  Hathaway.  She  survives  him  with  four  children: 
Ruth  (B.S.  University  of  Chicago  1905,  M.A.  University  of 
Chicago  1913);  Dorothy  (Ph.B.  University  of  Chicago  1914), 
now  Mrs.  George  G.  Shor;  Eugenie  (Ph.B.  University,  of 
Chicago  191 8);  and  Samuel  Hathaway,  a  member  of  the  Class 
of  1920  at  the  University  of  Chicago.  Another  daughter, 
Hyla,  died  March  10,  191 6. 


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Edward  Lewis  Rochfort,  M.D.   191 2 

Born  November  3,  1890,  in  New  Haven,  Conn. 
Died  January  26,  1919,  in  New  York  City 


dward  Lewis  Rochfort  was  born  November  3,  1890,  in 
New  Haven,  Conn.,  the  son  of  William  Henry  and  Alice 
(Serviss)  Rochfort.  His  father,  who  was  the  son  of  Thomas 
and  Catharine  (Jackson)  Rochfort,  came  to  New  Haven 
from  Rochfort  Bridge,  Ireland,  in  May,  1848.  His  mother 
is  the  daughter  of  Isaac  A.  Serviss,  who  served  three  years 
during  the  Civil  War  with  the  15th  Regiment,  Connecticut 
Volunteers,  and  Margaret  (Hatfield)  Serviss,  of  New  York. 

He  graduated  from  the  New  Haven  High  School  in  1907, 
and  a  year  later  entered  the  Yale  School  of  Medicine.  He 
received  his  degree  in  191 2  and  afterwards  continued  his 
medical  training  at  the  Mattapan  Hospital  in  Boston  and  at 
St.  Raphael's  Hospital  in  New  Haven.  He  spent  the  year 
of  1 9 13  as  resident  physician  and  surgeon  at  the  Muhlenberg 
Hospital  in  Plainfield,  N.  J.  In  1914  he  entered  the  Polyclinic 
Hospital  of  New  York  to  do  research  work  and  for  training  in 
brain  surgery.  In  January,  1915,  he  received  an  appointment 
as  brain  surgeon  on  the  staff  of  the  Harvard  Surgical  Unit,  but 
resigned  to  join  the  staff  of  the  Neurological  Institute  of  New 
York,  where  he  continued  his  training  under  Dr.  Elsberg  and 
Dr.  Peterson,  and  was  an  assistant  in  the  surgical  department. 
He  was  interested  in  the  study  and  treatment  of  diseases  of 
the  nervous  system  both  from  the  medical  and  surgical  stand- 
point. He  received  a  commission  as  a  First  Lieutenant  in  the 
Medical  Corps  on  December  31,  1917,  and  was  reassigned  to 
the  Neurological  Institute  as  an  instructor  in  U.  S.  Govern- 
ment Neurological  School  No.  i.  He  had  remained  there 
on  other  work  after  being  discharged  from  the  Army  on  De- 
cember 24,  191 8.  He  was  a  member  of  the  American  Neuro- 
logical Society,  and  an  occasional  contributor  of  articles  on 
brain  diseases  to  the  Journal  of  the  American  Medical 
Association. 

Dr.  Rochfort  died  January  26,  191 9,  at  the  Neurological 
Institute  in  New  York,  after  an  illness  of  five  days  due  to 
influenza.    Interment    was    in    Evergreen    Cemetery,    New 


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Haven.  He  was  a  member  of  St.  John's  Protestant  Episcopal 
Church  of  that  city. 

He  was  not  married.  He  is  survived  by  his  mother  and  four 
sisters,  one  of  whom  is  the  wife  of  Rev.  Ralph  H.  White 
(B.A.  Wesleyan  1894,  B.D.  Yale  1902).  His  father  died 
March  19,  1919-  He  was  a  nephew  of  the  late  Thomas  E. 
Rochfort  (B.A.   1879). 


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Alva  Ansel  Hurd,  LL.B.   1867 

Born  July  4,  1842,  in  Clinton,  Conn. 
Died  September  18,  191 8,  in  Portland,  Ore. 

Alva  Ansel  Hurd,  the  son  of  Nathaniel  Albert  and  Mary 
(Wright)  Hurd,  was  born  July  4,  1842,  in  Clinton,  Conn. 
His  father  was  the  son  of  Nathaniel  and  Polly  (Griffin)  Hurd. 

Mr.  Hurd  received  his  early  education  at  the  academy  in 
Clinton,  and  graduated  from  the  School  of  Law  in  1867. 
He  then  practiced  for  a  year  in  Quincy,  111.,  after  which  he 
abandoned  the  profession,  and  entered  the  Union  Park  Con- 
gregational Theological  Seminary  in  Chicago.  He  graduated 
there  in  1871,  and  was  afterwards  pastor  of  churches  in 
Kansas;  Scotland,  Conn.;  Monticello,  Minn.;  Darlington, 
Wis.;  White  Oaks,  N.  Mex.;  Vancouver,  Wash.;  Springwater, 
Fulton,  and  Newport,  Ore.;  and  in  Preston,  Idaho.  He  retired 
in  1 91 2,  and  had  since  lived  in  Portland,  Ore.,  where  his  death 
occurred  September  18,  191 8,  after  an  illness  of  about  six 
months  due  to  the  infirmities  incident  to  age.  His  body  was 
cremated  at  the  Portland  Crematorium. 

He  was  married  in  Chicago,  111.,  September  21,  1871,  to 
Jennie  M.,  daughter  of  Carleton  and  Mary  T.  Flagg.  She 
survives  him  with  a  son,  Alva  Flagg,  who  lives  in  Chicago,  and 
a  daughter,  Medora,  the  wife  of  Fred  S.  Miller,  of  Portland. 
Another  daughter,  Cecelia,  died  in  1877. 


Patrick  Francis  Kiernan,  LL.B.   1871 

Born  March  17,  1849,  i"  Arlena,  Ireland 
Died  August  15,  1918,  in  New  Haven,  Conn. 

Patrick  Francis  Kiernan  was  born  at  Arlena,  County 
Cavan,  Ireland,  March  17,  1849.  ^^s  father,  Patrick  Kiernan, 
was  engaged  in  farming  while  he  lived  in  Ireland,  but  after  his 
arrival  in  the  United  States  in   1849  became  a  varnisher, 

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grainer,  and  polisher.  His  mother,  Julia  (Galligan)  Kiernan, 
was  the  daughter  of  Peter  and  B.  (Reilly)  Galligan,  of  Arlena. 

He  attended  the  Hillhouse  High  School  in  New  Haven,  and 
before  entering  the  Yale  School  of  Law  in  September,  1869, 
was  engaged  in  various  mechanical  employments. 

He  took  up  the  practice  of  law  in  New  Haven  upon  his 
graduation  in  1871.  He  was  a  Democratic  councilman  in  1874, 
and  from  1867  to  1872  was  secretary  and  librarian  of  the 
Davis  Literary  Institute  and  Library.  He  was  a  member  of 
St.  Patrick's  (Roman  Catholic)  Church,  and  he  had  been  an 
executive  officer  in  civic  and  benevolent  associations.  His 
death  occurred  in  New  Haven,  August  15,  191 8. 

He  was  unmarried.  He  is  survived  by  a  brother,  Daniel 
H.  Kiernan. 


Lloyd  William  Harmon,  LL.B.   1879 

Born  December  30,  1845,  ^"  Conneaut,  Ohio 
Died  October  22,  191 8,  in  Los  Angeles,  Calif. 

Lloyd  William  Harmon  was  born  December  30,  1845,  ^^ 
Conneaut,  Ohio,  the  son  of  Austin  Gideon  and  Emma  Fenton 
(Judd)  Harmon.  His  father's  parents  were  Nathaniel  Bridge- 
man  Harmon,  whose  father  came  to  America  from  Lancashire, 
England,  about  1700,  and  Abigail  (Leek)  Harmon.  His 
mother  was  the  daughter  of  John  Judd,  a  descendant  of  some 
of  the  early  settlers  in  Connecticut,  and  Aurelia  (Stone)  Judd, 
who  was  descended  from  the  Fenton  family  of  New  York. 
Reuben  E.  Fenton,  governor  of  New  York  from  1865  to  1869, 
belonged  to  the  same  branch. 

His  boyhood  days  were  spent  in  his  native  town.  After 
graduating  from  the  academy  there,  he  went  to  New  York 
City,  where  he  was  for  a  time  connected  with  the  A.  T. 
Stewart  Company  as  a  salesman.  He  left  their  employ  to 
prepare  for  entrance  to  Yale  under  private  tutors  in  New  m 
Haven.  5. 


After  receiving  his  degree  in  1879,  he  practiced  law  in  New 
York  City  for  eleven  years.  He  went  to  California  in  1890  and 
spent  two  years  in  the  office  of  the  San  Francisco  Chronicle. 
The  remainder  of  his  life  was  passed  in  Los  Angeles.  He 
managed  the  Pacific  Coast  business  of  the  Werner  Publishing 


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'ompany  of  Akron,  Ohio,  for  several  years,  leaving  them  to 

|become  connected  with  the  J.  M.  Hale  Drygoods  Company. 

[e  managed  their  office  for  a  time  and  later  held  the  position 

)f  business  manager.  After  sixteen  years  he  retired  to  an 

lorange  grove  located  at  Montebello,  Los  Angeles  County, 

where  he  remained  until  the  time  of  his  death. 

Mr.  Harmon  died  October  22,  1918,  in  Los  Angeles,  after 
an  illness  of  a  few  days,  due  to  a  ruptured  gastric  ulcer.  Inter- 
ment was  in  Hollywood  Cemetery,  Los  Angeles. 

He  was  married  April  16,  1895,  ^^  ^^^  Angeles,  to  Martha 
Anna,  daughter  of  Andrew  Jackson  and  Jane  Morrow  Cole, 
who  survives  him.  His  wife  is  a  native  of  California,  her 
grandparents  having  crossed  the  plains  from  the  South  at  the 
close  of  the  Civil  War,  locating  in  southern  California. 
Besides  his  widow,  Mr.  Harmon  leaves  a  brother,  Frederick 
Edward  Harmon,  who  is  connected  with  the  San  Francisco 
Chronicle,  and  an  uncle,  Nathaniel  Bridgeman  Harmon,  of 
South  Pasadena. 


Edward  Livingston  Wells,  LL.B.   1886 

Born  August  29,  1861,  in  New  Haven,  Conn. 
Died  January  25,  1919,  in  Hartford,  Conn. 

Edward  Livingston  Wells,  son  of  Rev.  Edward  Livingston 
Wells  and  Mary  Huder  (Hughes)  Wells,  was  born  August  29, 
1 861,  in  New  Haven,  Conn.  His  father,  who  was  commis- 
sioned by  the  United  States  Government  during  the  Civil 
War  to  visit  Confederate  prisoners,  was  a  graduate  of  Mon- 
tauban,  France,  in  1857,  and  received  the  honorary  degree  of 
D.D.  from  the  University  of  Nebraska  in  1879.  His  ancestors 
came  from  England  in  the  seventeenth  century,  and  settled 
at  Ipswich,  Mass.  Mary  Hughes  Wells  is  the  daughter  of 
Enos  Brooks  M.  and  Louisa  Walter  (Bishop)  Hughes.  Her 
ancestors  also  came  from  England  in  the  seventeenth  century 
and  settled  at  New  Haven,  one  of  them  being  Theophilus 
Eaton,  the  first  governor  of  the  colony. 

He  was  prepared  for  college  at  the  Cheshire  (Conn.) 
Academy  and  entered  the  Yale  School  of  Law  in  1884.  During 
his  course  he  received  the  first  prize  for  the  best  drawn  will. 

Mr.  Wells  practiced  law  in  Bridgeport,  Conn.,  for  a  time 


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after  graduation.  In  1889  he  was  a  member  of  the  Connecticut 
House  of  Representatives,  and  from  1893  to  1897  he  served 
as  auditor  for  the  state  of  Connecticut.  From  1890  to  1896 
he  was  justice  of  the  peace  for  Fairfield  County.  He  was 
ordained  a  deacon  in  the  Protestant  Episcopal  Church  on 
January  30,  1898,  and  on  June  25,  1899,  was  ordained  to  the 
priesthood  in  St.  Paul's  Church,  Mount  Vernon,  Ohio.  He 
was  rector  at  Salem,  Ohio,  from  1898  to  1900,  assistant  rector 
of  Calvary  Church,  Pittsburgh,  Pa.,  from  1901  to  1903,  and 
rector  of  St.  Luke's  Church,  Bridgeport,  from  1903  to  1909. 
His  last  active  charge  was  as  rector  of  Christ  Church  in 
Guilford,  from  which  he  retired  in  191 5.  From  1906  to  1909 
he  was  secretary  and  treasurer  of  the  archdeaconry  of  Fair- 
field, Conn.,  and  he  had  served  as  state  chaplain  of  the  Sons 
of  the  American  Revolution. 

Mr.  Wells  died  January  25,  1919,  at  the  Hartford  (Conn.) 
Hospital,  from  pneumonia,  following  an  operation.  Burial 
was  in  Oaklawn  Cemetery,  Southport,  Conn. 

He  was  married  January  20,  191 5,  in  Essex,  Conn.,  to 
Frances  Richmond,  daughter  of  Charles  Henry  and  Eliza 
(Richmond)  Rose.  Besides  his  wife  he  is  survived  by  his 
mother,  who  lives  in  New  Haven;  two  sisters,  Mrs.  Roderick 
Perry  Curtis,  also  of  New  Haven,  and  Mrs.  Joseph  Linn 
Hetzel,  of  Southport;  and  two  brothers.  Dr.  Jonathan  Godfrey 
Wells  and  Frederick  Brown  Wells,  of  New  York. 


Daniel  Everitt  Leary,  LL.B.   1888 

Born  June  7,  1863,  in  Scitico,  Conn. 
Died  March  8,  1919,  in  St.  Petersburg,  Fla. 

Daniel  Everitt  Leary  was  born  in  Scitico,  Conn,,  on  June 
7,  1863,  the  son  of  Michael  and  Mary  Moore  (McCarthy) 
Leary.  His  father,  who  was  born  in  Tipperary,  Ireland, 
November  i,  1830,  was  a  coal  dealer  and  owner  of  the  firm  of 
M.  Leary  &  Sons.  He  came  to  America  in  1849.  His  mother 
was  the  daughter  of  John  and  Ellen  (Donahoe)  McCarthy; 
she  was  born  at  Killarney,  County  Kerry,  Ireland,  and  came 
from  a  family  long  engaged  in  farming. 

Mr.  Leary  attended  the  Hartford   (Conn.)   Public  High 


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School  and  Wesleyan  Academy,  Wilbraham,  Mass.,  before 
entering  the  Yale  School  of  Law  in  1886.  He  received  the 
degree  of  LL.B.  in  1888  and  that  of  LL.M.  in  1889,  in  which 
year  he  was  admitted  to  the  bar.  Since  that  time  he  had 
practiced  in  Springfield,  Mass.  He  conducted  an  independent 
practice  until  1902,  when  he  formed  a  partnership  with 
Edward  W.  Beattie  (B.A.  1895,  LL.B.  1898)  under  the  firm 
name  of  Leary  &  Beattie.  He  continued  in  this  association 
until  Mr.  Beattie's  removal  to  New  York  in  1913,  and  at 
that  time  became  the  senior  member  of  the  firm  of  Leary, 
Cummings  &  Leary,  his  partners  being  George  S.  Cummings 
and  George  Francis  Leary. 

He  died  March  8,  1919,  in  St.  Petersburg,  Fla.,  where  he 
had  gone  in  an  effort  to  regain  his  health,  which  had  been 
poor  since  August,  1916,  when  he  suffered  a  severe  break- 
down. He  contracted  a  severe  cold  on  the  trip  and  this  devel- 
oped into  influenza.  His  body  was  taken  to  Thompsonville, 
Conn.,  for  burial  in  St.  Patrick's  Cemetery. 

Mr.  Leary  is  survived  by  four  sisters  and  four  brothers: 
Mrs.  John  R.  Bailey,  Mrs.  Richard  N.  Hayes,  Dr.  William 
'Charles  Leary,  and  John  Charles  Leary,  all  of  Springfield, 
Mrs.  John  F.  Dowling,  of  Hartford,  Miss  Mary  Ann  Leary,  of 
Scitico,  Francis  Patrick  Leary,  and  Timothy  Aloysius  Leary 
(B.A.  1900,  LL.B.  1903).  Paul  E.  Leary,  '17,  is  a  nephew. 


Robert  Vaughan  Montague,  LL.B.   1888 

Born  April  14,  1867,  in  Glasgow,  Mo. 
Died  February  12,  191 9,  in  Petersburg,  Va. 

Robert  Vaughan  Montague,  son  of  Caesar  Rodney  and 
Fanny  (Harrison)  Montague,  was  born  April  14,  1867,  in 
Glasgow,  Mo.  His  paternal  grandparents  were  Robert 
Vaughan  Montague,  who  was  the  first  collector  of  the 
Port  of  Mobile,  Ala.,  under  Abraham  Lincoln,  and  Emily 
(Vaughan)  Montague.  His  mother  was  the  daughter  of  John 
and  Pamela  (Marr)  Harrison.  He  was  a  direct  descendant  of 
the  house  of  Montague,  which  was  founded  by  Drago  de- 
Montacute  in  the  eleventh  century,  and  to  which  Mary 
(Montague)  Ball,  the  maternal  grandmother  of  George  Wash- 


1286  SCHOOL    OF    LAW 

ington,  also  belonged.  His  earliest  American  ancestor  was 
Peter  Montague,  who  came  from  England  and  settled  in 
Virginia  in  the  early  part  of  the  seventeenth  century. 

He  received  the  degree  of  B.A.  from  Pritchett  College  in 
his  native  town  in  1886,  and  then  took  up  the  study  of  law  at 
Yale.  He  practiced  in  Omaha,  Nebr.,  for  eight  years  after 
graduating  from  the  School  of  Law,  but^in  1896  failing  eye- 
sight forced  him  to  abandon  that  profession,  and  he  became 
engaged  in  the  investment  banking  business.  He  was  also 
interested  in  telephone  and  mining  enterprises,  and  in  August, 
1 901,  became  president  of  the  Mexico  (Mo.)  Telephone 
Company.  In  191 5  he  was  president  of  the  Glacier  Ice  Com- 
pany of  St.  Louis,  Mo.,  and  in  January,  1917,  he  was  located 
in  Rochester,  N.  Y.,  where  he  was  engaged  in  special  work 
for  a  large  manufacturing  house.  His  work  later  took  him  to 
Harrisburg,  Pa. 

Early  in  the  war  he  offered  his  services  to  the  Government, 
and  in  191 8  he  was  assigned  to  duty  with  the  United  States 
Housing  Corporation,  Division  of  Surveys  and  Statistics,  at 
Washington,  D.  C.  The  Survey  Branch  went  out  of  existence 
on  November  11,  191 8,  and  a  month  later  Mr.  Montague  was- 
requested  to  become  a  member  of  the  staff  of  the  War  Camp 
Community  Service  in  New  York  City,  as  a  representative 
of  the  Budget  and  Finance  Committee.  At  the  time  of  his 
death  he  was  connected  with  the  Headquarters  Office  of 
the  War  Camp  Community  Service  in  New  York  City.  He 
died  suddenly,  of  heart  failure,  February  12,  1 919,  in  Peters- 
burg, Va.,  where  he  was  making  an  inventory  of  the  camps. 
Interment  was  in  Forest  Lawn  Cemetery,  Omaha.  In  Decem- 
ber, 191 8,  Mr.  Montague  had  been  asked  to  become  a  member 
of  the  Rehabilitation  Division  of  the  Federal  Board  for 
Vocational  Education,  but  previous  arrangements  prevented 
his  considering  this  request. 

He  had  traveled  extensively  in  the  United  States,  Canada, 
and  Mexico.  He  was  married  January  22,  1896,  in  Omaha, 
to  Mary,  daughter  of  Jefferson  William  and  Mary  (LeSueur) 
Bedford,  who  survives  him.  He  also  leaves  two  brothers  and 
a  sister.  His  son,  Robert  Bedford  Montague,  died,  of  pneu- 
monia, December  22,  191 8,  while  stationed  at  Hazleton,  Pa., 
as  an  engineer  of  tests  in  the  Ordnance  Department,  Inspec- 
tion Division. 


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Bamford  Alfred  Robb,  LL.B.  1893 

Born  September  7,  1872,  in  Jacksonville,  Ore. 
Died  April  3,  19 16,  in  Seattle,  Wash. 


Bamford  Alfred  Robb  was  born  September  7,  1872,  in 
Jacksonville,  Ore.,  the  son  of  Bamford  and  Maria  Jane 
(Eckelson)  Robb.  His  paternal  ancestors  came  from  the 
north  of  Ireland  and  settled  in  or  near  Baltimore,  Md.,  later 
removing  to  Ohio.  His  father  attended  a  Presbyterian  college 
at  Athens,  Ohio,  and  later  served  as  state  engineer  of  Oregon. 
His  death  occurred  in  Seattle,  Wash.,  in  191 1 .  His  mother  was 
a  native  of  Kentucky  and  died  in  California  in  1878. 

He  received  his  early  education  in  the  public  schools  of 
Portland,  Ore.  Before  entering  the  Yale  School  of  Law  in 
1892,  he  studied  law  at  the  University  of  Oregon.  He 
received  the  degree  of  LL.B.,  cum  laude,  from  Yale  in  1893, 
and  in  1894,  following  his  admission  to  the  Oregon  Bar, 
began  the  practice  of  his  profession  at  Portland.  He  removed 
to  Seattle  in  1902,  and  continued  in  practice  there  until  his 
death.  In  1896  he  was  appointed  master  in  chancery  for  the 
U.  S.  Circuit  Court  at  Boise,  Idaho,  and  from  1897  to  1902 
he  served  as  assistant  surveyor  general  of  Idaho.  For  seven 
years  (i 895-1902)  he  also  held  an  appointment  as  Judge- 
Advocate-General  of  the  Idaho  State  Militia.  His  death, 
which  occurred  in  that  city  April  3,  191 6,  was  due  to  an 
accident. 

Mr.  Robb  was  a  Presbyterian.  He  was  married  December 
29,  1903,  in  Boise,  to  Mary  Birney,  daughter  of  John  and 
Elizabeth  (Hallock)  Sherman.  She  survives  him  without 
children.  He  also  leaves  a  sister,  Abigail  L.  Robb,  who  was  a 
student  in  the  Yale  School  of  the  Fine  Arts  during  1892-93, 
and  a  brother,  John  R.  Robb. 


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James  Emerson  O'Connor,  LL.B.   1894 

Born  February  4,  1869,  in  Chester,  Conn. 
Died  January  27,  1918,  in  Los  Angeles,  Calif. 

James  Emerson  O'Connor,  son  of  William  and  Anne 
O'Connor,  was  born  February  4,  1869,  in  Chester,  Conn. 
Before  entering  Yale  he  studied  at  a  school  in  East  Green- 
wich, N.  Y.,  and  at  Niagara  University. 

For  about  seven  years  after  his  graduation  from  the  School 
of  Law  he  practiced  in  New  Haven,  being  associated  with 
Judge  Lynde  Harrison  (LL.B.  i860).  He  then  removed  to 
Denver,  Colo.,  where  he  continued  in  the  practice  of  his  pro- 
fession. He  was  for  a  time  general  attorney  for  the  Colorado 
Milling  &  Elevator  Company  of  that  city,  and  a  director  of 
the  company.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Roman  Catholic 
Cathedral  in  Denver.  He  died,  from  acute  neuritis,  January 
27,  191 8,  in  Los  Angeles,  Calif.  His  body  was  taken  to  Den- 
ver for  burial  in  Mount  Olivet  Cemetery. 

Mr.  O'Connor  was  married  in  that  city.  May  31,  1905,  to 
Katherine,  daughter  of  John  K.  and  Katherine  Mullen.  She 
survives  him  with  two  children,  John  Mullen  and  Katherine. 
A  brother  is  also  living. 


Moses  Walter  Saxe,  LL.B.   1902 

Born  December  i6,  1881,  in  Kovno,  Russia 
Died  December  28,  1918,  in  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 

Moses  Walter  Saxe  was  born  in  Kovno,  Russia,  December 
16,  1 88 1,  the  son  of  Rev.  Israel  Saxe  and  Tobie  Saxe.  He 
came  to  America  in  1889,  and  settled  at  New  Haven,  Conn. 
He  received  his  preparatory  training  at  the  Hillhouse  High 
School  in  that  city,  and  entered  the  Yale  School  of  Law  in 

Since  his  graduation  in  1902  he  had  been  a  member  of  the 
law  firm  of  Kugel  &  Saxe,  of  New  York  City,  his  partner 
being  Simon  H.  Kugel  (LL.B.  1900).  Mr.  Saxe  was  a 
member  of  the  Federation  of  Jewish  Charities  and  the  Free 
Loan  Association  of  New  York  City. 


His  death  occurred  December  28,  191 8,  at  his  home  in 


Brooklyn,  N.  Y.,  after  an  illness  of  a  week  due  to  pneumonia. 
He  was  buried  in  Mount  Lebanon  Cemetery,  Brooklyn. 

He  was  married  March  31,  191 1,  in  Newark,  N.  J.,  to 
Esther,  daughter  of  Herman  and  Sophia  Feinstein.  She  sur- 
vives him  with  a  son,  Edwin. 


McLester  Jared  Snow,  LL.B.   1910 

Born  October  2,  1886,  in  Tuscaloosa,  Ala. 
Died  September  30,  191 8,  in  Chelsea,  Mass. 

McLester  Jared  Snow  was  born  October  2,  1886,  in  Tusca- 
loosa, Ala.,  the  son  of  Edward  Nicholas  Cobbs  Snow  (B.A. 
University  of  Alabama  1865)  and  Carrie  Theresa  (McLester) 
Snow.  His  father,  who  was  a  Confederate  veteran  and  after- 
wards a  banker,  merchant,  and  planter,  is  a  descendant  of 
William  Snow,  who  came  from  England  and  settled  in 
Massachusetts,  in  1632;  his  grandmother,  Elizabeth  Adams, 
was  a  first  cousin  of  John  Quincy  Adams.  His  mother  is 
descended  from  Joseph  McLester,  who  came  to  this  country 
from  Scotland  early  in  the  eighteenth  century,  and  settled 
on  the  Peedee  River  in  North  Carolina. 

Mr.  Snow  graduated  from  Marion  Military  Institute  with 
the  degree  of  B.S.  in  1906,  and  spent  the  next  year  at  the 
University  of  the  South,  Sewanee,  Tenn.  In  1909  he  received 
the  degree  of  LL.B.  from  the  University  of  Alabama,  and 
then  entered  the  Yale  School  of  Law. 

He  had  been  admitted  to  the  Alabama  Bar  before  graduat- 
ing from  Yale,  and  upon  returning  to  Tuscaloosa  was  ap- 
pointed claim  agent  for  the  Mobile  &  Ohio  Railroad  Com- 
pany. He  later  became  a  partner  in  the  law  firm  of  McKinley, 
McQueen,  Aldrich  &  Snow.  Upon  the  death  of  his  brother  in 
191 5,  he  accepted  the  management  of  the  McLester  Hotel, 
at  the  same  time  forming  the  new  law  firm  of  Snow  &  Pearson. 
He  had  also  given  some  time  to  his  real  estate  interests.  He 
was  for  several  years  a  vestryman  in  Christ  (Episcopal) 
Church. 

Mr.  Snow  enlisted  in  the  Naval  Aviation  service  on  June 
20,  191 8,  and  had  been  in  training  for  six  weeks  when  his 


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death  occurred,  September  30,  191 8,  at  the  Naval  Hospital 
at  Chelsea,  Mass.,  as  a  result  of  pneumonia.  Previous  to  his 
enlisting  he  had  served  on  Red  Cross  and  Y.  M.  C.  A.  com- 
mittees and  in  Liberty  Loan  drives. 

On  March  20,  191 2,  he  was  married  at  Tuscaloosa,  to  Mary 
Theresa,  daughter  of  Eugene  Burr  Nuzum,  president  of  the 
Tuscaloosa  Cotton  Oil  Mills,  and  Mary  Elizabeth  (Gould) 
Nuzum.  Mrs.  Snow,  who  was  educated  at  Tuscaloosa  College 
and  Converse  College,  survives  him  with  a  son,  McLester 
Jared.  His  parents  and  three  brothers,  Richard  McLester 
Snow,  Edward  Cortlandt  Snow,  and  Alden  Hazard  Snow, 
are  also  living. 


Ernest  Berger,  LL.B.   191 1 

Born  July  14,  1883,  in  Szerep,  Hungary 
Died  November  6,  191 8,  in  Bridgeport,  Conn. 

Ernest  Berger  was  the  son  of  Carl  and  Cecelia  (Spitze) 
Berger,  and  was  born  in  Szerep,  Hungary,  July  14,  1883. 
There  he  attended  public  schools  until  he  was  thirteen  years 
of  age,  when  he  went  to  Budapest  to  learn  the  trade  of  up- 
holsterer and  decorator.  In  1900,  at  the  age  of  seventeen, 
he  came  to  America  to  found  a  new  home  for  his  mother  and 
family.  He  sent  for  them  after  a  few  years  and  they  after- 
wards made  their  home  with  him  in  Bridgeport,  Conn.  He 
worked  at  the  upholstery  trade  in  that  city,  and  for  three 
years  also  attended  the  night  classes  at  the  University  School. 
He  entered  the  Yale  School  of  Law  in  1908  and  took  his 
degree  three  years  later. 

He  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  June,  191 1,  and  then  began 
the  practice  of  law  in  Bridgeport.  He  was  associated  with  the 
firm  of  Giddings  &  Hughes  until  the  death  of  the  senior  part- 
ner, and  afterwards  with  Theodore  E.  Steiber  (LL.B.  1908). 
He  was  counsel  to  a  number  of  Hungarian  organizations  of 
national  activity  and  prominence.  Just  before  his  death  there 
was  in  process  of  formation  a  coalition  of  all  Hungarian  socie- 
ties in  the  United  States,  representing  several  hundred 
thousands  of  members,  and  he  had  been  tendered  the  office 
of  counselor.  He  was  one  of  the  original  incorporators  and 


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directors  of  the  West  Side  Bank,  as  well  as  its  attorney.  He 
was  a  member  of  the  Fairfield  County  Bar  Association. 

He  died  November  6,  191 8,  in  Bridgeport,  after  an  illness 
of  three  days  due  to  pneumonia.   The  body  was  cremated. 

He  was  unmarried.  Surviving  him  are  his  mother,  three 
sisters,  Florence,  Lee,  and  Grace,  and  three  brothers,  Alex- 
ander, Joseph,  and  John. 


Jay  Briggs,  LL.B.   191 1 

Born  January  20,  1885,  in  Morrison,  111. 
Died  November  i,  191 8,  in  Hoopeston,  111. 

Jay  Briggs,  son  of  Chemberlin  M.  and  Belle  (Doak)  Briggs, 
was  born  January  20,  1885,  in  Morrison,  111.  His  paternal 
grandparents  were  Mathew  and  Louise  S.  Briggs,  and  his 
earliest  American  ancestor  on  his  father's  side  was  William 
Briggs,  who  came  from  Grantham,  England,  and  settled  in 
Ohio.  His  mother  died  in  1899,  and  his  father  later  married 
again. 

He  received  his  early  education  in  the  schools  of  Hoopeston, 
111.,  graduating  from  the  high  school  there  in  1904.  He  com- 
pleted a  course  in  the  Law  Department  of  the  University  of 
Illinois  in  1909  and  the  next  year  received  the  degree  of  LL.B. 
from  the  Chicago  Law  School.  He  then  entered  the  Yale 
School  of  Law. 

From  1911  to  1913  he  practiced  in  Los  Angeles,  Calif.,  in 
partnership  with  WalterT.Gunn.  He  then  returned  to  Hoopes- 
ton and  was  associated  in  practice  with  his  father  until  the 
latter's  death  in  191 5.  From  that  time  until  his  own  death  he 
continued  the  practice  alone.  He  served  one  term  as  city 
attorney. 

He  died  in  Hoopeston,  November  i,  1918,  of  pneumonia, 
following  influenza.  Interment  was  in  Floral  Hill  Cemetery. 

Mr.  Briggs  was  unmarried.  He  is  survived  by  his  step- 
mother, Mrs.  Addie  B.  Briggs. 


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Ralph  Haden,  LL.B.   191 1 

Born  February  14,  1885,  in  Frankford,  Mo. 
Died  January  30,  191 9,  in  Frankford,  Mo. 

Ralph  Haden  was  born  in  Frankford,  Mo.,  February  14, 
1885,  being  one  of  the  nine  children  of  John  Barnard  and 
Mary  Ann  (Hostetter)  Haden.  His  father,  a  farmer,  is  a  son 
of  Nathan  and  Lucy  (Barnard)  Haden,  who  came  originally 
from  Kentucky  and  were  early  settlers  in  Frankford.  His 
mother  is  the  daughter  of  Gabriel  and  Elizabeth  (Pitt) 
Hostetter,  and  the  granddaughter  of  William  Pitt,  who  came 
from  England  to  Virginia,  married  Martha  Dunkum,  and 
settled  in  Missouri. 

He  was  prepared  for  college  at  the  Frankford  High  School, 
and  received  the  degree  of  B.A.  at  Christian  University  (now 
Culver-Stockton  College)  in  1908.  He  entered  the  Yale 
School  of  Law  that  fall  and  graduated  in  191 1.  He  was  a 
member  of  the  Yale  Forum  and  an  editor  of  the  Tale  Law 
Journal. 

He  practiced  for  a  year  in  Kansas  City,  Mo.,  and  from  191 2 
to  the  fall  of  1 9 13  was  claim  agent  for  the  Missouri,  Kansas  & 
Texas  Railway  Company  at  Parsons,  Kans.  He  then  returned 
to  Kansas  City,  but  after  practicing  there  for  a  year,  removed 
to  Frankford,  where  he  followed  his  profession  until  his 
death.  He  was  a  Democrat,  and  in  191 8  was  a  candidate  for 
prosecuting  attorney.  He  voluntarily  enlisted  in  the  Tank 
Corps  in  October,  191 8,  and  was  stationed  at  Camp  Polk, 
North  Carolina,  until  the  following  December.  His  death 
occurred  in  Frankford,  January  30,  1919,  after  a  three  days' 
illness  from  scarlet  fever,  following  an  attack  of  influenza 
contracted  in  camp.  He  was  buried  in  Fairview  Cemetery, 
Frankford. 

Mr.  Haden  was  married  September  22,  191 8,  in  Hannibal, 
Mo.,  to  Mrs.  Georgia  Mefford  Cash,  daughter  of  John  Mar- 
shall and  Jennie  (Henry)  Mefford,  who  survives  him.  He 
also  leaves  his  parents,  two  sisters,  Ethea  and  Gallic  Ellen 
Haden,  and  two  brothers,  Raymond  G.  and  Earl  N.  Haden. 


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George  William  Mueller,  LL.B.  191 1 

Born  April  9, 1888,  in  Meriden,  Conn. 
Died  October  4,  191 8,  at  Cape  May,  N.  J. 

George  William  Mueller,  son  of  Frederick  John  and  Annie 
Marie  (Myers)  Mueller,  was  born  April  9,  1888,  in  Meriden, 
Conn.  The  first  member  of  the  family  to  come  to  America 
was  William  Henry  Mueller,  who  came  from  Germany  to 
Meriden  in  1873.  Annie  Myers  Mueller  is  the  daughter  of 
George  and  Christine  Myers,  of  Atlantic  City,  N.  J. 

He  received  his  preparatory  training  at  the  Meriden  High 
School  and  at  Phillips  Academy,  Andover,  Mass.,  from  which 
he  was  graduated  in  1908.  During  his  second  year  in  the  School 
of  Law  he  was  one  of  the  editors  of  the  Tale  Law  Journal. 

He  was  admitted  to  the  Connecticut  Bar  after  graduation, 
and  became  associated  with  the  Travelers  Insurance  Company 
in  a  legal  capacity.  His  headquarters  were  at  first  in  Hartford, 
Conn.,  and  later  in  Springfield,  Mass.  In  the  fall  of  1913  he 
resigned  from  this  position  to  become  a  business  partner  and 
legal  adviser  to  his  uncle  in  Atlantic  City.  On  May  13,  191 8, 
he  enlisted  in  the  U.  S.  Naval  Reserve  Force  as  an  Apprentice 
Seaman.  He  was  called  into  service  on  July  15  and  assigned 
to  the  Naval  Base  at  Cape  May,  N.  J.  He  was  soon  placed  in 
a  company  to  qualify  for  an  Officers'  Training  School,  but 
was  taken  sick  just  before  the  examinations  were  held.  He 
took  the  examinations,  however,  and  successfully  passed 
them.  He  died  at  Cape  May,October  4, 191 8,  from  pneumonia, 
following  influenza.  Burial  was  in  Pleasantville  Cemetery, 
Atlantic  City. 

He  was  a  member  of  the  First  Congregational  Church  of 
Meriden.  Surviving  him  are  his  parents,  a  sister,  Christine 
Mueller,  and  a  brother,  Robert  Frederick  Mueller.  William 
C.  Mueller  (LL.B.  1886)  is  an  uncle. 


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John  Paul  Jones,  LL.B.   1912 

Born  August  22,  1887,  in  Selma,  Ala. 
Died  October  23,  191 8,  in  Selma,  Ala. 

John  Paul  Jones  was  born  August  22,  1887,  in  Selma,  Ala., 
the  son  of  John  Charles  and  Sarah  Elizabeth  (Roberge) 
Jones.  His  father,  a  contractor,  was  born  in  Wales,  and  came 
to  this  country  when  very  young,  settling  in  New  York  City. 
Later  he  moved  South,  and  fought  throughout  the  Civil 
War  with  the  Confederate  Army.  His  wife's  parents  were 
David  Franklin  and  Sarah  (Stowe)  Roberge,  whose  ancestors 
came  from  England. 

He  attended  the  Southern  University  and  the  University 
of  Alabama,  from  which  he  received  the  degree  of  B.S.  in 
1908  and  that  of  LL.B.  in  1910.  In  191 1  he  entered  the  Yale 
School  of  Law,  and  graduated  in  191 2.  Before  coming  to 
Yale  he  had  been  prominent  in  baseball  and  football,  and  at 
Yale  he  was  captain  of  the  Law  School  baseball  team. 

After  graduation  he  practiced  law  in  Birmingham,  Ala. 
He  enlisted  in  the  Navy  as  a  Seaman  in  July,  191 7,  and  after 
serving  for  a  time  on  the  U.  S.  S.  Druid,  was  transferred  to 
the  U.  S.  S.  Nahant.  He  died  October  23,  191 8,  in  Selma, 
after  an  illness  of  about  ten  days,  of  influenza,  which  was 
traceable  to  the  hardship  and  exposure  he  was  subjected  to 
while  serving  in  the  Navy.  He  was  buried  in  Live  Oak  Ceme- 
tery at  Selma. 

Surviving  Mr.  Jones  are  four  brothers  and  four  sisters: 
E.  R.  Jones,  Dr.  D.  D.  F.  Jones,  Robert  B.  Jones,  Anna  Lee 
Jones,  Mrs.  R.  D.  Bayne,  and  Mrs.  Minnie  Wood  Miller,  all 
of  Selma;  Walter  A.  Jones,  of  Chicago,  111.;  and  Mrs.  E.  A. 
Treat,  of  Hartford,  Conn. 

Arthur  William  Burgess,  LL.B.   1913 

Born  September  i6,  1889,  in  South  Framingham,  Mass. 
Died  September  27,  191 8,  in  Norwich,  Conn. 

Arthur  William  Burgess  was  born  September  16,  1889,  ^" 
South  Framingham,  Mass.,  the  son  of  William  James  and 
Margaret  (Dunn)  Burgess.  His  father,  who  is  in  the  advertis- 
ing business,  served  in  the  Navy  during  the  Spanish-American 


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War  as  a  Chief  Gunner's  Mate,  and  during  the  World  War 
as  a  Chief  Gunner.  He  is  the  son  of  Peter  and  Margaret  (Rice) 
Burgess,  of  Boston,  and  the  grandson  of  Katherine  Burgess, 
who  came  to  this  country  from  Ireland  in  1835,  "taking  her 
home  in  Waterbury,  Conn.  Margaret  Dunn  Burgess'  parents 
were  John  and  Margaret  (Blake)  Dunn.  A  great-uncle,  Arthur 
Rice,  was  a  member  of  the  69th  New  York  Volunteers  during 
the  Civil  War. 

He  received  his  preparatory  trainmg  at  the  Boardman 
High  School  in  New  Haven,  Conn.,  and  entered  the  Sheffield 
Scientific  School  in  1907,  but  left  within  a  year.  He  was  a 
member  of  the  Freshman  Football  Team.  During  1908-09, 
and  again  from  191 1  to  1913,  he  was  a  student  in  the  School 
of  Law,  and  in  1913  he  was  given  the  degree  of  LL.B. 

Mr.  Burgess  was  on  the  staff  of  the  New  Haven  Register 
until  191 5,  and  afterwards  wrote  poetry  and  satire  for  the 
Waterbury  American.  He  had  suffered  from  pulmonary 
tuberculosis  for  several  years,  and  had  spent  some  time  at 
the  Norwich  (Conn.)  Sanitarium.  He  was  confined  to  his 
bed  for  a  year  before  his  death,  which  occurred  September  27, 
191 8,  in  Norwich.  Interment  was  in  St.  Francis'  Cemetery, 
Naugatuck,  Conn.  He  had  written  for  the  Outdoor  Life 
Monthly^  a  periodical  devoted  to  the  interests  of  tubercular 
patients.  He  left  unpublished  many  poems.  He  was  a  member 
of  the  Roman  Catholic  Church. 

He  was  unmarried.  His  father  and  two  aunts  survive  him. 
He  was  a  first  cousin  of  Joseph  A.  Meegan  (Ph.B.  1914). 

Paul  Robinson  Bartlett,  LL.B.  1914 

Born  June  5,  1888,  in  San  Rafael,  Calif. 
Died  September  30,  191 8,  in  Monrovia,  Calif. 

Paul  Robinson  Bartlett  was  born  June  5,  1888,  in  San 
Rafael,  Calif.,  the  son  of  Charles  Edward  and  Elizabeth 
(Dore)  Bartlett.  His  earliest  ancestor  in  America  was  a  Dr. 
Bartlett  who  came  from  England  on  the  ship  Anne  and  settled 
in  New  Hampshire.  His  mother,  who  is  the  daughter  of 
Gustave  and  Lucinda  (Ferguson)  Dore,  is  of  French  and 
English  ancestry.  He  was  a  nephew  of  the  late  John  R. 
Bartlett,  of  New  York  City,  a  noted  figure  in  financial  circles. 


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Mr.  Bartleft  was  prepared  for  Yale  by  private  tutors,  en- 
tered the  School  of  Law  in  191 1,  and  graduated  in  1914.  He 
was  chairman  of  the  Tale  Law  Journal  in  his  Senior  year. 

After  his  graduation  he  became  connected  with  the  law 
firm  of  Robertson  &  Olson  in  Honolulu,  H.  T.,  his  associates 
being  Alexander  G.  M.  Robertson  (LL.B.  1893),  at  one  time 
chief  justice  of  the  Supreme  Court  of  Hawaii,  and  Clarence 
H.  Olson,  who  was  a  student  in  the  Yale  Graduate  School 
during  1900-01.  Mr.  *Bartlett  died  September  30,  191 8,  in 
Monrovia,  Calif.,  after  an  illness  of  five  months  from  tuber- 
culosis. The  body  was  cremated. 

He  was  married  July  11,  191 7,  in  Los  Angeles,  Calif.,  to 
Ruth  May,  daughter  of  William  Noyes  and  Nellie  (Lund) 
Johnson.  Besides  his  widow,  he  is  survived  by  his  mother  and 
a  sister,  Mrs.  Arthur  B.  Dodge,  of  Los  Angeles. 


Sydney  Francis  McCreery,  LL.B.   1914 

Born  July  5,  1888,  in  New  York  City 
Died  October  6,  1918,  in  North  Sutton,  N.  H. 

Sydney  Francis  McCreery,  son  of  James  Crawford  Mc- 
Creery, a  merchant,  and  Lydia  Florence  (Perkins)  McCreery, 
was  born  July  5,  1888,  in  New  York  City.  His  father  is  the 
son  of  James  and  Fanny  Maria  (Crawford)  McCreery,  both 
natives  of  Omagh,  County  Tyrone,  Ireland.  James  Mc- 
Creery came  to  America  about  1845,  ^^^  lived  for  a  time  in 
Baltimore,  Md.  He  was  the  founder  of  the  well-known  dry 
goods  house  of  James  McCreery  &  Company  in  New  York 
City.  Lydia  Perkins  McCreery  is  the  daughter  of  James  P. 
and  Lydia  M.  (Wood)  Perkins,  whose  ancestors  lived  in 
Dover,  N.  H. 

He  received  his  preparatory  training  at  the  Mohegan 
Lake  School  and  at  the  McKenzie  School,  Dobbs  Ferry, N.Y., 
and  was  a  student  in  the  Yale  School  of  Law  from  1908  to 
1914.  He  then  took  up  graduate  work  at  Columbia,  and  was 
shortly  admitted  to  the  bars  of  North  Carolina  and  New  York. 

On  August  25,  1 917,  he  entered  the  Plattsburg  Training 
Camp,  and  three  months  later  received  a  commission  as  a 
Second  Lieutenant  of  Infantry.  He  was  ordered  to  Kelly  Field, 


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exas,  and  in  January,  191 8,  was  transferred  to  the  Air 
Service  and  sent  abroad.  He  saw  four  months'  service  in 
France,  but  was  invalided  home  in  May  because  of  a  nervous 
breakdown.  He  was  under  treatment  at  the  Government 
Hospital  at  Cape  May,  N.  J.,  for  two  and  a  half  months.  His 
death  occurred  at  North  Sutton,  N.  H.,  October  6,  191 8,  after 
an  illness  of  a  week  due  to  pneumonia.  He  was  on  furlough 
at  the  time.  His  body  was  taken  to  New  York  for  burial  in 
Woodlawn  Cemetery. 

Lieutenant  McCreery  was  married  November  18,  191 6,  in 
New  York  City,  to  Betty  Petersen,  of  Bay  City,  Mich.,  who 
survives  him.  He  also  leaves  his  parents  and  two  brothers, 
James  Harold  McCreery  and  Arthur  McCreery,  ex- 11  S. 
Robert  S.  McCreery,  ^^^-'84,  is  an  uncle. 


DIVINITY  SCHOOL 


Samuel  Joshua  Bryant,  B.D.   1876 

Born  June  26,  1851,  in  West  Stockbridge,  Mass. 
Died  June  22,  1919,  in  West  Haven,  Conn. 

Samuel  Joshua  Bryant,  the  son  of  Rev.  Sidney  Bryant 
and  Harriet  Warner  (Lord)  Bryant,  was  born  at  West 
Stockbridge,  Mass.,  June  26,  1851.  His  father,  who  was  the 
son  of  Ezekiel  and  Mercy  (Northrup)  Bryant,  was  a  de- 
scendant of  St.  John  Bryant,  who  came  to  America  in  1632 
from  Plymouth,  England,  and  settled  at  Cornwall,  Conn. 
Other  early  ancestors  were  Samuel  and  Nathaniel  Bryant. 
His  mother  was  also  of  English  descent.  She  was  the  daughter 
of  Joseph  and  Polly  (Douglass)  Lord. 

He  entered  Oberlin  College  in  1869  and  graduated  with  the 
degree  of  B.A.  in  1873,  having  taught  school  at  various  places 
in  Ohio  and  at  Weston,  Vt.,  at  intervals  during  this  period. 
After  receiving  his  degree  from  the  Yale  Divinity  School  in 
1876,  he  was  pastor  of  the  Congregational  Church  at  South 
Britain,  Conn.,  for  eight  years.  In  1884  he  entered  business 
in  West  Haven,  and  until  1892  was  secretary  of  the  Maltby, 
Stevens  &  Curtiss  Company.  From  1892  to  1897  he  was  in 
the  real  estate  and  fire  insurance  business  under  the  firm 
name  of  Bryant  &  Main,  and  at  the  same  time  studied  law. 
He  received  the  degree  of  LL.B.  from  Yale  in  1895,  ^^^ 
afterwards  practiced  law  in  New  Haven.  He  was  a  member 
of  the  Connecticut  General  Assembly  in  1889  and  of  the 
Constitutional  Convention  of  1902,  and  since  1905  had  been 
judge  of  the  Town  Court  of  Orange,  Conn.  He  had  served 
also  as  chairman  of  the  West  Haven  Republican  Town  Com- 
mittee and  as  a  member  of  the  Borough  Board  of  Burgesses. 
He  belonged  to  the  First  Congregational  Church,  West 
Haven,  and  had  held  office  as  trustee,  deacon,  and  treasurer. 

His  death  occurred  June  22,  191 9,  in  West  Haven,  from 
acute  indigestion,  after  an  illness  of  only  a  few  hours,  and 
he  was  buried  in  Oak  Grove  Cemetery. 

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Mr.  Bryant  was  married  in  New  Haven,  May  23,  1876, 
to  Ellen  E.,  daughter  of  David  Atwater  Tyler  (M.D.  1844) 
and  Elizabeth  (Maltby)  Tyler.  She  survives  him  with  a  son, 
Douglas  Lord,  who  graduated  from  the  Sheffield  Scientific 
School  in  1903,  and  a  daughter,  Mrs.  Howard  B.  Thompson, 
of  West  Haven,  and  he  also  leaves  a  granddaughter  and  a 
sister.  Two  children,  Robert  and  Nellie,  died  in  childhood. 


Ezra  Porter  Chittenden,  B.D.  1877 

Born  February  22,  1851,  in  Westbrook,  Conn. 
Died  October  10,  1917,  in  Waterville,  Minn. 

Ezra  Porter  Chittenden  was  born  February  22,  1851,  in 
Westbrook,  Conn.  His  parents  were  Albert  Cornelius  Chit- 
tenden, a  preacher,  and  Patience  Lavinia  Chittenden,  and 
he  was  descended  from  William  Chittenden,  who  came  from 
England  to  Guilford,  Conn.,  in  1648,  and  from  Cornelius 
Chittenden,  a  Revolutionary  soldier. 

He  received  his  preparatory  training  in  Ripon,  Wis.,  and 
in  1873  graduated  from  Ripon  College  with  the  degree  of 
B.S.  He  entered  the  Yale  Divinity  School  in  1874,  and  after 
his  graduation  in  1877  became  a  Congregational  minister.  He 
filled  pastorates  at  New  Richmond,  Wis.,  Sioux  City,  Iowa, 
Salina,  Kans.,  Winona,  Minn.,  and  Kearney,  Mo.  He  com- 
pleted a  course  at  the  Seabury  Divinity  School,  a  Protestant 
Episcopal  seminary  at  Faribault,  Minn.,  in  1887,  ^^^  ^^- 
mained  there  during  the  next  three  years  as  an  instructor  in 
New  Testament  Greek.  From  1912  to  1915  he  was  a  member 
of  the  faculty  and  chaplain  at  St.  Mary's  School,  Knoxville, 
111.,  and  for  some  time  previous  to  his  death  he  was  engaged 
in  work  in  St.  Paul,  Minn.  He  spent  a  number  of  months  in 
study  at  the  University  of  Bonn,  and  in  1897  was  granted  the 
degree  of  Ph.D.  by  the  University  of  Minnesota,  credit 
having  been  given  him  for  his  work  abroad.  He  was  the 
author  of  a  book  of  poems,  written  in  German  and  called 
*'Das  Stille  HerZy"  and  of  "The  Pleroma,  a  Poem  of  the 
Christ"  (1899),  and  "The  Life  and  Example  of  St.  Andrew." 

Dr.  Chittenden  died  October  10,  1917,  at  his  home  in 
Waterville,  Minn.,  after  an  illness  of  six  weeks  resulting  from 


1300  DIVINITY    SCHOOL 

a  cerebral    hemorrhage.    Burial  was  in    Sucata   Cemetery, 
Waterville. 

He  was  married  in  that  city,  August  13,  1884,  to  Lizzie 
Lucinda,  daughter  of  Major  Lewis  Stowe  and  Hannah  Bab- 
cock  Stowe.  She  survives  him  with  a  son,  Edward  Wilson 
(B.A.  Missouri  1909,  M.A.  Missouri  1910,  Ph.D.  Chicago 
191 2),  who  is  at  present  an  assistant  professor  at  the  Univer- 
sity of  Iowa.  Another  son,  Albert  Lewis,  died  at  the  age  of 
six  months. 


Isaac  Althaus  Loos,  B.D.   1881 

Born  December  6,  1856,  in  Upper  Bern,  Pa. 
Died  March  24,  1919,  in  Iowa  City,  Iowa 

Isaac  Althaus  Loos  was  born  December  6,  1856,  in  Upper 
Bern,  Pa.,  the  son  of  John  Loos,  a  farmer,  whose  ancestors 
came  from  the  Palatinate  in  the  seventeenth  century  and 
settled  in  Berks  County,  Pa.  His  mother,  Sarah  (Althaus) 
Loos,  was  also  of  German  descent  and  belonged  to  a  Berks 
County  family.  His  great-grandfather  held  a  Captain's 
commission  in  the  Revolutionary  War. 

After  attending  the  public  schools  of  Berks  County  and 
Lebanon  Valley  College,  he  entered  Otterbein  University, 
\Yhere  he  received  the  degree  of  B.A.  in  1876  and  that  of 
M.A.  in  1879.  He  was  a  student  in  the  Yale  Divinity  School 
from  1878  to  1 88 1,  and  spent  the  next  two  years  specializing 
in  Assyriology  at  Paris  and  Leipsic.  From  1884  to  1889  ^e 
was  professor  of  history  and  German  at  Western  College  (now 
Leander  Clark  College).  He  was  then  called  to  organize 
departmental  work  in  the  political  and  social  sciences  at  the 
University  of  Iowa.  He  held  the  chair  of  political  science  until 
1900  and  was  afterwards  head  of  the  department  of  political 
economy  and  sociology  and  director  of  the  School  of  Political 
and  Social  Science.  He  founded  the  Political  Science  Club,  a 
faculty  organization,  and  was  also  a  member  of  the  American 
Economic  Association,  the  Academy  of  Political  and  Social 
Science,  and  the  American  Sociological  Society.  He  had  served 
as  president  of  the  State  Board  of  Charities  and  Corrections, 
and  was  actively  interested  in  the  promotion  of  advanced 


1877-1B85  I30I 

social  legislation  in  the  state  and  nation.  He  was  the  author 
of  "Studies  in  the  Politics  of  Aristotle  and  the  Republic  of 
Plato"  (1899)  and  of  a  two-volume  work  on  Economic  His- 
tory, which  was  ready  for  publication  at  the  time  of  his 
death,  and  had  written  many  articles  and  book  reviews  for 
professional  journals.  He  was  granted  the  degree  of  D.C.L. 
by  Penn  College  (Iowa)  in  1898  and  that  of  LL.D.  by  Grinnell 
in  1906.  He  was  a  deacon  in  the  Congregational  Church  at 
Iowa  City. 

Professor  Loos  died  March  24,  1 919,  at  Iowa  City,  after  an 
illness  of  six  days  caused  by  a  cerebral  hemorrhage,  and  was 
buried  in  Oakland  Cemetery. 

He  was  married  December  25,  1889,  in  Toledo,  Iowa,  to 
Mary  Alice  Dickson,  of  Chambersburg,  Pa.,  daughter  of 
Rev.  John  Dickson,  a  bishop  in  the  United  Brethren  Church, 
and  Mary  Jane  (Adair)  Dickson.  She  received  the  degree  of 
B.A.  at  Otterbein  University  in  1883,  studied  at  Wellesley 
during  1887-88,  and  was  for  a  year  professor  of  Greek  at 
Western  College.  In  addition  to  his  wife.  Professor  Loos  is 
survived  by  four  children:  Karl  Dickson  (B.A.  Iowa  191 1, 
LL.B.  Iowa  1914);  Alice  Adair,  who  graduated  from  the 
University  of  Iowa  in  191 5  and  from  the  Cumnock  School  of 
Oratory,  Northwestern  University,  in  1916;  Helen  Blanchard 
(B.A.  Iowa  191 5),  now  the  wife  of  Nathaniel  Ruggles 
Whitney  (B.A.  Pennsylvania  College  1906,  Ph.D.  Johns 
Hopkins  1913);  and  Christabel  (B.A.  Wellesley  1919). 


Clement  Claude  Campbell,  B.D.   1885 

Born  December  25,  1 851,  at  Pine  River,  Wis. 
Died  January  12,  1919,  in  Minneapolis,  Minn. 

Clement  Claude  Campbell  was  born  December  25,  1851, 
at  Pine  River,  Wis.,  the  son  of  Rev.  Daniel  Alexander  Camp- 
bell and  Electra  L.  (Soper)  Campbell.  He  was  graduated 
from  Ripon  College  with  the  degree  of  B.S.  in  1882,  and 
during  the  next  year  was  a  student  at  the  Chicago  Theological 
Seminary.  He  completed  his  preparation  for  the  ministry  at 
Yale,  receiving  the  degree  of  B.D.  in  1885. 

He  was  ordained  as  a  Congregational  minister  at  South 


1302  DIVINITY    SCHOOL 

Granby,  Conn.,  in  July  of  that  year,  and  served  the  church 
there  until  1890.  His  other  pastorates  were  as  follows: 
Necedah,  Wis.,  1890-92;  Antigo,  Wis.,  1892-98;  Hartford, 
Wis.,  1898-1901;  Madison,  Wis.,  1901-04;  Plymouth  Church, 
St.  Paul,  Minn.,  1 904-1 91 1 ;  and  Oak  Park  Church,  Minneap- 
olis, Minn.,  1911-16.  He  died  January  12,  1919,  in  Minneap- 
olis, after  a  prolonged  illness  from  cancer  of  the  throat. 

He  was  twice  married,  his  second  wife  being  Elizabeth  J., 
daughter  of  A.  M.  Lanning,  of  Ripon,  Wis.  Before  her 
marriage  she  was  dean  of  the  music  department  of  Wayland 
College.  Her  death  occurred  March  10,  191 8.  Mr.  Campbell 
is  survived  by  three  children  by  his  first  marriage,  Clement, 
Ray,  and  Ruth.  The  daughter  is  married  and  lives  at  Trail, 
Minn. 


Jefferson  Davis  Ritchey,  B.D.   1892 

Born  August  2,  1861,  in  Graysville,  Ga. 
Died  June  23,  191 9,  in  St.  Joseph,  Mo. 

Jefferson  Davis  Ritchey  was  born  August  2,  1 861,  in  Grays- 
ville, Ga.  His  boyhood  was  spent  in  Tennessee,  and  before 
entering  the  Yale  Divinity  School  in  1891  he  attended  Drury 
College,  Springfield,  Mo.,  where  he  received  the  degree  of 
B.A.  in  1888  and  later  that  of  M.A. 

For  eight  years  after  taking  his  degree  at  Yale  he  was 
rector  of  an  Episcopal  church  at  Old  Orchard,  Mo.,  and  dur- 
ing the  next  five  years  he  had  charge  of  a  parish  at  Wichita, 
Kans.  In  1905  he  became  rector  of  St.  Paul's  Church,  Kansas 
City,  Mo.,  and  continued  in  that  capacity  until  January, 
191 8,  when  failing  health  compelled  his  retirement.  The 
present  church  building  was  erected  during  his  incumbency. 
He  died  June  23,  1919,  in  St.  Joseph,  Mo.,  and  was  buried  in 
Forest  Hill  Cemetery  at  Kansas  City.  Some  years  ago  Drury 
College  conferred  the  degree  of  D.D.  upon  him. 

Dr.  Ritchey  is  survived  by  his  wife,  Josie  Ritchey,  and 
four  children,  Albert,  Fred,  Catherine,  and  Josephine.  The 
sons  were  in  service  overseas  during  the  World  War. 


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SUMMARY 


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INDEX 


Members  of  the  Scientific  and  Graduate  Schools,  and  of  the  Schools  of 
Music,  Forestry,  Medicine,  Law,  and  Divinity,  are  indicated  by  the  letters  j, 
■.ma  or  dp.,  musj^  m.,  /,  and  ^,  respectively. 


Page 

Class 

Page 

Abbe,  Harry  A. 

ii86 

1887 

Brooks,  Wilson 

951 

Abbott,  James  W. 

894 

1914J 

Brown,  Edwin  H.,  Jr. 

^^2 

Adams,  Benjamin  S. 

1104 

1850 

Brown,  Oliver 

837 

Adams,  Thatcher  M. 

853 

1876^ 

Bryant,  Samuel  J. 

1298 

Allen,  Clarence  Emir,  Jr. 

1039 

1919 

Buck,  Parker  D. 

1 120 

Andrews,  Horace  E. 

"55 

1873 

Buck,  William  0. 

914 

Arnold,  Howard  W. 

1231 

1911  s 

Buckingham,  Charles  L. 

1218 

Arnold,  Percy  W. 

1166 

1885  J 

Bullene,  Fred  S. 

1158 

1893 

Burchard,  Ross 

965 

Babikian,  Loutfi  H. 

1 196 

1913/ 

Burgess,  Arthur  W. 

1294 

Bacon,  William  P. 

855 

1887 

Burns,  William  S. 

953 

Baldwin,  Henry 

918 

1894 

Burr,  Calvin 

967 

Barnett,  John  F. 

1273 

1912 

Burrell,  J.  Kirby 

1036 

Barrell,  Joseph 

1260 

1903  J 

Burton,  Courtney 

1178 

Barry,  Timothy  F. 

994 

1890  J 

Butler,  William  H. 

1 162 

Bartlett,  Paul  R. 

1295 

Barton,  Lester  C. 

1004 

1885^ 

Campbell,  Clement  C. 

1301 

Bauch,  Herbert  W. 

1229 

1912  J 

Campbell,  Robert  L. 

1221 

Beardslee,  Sidney  A. 

1084 

1914J 

Carey,  James  R.,  Jr. 

1233 

Beddall,  Edward  A. 

945 

1859 

Carpenter,  Carlos  C. 

861 

Bellosa,  Frederick 

1274 

1905  ma 

Cartwright,  Walter  0. 

1256 

Bennett,  Francis  T. 

1041 

1872 

Case,  Erastus  E. 

912 

Bennett,  Louis,  Jr. 

1085 

1865 

Caskey,  Taliaferro  F. 

885 

Berger,  Ernest 

1290 

1916 

Cassard,  Daniel  W. 

1070 

Bettes,  Joseph  M. 

1184 

1866 

Caswell,  Edward  A. 

889 

Bigelow,  Albert  A. 

966 

1878 

Chandler,  Arthur  D. 

931 

Birdsall,  Ralph 

963 

1915 

Chandler,  William  H. 

1057 

Bishop,  Herbert  M. 

1271 

1905 

Chapman,  Charles  J. 

lOOI 

Bissellf  Joseph  B. 

1147 

1912  J 

Chapman,  William  H. 

1223 

Blount,  William  A.,  Jr. 

990 

1862 

Chase,  James  B. 

874 

Boltwood,  Lucius  C. 

1068 

1914 

Cheeseman,  Franklin  P. 

1049 

Bouchet,  Edward  A. 

919 

1877^ 

Chittenden,  E.  Porter 

1299 

Bourke,  Wilfrid  C. 

1 241 

1886^;) 

Clapp,  Edward  B. 

1259 

Bournique,  Joy  C. 

1 105 

1868  J 

Clark,  Albert  G. 

1129 

Bowen,  Joseph  B. 

1268 

1856 

Clark,  Isaac 

845 

Brady,  John  G. 

920 

1912 

Clark,  Salter  S.,  Jr. 

1037 

Briggs,  Jay 

1291 

1907  J 

Clarke,  Talcott  H. 

1191 

Brinley,  Charles  A. 

1132 

1910 

ClifFord,  Robert  C. 

1030 

Brodie,  Clarence  A. 

1119 

1916 

Coleman,  Robert  H. 

1 07 1 

Brooke,  Samuel  P. 

981 

1904 

Colston,  Frederick  C. 

995 

Brooke,  Walter  E. 

1216 

1909 

Condon,  Frank  B. 

1025 

Brooks,  Charles  P. 

1136 

1894 

Cooke,  Joseph  P. 

968 

I3I7 


I3I8 


INDEX 


Class 

Page 

Class 

Page 

1870 

Coy,  Nathan  B. 

901 

1866 

Garretson, 

1882 

Cragin,  Edwin  B. 

943 

Ferdinand  VanD 

890 

1894 

Crawford,  Charles  F. 

970 

1870 

Gaylord,  Charles  W. 

904 

1894 

Crawford,  George  M. 

971 

1869 

Gilbert,  James  H. 

897 

1886 

Crehore,  William  W. 

949 

igo^dp 

Gilbert,  Ralph  D. 

1261 

1871 

Cuddeback,  Cornelius  E. 

908 

1881 

Giltner,  Roscoe  R. 

939 

I917 

Cunningham,  Oliver  B. 

1088 

1913J 

Glover,  Joseph  A. 

1230 

1915 

Cushing,  Kirke  W. 

1059 

1916 

Goodwin,  George  W. 

1072 

1910  J 

Gordy,  Sheppard  B. 

1209 

1909  J 

Dakin,  Robert  E. 

1204 

1904 

Green,  Douglas  B. 

997 

1845 

Davis,  Thomas  K. 

833 

1894 

Green,  Gervase 

972 

1915J 

Dietz,  Philip 

1237 

1918 

Grieb,  H.  Norman 

1 107 

1917 

Donahoe,  Henry  T. 

1090 

1887  s 

Griggs,  Wilfred  E. 

"59 

I919 

Douglass,  Allan  W. 

1122 

1893  J 

Gunter,  Gaston 

1165 

igi2  dp 

Drysdale,  Charles  W. 

1262 

1906 

Dunlap,  John  G. 

1007 

1911  / 

Haden,  Ralph 

1292 

1871  s 

Durand,  W.  Cecil 

"39 

i860 

Haight,  David  L. 

866 

1 901  s 

Duren,  Walter 

1 174 

i860 

Hale,  William  H. 

867 

1863 

Durfee,  Holder  B. 

876 

1906 

Halsey,  John  R. 

1008 

1900  J 

Dutton,'Henry  F. 

"73 

1881 

Harkness,  William  L. 

940 

1873 

Dutton,  Samuel  T. 

916 

1879/ 

Harmon,  Lloyd  W. 

1282 

1918  s 

Dyer,  Truman  D. 

1250 

1887  J 

Hayden,  James  H. 

1161 

1912/ 

Hayward,  Albert  W. 

1266 

1873  w 

Eden,  John  H. 

1275 

1899  J 

Hazard,  John  G. 

1 172 

1864 

Edic,  John  J. 

880 

1908 

Hedrick,  Arly  L. 

1019 

I9I8 

Edwards,  G.  Lane,  Jr. 

1 106 

1914 

Hemingway,  Harold  L. 

1051 

1908^ 

Emmons,  George  L. 

1 197 

1871 

Henlein,  Alfred  F. 

910 

I9I5 

Ewing,  George  W.,  Jr. 

1060 

1868 

Hicks,  Horace  A. 

897 

1918  s 

Hines,  Edward,  Jr. 

1252 

1859 

Fairbanks,  Edward  T. 

862 

igio  s 

Hinkley,  Earl  A. 

1211 

I9I0  J 

Farnham,  Roy  E. 

1209 

1915J 

Hoadley,  Sheldon  E. 

1238 

I9I8  J 

Farwell,  Alfred  A. 

1251 

1884 

Holliday,  Joseph  G. 

948 

1878  J 

Farwell,  Granger 

1 145 

1848 

Holmes,  Daniel 

836 

1911  s 

Fennell,  Charles  B. 

1218 

1913 

Hopkins,  Arthur  E. 

1043 

1897 

Fisher,  Lucius  G. 

978 

1891 

Hopkins,  Louis  L. 

959 

1899  J 

Fiske,  John  M.,  Jr. 

1 169 

1875 

Hotchkiss,  William  H. 

922 

I9I3 

Fitzgerald,  John  J. 

1042 

1891  s 

Hotz,  Robert  S. 

1163 

I9I4 

Frary,  Donald  P. 

1050 

1916 

Houpt,  George  K. 

1073 

iSggs 

Freeborn,  Charles  J. 

1 170 

1877  i 

Howard,  Horace  C. 

1144 

1917 

Frost,  Cleveland  C. 

1091 

1913 

Hubbard,  George  C. 

1044 

1917 

Fuller,  Roswell  H. 

1093 

1909 

HufF,  Burrell  R. 

1025 

1863 

Fuller,  Thomas  H. 

878 

1 901  s 

Hunt,  Edward  W. 

1174 

1867/ 

Hurd,  Alva  A. 

1281 

1888 

Gallup,  Asa  0. 

956 

1915 

Gamble,  Robert  H. 

1061 

1895 

Jacobus,  George 

974 

1887 

Gardiner,  Robert  A. 

954 

1881  s 

Jeme,  Tien  Yow 

1 150 

1917J 

Garland,  Henry  B. 

1244 

igio  s 

Jerome,  Gilbert  N. 

1212 

1904^ 

Garnsey,  Owen  A. 

1185 

1915 

Jessup,  William  H. 

1063 

INDEX 


1319 


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■. 

Page 

Class 

Page 

907  J 

Jones,  Carleton  B. 

^^93 

1913 

McNeills,  John  B. 

1045 

912  / 

Jones,  John  P. 

1294 

1918 

Mallory,  Holmes 

nil 

i860 

Marshall,  Henry  G. 

871 

9^5 

Keep,  Henry  B. 

1064 

1911  s 

Martin,  LeRoy 

1220 

870 

Kelly,  Cassius  W. 

905 

1891 

Marvin,  Arthur 

960 

908  J 

Kelsey,  Alexis  A. 

1198 

1873  m 

May,  Calvin  S. 

1276 

884  J 

Kelsey,  Duane  J. 

1157 

1871 

Mead,  Frederick 

911 

9^3^ 

Kennedy,  William  F. 

1231 

1912 

Mendel,  Harry 

1038 

875 

Kenny,  William  S. 

923 

1916 

Meyer,  Russell  J. 

1077 

865 

Kerr,  James  H. 

886 

1914 

Miller,  Edward  C,  Jr. 

1052 

916 

Kielland,  Casper  M. 

1075 

1900 

Miller,  Jesse  W. 

984 

871/ 

Kiernan,  Patrick  F. 

1281 

1900 

Minor,  William  E. 

985 

910 

King,  Robert  B. 

1032 

1888/ 

Montague,  Robert  V. 

1285 

903 

Kinney,  Joseph  N. 

991 

1908  s 

Moorhead,  J.  Upshur 

1 199 

860 

Kip,  WiUiam  I. 

868 

1918 

Morange,  Leonard  S. 

1113 

907 

Kochersperger,  Ralph  D. 

1015 

1917J 

Morrison,  John 

1245 

1915 

Moseley,  James  A.,  Jr. 

1065 

878 

Lamb,  Henry  W. 

932 

1911  / 

Mueller,  George  W. 

1293 

866 

Lampman,  Lewis 

892 

911  s 

Lancashire,  Ammi  W. 

1219 

1915 

Nason,  Alexis  P. 

1067 

912  m^ 

Lane,  Edward  F. 

1257 

1903  J 

Nevin,  Theodore  H. 

1 179 

860 

Leach,  Orlando 

869 

1908  J 

Newcomb,  William  W. 

1200 

912  s 

Leahy,  J.  Russell 

1224 

1903 

Nichols,  James  K. 

992 

888/ 

Leary,  Daniel  E. 

1284 

1866 

Nicoll,  William  G. 

893 

858 

Lee,  Samuel  H. 

858 

1910 

Noyes,  Garnett  M. 

^033 

869 

Lee,  William  H.  L. 

899 

886  J 

Leonard,  Harrie  S. 

1158 

i860  m 

Oberly,  Aaron  S. 

1270 

[906  J 

Levering,  Ernest  W. 

1189 

1894/ 

O'Connor,  James  E. 

1288 

[865  m 

Lewis,  George  F. 

1272 

1917 

OfFutt,  Jarvis  J. 

1097 

[909  J 

Lilley,  John  L. 

1205 

1 91 5  ma  Oshima,  Shosaku 

1258 

[905  J 

Lindeman,  Edward  E. 

1188 

1919 

Otis,  George  W. 

1 1 24 

[864 

Loomis,  Francis  E. 

881 

1917 

Overton,  John  W. 

1098 

[881^ 

Loos,  Isaac  A. 

1300 

1904 

Lovejoy,  Allen  P. 

998 

1875  J 

Page,  Edward  D. 

1141 

1857 

Lovewell,  Joseph  T. 

847 

igijs 

Parrott,  Edmund  A. 

1247 

1912/ 

Lusk,  Davis  W. 

1267 

1909 

Parry,  Maxwell  0. 

1028 

1918 

Patterson,  F.  Stuart 

1114 

1912  s 

MacArthur,  John 

1225 

1876 

Patton,  William  H. 

927 

1876  J 

McClung,  Calvin  M. 

1 143 

1917J 

Peale,  VanHorn 

1247 

1919 

McCormick, 

1 874  J 

Pendleton,  Claudius  V. 

1 140 

Alexander  A.,  Jr 

.  1 123 

1869  J 

Perry,  Henry  H. 

1 134 

1914/ 

McCreery,  Sydney  F. 

1296 

1906 

Phelps,  John  C. 

ion 

1904 

McFadden,  John  S. 

ICOO 

1908 

Phillips,  James  L. 

1021 

1917 

McHenry,  John,  Jr. 

1095 

1879 

Piatt,  Lewis  A. 

934 

1896 

McLanahan,  George  X. 

976 

1912  s 

Piatt,  Lucian 

1227 

1918 

MacLeish,  Kenneth 

1 108 

1914J 

Plimpton,  Chester  H. 

1234 

1906 

Macmillan,  Thomas  D. 

lOIO 

1919 

Porter,  Hezekiah  S. 

1 1 26 

1918 

MacNaughton,  Leslie  M. 

mo 

1919 

Potter,  Stephen 

1 126 

1320 

INDEX 

Class 

Page 

Class 

Page 

1892 

Powell,  Ralph  C. 

962 

1915J 

Stilwell,  Thomas  V, 

I240» 

1903  J 

Prindle,  Harrison 

II80 

1908 

Stoddard,  Ralph  F. 

1023- 

1876 

Strong,  William  T. 

928' 

I9I4 

Rand,  Kenneth 

1054 

1918  s 

Sweeny,  J.  Sarsfield 

1253; 

1918 

Read,  Curtis  S. 

III5 

1903 -r 

Read,  Robert  W. 

I181 

1875 

Torrence,  George  P. 

924 

1910  J 

Reeder,  Harold  W. 

1213 

1899 

Torrey,  William  J. 

982. 

1917 

Richards,  John  F.,  II 

IIOO 

I9I8 

Treadwell,  Alvin  H. 

III7 

1916 

Ricketts,  Langdon  L. 

1078 

I88I J 

Trumbull,  J.  Heyward 

1 1 54 

1872 

Rickly,  Ralph  R. 

913 

1902  J 

Trumbull,  John  F. 

II75 

1919 

Ripley,  Bryan  H. 

II28 

1878 

Tucker,  James  R. 

933' 

1892^ 

Ritchey,  Jefferson  D. 

1302 

I88I 

Tuttle,  Henry  N. 

94i 

1893/ 

Robb,  Bamford  A. 

1287 

1859 

Twichell,  Joseph  H. 

864 

1912  m 

Rochfort,  Edward  L. 

1279 

1914 

Rogers,  Henry  T.,  2d 

1055 

I9I2  J 

Underbill,  John  W. 

1228; 

1916 

Rose,  Philip  L. 

1079 

igios 

Upson,  Warren  W. 

1214 

1913 

Rowe,  Eugene  F. 

1046 

1909  J 

Russell,  Donald  G. 

1206 

1910  J 

Valentine,  Dudley  B. 

1215 

1869  J 

VanRensselaer,  Robert  S. 

"35 

1914J 

Sanford,  Eldon  W. 

1236 

1894 

Saunders,  Charles  W. 

973 

1908  J 

Walker,  John  M. 

1 201 

1902/ 

Saxe,  Moses  W. 

1288 

1891  s 

Walker,  William  E. 

1 164 

1897  J 

Schenck,  Daniel  D. 

1168 

1897 

Wallace,  M.  Lester 

979 

1913 

Schenck,  Gordon  L. 

1047 

1917 

Wallace,  W.  Noble 

1 102; 

1915J 

Schulze,  Herman  F.  B. 

1239 

1898 

Ward,  Arthur  G. 

98a 

1911 

Schwaner,  Stanley  F. 

1035 

1878  J 

Ward,  Ebin  J. 

1 147 

1906 

Scudder,  Philip  J. 

1012 

1903  J 

Ward,  Frank  A. 

I183 

igi6dp 

Selbert,  Louis 

1263 

1916  s 

Warner,  Julian  C. 

1242 

1869 

Seward,  Edward  C. 

900 

1870 

Warren,  Henry  P. 

906. 

1857 

Seymour,  Storrs  0. 

850 

1865 

Warren,  Henry  W. 

887 

1854 

Shackelford,  John  C. 

843 

1870  J 

Watson,  John  George 

II38 

1909 

Sharp,  William 

1029 

1902 

Wear,  Arthur  Y. 

98^ 

1917J 

Shear,  Charles  R. 

1248 

1908 

Webb,  H.  Walter 

1024 

1877 

Shelton,  Charles  H. 

930 

1886/ 

Wells,  E.  Livingston 

1283 

1895 

Shepley,  Arthur  B. 

975 

1853 

Weston,  Theodore 

838 

1907  J 

Siems,  Chester  P. 

1 194 

1857 

Wheeler,  Arthur  M. 

851 

1907 

Simmons,  F.  Ronald 

1016 

1853 

White,  Andrew  D. 

840 

1917 

Slocum,  Russell 

IIOI 

1908  s 

White,  Bishop 

1203 

1908 

Smith,  Charles  M. 

1022 

1905 

White,  William  W. 

1002 

1883 

Smith,  Clarence  M. 

946 

1902  s 

Whitney,  Frederic  E. 

II77 

1910/ 

Snow,  McLester  J. 

1289 

I9I8 

Wicks,  Glenn  D. 

II18 

igiys 

Souther,  Arthur  F. 

1249 

I9I0 

Wilkirson,  Roy  L. 

1034 

1880 

Spencer,  Frank  0. 

938 

1916  s 

Willey,  Charles  W. 

1243 

1 879  J 

Spencer,  T.  Henry 

1 149 

1858 

Williams,  Charles  H. 

860 

1906 

Squire,  W.  Lord 

1014 

1856 

Williams,  Edward  F. 

846 

1914 

Stafford,  Oliver  M.,  Jr. 

1056 

i860 

Williams,  Edwin  S. 

872 

1909  J 

Stearns,  Burt 

1208 

1868  J 

Williams,  Henry  S. 

1 130 

1864 

Sterling,  John  W. 

883 

1889 

Williams,  Howard  H. 

958 

INDEX 


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Class 

Page 

Class 

Page 

igo6s 

Williams,  Hubert  C. 

1190 

1857 

Wood,  E.  Morgan 

852 

1880  w 

WiUiston,  Samuel  W. 

1277 

igi2  musWnght,  Clara  (Holman) 

1265 

1916 

Wilson,  Alexander  D. 

108 1 

1907 

Wright,  Thomas  G. 

1017 

1879 

Wilson,  Mardon  D. 

936 

1901 

Wyler,  Jesse  S. 

987 

1901 

Wilson,  Robert  B. 

986 

1905 

Winslow,  Kenelm 

1003 

1916 

Young,  R.  Stanley 

1083 

1918  J 

Winter,  Wallace  C,  Jr. 

1254 

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William  Ely  Boies,  B.A.   1844 

Born  January  27,  1823,  in  Charleston,  S.  C. 
Died  July  16,  191 9,  in  Knoxville,  Tenn. 

William  Ely  Boies  was  born  in  Charleston,  S.  C,  January 
27,  1823,  the  son  of  Rev.  Artemas  Boies,  pastor  of  the  First 
Congregational  Church  in  that  city,  and  Abigail  (Ely)  Boies. 
His  father,  whose  parents  were  David  and  Dorotha  (Blair) 
Boies,  after  graduating  from  Williams  College  with  honors  in 
1 8 16,  attended  Princeton  Theological  Seminary  for  a  year. 
Abigail  Ely  Boies  was  the  daughter  of  Capt.  Ethan  Ely  and 
Hannah  (Burt)  Ely  of  Longmeadow,  Mass.,  and  a  lineal 
descendant  of  Nathaniel  Ely,  who  came  to  America  from 
Ipswich,  England,  in  1634  and  settled  in  Newtown  (now 
Cambridge),  Mass.  He  probably  went  to  Hartford,  Conn., 
with  Rev.  Thomas  Hooker  in  1636,  as  his  name  appears  on  a 
monument  erected  there  to  the  memory  of  its  first  settlers. 
He  removed  to  Springfield,  Mass.,  in  1659  ^^^  ^^^^  there  in 

1675;   .  . 

William  E.  Boies  attended  the  Boston  Latin  School  for 
four  years,  graduating  with  honors,  and  entered  Yale  as  a 
Junior  in  1842,  after  spending  two  years  at  Amherst  College. 
The  year  following  his  graduation  he  taught  in  Midway,  Ky. 
From  1845  ^^  ^^4^  ^^  studied  at  Lane  Theological  Seminary, 
Cincinnati,  Ohio,  and  the  next  year  was  a  resident  licentiate 
at  Andover  Theological  S.eminary.  He  was  never  ordained, 
being  prevented  by  loss  of  hearing  from  actively  entering  the 
ministry.  He  resided  in  Longmeadow,  Mass.,  from  1849  ^^ 
1 891,  preaching  occasionally,  writing  for  various  periodicals, 
and  farming  on  a  small  scale.  In  1891  he  moved  to  Knoxville, 

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1324  YALE    COLLEGE 

Tenn.,  and  during  his  twenty-eight  years  of  residence  there 
was  prominently  identified  with  movements  for  civic  improve- 
ment, with  philanthropic  work,  and  religious  activities.  He 
always  took  an  active  interest  in  journalism  and  was  well 
known  through  his  connection  with  publications  of  various 
kinds.  For  some  time  he  was  religious  editor  of  the  Knoxville 
Journal-Tribune ^  and  up  to  the  time  of  his  death  contributed 
each  week  alternately  verse  and  editorials  to  that  paper.  For  a 
number  of  years  he  was  also  a  constant  contributor  of  articles 
to  the  Springfield  Republican.  Two  years  before  his  death  he 
fell  on  the  pavement,  partially  disabling  his  right  hand. 
He  died  of  cerebral  hemiorrhage  July  16,  191 9,  at  the  home  of 
his  son  in  Knoxville,  and  was  buried  in  the  Greenwood  Ceme- 
tery in  that  city.  For  several  years  previous  to  his  death  he 
had  been  the  oldest  living  graduate  of  the  University. 

He  was  married  June  15,  1864,  in  Blandford,  Mass.,  to 
Elizabeth  Phelps,  daughter  of  Silas  Wright,  M.D.,  and  Melissa 
(Phelps)  Wright.  Mrs.  Boies  died  March  17,  1919.  A  son, 
William  Artemas  (M.D.  New  York  Homeopathic  College 
1896),  survives.  A  daughter,  Elizabeth,  died  March  17,  1893. 


Arthur  Dimon  Osborne,  B.A.   1848 

Born  April  17,  1828,  in  Fairfield,  Conn. 
Died  April  14,  1920,  in  New  Haven,  Conn. 

Arthur  Dimon  Osborne  was  born  in  Fairfield,  Conn.,  April 
17,  1828,  the  son  of  Thomas  Burr  Osborne  (B.A.  18 17,  LL.D. 
Wesleyan  1856)  and  Elizabeth  Huntington  (Dimon)  Osborne. 
His  father  studied  law  and  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  New 
Haven  in  1820.  He  practiced  his  profession  in  Fairfield  and 
represented  the  district  in  Congress  from  1839  to  1843.  I" 
1844  he  was  a  member  of  the  State  Senate,  and  the  same  year 
was  appointed  judge  of  the  County  Court.  He  was  again  a 
member  of  the  General  Assembly  in  1850,  and  from  1855  to 
1865  he  was  professor  of  law  at  Yale.  His  parents  were  Jere- 
miah and  Anna  (Sherwood)  Osborne,  descendants  of  Richard 
Osborne,  who  came  from  London,  England,  in  1634  and 
settled  at  New  Haven  in  1639,  ^*^*^  of  Thomas  Sherwood,  who 
came  from  Ipswich,  England,  in   1634  and  settled  first  in 


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Massachusetts,  removing  to  Fairfield  prior  to  1650.  The 
maternal  grandfather  of  Arthur  Dimon  Osborne  was  Ebenezer 
Dimon  (B.A.  1783),  who  was  sheriff  of  Fairfield  County  for 
thirteen  years,  and  was  one  of  the  founders  of  Fairfield  Acad- 
emy and  the  Fairfield  Public  Library.  His  wife  was  Mary 
Sherwood  (Hinman)  Osborne.  Ebenezer  Dimon  (B.A.  1728) 
was  the  great-great-grandfather  of  Arthur  Dimon  Osborne, 
and  David  Dimon,  a  non-graduate  member  of  the  Class  of 
1828,  and  Dr.  Theodore  Dimon  (B.A.  1835)  were  his  uncles. 

He  was  fitted  for  college  at  Fairfield  Academy  and  entered 
the  Class  of  1848  in  Sophomore  year.  He  received  an  oration 
appointment  in  Junior  year  and  a  first  dispute  in  Senior  year, 
and  was  a  member  of  Phi  Beta  Kappa.  He  served  as  Secretary 
of  his  Class  from  1873  until  his  death. 

He  studied  law  in  his  father's  office,  was  admitted  to  the  bar 
in  1850,  and  practiced  his  profession  in  Fairfield  from  1850  to 
1854,  and  in  New  Haven  from  that  year  until  his  retirement 
from  the  law  to  enter  banking  iii  1882.  He  represented  the 
town  of  Fairfield  in  the  Connecticut  House  of  Representatives 
in  1854,  serving  on  the  judiciary  committee;  was  alderman  of 
the  Second  Ward  in  New  Haven  from  1859  to  1861;  and  was 
clerk  of  the  Supreme  and  Superior  courts  for. New  Haven 
County  from  July,  i860,  to  1882,  when  he  declined  a  reap- 
pointment. He  was  a  member  of  the  Board  of  Education  in 
New  Haven  and  chairman  of  the  committee  on  schools  from 
1878  to  1 88 1.  In  November,  1869,  he  was  elected  a  director, 
and  in  January,  1882,  president  of  the  Second  National  Bank 
of  New  Haven.  He  held  this  office  until  January,  1899,  when 
he  declined  a  reelection  and  was  elected  a  vice-president, 
which  office  he  held  until  December,  191 6.  He  was  a  director 
of  the  Shore  Line  Railway,  the  New  York,  New  Haven  & 
Hartford  Railroad  Company,  the  New  England  Navigation 
Company,  and  several  subsidiary  companies,  but  in  May,  1906, 
resigned  his  directorship  in  all  these  companies.  He  was  a 
trustee  of  the  New  Haven  Orphan  Asylum,  and  one  of  the 
society's  committee  of  the  First  Ecclesiastical  Society  of  New 
Haven  (Center  Church)  for  many  years.  He  was  a  member  of 
the  New  Haven  Colony  Historical  Society,  the  Fairfield  His- 
torical Society,  and  the  Sons  of  the  American  Revolution. 

He  died  suddenly,  from  an  intestinal  hemorrhage,  at  his 


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home  in  New  Haven,  April  14,  1920,  and  was  buried  in  Ever- 
green Cemetery. 

He  was  married  August  2,  1858,  in  New  Haven,  to  Frances 
Louisa,  daughter  of  Eli  Whitney  Blake  (B.A.  18 16)  and  Eliza 
Maria  (O'Brien)  Blake.  She  died  December  21,  1893.  Five  of 
her  brothers  graduated  at  Yale:  Charles  T.  Blake  (B.A.  1847), 
Henry  T.  Blake  (B.A.  1848),  Eli  W.  Blake  (B.A.  1857),  Ed- 
ward F.  Blake  (B.A.  1858),  and  James  P.  Blake  (B.A.  1862). 
Through  her  mother,  who  was  the  daughter  of  Edward  J. 
and  Mary  (Pierpont)  O'Brien,  she  was  a  lineal  descendant  of 
Rev.  James  Pierpont,  one  of  the  founders  of  Yale. 

He  is  survived  by  his  two  sons,  Thomas  Burr  Osborne 
(B.A.  1881,  Ph.D.  1885,  Sc.D.  1910)  and  Arthur  Sherwood 
Osborne  (B.A.  1882,  LL.B.  1884),  and  one  grandson,  Arthur 
Dimon  Osborne,  2d  (B.A.  1908,  LL.B.  Harvard  191 1). 


Benjamin  Swan  Bronson,  B.A.   1849 

Born  April  3,  1829,  in  Anson,  Maine 
Died  April  14,  1917,  in  Warren  ton,  N.  C. 

Benjamin  Swan  Bronson,  son  of  David  and  Augusta  R. 
(Hotton)  Bronson,  was  born  in  Anson,  Maine,  April  3,  1829. 
His  first  American  ancestor,  John  Bronson,  who  was  probably 
born  in  England,  came  early  to  this  country  with  his  aged 
father,  Richard  Bronson,  and  his  brother  Richard,  and  settled 
first  in  Cambridge,  Mass.  He  was  living  in  Hartford,  Conn., 
in  1639,  and  later  moved  to  Farmington,  Conn.  His  grandson, 
John  Bronson,  was  one  of  the  first  company  to  settle  in 
Waterbury,  Conn. 

He  was  a  student  at  Waterville  (now  Colby)  College  from 
1844  to  1847,  ^"^  entered  Yale  as  a  Junior  in  the  fall  of  1848. 

Upon  graduation  he  taught  for  two  years  in  Hertford,  N.  C, 
studying  law  during  eight  months  of  the  time.  He  was  a  tutor 
at  St.  James  College  in  Maryland  in  1852,  and  during  the 
next  two  years  studied  theology  as  a  candidate  for  orders  in 
the  Diocese  of  North  Carolina.  He  was  settled  as  rector  of 
the  Episcopal  Church  in  Windsor,  N.  C,  from  May,  1854,  to 
1859,  leaving  there  on  account  of  the  "national  difficulties." 
From  i860  to  1867  he  was  rector  of  the  Episcopal  Church  in 


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I848-I853  1327 

St.  Michaels,  Md.,  and  then  of  St.  Peter's  Episcopal  Church 
in  Charlotte,  N.  C,  until  the  spring  of  1878.  The  following 
year  he  spent  in  Waterbury,  Conn.,  where  he  was  engaged 
in  teaching.  From  June,  1879,  ^^  ^^^9  ^^  ^ad  charge  of  the 
Episcopal  Church  in  Wilson,  N.  C,  and  then  practically 
retired  from  the  ministry,  although  for  a  few  years  he  was 
rector  of  the  Warrenton  (N.  C.)  Episcopal  Church.  He  had  a 
farm  at  Warrenton,  and  also  during  a  large  part  of  the  time 
taught  a  limited  number  of  boys. 

He  died  in  Warrenton,  April  14,  1917,  and  was  buried  in 
the  local  cemetery. 

He  was  married  February  19,  1857,  in  Hertford,  to  Martha 
Skinner,  who  died  in  i860,  leaving  one  son,  David,  whose 
death  occurred  in  1906.  Mr.  Bronson  was  again  married  De- 
cember 4,  1872,  in  Warrenton,  to  Alice  B.,  daughter  of  John 
and  Matilda  Somerville.  She  died  in  1898.  There  was  one  son 
by  this  marriage,  Benjamin  S.,  who  for  a  number  of  years 
helped  his  father  in  carrying  on  his  farm  in  Warrenton,  and 
is  now  located  in  New  York  City. 


William  BIssell,  B.A.   1853 

Born  March  15,  1830,  in  Litchfield,  Conn. 
Died  July  2,  191 9,  in  Lakeville,  Conn. 

William  Bissell  was  one  of  the  seven  children  of  Amos 
Bissell,  a  farmer,  and  Lydia  Bridgeman  (Hall)  Bissell,  and 
was  born  March  15,  1830,  in  Litchfield,  Conn.  Through  his 
father,  whose  parents  were  Benjamin  and  Esther  (Benton) 
Bissell,  he  traced  his  ancestry  to  John  Bissell,  who  was  of 
French-Huguenot  descent  and  who  came  from  England  to 
Plymouth,  Mass.,  between  1628  and  1632,  and  before  1640 
settled  on  the  east  side  of  the  Connecticut  River,  opposite 
Windsor.  John  Bissell's  grandson,  Lieut.  Isaac  Bissell,  moved 
from  Windsor  to  Litchfield  in  1723. 

He  was  fitted  for  college  in  his  native  town  under  Rev. 
C.  G.  Eastman,  and  after  receiving  his  Bachelor's  degree  he 
returned  to  Litchfield  to  take  up  the  study  of  medicine.  His 
course  was  completed  at  the  Yale  School  of  Medicine,  where 
he  was  granted  the  degree  of  M.D.  in  1856. 


1328  YALE    COLLEGE 

Dr.  Bissell  practiced  his  profession  in  Elizabethport,  N.  J., 
for  six  months  and  thereafter  in  Lakeville,  Conn.  His  death 
occurred  at  his  home  in  that  town  July  2,  191 9.  He  was  a 
member  of  the  Litchfield  County  and  Connecticut  State 
Medical  societies  and  the  American  Medical  Association.  He 
had  served  as  a  commissioner  of  the  Connecticut  State  Hos- 
pital for  the  Insane  at  Middletown  and  as  a  trustee  of  the 
Hotchkiss  School.  He  was  a  Congregationalist. 

He  was  married  June  26,  1858,  in  Bloomsbury,  N.  J.,  to 
Mary  Green,  daughter  of  William  and  Hannah  (Roseberry) 
Bidleman.  They  had  four  children:  Joseph  Bidleman  (Ph.B. 
1879,  M.D.  Columbia  1883),  who  at  the  time  of  his  death  on 
December  2,  191 8,  held  a  Major's  commission  in  the  Medical 
Corps  and  was  serving  as  chief  surgeon  at  Fort  McHenry, 
Maryland;  William  Bascom  (B.A.  1888,  M.D.  Columbia 
1892),  who  was  associated  with  his  father  in  practice;  Edward 
Clarence  (B.A.  1892,  LL.B.  New  York  Law  School  1894), 
whose  death  occurred  August  4,  1897;  and  Mary  B.  In  addi- 
tion to  his  son  and  daughter,  Dr.  Bissell  is  survived  by  several 
grandchildren.  Edward  Bissell,  '51,  was  a  brother,  and  among 
other  Yale  relatives  were  Joseph  Bissell  (B.A.  175 1),  Clark 
Bissell  (B.A.  1806),  and  Samuel  B.  S.  Bissell  (B.A.  1830). 


Charles  Gardiner  McCully,  B.A.   1853 

Born  December  29,  1832,  in  New  York  City 
Died  March  6,  1920,  in  Calais,  Maine 

Charles  Gardiner  McCully  was  born  in  New  York  City, 
December  29,  1832,  the  son  of  Charles  McCully,  a  cabinet 
worker  in  New  York  City  and  Oswego,  N.  Y.,  and  Jane 
Emma  (Lawrence)  McCully.  His  paternal  grandparents  were 
Joseph  and  Sarah  (Gardiner)  McCully.  The  family  is  of 
Irish  origin,  being  descended  from  William  McCully,  who 
presumably  settled  at  Trenton,  N.  J.,  upon  his  arrival  in 
America.  Jane  Lawrence  McCully,  who  was  of  English  an- 
cestry, was  the  daughter  of  Richard  and  Mary  (Lawrence) 
Lawrence. 

He  prepared  for  college, at  the  Cortland  (N.  Y.)  Academy, 
and  entered  Yale  as  a  Sophomore  in  September,  1850.  He 
was  a  member  of  Phi  Beta  Kappa. 


I 


1853  1329 

From  1853  to  1856  he  taught  in  Natchez,  Miss.,  and  then 
entered  Union  Theological  Seminary,  New  York  City,  from 
which  he  was  graduated  in  1859.  He  was  ordained  July  17, 
i860,  in  Milltown,  New  Brunswick,  and  served  as  pastor  there 
until  1866.  He  then  accepted  a  call  to  Hallowell,  Maine,  and 
remained  there  for  ten  years.  He  was  pastor  of  the  First 
Church  in  Calais,  Maine,  from  1876  to  1908,  and  afterwards, 
until  his  death,  pastor  emeritus.  Until  191 5  he  was  active  in 
a  ministry-at-large  to  churches  on  both  sides  of  the  Canadian 
boundary.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Christian  Commission  in 
1865.  In  1899  he  was  state  delegate  to  the  International  Con- 
gregational Council  at  Boston.  In  1881  he  was  elected  presi- 
dent of  the  Washington  County  Bible  Society  and  served  in 
that  capacity  until  1890,  after  which  he  was  successively  vice- 
president  and  secretary.  He  held  this  latter  office  until  the 
organization  was  absorbed  by  the  Bible  Society  of  Maine  in 
June,  1909.  For  five  years  prior  to  this,  and  until  191 8,  he  was 
a  trustee  of  the  latter  society,  and  in  19 18  he  became  a  cor- 
porate member,  serving  as  such  until  his  death.  He  was  a 
trustee  of  Bangor  Theological  Seminary,  president  of  the 
board  of  trustees  of  the  Calais  Free  Library  for  more  than 
twenty  years,  and  vice-secretary  of  the  Class  of  1853  for 
some  years  prior  to  191 8.  In  1877  his  discourse  in  memoriam 
of  the  Rev.  Seth  H.  Keeler,  D.D.,  was  published,  and  he  was 
a  frequent  contributor  to  the  state  and  local  press.  He  spent 
eight  months  in  1870  in  Honolulu  with  his  brother,  Lawrence 
McCully  (B.A.  1852),  who  later  was  for  fifteen  years  associate 
justice  of  the  Supreme  Court  of  Hawaii  and  whose  death 
occurred  in  1892.  In  1878  he  made  a  trip  to  Europe  and  the 
Holy  Land  and  in  1899  ^^  went  to  Japan,  where  his  sister 
was  then  living. 

He  died,  from  infirmities  attendant  upon  old  age,  March 
6,  1920,  in  Calais,  and  was  buried  in  the  St.  Stephen  (New 
Brunswick)  Rural  Cemetery. 

Mr.  McCully  was  married  December  25,  1867,  in  Milltown, 
to  Frances,  daughter  of  George  M.  and  Mary  (Topliff) 
Porter,  who  died  September  11,  1914.  He  is  survived  by  a 
daughter,  Emma  Lawrence,  and  a  sister.  Miss  Anna  McCully. 
His  second  daughter,  Mary  Porter,  died  in  March,  1899. 
Dr.  Amos  P.  Wilder,  '84,  is  a  nephew  by  marriage. 


1330  YALE    COLLEGE 

James  Morris  Whiton,  B.A.   1853 

Born  April  ii,  1833,  in  Boston,  Mass. 
Died  January  25,  1920,  in  New  York  City 

James  Morris  Whiton,  son  of  James  Morris  and  Mary- 
Elizabeth  (Knowlton)  Whiton,  was  born  April  11,  1833, 
in  Boston,  Mass.  His  grandfather,  John  Milton  Whiton 
(B.A.  1805,  D.D.  Princeton  1848),  was  pastor  for  almost 
fifty  years  of  the  Presbyterian  Church  at  Antrim,  N.  H.  The 
first  member  of  the  family  in  America  was  James  Whiton, 
of  Hingham,  England,  who  settled  at  Hingham,  Mass.,  in 
1647.  JaiTies  Morris  Whiton's  maternal  grandparents  were 
Ebenezer  and  Margaret  (Bass)  Knowlton.  The  latter  was  a 
descendant  in  the  fifth  generation  of  John  Alden,  whose 
daughter  married  John  Bass.  Other  ancestors  included  Capt. 
William  Knowlton,  who  moved  from  Nova  Scotia  to  Ipswich, 
Mass.,  early  in  the  seventeenth  century,  and  James  Morris 
(B.A.  1775),  a  Captain  in  the  Revolutionary  Army,  who  was 
present  at  the  siege  of  Yorktown,  and  who  subsequently 
founded  an  academy  at  Litchfield  South  Farms  (now  Morris), 
Conn. 

He  prepared  for  college  at  the  Boston  Latin  School,  graduat- 
ing as  valedictorian.  At  Yale  he  received  a  second  prize  in 
Freshman  year  for  the  translation  of  Latin  into  English,  in 
Sophomore  year  won  two  prizes  in  English  composition,  and 
in  Senior  year  was  awarded  a  Townsend  Premium.  He  was  a 
member  of  Phi  Beta  Kappa  and  ranked  as  salutatorian  at 
graduation.  He  rowed  bow  oar  in  the  Undine  Crew  in  1852. 

He  taught  in  the  high  school  at  Worcester,  Mass.,  the  first 
year  after  graduation  and  from  1854  to  1864  was  rector  of 
the  Hopkins  Grammar  School  in  New  Haven.  The  degree  of 
Ph.D.  was  conferred  upon  him  by  Yale  in  1861.  He  was 
licensed  to  preach  November  25,  1859,  and  on  May  10,  1865, 
was  ordained  and  installed  minister  of  the  First  Congregational 
Church  in  Lynn,  Mass.,  having  studied  theology  at  Andover 
Theological  Seminary  for  a  year,  supplementing  his  reading 
and  study  with  Professors  Noah  Porter  and  George  P.  Fisher 
pf  Yale.  In  April,  1869,  the  North  Congregational  Church  of 


i853  1331 

Lynn  was  established  as  a  colony  of  the  First  Church,  and  he 
became  its  pastor.  He  continued  in  this  connection  until  1875. 
He  became  principal  of  Williston  Seminary,  Easthampton, 
Mass.,  in  1876,  but  resigned  at  the  end  of  two  years  ''largely 
in  consequence  of  theological  animosities  excited  by  his 
book,'Is  Eternal  Punishment  Endless?'"  From  1879 to  ^^^5  ^^ 
was  pastor  of  the  First  Congregational  Church  in  Newark, 
N.  J.  In  1886  he  was  installed  as  pastor  of  Trinity  Congrega- 
tional Church  in  New  York  City,  which  he  helped  to  organize 
and  where  he  remained  for  five  years.  During  this  period  he 
was  instrumental  in  forming  two  other  new  churches  in  the 
section  of  the  city  now  known  as  the  Bronx.  Owing  to  poor 
health  he  retired  from  pastoral  work  in  1891,  and  engaged  in 
teaching,  writing,  and  occasional  preaching.  During  1893-94 
he  was  acting  professor  of  ethics  and  economics  in  the  Mead- 
ville  (Pa.)  Theological  School.  For  a  number  of  years  he  spent 
his  summers  in  New  England,  where  he  had  regular  engage- 
ments in  Congregational  pulpits.  In  the  summer  of  1884  he 
preached  in  Carr's  Lane  Chapel,  Birmingham,  England,  and 
this  was  the  first  of  a  series  of  similar  engagements  during  the 
next  twenty  years.  Since  1896  Dr.  Whiton  had  devoted  his 
time  mainly  to  literary  work  as  a  member  of  the  staff  of  the 
Outlook,  literary  adviser  to  a  large  publishing  house,  and 
contributing  editor  of  the  Homiletic  Review.  From  1898  to 
1 901  he  also  ministered  every  Sunday  to  a  small  congregation 
in  Haworth,  N.  J.  In  1899  he  took  an  active  part  in  promoting 
the  organization  of  the  New  York  State  Conference  of  Reli- 
gion, formed  of  members  of  some  fourteen  denominations, 
and  until  his  death  was  chairman  of  the  executive  committee 
of  the  conference.  He  was  the  editor,  and  one  of  the  authors, 
of  a  unique  volume  of  essays,  "Getting  Together"  (1913), 
by  "members  of  communions  once  estranged" — an  "exposi- 
tion of  the  fundamentals  of  theology  believed  by  them  all." 
His  unusual  attainments  as  a  classical  scholar  appeared  in 
several  textbooks,  but  he  was  more  widely  known  as  a  writer 
on  theological  and  ethical  themes,  and  as  a  preacher  of  a  social 
gospel.  Besides  countless  magazine  and  newspaper  articles 
he  wrote  many  books,  of  which  some  of  the  best  known  are: 
"Is  Eternal  Punishment  Endless?"  (1876);  "The  Gospel  of 


1332  YALE    COLLEGE 

the  Resurrection"  (1881);  "The  Evolution  of  Revelation" 
(1885);  "The  Divine  Satisfaction,"  a  critique  of  theories 
of  the  Atonement  (1886);  "Turning  Points  of  Thought  and 
Conduct"  (1887);  "New  Points  to  Old  Texts"  (1889);  "Gloria 
Patri"  (1892);  "Interludes  in  a  Time  of  Change,  Ethical, 
Social,  and  Theological"  (1909);  and  "The  Life  of  God  in  the 
Life  of  His  World"  (191 8),  his  latest  published  work.  He 
served  as  Secretary  of  the  Class  of  1853  from  1903  until  his 
death,  and  in  1903  published  "The  Class  of  Fifty-three  in 
Yale  College:  a  Supplementary  History,  including  the  Fifth 
Decade."  On  June  17,  1917,  he  delivered  the  Founders'  Day 
address  at  Williston  Seminary. 

His  death  occurred  at  his  home  in  New  York  City  on  Janu- 
ary 25,  1920,  after  an  illness  of  three  days  due  to  acute  bron- 
chitis. Burial  was  in  the  Grove  Street  Cemetery,  New  Haven, 
June  2,  1920. 

Dr.  Whiton  was  married  in  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.,  May  i,  1855, 
to  Mary  Eliza,  daughter  of  William  and  Mary  (Crie)  Bartlett, 
and  a  sister  of  his  classmate,  Dr.  William  F.  V.  Bartlett. 
Mrs.  Whiton  died  September  27,  1917.  Their  oldest  son,  James 
Morris,  born  February  lo^  1856,  died  on  May  4,  1862.  A 
son  and  two  daughters  survive  their  father:  James  Bartlett 
(B.A.  Williams  1884),  who  is  connected  with  the  New  Eng- 
land Life  Insurance  Company  of  New  York  City;  Mary 
Bartlett  (B.A.  Smith  1879),  one  of  the  organizers  of  the 
National  Cathedral  School  for  Girls,  Washington,  D.  C;  and 
Helen  Isabel  (B.A.  Smith  1894;  M.A.  Columbia  1897;  Ph.D. 
Columbia  1898).  He  is  also  survived  by  a  brother,  John  Mil- 
ton Whiton,  ex-62  S.,  and  two  sisters,  Mary  Elizabeth,  widow 
of  Charles  F.  Washburn,  and  Charlotte  Grosvenor,  wife  of 
Wolcott  Calkins,  '56.  His  two  grandsons  volunteered  in  the 
World  War.  The  elder  was  in  service  from  May,  191 7,  to 
August,  1 919,  becoming  aide  to  General  Alexander,  with  the 
rank  of  Captain  of  Infantry.  The  younger  served  from  May, 
191 8,  to  July,  1919,  as  a  Corporal  in  the  Motor  Transport 
Corps. 


1853-1854  ^333 

William  Henry  Norris,  B.A.   1854 

Born  July  24,  1832,  in  Hallowell,  Maine 
Died  November  9,  1919,  in  Minneapolis,  Minn. 

William  Henry  Norris,  eldest  of  the  three  children  of  Rev. 
William  Henry  Norris  and  Sarah  (Mahan)  Norris,  was  born 
July  24,  1832,  in  Hallowell,  Maine.  His  father  was  converted 
in  a  revival  of  the  Methodist  Church,  and  became  a  circuit 
preacher,  a  city  pastor  and  presiding  elder,  and  finally  a 
missionary  to  South  America.  He  was  the  son  of  Thomas 
Coffin  and  Eliza  (Haynes)  Norris,  and  a  lineal  descendant  of 
Nicholas  Norris,  who  was  of  English  ancestry  and  who  came 
to  America  from  Ireland  in  1654,  settling  at  Hampton,  N.  H. 
Sarah  Mahan  Norris  was  of  Irish  descent.  Her  parents  were 
John  and  Catherine  (Frost)  Mahan. 

He  spent  eight  years  of  his  childhood  in  Montevideo  and 
Buenos  Aires,  returning  to  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.,  when  fifteen  years 
of  age  and  there  attending  the  Dwight  High  School.  In  his 
Sophomore  year  at  Yale  he  was  awarded  a  third  prize  in 
mathematics,  in  Junior  year  he  received  a  third  prize  in 
English  composition,  and  in  Senior  year  he  was  given  the 
Berkeley  Premium  for  excellence  in  Latin  composition  and  a 
first  prize  in  Latin.  He  was  valedictorian  of  his  class  and  a 
member  of  Phi  Beta  Kappa. 

After  leaving  Yale,  he  taught  for  a  year  at  Mamaroneck, 
N.  Y.,  spent  the  following  year  at  the  Harvard  Law  School, 
and  in  June,  1856,  went  to  Green  Bay,  Wis.,  where  he  entered 
the  law  office  of  Attorney-General  James  H.  Howe.  He  was 
admitted  to  the  bar  in  October,  1857,  and  practiced  in  part- 
nership with  Mr.  Howe  from  December,  1858,  until  the 
partnership  was  dissolved  in  May,  1862,  at  which  time  Mr. 
Howe  entered  military  service.  For  the  next  ten  years  Mr. 
Norris  carried  on  an  independent  practice,  and  was  then 
associated  with  Thomas  B.  Chynoweth  for  six  years,  and 
afterwards  with  E.  H.  Ellis,  a  former  circuit  judge.  He  made 
a  specialty  of  railroad  law,  and  for  twelve  years  served  as 
local  attorney  in  Green  Bay  for  the  Chicago  &  Northwestern 
Railroad  Company,  and  for  six  years  as  attorney  for  the  Green 
Bay  &  Minnesota  Railroad  Company  (now  the  Green  Bay, 


1334  YALE    COLLEGE 

Winona  &  St.  Paul  Railroad  Company).  He  was  also  city- 
clerk  for  one  year  and  superintendent  of  schools  for  two  years. 
In  July,  1880,  he  removed  to  Minneapolis,  Minn.,  and  in 
January,  1882,  became  solicitor  for  the  Chicago,  Milwaukee 
&  St.  Paul  Railroad  Company  for  Minnesota,  with  advisory 
and  office  duties  relating  to  the  extension  of  the  company's 
lines  into  Wisconsin,  Iowa,  and  the  Dakotas.  This  employ- 
ment precluded  all  other  business  until  the  end  of  1888,  when 
he  also  became  attorney  for  several  auxiliary  railway  cor- 
porations, and  engaged  somewhat  in  private  practice.  He 
continued  in  active  work  until  October,  191 8,  when  the 
condition  of  his  health  compelled  him  to  retire.  He  had 
practiced  in  all  of  the  courts  of  Wisconsin  and  Minnesota  and 
also  in  the  U.  S.  Supreme  Court.  He  had  traveled  extensively 
in  the  United  States  and  Canada. 

His  death  occurred  at  his  home  in  Minneapolis,  November 
9,  1919,  after  an  illness  of  five  days  due  to  an  acute  attack  of 
angina  pectoris.  He  was  buried  in  Lakewood  Cemetery  in 
that  city. 

He  was  married  at  Green  Bay,  January  31,  1859,  to  Hannah 
B.,  daughter  of  Joab  and  Hannah  (Brown)  Harriman,  of 
Waterville,  Maine.  Her  death  occurred  December  23,  191 7. 
Mr.  Norris  is  survived  by  a  son,  Harriman,  who  studied  at 
the  University  of  Minnesota  from  1891  to  1894  and  who  is 
at  present  connected  with  the  Northern  Pacific  Railway  in 
St.  Paul,  and  two  daughters,  Louise,  who  was  married  in 
December,  1889,  to  Alfred  D.  Rider,  of  Kansas  City,  Mo., 
and  Georgia,  who  lives  in  Minneapolis.  A  brother,  John 
Mahan  Norris,  is  located  in  Oroville,  Wash. 


Frederick  Webster  Osborn,  B.A.   1855 

Born  February  i,  1834,  in  Newark,  N.  J. 
Died  December  i,  191 9,  in  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 

Frederick  Webster  Osborn  was  born  February  i,  1834,  in 
Newark,  N.  J.,  the  son  of  Charles  H.  and  Abby  (Harrison) 
Osborn.  His  father,  who  was  a  carpenter,  was  the  son  of 
John  H.  and  Rhoda  (Baldwin)  Osborn,  and  his  mother's 
parents  were  Josiah  and  Abby  Harrison.  He  was  of  English 


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1854-1855  1335 

ancestry  on  both  sides  of  the  family.  The  Osborns  moved 
from  Connecticut  to  the  vicinity  of  Newark  before  the 
Revolution,  and  the  Ogdens  (his  mother's  people)  had  been 
living  there  since  about  1660.  His  grandfather  served  in  the 
Revolutionary  Army,  and  one  of  his  younger  brothers  fought 
in  the  Civil  War. 

He  entered  the  Sophomore  class  at  Yale  in  1852,  having 
received  his  preparatory  education  at  the  Seymour  Institute 
in  Bloomfield,  N.  J.  He  was  given  an  oration  appointment 
Junior  year  and  a  dissertation  appointment  at  Commence- 
ment, and  was  elected  to  membership  in  Phi  Beta  Kappa. 

In  the  September  following  his  graduation  he  became  a- 
teacher  in  the  school  of  Mr.  James  Betts  at  Stamford,  Conn., 
and  remained  there  until  July,  1858.  He  studied  at  Union 
Theological  Seminary  during  the  next  two  years,  and  spent, 
the  year  of  1860-61  at  Andover  Theological  Seminary.  He 
had  been  licensed  to  preach  in  February,  i860,  and  from  the 
time  of  his  graduation  in  August,  1861,  until  October,  1863, 
he  preached  in  various  places,  being  acting  pastor  at  Wolcott- 
ville,  Conn.,  from  January,  1862,  to  October,  1863.  He 
taught  in  a  girls'  school  in  New  York  City  from  October,  1863, 
to  February,  1864;  was  principal  of  an  English  and  classical 
school  in  Hartford,  Conn.,  from  February,  1864,  to  August, 
1865;  and  from  that  time  until  1872  taught  at  Bedford  Acad- 
emy, Brooklyn,  N.  Y.  In  the  fall  of  that  year  he  became 
connected  with  Adelphi  Academy  in  Brooklyn,  as  professor 
of  mental  and  moral  philosophy,  and  in  1873,  ^^  addition  to 
his  professorship,  he  was  appointed  superintendent  of  the 
grammar  department,  retaining  the  double  responsibility 
until  June,  1885.  From  that  time  he  devoted  himself  exclu- 
sively to  teaching,  and  his  professorship  included  mental, 
moral,  and  political  sciences.  He  took  an  active  part  in  the 
founding  of  Adelphi  College  in  1896,  and  had  charge  of  the 
work  in  philosophy  and  history  until  the  fall  of  1898,  when 
he  was  appointed  professor  of  psychology  and  philosophy.  He 
resigned  his  professorship  in  1909,  and  was  made  professor 
emeritus.  After  a  visit  to  Europe  in  1891,  his  observations  and 
experiences  were  printed  in  one  of  the  New  York  weekly 
papers,  and  the  same  year  he  published  a  small  pamphlet, 
entitled  "Patriotic  Addresses  for  School  Purposes."  He  wag 


1336  YALE    COLLEGE 

the  author  of  several  magazine  articles  and  of  a  book  on  John 
Ruskin  (191 7).  He  was  active  in  various  municipal  reforms 
in  Brooklyn,  and  was  a  member  and  elder  of  the  Duryea 
Presbyterian  Church  from  its  organization  in  1887  until  his 
death,  which  occurred  suddenly,  from  kidney  trouble,  in 
Brooklyn,  December  i,  1919.  His  hip  was  broken  in  a  street 
car  accident  two  years  before  his  death,  and  he  had  never 
fully  recovered  from  the  effects  of  this  accident.  He  was 
buried  in  the  family  lot  in  the  Bloomfield  (N.  J.)  Cemetery. 
He  made  several  bequests  to  institutions,  including  one  of 
|2,ooo  to  Yale. 

Professor  Osborn  had  never  married.  His  brother,  Charles 
H.  Osborn,  of  Columbus,  Ohio,  survives  him. 


Giles  Potter,  B.A.   1855 

Born  February  22,  1829,  in  Lisbon,  Conn. 
Died  April  9,  1920,  in  New  Haven,  Conn. 

Giles  Potter,  son  of  Elisha  Payne  and  Abigail  Adams  (Lath- 
rop)  Potter,  was  born  in  Lisbon,  Conn.,  February  22,  1829. 
His  father,  who  was  a  wheelwright,  was  the  son  of  William 
and  Olive  (Fitch)  Potter,  and  a  descendant  of  Anthony  and 
Elizabeth  (Whipple)  Potter,  who  came  from  Ipswich,  England, 
to  Ipswich,  Mass.,  prior  to  1648.  Abigail  Lathrop  Potter  was 
the  daughter  of  Septimius  and  Abigail  (Adams)  Lathrop. 
She  traced  her  descent  to  Rev.  John  Lathrop  (or  Lothrop), 
pastor  of  the  first  Independent  Church  in  London,  who  left 
England  in  1634  on  account  of  religious  persecution,  bringing 
many  members  of  his  church  with  him.  He  settled  first  at 
Scituate,  Mass.,  from  which  place  he  removed  in  1639  to 
Barnstable,  where  the  remainder  of  his  life  was  spent.  Two 
churches  in  Barnstable  contain  memorials  to  him.  Giles  Potter 
was  also  descended  from  Governor  Bradford  of  Plymouth 
Colony;  Rev.  James  Fitch,  who  was  one  of  the  founders  of 
Norwich,  Conn.,  in  1659,  having  gone  there  from  Saybrook, 
where  he  had  been  the  pastor  of  the  church  since  1646;  and 
the  latter's  son.  Major  James  Fitch. 

His  early  education  was  received  in  his  native  town  and 
at  the  Leicester  (Mass.)  Academy.  In  both  Freshman  and 


i855  1337 

Sophomore  years  at  Yale  he  was  awarded  a  second  prize  in 
mathematics,  and  in  Senior  year  he  received  the  Clark  Pre- 
mium in  astronomy. 

Mr.  Potter  taught  in  the  East  Hartford  (Conn.)  Training 
School  from  1855  to  1857,  serving  as  principal  of  the  school 
during  part  of  this  period;  from  March,  1857,  to  August,  1858, 
was  a  teacher  of  natural  science  and  assistant  principal  of 
the  Connecticut  Literary  Institute  at  Suffield,  Conn.;  and 
during  the  next  six  years  was  principal  of  Hill's  Academy, 
Essex,  Conn.  He  was  then  engaged  in  manufacturing  for  a 
short  time,  but  in  1865  resumed  teaching  in  Essex,  where  he 
remained  until  1869.  The  next  year  he  became  an  insurance 
agent.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Connecticut  Legislature  from 
1870  to  1872.  In  January  of  the  latter  year  he  was  appointed 
agent  of  the  Connecticut  State  Board  of  Education,  in  which 
capacity  he  served  until  January  i,  191 1,  when  he  retired. 
For  many  years  he  was  the  only  school  agent  in  the  state, 
and  it  was  through  his  efforts  that  the  compulsory  school 
laws  were  passed  by  the  Legislature  and  provisions  enacted 
prohibiting  the  employment  of  children  under  fourteen  years 
of  age.  He  removed  to  New  Haven  in  November,  1882.  While 
living  in  Essex,  he  was  a  deacon  in  the  Baptist  Church  and 
for  twenty-three  years  superintendent  of  the  Sunday  school, 
and  also  held  office  as  selectman,  justice  of  the  peace,  and 
school  visitor.  In  New  Haven,  he  was  a  deacon  of  Calvary 
Baptist  Church  from  1887  until  his  death. 

He  died,  from  cardio-vascular  renal  disease,  April  9,  1920, 
in  New  Haven.  Interment  was  in  Maplewood  Cemetery  in 
that  city. 

Mr.  Potter  was  married  December  i,  1857,  in  New  Haven, 
to  Martha  Hubbard,  daughter  of  Rev.  David  Wright  and 
Abigail  (Goddard)  Wright,  who  died  January  10,  191 8.  He  is 
survived  by  four  of  his  five  children:  Edward  Wright  (B.A. 
1884);  Mary  Redfield,  the  wife  of  Frank  I.  Angell;  Martha 
Julia,  who  studied  in  the  Yale  School  of  the  Fine  Arts  from 
1883  to  1889;  and  William  Adams,  a  non-graduate  member  of 
the  Class  of  1888  Law.  He  also  leaves  two  grandchildren  and 
one  great-grandchild.  His  second  son,  Hubert  Lathrop  (born 
May  I,  i860),  died  September  14,  1861. 


1338  YALE    COLLEGE 

George  Morris  Dorrance,  B.A.   1856 

Born  September  6,  1836,  in  Bristol,  Pa. 
Died  November  18,  1919,  in  Bristol,  Pa. 

George  Morris  Dorrance  was  of  Scotch  ancestry  and  was 
born  September  6,  1836,  in  Bristol,  Pa.,  the  son  of  John  and 
Mary  T.  (Morris)  Dorrance.  He  was  descended  in  a  direct 
line  from  Governor  William  Bradford  of  Plymouth  Colony. 
His  father,  who  was  a  director  of  the  Philadelphia  &  Trenton 
Railroad,  was  the  son  of  Archibald  and  Deborah  (Bowen) 
Dorrance. 

His  early  education  was  obtained  in  the  public  schools  of 
Hartsville,  Pa.,  and  he  entered  Yale  as  a  Junior  in  1854.  He 
spent  the  first  two  years  after  graduation  at  his  home  in 
Bristol.  On  December  28,  1858,  he  entered  the  law  office  of 
the  late  Benjamin  F.  Brewster  in  Philadelphia.  He  was  ad- 
mitted to  the  bar  in  that  city  June  23,  i860,  and  in  April, 
1862,  became  agent  and  solicitor  for  the  Philadelphia  & 
Trenton  Railroad,  which  position  he  held  until  January, 
1 87 1,  when  he  was  appointed  special  agent  of  the  legal  depart- 
ment of  the  United  Railroads  of  New  Jersey  (now  the  New 
York  Division  of  the  Pennsylvania  Railroad).  From  1864  to 
1867  he  was  also  attorney  for  the  Camden  &  Amboy  Railroad 
Company.  During  his  entire  railroad  career  of  over  forty-four 
years,  which  was  spent  continuously  in  the  legal  department 
of  the  Pennsylvania  Railroad,  he  had  complete  charge  of 
the  settlement  of  claims  against  the  railroad  and  also  pur- 
chased real  estate  for  it.  He  was  retired  from  active  service 
on  October  i,  1906,  having  reached  the  prescribed  age  limit 
of  seventy  years.  Mr.  Dorrance  had  collected  what  was 
considered  one  of  the  best  known  libraries  of  strictly  English 
literature,  consisting  of  about  five  thousand  volumes.  He  had 
traveled  on  foot  through  most  of  England,  Scotland,  and 
France. 

His  death,  which  was  due  to  kidney  complications,  occurred 
November  18,  191 9,  at  his  home  in  Bristol  and  he  was  buried 
from  St.  James'  Church. 

He  was  unmarried,  and  is  survived  by  three  nephews  and 
four  nieces. 


1856-1857  1339 

William  Emil  Doster,  B.A.   1857 

Born  January  8,  1837,  in  Bethlehem,  Pa. 
Died  July  2,  1919,  in  Bethlehem,  Pa. 

William  Emil  Doster,  the  seventh  son  of  Lewis  and  Pauline 
Louise  (Eggert)  Doster,  was  born  in  Bethlehem,  Pa.,  Janu- 
ary 8,  1837.  He  was  descended  from  John  Doster,  who  came 
from  Niederhofen,  Germany,  about  18 10  and  settled  in  the 
Moravian  community  at  Bethlehem,  and  from  Matthew 
Eggert,  who  came  to  America  from  Germany  about  1750, 
settled  in  Lancaster,  Pa.,  and  later  served  with  the  Conti- 
nental Army  through  the  Valley  Forge  campaign.  His  father 
was  one  of  the  pioneers  in  the  woolen  business,  and  during 
the  Civil  War  his  factory  specialized  in  cloth  for  uniforms. 

He  entered  Yale  as  a  Sophomore  in  1854,  having  previously 
attended  the  Moravian  Parochial  School  in  Bethlehem  and 
VanKirk's  Academy.  He  was  given  a  dissertation  appoint- 
ment in  Junior  year  and  a  first  dispute  at  Commencement. 

For  a  short  time  after  graduation  he  read  law  in  Easton, 
Pa.,  with  Andrew  H.  Reeder,  a  former  governor  of  Kansas, 
and  then  entered  the  Yale  School  of  Law.  He  continued  his 
studies  at  Harvard  during  1858-59,  taking  his  LL.B.  there 
at  the  end  of  the  year.  In  i860  he  spent  several  months  at  the 
University  of  Heidelberg,  and  also  attended  law  lectures  on 
the  Code  Napoleon  in  Paris.  He  returned  to  the  United  States 
in  November,  i860,  and  when  the  Civil  War  broke  out  was 
reading  law  in  Philadelphia.  He  entered  the  Army  on  August 
15,  1 86 1,  as  Captain  of  Company  A,  4th  Pennsylvania  Cav- 
alry, was  promoted  to  Major  two  months  later,  and  the 
following  February  was  appointed  to  succeed  General  Andrew 
Porter  as  Provost-Marshal  of  the  District  of  Columbia,  with 
command  of  a  brigade  and  a  flotilla  on  Chesapeake  Bay.  He 
received  promotion  to  the  rank  of  Lieutenant  Colonel  in 
October,  1862,  and  the  next  spring  rejoined  his  regiment  in 
the  2d  Brigade,  2d  Division  of  the  Cavalry  Corps,  Army  of 
the  Potomac.  He  took  part  in  many  engagements,  and  was 
captured  by  the  enemy  at  Upperville,  but  escaped  within  an 
hour.  He  was  promoted  to  Colonel  in  December,  1863,  and 
transferred   to  the   5th  Pennsylvania  Cavalry.  He  had  an 


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attack  of  typhoid  fever  the  same  month  and  as  a  consequence 
was  honorably  discharged  in  1864.  In  March,  1865,  he  was 
brevetted  Brigadier  General,  U.  S.  V.,  for  **  gallant  and  meri- 
torious services  during  the  war." 

He  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  May,  1-864,  opened  a  law 
office  in  Washington,  and  in  May,  1865,  was  appointed  by  the 
Government  counsel  for  Payne  and  Atzerodt,  two  of  the 
prisoners,  in  the  "conspiracy  trial,"  after  the  assassination  of 
President  Lincoln.  He  removed  to  Easton  in  September,  1865, 
and  practiced  there  until  1873,  at  which  time  he  settled  in 
Bethlehem.  He  was  identified  with  all  the  Pennsylvania 
courts,  and  had  practiced  not  only  in  them,  but  also  in  the 
United  States  District,  Circuit,  and  Superior  courts.  He  had 
been  counsel  for  more  than  thirty-five  years  for  the  Central 
Railroad  of  New  Jersey,  the  Philadelphia  &  Reading  Railway, 
the  Lehigh  &  New  England  Railroad,  the  Bethlehem  Steel 
Company  (formerly  the  Bethlehem  Iron  Company),  the 
Lehigh  Coal  &  Navigation  Company,  and  a  number  of  other 
corporations.  In  1914,  after  practicing  before  the  Northamp- 
ton County  Bar  for  fifty  years,  he  was  tendered  a  testimonial 
dinner  by  the  Bar  Association.  At  the  time  of  his  death  he 
was  president  of  the  Lehigh  Valley  National  Bank,  a  director 
of  the  Minsi  Trail  Bridge  Company,  and  a  member  of  the 
Moravian  Historical  Society,  the  Pennsylvania  Historical 
Society,  the  Lehigh  and  Northampton  County  Bar  associa- 
tions, and  the  Lincoln  Republican  Association.  He  was  a  life- 
long member  of  the  Moravian  Church  in  Bethlehem,  and  had 
charge  of  its  legal  affairs  until  his  death.  In  1867,  in  connec- 
tion with  David  G.  Godshalk,  he  founded  the  Chronicle,  a 
weekly  paper,  afterwards  merged  in  the  Bethlehem  Daily 
Times,  and  from  1867  to  1879  ^^  ^^\(^  office  as  register  in 
bankruptcy  for  the  Eleventh  Congressional  District.  In  1869, 
in  cooperation  with  his  brother  Herman,  he  organized  the 
New  Street  Bridge  Company,  of  which  he  remained  president 
up  to  the  time  of  his  death.  He  delivered  a  course  of  lectures 
at  Lehigh  University  in  1879  on  "Practice  in  the  County 
Courts  of  Pennsylvania,"  and  in  1891  he  was  the  orator  at 
the  sesquicentennial  celebration  of  Bethlehem.  He  was  a 
liberal  patron  of  the  arts,  having  studied  extensively  himself 
aiid  painted  many  water  colors  for  his  own  diversion,  and  he 


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1857  I34I 

encouraged  exhibitions  at  the  Moravian  Seminary  and  Col- 
lege for  Women,  and  elsewhere.  His  collection  of  tapestries, 
personally  gathered  in  all  parts  of  Europe,  is  considered  one 
of  the  best  in  the  country.  Several  years  ago  he  established 
the  Doster  Prize  in  English  at  the  Moravian  Seminary  and 
College  for  Women.  He  was  a  great  admirer  of  Lincoln,  from 
whom  he  had  many  personal  letters,  and  refers  to  him  re- 
peatedly in  his  book,  "Lincoln  and  Episodes  of  the  Civil 
War,"  published  in  1916. 

His  death,  which  occurred  in  St.  Luke's  Hospital,  Bethle- 
hem, July  2,  1919,  was  due  to  a  complication  of  diseases, 
following  an  attack  of  influenza.  Interment  was  in  Nisky  Hill 
Cemetery,  Bethlehem.  By  his  will  a  bequest  was  made  to 
the  University,  the  income  of  which  will  eventually  be  used 
for  teaching  the  French  language  and  literature. 

He  was  married  August  15,  1867,  in  Easton,  to  Evelyn  A., 
daughter  of  E.  A.  Depew.  They  had  three  children:  Edward, 
Marguerite,  who  married  John  Kight,  and  William  Emile, 
who  died  in  October,  1871.  General  Doster's  second  marriage 
took  place  in  New  York  City  in  June,  1888,  to  Ruth,  daughter 
of  Josiah  Porter  (B.A.  Harvard  1852),  for  nine  years  Adjutant 
General  of  New  York  State,  and  Caroline  (Rice)  Porter. 
Her  death  occurred  July  10,  1917.  Their  four  children  survive: 
Wadsworth  (B.A.  Moravian  College  1908,  B.A.  Yale  1909); 
Alexis  (B.S;  Pennsylvania  State  College  191 1);  Dorothy,  who 
is  now  the  wife  of  B.  E.  Cole;  and  Beatrice,  now  Mrs.  J.  R.  L. 
Otis.  General  Doster  also  leaves  a  .brother,  Herman  A.  Dos- 
ter, of  Bethlehem,  and  six  grandchildren. 


Edmond  Ducre  Estilette,  B.A.   1857 

Born  December  19,  1833,  at  Lake  Arthur,  La. 
Died  November  7,  191 9,  in  Opelousas,  La. 

Edmond  Ducre  Estilette,  son  of  Edmond  and  Celise  (Vas- 
seur)  Estilette,  was  born  at  Lake  Arthur,  Parish  of  St.  Landry 
(now  Jefferson  Davis  Parish),  La.,  December  19,  1833.  He 
received  his  early  education  at  St.  Charles  College,  Grand 
Coteau,  La.,  leaving  there  to  enter  Yale  in  the  fall  of  1853. 


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He  was  a  member  of  Linonia,  and  in  Junior  year  won  a  second 
prize  for  declamation. 

He  remained  in  New  Haven  for  some  months  after  gradua- 
tion, and  then  taught  school  in  Opelousas,  La.,  at  the  same 
time  studying  law.  He  was  admitted  to  the  bar  of  Louisiana 
in  i860,  and  immediately  began  practice  in  Opelousas.  Until 
April,  1863,  he  also  served  as  editor  of  the  Patriot^  a  local 
paper.  He  was  a  member  of  the  firm  of  John  E.  King  &  Esti- 
lette  for  some  years,  and  thereafter  was  associated  with 
Judge  Adolph  Bailey  in  the  firm  of  Bailey  &  Estilette.  In 
1880  he  formed  a  partnership  with  his  son-in-law,  Gilbert  L. 
Dupre,  under  the  firm  name  of  Estilette  &  Dupre.  He  retired 
from  active  practice  about  eighteen  years  before  his  death, 
and  thereafter  devoted  himself  to  office  consultation,  his  plan- 
tation, and  his  financial  interests.  Mr.  Estilette  had  always 
taken  an  active  interest  in  politics.  From  1865  to  1872  he 
served  as  district  attorney  for  the  Eighth  Judicial  District  of 
Louisiana;  he  was  elected  to  the  State  Legislature  in  1872, 
and  reelected  in  1874;  served  as  speaker  of  the  House  in  1875; 
and  in  1887  was  appointed  Judge  of  the  Thirteenth  Judicial 
District.  He  placed  Governor  Nichols  in  nomination  in  1884; 
canvassed  the  new  Seventh  Congressional  District  in  191 2, 
when  John  W.  Lewis  was  candidate  for  Congress;  and  in 
191 6  made  a  number  of  speeches  in  favor  of  John  M.  Parker, 
who  was  running  for  governor. 

He  died  at  the  home  of  his  granddaughter,  Mrs.  Isaac 
Litton,  in  Opelousas,  November  7,  191 9,  as  the  result  of 
infirmities  incident  to  old  age.  Burial  was  in  the  Opelousas 
Protestant  Cemetery. 

Judge  Estilette  was  married  in  New  Haven,  Conn.,  No- 
vember 1 1, 1857,  to  Fanny  Thompson,  daughter  of  Daniel  and 
Jane  (Greene)  Bacon.  Her  death  occurred  November  5,  1897. 
They  had  three  children:  Edmond  Ducre,  Jr.,  the  Class  Boy, 
who  was  born  September  30,  1858,  and  died  in  1875;  J^^^^ 
Bacon,  who  was  married  June  i,  1881,  to  Gilbert  Louis 
Dupre,  a  great-grandson  of  Jacques  Dupre,  acting  governor 
of  Louisiana  in  1830-31;  and  Mattie  Bacon,  who  died  in 
infancy.  Besides  his  daughter.  Judge  Estilette  is  survived  by 
two  grandchildren  and  six  great-grandchildren. 


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1 857  1343 

Henry  Strong  Huntington,  B.A.   1857 

Born  July  15,  1836,  in  New  York  City- 
Died  January  8,  1920,  in  Roselle,  N,  J. 

Henry  Strong  Huntington,  son  of  Oliver  Ellsworth  Hunt- 
ington (B.A.  1825)  and  Mary  Ann  (Strong)  Huntington,  was 
born  in  New  York  City,  July  15,  1836.  His  father,  who  studied 
medicine  and  then  engaged  in  the  drug  business  in  Cleveland, 
Ohio,  was  the  third  son  of  Joseph  and  Eunice  (Carew) 
Huntington,  and  a  lineal  descendant  in  the  eighth  generation 
of  Simon  Huntington,  who  settled  in  Roxbury,  Mass.,  in 
1633,  ^"^  whose  descendants  came  to  Yale  in  large  numbers. 
Simon  Huntington's  fourth  son  was  Deacon  Simon  Hunting- 
ton of  Norwich,  Conn.,  two  of  whose  great-grandsons  gradu- 
ated from  Yale — Daniel  in  1733,  and  Jabez  in  1741.  The  latter 
was  appointed  Major  General  \n  the  Connecticut  Militia  in 
1775  and  served  as  such  until  1779.  His  son.  Judge  Andrew 
Huntington,  the  great-grandfather  of  Henry  Strong  Hunting- 
ton, was  one  of  four  sons  who  served  through  the  Revolution, 
the  fifth  son  being  too  young.  The  most  distinguished  of  these 
sons  were  Jedediah  and  Ebenezer  Huntington.  Jedediah 
Huntington,  who  graduated  from  Harvard  in  1763,  entered 
the  patriot  army  as  Captain  in  April,  1775,  was  made  a 
Brigadier  General  in  1777,  and  was  brevetted  Major  General 
in  1783.  He  was  one  of  the  founders  of  the  Society  of  the 
Cincinnati.  His  only  son  by  his  first  wife,  Jabez  Huntington, 
graduated  from  Yale  in  1784,  and  two  sons  by  a  second  mar- 
riage were  Joshua  Huntington  (B.A.  1804)  and  Daniel  Hunt- 
ington (B.A.  1807).  Three  grandsons  of  Jedediah  Huntington 
also  graduated  from  Yale:  Joshua  in  1832,  Jedediah  in  18 14, 
and  Peter  Lanman  in  1828.  Ebenezer  Huntington,  the  fourth 
son  of  General  Jabez  Huntington,  on  receiving  the  news  of 
the  battle  of  Lexington,  left  Yale  without  liberty  from  the 
authorities  and  marched  with  other  volunteers  to  the  camp 
before  Boston,  where  he  served  as  a  Private  until  September, 
1775,  when  he  was  appointed  Lieutenant.  His  degree  was 
granted  him  regularly  with  his  Class  in  July,  1775,  but  while 
he  was  in  doubt  of  this  he  had  asked  for  a  diploma  from 
Harvard,  which  was  granted  on  August  8,  1775.  He  was 


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advanced  to  Captain,  was  commissioned  Major  in  January, 
1777,  and  later  became  Lieutenant  Colonel.  Jabez  Williams 
Huntington  (B.A.  1806),  a  nephew  of  Generals  Ebenezer  and 
Jedediah  Huntington,  who  married  an  aunt  of  Henry  Strong 
Huntington,  was  a  Congressman  from  1829  to  1834,  a  judge 
of  the  Superior  Court  of  Connecticut  from  1834  to  1840,  and 
a  member  of  the  U.  S.  Senate  from  1840  to  1847.  Through  his 
mother,  who  was  the  daughter  of  Joseph  H.  and  Lucretia 
(Fanning)  Strong  of  Norwich,  Henry  Strong  Huntington 
traced  his  descent  in  a  direct  line  from  Elder  John  Strong, 
who  came  from  Plymouth,  England,  in  1630,  first  settled  at 
Dorchester,  Mass.,  then  removed  to  Taunton,  and  in  1659 
located  permanently  in  Northampton,  Mass.  His  maternal 
great-grandfather.  Rev.  Joseph  Strong,  D.D.  (B.A.  1772), 
married  Mary  Huntington,  daughter  of  General  Jabez  Hunt- 
ington (B.A.  1741). 

Henry  Strong  Huntington  was  fitted  for  college  at  the 
Norwich  Free  Academy  and  at  the  Collegiate  Institute, 
Northampton,  Mass.  At  Yale  he  received  a  second  prize  in 
Latin  composition  Sophomore  year  and  a  first  prize  in  Eng- 
lish composition  Junior  year.  He  was  given  dissertation  ap- 
pointments, was  a  member  of  Phi  Beta  Kappa,  and  an  editor 
of  the  Tale  Literary  Magazine. 

He  taught  in  the  classical  department  of  the  high  school  at 
Norwalk,  Conn.,  during  1857-58,  and  spent  the  next  year  as 
teacher  of  mathematics  and  natural  philosophy  at  Lawrence 
Academy,  Groton,  Mass.  He  then  entered  Andover  Theologi- 
cal Seminary,  and  graduated  from  that  institution  in  1862. 
In  1863  he  began  preaching  at  Warner,  N.  H.,  and  on  Janu- 
ary 31,  1866,  was  ordained  pastor  of  the  Congregational 
Church  in  that  town,  which  he  continued  to  serve  until 
December,  1872,  when  he  accepted  a  call  to  the  First  Congre- 
gational Church  of  Galesburg,  111.  His  pastorate  there  lasted 
until  November,  1876.  In  June,  1877,  he  became  the  pastor 
of  the  Congregational  Church  at  Gorham,  Maine,  where  he 
remained  for  ten  years,  and  from  1888  to  1907  he  was  settled 
over  the  First,  Congregational  Church  in  Milton,  Mass.  He 
retired  from  active  service  in  1907,  but  was  retained  as  pastor 
emeritus,  holding  this  position  until  his  death.  He  spent  the 


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1857  1345 

year  of  1908-09  in  Constantinople,  Turkey,  with  his  son, 
George  H.  Huntington,  who  was  at  that  time  the  head  of  the 
preparatory  department  of  Robert  College.  From  1869  to 
1872  Mr.  Huntington  held  the  position  of  statistical  secretary 
of  the  General  Association  of  Congregationalists  of  New 
Hampshire,  and  from  1881  to  1886  he  was  corresponding 
secretary  of  the  General  Conference  of  Maine.  His  writings 
included  an  "Historical  Discourse  at  the  Centenary  of  the 
Congregational  Church  in  Warner,  N.  H."  (1872),  biographi- 
cal sketches  of  Rev.  Albert  K.  Teele,  D.D.,  and  of  five 
Huntington  congressmen,  and  a  "Biography  of  Samuel 
Huntington,  president  of  the  Continental  Congress." 

He  died  January  8,  1920,  from  the  natural  effects  of  ad- 
vanced age,  in  Roselle,  N.  J.,  while  on  a  visit  to  his  son, 
Henry  S.  Huntington,  Jr.  His  body  was  taken  to  Milton  for 
burial. 

He  was  married  in  Chicago,  111.,  December  8,  1870,  to 
Mary  Lawrence,  daughter  of  George  and  Theresa  Thankful 
(Arms)  Herbert,  who  survives  him.  Their  children  are: 
Cornelia  Strong  (B.A.  Wellesley  1895),  who  was  married 
July  20,  191 1,  to  Theron  Johnson  Damon  (B.A.  Harvard 
1905);  Theresa  Lyman  (B.A.  Wellesley  1896),  whose  marriage 
to  Charles  Lincoln  Ziegler  took  place  October  18,  1906; 
Ellsworth  (B.A.  Beloit  1897,  M.A.  Harvard  1902,  Ph.D. 
Yale  1909),  who  served  during  the  war  as  an  officer  in  the 
Military  Intelligence  Department  at  Washington  and  is  at 
present  research  associate  in  geography  at  Yale;  George  Her- 
bert (B.A.  Williams  1900,  B.D.  Hartford  Theological  Semi- 
nary 1907),  vice-president  and  dean  of  Robert  College; 
Henry  Strong,  who  graduated  from  Yale  in  1904  and  from 
the  Auburn  Theological  Seminary  in  191 1,  and  who  spent  a 
year  (191 8-19)  with  the  Red  Cross  Commission  to  Palestine 
and  is  now  associate  editor  of  the  Christian  Work;  and  Ruth 
Mary  Lawrence  (B.A.  Wellesley  1904),  who  was  married 
June  5,  1906,  to  Samuel  Adams  Fletcher,  a  graduate  of  the 
Massachusetts  Institute  of  Technology  in  1903.  In  addition 
to  his  wife  and  six  children,  Mr.  Huntington  is  survived  by 
fifteen  grandchildren. 


1346  YALE    COLLEGE 

Eben  Greenough  Scott,  B.A.   1858 

Born  June  15,  1836,  in  Wilkes  Barre,  Pa. 
Died  July  5,  191 9,  in  Wilkes  Barre,  Pa. 

Eben  Greenough  Scott  was  born  June  15,  1836,  in  Wilkes 
Barre,  Pa.,  the  son  of  William  Boice  and  Susan  Israel  (Green- 
ough) Scott.  His  father,  who  died  at  the  age  of  twenty-seven, 
was  the  son  of  David  Scott,  president  judge  of  Luzerne  County 
from  1 81 8  to  1838,  whose  impress  on  the  legal  profession  in 
that  section  was  marked,  and  Katherine  (Hancock)  Scott. 
His  maternal  grandparents  were  Ebenezer  Greenough  (B.A. 
Harvard  1804),  of  Sunbury,  Pa.,  and  Abigail  (Israel)  Green- 
ough, and  he  traced  his  ancestry  to  Samuel  Symonds  Greenough , 
who  settled  at  Ipswich,  Mass.,  in  1637,  having  emigrated  to 
this  country  from  Essex  County,  England. 

He  was  prepared  for  college  by  the  Rev.  Henry  Jones 
(B.A.  1820)  in  Bridgeport,  Conn.,  entered  Yale  in  July,  1853, 
but  left  in  March,  1854,  and  joined  the  Class  of  1858  at  the 
beginning  of  Sophomore  year.  He  won  a  second  prize  in 
debating  that  year,  was  given  a  first  dispute  appointment 
Junior  year  and  a  dissertation  at  Commencement,  and  was 
a  member  of  Brothers  in  Unity  and  Phi  Beta  Kappa. 

He  spent  the  first  year  after  graduation  reading  law  with 
his  uncle,  WiUiam  I.  Greenough,  in  Sunbury,  and  the  follow- 
ing year  in  Philadelphia  in  the  law  office  of  William  M.  Mere- 
dith, afterwards  attorney-general  of  the  United  States.  He 
was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  June,  i860,  and  in  October  went 
to  Williamsport,  Pa.,  where  he  practiced  until  the  outbreak 
of  the  Civil  War,  when  he  became  a  Second  Lieutenant  in  the 
nth  Pennsylvania  Infantry.  On  May  14,  1861,  he  was  ap- 
pointed to  the  Regular  Army  as  First  Lieutenant  of  Battery 
C,  5th  Artillery,  and  during  the  rest  of  that  year  was  on  duty 
at  various  places  in  Pennsylvania,  receiving  and  organizing 
troops,  and  also  at  Buffalo,  N.  Y.,  recruiting  for  his  regiment. 
He  took  part  in  the  Peninsular  campaign  in  1862,  but  was 
taken  ill  with  low  fever,  was  invalided,  and  sent  north.  He 
was  on  instruction  duty  at  Fort  Schuyler,  N.  Y.,  from  No- 
vember, 1862,  to  February,  1863,  and  then  rejoined  the  Army 


1858  1347 

in  the  field,  but  had  a  relapse,  and  was  discharged,  on  tender 
of  his  resignation,  April  27,  1863. 

Mr.  Scott  practiced  his  profession  at  Pottsville,  Pa.,  from 
June,  1863,  to  1869,  at  Sunbury,  Pa.,  from  1869  to  1872,  and 
thereafter,  until  his  death,  in  Wilkes  Barre.  He  ran  for  Con- 
gress in  1 87 1  and  for  president  judge  in  1872,  but  was  defeated 
both  times.  He  spent  the  summer  of  1867  and  a  greater  part 
of  1876  and  1877  in  European  travel.  He  was  a  frequent 
contributor  to  the  Atlantic  Monthly,  among  his  articles 
published  in  that  magazine  being  a  series  of  papers  on  the 
governmental  conditions  of  Canada,  the  result  of  frequent 
visits  and  the  many  summers  he  passed  there.  At  the  request 
of  the  editor,  he  also  wrote  several  articles  on  outdoor  life, 
especially  in  Canada  and  Maine,  and  appreciations  of  General 
Robert  E.  Lee  and  General  George  B.  McClellan.  He  was  the 
author  of  several  books.  His  "Commentaries  upon  the  In- 
testate System  of  Pennsylvania"  (1871)  was  accepted  as  a 
textbook  authority  and  gave  him  a  standing  at  the  bar 
throughout  the  Commonwealth,  while  his  most  comprehen- 
sive work,  "The  Development  of  Constitutional  Liberty  in 
the  English  Colonies  of  America"  (1882),  is  a  standard  on 
that  subject.  A  third  work,  "Reconstruction  during  the  Civil 
War"  (1895),  ^s  considered  a  valuable  book  of  reference.  Mr. 
Scott  was  a  member  of  the  American  Historical  Association, 
the  Historical  Society  of  Pennsylvania,  the  Pennsylvania 
Genealogical  Society,  and  of  St.  Stephen's  Church,  Wilkes 
Barre,  and  was  a  companion  of  the  first  class  of  the  Military 
Order  of  the  Loyal  Legion. 

He  died,  of  general  debility,  after  an  illness  of  many  months, 
July  5,  1919,  in  Wilkes  Barre,  and  was  buried  in  Hellenback 
Cemetery  in  that  city. 

He  was  married  February  12,  1863,  in  Philadelphia,  to 
Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Chief  Justice  George  Washington 
Woodward  and  Elizabeth  (Trott)  Woodward,  who  survives 
him.  They  had  two  sons:  George  Woodward  (born  December 
14,  1863;  died  February  20,  1871)  and  William  (born  June 
24,  1873;  ^^^^  December  16,  1875). 


1348  YALE    COLLEGE 

Thomas  Bond  Raynolds,  B.A.   1859 

Born  March  23,  1 836,  in  Springfield,  Mass. 
Died  September  3,  1919,  in  Springfield,  Mass. 

Thomas  Bond  Raynolds,  son  of  Samuel  and  Clarinda 
(Bond)  Raynolds,  was  born  in  Springfield,  Mass.,  March  23, 
1836.  His  father,  who,  at  the  time  of  his  death  in  1850,  was 
president  of  the  Chicopee  National  Bank,  was  the  son  of 
Samuel  and  Mabel  (Olmsted)  Raynolds,  and  a  descendant  of 
Capt.  Nathaniel  Raynolds,  who  emigrated  from  Bristol,  Eng- 
land, in  1630,  and  settled  at  Bristol,  R.  I.  Another  ancestor 
was  the  Rev.  Peter  Raynolds  (or  Reynolds),  who  graduated 
from  Harvard  in  1720  and  who  died  in  Enfield,  Conn.,  in 
1768,  after  a  remarkable  ministry  of  forty-two  years.  The 
latter's  son,  Samuel,  took  his  B.A.  at  Yale  in  1750,  and  had 
a  son.  Rev.  Freegrace  Raynolds,  in  the  Class  of  1787.  On  the 
maternal  side,  Thomas  B.  Raynolds  was  descended  from 
William  Bond,  who  came  to  America  from  Bury  St.  Edmunds, 
England,  and  settled  in  Watertown,  Mass.,  in  1630,  and  from 
Col.  Jonathan  Bush,  2d,  and  Mary  Taylor  Bush,  who  lived 
in  Boylston,  Mass.  His  mother's  parents  were  Thomas  and 
Jemima  HoUoway  (Bush)  Bond,  whose  early  home  was  in 
West  Brookfield,  Mass.,  but  who  removed  to  Springfield  in 
1825. 

He  received  his  preparatory  training  at  the  Springfield 
High  School  and  at  Phillips  Academy,  Andover,  Mass.  He 
entered  Yale  in  September,  1855,  but  withdrew  from  college 
early  in  Freshman  year.  He  belonged  to  Brothers  in  Unity. 
In  1870  he  was  given  the  honorary  degree  of  M.A.  by  Yale, 
and  in  1905,  by  vote  of  the  Corporation,  was  enrolled  with 
the  Class  of  1859. 

After  leaving  Yale,  Mr.  Raynolds  spent  two  years  in  study 
and  travel  in  Europe,  and  on  his  return  took  up  the  study 
of  law  at  Columbia  University,  where  he  received  the  degree 
of  LL.B.  in  1868.  For  a  time  he  was  private  secretary  to 
William  Walter  Phelps  (B.A.  i860),  a  lawyer  in  New  York 
City,  and  for  a  few  years  he  practiced  law  in  that  city.  Ill 
health,  however,  soon  compelled  him  to  give  up  his  profession, 
and  he  afterwards  led  a  secluded  life.  He  was  a  proficient 


1 859  1349 

Latin  and  English  scholar  and  had  marked  literary  ability. 
He  was  also  a  great  lover  of  music,  and  assisted  the  late  Rev. 
Charles  S.  Robinson,  of  New  York,  in  compiling  the  original 
hymnal  Laudes  Domini,  which  is  us^d  so  extensively  in  Con- 
gregational churches.  He  was  for  many  years  a  member  of 
the  Church  of  the  Pilgrims,  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.,  and  after  his 
removal  to  Springfield  in  October,  1917,  he  attended  the 
South  Congregational  Church  in  that  city. 

Mr.  Raynolds  suffered  a  shock  in  M-ay,  191 9,  and  died 
September  3,  1919,  in  Springfield.  He  was  buried  in  the  family 
lot  in  the  Springfield  Cemetery.  He  was  unmarried,  and  the 
last  member  of  his  immediate  family.  Several  cousins  survive 
him,  one  of  them  being  George  R.  Bond,  of  Springfield. 


Joseph  Tabor  Tatum,  B.A.   1859 

Born  August  7,  1837,  in  Belleville,  111. 
Died  January  8,  1916,  in  Los  Angeles,  Calif. 

Joseph  Tabor  Tatum  was  born  in  Belleville,  111.,  August  7, 
1837,  the  son  of  David  Tatum,  a  merchant,  and  Sophia 
(Anderson)  Tatum.  He  received  his  early  education  at  the 
Wyman  School  in  St.  Louis,  Mo.,  and  his  final  preparation  for 
college  under  Charles  C.  Salter  (B.A.  1852).  He  was  given  a 
third  prize  for  declamation  in  Sophomore  year.  His  appoint- 
ments in  both  Junior  and  Senior  years  were  first  disputes. 

He  was  admitted  to  the  bar  at  St.  Louis  in  September,  i860, 
and  at  once  began  practice  in  that  city,  becoming  much 
absorbed  in  political  afl^airs.  He  joined  an  independent  com- 
pany of  Unionists  in  1861,  and  in  1862  enlisted  in  the  2d 
Missouri  Cavalry,  U.  S.  Volunteers,  known  as  Merrill's 
Horse,  in  which  he  was  appointed  Sergeant  Major.  Later  he 
became  Battalion  Adjutant,  and  subsequently  Regimental 
Adjutant.  He  had  also  served  as  Provost  Marshal  and  as 
Judge  Advocate  of  the  St.  Louis  District,  as  Assistant  Adjutant 
General  of  the  Cavalry  Division  of  the  West,  as  Aide-de-Camp 
on  the  staff  of  General  McNiel  (1863),  and  as  Judge  Advocate 
of  the  Provost  Court  in  New  Orleans.  He  was  acting  in  this 
capacity  when  mustered  out  in  1864,  and  remained  in  New 
Orleans  until  July,  1866,  engaged  in  the  practice  of  law.  He 


1350  YALE    COLLEGE 

then  returned  to  St.  Louis,  where  he  continued  in  practice 
until  he  lost  his  hearing,  and  retired.  He  received  the  degree 
of  LL.B.  from  Washington  University,  St.  Louis,  in  1866. 

The  latter  part  of  his  life  was  spent  in  Los  Angeles,  Calif. 
His  death  occurred  at  his  home  in  that  city,  January  8,  1916, 
as  the  result  of  heart  trouble.  In  accordance  with  his  wishes, 
his  body  was  cremated. 

Mr.  Tatum  was  married  October  25,  1866,  in  St.  Louis,  to 
Adele  Salena,  daughter  of  Dr.  H.  C.  Lynch  and  Virginia 
(Charleville)  Lynch.  She  survives  him  with  five  sons,  Eugene, 
J.  Warren,  Clifford  Charleville,  Robert  Lynch,  and  Frank 
Donovan,  and  a  daughter,  Adele  Frances.  They  had  three 
other  sons:  David  Louis  (died  April  5,  1868),  Theodore  Victor 
(died  October  23,  191 8),  and  Prescott  White  (died  April  13, 
1895).  Edward  H.  Tatum  (B.A.  1900)  is  a  nephew. 


Low^ndes  Henry  Davis,  B.A.   i860 

Born  December  14,  1836,  in  Jackson,  Mo. 
Died  February  5,  1920,  in  Cape  Girardeau,  Mo. 

Lowndes  Henry  Davis  was  born  in  Jackson,  Mo.,  Decem- 
ber 14,  1836,  the  son  of  Greer  Washington  and  Elizabeth 
(McGuire)  Davis,  and  the  grandson  of  David  and  Sarah 
(Brown)  Davis.  His  great-grandfather  came  to  America 
from  Wales  with  eight  brothers.  David  Davis  served  as  a 
Major  under  General  Anthony  Wayne,  and  rendered  distin- 
guished service  during  the  Revolution.  He  subsequently 
settled  at  Washington,  Ky.  His  wife's  father,  John  Brown, 
was  also  an  officer  under  Wayne.  Col.  William  McGuire, 
Lowndes  H.  Davis'  maternal  grandfather,  was  an  officer  in 
the  War  of  181 2,  being  wounded  in  the  battle  of  the  River 
Raisin;  he  had  served  as  a  member  of  the  State  Legislature. 
Greer  W.  Davis  was  educated  at  Transylvania  University 
and  later  studied  law.  In  1820  he  became  a  pioneer  settler  in 
Missouri,  and  for  many  years  held  the  post  of  commissioner 
of  the  United  States  land  office  at  Jackson. 

Lowndes  H.  Davis  received  his  preliminary  education  at 
the  Arcadia  (Mo.)  Academy.  He  spent  a  year  (1856-57)  at 


I859-I860  I35I 

Asbury  (now  DePauw)  University,  and  then  entered  Yale 
as  a  Sophomore.  He  was  given  a  dissertation  Junior  and  a 
second  dispute  Senior  appointment,  and  was  elected  to  mem- 
bership in  Phi  Beta  Kappa.  He  was  a  member  of  Linonia. 

After  graduating  from  Yale,  he  entered  the  Louisville  Law 
School,  and  in  1863  was  given  the  degree  of  LL.B.  by  that 
institution.  In  the  same  year  he  was  admitted  to  the  Missouri 
Bar  and  began  the  practice  of  his  profession  at  Jackson.  In 
1865  ^^  was  elected  circuit  attorney  of  the  Tenth  Judicial 
District,  then  embracing  all  of  the  counties  along  the  river 
south  of  Cape  Girardeau  to  the  state  line.  This  office  he  filled 
acceptably  for  four  years.  He  was  a  Democratic  presidential 
elector  in  1 874,  and  the  next  year  served  as  a  member  of  the 
Missouri  Constitutional  Convention,  in  which  he  took  a 
leading  part.  He  was  elected  to  the  State  Legislature  in  1876, 
and  in  1878  was  elected  to  Congress.  He  was  twice  reelected, 
but  declined  a  fourth  term.  He  then  resumed  the  practice  of 
law  in  Jackson,  also  giving  some  attention  to  farming.  He 
was  especially  interested  in  scientific  methods  of  farming  and 
stock-breeding.  Largely  through  his  influence,  the  owners  of 
the  Iron  Mountain  Railroad  were  induced  to  build  a  branch 
of  the  road  into  Jackson,  and  the  prosperity  of  the  town  dates 
from  that  time.  In  1892  Mr.  Davis  retired  to  *'Cave  Spring," 
a  plantation  in  Madison  County,  Ala.  He  had  been  a  member 
of  the  Catholic  Church  since  1897. 

His  death  occurred  at  St.  Francis'  Hospital,  Cape  Girardeau, 
Mo.,  February  5,  1920,  from  hardening  of  the  arteries  and 
other  complications.  Interment  was  in  Maple  Hill  Cemetery, 
Huntsville,  Ala. 

He  was  married  November  12,  1861,  in  Shelby ville,  Ky., 
to  Mary  Belle,  daughter  of  Col.  Bartlett  M.  Hall  and  Ann 
Clayett  (Offutt)  Hall,  who  survives  him.  They  had  three 
children:  Annie  Hunter,  who  was  born  in  1862  and  died  in 
1876;  Clarendon,  who  studied  at  Washington  University  in 
St.  Louis  and  is  now  a  planter  in  Alabama;  and  Paul,  who 
attended  Vanderbilt  University  and  whose  death  occurred  in 
1902. 


I35'2  YALE    COLLEGE 

Pierre  Sythoff  Starr,  B.A.   i860 

Born  November  i8,  1839,  in  New  London,  Conn. 
Died  March  11,  1920,  in  Hartford,  Conn. 

Pierre  Sythoff  Starr  was  the  son  of  Jonathan  and  Catherine 
Lumiere  (Sythoff)  Starr  and  was  born  in  New  London, 
Conn.,  November  18,  1839.  O^  ^^e  paternal  side  he  traced 
his  descent  to  Dr.  Comfort  Starr,  who  came  from  Ashford, 
Kent  County,  England,  in  1637,  settled  first  at  Cambridge, 
Mass.,  and  later  removed  to  New  London.  Among  his  other 
ancestors  were  Samuel  Starr,  3d,  who  married  Hannah  Brew- 
ster, granddaughter  of  Elder  William  Brewster,  and  Jonathan 
Starr,  5  th,  whose  wife  was  Mary  Seabury,  granddaughter  of 
John  Alden.  Catherine  Sythoff  Starr's  parents  were  Peter 
and  Maria  L.  (VanCaravae)  Sythoff,  who  lived  at  The  Hague. 

He  received  his  preparation  for  Yale  at  Williston  Seminary, 
Easthampton,  Mass.  Upon  the  completion  of  his  college  course 
he  took  up  the  study  of  medicine  in  Hartford,  Conn.,  and 
later  attended  New  York  University,  where  he  was  given  the 
degree  of  M.D.  in  1862.  He  then  went  to  Cincinnati,  Ohio,  and 
during  the  next  year  held  an  appointment  as  an  Acting  Assist- 
ant Surgeon  in  the  U.  S.  Army.  In  1863  he  became  Assistant 
Surgeon  of  the  39th  Ohio  Volunteers,  with  which  he  served 
until  1865,  when  he  was  mustered  out  of  service.  He  practiced 
in  Chicago  from  1866  to  1871  and  afterwards,  until  his  retire- 
ment in  1910,  in  Hartford.  He  was  a  member  of  Trinity 
Church  in  that  city. 

Dr.  Starr  died  in  the  Hartford  Hospital,  March  11,  1920, 
from  the  effects  of  a  broken  hip.  Interment  was  in  Cedar 
Grove  Cemetery  in  New  London. 

He  was  married  May  27,  1868,  in  South  Windsor,  Conn., 
to  Louise  Green,  daughter  of  David  McClure  and  Sarah 
Elizabeth  (Green)  Tudor,  who  survives  him.  He  also  leaves 
a  son,  Robert  Sythoff  (M.D.  Columbia  1901),  who  was  for  a 
time  associated  in  practice  with  his  father;  a  daughter,  Mary 
Seabury,  who  is  the  wife  of  Edward  Rutledge  Lampson  (B.A. 
Trinity  1891,  M.D.  Columbia  1896);  and  five  grandchildren. 


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Thomas  Howell  White,  B.A.   i860 

Born  February  4,  1840,  in  New  Haven,  Conn. 
Died  July  21,  1919,  in  Yonkers,  N.  Y. 

[  Thomas  Howell  White  was  born  in  New  Haven,  Conn., 
February  4,  1840,  one  of  the  seven  sons  of  Henry  White 
(B.A.  1821),  a  lawyer,  and  Martha  (Sherman)  White.  His 
father,  the  son  of  Dyer  and  Hannah  (Wetmore)  White,  was 
one  of  the  founders  and  the  first  president  of  the  New  Haven 
Colony  Historical  Society,  and  for  nearly  half  a  century  a 
deacon  of  Center  Church.  He  was  a  descendant  of  Elder  John 
White,  who  came  to  Boston  in  1632  and  settled  in  Cambridge, 
Mass.  He  removed  to  Hartford,  Conn.,  in  1636,  and  to  Hat- 
field, Mass.,  in  1659.  His  eldest  son,  Capt.  Nathaniel  White, 
represented  Middletown  in  the  General  Court  of  Connecti- 
cut Colony.  Thomas  Howell  White's  grandfather  was  a  law- 
yer in  New  Haven,  and  his  great-grandfather.  Rev.  Stephen 
White  (B.A.  1736),  was  pastor  of  the  Congregational  Church 
in  Windham,  Conn.,  for  over  fifty  years.  Through  his  mother, 
who  was  the  daughter  of  Roger  Sherman  (B.A.  1787),  a 
New  Haven  merchant,  and  Susannah  (Staples)  Sherman,  he 
traced  his  descent  to  Capt.  John  Sherman  (or  Shearman),  who 
emigrated  from  Dedham,  England,  to  Watertown,  Mass., 
about  1634.  His  great-grandfather,  Roger  Sherman,  one  of 
the  signers  of  the  Declaration  of  Independence,  was  treasurer 
of  the  College  from  1765  to  1776. 

His  preparation  for  college  was  received  at  the  Hopkins 
Grammar  School,  New  Haven.  In  both  Junior  and  Senior 
years  he  was  given  a  high  oration  appointment. 

He  spent  the  first  two  years  after  graduation  at  the  Yale 
School  of  Medicine,  and  in  1862  received  the  degree  of  M.D. 
He  then  went  to  the  New  York  Hospital,  where  he  held  at 
first  a  subordinate  position  and  afterwards  that  of  resident 
physician.  He  practiced  his  profession  in  New  York  from  1863 
until  his  retirement  about  1890,  after  which  he  made  his  home 
in  Yonkers,  N.  Y.  He  was  a  menlber  of  the  Episcopal  Church. 

He  died  in  Yonkers,  July  21,  1919.  Interment  was  in  the 
family  plot  in  Grove  Street  Cemetery,  New  Haven. 

Dr.  White  was  married  in  New  York  City,  April  26,  1 871,  to 


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Elizabeth  Ann,  daughter  of  John  Dash  VanBuren  (B.A. 
Columbia  1829)  and  Elvln  Lynch  (Aymar)  VanBuren,  who 
survives  him  with  a  daughter,  Zenobia  Hill.  He  is  also  sur- 
vived by  a  brother,  Roger  Sherman  White  (B.A.  1859,  LL.B. 
1862),  a  nephew,  Roger  Sherman  White,  2d  (B.A.  1899,  LL.B. 
1902),  and  two  nephews  by  marriage.  Dr.  John  Rogers  (B.A. 
1887,  Ph.B.  1888),  and  Henry  L.  Stimson  (B.A.  1888).  Five 
other  brothers  attended  Yale:  Henry  Dyer  White,  '51  (died 
in  1905);  Charles  Atwood  White,  '54  (died  in  1909);  Willard 
Wetmore  White,  ex- ^6  (died  in  1880);  Oliver  Sherman  White, 
'64  and  '73  L.  (died  in  191 7);  and  George  Edward  White,  '66 
(died  in  1908).  Two  uncles  were  Yale  graduates:  Frederick 
Roger  Sherman  (B.A.  1830)  and  George  Sherman  (B.A.  1839), 
and  numerous  other  relatives  have  attended  Yale. 


Lewis  Nicholas  Worthington,  B.A.   i860 

Born  March  21,  1839,  in  Cincinnati,  Ohio 
Died  July  18,  1919,  at  Tunbridge  Wells,  England 

Lewis  Nicholas  Worthington  was  born  March  21,  1839,  ^^ 
Cincinnati,  Ohio,  where  his  father,  Lewis  Worthington,  was 
engaged  in  business.  The  latter  was  the  son  of  Amos  and 
Dezier  (Gallup)  Worthington,  and  a  descendant  of  Nicholas 
Worthington,  who  came  from  England,  first  settled  at  Hart- 
ford, Conn.,  and  later  removed  to  Hatfield.  Nicholas  Wor- 
thington was  twice  married,' his  first  wife  being  Sarah  White, 
daughter  of  Thomas  Bunce,  Sr.,  of  Hartford.  Lewis  N.  Wor- 
thington's  mother  was  Sally  Ann  Pierce. 

He  obtained  his  early  education  in  Cincinnati.  After  gradua- 
tion he  began  the  study  of  law  with  the  firm  of  Coffin  & 
Mitchell  in  that  city,  but  at  President  Lincoln's  first  call  for 
troops  he  enlisted,  his  battalion  being  the  first  in  the  state 
of  Ohio  to  offer  its  services.  He  entered  the  6th  Regiment, 
Ohio  Volunteers,  in  1861,  was  made  Second  Lieutenant  of 
Company  E,  April  20,  1861,  and  was  honorably  discharged, 
because  of  ill  health,  August  i,  1861.  He  commanded  a  com- 
pany of  troops  during  the  investment  of  Cincinnati  by  the 
troops  of  General  Kirby  Smith  in  1863,  and  during  Morgan's 
raid  he  was  Captain  on  Colonel  Harris'  staif.  During  the 
winter  of  1863-64  he  studied  law  at  Harvard,  and  in  July, 


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1864,  went  to  Carlsbad,  Bohemia,  for  his  health.  Since  1865 
he  had  made  his  home  in  Paris,  France.  He  began  the  study 
of  medicine  in  1866  at  the  School  of  Medicine  in  Paris,  re- 
ceiving his  diploma  as  Docteur  en  Medecine  de  la  Faculte  de 
Paris y  May  31,  1876.  He  had  previously  (1871)  received  a 
diploma  from  the  Miami  Medical  College  in  Cincinnati. 
He  began  the  practice  of  his  profession  in  Paris  in  1876.  He 
had  come  to  America  for  short  periods  at  various  times,  and 
had  also  visited  Germany,  Italy,  and  England.  He  was  the 
author  of  several  books,  including  ''Melanomes"  (1867),  with 
B.  Auger  of  Paris;  ''De  VObesitf'  (1875),  which  appeared  in 
two  editions;  ''Chimiey  inorganique  et  organique;  Botanie; 
Zoologie''  (1889);  "Notes  on  Nicholas  Worthington  and 
certain  of  his  descendants,"  for  private  distribution;  and 
"Polyglot  Phrases,  English,  Italian,  French,  and  German." 
On  July  10, 1888,  he  received  the  decoration  oCOficierd'Acad- 
emie"  for  services  rendered  to  ''L Instruction  Publique  de 
France  y 

Dr.  Worthington  died  suddenly,  from  heart  disease,  at 
Tunbridge  Wells,  England,  July  18,  1919.  Burial  took  place 
at  the  Brookwood  Cemetery,  near  Woking,  England. 

He  was  married  May  18,  1886,  in  London,  England,  to 
Emma,  daughter  of  David  and  Catherine  (Sanderson)  Browne, 
who  survives  him  with  their  two  sons,  Nicholas  Warwick 
Dennis  and  Percy.  The  older  son  graduated  with  honors  at 
Harrow  and  at  Pembroke  College,  Cambridge,  England,  and 
received  the  degree  of  B.S.  at  the  Massachusetts  Institute  of 
Technology  in  191 2.  At  the  outbreak  of  the  war  he  enlisted 
in  the  Lafayette  Squadron  of  the  French  Flying  Corps,  and 
was  awarded  the  Croix  de  Guerre  for  work  at  Craonne  in 
1917.  In  the  spring  of  1918  he  received  a  commission  as 
Lieutenant  in  the  U.  S.  Air  Service,  and  afterwards  acted  as 
instructor.  Percy  Worthington  was  a  student  first  at  Harrow 
and  afterwards  at  Merton  College,  Oxford.  He  left  Oxford  in 
1914  to  join  the  British  Army,  and  served  as  a  Second  Lieu- 
tenant of  Infantry  in  France,  being  wounded  at  Loos  in 
September,  1915.  He  was  on  active  duty  for  three  years,  and 
was  then  promoted  to  the  rank  of  Captain  in  the  Flying 
Corps.  He  gained  the  Military  Cross  and  a  mention  in 
dispatches. 


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Moulton  DeForest,  B.A.   1861 

Born  April  7,  1839,  in  New  York  City- 
Died  December  3,  19 19,  in  Wetmore,  Kans. 

Moulton  DeForest  was  born  in  New  York  City,  April  7, 
1839,  t^^  son  of  Isaac  Newton  and  Augusta  Ann  (Moulton) 
DeForest.  In  1856  the  family  removed  to  Madison,  Wis., 
and  there  his  father  engaged  in  farming.  The  latter's  parents 
were  Joseph  and  Leah  (Marks)  DeForest.  He  was  of  Belgic- 
Huguenot  descent,  tracing  his  ancestry  to  Jean  deForest,  of 
Avesnes,  province  of  Hainault,  France,  who  was  driven  to 
Leyden  because  of  his  religious  beliefs,  and  whose  son  Jesse 
headed  a  company  of  Walloons  who  came  from  Leyden  to 
New  Amsterdam  in  1623,  having  previously  tried  to  secure 
a  grant  of  land  in  Virginia  from  England.  Isaac  DeForest, 
another  early  ancestor,  came  to  this  country  from  Holland 
in  1637  ^^^  settled  in  New  Amsterdam.  Augusta  Moulton 
DeForest  was  the  daughter  of  Robert  G.  and  Jane  (Green) 
Moulton. 

His  preparation  for  college  was  received  at  the  Episcopal 
Academy  in  Cheshire,  Conn.,  and  he  entered  Yale  in  July, 
1854,  with  the  Class  of  1858,  but  left  during  the  second  term 
of  Sophomore  year.  He  joined  the  Class  of  1859  in  July,  1855, 
and  remained  with  it  until  April,  1856.  He  then  spent  about 
three  years  at  his  home  in  Madison,  although  during  a  part 
of  this  time  he  was  enrolled  at  the  University  of  Michigan. 
He'joined  the  Yale  Class  of  1861  at  the  beginning  of  Sopho- 
more year.  His  Junior  appointment  was  a  second  dispute  and 
his  Senior  appointment  a  colloquy.  He  won  a  second  prize  in 
mathematics  Senior  year.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Atalanta 
Boat  Club  and  of  the  Baseball  Club. 

He  enlisted  November  23,  1861,  in  the  i8th  Regiment, 
Wisconsin  Volunteers,  and  was  for  some  time  Quartermaster 
Sergeant.  In  May,  1863,  he  voluntarily  relinquished  this  post 
to  rejoin  his  company,  soon  became  First  Sergeant,  and  on 
September  17,  1863,  was  made  First  Lieutenant.  He  acted  as 
Regimental  Adjutant  until  May,  1864,  and  was  then  detailed 
on  the  staff  of  the  Division  General  as  assistant  to  the  Muster- 
ing Officer.  He  held  this  position  until  October,  1864,  and 


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afterwards  acted  as  Judge  Advocate,  and  subsequently  as 
Alde-de-Camp.  He  participated  in  many  engagements,  and 
was  promoted  to  the  rank  of  Captain  on  April  4,  1865.  After 
Johnston's  surrender  he  accompanied  Sherman's  army  to 
Washington,  and  then  went  with  his  own  corps  to  Louisville, 
Ky.,  where  he  was  mustered  out  on  July  18,  1865.  The 
following  December  he  entered  the  employ  of  the  importing 
firm  of  Henry  Folsom  &  Company  in  St.  Louis,  Mo.,  as  a 
salesman,  and  remained  with  them  until  July,  1880,  when  he 
gave  up  his  position  on  account  of  his  health  and  removed  to 
Wetmore,  Kans.  He  was  a  member  of  the  firm  of  Burlingame 
&  DeForest,  law,  land,  loan,  and  collection  agents  for  eastern 
capitalists,  from  1890  to  December  30,  1892,  when  the  firm 
was  dissolved,  and  was  afterwards  engaged  in  the  loan  and 
real  estate  business  for  himself.  He  was  very  active  in  the 
cause  of  temperance  and  in  securing  legislation  favoring  it. 
He  took  a  prominent  part  in  establishing  the  order  of  the  Sons 
of  Temperance  throughout  Kansas,  in  1882  was  elected 
Grand  Worthy  Patriarch  of  the  order  of  the  state,  and  served 
for  some  years  as  Grand  Scribe.  He  was  a  member  of  the  School 
Board  of  Wetmore  for  many  years,  and  belonged  to  Grace 
Episcopal  Church. 

Mr.  DeForest  died,  of  heart  disease,  December  3,  1919,  in 
Wetmore,  and  was  buried  in  the  local  cemetery. 

He  was  married  June  12,  1889,  in  Wetmore,  to  Mary  Adela, 
daughter  of  John  and  Mary  (Matthews)  Thomas, .  whose 
death  occurred  August  8,  1920.  Three  children,  Thomas 
Moulton,  Mary  Augusta,  and  Gwendolyn,  are  living,  and  Mr. 
DeForest  also  leaves  two  brothers  and  a  sister.  A  son,  Paul, 
died  in  infancy,  and  a  brother,  Henry  Clay  DeForest  (B.A. 
1863),  in  1917. 

Robert  Hughes  Fitzhugh,  B.A.   1861 

Born  October  17,  1840,  in  Oswego,  N.  Y, 
Died  May  4,  iqao,  in  Pittsburgh,  Pa. 

Robert  Hughes  Fitzhugh  was  born  in  Oswego,  N.  Y., 
October  17,  1840,  the  son  of  Henry' and  Elizabeth  Barbara 
(Carroll)  Fitzhugh,  and  a  descendant  of  William  Fitzhugh, 
who  came  from  Bedford,  England,  in  1670,  and  settled  in 


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Virginia,  where  he  married  Sarah  Tucker.  William  Fitzhugh's 
grandson,  Col.  William  Fitzhugh,  was  a  Captain  in  the  British 
Army,  and  accompanied  x^dmiral  Vernon  and  two  of  General 
Washington's  brothers  in  Vernon's  attack  on  Cartagena,  New 
Grenada,  where  he  was  badly  wounded.  He  was  a  great 
friend  and  constant  correspondent  of  Washington  and  lived 
finally  at  the  mouth  of  the  Patuxent,  a  British  officer  on  half- 
pay  until  he  sided  with  the  colonists  in  the  Revolution.  He 
was  a  member  of  the  Virginia  House  of  Burgesses.  His  sons, 
William  and  Peregrine,  served  on  Washington's  staff  in  the 
Revolution,  the  former  as  Cornet  and  the  latter  as  Captain 
in  the  3d  Virginia  Horse.  In  181 5  William  Fitzhugh  and  two 
friends,  Colonel  Rochester  and  Charles  Carroll  (Robert 
Hughes  Fitzhugh's  maternal  grandfather),  freed  their  negroes, 
moved  with  their  households  from  Maryland  to  the  Genesee 
Valley,  New  York,  and  founded  the  city  of  Rochester,  the 
name  of  the  city  being  settled  by  lot.  His  wife  was  Ann 
(Hughes)  Fitzhugh.  Their  son  Henry,  born  at  Hagerstown, 
Md.,  in  1 801,  went  later  with  his  family  to  the  Genesee  Valley, 
and  after  his  marriage  to  Elizabeth  Carroll  moved  to  Oswego, 
where  he  established  a  business  which  grew  to  be  the  Oswego 
Line  Transportation  Company,  with  a  line  of  boats  on  the 
Erie  and  Oswego  canals,  and  steamers  and  sailing  vessels 
from  Oswego  to  Chicago,  where  the  company  had  its  own 
elevators  and  flour  mills.  He  represented  his  district  in  the 
Legislature  and  was  canal  commissioner  and  mayor  of  the 
city  of  Oswego.  His  wife  was  the  daughter  of  Charles  and  Ann 
(Sprigg)  Carroll,  and  a  descendant  of  Charles  Carroll  of 
CarroUton,  who  came  from  Ireland  to  Maryland  in  1671. 

He  was  prepared  for  college  at  Oswego,  part  of  the  time 
under  the  instruction  of  Edward  T.  Fisher  (B.A.  Harvard 
1856).  In  his  Sophomore  year  at  Yale  he  was  awarded  a 
Berkeley  Premium  for  excellence  in  Latin  composition,  as  well 
as  a  prize  in  English.  His  appointments  were  a  second  dispute 
Junior  year  and  a  first  dispute  Senior  year.  He  was  a  member 
of  the  Baseball  Club. 

Immediately  after  graduation  he  organized  a  company  in 
the  1st  New  York  Light  Artillery,  and  on  October  7,  1861, 
was  given  a  First  Lieutenant's  commission.  He  was  promoted 
to  the  rank  of  Captain  November  24,  1862,  and  to  that  of 


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Major  September  17,  1863.  He  served  with  the  Army  of  the 
Potomac  from  the  spring  of  1862  until  the  close  of  the  war, 
and  was  wounded  before  Petersburg  on  July  30,  1864.  His 
battery  bore  a  conspicuous  part  in  every  battlefield  from  the 
Rapidan  to  the  James,  and  on  December  24,  1865,  he  was 
brevetted  Lieutenant  Colonel  by  President  Lincoln  for  gal- 
lantry at  Gettysburg.  He  was  mustered  out  of  service  June 
24,  1865,  and  from  August  of  that  year  until  October,  1866, 
lived  on  his  farm  at  Colfax,  Iowa.  During  the  next  year  he 
was  in  the  employ  of  the  Mount  Carbon  Coal  &  Railroad 
Company  at  Murphysboro,  111.  In  1871,  having  spent  the 
intervening  period  in  Colfax,  he  removed  to  Mitchellville, 
Iowa,  where  he  became  engaged  in  farming  and  operating  a 
coal  tract  which  he  and  his  brother  had  found  on  land  owned 
by  them.  From  April,  1883,  to  1889  ^^^  again  from  1893  to 
1895,  ^^  w^s  engaged  in  farming  near  Petersburg,  Nebr. 
The  period  from  May,  1890,  to  1893,  was  spent  as  manager 
for  the  Pittsburgh  &  Mexican  Tin-Mining  Company  at 
Patrillos,  Durango,  Mexico.  In  1895  he  went  to  Pittsburgh, 
Pa.,  to  take  up  his  duties  as  secretary  of  the  Pittsburgh  & 
Mexican  Tin-Mining  Company.  The  next  year  he  became 
manager  of  the  Huntington  Furnace  at  Spruce  Creek,  Pa., 
and  remained  there  until  June  11,  1898,  when  he  was  ap- 
pointed Major  and  Commissary  of  Subsistence,  U.  S.  Vol- 
unteers. He  was  ordered  to  the  Philippines,  and  on  his 
arrival  at  Manila  on  July  30,  1898,  was  assigned  as  Chief 
Commissary  on  the  staff  of  General  Thomas  M.  Anderson. 
He  was  present  with  the  troops  during  the  succeeding  opera- 
tions and  at  the  surrender  of  Manila,  August  13,  1898.  When 
the  troops  were  about  to  advance  on  the  city  he  offered  his 
services  for  field  duty  and  was  given  a  temporary  staff  ap- 
pointment and  entered  the  city  with  the  Colorado  troops. 
Later  he  was  assigned  as  Chief  Commissary  of  General  Mac- 
Arthur's  Division,  and  participated  in  the  active  operation, 
of  that  command  from  February  4  to  August  15,  1899.  He  left 
Manila  under  orders  for  muster  out  and  discharge  September 
3,  1899.  He  was  recommended  by  General  MacArthur  for  a 
Medal  of  Honor.  He  afterwards  resided  in  Pittsburgh,  for 
some  years  having  charge  of  the  financial  affairs  of  his  brother 
General  Charles  L.  Fitzhugh,  a  non-graduate  member  of  the 


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Class  of  1859.  In  1888  he  was  the  Democratic  nominee  to  the 
lower  house  of  the  Nebraska  Legislature,  and  while  living  at 
Petersburg  he  was  commander  of  the  G.  A.  R.  Post.  He  was 
a  member  of  the  Loyal  Legion,  the  Society  of  the  Army  of 
the  Potomac,  and  the  Union  Veteran  League. 

He  died  in  Pittsburgh,  May  4,  1920,  after  a  protracted 
illness  due  to  paralysis.  He  was  buried  with  military  honors 
in  the  National  Cemetery  at  Arlington, 

He  was  not  married.  He  is  survived  by  his  brother  and  two 
nephews,  Carroll  H.  Fitzhugh  (B.A.  1896),  of  Pittsburgh,  and 
Henry  Fitzhugh,  of  Cobourg,  Ontario. 


Horace  Bumstead,  B.A.   1863 

Born  September  29,  1841,  in  Boston,  Mass. 
Died  October  14,  1919,  in  Intervale,  N.  H. 

Horace  Bumstead  was  born  in  Boston,  Mass.,  September 
29,  1 841,  and  was  the  son  of  Josiah  Freeman  and  Lucy 
Douglas  (Willis)  Bumstead.  His  father  was  a  merchant,  but 
his  dominant  interests  lay  along  educational  lines,  and  he 
was  the  author  of  a  series  of  textbooks  used  for  many  years 
in  the  Boston  public  schools,  and  for  twenty-nine  years  a 
member,  and  at  one  time  chairman,  of  the  primary  school 
committee  of  Boston.  For  a  long  time  before  the  Civil  War 
Mr.  J.  F.  Bumstead  was  superintendent  of  a  colored  Sunday 
school,  and  during  the  war  he  personally  taught  colored 
refugees  from  the  South.  His  parents  were  Josiah  Bumstead, 
also  a  merchant,  and  one  of  the  founders  and  a  deacon  of 
Park  Street  Church,  Boston,  and  Abigail  Baker  Bumstead, 
of  Dedham,  Mass.  He  was  eighth  in  descent  from  Thomas 
Bumstead,  who  came  from  England  and  settled  in  New  Eng- 
land in  the  seventeenth  century.  Horace  Bumstead's  ancestry 
is  traced  on  the  maternal  side  back  through  eight  generations 
to  George  Willis,  who  was  born  in  1602  in  England,  from 
which  country  he  emigrated  to  Massachusetts  about  1630. 
His  mother's  grandparents  were  Nathaniel  Willis,  a  member 
of  the  Boston  Tea  Party,  and  Lucy  (Douglas)  Willis,  of  New 
London,  Conn.  Her  father,  Nathaniel  Willis,  Jr.,  was  a  prac- 


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tical  printer  and  publisher,  and  the  founder  of  the  Boston 
Recorder^  the  first  religious  newspaper,  and  the  Youth's 
Companion^  the  first  juvenile  periodical  in  the  world.  Her 
mother  was  Hannah  Parker  Willis,  of  Holliston,  Mass.  Two 
of  her  brothers  graduated  at  Yale,  Nathaniel  Parker  Willis, 
poet,  essayist,  and  editor,  in  1827,  and  Richard  Storrs  Willis, 
musical  composer,  critic,  and  editor,  in  1841,  and  two  sisters 
became  writers, — Julia  Dean  Willis  and  Sarah  Payson  Willis, 
widely  known  as  "Fanny  Fern." 

Horace  Bumstead  first  attended  a  private  school  in  Willow 
Street,  Boston,  and  later  on  went  to  the  Phillips  Grammar 
School  on  Beacon  Hill.  In  1854  he  entered  the  Boston  Latin 
School,  where  he  received  several  prizes  during  his  course, 
graduated  fourth  in  a  class  of  thirty,  and  received  one  of  the 
six  Franklin  silver  medals  (founded  by  gift  of  Benjamin 
Franklin).  In  both  Junior  and  Senior  years  at  Yale  he  was 
given  an  oration  appointment,  and  he  was  a  member  of  Phi 
Beta  Kappa. 

In  the  autumn  of  1863  he  joined  the  Massachusetts  Rifle 
Club  in  Boston,  a  training  school  for  officers,  where  he  spent 
four  months,  and  on  April  20,  1864,  was  appointed  Major  of 
the  43d  Regiment,  U.  S.  Colored  Troops.  He  was  stationed 
for  a  short  time  in  command  of  a  detachment  of  his  regiment 
near  Philadelphia,  and  was  then  ordered  to  the  front,  where 
he  took  part  in  the  campaigns  around  Richmond  and  Peters- 
burg. Later  his  regiment  was  ordered  to  Texas  and  from  June 
to  October,  1865,  was  stationed  on  the  banks  of  the  Rio 
Grande  above  Brownsville.  He  returned  north  in  November 
and  was  discharged  December  i,  1865.  He  studied  at  the 
Andover  Theological  Seminary  from  1866  to  1870,  and  shortly 
after  graduating  there,  sailed  for  Europe,  where  he  spent 
fourteen  months  in  travel  and  study.  He  attended  the 
University  of  Tubingen  during  the  greater  part  of  two  semes- 
ters. In  February,  1872,  he  became  pastor  of  the  Vine  Street 
Congregational  Church  in  Minneapolis,  Minn,  (afterwards 
known  as  the  Second,  and  still  later  as  the  Park  Avenue 
Congregational  Church),  his  ordination  taking  place  May  i, 
1872.  He  resigned  this  charge  in  the  spring  of  1875,  ^"^  ^^ 
following  October  accepted  a  position  as  instructor  in  natural 


1362  YALE    COLLEGE 

science  at  Atlanta  University,  Atlanta,  Ga.,  thus  beginning 
his  long  period  of  service  in  the  cause  of  the  high  education 
of  the  Negro.  He  was  a  professor  in  the  department  of  natural 
science  from  1876  to  1880,  and  from  that  time  until  1896 
held  the  professorship  of  Latin.  He  served  as  treasurer  of  the 
institution  from  1880  to  1886,  as  acting  president  during  the 
next  year,  and  as  president  from  1888  to  1907,  when  he  retired. 
He  was  a  member  of  the  board  of  trustees  from  1887  until  his 
retirement.  The  degree  of  D.D.  was  conferred  upon  him  by 
New  York  University  in  1881.  He  was  especially  interested  in 
the  activities  of  the  National  Association  for  the  Advance- 
ment of  Colored  People.  He  was  a  member  of  the  American 
Academy  of  Political  and  Social  Science  and  of  the  Military 
Order  of  the  Loyal  Legion,  and  at  the  time  of  his  death  was 
chaplain  of  the  Massachusetts  Commandery  of  the  Loyal 
Legion.  His  home  had  been  in  Brookline,  Mass.,  since  1907, 
and  he  was  a  member  of  Harvard  Church. 

He  died  very  suddenly  in  Intervale,  N.  H.,  October  14, 
1919.  His  funeral  was  held  at  Harvard  Church,  Brookline, 
October  18,  and  the  interment  was  at  Forest  Hills  Cemetery, 
Boston.  Harvard  Church  is  raising  a  memorial  to  him  to  be 
called  the  Horace  Bumstead  Memorial  Fund  and  to  be  merged 
in  the  endowment  funds  of  Atlanta  University. 

Dr.  Bumstead  was  married  January  9,  1872,  in  North 
Conway,  N.  H.,  to  Anna  Maria,  daughter  of  Albert  Gallatin 
Hoit,  a  graduate  of  Dartmouth  in  1829  and  a  well-known 
artist  and  portrait  painter,  and  Susan  A.  (Hanson)  Hoit.  She 
survives  him  with  three  of  their  five  children:  Albert  Hoit, 
cartographer  of  the  National  Geographic  Magazine,  -who  was 
educated  at  Atlanta  University,  Worcester  Polytechnic  In- 
stitute, and  the  Lawrence  Scientific  School  at  Harvard; 
Ralph  Willis  (B.A.  1903);  and  Dorothy,  now  the  wife  of 
Henry  Roe  Jarvis,  of  Toronto,  who  was  a  Lieutenant  in  the 
Royal  Field  Artillery  during  the  World  War.  Dr.  Bumstead  is 
also  survived  by  five  grandchildren.  His  oldest  son,  Arthur 
(B.A.  1895,  Ph.D.  1900),  died  in  191 5,  and  his  youngest  son, 
Richard,  in  1883. 


863-1864  ^KM'     '3^3 


Walton  Wesley  Battershall,  B.A.   1864 

Born  January  8,  1840,  in  Troy,  N.  Y. 
Died  March  19,  1920,  in  Albany,  N.  Y. 

Walton  Wesley  Battershall  was  born  in  Troy,  N.  Y., 
January  8,  1840,  the  son  of  Ludlow  Andrew  and  Eustatia 
(Ward)  Battershall.  His  father,  who  was  a  merchant  in  Troy 
and  later  in  New  York  City,  was  the  son  of  Jesse  and  Sally 
(Parke)  Battershall.  The  family  was  of  English  origin,  de- 
scended from  William  Battershall,  who  came  to  this  country 
from  Devonshire  before  1780  and  settled  in  Columbia  County, 
N.  Y.  Eustatia  Ward  Battershall's  parents  were  Joseph  and 
Hannah  Ward. 

His  early  education  was  received  at  the  Poultney  (Vt.) 
Academy  and  at  Kimball  Union  Academy,  Meriden,  N.  H. 
He  graduated  from  the  latter  school  in  1858,  spent  two  years 
at  Troy  University,  and  joined  the  Yale  Class  of  1864  at 
the  beginning  of  the  second  term  of  Junior  year.  He  won  the 
Yale  Literary  Medal  and  a  Townsend  Premium  in  Senior 
year.  His  Senior  appointment  was  an  oration  and  he  spoke 
at  Commencement.  He  was  the  Class  poet  on  Presentation 
Day,  and  wrote  the  Ivy  Song.  He  was  a  member  of  Phi  Beta 
Kappa,  the  Glyuna  Boat  Club,  and  Brothers  in  Unity, 
serving  as  president  of  the  latter  organization  in  Senior 
year. 

During  the  year  1864-65  he  resided  at  Troy,  pursuing 
theological  studies  under  Rev.  Henry  C.  Potter,  D.D.,  then 
rector  of  St.  John's  Church,  Troy,  in  which  church  he  was 
ordained  to  the  diaconate  June  16,  1865.  He  then  entered  the 
Senior  class  of  the  General  Theological  Seminary  in  New 
York  City,  from  which  he  was  graduated  in  1866.  On  Novem- 
ber 30  of  the  same  year  he  was  ordained  to  the  priesthood  of 
the  Protestant  Episcopal  Church  and  during  the  next  two 
years  was  assistant  rector  of  Zion  Church,  New  York  City. 
From  1867  to  1869  he  was  rector  of  St.  Thomas'  Church, 
Ravenswood,  N.  Y.,  from  which  parish  he  was  called  to  the 
rectorship  of  Christ  Church,  Rochester,  N.  Y.  He  remained 
there  five  years,  and  during  this  period  was  a  member  of  the 


1364  YALE    COLLEGE 

Standing  committee  of  the  Diocese  of  Western  New  York. 
From  August  i,  1874,  to  September  29,  191 1,  he  was  rector 
of  St.  Peter's  Church  at  Albany,  N.  Y.,  and  from  that  time 
until  his  death  was  rector  emeritus.  He  had  been  archdeacon 
of  Albany  since  1902,  and  since  1895  ^^  had  had  charge  during 
July  and  August  each  year  of  St.  Andrew's  Dune  Church, 
Southampton,  N.  Y.  Since  1875  ^e  had  been  continuously  a 
member  of  the  Diocesan  Board  of  Missions  and  a  delegate  to 
the  General  Convention  of  the  Protestant  Episcopal  Church. 
He  was  a  member  of  the  American  Church  Building  Fund 
Association  from  the  date  of  its  organization,  and  was  on  the 
executive  committee  of  the  Prison  Association  of  New  York. 
The  degree  of  D.D.  was  conferred  upon  him  by  Union  College 
in  1878  and  by  Hobart  College  in  1888.  He  served  as  a  trustee 
of  Hobart  for  about  twenty  years.  He  was  the  author  of 
"Interpretations  of  Life  and  Religion";  the  article  on  Albany 
in  "Historic  Towns  of  the  Middle. States";  and  of  an  introduc- 
tion to  the  "History  of  St.  Peter's  Church,  Albany,"  and  a 
frequent  contributor  to  the  North  American  Review  and  other 
magazines.  On  Yale  Bicentennial  Sunday,  October  20,  1901, 
he  preached  in  Trinity  Church,  New  Haven,  and  on  August 
7,  1907,  at  the  Cooperstown  (N.  Y.)  Centennial,  he  read  a 
poem  which  he  had  written  for  the  occasion,  entitled  "At 
Cooper's  Grave." 

He  died  of  pneumonia,  March  19,  1920,  at  his  home  in 
Albany  and  was  buried  in  the  Albany  Rural  Cemetery.  The 
Walton  Wesley  Battershall  Memorial,  which  is  to  take  the 
form  of  a  memorial  organ  in  St.  Peter's  Church,  has  been 
established.  , 

He  was  married  October  13,  1864,  in  Newark,  N.  Y.,  to 
Anna  Davidson,  daughter  of  Fletcher  and  Ann  (Ford) 
Williams,  who  died  September  25,  1872.  He  is  survived  by  a 
son,  Fletcher  Williams,  the  Class  Boy  of  1864,  now  a  lawyer  in 
Albany,  and  two  daughters,  Cornelia  Smith,  the  wife  of  Harry 
S.  Pearse,  M.D.,  of  Montclair,  N.  J.,  and  Anna  Davidson, 
who  married  Russell  Agnew  Griffin  April  17, 1900.  His  oldest 
son,  Walton  Ford,  died  in  infancy. 


1864-1B65        H^S   ^3^^ 

Sanford  Smith  Martyn,  B.A.   1865 

Born  July  23,  1839,  in  Haverhill,  Mass. 
Died  December  5,  1919,  in  Plantsville,  Conn. 

Sanford  Smith  Martyn,  who  was  born  July  23,  1839,  ^^ 
Haverhill,  Mass.,  was  the  son  of  Rev.  Job  Henry  Martyn 
(B.A.  Middlebury  1825)  and  Grace  Fletcher  (Smith)  Martyn. 
His  father  studied  at  Princeton  Theological  Seminary  during 
1826-27,  was  ordained  as  a  Congregational  minister  in  1827, 
and  afterwards  held  pastorates  in  Massachusetts  and  New 
York  State.  The  latter  part  of  his  life  was  spent  as  a  publisher 
in  New  York  City.  His  parents  were  Jeremiah  and  Sabrina 
(Miller)  Martyn,  and  he  was  a  descendant  of  John  Martyn, 
one  of  the  founders  of  the  town  of  Swansea,  Mass.  Grace 
Smith  Martyn  was  the  daughter  of  Rev.  Ethan  Smith,  who 
served  as  a  soldier  in  the  Revolutionary  War,  and  Bathsheba 
(Sanford)  Smith.  Her  paternal  grandparents  were  Capt. 
Elijah  Smith  and  Sybil  (Worthington)  Smith,  and  she  traced 
her  ancestry  to  Richard  Smith,  who  came  to  America  from 
Ipswich,  England,  in  1632  and  was  one  of  the  first  settlers  in 
a  town  in  the  Connecticut  Valley  to  which  he  gave  the  name 
of  Wethersfield.  Her  mother  was  the  daughter  of  Rev.  David 
Sanford  (B.A.  1755),  for  a  short  time  a  Chaplain  in  the  Con- 
tinental Army,  and  Bathsheba  (Ingersoll)  Sanford.  David 
Sanford's  parents  were  Elihu  and  Rachel  (Strong)  Sanford, 
the  latter  a  daughter  of  Elnathan  and  Patience  (Jenner) 
Strong,  and  a  sister  of  Rev.  Nathan  Strong  (B.A.  1742). 
The  earliest  member  of  the  family  in  this  country  was  Thomas 
Sanford,  who  came  from  Gloucestershire,  England,  in  1631 
and  eight  years  later  settled  at  Milford,  Conn.,  where  his 
name  appears  on  the  earliest  records  as  a  leader  in  organizing 
the  town. 

His  youth  was  spent  mostly  in  New  York  City.  He  read 
law  with  his  brother-in-law.  Judge  Wright,  of  Waterbury, 
Conn.,  during  1858-59,  and  then  spent  a  year  in  the  office  of 
the  Springfield  Republican^  where  he  received  a  training  which 
+ie  considered  invaluable  in  after  life.  He  entered  Yale  in  1861 
from  the  Hopkins  Grammar  School  and  in  Freshman  year 


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he  divided  with  a  classmate  the  third  prize  in  the  Bishop  prize 
debate  of  Linonia.  In  Sophomore  year  he  won  the  second  prize 
in  the  same  debate,  received  a  first  prize  for  declamation,  and 
divided  with  Payson  Merrill  the  third  prize  for  English  com- 
position in  the  second  term,  and  the  second  prize  in  the  same 
subject  in  the  third  term.  His  Junior  appointment  was  a  first 
colloquy  and  he  received  a  second  colloquy  Senior  year.  He 
was  elected  valedictory  orator  of  Linonia  in  Senior  year. 

In  the  fall  of  1865  he  returned  to  Yale  and  entered  the 
Divinity  School,  from  which  he  received  the  degree  of  B.D. 
in  1868.  He  was  ordained  and  installed  as  pastor  of  the  Con- 
gregational Church  at  Newington,  Conn.,  April  29,  1868,  and 
served  there  until  1870.  His  other  pastorates  were:  New  Hart- 
ford, Conn.,  1870-74;  Olive  Street  Congregational  Church, 
Nashua,  N.  H.,  1874-76;  First  Congregational  Church, 
Terre  Haute,  Ind.,  1 876-1 880;  High  Street  Congregational 
Church,  Columbus,  Ohio;  Peacham,  Vt.,  1882-87;  Windsor, 
Vt.,  1887-1894;  Derby,  Conn.,  1895-1900;  and  Haydenville, 
Mass.,  1900-04.  Failing  eyesight  compelled  him  to  relinquish 
all  pastoral  duties  in  1904  and  he  removed  to  Plantsville, 
Conn.  During  his  active  ministry  his  work  in  religious  revivals 
resulted  in  having  some  six  hundred  received  into  church 
membership  on  confession  of  faith.  During  his  college  course 
he  is  said  to  have  paid  his  expenses  largely  by  writing  for 
sundry  papers,  and  he  later  contributed  various  articles  to 
newspapers,  as  well  as  to  religious  and  secular  magazines. 

He  died  suddenly  of  cardiac  embolism  December  5,  1919, 
at  his  home  in  Plantsville.  Interment  was  in  the  Quinnipiac 
Cemetery  at  Plantsville. 

Mr.  Martyn  was  married  April  11,  1866,  in  Southington, 
Conn.,  to  Frances  Louisa,  daughter  of  Hezekiah  and  Harriet 
(Clark)  Cummings,  who  survives  him  with  five  children: 
Grace  Fletcher,  who  married  George  Crowe,  September  17, 
1914;  William  Cummings,  who  graduated  from  Bangor 
Theological  Seminary  in  1896  and  received  the  degree  of  B.A. 
at  Bowdoin  in  1898;  Herbert  Sedgwick  (B.A.  Dartmouth 
1893,  M.D.  Baltimore  Medical  College  1898);  Frederick 
Sanford  (B.A.  Dartmouth  1894,  LL.B.  Yale  1896);  and« 
Harriet  Louise.  A  fourth  son,  Lyndon  Worthington,  born 
August  2,  1876,  died  December  28,  1891.  One  sister,  Mrs. 


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1865  ^^^r       i<j67 

Sarah  Louise  Martyn  Wright,  of  Lynn,  Mass.,  is  living.  A 
brother.  Rev.  Carlos  Martyn,  D.D.,  LL.D.,  a  graduate  of 
Union  Theological  Seminary  in  1869  and  well-known  as  a 
Presbyterian  minister  and  historical  wjiter,  died  in  1917. 


Charles  Newhall  Taintor,  B.A.   1865 

Born  November  28,  1840,  in  Pomfret,  Conn. 
Died  March  12,  1920,  in  New  York  City 

Charles  Newhall  Taintor  was  born  November  28,  1840,  in 
Pomfret,  Conn.,  the  son  of  Ralph  Smith  and  Phoebe  Higgins 
(Lord)  Taintor,  and  a  grandson  of  Capt.  Newhall  Taintor,  for 
sixteen  years  a  member  of  the  Connecticut  House  of  Repre- 
sentatives, and  Ruth  (Smith)  Taintor.  He  was  a  descendant  of 
Charles  Taintor,  who  emigrated  from  Wales  between  1638 
and  1643  ^^^  was  one  of  the  early  settlers  of  Fairfield,  Conn., 
and  of  Michael  Taintor,  one  of  the  founders  of  Colchester, 
Conn.,  in  1698  and  for  the  first  thirty  years  of  its  existence  its 
town  clerk,  and  a  member  of  the  Assembly  in  the  Connecticut 
Legislature  for  twenty-six  years.  His  maternal  grandparents 
were  Joseph  and  Phoebe  (Burnham)  Lord,  descendants  of 
Thomas  Lord,  who  embarked  from  London  April  19,  1635, 
lived  for  a  time  at  Newtown,  Mass.,  but  shortly  removed  to 
Hartford,  Conn.,  of  which  he  was  one  of  the  original  proprie- 
tors. The  section  known  as  Lord's  Hill  was  named  for  him. 

Charles  N.  Taintor  was  prepared  for  college  at  Bacon 
Academy  in  Colchester,  and  under  a  private  tutor  in  New 
Haven.  In  Junior  year  he  received  a  first  colloquy  appoint- 
ment and  his  Senior  appointment  was  a  second  colloquy. 
He  was  a  member  of  Linonia  and  its  campaign  president  in 
1864,  the  Beethoven  Society,  of  which  he  was  vice-president 
in  1864,  the  College  Choir,  the  College  Glee  Club,  and  the 
Varuna  Boat  Club. 

He  spent  six  months  after  graduation  as  the  agent  and 
attorney  of  the  New  York  State  Temperance  League  in 
Livingston  County.  He  then  went  to  New  York  City  and 
began  the  business  of  publishing  maps  with  his  brother,  Joseph 
L.  Taintor  (B.A.  i860),  under  the  firm  name  of  J.  L.  Taintor 
&  Company.  They  disposed  of  their  map  interest  in  a  little 


1368  YALE    COLLEGE 

over  a  year,  and  began  to  publish  educational  and  miscellane- 
ous books  under  the  firm  name  of  Taintor  Brothers  &  Com- 
pany. On  the  death  of  Joseph  L.  Taintor,  September  i,  1881, 
Charles  N.  Taintor  became  the  senior  member  of  the  firm, 
which,  on  account  of  changes  in  partnership  members,  became 
successively  Taintor  Brothers,  Merrill  &  Company,  Taintor 
Brothers  &  Company,  and  Taintor  Brothers,  Charles  N. 
Taintor  remaining  throughout  the  senior  and  managing 
partner.  In  1890  he  formed  a  new  partnership  with  one  of 
his  brothers,  under  the  name  of  E.  M.  Taintor  &  Company, 
to  carry  on  a  bookbinding  business,  in  which  he  was  engaged 
until  1912. 

He  had  become  interested  in  Republican  politics  in  New 
York  soon  after  leaving  college,  and  from  1880  to  1890  was 
leader  of  the  third  Assembly  district,  called  the  hour-glass 
district.  He  was  executive  member  of  the  New  York  Republi- 
can County  Committee  from  1880  to  1890;  chairman  of  the 
Republican  County  Convention  of  New  York  County  in  1882; 
a  delegate  to  the  State  Republican  conventions  from  1880  to 
1890,  to  the  Republican  National  Convention  in  1884  and 
1888,  and  to  the  National  Convention  of  Republican  Leagues 
in  1890.  He  served  as  commissioner  of  emigration  for  the 
state  of  New  York  from  1881  to  18&9,  and  was  president  of 
the  Emigration  Board  during  1888-89.  ^^  ^^^^  ^e  was  nomi- 
nated for  Congress  from  the  Seventh  Congressional  District 
of  New  York  but  was  defeated  by  a  small  majority  in  a  dis- 
trict normally  Democratic,  two  to  one.  In  1889  he  was  ap- 
pointed by  Mayor  Grant  a  police  justice  of  New  York  City 
for  a  term  of  ten  years,  but  resigned  in  1895.  Since  1899  Mr. 
Taintor  had  been  a  trustee  of  the  U.  S.  Savings  Bank  of  New 
York,  and  he  was  its  president  from  19 10  to  January,  1920, 
when  he  retired.  He  was  a  director  of  the  Riverside  Bank  and 
its  president  from  1903  to  1907.  In  1891  he  assisted  in  organiz- 
ing the  Astor  Place  Bank,  and  was  a  director  until  it  was 
merged  into  another  bank.  He  was  also  a  director  of  the 
Union  Exchange  National  Bank  and  the  U.  S.  Life  Insur- 
ance Company  of  New  York,  and  a  trustee  (i  888-1 890)  of  the 
Grant  Monument  Association  and  of  Bacon  Academy  at 
Colchester.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Chamber  of  Commerce 
of  New  York  City,  the  Metropolitan  Museum  of  Art,  the 


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American  Museum  of  Natural  History,  and  the  New  York 
Historical  Society,  and  a  life  member  of  the  New  England 
Society  and  the  American  Institute.  He  was  one  of  the  found- 
ers, the  first  president,  and  an  honorary  member  of  the 
West  Side  Republican  Club,  and  a  retired  member  of  the 
Mendelssohn  Glee  Club  of  New  York,  in  the  organization  of 
which  he  had  taken  a  prominent  part.  In  1876  he  became  an 
elder  in  the  Fourth  Avenue  Presbyterian  Church  and  was 
senior  elder  and  president  of  the  board  of  trustees  for  many 
years.  Since  191 5  he  had  been  connected  with  the  Rutgers 
Presbyterian  Church. 

Mr.  Taintor  died,  of  diabetes,  March  12,  1920,  in  New  York 
City.  His  body  was  taken  to  Colchester  for  burial  in  Linwood 
Cemetery.  He  left  bequests  of  I5000  each  to  Yale  University 
and  Bacon  Academy. 

He  was  married  April  23,  1872,  in  New  York  City,  to 
Georgiana  Strang,  daughter  of  Henry  Holden,  Jr.,  and  Mary 
(Strang)  Holden,  who  survives  him  without  children.  He 
also  leaves  two  brothers,  Ralph  Smith  Taintor  and  Edward 
M.  Taintor.  Three  other  brothers,  Joseph  L.  Taintor  (B.A. 
i860),  James  U.  Taintor  (B.A.  1866),  and  Judah  L.  Taintor, 
are  deceased,  and  also  his  two  sisters,  Phoebe  Lord  Taintor 
(Mrs.  Edward  L.  Gate^)  and  Ruth  Smith  Taintor,  who  mar- 
ried Elisha  W.  Welles.  Mr.  Taintor  was  a  nephew  of  Joseph 
Selden  Lord  (B.A.  1831),  at  the  time  of  his  death  in  1905  the 
oldest  living  graduate  of  the  University,  and  Charles  Taintor 
(B.A.  1839),  ^^^  ^"  uncle  of  John  T.  Welles,  '98,  James  S. 
Taintor,  '01,  and  Nelson  C.  Taintor,  '09. 


Edward  Elizur  Goodrich,  B.A.   1866 

Born  August  12,  1845,  '"  Maiden,  Mass. 
Died  April  22,  1920,  in  San  Francisco,  Calif. 

Edward  Elizur  Goodrich  was  born  in  Maiden,  Mass., 
August  12,  1845,  ^^^  ^^^  °^  Rev.  Chauncey  Goodrich,  a 
graduate  of  the  College  in  1837,  and  Elizabeth  Ely  (Coe) 
Goodrich,  and  a  descendant  of  William  Goodrich,  who  came 
from  England  about  1634  and  settled  in  Wethersfield,  Conn. 
He  was  the  grandson  of  Rev.  Chauncey  Allen  Goodrich^  D,D, 


1370  YALE    COLLEGE 

(B.A.  1 8 10),  who  held  a  professorship  at  Yale  from  18 17  to 
i860,  and  Julia  Frances  [originally  Frances  Juliana]  (Web- 
ster) Goodrich,  who  was  the  second  daughter  of  Noah  Web- 
ster (B.A.  1778),  the  lexicographer,  and  Rebecca  (Greenleaf) 
Webster.  His  great-grandfather  was  Elizur  Goodrich  (B.A. 
1779,  LL.D.  1830),  who  was  at  one  time  a  member  of  Congress 
and  who  was  uninterruptedly  connected  with  Yale  in  some 
capacity  for  the  space  of  seventy-one  years;  two  important 
posts  were  his  positions  as  member  and  secretary  of  the 
Corporation,  and  as  professor  of  law  from  1801  to  18 10. 
Elizur  Goodrich  was  the  son  of  Rev.  Dr.  Elizur  Goodrich 
(B.A.  1752),  a  Fellow  of  Yale  from  1776  to  1797  and  during 
eleven  years  of  this  period  secretary  of  the  Corporation. 
Another  of  Edward  E.  Goodrich's  ancestors  was  Nathaniel 
Chauncey,  who  in  1702  received  the  first  degree  given  by 
Yale.  His  Yale  relatives  on  the  paternal  side  also  included 
four  great-great-uncles,  Chauncey  Goodrich  (B.A.  1776),  a 
member  of  Congress,  a  United  States  senator,  and  lieutenant 
governor  of  Connecticut,  Rev.  Samuel  Goodrich  (B.A.  1783), 
Elihu  C.  Goodrich  (B.A.  1784),  and  Charles  A.  Goodrich 
(B.A.  1786);  a  great-uncle.  Rev.  Charles  A.  Goodrich  (B.A. 
1812);  an  uncle.  Rev.  William  H.  Goodrich  (B.A.  1843); 
and  a  first  cousin.  Rev.  Chauncey  W.  Goodrich  (B.A.  1886). 
Elizabeth  Coe  Goodrich  was  the  daughter  of  Rev.  Noah  Coe 
(B.A.  1808)  and  Elizabeth  (Goodrich)  Coe,  second  daughter 
of  Rev.  Samuel  Goodrich  (B.A.  1783).  Two  of  her  brothers 
graduated  at  Yale, — Frederick  A.  Coe,  in  1837,  and  Rev.  Sam- 
uel G.  Coe,  in  1838.  She  was  a  descendant  of  Robert  Coe,  an 
emigrant  from  England  about  1633  and  one  of  the  first  set- 
tlers at  Stamford,  Conn. 

His  preparation  for  college  was  received  at  the  Hopkins 
Grammar  School  in  New  Haven.  In  Sophomore  year  at  Yale 
he  was  awarded  a  third  prize  in  declamation,  and  he  won  the 
third  prize  in  the  Senior  Prize  Debate.  His  appointments  were 
a  second  dispute  Junior  year  and  a  first  colloquy  Senior  year. 
He  was  a  member  of  Linonia  and  the  Glyuna  Boat  Club. 

Mr.  Goodrich  entered  the  Albany  Law  School  in  Septem- 
ber, 1866,  and  was  graduated  with  the  degree  of  LL.B.  the 
following  spring.  In  the  fall  of  1867  he  entered  the  law  office 
of  Marsh,  Coe  &  Wallis  in  New  York  City,  but  early  the  next 


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year  was  obliged  to  give  up  practice  and  return  to  New  Haven 
on  account  of  trouble  with  his  eyes.  The  greater  part  of  his 
time  during  the  next  twenty-three  years  was  spent  abroad. 
In  1882  he  had  purchased  "El  Quito  Olive  and  Vine  Farm" 
in  Santa  Clara  County,  Calif.,  near  San  Jose,  and  after  1891 
he  had  made  his  home  there  and  had  been  engaged  in  farm- 
ing. He  had  long  been  a  thirty-third  degree  (honorary) 
Mason,  and  of  late  years  he  had  taken  a  great  interest  in 
Masonry.  He  died,  from  arterio-sclerosis,  April  22,  1920,  in 
San  Francisco.  Cremation  was  in  the  Masonic  Cemetery  in  that 
city. 

He  was  married  April  23,  1878,  in  Boston,  Mass.,  to  Sara 
Maude,  daughter  of  Oscar  Lovell  Shafter,  justice  of  the 
Supreme  Court  of  California,  and  Sara  (Riddell)  Shafter, 
who  survives  him  with  three  of  their  five  children:  Chauncey 
Shafter  (B.A.  1904,  LL.B.  Harvard  1907);  Elizabeth  Ely 
(B.A.  Vassar  1907),  who  was  married  May  14,  1914,  to  James 
L.  Whitney  (B.A.  1901,  M.D.  Harvard  1905);  and  Frances 
Juliana  Webster,  who  married  Maurice  Leon,  September  i, 
1909.  Mr.  Goodrich  also  leaves  five  grandsons  and  five  grand- 
daughters. His  oldest  daughter,  Florence,  died  in  childhood, 
and  the  death  of  his  second  daughter.  Bertha  Shafter,  who 
was  married  in  1906  to  Edward  L.  Bacon,  occurred  April  11, 
1909. 

Frederick  Newton  Judson,  B.A.   1866 

Born  October  5,  1845,  i"  St.  Mary's,  Ga. 
Died  October  18,  1919,  in  St.  Louis,  Mo. 

Frederick  Newton  Judson  was  born  October  5,  1845,  ^^ 
St.  Mary's,  Ga.,  the  son  of  Frederick  Joseph  Judson  (B.A. 
1824,  M.D.  1829)  and  Catherine  (Chappelle)  Judson.  His 
father,  who  practiced  his  profession  in  New  Haven  and  West- 
port,  Conn.,  until  1832,  and  from  that  time  until  1846  at 
St.  Mary's,  removed  in  1847  ^^  Bridgeport,  Conn.,  where  he 
served  for  many  years  as  president  of  the  Board  of  Education, 
and  was  founder,  in  1851,  of  the  Bridgeport  Public  Library, 
and  president  of  that  institution  until  his  death.  His  parents 
were  Pixlee  and  Catharine  T.  (Nichols)  Judson,  and  he  was  a 


137^  YALE    COLLEGE 

lineal  descendant  of  William  Judson,  originally  of  Yorkshire, 
England,  who  removed  from  Concord,  Mass.,  in  1638,  and 
was  the  first  settler  in  the  town  of  Stratford,  Conn.  Catherine 
Chappelle  Judson  was  the  daughter  of  Isaac  Newton  Chap- 
pelle,  M.D.,  and  Caroline  (Garvin)  Chappelle. 

He  was  fitted  for  college  under  his  father's  instruction  and 
with  Rev.  Henry  Jones  (B.A.  1820),  and  had  a  brief  experi- 
ence in  journalism  with  the  Bridgeport  Farmer  before  enter- 
ing Yale.  He  received  the  Woolsey  Scholarship  Freshman 
year,  was  awarded  two  prizes  in  English  composition  and  the 
Bristed  Scholarship  Sophomore  year,  was  given  a  third  prize 
in  debate  Junior  year,  and  received  the  Clark  Scholarship  as 
a  Senior.  His  Junior  appointment  was  a  philosophical  oration 
and  he  graduated  as  valedictorian  of  his  class.  He  was  a  mem- 
ber of  Brothers  in  Unity. 

He  was  a  teacher  of  the  classics  in  the  Hopkins  Grammar 
School,  New  Haven,  for  a  year  after  graduation,  and  during 
the  next  three  years  was  engaged  in  similar  work  in  Nashville, 
Tenn.,  being  connected  with  the  high  school  for  a  year  and 
thereafter  with  the  Montgomery  Belle  Academy,  affiliated 
with  Nashville  University.  During  this  period  he  had  taken 
up  the  study  of  law  and  in  October,  1870,  entered  the  Law 
Department  of  Washington  University,  St.  Louis,  Mo.  He 
received  the  degree  of  LL.B.  from  that  institution  in  May, 
1 87 1,  and  was  admitted  to  the  bar.  In  the  same  year  he  be- 
came private  secretary  to  Governor  Benjamin  Gratz  Brown, 
and  served  in  that  capacity  until  January,  1873,  at  the  same 
time  engaging  in  practice  at  JeflFerson  City.  He  then  removed 
to  St.  Louis,  where  he  practiced  his  profession  continuously 
until  his  death.  He  was  senior  member  of  the  firm  of  Judson 
&  Green  until  1913  and  afterwards  of  that  of  Judson,  Green  & 
Henry.  In  1895  ^^  ^^^  appointed  special  counsel  for  the 
United  States,  with  Mr.  Judson  Harmon,  of  Cincinnati,  in 
the  matter  of  the  rebates  paid  by  the  Atchison,  Topeka  & 
Santa  Fe  Railroad  Company,  and  in  1909  he  represented  the 
Government  in  the  injunction  brought  against  the  western 
railroads  in  connection  with  advance  rates.  In  1910,  under 
appointment  by  President  Taft,  he  served  as  a  member  of  the 
National  Securities  Commission,  of  which  President  Arthur 
T.  Hadley  was  chairman,  and  in  191 2  he  was  appointed  by 


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Chief  Justice  White  of  the  Supreme  Court  as  a  member  of 
the  Board  of  Arbitration  for  the  adjustment  of  the  differences 
between  the  engineers  and  the  eastern  railroads.  The  following 
year  he  was  elected  a  member  of  the  board  of  thirteen  free- 
holders which  framed  a  new  charter  which  was  adopted  by 
the  city  of  St.  Louis,  and  which  is  now  in  force.  In  19 14  he 
was  appointed  by  the  governor  as  a  member  of  the  State 
Code  Commission  for  the  recommendation  to  the  General 
Assembly  for  reforms  of  the  judicial  procedure  in  the  state, 
and  in  191 7  was  one  of  the  commissioners  from  Missouri  to 
the  National  Conference  on  Uniform  State  Laws.  During  the 
World  War,  he  was  associated  with  Mr.  Taft  on  the  War 
Labor  Board,  his  sympathies  being  with  the  organization  of 
labor  bodies.  He  was  also  chairman  of  the  Exemption  Board 
for  the  Seventeenth  Ward  in  the  city  of  St.  Louis. 

Mr.  Judson  was  president  of  the  St.  Louis  Bar  Association 
in  1 891  and  of  the  State  Bar  Association  in  1908,  and  was. 
chairman  of  the  committee  which  secured  the  adoption  of  the 
present  judicial  organization  of  the  city  in  1895.  He  was 
appointed  lecturer  on  evidence  in  the  Law  School  of  Washing- 
ton University  in  1892,  and  the  next  year  became  lecturer  on 
constitutional  law  at  that  institution.  He  delivered  the  Storrs 
lectures  at  Yale  in  1913,  and  the  following  year  these  lectures 
were  published  under  the  title,  "J^^^i^iary  and  the  People." 
The  degree  of  LL.D.  was  conferred  upon  him  by  the  State 
University  of  Missouri  in  1906  and  by  Yale  in  1907.  He  was 
considered  an  authority  on  taxation  and  served  in  1901  as 
chairman  of  the  conference  on  taxation  held  in  Buffalo,  in 
1906  as  chairman  of  the  Missouri  State  Taxation  Commission, 
and  in  191 6  as  a  member  of  the  state  conference  on  the  sub- 
ject. He  took  a  prominent  part  in  the  cause  of  public  educa- 
tion, heading  the  reform  school  movement  in  1887  which  re- 
sulted in  the  elimination  of  the  study  of  German  in  the  pri- 
mary and  district  schools.  He  was  the  author  of  important 
legislative  acts  affecting  educational  interests  and  for  the 
protection  of  government  school  land  grants,  and  served  six 
years  on  the  St.  Louis  Board  of  Education,  holding  office  as 
president  for  four  years.  In  1896  and  1897  he  was  chairman 
of  the  Citizen's  Committee  which  prepared  and  procured  the 
adoption  of  the  law  regulating  the  public  schools  of  St.  Louis 


1374  YALE    COLLEGE 

and  which  has  been  followed  as  a  model  by  other  cities.  He 
was  chairman  of  the  executive  committee  of  the  St.  Louis 
Civil  Service  Reform  Association  for  several  years,  and  a 
member  of  the  executive  committees  of  the  Public  Safety 
Committee, — a  non-partisan  organization  for  reform  of  elec- 
tion laws, — and  of  the  Democratic  Sound  Currency  Club.  He 
served  as  president  of  the  American  Political  Science  Associa- 
tion in  1907-08  and  at  one  time  as  a  vice-president  of  the 
American  Economic  Association,  was  governor  of  the  Mis- 
souri Society  of  Colonial  Wars  from  1914  until  his  death,  and 
was  one  of  the  organizers  and,  in  19 17,  the  chairman  of  the 
Missouri  branch  of  the  League  to  Enforce  Peace,  state  chair- 
man of  the  League  of  National  Unity,  a  member  of  the 
National  Civic  Federation  and  the  National  Municipal 
League,  president  of  the  Associated  Western  Yale  Clubs  from 
1906  to  1 9 10,  and  chairman  of  the  Yale  Alumni  Advisory 
Board  from  1906  to  191 1.  He  was  a  vestryman  of  St.  Peter's 
Church,  served  as  a  delegate  to  the  triennial  convention  of  the 
Episcopal  Church  in  191 6,  and  was  a  member  of  the  committee 
on  the  constitution  of  the  church.  He  was  the  author  of  a 
treatise  on  the  law  and  practice  of  taxation  in  Missouri,  pub- 
lished in  1900,  "The  Power  of  Taxation,  State  and  Federal, 
under  the  Constitution  of  the  United  States"  (1903),  and 
"The  Law  of  Interstate  Commerce  and  its  Federal  Regula- 
tion" (1905).  A  second  edition  of  the  last-named  appeared  in 
1910  and  a  third  in  1916. 

Mr.  Judson  died  at  his  home  in  St.  Louis,  October  18,  1919, 
and  was  buried  in  Bellefontaine  Cemetery  in  that  city. 

His  marriage  took  place  in  Nashville,  February  8,  1872,  to 
Jennie  W.,  daughter  of  William  and  Felicia  (Grundy)  Eakin, 
and  granddaughter  of  Felix  Grundy,  of  Nashville.  Mrs.  Jud- 
son died  February  10,  19 14.  Their  only  child,  Felicia  Eakin, 
survives  her  parents.  She  was  married  April  30,  1902,  to 
Gouverneur  Calhoun,  '91,  whose  death  occurred  May  15, 
1916.  In  addition  to  his  daughter,  Mr.  Judson  is  survived  by 
two  brothers,  John  N.  Judson  (Ph.B.  1871)  and  Isaac  N. 
Judson  (B.A.  1873). 


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Isaac  Pierson,  B.A.   1866 

Born  August  ii,  1843,  i"  Orange,  N.  J. 
Died  July  15,  1919,  in  Berkeley,  Calif. 

Isaac  Pierson  was  born  August  11,  1843,  ^^  Orange,  N.  J. 
He  was  the  son  of  Aaron  Pierson,  a  wholesale  merchant,  and 
Mary  Caroline  (Ogden)  Pierson,  and  a  direct  descendant  of 
Thomas  Pierson,  an  uncle  of  Rev.  Abraham  Pierson,  the  first 
president  of  Yale.  Other  ancestors  were  among  the  founders 
of  New  Haven  and  Branford  colonies.  Thomas  Pierson,  with 
his  brother  Rev.  Abraham  Pierson,  a  graduate  of  Trinity  Col- 
lege, Cambridge,  in  1632,  came  to  Boston  from  Yorkshire, 
England,  and  about  1647  settled  in  Branford,  Conn.  In  1666, 
with  a  large  part  of  the  population  of  Branford,  they  with- 
drew to  New  Jersey  and  founded  Newark.-  Isaac  Pierson's 
grandfather,  a  great-great-grandson  of  Thomas  Pierson,  was 
Isaac  Pierson,  a  physician  of  Orange,  N.  J.,  and  his  grand- 
mother was  Nancy  (Crane)  Pierson,  a  descendant  of  Jasper 
Crane,  one  of  the  founders  of  New  Haven,  Conn.,  and  Newark, 
N.  J.  He  was  a  kinsman  of  Rev.  John  Pierson  (B.A.  171 1), 
Rev.  John  Pierson  (B.A.  1729),  William  S.  Pierson  (B.A.  1808), 
and  William  S.  Pierson  (B.A.  1838).  Through  his  mother, 
who  was  the  daughter  of  Aaron  and  Rebecca  (Farrand) 
Ogden,  he  traced  his  descent  to  John  Ogden,  who  came  from 
Dorset  County,  England,  to  Stamford,  Conn.,  in  1641,  later 
removed  to  New  York,  where  he  built  the  first  Dutch  church 
within  the  fort,  and  still  later  moved  to  New  Jersey  and 
purchased  Elizabeth.  Another  maternal  ancestor  was  Na- 
thaniel Farrand,  of  Montpelier,  France,  and  Yorkshire,  Eng- 
land, who  came  to  Milford,  Conn.,  in  1645. 

His  preparatory  education  was  received  in  the  Hartford 
(Conn.)  Public  High  School.  He  received  dissertation  appoint- 
ments both  Junior  and  Senior  years  at  Yale,  and  was  a  mem- 
ber of  Phi  Beta  Kappa  and  Brothers  in  Unity.  He  was  a 
member  of  the  Sophomore  Crew  which  competed  with  the 
Harvard  Sophomore  Crew  on  Lake  Quinsigamond,  Worcester, 
Mass.,  in  July,  1864,  and  of  the  University  Crew  in  1865. 

After  graduation  he  studied  for  a  year  in  the  Yale  Divinity 
School   and   then   entered   Andover   Theological   Seminary, 


1376  YALE    COLLEGE 

from  which  he  was  graduated  In  1869.  He  was  acting  pastor 
of  the  Congregational  Church  in  Harwichport,  Mass.,  during 
1 869-1 870,  his  ordination  taking  place  in  Hartford,  March 
30,  1870.  He  became  a  missionary  of  the  American  Board  of 
Foreign  Missions  that  year,  and  was  stationed  at  Pao-ting-fu, 
North  China,  until  1889,  being  the  first  Protestant  missionary 
to  reside  in  that  city.  He  spent  the  winter  of  189 1  in  Evanston, 
111.,  and  from  1891  to  1893  resided  in  Meriden,  Conn.,  without 
charge.  In  April,  1893,  he  became  pastor  of  the  Congregational 
Church  at  Hamilton,  N.  Y.,  and  remained  there  two  years. 
From  December,  1895,  to  November,  1903,  he  was  pastor 
of  the  Union  Congregational  Church  at  Medford,  Mass.,  and 
from  November,  1904,  to  191 8  he  was  field  secretary  for  New 
England  of  the  American  Tract  Society,  making  his  home  in 
Wellesley  Hills,  Mass.  He  was  a  member  of  the  old  North 
Church  of  Hartford,  until  he  assisted  in  founding  the  Asylum 
Hill  Congregational  Church,  in  which  his  ordination  took 
place.  At  the  time  of  his  death  he  was  a  member  of  the  First 
Congregational  Church  of  Wellesley  Hills. 

He  had  suffered  from  heart  disease  for  some  time  and  in 
December,  191 8,  went  to  Berkeley,  Calif.,  to  be  near  his  son 
Philip,  a  practicing  physician  in  San  Francisco.  He  died  in 
Berkeley  on  July  15,  1919.  His  body  was  brought  to  Orange, 
N.  J.,  and  burial  was  in  the  family  lot  in  Rosedale  Cemetery. 

On  July  10,  1877,  he  was  married  in  Cambridgeport,  Mass., 
to  Sarah  Elizabeth  Dyer  (Mount  Holyoke  1866),  daughter  of 
Rev.  E.  Porter  Dyer  and  Esther  A.  (Hough)  Dyer.  She  died 
at  Pao-ting-fu,  January  12,  1882.  They  had  two  daughters: 
Mary  Elizabeth  (a  member  of  the  Class  of  1902,  Mount 
Holyoke  College,  and  of  the  Class  of  191 8,  Gordon  Training 
School,  Boston),  who  married  Stephen  H.  Talbot,  September 
30,  1 91 6,  and  Sarah  Helen,  both  of  whom  survive  their  father. 
Mr.  Pierson  was  married  a  second  time  August  i,  1884,  at 
the  American  Legation  in  Peking,  China,  to  Flora  J.  Hale 
(Adrian  College  1871),  daughter  of  Syene  and  Hannah  C. 
(Philbrick)  Hale.  At  the  time  of  her  marriage  Mrs.  Pierson 
was  working  under  the  Woman's  Board  of  Missions  at  Pao- 
ting-fu.  She  survives  him  with  four  of  their  five  children: 
Ruth  Ogden  (B.A.  Alma  College  1908),  Philip  Hale  (B.A. 
1908,  M.D.  Harvard  1913),  Esther  Dorothy  (B.A.  Wellesley 


1 866  l^^r      ^^'^'^ 

I910),  and  Margaret  (B.A.  Wellesley  1918).  A  son,  Robert, 
who  was  born  at  Vacaville,  Calif.,  January  9, 1890,  died  Octo- 
ber 14,  1893.  Besides  his  widow  and  children  Mr.  Pierson  is 
survived  by  a  sister.  Miss  Elizabeth  B.  Pierson,  of  Meriden, 
Conn.,  and  four  grandchildren.  His  brother,  Stephen  Condit 
Pierson  (B.A.  1864),  died  March  23,  191 8.  Other  relatives  who 
have  attended  Yale  include  Horace  B.  Cheney,  '90  S.,  George 
F.  Dominick,  Jr.,  and  Decius  L.  Pierson,  both  '94,  Stuart  E. 
Pierson,  '95  L.,  Albert  H.  Pierson,  ^a;-'o6  F.,  and  Horace  B. 
Cheney,  Jr.,  1921. 


Arthur  Clarence  Walworth,  B.A.   1866 

Born  April  29,  1844,  in  Boston,  Mass. 
Died  June  23,  1920,  in  Newton  Center,  Mass. 

Arthur  Clarence  Walworth  was  born  in  Boston,  Mass., 
April  29,  1844,  the  son  of  James  Jones  and  Elizabeth  Chicker- 
ing  (Nason)  Walworth.  His  father  was  a  pioneer  in  the  steam 
heating  business  in  this  country  and  the  founder  of  the  Wal- 
worth Manufacturing  Company.  His  paternal  grandparents 
were  George  and  Philura  (Jones)  Walworth,  of  Canaan,  N.  H., 
and  he  was  a  descendant  in  the  sixth  generation  of  William 
Walworth,  who  emigrated  to  America  in  1788  from  Groton, 
Suffolkshire,  England,  and  later  lived  at  Fisher's  Island  and 
Groton,  Conn.  His  mother  was  the  daughter  of  Leavitt 
Nason,  the  granddaughter  of  Nathaniel  Nason,  of  Walpole, 
Mass.,  and  a  descendant,  on  her  mother's  side,  of  Major 
Aaron  Guild,  an  officer  in  the  Revolutionary  Army. 

His  preparatory  training  was  received  at  the  Boston  Latin 
School.  In  Sophomore  year  at  Yale  he  was  awarded  a  first 
prize  in  mathematics,  and  in  Senior  year  he  won  the  first 
Clark  astronomical  prize.  He  was  a  member  of  Linonia  and  the 
Glyuna  Boat  Club,  and  served  on  the  Wooden  Spoon  Com- 
mittee and  as  historian  of  his  division. 

In  the  fall  of  1866  he  entered  the  Lawrence  Scientific  School 
at  Harvard.  He  remained  there  about  two  years  and  then 
spent  a  similar  period  studying  mechanical  engineering  in  the 
Ecole  des  Ponts  et  Chaussees  in  Paris.  Upon  his  return  to 
Boston  in  1870  he  took  up  his  work  as  a  mechanical  engineer, 


1378  YALE    COLLEGE 

becoming  one  of  the  leading  authorities  on  heating  and 
ventilation.  He  was  associated  with  his  father's  firm,  the 
Walworth  Manufacturing  Company,  until  1887,  and  then 
organized  and  became  president  of  the  Walworth  Construc- 
tion &  Supply  Company  (steam  engineering  and  contracting). 
This  company  became  in  1910  the  Walworth-English-Flett 
Company.  Mr.  Walworth  designed  and  erected  the  original 
steam  heating  plant  at  Yale.  He  was  president  of  the  Malle- 
able Iron  Fittings  Company  of  Branford,  Conn.,  from  1896 
until  his  death,  and  at  one  time  held  the  office  of  president  of 
the  National  Association  of  Steam  and  Hot  Water  Engineers. 
He  was  the  author  of  many  articles  on  subjects  pertaining  to 
his  profession.  He  was  closely  identified  with  the  progress  and 
welfare  of  Newton,  and  represented  the  city  in  the  Massa- 
chusetts Legislature  in  1886  and  1887.  He  took  a  prominent 
part  in  securing  a  large  tract  of  land  for  a  public  playground 
in  Newton  Center.  He  was  a  member  and  treasurer  of  the 
First  Congregational  Church  of  Newton,  and  served  for  many 
years  as  a  trustee  of  Atlanta  University.  He  was  a  director 
of  the  Massachusetts  Society  of  Mayflower  Descendants, 
president  of  the  Society  of  American  Wars,  a  governor  of  the 
Society  of  Founders  and  Patriots  and,  after  191 5,  genealogist 
general  of  the  General  Court  of  that  order,  and  a  member  of 
the  Sons  of  the  American  Revolution,  the  American  Society 
of  Mechanical  Engineers,  the  Boston  Athenaeum,  and  the 
Engineers  Club.  In  1875  ^^  was  Captain  of  Company  C,  5th 
Regiment,  Massachusetts  Volunteer  Militia,  and  he  had 
served  as  treasurer  and  president  of  the  Claflin  Guard  Veteran 
Association.  He  was  at  one  time  president  of  the  Yale  Club 
of  Boston,  and  for  some  time  previous  to  his  death  was  the 
Alumni  Fund  Agent  for  the  Class  of  1866. 

Mr.  Walworth  died  at  his  home  in  Newton  Center,  June 
23,  1920,  after  an  illness  of  several  months  due  to  heart  dis- 
ease. Interment  was  in  the  Newton  Cemetery. 

He  was  married  December  12,  1872,  in  Newton  Center,  to 
Mary  Frances,  daughter  of  Gardner  Colby,  a  Boston  merchant 
and  railroad  financier,  and  Mary  Low  (Roberts)  Colby,  who 
survives  him  with  their  six  children:  James  Jones  (B.A.  1895, 
B.D.  Newton  Theological  Institution  1900) ;  Arthur  Clarence, 
Jr.  (B.A.  1897,  B.S.  Massachusetts  Institute  of  Technology 


1 866-1 867  1379 

1900);  Gardner  Colby  (B.A.  1900);  George  Robert  (B.A. 
Brown  1903);  Florence  Elisabeth  (B.A.  Wellesley  1907),  who 
was  married  June  15,  1916,  to  George  Horace  Williams;  and 
Mary  Louise  (B.A.  Wellesley  191 2).  Six  grandchildren  are  also 
living. 


James  Greeley  Flanders,  B.A.   1867 

Born  December  13,  1844,  in  New  London,  N.  H. 
Died  January  i,  1920,  in  Milwaukee,  Wis. 

James  Greeley  Flanders,  son  of  Walter  Powers  Flanders 
(B.A.  Dartmouth  1831)  and  Susan  Everett  (Greeley)  Flan- 
ders, was  born  in  New  London,  N.  H.,  December  13,  1844, 
His  father  practiced  law  in  New  London,  and  twice  repre- 
sented his  district  in  the  New  Hampshire  Legislature  before 
his  removal,  in  1848,  to  Milwaukee,  Wis.,  where  he  became 
prominent  in  real  estate  circles,  and  was  one  of  the  promoters 
of  the  Milwaukee  &  Mississippi  Railroad,  an  inception  of  the 
Chicago,  Milwaukee  &  St.  Paul  Railroad,  and  its  first  treas- 
urer. His  great-grandfather,  James  Flanders,  also  a  distin- 
guished lawyer  and  legislator  in  New  Hampshire,  was  a 
prominent  figure  in  the  military  and  civil  life  of  the  colonies 
during  the  Revolution.  He  traced  his  descent  to  Stephen 
Flanders,  who  came  to  Salisbury,  Mass.,  from  England  in 
1640.  Susan  Greeley  Flanders  was  the  daughter  of  Jonathan 
and  Polly  (Shepard)  Greeley,  and  a  distant  cousin  of  Horace 
Greeley.  She  was  the  granddaughter  of  Joseph  and  Prudence 
(Clement)  Greeley,  and  a  descendant  of  Andrew  Greeley,  who 
came  from  England  to  Salisbury  in  1640.  Members  of  the 
Greeley  family  also  lived  in  Newburyport,  Mass. 

He  took  his  preparatory  course  at  Phillips  Academy,  Exe- 
ter, N.  H.,  and  in  his  first  year  at  Yale  won  the  third  prize  in 
the  Brothers'  Freshman  prize  debate.  He  received  a  first  prize 
in  English  composition  and  one  in  declamation  Sophomore 
year,  had  an  oration  appointment  Junior  year  and  a  disserta- 
tion at  Commencement,  and  was  a  member  of  Phi  Beta 
Kappa. 

He  studied  law  at  his  home  in  Milwaukee  for  a  year  after 
graduation  and  then  entered  the  Senior  class  at  the  Columbia 


1380  YALE    COLLEGE 

Law  School.  He  received  the  degree  of  LL.B.  at  Columbia  in 
May,  1869,  was  admitted  to  the  bar,  and  in  July  began  the 
practice  of  his  profession  in  Milwaukee  with  DeWitt  Davis, 
under  the  name  of  Davis  &  Flanders.  The  firm  name  was 
changed  in  1874  to  Butler,  Davis  &  Flanders,  in  1877  to 
Flanders  &  Bottum,  in  1888  to  Winkler,  Flanders,  Smith, 
Bottum  &  Vilas,  in  1904  to  Winkler,  Flanders,  Bottum  & 
Fawsett,  and  in  191 1  to  Flanders,  Bottum,  Fawsett  &  Bot- 
tum. In  191 5,  on  the  retirement  of  General  Winkler,  the  firm 
was  dissolved,  and  Mr.  Flanders  continued  his  practice  with 
Charles  F.  Fawsett,  under  the  name  of  Flanders  &  Fawsett. 
At  the  time  of  his  death  he  was  senior  partner  in  the  firm  of 
Flanders,  Fawsett  &  Smart.  During  1 909-1910  he  served  as 
president  of  the  State  Bar  Association  of  Wisconsin.  He  was  a 
member  of  the  Board  of  School  Commissioners  of  Milwaukee 
in  1875,  served  in  the  State  Assembly  in  1877,  and  from  191 1 
to  1 914  was  president  of  the  Milwaukee  Public  Library.  He 
belonged  to  Plymouth  Congregational  Church.  In  1896  he 
was  sent  as  a  delegate-at-large  to  the  Democratic  convention 
held  in  Chicago  and  to  the  Indianapolis  convention.  He  was 
president  of  the  Wisconsin  Yale  Alumni  Association  from 
1899  to  1904  and  a  member  of  the  executive  committee  of 
the  Yale  Alumni  Advisory  Board  for  several  years. 

His  death  occurred  in  Milwaukee,  January  i,  1920,  as  the 
result  of  a  severe  cold.  He  had  been  in  poor  health  for  some 
years.  He  was  buried  in  Forest  Home  Cemetery,  Milwaukee. 

Mr.  Flanders  was  married  in  that  city,  June  18,  1873,  to 
Mary  C,  daughter  of  Robert  and  Delia  C.  Haney.  She  sur- 
vives him  with  a  daughter,  Charlotte  Bartlett,  who  was 
married  February  15,  1900,  to  Joseph  Warren  Simpson,  and 
a  son,  Roger  Yale  (B.A.  1906,  LL.B.  Harvard  1909).  His 
oldest  son,  Robert  Haney  (born  May  15,  1874),  died  August 
8,  1874;  his  second  son,  Kent  Haney  (born  December  3,  1878), 
died  February  i,  1907;  and  a  daughter,  Grace  (born  Novem- 
ber 27,  1880),  died  June  8,  1881.  In  addition  to  his  wife  and 
two  children,  Mr.  Flanders  is  survived  by  a  sister,  Kate 
(Mrs.  Samuel  B.  Duryea),  and  two  grandchildren. 


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James  Magoffin  Spencer,  B.A.   1867 

Born  April  9,  1839,  in  Brooklyn,  N,  Y. 
Died  May  13,  1920,  in  Burlington,  Vt. 

James  Magoffin  Spencer  was  born  April  9,  1839,  ^^  Brook- 
lyn, N.  Y.,  the  son  of  Rev.  Ichabod  Smith  Spencer,  D.D. 
(B.A.  Union  College  1822),  who  was  pastor  of  the  Second 
Presbyterian  Church  in  Brooklyn  during  the  last  twenty-two 
years  of  his  life.  He  was  descended  from  Thomas  Spencer, 
who  was  one  of  the  original  settlers  of  Suffield,  Conn.  This 
ancestor  was  the  second  son  of  Sir  Thomas  Spencer,  of  Wom- 
leighton,  Northamptonshire,  England,  where  in  the  parish 
church  are  the  tombs  of  his  ancestors,  one  of  whom,  John 
Spencer,  was  a  Crusader,  and  where  the  tower  of  the  family 
castle  still  stands,  the  rest  of  the  building  having  been  bat- 
tered down  by  the  Roundheads  in  Cromwell's  time.  The 
genealogy  may  be  traced  to  a  Baron  Hugh  deSpencer  who 
came  over  with  William  the  Conqueror.  Members  of  the  family 
in  America  have  been  prominent  in  the  professions.  A  great- 
uncle  of  James  M.  Spencer  was  governor  of  Vermont,  and  a 
cousin,  John  C.  Spencer,  a  graduate  of  Union  College  in  1806, 
was  Secretary  of  War  in  1841,  and  later  Secretary  of  the 
Treasury.  His  mother,  Hannah  (Magoffin)  Spencer,  was  the 
daughter  of  John  Magoffin,  an  Irish  gentleman,  educated  at 
Queen's  College,  Dublin,  and  Katherine  (Cole)  Magoffin, 
daughter  of  James  Cole,  lieutenant  governor  of  the  Province 
of  New  Jersey  under  George  III. 

He  was  prepared  for  college  at  Phillips  Academy,  Andover, 
Mass.  In  his  Sophomore  year  at  Yale  he  won  a  third  prize  in 
declamation  and  a  first  prize  in  mathematics.  His  Junior 
appointment  was  a  high  oration,  and  he  was  one  of  the 
managers  of  the  Junior  Exhibition.  In  Senior  year  he  received 
a  high  oration  appointment.  He  was  a  member  of  Phi  Beta 
Kappa. 

Before  coming  to  Yale  he  had  studied  at  the  Albany  Law 
School,  where  he  received  the  degree  of  LL.B.  in  i860.  He 
spent  the  next  three  years  in  a  law  office,  entering  Yale  with 
the  Class  of  1867.  From  1867  to  1873  he  was  professor  of 
mathematics  at  the  National  Deaf-Mute  College  (now  the 


1382  YALE    COLLEGE 

Gallaudet  College  for  the  Deaf)  in  Washington,  D.  C,  after 
which  he  went  abroad.  In  1874  he  settled  in  Munich,  Bavaria, 
where  he  lived  until  August,  1914,  when  he  returned  to  the 
United  States  and  took  up  his  residence  at  West  Rupert,  Vt. 
In  March,  1920,  he  was  obliged  to  go  to  the  Mary  Fletcher 
Hospital  in  Burlington,  Vt.,  to  submit  to  two  serious  opera- 
tions. The  operations  were  successful  and  he  was  recuperating, 
with  the  hope  of  a  complete  recovery,  when  erysipelas  devel- 
oped, causing  his  death  on  May  13.  His  body  was  taken  to 
Brooklyn  for  burial  in  Greenwood  Cemetery.  Mr.  Spencer's 
life  was  one  of  leisure  diversified  by  extensive  travel  and 
study.  He  had  traveled  in  Austria,  Italy,  Switzerland,  Den- 
mark, Norway,  and  the  British  Isles.  Under  his  will  a  sum  of 
$100,000  is  given  to  the  1867  Class  Fund  of  the  Yale  Alumni 
University  Fund  Association,  to  be  held  in  trust  during  his 
wife's  lifetime;  after  her  death  four-fifths  of  the  income  is  to 
be  released  for  the  benefit  of  the  Fund. 

He  was  married  July  28,  1878,  in  Munich,  to  Mary  Evelyn 
Fisk,  of  Boston.  Mrs.  Spencer,  who  is  the  daughter  of  John 
Shipley  and  Anne  Clapp  (Clark)  Fisk,  survives  him  with  an 
adopted  daughter,  Magdalena  Rohrl. 


John  Coats,  B.A.   1868 

Born  May  9,  1842,  in  North  Stonington,  Conn. 
Died  March  13,  1920,  in  New  Britain,  Conn. 

John  Coats  was  born  in  North  Stonington,  Conn.,  May  9, 
1842,  the  son  of  Ansel  Coats,  a  merchant  in  that  town,  who 
was  later  engaged  in  manufacturing  in  Great  Barrington, 
Mass.,  and  Eunice  (Randall)  Coats.  He  was  of  English  de- 
scent, and  his  ancestors  on  both  sides  were  among  the  earliest 
settlers  of  Stonington,  having  gone  there  from  Rhode  Island. 
His  paternal  grandparents  were  David  Coats,  a  farmer,  and 
Molly  (Brown)  Coats,  and  his  great-grandfather  was  John 
Coats,  who  married  Anna  Gray,  daughter  of  Edward  and 
Elizabeth  (Peabody)  Gray.  He  traced  his  ancestry  to  William 
Coats,  born  in  1690,  who  was  an  early  settler  in  Stonington. 
Through  the  Gray  and  Peabody  families  he  was  a  lineal 
descendant  in  the  seventh  generation  of  John  and  Priscilla 


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Alden.  His  mother  was  the  daughter  of  Col.  William  Randall, 
who  commanded  the  13th  Connecticut  Regiment  at  the  time 
of  the  attack  on  Stonington  in  18 13,  one  of  the  captains  in 
his  regiment  being  Ansel  Coats.  Colonel  Randall  was  six 
times  elected  a  representative  to  the  Connecticut  General 
Assembly  and  was  a  state  senator  in  1822.  He  was  a  member 
of  the  State  Convention  which  framed  the  present  constitution 
of  Connecticut  in  181 8,  and  from  that  time  until  1833  he  was 
an  associate  judge  of  the  County  Court.  His  second  wife,  the 
mother  of  Eunice  Randall,  was  Wealthy  (Avery)  Hewitt 
Randall.  John  Randall,  the  progenitor  of  the  Randall  family 
in  Stonington,  first  appears  in  the  records  of  Newport,  R.  I., 
in  1667. 

His  preparation  for  college  was  received  at  the  Connecticut 
Literary  Institute  at  Suffield.  Before  entering  Yale  he  had 
served  one  year  in  Company  G,  22d  Connecticut  Volunteer 
Infantry,  receiving  his  honorable  discharge  in  1863.  He  was 
one  of  the  prominent  speakers  in  college,  winning  the  second 
prize  for  declamation  in  Sophomore  year.  That  same  year  he 
received  a  second  prize  in  English  composition.  His  appoint- 
ments were  colloquies.  He  represented  Linonia  in  the  State- 
ment of  Facts  and  was  vice-president  of  the  society  in  the 
second  term  of  Senior  year. 

After  graduation  he  taught  in  the  Connecticut  Literary 
Institute  until  July,  1869,  and  then  read  law  in  Hartford, 
Conn.,  until  October,  1870,  when  he  entered  the  Columbia 
Law  School.  He  received  the  degree  of  LL.B.  at  Columbia  in 
1 87 1  and  was  admitted  to  the  Hartford  County  Bar.  In 
October,  1871,  he  removed  to  Chicago  and  began  practice, 
but  because  of  the  great  fire  there  he  returned  to  Connecticut 
in  1872  and  was  principal  of  the  Hazardville  (Conn.)  High 
School  for  a  year.  He  was  an  instructor  in  Latin  and  vice- 
principal  of  the  Connecticut  Literary  Institute  from  1873  to 
1877,  and  principal  of  the  Windsor  Locks  (Conn.)  High  School 
from  1877  to  1 88 1.  He  then  gave  up  teaching  and  resumed  the 
practice  of  law  in  Windsor  Locks.  In  1884  he  represented  the 
town  in  the  Connecticut  Legislature,  being  a  member  of  the 
Committee  on  Judiciary,  and  he  served  for  three  years  on  the 
School  Board.  He  opened  a  law  office  in  New  Britain,  Conn., 
in  the  eighties,  and  continued  in  practice  there  until  his  death. 


1384  VALE    COLLEGE 

In  1894  he  was  elected  judge  of  the  Probate  Court  for  the 
district  of  Berlin,  which  office  he  held  for  eight  years,  and  he 
had  also  served  as  associate  judge  of  the  City  Court  of  New 
Britain.  He  was  appointed  judge  of  the  Court  of  Common 
Pleas  for  Hartford  County  in  1901,  and  upon  his  retirement 
in  191 2,  when  he  reached  the  age  limit,  was  appointed  a  state 
referee.  He  was  prominent  in  the  affairs  of  the  First  Baptist 
Church  of  New  Britain,  of  which  he  was  senior  deacon  for 
some  time. 

He  died  March  13,  1920,  at  his  home  in  New  Britain,  after 
an  illness  of  several  months  from  cancer  of  the  stomach. 
Interment  was  in  Cedar  Grove  Cemetery  in  New  London, 
Conn. 

He  was  married  June  22,  1871,  in  Hartford,  to  Josephine 
L.,  daughter  of  Rev.  William  C.  Walker  and  Almira  (Palmer) 
Walker,  who  died  March  17,  191 7.  They  had  no  children. 
His  nearest  living  relative  is  a  nephew,  George  D.  Coats,  of 
North  Stonington. 


Henry  Lucius  Washburn,  B.A.   1868 

Born  January  22,  1847,  ^^  Windsor  Locks,  Conn. 
Died  January  18,  1920,  in  New  York  City 

Henry  Lucius  Washburn  was  born  in  Windsor  Locks, 
Conn.,  January  22,  1847,  ^^e  only  son  of  Lucius  and  Eliza  A. 
(Billings)  Washburn.  He  was  fitted  for  college  at  the  Wilbra- 
ham  (Mass.)  Academy  and  took  his  Freshman  year  at  Wes- 
leyan  University,  entering  the  Yale  Class  of  1868  in  1865.  In 
his  Senior  year  he  received  a  second  colloquy  appointment. 

He  spent  some  time  in  Europe  after  graduation  and  then 
studied  law  at  Columbia  University.  In  October,  1871,  fol- 
lowing his  admission  to  the  bar  in  Tolland  County,  Conn., 
he  entered  into  partnership  with  his  classmate,  Julius  W. 
Russell,  at  Burlington,  Vt.,  under  the  firm  name  of  Russell 
&  Washburn.  The  partnership  was  dissolved  in  1874,  and  Mr. 
Washburn  soon  afterwards  opened  a  law  office  in  Boston, 
where  he  remained  until  the  fall  of  1879,  when  he  removed  to 
New  York  City.  He  took  up  the  practice  of  patent  and  cor- 
poration law,  giving  considerable  attention  to  other  business 


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connected  with  patents,  and  continued  in  this  until  his  death. 
His  office  at  that  time  was  at  1  Rector  Street.  During  the 
war  he  served  on  his  local  Legal  Advisory  Board  for  many- 
months.* 

His  health  was  excellent  up  to  the  day  of  his  death,  which 
occurred  very  suddenly,  from  heart  failure,  at  his  home  in 
New  York  City,  January  18,  1920.  Burial  was  in  Woodlawn 
Cemetery. 

Mr.  Washburn  was  first  married  October  30,  1873,  in 
Gardner,  Mass.,  to  Mary,  daughter  of  Levi  H.  and  Mary 
Sawin.  They  had  one  daughter,  Emily  (B.A.  Smith  1895),  ^^^ 
is  now  Mrs.  Alvin  Warren  Bancroft,  of  Gardner.  Mrs.  Wash- 
burn died  September  14,  1882,  and  on  June  25,  1885,  Mr. 
Washburn  was  married  a  second  time,  in  New  York  City,  to 
Louise,  daughter  of  Robert  and  Mary  (Harvey)  Cunningham. 
By  this  marriage  he  had  another  daughter,  Helen  Louise,  who 
also  attended  Smith  College.  Mr.  Washburn  is  survived  by 
his  wife  and  both  daughters. 


Thomas  Thacher,  B.A.   1871 

Born  May  3,  1850,  in  New  Haven,  Conn. 
Died  July  30,  1919,  in  Watch  Hill,  R.  I. 

Thomas  Thacher  was  born  in  New  Haven,  Conn.,  May  3, 
1850.  He  was  a  descendant  of  Rev.  Peter  Thacher,  the  rector 
of  St.  Edmonds,  Salisbury,  England,  and  of  his  son,  Thomas 
Thacher,  who  came  to  America  in  1635,  settled  in  Salem, 
Mass.,  and  later  became  the  first  minister  of  the  Old  South 
Church,  Boston.  His  father,  Thomas  Anthony  Thacher,  LL.D. 
(B.A.  1835),  was  professor  of  Latin  at  Yale  from  1842  to 
1886,  and  his  mother,  Elizabeth  (Day)  Thacher,  was  the 
daughter  of  Jeremiah  Day  (B.A.  1795),  president  of  Yale 
from  1 8 17  to  1846,  and  Olivia  (Jones)  Day.  On  his  mother's 
side  he  traced  his  ancestry  to  Robert  Day,  who  emigrated 
from  Ipswich,  England,  in  1634,  settled  in  Cambridge,  Mass., 
and  in  a  few  years  removed  to  Connecticut  and  helped  to 
found  Hartford. 

Thomas  Thacher  prepared  for  college  at  the  Hopkins 
Grammar  School.  He  received  a  first  prize  for  declamation 


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in  Sophomore  year.  His  appointments  were  a  high  oration  in 
Junior  year  and  an  oration  in  Senior  year.  He  was  a  member 
of  Phi  Beta  Kappa  and  Brothers  in  Unity. 

After  graduation  he  taught  for  a  year  in  the  Hopkins  Gram- 
mar School,  and  then  spent  a  year  in  graduate  study  at  Yale. 
He  entered  the  Columbia  Law  School  in  1873,  and  was 
graduated  with  the  degree  of  LL.B.  in  1875,  irnmediately 
upon  graduation  being  admitted  to  the  bar  of  New  York, 
of  which  he  became  an  active  and  influential  member.  His 
first  professional  association  was  with  Ashbel  Green,  then 
one  of  the  leaders  of  the  New  York  Bar,  with  whom  he  col- 
laborated in  the  preparation  of  Brice's  Ultra  Vires,  which 
became  a  standard  American  work  on  corporation  law. 
After  completing  this  work  he  was  associated  with  Judge 
Green  in  the  office  of  Alexander  &  Green,  and  later  served  as 
attorney  for  one  of  the  largest  mortgage  companies  in  New 
York  City.  On  January  i,  1884,  he  formed  the  firm  of  Simp- 
son, Thacher  &  Barnum,with  John  W.  Simpson  and  William 
M.  Barnum  (B.A.  1877)  as  partners.  In  this  and  its  successor 
firms  he  was  an  active  partner  until  his  death.  Among  his 
partners  were  Philip  G.  Bartlett,  '81,  his  brother,  Alfred  B. 
Thacher,  '74,  Charles  B.  Eddy,  '93,  Graham  Sumner,  '97, 
Reeve  Schley,  '03,  and  his  son,  Thomas  D.  Thacher,  '04. 
During  his  forty-five  years  of  active  practice  at  the  bar  the 
economic  life  of  the  country  was  undergoing  a  great  trans- 
formation in  the  rapid  development  of  production  on  a  large 
scale.  In  preparing  the  structure  of  the  new  business  organiza- 
tion Mr.  Thacher  had  no  small  part,  performing  as  he  did, 
much  of  the  legal  work  in  connection  with  the  organization 
of  the  Brooklyn  Union  Gas  Company,  the  American  Smelting 
&  Refining  Company,  the  Republic  Iron  &  Steel  Company, 
the  American  Sheet  Steel  Company,  the  American  Steel  Hoop 
Company,  the  American  Can  Company,  the  American  Loco- 
motive Company,  the  Railway  Steel-Spring  Company,  and 
other  large  consolidations.  He  combined  with  such  activities 
the  work  of  a  court  lawyer,  and  often  appeared  before  the 
courts  in  cases  of  importance.  He  was  actively  interested  in 
the  Bar  Association  of  New  York  City,  and  for  two  years 
(1907-09)  was  its  vice-president.  From  1887  to  1914  Mr. 
Thacher  was  a  lecturer  on  corporations  in  the  Yale  School  of 


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Law.  He  was  a  frequent  contributor  to  the  law  reviews.  At  the 
Yale  Bicentennial  he  was  chosen  to  deliver  the  address  on 
"Yale  in  Relation  to  Law."  In  1903  Yale  conferred  upon  him 
the  degree  of  LL.D.  He  served  as  president  of  the  Yale  Alumni 
Association  in  New  York  from  1895  ^^  ^^97  ^^^  ^^^"^  that 
time  until  1904  as  president  of  the  New  York  Yale  Club.  At 
the  time  of  his  death  he  was  an  honorary  member  of  the  club. 
He  was  one  of  the  founders  of  the  Yale  Alumni  University 
Fund,  and  gave  himself  enthusiastically  to  the  work  of  the 
Alumni  Fund  Association,  of  which  he  was  chairman  from 
1894  to  1897  and  a  director  for  many  years.  From  1906  until 
his  death  he  was  a  member  of  the  Alumni  Advisory  Board. 
His  home  had  been  at  Tenafly,  N.  J.,  for  some  years. 

He  died  at  Watch  Hill,  R.  L,  July  30,  191 9,  after  a  pro- 
longed illness.  In  his  will  he  made  a  bequest  of  $2,500  to  be 
added  to  the  principal  of  the  Alumni  Fund. 

Mr.  Thacher  was  married  December  i,  1880,  in  New  York 
City,  to  Sarah  McCullough,  daughter  of  Ashbel  and  Louise  B. 
(Walker)  Green,  of  Tenafly,  who  survives  him  with  a  son, 
Thomas  Day  (B.A.  1904),  and  three  daughters:  Louise  Green, 
who  was  married  October  12,  1907,  to  Theodore  Ives  Driggs 
(B.A.  1907);  Sarah,  who  married  Lewis  Martin  Richmond 
(Ph.B.  1903),  September  19,  1908;  and  Elizabeth.  He  also 
leaves  three  brothers:  Edward  S.  Thacher,  '72,  Alfred  B. 
Thacher,  '74,  and  Dr.  John  S.  Thacher,  '77,  and  two  half 
brothers,  Sherman  D.  Thacher,  '83  and  '86  L.,  and  William 
L.  Thacher,  '87.  An  older  brother,  James  Kingsley  Thacher 
(B.A.  1868,  M.D.  1879),  died  in  1891.  Among  other  Yale 
relatives  were  Stephen  Thacher  (B.A.  1795),  George  Thacher 
(B.A.  1840),  James  M.  Thacher  (B.A.  1842),  Dr.  Henry  C. 
Thacher,  '02,  and  Thomas  A.  Thacher,  '08  and  '10  L. 

William  Townsend,  B.A.   1871 

Born  August  22,  1848,  in  Walton,  N.  Y. 
Died  December  23,  1919,  in  Utica,  N.  Y. 

William  Townsend  was  born  in  Walton,  N.  Y.,  August  22, 
1848,  the  son  of  Col.  John  Townsend  and  Sarah  (Howell) 
Townsend.  The  family  have  been  identified  with  Walton  since 
its  beginning,  and  have  aided  in  the  development  of  the 


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community,  giving  liberally  of  purse  and  land  to  various 
public  institutions.  William  Townsend's  father,  who  was  a 
farmer,  was  the  son  of  William  D.  Townsend,  a  member  of 
the  New  York  Assembly  from  Delaware  County  in  1826, 
and  Abagail  (Smith)  Townsend,  and  the  grandson  of  Dr. 
Piatt  Townsend  (B.A.  1750).  The  latter  went  to  the  Univer- 
sity of  Edinburgh  to  study  medicine  after  his  graduation  from 
Yale,  and  during  the  Revolution  served  as  a  surgeon  on  Wash- 
ington's staff.  In  1784  he  contracted  with  William  Walton  for 
a  large  tract  of  land  which  is  now  the  village  of  Walton.  He 
settled  there  the  next  year  and  in  1795  erected  a  large  house, 
which  is  still  in  the  family  and  where  William  Townsend  was 
born  and  in  which  his  funeral  services  were  held.  The  earliest 
member  of  the  family  in  America  was  Henry  Townsend, 
who  came  from  Norwich,  Norfolk,  England,  in  1630,  and 
settled  at  Flushing,  Long  Island.  Sarah  Howell  Townsend 
was  the  daughter  of  Simeon  and  Mary  McGregor  (Mulford) 
Howell,  and  a  descendant  of  Edward  Howell,  who  was  one 
of  the  early  settlers  of  Southampton,  N.  Y.,  having  gone  there 
from  March  Gibbon,  Buckinghamshire,  England. 

He  received  his  preparation  for  college  at  the  Walton  Acad- 
emy. In  Junior  year  at  Yale  he  was  given  a  first  colloquy 
appointment,  and  his  Senior  appointment  was  a  second 
colloquy. 

He  spent  the  first  year  after  graduation  at  his  home,  and 
then  went  to  Utica,  N.  Y.,  where  he  lived  until  his  death.  He 
read  law  in  the  office  of  Judge  Charles  Mason  for  two  years, 
and  received  the  degree  of  LL.B.  at  Hamilton  College  in  1874. 
He  was  in  the  office  of  W.  and  J.  D.  Kernan  for  two  years, 
and  then  practiced  alone  for  a  short  time.  In  1877  he  formed 
a  partnership  with  Judge  William  P.  Quinn,  and  four  or  five 
years  later,  on  the  admission  of  Dexter  E.  Pomeroy,  the  firm 
name  was  changed  to  Pomeroy,  Townsend  &  Quinn.  He  con- 
ducted an  independent  practice  from  about  1883  to  1887,  and 
then  became  a  member  of  the  firm  of  Bentley,  Jones  & 
Townsend.  The  firm  name  was  changed  to  Jones  &  Townsend 
the  following  year,  became  Jones,  Townsend  &  Rudd  in  1895, 
and  was  changed  again,  in  1914,  to  Jones,  Townsend  &  Casey. 
Mr.  Townsend  was  well-known  in  Democratic  politics,  and 


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had  frequently  made  the  nominating  speeches  at  county  and 
state  conventions.  From  1884  until  his  death  he  was  president 
of  the  Utica  Jacksonian  Club,  formerly  known  as  the  Han- 
cock Guards,  and  organized  when  General  Hancock  ran  for 
President.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Democratic  Association 
of  the  City  of  Utica  and  County  of  Oneida  from  the  time  it 
was  organized,  and  a  prominent  factor  in  promoting  its  work. 

■  He  was  appointed  assistant  district  attorney  for  Oneida 
County  in  1876,  and  was  nominated  for  the  office  of  district 
attorney  in  1880,  and  again  in  1883,  but  failed  of  election 
both  times.  He  was  a  member  of  the  State  Senate  during 
1903  and  1904,  served  as  corporation  counsel  for  the  city  of 
Utica  in  1906,  1907,  1908,  and  1910,  and  was  a  member  of 
the  State  Parole  Board  from  1912  to  1917.  From  1888  to 
1902  he  was  one  of  the  managers  of  the  Utica  State  Hospital. 
He  was  a  member  of  the  Oneida  Bar  Association,  the  Utica 
Association  for  the  Protection  of  Fish  and  Game,  and  the 
Westminster  Presbyterian  Church. 

He  died  in  Utica,  December  23,  1919,  after  an  illness  of 
ten  months.  His  body  was  taken  to  Walton  for  burial. 

Mr.  Townsend  was  married  in  Utica,  September  15,  1897, 
to  Frances  Butler,  daughter  of  Fred  and  Mary  J.  (Lansing) 
Fairchild,  who  survives  him  without  children.  He  also  leaves 
two  brothers,  Charles  W.  and  John  H.  Townsend.  Howell  B. 
Townsend,  '05,  is  a  nephew. 


James  Augustus  Clemmer,  B.A.   1873 

Born  March  27,  1848,  in  Cincinnati,  Ohio 
Died  April  16,  1920,  in  Boulder,  Colo. 

James  Augustus  Clemmer,  son  of  Jacob  Henry  and  Jane 
(Clement)  Clemmer,  was  born  in  Cincinnati,  Ohio,  March  27, 
1848.  His  father  was  the  son  of  John  Clemmer,  a  tobacco 
manufacturer  of  Philadelphia,  and  Elizabeth  (Hague)  Clem- 
mer. He  was  born  in  Philadelphia,  but  at  the  age  of  ten  went 
to  Cincinnati,  where  he  subsequently  practiced  law  and  held 
many  positions  of  trust.  The  family  was  of  Dutch  origin, 
descended  from  Theodore  Clemmer,  who  came  from  Holland 


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to  New  Amsterdam  and  later  settled  in  Philadelphia.  Jane 
Clement  Clemmer  was  the  daughter  of  James  Clement,  a 
native  of  Ulster,  Ireland,  as  was  his  wife  Phebe  McGee. 
James  Clement  served  in  the  War  of  1812.  An  ancestor  was 
Robert  Clement,  who  came  from  the  north  of  Ireland  to 
New  Jersey  in  1795. 

He  attended  the  Hughes  High  School  in  Cincinnati  for 
several  years,  and  received  his  final  preparation  for  college 
under  a  private  tutor  in  that  city.  He  was  given  a  Junior 
dissertation  and  a  Senior  second  dispute  appointment. 

He  studied  law  in  his  father's  office  after  graduation,  and 
was  admitted  to  the  bar  at  Cincinnati  in  April,  1874,  when 
he  became  a  partner  with  his  father,  under  the  firm  name  of 
J.  H.  &  J.  A.  Clemmer.  Just  as  a  promising  career  was  open- 
ing to  him  his  health  failed  and  he  left  Cincinnati  for  Boulder, 
Colo.,  in  1885.  At  first  he  was  engaged  in  managing  his  father's 
mining  interests  and  carrying  on  a  cattle  ranch  of  his  own. 
Later  he  was  occupied  in  mercantile  pursuits.  He  performed 
the  duties  of  dairy  commissioner  of  Colorado  from  1896  to 
1898,  and  for  about  twenty  years  was  chief  office  deputy  in 
the  sheriff's  office,  resigning  this  position  on  March  i,  1920. 
About  1890  he  declined  an  appointment  to  the  chair  of 
mathematics  in  the  University  of  Colorado,  on  account  of  his 
health. 

He  died  in  Boulder,  April  16,  1920,  after  a  lingering  illness. 
His  death  was  attributed  to  nervous  complications  result- 
ing from  a  spinal  injury  received  while  rowing  during  his 
college  days.  He  was  buried  in  Spring  Grove  Cemetery  in 
Cincinnati. 

He  was  married  August  4,  1874,  in  South  Norwalk,  Conn., 
to  Annie  Delight,  daughter  of  William  L.  and  Delight  (Gage) 
Wood,  who  survives  him.  They  had  one  child,  who  died  in 
infancy.  Besides  his  wife  he  leaves  a  brother,  Charles  H. 
Clemmer,  ex-^i,  of  Medford,  Mass.,  and  a  sister.  Miss  Carrie 
M.  Clemmer,  of  Cincinnati. 


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Frank  Ellsha  Sprague,  B.A.   1873 

Born  November  5,  1850,  in  South  Killingly,  Conn. 
Died  September  27,  1919,  in  Minneapolis,  Minn. 

Frank  Elisha  Sprague  was  born  in  South  Killingly,  Conn., 
November  5,  1850,  the  son  of  Samuel  Stearns  and  Esther 
Pierce  (Hutchins)  Sprague.  His  father,  who  was  a  wholesale 
grain  dealer,  spent  his  business  life  in  Providence,  R.  I., 
but  was  a  native  of  South  Killingly,  where  his  father,  Elisha 
Leavens  Sprague,  was  engaged  in  farming.  Three  and  perhaps 
four  generations  of  the  family  began  life  on  the  farm  there. 
Ralph  Sprague,  who  came  from  Dorset,  England,  in  1622, 
and  settled  in  Charlestown,  Mass.,  was  the  progenitor  of  the 
family  in  America.  Frank  E.  Sprague's  maternal  grandfather 
was  Simon  Hutchins. 

He  received  his  preparatory  education  in  Mowry  and 
Goff's  School  in  Providence.  In  both  Junior  and  Senior  years 
he  was  given  a  first  dispute  appointment. 

He  went  to  Chicago  in  the  fall  of  1873  to  learn  the  grain 
business,  and  remained  there  six  months,  after  which  he 
traveled  through  the  West  looking  for  a  favorable  business 
opening.  He  returned  to  Providence  in  1874,  and  was  engaged 
in  cotton  manufacturing  until  1878,  when  he  sold  out  his 
interest  in  the  business  and  became  connected  with  tJie  firm 
of  S.  S.  Sprague  &  Company,  dealers  in  flour  and  grain.  The 
firm  was  composed  of  his  father  and  two  brothers,  Charles  H. 
Sprague  (who  died  in  1900)  and  Henry  S.  Sprague.  In  the  fall 
of  1880  Frank  Sprague  left  the  company  to  accept  the  position 
of  treasurer  of  the  Franklin  Foundry  &  Machine  Company 
of  Providence.  He  retained  this  position  for  three  and  a  half 
years,  and  then  became  treasurer  of  the  Boston  Clock  Com- 
pany. He  removed  to  Minneapolis,  Minn.,  at  the  end  of  the 
year  to  engage  in  the  real  estate,  banking,  and  brokerage 
business.  On  July  i,  1886,  his  firm  was  merged  in  the  Citizen's 
Bank,  of  which  he  was  the  vice-president.  Later  he  became 
president  of  the  Consolidated  Land  Company  and  retained 
this  office  until  his  death,  which  occurred  in  Minneapolis, 
September  27,  1919,  after  an  illness  of  four  months,  the  result 
of  a  stroke  of  apoplexy.  He  was  buried  in  Lakewood  Cemetery, 


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Minneapolis.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Plymouth  Congrega- 
tional Church  of  that  city. 

Mr.  Sprague  was  married  February  lo,  1887,  in  Pittsfield, 
Mass.,  to  Maria  Talcott,  daughter  of  John  and  Maria  (Peck) 
Lane,  who  died  June  15,  1907.  On  June  24,  1913,  he  was 
married  a  second  time,  in  Albany,  N.  Y.,  to  Ellen  Hinman, 
daughter  of  Derrick  and  Belle  (McNair)  Douglass,  and  a 
former  member  of  the  faculty  of  Wells  College.  He  had  three 
children  by  his  first  marriage,  two  of  whom  survive  him, 
Esther  and  John  Lane  (M.E.  Cornell  19 19).  Another  son 
died  at  birth,  June  23,  1889.  Besides  his  widow  and  children, 
he  leaves  a  brother  and  a  sister. 


Frank  Herbert  Wright,  B.A.   1873 

Born  April  10,  1850,  in  Wayne,  Maine 
Died  December  7,  1919,  in  New  York  City 

Frank  Herbert  Wright  was  born  April  10,  1850,  in  Wayne, 
Maine,  the  son  of  George  Augustus  and  Huldah  Merrill 
(Gordon)  Wright.  His  father  studied  at  the  Harvard  Law 
School  in  1841,  practiced  law  in  Portland,  Maine,  was  con- 
nected with  the  Ocean  Insurance  Company  for  forty  years, 
and  was  an  authority  on  marine  matters.  His  parents  were 
Christopher  Wright,  a  native  of  Marshfield,  Mass.,  who  served 
as  a  Quartermaster  in  the  War  of  18 12,  and  Abigail  (Baker) 
Wright,  a  native  of  Falmouth  (now  Portland),  Maine. 
Christopher  Wright's  mother  was  Rebecca  Rogers,  a  daughter 
of  Zaccheus  Rogers,  a  shipbuilder,  whose  father,  Thomas 
Rogers,  came  over  in  the  Mayflower.  An  ancestor  of  Christo- 
pher Wright,  bearing  the  same  name,  was  one  of  the  English 
gentry  who  furnished  the  capital  for  the  prosecution  of  the 
Guy  Fawkes  conspiracy.  Through  his  mother,  who  was  a 
daughter  of  Joshua  Gordon,  a  ship  owner  and  sea  captain, 
and  Susan  (Kimball)  Gordon,  Frank  H.  Wright's  descent  was 
traced  from  the  Scotch  clan  of  Gordon. 

He  was  fitted  for  college  at  the  high  school  in  Portland  and 
at  Phillips  Academy,  Exeter,  N.  H.  He  was  a  member  of  the 
Freshman  Nine  and  during  Senior  year  played  on  the  Uni- 


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versity  Baseball  Team.  He  was  coxswain  of  the  Junior  Barge 
Crew. 

For  about  four  years  after  graduation  he  was  with  the  New 
York  dry  goods  commission  house  of  Deering,  Milliken  & 
Company.  In  June,  1877,  he  removed  to  Colorado  and  after 
an  experience  of  a  year  and  a  half  in  stock  raising,  settled  in 
Denver,  where  for  a  time  he  was  engaged  in  the  manufacture 
and  sale  of  baking  powder.  From  January,  1880,  to  September, 
1882,  he  was  a  member  of  the  firm  of  William  L.  Patten  & 
Company,  dealers  in  ore  sacks,  rope,  tents,  and  other  articles 
of  miners'  outfits,  and  then  retired  from  that  company  to 
become  a  member  of  the  firm  of  Middleswarth  &  Wright, 
general  commission  merchants  and  wholesale  dealers  in  prod- 
uce. From  1883  to  1891  he  was  a  partner  in  the  firm  of 
George  F.  Higgins  &  Company,  dealers  in  sporting  goods.  At 
the  same  time  he  was  engaged  in  a  general  real  estate  busi- 
ness, and  in  1890  became  cashier  of  the  Abstract  Title  Insur- 
ance &  Trust  Company.  During  the  year  1895-96  he  was 
deputy  register  of  the  State  Land  Board  of  Colorado  under 
Governor  Albert  W.  Mclntire  (B.A.  1873),  and  in  1896-97  he 
was  in  Mexico  in  charge  of  a  mine  for  him.  The  panic  of  1893 
injured  his  business  to  such  an  extent  that  in  1898  he  came 
East  to  make  a  new  start.  He  became  cashier  of  the  New  York 
law  firm  of  Butler,  Notman,  Joline  &  Mynderse,  and  later 
accepted  a  similar  position  with  Wallace,  Butler  &  Brown, 
with  which  firm  he  was  connected  until  his  death.  He  was  the 
first  president  of  the  Denver  Athletic  Club. 

He  died  suddenly  of  angina  pectoris,  December  7,  1919,  in 
New  York  City.  His  remains  were  cremated  and  the  ashes 
interred  in  the  family  plot  in  Portland. 

Mr.  Wright  was  married  May  10,  1882,  in  Chicago,  111.,  to 
Harriet  Van  Winkle  Freeman.  He  was  married  a  second  time, 
June  30,  1900,  in  New  York  City,  to  Louise  L.  Petit,  daughter 
of  DeWitt  Clinton  and  Mary  Brook  Hitchcock.  She  survives 
him,  with  his  two  children  by  his  first  marriage:  Marjorie 
Violet,  who  was  married  in  October,  1908,  to  L.  E.  Irick  of 
Denver,  and  Freeman  Waldo,  who  saw  service  in  France 
during  the  World  War. 


1394  YALE    COLLEGE 

George  Edward  Dimock,  B.A.   1874 

Born  March  lo,  1854,  in  Baldwinsville,  Mass. 
Died  October  20,  1919,  in  Elizabeth,  N.  J. 

George  Edward  Dimock  was  the  son  of  Anthony  Vaughn 
and  Susan  (Weston)  Dimock,  and  was  born  in  Baldwinsville, 
Mass.,  March  10,  1854.  His  father,  whose  parents  were 
Joseph  and  Betsy  (Dimock)  Dimock,  was  a  Baptist  minister. 
He  received  his  theological  training  at  the  Acadia  (Nova 
Scotia)  Seminary,  and  held  a  pastorate  at  Chester,  Nova 
Scotia,  for  fifty  years.  Susan  Weston  Dimock  was  the  daugh- 
ter of  Jonathan  Weston,  Jr.,  and  Lucy  (Rathbone)  Weston, 
and  a  descendant  of  John  and  Susan  Goodwin  Weston.  On 
the  paternal  side  George  E.  Dimock  was  descended  from  Rev. 
Thomas  Dimock  (or  Dimoke),  who  came  from  Lincolnshire, 
England,  in  1635  ^^d  was  one  of  the  original  settlers  of  Barn- 
stable, Mass.,  in  1639.  Before  removing  to  Barnstable,  he 
had  lived  at  Dorchester,  Hingham,  and  Scituate. 

George  E.  Dimock's  family  moved  to  Elizabeth,  N.  J., 
when  he  was  quite  young,  and  he  was  prepared  for  college  at 
the  Pingry  School  in  that  city.  In  both  Junior  and  Senior 
years  at  Yale  his  appointment  was  a  second  dispute. 

He  studied  medicine  at  the  College  of  Physicians  and  Sur- 
geons in  New  York  City  for  three  years  after  taking  his  degree, 
being  connected  at  the  same  time  with  a  Wall  Street  business 
office.  In  1877  he  discontinued  his  medical  studies  to  enter  the 
banking  business  with  his  brother,  A.  W.  Dimock.  He  joined 
the  New  York  Stock  Exchange  in  June,  1880,  and  continued 
in  the  brokerage  business  until  his  retirement  in  1908.  He 
was  a  charter  member  of  the  Central  Baptist  Church  of 
Elizabeth;  and  had  served  on  its  board  of  trustees,  being  for 
several  years  president  of  the  board,  and  as  a  teacher  in  the 
Sunday  school.  He  was  a  member  of  the  advisory  board  of 
the  Elizabeth  Home  for  Aged  Women,  and  had  held  official 
positions  in  the  Pingry  School  and  other  local  educational, 
religious,  and  charitable  organizations.  From  1903  until  his 
death  he  was  a  trustee  of  Vassar  College.  He  had  served  on 
practically  every  important  committee  of  the  board,  his 
longest  and  most  valuable  service  being  as  a  member  and 


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chairman  of  the  executive  committee.  At  the  time  of  the  fif- 
tieth anniversary  in  191 5  his  interest  and  efficiency  were 
especially  manifested,  not  only  in  the  general  plans  and 
policies,  but  also  in  important  work  on  sub-committees.  For 
many  years  he  made  liberal  contributions  to  the  libraries  and 
work  of  the  various  departments  of  the  Yale  Graduate  School, 
and  he  financed  the  Bicentennial  publications  to  the  extent 
of  some  $1 5,000.  He  was  a  member  of  the  New  York  Academy 
of  Sciences,  the  Metropolitan  Museum  of  Art,  the  American 
Folk  Lore  Society,  the  Horticultural  Society  of  New  Jersey, 
the  New  Jersey  Historical  Society,  the  American  Museum  of 
Natural  History,  the  American  Anthropology  Association,  the 
American  Geographical  Society,  the  New  York  Botanical 
Garden,  and  the  American  Forestry  Association. 

He  died  of  heart  failure,  October  20,  1919,  at  his  home  in 
Elizabeth,  and  was  buried  in  Evergreen  Cemetery. 

Mr.  Dimock  was  married  July  5,  1881,  in  Elizabeth,  to 
Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Edward  Jordan,  a  solicitor  of  the 
United  States  Treasury,  and  Augusta  (Ricker)  Jordan.  She 
survives  him  with  their  four  children:  Elizabeth  Ricker  (B.A. 
Vassar  1904),  who  was  married  June  12,  1909,  to  Edgar  Albert 
Knapp;  Mary  Jordan  (B.A.  Vassar  1906),  whose  marriage  to 
Samuel  Burdett  Hemingway  (B.A.  1904,  Ph.D.  1908),  an 
assistant  professor  of  English  at  Yale,  took  place  June  15, 
191 8;  Edward  Jordan  (B.A.  191 1);  and  George  Edward,  Jr. 
(B.A.  1912,  M.A.  1914,  Ph.D.  1916).  He  also  leaves  eight 
grandchildren. 

Walter  Penrose  Fell,  B.A.   1874 

Born  January  i,  1853,  in  Philadelphia,  Pa. 
Died  December  28,  1919,  in  Philadelphia,  Pa. 

Walter  Penrose  Fell  was  born  January  i,  1853,  in  Philadel- 
phia, Pa.,  the  son  of  Penrose  and  Mary  Jane  (Robinson)  Fell. 
The  Fell  family  is  of  English  origin.  He  received  his  prepa- 
ration for  college  at  the  Hopkins  Grammar  School  in  New 
Haven. 

In  November,  1874,  he  entered  the  offices  of  Fell,  Wray  & 
Company,  bankers  and  brokers  of  Philadelphia,  where  he 
remained  for  twenty  years.  In   1900  he  became  the  senior 


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partner  In  the  firm  of  Fell  &  Nicholson,  stock  brokers,  and 
continued  in  business  until  his  death,  which  occurred,  from 
heart  failure,  December  28,  1919,  at  his  home  in  Philadelphia. 
Burial  was  in  Woodland  Cemetery  in  that  city. 

He  was  married  March  7,  1878,  in  Riverton,  N.  J.,  to  Mary 
Whitman,  daughter  of  DeWitt  Clinton  and  Phoebe  Ann 
(Troutman)  Moore,  who  died  July  15,  1891.  They  had  two 
children:  a  daughter,  Frances  Boyer,  who  was  married  to 
William  Parr  Scott,  March  4,  1903,  and  a  son,  Albert  Dun- 
woody,  who  was  born  March  28,  1890,  and  died  October  17, 
1895.  Besides  his  daughter,  Mr.  Fell  leaves  a  brother,  Albert 
Dunwoody  Fell,  and  three  grandchildren. 


George  Darius  Reld,  B.A.   1874 

Born  July  11,  1849,  i"  Suffield,  Conn. 
Died  November  2,  1919,  in  Hartford,  Conn. 

George  Darius  Reid,  son  of  Samuel  Newell  and  Louisa 
Maria  (Austin)  Reid,  was  born  July  11,  1849,  ^"  Suffield, 
Conn.  His  father  was  the  son  of  Samuel  and  Eudocia  (Taintor) 
Reid,  and  was  engaged  in  business  as  a  leaf  tobacco  merchant. 
He  traced  his  descent  to  John  Reade,  of  Plymouth,  England, 
who  came  to  this  country  about  1640  and  settled  at  Newport, 
R.  I.  Louisa  Austin  Reid  was  descended  from  Anthony  Aus- 
tin, an  emigrant  from  Hampshire,  England,  to  this  country  in 
1638,  and  an  early  settler  at  Suffield.  Her  parents  were  Thomas 
Austin,  Jr.,  and  Parmelia  (Loomis)  Austin. 

He  was  prepared  for  college  at  the  Edwards  Place  School 
in  Stockbridge,  Mass.  At  Yale  he  received  a  second  colloquy 
appointment  in  Senior  year,  and  was  the  Class  poet. 

After  graduation  he  studied  for  a  year  in  the  Yale  Divinity 
School,  and  then  attended  the  Newton  Theological  Institu- 
tion for  two  years,  graduating  in  1877.  He  was  ordained  at 
Suffield  on  November  21  of  that  year,  and  in  December  be- 
came pastor  of  the  Baptist  Church  in  Edgartown,  Mass., 
where  he  remained  until  December,  1880.  He  was  a  member 
of  the  Edgartown  School  Board  for  two  years.  In  January, 
1 88 1,  he  accepted  the  pastorate  of  the  First  Baptist  Church 
in  Orange,  Mass.,  and  served  that  church  for  nine  years, 


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during  four  years  of  this  period  being  a  member  of  the  School 
Board.  For  the  next  five  years  he  was  settled  over  a  church 
in  Deep  River,  Conn.,  and  while  there  he  became  a  member 
of  the  American  Conchological  Association.  He  had  been 
interested  in  conchology  and  microscopy  for  some  years  and 
made  a  specialty  of  Connecticut  forms.  He  was  without  charge 
from  April,  1895,  ^^  January,  1896,  and  then  accepted  a  call 
to  the  East  Washington  Avenue  Church  (now  the  Second 
Church)  in  Bridgeport,  Conn.  He  resigned  this  pastorate  in 
February,  1901,  and  entered  the  employ  of  the  Mutual  Life 
Insurance  Company  of  New  York,  retaining  his  residence  in 
Bridgeport.  He  continued  in  the  insurance  business  until 
1904,  and  then  became  pastor  of  the  First  Baptist  Church 
of  Shelton,  Conn.  He  retired  from  active  ministerial  work  in 
1914,  and  afterwards  made  his  home  in  Hartford,  where  his 
death,  which  was  due  to  disseminated  sclerosis,  occurred  No- 
vember 2,  19 1 9,  after  an  illness  of  two  years.  Interment  was 
in  the  old  cemetery  in  his  native  town. 

He  was  married  February  16,  1876,  in  Suffield,  to  Phebe 
Margaret,  daughter  of  Henry  Alexander  Sykes,  an  architect 
of  Suffield,  and  Julia  Ann  (Fowler)  Sykes.  Mrs.  Reid  survives 
him  with  their  six  children:  Helen  Margaret  (Mrs.  Theodore 
R.  Hugo);  George  Harold  (Ph.B.  1901);  Julia  Fowler,  the 
wife  of  Denton  L.  Rhodes;  Mildred  Ruth,  who  married  Kirby 
C.  Pratt;  Thomas  Pattison  (B.A.  191 1,  M.F.  1913);  and 
Dorothy.  The  second  son  saw  service  in  the  World  War, 
being  one  of  those  rescued  from  the  torpedoed  'Tuscania, 
while  on  his  way  to  France.  Mr.  Reid  also  leaves  five  grand- 
children. 

William  Shearman  Doolittle,  B.A.   1876 

Born  December  25,  1855,  in  Utica,  N.  Y. 
Died  January  8,  1920,  in  Utica,  N.  Y. 

William  Shearman  Doolittle  was  born  in  Utica,  N.  Y., 
December  25,  1855.  He  was  the  son  of  Charles  Hutchins 
Doolittle  (B.A.  Amherst  1836,  LL.D.  Amherst  1872),  at  one 
time  mayor  of  Utica  and  a  justice  of  the  Supreme  Court  of 
the  State  of  New  York,  and  Julia  Tyler  (Shearman)  Doolittle. 
His  father,  who  died  at  sea  in  1874,  was  the  son  of  Harvey  W. 


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Doolittle,  M.D.,  of  Herkimer,  N.  Y.,  and  Hanna  (Hutchins) 
Doolittle,  of  Killingly,  Conn.,  and  the  grandson  of  Joel  Doolit- 
tle, who  was  in  the  3d  Connecticut  Regiment  in  the  Revolu- 
tionary War.  His  earliest  American  ancestor  was  Abraham 
Doolittle,  who  came  to  this  country  from  England  in  1640  and 
settled  atWallingford,Conn.  Julia  Shearman  Doolittle  was  the 
daughter  of  William  Pitt  and  Maryette  (Andrews)  Shearman, 
whose  father,  Samuel  J.  Andrews,  graduated  at  Yale  in  1785, 
and  whose  grandfather.  Rev.  Samuel  Andrews,  was  a  Yale 
graduate  in  the  Class  of  1759.  Through  his  mother  William 
S.  Doolittle  traced  his  descent  to  Philip  Shearman,  who  came 
from  England  to  Roxbury,  Mass.,  in  1633  ^^^  afterwards 
became  one  of  the  founders  of  Portsmouth,  R.  I.,  where  his 
death  occurred  in  1687. 

He  was  prepared  for  college  at  the  Utica  Free  Academy  and 
at  Williston  Seminary,  Easthampton,  Mass.  He  was  one  of 
the  historians  on  Presentation  Day. 

After  graduation  he  studied  law  in  his  father's  office  for  a 
time  and  later  attended  the  Law  School  of  Hamilton  College, 
where  he  received  the  degree  of  LL.B.  in  1879.  ^^  ^^^  admit- 
ted to  the  bar  the  same  year  and  had  since  been  engaged  in 
the  practice  of  his  profession  in  Utica,  being  for  a  time  in  the 
office  of  Doolittle  &  Swan.  In  July,  1883,  he  was  appointed 
clerk  of  the  U.  S.  Circuit  Court,  and  in  May,  1900,  when  the 
district  was  divided,  he  was  appointed  clerk  of  the  U.  S. 
District  Court  for  the  Northern  District  of  New  York.  In  1913 
the  Circuit  Court  was  merged  into  the  District  Court  and 
he  continued  to  serve  as  clerk  until  March  21,  19 19,  when  he 
resigned.  He  was  United  States  Commissioner  until  the  office 
was  abolished  by  law,  and  had  also  served  as  master  in 
chancery  and  examiner.  He  was  supervisor  from  the  Fourth 
Ward  for  one  term,  the  only  elective  office  he  ever  held  or 
sought,  but  while  he  held  aloof  from  practical  politics  he  took 
a  deep  interest  in  the  Republican  party  and  was  one  of  the 
delegates  to  the  convention  that  nominated  James  S.  Sher- 
man for  vice-president.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Oneida 
County  Bar  Association;  a  director  of  the  Utica  Trust  & 
Deposit  Company,  the  First  National  Bank,  the  Skenandoa 
Cotton  Company,  the  Oneita  Knitting  Mills,  serving  also  as 
secretary  of  the  board  of  the  latter  company,  and  the  Willow- 


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vale  Bleachery;  vice-president  of  the  Utica  Warehouse  Com- 
pany; and  a  trustee  of  the  Utica  Cemetery  Association  and 
the  Utica  Public  Library.  He  was  a  life-long  member  of 
Grace  Episcopal  Church. 

He  died  of  pneumonia,  at  his  home  in  Utica,  January  8, 
1920,  and  was  buried  in  Forest  Hill  Cemetery. 

Mr.  Doolittle  was  married  in  that  city,  November  25,  1885, 
to  Esther,  daughter  of  Leslie  A.  and  Ellen  (Brian)  Warnick, 
who  survives  him.  Three  of  their  four  children  are  living: 
William  Pitt  Shearman  (who  attended  Amherst  in  the  Class  of 
191 1) ;  Lytton  Warnick  (B.A.  1913);  and  Julius  Tyler  Andrews, 
2d  (B.A.  Princeton  191 5),  all  of  whom  served  in  the  World 
War,  the  first  as  a  Captain  of  Infantry,  the  second  as  a  Cap- 
tain in  the  io8th  Artillery,  and  the  youngest  as  a  Major  in  the 
2 1  St  Artillery.  A  daughter,  Isabelle,  who  was  born  September 
22,  1892,  died  October  19,  1918.  In  addition  to  his  wife  and 
children,  Mr.  Doolittle  leaves  two  brothers,  Charles  Andrews 
Doolittle  (B.A.  Amherst  1872)  and  Julius  Tyler  Andrews 
Doolittle  (B.A.  1884);  two  sisters,  Maryette  Andrews  (Mrs. 
Alfred  Conkling  Coxe)  and  Mary  Isabel  Doolittle;  and  one 
grandchild,  Mary  Isabel  Doolittle,  daughter  of  Lytton  W. 
Doolittle.  Alfred  C.  Coxe,  Jr.,  '01,  is  a  nephew. 

George  William  Amos  Lyon,  B.A.   1876 

Born  May  23,  1854,  in  Boston,  Mass. 
Died  August  14,  1919,  in  New  York  City 

George  William  Amos  Lyon  was  born  May  23,  1854,  in 
Boston,  Mass.,  the  son  of  George  William  Lyon,  a  manufac- 
turer of  leather  belting,  and  Carrie  Cook  (Gushing)  Lyon. 
His  father,  whose  parents  were  Amos  and  Abigail  (Greenwood) 
Lyon,  traced  his  descent  from  Peter  Lyon,  who  came  from 
England  in  1640  and  settled  at  Dorchester,  Mass.  His  mother 
was  the  daughter  of  Jonathan  and  Eliza  (Timson)  Gushing. 
Her  ancestors  came  to  America  from  England  in  the  seven- 
teenth century,  settling  in  Massachusetts. 

George  W.  A.  Lyon  passed  his  youth  in  Kentucky,  receiving 
his  preparatory  training  at  the  high  school  in  Covington.  After 
graduating  from  Yale  he  returned  to  Kentucky  and  taught 
for  a  time  in  Owen  County.  In  1877  he  took  up  the  study  of 


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medicine  with  Dr.  W.  W.  Henderson  in  Covington,  and  in 
the  fall  of  the  following  year  entered  the  Ohio  Medical  College, 
where  he  received  the  degree  of  M.D.  in  1880.  He  practiced 
medicine  for  three  years,  at  the  same  time  serving  as  an  assist- 
ant in  physiology  at  the  Cincinnati  Medical  College.  In  1883 
he  became  an  architect  in  Cincinnati,  but  in  1886  he  returned 
to  his  former  profession  of  teaching,  spending  the  next  four 
years  at  Riverside  Seminary,  Vanceburg,  Ky.  He  then  be- 
came professor  of  Latin  at  King  College,  Bristol,  Tenn.,  but 
in  1892  gave  up  that  position  to  join  the  faculty  of  the  pre- 
paratory school  for  boys  conducted  by  Dr.  Alois  Schmidt  at 
Covington,  Ky.,  where  he  remained  for  four  years.  From 
1896  to  1899  he  held  the  professorship  of  Latin  at  Juniata 
College  in  Huntingdon,  Pa.,  and  he  afterwards  taught  at 
private  schools  in  Columbus  and  Cincinnati,  Ohio;  the  Blight 
School,  Philadelphia,  Pa.;  the  school  at  Plainfield,  N.  J.,  of 
which  John  Leal  (B.A.  1874)  was  the  principal;  the  Pingry 
School,  Elizabeth,  N.  J.;  and  the  HefBey  Institute  and  School 
of  Engineering,  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.  Mr.  Lyon  had  contributed 
articles  on  educational  and  genealogical  subjects  to  various 
magazines,  and  was  the  author  of  "Latin  Elements"  (1898); 
"The  Lyon  Memorial,  including  the  Lyons  of  England"  (in 
three  volumes),  published  in  1905;  "The  Pearson  Family  in 
England"  (1909);  and  "The  Pearsons  of  Pennsylvania" 
(1910).  At  his  death  he  left  in  manuscript  form  two  histories, 
one  Biblical  and  the  other  ancient,  with  maps  for  each,  as  well 
as  a  genealogical  record  of  the  royalty  of  England.  He  had 
written  the  words  and  music  for  a  number  of  church  anthems 
and  college  songs.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Historical  Society 
of  Pennsylvania,  the  Sons  of  the  American  Revolution,  and 
the  Baptist  Church. 

He  died  very  suddenly  August  14,  1919,  while  giving  indi- 
vidual instruction  at  the  Brown  Tutoring  School  in  New  York 
City,  with  which  he  had  been  connected  since  191 8.  His  death 
was  due  to  angina  pectoris.  He  was  cremated  and  the  ashes 
interred  at  the  Fresh  Pond  Crematory  on  Long  Island. 

Mr.  Lyon  was  married  August  22,  1887,  in  Vanceburg,  Ky., 
to  Alpatia  Othella,  daughter  of  Nelson  Garland  and  Rachel 
Catherine  (Carr)  Morse,  who  survives  him  without  children. 
He  also  leaves  two  sisters,  Mrs.  Anna  M.  Jarvis  and  Mrs. 
Thomas  A.  Blennerhassett,  of  Glendora,  Calif. 


1876 

Winthrop  Hoyt  Perry,  B.A.   1876 

Born  September  20,  1854,  in  Southport,  Conn. 
Died  February  8,  1920,  in  Baltimore,  Md. 

Winthrop  Hoyt  Perry  was  born  in  Southport,  Conn.,  Sep- 
tember 20,  1854,  the  son  of  Oliver  Henry  Perry  (B.A.  1834, 
M.A.  honorary  1875),  ^^  ^^^  time  secretary  of  the  state  of 
Connecticut,  and  Harriet  Eliza  (Hoyt)  Perry.  His  father's 
parents  were  Walter  and  Elizabeth  Burr  (Sturgis)  Perry,  and 
he  was  a  descendant  of  Richard  Perry,  who  settled  in  Fairfield, 
Conn.,  about  1649.  -^^^  mother  was  descended  from  Simon 
Hoyt,  who  settled  in  Salem,  Mass.,  in  1629.  Simon  Hoy t's  son 
Walter  became  a  resident  of  Norwalk,  Conn.,  and  his  grand- 
son, John  Hoyt,  lived  in  Danbury,  Conn.,  about  1670.  Win- 
throp Hoyt  Perry's  maternal  grandparents  were  Eli  Thacher 
and  Mary  Matilda  (Wildman)  Hoyt. 

He  was  fitted  for  college  at  the  Hopkins  Grammar  School 
and  entered  Yale  with  the  Class  of  1875,  but  was  obliged  to 
leave  at  the  end  of  the  second  term  of  Freshman  year  on 
account  of  weak  eyes.  He  joined  the  Class  of  1876  in  October, 
1872.  He  won  a  third  prize  in  geometry  in  his  Freshman  year, 
and  was  given  a  second  dispute  appointment  in  Junior  year 
and  a  first  colloquy  at  Commencement. 

He  remained  at  his  home  in  Southport  for  four  years  after 
graduation  because  the  condition  of  his  eyes  made  it  impos- 
sible for  him  to  engage  in  professional  studies.  He  entered 
the  Yale  School  of  Law  in  September,  1880,  and  received  the 
degree  of  LL.B.  two  years  later.  In  July,  1882,  he  entered  the 
law  firm  of  Woodward  &  Perry  in  Norwalk.  This  firm  was 
succeeded  by  that  of  Perry  &  Perry,  whose  offices  were  first 
in  Norwalk  and  later  in  Bridgeport,  Mr.  Perry's  partner  being 
his  oldest  brother,  John  H.  Perry.  When  the  latter  was  made 
a  judge  of  the  Court  of  Common  Pleas  in  the  spring  of  1889, 
Mr.  Winthrop  Perry  gave  up  all  active  practice  for  a  time. 
In  1893  the  two  brothers  again  formed  a  partnership  in  Bridge- 
port, and  had  with  them  the  late  George  E.  Hill,  '87  and 
'91  L.,  the  firm  name  being  Perry,  Perry  &  Hill.  Upon  the  dis- 
solution of  this  firm  some  nine  years  later,  Mr.  Perry  resumed 
practice  in  Norwalk,  confining  himself  more  particularly  to 


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office  work.  Upon  the  formation  of  the  Southport  Trust 
Company  in  1903  he  became  vice-president  and  gradually 
gave  up  the  practice  of  law,  devoting  more  and  more  of  his 
time  to  the  trust  company,  of  which  he  subsequently  became 
president.  He  made  his  home  at  Southport.  In  191 8  he  gave 
to  Yale  on  behalf  of  his  wife  and  himself,  a  tract  of  land  of 
about  1500  acres  in  the  towns  of  Weston  and  Redding,  Conn., 
for  the  benefit  of  the  School  of  Forestry. 

His  death  occurred  in  Baltimore,  Md.,  on  February  8, 
1920,  as  a  result  of  over-attention  to  work.  Interment  was  in 
Oaklawn  Cemetery,  Southport. 

He  was  married  May  5,  1880,  in  Meadville,  Pa.,  to  Louisa, 
daughter  of  Frederic  and  Harriet  Nancy  (Thorp)  Huidekoper, 
who  survives  him.  They  had  no  children.  Mr.  Perry's  oldest 
brother,  John  Hoyt  Perry  (B.A.  1870,  LL.B.  Columbia  1872), 
is  also  living;  another  brother,  Henry  Hoyt  Perry  (Ph.B.  1869) 
died  in  1919.  He  was  a  nephew  of  Henry  T.  Hoyt  (B.A.  1853) 
and  an  uncle  of  George  B.  Perry,  '98,  Oliver  H.  Perry,  '99  S., 
John  W.  Perry,  ^^-'01  S.,  Richard  A.  Perry,  ^"^-'05  L.,  and 
Hoyt  O.  Perry,  '16. 

Richard  Morse  Colgate,  B.A.   1877 

Born  March  21,  1854,  in  New  York  City 
Died  September  17,  1919,  in  West  Orange,  N.  J. 

Richard  Morse  Colgate  was  the  son  of  Samuel  Colgate, 
for  many  years  the  head  of  Colgate  &  Company  and  the  bene- 
factor of  Colgate  University,  and  Elizabeth  Anne  Breese 
(Morse)  Colgate,  and  was  born  in  New  York  City,  March  21, 
1854.  His  great-grandfather,  Robert  Colgate,  fled  from  Eng- 
land in  1795,  one  of  eight  men  compelled  by  William  Pitt  to 
leave  the  country  on  account  of  revolutionary  sentiments, 
and  settled  first  in  Harford  County,  Md.  He  later  removed  to 
New  York  City,  where  in  1806,  his  son,  William  Colgate, 
founded  the  firm  of  Colgate  &  Company,  which  for  one  hun- 
dred and  four  years  was  located  on  John  Street,  '*an  unrivaled 
record  for  continuous  occupation  of  one  spot  in  New  York  by 
the  same  concern."  William  Colgate  married  Mary  Gilbert, 
and  their  sixth  son  was  Samuel  Colgate,  Richard  M.  Colgate's 
father.  Elizabeth  Morse  Colgate  was  the  daughter  of  Richard 


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Cary  Morse  (B.A.  18 12)  and  Sarah  Louisa  (Davis)  Morse, 
and  a  direct  descendant  in  the  ninth  generation  of  Anthony 
Morse,  who  came  from  Marlborough,  England,  in  1635  ^^^ 
settled  in  Newbury,  Mass.  She  was  a  granddaughter  of  Rev. 
Jedediah  Morse,  D.D.  (B.A.  1783),  a  tutor  at  Yale  during 
1786-87,  and  a  niece  of  Samuel  Finley  Breese  Morse  (B.A. 
1 8 10),  the  inventor  of  the  telegraph,  and  Sidney  Edward  Morse 
(B.A.  181 1),  the  founder  of  the  New  York  Observer. 

He  was  prepared  for  college  at  Reid's  School,  Stockbridge, 
Mass.,  and  at  Phillips-Andover.  Immediately  after  his  gradua- 
tion from  Yale  he  became  associated  with  Colgate  &  Company, 
and  in  1880  was  admitted  to  the  firm,  becoming  the  senior 
member  in  1900.  Some  years  ago  the  co-partnership  was 
changed  to  a  corporation,  of  which  he  was  made  president, 
retaining  this  office  until  his  death.  His  four  brothers  were 
all  members  of  the  firm.  Mr.  Colgate  was  very  active  in  the 
work  of  the  North  Orange  Baptist  Church,  of  which  he  was 
a  member  and  trustee.  He  was  a  member  of  the  finance  com- 
mittee of  the  Baptist  Educational  Society  of  New  York  and 
one  of  the  founders  and  for  thirty-four  years  a  director  of  the 
Y.  M.  C.  A.  of  the  Oranges.  In  its  early  years  he  served  as 
president  of  the  latter  organization  and  at  the  time  of  his 
death  was  chairman  of  the  executive  committee.  He  was  a 
member  of  the  International  Committee  of  the  Y.  M.  C.  A. 
and  chairman  of  the  finance  committee.  He  was  president 
of  the  West  Orange  Playground  Commission,  one  of  his  many 
benefactions  having  been  the  Washington  playground. 

He  died  after  an  illness  of  several  months,  September  17, 
1919,  at  his  home  in  Llewellyn  Park,  West  Orange.  Burial 
was  in  Rosedale  Cemetery,  West  Orange.  Yale  received 
$100,000  by  his  will,  which  provided  that  the  income  from 
the  bequest  should  be  used  to  establish  professorships  for  the 
advancement  of  the  intellectual  teaching  of  Freshmen. 

He  was  married  April  7,  1885,  in  Orange,  to  Margaret 
Cabell,  daughter  of  Henry  B.  and  Mary  (Cabell)  Auchincloss, 
who  survives  him  with  their  two  children,  Henry  Auchincloss 
(B.A.  1 9 13)  and  Muriel.  He  also  leaves  four  brothers:  Gilbert 
Colgate  (B.A.  1883),  Sidney  Morse  Colgate  (B.A.  1885), 
Austen  Colgate  (B.A.  1886),  and  Russell  Colgate  (B.A.  1896). 
A  fifth  brother,  Samuel  Colgate  (B.A.  1891),  died  in  1902. 


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His  Yale  relatives  included  four  uncles:  Sidney  E.  Morse,  '56, 
who  died  in  1908,  Rev.  Richard  Cary  Morse,  '62,  William  H. 
Morse,  '67,  and  Rev.  Oliver  C.  Morse,  '68,  and  the  following 
cousins:  Edward  L.  Morse,  '78,  Richard  C.  Morse,  Jr.,  '06  S., 
Oliver  C.  Morse,  Jr.,  '10,  and  Anthony  Morse,  '15. 

Timothy  Dwight  Merwin,  B.A.   1877 

Born  July  20,  1850,  in  New  Milford,  Conn. 
Died  March  2,  1920,  in  New  Orleans,  La. 

Timothy  Dwight  Merwin,  son  of  Marcus  Elliott  Merwin, 
a  farmer,  and  Orria  Anne  (Gaylord)  Merwin,  was  born  July 
20,  1850,  in  New  Milford,  Conn.  His  father  was  the  son  of 
Joseph  and  Gratia  (Candee)  Merwin,  and  a  descendant  of 
Miles  Merwin,  who  came  from  Wales  and  settled  in  Milford, 
Conn.,  in  1645.  The  Gaylord  family  in  America  was  originally 
of  Norman-French  origin,  members  of  the  Gaillard  family 
having  gone  from  Normandy  to  England  very  early.  William 
Gaylord,  the  immigrant  ancestor,  came  from  Dorchester, 
England,  with  a  brother  in  1630,  and  made  his  home  in 
Windsor,  Conn.  He  was  one  of  the  representatives  elected  to 
frame  the  constitution  of  Connecticut  Colony  in  1638.  Orria 
Gaylord  Merwin  was  the  daughter  of  Nathan  and  Irene 
(Downs)  Gaylord. 

He  was  fitted  for  college  at  the  Hopkins  Grammar  School  in 
New  Haven.  His  Senior  appointment  was  a  first  dispute. 

He  studied  law  with  Henry  C.  Robinson  (B.A.  1853)  in 
Hartford,  Conn.,  after  graduation  and  in  October,  1879,  was 
admitted  to  the  Hartford  County  Bar.  In  March,  1880,  he 
opened  a  law  office  in  his  native  town,  and  remained  there 
until  June,  1883.  During  the  47th  Congress  he  was  clerk  of 
the  Senate  Committee  on  Civil  Service  and  Retrenchment, 
and  for  some  time  was  private  secretary  to  Senator  Hawley 
of  Connecticut.  In  August,  1884,  he  moved  to  Mandan, 
N.  Dak.,  where  he  continued  the  practice  of  his  profession, 
combining  with  it  for  a  time  a  banking  business,  under  the  firm 
name  of  Beech  &  Merwin.  He  removed  to  St.  Paul,  Minn.,  in 
October,  1887,  and  there  formed  a  law  partnership  under  the 
name  of  Paul,  Sanford  &  Merwin,  which  a  few  months  later 
was  changed  to  Paul  &  Merwin,  with  offices  in  St.  Paul  and 


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Washington,  D.  C.  In  1897  Mr.  Merwin  moved  to  New  York 
City  and  became  a  member  of  the  law  firm  of  Tracy,  Board- 
man  &  Piatt,  which  later  became  Boardman,  Piatt  &  Soley 
and  of  which  his  classmate,  Frank  H.  Piatt,  and  Albert  B. 
Boardman,  '73,  were  also  members.  In  1906  he  severed  his 
connection  with  the  firm  and  formed  a  partnership  with  John 
H.  Miller,  of  San  Francisco,  under  the  name  of  Miller  &  Piatt, 
for  the  practice  of  patent  and  trademark  law,  with  offices  in 
New  York  City  and  San  Francisco.  This  partnership  was  dis- 
solved by  mutual  consent  in  1910,  and  from  January,  191 1, 
until  July,  191 8,  when  the  junior  partner  entered  Government 
service,  Mr.  Merwin  continued  the  practice  of  patent  and 
corporation  law  in  New  York  with  W.  Hastings  Swenarton 
(Ph.B.  1900),  under  the  name  of  Merwin  &  Swenarton. 

His  home  had  been  in  Montclair,  N.  J.,  for  sixteen  years, 
and  he  was  a  member  of  the  First  Congregational  Church 
there.  He  had  been  in  frail  health  for  a  period  of  three  years, 
and  died  suddenly  in  New  Orleans,  La.,  March  2,  1920,  on 
his  way  home  after  spending  the  winter  in  California.  Burial 
was  in  the  New  Milford  Cemetery. 

Mr.  Merwin  was  married  June  11,  1895,  ^^  ^t-  Paul,  to 
Mrs.  Caroline  Weatherby  VanSlyck,  daughter  of  Charles  S. 
and  Julia  A.  (Isham)  Weatherby.  Her  death  occurred  De- 
cember 21,  1899,  and  on  March  11,  1903,  his  second  marriage 
took  place  in  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.,  to  Mrs.  Antoinette  deForest 
Parsons,  daughter  of  Rev.  Edward  Payson  Ingersoll,  D.D., 
and  Julia  A.  (deForest)  Ingersoll,  who  survives  him  and  will 
make  her  home  in  Pasadena,  Calif.  He  also  leaves  a  daughter 
by  his  first  marriage,  Margaret  (B.A.  Vassar  191 8),  who  was 
married  December  i,  1917,  to  Lieut.  Carlton  Bynner  Overton 
(B.A.  Williams  1916),  of  Montclair. 

Frank  Hinchman  Piatt,  B.A.   1877 

Born  May  18,  1856,  in  Owego,  N.  Y. 
Died  March  30,  1920,  in  New  York  City 

Frank  Hinchman  Piatt  was  the  son  of  Thomas  Collier 
Piatt  (B.A.  1853,  M.A.  honorary  1876),  who  served  as  a 
member  of  Congress  and  U.  S.  senator  from  New  York,  and 
Ellen  Lucy  (Barstow)  Piatt.  He  was  born  in  Owego,  N.  Y., 


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May  1 8,  1856,  and  was  a  grandson  of  William  and  Lesbia 
(Hinchm^n)  Piatt,  a  nephew  of  William  Hinchman  Piatt 
(B.A.  1835),  ^"^  ^  great-great-grandson  of  Col.  Jonathan 
Piatt,  a  member  of  the  Provisional  Congress  of  1775  from 
New  York,  who  with  his  son.  Major  Jonathan  Piatt,  served 
in  Sullivan's  army  which  crossed  from  Trenton,  N.  J.,  to  the 
Susquehanna  River  and  drove  the  Indians  out  of  the  Wyom- 
ing Valley.  His  first  American  ancestor,  Richard  Piatt,  came 
from  Hertfordshire,  England,  in  1638,  and  settled  in  New 
Haven,  where  he  owned  about  eighty-five  acres  of  land.  He 
was  one  of  the  settlers  of  Milford,  Conn.,  and  his  descendants 
helped  to  settle  Huntington  and  Northcastle,"N.  Y.  Frank 
H.  Piatt's  maternal  grandparents  were  Charles  RoUin  and 
Charlotte  (Coburn)  Barstow.  His  mother  was  a  descendant  of 
Samuel  Barstow,  who  came  to  New  England  in  the  eighteenth 
century  and  died  in  1801  at  the  age  of  ninety-three. 

He  was  prepared  for  college  at  the  Owego  Academy  and 
under  a  private  tutor.  He  was  given  a  first  dispute  Junior  and 
a  dissertation  Senior  appointment.  He  served  as  treasurer  of 
the  Football  Club  in  Junior  year,  received  a  College  Premium 
in  English  composition  in  Senior  year,  and  was  a  member  of 
the  Class  Day  Committee. 

After  graduation  he  studied  law  at  Columbia  and  in  the 
office  of  Stewart  L.  Woodford  (B.A.  1854),  at  that  time  dis- 
trict attorney  for  the  Southern  District  of  New  York,  and  in 
1879  received  the  degree  of  LL.B.  at  Columbia.  He  was  ad- 
mitted to  the  New  York  Bar  in  that  year,  and  until  1881  held 
the  position  of  assistant  district  attorney  under  Mr.  Wood- 
ford. From  that  time  until  his  death  he  practiced  continuously 
in  New  York  City.  He  was  a  member  of  the  firm  of  Goodrich, 
Deady  &  Piatt  until  1885,  when  the  firm  of  McFarland  & 
Piatt  was  formed.  This  firm  was  subsequently  known  as 
McFarland,  Boardman  &  Piatt;  Tracy,  Boardman  &  Piatt; 
Tracy,  Ivins,  Boardman  &  Piatt;  and  Boardman,  Piatt  & 
Soley.  In  1906  Mr.  Piatt  became  a  partner  in  the  firm  of 
O'Brien,  Boardman,  Piatt  &  Dunning,  later  reorganized  as 
O'Brien,  Boardman  &  Piatt.  This  firm  was  dissolved  by 
mutual  consent  in  1916,  and  Mr.  Piatt  formed  a  partnership 
with  his  son  Livingston  and  George  W.  Field  (B.A.  1899, LL.B. 
New  York  Law  School  1903),  under  the  name  of  Piatt  &  Field, 


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of  which  firm  he  was  a  member  at  the  time  of  his  death. 
Among  the  Yale  men  who  had  been  associated  with  him  in 
practice  at  different  times  were  Albert  B.  Boardman,  '73,  and 
Timothy  D.  Merwin,  '77.  He  was  especially  interested  in 
corporation  law  and  was  counsel  at  various  times  for  the 
Reading,  Lehigh  Valley,  and  other  eastern  railroads.  He  was 
a  member  of  the  New  York  Bar  Association  and  a  director  in 
many  corporations.  In  1914  he  was  elected  vice-president  of 
the  New  York  Yale  Club,  and  the  following  year  was  made 
president  and  a  member  of  its  Permanent  Building  Committee. 
He  served  as  president  of  the  club  for  three  years,  and  was 
also  a  member  of  the  Committee  on  Plan  for  University 
Development.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Fifth  Avenue  Pres- 
byterian Church. 

He  died  of  heart  disease,  after  an  illness  of  several  years, 
March  30,  1920,  at  his  home  in  New  York  City.  Burial  was 
in  Evergreen  Cemetery,  Owego. 

He  was  married  November  i,  1881,  in  New  York  City,  to 
Caroline  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Dr.  Alan  Cameron  Living- 
ston and  Ordelia  (French)  Livingston,  who  survives  him  with 
one  son,  Livingston  (B.A.  1907,  LL.B.  New  York  Law  School 
1909).  Their  only  daughter,  Ellen  Barstow,  who  was  born  in 
1889,  died  February  16,  1907,  and  a  second  son,  Alan,  died  in 
infancy.  In  addition  to  his  wife  and  son,  Mr.  Piatt  is  survived 
by  three  grandsons,  a  brother,  Henry  Barstow  Piatt  (B.A. 
1882),  a  niece,  Charlotte  Piatt  Lyman  (the  wife  of  Huntington 
Lyman,  '16),  and  two  nephews,  Sherman  Phelps  Piatt,  ex- 
'12,  and  Collier  Piatt,  '20.  A  brother,  Edward  Truex  Piatt, 
died  in  1918. 

Arthur  Williams,  B.A.   1877 

Born  June  22,  1853,  in  Worcester,  Mass. 
Died  January  30,  1920,  in  Hartford,  Conn. 

Arthur  Williams,  son  of  Giles  and  Fanny  Maria  (Gallup) 
Williams,  was  born  in  Worcester,  Mass.,  June  22,  1853.  His 
father,  whose  parents  were  Seth  and  Olive  (Howe)  Williams, 
was  engaged  in  farming.  He  was  a  direct  descendant  of  Rich- 
ard Williams,  who  came  from  Taunton,  England,  in  1636  and 
first  settled  in  Dorchester,  Mass.,  but  later  became  one  of  the 


1408  YALE    COLLEGE 

founders  of  Taunton,  Mass.  Ancestors  on  the  paternal  side 
were  prominent  in  the  development  of  Pomfret,  Conn. 
Fanny  Gallup  Williams  was  the  daughter  of  Lodowick  and 
Margaret  (Phelps)  Gallup.  She  traced  her  ancestry  to  Capt. 
John  Gallup,  who  settled  at  Dorchester,  Mass.,  about  1630, 
having  come  to  this  country  from  England,  and  to  Col. 
Nathan  Gallup,  who  was  commander  of  operations  at  New 
London,  Conn.,  during  the  Revolution. 

He  received  his  preparation  for  college  at  the  high  school  in 
Hartford,  Conn.  During  his  Junior  and  Senior  years  at  Yale 
he  was  a  member  of  the  Glee  Club,  and  for  a  number  of  years 
after  graduation  he  was  the  bass  soloist  at  prominent  churches 
in  New  York  City. 

He  began  teaching  in  a  private  school  in  New  York  in  1877, 
remaining  in  that  connection  until  1885,  when  he  removed 
to  Janesville,  Wis.,  to  engage  in  the  lumber  business  with  his 
brother-in-law.  In  1886  he  taught  for  several  months  at 
Beloit  College,  and  he  was  afterwards  offered  a  professorship 
there  which  he  felt  obliged  to  refuse.  About  1887  he  resumed 
teaching  in  New  York  City  as  principal  and  half  owner  of  the 
Dwight  School.  He  was  also  interested  in  the  New  York 
Preparatory  School,  of  which  he  was  at  one  time  treasurer.  He 
gave  up  his  school  work  in  191 1,  and  removed  to  Chaplin, 
Conn.,  where  he  had  a  farm  of  about  forty-five  acres  and 
where  he  devoted  especial  attention  to  the  growing  of  apples. 
For  some  years  he  also  tutored  boys  in  his  own  home,  prepar- 
ing them  for  examinations.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Chaplin 
Congregational  Church. 

His  death  occurred  in  Hartford,  January  30,  1920,  as  a 
result  of  heart  trouble.  Interment  was  in  the  old  cemetery  in 
Milford,  Conn. 

Mr.  Williams  was  married  November  26,  1879,  in  New 
Haven,  Conn.,  to  Harriette,  daughter  of  Henry  and  Susan 
(Folliette)  Stowe,  who  survives  him.  They  had  four  children: 
Elsie  Stowe  (B.A.  Wellesley  1901),  whose  marriage  to  William 
Valentine  took  place  January  26,  1907;  Arthur,  Jr.,  who  took 
his  B.A.  at  Yale  in  1910;  Margaret  Phelps  (born  January  i, 
1895;  ^^^^  April  II,  1902);  and  Olive  Howe,  who  graduated 
at  Mount  Holyoke  College  in  191 8.  In  addition  to  his  wife 
and  three  children,  Mr.  Williams  is  survived  by  two  brothers, 


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Nathan  Gallup  and  John  Edgar  Williams,  two  sisters,  Mar- 
garet Williams  Green,  the  widow  of  Dr.  Samuel  Fisk  Green, 
and  Miss  Lucy  H.  Williams,  and  four  grandchildren.  His 
Yale  relatives  included  an  uncle,  Nathan  Gallup  (B.A.  1823); 
a  brother,  Job  Williams  (B.A.  1864);  a  cousin,  Asa  O.  Gallup, 
'88;  and  six  nephews.  Dr.  Henry  L.  Williams,  '91,  Dr.  Nathan 
W.  Green,  '94,  Arthur  C.  Williams,  '98,  Allen  P.  Lovejoy,  '04, 
Henry  S.  Lovejoy,  '07,  and  Charles  G.  Williams,  '08  S. 


William  Martin  Aber,  B.A.   1878 

Born  May  29,  1848,  in  Sparta,  N.  J. 
Diea  September  3,  191 9,  in  Waterbury,  Conn. 

William  Martin  Aber,  whose  parents  were  Joel  Aber,  a 
cooper  and  farmer,  and  Caroline  (Connett)  Aber,  was  born 
May  29,  1848,  in  Sparta,  N.  J.  His  father's  ancestors  came  to 
America  from  France,  and  settled  in  New  York  State.  His 
mother  was  of  Irish  descent.  He  spent  one  term  at  the  Owego 
(N.  Y.)  Free  Academy  when  nineteen  years  old,  and  subse- 
quently attended  the  State  Normal  School  at  Oswego  for 
three  years  and  the  Eastman  Business  College  at  Pough- 
keepsie  for  a  few  months.  He  then  became  a  teacher  in  the 
Oswego  Normal  School,  remaining  there  until  he  entered 
Yale.  His  appointments  were  high  orations,  and  he  was  elect- 
ed to  membership  in  Phi  Beta  Kappa.  He  was  also  a  member 
of  Linonia,  and  served  as  librarian  of  the  Bethany  Mission 
for  a  year. 

For  a  time  after  graduation  he  taught  at  the  academy  at 
Lake  Forest,  111.,  was  later  principal  of  a  school  in  Del  Norte, 
Colo.,  and  then  became  professor  of  natural  sciences  at  Atlanta 
University.  After  resigning  this  latter  position  he  spent  a 
year  studying  chemistry  and  biology  at  Johns  Hopkins 
University,  and  subsequently  taught  at  the  Brearly  School, 
New  York  City,  and  the  Louisville  High  School  for  Boys. 
In  1889,  after  an  interval  during  which  he  was  engaged  in 
business  in  Waterbury,  Conn.,  he  became  professor  of  Latin 
and  Greek  at  the  State  Normal  School  of  Utah.  From  1890  to 
1894  he  held  a  similar  position  at  the  University  of  Utah  in 
Salt  Lake  City.  The  next  year  was  spent  as  a  graduate  student 


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and  reader  in  Latin  at  the  University  of  Chicago,  and  from 
1895  until  his  death  he  held  the  professorship  of  Latin  and 
Greek  at  the  University  of  Montana.  He  had  delivered  a 
number  of  addresses  before  the  Montana  Teachers'  Associa- 
tion, and  had  contributed  articles  to  local  papers  and  to  the 
Popular  Science  Monthly.  He  was  secretary  of  the  board  of 
directors  of  the  Missoula  Public  Library,  and  attended  the 
Presbyterian  Church. 

Mr.  Aber  died  September  3, 1919,  at  the  Waterbury  (Conn.) 
Hospital,  and  his  body  was  taken  to  Sussex,  N.  J.,  for  burial 
in  the  Papacating  Cemetery.  He  had  been  taken  ill  with 
influenza  while  visiting  in  Waterbury,  and  this  developed  into 
pneumonia,  causing  his  death. 

He  was  married  September  24,  1884,  in  Cairo,  N.  Y.,  to 
Mary  R.,  daughter  of  Harvey  and  Harriet  (Maryott)  Ailing, 
who  survives  him.  He  also  leaves  a  sister,  a  niece,  and  three 
nephews. 

Howard  Clark  HoUister,  B.A.   1878 

Born  September  11,  1856,  in  Cincinnati,  Ohio 
Died  September  24,  1919,  in  Cincinnati,  Ohio 

Howard  Clark  Hollister  was  born  in  Mount  Auburn,  Cin- 
cinnati, Ohio,  September  11,  1856,  the  son  of  George  Ben- 
jamin Hollister  (B.A.  Middlebury  1847),  who  practiced  as  a 
lawyer  in  Cincinnati  for  nearly  fifty  years,  and  Laura  Burton 
(Strait)  Hollister.  He  was  a  descendant  of  John  Hollister,  who 
came  from  Bristol,  England,  in  1642  and  settled  at  Wethers- 
field;  he  held  various  oflices  in  Connecticut  Colony  and  repre- 
sented his  town  many  times  in  the  Legislature;  his  wife  was 
Joanna  Treat.  Howard  C.  Hollister's  great-grandfather, 
Elijah  Strong  Hollister,  served  for  more  than  three  years  in 
the  Revolutionary  Army.  His  grandparents  were  Alvah 
Hollister,  a  farmer  of  Manchester,  Vt.,  and  Polly  (Munson) 
Hollister,  who  was  a  descendant  of  Capt.  Thomas  Munson,  a 
resident  of  Hartford  in  1637,  who  was  granted  land  there  for 
his  service  in  the  Pequot  War.  Thomas  Munson  was  one  of 
the  settlers  of  New  Haven,  his  autograph  signature  being 
attached  to  the  "Fundamental  Agreement,"  June  4,  1639. 
He  served  as  a  Lieutenant  in  a  New  Haven  company  in  King 


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Philip's  War.  His  son,  Samuel,  was  a  founder  of  Wallingford, 
Conn.  The  earliest  record  book  of  the  Hopkins  Grammar 
School  begins  with  the  year  1684,  and  shows  that  Ensign 
Samuel  Munson  was  then  in  charge  of  the  school  as  rector. 
Howard  Clark  Hollister's  maternal  ancestors  came  to  this 
country  from  Germany  early  in  the  eighteenth  century  and 
settled  at  East  Greenwich,  R.  I.  His  mother's  parents  were 
Thomas  Jefferson  Strait,  who  was  born  in  Manchester,  Vt., 
and  Anne  (Wyatt)  Strait,  who  was  born  in  Wilmington,  Del., 
and  whose  mother  was  a  Jarvis.  One  ancestor,  Thomas  Strait, 
according  to  tradition,  lost  his  life  at  the  taking  of  Quebec 
by  Wolfe,  and  another  ancestor,  Josiah  Burton,  was  a  soldier 
in  the  Continental  Army  under  Col.  Seth  Warner,  and  par- 
ticipated in  the  battle  of  Bennington. 

He  was  prepared  for  college  at  the  Woodward  High  School 
in  Cincinnati  and  at  the  Greylock  Institute,  South  Williams- 
town,  Mass.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Thanksgiving  Jubilee 
Committee  in  his  Sophomore  year,  sang  in  the  College  Choir 
and  in  the  Class  Glee  Club  in  Junior  year,  and  was  chairman 
of  the  Junior  Promenade  Committee.  In  Senior  year  he  was 
a  member  of  the  Boat  House  Committee.  He  belonged  to 
Linonia. 

He  studied  at  the  Cincinnati  Law  School  after  graduation, 
receiving  the  degree  of  LL.B.  and  being  admitted  to  the  bar 
in  1880.  He  served  as  assistant  prosecuting  attorney  for 
Hamilton  County  in  1881.  From  1882  to  1893  he  was  a  mem- 
ber of  his  father's  firm  (HoUister,  Roberts  &  Hollister,  later 
known  as  Hollister  &  Hollister).  He  was  the  leader  of  the 
Republican  Independents  of  Cincinnati,  taking  an  active 
part  in  nearly  every  municipal  campaign,  and  was  one  of 
the  organizers  of  the  Roosevelt  Club  of  Independent  Republi- 
cans. In  1883  he  served  as  chairman  of  the  city  campaign 
committee,  and  prior  to  1892  was  often  a  delegate  to  city, 
county,  and  state  conventions.  He  was  elected  judge  of  the 
Court  of  Common  Pleas  of  the  First  Judicial  District  of 
Ohio  in  1893,  and  was  reelected  to  the  same  office  in  1898, 
heading  the  county  ticket.  In  1910  he  was  appointed  by 
President  Taft  as  judge  of  the  District  Court  of  the  Southern 
District  of  Ohio,  and  held  this  office  up  to  the  time  of  his 
death.  His  judicial  decisions  are  to  be  found  in  the  Ohio 


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Nisi  Prius  Reports,  Ohio  Decisions,  the  Weekly  Law  Bulletin^ 
and  the  Court  Index,  beginning  in  January,  1894,  and  in  the 
Federal  Reporter  from  19 10  on.  Among  his  pubHshed  articles 
were  several  concerning  his  classmate,  William  H.  Taft.  He 
was  a  member  of  the  Society  of  the  Sons  of  the  Revolution  and 
the  Historical  and  Philosophical  Society  of  Ohio  and  a  trustee 
of  the  Seventh  Presbyterian  Church  of  Cincinnati. 

His  death,  which  occurred  in  that  city  September  24,  191 9, 
was  caused  by  pulmonary  oedema.  Interment  was  in  Spring 
Grove  Cemetery.  A  memorial  service  was  held  in  the  District 
Court  at  Cincinnati,  December  29,  1919,  the  eulogy  being 
delivered  by  Mr.  Taft.  The  Cincinnati  Yale  Club  has  pledged 
itself  to  establish  an  endowment  fund  of  $10,000  at  Yale  to 
be  known  as  the  Howard  Clark  HoUister  Memorial  Scholar- 
ship Fund. 

Judge  Hollister  was  married  June  2,  1887,  in  Cincinnati,  to 
Alice,  daughter  of  Samuel  Barr  and  Julia  (Baker)  Keys,  who 
survives  him  with  their  four  children:  Howard  Keys,  ex-\Q\ 
John  Baker  (B.A.  191 1,  LL.B.  Harvard  191 5);  Mary  Evelyn, 
who  was  married  in  191 8  to  Henry  Eldridge  Perry,  '12;  and 
George  Burton,  '17.  He  also  leaves  two  grandchildren,  a 
brother.  Burton  Page  Hollister,  '92,  and  two  sisters,  Ella 
Strait  Hollister  (B.A.  Vassar  1872)  and  Laura  Strait  Hollister. 


James  Protus  Pigott,  B.A.   1878 

Born  September  11,  1852,  in  New  Haven,  Conn. 
Died  July  i,  1919,  in  New  Haven,  Conn. 

James  Protus  Pigott  was  the  son  of  Patrick  and  Margaret 
(Dennehy)  Pigott,  and  was  born  in  New  Haven,  Conn., 
September  11,  1852.  His  father  was  born  at  Curbally,  Parish 
of  Glanworth,  County  Cork,  Ireland,  and  was  a  land  owner 
as  was  his  father  before  him.  In  1852  he  came  to  America  and 
settled  in  New  Haven,  where  he  was  in  the  employ  of  the 
New  Haven  Gas  Light  Company  for  over  thirty-two  years. 
Patrick  Pigott's  parents  were  William  and  Ann  Daly  Pigott, 
and  his  wife  was  the  daughter  of  Jeremiah  and  Ellen  (Scan- 
nell)  Dennehy,  of  Castlebla,  Parish  of  Ballyhooly,  County 
Cork. 


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James  P.  Pigott  received  his  preparation  for  college  at  the 
Hopkins  Grammar  School.  He  was  president  of  the  Freshman 
Baseball  Club  and,  in  Junior  year,  assistant  treasurer  of  the 
Yale  Navy.  He  acted  as  a  judge  at  the  spring  regatta  in 
Senior  year.  He  was  an  editor  of  the  Tale  Record  in  Junior 
year,  and  of  the  Tale  News  in  Senior  year.  He  also  supplied 
college  news  to  the  New  Haven  Register.  He  was  a  member  of 
Linonia. 

For  two  years  after  graduation  he  taught  school  and  at  the 
same  time  studied  law  at  Yale.  He  received  the  degree  of  LL.B. 
in  1880,  and  was  then  admitted  to  the  bar  of  Connecticut. 
From  that  time  until  a  few  months  before  his  death  he  was 
engaged  in  the  active  practice  of  his  profession  in  New  Haven, 
except  during  the  period  when  he  was  a  member  of  Congress. 
From  1887  to  1 889  he  was  senior  member  of  the  firm  of  Pigott, 
Pardee  &  Ingersoll,  and  from  1908  until  his  death  he  had  as 
an  associate  Arthur  B.  O'Keefe  (LL.B.  1908).  He  was  acknowl- 
edged to  be  one  of  the  authorities  in  the  state  on  probate  law 
and  much  of  his  practice  was  along  this  particular  line. 
In  politics  he  was  a  life-long  Democrat.  While  still  a  student 
(i  878-1 880)  he  served  as  assistant  city  clerk  of  New  Haven 
and  during  the  next  four  years  he  filled  the  positions  of  city 
clerk  and  clerk  of  the  Board  of  Councilmen.  He  was  elected 
to  the  Connecticut  House  of  Representatives  in  1884  and 
reelected  for  the  succeeding  term,  receiving  the  highest  vote 
polled  for  any  candidate  on  the  ticket.  In  1892  he  was  elected 
to  the  National  House  of  Representatives  from  the  Second 
District  of  Connecticut.  He  received  the  renomination  of  his 
party  for  a  second  term,  but  was  not  elected.  He  was  delegate- 
at-large  and  chairman  of  the  state  delegation  at  the  National 
Democratic  Convention  held  in  St.  Louis  in  1888,  and  also 
a  delegate-at-large  from  Connecticut  to  the  convention  at 
Kansas  City  in  1900.  He  was  a  Roman  Catholic  and  a  com- 
municant of  St.  Joseph's  Church,  New  Haven. 

Mr.  Pigott  died  July  i,  1919,  at  his  home  in  that  city,  after 
an  illness  of  several  weeks  due  to  an  affection  of  the  throat. 
Burial  was  in  St.  Lawrence  Cemetery,  New  Haven.  A  special 
meeting  of  the  New  Haven  County  Bar  was  held  in  his 
memory  November  21,  191 9,  at  which  Judge  Edmund  Zacher, 


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'74  and  '78  L.,  presided,  and  at  which  a  eulogistic  letter  from 
ex-President  William  H.  Taft,  '78,  was  read. 

He  was  married  January  24,  1900,  in  Danbury,  Conn.,  to 
Mary  Agnes,  daughter  of  Edward  and  Jane  Bainbridge 
(MacAuley)  Brady,  who  survives  him  with  a  son,  James 
Protus,  Jr.,  who  is  a  member  of  the  Class  of  1923  at  the  Balti- 
more College  of  Dental  Surgery.  He  also  leaves  a  brother, 
John  H.  Pigott,  and  a  sister,  Annie  E.,  the  wife  of  James  T. 
Mullen,  founder  of  the  order  of  the  Knights  of  Columbus. 


William  Henry  Taylor,  B.A.   1878 

Born  August  16,  1856,  in  Oshkosh,  Wis. 
Died  May  7,  1920,  in  Los  Angeles,  Calif. 

William  Henry  Taylor  was  born  in  Oshkosh,  Wis.,  August 
16,  1856,  the  son  of  Zebulon  Bryant  and  Harriet  Worthington 
(Hawley)  Taylor.  His  father,  who  was  born  in  Ashfield,  Mass., 
but  spent  most  of  his  life  in  Chicago,  was  engaged  in  the 
wholesale  broom  corn  business.  His  father's  parents  were 
Zebulon  and  Nabbie  (Vincent)  Taylor,  and  he  was  the 
grandson  of  Isaiah  and  Ruth  (Bryant)  Taylor.  The  latter 
was  the  first  white  child  born  in  Ashfield.  The  Taylor  family 
came  originally  from  Yarmouth,  England.  Harriet  Hawley 
Taylor  was  the  daughter  of  Levi  Hawley,  of  Plainville,  Mass., 
and  Harriet  (Nash)  Hawley,  daughter  of  Elijah  Nash,  of  Had- 
ley,  Mass.  She  was  a  descendant  of  Joseph  Hawley,  who  came 
to  America  from  Derbyshire,  England,  and  was  an  early  set- 
tler in  Stratford,  Conn. 

His  parents  moved  to  Chicago  when  he  was  quite  young 
and  his  early  education  was  received  in  that  city.  He  later 
attended  Williston  Seminary,  Easthampton,  Mass.,  where  he 
was  fitted  for  college.  At  Yale  he  was  a  member  of  the  Class 
Baseball  Nine,  and  in  Freshman  and  Sophomore  years  of  the 
Class  Football  Team.  In  Junior  year  he  was  a  member  of  the 
University  Football  Team,  and  he  rowed  on  the  Class  Crew 
in  Senior  year. 

After  graduation  he  began  the  study  of  medicine  at  Rush 
Medical  College  and  received  the  degree  of  M.D.  from  that 
institution  in  February,  1881.  He  practiced  his  profession  for 


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a  short  time  in  Chicago,  but  in  1885  removed  to  California. 
He  resided  in  San  Diego  until  1889^ when  he  made  an  exten- 
sive trip  along  the  Pacific  coast  and  to  Honolulu.  He  subse- 
quently spent  a  few  years  in  Bakersfield,  Calif.,  and  in  the 
spring  of  1893  removed  to  Los  Angeles,  where  he  became 
engaged  in  the  lime,  plaster,  and  cement  business.  At  the 
time  of  his  death  he  was  considered  one  of  southern  Cali- 
fornia's foremost  lime  experts.  He  was  a  member  of  the  First 
Congregational  Church  in  Los  Angeles. 

He  died  at  his  home  in  that  city,  May  7,  1920,  of  sarcoma 
of  the  middle  turbinated  ethnoid  bones,  after  an  illness  of 
several  months.  Interment  was  in  Calvary  Cemetery. 

He  was  married  May  15,  1895,  ^^  ^os  Angeles,  to  Catherine, 
daughter  of  David  and  Mary  (McSwegan)  Mulrein,  who 
survives  him  with  three  children,  Julia  Abbie,  William  Bryant, 
and  Thacher. 

John  Trumbull,  B.A.   1878 

Born  September  28,  1856,  in  Valparaiso,  Chile 
Died  February  25,  1920,  in  Valparaiso,  Chile 

John  Trumbull,  son  of  Rev.  David  Trumbull,  D.D.  (B.A. 
1842),  and  Jane  Wales  (Fitch)  Trumbull,  was  born  in  Val- 
paraiso, Chile,  September  28,  1856.  His  father  was  the  son 
of  John  M.  and  Hannah  Wallace  (Tunis)  Trumbull,  a  member 
of  the  VanTennis  family  whose  ancestors  came  from  Holland 
and  settled  in  New  Jersey.  He  was  ordained  as  a  foreign  mis- 
sionary in  1845,  went  to  Valparaiso  and  there  organized  the 
Union  Church,  of  which  he  remained  pastor  until  his  death 
in  1889.  John  Trumbull  was  the  great-great-grandson  of  the 
elder  Jonathan  Trumbull  (B.A.  Harvard  1727),  governor  of 
Connecticut  from  1769  to  1783,  and  a  descendant  of  John 
Trumbull,  of  Newcastle-on-Tyne,  England,  who  married 
Elinor  Chandler  in  1635,  ^^^  with  his  wife  and  son  emigrated 
to  America  in  1639  and  settled  at  Roxbury,  Mass.  Later  he 
removed  to  Rowley,  Mass.  His  son,  John  Trumbull,  Jr.,  re- 
sided in  Suffield,  Conn.,  and  was  the  grandfather  of  Governor 
Trumbull.  The  latter  married  the  daughter  of  Rev.  John 
Robinson  and  Hannah  (Wiswall)  Robinson;  she  was  a  de- 
scendant of  Priscilla  Mullins  Alden.  Jane  Wales  (Fitch)  Trum- 


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bull  was  descended  from  Rev.  James  Fitch,  who  came  from 
Bocking,  England,  in  i6tj.o  and  settled  at  Saybrook,  Conn. 
Her  parents  were  Allan  and  Harriet  West  (Morning)  Fitch, 
and  she  was  the  niece  of  Rev.  Eleazar  T.  Fitch,  D.D.  (B.A. 
1810),  for  many  years  Livingston  professor  of  divinity  at 
Yale. 

John  Trumbull  received  his  preparation  for  college  at 
Mackay's  School  in  Valparaiso,  and  at  the  Stamford  (Conn.) 
Military  Academy.  His  appointment  in  both  Junior  and 
Senior  years  was  a  second  dispute,  and  he  was  one  of  the 
speakers  at  Commencement.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Class 
Football  Team  in  Freshman  and  Sophomore  years  and  of  one 
of  the  Class  crews  in  Senior  year.  He  belonged  to  Linonia. 
He  taught  for  a  time  at  the  Bethany  Mission. 

After  graduation  he  spent  a  year  in  graduate  work  in 
chemistry  in  the  Sheffield  Scientific  School  and  then  entered 
the  Harvard  Medical  School.  During  his  Senior  year  there  he 
passed  a  competitive  examination  and  was  admitted  to  the 
Boston  City  Hospital,  where  he  served  as  house  surgeon  for 
eighteen  months.  He  received  the  degree  of  M.D.  at  Harvard 
in  1883.  The  following  year  he  went  to  Europe  and  spent  six 
months  at  the  Vienna  Medical  School  and  in  hospitals,  after 
which  he  returned  to  Valparaiso,  and  began  the  practice  of 
his  profession.  He  had  resided  there  ever  since,  with  the 
exception  of  visits  to  the  United  States  in  1894, — when  he 
spent  a  year  in  Montecito,  Calif., — 1903,  and  1916.  Although 
always  engaged  in  general  practice,  his  preference  was  for 
surgical  work.  In  1884  he  received  the  degree  of  Physician  and 
Surgeon  at  the  University  of  Chile.  He  made  an  effort  to 
establish  life-saving  service  in  the  harbor  of  Valparaiso,  but 
was  unsuccessful  as  the  natives  gave  him  no  support  in  the 
movement.  He  had  delivered  addresses  before  the  Valparaiso 
Literary  Society,  of  which  he  was  president  for  two  sessions, 
and  had  contributed  articles  on  medical  topics  to  the  New 
Tork  Medical  Record  and  the  Boston  Medical  and  Surgical 
Journal.  An  article  on  the  Chilean  Revolution  of  1891-92 
was  published  in  the  Nation.  He  was  a  deacon  of  the  Union 
Church,  which  was  organized  by  his  father,  and  was  also  a 
member  of  the  "Comision  de  Fabrica,"  the  governing  board 
of  the  Union  Church  corporation.  He  had  served  as  a  director 


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of  the  Valparaiso  Bible  Society  and  of  the  Sheltering  Home 
and  Orphanage,  maintained  in  behalf  of  the  children  of  foreign 
^^       parentage. 

i^K      He  died,  of  heart  failure,  at  the  German  Hospital  in  Valpa- 
l^r  raiso,  February  25, 1920,  having  suffered  for  over  fifteen  years 
from  angina  pectoris.  Burial  was  in  the  Protestant  Cemetery 
in  that  city. 

He  was  married  July  12,  1883,  in  Birmingham,  Conn.,  to 
Flora  Ella,  daughter  of  Eli  Stone  and  Eliza  (Holbrook)  Smith, 
and  sister  of  Clarence  A.  Smith  (B.A.  1882,  M.D.  Columbia 
1887)  and  Everett  Smith  (B.A.  1883,  LL.B.  1885).  Mrs. 
Trumbull  survives  him  with  three  of  their  five  children: 
Mary  Fitch,  who  was  married  in  191 1  to  George  Compton, 
Alice  Smith,  and  John  Jonathan.  Their  oldest  son,  David 
Holbrook,  who  was  born  August  15,  1888,  died  in  October, 
1901,  and  a  daughter,  Anita,  who  was  born  April  28,  1893, 
died  in  infancy.  Dr.  Trumbull  leaves  one  brother,  William 
Trumbull,  '83.  He  was  also  a  brother  of  David  Trumbull 
(B.A.  1876),  whose  death  occurred  in  1878,  and  Dr.  Stephen 
Trumbull  (B.A.  1880),  who  died  in  1886.  James  H.  Trumbull 
(B.A.  1848)  was  his  father's  half  brother;  his  son.  Dr.  John 
Hey  ward  Trumbull,  took  his  Ph.B.  at  Yale  in  1881.  Among 
other  relatives  who  have  attended  Yale  are  six  nephews: 
Harold  V.  Smith,  '12,  Austin  C.  and  Everett  Smith,  Jr.,  both 
'15,  Allan  T.  Trumbull,  '16  S.,  Irving  D.  Smith,  1921,  and 
Dwight  C.  Smith,  1922. 

John  Milton  Fox,  B.A.   1879 

Born  September  9,  1853,  in  East  Lyme,  Conn. 
Died  March  30,  1920,  in  Kansas  City,  Mo. 

John  Milton  Fox,  the  son  of  Henry  and  Elizabeth  (Beck- 
with)  Fox,  was  born  September  9,  1853,  in  East  Lyme,  Conn. 
His  father,  whose  parents  were  Lamson  and  Eleanor  (Com- 
stock)  Fox,  was  a  farmer  and  for  some  time  a  teacher  of 
English  in  district  schools  in  Connecticut.  He  had  also  served 
as  a  selectman.  His  grandfather  was  Brintnell  Fox,  owner  of 
the  Fox  homestead  in  Montville,  Conn.,  and  the  family 
traces  its  ancestry  to  Thomas  Fox,  who  came  from  England 


I418  YALE    COLLEGE 

and  settled  in  Concord,  N.  H.,  in  1640.  The  Beckwith  family 
is  supposed  to  have  been  descended  from  Hugh  de  Malebisse, 
a  knight  under  William  the  Conqueror,  whose  great-grandson, 
Sir  Hercules  de  Malebisse,  married  Lady  Beckwith  Bruce  and 
took  the  name  of  his  wife's  estate.  One  of  his  descendants, 
Matthew  Beckwith,  came  from  England  and  settled  at  Hart- 
ford in  1645,  ^"  '^^S3  removing  to  New  London  or  Lyme. 
Elizabeth  Beckwith  Fox  was  the  daughter  of  Elisha  and 
Sahara  (Beebe)  Beckwith. 

John  Milton  Fox  attended  the  district  school  until  eighteen 
years  of  age,  working  also  on  his  father's  farm  at  Salem,  Conn. 
He  taught  one  winter  and  then  attended  for  two  years  the 
Connecticut  State  Normal  School,  from  which  he  was  gradu- 
ated at  the  head  of  his  class.  He  was  principal  of  the  Palmer 
Street  Grammar  School  in  Westerly,  R.  L,  for  a  year,  and 
during  this  period  completed  his  preparation  for  college.  At 
Yale  he  received  a  philosophical  oration  appointment  in 
both  Junior  and  Senior  years,  and  won  the  astronomical  prize 
in  Senior  year.  He  graduated  fourth  in  the  class,  being  one  of 
the  speakers  at  Commencement.  He  was  a  member  of  Phi 
Beta  Kappa. 

He  was  principal  of  the  Riggs  School  in  Washington,  D.  C, 
for  two  years  after  graduation,  taking  during  that  time  a  law 
course  in  Columbian  (now  George  Washington)  University. 
He  was  given  first  honors  in  a  class  of  forty,  and  won  one  of 
the  three  prizes  awarded  for  the  best  essays  on  legal  topics. 
The  degree  of  LL.B.  was  granted  him  in  1881,  and  in  October 
of  that  year  he  was  admitted  to  the  bar  of  Kansas  City,  Mo. 
He  practiced  his  profession  in  that  city  until  a  short  time 
before  his  death.  At  first  he  was  in  partnership  with  his  class- 
mate, T.  A.  Frank  Jones,  but  in  1883  he  joined  the  firm  with 
which  he  was  associated  at  the  time  of  his  death,  then  known 
as  Lathrop  &  Smith,  and  subsequently  as  Lathrop,  Smith  & 
Morrow;  Lathrop,  Morrow  &  Fox;  and  Lathrop,  Morrow, 
Fox  &  Moore.  The  Yale  men  in  the  firm  are  Gardiner  Lath- 
rop, '69,  Thomas  R.  Morrow,  '80  and  '82  L.,  Oramel  W.  Pratt, 
'85,  Samuel  W.  Sawyer,  '99,  and  John  H.  Lathrop,  '05.  At 
one  time  Porter  B.  Godard,  '89  and  '91  L.,  was  also  connected 
with  it.  In  1894  the  honorary  degree  of  M.A.  was  conferred 
upon  Mr.  Fox  by  the  University  of  Kansas.  He  had  written 


1879  I4I9 

a  number  of  articles  on  politics,  and  occasionally  gave  a 
lecture  on  Greek  architecture  or  some  kindred  topic.  He  was  a 
member  of  the  First  Congregational  Church  in  Kansas  City, 
and  had  served  as  a  deacon  and  a  member  of  the  board  of 
trustees.  He  was  very  active  in  philanthropic  work. 

About  two  months  before  his  death  he  fell  and  broke  several 
ribs,  and  complications  developed  necessitating  an  operation. 
His  health  improved  for  a  time,  but  after  a  severe  attack  of 
tonsilitis  pneumonia  developed,  and  he  died  at  the  University 
Hospital  in  Kansas  City,  March  30,  1920.  Interment  was  in 
the  Mount  Washington  Cemetery  in  that  city. 

He  was  married  September  17,  1885,  in  Keene,  N.  H.,  to 
Mary  Nettie,  daughter  of  Warren  and  Ann  (Minard)  Fuller, 
who  survives  him  with  their  three  children:  Anna  Elizabeth 
Fox  (B.A.  Wellesley  1907),  now  Mrs.  Asa  E,  Martin;  Marion 
Lathrop  Fox  (B.A.  Wellesley  191 1);  and  Henry  Warren  Fox 
(B.A.  1920).  He  also  leaves  a  brother  and  sister. 

William  Graydon  Seeley,  B.A.   1879 

Born  November  27,  1856,  in  Essex,  Conn. 
Died  November  16,  1919,  in  Brookline,  Mass. 

William  Graydon  Seeley  was  the  son  of  George  Henry  and 
Sarah  Augusta  (Stevens)  Seeley,  and  was  born  in  Essex, 
Conn.,  November  27,  1856.  His  father,  who  was  a  merchant 
in  Connecticut  and  New  York,  was  the  son  of  George  and 
Eliza  (Finly)  Seeley.  He  was  a  lineal  descendant  of  Robert 
Seely,  who  came  to  America  from  the  Isle  of  Wight  in  one 
of  Governor  Winthrop's  fleets,  landing  at  Salem  in  1630. 
With  his  wife,  Mary  Seely,  he  settled  in  Watertown,  Mass., 
but  in  1635  removed  to  Connecticut  and  became  one  of  the 
founders  of  Wethersfield.  As  a  Lieutenant,  he  led  against  the 
Pequots  in  1637,  the  forces  of  Hartford,Windsor,  and  Wethers- 
field. At  the  close  of  the  Pequot  War,  he  withdrew  with  others 
from  Wethersfield  and  helped  in  the  founding  of  New  Haven 
Colony.  He  was  also  one  of  the  founders  of  Fairfield  and 
Stamford,  Conn.,  Huntington,  N.  Y.,  and  Elizabethtown, 
N.  J.  Sarah  Stevens  Seeley  was  the  daughter  of  Nathaniel 
and  Sarane  (Wilcox)  Stevens,  and  a  descendant  of  John  and 
Priscilla  Alden. 


I42.0  YALE    COLLEGE 

He  was  graduated  at  the  Brooklyn  Polytechnic  Institute  in 
the  summer  of  1874.  On  account  of  delicate  health  he  then 
went  to  Europe  for  rest  and  travel,  entering  Yale  in  the  fall 
of  1875.  ^^^  Junior  appointment  was  a  first  dispute,  and  he 
received  a  first  colloquy  at  Commencement. 

In  the  fall  after  graduation  he  entered  the  Columbia  Law 
School,  but  gave  up  his  work  there  early  in  1880  in  order  to 
visit  the  mining  districts  of  the  West.  He  returned  to  New 
York  in  the  fall  of  1880  and  was  admitted  to  the  firm  of 
Seeley  Brothers,  manufacturers.  He  then  spent  several  years 
in  Chicago  as  western  agent  for  the  house.  Upon  his  return 
to  New  York,  he  entered  the  firm  of  Arnold,  Cheney  &  Com- 
pany, importers  and  East  India  merchants,  remaining  with 
them  until  the  early  nineties.  In  1892  he  transferred  his  resi- 
dence to  Brookline,  Mass.,  where  he  became  a  member  of  the 
First  Parish  (Unitarian)  Church.  He  retired  from  active 
business  in  1902. 

His  death,  which  was  due  to  carcinoma,  occurred  Novem- 
ber 16,  1 919,  at  his  home  in  Brookline,  after  an  illness  of 
several  months. 

Mr.  Seeley  was  married  January  23, 1884,  in  New  York  City, 
to  Maude,  daughter  of  George  Arthur  and  Sarah  (Greene) 
Cheney.  She  survives  him  with  two  children:  Muriel  (B.A. 
Smith  1 9 10),  now  Mrs.  Robert  Welles,  and  George  Cheney 
(Ph.B.  1914).  He  also  leaves  one  granddaughter. 


Joseph  Benjamin  Dimmick,  B.A.   1881 

Born  October  3,  1858,  in  Honesdale,  Pa. 
Died  January  13,  1920,  in  Stratford,  Ontario,  Canada 

Joseph  Benjamin  Dimmick  was  born  October  3,  1858,  in 
Honesdale,  Pa.  He  was  the  son  of  Samuel  Erskine  Dimmick, 
an  attorney  at  law  and  at  one  time  Attorney-General  of 
Pennsylvania,  and  Lucretia  Mellen  (Benjamin)  Dimmick. 
His  grandparents  were  Alpheus  Dimmick  (B.A.  18 10),  a  law- 
yer and  judge  of  the  County  Court  of  Bloomingburg,  N.  Y., 
and  Maria  Franklin  (Carr)  Dimmick,  and  his  great-grand- 
father was  Deacon  Oliver  Dimock  of  Mansfield,  Conn.  One 
of  his  ancestors,  Thomas  Dimock,  came  from  Lincolnshire, 


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I879-I88I  I42I 

England,  to  Dorchester,  Mass.,  in  1635,  removed  to  Hingham, 
then  to  Scituate,  and,  in  1639,  to  Barnstable,  of  which  town 
he  was  one  of  the  original  settlers.  Joseph  Benjamin  Dimmick's 
maternal  grandparents  were  Joseph  and  Martha  (Mellen) 
Benjamin,  whose  ancestors  were  of  English  origin. 

He  received  his  preparation  for  college  at  Adams  Academy, 
Quincy,  Mass.,  and  also  studied  at  Phillips  Academy,  Exeter, 
N.  H.,  and  at  Stockbridge,  Mass.  At  Yale  he  rowed  on  the 
Dunham  Boat  Crew,  and  was  chairman  of  the  Junior  Prom- 
enade Committee.  He  left  college  in  Senior  year  on  account 
of  his  health,  but  was  given  his  degree  in  1890  and  enrolled 
with  his  Class,  at  the  same  time  receiving  the  honorary  degree 
ofM.A. 

He  studied  law  at  Honesdale  and  was  admitted  to  the  bar 
in  Wayne  County,  Pa.,  in  1882.  Having  financial  interests  in 
Scranton,  Pa.,  he  removed  to  that  city  from  Honesdale  in 
1883,  and  practiced  his  profession  there  until  1885,  and  then 
for  several  years  was  vice-president  of  the  Lackawanna  Trust 
&  Safe  Deposit  Company.  He  was  made  president  of  the 
company  in  1898  and  held  that  office  until  his  death.  He  was 
also  president  of  the  Scranton  Lace  Curtain  Company,  and 
vice-president  and  a  director  of  the  First  National  Bank  and 
the  South  Side  Bank.  In  1885  he  was  president  of  the  Scranton 
School  Board,  and  in  1906  he  was  elected  mayor  of  the  city 
for  a  term  of  three  years.  He  was  a  candidate  for  the  United 
States  Senate  in  1914,  but  failed  to  receive  the  nomination. 
He  resided  in  Switzerland  from  1889  to  1895.  During  the 
World  War  he  served  as  head  of  the  Red  Cross  Commission 
to  Switzerland,  for  relief  work  chiefly  among  allied  prisoners 
and  civilians,  in  Berne  and  later  in  Germany.  The  Red  Cross 
Magazine  for  January,  1919,  contained  an  article  by  him, 
entitled  "Our  Work  in  Switzerland."  Mr.  Dimmick  was  a 
charter  member  of  the  League  to  Enforce  Peace,  a  trustee  of 
the  Pennsylvania  Oral  School  for  the  Deaf  and  of  the  Scran- 
ton Public  Library,  and  a  director  of  the  Scranton  Society 
for  the  Cure  of  Consumption.  He  had  been  a  member  of  the 
Alumni  Advisory  Board  of  Yale  since  1906,  representing  the 
Scranton  and  Wyoming  Valley  associations  and  serving  on 
several  sub-committees  of  the  board,  and  was  an  active  mem- 
ber of  the  General  Committee  for  the  Pageant  in  19 16.  He 


1422  YALE    COLLEGE 

was  chairman  of  the  Alumni  Committee  on  Plan  for  Univer- 
sity Development,  resigning  the  office  when  he  accepted  the 
appointment  as  Red  Cross  Commissioner  to  Switzerland.  In 
1 91 9  he  was  elected  a  governor  of  the  Yale  Publishing  Associa- 
tion. He  was  a  member  of  the  Protestant  Episcopal  Church, 
and  a  communicant  of  the  Church  of  the  Good  Shepherd  in 
Scranton,  of  which  he  was  a  founder  and  at  the  time  of  his 
death  senior  warden. 

While  spending  the  Christmas  holidays  at  the  home  of  his 
daughter,  Mrs.  George  Deacon,  in  Stratford,  Ontario,  Canada, 
he  was  taken  ill  and*  an  operation  was  deemed  necessary.  He 
did  not  rally  from  the  operation,  and  died  in  the  General 
Hospital  at  Stratford,  January  13,  1920.  Interment  was  in  the 
Dimmick  plot  in  Glen  Dyberry  Cemetery  in  his  native  town. 

He  was  married  November  9,  1881,  in  Hartford,  Conn.,  to 
Louise  Burgess,  daughter  of  Ebenezer  Kingsbury  Hunt  (B.A. 
1833,  M.D.  Jefferson  Medical  College  1838)  and  Mary  A. 
(Crosby)  Hunt.  They  had  three  children:  Jeannette  Hunt, 
the  wife  of  Dr.  George  Deacon,  a  graduate  of  McGill  Univer- 
sity; Lucretia  Benjamin  (born  May  20, 1889,  died  January  4, 
1893);  and  Mary  Crosby,  whose  marriage  to  George  Edward 
Byers  (B.A.  Harvard  1914)  took  place  November  i,  1919. 
In  addition  to  his  wnfe  and  daughters,  Mr.  Dimmick  leaves 
four  grandchildren  and  two  sisters.  Miss  Maude  Dimmick 
and  Martha  Mellen  Dimmick,  the  wife  of  Dr.  Richard 
Townsend,  of  Queenstown,  Ireland.  A  brother,  Walter  Er- 
skine  Dimmick  (B.A.  1878,  LL.B.  Columbia  1880),  died  in 
1882.  Milton  L.  Dimmick,  ex-o^  S.,  and  Allen  duPont  Dim- 
mick, ex-i6y  are  relatives. 


George  Edward  Ide,  B.A.   1881 

Born  May  10,  i860,  in  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 
Died  July  9,  1919,  in  Locust  Valley,  N.  Y. 

George  Edward  Ide  was  born  in  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.,  May  10, 
i860,  the  son  of  Henry  Ide,  a  merchant  of  New  York  City, 
and  Lydia  (Smith)  Ide,  and  the  grandson  of  James  and  Betsey 
(George)  Ide.  He  was  descended  from  Nicholas  Ide  (or  Hyde), 
who  came  to  this  country  from  England  about   1643   ^"^ 


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1 88 1  1423 

settled  at  Rehoboth,  Mass.  Lydia  Smith  Ide  was  the  daughter 
of  EHjah  Smith,  of  Hadley,  Mass.  She  traced  her  descent  from 
Lieut.  Samuel  Smith,  who,  with  his  wife  Elizabeth  and  four 
children,  sailed  in  the  ship  Elizabeth  from  Ipswich,  England,  to 
Massachusetts  Bay  in  1634,  settled  at  Wethersfield,  Conn., 
and  removed  to  Hadley,  Mass.,  in  1659. 

His  preparatory  training  was  received  at  the  Brooklyn 
Polytechnic  Institute.  In  Junior  year  he  received  a  first  prize 
in  declamation  and  a  second  prize  in  English  composition, 
won  the  second  prize  at  Junior  Exhibition,  and  was  given 
a  high  oration  appointment.  He  received  a  high  oration  ap- 
pointment in  Senior  year,  was  an  editor  of  the  Record^  and  a 
member  of  Phi  Beta  Kappa. 

His  first  business  association  was  with  the  banking  house 
of  Dominick  &  Dickerman,  of  New  York  City,  with  whom  he 
remained  until  1889.  The  following  year  he  joined  S.  V.  White 
&  Company.  On  May  i,  1890,  he  became  secretary  of  the 
Home  Life  Insurance  Company.  He  was  elected  vice-presi- 
dent of  the  company  in  1892,  and  president  in  1894,  which 
office  he  held  until  his  death.  His  company  passed  unscathed 
in  the  searching  investigation  of  New  York  State  life  insur- 
ance companies  conducted  by  Charles  E.  Hughes.  He  was 
president  and  a  director  of  the  Larchmont  National  Bank,  a 
director  of  the  Fidelity  &  Casualty  Company  and  the  Grand 
Central  Branch  of  the  Corn  Exchange  Bank,  and  a  trustee 
of  the  Title  Guarantee  &  Trust  Company.  He  had  been  a 
member  of  the  committee  on  insurance  of  the  New  York 
Chamber  of  Commerce,  and  a  director  of  the  Washington 
Trust  Company  and  the  Long  Island  Loan  &  Trust  Company, 
and  a  trustee  of  the  South  Brooklyn  Savings  Institution.  In 
191 2  he  was  a  delegate  from  the  New  York  Chamber  of 
Commerce  to  the  Fifth  International  Congress  of  Chambers 
of  Commerce  and  Commercial  and  Industrial  Associations 
held  in  Boston.  In  1917  he  was  appointed  by  the  Secretary 
of  the  Treasury  chairman  of  the  insurance  committee  which 
advised  the  Department  in  reference  to  the  War  Insurance 
Bill.  Other  war  work  included  membership  on  important 
committees  of  the  National  Association  of  Owners  of  Rail- 
road Securities,  on  the  special  Committee  of  Five  appointed 
under  Mr.  Hoover  to  collect  funds  in  New  York  City  and 


1424  YALE    COLLEGE 

State  to  feed  starving  Belgian  children,  and  on  various  civic 
committees  appointed  by  Mayor  Mitchel  in  191 7,  for  the 
reception  of  the  French,  British,  and  Italian  Commissions  to 
this  country.  He  was  the  first  vice-president  of  the  St.  George's 
Society  of  New  York,  and  served  as  chairman  of  its  war  relief 
committee.  The  Home  Life  Agency  Association  subscribed  to 
this  committee  in  evidence  of  their  sympathy  with  it.  His 
published  writings  include  a  collection  of  papers  and  addresses 
on  life  insurance  printed  by  the  Riverside  Press,  Cambridge, 
in  1914;  pamphlets  on  "National  Unity,"  "War  Risk  Insur- 
ance," "Governmental  War  Insurance  and  War  Taxation," 
and  "Lest  We  Forget,"  published  in  1917  and  191 8;  and  a 
treatise  on  "The  Fundamentals  of  Life  Insurance,"  1919. 
Yale  conferred  the  honorary  degree  of  M.A.  upon  Mr.  Ide 
in  1906,  and  two  years  later  he  delivered  a  course  of  lectures 
on  insurance  at  the  University.  In  191 5  he  was  one  of  the 
lecturers  on  the  same  subject  at  Western  Reserve  University, 
in  connection  with  a  course  in  business  administration  which 
had  just  been  started  there.  He  was  a  frequent  speaker  at  the 
annual  conventions  of  the  Home  Life  Agency  Association 
and  the  Association  of  Life  Insurance  Presidents.  He  took  a 
leading  part  in  the  movement  which  resulted  in  the  removal 
of  the  New  York  Yale  Club  to  its  present  home  at  Vanderbilt 
Avenue  and  Forty-fourth  Street,  and  devoted  much  time  and 
thought  to  the  construction  and  equipment  of  the  new  build- 
ing. 

He  died  after  an  illness  of  two  months,  July  9,  19 19,  at  his 
home  in  Locust  Valley,  N.  Y.  The  burial  was  in  Greenwood 
Cemetery,  Brooklyn. 

He  was  married  October  21,  1885,  in  Brooklyn,  to  Carrie 
Ward,  daughter  of  William  and  Theodosia  (Ward)  Hester, 
who  survives  him.  Their  only  child,  Chester,  died  in  infancy. 
Besides  his  wife,  he  leaves  a  sister,  Mary  Ide,  wife  of  Francis 
L.  Hine,  president  of  the  First  National  Bank  of  New  York 
City.  He  had  three  nephews  at  Yale,  Ethelbert  I.  Low,  who 
graduated  in  1902,  Lyman  N.  Hine,  '10,  and  F.  Worthington 
Hine,  a  non-graduate  member  of  the  Class  of  191 5. 


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William  Churchill,  B.A.   1882 

Born  October  5,  1859,  in  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 
Died  June  9,  1920,  in  Washington,  D.  C. 

William  Churchill  was  born  in  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.,  October  5, 
1859,  the  son  of  William  Churchill,  an  importer  of  porcelains, 
and  Sarah  Jane  (Starkweather)  Churchill.  His  father  was 
born  in  Boston,  Mass.,  received  his  education  in  English  and 
American  schools,  and  spent  his  life  in  New  York  City  and 
abroad.  His  parents  were  William  and  Mary  Myrick  (Haden) 
Churchill,  whose  early  home  was  in  Nantucket,  and  he  was 
descended  from  John  Churchill,  who  came  from  Devonshire, 
England,  in  1632  and  settled  at  Plymouth,  Mass.  Among  his 
paternal  ancestors  were  numbered  twelve  Mayflower  pas- 
sengers. To  one  of  them,  Richard  Warren,  he  traced  back 
through  five  different  lines  of  ancestry.  Four  of  his  ancestors 
fought  in  the  Revolutionary  War.  Sarah  Jane  Starkweather 
Churchill  was  the  daughter  of  Rev.  John  Starkweather  (B.A. 
1825)  and  Mercy  (Hubbard)  Starkweather,  and  a  descendant 
of  Robert  Starkweather,  who  came  from  England  to  America 
in  1640  and  settled  in  Roxbury,  Mass. 

He  was  prepared  for  college  at  the  Montclair  (N.  J.)  High 
School.  He  entered  Yale  with  the  Class  of  1881,  but  was 
obliged  to  leave  at  Christmas  of  Sophomore  year  on  account 
of  his  health.  After  a  voyage  to  England  in  a  sailing  vessel 
he  joined  the  Class  of  1882  at  the  beginning  of  Sophomore 
year.  He  was  awarded  a  third  prize  for  English  composition 
in  the  second  term  of  that  year.  His  appointment  in  both 
Junior  and  Senior  years  was  an  oration.  He  contributed  to 
the  Literary  Magazine^  the  Record^  and  the  C our  ant  ^  was  a 
member  of  the  ivy  committee  at  graduation,  and  belonged  to 
the  Yale  Society  of  Natural  History. 

He  taught  school  in  Indianapolis,  Ind.,  for  a  year  after 
graduation  and  then  went  to  the  South  Sea  Islands.  He  made 
a  long  stay  in  Samoa,  where  he  learned  the  language  of  the 
natives,  and  later  visited  Australia,  New  Zealand,  and  the 
Fiji  Islands,  where  he  became  engaged  in  business.  Upon  his 
return  to  America  he  took  up  journalism  in  San  Francisco. 
He  was  for  a  time  a  reporter  and  assistant  editor  of  the  Oak- 


14^6  YALE    COLLEGE 

land  (Calif.)  Times.  For  two  years  he  was  librarian  of  the 
San  Francisco  Academy  of  Sciences,  and  while  holding  that 
position  delivered  a  course  of  lectures  upon  the  people  of  the 
South  Pacific.  He  was  subsequently  located  in  the  East,  and 
during  this  period  contributed  to  various  magazines.  Later 
he  was  in  the  Signal  Service  Bureau  at  Washington,  D.  C.  In 
1 891  he  became  literary  editor  of  the  Brooklyn  Times ^  occupy- 
ing this  position  until  June,  1896,  when  President  Cleveland 
appointed  him  consul  general  to  Samoa.  In  1897  his  commis- 
sion was  extended  as  consul  general  to  Tonga.  He  returned  to 
America  in  1898,  in  1902  became  connected  with  the  New 
York  Sun,  and  after  a  few  years  was  made  head  of  the  Sun 
library.  He  took  a  position  as  research  associate  in  primitive 
philology  at  the  Carnegie  Institution  at  Washington  in  191 5 
and  had  since  made  his  home  in  that  city.  At  the  beginning  of 
the  war  he  joined  the  Committee  on  Public  Information,  and 
was  assigned  to  the  Division  of  the  Vise.  In  this  position  he 
served  as  chief  news  censor  and  as  director  of  the  division  of 
foreign  language  publications.  While  engaged  in  these  duties 
he  suffered  a  fracture  of  the  skull  which  was  inflicted  by  an 
enemy  spy.  Mr.  Churchill  had  written  extensively,  his  work 
including  scientific  documents  for  the  government,  magazine 
articles  and  reviews,  as  well  as  books  on  the  life  and  customs 
of  the  people  of  the  islands  in  the  Pacific.  In  his  research  work 
he  had  mastered  about  one  hundred  languages  of  the  Pacific 
Ocean  and  Malay  Seas,  collecting  a  large  amount  of  cosmopoi- 
etic  myth  from  savages.  He  had  prepared,  on  the  lines  of  com- 
parative philology,  a  dictionary  of  the  Samoan  language,  and 
the  results  of  his  work  had  appeared  in  philological  journals 
and  the  transactions  of  learned  societies.  As  an  explorer  in 
the  South  Seas  and  Malaysia  he  was  able  to  add  to  the  maps. 
He  was  editor  of  the  Malayo-Polynesian  Section  of  the 
Standard  Dictionary  and  an  editorial  contributor  to  the  New 
International  Encyclopedia.  He  was  a  Fellow  of  the  Royal 
Anthropological  Institute  of  Great  Britain  and  Ireland  and  of 
the  Polynesian  Society,  a  corresponding  member  of  the  Hawai- 
ian Historical  Society,  and  a  member  of  the  Institut  Suisse 
(T Anthropologie  Generale,  the  American  Association  for  the 
Advancement  of  Science,  the  American  Ethnological  Society, 
the   American    Philological   Association,   the  Archaeological 


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Institute  of  America,  and  the  Association  of  American  Geog- 
raphers. In  1920  he  was  made  an  Officier  de  VOrdre  {Beige) 
du  Leopold  II. 

He  died,  of  pneumonia,  at  the  Garfield  Hospital  in  Washing- 
ton, June  9,  1920,  after  an  illness  of  nearly  a  year.  Interment 
was  in  Greenwood  Cemetery,  Brooklyn.  At  the  time  of  his 
death  he  was  under  appointment  to  take  charge  of  the  an- 
thropological section  of  the  Bayard  Dominick  ['94]  Expedition 
sent  out  from  the  Bishop  Museum,  Honolulu. 

He  was  married  August  14,  1889,  in  New  York  City,  to 
Llewella,  daughter  of  Llewellyn  and  Catherine  (Spillane) 
Pierce.  Mrs.  Churchill  survives  him,  and  he  also  leaves  a 
sister,  Mrs.  Faneuil  D.  Weisse,  of  New  York  City,  and  two 
brothers,  Arthur  H.  and  Clarence  Churchill,  of  Montclair, 
N.J. 

George  Heber  Graves,  B.A.   1882 

Born  March  25,  1 861,  in  Rutland,  Vt. 
Died  August  21,  191 9,  in  Southport,  Conn. 

George  Heber  Graves  was  born  March  25, 1 861,  in  Rutland, 
Vt,  He  was  the  son  of  Charles  Emmett  Graves  (B.A.  Trinity 
1850,  LL.D.  Trinity  1905),  a  lawyer,  who  served  as  treasurer 
of  Trinity  from  1876  until  his  death  in  1906,  and  Sarah  Law- 
rence (Buttrick)  Graves.  His  father's  parents  were  George 
and  Lucretia  Adeline  (Collins)  Graves,  and  he  traced  his 
ancestry  to  Thomas  Graves,  who  came  from  England  and 
settled  in  Hartford,  Conn.,  previous  to  1645.  ^^^  maternal 
grandparents  were  Ephraim  Buttrick  (B.A.  Harvard  1819), 
of  Cambridge,  Mass.,  and  Mary  (King)  Buttrick,  of  Halifax, 
Nova  Scotia.  Among  his  ancestors  on  that  side  of  the  family 
were  Samuel  Buttrick,  who  participated  in  the  battle  of 
Concord  Bridge,  where  his  brother.  Major  John  Buttrick, 
gave  the  command  that  opened  the  Revolutionary  War,  and 
Major  Simon  Willard,  one  of  the  founders  of  Concord,  Mass., 
and  one  of  the  most  distinguished  men  in  the  military  and 
civil  life  of  colonial  days.  The  emigrant  ancestor  of  the  But- 
tricks  was  William  Buttrick,  who  came  in  the  ship  Planter 
from  England  in  1635,  settled  at  Boston,  and  later  removed  to 
Concord^  Mass. 


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He  received  his  preparatory  education  at  the  Hopkins 
Grammar  School  in  New  Haven,  and  in  both  Junior  and 
Senior  years  at  Yale  his  appointment  was  a  first  colloquy. 

For  a  year  after  graduation  he  was  in  the  lumber  business 
in  Stetsonville,  Wis.,  and  from  1883  ^^  ^^^5  ^^  was  a  student 
in  the  Sheffield  Scientific  School.  Since  that  time  his  occupa- 
tion had  been  that  of  a  chemist.  He  was  with  the  Fairfield 
Chemical  Company  in  Bridgeport,  Conn.,  for  a  year,  and 
from  1886  to  1888  was  superintendent  for  the  company  in 
New  Haven.  He  then  returned  to  Bridgeport  as  chief  chemist 
and  director  of  the  works,  which  now  belong  to  the  General 
Chemical  Company.  In  1913  he  was  in  Savannah,  Ga.,  as  a 
superintendent  for  the  General  Chemical  Company,  and  later 
held  the  position  of  general  superintendent  at  the  Laurel  Hill 
Works  of  the  company  at  Long  Island  City.  He  retired  from 
business  life  in  191 8  on  the  advice  of  his  physician.  He  was  a 
member  of  the  American  Chemical  Society,  the  Society  of 
Chemical  Industry  (English),  and  Trinity  (Protestant  Episco- 
pal) Church,  New  Haven. 

He  died  at  his  summer  home  in  Southport,  Conn.,  August 
21,  1 91 9.  Burial  was  in  Evergreen  Cemetery,  Rutland. 

He  was  married  January  17,  1901,  in  Bridgeport,  to  Mary 
Caroline,  daughter  of  Zalmon  and  Caroline  Emma  (Fox)  Good- 
sell.  They  had  one  daughter,  Caroline,  a  member  of  the  Class 
of  1923  at  Smith  College.  Mrs.  Graves'  great-grandfather  was 
the  Rev.  John  Goodsell  (B.A.  1724).  Besides  his  wife  and 
daughter,  Mr.  Graves  leaves  four  brothers:  Edward  Buttrick 
Graves  (B.A.  1881,  LL.B.  1884),  Walter  Greenwood  Graves 
(B.A.  1886),  Arthur  Collins  Graves  (B.A.  Trinity  1891,  LL.B. 
Yale  1893,  M.A.,  honorary,  Trinity  1894),  and  Richard  Stay- 
ner  Graves  (B.A.  Trinity  1894,  M.D.  Yale  1897). 

Frank  Albert  Kellogg,  B.A.   1882 

Born  March  26,  1859,  in  Hartford,  Conn.  _ 

Died  January  3,  1920,  in  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.  ■ 

Frank  Afeert  Kellogg  was  born  in  Hartford,  Conn.,  March 
26,  1859,  the  son  of  Henry  Kellogg,  an  inventor.  Henry 
Kellogg  was  a  California  "forty-niner"  and  a  man  of  interest- 
ing Civil  War  experiences.  His  parents  were  Isaac  and  Aurilla 


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(Barney)  Kellogg,  and  he  was  a  descendant  of  Governor 
Bradford  of  the  Massachusetts  Bay  Colony.  He  married 
Harriet  Helen,  daughter  of  Joseph  and  Sarah  Stone  (Howe) 
Caldwell,  whose  ancestors  were  early  settlers  in  Massachusetts. 

Frank  A.  Kellogg  prepared  for  college  at  the  Hopkins 
Grammar  School,  and  passed  the  entrance  examinations  for 
the  Yale  Class  of  1880,  but  did  not  enter  college  until  the 
autumn  of  1878.  He  was  given  a  first  dispute  appointment  in 
both  Junior  and  Senior  years. 

After  graduating  he  studied  dynamic  engineering  for  a 
short  time  in  the  Sheffield  Scientific  School,  but  in  the  fall  of 
1883  entered  the  Yale  School  of  Law.  He  received  the  degree 
of  LL.B.  in  1885,  and  was  then  admitted  to  the  Connecticut 
Bar.  He  practiced  in  the  office  of  Doolittle  &  Bennett  in  New 
Haven,  until  October,  1887,  assisting  at  some  of  the  criminal 
terms.  In  March,  1888,  he  went  to  New  York  and  became 
manager  of  the  lawn  tennis  department  of  D.  W.  Granbery  & 
Company.  He  was  later  for  two  years  with  A.  G.  Spalding  & 
Brother,  and  was  also  engaged  in  writing  on  lawn  tennis 
topics  for  the  New  York  Herald  and  for  Outing.  He  was  on  the 
regular  Outing  staff  from  1892  to  1895,  ^^^  during  this  period 
edited  a  weekly  tennis  paper  in  the  summer  and  was  a  con- 
tributor to  Harper  s  Toung  People.  After  a  year  on  the  Bache- 
lor of  Arts  he  secured  a  position  with  the  Brooklyn  Rapid 
Transit  Company  as  assistant  to  its  chief  engineer.  In  1903 
he  was  appointed  inspector  in  the  Bureau  of  Highways, 
Brooklyn,  and  at  the  time  of  his  death  he  was  one  of  the 
highest  grade  inspectors  of  the  bureau,  and  second  in  charge 
of  the  Division  of  Purchases  and  Accounts.  He  was  a  member 
of  the  Church  of  St.  Mary  the  Virgin,  New  York  City. 

His  death  occurred  suddenly,  from  heart  disease,  at  his 
office  in  Brooklyn,  January  3,  1920.  Interment  was  in  Mount 
Olivet  Cemetery. 

He  was  married  June  4,  1900,  in  New  York  City,  to  Caro- 
line Foote,  daughter  of  Edward  and  Caroline  Amelia  Kil- 
bourne,  who  survives  him.  A  daughter,  Helen  Kilbourne, 
died  in  infancy.  In  addition  to  his  wife  he  leaves  a  brother, 
Henry  Jarvis  Kellogg  (Ph.B.  1874),  and  a  sister,  Mrs.  Frank 
Boultbee. 


1^3^  VALE    COLLEGE 

Warren  Weston  Smith,  B.A.   1883 

Born  October  14,  1861,  in  New  York  City- 
Died  June  8,  1920,  in  New  York  City- 
Warren  Weston  Smith  was  the  son  of  Benjamin  Frank 
Smith,  and  was  born  October  14,  1861,  in  New  York  City, 
where  he  received  his  preparation  for  college. 

He  studied  for  a  year  after  graduation  in  the  College  of 
Physicians  and  Surgeons  at  Columbia,  and  since  then  had 
been  a  teacher  in  private  and  public  schools  in  New  York 
City.  From  1889  to  1898  he  was  principal  of  the  New  York 
Preparatory  School,  and  for  the  next  five  years  held  a  similar 
position  in  the  College  Preparatory  School.  Since  1903  he 
had  been  teaching  in  Public  School  62.  In  1890  he  published 
a  "General  History"  and  in  1894  a  book  on  "First  Year 
Latin."  He  had  also  written  articles  for  various  reviews. 

He  died  of  pneumonia,  June  8,  1920,  at  his  home  in  New 
York  City. 

He  was  married  July  17,  1889,  in  that  city,  to  Louise  Kath- 
erine  Strahler,  who  survives  him. 


William  Hugh  Hyndman,  B.A.   1884 

Born  October  31,  1 861,  in  Newburgh,  N.  Y. 
Died  September  24,  1919,  in  Newburgh,  N.  Y. 

William  Hugh  Hyndman  was  born  October  31,  1861,  in 
Newburgh,  N.  Y.,  the  son  of  Robert  Hyndman,  a  merchant, 
who  was  a  native  of  County  Antrim,  Ireland,  and  Elizabeth 
(Gibb)  Hyndman,  who  was  also  born  in  Ireland.  Robert 
Hyndman  was  one  of  the  organizers  of  the  First  United  Pres- 
byterian Church  of  Newburgh,  and  at  the  time  of  his  death 
had  been  for  many  years  the  ruling  elder  of  that  church.  He 
was  the  son  of  Cunningham  and  Sarah  (Murdock)  Hyndman. 
Elizabeth  Gibb  Hyndman's  parents  were  David  and  Fanny 
(Weir)  Gibb. 

His  preparation  for  college  was  received  in  his  native  town 
at  the  Newburgh  Academy  and  at  Banks'  Institute.  He  rowed 
on  his  Class  Crew  for  two  years  and  on  the  University  Crew 
for  a  similar  period,  and  also  played  on  the  University  Foot- 


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ball  Team  for  two  years.  He  left  college  at  the  end  of  Junior 
year,  but  received  the  degree  of  B.A.  in  1894,  with  enrollment 
in  the  Class  of  1884. 

After  leaving  Yale  he  studied  law  in  Newburgh  in  the  office 
of  Scott  &  Hirschberg,  and  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  1889. 
He  practiced  his  profession  in  Newburgh  from  that  time  until 
his  death.  He  held  the  office  of  city  recorder  from  January  i, 
1895,  to  December  31,  19 10,  having  been  elected  four  times 
successively  on  the  Republican  ticket.  In  19 17  he  was  elected 
special  county  judge,  and  held  this  office  at  the  time  of  his 
death.  From  1885  to  1890  he  served  in  the  New  York  Na- 
tional Guard  as  a  member  of  the  loth  Separate  Company  of 
Newburgh.  He  was  a  school  trustee  for  four  years  (191 2-16), 
and  a  member  of  the  board  of  trustees  of  the  Calvary  Presby- 
terian Church. 

He  died  of  heart  disease,  after  an  illness  of  five  days,  Sep- 
tember 24,  1919,  at  his  home,  and  was  buried  in  the  family 
plot  in  Woodlawn  Cemetery,  Newburgh. 

He  was  married  April  19,  1904,  in  that  city,  to  Bessie 
Leighton,  daughter  of  William  Homans  and  Elsie  (Leighton) 
Marden,  who  survives  him.  They  had  no  children. 

Clinton  Ross,  B.A.   1884 

Born  July  31,  1861,  in  Binghamton,  N.  Y. 
Died  March  26,  1920,  in  Owego,  N.  Y. 

Clinton  Ross  was  born  in  Binghamton,  N.  Y.,  July  31,  1861, 
the  son  of  Erastus  and  Cornelia  Frances  (Corbett)  Ross. 
His  father  presented  Ross  Park  to  the  city  of  Binghamton, 
built  the  Ross  Memorial  Church  as  a  memorial  to  his  mother, 
Elizabeth  Drake  Ross,  was  a  trustee  of  the  Binghamton 
State  Hospital,  and  was  active  in  the  organization  and  devel- 
opment of  the  Merchants  National  Bank  and  the  Bingham- 
ton railroad  system.  His  ancestors  came  from  Rosshire, 
Scotland,  and  settled  in  New  Hampshire.  Members  of  the 
family  later  removed  to  northern  Pennsylvania  and  southern 
New  York.  The  Drakes  came  from  Cornwall  and  Devonshire, 
England.  Cornelia  Corbett  Ross  was  the  daughter  of  Cooper 
and  Cornelia  (Bayless)  Corbett,  and  a  granddaughter  of 
Robert  Corbett.  Her  paternal  ancestors  came  from  Shropshire, 


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England,  while  her  mother's  people  were  of  French-Huguenot 
stock. 

He  was  fitted  for  college  at  the  Binghamton  High  School 
and  at  Phillips  Academy,  Andover,  Mass.  While  at  Andover 
he  was  editor  of  the  Philo  Mirror  and  the  PhilHpian.  During 
the  last  three  years  of  his  college  course  he  was  an  editor  of 
the  Record. 

He  became  engaged  in  literary  work  after  graduation,  but 
spent  some  time  in  travel  and  at  Binghamton  in  the  care  of 
his  own  and  his  family's  business  interests.  He  had  been  a 
partner  in  the  French  &  Ross  Chemical  Company,  and  was 
also  at  one  time  connected  with  the  Merchants  National 
Bank.  In  1893  he  removed  to  New  York  City  and  for  a  while 
was  on  the  staff  of  the  Evening  Sun.  In  1899  he  was  injured 
by  the  falling  of  a  street  sign  upon  his  head,  and  he  had  never 
recovered  his  health.  He  lived  for  some  years  at  his  home  in 
Binghamton,  but  the  latter  part  of  his  life  was  spent  at  the 
Glen  Mary  Sanitarium  in  Owego,  N.  Y.,  where  his  death 
occurred  March  26,  1920,  following  a  stroke  of  paralysis. 

Up  to  the  time  of  his  accident  Mr.  Ross  was  a  prolific 
writer  of  magazine  stories  and  shorter  works  of  fiction. 
Among  his  published  books  are  the  following:  "The  Silent 
Workman,"  "Adventures  of  Three  Worthies,"  "The  Specula- 
tor," "Improbable  Tales,"  "Two  Soldiers  and  a  Politician," 
"The  Puppet,"  "A  Trooper  of  the  Empress,"  "Heroes  of  our 
War  with  Spain,"  and  "Blackfriar's  Battle  Tales."  He  was 
unmarried.  He  is  survived  by  a  sister,  Cornelia  Corbett  Ross, 
the  wife  of  Edwin  T.  Hall,  a  non-graduate  member  of  the 
Class  of  1886,  and  a  niece. 

Charles  Morehead  Walker,  B.A.   1884 

Born  September  23,  1859,  in  Covington,  Ky. 
Died  May  13,  1920,  in  Chicago,  111. 

Charles  Morehead  Walker  was  the  son  of  Samuel  Johnson 
and  Amanda  (Morehead)  Walker.  He  was  born  in  Covington, 
Ky.,  September  23,  1859.  His  father,  who  was  the  son  of 
Henry  and  Caroline  (Cooper)  Walker,  was  born  in  Kentucky, 
and  financed  and  built  the  Kentucky  Central  Railroad.  He 
went  to  Chicago  in  1872,  where  he  became  well  known  in  the 


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1 884  1433 

real  estate  world.  Charles  Walker's  maternal  grandparents 
were  Charles  Slaughter  Morehead,  governor  of  Kentucky 
from  1855  to  1859,  ^^^  Margaret  (Leavey)  Morehead.  Charles 
and  Margaret  (Slaughter)  Morehead  were  his  great-grand- 
parents. 

His  preparation  for  college  was  received  at  the  Lake  View 
High  School,  Chicago.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Freshman 
Baseball  Nine,  was  treasurer  of  the  University  Baseball  Club 
in  Senior  year,  and  served  on  the  Senior  Promenade  Commit- 
tee. He  took  star  parts  in  several  dramatic  performances, 
and  was  one  of  the  Class  historians.  While  in  college  he  did 
considerable  newspaper  work. 

He  spent  a  year  in  Europe  after  taking  his  degree,  and  then 
studied  law  in  the  office  of  William  C.  Goudy  and  at  the 
Union  College  of  Law  (now  merged  into  Northwestern  Uni- 
versity), where  he  was  graduated  in  1886.  He  was  admitted 
to  the  bar  in  Chicago  that  year.  During  the  next  ten  years  he 
practiced  his  profession  in  Chicago  as  a  partner  in  the  firm 
of  Collier  &  Walker,  and  later  in  association  with  Charles  M. 
Sherman.  He  was  elected  to  the  Chicago  Board  of  Aldermen 
in  1896,  and  was  reelected  in  1898.  During  his  terms  of  service 
he  took  a  leading  position  for  honest  administration  of  city 
affairs,  was  chairman  of  the  judiciary  committee  of  the  City 
Council,  and  served  on  the  finance,  track  elevation,  and  other 
important  committees.  He  was  prominently  identified  with 
the  Democratic  party,  and  from  1899  to  1903  served  as  cor- 
poration counsel  under  Mayor  Carter  H.  Harrison  (LL.B. 
1883),  acting  also  as  mayor  during  the  latter's  absence.  In 
1903  he  was  elected  a  judge  of  the  Circuit  Court  of  Cook 
County,  was  reelected  to  the  bench  in  1909  and  again  in  191 5, 
and  served  two  terms  as  chief  justice.  In  1914  he  was  chosen 
to  preside  over  the  special  divorce  court.  During  the  war  he 
was  legal  adviser  to  the  local  Draft  Board,  and  in  the  fourth 
Liberty  Loan  Campaign  served  as  chairman  of  the  Precinct 
Committee.  As  a  lawyer  he  won  many  notable  cases,  among 
them  being  the  Illinois  Central  Railroad  suit,  in  which  the 
United  States  Supreme  Court  affirmed  the  title  of  the  people 
to  the  made  lands  along  the  shores  of  Lake  Michigan,  and 
the  litigation  compelling  the  traction  companies  to  issue 
transfers.  He  first  saw  the  possibilities  of  the  beaches  of  Lake 


1434  YALE    COLLEGE 

Michigan  as  a  public  playground,  and  was  the  father  of  the 
Chicago  bathing  beach  plan.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Chicago 
Bar  Association,  and  a  vestryman  of  Ascension  Church 
(Episcopal). 

He  died  May  13,  1920,  in  St.  Luke's  Hospital,  Chicago,  of 
bronchial  pneumonia,  after  an  illness  of  five  weeks  due  to  a 
tumor  of  the  thyroid  gland.  Interment  was  in  Graceland 
Cemetery. 

He  was  married  April  4,  1888,  in  New  York  City,  to  Harriet 
Williams,  daughter  of  Wyllys  Hart  Warner,  a  non-graduate 
member  of  the  Class  of  1854,  and  Henrietta  (Jay)  Warner, 
and  a  granddaughter  of  Wyllys  Warner  (B.A.  1826),  treasurer 
of  Yale  from  1833  to  1852,  and  secretary  of  the  Corporation 
from  1858  to  1869.  Mrs.  Walker  survives  him  with  their 
four  children:  Amy  Morehead  (B.A.  Bryn  Mawr  191 1),  who 
was  married  September  17,  1914,  to  James  Alfred  Field  (B.A. 
Harvard  1903),  professor  of  political  economy  at  the  Uni- 
versity of  Chicago;  Harriet  Warner,  whose  marriage  to  John 
Paul  Welling  (B.A.  Princeton  1903)  took  place  February  19, 
1914;  Charles  Morehead,  Jr.  (Ph.B.  1919);  and  Carolyn,  a 
member  of  the  Class  of  1921  at  Vassar.  He  also  leaves  a 
brother.  Dr.  Samuel  Johnson  Walker  (B.A.  1888),  three 
sisters,  a  nephew,  Samuel  Johnson  Walker,  Jr.,  '17,  two  nieces, 
a  grandson,  and  two  granddaughters.  Another  brother, 
William  Ernest  Walker,  '91  S.,  died  December  20,  191 8. 

David  Plessner,  B.A.   1885 

Born  August  5,  1865,  in  St.  Louis,  Mo. 
Died  April  12,  1920,  in  Macon,  Mo. 

David  Plessner  was  born  in  St.  Louis,  Mo.,  August  5,  1865, 
the  son  of  Abram  Plessner,  a  merchant,  who  was  born  in 
Cracow,  Austria,  and  Esther  (Levy)  Plessner.  His  paternal 
grandparents  were  Jacob  and  Rachel  Plessner.  His  mother 
was  a  native  of  Breslau,  Germany,  and  the  daughter  of  Samuel 
and  Yette  Levy. 

During  1878-79  he  was  a  student  at  the  Missouri  State 
Normal  School  at  Warrensburg,  previous  to  which  he  had 
attended  the  public  schools  of  Holden,  Mo.  He  was  prepared 
for  college  at  Smith  Academy  in  St.  Louis.  He  was  coxswain 


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1884-1885  1435 

of  the  University  Crew  in  Freshman  year.  His  appointments 
were  first  disputes. 

He  received  the  degree  of  LL.B.  at  Washington  University 
(St.  Louis)  in  1887,  after  which  he  became  a  clerk  in  the 
offices  of  James  and  Charles  S.  Taussig  in  St.  Louis.  In 
October,  1889,  he  removed  to  Denver,  Colo.,  where  he 
practiced  his  profession  until  his  death  as  a  member  of  the 
firm  of  Ward,  Plessner  &  Ward.  In  July,  191 2,  he  was  ap- 
pointed public  administrator  of  the  City  and  County  of 
Denver.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Temple  Emanuel  in  Denver. 
While  in  St.  Louis  he  wrote  legal  articles  and  editorials  for 
the  Central  Law  Journal. 

He  died,  of  pneumonia,  in  Macon,  Mo.,  April  12,  1920,  and 
was  buried  in  Mount  Olive  Cemetery  in  St.  Louis.  He  had 
not  married. 


Theodore  Winthrop  Weston,  B.A.   1885 

Born  October  5,  1862,  in  Ossining,  N.  Y. 
Died  December  20,  191 9,  in  St.  Petersburg,  Fla. 

Theodore  Winthrop  Weston  was  born  in  Ossining,  N.  Y., 
October  5,  1862,  the  son  of  Theodore  Weston  (B.A.  1853), 
a  civil  engineer,  and  Sarah  Chauncy  (Winthrop)  Weston.  He 
was  of  English  descent.  His  paternal  grandparents  were  Fred- 
erick and  Elizabeth  B.  (Hart)  Weston.  Through  his  mother, 
who  was  the  daughter  of  Francis  Bayard  Winthrop  (B.A. 
1804),  a  merchant  of  New  York  and  later  of  New  Haven,  and 
Elizabeth  Woolsey,  daughter  of  William  and  Elizabeth 
(Dwight)  Woolsey,  and  a  sister  of  President  Woolsey,  he 
traced  his  descent  in  a  direct  line  from  Governor  John  Win- 
throp of  Massachusetts.  His  great-great-grandfather  was 
John  Still  Winthrop  (B.A.  1737),  and  Yale  relatives  include 
two  great-uncles,  John  Still  Winthrop  (B.A.  1804)  and  Wil- 
liam Henry  Winthrop  (B.A.  1809);  four  uncles.  Rev.  Edward 
Winthrop  (B.A.  1831),  Charles  A.  Winthrop  (B.A.  1832), 
Theodore  Winthrop  (B.A.  1848),  who  was  killed  in  the  battle 
of  Great  Bethel  in  1861,  and  William  Winthrop  (B.A. 
1851);  and  three  cousins:  Henry  R.  Winthrop  (B.A.  1830), 
Buchanan  Winthrop  (B.A.  1862),  and  Henry  R.  Winthrop 


1436  YALE    COLLEGE 

(B.A.  1898),  Another  ancestor  was  Rev.  Jonathan  Edwards 
(B.A.  1720). 

His  preparation  for  college  was  received  at  Gibbons  and 
Beach's  School  in  New  York  City,  St.  Mark's  School,  South- 
boro,  Mass.,  and  Phillips  Academy,  Andover,  Mass. 

In  the  fall  of  1885  he  entered  the  dry  goods  house  of 
Mitchell,  Morris  &  Company  (afterwards,  Wilmerding,  Morris 
&  Mitchell)  in  New  York  City.  In  1890  he  became  a  salesman 
for  Wheelwright,  Eldridge  &  Company,  and  five  years  later 
he  started  in  business  for  himself  as  a  cotton  goods  broker. 
He  was  also  the  New  York  agent  for  the  Montgomery  Cotton 
Mills.  In  1896  he  contracted  tuberculosis  and  went  to  the 
Adirondacks  and  afterwards  to  Liberty,  N.  Y.,  in  the  hope 
of  regaining  his  health.  After  a  few  years'  residence  at  Liberty 
he  entirely  recovered  from  the  disease,  but  it  left  him  with 
only  one  sound  lung.  While  living  in  Liberty  he  was  engaged 
in  business  as  a  real  estate  broker.  From  1905  to  1910  he  was 
secretary  of  the  Real  Estate  Association  of  New  York  State, 
and  later  was  its  vice-president.  In  1907  he  was  appointed  by 
Governor  Hughes  a  member  of  the  state  commission  to  in- 
vestigate the  Torrens  system  of  registering  land  titles,  and 
for  two  years  he  was  also  industrial  agent  of  the  New  York, 
Ontario  &  Western  Railway.  In  191 2  he  was  taken  ill  with 
Bright's  disease,  and  went  to  St.  Petersburg,  Fla.,  where  he 
afterwards  made  his  home,  enjoying  an  active  out-of-door 
life  until  about  a  year  before  his  death.  He  was  an  active 
member  of  the  Board  of  Trade,  and  in  1913  was  an  associate 
member  of  the  Real  Estate  Exchange,  being  connected  with 
the  W.  A.  Lemien  Realty  Company.  He  was  a  member  of  the 
Protestant  Episcopal  Church,  and  had  served  as  senior 
warden  of  the  church  in  Liberty,  and  as  vestryman  of  St. 
Peter's  Episcopal  Church  at  St.  Petersburg.  During  the  war 
he  was  county  chairman  of  the  Council  of  Defense  and  chair- 
man of  the  committee  on  military  relief  of  the  Red  Cross. 

He  died  in  St.  Petersburg,  December  20,  1919,  of  Bright's 
disease,  and  was  buried  in  St.  Bartholomew's  Cemetery,  in 
that  city. 

He  was  first  married  in  New  York  City  in  1892,  to  Clara 
Frances,  daughter  of  William  H.  and  Sarah  C.  Burton,  who 
died  April  24,  1896.  On  June  30,  1901,  his  second  marriage 


1 885-1 886  1437 

took  place  in  Liberty,  to  Edith,  daughter  of  John  VanBos- 
kerck  and  Amelia  J.  (Seaman)  Herrick,  who  survives  him. 
He  had  no  children.  In  addition  to  his  wife  he  leaves  a  half 
brother,  Frederick  Willoughby  Weston,  '99,  a  half  sister, 
Mary  Stimson  Weston,^he  wife  of  William  F.  Dominick,  '98, 
five  nephews,  and  two  nieces. 

Samuel  Kimball  Bremner,  B.A.   1886 

Born  July  28,  1864,  in  Boxford,  Mass. 
Died  December  10,  191 9,  in  Waverley,  Mass. 

Samuel  Kimball  Bremner,  the  son  of  Rev.  David  Bremner 
and  Sarah  Elizabeth  (Kimball)  Bremner,  was  born  July  28, 
1864,  in  Boxford,  Mass.  His  father  was  born  in  Keith,  Banff- 
shire, Scotland,  in  1828,  graduated  at  Dartmouth  College  in 
1850  and  from  Andover  Theological  Seminary  in  1853,  and 
from  the  time  of  his  ordination  in  1855  until  his  death  in  1895 
was  pastor  of  various  Congregational  churches  in  Massachu- 
setts and  New  Hampshire.  He  served  as  a  representative  in 
the  Massachusetts  Legislature  from  Rockport,  and  was  at 
one.  time  chaplain  of  the  House.  Sarah  Kimball  Bremner's 
parents  were  Samuel  and  Elizabeth  (Sawyer)  Kimball,  and 
she  was  a  descendant  of  Richard  Kimball,  who  came  to  this 
country  from  Ipswich,  England,  in  1634  and  settled  at  Water- 
town,  afterwards  removing  to  Ipswich,  Mass. 

He  was  fitted  for  college  at  Phillips  Academy,  Andover, 
Mass.  In  his  Freshman  year  at  Yale  he  was  a  member  of  the 
Class  Baseball  Team  and  he  later  played  on  the  University 
Baseball  Team.  He  was  president  of  the  1886  Baseball  Club 
for  three  successive  years. 

After  graduation  he  studied  for  three  years  at  the  Harvard 
Medical  School,  receiving  the  degree  of  M.D.  in  1889.  He  was 
house  physician  at  the  Bellevue  Hospital  in  New  York  City 
from  October,  1889,  to  October,  1891,  and  was  then  for  four 
years  in  charge  of  the  New  York  Infant  Asylum,  where  he 
became  known  as  an  expert  on  the  diseases  of  children.  He 
was  subsequently  engaged  in  general  practice  in  New  York 
City  and,  in  the  summer,  at  Upper  Saranac  Lake,  N.  Y.  Later 
he  spent  quite  a  part  of  the  time  at  the  family  homestead  in 
Boxford,  Mass.  He  was  for  some  time  an  examining  physician 


1438  YALE    COLLEGE 

of  the  Department  of  Education  of  New  York  City,  but  gave 
up  the  position  in  1917,  on  account  of  ill  health. 

He  died,  of  cancer,  December  10,  191 9,  in  Waverley,  Mass. 
Burial  was  in  the  Congregational  Cemetery  in  Boxford. 

He  was  married  January  7,  i896,'«in  New  York  City,  to 
Laura,  daughter  of  William  Henry  and  Mary  V.  (Applegate) 
Jackson.  Mrs.  Bremner  is  no  longer  living.  A  daughter,  Laura 
Elizabeth,  survives  her  parents.  They  had  two  sons:  Samuel 
Kimball,  Jr.  (born  August  6,  1901;  died  January  29,  1914), 
and  William  Jackson  (born  in  1907;  died  May  25,  19 10). 


William  Ebenezer  Nichols,  B.A.   1886 

Born  August  27,  1862,  in  New  York  City 
Died  March  21,  1920,  in  New  York  City 

William  Ebenezer  Nichols,  the  son  of  William  E.  Nichols, 
a  cotton  manufacturer,  and  Catherine  T.  (Gillette)  Nichols, 
was  born  in  New  York  City,  August  27,  1862.  His  father's 
parents  were  William  E.  and  Hannah  (Grinnell)  Nichols,  and 
his  mother  was  the  daughter  of  Benjamin  F.  and  Catherine  H. 
Gillette. 

He  was  fitted  for  college  at  the  Hopkins  Grammar  School 
in  New  Haven.  His  appointment  in  Junior  year  was  a  dis- 
sertation and  he  won  a  second  prize  at  the  Junior  Exhibition. 
He  received  an  oration  appointment  and  special  honors  in 
modern  languages  Senior  year. 

He  went  abroad  in  October,  1886,  and  spent  nearly  two 
years  in  travel  and  study  in  Paris  and  Berlin.  On  his  return 
to  this  country  he  became  a  partner  in  W.  E.  Nichols  & 
Company,  manufacturers  of  cotton  twine,  fish  and  tennis 
nets,  of  Moodus,  Conn.,  with  an  office  in  New  York  City. 
Later  he  served  as  treasurer  of  the  South  Florida  Lumber 
Company  of  Cocoanut  Grove,  dividing  his  time  between 
New  York  and  Florida.  In  1895  ^^  became  engaged  in  the 
investment  business  in  New  York,  and  in  1901  formed  the 
firm  of  W.  E.  Nichols  &  Company,  which  dealt  especially  in 
bank  and  trust  company  stocks.  He  became  associated  with 
the  bank  stock  and  unlisted  securities  department  of  L.  H. 
Cooke  &  Company  in  1913,  and  from  191 5  until  his  death 


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1886  1439 

was  with  Cameron,  Michel  &  Company,  Inc.  He  had  been 
vice-president  of  the  New  York  Net  &  Twine  Company,  a  di- 
rector of  the  Empire  State  Bank,  and  a  trustee  of  the  Colum- 
bia Trust  Company.  He  was  a  contributor  to  the  Wall  Street 
Digest  and  compiled  statistics  on  investment  coppers.  He  had 
always  maintained  a  residence'  at  East  Haddam,  Conn., 
where  he  had  interests,  and  in  1900  he  delivered  the  presenta- 
tion speech  at  the  unveiling  of  the  Nathan  Hale  monument  in 
that  town.  He  was  a  member  of  the  East  Haddam  Congrega- 
tional Church  and  of  the  Connecticut  branch  of  the  Sons  of 
the  American  Revolution. 

He  died,  of  double  pneumonia,  after  a  three  days'  illness, 
March  21,  1920,  in  New  York  City.  Interment  was  in  Wood- 
lawn  Cemetery. 

He  was  married  October  16,  1889,  in  Des  Moines,  Iowa,  to 
Florence,  daughter  of  E.  H.  Gillette.  His  second  marriage 
took  place  in  New  Haven,  June  28,  191 1,  to  Mary  Briscoe 
Bredow,  daughter  of  Helen  M.  (Hill)  Stockdale,  who  survives 
him.  He  had  no  children. 

John  Henry  Painter,  B.A.   1886 

Born  June  25,  1865,  at  Pine  Creek.  Furnace,  Pa. 
Died  November  27,  1919,  in  Kittanning,  Pa. 

John  Henry  Painter  was  born  June  25,  1865,  at  Pine  Creek 
Furnace,  Pa.  His  father,  John  P.  Painter,  who  was  engaged 
in  the  oil  and  furnace  business,  was  the  son  of  Henry  and 
Sarah  (Bellis)  Painter,  and  a  descendant  of  Jacob  Painter, 
who  settled  in  Westmoreland  County,  Pa.,  about  1800,  hav- 
ing previously  lived  in  the  eastern  part  of  the  state.  His 
mother,  Rebecca  Brown  (Neale)  Painter,  was  the  daughter  of 
Dr.  Samuel  Stanhope  Smith  Neale,  a  graduate  of  Jefferson 
Medical  College,  and  Margaret  Matilda  Eaton  (Brown) 
Neale.  The  latter  was  the  daughter  of  Robert  and  Rebecca 
Brown,  and  a  granddaughter  of  Capt.  James  Brown,  who 
served  with  a  Pennsylvania  regiment  throughout  the  Revolu- 
tion. The  first  member  of  the  Neale  family  in  America  was 
John  Neale,  who  came  from  England  to  Salem,  Mass.,  prior 
to  1642. 

John  H.   Painter  was  prepared  for  college  privately  in 


1440  YALE    COLLEGE 

Kittanning,  Pa.  At  Yale  he  received  a  Junior  dissertation  and 
a  Senior  first  dispute  appointment. 

He  read  law  with  his  uncle,  Judge  James  Brown  Neale,  at 
Kittanning  for  two  years  after  graduation,  and  was  admitted 
to  the  Armstrong  County  Bar  on  June  25,  1888.  He  began  the 
practice  of  his  profession  with  his  uncle  under  the  name  of 
Neale  &  Painter.  The  partnership  was  dissolved  by  the  death 
of  Judge  Neale  in  1903,  and  he  afterwards  practiced  alone.  In 
1 9 13  he  was  appointed  judge  of  the  County  Court  of  Common 
Pleas,  and  he  had  also  served  as  a  U.  S.  commissioner.  He 
was  one  of  the  leading  business  men  of  Kittanning,  and  had 
taken  an  important  part  in  the  development  of  the  commu- 
nity. He  was  president  of  the  Kittanning  Clay  Manufacturing 
Company  and  a  director  of  the  Merchants  National  Bank, 
and  had  numerous  other  business  interests.  During  the  war 
he  served  as  legal  adviser  to  the  local  Draft  Board.  He  was  a 
member  of  St.  Paul's  Episcopal  Church,  and  at  the  time  of 
his  death  was  serving  as  junior  warden. 

He  had  been  in  poor  health  for  several  years,  and  his  death, 
which  was  due  to  an  affection  of  the  liver,  occurred  at  his 
home,  November  27,  1919.  Burial  was  in  Kittanning. 

Mr.  Painter  was  married  June  27,  1893,  to  Caroline  Robin- 
son, daughter  of  Samuel  and  Josephine  (Robinson)  Crawford, 
who  survives  him  with  three  children:  Josephine,  whose 
marriage  to  Dwight  Cadogan  Morgan,  Jr.,  a  graduate  of  the 
University  of  Michigan,  took  place  June  30,  1917;  John 
Henry,  Jr.  (B.A.  1919);  and  Isabel  Neale  (B.A.  Smith  1920). 
His  Yale  relatives  include:  John  C.  Neale,  '91  S.,  James  E. 
Brown,  '94,  James  B.  Neale,  '96,  Henry  C.  Colwell,  '99, 
Drayton  Heard,  '10,  Charles  T.  Neale,  '15  S.,  and  Charles 
C.Heard, '18. 

John  Frederic  Roache,  B.A.   1886 

Born  January  18,  1863,  in  Andover,  Mass. 
Died  January  12,  1920,  in  Holbrook,  Mass. 

John  Frederic  Roache,  son  of  James  Averd  Roache,  a 
carpenter,  and  Isabella  (Findley)  Roache,  was  born  in  An- 
dover, Mass.,  January  18,  1863.  His  father,  who  was  of  Irish 
descent,  was  the  son  of  Frederick  and  Elizabeth  (Ricketson) 


1880  I44I 

Roache,  and  a  descendant  of  Matthew  Roache,  who  lived  at 
Wilmot,  Nova  Scotia.  His  mother's  parents  were  John  Greig 
and  Catherine  (Richie)  Findley,  and  she  traced  her  descent 
from  John  Findley,  of  Montrose,  Scotland. 

He  received  his  preparatory  training  at  Phillips-Andover. 
In  his  Junior  year  at  college  he  was  given  a  second  dispute 
appointment. 

His  life* since  graduation  had  been  devoted  to  teaching  in 
Massachusetts  schools.  He  had  been  principal  of  the  grammar 
school  at  Hanover  and  of  the  high  schools  in  Hinsdale,  South- 
boro,  Millbury,  and  Athol,  and  from  1906  to  1919  was  junior 
master  and  instructor  in  history  in  the  Quincy  High  School. 
He  was  secretary  and  treasurer  of  the  Quincy  High  School 
Athletic  Association,  treasurer  of  the  Quincy  Teachers' 
Association,  and  a  member  of  the  Washington  Street  Con- 
gregational Church.  During  the  war  he  was  a  member. of  the 
Quincy  food  production  and  conservation  committee,  chair- 
man of  the  committee  on  high  school  labor  for  the  second 
ward,  and  an  associate  member  of  the  Legal  Advisory  Board. 

He  died  January  12,  1920,  in  the  Elmhurst  Hospital  in 
Holbrook,  Mass.,  from  hardening  of  the  arteries,  after  an 
illness  of  several  weeks.  Burial  was  in  the  Hinsdale  Cemetery. 

He  was  married  November  26,  1896,  to  Sarah  Pamelia, 
daughter  of  William  Ambrose  and  Helen  (Hamilton)  Taylor, 
who,  with  their  two  children,  survives  him.  The  son,  Frederic 
Ambrose,  graduated  at  Yale  with  the  degree  of  B.A.  in  1920, 
and  the  daughter,  Mabel  Taylor,  is  a  member  of  the  Class  of 
1922  at  Mount  Holyoke  College. 

John  Whitmore,  B.A.   1886 

Born  March  6,  1864,  in  New  Haven,  Conn. 
Died  June  23,  1920,  in  Knoxville,  Tenn. 

John  Whitmore,  the  son  of  James  D.  Whitmore,  principal 
of  the  Hillhouse  High  School  in  New  Haven,  Conn.,  and  Ruth 
(Morton)  Whitmore,  was  born  in  New  Haven,  March  6,  1864. 
His  ancestors  were  among  the  early  settlers  of  Plymouth, 
Mass.,  having  come  to  America  from  England  on  the  ship 
Ann. 

He  was  prepared  for  college  at  the  Hillhouse  High  Schoot 


144^  YALE    COLLEGE 

and  at  the  Ithaca  (N.  Y.)  Preparatory  School.  He  received  a 
first  prize  in  mathematics  in  his  Freshman  year  at  Yale,  and 
his  appointment  in  both  Junior  and  Senioi*  years  was  an  ora- 
tion. 

For  a  year  after  graduation  he  was  principal  of  the  high  school 
in  Humboldt,  Iowa,  and  was  then  for  two  years  instructor 
in  physics  at  the  University  of  Minnesota.  From  1889  to  1892 
he  studied  at  Yale  as  a  Sloane  Fellow.  He  received -the  degree 
of  Ph.D.  in  1892,  and  remained  at  Yale  as  an  instructor  in 
physics  until  1894.  During  the  next  four  years  he  taught 
physics  in  the  Classical  High  School  at  Lynn,  Mass.,  after 
which  he  was  a  graduate  student  at  Yale  until  1901.  From 
September  of  that  year  until  April,  1905,  he  taught  in  the 
Stamford  (Conn.)  High  School.  He  then  went  abroad,  and 
spent  six  months  in  study  at  the  University  of  Freiburg, 
Baden,  Germany,  and  some  time  in  travel.  From  1906  to 
1 914  he  was  engaged  in  teaching  physics  and  chemistry  at 
Howard  University,  Wells  College,  the  University  of  Wooster, 
the  University  of  Washington,  and  Kenyon  College.  He  had 
become  a  lay  reader  in  the  Episcopal  Church  in  1908,  and 
was  so  much  interested  in  the  work  that  he  became  a  candi- 
date for  Holy  Orders  while  in  Seattle,  and  began  theological 
studies  under  the  Bishop  of  Olympia.  He  was  made  a  deacon 
in  the  Episcopal  Church  in  1913,  and  the  next  year  entered  the 
General  Theological  Seminary  in  New  York  City.  His  studies 
were  interrupted  by  the  illness  and  death  of  his  only  daughter, 
and  by  his  own  illness.  In  February,  19 16,  he  became  assistant 
to  the  rector  of  Grace  Church  in  Manchester,  N.  H.,  but  left 
there  the  following  fall  to  fill  a  vacancy  in  the  teaching  force 
of  the  high  school  at  Newburyport,  Mass.  During  1917-18  he 
taught  in  the  University  of  the  South,  Sewanee,  Tenn., 
preaching  during  this  time  in  Winchester,  Tenn.,  and  from 
January  to  June,  1919,  he  taught  in  the  St.  Andrew's  (Tenn.) 
School.  His  health  failed  in  the  fall  of  that  year  and  he  went 
to  the  City  View  Sanatorium  at  Nashville,  Tenn.,  where  he 
remained  until  March,  1920,  when  he  was  removed  to  the 
Eastern  State  Hospital  at  Bearden.  He  died  June  23,  1920, 
in  Knoxville,  Tenn.,  and  was  buried  in  the  cemetery  at  St. 
Andrew's. 
r  He  was  married  December  28,  1892,  in  Brentwood,  N.  H., 


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to  Fannie  M.,  daughter  of  Daniel  and  Mary  (Moulton)  Smith, 
who  died  December  i,  191 8.  Their  only  child,  Elisabeth,  who 
was  born  October  14,  1901,  died  September  20,  191 5.  Mr. 
Whitmore  leaves  a  sister,  Lucy  M.  (Mrs.  Nathan  R.  Nichols, 
of  Congress  Park,  111.). 


Robert  Maxwell,  B.A.   1887 

Born  September  20,  1864,  in  Rockville,  Conn. 
Died  March  21,  1920,  in  New  York  City 

Robert  Maxwell,  whose  parents  were  George  and  Harriet 
(Kellogg)  Maxwell,  was  born  in  Rockville,  Conn.,  September 
20,  1 864.  His  father,  who  was  a  manufacturer  of  woolens  and 
worsteds,  had  served  as  a  state  representative  and  senator. 
He  was  a  son  of  Sylvester  Maxwell,  a  graduate  of  the  College 
in  1797,  and  Tirzah  (Taylor)  Maxwell,  who  was  a  daughter 
of  Lemuel  and  Abigail  (White)  Taylor.  His  grandparents  were 
Hugh  Maxwell,  a  native  of  Ireland,  who  came  to  America 
in  1735,  and  was  a  Lieutenant  Colonel  in  the  Revolutionary 
Army,  and  Bridget  (Munroe)  Maxwell,  who  was  a  daughter 
of  WilUam  and  Phoebe  Munroe,  of  Lexington,  Mass.  Robert 
Maxwell's  maternal  ancestors  came  to  America  from  England 
in  1660. 

He  attended  the  Rockville  High  School  before  entering 
Yale.  He  received  a  first  colloquy  appointment  in  both  Junior 
and  Senior  years,  was  an  editor  of  the  News,  and  served  on  the 
Class  Day  Committee. 

He  traveled  through  the  Pacific  Coast  states  and  to  Alaska 
after  graduation,  and  lived  on  a  ranch  in  North  Dakota, 
where  he  raised  stock  and  wheat.  He  had  been  connected 
with  the  Hockanum  Mills  Company,  woolen  and  worsted 
manufacturers,  of  Rockville,  since  1890,  acting  as  selling 
agent  in  New  York,  and,  since  1907,  as  vice-president  and  a 
director.  He  was  also  a  director  of  the  Aeolian-Weber  Piano  & 
Pianola  Company.  He  had  retained  a  residence  in  Rockville, 
and  was  a  trustee  of  the  Public  Library  and  a  member  of  the 
Union  Congregational  Church.  He  belonged  to  the  Sons  of 
the  American  Revolution.  He  had  traveled  extensively  in 
Europe,  and  had  visited  Egypt, Turkey,  Algeria,  and  Morocco. 


1444  YALE    COLLEGE 

He  died  March  21,  1920,  in  New  York  City,  after  an  illness 
of  three  weeks  due  to  kidney  disease.  His  body  was  taken  to 
his  native  town  for  burial  in  Grove  Hill  Cemetery.  He  left 
$300,000  to  Yale  University,  subject  to  the  life  interest  of 
his  sister  and  brothers,  and  made  large  bequests  to  the  Rock- 
ville  City  Hospital,  the  Rockville  Public  Library,  and  the 
Sykes  Manual  Training  School. 

Mr.  Maxwell  was  not  married.  Two  brothers,  William 
Maxwell  (B.A.  1885)  and  Francis  Taylor  Maxwell,  and  a 
sister,  Julia  Alice  Maxwell,  survive  him.  Relatives  who  have 
attended  Yale  include  Rev.  Dr.  Joshua  Leavitt  (B.A.  18 14), 
Charles  U.  Clark,  '97,  John  K.  Clark,  '99,  and  George  M. 
Clark,  01. 

George  Olney  Brott,  B.A.   1888 

Born  March  4,  1867,  in  Calhoun,  Miss. 
Died  August  4,  1919,  in  Hartford,  Conn. 

George  Olney  Brott  was  born  in  Calhoun,  Miss.,  March  4, 
1867,  his  parents  being  George  Fuller  and  Lucy  Elmira 
(Olney)  Brott.  His  father  was  an  inventor  who  had  taken  out 
a  number  of  patents  and  who  was  also  engaged  in  developing 
large  tracts  of  real  estate.  He  was  the  son  of  Abram  and  Irene 
(Jewett)  Brott,  and  a  descendant  of  Aarant  VanBradt,  one 
of  the  original  Dutch  settlers  of  New  York.  George  Olney 
Brott's  maternal  grandparents  were  Jeremiah  and  Almira  F. 
(Jacobs)  Olney.  Jeremiah  Olney  was  the  son  of  Hezekiah 
Olney,  one  of  the  early  settlers  of  Thompson,  Conn.  He  was 
engaged  in  the  manufacture  of  hats,  and  had  held  all  of  the 
town  offices  in  succession,  was  collector  of  internal  revenue 
for  ten  years  and  president  of  the  National  Bank  of  Thomp- 
son for  twenty-six  years,  and  represented  the  town  in  the 
Legislature  three  terms.  His  earliest  American  ancestor  was 
Thomas  Olney,  who  came  from  St.  Albans,  Hertfordshire, 
England,  in  1633,  and  settled  in  Salem,  Mass.,  becoming  one 
of  the  leading  officers  in  the  colony.  He  was  later  excluded  from 
the  colony  and  with  Roger  Williams  became  one  of  the  found- 
ers of  Providence,  of  which  he  was  in  turn  treasurer,  assist- 
ant governor,  and  commissioner.  He  was  a  grantee  under  the 
royal  charter  of  Charles  II  in  1662.  Two  of  his  descendants, 


Jeremiah  and  Stephen  Olney,  were  officers  in  the  Revolu- 
tionary War.  The  latter  led  the  advance  column  at  Yorktown. 
Their  brother,  Joseph  Olney,  held  a  commission  as  Com- 
mander in  the  Navy. 

He  entered  Yale  from  Dean  Academy,  Franklin,  Mass. 
He  received  a  first  dispute  Junior  and  a  dissertation  Senior 
appointment. 

After  graduation  he  spent  two  years  at  the  Columbia  Law 
School,  and  in  May,  1890,  was  admitted  to  the  bar  at  Pough- 
keepsie,  N.  Y.  He  was  located  in  New  York  City  until  1894, 
during  the  first  year  being  managing  clerk  for  Austin  B. 
Fletcher  and  thereafter  practicing  independently.  In  June, 
1894,  he  removed  to  Hartford,  Conn.,  and  two  years  later 
entered  into  partnership  with  Judge  Edward  B.  Bennett,  '66, 
under  the  firm  name  of  Bennett  &  Brott.  In  April,  1896,  he 
was  elected  a  city  councilman,  and  from  1897  to  1899  he 
served  as  an  alderman.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Republican 
Town  Committee  from  1899  to  1903,  and  in  1900  was  chair- 
man of  the  8th  Ward  Committee.  He  had  served  as  a  justice 
of  the  peace  for  ten  or  twelve  years.  In  1909  his  partnership 
with  Judge  Bennett  was  dissolved  and  he  formed  a  partner- 
ship with  George  J.  Stoner  (LL.B.  1899),  under  the  name  of 
Brott  &  Stoner,  continuing  in  this  association  until  his  death. 
He  was  prominent  in  various  civic  activities  in  Hartford  and 
a  regular  attendant  of  the  South  Church,  although  he  had 
retained  his  membership  in  the  Congregational  Church  at 
Thompson,  Conn.  He  had  served  as  a  Corporal,  and  later  as 
a  Lieutenant,  in  the  Putnam  Phalanx. 

Mr.  Brott  died  suddenly,  of  heart  disease,  at  his  home  in 
Hartford,  August  4,  191 9.  His  body  was  taken  to  Thompson 
for  burial.  His  will  provided  that  his  estate  be  left  for  the 
life  use  of  his  widow  and  after  that  to  his  son,  and  if  there 
were  no  descendants  of  his  son  living  at  the  termination  of 
said  trust,  one  half  of  the  fund  then  remaining  should  be 
given  to  Yale,  to  be  used  for  whatever  purpose  the  authori- 
ties should  deem  proper,  except  that  no  part  thereof  should 
be  used  in  connection  with  the  Divinity  School. 

He  was  married  December  23,  1896,  to  Carrie  Maria, 
daughter  of  Andrew  and  Maria  Wheaton  (Perry)  Mills.  She 
survives  him  with  a  son,  Jeremiah  Olney  Brott,  a  member  of 


1446  YALE    COLLEGE 

the  Class  of  1920,  who  left  Yale  in  March,  1918,  to  enter  the 
Aviation  Service.  He  was  discharged  from  the  Army  the  fol- 
lowing December  and  was  given  a  reserve  commission  as  a 
Second  Lieutenant  in  the  Air  Service. 


Henry  Huntly  Haight,  B.A.   1888 

Born  November  4,  1864,  in  San  Francisco,  Calif, 
Died  December  2,  191 9,  in  Oakland,  Calif. 

Henry  Huntly  Haight  was  born  in  San  Francisco,  Calif., 
November  4,  1864,  the  son  of  Henry  Huntly  Haight  (B.A. 
1844),  governor  of  California  from  1867  to  1871,  and  Anna 
Elizabeth  (Bissell)  Haight.  His  paternal  grandparents  were 
Fletcher  Mathews  Haight,  a  graduate  of  Hamilton  College  in 
1818,  who  was  appointed  judge  of  the  United  States  District 
Court  for  southern  California  by  President  Lincoln  in  1862, 
and  Elizabeth  Stewart  (MacLachlan)  Haight.  He  traced  his 
ancestry  to  Cameron  of  Lochiel,  and  to  Jonathan  Teal 
Haight,  who  came  to  America  from  England.  His  mother  was 
the  daughter  of  Capt.  Lewis  Bissell  and  Mary  (Woodbridge) 
Bissell,  and  a  descendant  of  John  Bissell,  who  was  born  in 
Somerset,  England,  in  1591,  and  sailed  in  1630  from  Plym- 
outh, England,  for  Boston.  The  family  home  is  at  Windsor, 
Conn.  John  Bissell's  ancestors  were  natives  of  France  who 
were  driven  out  of  the  country  at  the  time  of  the  massacre 
of  St.  Bartholomew,  took  refuge  in  Holland,  and  later  re- 
moved to  Somerset. 

His  preparation  for  college  was  received  at  the  Trinity 
School  in  San  Francisco.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Freshman 
Crew  and  of  the  Junior  Promenade  Committee.  He  held  a 
second  colloquy  appointment  in  both  Junior  and  Senior 
years. 

Mr.  Haight  spent  three  months  abroad  after  graduation, 
and  on  his  return  entered  the  Yale  School  of  Law.  The  fol- 
lowing year  he  became  a  student  at  the  Hastings  College  of 
Law  at  the  University  of  California,  where  he  received  the 
degree  of  LL.B.  in  1891.  He  was  admitted  to  the  bar,  and 
after  serving  for  nine  months  as  a  clerk  in  a  law  office,  began 
to   practice   independently   in   San    Francisco.    In    1893    he 


I«b«  1447 

accepted  the  position  of  managing  clerk  for  the  law  firm  of 
Chickering,  Thomas  &  Gregory,  which  position  he  held  until 
1897.  He  then  became  engaged  in  the  general  insurance  busi- 
ness in  San  Francisco  in  partnership  with  J.  O.  Cadman, 
under  the  firm  name  of  Cadman  &  Haight.  From  1909  to 
1 919  he  was  district  manager  in  San  Francisco  of  the  Standard 
Accident  Insurance  Company  of  Detroit,  Mich. 

He  died  very  suddenly,  of  heart  disease,  at  his  home  in 
Oakland,  Calif.,  December  2,  1919.  Interment  was  in  Moun-' 
tain  View  Cemetery,  Oakland. 

His  second  marriage  took  place  in  Berkeley,  Calif.,  No- 
vember 15,  1902,  to  Dora  B.,  daughter  of  Major  Henry  Mc- 
Kinley  Benson,  U.  S.  A.  retired,  and  Mary  Francesca  (Paty) 
Benson,  who  survives  him  with  their  son,  Henry  Huntly, 
3d,  born  January  i,  191 1.  In  addition  to  his  wife  and  son,  he 
leaves  a  brother.  Dr.  Louis  Montrose  Haight  (Ph.B.  1889), 
and  a  sister,  Janet  Cameron  Haight.  He  was  a  nephew  of 
Dugald  Cameron  Haight  (B.A.  1847). 

Charles  Berghaus  McConkey,  B.A.   1888 

Born  December  27,  1867,  in  Harrisburg,  Pa.  < 

Died  January  16,  1920,  in  Harrisburg,  Pa. 

Charles  Berghaus  McConkey,  son  of  Elbridge  and  Fanny 
W.  (Berghaus)  McConkey,  was  born  December  27,  1867,  in 
Harrisburg,  Pa.  His  father,  who  attended  the  Harvard  Law 
School,  was  a  lawyer  and  secretary  of  the  Harrisburg  Gas 
Company.  His  parents  were  David  ana  Catherine  (Jones) 
McConkey.  The  family  is  of  Scotch-Irish  origin,  the  first 
member  in  this  country  being  David  McConkey,  whose 
home  was  at  West  Chester,  Pa.  Through  his  mother,  who  was 
the  daughter  of  Charles  and  Mary  W.  (Hummel)  Berghaus, 
he  traced  his  descent  from  Frederick  Hummel,  the  founder 
of  Hummelstown,  Pa.,  who  was  the  first  signer,  in  1775,  of 
a  document  pledging  the  citizens  of  Derry  township  (then  in 
Lancaster  County)  to  fight  for  the  colonies  against  England. 

He  was  prepared  for  Yale  at  the  Harrisburg  Academy. 
He  played  on  the  Freshman  Baseball  Team,  was  a  member 
of  the  University  Baseball  Team  in  both  Junior  and  Senior 
years,  and  served  on  the  Senior  Class  Supper  Committee. 


1448  YALE    COLLEGE 

After  taking  his  degree,  he  spent  a  year  and  a  half  learning 
the  iron  and  steel  business  with  the  Pennsylvania  Steel 
Company  at  Steelton,  and  then  took  up  the  study  of  law.  He 
began  his  work  in  the  Yale  School  of  Law,  but  completed  his 
course  in  the  office  of  Lyman  DeH.  Gilbert  (B.A.  1865)  in 
Harrisburg.  He  was  admitted  to  the  Dauphin  County  Bar  in 
1 891,  and  immediately  began  the  practice  of  his  profession 
in  his  native  town.  In  1893  he  was  admitted  to  the  bar  of  the 
Pennsylvania  Supreme  Court.  From  September,  1902,  to 
October,  1904,  he  was  commissioner  of  highways  for  Harris- 
burg. During  the  World  War,  in  addition  to  continuing  the 
practice  of  law,  he  was  engaged  in  munitions  work.  He  was 
a  member  of  St.  Stephen's  Church  in  Harrisburg.  In  1895  ^e 
stumped  the  state  of  Pennsylvania  for  the  Democratic  can- 
didate for  governor. 

His  death  occurred  in  Harrisburg,  January  16,  1920,  and 
he  was  buried  in  the  Harrisburg  Cemetery. 

Mr.  McConkey  was  unmarried.  He  is  survived  by  a  sister, 
Sarah  B.  McConkey,  of  Harrisburg,  and  two  nieces. 


John  Havemeyer  Daniels,  B.A.   i 

Born  March  21,  1868,  in  Belvidere,  N.  J. 
Died  February  13,  1920,  in  Buffalo,  N.  Y. 

John  Havemeyer  Daniels  was  born  in  Belvidere,  N.  J., 
March  21,  1868,  the  son  of  Rev.  Josiah  Reeves  Daniels,  a 
Methodist  Episcopal  minister,  and  Abigail  Ann  (Sharpe) 
Daniels.  His  parents  were  both  of  English  descent. 

He  was  prepared  for  college  at  the  Jersey  City  High  School 
and  at  the  Centenary  Collegiate  Institute  at  Hackettstown, 
N.  J.  He  spent  two  years  at  Wesleyan  College  as  a  member  of 
the  Class  of  1889  and  entered  Yale  as  a  Junior.  He  received  a 
dissertation  appointment  and  one-year  honors  in  philosophy 
in  Senior  year. 

He  pursued  graduate  studies  at  Yale  until  June,  1891, 
and  in  1892  was  granted  the  degree  of  Ph.D.  In  November, 
1889,  he  had  been  appointed  registrar  of  the  Chatauqua 
Correspondence  College.  In  September,  1891,  the  office  was 
transferred  from  New  Haven  to  Buffalo,  where  he  served  as 


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executive  secretary  and  instructor  in  philosophy  in  the  Cha- 
tauqua  College  until  November,  1898,  when  the  department 
closed.  He  entered  the  Medical  Department  of  Niagara 
University  in  September,  1891,  was  graduated  in  1895  ^^^^ 
the  degree  of  M.D.,  and  then  became  a  lecturer  on  anatomy 
and  materia  medica  at  that  institution.  For  three  years  he 
was  also  clinical  instructor  in  women's  diseases.  Since  1904 
he  had  practiced  his  profession  in  Buffalo.  He  was  at  one  time 
visiting  physician  to  the  Providence  Retreat  (for  the  insane) 
and  St.  Mary's  Infant  Asylum  and  Maternity  Hospital,  and 
had  been  assistant  to  the  United  States  Marine  Hospital 
surgeon,  and  medical  examiner  for  several  insurance  com- 
panies. He  was  a  member  of  the  Richmond  Avenue  Methodist 
Episcopal  Church,  and  was  very  active  in  philanthropic  work, 
being  especially  interested  in  the  Working  Girls'  Home  in 
Niagara  Street,  and  the  Deaconess  Home  of  the  Methodist 
Episcopal  Church  on  Delaware  Avenue. 

Dr.  Daniels  died  from  the  effects  of  a  stroke  of  paralysis, 
at  the  Buffalo  General  Hospital,  February  13,  1920.  Inter- 
ment was  in  Forest  Lawn  Cemetery  in  Buffalo. 

He  was  married  January  18,  1893,  in  North  Adams,  Mass., 
to  Flora  Eva  Pike  (B.A.  Vassar  1890).  Mrs.  Daniels  sur- 
vives him  with  three  of  their  four  children:  Florence  DeWitt 
(B.A.  Vassar  191 5);  John  Alden,  who  attended  Cornell  for  a 
year,  and  graduated  from  Yale  in  1919;  and  Paul  Clement, 
a  member  of  the  Class  of  192,4.  Their  second  daughter,  Rachel 
Craig,  who  was  born  May  13,  1895,  ^^^^  ^^^^  following  Sep- 
tember. Besides  his  wife  and  children  Dr.  Daniels  leaves  his 
mother,  a  sister,  Mary  Sharpe  Daniels  (B.A.  Wellesley  1886), 
of  Ocean  Grove,  N.  J.,  and  a  brother,  Morris  S.  Daniels,  of 
Newark,  N.  J. 


Frederic  William  Wallace,  B.A.   i 

Born  August  12,  1865,  in  Ansonia,  Conn. 
Died  October  30,  1919,  in  Plainfield,  N.  J. 

Frederic  William  Wallace  was  born  in  Ansonia,  Conn., 
August  12,  1865,  the  son  of  Thomas  and  Ellen  (Bryant) 
Wallace.  His  father  was  born  in  Manchester,  England,  and 
came  at  an  early  age  to  this  country.  He  became  interested 


1450  YALE    COLLEGE 

in  developing  the  mineral  wealth  of  Montana,  had  large 
mining  interests,  and  was  prominently  identified  with  the 
copper  industry.  He  made  many  improvements  in  the  methods 
used  in  fine  wire  drawing.  His  father  was  Thomas  Wallace, 
who  was  born  in  Edinburgh,  and  who  came  to  America 
because  of  pronounced  political  views.  He  established  a  mill 
at  Annsville-on-Hudson,  removed  later  to  Derby,  Conn., 
and  subsequently  settled  at  Ansonia.  His  wife  was  Agnes 
Lord.  Frederic  W.  Wallace's  great-grandmother  was  a  noble- 
woman, the  wife  of  an  officer  in  the  English  Army.  His 
mother  is  the  daughter  of  Socrates  and  Jerusha  (Terrill) 
Bryant,  and  a  lineal  descendant  of  Lieut.  John  Bryant,  of 
Plymouth,  Mass.,  who  was  married  in  1665  to  Abigail  Shaw. 
An  uncle,  W^illiam  Wallace,  invented  the  first  electric  arc 
light. 

Frederic  W.  Wallace  was  prepared  for  college  at  Phillips 
Academy,  Andover,  Mass.  He  played  on  the  Andover  Foot- 
ball Team  during  the  entire  four  years  of  his  course,  and  on 
entering  Yale  with  the  Class  of  1888  became  captain  of  the 
Freshman  Football  Team.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Univer- 
sity Football  Team  throughout  his  course.  He  joined  the  class 
with  which  he  took  his  degree  at  the  beginning  of  Junior  year. 

Since  ghaduation  he  had  been  engaged  in  the  manufacture 
of  brass  and  copper.  He  became  an  authority  in  the  brass 
and  copper  wire  business,  and  his  opinion  was  much  sought 
after,  both  in  this  country  and  in  Europe.  He  was  manager 
of  the  Ansonia  branch  of  the  Coe  Brass  Manufacturing  Com- 
pany until  1900,  and  from  that  time  until  his  death  served  as 
managing  director  and  treasurer  of  the  Waclark  Wire  Com- 
pany, with  offices,  since  1903,  at  Elizabeth,  N.  J.,  and  in 
New  York  City.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Crescent  Avenue 
Presbyterian  Church  in  Plainfield,  N.  J. 

He  died,  of  pneumonia,  after  an  illness  of  only  a  few  days, 
October  30,  1919,  in  Plainfield.  Burial  was  in  Washington, 
Conn. 

Mr.  Wallace  was  married  September  9,  1896,  in  that  town, 
to  Grace,  daughter  of  Edward  A.  and  Mary  (Turner)  Sec- 
comb,  who  survives  him  with  their  five  children:  Edward 
Seccomb  (B.A.  1920),  who  served  in  the  Air  Service  during 
the  war;  Elizabeth  Hale;  Frederic  William,  Jr. 


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1 889-1 890  I45I 

dent  at  Andover;  Mary  Sumner;  and  Grace  Seccomb,  2d.  He 
also  leaves  his  mother,  three  brothers,  Thomas  Wallace,  Jr., 
John  Bryant  Wallace,  and  Harold  Sedgwick  Wallace  (B.A. 
1901),  and  three  sisters.  He  was  an  uncle  of  H.  Mitchell 
Wallace,  '03,  John  B.  Wallace,  Jr.,  '09  S.,  and  Thomas  Wal- 
lace, 3d,  ex-'i^. 

William  Hale  Beckford,  B.A.   1890 

Born  September  8,  1867,  in  Danvers,  Mass. 
Died  November  12,  1919,  in  Philadelphia,  Pa. 

William  Hale  Beckford  was  born  in  Danvers,  Mass., 
September  8,  1867,  the  son  of  Horace  Beckford,  a  contractor 
and  builder,  whose  ancestors  came  to  America  in  the  early 
days  of  its  history  from  England  (or  the  English  Pale  in 
Ireland)  and  settled  first  at  Salem,  Mass.  His  mother  was  L. 
Frances  (Hale)  Beckford,  a  descendant  of  Nathan  Hale 
(B.A.  1773),  the  martyred  patriot  of  the  Revolution.  Edward 
Everett  Hale  belonged  to  the  same  family. 

His  preparatory  training  was  received  at  the  high  school 
in  East  Orange,  N.  J.  In  Sophomore  year  at  Yale  he  won  the 
first  prize  in  English  composition.  His  appointment  in  both 
Junior  and  Senior  years  was  an  oration. 

He  spent  the  first  two  years  after  graduation  as  principal 
of  the  Stonega  Academy  at  Big  Stone  Gap,  Va.,  and  during 
the  next  year  was  engaged  in  tutoring  at  Lebanon,  Pa.  He 
then  took  up  journalistic  work  in  New  York  and  Boston,  at 
the  same  time  continuing  the  study  of  law,  which  he  had 
begun  while  living  in  Lebanon.  He  was  admitted  to  the  bar 
of  Lebanon  County  in  the  spring  of  1895  and  to  that  of  the 
Supreme  Court  of  Pennsylvania  the  following  year.  During 
this  period  he  also  devoted  some  time  to  selling  stocks  and 
bonds.  He  removed  to  Philadelphia  in  January,  1897,  and 
for  several  years  was  on  the  staff  of  the  Evening  Bulletin. 
About  1904  he  was  placed  in  charge  of  the  editorial  columns 
of  the  Philadelphia  Evening  ^elegraph^  and  later  he  did  special 
work  for  the  Record.  In  addition  to  his  newspaper  work,  he 
was  engaged  in  miscellaneous  literary  work  and  magazine 
writing,  to  which  he  later  gave  his  entire  attention.  He  was 
at  one  time  the  editor  of  a  financial  magazine.  A  month 


1452  YALE    COLLEGE 

before  his  death  he  accepted  a  position  as  editor  for  a  New 
York  publishing  house.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Episcopal 
Church,  and  was  active  in  the  work  of  the  parish  in  which 
he  lived  in  Philadelphia.  He  built  up  the  Sunday  school  and 
served  as  superintendent,  and  also  taught  a  large  class. 

Mr.  Beckford  died  November  12,  19 19,  in  Philadelphia,  as 
a  result  of  uraemic  poisoning.  Interment  was  in  Mount  Moriah 
Cemetery  in  that  city. 

He  was  married  January  14,  1897,  in  Lebanon,  to  Hattie 
M.,  daughter  of  Charles  J.  Link,  from  whom  he  was  later 
divorced.  Two  children,  William  Hale,  Jr.,  and  Emma  Frances, 
survive.  Another  son,  Horace  E.,  died  July  26,  1908. 


Andrew  Glassell  Dickinson,  Jr.,  B.A.   1890 

Born  November  14,  1867,  in  New  Orleans,  La. 
Died  January  10,  1920,  in  New  York  City 

Andrew  Glassell  Dickinson,  Jr.,  son  of  Col.  Andrew  Glassell 
Dickinson  and  Sue  Marshall  (Coleman)  Dickinson,  was  born 
in  New  Orleans,  La.,  November  14,  1867.  His  father,  who  was 
the  son  of  Festus  Dickinson,  a  graduate  of  Dickinson  College, 
and  Elizabeth  (Brashear)  Dickinson,  was  educated  at  mili- 
tary schools  in  Virginia,  and  during  the  Civil  War  served  as 
chief  of  staff  under  General  John  B.  Magruder  of  the  Confed- 
erate Army.  After  the  war  he  was  associated  with  the  New 
York  Life  Insurance  Company,  organizing  the  department  of 
that  company  which  embraced  Cuba,  South  and  Central 
America,  and  Mexico.  Because  of  his  liberal  gifts  to  public 
institutions  in  those  countries  he  received  the  cross  and  insig- 
nia of  the  Order  of  Isabella  la  Catolica  from  the  Queen  Regent 
of  Spain,  and  the  Cross  of  Bolivar  from  the  United  States  of 
Venezuela.  The  Dickinsons  came  from  Dundee,  Scotland,  to  ^ 
America  in  early  colonial  days  and  settled  at  first  in  New  J 
England,  and  later  in  Pennsylvania  and  Virginia.  Sue  Cole-  f, 
man  Dickinson  was  the  daughter  of  Col.  Nicholas  D.  Coleman 
and  Lucy  (Marshall)  Coleman,  a  niece  of  Chief  Justice  John 
Marshall  of  the  U.  S.  Supreme  Court,  and  a  cousin  of  Thomas 
A.  Marshall  (B.A.  181 5).  She  was  descended  from  John  Mar- 
shall, a  Captain  of  Cavalry  in  the  service  of  Charles  I,  who 


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1 890-1 891  1453 

emigrated  to  Virginia  in  1650,  and  became  the  head  of  the 
Marshall  family  of  Virginia  and  Kentucky. 

He  was  prepared  for  college  under  a  private  tutor  and  at 
Phillips  Academy,  Andover,  Mass.,  and  attended  St.  John's 
College,  Fordham  Heights,  New  York  City,  before  coming 
to  Yale. 

After  graduation  he  studied  law  at  Columbia  and  the 
University  of  Virginia,  and  in  1892  was  admitted  to  the  Vir- 
ginia Bar  and  commenced  practice  in  Alexandria.  He  re- 
moved his  law  office  to  New  York  City  in  1893,  becoming  a 
member  of  the  firm  of  Ludden,  Payne  &  Dickinson,  the  name 
of  which  was  changed  a  year  later  to  Dickinson  &  Payne.  Mr. 
Dickinson  practiced  independently  from  1895  ^°  ^9^3i  ^"^ 
was  then  engaged  in  the  publishing  business  for  about  a  year. 
He  resumed  the  practice  of  law  in  1905,  giving  especial  atten- 
tion to  real  estate  law,  and  maintained  an  office  in  New  York 
City  until  his  death,  which  occurred,  from  pneumonia,  fol- 
lowing influenza,  January  10,  1920.  Interment  was  in  Mount 
Hope  Cemetery,  Westchester  County. 

Mr.  Dickinson  was  also  president  of  the  Industrial  Realty 
Corporation,  and  a  director  of  the  real  estate  firm  of  Brooke 
&  Georger,  Inc.  For  ten  years  he  was  a  member  of  Squadron 
A  Cavalry,  New  York  National  Guard.  He  belonged  to  the 
Sons  of  the  Revolution. 

He  was  married  May  25,  1898,  in  New  York  City,  to  Kathe- 
rine  Hunt,  daughter  of  Hobert  and  Mary  Trotter  (Tilford) 
Earle,  who  died  July  31,  1903.  A  son.  Hunt  Tilford,  a  member 
of  the  Princeton  Class  of  1922,  survives. 

George  Walter  Hodges,  B.A.   1891 

Born  August  i,  1863,  in  Riverton,  Conn, 
Died  November  23,  1919,  in  Quincy,  Mass. 

George  Walter  Hodges  was  born  August  i,  1863,  in  River- 
ton,  Conn.  He  was  the  son  of  George  Hodges,  a  scythe  maker, 
who  traced  his  ancestry  to  the  founding  of  Rhode  Island,  and 
Martha  (Taylor)  Hodges.  His  preparation  for  college  was 
received  at  Colby  Academy,  New  London,  N.  H. 

Immediately  after  graduation  he  assisted  ex-Governor 
Goodell  of  New  Hampshire  in  an  effort  to  save  a  large  enter- 


1454  YALE    COLLEGE 

prise  at  Fort  Payne,  Ala.  He  became  a  salesman  for  the  Good- 
ell  Company,  wholesale  hardware  dealers,  of  Antrim,  N.  H., 
in  January,  1892,  and  had  remained  with  that  concern  ever 
since.  His  field  was  the  Middle  West,  and  his  headquarters 
were  at  Chicago  until  19 17,  when  he  became  sales  manager 
and  a  director  of  the  company.  From  that  time  until  his  death 
he  made  his  headquarters  in  Antrim,  N.  H.  He  was  much 
interested  in  public  school  work,  and  was  a  member  of  the 
Board  of  Education  of  Morgan  Park,  111.,  from  1904  until 
1 91 7,  and  also,  for  a  number  of  years,  of  the  High  School 
Board.  He  had  a  small  farm  at  Morgan  Park,  and  was  a 
member  of  the  First  Baptist  Church  there. 

He  died  November  23,  191 9,  in  Quincy,  Mass.,  from  cancer, 
and  was  buried  in  Bristol,  Conn. 

He  was  married  July  18,  1894,  in  New  London,  N.  H.,  to 
Ella  Maria,  daughter  of  Albert  R.  and  Clara  (Burt)  Hunting, 
who  survives  him  with  three  of  their  five  children:  Burt  Tay- 
lor, George  Albert,  and  James  Myron.  Their  oldest  son,  David 
Hunting,  who  was  born  November  17,  1895,  ^^^^  °^  pneu- 
monia, at  Le  Mans,  France,  November  22,  1918.  He  was  a 
private  in  the  Headquarters  Troop  of  the  86th  Division.  A 
daughter,  Justine  Isabel,  died  in  infancy.  In  addition  to  his 
wife  and  children  Mr.  Hodges  is  survived  by  a  brother,  James 
E.  Hodges,  of  Bristol,  a  sister,  a  half  brother,  and  a  half 
sister. 

Samuel  Benjamin  Morison,  B.A.   1891 

Born  November  25,  1867,  in  St.  Paul,  Minn. 
Died  June  13,  1920,  in  Redlands,  Calif. 

Samuel  Benjamin  Morison  was  of  Norman-English  and 
Scotch  ancestry,  and  was  born  in  St.  Paul,  Minn.,  November 
25,  1867,  his  parents  being  Harrison  Gray  Otis  Morison,  a 
lawyer,  and  Rebecca  (Newel)  Morison.  He  was  a  grandson  of 
Samuel  and  Betsey  (Benjamin)  Morison,  and  a  direct  descend- 
ant of  Robert  Morison,  who  came  to  America  from  England 
in  1720  and  settled  at  Londonderry,  N.  H.  Rebecca  Newel 
Morison  was  the  daughter  of  Stanford  and  Abby  Lee  (Penni- 
man)  Newel,  and  a  sister  of  Stanford  Newel  (B.A.  1861),  who 
served  for  eight  years  as  minister  plenipotentiary  to  the 
Netherlands. 


1891  1455 

His  preliminary  education  was  received  at  Phillips  Academy, 
Exeter,  N.  H.  He  played  on  the  University  Football  Team  in 
Freshman,  Junior,  and  Senior  years. 

He  completed  a  law  course  at  the  University  of  Minnesota 
in  1893,  and  from  that  time  until  1899,  with  the  exception  of 
a  few  months  in  the  summer  of  1898  which  he  spent  in  the 
United  States,  he  devoted  his  attention  to  his  coffee  planta- 
tion at  Tumbala,  Mexico.  In  the  spring  of  19CO,  after  spend- 
ing four  months  in  the  office  of  J.  W.  Doane  &  Company  in 
New  York  City  for  the  purpose  of  studying  the  handling  of 
coffee  in  this  country,  he  opened  an  office  of  his  own.  For  a 
number  of  years  previous  to  his  death  he  had  been  treasurer 
and  manager  in  New  York  of  the  Esperanza  Coffee  Company, 
dividing  his  time  between  New  York  and  the  Esperanza  coffee 
plantation  in  Mexico.  He  was  also  president  of  the  Holland 
Coffee  Company,  Inc. 

His  death  occurred  June  13,  1920,  in  Redlands,  Calif.,  and 
he  was  buried  there. 

Mr.  Morison  was  married  July  27,  1897,  in  Minneapolis, 
Minn.,  to  Margaret  E.,  daughter  of  Capt.  S.  P.  Snider.  She 
died  September  16,  1903,  and  on  November  4,  1907,  his  sec- 
ond marriage  took  place,  at  Newburgh-on-Hudson,  N.  Y.,  to 
Helen  E.,  daughter  of  William  and  Louise  (Feidler)  Neilson, 
who  survives  him.  He  also  leaves  two  children  by  his  first 
marriage,  Margaret  and  Samuel  Newel,  and  two  brothers: 
David  Whipple  Morison  and  Stanford  Newel  Morison, 
graduates  of  the  College  in  1888  and  1892,  respectively.  His 
only  sister  died  in  1874. 

Arthur  Benedict  Russell,  B.A.   1891 

Born  April  25,  1870,  in  South  Norwalk,  Conn. 
Died  January  6,  1920,  in  Norwalk,  Conn. 

Arthur  Benedict  Russell,  son  of  James  Luzerne  Russell,  a 
manufacturer,  and  Cornelia  (Benedict)  Russell,  was  born  in 
South  Norwalk,  Conn.,  i\pril  25,  1870.  He  was  of  French- 
Huguenot  descent.  His  paternal  grandparents  were  Thadeous 
and  Rebecca  (Thomas)  Russell,  and  his  mother  was  the 
daughter  of  George  and  Sarah  (Beardslee)  Benedict,  and  a 
descendant  of  Thomas  Benedict,  who  came  to  the  United 


1456  YALE    COLLEGE 

States  in  1638  from  France,  settled  first  in  Massachusetts, 
and  later  removed  to  Connecticut. 

He  was  fitted  for  college  at  the  Chester  Valley  Academy, 
Donnington,  Pa.,  and  was  given  a  second  colloquy  appoint- 
ment in  both  Junior  and  Senior  years  at  Yale. 

For  three  years  after  graduation  he  was  engaged  in  private 
tutoring  in  South  Norwalk,  after  which  he  became  a  teacher 
in  a  private  school  in  that  town.  During  1898-99  he  took 
graduate  work  in  Latin  and  education  at  Columbia  Univer- 
sity, and  the  following  year  became  an  instructor  in  Latin  at 
the  Princeton  (N.  J.)  Preparatory  School.  He  remained  there 
as  assistant  headmaster  and  part  owner  of  the  school  until 
1914,  and  from  that  time  until  his  death  had  a  similar  con- 
nection with  the  Massee  Country  School  at  Bronxville,  N.  Y. 
He  was  a  member  of  the  South  Norwalk  Congregational 
Church. 

His  death,  which  was  due  to  tuberculosis,  occurred  in 
Norwalk,  January  6,  1920.  Interment  was  in  the  Riverside 
Cemetery  in  that  city. 

He  was  married  December  21,  191 2,  in  Norwalk,  to  Clara, 
daughter  of  Legrand  C.  and  M.  Franke  (Olmstead)  Betts, 
who  survives  him.  He  had  no  children.  His  father  and  a 
brother  are  living. 

Francis  Hoyt  Griffin,  B.A.   1892 

Born  December  31,  1869,  in  Milford,  Conn. 
Died  January  8,  191 8,  in  Atlanta,  Ga. 

Francis  Hoyt  Griffin  was  born  December  31,  1869,  in  Mil- 
ford,  Conn.,  the  son  of  Rev.  George  Harmon  Griffin  and 
Katharine  L.  (Hoyt)  Griffin.  His  father,  whose  parents  were 
Harmon  and  Louisa  Gould  (Faulkner)  Griffin,  took  his  B.A. 
at  Yale  in  i860,  graduated  from  Union  Theological  Seminary 
in  1864,  was  for  twenty  years  pastor  of  Plymouth  Congrega- 
tional Church  in  Milford,  and  then  became  secretary  for 
New  England  of  the  American  Sunday  School  Union.  His 
maternal  grandfather  was  Samuel  A.  Hoyt,  of  Fishkill,  N.  Y. 

Before  entering  Yale  he  attended  the  Springfield  (Mass.) 
Collegiate  Institute.  In  his  Junior  year  he  was  given  a  second 
colloquy  appointment. 


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1891-1092  1457 

After  graduation  he  spent  two  years  at  the  New  York  Law 
School,  and  in  June,  1894,  he  received  the  degree  of  LL.B. 
from  that  institution  and  was  admitted  to  the  New  York  Bar. 
In  November  of  that  year  he  became  managing  clerk  in  the 
law  office  of  Seymour  &  Hopkins  in  New  York  City,  and  the 
following  October  began  an  independent  practice  in  the  office 
of  Frederic  A.  Ward  (B.A.  1862).  He  was  subsequently  a 
member  of  the  firm  of  Luce,  Davis  &  Griffin,  and  from  1902 
to  191 2  was  a  receiver  and  trustee  in  bankruptcy  in  the  U.  S. 
District  Court.  While  practicing  law  in  New  York  City,  he 
was  a  member  of  the  27th  Assembly  District  Republican  Club, 
served  for  six  years  (resigning  in  1906)  as  a  member  of  the 
Consistory  of  the  Collegiate  Dutch  Reformed  Church,  and 
belonged  to  the  Merchants  and  Manufacturers  Board  of 
Trade  and  the  County  Lawyers  Association.  His  death  oc- 
curred January  8,  191 8,  in  Atlanta,  Ga.  The  last  few  years  of 
his  life  were  passed  under  unfortunate  circumstances. 

He  was  married  July  21,  1902,  in  Washington,  D.  C,  to 
Mrs.  Margaret  Mitchell  Hembold,  daughter  of  John  Hippie 
Mitchell,  for  many  years  senator  from  Oregon.  Her  death 
occurred  March  15,  1904,  and  on  September  29,  1906,  his 
second  marriage  took  place  to  Clara  Elizabeth  Holland, 
granddaughter  of  Dr.  Josiah  Gilbert  Holland,  at  one  time 
editor  of  the  Springfield  Republican  and  one  of  the  founders 
of  Scribners  Magazine. 

Isaac  Hallam  Jenney,  B.A.   1892 

Born  August  19,  1 871,  in  Bogota,  Colombia 
Died  May  3,  1920,  in  New  York.  City 

Isaac  Hallam  Jenney  was  born  in  Bogota,  Colombia,  Au- 
gust 19,  1871,  the  son  of  James  Halsey  Jenney,  a  merchant, 
and  Lucy  Williams  (Hallam)  Jenney.  His  mother  was  the 
daughter  of  Isaac  Williams  and  Nancy  (Hallam)  Hallam. 
He  traced  his  descent  to  John  Jenney  (or  Jenne),  who  came 
from  Norwich,  England,  to  Plymouth,  Mass.,  in  1623. 

His  preparation  for  college  was  received  at  King's  School 
for  Boys  in  Stamford,  Conn. 

He  studied  electrical  engineering  at  Cornell  University  for 
a  year  after  graduation  and  in  July,  1893,  entered  the  employ 


1458  YALE    COLLEGE 

of  the  Western  Electric  Company,  New  York  City.  From 
July,  1894,  to  May,  1899,  he  was  connected  with  Suzarte  & 
Whitney,  export  and  import  commission  merchants  in  New 
York.  He  was  then  engaged  in  general  electrical  construction, 
as  president  of  the  Jenney  Construction  Company  until  May, 
1903,  when  he  became  a  member  of  the  firm  of  Gilsey,  Have- 
meyer  &  Jenney,  real  estate  brokers.  This  connection  lasted 
until  1914,  and  from  that  time  until  his  death  he  was  treasurer 
of  the  real  estate  house  of  Peter  Gilsey  &  Company,  Inc.  He 
served  in  Squadron  A,  New  York  National  Guard,  from  1895 
to  1900,  and  from  March,  1916,  until  January  26,  1919,  was 
a  member  of  Troop  A^  Squadron  A  Cavalry,  New  York  Guard, 
in  which  he  was  given  a  commission  as  Second  Lieutenant  in 
191 8.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Protestant  Episcopal  Church. 

He  died  May  3,  1920,  in  New  York  City,  from  stomach 
trouble.  Burial  was  in  Woodlawn  Cemetery. 

He  was  married  June  8,  1898,  in  New  York  City,  to  Mary 
Isabelle,  daughter  of  James  and  Euphemia  D.  Russell,  who 
survives  him  with  their  daughter,  Marie  Russell. 


Alvah  Stone  Chisholm,  B.A.   1893 

Born  November  13,  1871,  in  Chicago,  111. 
Died  August  20,  1919,  in  Cleveland,  Ohio 

It  has  been  impossible  to  secure  the  desired  information 
for  an  obituary  sketch  of  Mr.  Chisholm  in  time  for  publication 
in  this  volume.  A  biographical  statement  will  appear  in  a 
subsequent  issue  of  the  Obituary  Record. 


Alexis  Painter  Bartlett,  B.A.   1894 

Born  February  2,  1872,  in  Washington,  D.  C, 
Died  October  29,  191 9,  in  Washington,  D.  C. 

Alexis  Painter  Bartlett,  born  February  2,  1872,  in  Washing- 
ton, D.  C,  was  the  son  of  David  Vandewater  Golden  and 
Julia  McMahon  (Painter)  Bartlett.  His  father,  who  was  the 
son  of  the  Rev.  John  Bartlett  (B.A.  1807),  of  Bloomfield, 
Conn.,  and  Jane  Golden  Bartlett,  daughter  of  Judge  Golden 


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1 892-1 894  1459 

of  Herkimer  County,  N.  Y.,  was  born  in  Bloomfield.  He  went 
to  England  when  he  was  nineteen  and  lived  there  for  some 
years,  but  spent  most  of  his  life  as  a  journalist  in  Washington, 
D.  C,  where  he  was  at  one  time  assistant  editor  of  the  National 
Era^  and  for  many  years  correspondent  of  the  New  York 
Evening  Post^  the  Springfield  Republican^  and  other  leading 
journals.  Later  he  was  for  a  number  of  years  American  secre- 
tary of  the  Chinese  Legation.  The  Bartletts  were  of  English 
origin,  coming  from  Stopham,  Sussex.  Their  first  American 
ancestor,  Robert  Bartlett,  came  to  this  country  in  the  ship 
Anne;  thirteen  other  ancestors,  including  Governor  Carver, 
John  Howland,  Richard  Warren,  Elder  Brewster,  and  John 
Alden,  came  over  in  the  Mayflower.  The  Goldens  were  of 
English  and  Dutch  ancestry.  Julia  Painter  Bartlett  was  born 
in  Cummington,  Mass.,  the  daughter  of  Alexis  Painter 
(B.A.  1 81 5),  of  West  Haven,  Conn.,  and  Thalia  Maria 
(McMahon)  Pointer.  Alexis  Painter  studied  law  in  Baltimore, 
and  practiced  there  for  a  few  years,  later  going  to  Cumming- 
ton, and  finally  returning  to  West  Haven.  His  father,  Capt. 
Thomas  Painter,  as  a  boy  fought  in  the  Revolution,  and  was 
taken  and  imprisoned  on  the  Jersey.  A  great-great-uncle, 
Samuel  Smith,  son  of  Lamberton  Smith,  "gave  eight  acres 
for  the  college  in  New  Haven,  October  29,  17 — ."  Another 
great-uncle,  Gamaliel  Painter,  settled  in  Middlebury,  Vt. 
He  was  one  of  the  framers  of  the  constitution  of  that  state, 
and  left  nearly  all  his  property  to  Middlebury  College,  in 
acknowledgment  of  which  one  of  the  college  buildings  was 
named  for  him.  Painter  Hall  is  still  standing,  the  oldest 
college  building  in  the  state  of  Vermont. 

Alexis  Painter  Bartlett  was  fitted  for  college  at  the  high 
schools  in  Washington,  D.  C,  and  Hartford,  Conn.  He  re- 
ceived a  dissertation  Junior  appointment  and  a  first  colloquy 
Senior  appointment.  He  was  a  member  of  the  College  Choir 
and  of  the  University  Glee  Club. 

He  studied  at  the  New  York  Law  School  after  graduation, 
was  admitted  to  the  bar  of  New  York  in  1899,  and  began  to 
practice  in  the  office  of  Evarts,  VanCott  &  Erskine  in  New 
York  City.  In  1902  he  was  elected  a  member  of  the  Association 
of  the  Bar  of  the  City  of  New  York,  and  from  1904  until  his 
death  he  was  in  independent  practice  in  that  city.  He  was  an 


1460  YALE    COLLEGE 

officer  in  the  American  Can  Company,  the  Susquehanna 
Contracting  Company,  the  City  Land  Improvement  Com- 
pany, the  Manhattan-Hudson  Realty  Company,  and  the 
Eastern  Parkway  Company.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Episco- 
pal Church  at  Sag  Harbor,  Long  Island. 

Mr.  Bartlett  died,  of  arthritis,  after  an  illness  of  three  years, 
October  29,  1919,  in  New  York  City,  and  was  buried  in  Oak 
Grove  Cemetery  in  West  Haven. 

He  was  married  November  3,  1900,  in  Brookline,  Mass.,  to 
Georgia  Hawley,  daughter  of  James  Fordham  and  Dorliska 
(Conking)  Bassett,  who  died  July  29,  191 3.  He  is  survived  by 
his  son,  Vandewater  Golden  Bartlett,  a  brother,  Philip  Golden 
Bartlett,  '81,  and  a  sister.  His  Yale  relatives  include:  Rev. 
Shubael  Bartlett  (B.A.  1800),  David  E.  Bartlett  (B.A.  1828), 
Dr.  Shubael  F.  Bartlett  (B.A.  1833),  Rev.  WilHam  T.  Rey- 
nolds (B.A.  1845),  William  H.  W.  Campbell  (B.A.  1856), 
Henry  W.  Painter  (M.D.  1856),  Charles  G<k  Bartlett,  '72, 
Charles  L.  Bartlett,  '76,  John  P.  Bartlett,  '78  S.,  Dr.  Francis 

B.  Kellogg,  '83,  James  B.  Reynolds,  '84,  Dr.  Henry  McM. 
Painter,  '84  and  '85  S.,  Charles  G.  Bartlett,  Jr.,  '99,  Valentine 

C.  Bartlett,  '15,  Alexis  P.  Nason,  '15  (who  fell  at  the  front  in 
France  in  191 8,  while  serving  as  a  Lieutenant  in  a  Canadian 
regiment),  and  Russell  S.  Bartlett,  '17. 


Philip  Hamilton  McMillan,  B.A.   1894 

Born  December  28,  1872,  in  Detroit,  Mich. 
Died  October  4,  1919,  at  Grosse  Pointe  Farms,  Mich. 

Philip  Hamilton  McMillan,  son  of  James  and  Mary  L. 
(Wetmore)  McMillan,  was  born  in  Detroit,  Mich.,  December 
28,  1872.  His  father  was  the  second  son  of  William  and  Grace 
McMillan,  who  emigrated  from  Scotland  to  Canada,  settling  in 
Hamilton,  Ontario,  in  1834.  At  an  early  age  James  McMillan 
went  to  Detroit,  where  he  became  a  successful  business  man. 
In  1889  he  was  elected  to  the  U.  S.  Senate;  he  was  twice 
reelected,  continuing  in  office  until  his  death  in  1902.  The 
list  of  his  benefactions  is  .a  long  one. 

Philip  H.  McMillan  was  fitted  for  college  at  Phillips  Acad- 
emy, Andover,  Mass.  In  his  Junior  year  at  Yale  he  received 


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1894  14^1 

a  second  colloquy  appointment  and  his  Senior  appointment 
was  a  first  colloquy.  He  was  president  of  the  Yale  Navy  and 
a  member  of  the  Junior  Promenade,  Class  Supper,  and  Trien- 
nial committees. 

He  spent  the  year  after  graduation  abroad.  In  1895  he 
entered  the  Harvard  Law  School,  where  he  received  the 
degree  of  LL.B.  in  1897.  He  then  went  to  New  York  City, 
entered  the  law  office  of  Curtis,  Mallet-Prevost  &  Colt,  and 
in  April,  1898,  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  New  York  State. 
In  1899  h^  returned  to  Detroit,  and  became  a  partner  in  the 
law  firm  of  Wells,  Angell,  Boynton  &  McMillan.  He  was 
engaged  in  the  general  practice  of  law  for  about  six  years, 
but  after  that  his  many  corporate  connections  demanded  the 
greater  part  of  his  time.  The  deaths  of  his  father  and  of  his 
two  older  brothers  brought  upon  him  a  great  responsibility 
in  the  management  of  a  large  family  estate,  of  which  he  was 
trustee.  At  the  time  of  his  death  he  was  president  of  the 
Detroit  &  Cleveland  Navigation  Company,  the  Pontchart- 
rain  Hotel  Company,  the  Monarch  Steel  Castings  Company, 
and  the  Park-Manor  Development  Company,  vice-president 
of  the  D.  M.  Ferry  Seed  Company  and  the  Detroit  Creamery 
Company,  and  secretary  and  treasurer  of  the  Detroit  Free 
Press  and  the  Packard  Motor  Car  Company.  He  was  also  a 
director  of  the  First  and  Old  Detroit  National  Bank,  the 
Detroit  Savings  Bank,  and  the  Union  Trust  Company.  For 
many  years  he  had  been  a  trustee  of  the  Detroit  Y.  M.  C.  A. 
and  Grace  Hospital.  He  attended  Christ  (Episcopal)  Church. 

He  died  of  heart  disease,  October  4,  1919,  at  his  home  at 
Grosse  Pointe  Farms,  a  suburb  of  Detroit.  Interment  was  in 
the  Elmwood  Cemetery  in  Detroit. 

He  was  married  June  7,  1899,  in  Washington,  D.  C,  to 
Elizabeth  K.,  daughter  of  General  Nicholas  Longworth  Ander- 
son and  Elizabeth  (Kilgour)  Anderson,  who  survives  him.  He 
also  leaves  a  brother,  Francis  Wetmore  McMillan  (Ph.B. 
1897),  a  sister,  Lady  Harrington,  the  wife  of  Sir  John  Lane 
Harrington,  of  London,  a  nephew,  James  T.  McMillan,  ex-0(), 
and  three  nieces.  His  two  older  brothers,  William  Charles 
McMillan  (B.A.  1884)  and  James  Howard  McMillan  (B.A. 
1888),  died  in  1907  and  1902,  respectively. 


14^2  YALE    COLLEGE 

Benjamin  Davis,  B.A.   1895 

Born  January  i,  1871,  in  Chicago,  111. 
Died  February  6,  1920,  in  Chicago,  111. 

Benjamin  Davis  was  born  in  Chicago,  111.,  January  i,  1871, 
the  son  of  George  Royal  and  Gertrude  (Schulin)  Davis. 
His  father  was  the  son  of  Benjamin  Davis,  a  native  of  Ware, 
Mass.,  and  Cordelia  (Buffington)  Davis,  who  was  born  in  Con- 
necticut; a  grandson  of  Benjamin  and  Theodosia  (Barnes) 
Davis,  and  Royal  and  Eunice  (Morse)  Buffington;  and  a  direct 
descendant  of  William  Davis,  who  emigrated  from  Carmathan, 
Wales,  to  Oxford,  Mass.,  in  1635.  George  Royal  Davis  began 
the  study  of  law  after  his  graduation  from  Williston  Seminary, 
Easthampton,  Mass.  When  the  Civil  War  broke  out  he  en- 
listed in  the  8th  Massachusetts  Volunteer  Infantry,  in  which 
he  became  a  Captain  in  1862.  He  resigned  this  commission 
in  1863  and  organized  a  battery  of  light  artillery,  became 
Captain  of  the  3d  Rhode  Island  Cavalry,  and  was  promoted 
to  Major  in  September,  1863.  After  the  close  of  the  war  he 
was  in  several  Indian  fights  under  General  Custer,  but  in  1871 
he  resigned  his  commission  and  took  up  his  residence  in 
Chicago.  He  was  a  member  of  the  45th,  46th,  47th,  and  48th 
Congresses,  and  served  as  director-general  of  the  World's 
Fair  in  Chicago.  Gertrude  Schulin  Davis  was  the  daughter  of 
Gregory  and  Josephine  (Daniels)  Schulin,  of  New  Orleans,  La. 

Benjamin  Davis  received  his  preparation  for  college  at 
Williston  Seminary.  At  Yale  he  was  a  member  of  the  Class 
Baseball  Team,  served  as  a  substitute  on  the  University 
Nine  in  1892,  and  was  a  member  of  the  University  Baseball 
Team  in  1893. 

During  the  first  two  years  after  graduation  he  was  a  stu- 
dent at  the  Harvard  Law  School,  and  from  1898  to  1902  he 
practiced  his  profession  in  Chicago,  becoming  an  assistant 
United  States  attorney  in  1899.  From  1902  to  1906  he  was 
engaged  in  the  cattle  business  in  Texas  and  Illinois,  after 
which  he  resumed  the  practice  of  law  in  Chicago. 

He  died,  as  the  result  of  a  stroke  of  paralysis,  after  an  illness 
of  eight  years,  February  6,  1920,  in  Chicago.  Burial  was  in 
Rose  Hill  Cemetery. 

He  was  unmarried.  Three  sisters  survive  him. 


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1895  1463 

John  Aloysius  Lee,  B.A.   1895 

Born  December  27,  1872,  in  New  Britain,  Conn. 
Died  April  4,  1920,  in  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 

John  Aloysius  Lee  was  born  December  27,  1872,  in  New 
Britain,  Conn.  He  was  the  son  of  Patrick  Joseph  Lee,  a 
merchant,  who  was  born  in  County  Clare,  Ireland,  in  1840 
and  came  to  America  in  1852,  and  Bridget  (Cloughessy)  Lee, 
also  a  native  of  Ireland.  He  graduated  as  valedictorian  of  his 
class  at  the  New  Britain  High  School  and  then  entered  Yale. 
His  Junior  appointment  was  a  second  colloquy,  and  he  re- 
ceived a  first  colloquy  at  Commencement. 

He  began  the  study  of  medicine  at  Yale  in  1895,  ^^^  ^^^ 
years  later  was  graduated  with  the  degree  of  M.D.  During 
1896-97  he  was  an  editor  of  the  Tale  Medical  Journal.  In 
1898,  after  serving  a  year's  interneship  at  St.  Mary's  Hospital 
in  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.,  he  began  the  practice  of  medicine  and 
surgery  in  Brooklyn.  He  became  an  assistant  surgeon  at  St. 
Mary's  Hospital  in  1901,  was  promoted  to  associate  surgeon 
in  1908,  and  in  191 2  received  an  appointment  as  attending 
surgeon.  In  1898  he  had  equipped  at  that  hospital  the  first 
hospital  X-ray  department  in  the  United  States.  He  served 
for  ten  years  as  attending  surgeon  at  the  Kingston  Avenue 
Hospital,  and  for  five  years  was  Surgeon  of  the  2d  Naval  Bat- 
talion, U.  S.  Naval  Reserve  Force.  In  August,  1 917,  he  organ- 
ized Naval  Hospital  Unit  No.  4,  the  medical  and  nursing  per- 
sonnel being  recruited  principally  from  the  staff  of  St.  Mary's 
Hospital.  The  unit  was  called  into  service  in  December,  and 
after  two  months'  training  at  the  Brooklyn  Naval  Hospital 
and  the  Rockefeller  War  Demonstration  Hospital  in  New 
York  City,  was  assigned  to  the  hospital  ship  Comfort.  Dr.  Lee, 
who  had  been  commissioned  as  Lieutenant  Commander  in 
the  Naval  Reserve  on  December  6,  1917,  became  director  of 
the  hospital  and  surgeon-in-chief  of  the  unit.  The  Comfort  was 
assigned  to  overseas  duty  in  the  spring  of  1918,  but  did  not 
go  across  until  a  short  time  before  the  armistice,  in  the  mean- 
time doing  hospital  duty  with  the  fleet  at  Base  2  and  in  New 
York  harbor.  After  the  armistice  the  unit  was  ordered  to  St. 
Nazaire,  France,  to^take  back  to  New  York  the  first  large 


1464  YALE    COLLEGE 

number  of  seriously  wounded  cases  from  the  hospital  at 
Savigny.  Dr.  Lee  was  promoted  to  the  grade  of  Commander 
July  22,  1919,  and  was  placed  on  the  inactive  list  December 
20,  1 91 9.  He  served  as  secretary  of  the  Kings  County  Medical 
Society  from  1904  to  1906,  and  later  held  office  as  senior 
censor  and  vice-president.  He  was  elected  president  of  the 
organization  in  1919,  but  on  account  of  ill  health  had  never 
assumed  office.  He  was  a  member  of  the  American  Medical 
Society  and  the  New  York  State  Medical  Association,  a  Fel- 
low of  the  American  College  of  Surgeons,  and  a  former  presi- 
dent of  the  Brooklyn  Surgical  Society,  before  which  he  had 
read  many  papers  on  surgical  subjects.  A  number  of  these 
have  been  published.  He  was  a  Roman  Catholic,  and  a  com- 
municant of  the  Church  of  Our  Lady  of  Victory  in  Brooklyn. 

He  died  April  4,  1920,  at  his  home  in  Brooklyn,  and  was 
buried  in  St.  Mary's  Cemetery  in  New  Britain.  His  death 
was  due  to  sarcoma  of  the  lungs,  the  result  of  X-ray  burns 
received  in  1898. 

He  was  married  May  22,  1901,  in  Chicago,  111.,  to  Penelope 
Stout,  daughter  of  Abner  and  Elizabeth  (Hall)  Bond.  They 
had  no  children.  Mrs.  Lee's  death  occurred  in  December,  1920. 
Surviving  Dr.  Lee  are  three  brothers:  Frederick  P.  Lee,  who 
was  a  student  in  the  Yale  School  of  Medicine  from  1907  to 
1909  and  who  received  the  degree  of  M.D.  at  the  Long  Island 
College  Hospital  in  1912;  Robert  E.  Lee  (B.A.  1916,  LL.B. 
Harvard  1920);  and  Thomas  Frank  Lee. 


Henry  Spies  Kip,  B.A.   1896 

Born  June  29,  1874,  in  New  York  City 
Died  February  19,  1920,  in  Palm  Beach,  Fla. 

Henry  Spies  Kip  was  born  June  29,  1874,  in  New  York 
City,  the  son  of  William  Bergh  Kip  (LL.B.  Albany  Law  School 
1867),  who  practiced  his  profession  as  a  lawyer  in  New  York 
City,  and  Sarah  Ann  (Spies)  Kip.  His  father's  parents  were 
Henry  James  and  Sarah  Ann  (Bergh)  Kip,  and  he  was  a 
descendant  of  Hendrick  Hendrickszen  Kip  (Kype).  The 
latter,  who  was  a  grandson  of  Ruloff  de  Kype,  of  Alen^on, 
Brittany,  an  adherent  of  the  Due  de  Guise,  came  from  Hoi- 


1 895-1 896  1465 

land  before  1639,  and  settled  in  New  Amsterdam.  He  was 
appointed  to  Governor  Stuyvesant's  Council  in  1647,  ^^^ 
later  served  on  the  "Nine  Men"  board.  His  son  Jacob  was 
the  builder  of  the  famous  Kip's  Bay  House  (1655)  on  the 
East  River,  which  was  the  last  of  the  old  Dutch  boweries 
standing  when  torn  down  on  the  opening  of  Thirty-third 
Street  in  1851.  Another  son,  Isaac,  was  the  father  of  Hendrick 
and  Jacob  Kip,  the  co-patentees  of  Kipsbergen-Rhinebeck 
in  1686-88.  One  hundred  and  fifty  acres  of  the  land  covered 
by  the  original  deed  is  still  in  the  possession  of  the  family  and 
has  never  had  other  than  Kip  owners.  This  estate,  "Ankony," 
so  named  from  one  of  the  Indian  chiefs  who  signed  the  instru- 
ment in  1686,  descends  to  William  Bergh  Kip,  the  son  of  the 
subject  of  this  sketch,  who  will  be  the  eighth  generation  in 
lineal  descent  to  have  held  the  land.  Rhinebeck  was  founded 
by  the  Kip  family,  in  honor  of  whom  it  was  formerly  called 
Kipsbergen,  Hendrick  Kip,  the  elder  patentee,  having  built 
the  first  stone  house  there  in  1700.  His  brother's  house,  which 
was  built  eight  years  later,  is  still  standing.  Henry  Spies  Kip's 
maternal  grandparents  were  Adam  William  Spies,  a  New  York 
merchant,  and  Sarah  Ann  (Morrison)  Spies,  and  through  his 
mother  he  traced  his  descent  to  Adam  Bergh,  who  emigrated 
from  Germany  in  1700  and  settled  in  New  York  City.  Sarah 
i^nn  Bergh  Kip  was  also  descended  from  Adam  Bergh,  and 
she  was  a  second  cousin  of  Henry  Bergh,  the  founder  of  the 
American  Society  for  the  Prevention  of  Cruelty  to  Animals. 

His  preparation  for  college  was  received  at  St.  John's 
School,  Sing  Sing  (now  Ossining),  N.  Y.  At  Yale  he  was  a 
member  of  the  second  Banjo  Club  and  later  of  the  University 
Banjo  Club.  His  appointments  were  first  colloquies. 

He  spent  the  first  year  after  graduation  traveling  around 
the  world  in  company  with  his  classmate,  Murray  M.  Shoe- 
maker. On  his  return  to  the  United  States  he  was  made  a 
trustee  of  the  Rhinebeck  Savings  Bank,  and  about  this  time 
enlisted  in  Squadron  A,  New  York  National  Guard.  When  the 
war  with  Spain  broke  out  he  joined  the  9th  New  York  Volun- 
teers as  Battalion  Adjutant  and  First  Lieutenant.  While 
with  this  regiment  at  Chickamauga  he  was  detailed  as  acting 
ordnance  officer  for  a  time  and  also  served  as  regimental 
treasurer  and  chairman  of  the  committee  on  hospital  work. 


1466  YALE    COLLEGE 

He  saw  no  active  service  and  was  mustered  out  with  his  regi- 
ment at  the  end  of  five  months.  The  winter  of  1898-99  he 
spent  on  the  Nile,  and  the  following  fall  he  entered  the  New 
York  Law  School,  where  he  was  graduated  with  the  degree 
of  LL.B.  in  1901.  In  January,  1902,  after  securing  offices  with 
the  law  firm  of  Hatch,  Debevoise  &  Colby,  he  started  on  a 
second  trip  around  the  world,  returning  to  this  country  some 
six  months  later.  In  1906  he  gave  up  the  law,  and  joined  the 
Stock  Exchange  house  of  Herrick,  Hicks  &  Colby.  On  August 
I,  191 1,  he  became  a  member  of  the  firm  of  Butler,  Herrick  & 
Kip,  the  firm  being  a  consolidation  of  the  former  firms  of 
George  P.  Butler  &  Brothers  and  Herrick  &  Kip.  The  general 
partnership  of  Butler,  Herrick  &  Kip  expired  in  May,  1919. 
At  the  time  of  his  death  Mr.  Kip  was  still  a  member  of  the 
New  York  Stock  Exchange.  He  had  served  as  vice-president 
of  a  hospital  on  Washington  Heights  and,  for  eight  years,  as 
president  of  the  Rhinebeck  Republican  Club.  He  was  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Naval  and  Military  Order  of  the  Spanish-American 
War.  Mr.  Kip  was  commissioned  a  Second  Lieutenant  in 
Company  A  of  the  1 2th  Regiment,  New  York  National  Guard, 
in  December,  1904.  During  the  World  War  he  was  a  Captain 
in  the  Home  Guard,  being  assigned  to  Company  B  of  the 
reorganized  12th  Regiment.  He  had  tried  to  enlist  for  over- 
seas service,  but  was  pronounced  to  be  physically  unfit. 

His  death,  which  was  due  to  Bright's  disease,  occurred  at. 
Palm  Beach,  Fla.,  February  19,  1920.  He  was  a  member  of 
Holland  Lodge  (New  York),  and  requested  and  had  a  Masonic 
funeral  at  the  Church  of  the  Heavenly  Rest  in  New  York 
City.  He  was  interred  in  the  Rhinebeck  Cemetery.  He  belonged 
to  the  Episcopal  Church. 

He  was  married  October  25,  1902,  in  New  York  City,  to' 
Frances  Coster,  daughter  of  Alfred  Renshaw  and  Sarah 
Post  (Anthon)  Jones.  They  were  divorced  December  30,  1909. 
Mr.  Kip  is  survived  by  his  son,  William  Bergh  Kip,  and  two 
brothers,  William  Ruloff  Kip,  a  non-graduate  member  of  the 
Class  of  1897  S.,  and  Garrett  Bergh  Kip  (B.A.  1901). 


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Richard  Fenwick  Ely,  B.A.   1897 

Born  March  4,  1874,  in  New  York  City 
Died  June  2,  1920,  in  Washington,  D.  C. 

Richard  Fenwick  Ely,  son  of  Richard  Sheldon  and  Caroline 
Phelps  (Ingersoll)  Ely,  was  born  in  New  York  City,  March  4, 
1874.  His  father  went  to  New  York  when  only  seventeen 
years  of  age  as  an  employee  of  the  importing  house  of  St. 
Felix,  and  in  the  great  fire  in  1835  succeeded  single-handed  in 
rescuing  the  books  and  accounts  of  the  firm,  thus  facilitating 
prompt  settlement  of  the  insurance  claims.  As  a  merchant 
and  banker  he  resided  in  Paris  eight  years,  in  the  reign  of 
Louis  Philippe  and  the  revolution  of  1848,  and  afterwards  in 
England  for  six  years,  where  he  was  at  one  time  president  of 
the  American  Board  of  Trade  in  Liverpool.  He  was  the  son 
of  William  and  Clarissa  May  (Davis)  Ely,  and  a  descendant 
of  Richard  Ely,  of  Plymouth,  Devonshire,  England,  who,  ac- 
companied by  his  son  Richard,  came  to  America  in  i860  and,' 
after  a  short  residence  in  Boston,  settled  at  Lyme,  Conn., 
then  a  part  of  Saybrook.  Richard  Fenwick  Ely's  immediate 
ancestors  belonged  to  the  Ely  family  of  Hartford,  and  others 
settled  in  Ohio,  the  town  of  Elyria  being  named  for  them. 
His  great-grandfather.  Rev.  Richard  Ely,  was  graduated  at 
Yale  in  1754;  his  grandfather,  William  Ely,  in  1787;  his  great- 
uncle,  Richard  Ely,  in  1785;  and  his  uncle,  William  D.  Ely, 
in  1 836,  the  last-named  being  one  of  the  three  senior  graduates 
living  at  the  time  of  the  Yale  Bicentennial.  Caroline  Ingersoll 
Ely  is  the  daughter  of  Major  Edward  L  Ingersoll  and  Harriet 
(Child)  Ingersoll.  She  tfaces  her  ancestry  to  John  Ingersoll, 
who  came  to  America  from  Bedfordshire,  England,  in  1629, 
settled  first  in  Salem,  Mass.,  and  removed  to  Hartford  in  1653. 

He  was  fitted  for  college  at  St.  Mark's  School,  Southboro, 
Mass.,  where  he  was  awarded  the  Founders'  Medal  for  highest 
standing  in  scholarship. 

He  spent  some  time  after  graduating  from  Yale  in  traveling 
and  in  managing  his  estate,  "Deercliff,"  on  Talcott  Mountain, 
Avon,  Conn.  He  took  a  great  interest  in  polo,  and  was  one 
of  the  organizers  of  the  Taconic  team  in  Hartford  and  an 
active  member  of  the  Point  Judith  Country  Club,  Narra- 


1468  YALE    COLLEGE 

gansett.  He  had  marked  literary  tastes,  and  from  time  to 
time  wrote  verses  for  private  circulation  among  his  friends. 
Some  of  these  verses  have  been  published.  A  serious  attack 
of  typhoid  fever  in  1895  ^^^  undermined  Mr.  Ely's  health, 
and  led  later  to  a  nervous  breakdown,  which  left  him  an 
invalid  for  the  last  ten  years  of  his  life.  He  died  in  Washington, 
D.  C,  June  2,  1920.  Burial  was  in  Woodlawn  Cemetery,  New 
York. 

Mr.  Ely  was  a  member  of  the  Sons  of  the  American  Revolu- 
tion and  the  Protestant  Episcopal  Church.  He  was  unmarried, 
and  is  survived  by  his  mother  and  a  sister,  Maud  Ely  Gibbons, 
the  wife  of  Capt.  John  H.  Gibbons,  U.S.N. 

John  Louis  Ewell,  B.A.   1897 

Born  October  18,  1875,  in  Belmont,  Mass. 
Died  February  16,  1920,  in  Asheville,  N.  C. 

.  John  Louis  Ewell  was  the  son  of  Rev.  John  Louis  Ewell, 
D.D.,  and  Emily  Spofford  (Hall)  Ewell,  and  was  born  in  Bel- 
mont, Mass.,  October  18,  1875.  ^^^  father  graduated  at  Yale 
in  1865  and  at  Andover  Theological  Seminary  in  1870,  and 
from  1 891  until  his  death  in  19 10  was  professor  of  church 
history,  Hebrew,  and  Greek,  at  Howard  University,  Wash- 
ington, D.  C,  during  part  of  this  time  being  dean  of  the  Theo- 
logical Department.  His  parents  were  Samuel  and  Mary 
(Stickney)  Ewell.  Seven  of  John  L.  Ewell's  ancestors  came 
over  in  the  Mayflower ^  and  the  family  homestead  in  Byfield, 
Rowley,  Mass.,  has  been  owned  by  his  forbears  since  1699. 
His  mother's  parents  were  William  aiid  Emily  (Spofford)  Hall, 
and  she  traced  her  ancestry  to  William  Hall(e)  who  emigrated 
from  Sweden  and  settled  at  Newburyport. 

He  was  prepared  for  college  at  the  Worcester  (Mass.) 
Academy.  His  appointment  in  both  Junior  and  Senior  years 
was  an  oration,  and  he  received  two-year  honors  in  history. 

For  a  time  after  graduation  he  was  in  the  publishing  busi- 
ness with  Maynard  &  Merrill  in  New  York,  and  later  had  a 
position  with  William  Valentine  &  Sons,  in  Washington,  D.  C. 
In  January,  1898,  he  received  an  appointment  as  assistant 
and  clerk  in  the  foreign  market  section  of  the  U.  S.  Depart- 
ment of  Agriculture,  but  from  May  to  July  he  suffered  from 


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1897  1469 

an  attack  of  inflammatory  rheumatism  which  prevented  the 
use  of  his  right  hand,  and  in  August  he  resigned  the  position. 
That  same  month  he  became  a  clerk  in  the  employ  of  the 
Prudential  Life  Insurance  Company  of  Newark,  N.  J.,  and 
was  subsequently  appointed  assistant  to  the  mathematician. 
He  became  an  expert  in  actuary  work,  but  in  1909  he  was 
obliged  to  go  to  North  Carolina  on  account  of  his  health.  He 
returned  North  in  191 1  and  resumed  his  position  with  the 
Prudential  Life  Insurance  Company,  but  owing  to  a  relapse 
he  was  forced  to  give  up  his  position  within  a  few  months  and 
return  to  Asheville,  where  he  resided  until  his  death,  which 
occurred,  from  tuberculosis,  February  16,  1920.  His  body  was 
taken  to  Newbury,  Mass.,  for  burial  in  the  Byfield  Parish 
Cemetery.  During  the  latter  part  of  his  life  the  condition  of 
his  health  had  prevented  him  from  engaging  in  any  occupa- 
tion other  than  occasional  accounting  and  auditing  for  clubs, 
lumber  companies,  etc.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Newark 
Presbyterian  Church. 

Mr.  Ewell  was  not  married.  Surviving  him  are  three 
brothers,  Arthur  Woolsey  Ewell,  '97,  William  Stickney  Ewell, 
'01,  and  Robert  Hall  Ewell,  '03,  two  nephews,  and  two  nieces. 


Thomas  [Perkins]  MacBride,  B.A.   1897 

Born  February  26,  1874,  in  Monroe,  Mich. 
Died  September  10,  1919,  in  Long  Beach,  Calif. 

Thomas  [Perkins]  MacBride,  son  of  James  G.  and  Annie 
(Perkins)  MacBride,  was  born  in  Monroe,  Mich.,  February 
26,  1874.  His  father,  whose  parents  were  James  and  Lucy 
(LaFountaine)  MacBride,  was  in  the  furniture  manufactur- 
ing business  in  Grand  Rapids,  Mich.  He  served  as  a  Major  in 
the  Civil  War.  James  MacBride  came  to  the  United  States 
from  England  and  settled  in  Detroit  in  1840.  Thomas  Mac- 
Bride's  maternal  grandparents  were  A.  D.  and  Catherine 
(Norman)  Perkins,  and  his  first  American  ancestor  on  his 
mother's  side  was  Alonzo  Perkins,  who  was  born  in  England 
and  settled  in  Norfolk  County,  Maine,  in  1838. 

He  entered  Yale  from  the  Lawrenceville  School,  Lawrence- 
ville,  N.  J.  After  taking  his  degree  he  studied  at  the  New  York 
Law  School  for  a  year  and  then  entered  the  Law  Department 


1470  YALE    COLLEGE 

at  the  University  of  Michigan.  In  March,  1899,  he  became 
connected  with  the  Fred  Macey  Office  &  Library  Supply 
Company  in  Grand  Rapids,  with  which  company  he  remained 
until  May,  1902,  when  he  became  associated  with  W.  O. 
Hughart,  Jr.,  in  the  lumber  business.  From  1907  to  191 5  he 
was  vice-president  and  mill  manager  of  the  Thomas  MacBride 
Lumber  Company  of  Grand  Rapids.  Since  191 2  he  had  also 
been  engaged  in  the  importation  of  African  mahogany,  being 
sales  manager  of  the  firm  of  Thomas  MacBride.  He  was  a 
member  of  St.  Mark's  Church  (Protestant  Episcopal)  in 
Grand  Rapids,  and  during  1913  and  1914  served  as  secretary 
and  treasurer  of  the  Yale  Alumni  Association  of  Western 
Michigan. 

He  was  killed  in  an  accident  at  the  shipyards  at  Long  Beach, 
Calif.,  September  10, 191 9.  Burial  was  in  Sunnyside  Cemetery, 
Long  Beach. 

He  was  married  April  26,  1905,  in  Grand  Rapids,  to  Maud 
B.,  daughter  of  William  and  Ida  E.  (Leigh)  Cartwright,  who 
survives  him  with  a  son,  Thomas  Day,  and  two  daughters, 
Elizabeth  Ann  and  Barbara  Leigh. 


Louis  Michael  Sonnenberg,  B.A.   1897 

Born  April  7,  1876,  in  New  Haven,  Conn. 
Died  December  6,  191 9,  in  New  York  City 

Louis  Michael  Sonnenberg  was  born  in  New  Haven,  Conn., 
April  7,  1876.  His  father,  Michael  Sonnenberg,  was  born  in 
Mommenheim,  Germany,  in  1840,  and  came  to  this  country 
at  the  age  of  seventeen.  He  lived  in  Wisconsin  for  a  time,  but 
in  the  early  sixties  removed  to  New  Haven,  where  he  shortly 
formed  a  partnership  with  Bernard  Shoninger  for  the  manu- 
facture of  pianos,  under  the  name  of  B.  Shoninger  &  Company. 
The  firm  was  dissolved  in  1895,  but  Mr.  Sonnenberg  continued 
in  the  piano  business  until  his  death  in  1908.  He  was  a  direc- 
tor of  the  Connecticut  Savings  Bank  and  the  New  Haven 
Public  Library.  His  wife  is  Ida  (Shoninger)  Sonnenberg,  the 
daughter  of  his  partner,  Bernard  Shoninger,  and  Fannie 
(Metzger)  Shoninger.  Louis  M.  Sonnenberg's  paternal  grand- 
parents were  Henry  and  Theresa  Sonnenberg.  His  mother's 
family  came  from  Bavaria. 


1897  I47I 

He  was  prepared  for  college  at  the  Hopkins  Grammar 
School.  In  his  Junior  year  at  Yale  he  was  given  a  second 
dispute  appointment,  and  his  Senior  appointment  was  a  first 
dispute. 

He  entered  the  Yale  School  of  Law  in  1897,  receiving  the 
degree  of  LL.B.  and  being  admitted  to  the  Connecticut  Bar 
two  years  later.  While  in  the  Law  School  he  won  one  of  the 
Wayland  debating  prizes,  was  on  the  honor  list  in  Junior 
year,  and  was  an  editor  of  the  Tale  Law  Journal.  In  October, 
1899,  he  entered  the  law  office  of  Deyo,  Duer  &  Bauerdorf, 
where  he  remained  for  two  years,  being  admitted  to  the 
New  York  Bar  in  February,  1900.  From  October,  1901,  to 
May  I,  1908,  he  conducted  an  independent  practice,  and  then 
formed  a  law  partnership  with  his  brother-in-law,  Charles 
Heitler  Studin  (B.A.  1897,  LL.B.  1899),  under  the  firm  name 
of  Studin  &  Sonnenberg.  This  association  continued  until  his 
death.  He  was  president  of  the  Sonnenberg  Piano  Company, 
vice-president  of  the  Sonnenberg-Skinner  Company  of  Water- 
bury,  Conn.,  and  a  director  of  various  business  corporations. 
He  had  been  a  delegate  to  several  Republican  conventions  in 
New  York  State,  and  was  a  member  of  numerous  philan- 
thropic and  charitable  institutions,  principally  in  New  York 
City. 

Mr.  Sonnenberg  died  of  Hodgkin's  disease,  December  6, 
1919,  in  New  York  City.  Interment  was  in  Mishkan  Israel 
Cemetery,  Westville,  New  Haven.  By  his  will  a  bequest  was 
made  to  establish  a  permanent  bed  at  Mount  Sinai  Hospital. 

He  was  unmarried.  He  is  survived  by  his  mother  and  two 
sisters,  Justine,  the  widow  of  Charles  Ernest  Rothschild,  and 
Hettye,  the  wife  of  Charles  H.  Studin,  '97.  He  was  an  uncle  of 
Richard  C.  Rothschild,  '16,  and  Herbert  C.  Rothschild,  '16  S. 


Walter  Hatch  Stuart,  B.A.   1897 

Born  September  23,  1875,  i"  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 
Died  January  8,  1920,  in  New  York  City 

Walter  Hatch  Stuart  was  born  in  Brooklyn,  N.Y.,  September 
23,  1875,  t^^  s°"  °^  Andrew  and  Rebecca  Maria  (Hatch) 
Stuart,  and  the  grandson  of  David  Stuart.  His  father,  who  was 
a  banker,  was  of  Irish  descent:  he  was  born  in  Birkenhead, 


1472  YALE    COLLEGE 

England,  in  1840,  and  spent  the  greater  part  of  his  life  in 
that  country.  Walter  H.  Stuart's  mother  was  born  in  Brooklyn, 
the  daughter  of  Walter  Tilden  Hatch  (B.A.  1837)  and  Rebecca 
(Taylor)  Hatch.  Walter  Tilden  Hatch,  who  was  the  son  of 
Arouet  Melvin  Hatch,  founded  the  firm  of  W.  T.  Hatch  & 
Sons,  bankers  and  brokers,  in  New  York  City.  Rebecca 
Taylor  Hatch  was  the  fourth  daughter  of  Rev.  Nathaniel 
William  Taylor,  D.D.  (B.A.  1807),  Dwight  professor  of 
didactic  theology  at  Yale  from  1822  to  1858,  and  Rebecca 
Maria  (Hine)  Taylor.  Her  sister,  Mary  Taylor,  married 
President  Noah  Porter  (B.A,  1831),  and  her  great-grand- 
father, Nathanael  Taylor  (B.A.  1745),  was  a  Fellow  of  Yale 
College  for  twenty-six  years.  The  Taylor  family  came  from 
Warwick,  England,  in  1635. 

Walter  H.  Stuart  was  fitted  for  college  at  the  Brooklyn 
Latin  School.  He  became  engaged  in  the  banking  and  broker- 
age business  in  New  York  City  immediately  after  graduation 
and  continued  in  that  business  until  his  death.  He  was 
associated  with  Noble  &  Mestre  for  the  first  two  years,  and 
then  with  W.  T.  Hatch  &  Sons,  his  grandfather's  firm.  In 
191 8  he  became  connected  with  O.  J.  Brand  &  Company, 
members  of  the  New  York  Stock  Exchange.  He  was  a  member 
of  the  Church  of  the  Pilgrims,  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.  He  lived  at 
124  Remsen  Street,  the  place  of  his  birth,  until  October,  1919. 
He  then  moved  to  the  Yale  Club,  where  he  died  January  8, 
1920.  He  was  buried  in  the  Hatch  lot  in  Greenwood  Cemetery, 
Brooklyn. 

He  was  unmarried.  He  is  survived  by  a  brother,  David 
Stuart  (B.A.  1896).  He  was  a  nephew  of  Henrv  Prescott 
Hatch  (B.A.  1874). 


Wilson  Kelley  Chisholm,  B.A.   1898 

Born  June  18,  1875,  in  Cleveland,  Ohio 
Died  October  31,  191 9,  in  Albuquerque,  N.  Mex. 

Wilson  Kelley  Chisholm,  whose  parents  were  Stewart 
Henry  and  Harriet  (Kelley)  Chisholm,  was  born  in  Cleveland, 
Ohio,  June  18,  1875.  ^^^  father  was  born  in  Montreal,  Quebec, 
in  1846,  the  son  of  Henry  Chisholm.  The  latter,  who  was  a 
native  of  Lochgelly,  Scotland,  came  to  Canada  in  1842  and 


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removed  to  Cleveland  in  1850.  Stewart  H.  Chisholm  is  en- 
gaged in  the  iron  and  steel  business  with  the  Chisholm  & 
Moore  Manufacturing  Company  of  Cleveland  and  New  York 
City.  His  wife's  parents  were  George  A.  and  Martha  (East- 
land) Kelley. 

Wilson  K.  Chisholm  was  prepared  for  college  at  the  Uni- 
versity School  in  Cleveland.  For  two  years  and  a  half  after 
his  graduation  from  Yale  he  was  superintendent  of  the 
Northwestern  Grass  Twine  Company  at  St.  Paul,  Minn.  On 
June  12,  1 901,  he  became  secretary  and  treasurer  of  the 
Chisholm  &  Moore  Manufacturing  Company  of  Cleveland, 
of  which  his  father  was  president,  and  remained  with  that 
firm  for  several  years.  He  spent  the  summers  of  1898  and  1900 
in  Europe,  and  in  1901  traveled  in  China  and  Japan.  He  was  a 
member  of  the  Euclid  Avenue  Baptist  Church,  Cleveland. 

He  died,  of  tuberculosis,  October  31,  1 919,  in  Albuquerque, 
N.  Mex.  Interment  was  in  Lakeview  Cemetery,  Cleveland. 

He  was  unmarried.  He  is  survived  by  his  father,  two 
brothers,  Clifton  Chisholm,  a  non-graduate  member  of  the 
Class  of  1900  S.,  and  Douglas  Chisholm  (B.A.  1909),  and  a 
nephew.  He  was  a  first  cousin  of  Alvah  S.  Chisholm  (B.A. 
1893),  Henry  Chisholm  (B.A.  1901),  and  William  A.  Osborn 
(B.A.  1893). 

Alexander  Ingersoll  Lewis,  B.A.   1898 

Born  August  ai,  1874,  in  Detroit,  Mich. 
Died  October  23,  1919,  in  Grosse  Pointe  Farms,  Mich. 

Alexander  Ingersoll  Lewis  was  born  in  Detroit,  Mich., 
August  21,  1874,  the  son  of  Alexander  Lewis,  a  member  of  the 
Detroit  Stock  Exchange,  and  Elizabeth  (Ingersoll)  Lewis,  of 
Elmira,  N.  Y.  His  father  was  mayor  of  Detroit  for  four  years. 

He  received  his  preparatory  education  at  Phillips  Academy, 
Andover,  Mass.  He  was  an  editor  of  the  Yale  Daily  News.  He 
served  on  the  Triennial,  Sexennial,  Decennial,  and  Quinde- 
cennial  Reunion  committees. 

Upon  graduation  he  became  secretary  of  the  Baillie  Coal 
Company  of  Detroit,  and  continued  in  that  connection  until 
1900,  when  he  was  made  secretary  and  treasurer  of  the  Michi- 
gan Brass  &  Iron  Works.  In  1904  he  accepted  the  position  of 


1474  YALE    COLLEGE 

secretary  and  treasurer  of  the  Newland  Hat  Company,  which 
office  he  held  at  the  time  of  his  death.  He  was  also  treasurer 
of  the  Industrial  Morris  Plan  Bank  and  a  director  of  the 
Detroit  Trust  Company  and  the  Detroit  Fire  &  Marine  In- 
surance Company.  He  served  for  two  years  as  president  of 
the  council  of  the  village  of  Grosse  Pointe  Farms,  a  suburb  of 
Detroit.  During  the  World  War  he  was  purchasing  agent  for 
Red  Cross  Hospital  Base  Unit  36,  and  also  served  as  a  mem- 
ber of  Draft  Board  No.  1  of  Wayne  County,  and  of  the  execu- 
tive committee  of  the  American  Protective  League,  Detroit 
Division,  and  took  an  active  part  in  the  Liberty  Loan  cam- 
paigns. He  was  a  member  of  the  Episcopal  Church,  but  em- 
braced his  wife's  faith  on  his  death  bed  and  became  a  member 
of  the  Roman  Catholic  Church. 

He  died  very  suddenly  October  23,  1919,  at  Grosse  Pointe 
Farms,  from  ptomaine  poisoning,  caused  by  eating  over-ripe 
olives.  Burial  was  in  the  Roman  Catholic  (Mount  Elliot) 
Cemetery  in  Detroit. 

He  was  married  November  28,  1900,  in  that  city,  to  Bertha 
Antoinette,  daughter  of  Francis  Frederick  and  Marie  (Celi- 
mene)  Palms,  who  survives  him  with  their  three  children, 
Elizabeth  Palms,  Marie  Antoinette,  and  Alexander  Ingersoll, 
Jr.  He  also  leaves  a  brother,  Henry  Bridge  Lewis,  whose  home 
is  in  Detroit,  and  four  sisters,  Mrs.  Clarence  Carpenter  and 
Mrs.  Spencer  Penrose,  of  Colorado  Springs,  Colo.,  and  Mrs. 
Cameron  Currie  and  Mrs.  William  Howie  Muir,  of  Detroit. 
John  D.  Currie,  '14  S.,  is  a  nephew. 


Henry  Bingham  Bartlett  Yergason,  B.A.   i 

Born  May  27,  1876,  in  Cincinnati,  Ohio 
Died  July  29,  191 9,  in  New  York  City 

Henry  Bingham  Bartlett  Yergason,  son  of  Henry  Christo- 
pher and  Katherine  (Bartlett)  Yergason,  was  born  in  Cin- 
cinnati, Ohio,  May  27,  1876.  His  father,  who  was  vice-presi- 
dent of  the  Merchants  National  Bank  of  that  city,  was  the 
second  son  of  Christopher  and  Charlotte  Ann  (Smith) 
Yergason.  The  family  is  of  Norwegian  origin,  the  earliest 
Anjerican  ancestor  having  been  Christian  Yergason,  who  came 


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"to  this  country  and  settled  In  Norwich,  Conn.,  a  few  years 
before  the  War  of  1812.  He  married  Sarah  Savage,  who  was 
born  and  died  in  Windham,  Conn.,  but  who  was  living  in 
Norwich  at  that  time;  they  had  several  children.  The  eldest 
son,  Christopher,  moved  from  Norwich  to  Windham.  Kathe- 
rine  Bartlett  Yergason  was  the  daughter  of  Henry  Hubbard 
and  Mary  (Case)  Bartlett,  a  granddaughter  of  Dr.  Hubbard 
Bartlett,  of  Lee,  Mass.,  and  a  descendant  of  George  Bartlett, 
of  Guilford,  Conn.,  whose  marriage  took  place  in  1650.  Henry 
B.  B.  Yergason  was  also  descended  from  Elder  Brewster  of 
Plymouth  Colony. 

His  preparation  for  college  was  obtained  at  the  Franklin 
School  in  Cincinnati.  In  both  Junior  and  Senior  years  at  Yale 
he  was  given  a  second  dispute  appointment.  He  was  one  of 
the  editors  of  the  Courant  in  his  Senior  year. 

After  graduation  he  entered  the  employ  of  the  Robert 
Clarke  Company,  booksellers  and  stationers  of  Cincinnati, 
but  after  a  short  time  gave  up  his  position  to  become  asso- 
ciated with  Rogers,  Brown  &  Company.  He  remained  with 
the  company  for  over  thirteen  years.  In  191 2,  as  advertising 
manager,  he  supervised  the  taking  of  moving  pictures  of  the 
company's  entire  iron  plant.  The  series  of  pictures  was  one 
of  the  most  complete  ever  made  of  an  industrial  plant,  and 
formed  a  pictorial  story  of  iron  from  the  time  the  ore  is  mined 
until  it  has  been  transformed  into  the  finished  product.  In 
191 6  Mr.  Yergason  severed  his  connection  with  Rogers, 
Brown  &  Company,  and  afterwards  served  as  district  mana- 
ger for  the  Kerner  Incinerator  Company  of  Cincinnati.  He 
was  a  member  and  treasurer  of  the  Mount  Auburn  Presbyte- 
rian Church  in  that  city,  and  had  served  as  treasurer  of  the 
Cincinnati  branch  of  the  Mayflower  Society. 

He  died,  of  heart  trouble,  in  the  Presbyterian  Hospital  in 
New  York  City,  July  29,  1919.  Burial  was  in  the  Protestant 
Cemetery  in  New  Hartford,  Conn. 

He  was  not  married.  He  is  survived  by  a  cousin  and  adopted 
sister.  Miss  Helen  L.  Robinson,  of  Boston,  Mass.  His  father 
died  in  191 6  and  his  mother  in  1920.  Lucius  B.  Barbour,  '00, 
is  a  cousin. 


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Norman  Williams  Bartlett,  B.A.   1900 

Born  July  i8,  1878,  in  Peoria,  111. 
Died  September  5,  1919,  en  route  from  Kansas  City,  Mo.,  to  Chicago,  III 

Norman  Williams  Bartlett  was  born  in  Peoria,  111.,  July 
18,  1878,  the  son  of  William  Henry  and  Mary  Wentworth 
Bartlett.  His  father  was  for  some  years  head  of  the  Bartlett- 
Frazier  grain  firm  of  Chicago,  but  retired  from  business  in 
1910,  and  from  that  time  until  his  death  in  1916,  lived  on  his 
ranch  at  Vermejo,  N.  Mex.  Norman  Bartlett's  paternal 
grandparents  were  Amos  Pettengill  and  Sarah  Maria  (Rogers) 
'Bartlett,  and  he  was  a  descendant  of  Richard  Bartlett,  who 
came  to  America  from  England  in  1635  ^"^  settled  at  New- 
bury, Mass.  His  mother  was  the  daughter  of  William  M. 
Campbell  and  Mary  Wentworth  Williams.  Her  first  American 
ancestor,  William  Williams,  came  to  this  country  from  Eng- 
land and  afterwards  lived  in  Connecticut.  The  family  is  of 
Scotch  origin. 

He  was  fitted  for  college  at  Northwestern  Academy,  Evans- 
ton,  111.  His  appointment  in  both  Junior  and  Senior  years 
was  a  high  oration.  He  was  a  member  of  Phi  Beta  Kappa. 

After  graduation  he  was  engaged  for  a  time  in  business  in 
Chicago,  selling  grain,  stocks  and  bonds.  He  later  began  the 
development  of  the  400,000  acre  ranch  at  Vermejo,  N.  Mex., 
which  his  father  had  bought  as  a  home  for  his  younger  son, 
William  Henry  Bartlett,  Jr.,  who  was  threatened  with 
tuberculosis.  The  brothers  planned  and  worked  the  ranch 
together,  at  first  as  a  recreation  resort,  and  then  as  a  business 
project,  until  the  younger  brother  recovered  and  moved  to 
Santa  Barbara,  Calif.  Norman  Bartlett  remained  on  the 
ranch,  supervising  it  for  his  father  until  191 6,  when  he  as- 
sumed the  entire  management  of  it.  The  strain  of  overwork 
and  the  rare  altitude  undermined  his  health  during  the  last 
year  before  his  death;  and  a  severe  cold  developed  into  pneu- 
monia. A  special  car  with  doctors  in  attendance  was  procured, 
and  he  started  for  Chicago  for  medical  treatment,  but  he  died 
on  September  5,  1919,  about  an  hour  after  leaving  Kansas 
City,  Mo.  Interment  was  in  Rose  Hill  Cemetery  in  Chicago. 


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ne  was  unmarried.  He  is  survived  by  a  sister,  Mary  Went- 
worth,  the  wife  of  Charles  Case  Deering.  His  brother,  William 
Henry  Bartlett,  died  January  ^0i^2o.  Edmund  B.  Bartlett 
(Ph.B.  1910)  is  a  cousin. 


Stanley  Wells  Edwards,  3.A.   1900 

Born  October  ao,  1877,  in  Granby,  Conn. 
Died  July  7,  1919,  in  Hartford,  Conn. 


Stanley  Wells  Edwards  was  born  in  Granby,  Conn.,  Octo- 
ber 20,  1877.  His  father,  George  Wilkinson  Edwards,  received 
the  degree  of  M.D.  at  New  York  University  in  1862  and  dur- 
ing the  next  three  years  served  as  an  Acting  Assistant  Surgeon 
in  the  U.  S.  Army.  From  1865  to  1869  he  held  an  appointment 
as  surgeon  of  the  Freedmen's  Bureau  and  during  1 869-1 879 
he  was  surgeon-in-chief  for  the  state  of  Florida.  The  remainder 
of  his  life  was  spent  in  Granby,  where  he  was  engaged  in  the 
practice  of  his  profession.  He  died  there  in  1884.  His  wife  is 
Ann  Eliza  Holcomb. 

Stanley  Edwards  received  his  preparatory  training  at  the 
Hartford  Public  High  School.  In  his  Junior  year  at  Yale  he 
won  the  Scott  Prize  in  French  and  was  given  an  oration  ap- 
pointment, while  in  Senior  year  he  received  one-year  honors 
in  political  science  and  law,  two-year  honors  in  history,  and  a 
high  oration  appointment.  He  entered  the  Yale  School  of  Law 
in  the  fall  of  1900  and  was  given  the  degree  of  LL.B.  three 
years  later.  He  received  honors  in  his  second  year  and  was 
awarded  the  Munson  Prize  in  1903.  He  was  president  of  the 
Law  School  Y.  M.  C.  A.  and  during  his  Senior  year  was  chair- 
man of  the  board  of  editors  of  the  Tak  Law  Journal. 

He  had  practiced  law  in  Hartford  from  1903  until  his 
death,  at  first  independently,  but  since  1905  as  a  member  of 
the  firm  of  Schutz  &  Edwards.  In  January,  191 6,  he  was 
elected  a  director  of  the  Simsbury  (Conn.)  Bank  &  Trust 
Company.  He  had  served  as  president  of  the  Connecticut 
Temperance  Union,  and  was  a  member  of  the  South  Congrega- 
tional Church  in  his  native  town. 

Mr.  Edwards  died  at  his  home  in  Hartford,  July  7,  1919, 


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after  an  illness  of  about  ten  days.  Burial  was  in  the  Granby 
Cemetery. 

He  was  married  June  26,#909,  in  Hartford,  to  Helen  Brace, 
daughter  of  Jonathan  Brace  and  Laura  Maria  (Dibble) 
Buncei  ^^d  sister  of  Dr.  Philip  D.  Bunce,  '88,  and  Alexander 
Bunce,  '98.  She  survives  him  with  their  two  children,  Jona- 
than Bunce  and  Mary  Wells,  and  he  also  leaves  his  mother 
and  a  brother.  Dr.  Gaston  Holcomb  Edwards,  '97  S. 


John  Leslie  Crosthwaite,  Jr.,  B.A.   1901 

Born  March  5,  1879,  in  Buffalo,  N.  Y. 
Died  September  5,  191 9,  in  Cleveland,  Ohio 

John  Leslie  Crosthwaite,  Jr.,  was  born  in  Buffalo,  N.  Y., 
March  5,  1879,  the  son  of  John  Leslie  and  Elizabeth  Sherman 
(Morgan)  Crosthwaite.  His  father  is  manager  of  the  water 
transportation  department  of  the  International  Paper  Com- 
pany and  president  of  the  Atlantic  Coast  Steamship  Com- 
pany, with  offices  in  New  York  City.  In  1902  he  was  connected 
with  the  Metropolitan  Dredging  Company,  which  made  the 
forty  foot  Ambrose  Channel  into  New  York  harbor. 

He  was  prepared  for  college  with  a  private  tutor  and  at  the 
Buffalo  High  School. 

Upon  graduation  he  entered  the  employ  of  the  Beach 
Creek  Coal  &  Coke  Company  in  New  York  City.  He  was 
later  connected  with  the  Aetna  Life  Insurance  Company, 
and  for  several  years  served  as  secretary-treasurer  of  the 
B.  M.  Crosthwaite  Company,  an  insurance  firm  in  New  York. 
He  was  commissioned  a  Captain  in  the  Ordnance  Corps  at 
Plattsburg  on  November  25,  1917,  and  was  later  promoted 
to  the  rank  of  Major.  He  went  to  France  in  191 8  and  returned 
to  this  country  in  the  spring  of  191 9.  He  was  killed  in  an 
automobile  accident  in  Cleveland,  Ohio,  September  5,  1919. 
At  the  time  of  his  death  he  was  serving  as  assistant  director 
of  operations  for  the  U.  S.  Shipping  Board  in  Cleveland. 

He  was  married  June  15,  1906,  in  New  York  City,  to  Elsie, 
daughter  of  E.  A.  and  Ella  (Knapp)  Olds,  who  survives  him 
with  their  two  sons:  John  Leslie,  3d,  and  Paul.  His  father  and 
a  brother,  Burwell  Morgan  Crosthwaite  (Ph.B.  1902),  also 
survive  him. 


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Harold  Storrs  Hetrick,  B.A.   1901 

Born  October  15,  1880,  in  Kansas  City,  Mo. 
Died  January  3,  1920,  in  New  Orleans,  La. 


^H  Harold  Storrs  Hetrick  was  born  in  Kansas  City,  Mo., 
^H  October  15,  1880,  the  son  of  Rev.  Andrew  Jackson  Hetrick 
(B.A.  Princeton  i860)  and  Josephine  Judson  (Clark)  Hetrick. 
His  father,  who  studied  at  Union  Theological  Seminary  from 
1 861  to  1864  and  later  held  pastorates  in  Westport,  Preston 
City,  and  Canterbury,  Conn.,  and  served  as  city  missionary 
and  probation  officer  in  Norwich,  has  now  retired  from  the 
ministry.  His  great-grandfather.  Christian  Hetrick,  took  a 
prominent  part  in  the  early  history  of  Pennsylvania.  He  had 
served  as  a  General  in  the  militia  and  represented  his  county 
five  years  in  succession  in  the  Legislature.  Josephine  Clark 
Hetrick  was  the  third  daughter  of  Thomas  Gilbert  and  Cressa 
(Judson)  Clark. 

He  attended  various  district  schools  and  spent  several 
months  at  Perkiomen  Seminary,  Pennsburg,  Pa.,  of  which 
his  father  was  then  principal  and  his  mother  assistant  princi- 
pal. Later  he  received  lessons  from  his  parents  at  their  home 
in  Canterbury,  until  he  entered  the  Norwich  Free  Academy, 
from  which  he  graduated  in  1897.  He  was  given  a  philosophi- 
cal oration  appointment  in  his  Junior  year  at  Yale  and  a 
high  oration  at  Commencement.  He  was  a  member  of  Phi 
Beta  Kappa  and  a  substitute  on  the  Basketball  Team. 

Immediately  after  graduation  he  went  to  Europe  in  a  cattle 
ship,  and  on  his  return  in  1902  entered  the  U.  S.  Military 
Academy  at  West  Point.  He  served  as  editor-in-chief  of  the 
Howitzer^  and  graduated  at  the  head  of  his  class  in  1906.  As 
a  Second  Lieutenant  in  the  Engineer  Corps,  he  continued  his 
military  training  at  the  Engineer  School  at  Washington 
Barracks,  where  he  remained  until  19 10.  He  had  been  pro- 
moted to  the  rank  of  First  Lieutenant  in  1908  and  was  raised 
to  a  Captaincy  in  1913.  From  1910  to  1917  he  saw  duty  at 
various  places  in  the  United  States,  Cuba,  and  the  Philip- 
pines, and  on  March  15, 1917,  was  made  a  Major  of  Engineers. 
He  was  promoted  to  the  rank  of  Lieutenant  Colonel  in  the 
National  Army  the  following  August  and  assigned  to  the 


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1480  YALE    COLLEGE 

117th  Engineers  (Rainbow  Division),  then  stationed  at  Camp 
Mills,  Long  Island.  He  went  overseas  with  his  division  two 
months  later.  From  January  21  to  September  4,  191 8,  he 
served  as  a  member  of  the  General  Staff,  2d  Army  Corps, 
and  participated  in  the  Somme  defensive  of  March  and  April 
and  the  Somme  and  Ypres-Lys  offensives  in  August  and 
September.  He  was  promoted  to  the  rank  of  Colonel  on  April 
19,  191 8.  He  returned  to  America  September  17,  191 8,  and 
assumed  command  of  Washington  Barracks.  He  was  ap- 
pointed district  engineer  of  the  Fourth  Mississippi  River 
District  August  12,  191 9,  his  rank  reverting  to  that  of  Major, 
Corps  of  Engineers,  on  October  7. 

He  was  shot  by  an  unidentified  assailant  at  his  home  in 
New  Orleans,  La.,  January  i,  1920,  and  died  two  days  later 
at  a  hospital  in  that  city.  His  body  was  taken  to  the  Arlington 
National  Cemetery  for  burial. 

Major  Hetrick  was  married  May  20,  1910,  in  Boston,  Mass., 
to  Enid  Ross  Gray,  who  survives  him  without  children.  His 
father  is  also  living. 

John  Booth  Burrall,  B.A.   1902 

Born  October  14,  1879,  in  Waterbury,  Conn. 
Died  February  8,  1920,  in  Palm  Beach,  Fla. 

John  Booth  Burrall,  son  of  Edward  Milton  Burrall,  a  brass 
manufacturer,  and  Mary  Eunice  (Booth)  Burrall,  was  born 
in  Waterbury,  Conn.,  October  14,  1879.  He  was  of  English 
descent.  His  father's  parents  were  John  M.  and  Lucy  C. 
Burrall,  and  his  mother  was  the  daughter  of  John  Camp  and 
Eunice  Booth. 

His  preparation  for  college  was  received  at  the  Taft  School, 
in  Watertown,  Conn.  At  Yale  he  was  a  member  of  the  Wig- 
wam Debating  Club. 

He  became  engaged  in  business  in  Waterbury  immediately 
after  graduation,  devoting  his  attention  chiefly  to  the  manu- 
facture of  brass  and  brass  goods.  Since  19 10  he  had  been 
president  of  the  Plume  &  Atwood  Manufacturing  Company, 
of  which  he  had  previously  been  treasurer.  At  the  time  of 
his  death  he  was  also  president  of  the  American  Ring  Com- 
pany, with  which  he  had  been  connected  since  leaving  college; 


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a  director  of  the  American  Pin  Company,  the  Waterbury 
Castings  Company,  the  Colonial  Trust  Company  (of  whose 
executive  committee  he  was  also  a  member),  and  the  Morris 
Plan  Bank,  all  of  Waterbury,  and  the  Homer  D.  Bronson 
Company  of  Beacon  Falls,  Conn.;  and  a  trustee  of  the  Dime 
Savings  Bank.  He  was  a  member  and  vestryman  of  St.  John's 
Protestant  Episcopal  Church. 

Mr.  Burrall  died  February  8,  1920,  at  Palm  Beach,  Fla. 
He  had  been  suffering  from  throat  trouble  for  some  months, 
but  his  death,  which  was  due  to  a  hemorrhage,  was  not  antic- 
ipated. Interment  was  in  Riverside  Cemetery,  Waterbury. 

He  was  married  May  20,  1916,  in  New  York  City,  to  Mar- 
garet Oltman  (Fallon)  Barber,  daughter  of  William  Hassett 
and  Agatha  (Oltman)  Fallon,  who  survives  him.  He  also 
leaves  a  sister,  Eunice  Booth  Burrall,  the  wife  of  Thomas  D. 
Thacher  (B.A.  1904).  He  had  no  children. 


John  James  Mitchell  Fairbank,  B.A.   1903 

Born  April  9,  1879,  in  Chicago,  111. 
Died  March  26,  1920,  in  Boston,  Mass. 

John  James  Mitchell  Fairbank,  son  of  Lemuel  Gulliver  and 
Lucinda  Elizabeth  (Mitchell)  Fairbank,  was  born  in  Chicago, 
111.,  April  9,  1879.  f^^s  father,  a  Civil  War  veteran  and  retired 
manufacturer,  was  the  son  of  Josiah  and  Sarah  Elizabeth 
(Gulliver)  Fairbank,  and  traced  his  ancestry  to  Jonathan 
Fairbank  (or  Fayerbancke),  who  came  from  Lowerby,  York- 
shire, England,  in  1633  ^^^  settled  at  Dedham,  Mass.  His 
maternal  grandparents  were  John  James  Mitchell,  for  many 
years  a  director  of  the  Chicago  &  Alton  Railroad,  and  Caro- 
line Eloise  Bayless  Mitchell.  The  Mitchell  family  is  of  Scot- 
tish origin.  They  settled  in  York,  Pa.,  in  1734. 

He  was  prepared  for  college  at  Smith  Academy  in  St.  Louis, 
Mo.,  and  at  Betts  Academy,  Stamford,  Conn.  He  was  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Apollo  Banjo  Club  for  two  years  and  of  the  Uni- 
versity Banjo  and  Mandolin  Clubs  for  a  similar  period. 

After  graduation  he  entered  the  office  of  Hamlin,  Nicker- 
son  &  Company,  brokers,  of  Boston,  Mass.,  and  at  the  time 
when  he  left  their  employ  in  May,  1908,  held  the  position  of 


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cashier.  Since  19 13  he  had  been  in  charge  of  an  estate.  From 
January,  1905,  to  August,  1907,  he  served  in  the  ist  Corps 
of  Cadets,  Massachusetts  Volunteer  Militia.  He  became 
Second  Lieutenant,  battalion  adjutant,  of  the  ist  Motor 
Corps  on  June  5,1917,  was  made  First  Lieutenant  of  Company 
A,  1st  Motor  Company,  March  23,  191 8,  and  promoted  to 
the  rank  of  Captain  on  May  13,  1919.  During  191 8  he  was 
attached  to  the  Intelligence  Bureau  of  the  Adjutant  General's 
Office,  State  of  Massachusetts,  and  served  as  executive  mana- 
ger of  the  loist  U.  S.  Engineer  Welfare  Association.  He  had 
also  acted  as  tactical  officer  at  Wentworth  Institute,  where  he 
was  responsible  for  the  military  training  of  fifty-seven  cadet 
engineers,  and  was  assistant  instructor  in  the  preliminary 
training  of  registrants  of  the  first  draft.  He  served  as  a  member 
of  the  local  committee  of  the  third  Liberty  Loan  drive.  Dur- 
ing the  strike  of  the  Boston  police  force  in  the  fall  of  191 9  he 
was  on  active  duty  for  three  months.  He  was  a  member  of 
the  National  Fire  Protection  Association.  In  1907  he  served 
as  a  member  of  the  executive  committee  of  the  Boston  Yale 
Club.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Protestant  Episcopal  Church. 
Mr.  Fairbank  was  unmarried.  He  is  survived  by  his  mother 
and  a  sister,  Lucile  E.  Fairbank,  now  the  wife  of  Howard  W. 
Pillow,  of  Montreal,  Quebec.  His  Yale  relatives  include 
Chauncey  B.  Blair,  '09,  and  John  J.  Mitchell,  Jr.,  '19. 


Theodore  Twyford  Lane,  B.A.   1903 

Born  July  26,  1880,  in  New  York  City 
Died  April  15,  1920,  in  Flushing,  N.  Y. 

Theodore  Twyford  Lane  was  born  in  New  York  City, 
July  26,  1880,  the  son  of  Theodore  Edward  Lane,  for  a  num- 
ber of  years  general  agent  in  New  York  of  the  Connecticut 
Mutual  Life  Insurance  Company,  and  Isabel  Anna  (Gilpin) 
Lane.  His  father's  parents  were  James  A.  and  Mary  A.  Lane, 
and  his  mother  is  the  daughter  of  John  and  Mary  D.  Gilpin. 
On  the  maternal  side  he  traced  his  ancestory  to  Joseph  Gilpin, 
who  came  to  America  from  Kentmore,  England,  with  William 

enn  in  1696  and  settled  on  the  border  of  what  is  now  Dela- 

are  County,  Pa. 


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His  home  had  been  in  Flushing,  N.  Y.,  since  his  early  boy- 
hood, and  he  was  prepared  for  college  at  the  Flushing  Institute 
and  the  Flushing  High  School.  At  Yale  he  was  given  a  second 
dispute  Junior  and  a  second  colloquy  Senior  appointment. 

He  entered  the  law  office  of  King  &  Conyngton  in  New  York 
City  in  July,  1903,  studied  at  the  New  York  Law  School  for 
two  years,  and  received  the  degree  of  LL.B.  from  that  in- 
stitution in  1905.  He  was  admitted  to  the  New  York  Bar  the 
following  October,  and  was  associated  with  the  firm  of  King 
&  Conyngton  until  November,  1906,  when  he  formed  a 
partnership  for  the  general  practice  of  law  with  Richard  L. 
Edwards,  Jr.  From  1907  until  his  death  he  was  associated 
in  practice  with  his  classmate,  Allen  C.  Bragaw,  and  Albert 
W.  Meisell  (LL.B.  Columbia  1906).  He  had  been  a  director 
of  the  New  River  Lumber  Company,  a  director  and  secretary- 
treasurer  of  the  Marine  Construction  Company,  and  presi- 
dent and  a  director  of  the  Twyford  Realty  Company.  He 
retained  this  last  connection  until  his  death.  He  was  a  mem- 
ber of  the  New  York  County  Lawyers  Association  and  the 
Queens  County  Bar  Association,  and  was  president  of  the 
Flushing  Rifle  Club.  He  had  served  as  secretary  and  a  director 
of  the  Flushing  branch  of  the  National  Security  League,  in 
1 917-18  was  a  member  of  the  Mayor's  Committee  on  Na- 
tional Defense  and  of  the  Borough  President's  Committee  on 
Defense,  was  captain-adjutant  of  the  17th  Police  Inspection 
District,  Home  Defense  League,  and  in  191 9  served  on  the 
Mayor's  Welcome  Home  Committee.  During  the  summers  of 
1915,  1916,  and  1917,  he  had  charge,  under  Col.  William  G. 
Haan,  of  a  training  corps  at  Fort  Totten,  N.  Y.,  and  assisted 
in  the  training  of  over  two  thousand  civilians  in  military  work, 
at  the  same  time  having  charge  of  a  series  of  lectures  on  mili- 
tary matters.  After  the  United  States  entered  the  war  he 
assisted  in  training  the  ist  U.  S.  Reserve  Engineers  and  the 
15th  Infantry  (colored).  New  York  National  Guard.  He  had 
been  rejected  for  active  service,  and  in  1917  enlisted  as  a 
Private  in  the  Veteran  Corps  of  Artillery,  shortly  becoming  a 
First  Sergeant  in  the  7th  Company,  and  in  August  being 
commissioned  a  First  Lieutenant.  On  October  8  he  was  pro- 
moted to  the  rank  of  Captain  and  transferred  to  the  9th 
Coast  Artillery  Corps.  He  was  on  duty  for  over  a  year  with 


1484  YALE    COLLEGE 

the  1st  Provisional  Regiment  guarding  the  New  York  City 
water  supply.  He  had  acted  as  inspecting  and  summary  court 
officer  of  the  ist  Battalion  and  as  judge  advocate  of  the  ist 
Provisional  Regiment.  He  was  released  from  active  service 
February  i,  1919,  and  returned  to  the  command  of  the  7th 
Company,  9th  Coast  Artillery  Corps. 

Mr.  Lane's  death,  which  was  due  to  pneumonia,  occurred 
at  the  Flushing  Hospital,  April  15,  1920. 

He  was  unmarried.  He  is  survived  by  his  mother  and  a 
sister,  Edith  (Mrs.  James  Varnum  Graham).  His  father  died 
June  25,  1920. 

James  Osborne  Putnam,  B.A.   1903 

Born  July  30,  1880,  in  Buffalo,  N.  Y. 
Died  August  25,  1919,  in  Onteora,  N.  Y. 

James  Osborne  Putnam,  whose  parents  were  George 
Palmer  and  Agnes  Adelia  (Hall)  Putnam,  was  born  in  Buffalo, 
N.  Y.,  July  30,  1880.  His  father,  who  is  the  treasurer  of  the 
Atlantic  Terra  Cotta  Company  of  New  York  City,  is  the  son 
of  James  Osborne  Putnam  (B.A.  1839)  ^"^  Harriet  (Palmer) 
Putnam,  .and  a  descendant  in  the  eighth  generation  of  John 
Putnam,  who  came  from  Puttenham,  Bucks  County,  England, 
in  1634,  and  settled  in  that  part  of  Salem,  Mass.,  which  is 
now  Danvers.  James  Osborne  Putnam  (B.A.  1839)  was  a  mem- 
ber of  the  New  York  State  Senate  during  the  year  1854-55; 
was  appointed  by  President  Lincoln  United  States  consul  at 
Havre  in  1861,  and  held  the  office  during  the  Civil  War;  in 
1880  was  appointed  United  States  Minister  to  Belgium;  and 
for  over  fifty  years  was  connected  with  Buffalo  University, 
first  as  a  member  of  the  Council,  then  as  vice  chancellor, 
and  later  as  chancellor.  His  parents  were  Harvey  and  Myra 
(Osborne)  Putnam.  Two  of  his  ancestors  were  Generals  Israel 
and  Rufus  Putnam,  who  were  great-grandchildren  of  John 
Putnam  of  Salem.  Agnes  Hall  Putnam  was  the  daughter  of 
Edward  Julius  Hall,  a  manufacturer  and  at  one  time  presi- 
dent of  the  Bell  Telephone  Company,  and  Mary  (Hoey) 
Hall,  and  the  granddaughter  of  Alfred  and  Sarah  (Bucking- 
ham) Hall.  She  was  a  descendant  of  Rev.  Thomas  Bucking 
ham,  who  was  a  member  of  Yale's  first  Board  of  Trustees 


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1903  1485 

and  in  whose  house  in  Saybrook,  Conn.,  the  first  Commence- 
ment was  held.  Lyman  Hall  (B.A.  1747),  a  signer  of  the 
Declaration  of  Independence,  was  also  a  relative  of  hers. 

He  was  prepared  for  college  at  The  Hill  School,  Pottstown, 
Pa.  He  received  a  second  colloquy  appointment  in  his  Senior 
year  at  Yale. 

In  the  September  after  his  graduation  he  entered  the  employ 
of  the  Colonial  Steel  Company  in  Pittsburgh,  Pa.,  where  he 
remained  for  a  year  and  a  half,  holding  the  positions  succes- 
sively of  invoice  and  voucher  clerk  and  assistant  paymaster. 
In  March,  1905,  he  left  this  company  and  became  a  clerk 
with  the  Missouri  &  Kansas  Telephone  Company  at  Kansas 
City,  Mo.  In  the  fall  of  1908  he  entered  the  Colurnbia  Law 
School,  and  in  19 10  received  the  degree  of  LL.B.  from  that 
institution.  During  the  summer  of  1909  he  was  a  clerk  in  the 
law  office  of  Love  &  Keating  in  Buffalo,  and  during  the 
following  year  he  took  a  special  course  at  the  New  York  Law 
School.  He  was  admitted  to  the  New  York  Bar  in  June,  191 1, 
and  since  then  had  been  engaged  in  the  practice  of  his  profes- 
sion in  New  York  City.  He  was  in  the  law  office  of  John  C. 
O'Connor  for  eight  months,  and  was  then  associated  with 
Gino  C.  Speranza,  attorney  for  the  ItaHan  Consul  General, 
for  two  months.  In  July,  191 2,  he  became  associated  with 
Daniel  Burke  and  in  February,  1913,  he  entered  into  partner- 
ship with  Edward  A.  Kenney  (B.A.  Williams  1906),  under  the 
firm  name  of  Kenney  &  Putnam.  This  firm  was  dissolved  by 
mutual  consent  in  1916  and  during  1917  Mr.  Putnam  was 
connected  with  William  C.  Orr.  From  December,  191 7,  to 
April,  I9i8,he  wasin  the  law  office  of  Henry  A.  Himmelmann, 
and  then  became  associated  with  Blackwell  Brothers,  but 
remained  with  them  for  only  a  short  time,  as  he  had  received 
an  appointment  with  the  American  Red  Cross  for  work  in 
France.  He  went  overseas  in  August;  spent  two  weeks  at 
Paris,  where  he  received  a  commission  as  Second  Lieutenant; 
and  then  went  to  Neufchateau  and  served  in  the  Stores 
Department  for  a  week.  On  his  return  to  Paris  he  was  as- 
signed to  the  Bureau  of  Personnel,  where  he  remained  until 
his  return  to  this  country  in  August,  191 9.  He  was  promoted 
to  the  rank  of  First  Lieutenant  on  May  25,  1919. 

He  died  of  spinal  meningitis,  August  25,  1919,  in  Onteora, 


i486  YALE    COLLEGE 

N.  Y.,  four  days  after  his  return  from  abroad.  His  body  was 
taken  to  Buffalo  for  burial. 

He  was  unmarried.  He  is  survived  by  his  father  and  two 
brothers,  George  Palmer  Putnam,  Jr.,  '96  S.,  and  Edward 
Hall  Putnam,  '04  S.  He  was  a  nephew  of  Edward  J.  Hall, 
'73  S.,  William  C.  Hall,  '75  S.,  Gilbert  Colgate,  '83,  Rev. 
Samuel  Colgate,  Jr.,  '91,  and  Sherman  R.  Hall,  '95  S.,  and  a 
cousin  of  William  C.  Hall,  04,  Edward  B.  Hall,  '06  S.,  John 
G.  Putnam,  '16,  Gilbert  Colgate,  Jr.,  192a,  and  Robert  B. 
Colgate  and  Sherman  R.  Hall,  Jr.,  both  members  of  the  Class 
of  1924. 

George  Unangst  Wenner,  B.A.   1903 

Born  October  20,  1881,  in  Tallula,  111. 
Died  May  30,  1920,  in  Palo  Alto,  Calif. 

George  Unangst  Wenner,  the  son  of  Uriah  Joseph  Wenner, 
a  non-graduate  member  of  the  Class  of  187 1,  and  Kate  Yates 
(Greene)  Wenner,  a  graduate  of  the  Old  Moravian  Seminary 
at  Bethlehem,  Pa.,  in  1876,  was  born  in  Tallula,  111.,  October 
20,  1 88 1.  His  father,  a  lawyer  and  judge  of  probate  in  Salt 
Lake  City,  Utah,  was  the  son  of  George  Wenner,  a  commis- 
sion merchant  and  California  "forty-niner,"  and  Sarah  Ann 
(Unangst)  Wenner.  His  paternal  ancestors  were  born  in  Alsace, 
and  his  maternal  ancestors  were  natives  of  England  or  Scot- 
land (?).  They  settled  in  Virginia  and  Tennessee,  and  later 
removed  to  Illinois.  George  Wenner,  who  served  in  the  Re- 
volutionary War,  was  an  ancestor.  George  U.  Wenner's 
mother  is  the  daughter  of  William  Graham  Greene,  a  banker, 
and  Louisa  Hurt  (White)  Greene.  She  is  a  lineal  descendant 
of  Jarvis  Greene  and  John  White,  the  latter  being  a  Revolu- 
tionary soldier  for  whom  White  County,  Tenn.,  was  named. 

He  was  prepared  for  college  at  the  Chapin  Collegiate 
School  in  New  York  City  and  at  St.  John's  Military  Academy, 
Delafield,  Wis.  He  was  the  commencement  orator  at  the 
time  of  his  graduation  from  the  latter  institution.  His  ap- 
pointment in  both  Junior  and  Senior  years  at  Yale  was  a 
second  colloquy. 

He  spent  the  summer  of  1903  in  New  York  City  as  a  sales- 


1903  1487 

man  for  the  J.  B.  Williams  Company,  and  in  September 
entered  the  Harvard  Law  School  as  a  member  of  the  Class  of 
1906.  He  withdrew  from  the  school  in  July,  1904,  and  entered 
the  employ  of  the  McArthur  Brothers  Company,  who  were 
engaged  in  building  the  Western  Maryland  Railroad.  He 
held  various  positions  with  the  company  and  remained  with 
it  until  May,  1905.  In  September  he  went  to  Seattle,  Wash., 
continuing  his  law  studies  in  the  offices  of  Shank  &  Smith, 
and  on  January  12,  1906,  was  admitted  to  the  bar.  In  1910 
he  moved  to  San  Francisco  and  there  engaged  in  the  practice 
of  law.  He  became  interested  in  the  shipping  business  in  191 5, 
and  in  January,  1917,  he  entered  the  Central  American  trade 
with  the  Pacific  Mail  Steamship  Company  of  San  Francisco. 
He  was  in  Central  America  when  war  was  declared,  but 
returned  at  once  and  on  August  25,  1917,  entered  the  second 
Reserve  Officers'  Training  Camp  at  the  Presidio  of  San 
Francisco.  He  was  commissioned  a  First  Lieutenant  of  In- 
fantry in  the  National  Army  on  November  27,  191 7,  and  was 
immediately  assigned  to  the  12th  Infantry,  8th  Division. 
This  regiment  was  in  process  of  embarkation  at  the  date  of 
the  armistice,  but  saw  no  foreign  service.  His  discharge  from 
service  was  received  at  Newport  News,  Va.,  August  13,  1919. 
On  leaving  the  Army  he  went  to  Central  America,  where  he 
expected  to  go  into  business.  He  returned  in  April  in  very 
poor  health  and  his  death  occurred,  from  tuberculosis,  on 
May  30,  1920,  at  Palo  Alto,  Calif.  Cremation  was  at  the  Cy- 
press Lawn  Cemetery  in  San  Francisco,  and  interment  was 
at  the  National  Cemetery,  Presidio  of  California. 

He  was  a  member  of  the  Sons  of  the  American  Revolution 
and  the  Episcopal  Church.  He  was  not  married.  He  leaves 
his  mother,  now  Mrs.  John  Scott  Noble  of  Seattle,  Wash., 
and  one  sister,  Blanche  Howard  Wenner,  Wellesley  '05,  who 
served  as  Y.  M.  C.  A.  worker  with  the  First  Division  of  the 
U.  S.  Army  in  Germany  in  191 9.  A  younger  brother,  Lincoln 
Greene  Wenner,  who  was  born  July  8,  1888,  died  September 
25,  1906.  He  was  a  nephew  of  Rev.  George  U.  Wenner  (B.A. 
1865). 


YALE    COLLEGE 


Henry  Perkins  Erwin,  B.A.   1904 

Born  May  5,  1879,  in  Johnson  City,  Tenn. 
Died  Ap^il  24,  1920,  in  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 

Henry  Perkins  Erwin,  the  son  of  James  M.  and  Eliza 
(Tilson)  Erwin,  was  born  in  Johnson  City,  Tenn.,  May  5, 
1879.  His  paternal  grandparents  were  Jesse  B.  and  Elizabeth 
(McMahon)  Erwin,  and  he  was  a  descendant  of  William  S. 
Erwin,  who  came  to  America  from  Scotland.  Through  his 
mother,  who  is  the  daughter  of  William  Erwin  Tilson,  a 
farmer  and  clerk  of  the  Chancery  Court,  and  Katherine 
(Sams)  Tilson,  he  traced  his  ancestry  to  Edmund  Tilson,  who 
came  from  England  and  settled  in  Plymouth,  Mass.,  in  1638. 

He  entered  Yale  from  the  Hotchkiss  School,  Lakeville, 
Conn.  He  received  a  first  colloquy  appointment  in  Junior 
year,  and  a  second  dispute  in  Senior  year. 

He  studied  at  the  Yale  School  of  Law  for  three  years, 
receiving  the  degree  of  LL.B.  in  1907.  During  this  time  he  was 
assistant  superintendent  of  the  Yale  Cooperative  Corpora- 
tion's store.  From  September,  1907,  to  January  i,  1910,  he 
was  connected  with  the  office  of  the  district  attorney  of  New 
York  County,  at  first  as  grand  jury  clerk  and  later  as  a  deputy 
assistant  district  attorney.  He  then  opened  an  office  for  the 
general  practice  of  law  in  New  York  City,  and  continued  in 
active  practice  until  his  death.  He  had  served  as  secretary 
of  the  Kings  County  Electric  Light,  Heat  &  Power  Company 
and  of  the  Edison  Electric  Illuminating  Company,  and  at 
the  time  of  his  death  was  treasurer  of  the  Brooklyn  Edison 
Company,  Inc.  In  1917  he  was  chosen  leader  of  the  First 
Assembly  District  in  Brooklyn,  but  he  was  obliged  to  resign 
the  office  in  September,  1919,  on  account  of  ill  health.  He 
was  a  member  of  the  Missionary  Baptist  Church  in  his  native 
town. 

He  died  in  Brooklyn,  April  24,  1920,  from  heart  trouble. 
Interment  was  in  Evergreen  Cemetery,  Brooklyn. 

He  was  married  August  12,  19 16,  in  New  York  City,  to 
Grace  Jarrett,  who  survives  him.  They  had  no  children.  Be- 
sides his  wife  he  is  survived  by  his  mother  and  two  brothers, 
Arthur  Garfield  Erwin,  a  non-graduate  member  of  the  Class 


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of  1906,  and  Dr.  William  Tilson  Erwin,  who  graduated  from 
the  Chattanooga  Medical  College  in  1897  and  spent  the  next 
year  in  graduate  work  at  Yale.  Yale  relatives  include  his 
uncles,  John  Q.  Tilson  (B.A.  1891,  LL.B.  1893)  and  William 
J.  Tilson  (B.A.  1894,  LL.B.  1896),  and  the  following  cousins: 
Dennis  B.  Tilson  (B.A.  1908),  Vernon  V.  Tilson  (B.A.  1908), 
Orrin  H.  Tilson  (B.A.  191 1),  Walter  L.  Brown  (B.A.  191c), 
Carl  C.  Brown  (B.A.  1914),  and  Fred  O. Tilson,  a  non-graduate 
member  of  the  Class  of  1920. 


Albert  Steele  McCullough,   B.A.   1905 

Born  June  9,  1884,  in  Remsen,  N.  Y. 
Died  December  16,  1919,  in  Walhalla,  N.  Dak. 

Albert  Steele  McCullough,  son  of  James  McCullough  (M.D. 

New  York  University  1880)  and  Anna  M.  (Ball)  McCullough, 
was  born  June  9,  1884,  in  Remsen,  N.  Y.,  where  his  father 
had  been  engaged  in  the  practice  of  his  profession  since  the 
completion  of  his  medical  course.  The  latter  was  the  son  of 
James  McCullough,  who.  came  from  Ireland  about  1850  and 
afterwards  made  his  home  in  New  Haven,  Conn.,  and  Kath- 
erine  (Tracy)  McCullough.  The  family  is  of  Scotch-Irish  origin. 
Anna  Ball  McCullough's  parents  were  Chester  and  Margaret 
(McLean)  Ball.  She  traced  her  descent  from  Col.  William. 
Ball,  of  Wiltshire,  England,  who  came  to  this  country  in 
1650,  settling  in  Virginia.  Joseph  Ball,  one  of  Colonel  Ball's 
two  sons,  was  the  grandfather  of  Mary  Ball  Washington,  the 
mother  of  George  Washington. 

Albert  S.  McCullough  was  fitted  for  college  at  the  Remsen 
High  School.  He  held  a  first  division  stand  in  his  Freshman 
year  at  Yale,  and  received  a  third  Barge  mathematical  prize 
in  Sophomore  year.  His  appointments  were  orations. 

In  September,  1905,  he  entered  the  employ  of  the  Oliver 
Iron  Mining  Company  in  northern  Minnesota,  but  after 
working  on  a  surveying  crew  for  a  short  time  was  compelled 
to  give  up  his  position  on  account  of  illness.  He  returned  to  the 
company  a  few  months  later,  however,  and  took  charge  of 
the  iron  ore  samples  from  the  drills.  In  June,  1906,  when  the 
company  opened  up  the  town  of  Coleraine,  Minn.,  which  was 


1490  YALE    COLLEGE 

planned  and  laid  out  as  a  model  mining  town,  he  was  put  in 
charge  of  its  real  estate  interests.  He  continued  in  this  work 
until  July  20,  1910,  when  he  accepted  the  position  of  manager 
of  the  Iron  Range  Coal  &  Ice  Company  at  Coleraine,  in  which 
he  was  a  stockholder.  During  1912-13  he  was  an  instructor  in 
science  and  mathematics  in  the  Breckenridge  (Colo.)  High 
School.  The  remainder  of  his  life  was  spent  as  superintendent 
of  the  city  schools  in  Walhalla,  N.  Dak.  He  was  a  member  of 
the  local  Presbyterian  Church,  and  took  an  active  part  in  the 
work  of  its  Sunday  school.  He  died,  of  tubercular  meningitis, 
December  16,  191 9,  in  Walhalla,  after  an  illness  of  only  ten 
days.  Interment  was  in  Grand  Rapids,  Minn. 

He  was  married  in  that  town,  June  23,  1910,  to  Rhoda 
Irene,  daughter  of  Seth  M.  and  Evangeline  M.  (Draper) 
Dinwiddie,  who  survives  him  with  their  three  children,  Mar- 
garet Medora,  Dorothy  Anna,  and  Malcolm  Seth.  He  also 
leaves  a  sister,  Margaret  E.  McCuUough. 


Robinson  Leech,  B.A.   1906 

Born  May  4,  1884,  in  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 
Died  December  i,  1919,  in  Greenwich,  Conn, 

Robinson  Leech  wks  the  son  of  John  Eadie  Leech,  an  im- 
porter of  chemicals  with  James  Lee  &  Company  of  New  York, 
and  Harriet  Woodruff  (Robinson)  Leech,  and  was  born  May 
4,  1884,  in  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.  His  paternal  grandparents  were 
Samuel  and  Matilda  (Eadie)  Leech,  of  New  York.  His  mother 
is  the  daughter  of  Jeremiah  Potter  and  Elizabeth  (DeWitt) 
Robinson,  and  through  her  he  traced  his  ancestry  to  Rowland 
Robinson,  who  was  one  of  the  first  settlers  of  Rhode  Island, 
having  come  there  from  England  about  1630. 

His  preparation  for  college  was  received  at  the  Brooklyn 
Polytechnic  Institute  and  at  St.  Paul's  School,  Concord,  N.  H. 
In  Sophomore  year  he  was  one  of  the  editors  of  the  fall 
regatta  program,  and  in  Junior  year  he  was  a  member  of  the 
1906  Club  Crew.  His  Senior  appointment  was  a  second  col- 
loquy. He  served  on  the  membership  committee  of  Dwight 
Hall,  and  was  interested  in  the  University  Extension  Move- 
ment, working  with  the  Oak  Street  Boys'  Club  and  the  Ban- 
croft-Foote  Boys'  Club. 


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The  summer  after  graduation  he  spent  abroad  and  on  his 
return  in  the  fall  he  entered  the  New  York  Law  School.  In 
1908  he  received  the  degree  of  LL.B.  from  that  institution 
and  was  admitted  to  the  New  York  Bar.  He  was  at  first 
connected  with  the  law  firm  of  Crocker  &  Wickes,  but  after 
about  a  year  joined  that  of  Wing,  Putnam  &  Burlingham 
(afterwards  known  as  Burlingham,  Montgomery  &  Beecher), 
where  he  specialized  in  admiralty  law.  Since  1914  he  had  been 
in  independent  practice  in  New  York  City.  In  1907  he  joined 
Squadron  A  (Cavalry),  New  York  National  Guard,  and  dur- 
ing the  war  he  served  as  a  Major  in  the  ist  Field  Artillery, 
New  York  Guard.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Civil  Service 
Reform  Association  of  New  York,  and  in  1907  and  1908 
acted  as  a  watcher  at  the  polls.  He  had  often  taken  part  in 
local  primary  work  in  Brooklyn,  and  had  served  as  a  delegate 
to  primary  conventions.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Church  of 
the  Pilgrims  (Congregational)  in  Brooklyn. 

He  died  of  pneumonia,  December  i,  1919,  in  Greenwich, 
Conn.,  where  he  had  made  his  home  since  May,  191 8.  Burial 
was  in  Greenwood  Cemetery,  Brooklyn. 

He  was  married  June  i,  191 1,  in  Brooklyn,  to  Mary  Bu- 
chanan, daughter  of  Spencer  Augustus  and  Ellen  (Buchanan) 
Jennings,  who  survives  him  with  their  two  sons,  Spencer 
Jennings  and  Robinson,  Jr.  His  mother  is  also  living. 


Amasa  Stone  Mather,  B.A.   1907 

Born  August  20,  1884,  in  Cleveland,  Ohio 
Died  February  9,  1920,  in  Cleveland,  Ohio 

Amasa  Stone  Mather  was  born  in  Cleveland,  Ohio,  August 
20,  1884,  the  son  of  Samuel  and  Flora  Amelia  (Stone)  Mather. 
His  father,  who  is  head  of  the  firm  of  Pickands,  Mather  & 
Company,  is  a  son  of  Samuel  Livingston  and  Georgianna 
Pomeroy  (Woolson)  Mather,  and  a  direct  descendant  of  Rev. 
Richard  Mather,  who  came  to  this  country  from  England  in 
1635  ^"d  settled  in  Dorchester,  Mass.  His  maternal  grand- 
parents were  Amasa  and  Julia  (Gleason)  Stone,  and  his 
earliest  American  ancestor  on  that  side  of  the  family  was 
Gregory  Stone. 


149^  YALE    COLLEGE 

He  was  prepared  for  college  at  the  University  School  in 
Cleveland.  At  Yale  he  received  a  first  dispute  appointment  in 
both  Junior  and  Senior  years,  was  a  member  of  tne  Dramatic 
Association,  and  contributed  to  the  Record. 

In  March,  1908,  after  traveling  abroad  for  some  months 
with  a-  number  of  his  classmates,  he  became  connected  with 
the  mining  department  of  Pickands,  Mather  &  Company, 
spending  much  time  at  first  at  the  iron  ore  mines  in  Michigan 
and  Minnesota.  At  the  time  of  his  death  he  was  a  partner  in 
the  company  and  manager  of  its  iron  ore  mining  department. 
He  was  well-known  as  a  big  game  hunter.  He  was  a  member 
of  the  Civic  League,  the  Chamber  of  Commerce,  the  Republi- 
can Executive  Committee  for  Cuyahoga  County,  the  Lake 
Superior  Iron  Ore  Institute,  and  the  Musical  Arts  Association. 
He  belonged  to  the  Episcopal  Church  and  was  a  vestryman 
of  Trinity  Cathedral,  Cleveland.  In  191 6  he  was  chairman  of 
the  local  chapter  of  the  American  Red  Cross,  and  afterwards 
served  as  vice-chairman  and  a  member  of  the  executive  com- 
mittee. During  the  war  he  was  secretary  of  the  Committee 
on  Pig  Iron,  Iron  Ore,  and  Lake  Transportation,  first  for  the 
Council  of  National  Defense  and  later  for  the  War  Industries 
Board.  From  October  22,  191 8,  to  November  29,  191 8,  when 
he  was  given  his  discharge,  he  was  a  member  of  the  30th 
Battery,  loth  Battalion,  at  the  Field  Artillery  Central  Officers' 
Training  School  at  Camp  Zachary  Taylor,  Kentucky. 

Mr.  Mather  died,  from  pneumonia,  February  9,  1920,  in 
Cleveland,  and  was  buried  in  Lakeview  Cemetery. 

He  was  married  December  2,  191 1,  in  Cleveland,  to 
Katherine  Boardman,  daughter  of  James  Humphrey  Hoyt 
(B.A.  Brown  1874,  LL.B.  Harvard  1877)  and  Jessie  Proctor 
(Taintor)  Hoyt,  and  sister  of  Elton  Hoyt,  2d,  '10.  She  survives 
him  with  their  two  children,  Katherine  Stone  and  Samuel, 
2d.  He  also  leaves  his  father,  two  brothers,  Samuel  Livings- 
ton Mather,  '05,  and  Philip  Richard  Mather,  '16,  and  a  sister, 
Constance  Mather  Bishop.  Relatives  who  have  attended 
Yale  include  Samuel  A.  Raymond,  '70,  Daniel  E.  Stone,  '79  S., 
Adelbert  S.  Ray,  '98,  Henry  A.  Raymond,  '05,  S.  Edward 
Raymond,  '13,  and  Jonathan  S.  Raymond,  '17. 


1907  1493 

Howard  Earle  Palmer,  B.A.   1907 

Born  August  27,  1887,  ^"  Branford,  Conn. 
Died  May  19,  1920,  in  Branford,  Conn. 

Howard  Earle  Palmer,  son  of  Isaac  Hobart  Palmer,  a 
farmer,  and  Harriet  Lavinia  (Smith)  Palmer,  was  born  in 
Branford,  Conn.,  August  27,  1887.  His  father  was  the  son  of 
Isaac  Hobart  and  Nancy  (Carter)  Palmer,  and  his  mother's 
parents  were  Warren  and  Caroline  (Robinson)  Smith.  He  was 
of  English  descent,  and  on  the  maternal  side  traced  his  an- 
cestry to  Thomas  Smith,  who  settled  at  West  Haven,  Conn., 
in  1662,  and  to  the  Todds,  who  settled  in  New  Haven  in 
1639.  O^^  of  l^^s  father's  ancestors.  Mason  Hobart,  served  in 
the  Revolutionary  War. 

He  attended  the  Branford  High  School  before  coming  to 
Yale.  He  received  an  oration  appointment  as  a  Junior  and 
was  given  honors  for  the  work  of  that  year.  His  Senior  appoint- 
ment was  a  high  oration,  and  he  was  graduated  with  honors  in 
the  physical  sciences.  He  was  a  member  of  Phi  Beta  Kappa 
and  Sigma  Xi. 

He  entered  the  Yale  Graduate  School  in  the  fall  of  1907 
and  in  19 10  was  awarded  the  degree  of  Ph.D.  in  chemistry. 
He  held  the  Larned  Fellowship  during  the  first  two  years  of 
his  graduate  course,  and  during  his  final  year  was  the  Silliman 
Fellow  and  served  as  an  assistant  in  chemistry.  From  July  i, 
1910,  to  May,  191 2,  he  was  connected  with  the  Welsbach  Gas 
Light  Company  of  Gloucester,  N.  J.,  as  assistant  chemist, 
resigning  this  position  to  become  an  assistant  chemist  in  the 
Bureau  of  Standards  in  Washington,  D.  C.  From  Septem.ber, 
1914,  until  his  death  he  held  an  appointment  as  organic  and 
physical  chemist  in  the  Bureau  of  Chemistry  (Department  of 
Agriculture),  where  he  was  engaged  in  research  work  in  or- 
ganic chemistry.  During  the  war  he  also  devoted  his  attention 
to  investigational  work  on  war  problems.  He  had  contributed 
articles  to  the  American  Journal  of  Science^  the  "Journal  of  the 
American  Chemical  Society,  and  the  Journal  of  Biological 
Chemistry,  and  was  a  member  of  the  American  Chemical 
Society  and  the  American  Association  for  the  Advancement 
of  Science.  He  was  an  Episcopalian. 


1494  YALE    COLLEGE 

His  death  occurred  in  Branford,  May  19,  1920,  after  an 
illness  of  five  months  due  to  endocarditis.  He  was  buried  in 
Center  Cemetery  in  that  town. 

He  was  married  December  25,  191 8,  in  Ottawa,  111.,  to 
Edna,  daughter  of  Lavosier  L.  and  Mary  Eloise  (Phillips) 
Thompson.  She  survives  him,  as  do  his  mother  and  a  brother, 
Walter  Hobart  Palmer,  '05.  He  was  a  nephew  of  Margaretta 
Palmer  (B.A.  Vassar  1887,  Ph.D.  Yale  1894). 


Gordon  Case,  B.A.   1908 

Born  September  24,  1886,  in  Peconic,  N.  Y. 
Died  February  4,  1920,  in  Indianapolis,  Ind. 

Gordon  Case  was  born  in  Peconic,  N.  Y.,  September  24, 
1886,  the  son  of  Jesse  Lewis  Case  (B.A.  1877,  LL.B.  1880), 
a  lawyer,  and  Mary  Hortense  (Harrington)  Case,  a  graduate 
of  the  Oswego  (N.  Y.)  State  Normal  School.  His  paternal 
grandparents  were  Lewis  Rogers  Case,  son  of  Gordon  and 
Charity  Halsey  (Rogers)  Case,  and  Ency  Sophia  (Corwin) 
Case,  whose  parents  were  Josiah  and  Ency  (Buckingham) 
Corwin.  His  first  American  ancestor  on  the  paternal  side  was 
Henry  Case,  of  Southold,  N.  Y.  His  mother  was  the  daughter 
of  Waterman  Harrington,  who  was  born  at  Oneida  Castle, 
N.  Y.,  and  whose  ancestors  lived  in  New  Haven  or  Milford, 
Conn.,  and  Helen  (White)  Harrington,  who  was  born  at 
Derby  Line,  Vt.,  and  spent  her  girlhood  in  Canada.  Her 
family  came  from  Hartford,  Conn. 

He  was  fitted  for  college  at  the  Southold  Academy.  He 
took  part  in  track  work  at  Yale,  winning  the  high  jump  in 
the  fall  meet  of  1906.  He  left  college  in  Junior  year,  and  after 
studying  for  a  time  at  Gottingen,  Germany,  returned  to  Yale 
and  in  1909  received  the  degree  of  B.A.,  with  enrollment  in 
his  original  class.  He  was  given  a  second  colloquy  Junior  and 
a  first  colloquy  Senior  appointment.  He  had  taken  advanced 
work  during  1908-09  and  in  1910  was  given  his  M.A.  degree. 

In  1909  Mr.  Case  took  a  position  on  the  editorial  staff  of 
the  Spectator  Company,  insurance  publishers  in  New  York 
City,  with  whom  he  remained  until  March,  1913,  when  he 
passed  the  Civil  Service  examinations  and  accepted  an  ap- 


I 907-1908  1495 

pointment  as  an  assistant  examiner  in  the  New  York  State 
Insurance  Department.  He  had  previously  passed  the  first- 
year  examinations  in  accident,  health,  and  liability  insurance 
of  the  Insurance  Institute  of  America.  In  1913  he  was  threat- 
ened with  tuberculosis  and  was  out  of  active  work  for  four 
months,  after  which  he  resumed  his  duties  with  the  New  York 
State  Insurance  Department,  continuing  there  until  July, 
1916.  At  that  time  he  enlisted  in  the  New  York  National 
Guard.  He  saw  service  on  the  Mexican  border  from  July  to 
October,  was  mustered  out  of  federal  service  in  November, 
and  returned  to  his  former  position.  On  March  25,  1917,  he 
was  again  called  into  active  service  with  his  regiment,  and 
for  the  next  five  months  was  stationed  at  Kingston,  N.  Y. 
From  August  to  November,  191 7,  he  was  on  detached  service 
at  the  Plattsburg  Training  Camp.  He  was  given  a  First 
Lieutenant's  commission  November  25,  1917,  and  shortly 
afterwards  was  assigned  to  Battery  C  of  the  351st  Field 
Artillery  at  Camp  Meade,  Maryland,  assuming  command  of 
the  battery  on  March  i,  191 8.  Before  going  overseas  the  fol- 
lowing June  he  spent  a  month  at  the  School  of  Fire  for  Field 
Artillery  at  Fort  Sill,  Oklahoma,  and  after  his  arrival  in 
France  he  spent  two  months  at  the  Montmorillon  Training 
Area  and  a  similar  period  at  the  School  of  Artillery  Fire  at  La 
Courtine,  and  later  attended  the  Motor  and  Tractor  School 
at  Clermont-Ferrand.  He  was  in  the  Marbache  sector  early 
in  November  and  took  part  in  the  frontal  attack  on  Corny  on 
November  10  and  11.  He  returned  to  the  United  States  in 
February,  1919,  and  was  discharged  from  the  service  on 
March  8.  In  May,  after  spending  a  short  time  with  the  New 
York  State  Insurance  Department,  he  became  associated  with 
Frank  C.  Haight,  a  consulting  actuary  in  Indianapolis,  Ind., 
as  insurance  expert  and  statistician.  He  held  this  position 
until  his  death,  which  occurred  there,  from  pneumonia, 
February  4,  1920.  Interment  was  in  the  Willow  Hill  Cemetery 
in  Southold. 

He  was  a  member  of  the  American  Statistical  Association 
and  a  Fellow  of  the  Casualty  Actuarial  and  Statistical  Society 
of  America.  He  had  contributed  articles  to  a  number  of  pub- 
lications, including  the  Coast  Review^  Aircraft^  and  the  College 
Worlds  and  had  been  editor  of  the  I'heta  Nu  Epsilon  Quarterly. 


1496  YALE    COLLEGE 

His  marriage  to  Edith  Inez  Warburton  took  place  in  Brook- 
lyn, N.  Y.,  June  16,  1910.  Mrs.  Case,  who  is  the  daughter  of 
Thomas  Henry  and  Florence  Gertrude  (Armstrong)  Warbur- 
ton, survives  him  with  a  daughter,  Audrey  Pearson.  Mr.  Case 
is  also  survived  by  his  father  and  a  sister,  Ency  Harrington 
Case  (Mrs.  Russell  Lee  Davison),  a  non-graduate  member  of 
the  Class  of  191 3  at  Wellesley  College. 


Chandler  Diehl,  B.A.   1908 

Born  October  13,  1886,  in  Chicago,  111, 
Died  February  5,  1920,  in  San  Antonio,  Texas 

Chandler  Diehl  was  born  in  Chicago,  111.,  October  13,  1886, 
the  son  of  Charles  Sanford  and  Ellen  Watson  (Chandler) 
Diehl.  His  father  was  for  a  number  of  years  connected  with 
the  Associated  Press,  serving  as  assistant  general  manager 
from  1893  to  191 1.  Since  that  time  he  has  been  one  of  the 
editors  and  publishers  of  the  San  Antonio  (Texas)  Light.  His 
parents  were  Carl  F.  and  Amanda  F.  (Dewey)  Diehl,  and  his 
first  American  ancestor  was  John  Adam  Diehl,  who  came  to 
York,  Pa.,  from  Saxony  in  1731.  Ellen  Chandler  Diehl  traces 
her  descent  to  William  Chandler,  who  settled  at  Roxbury, 
Mass.,  in  1637,  having  come  to  this  country  from  England. 
She  is  the  daughter  of  Henry  B.  and  Mary  Ann  (Ellsworth) 
Chandler. 

His  preparation  for  Yale  was  received  at  the  Yonkers 
(N.  Y.)  High  School  and  at  St.  Paul's  School,  Concord,  N.  H. 

Upon  graduation  he  secured  a  position  in  the  business  office 
of  the  Chicago  Daily  News,  where  he  remained  until  January  i, 
1909.  During  the  next  two  years  he  was  connected  with  the 
Chicago  Record-Herald,  at  first  in  the  business  office,  then  as 
advertising  solicitor,  in  19 10  in  the  display  advertising  depart- 
ment, and  subsequently  in  charge  of  the  financial  advertising. 
He  moved  to  San  Antonio  in  April,  191 1,  and  afterwards  held 
the  position  of  advertising  manager  of  the  San  Antonio 
Light.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Episcopal  Church  in  that  city. 

He  died,  after  an  illness  of  nine  days,  February  5,  1920,  in 
San  Antonio,  and  was  buried  in  the  Mission  Burial  Park.  His 
death  was  due  to  pneumonia,  following  influenza. 


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1908  1497 

Mr.  Diehl  was  married  July  18,  1910,  in  Milwaukee,  Wis., 
to  Margaret,  daughter  of  George  Warren  and  Ann  Relf 
(Kemper)  Wilson,  who  survives  him  with  their  two  sons. 
Chandler,  Jr.,  born  in  191 2,  and  Kemper  Wilson,  born  in 
191 8.  He  also  leaves  his  parents  and  a  sister,  Mrs.  S.  F.  Shaw. 


Edward  Spottisvi^oode  Faust,  B.A.   1908 

Born  November  13,  1886,  in  Huntsville,  Ala. 
Died  November  i,  1919,  at  Big  Moose  Lake,  N.  Y. 

Edward  Spottiswoode  Faust,  son  of  John  Armstrong  and 
Susie  (Matthews)  Faust,  was  born  in  Huntsville,  Ala., 
November  13,  1886.  His  father,  who  was  formerly  a  member 
of  the  wholesale  clothing  firm  of  Flechheimer,  Fischel  & 
Company  of  New  York  City,  is  the  son  of  Samuel  King  and 
Martha  W.  (Smith)  Faust.  On  the  maternal  side,  he  traced 
his  ancestry  to  Luke  Matthews,  who  came  to  America  from 
England  in  colonial  days  and  settled  at  Leesburg,  Va.  Mrs. 
Faust  is  the  daughter  of  Luke  Matthews,  Jr.,  of  Huntsville, 
and  Lucy  Ann  (Spottiswoode)  Matthews,  a  great-granddaugh- 
ter of  Alexander  Spottiswoode,  colonial  governor  of  Virginia 
under  Queen  Anne. 

He  studied  with  an  English  tutor  and  at  a  private  school  in 
Geneva,  Switzerland,  and  after  his  return  to  America  in  1901 
entered  Phillips  Academy,  Andover,  Mass.  He  was  a  member 
of  the  1908  Club  Crew  in  his  Junior  year  at  Yale. 

He  spent  the  first  year  after  graduation  studying  history 
at  Christ  Church,  Oxford  University,  and  traveling.  While  at 
Oxford  he  rowed  on  the  second  eight.  After  his  return  to  New 
York  he  was  engaged  in  the  real  estate  business  for  a  short 
time,  and  later  was  connected  with  a  Wall  Street  firm  for  a 
year.  In  1910  he  accepted  the  position  of  associate  editor  of 
the  Railway  Age  Gazette.  He  subsequently  joined  the  staff  of 
the  American  Telephone  &  Telegraph  Company,  continuing 
in  this  connection  until  1917,  when  he  volunteered  for  service. 
He  received  a  Captain's  commission  at  Fort  Madison,  N.  Y., 
and  before  going  overseas  served  as  adjutant  at  Camp  Dix 
for  a  time  and  took  a  course  at  the  School  of  Fire  for  Field 
Artillery  at  Fort  Sill,  Oklahoma.  While  in  France  he  attended 


1498  YALE    COLLEGE 

two  artillery  schools,  and,  as  Captain  of  the  308th  Field 
Artillery,  saw  action  with  the  78th  Division.  He  was  offered 
an  appointment  in  the  Intelligence  Department  and  another 
as  interpreter,  but  preferred  to  remain  with  his  regiment. 
After  the  armistice  he  served  with  the  ist  Division  in  Ger- 
many. He  returned  to  the  United  States  on  October  28,  1919, 
and  spent  two  days  with  a  classmate  in  Bronxville,  N.  Y. 
He  then  went  to  Big  Moose  Lake  in  the  Adirondacks,  where 
he  shot  himself,  November  i,  1919.  In  a  letter  written  just 
before  the  act  he  stated  that  his  suspicions  with  regard  to  the 
loss  of  his  mind  had  been  confirmed  by  medical  authorities 
in  New  York,  and  he,  therefore,  felt  that  the  best  and  kindest 
action  on  his  part  was  to  make  an  end  of  his  life.  It  is  supposed 
that  the  severe  strain  of  long  service  overseas,  together  with 
his  grief  over  the  death  of  his  fiancee  while  he  was  in  France, 
was  the  cause  of  his  act.  He  was  buried  in  the  military  section 
of  the  Cypress  Hill  Cemetery,  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 

Captain  Faust  was  a  member  of  the  Protestant  Episcopal 
Church.  He  is  survived  by  his  parents,  who  make  their  home 
in  Florence,  Italy,  and  a  brother,  James  Matthews  Faust. 
The  latter  is  a  non-graduate  member  of  the  Class  of  1906  S. 


Arnold  Schmidt,  B.A.   1908 

Born  August  9,  1885,  in  South  Manchester,  Conn. 
Died  March  14,  1920,  in  South  Manchester,  Conn. 

Arnold  Schmidt,  son  of  John  Ernest  Schmidt,  a  native  of 
Basle,  Switzerland,  and  Karoline  (Oehler)  Schmidt,  was  born 
in  South  Manchester,  Conn.,  August  9,  1885.  His  father's 
parents  were  Johann  George  and  Barbara  (Grether)  Schmidt, 
of  Fahrman,  Baden,  Germany,  and  his  mother  is  the  daughter 
of  Johann  Christof  and  Christina  Magdelina  (Treffinger) 
Oehler,  both  of  whom  were  born  in  Brachenheim,  Wiirtem- 
berg,  Germany. 

He  graduated  from  the  South  Manchester  High  School  as 
valedictorian  of  the  Class  of  1904  and  then  entered  Yale. 
He  played  on  the  Freshman  Baseball  Team  and  was  subse- 
quently a  member  of  the  University  Baseball  Squad.  He  was 
active  in  track  athletics,  winning  second  place  in  the  hammer 


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1908  I499 

throw  in  the  fall  class  meet  in  1905.  In  Junior  year  he  was 
given  a  first  colloquy  appointment. 

He  returned  to  New  Haven  in  the  fall  of  1908  to  take  up 
the  study  of  law  and  three  years  later  received  the  degree  of 
LL.B.  at  Yale.  In  September,  191 1,  he  entered  the  law  depart- 
ment of  the  Title  Guarantee  &  Trust  Company  in  New  York 
City,  and  later  had  a  similar  connection  with  the  London 
Guarantee  &  Accident  Company.  Subsequently  he  opened  an 
office  in  New  York  for  the  general  practice  of  law.  He  at- 
tended the  second  Officers'  Training  Camp  at  Plattsburg, 
N.  Y.,  and  upon  receiving  his  commission  as  a  First  Lieuten- 
ant of  Infantry  on  November  27,  1917,  was  sent  to  Camp 
Stanley,  Leon  Springs,  Texas.  Not  long  afterwards  he  was 
transferred  to  the  Air  Service  and  ordered  to  Kelly  Field, 
a  week  later  being  assigned  to  the  336th  Aero  Squadron  and 
transferred  to  the  aviation  camp  at  Waco,  Texas.  On  Janu- 
ary 8,  191 8,  he  was  detached  from  his  squadron  and  assigned 
to  the  3d  Provisional  Regiment  in  command  of  the  31st 
Recruit  Squadron.  He  was  recommissioned  in  the  Air  Service 
on  March  3,  and  two  months  later  went  with  his  squadron  to 
Camp   Greene,   North    Carolina.   He   was   assigned   to   the 
307th  Aero  Squadron  on  July  5,  and  went  abroad  with  that 
organization  the  following  month.  After  spending  short  peri- 
ods at  various  English  camps,  he  was  sent  to  Post  Meadow, 
Oxford,  as  mess  officer  for  the  American  detachment  there, 
and  he  later  served  in  a  similar  capacity  at  Bicester,  where  he 
remained  until  the  armistice.  On  November  13,  191 8,  he  was 
ordered  to  Harling  Road  Station,  Norfolk,  to  take  command 
of  the  American  detachment  at  that  post.  Upon  his  arrival 
in  the  United  States  in  December  he  was  transferred  to  the 
306th  Aero  Squadron.  He  was  stationed  at  Camp  Devens  for 
about  a  month,  and  was  then  sent  to  the  Air  Service  Depot 
at  Garden  City,  N.  Y.  In  March,  191 9,  he  applied  for  duty 
in  the  office  of  the  Judge  Advocate  of  Maritime  Affairs  in 
New  York,  and  was  transferred  to  that  office  a  few  weeks 
later,  remaining  there  until  October  28,  1919,  when  he  was 
given  his  discharge  from  service.  He  had  been  recommended 
for  promotion  to  the  rank  of  Captain  in  October,  191 8,  and 
the  commission  was  granted  in  March,  1920,  the  notification 
reaching  his  home  a  week  after  his  death,  which  occurred 


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in  South  Manchester,  March  14,  1920.  He  had  been  ill  since 
November,  1919,  when  an  operation  performed  at  the  Long 
Island  College  Hospital  in  Brooklyn  revealed  that  he  was 
suffering  from  carcinoma  of  the  bladder.  Interment  was  in  the 
East  Cemetery  in  South  Manchester. 

He  was  not  married.  Surviving  him  are  his  mother  and  two 
sisters. 


Harold  Stanley  Bates,  B.A.   1909 

Born  January  14,  1888,  in  New  Milford,  Conn. 
Died  March  i,  1920,  in  Palm  Beach,  Fla. 

Harold  Stanley  Bates  was  the  son  of  John  E.  Bates,  a 
wholesale  commission  merchant,  and  Mary  Elizabeth  (Ben- 
nett) Bates,  and  was  born  in  New  Milford,  Conn.,  January 
14,  1888.  His  paternal  grandparents  were  Erastus  and  Caro- 
line (Page)  Bates.  His  mother  was  the  daughter  of  Franklin 
and  Almira  (Hine)  Bennett. 

He  was  prepared  for  college  at  the  high  school  in  Mount 
Vernon,  N.  Y.,  and  at  Phillips  Academy,  Andover,  Mass. 
At  Yale  he  received  a  dissertation  Junior  and  a  first  dispute 
Senior  appointment. 

Upon  graduating,  he  entered  the  wholesale  hat  commission 
business  with  his  father  in  New  York  City  and  continued  in 
this  connection  until  his  death,  at  which  time  he  held  the 
office  of  president  of  the  Bates  Company.  His  home  was  at 
Mount  Vernon  and  he  was  a  member  of  the  Methodist  Episco- 
pal Church.  He  joined  the  American  Field  Service  June  2, 

1917.  He  drove  an  ammunition  truck  in  the  Aisne  and  Che- 
min  des  Dames  sectors  for  five  months,  at  the  end  of  which 
period  his  unit  was  taken  over  by  the  American  Army.  He 
then  tried  to  enlist  in  our  army,  but  was  rejected  because  of 
poor  eyesight,  and  subsequently  served  as  a  civilian  in  the 
transport  division  of  the  Air  Service  at  Tours.  On  May  15, 

1 91 8,  he  enlisted  in  the  French  Foreign  Legion,  and  was 
assigned  to  the  32d  Regiment  of  Field  Artillery.  He  then  spent 
three  months  at  the  Fontainebleau  Artillery  School,  where 
he  was  graduated  with  high  honors  and  with  the  rank  of 
Aspirant.  He  saw  active  service  in  the  Champagne  sector 


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with  the  1st  Division,  and  was  cited  for  bravery  and  awarded 
the  Croix  de  Guerre,  with  star.  He  was  demobilized  February 
13,  1919,  and  arrived  in  the  United  States  a  month  later. 

He  died  suddenly  at  Palm  Beach,  Fla.,  March  i,  1920,  and 
was  buried  in  Woodlawn  Cemetery,  New  York. 

He  was  unmarried,  and  is  survived  by  his  father  and  a 
brother,  Franklin  S.  Bates  (B.A.  1914). 


Julian  French  Devereux,  B.A.   1909 

Born  March  4,  1886,  in  Cleveland,  Ohio 
Died  February  20,  1920,  in  Cleveland,  Ohio 

Julian  French  Devereux,  son  of  Henry  Kelsey  Devereux 
(Ph.B.  1883),  manager  of  the  Chicago-Cleveland  Car  Roofing 
Company,  and  Mildred  Abeel  (French)  Devereux,  was  born 
in  Cleveland,  Ohio,  March  4,  1886.  He  was  the  1883  S.  Class 
Boy.  The  Devereux  family  is  descended  from  William  the 
Conqueror  and  Robert  Devereux,  Earl  of  Essex.  John  Dev- 
ereux, the  first  member  of  the  family  to  come  to  America, 
emigrated  in  1665,  settled  at  Marblehead,  Mass.,  and  subse- 
quently purchased  the  site  of  the  present  town  of  Devereux 
from  the  Indians.  The  old  family  mansion  is  still  standing 
there.  Julian  Devereux's  grandfather.  Col.  John  Henry  Dev- 
ereux, was  the  son  of  John  and  Matilda  (Burton)  Devereux, 
and  the  seventh  of  the  name  in  a  direct  line.  He  was  superin- 
tendent of  the  military  railroads  of  Virginia  during  the  Civil 
War,  and  was  later  prominently  identified  with  the  railroad 
development  of  the  country.  His  wife  was  Antoinette  Cecilia, 
daughter  of  Capt.  Loranzo  A.  Kelsey,  an  early  mayor  of 
Cleveland,  and  Elmina  (Smith)  Kelsey.  Mildred  French  Dev- 
ereux was  descended,  through  Edwin  French,  from  the  early 
Connecticut  settlers  of  the  Western  Reserve  who  located  at 
Perry,  Ohio. 

He  was  prepared  for  college  in  Southboro,  Mass., — at  the 
Fay  School  and  at  St.  Mark's.  At  Yale  he  was  manager  of 
the  Freshman  Musical  Clubs,  played  on  the  Freshman  Foot- 
ball Team,  and  was  for  two  years  a  member  of  the  University 
Football  Squad.  He  received  a  second  colloquy  Junior  and  a 
first  dispute  Senior  appointment. 


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He  spent  several  months  after  graduation  in  the  field  with 
a  cavalry  troop  of  the  Regular  Army,  and  upon  returning  to 
Cleveland,  took  a  position  with  the  Cleveland  Trust  Company. 
He  was  later  employed  in  the  loan  department  of  the  Citizens 
Savings  &  Trust  Company,  but  in  191 2  became  connected 
with  the  Browning  Engineering  Company.  After  spending 
several  months  in  the  shops  and  on  the  road  erecting  cranes, 
he  bought  an  interest  in  the  company,  and,  with  Sheldon 
Cary  (Ph.B.  1893),  started  to  reorganize  it,  this  work  being 
completed  in  January,  1914.  At  the  time  of  his  death  he  was 
secretary  and  sales  manager  of  the  company.  He  had  also 
served  as  secretary  and  a  director  of  the  Standard  Steel  Cast- 
ings Company  and  the  Standard  Sewing  Machine  Company. 
He  was  a  member  of  St.  Paul's  Episcopal  Church,  Cleveland. 
On  January  i,  1909,  he  had  enlisted  in  Troop  A,  Cavalry, 
Ohio  National  Guard  (the  "Black  Horse  Troop"),  and  in  the 
spring  of  1914  was  given  a  Second  Lieutenant's  commission. 
He  served  on  the  Mexican  border  with  the  organization  in 
191 6,  and  on  May  5,  1917,  was  promoted  to  the  rank  of 
Captain,  two  months  later  being  transferred  to  the  Field 
Artillery  with  the  rank  of  Major.  After  being  stationed  at 
Camp  Sheridan,  Alabama,  for  a  time  he  was  transferred, 
in  February,  191 8,  to  the  joid  Cavalry.  The  following  August 
he  was  assigned  to  the  64th  Field  Artillery.  He  had  been 
stationed  at  Camp  Fremont  and  Camp  Kearney,  California, 
and  at  the  School  of  Fire  for  Field  Artillery  at  Fort  Sill, 
Oklahoma,  where  he  was  given  his  discharge  in  191 9. 

Mr.  Devereux  died,  from  pneumonia,  February  20,  1920, 
in  Cleveland,  and  was  buried  in  Lake  View  Cemetery. 

He  was  married  May  27,  191 1,  in  Cleveland,  to  Sarah  Burt, 
daughter  of  Oliver  Perry  and  Ina  (Pitkin)  Clay,  who  survives 
him  with  two  children,  Mildred  Aileen  and  Henry  Kelsey, 
2d.  His  father  is  also  living.  John  Devereux,  ex- Si  S.,  is  an 
uncle,  and  the  late  Horace  E.  Andrews,  '82  S.,  an  uncle  by 
marriage. 


1909  1503 

Eustace  Morrow  Sheppard,  B.A.   1909 

Born  September  17,  1886,  in  Pittsburgh,  Pa. 
Died  February  10,  1920,  in  Pittsburgh,  Pa. 

Eustace  Morrow  Sheppard  was  born  in  Pittsburgh,  Pa., 
September  17,  1886,  the  son  of  George  Sheppard,  a  banker, 
and  Sarah  Jane  (Little)  Sheppard.  His  paternal  grandparents 
were  Hamilton  and  Jane  (Leech)  Sheppard,  and  his  mother 
was  the  daughter  of  Thomas  and  Emily  Clark  (Cooper) 
Little. 

His  preparation  for  college  was  received  at  Shadyside 
Academy,  Pittsburgh,  and  at  the  Harstrom  School  in  Nor- 
walk.  Conn.  At  Yale  he  sang  on  the  Freshman  Glee  Club  and 
was  a  member  of  the  Choir.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Fresh- 
man Hockey  Squad  and  of  the  Class  Tennis  Team  in  Junior 
year. 

In  the  fall  of  1909  he  entered  the  Carnegie  Technical 
School  in  Pittsburgh,  where  he  took  the  course  in  architecture. 
He  received  honorable  mention  in  the  New  York  Beaux  Arts 
competition  that  year.  From  January,  1910,  until  March, 
191 1,  he  was  engaged  in  the  general  insurance  business  in 
Philadelphia,  also  acting  as  special  agent  for  Hoskins  & 
Howell,  resident  managers  of  the  Aetna  Life  Insurance  Com- 
pany. He  then  returned  to  Pittsburgh  to  become  treasurer 
of  the  A.  W.  McCloy  Company,  wholesale  and  retail  sta- 
tioners and  printers.  In  191 2  he  was  elected  secretary-treas- 
urer of  the  company.  He  resigned  this  position  on  June  i, 
1 9 14,  and  the  following  October  became  treasurer  of  the 
Pittsburgh  Stationery  Company  (formerly  the  Cooper-Kirk- 
land  Stationery  Company).  He  remained  with  this  company 
as  manager  and  treasurer  until  his  death,  a  temporary  mana- 
ger having  been  appointed  while  he  was  in  service  overseas. 
He  joined  the  Pittsburgh  Military  Training  Association  in 
January,  191 7,  and  in  May  entered  the  Reserve  Officers' 
Training  Camp  at  Fort  Niagara,  New  York.  He  was  com- 
missioned a  Second  Lieutenant  of  Infantry  on  August  15, 
1 91 7,  was  ordered  to  Camp  Meade,  Maryland,  on  August  29, 
and  a  few  days  later  assigned  as  senior  Second  Lieutenant 
to  Company  H,  315th  Infantry.  After  graduating  from  the 


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79th  Divisional  Bayonet  and  Gas  School,  he  became  gas 
and  bayonet  instructor,  ordnance,  insurance,  and  allotment 
officer  of  the  company.  He  went  overseas  on  June  29,  191 8, 
reaching  France  on  July  15.  He  acted  as  billeting  officer  for 
two  weeks,  and  was  then  assigned  to  the  Headquarters 
Company  of  the  315th  Infantry  as  brigade  liaison  officer.  He 
was  promoted  to  a  First  Lieutenancy  on  October  17,  191 8,  and 
transferred  to  the  159th  Infantry.  He  took  part  in  the  Meuse- 
Argonne  offensive,  and  was  at  the  front  when  the  armistice 
was  signed,  being  gassed  during  his  last  engagement.  He  was 
discharged  from  the  Army  at  Camp  Gordon,  Georgia,  April 
21,  1 919,  two  weeks  after  his  return  to  the  United  States. 
During  the  war  he  continued  to  act  in  an  advisory  capacity 
on  the  Mercantile  Agency  Committee  of  the  Pittsburgh 
Association  of  Credit  Men,  of  which  he  had  been  a  member 
since  191 2.  In  1914  he  served  as  majority  inspector  of  elec- 
tions for  the  14th  Ward  in  Pittsburgh.  He  was  a  member  of 
the  Episcopal  Church  of  the  Ascension  in  that  city. 

His  death,  which  was  due  to  pneumonia,  occurred  in 
Pittsburgh,  February  10,  1920.  Burial  was  in  the  Allegheny 
Cemetery. 

Mr.  Sheppard  was  married  April  2,  191 8,  in  Waterbury, 
Md.,  to  Ruth  Barnett  Freeman,  daughter  of  Lieut.  Col. 
Charles  R.  Barnett,  U.S.A.,  and  Sallie  F.  (Shoemaker)  Bar- 
nett. He  is  survived  by  his  father  and  a  brother.  Dr.  Thomas 
T.  Sheppard,  '14. 


Scoville  Thomas  Devan,  B.A.   191 1 

Born  August  18,  1889,  in  Buffalo,  N.  Y. 
Died  October  18,  1919,  in  North  Cornwall,  Conn. 

Scoville  Thomas  Devan  was  born  in  Buffalo,  N.  Y.,  August 
18,  1889,  th^  son  of  Dr.  Spencer  Cone  Devan  and  Harriet 
Beecher  (Scoville)  Devan.  His  father,  who  was  the  son  of 
Thomas  Thomas  and  Emma  (Clark)  Devan,  received  the  de- 
gree of  B.S.  at  Rutgers  in  1 876  and  that  of  M.D.  at  New  York 
University  in  1880,  was  a  professor  at  the  Kansas  City  Col- 
lege of  Physicians  and  Surgeons  for  a  year  or  two,  and  then 
entered  the  U.  S.  Marine  Hospital  Service.  He  died  in  Phil- 


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adelphia  in  1893.  The  Devan  family  is  of  Welsh  and  French 
origin.  Scoville  Devan's  earliest  American  ancestor  on  the 
paternal  side  was  John  Thomas,  who  came  from  Carnarvon, 
North  Wales,  and  settled  near  New  York.  His  great-great- 
grandfather,   Devan,  was  killed  in  the  War  of  1812. 

The  Scoville  family  came  to  this  country  from  England,  but 
were  originally  from  the  village  of  D'Escoville  in  Normandy. 
Harriet  Beecher  Scoville  Devan  graduated  at  Wellesley  in 
1883.  Her  parents  were  Rev.  Samuel  Scoville  (B.A.  1857) 
and  Harriet  Eliza  (Beecher)  Scoville.  Her  father,  who  studied 
theology  at  Auburn,  Andover,  and  Union  seminaries  after 
his  graduation  from  Yale  and  was  subsequently  a  Congrega- 
tional minister,  was  the  son  of  Jacob  Scoville,  a  farmer  of 
West  Cornwall,  Conn.,  and  at  one  time  a  representative  in 
the  State  Legislature,  and  Martha  (IngersoU)  Scoville.  Her 
mother  was  the  daughter  of  Rev.  Henry  Ward  Beecher  (B.A. 
Amherst  1834)  and  Eunice  White  (Bullard)  Beecher,  and  a 
granddaughter  of  Rev.  Dr.  Lyman  Beecher  (B.A.  1797)  and 
Roxana  (Foote)  Beecher.  Her  ancestors  came  from  England 
to  Boston  in  1638,  Hannah  Beecher,  a  widow,  and  her  son 
John  being  among  the  first  settlers  of  New  Haven,  Conn. 

He  was  fitted  for  college  at  the  Westminster  School  in 
Simsbury,  Conn.  He  was  active  in  the  work  at  Yale  Hall  and 
the  Oak  Street  and  Bethany  missions,  and  won  several  cups 
in  swimming  meets. 

He  spent  the  summer  of  191 1  as  a  private  tutor  in  Latin 
and  in  the  fall  took  a  position  at  the  Columbus  (Ohio) 
Academy  for  Boys,  where  he  remained  for  two  years,  serving 
as  assistant  headmaster  during  the  second  year.  From  Sep- 
tember, 1913,  to  May,  1914,  he  was  connected  with  the  United 
Paperboard  Company  of  New  York  City,  at  first  as  a  city 
salesman,  and  afterwards  as  a  traveling  salesman.  He  then 
became  a  salesman  for  the  McKeever  Electric  Company  of 
Columbia,  for  which  company  he  later  acted  as  an  illuminat- 
ing engineer.  He  left  their  employ  in  July,  191 5,  and  became 
associated  with  the  Green-Joyce  Company,  a  wholesale  dry- 
goods  house,  as  representative  for  their  interior  decorating 
department.  He  had  served  on  the  council  of  the  local  Boy 
Scouts  organization,  and  was  a  member  of  the  committee  in 
charge  of  establishing   a   farm   for   boys.    He   belonged    to 


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Plymouth  (Congregational)  Church,  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.  He  was 
exempt  from  military  service  owing  to  the  fact  that  he  had 
been  lame  from  boyhood,  but  on  September  20,  191 7,  he 
secured  an  appointment  as  a  French  secretary  with  the  Y.  M. 
C.  A.  He  went  abroad  on  October  3,  and  after  spending  a 
month  in  field  work,  was  appointed  superintendent  of  cinema 
for  the  26th  Division.  He  subsequently  served  in  a  similar 
capacity  with  the  82d  Division.  He  was  gassed  while  in  service 
and  the  condition  of  his  health  compelled  him  to  return  to 
this  country  in  the  fall  of  191 8.  He  was  afterwards  in  various 
hospitals  in  California  and  the  East,  and  died  October  18, 
1 91 9,  at  North  Cornwall,  Conn.  He  was  buried  in  the  ceme- 
tery there.  His  death  was  directly  due  to  the  effects  of  his 
having  been  gassed. 

He  was  not  married.  Surviving  him  are  his  mother  and  a 
sister,  Harriet  Beecher  Devan  (now  Mrs.  George  B.  Soule), 
who  received  the  degree  of  B.A.  at  Wellesley  in  1913.  Mr. 
Devan's  Yale  relatives  include  his  great-great-uncles,  Rev. 
Edward  Beecher  (B.A.  1822),  Rev.  George  Beecher  (B.A. 
1828),  and  Rev.  William  H.  Beecher  (M.A.,  honorary,  1833); 
his  great-uncle,  William  C.  Beecher,  '72;  his  uncles,  Samuel 
Scoville,  Jr.,  '93,  and  William  H.  Scoville,  '95;  and  his 
cousins,  Rev.  George  B.  Beecher,  '61,  Eugene  F.  Beecher,  '67, 
Harry  Beecher,  '88,  and  Norman  B.  Beecher,  '98. 


William  Cecil  Leavenworth,  B.A.   191 2 

Born  November  22,  1885,  in  New  Haven,  Conn. 
Died  August  4,  1919,  in  Augusta,  Ga. 

William  Cecil  Leavenworth,  son  of  William  James  and 
Helen  (McKean)  Leavenworth,  was  born  in  New  Haven, 
Conn.,  November  22,  1885,  and  received  his  preparatory 
training  at  the  Hillhouse  High  School  in  that  city.  He  entered 
Yale  with  the  Class  of  1907,  but  left  in  November,  1904,  and 
was  subsequently  occupied  in  administrative  work  at  the 
New  Haven  Hospital  and  at  hospitals  in  New  York  and 
Boston.  He  took  a  special  course  in  the  Yale  School  of  Medi- 
cine in  1906-07,  and  then  worked  in  a  department  store  for 
two  years,  returning  to  Yale  in   1909  as  a  member  of  the 


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College  Class  of  191 2.  He  received  a  high  oration  appoint- 
ment in  Junior  year  and  held  the  Leavenworth  Scholarship 
from  1 9 10  to  191 2.  He  was  enrolled  in  the  School  of  Medicine 
during  this  period,  and  again  in  1913-14.  For  a  year  or  more 
he  was  joint  principal,  with  Samuel  Kramer, '12,  of  the  Berke- 
ley Tutoring  School  in  New  Haven.  He  was  given  the  degree 
of  B.A.  in  191 5,  with  enrollment  in  the  Class  of  191 2. 

He  completed  his  medical  course  at  the  University  of 
Virginia  in  191 7,  receiving  the  degree  of  M.D.  at  that  time. 
He  then  served  as  assistant  superintendent  of  the  Johns 
Hopkins  Hospital  in  Baltimore,  Md.,  for  a  year  and  a  half. 
He  died,  of  acute  nephritis,  August  4,  1919,  at  the  University 
Hospital,  Augusta,  Ga.,  of  which  he  had  been  superintendent 
for  five  months. 

Dr.  Leavenworth  was  married  December  28,  191 2,  in 
New  Haven,  to  Isabel  Miller,  who  survives  him  with  a  son, 
WiUiam  Miller. 


John  Winthrop  Loveland,  Jr.,  B.A.   1913 

Born  June  21,  1 891,  in  New  York  City 
Died  October  29,  1919,  in  Minneapolis,  Minn. 

John  Winthrop  Loveland,  Jr.,  was  born  in  New  York  City, 
June  21,  1891,  the  son  of  John  Winthrop  Loveland,  a  patent 
attorney,  and  Florence  Lee  (Partridge)  Loveland,  and  a 
descendant  of  Elisha  Loveland,  who  came  from  England  to 
America  in  1649,  settling  in  Glastonbury,  Conn.  His  great- 
great-grandfather,  Adonijah  Strong,  received  an  honorary 
degree  at  Yale  in  1786.  His  father  is  the  son  of  John  and 
Helen  M.  (Strong)  Loveland,  and  a  nephew  of  the  late  Henry 
M.  Hoyt  (B.A.  Williams  1849),  ^  former  governor  of  Pennsyl- 
vania. He  graduated  from  the  Pennsylvania  Military  College 
at  Chester,  Pa.,  with  the  degree  of  C.E.  in  1887,  was  a  grad- 
uate student  at  Yale  the  following  year,  and  attended  the 
Columbia  Law  School  during  1888-89.  During  the  Spanish- 
American  War  he  served  in  the  Porto  Rico  campaign  with 
Squadron  A,  New  York  National  Guard,  and  later  he  was 
First  Lieutenant  of  the  5th  Regiment,  New  Jersey  Infantry. 
He  served  on  the  Mexican  border  in  191 5  as  Major  of  the 


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latter  regiment,  and  during  the  World  War  held  a  commission 
as  Major  in  the  112th  Heavy  Field  Artillery.  Florence  Part- 
ridge Loveland's  parents  were  Henry  Morton  and  Mary 
Parmelee  (Hart)  Partridge,  of  Elmira,  N.  Y.  She  was  for 
several  years  a  student  at  Elmira  College.  Her  great-grand- 
father, Alden  Partridge,  was  superintendent  of  the  U.  S. 
Military  Academy  at  West  Point  from  1815  to  18 17,  founded 
the  military  academy  at  Norwich,  Vt.,  in  18 19,  and  was  the 
first  president  of  Norwich  University.  Her  first  American 
ancestor  was  William  Partridge,  who  came  to  this  country 
from  Berwick-on-Tweed,  England,  and  settled  in  Hartford, 
Conn.,  marrying  there  in  1644. 

John  W.  Loveland,  Jr.,  attended  the  Englewood  (N.  J.) 
High  School  and  the  Englewood  School  for  Boys,  and  then 
entered  the  Pennsylvania  Military  College,  where  he  was 
graduated  with  the  degree  of  C.E.  in  1909.  He  spent  the  sum- 
mer of  that  year  in  Europe  with  his  family,  entering  Yale  in 
the  fall.  He  was  given  a  second  colloquy  Junior  and  a  second 
dispute  Senior  appointment,  was  president  of  the  Aero  Club, 
and  took  an  active  part  in  Yale  Hall  work. 

For  fourteen  months  after  graduation  he  was  employed  at 
the  Pearl  River  shops  of  the  Dexter  Folder  Company,  manu- 
facturers of  printers'  and  bookbinders'  machinery,  and  then 
did  some  system  work  in  their  New  York  and  Philadelphia 
offices.  In  November,  19 15,  he  took  a  position  with  the  Ameri- 
can Brake  Shoe  &  Foundry  Company  and  was  sent  to  their 
projectile  works  in  Erie,  Pa.  He  spent  a  short  time  in  the  tool 
design  and  maintenance  department,  and  was  then  trans- 
ferred to  the  production  department,  having  entire  charge  of 
the  output  of  the  plant.  He  enlisted  in  April,  191 7,  attended 
the  Officers'  Training  Camp  at  Fort  Myer,  Virginia,  for  three 
months,  received  a  commission  as  a  Second  Lieutenant  in  the 
Regular  Army  on  August  15,  and  was  assigned  to'  the  12th 
Field  Artillery,  then  stationed  at  Fort  Myer.  On  December  i 
he  was  transferred  to  the  Coast  Artillery  Officers'  School  at 
Fort  Monroe,  subsequently  being  assigned  to  the  68th  Regi- 
ment, C.  A.  C,  at  Fort  Wright,  Fishers  Island,  N.  Y.  He 
sailed  for  France  as  a  First  Lieutenant  in  August,  191 8,  was 
promoted  to  the  rank  of  Captain  on  October  26,  and  saw 
service  with  the  42d  Regiment,  C.  A.  C.  (railroad  artillery), 


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on  the  Alsatian  front.  From  March  to  June,  1919,  he  was  one 
of  forty  Regular  Army  officers  employed  in  directing  the  con- 
voy of  trains  from  LifFol-le-Grand  to  the  Army  of  Occupa- 
tion at  Coblenz.  An  account  of  the  activities  of  this  special 
detail  later  appeared  in  Liaison^  the  organ  of  the  "Big  Gun 
Corps,"  and  was  from  his  pen.  He  returned  to  the  United 
States  in  June,  and  after  spending  a  brief  period  at  Fort 
Caswell,  Cape  Fear,  N.  C,  resigned  from  the  Army.  He  then 
resumed  his  work  with  the  American  Brake  Shoe  &  Foundry 
Company,  this  time  going  to  their  plant  in  Minneapolis, 
Minn. 

His  death  occurred  in  that  city,  October  29,  191 9,  following 
a  short  illness  due  to  pneumonia.  Interment  was  in  the  Forty 
Fort  (Pa.)  Cemetery. 

He  was  a  member  of  the  Englewood  Presbyterian  Church. 
He  was  not  married.  Surviving  him  are  his  parents  and  two 
sisters,  Florence  Lee  (Mrs.  Lawrence  E.  Barron,  of  Philadel- 
phia) and  Helen  Marion,  the  wife  of  Lieut.  John  Dimmick 
Armstrong,  of  the  63d  Infantry.  His  Yale  relatives  include 
Rev.  Henry  P.  Strong  (B.A.  1807),  William  Strong  (B.A. 
1828),  an  associate  justice  of  the  U.  S.  Supreme  Court,  New- 
ton b.  Strong  (B.A.  1831),  Rev.  Edward  Strong  (B.A.  1838), 
Rev.  Samuel  W.  Strong  (B.A.  1843),  William  T.  Strong,  '76, 
Henry  M.  Hoyt,  '78,  Theodore  C.  Strong,  '78,  William  L. 
Strong,  '84,  Charles  N.  Loveland,  '94,  Henry  M.  Hoyt,  '07, 
J.  Ellis  Fisher,  '11,  Theodore  Strong,  '14,  and  Kenneth  G. 
Collins,  '14  S. 

Henry  Humphrey  Parsons,  B.A.   19 13 

Born  May  15,  1890,  in  New  York  City 
Died  June  17,  1920,  in  Purchase,  N.  Y. 

Henry  Humphrey  Parsons  was  the  son  of  Charles  and 
Frances  Louise  (Humphrey)  Parsons  and  was  born  in  New 
York  City,  May  15,  1890.  His  mother  died  in  1896  and  his 
father  in  1899.  His  father,  who  received  the  degree  of  B.A. 
at  Yale  in  1878,  was  president  and  vice-president  of  a  num- 
ber of  railroads.  He  was  the  son  of  Charles  Parsons,  also  a 
railroad  president,  and  Sarah  Johnson  (Shepley)  Parsons, 
whose  parents  were  Rev.  David  Shepley,  D.D.  (B.A.  Bowdoin 


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1825),  and  Mira  (Nott)  Shepley.  Dr.  Shepley  was  a  trustee  of 
Bowdoin  from  1867  to  1877.  Henry  Humphrey  Parsons' 
great-grandfather  was  William  Parsons,  of  Alfred,  Maine,, 
and  he  was  a  lineal  descendant  in  the  ninth  generation  of 
Joseph  Parsons,  who  came  from  Great  Torrington,  Devon- 
shire, England,  in  1635  ^"^  settled  at  Springfield,  Mass., 
later  removing  to  Northampton.  His  maternal  grandparents 
were  Cyprian  and  Betsey  Louise  (Davis)  Humphrey. 

He  was  prepared  for  college  at  the  Craigie  and  Cutler 
schools  in  New  York  City  and  at  the  Pomfret  (Conn.) 
School.  He  was  manager  of  the  Apollo  Glee,  Banjo,  and  Man- 
dolin clubs  in  his  Sophomore  year  at  Yale,  assistant  manager 
of  the  University  Musical  Clubs  in  Junior  year,  and  manager 
in  Senior  year.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Elizabethan  Club  and 
the  Corinthian  Yacht  Club,  and  was  on  the  eligibility  list  of 
the  Dramatic  Association.  He  was  given  honors  in  the  studies 
of  Freshman  year,  and  received  a  dissertation  Junior  and  a 
second  dispute  Senior  appointment.  He  took  work  in  English 
in  the  Graduate  School  during  his  college  course,  and  in  1913, 
in  addition  to  receiving  the  degree  of  B.A.,  was  given  that 
of  Master  of  Arts. 

He  went  to  England  after  graduating  for  a  year's  study  at 
Balliol  College,  and  in  1914  was  a  member  of  the  Oxford 
Officers'  Training  Corps  and  the  Navy  League.  From  19 14 
to  1916  he  was  a  student  at  the  Harvard  Law  School.  He 
joined  the  Norton-Harjes  Ambulance  Unit,  S.  S.  U.  5,  as  a 
volunteer  on  July  4,  191 6,  and  served  continuously  with  that 
organization  until  it  was  taken  over  by  the  American  Army 
in  the  fall  of  1 917.  He  was  made  a  Medical  Sergeant,  first  class, 
in  the  U.  S.  Army  Ambulance  Service  on  October  17,  1917, 
and  received  the  Fourragere  in  November.  On  March  28, 
191 8,  he  was  given  a  First  Lieutenant's  commission,  and 
subsequently  served  successively  as  commanding  officer  of 
Echelon  Americain  Pares  A  and  C  and  of  a  section  (S.  S.  U. 
525)  at  the  front.  He  was  decorated  with  the  Croix  de  Guerre 
in  August,  1917,  and  was  the  first  American  to  win  the  right 
to  wear  the  hat  of  the  Chasseurs  d" Alpins.  In  October,  191 8, 
he  was  evacuated  from  the  front  with  pneumonia.  During  his 
convalescence  he  developed  an  abscess  of  the  leg,  from  which 


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he  barely  recovered.  He  was  in  hospital  from  October  until 
the  end  of  January.  He  returned  to  the  United  States  on  April 
21,  1919,  and  was  discharged  from  the  Army  immediately 
thereafter.  The  following  October  he  entered  the  office  of 
Root,  Clark,  Buckner  &  Howland,  in  New  York  City,  where 
he  remained  until  his  death.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Prot- 
estant Episcopal  Church. 

He  shot  and  killed  himself,  June  17, 1920,  in  Purchase,  N.  Y. 
It  is  thought  that  he  may  have  been  suffering  from  shell 
shock  at  the  time.  Interment  was  in  Trinity  Cemetery,  New 
York  City. 

He  was  unmarried.  He  is  survived  by  a  brother,  Charles 
Parsons  (B.A.  191 2).  His  only  sister,  Winifred,  died  in  1908. 
He  was  a  nephew  of  Edwin  Parsons  (B.A.  1888)  and  Robert 
W.  Parsons  (B.A.  1901)  and  a  cousin  of  W.  Usher  Parsons 

rph.B.  1895). 


Harold  Hayden  Barber,  B.A.   1914 

Born  November  14,  1891,  in  Manchester,  Conn. 
Died  October  30,  1919,  in  Mazatlan,  Mexico 

Harold  Hayden  Barber,  son  of  Rev.  Clarence  Howard 
Barber  (B.A.  Amherst  1877)  and  Mary  Lucretia  (Johnson) 
Barber,  was  born  in  Manchester,  Conn.,  November  14,  1891. 
His  father,  whose  parents  were  Gaylord  and  Catharine  (Hay- 
den) Barber,  graduated  at  the  Hartford  Theological  Seminary 
in  1880  and  later  held  Congregational  pastorates  in  Torring- 
ford,  Manchester,  and  Danielson,  Conn.  The  first  member  of 
the  family  to  come  to  America  was  Thomas  Barber,  an  Eng- 
lishman who  settled  at  Windsor,  Conn.  Another  ancestor  on 
the  paternal  side  was  Rev.  Heman  Humphrey,  D.D.,  who 
graduated  at  Yale  in  1805  and  was  the  first  president  of 
Amherst  College.  Mary  Johnson  Barber  is  the  daughter  of 
Almon  and  Sarah  (Beach)  Johnson. 

He  was  fitted  for  college  at  the  Killingly  (Conn.)  High 
School.  At  Yale  he  was  given  honors  in  the  studies  of  Junior 
year,  and  received  dissertation  appointments.  He  served  as 
secretary  and  treasurer  of  the  Jonathan  Edwards  Club  in 


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Junior  year  and  was  president  of  the  organization  in  Senior 
year.  He  was  for  two  years  a  Bible  group  leader,  was  inter- 
ested in  the  work  of  the  Edwin  Bancroft  Foote  Boys'  Club, 
and  belonged  to  the  Yale  Society  for  the  Study  of  Socialism. 

He  entered  the  Hartford  Theological  Seminary  in  the  fall 
of  1914  and  received  the  degree  of  B.D.  there  in  1917.  He  was 
president  of  his  class  and  also  of  the  student  body  and  the 
Students'  Association  of  the  Hartford  Seminary  Foundation, 
which  includes  the  students  of  the  Hartford  Theological 
Seminary,  the  Kennedy  School  of  Missions,  and  the  Hartford 
School  of  Religious  Pedagogy.  Upon  graduating  from  the 
seminary  he  was  awarded  a  prize  in  Greek  and  a  Jacobus 
Fellowship,  which  entitled  him  to  an  extra  year  of  study. 
Availing  himself  of  this  privilege,  he  received  in  May,  191 8, 
the  degree  of  S.T.M.  The  thesis  which  he  submitted  at  this 
time  was  entitled  "The  Relation  of  Church  and  State  in 
Mexico  since  the  Beginning  of  the  Nineteenth  Century." 
Mr.  Barber  was  ordained  in  his  father's  church  in  Danielson, 
July  24,  1 91 8,  and  the  following  December  became  engaged 
in  work  under  the  American  Board  of  Missions  at  Mazatlan, 
Mexico.  He  died  there  of  fever,  October  30,  1919,  and  was 
buried  in  the  Protestant  Cemetery. 

His  marriage  took  place  in  Danielson,  August  9,  191 8,  to 
Barbara  Southworth  Howland  (B.A.  Mount  Holyoke  1913), 
daughter  of  Rev.  John  Howland,  a  graduate  of  Amherst  in 
1876  and  of  the  Hartford  Theological  Seminary  in  1882,  and 
Sara  (ChoUar)  Howland,  missionaries  under  the  American 
Board  in  Mexico.  Mrs.  Barber  survives  him  with  their  son, 
John  Howland,  born  October  31,  1919,  in  Oakland,  CaUf. 
He  is  also  survived  by  his  mother,  two  brothers,  Edward  J. 
Barber,  '05,  and  Rev.  Laurence  L.  Barber,  '10,  and  an  adopted 
sister,  Edith  M.,  the  wife  of  Rev.  George  B.  Hawkes,  who 
graduated  from  Colorado  College  in  1898  and  from  the  Hart- 
ford Theological  Seminary  in  1902,  and  was  a  special  student 
in  the  Yale  Divinity  School  from  1917  to  1919.  Mr.  Barber's 
father  died  April  10,  1920. 


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Alfred  Willoughby  Fowler,  B.A.   19 16 

Born  July  28,  1893,  J"  Fremont,  Nebr. 
Died  June  5,  1920,  in  Genoa,  Italy 

Alfred  Willoughby  Fowler  was  born  in  Fremont,  Dodge 
County,  Nebr.,  July  28,  1893,  the  son  of  Willard  Horton  and 
Clara  (Willoughby)  Fowler.  His  father  is  treasurer  of  Rich- 
ards, Keene  &  Company  and  of  a  local  chapter  of  the  Sons 
of  the  American  Revolution.  He  is  the  son  of  Samuel  Horton 
and  Ann  Jenett  (Humphrey)  Fowler.  Clara  Willoughby 
Fowler  is  the  daughter  of  Alfred  P.  Willoughby  and  traces 
her  ancestry  to  x^lfred  Willoughby,  who  came  to  America 
from  England.  She  is  eligible  for  membership  in  the  Daugh- 
ters of  the  American  Revolution. 

xA.lfred  W.  Fowler  received  his  preparatory  training  at  the 
high  school  in  Fremont  and  then  attended  the  University  of 
Chicago,  where  he  was  awarded  an  honor  scholarship.  Enter- 
ing Yale  with  the  Class  of  1916,  he  received  second  division 
honors  in  Freshman  year,  first  division  honors  and  a  high 
oration  appointment  in  Junior  year,  and  a  philosophical  ora- 
tion appointment  in  Senior  year.  He  held  the  Learned  Scholar- 
ship during  Sophomore,  Junior,  and  Senior  years,  and  was 
elected  to  membership  in  Phi  Beta  Kappa.  He  was  a  member 
of  the  Freshman  Cross  Country  Team  and  of  the  Gymnasium 
Team  which  won  the  championship  of  the  Intercollegiate 
Association  of  Amateur  Gymnasts  in  1915,  and  was  the  Yale 
lightweight  champion  wrestler  for  191 5  and  the  lightweight 
wrestler  on  the  191 6  Wrestling  Squad.  He  won  his  numerals. 

He  was  one  of  the  two  members  of  the  Class  of  191 6  chosen 
to  enter  the  training  class  for  foreign  service  of  the  National 
City  Bank  of  New  York.  After  completing  the  course  in  1917, 
he  was  sent  to  Genoa,  Italy.  In  April,  191 8,  he  secured  his 
release  from  the  bank  and  on  the  thirtieth  of  the  month  en- 
listed in  the  French  Foreign  Legion  at  Paris.  He  was  subse- 
quently sent  to  the  French  Artillery  School  for  officers  at 
Fontainebleau,  and  was  graduated  there  in  August,  191 8.  He 
was  then  assigned  to  the  front  with  the  rank  of  Aspirant, 
and  served  with  the  2d  Regiment  of  Mountain  Artillery,  ist 
Groupe,  in  the  Vosges  Mountains  until  the  arrriistice.  He  was 


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afterwards  with  the  French  Army  of  Occupation  in  Alsace, 
and  on  March  15,  1919,  received  a  commission  as  a  Second 
Lieutenant.  On  April  22,  191 9,  on  account  of  failing  health, 
the  result  of  a  severe  attack  of  the  influenza,  he  was  granted 
indefinite  leave,  and  returned  to  Genoa,  where  he  was  at 
once  reinstated  in  his  position  with  the  National  City  Bank 
of  New  York.  Just  before  his  death  he  was  promoted  to  the 
position  of  manager  of  the  discount  and  credit  department. 
He  was  a  linguist  of  unusual  ability,  speaking  and  writing 
French,  Spanish,  Italian,  and  German  with  fluency.  His 
French  Army  discharge  papers  show  that  he  was  in  action 
twice. 

He  died  in  Genoa  June  5,  1920,  his  death  being  due  to 
heart  complications  following  an  attack  of  typhoid  fever. 
Interment  was  in  Ridge  Cemetery  in  his  native  town. 

Mr.  Fowler  was  unmarried,  and  is  survived  by  his  parents 
and  a  sister,  Ruth  (Mrs.  E.  Ralph  Clarke,  of  Fremont). 


George  Theodore  Achelis,  B.A.   1919 

Born  September  7,  1897,  in  Seabright,  N.  J. 
Died  April  25,  1920,  in  Woodmere,  N.  Y. 

George  Theodore  Achelis  was  born  in  Seabright,  N.  J., 
September  7,  1897,  the  son  of  John  Achelis,  a  member  of  the 
importing  firm  of  Frederick  Victor  &  Achelis,  and  Emmy 
(Bockler)  Achelis.  His  paternal  grandparents,  Thomas  and 
Julie  Achelis,  were  natives  of  Bremen,  Germany. 

He  was  prepared  for  college  at  The  Hill  School  in  Pottstown, 
Pa.  His  appointment  in  Junior  year  was  a  second  colloquy. 
In  his  Senior  year  he  was  a  member  of  the  Water  Polo  Team. 
He  belonged  to  the  Elizabethan  Club  and  the  Dramatic 
Association,  and  took  the  part  of  Odysseus  in  "The  Aulis 
Difliculty."  He  served  in  the  Yale  R.  O.  T.  C.  during  1917, 
and  on  July  3,  191 8,  enlisted  as  a  Seaman,  2d  Class,  in  the 
U.  S.  Naval  Reserve  Force.  He  was  stationed  at  Pelham  Bay, 
N.  Y.,  until  the  following  December,  when  he  received  his 
discharge  and  returned  to  college. 

Mr.  Achelis  died  of  scarlet  fever,  after  a  brief  illness,  April 
25,  1920,  at  his  home  in  Woodmere,  N.  Y.  At  the  time  of  his 


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death  he  was  connected  with  the  New  York  publishing  house 
of  E.  P.  Button  &  Company  as  a  salesman. 

He  was  married  November  29,  1919,  in  New  Haven,  Conn., 
to  Grace,  daughter  of  the  late  Horatio  Parker,  dean  of  the 
Yale  School  of  Music,  who  graduated  at  the  Royal  Conserva- 
toire in  Munich  in  1885  and  received  the  honorary  degree  of 
M.A.  at  Yale  in  1892  and  that  of  Doctor  of  Music  at  Cam- 
bridge University  in  1902,  and  Anna  (Ploessl)  Parker.  Mrs. 
Achelis  survives  him  with  a  daughter,  Joan,  born  in  Decem- 
ber, 1920.  He  also  leaves  his  father,  two  sisters,  and  two  broth- 
ers, Thomas  Achelis,  '08,  and  Johnfritz  Achelis,  '13.  He  was 
a  cousin  of  Carl  L.  Victor,  '00  S.,  George  F.  Victor,  Jr.,  ex-o^. 
and  Frederic  G.  Achelis  and  John  A.  Victor,  both  '07. 


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Samuel  Atkins  Barbour,  Ph.B.  1868 

Born  November  2,  1846,  in  Canton,  Conn. 
Died  February  11,  1920,  in  Phoenix,  Ariz. 

Samuel  Atkins  Barbour  was  born  November  2,  1846,  in 
Canton,  Conn.,  but  later  removed  with  his  family  to  Bristol. 
His  father,  Volney  Giles  Barbour,  who  was  engaged  in  farm- 
ing and  had  served  as  a  selectman  and  town  treasurer,  was  the 
son  of  Giles  and  Mary  (Garrett)  Barbour,  a  grandson  of  Dr. 
Samuel  Barbour  and  Hannah  (Humphrey)  Barbour,  and  a 
descendant  of  Thomas  Barbour,  an  early  settler  in  Windsor, 
Conn.^  who  had  come  there  from  England  in  1634.  His  mother, 
Ellen  (Atkins)  Barbour,  traced  her  ancestry  to  Thomas 
Atkins,  who  came  from  England  in  1682  and  settled  at  East 
Hartford.  Her  parents  were  Rollin  and  Harriet  (Bishop) 
Atkins. 

He  received  his  preparatory  training  at  Williston  Seminary, 
Easthampton,  Mass.  His  course  in  the  Scientific  School  was 
that  in  civil  engineering,  and  after  taking  his  degree  he  fol- 
lowed this  profession  in  Connecticut,  Arkansas,  Illinois,  and 
Kentucky  until  1875,  when  he  went  to  Montana  and  engaged 
in  mining.  He  was  superintendent  of  the  Hecla  Consolidated 
Mining  Company  from  1877  to  1881,  spent  the  next  year  in 
Idaho,  and  then  went  to  Colorado,  where,. from  1884  to  1887, 
he  was  mining  superintendent  for  the  Spar  Consolidated 
Company.  In  1887  he  resumed  his  connection  with  the  Hecla 
Consolidated  Mining  Company  in  Montana.  From  1904  until 
his  death  he  was  engaged  in  mining  on  his  own  account.  He 
was  manager  and  part  owner  of  the  Condor  Mine  Lease  at 
Melrose,  Mont.,  and  in  191 7  acted  as  agent  for  the  Hecla 
Beaverhead  Company  of  Montana,  looking  after  the  leasing  of 
mines  at  Hecla.  In  1879  Mr.  Barbour  was  a  member  of  the 
Assembly  of  Montana  Territory. 

He  died,  of  angina  pectoris,  February  11,  1920,  in  Phoenix, 
Ariz.  Interment  was  in  the  West  Cemetery  in  Bristol,  Conn. 
He  was  a  member  of  the  Bristol  Baptist  Church. 

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He  was  married  January  10,  1880,  in  Chicago,  111.,  to  Helen 
Mar,  daughter  of  Benjamin  Franklin  Babcock.  Her  death 
occurred  May  28,  1890.  Two  children,  Samuel  Volney  and 
Helen  Mar,  survive,  and  Mr.  Barbour  also  leaves  a  brother 
and  two  sisters.  Another  brother,  Volney  Giles  Barbour 
(Ph.B.  1867),  died  in  1901. 


Houston  Lowe,  Ph.B.  1869 

Born  September  18,  1849,  '"  Dayton,  Ohio 
Died  February  13,  1920,  in  Miami,  Fla.  « 

Houston  Lowe,  the  son  of  John  Gilbert  Lowe  (B.A.  Miami 
1837),  who  was  a  lawyer  and  trustee  of  numerous  estates  and 
Colonel  of  the  131st  Ohio  Volunteer  Infantry,  and  Marianna 
Louisa  (Phillips)  Lowe,  was  born  in  Dayton,  Ohio,  September 
18,  1849.  ^^^  paternal  grandparents  were  Jacob  Derrick  and 
Frances  (Kemper)  Lowe.  Ralph  Phillips  Lowe,  fourth  gov- 
ernor of  Iowa,  was  his  uncle.  The  Lowes  were  of  Dutch  de- 
scent, tracing  their  ancestry  to  Jan  Bastiaensen  Lowe,  who 
came  from  Leerdam,  South  Holland,  in  1663  and  settled  at 
Harlem,  N.  Y.  Marianna  Phillips  Lowe  was  the  daughter  of 
Horatio  Gates  and  Elizabeth  Smith  (Houston)  Phillips,  and 
a  granddaughter  of  Jonathan  Phillips,  a  Captain  in  the 
Continental  Army  and  one  of  the  original  members  of  the 
Society  of  the  Cincinnati,  and  of  William  Churchill  Houston 
(B.A.  Princeton  1768),  a  member  of  the  Continental  Congress. 
Her  first  American  ancestor  was  George  Phillips,  who  came 
from  Boxford,  England,  in  1639  with  Governor  Winthrop. 
The  Houstons  are  also  of  English  descent,  and  members  of 
their  family  first  settled  in  New  Jersey. 

He  was  prepared  for  college  in  the  public  schools  of  Dayton, 
and  took  the  select  course  in  the  Sheffield  Scientific  School. 

In  December,  1869,  he  and  his  brother,  the  late  Henry  C. 
Lowe  (B.A.  Williams  1869),  formed  the  Lowe  Brothers 
Company  in  Dayton,  Ohio,  now  one  of  the  largest  companies 
manufacturing  paint  and  varnish  in  the  country,  having 
branches  in  several  cities.  At  the  time  of  his  death  he  was 
president  and  general  manager  of  the  company.  He  was  a 
member  of  the  American  Association  for  the  Advancement  of 


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Science  and  the  Society  of  Chemical  Industry  and  an  associate 
member  of  the  American  Society  of  Civil  Engineers.  He  had 
given  many  addresses  and  lectures  before  the  Chemists  Club 
of  New  York,  and  the  officials  of  the  Pennsylvania  and  Balti- 
more &  Ohio  railroads,  and  had  published  works  on  the  sub- 
ject of  paint  and  the  preservation  of  steel.  He  was  active  in 
the  organization  of  the  Dayton  Museum  of  Art  in  191 2,  and 
from  1 91 3  until  his  death  had  been  its  president.  He  was  a 
member  of  the  First  Presbyterian  Church  (now  merged  with 
the  Westminster  Presbyterian  Church),  and  had  served  as  a 
deacon  and  trustee  of  the  church. 

He  died  of  pneumonia,  February  13,  1920,  in  Miami,  Fla. 
Interment  was  in  Woodland  Cemetery,  Dayton. 

He  was  married  December  28,  1871,  in  Dayton,  to  Carrie, 
daughter  of  Charles  and  Elizabeth  (Regans)  Harries,  who 
died  April  27,  1917.  They  had  five  children:  Charles  Harries, 
whose  death  occurred  February  27,  1920;  Ella,  the  wife  of 
Lewis  Winters  Gunckel  (Ph.B.  1891);  Elizabeth,  now  Mrs. 
Francis  F.  H.  Smith;  Henrietta  Churchill,  the  wife  of  Robert 
Dun  Patterson  (Ph.B.  1904);  and  John  Gilbert  Lowe  (B.A. 
1907).  In  addition  to  his  four  children,  Mr.  Lowe  is  survived 
by  three  grandchildren.  The  late  Ebenezer  F.  Stoddard  (B.A. 
1867)  was  his  brother-in-law,  and  the  late  Horace  Phillips 
(B.A.  1868)  was  a  cousin. 


Joseph  John  Skinner,  Ph.B.  1869 

Born  January  13,  1842,  in  Putney,  Vt. 
Died  November  12,  1919,  in  Oneida,  N.  Y. 

Joseph  John  Skinner,  son  of  John  Langdon  Skinner,  a 
teacher  and  writer,  and  Harriet  Hayes  (Noyes)  Skinner,  was 
born  in  Putney,  Vt.,  January  13,  1842.  His  father  was  the  son 
of  Timothy  and  Ruth  (Warner)  Skinner,  and  the  great-grand- 
son of  Timothy  Skinner,  who  enlisted  three  times  in  the 
Revolutionary  Army  and  who  was  a  descendant  of  Thomas 
Skinner,  who  came  from  Chichester,  England,  about  1650, 
and  settled,  with  two  sons,  at  Maiden,  Mass.  John  L.  Skinner's 
maternal  grandfather  was  Joseph  Warner,  of  Westmoreland, 
N.  H.  Harriet  Noyes  Skinner  was  a  daughter  of  John  Noyes 


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(B.A.  Dartmouth  1795),  who  served  as  a  member  of  Congress 
from  Vermont  from  181 5  to  18 17,  and  Polly  (Hayes)  Noyes, 
who  was  a  daughter  of  Rutherford  Hayes  and  an  aunt  of 
Rutherford  B.  Hayes,  nineteenth  president  of  the  United 
States.  She  traced  her  descent  to  Nicholas  Noyes,  who  came 
from  Choulderton,  Wiltshire,  England,  and  settled  at  New- 
bury, Mass.,  in  1634. 

He  was  brought  up  in  the  faith  and  membership  of  the 
Perfectionist  Associations  of  Putney,  Oneida,  N.  Y.,  and 
Wallingford,  Conn.,  but  separated  from  them  in  1873,  and 
did  not  afterwards  join  any  church.  He  was  prepared  for 
college  under  private  instruction  and  in  the  public  schools  of 
Wallingford  and  Oneida,  and  before  entering  Yale  was  en- 
gaged in  work  in  the  Oneida  Community.  He  took  the  civil 
engineering  course  in  the  Scientific  School,  and  in  Senior  year 
received  prizes  for  excellence  in  engineering  studies  and  in 
French  and  German. 

From  1869  to  1873  he  was  employed  as  cashier  in  the  Oneida 
Community,  and  during  the  following  year  was  a  graduate 
student  and  assistant  in  the  department  of  civil  engineering 
in  the  Sheffield  Scientific  School.  He  received  the  degree  of 
C.E.  at  Yale  in  1874,  and  in  1876,  having  spent  two  addi- 
tional years  in  graduate  work  in  physics,  chemistry,  and 
mathematics,  was  given  his  Ph.D.  He  held  an  appointment  as 
instructor  in  mathematics  at  Yale  from  1874  to  1881,  and  at 
the  same  time  had  some  classes  in  physics  and  French.  He 
was  also  engaged  in  work  on  the  Statistical  Atlas  of  the  Ninth 
Census  with  Francis  A.  Walker  (B.A.  Am.herst  i860),  pro- 
fessor of  political  economy  at  Yale.  In  1878  he  made  observa- 
tions at  New  Haven  on  the  transit  of  Mercury  which  were 
published  in  the  government  report  of  that  transit  in  1879. 
Dr.  Skinner  became  treasurer  and  manager  of  the  American 
Electrical  Company  of  New  Britain,  Conn.,  in  1881,  and  was 
with  that  company  and  its  successor,  the  Thomson-Houston 
Electric  Company  of  Boston,  until  the  fall  of  1884.  In  1885 
he  spent  six  months  in  experimental  work  in  Professor 
Anthony's  physical  laboratory  at  Cornell  University,  and 
during  the  next  nineteen  years  he  was  connected  with  the 
department  of  mathematics  at  the  Massachusetts  Institute  of 
Technology,  at  first  as  instructor,  and  after  1896  as  assistant 


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professor.  He  retired  from  active  teaching  in  1904.  In  1876  he 
published  a  textbook,  "Approximate  Computations,"  and  he 
had  contributed  numerous  articles  to  Van  Nostrand's  Engi- 
neering Magazine^  the  Popular  Science  Monthly^  the  Electrical 
Worlds  and  the  Boston  Transcript.  He  was  a  Fellow  of  the 
American  Association  for  the  Advancement  of  Science  and  a 
member  of  the  Connecticut  Academy  of  Science  and  the 
Sons  of  the  Revolution  in  the  State  of  New  York.  He  went 
abroad  in  November,  1909,  and  spent  the  winter  in  Italy, 
studying  the  language  and  literature  of  the  country. 

He  died,  of  pneumonia,  November  12,  1919,  in  Oneida,  and 
was  buried  in  the  Community  Cemetery. 

Dr.  Skinner  was  married  January  7,  1872,  in  Oneida,  to 
Sophronia  A.,  daughter  of  Seba  and  Jane  Bailey,  whose  death 
occurred  January  29,  1908.  He  is  survived  by  a  son,  Theodore 
Hobart  (B.S.  Massachusetts  Institute  of  Technology  1892). 


Augustus  Washington  Littleton,  Ph.B.  1870 

Born  February  27,  1848,  in  Edgefield,  S.  C. 
Died  August  26,  1919,  in  Oxford,  England 

Augustus  Washington  Littleton,  son  of  Jacob  and  Maria 
(Brady)  Littleton,  was  born  in  Edgefield,  S.  C,  February  27, 
1848.  His  father,  who  spent  the  greater  part  of  his  life  in 
Peoria,  111.,  was  a  descendant  of  Jacob  Littleton,  who  came  to 
America  from  England  about  1800  and  settled  in  South 
Carolina,  His  mother,  whose  parents  were  John  and  Elizabeth 
Brady,  was  of  Irish  ancestry.  Her  family  lived  in  New  York 
State. 

He  received  his  preparatory  training  at  the  Peoria  High 
School,  and  entered  the  Sheffield  Scientific  School  in  1866, 
taking  the  course  in  civil  engineering. 

AfterTspending  the  first  two  years  following  graduation  on 
his  father's  farm  near  Mossville,  III.,  he  went  to  St.  Louis,  Mo., 
to  serve  an  apprenticeship  in  the  gas  business.  He  was  ap- 
pointed superintendent  of  the  Peoria  Gas  Light  &  Coke  Com- 
pany about  1873  and  held  this  position  for  a  year,  leaving  to 
accept  a  similar  position  at  Hannibal,  Mo.  In  March,  1876, 
he  removed  to  Quincy,  111.,  and  during  the  next  twenty-two 


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years  served  as  general  manager  of  the  local  gas  and  electric 
companies.  He  went  abroad  with  his  family  in  the  summer  of 
1898,  and  spent  two  and  a  half  years  in  travel.  He  returned  to 
the  United  States  in  December,  1900,  and  lived  in  California 
until  March,  1904.  Since  that  time  he  had  made  his  home  at 
Oxford,  England,  where  his  death  occurred,  from  heart 
failure,  August  26,  1919.  He  was  cremated  at  Golders  Green, 
London,  where  his  ashes  rest.  He  was  brought  up  in  the 
Roman  Catholic  faith,  but  was  not  a  member  of  any  church. 
Mr.  Littleton  was  married  in  Peoria,  March  4,  1884,  to 
Mary  Gibson,  daughter  of  Matthew  and  Charlotte  (Yonge) 
Griswold,  who  survives  him.  He  also  leaves  a  daughter,  Julia 
Waters. 

Frederick  Lockwood  Sanford,  Ph.B.  1871 

Born  May  9,  1849,  ''^  New  Haven,  Conn. 
Died  July  9,  191 9,  in  New  Haven,  Conn. 

Frederick  Lockwood  Sanford  was  born  in  New  Haven, 
Conn.,  May  9,  1849,  ^^^  son  of  Lockwood  Sanford,  a  wood 
engraver,  and  Almirah  (Smith)  Sanford,  and  the  grandson  of 
Elias  Bristol  and  Sally  (Lockwood)  Sanford.  His  father's 
ancestors  came  to  America  from  England  previous  to  1770. 
The  old  Sanford  homestead  at  Sandy  Hook  (Newtown),  Conn., 
which  was  built  before  the  Revolution,  is  still  standing. 
Members  of  the  family  fought  in  the  Revolutionary,  Mexican, 
and  Civil  wars.  Frederick  L.  Sanford's  maternal  grand-par- 
ents were  Asaph  and  Betsey  (Abbey)  Smith. 

Before  entering  Yale  he  attended  the  Stiles  French  School 
in  New  Haven.  His  course  in  the  Sheffield  Scientific  School 
was  that  in  civil  engineering. 

For  a  time  after  graduation  he  was  engaged  in  surveying  in 
the  vicinity  of  New  Haven  with  Professor  R.  M.  Bache  of 
the  United  States  Coast  Survey,  and  during  the  next  few 
years  he  was  associated  with  F.  W.  Beers,  of  New  York,  in 
survey  work  in  the  West  in  connection  with  the  publishing  of 
county  atlases  and  maps.  From  1876  until  within  a  few  years 
of  his  death  he  had  been  an  engraver  on  wood  in  New  Haven, 
being  associated  with  his  father  until  1890  and  thereafter  the 
sole  proprietor  .of  the  business.  The  painstaking  conscientious- 


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ness  which  he  possessed,  and  which  is  so  notably  required  in 
trustworthy  map-making  and  engraving,  made  him  a  keen 
and  accurate  student  of  the  technique  of  his  profession,  and 
led  him  to  be  a  critical  reader  of  good  literature,  with  a  leaning 
to  biographical  and  genealogical  studies.  He  was  a  member  of 
Trinity  Methodist  Episcopal  Church,  New  Haven. 

He  died  in  that  city,  July  9,  1919,  of  heart  trouble,  after  an 
illness  of  several  months,  and  was  buried  in  Evergreen 
Cemetery. 

He  was  married  October  20,  1892,  in  New  Haven,  to 
Isabella  Lydia,  daughter  of  William  and  Jane  (Bartlett) 
Brown,  who  survives  him.  They  had  no  children.  Mr.  Sanford 
was  a  second  cousin  of  Irvin  W.  Sanford,  '98  S.,  Robert  G. 
Sanford,  '05,  and  Clarence  H.  Sanford,  '05  S.  Another  cousin. 
Rev.  Elias  B.  Sanford,  D.D.,  who  graduated  at  Wesleyan  in 
1865  and  holds  an  honorary  degree  from  Yale,  is  honorary 
secretary  of  the  Federal  Council  of  Churches  of  Christ  in 
America. 

Edward  Brush,  Ph.B.  1874 

Born  April  15,  1854,  in  Greenwich,  Conn. 
Died  January  6,  1920,  in  Greenwich,  Conn. 

Edward  Brush  was  born  April  15,  1854,  in  Greenwich, 
Conn.,  where  his  father,  Joseph  Edward  Brush,  who  was  a 
merchant,  served  as  postmaster  during  the  Civil  War  and 
held  other  town  offices.  He  was  descended  from  Thomas 
Brush,  who  came  from  Nottinghamshire,  England,  about 
1653,  and  settled  at  Southold,  Long  Island.  His  paternal 
grandparents  were  Edward  Brush,  an  Indiana  pioneer  and 
engineer,  and  Ann  (IngersoU)  Brush.  His  mother,  Mary 
Clarissa  (Wright)  Brush,  was  the  daughter  of  Joel  and  Ann 
(Banks)  Wright.  Her  brother,  Benjamin  Wright,  served  with 
the  loth  Connecticut  Volunteers  during  the  Civil  War,  at- 
taining the  rank  of  First  Lieutenant.  The  Wrights  settled  in 
Massachusetts  in  1635,  having  come  to  this  country  from 
England. 

He  entered  Yale  from  the  academy  in  his  native  town,  and 
took  the  civil  engineering  course  in  the  Sheffield  Scientific 
School. 


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From  1874  until  1887  Mr.  Brush  was  in  the  New  York 
office  of  the  Standard  Oil  Company.  Since  that  time  he  had 
been  an  officer  of  various  mining,  smelting,  and  metal  refining 
companies.  He  served  as  secretary  of  the  Consolidated  Kansas 
City  Smelting  &  Refining  Company  for  ten  years,  and  in  1898, 
upon  the  organization  of  the  American  Smelting  &  Refining 
Company,  became  secretary  of  the  company,  later  being 
elected  vice-presiden't.  His  special  studies  in  the  production 
and  consumption  of  silver  required  extensive  traveling  through- 
out the  United  States,  Mexico,  England,  France,  Holland, 
Germany,  and  Russia,  and  his  advice  to  several  of  these  gov- 
ernments as  to  coinage  laws,  especially  as  to  the  various 
coinages  of  silver  on  a  gold  basis,  won  for  him  a  world-wide 
reputation  as  an  authority  on  silver.  As  an  expert  on  the 
economic  status  of  silver  and  lead  he  had  received  wide  recog- 
nition. The  Mexican  government  in  1902  commended  him  as 
a  special  ambassador  in  association  with  several  American  and 
Mexican  financiers,  to  visit  the  principal  countries  of  the 
world  in  an  effort  to  reach  international  agreement  on  the 
price  of  silver.  The  mission  was  successful  in  every  country 
except  Russia,  where  its  purpose  conflicted  with  the  aims  of 
that  country  in  the  Far  East.  During  the  World  War  Mr. 
Brush  served  on  the  lead  committee  of  the  War  Trade  Board 
and  rendered  other  valuable  service  to  the  government.  He 
was  a  trustee  of  the  Greenwich  Academy  and  the  Greenwich 
Hospital,  as  well  as  of  the  local  library  and  Y.  M.  C.  A. 

He  died  January  6,  1920,  in  Greenwich,  from  Bright's 
disease.  He  was  a  member  of,  and  had  held  various  offices  in, 
the  Second  Congregational  Church  in  Greenwich.  The  funeral 
services  were  held  in  the  chapel  of  the  church  and  he  was 
buried  in  the  church  yard.  The  chapel  was  his  gift  in  memory 
of  his  wife,  Susie  Alice  Brush. 

He  was  twice  married,  his  first  wife  being  Lila,  daughter  of 
Cyrus  and  Hannah  (Cutler)  Manvel.  She  died  February  12, 
1883,  dilring  the  first  year  of  their  marriage,  and  on  August 
27,  1885,  h^  w^s  married  in  Greenwich,  to  Susie  Alice,  daugh- 
ter of  Edward  Parmele  and  Susan  A.  (Manvel)  Bray,  whose 
death  occurred  March  13,  1902.  Mr.  Brush  is  survived  by  his 
three  sons:  Hamilton  Mabie  (B.A.  1908),  Miltimore  Witherell, 
a  non-graduate  member  of  the  Class  of  19 13,  and  Graham 


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Manvel  (Ph.B.  1917).  All  three  sons  served  their  country  dur- 
ing the  war,  Hamilton  Brush  being  secretary  of  the  Copper 
Producers  Company,  a  branch  of  the  War  Industries  Board, 
and  the  two  youngest  sons  naval  aviators.  Yale  relatives  in- 
clude Wilbur  S.  Wright,  '93,  Benjamin  M.  Wright  (B.D. 
1897,  M.A.  1903),  Donald  K.  Wright,  '17  S.,  and  Stanley  B. 
Wright,  '19. 

George  Rufus  Cooley,  Ph.B.  1875 

Born  July  8,  1851,  in  North  Haven,  Conn. 
Died  May  5,  1920,  in  Springfield,  Mass. 

George  Rufus  Cooley,  the  son  of  George  William  Cooley,  a 
farmer,  and  Cornelia  E.  (Merriam)  Cooley,  was  born  in 
North  Haven,  Conn.,  July  8,  1851.  Through  his  mother, 
whose  parents  were  Rufus  and  Eunice  (Moss)  Merriam,  he 
traced  his  ancestry  to  Joseph  Merriam,  who  emigrated  from 
Tunbridge,  England,  and  settled  at  Concord  in  1638. 

He  attended  Hudson  River  Institute,  Claverack,  N.  Y., 
and  completed  his  preparation  for  college  at  the  Hopkins 
Grammar  School  in  New  Haven.  He  took  the  course  in  civil 
engineering  in  the  Sheffield  Scientific  School.  He  was  secre- 
tary of  his  Class  from  graduation  until  his  death. 

He  studied  in  the  Yale  School,  of  Law  during  1875-76,  and 
the  following  year  was  in  charge  of  a  surveying  party.  He 
received  the  degree  of  LL.B.  from  Yale  in  1877  and  after- 
wards practiced  his  profession  in  New  Haven.  He  was  ad- 
mitted to  practice  in  the  United  States  Circuit  Court  on 
February  28,  1884,  and  had  had  a  large  number  of  cases  in  the 
various  courts  in  Connecticut  and  other  states.  In  1880  he 
served  as  president  of  the  New  Haven  Board  of  Councilmen, 
and  in  1 898  and  1 899  he  was  alderman  from  the  First  Ward.  For 
forty  years  he  was  a  trustee  of  the  First  Methodist  Church. 

He  died  May  5, 1920,  at  the  home  of  his  daughter  in  Spring- 
field, Mass.  His  death  was  caused  by  a  tumor  on  the  brain. 
Interment  was  in  Evergreen  Cemetery,  New  Haven. 

He  was  married  May  11,  1878,  in  New  Haven,  to  Flora  M., 
daughter  of  Thomas  and  Charlotte  (Osborn)  Lane,  who  sur- 
vives him  with  their  adopted  daughter,  Mattie  F.  (now  Mrs. 
George  H.  Graham). 


John  Charles  Olmsted,  Ph.B.  1875 

Born  September  14,  1 851,  in  Vandeuvre,  Switzerland 
Died  February  24,  1920,  in  Brookline,  Mass. 

John  Charles  Olmsted  was  born  September  14,  1851,  in 
Vandeuvre,  near  Geneva,  Switzerland,  the  son  of  Dr.  John 
Hull  Olmsted  and  Mary  Cleveland  Bryant  (Perkins)  Olmsted. 
His  father,  a  native  of  Hartford,  Conn.,  graduated  from  Yale 
in  1847  ^^^  from  the  College  of  Physicians  and  Surgeons  at 
Columbia  in  1852.  On  account  of  poor  health  he  did  not 
practice  his  profession,  but  spent  most  of  his  time  in  literary 
pursuits.  Dr.  Olmsted's  parents  were  John  and  Charlotte 
Law  (Hull)  Olmsted,  and  his  first  American  ancestor  was 
James  Olmsted,  who  came  from  Essex,  England,  to  Cam- 
bridge, Mass.,  in  1632,  and  who  went  to  Hartford  in  1636  as 
a  member  of  the  "Braintree  Colony."  His  wife  was  Joyce 
Cornish.  The  family  line  is  traced  through  their  son  Nicholas 
and  his  wife,  Sarah  (Loomis)  Olmsted,  for  nine  generations  to 
John  Charles  Olmsted.  The  latter's  mother  was  the  daughter 
of  Henry  and  Sarah  (Jones)  Perkins,  and  a  descendant  of 
Abraham  Perkins,  who  came  from  Warwickshire,  England, 
and  settled  at  Hampton,  N.  H.,  in  1639.  After  Dr.  Olmsted's 
death,  which  occurred  in  1857,  she  married  his  brother, 
Frederick  Law  Olmsted  (M.A.  Harvard  1864  and  Amherst 
1867,  LL.D.  Yale  and  Harvard  1893),  the  noted  landscape 
architect.  Her  children  by  her  first  marriage,  besides  the  sub- 
ject of  this  sketch,  were  a  daughter,  Charlotte,  and  a  son, 
Owen  Frederick  (B.S.  Columbia  1878).  The  children  of  the 
second  marriage  who  survived  infancy  are  Marion  and  Fred- 
erick Law,  Jr.,  a  graduate  of  Harvard  in  1894. 

John  C.  Olmsted  was  educated  at  home  and  also  attended 
the  Eagleswood  Military  Academy  in  New  Jersey  and  the 
Cherbeliez  schools  in  New  York  City  and  New  Rochelle,  N.  Y. 
Before  entering  Yale  in  1872,  he  spent  a  year  on  work  in 
connection  with  the  Fortieth  Parallel  Survey  in  the  Rocky 
Mountains.  He  took  the  select  course  in  the  Scientific  School. 
He  was  president  of  the  Chess  Club. 

In  connection  with  his  preparation  for  the  profession  of 
landscape  architecture  he  studied  architectural  draughting 


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with  Thomas  Wisedell,  free-hand  drawing  with  Frank  Lathrop, 
and  arboriculture  and  horticulture  with  O.  C.  Bullard,  a 
well-known  landscape  gardener.  Immediately  after  his  grad- 
uation from  Yale  he  began  practice  in  association  with  his 
stepfather,  being  admitted  to  partial  partnership  in  1878  and 
to  full  partnership  in  1884.  In  the  winter  of  1877-78,  and  again 
in  1894,  he  spent  several  months  in  Europe,  where  he  engaged 
in  research  work  and  accumulated  much  material  in  connec- 
tion with  his  profession.  During  the  first  twenty  years  of  his 
professional  life,  he  worked  in  the  closest  association  with  his 
stepfather,  and  during  ten  years  of  that  period  elaborated 
most  of  the  details  of  design  and  in  other  cases  carried  out  the 
full  plans  of  construction.  The  firm  with  which  he  was 
associated  and  which  was  known  variously  as  F.  L.  &  J.  C. 
Olmsted  (i  878-1 889) ;  F.  L.  Olmsted  &  Company  (i 889-1 893) ; 
Olmsted,  Olmsted  &  Eliot  (1893-97);  F-  L.  &  J.  C-  Olmsted 
(1897-98);  and  Olmsted  Brothers  (i 898-1920),  has  furnished 
designs  for  upwards  of  two  hundred  and  fifty  public  parks, 
parkways,  squares,  and  reservations,  of  nearly  two  thirds  of 
which  Mr.  J.  C.  Olmsted  was  the  designer  or  leading  collabo- 
rater.  Among  the  projects  with  which  he  was  particularly 
identified  are  Charlestown  Heights  and  North  End  Park, 
Boston;  Cazenovia  and  Riverside  parks,  Buffalo;  the  revised 
plan  for  Jackson  Park,  Chicago,  and  also  Grant  Park  in  that 
city;  Orange  and  Montclair  parks;  and  Goodwin  and  River- 
side parks,  Hartford.  To  his  credit  must  also  be  placed  the 
grounds  of  the  Chicago  Columbian,  the  Seattle,  and  the 
Lewis  and  Clark  expositions,  as  well  as  the  Canadian  Indus- 
trial Exposition  at  Winnipeg.  Biltmore,  the  country  place  of 
George  W.  Vanderbilt,  is  an  example  of  the  firm's  work  on 
private  estates.  The  firm  has  rendered  professional  advice 
and  designs  to  over  sixty  universities,  colleges,  and  endowed 
schools,  including  Stanford,  Harvard,  and  Chicago  universi- 
ties, Amherst  and  Williams  colleges,  and  the  Lawrenceville 
School.  Mr.  Olmsted  was  a  member,  and  for  some  years 
president  of  the  American  Society  of  Landscape  Architects, 
and  also  belonged  to  the  Boston  Society  of  Civil  Engineers, 
the  Massachusetts  Horticultural  Society,  the  Boston  Society 
of  Architects,  the  American  Civic  Association,  the  American 
League   for   Civic   Improvement,   the   Massachusetts   Civic 


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League,  the  American  Academy  of  Political  and  Social  Science, 
the  American  Social  Science  Association,  the  Municipal  Art 
Society  of  New  York,  the  American  Association  for  the  Ad- 
vancement of  Science,  the  Boston  Museum  of  Fine  Arts,  the 
American  Association  of  Park  Superintendents,  the  American 
Forestry  Association,  the  American  Free  Trade  League,  the 
Century  Association,  the  National  Arts  Club,  the  Appala- 
chian Mountain  Club,  the  Brookline  Educational  and  Friendly 
societies,  and  the  Massachusetts  Society  for  the  Prevention  of 
Cruelty  to  Children.  For  several  years  he  was  a  vice-president 
of  the  American  Park  and  Outdoor  Art  Association.  He  was  a 
member  of  the  Unitarian  Church  in  Brookline.  He  had  written 
numerous  park  reports,  some  of  which  have  been  printed, 
and  articles  for  Garden  and  Forest. 

His  death,  which  was  due  to  pneumonia,  occurred  February 
24,  1920,  at  his  home  in  Brookline. 

He  was  married  January  18,  1899,  in  Brookline,  to  Sophia 
Buckland,  daughter  of  Francis  Adams  and  Caroline  (Barrett) 
White,  who  survives  him  with  their  two  daughters,  Carolyn 
and  Margaret. 


William  Henry  Backus,  Ph.B.  1877 

Born  April  17,  1855,  in  Columbus,  Ohio 
Died  December  5,  1919,  in  Riverside,  Calif. 

William  Henry  Backus  was  born  in  Columbus,  Ohio, 
April  17,  1855,  the  only  son  of  Orrin  and  Eleanor  VanDyke 
(McGaw)  Backus,  and  the  grandson  of  Andrew  and  Bathsheba 
(King)  Backus.  He  was  eighth  in  descent  from  William 
Backus,  who  came  from  England  and  first  settled  In  Saybrook, 
Conn.,  In  1637,  and  In  1659,  with  his  son  Stephen,  helped  to 
found  the  town  of  Norwich.  In  1700  William  Backus'  grand- 
son, Stephen  Backus,  founded  Canterbury,  Conn,  Orrin 
Backus  attended  Denison  College,  but  did  not  graduate.  His 
business  life  was  very  active  and  he  was  interested  in  the 
following  companies:  Diadem  Steamboat  Company  (during 
the  Civil  War),  the  Nonesuch  Mining  Company  and  America 
Sheet  &  Boiler  Plate  Company,  both  of  Cleveland,  Ohio,  and 
of  both  of  which  he  was  secretary  and  treasurer.  Las  Penas- 


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quitas  Land  &  Water  Company,  of  which  he  was  vice-presi- 
dent, the  Riverside  &  Arlington  Railway  Company,  and  the 
Riverside  Banking  Company,  all  of  Riverside,  Calif.  His  wife 
was  the  daughter  of  Hugh  Lee  and  Nancy  Agnes  (Morris) 
McGaw. 

He  was  prepared  for  college  at  the  Cleveland  High  School 
and  at  the  Mount  Pleasant  Military  Academy  in  Ossining, 
N.  Y.  He  took  the  civil  engineering  course  in  the  Sheffield 
Scientific  School,  was  vice-president  of  the  Sheffield  Football 
Club,  played  on  the  Class  Baseball  and  Football  teams,  and 
took  a  second  prize  in  the  440-yard  race  in  the  fall  games  of 
1875.  He  served  as  vice-president  of  the  Class  in  Junior  year. 

He  practiced  civil  engineering  in  Ohio  for  four  years  after 
graduation,  but  ill  health  then  compelled  him  to  give  up  this 
work.  In  1882  he  went  to  California.  There  he  bought  an 
orange  grove  and  a  raisin  vineyard  and  engaged  in  the  grow- 
ing of  citrus  fruits.  In  1894  he  helped  to  organize  the  River- 
side Navel  Orange  Company,  of  which  he  was  a  director  and 
manager;  in  1895  he  was  made  secretary  of  Las  Penasquitas 
Land  &  Water  Company;  and  the  following  year  he  was 
elected  a  director  of  the  Brocton  Square  Fruit  Company.  He 
was  elected  presiding  judge  of  the  exhibits  of  the  Southern 
California  State  fairs  held  at  Los  Angeles;  was  superintendent 
of  the  Riverside  city  and  county  exhibits  at  the  fairs  held  in 
Chicago  and  San  Francisco,  and  also  of  the  state  and  district 
fairs;  and  about  1905  was  appointed  by  the  American  Pomo- 
logical  Society  one  of  the  committee  of  awards  for  new  and 
meritorious  citrus  fruits  entered  for  the  Wilder  Medal,  and 
was  asked  to  draw  up  the  scale  forjudging  citrus  fruits.  Since 
January,  1905,  he  had  also  been  interested  in  civil  engineering 
contracts,  having  organized  at  that  time. the  firm  of  W.  H. 
Backus  &  Son,  civil  engineers,  in  Portland,  Ore.  This  company 
was  incorporated  in  1906  as  the  Standard  Construction  Com- 
pany. Mr.  Backus  had  published  two  articles,  one  in  Country 
Life  in  America  for  April,  1902,  and  the  other  in  Out  West  for 
June,  1903. 

He  died  at  his  home  in  Riverside,  December  5,  1919.  In- 
terment was  in  Lake  View  Cemetery,  Cleveland. 

He  was  married  June  8,  188 1,  in  Cleveland,  to  Ida  Joseph- 
ine, daughter   of  Joseph    Cronenberg,  a  Lieutenant  in   the 


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1877  1529 

Army,  who  died  of  wounds  received  in  the  Civil  War,  and 
Nancy  (Cummins)  Cronenberg.  He  had  four  children, 
William  Orrin,  Florence,  Eleanor,  and  Randall  Alden,  all  of 
whom  survive  him. 


Henry  Holbrook  Curtis,  Ph.B.  1877 

Born  December  15,  1856,  in  New  York  City 
Died  May  14,  1920,  in  New  York  City 


Henry  Holbrook  Curtis,  son  of  William  Edmond  Curtis 
(B.A.  Trinity  1843,  LL.D.  Trinity  1862)  and  Mary  Ann 
(Scovill)  Curtis,  was  born  in  New  York  City,  December  15, 
1856.  His  father  practiced  law  in  New  York,  where  he  served 
as  a  justice  of  the  Superior  Court,  being  chief  justice  at  the 
time  of  his  death  in  1880;  he  had  also  been  a  trustee  of  the 
public  schools  and  president  of  the  Board  of  Education  of 
New  York  City  for  some  years,  and  was  a  trustee  of  Trinity 
College  from  1857  until  his  death.  His  mother,  Mary  Ann 
(Scovill)  Curtis,  was  the  daughter  of  William  Henry  Scovill, 
of  Waterbury,  Conn.,  one  of  the  founders  of  the  brass  industry 
in  America  and  a  trustee  of  Trinity  College,  and  Eunice 
(Davies)  Scovill,  daughter  of  Thomas  J.  Davies,  of  Black 
Lake,  St.  Lawrence  County,  N.  Y.  His  paternal  grandparents 
were  Holbrook  Curtis  (B.A.  1807),  judge  of  the  Connecticut 
Superior  Court,  and  Elizabeth  (Edmond)  Curtis,  daughter  of 
William  Edmond  (B.A.  1777),  of  Newtown,  Conn.,  and  Eliza- 
beth (Payne)  Edmond.  William  Edmond  served  as  a  Lieuten- 
ant in  the  Revolutionary  Army,  being  wounded  at  the  battle 
of  Danbury,  and  was  afterwards  a  member  of  Congress  for 
two  terms  and  served  as  a  member  of  the  Governor's  Council 
and  as  judge  of  the  Superior  Court  of  Connecticut.  His  father, 
Robert  Edmond,  was  a  native  of  Londonderry,  Ireland,  who, 
with  his  wife,  Mary  (Marks)  Edmond,  emigrated  to  this 
country  soon  after  1750  and  settled  in  Newtown,  Conn.  A  son 
of  William  Edmond  by  his  second  marriage,  David  Edmond, 
was  a  graduate  of  Yale  in  the  Class  of  1796.  The  Curtis  family 
is  of  English  origin,  descended  from  William  Curtis,  who  came 
to  America  from  Warwickshire  in  1650  and  was  an  early 
settler  at  Stratford,  Conn.  Henry  Holbrook  Curtis  was  a  great- 
grandson  of  Zalmon  Curtis,  of  Zoar  Hill,  near  Newtown,  and 

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Esther  (Nichols)  Holbrook,  daughter  of  John  Holbrook,  of 
Derby,  Conn. 

He  received  his  early  education  at  the  Watertown  (Conn.) 
Academy,  spent  one  year  at  the  Gunnery  School  in  Washing- 
ton, Conn.,  and  was  prepared  for  Yale  at  the  Episcopal 
Academy  in  Cheshire.  He  took  the  biology  course  in  the 
Scientific  School.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Thanksgiving 
Jubilee  Committee  in  1875,  sang  in  the  1877  S.  Octette,  and 
was  an  editor  of  the  Courant.  He  entered  the  Yale  School  of 
Medicine  in  the  fall  of  1877,  and  received  the  degree  of  M.D. 
in  1880. 

He  was  in  Europe  from  1880  to  1882,  and  was  engaged  in 
graduate  work  at  hospitals  in  London,  Vienna;  and  Paris. 
Since  that  time  he  had  practiced  his  profession  in  New  York 
City,  retiring  in  1919  on  account  of  ill  health.  He  specialized 
in  laryngology,  otology,  and  rhinology,  and  was  the  discoverer 
of  the  method  of  vibration  of  the  vocal  chords,  and  his  appli- 
cation of  this  knowledge  to  the  cure  of  nodules,  or  knotlike 
formations,  in  the  throats  of  singers,  brought  to  him  as  pa- 
tients the  greatest  opera  singers  in  the  world.  He  had  served  as 
consulting  laryngologist  at  the  New  York  Throat,  Nose,  and 
Lung  Hospital,  the  Minturn  Diphtheria  and  Scarlet  Fever 
Hospital,  the  Riverside  Hospital,  Yonkers,  N.  Y.,  and  the 
Bayonne  (N.  J.)  City  Hospital,  and  as  consulting  aurist  to  the 
Nassau  County  Hospital.  For  twenty  years  he  was  laryngolo- 
gist to  the  Metropolitan  Opera  Company,  in  which  capacity 
he  treated  the  DeReszkes,  Patti,  Melba,  Calve,  Sembrich, 
Campanini,  Caruso,  and  many  others,  and  for  five  years 
served  as  surgeon,  with  the  rank  of  Major,  in  the  12th  Regi- 
ment, New  York  National  Guard.  He  was  a  Fellow  of  the 
Royal  Medical  Society  of  London,  a  corresponding  member  of 
the  Societe  Frangaise  de  Laryngologie,  Rinologie  et  Otologie^  and 
a  member  of  the  American  Laryngological,  Rhinological  and 
Otological  Society,  in  191 2  being  elected  president  of  the  last- 
named.  He  had  written  extensively  on  medical  subjects,  and 
his  book,  "Voice  Building  and  Tone  Placing"  (1894),  had 
given  him  an  international  reputation  as  an  authority  on  the 
singing  voice.  Dr.  Lennox  Browne,  president  of  the  British 
Laryngological,  Rhinological  and  Otological  Society,  said  in 
his  address  before  that  body  in  1891  that  the  naissance  of 


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nasal  surgery  In  London  followed  the  performance  by  Dr. 
Curtis  of  sixteen  brilliant  operations  on  the  nose,  at  the  Lon- 
don Central  Throat  Hospital  in  1887.  During  the  late  war 
Dr.  Curtis  was  a  member  of  the  Volunteer  Medical  Service 
Corps,  in  which  capacity  he  treated  Canadian,  French, 
Italian,  and  American  officers.  He  was  also  a  member  of  the 
National  Liberty  Service  Medal  Committee  of  the  National 
Institute  of  Social  Sciences.  He  was  much  interested  in  sociol- 
ogy and  had  held  office  as  vice-president  of  the  American 
Social  Science  Association.  He  was  chairman  of  the  committees 
which  nominated  and  organized  the  National  Institute  of  Arts 
and  Letters  and  the  National  Institute  of  Social  Sciences.  He 
also  organized  the  Night  Camp  for  Consumptives  of  the  New 
York  Throat,  Nose,  and  Lung  Hospital,  and  established  the 
social  service  auxiliaries  of  that  institution.  He  was  a  member 
of  the  Sons  of  the  Revolution  and  a  communicant  of  the 
Protestant  Episcopal  Church. 

He  died  at  his  home  in  New  York  City,  May  14,  1920,  fol- 
lowing a  lingering  illness  of  diabetes,  with  which  he  had 
suffered  for  fifteen  years.  Funeral  services  were  held  at  St. 
Thomas'  Church  in  New  York  on  May  17,  and  the  interment 
was  in  Evergreen  Cemetery  in  Watertown. 

Dr.  Curtis  was  married  June  19,  1884,  in  Brooklyn,  N.  Y., 
to  Josephine,  daughter  of  Hugh  and  Josephine  E.  M.  (Hall) 
Allen.  One  daughter,  Marjorie  Allen  (Mrs.  Thomas  L.  Chad- 
bourne),  survives  him,  while  two  sons,  Henry  Holbrook,  Jr., 
and  William  Edmond,  died  in  childhood.  Besides  his  wife  and 
daughter.  Dr.  Curtis  is  survived  by  two  brothers,  William 
Edmond  Curtis,  LL.D.  (B.A.  Trinity  1875),  ^"^  Frederick 
Kingsbury  Curtis  (B.A.  1884),  and  a  sister,  Elizabeth  Curtis. 


Charles  James  Luck,  Ph.B.  1877 

Born  February  28,  1854,  at  Rouse  Point,  N.  Y. 
Died  February  5,  1920,  in  Racine,  Wis. 

Charles  James  Luck,  son  of  Peter  George  Luck,  a  shoe 
merchant,  and  Sophia  (White)  Luck,  was  born  at  Rouse 
Point,  N.  Y.,  February  28,  1854.  He  was  a  grandson  of  Peter 
George  and  Elinor   (Bouvett)   Luck,  and  a  descendant  of 


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George  Luck,  who  came  to  America  from  England  in  1800 
and  settled  at  Rouse  Point.  His  mother  was  the  daughter  of 
Charles  White,  a  native  of  Scotland,  and  Mary  White.  His 
great-grandfather,  James  Rouse,  a  Nova  Scotian  by  birth, 
fought  in  the  Revolutionary  War.  In  1783  he  went  from  Al- 
bany, N.  Y.,  to  Rouse  Point,  which  was  named  for  him.  He 
was  commissioned  a  Captain  in  the  New  York  State  Militia 
in  1790. 

He  attended  school  at  Northfield  and  Norwich  University, 
Bradford,  Vt.,  before  entering  Yale.  His  course  in  the  Shef- 
field Scientific  School  was  that  in  civil  engineering. 

He  died,  as  the  result  of  a  hemorrhage  of  the  brain,  Febru- 
ary 5,  1920,  in  St.  Luke's  Hospital,  Racine,  Wis.,  and  was 
buried  in  Oakwood  Cemetery,  Chicago,  111.  At  the  time  of  his 
death  he  was  manager  of  the  stone  plant  of  the  Producers 
Material  Company  of  that  city.  He  had  previously  been  super- 
intendent of  the  plant  of  the  U.S.  Silica  Company  at  Ottawa, 
111.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Protestant  Episcopal  Church  and 
had  served  as  a  vestryman  of  St.  Paul's  Church  in  Chicago. 

Mr.  Luck  was  married  in  1885  in  Madrid,  N.  Y.,  to  Emma 
G.,  daughter  of  George  and  Ann  M.  (Bayley)  Erwin,  of 
Potsdam,  N.  Y.,  who  survives  him.  They  had  four  children: 
Anna  E.  (died  May  22,  1888);  Josephine  E.  (Luck)  Wiggins; 
Marian  E.;  and  PauHne  E.  (Luck)  Hey  ward.  Mrs.  Luck  and 
her  three  daughters  live  in  Chicago. 

Edward  Everett  Brev^ster,  Ph.B.  1878 

Born  March  24,  1856,  in  West  Cornwall,  Conn. 
Died  July  i,  1919,  in  Schenectady,  N.  Y. 

Edward  Everett  Brewster  was  the  son  of  Jasper  Pratt  and 
Susan  (Allen)  Brewster,  and  was  born  in  West  Cornwall, 
Conn.,  March  24,  1856.  His  paternal  grandparents  were 
George  and  Abigail  (Pratt)  Brewster,  and  he  was  a  lineal 
descendant  of  Elder  William  Brewster  of  Plymouth  Colony. 
Through  his  mother,  who  was  a  daughter  of  Chester  and  Eliza 
(Ingersoll)  Allen,  he  traced  his  ancestry  to  Roger  Ailing,  an 
early  settler  in  New  Haven,  Conn.,  having  come  to  America 
from  Kempston,  England,  in  1638. 

He  was  prepared  for  college  at  the  high  school  in  Westfield, 


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Mass.  He  took  the  chemistry  course  in  the  Sheffield  Scientific 
School,  receiving  prizes  for  excellence  in  chemistry  and 
mineralogy  in  his  Junior  year. 

He  remained  at  his  home  in  Cornwall,  Conn.,  from  1878  to 
January,  1881,  and  then  accepted  the  position  of  chemist  for 
the  Menominee  Mining  Company  at  Norway,  Mich.  On 
February  19,  1883,  he  was  transferred  to  Iron  Mountain, 
Mich.,  as  chemist  of  the  Chapin  Mining  Company.  In  1891 
he  resigned  to  accept  a  similar  position  with  the  Pewabic 
Mining  Company  of  the  same  town.  After  twenty-seven  years 
of  service  with  the  company,  he  accepted,  in  the  spring  of  191 8, 
the  position  of  supervising  chemist  of  the  Osana  Grading 
Association  at  Iron  Mountain.  He  was  a  director  of  the  Iron 
Mountain  Electric  Light  &  Power  Company  and  a  member  of 
the  American  Chemical  Society,  the  Lake  Superior  Mining 
Institute,  and  the  American  Ornithologist  Union.  In  1892  he 
was  vice-president  of  the  Duluth  Ore  Company.  He  served  on 
the  Iron  Mountain  Board  of  Education  for  twenty-one  years, 
holding  office  as  president  for  three  years,  and  for  six  years 
was  a  school  trustee.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Cornwall  Con- 
gregational Church. 

He  died  July  i,  1919,  in  Schenectady,  N.  Y.,  from  mitral 
regurgitation.  His  body  was  taken  to  his  native  town  for 
burial. 

He  was  married  January  19,  1888,  in  Evanston,  111.,  to 
Elizabeth  T.,  daughter  of  John  and  Margaret  (Harmon) 
Edwards.  She  survives  him  with  their  four  children:  William 
Edwards,  who  received  the  degree  of  Ph.B.  at  Yale  in  1910; 
Edwards  Pierpont;  Margaret  Harmon,  a  graduate  of  Pratt 
Institute  in  1919;  and  Frances. 

Edward  Delavan  Nelson,  Ph.B.  1879 

Born  March  i,  1858,  in  New  York  City- 
Died  February  18,  1920,  in  New  York  City 

Edward  Delavan  Nelson  was  born  in  New  York  City, 
March  i,  1858.  His  father,  Edward  Delavan  Nelson  (B.A. 
Columbia  1841),  was  a  landscape  artist,  of  the  Hudson  River 
school,  and  a  pupil  of  Ashur  B.  Durand,  N.A.  He  was  the  son 
of  Richard  and  Cordelia  (Delavan)  Nelson,  and  a  descendant 


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of  John  Nelson,  who  lived  in  Flatbush,  Long  Island.  There  is 
no  date  or  information  given  concerning  the  latter's  arrival  in 
this  country,  but  he  was  plaintiff  in  a  suit  against  Thomas 
Spry,  of  New  Amsterdam,  in  1670.  Cordelia  Delavan  Nelson 
was  a  daughter  of  Nathaniel  Delavan  and  a  granddaughter  of 
Timothy  Delavan,  whose  ten  sons  fought  in  the  Revolution. 
She  was  descended  from  Cornelius  Delavan,  who  married 
Deborah  Green,  October  3,  171 2.  So  far  as  is  known  her  an- 
cestors left  France  towards  the  close  of  the  seventeenth  cen- 
tury, not  long  after  the  revocation  of  the  Edict  of  Nantes. 
Edward  D.Nelson's  motherwas  Susan  Blanchard (McDonald) 
Nelson,  daughter  of  Anthony  Bleeker  and  Adelaide  Joanna 
(Low)  McDonald.  Through  her  he  traced  his  ancestry  to  Col. 
Lewis  McDonald,  who  came  to  America  from  Strathspey, 
Scotland,  in  1727,  spent  several  years  in  Fairfield,  Conn.,  and 
then  went  to  Bedford,  N.  Y.,  where  he  purchased  large  tracts 
of  land  and  made  his  home. 

His  preparatory  training  was  received  at  St.  John's  School, 
Sing  Sing  [now  Ossining],  N.  Y.  He  took  the  mechanical 
engineering  course  in  the  Sheffield  Scientific  School. 

He  went  abroad  in  January,  1880,  returning  the  following 
November.  From  February  to  October,  1881,  he  was  in  the 
employ  of  William  Sellers  &  Company  in  Philadelphia,  Pa., 
after  which  he  became  connected  with  the  Pennsylvania 
Railroad.  He  served  for  eighteen  years  as  superintendent  of 
the  motor  power  department  and  from  August,  1903,  to 
October  i,  191 1,  as  engineer  of  tests.  Since  191 1  he  had  prac- 
ticed as  a  consulting  engineer  in  New  York  City.  He  had 
written  various  reports  as  chairman  of  committees  and  com- 
piled a  collection  of  locomotive  tests  and  exhibits  which  was 
published  by  the  Pennsylvania  Railroad  System  in  1904. 
He  was  a  member  of  the  Master  Car  Builders  Association,  the 
American  Railway  Mechanics  Association,  and  the  American 
Society  for  Testing  Materials.  He  belonged  to  the  Protestant 
Episcopal  Church,  and  while  located  in  Altoona,  Pa.,  had 
served  as  secretary  of  the  vestry  and  senior  warden.  In  recent 
years  he  had  been  a  communicant  of  St.  James'  Church  in 
New  York. 

He  died  in  that  city,  February  18,  1920,  of  heart  disease. 
Interment  was  in  the  Rural  Cemetery  in  Poughkeepsie,  N.  Y. 


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[r.  Nelson  was  married  January  26,  1888,  in  Philadelphia, 
to  Martha  Stinson,  daughter  of  Joseph  and  Mary  Henderson 
(Darrah)  Whitaker,  who  survives  him.  He  also  leaves  two 
daughters,  Christine  McDonald  and  Kathleen  Darrah,  a 
brother,  Rt.  Rev.  Richard  Henry  Nelson,  D.D.  (B.A.  Trinity 
1880),  Protestant  Episcopal  bishop  coadjutor  of  Albany,  and 
three  sisters,  Adelaide,  Julia  Low,  and  Laura  Young. 


Charles  Mabie  Crouse,  Ph.B.  1880 

Born  June  16,  1857,  in  Canastota,  N.  Y. 
Died  May  10,  1.920,  in  Syracuse,  N.  Y. 

Charles  Mabie  Crouse  was  born  in  Canastota,  N.  Y.,  June 
16,  1857,  the  son  of  Jacob  Crouse,  a  pioneer  merchant  of 
Syracuse,  N.  Y.,  and  one  of  the  founders  of  the  Crouse  grocery 
business,  and  Eliza  (Mabie)  Crouse.  His  paternal  grandpar- 
ents were  George  and  Maria  (Devendorf)  Crouse,  and  he  was 
a  descendant  of  Jacob  Crouse,  who  came  to  America  early  in 
the  eighteenth  century  from  the  Palatinate  and  settled  in 
Meriden,  N.  Y.  Through  his  mother,  who  was  the  daughter  of 
John  and  Margaret  (Cook)  Mabie,  he  traced  his  ancestry  to 
Pierre  Mabille  (or  Mabie),  whose  son  Caspar  was  an  early 
settler  in  New  Amsterdam,  having  emigrated  in  1623  from 
Holland.  His  paternal  great-great-grandfather  fought  in  the 
Revolutionary  War. 

He  was  prepared  for  college  at  the  Syracuse  (N.  Y.)  Classi- 
cal School  and  with  a  tutor,  and  attended  Amherst  College 
for  one  term  in  1876  before  entering  Yale.  He  took  the  natural 
history  course  in  the  Sheffield  Scientific  School. 

Upon  graduation  he  became  actively  identified  with  his 
father  in  the  grocery  business,  and  on  the  latter's  death  in 
1900,  assumed  the  management  of  his  estate,  and  later  de- 
veloped the  properties  and  interests  of  various  kinds  which 
he  had  inherited.  One  of  the  legacies  was  a  farm  at  Homer, 
N.  Y.,  which  he  made  his  summer  home  and  where  he  raised 
blooded  stock,  exhibits  of  which  were  frequent  prize  winners 
at  the  state  and  other  fairs.  He  also  owned  about  4,000  acres 
of  land  at  Chittenango,  N.  Y.,  and  had  large  holdings  in 
Syracuse  business  property.  At  the  time  of  his  death  he  was  a 


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director  and  vice-president  of  the  Pierce,  Butler  &  Pierce 
Manufacturing  Corporation,  president  of  the  Quaint  Art 
Furniture  Company,  a  director  of  the  Onondaga  Pottery 
Company,  the  Syracuse  Journal  Company,  the  First 
Trust  and  Deposit  Company,  and  a  trustee  of  the  Y.  M.  C.  A. 
He  was  a  member  of  the  Syracuse  Chamber  of  Commerce. 
He  was  a  generous  contributor  to  many  philanthropic  enter- 
prises. He  invested  in  business  which  would  help  the  city  and 
gave  to  those  things  which  meant  increased  employment  of 
men.  He  had  reclaimed  abandoned  farms  and  during  the 
World  War  was  active  in  bringing  to  this  country  buffering 
Belgians  and  giving  them  opportunities  to  make  a  living.  He 
was  a  close  student  of  American  history,  geology,  botany, 
archaeology,  and  ethnology.  Indian  relics  and  curios  claimed 
his  attention,  and  his  collection  of  them  is  a  valuable  one. 

He  died  of  heart  disease.  May  10,  1920,  at  his  home  in 
Syracuse,  and  was  buried  in  the  family  plot  in  Oakwood 
Cemetery. 

He  was  married  June  i,  1882,  in  Syracuse,  to  Mary  Lucia, 
daughter  of  Thomas  Jefferson  and  Mary  (WiUiams)  Leach, 
who  survives  him  with  their  three  daughters,  Margaret; 
l/ucia  Katherine,  the  wife  of  Dwight  J.  Baum;  and  Mary 
Eleanor,  now  Mrs.  Jerome  DeWitt  Barnum.  His  only  son, 
John  Jacob  Crouse,  died  in  childhood.  Besides  his  wife  and 
daughters  he  leaves  four  grandchildren  and  a  sister.  M.  Crouse 
Klockj  '02  S.,  is  a  nephew,  and  among  other  relatives  who  have 
attended  Yale  are  Beecher  M.  Crouse,  '93,  George  N.  Crouse, 
'01  S.,  Nellis  M.  Crouse,  '06,  and  Marlette  Crouse,  06  S. 


Willis  Benton  Wright,  Ph.B.  1881 

Born  February  25,  i860,  in  Pittsfield,  Mass. 
Died  November  16,  1919,  in  Hartford,  Conn. 

WiUis  Benton  Wright,  son  of  Samuel  Augustus  Wright,  a 
lawyer,  and  Ann  Maria  (Butler)  Wright,  was  born  in  Pitts- 
field,  Mass.,  February  25,  i860.  His  paternal  grandparents 
were  Samuel  C.  and  Olive  (Benton)  Wright,  and  he  traced  his 
ancestry  through  Ichabod  Wright,  Joseph  Wright,  Jr.,  and 


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Joseph  Wright,  to  James  Wright  of  Milford  and  Durham, 
Conn.,  who  came  to  this  country  in  1698.  His  mother  was  the 
daughter  of  Sylvester  and  Anne  Butler,  and  a  descendant  of 
Richard  Butler,  a  deacon  in  Rev.  Thomas  Hooker's  church, 
the  members  of  which  went  from  Boston  and  settled  in  Hart- 
ford, Conn.,  in  1636. 

He  was  fitted  for  college  at  the  high  school  in  Middletown, 
Conn.  He  took  the  civil  engineering  course  in  the  Scientific 
School.  He  won  a  second  prize  for  excellence  in  mechanical 
drawing  and  honorable  mention  in  mathematics  in  Junior 
year.  He  received  a  Senior  appointment,  had  honorable  men- 
tion in  the  work  of  that  year,  and  read  a  thesis  at  graduation. 

After  graduation  he  became  associated  with  Commander 
Garringe,  U.  S.  N.,  a  consulting  engineer.  In  1886  he  took  up 
construction  work  with  the  Minneapolis,  St.  Paul  &  Sault 
Ste.  Marie  Railway,  and  later  was  engaged  in  the  same  kind 
of  work  in  the  Cascade  Mountains  for  the  Oregon  Pacific 
Railroad,  and  in  lower  California  and  Mexico  for  the  Ferro- 
carril  SanQuintin  y  Yuma.  After  two  years  more  with  the  Min- 
neapolis, St.  Paul  &  Sault  Ste.  Marie  Railway,  and  a  year's 
travel,  he  became,  in  1895,  division  engineer  of  the  drainage 
department  of  the  Sewerage  and  Water  Board  of  New  Orleans, 
La.  He  continued  in  this  connection  until  his  death.  He  had 
taken  an  active  interest  in  the  improvement  of  the  city,  and 
was  president  of  the  Gentilly  Road  Commissioners  and  treas- 
urer of  Desiax  Park.  He  served  as  president  of  the  Louisiana 
Engineering  Society  in  1905,  and  was  a  member  of  the  Ameri- 
can Society  of  Civil  Engineers.  He  belonged  to  the  First 
Church  of  Christ,  Scientist,  in  New  Orleans,  and  at  the  time 
of  his  death  held  the  office  of  treasurer. 

Mr.  Wright  took  his  own  life  in  Hartford,  Conn.,  November 
16,  1919.  He  had  been  suffering  for  a  year  from  nervous  pros- 
tration, due  to  overwork.  Interment  was  in  Cromwell,  Conn. 

He  was  married  May  18,  1896,  in  New  Orleans,  to  Juliette, 
daughter  of  David  Barker  and  Sarah  (Dunning)  Pulver,  who 
survives  him  without  children.  He  also  leaves  a  brother, 
Edward  A.  Wright  (B.A.  1884). 


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Louis  Valentine  Pirsson,  Ph.B.  1882 

Born  November  3,  i860,  in  New  York  City 
Died  December  8,  1919,  in  New  Haven,  Conn. 

Louis  Valentine  Pirsson,  son  of  Francis  Morris  and  Louisa 
M.  (Butt)  Pirsson,  was  born  in  New  York  City,  November  3, 
i860.  His  father,  who  was  a  merchant,  was  the  son  of  James 
and  Emily  (Morris)  Pirsson,  and  a  grandson  of  William  Pirs- 
son, who  settled  in  New  York  City  about  1796,  having  come 
from  Chelmsford,  Essex,  England.  His  maternal  grandparents 
were  George  A.  Butt,  who  came  to  America  from  Exton  Hall, 
Rutlandshire,  England,  and  Elizabeth  E.  (McCoskry)  Butt. 
His  mother  died  when  he  was  four  years  old,  and  at  the  age  of 
nine  he  became  the  ward  of  Thomas  Lord,  of  New  York  City, 
whose  wife  was  a  cousin  of  his  father.  Later  he  was  placed  in 
the  family  of  Rev.  William  J.  Blain,  the  pastor  of  a  Presby- 
terian Church  at  Amsterdam,  N.  Y.,  under  whom  he  received 
his  preliminary  preparation  for  college.  In  1876  he  entered  the 
Amenia  (N.  Y.)  Seminary,  which  was  moved  two  years  later 
to  New  Marlboro,  Mass.,  and  subsequently  known  as  the 
South  Berkshire  Institute,  and  where  he  completed  his  pre- 
paratory training.  He  took  the  chemistry  course  in  the  Scien- 
tific School  and  was  graduated  with  honors.  In  Freshman  year 
he  received  a  second  prize  for  excellence  in  English  composi- 
tion. 

After  graduation  he  was*  an  assistant  and  instructor  in 
analytical  chemistry  in  the  Sheffield  Laboratory  until  1888, 
and  also  did  outside  work  in  teaching,  as  well  as  pursuing 
graduate  studies.  In  1888  he  became  professor  of  chemistry  in 
the  Brooklyn  Polytechnic  Institute,  but  resigned  this  position 
the  following  year  and  entered  the  U.  S.  Geological  Survey  as 
assistant  to  Mr.  Arnold  Hague  in  the  survey  of  the  Yellow- 
stone National  Park.  The  field  seasons  of  1889  and  1890  were 
spent  in  geological  work  in  that  and  adjacent  regions.  In  the 
winter  of  1890,  in  order  to  better  prepare  himself  for  geological 
work,  he  went  abroad  and  studied  at  the  University  of  Heidel- 
berg and  at  the  College  de  France,  and  also  traveled  in  Cen- 
tral Europe.  While  abroad  he  was  appointed  instructor  in 
lithology  in  the  Sheffield  Scientific  School  and  returned  to 
America  in  the  autumn  of  1892  to  fill  the  duties  of  this  posi- 


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tion.  In  1893  he  became  instructor  in  geology,  and,  with  this 
appointment,  this  branch  of  science  was  for  the  first  time 
made  a  definite  department  of  instruction  in  the  school.  His 
work  was  chiefly  confined  to  the  physical  side  of  geology.  In 
1894  he  was  promoted  to  an  assistant  professorship  in  inor- 
ganic geology  and  three  years  later  was  made  full  professor 
of  physical  geology  and  appointed  a  member  of  the  Governing 
Board  of  the  Scientific  School,  of  which  he  acted  as  secretary 
for  many  years.  He  served  as  Senior  Class  Officer  and  as 
chairman  of  the  Discipline  Committee  for  a  long  time,  and  for 
five  years  was  one  of  the  three  representatives  of  the  school  on 
the  University  Council.  He  was  elected  a  trustee  of  the  Scien- 
tific School  in  191 2.  Yale  gave  him  the  honorary  degree  of 
M.A.  in  1902. 

Professor  Pirsson's  field  researches  were  mainly  confined  to 
Montana  and  New  Hampshire,  where  he  spent  many  summer 
vacations  in  the  vicinity  of  Squam  Lake.  Through  a  visit  to 
Bermuda,  he  learned  of  the  geological  results  of  a  deep  boring 
for  water,  and  by  cooperation  with  Drs.  Vaughan  and  Cushing 
of  the  U.  S.  Geological  Survey,  and  Dr.  Thomas  of  the  British 
Survey  an  important  contribution  was  made  to  our  knowledge 
of  the  island.  A  biography  prepared  by  Dr.  Whitman  Cross 
of  the  U.  S.  Geological  Survey  states  that  his  main  work  was 
done  in  a  period  when  thoughtful  petrographers  of  various 
countries  were  endeavoring  to  select  from  the  mass  of  de- 
tailed knowledge  accumulated  in  a  few  decades  the  criteria 
upon  which  might  be  based  a  much  needed  contribution  to 
the  systematic  classification  of  igneous  rocks.  Professor 
Pirsson's  accurate  and  extensive  knowledge  of  the  rocks,  his 
originality  and  good  judgment  naturally  made  him  one  of  a 
group  of  American  petrographers  who  jointly  undertook  in 
1898  the  task  of  formulating  an  entirely  new  system,  on  a 
new  basis,  and  supplying  the  necessary  terminology.  In 
addition  to  his  reports  published  by  the  Geological  Survey, 
he  was  the  author  of  numerous  articles  and  of  the  following 
books:  "Contributions  to  Mineralogy  and  Petrography  from 
the  Laboratories  of  the  Sheffield  Scientific  School"  (edited 
with  Professor  Samuel  L.  Penfield  and  forming  a  part  of  the 
Bicentennial  Publications),  1901;  "Quantitative  Classifica- 
tion of  Igneous  Rocks"  (with  Messrs.  Cross,  Iddings,  and 


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Washington),  1903;  "Rocks  and  Rock  Minerals;  a  Manual  of 
the  Elements  of  Petrology  without  the  Use  of  the  Micro- 
scope," 1908;  and  "A  Text  Book  on  Geology"  (in  conjunction 
with  Professor  Charles  Schuchert  of  Yale),  1915.  He  had  be- 
gun an  elementary  petrography  which  was  left  unfinished. 
From  1899  until  his  death  he  was  an  associate  editor  of  the 
American  'Journal  of  Science.  He  served  as  a  member  of  the 
Committee  on  Petrography  of  the  International  Geological 
Congress,  was  an  honorary  member  of  the  Geological  Society 
of  Stockholm,  a  Fellow  of  the  Geological  Society  of  America 
(of  which  he  was  vice-president  in  191 5),  the  Geological 
Society  of  Washington,  the  Washington  Academy  of  Sciences, 
the  American  Academy  of  Arts  and  Sciences,  and  the  Con- 
necticut Academy  of  Arts  and  Sciences,  and  a  member  of  the 
National  Academy  of  Sciences  and  the  American  Philosophi- 
cal Society.  He  was  a  regular  attendant  at  United  Church  in 
New  Haven. 

He  died  at  his  home  in  that  city,  December  8,  1919,  of 
rheumatism,  from  which  he  had  suflFered  for  several  years, 
and  on  account  of  which  he  was  on  a  year's  leave  of  absence 
from  the  University.  Interment  was  in  the  Grove  Street 
Cemetery.  According  to  the  terms  of  his  will  his  geological 
collection  and  his  scientific  apparatus  and  books  were  left 
to  the  Sheffield  Scientific  School.  He  also  gave  $10,000  to 
provide  for  two  scholarships  in  the' geological  department  of 
the  school. 

Professor  Pirsson  was  married  May  17, 1902,  in  New  Haven, 
to  Eliza  Trumbull,  daughter  of  George  Jarvis  Brush,  LL.D, 
(Ph.B.  1852),  director  of  the  Scientific  School  from  1872  to 
1898,  and  Harriet  Silliman  (Trumbull)  Brush.  She  survives 
him  without  children. 


William  VanSchoonhoven  Thorne,  Ph.B.  1885 

Born  March  22,  1865,  in  Millbrook,  N.  Y. 
Died  February  6,  1920,  in  New  York.  City 

William  VanSchoonhoven  Thorne  was  the  son  of  Samuel 
and  Phebe  Smith  (VanSchoonhoven)  Thorne,  and  was  born 
in  Millbrook,  N.  Y.,  March  22,  1865.  His  father,  who  was  a 
director  and  president  of  several  railroads  and  a  director  of  a 


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1882-1885  I54I 

number  of  banks  and  trust  companies,  was  the  son  of  Jona- 
than Thorne,  a  leather  and  coal  dealer  of  New  York  City,  and 
Lydia  Anne  (Corse)  Thorne.  He  was  a  descendant  of  William 
Thorne,  who  came  to  America  from  England  prior  to  1638  and 
settled  on  Long  Island.  Phebe  VanSchoonhoven  Thome's 
parents  were  William  Henry  VanSchoonhoven,  a  lawyer,  and 
Margaret  (Brinckerhoff)  VanSchoonhoven.  She  traced  her 
ancestry  to  Jvert  Henderckse  VanSchoonhoven,  who  emi- 
grated from  Schoonhoven,  Holland,  and  settled  at  H^lve 
Moone,  N.  Y.,  in  1675. 

He  was  prepared  for  college  in  the  schools  of  New  York 
City,  and  took  the  select  course  in  the  Scientific  School.  He 
received  an  appointment  in  Junior  year. 

He  traveled  in  Europe  for  about  six  months  after  gradua- 
tion and  then  went  West.  For  over  nine  years  he  was  in  the 
service  of  the  Great  Northern  Railroad  in  Minnesota,  South 
Dakota,  Montana,  and  Wisconsin.  His  work  during  this  period 
included  service  in  various  departments  as  follows:  loca- 
tion and  construction  work  in  the  engineering  department; 
clerk  for  the  general  superintendent;  chief  clerk  for  the  general 
manager;  assistant  purchasing  agent;  superintendent  of  the 
St.  Cloud  (Minn.)  shops;  assistant  superintendent  of  the 
Breckenridge  Division;  and  superintendent  of  the  Eastern 
Railway  6f  the  Minnesota  Division.  In  1895  he  resigned  his 
position  to  become  vice-president  and  general  manager  of  the 
Pennsylvania  Coal  Company  and  vice-president  of  the  Erie 
&  Wyoming  Valley  Railroad  Company,  with  headquarters  in 
New  York  City.  He  was  later  elected  president  of  the  Dela- 
ware Valley  &  Kingston  Railway,  a  proposed  railroad  line 
along  the  route  of  the  old  Delaware  &  Hudson  Canal,  from 
Hawley,  Pa.,  to  the  Hudson  River.  These  positions  he  held 
until  1900,  when  the  properties  were  sold  to  the  Erie  Railroad. 
In  July,  1902,  after  a  year  and  a  half  of  foreign  travel,  he 
again  took  up  active  railroad  work  as  assistant  to  Mr.  E.  H. 
Harriman,  and  the  following  year  he  was  appointed  director 
of  purchases  of  the  Union  and  Southern  Pacific  systems,  the 
Oregon  Short  Line  Railroad,  the  Oregon  Railroad  &  Naviga- 
tion Company,  the  Chicago  &  Alton  Railway,  and  the  Kansas 
City  Railway.  Later  he  was  also  made  manager  of  purchases 
of  the  Northwestern  Pacific  Railroad.  In  consequence  of  the 


154^  SHEFFIELD    SCIENTIFIC    SCHOOL 

order  of  the  Supreme  Court  separating  the  Union  Pacific  and 
the  Southern  Pacific,  he  resigned  on  January  31,  1913,  as 
director  of  purchases  of  the  Southern  Pacific,  remaining  with 
the  Union  Pacific  as  vice-president  in  charge  of  purchases. 
He  was  a  vice-president  and  director  of  the  Louisiana  Western 
Railroad  and  a  director  of  the  Union  Pacific  Coal  Company, 
the  Union  Pacific  Land  Company,  the  Wells  Fargo  Express 
Company,  the  Railroad  Securities  Company,  the  Pacific 
Mail  Steamship  Company,  the  Lackawanna  Steel  Company, 
the  Fidelity  and  Hanover  banks  of  New  York,  and  the  Morris- 
town  (N.  J.)  Trust  Company.  During  the  war  Mr.  Thorne 
served  as  chief  of  the  Division  of  Coordination  of  Purchase  of 
the  U.  S.  Food  Administration,  having  received  this  appoint- 
ment in  1917.  Since  1899  he  had  been  treasurer  and  one  of  the 
managers  of  the  Presbyterian  Hospital  in  New  York  City. 
He  was  a  trustee  of  the  Society  for  the  Relief  of  Half-Orphan 
and  Destitute  Children,  a  manager  of  the  Manhattan  Ma- 
ternity Hospital  and  Dispensary,  and  chairman  of  the  board 
of  managers  of  the  Woman's  Hospital.  He  was  a  member  of 
the  Madison  Avenue  Presbyterian  Church.  At  the  time  of  his 
death  he  was  a  governor  of  the  Yale  Publishing  Association. 

He  died,  of  pneumonia,  at  his  home  in  New  York  City, 
February  6, 1920,  and  was  buried  in  Woodlawn  Cemetery.  He 
left  $50,000  to  Yale  and  also  made  a  number  of  bequests  to  the 
hospitals  and  other  institutions  in  which  he  was  interested. 

He  was  married  November  16,  1905,  in  New  York,  to  Julia 
Therese,  daughter  of  Samuel  and  Julia  Therese  (Thompson) 
Keyser,  who  survives  him  with  two  children,  Samuel  Keyser 
and  Therese.  He  also  leaves  two  brothers,  Edwin  Thorne, 
'82  S.,  and  Samuel  Thorne,  '96.  He  was  a  first  cousin  of  Dr. 
Victor  C.  Thorne,  '94  S.,  and  S.  Brinckerhoff  Thorne,  '96. 

Harootune  Enfiajian,  Ph.B.  1889 

Born  May  i,  1853,  in  Kharput,  Armenia 
Died  December  30,  191 9,  in  Denver,  Colo. 

Harootune  Enfiajian  was  born  in  Kharput,  Armenia,  May 
1, 1853,  his  parents  being  Hovannes  Enfiajian,  a  preacher,  and 
Gulvart  (Boyajian)  Enfiajian,  whose  father  was  Harootune 
Boyajian.  His  paternal  grandparents  were  Avedis  and  Shu- 
shan  Enfiajian, 


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Before  entering  Yale  he  studied  at  Phillips  Academy, 
Exeter,  N.  H.  He  took  the  select  course  in  the  Sheffield  Scien- 
tific School,  was  given  a  Senior  appointment,  and  read  a 
thesis  at  graduation. 

1  Previous  to  coming  to  the  United  States  he  had  taught  at 
[the  College  of  Armenia  at  Kharput  and  had  become  well 
known  as  an  educator.  He  had  planned  to  return  to  Armenia 
to  teach  after  taking  his  degree,  but  was  unable  to  do  so  be- 
cause of  the  political  condition  of  that  country.  At  the  time  of 
his  death  he  was  a  dealer  in  oriental  rugs  in  Denver,  Colo. 
He  was  a  member  of  the  Protestant  Church  in  Armenia. 

He  died  December  30,  1919,  in  Denver,  three  days  after 
undergoing  an  operation  for  an  intestinal  abscess.  Interment 
was  in  Fairmount  Cemetery  in  that  city.  All  of  his  estate, 
amounting  to  about  $75,000,  with  the  exception  of  a  few 
personal  bequests,  was  left  by  will  to  the  American  Board  of 
Commissioners  for  Foreign  Missions  to  be  used  for  Armenian 
missionary  purposes. 

Mr.  Enfiajian  was  unmarried. 


Theodore  Whitney  Blake,  Ph.B.  1890 

Born  May  3,  1866,  in  Oakland,  Calif. 
Died  November  27,  1919,  in  New  York  City 

Theodore  Whitney  Blake  was  born  in  Oakland,  Calif., 
May  3,  1866,  the  son  of  William  Phipps  Blake  (Ph.B.  1852, 
M.A.  Dartmouth  1863,  Sc.D.  University  of  Pennsylvania 
1906,  LL.D.  University  of  California  1910)  and  Charlotte 
Haven  Lord  (Hayes)  Blake.  His  father  had  served  as  miner- 
alogist and  geologist  for  the  Pacific  railroads'  exploration 
and  surveys  and  as  mineralogist  of  the  State  Board  of  Agri- 
culture at  Oakland.  While  under  appointment  as  mining 
engineer  to  the  Japanese  Government  he  organized  the  first 
science  school  in  Japan  and  taught  chemistry  and  geology 
there.  He  had  held  professorships  at  the  College  of  California 
and  the  University  of  Arizona  and  had  served  as  a  commis- 
sioner to  several  foreign  expositions.  In  1878  he  was  made  a 
chevalier  of  the  Legion  of  Honor.  His  parents  were  Elihu 
Blake,  a  surgeon  dentist,  and  Adeline  Nancy  (Mix)  Blake, 


1544  SHEFFIELD    SCIENTIFIC    SCHOOL 

and  he  was  a  direct  descendant  of  William  Blake,  who  came 
with  his  wife,  Agnes,  to  Dorchester,  Mass.,  from  Essex 
County,  England,  about  1625.  The  family  was  distinguished 
for  inventive  genius,  among  its  members  being  Eli  Whitney 
(B.A.  1792),  the  inventor  of  the  cotton  gin,  Eli  Whitney  Blake 
(B.A.  1 8 16),  the  inventor  of  the  Blake  stone  crusher,  and 
Capt.  Jonathan  Mix,  of  New  Haven,  the  inventor  of  the 
elliptical  wagon  spring,  and  a  patriot  of  the  Revolution. 
Adeline  Mix  Blake  was  his  only  daughter,  her  rhother  being 
Elizabeth  Mary  (Phipps)  Mix,  daughter  of  Solomon  Phipps. 
T.  Whitney  Blake's  maternal  grandparents  were  William 
Allen  Hayes  (M.A.  Dartmouth  1805)  and  Susan  (Lord) 
Hayes.  Through  his  mother  he  traced  his  ancestry  to  John 
Hayes,  who  came  to  America  from  Scotland  in  1600  and 
settled  at  South  Berwick,  Maine. 

The  family  home  has  for  a  long  time  been  at  Mill  Rock  in 
the  town  of  Hamden,  Conn.,  and  Mr.  Blake  spent  his  boy- 
hood there,  receiving  his  preparatory  training  at  the  Hopkins 
Grammar  School  in  New  Haven.  He  took  the  mechanical 
engineering  course  in  the  Scientific  School  and  was  awarded  a 
Senior  appointment. 

He  became  connected  with  the  engineering  firm  of  Stone  & 
Webster  in  Boston  shortly  after  graduation  and  was  subse- 
quently employed  by  the  National  India  Rubber  Company  at 
Bristol,  R.  I.  In  1897  he  started,  with  Mr.  F.  S.  Minot,  the 
Goodyear  Rubber  Insulating  Company  in  New  York,  which 
was  a  pioneer  in  the  manufacture  of  rubber  insulated  wire. 
In  191 2  he  founded  the  Whitney  Blake  Company,  whose 
factory  for  the  manufacture  of  wire  insulating  materials  is  in 
the  town  of  Hamden.  At  the  time  of  his  death  he  was  presi- 
dent of  that  company  and  secretary  and  treasurer  of  the  Good- 
year Rubber  Insulating  Company.  He  was  the  first  wire 
manufacturer  to  offer  his  services  and  facilities  for  the  produc- 
tion of  a  finished  field  telephone  wire  for  the  use  of  our  army 
in  France  during  the  war,  having  previously  furnished  vast 
quantities  of  field  wire  to  the  allies.  His  was  the  first  American 
wire  to  reach  France  and  the  only  American  outpost  wire  to 
arrive  before  the  armistice.  Over  600,000,000  feet  of  rubber 
covered  wire  and  cable  were  supplied  to  the  U.  S.  Army,  and 
army  officers  have  stated  that  this  wire  was  a  large  factor  in 


1545 

le  winning  of  the  war.  Mr.  Blake  was  elected  a  director  of 
the  New  Haven  Chamber  of  Commerce  in  191 9.  He  was  a 
member  of  the  Association  of  the  Best  One  Hundred  Manu- 
facturers of  the  World,  the  Chamber  of  Commerce  of  the 
United  States,  and  the  New  York  Museum  of  Natural  History. 

He  died  of  heart  failure,  at  his  home  in  New  York  City, 
November  27,  1919,  and  was  buried  in  Woodlawn  Cemetery. 

He  was  married  June  16,  1900,  in  Washington,  D.  C,  to 
Minnie  Lillian,  daughter  of  Major  William  L.  Kesley,U.S.A., 
and  Minnie  (Hain)  Kesley.  They  had  three  children,  Char- 
lotte Lord  Hayes,  William  Phipps,  2d  (died  in  May,  1919), 
and  Kesley.  In  addition  to  his  wife  and  two  children,  he 
leaves  two  brothers,  Francis  H.  Blake,  '82  S.,  and  Dr.  Joseph 
A.  Blake,  '85  and  '86  S.  A  number  of  relatives  have  attended 
Yale. 

Richard  Francis  Pearce,  Ph.B.  1892 

Born  June  18,  1872,  in  Empire,  Colo. 
Died  March  22,  1920,  in  Liverpool,  England 

Richard  Francis  Pearce,  son  of  Richard  and  Emilie  Eliza- 
beth (Hawken)  Pearce,  was  born  at  Empire,  Colo.,  June  18, 
1872.  His  father,  who  was  a  native  of  Cornwall,  England, 
and  a  graduate  of  the  Royal  School  of  Mines,  London,  served 
as  British  vice-consul  in  Colorado  from  1885  to  1901.  He  has 
been  actively  interested  in  mining  and  smelting  in  Colorado 
and  Montana.  Columbia  University  gave  him  the  degree  of 
Ph.D.  in  1890.  His  parents  were  Richard  and  Jenifer  Pearce. 
His  wife  was  the  daughter  of  John  Hawken,  of  Cornwall. 

Richard  F.  Pearce  was  fitted  for  Yale  at  St.  Paul's  School, 
Garden  City,  Long  Island,  and  took  the  chemistry  course  in 
the  Sheffield  Scientific  School.  He  was  a  cup  man,  and  read 
a  thesis  at  graduation.  He  served  on  the  executive  committee 
of  the  University  Athletic  Association. 

Immediately  after  graduating,  he  became  engaged  in  the 
practice  of  metallurgy  and  was  apprenticed  to  a  smelting 
works  in  Colorado.  In  1894  he  became  general  foreman  at  the 
company's  works  at  Casapalco,  Peru,  was  promoted  to  assist- 
ant superintendent  in  1895,  and  made  superintendent  the 
following  year.     In  1897  he  was  appointed  assistant  manager 

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1546  SHEFFIELD    SCIENTIFIC    SCHOOL 

of  the  Colorado  Smelting  &  Mining  Company  at  Butte,  Mont. 
The  next  year  he  began  to  give  his  attention  as  an  expert  to 
mining  and  smelting  in  connection  with  tin.  He  then  had  occa- 
sion to  travel  extensively,  going  around  the  world  several 
times  and  visiting  nearly  every  country  in  the  world  where 
mining  is  engaged  in.  In  1908  he  became  manager  of  Williams, 
Harvey  &  Company,  Ltd.,  tin  smelters,  of  Liverpool,  and  in 
1914  was  named  managing  director.  This  smelting  works  has 
grown  to  be  far  the  largest  in  England,  and  only  second  in 
point  of  capacity  to  the  Straits  Trading  Company's  works  in 
Singapore  and  Penang,  and  about  equal  in  size  to  those  of  the 
Eastern  Smelting  Company.  In  191 6,  in  conjunction  with  the 
National  Lead  Company  of  New  York,  Mr.  Pearce  organized 
the  Williams  Harvey  Corporation  in  America,  in  which  the 
interests  of  Williams,  Harvey  &  Company,  Ltd.,  and  the 
National  Lead  Company  were  combined,  and,  subsequently,  a 
third  participant  was  admitted  in  the  person  of  Senor  Simon 
I.  Patino,  whose  Bolivian  mines  guaranteed  a  supply  of  ore,  as 
the  other  interests  did  smelting  and  marketing  facilities.  In 
1917  Mr.  Pearce  was  chosen  to  serve  as  vice-president  and 
general  manager  of  the  Williams  Harvey  Corporation  in  New 
York  City.  He  was  an  Episcopalian,  and  a  communicant  of 
Christ  Church,  Waterloo,  Liverpool. 

He  died  in  Liverpool,  March  22,  1920,  of  heart  failure  fol- 
lowing pneumonia.  Interment  was  in  St.  Luke's  Cemetery  at 
Crosby. 

His  marriage  took  place  in  Denver,  May  12,  1896.  Mrs. 
Pearce,  who  was  Mary  Lucretia,  daughter  of  Frank  and 
Phoebe  E.  (Gove)  Church,  survives  him  with  their  four 
children:  Frances  Isabel,  a  member  of  the  Class  of  1916  at 
Harrogate  College;  Gerald  Church  and  Richard  Valentine, 
both  members  of  the  Class  of  191 8  at  Sedbergh  College;  and 
John  Bennett.  The  eldest  son  is  at  present  taking  a  special 
course  at  the  Massachusetts  Institute  of  Technology.  Two 
brothers  were  Yale  graduates, — Stanley  H.  Pearce  (Ph.B. 
1 891),  whose  death  occurred  in  1906,  and  Arthur  W.  Pearce 
(Ph.B.  1896).  A  third  brother,  Harold  V.  Pearce,  studied  at 
Columbia. 


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Anson  Baldwin,  Ph.B.  1893 

Born  March  12,  1873,  in  Yonkers,  N.  Y. 
Died  May  3,  1920,  in  Yonkers,  N.  Y. 

Anson  Baldwin,  whose  parents  were  Hall  Faile  Baldwin,  a 
hat  manufacturer,  and  Elizabeth  (Punchard)  Baldwin,  was 
born  in  Yonkers,  N.  Y.,  March  12,  1873.  He  was  a  grandson  of 
Anson  Baldwin,  at  one  time  a  director  of  the  First  National 
Bank  in  Yonkers,  and  Armenia  (Palmer)  Baldwin,  and  a 
great-grandson  of  Ebenezer  Baldwin,  who  removed  from 
Connecticut  to  Yonkers  in  1804.  His  first  American  ancestor 
was  John  Baldwin,  who  came  to  Norwich,  Conn.,  from  Eng- 
land in  1638.  His  maternal  grandparents  were  Benjamin  and 
Martha  (Marland)  Punchard,  of  Andover,  Mass. 

Before  entering  Yale  he  attended  public  and  private  schools 
in  Yonkers  and  St.  Paul's  School,  Concord,  N.  H.  He  took  the 
mechanical  engineering  course  in  the  Sheffield  Scientific 
School,  and  received  a  Senior  appointment. 

He  entered  the  New  York  Law  School  in  the  fall  of  1893, 
received  the  degree  of  LL.B.  there  in  1895,  ^^^  admitted  to 
the  bar  the  same  year,  and  practiced  his  profession  for  a  time 
in  New  York  City,  being  a  clerk  with  the  law  firm  of  Ewing  & 
Ewing  for  a  year.  Later  he  became  associated  with  the  Law- 
yers Title  Insurance  &  Trust  Company  of  New  York,  and  was 
eventually  made  manager  of  their  Westchester  County  branch. 
In  1903  he  severed  this  connection  to  become  clerk  of  the 
Surrogate's  Court  of  Westchester  County,  a  position  which  he 
resigned  in  the  fall  of  19 10  to  become  vice-president  and  a 
director  of  the  First  National  Bank  of  Yonkers.  He  was  made 
president  of  the  bank  June  12,  191 2,  and  held  this  office  at 
the  time  of  his  death.  He  was  also  a  director  of  the  Lawyers 
Westchester  Mortgage  &  Title  Company  and  of  the  West- 
chester County  League  of  the  Title  Guaranty  &  Trust  Com- 
pany. He  served  as  chairman  of  Group  6  of  the  National 
Banks  of  New  York  State  in  1916  and  1917,  and  was  president 
of  the  Westchester  County  Bankers  Association  in  191 8.  He 
was  a  member  of  the  Westchester  County  Bar  Association 
and  the  Westchester  County  Bankers  Association,  and  served 
as  a  vestryman  of  St.  John's  Episcopal  Church,  Yonkers,  from 


1548  SHEFFIELD    SCIENTIFIC    SCHOOL 

1902  to  1 917.  He  was  the  first  secretary  of  the  Yale  Alumni 
Association  of  Westchester  County  and  a  member  of  the 
executive  committee  for  a  number  of  years.  Ever  since  a 
severe  illness  in  1904  he  had  been  especially  interested  in 
hospitals,  and  he  was  a  trustee  and  treasurer  of  St.  John's 
Riverside  Hospital  and  vice-president  of  the  Sprain  Ridge 
Hospital,  both  of  which  were  located  in  Yonkers.  During  the 
World  War  he  was  active  in  various  forms  of  civilian  work, 
serving  as  chairman  of  the  Committee  of  Bankers  in  the  sec- 
ond Liberty  Loan  drive  and  as  treasurer  of  the  Westchester 
County  Branch  of  the  Red  Cross  and  the  Salvation  Army, 
Y.  M.  C.  A.,  and  United  War  Work  drives. 

Mr.  Baldwin's  death,  which  occurred  in  St.  John's  Hospital, 
May  3,  1920,  followed  a  minor  operation  from  which  he  failed 
to  rally.  He  was  buried  in  St.  John's  Cemetery. 

He  was  married  October  8,  1904,  in  Yonkers,  to  Rosamund 
Renwick,  daughter  of  James  Renwick  Brevoort,  an  artist, 
and  Marie  Louise  (Bascom)  Brevoort.  She  died  February  26, 
191 1,  leaving  no  children.  Mr.  Baldwin  was  married  a  second 
time  June  24,  191 5,  in  Yonkers,  to  Marian  Murray,  daughter 
of  Rev.  William  Speaight  Langford,  D.D.,  formerly  rector  of 
St.  John's  Church,  and  Flora  C.  (Shapter)  Langford.  She 
survives  him  with  their  three  children,  Langford,  Elizabeth, 
and  Eleanor  Langford.  He  also  leaves  his  mother  and  one 
sister.  He  was  a  cousin  of  John  T.  Waring,  Jr.,  '79  S.,  James 
P.  Waring,  ^;^-'86,  Alexander  S.  Cochran,  '96,  William  F. 
Cochran,  Jr.,  '98  S.,  Gifford  A.  Cochran,  '03,  Thomas  Ewing, 
Jr.,  ^:v-' 1 9,  William  F.  C.  Ewing,  1921,  and  Sherman  Ewing, 
1924. 

Joseph  Henry  Bamberg,  Ph.B.  1893 

Born  January  20,  1872,  in  New  Haven,  Conn. 
Died  April  i,  1920,  in  Cleveland,  Ohio 

Joseph  Henry  Bamberg,  son  of  Andrew  Bamberg,  a  car- 
penter, and  Caroline  (Euerle)  Bamberg,  was  born  in  New 
Haven,  Conn.,  January  20,  1872.  Both  parents  were  born  in 
Germany. 

His  preparatory  training  was  received  at  the  Hillhouse  High 


1893  1549 

School  in  New  Haven.  He  took  the  course  in  mechanical 
engineering  in  the  Scientific  School,  and  received  honorable 
mention  for  excellence  in  German  in  Junior  year  and  for 
excellence  in  mechanical  drawing  in  Senior  year,  and  was 
given  a  Senior  appointment. 

After  graduation  he  entered  the  employ  of  the  Remington 
Arms  Company  in  Ilion,  N.  Y.,  as  a  detail  draftsman,  remain- 
mg  there  about  six  months.  He  then  spent  two  years  with  the 
Marlin  Fire  Arms  Company  of  New  Haven,  and  was  subse- 
quently employed  for  brief  periods  by  the  American  Ordnance 
Company  of  Bridgeport,  Conn.,  and  the  Pope  Manufacturing 
Company  of  Hartford.  About  1897  he  returned  to  the  Marlin 
Fire  Arms  Company  as  designer  and  chief  draftsman.  In 
January,  1906,  he  accepted  a  position  with  the  Remington 
Arms  Company  as  department  engineer.  He  was  with  this 
company  a  year  and  then  became  engaged  in  machine  and 
tool  designing  for  the  Weston-Mott  Company  in  Flint,  Mich. 
After  leaving  their  employ  he  was  connected  for  the  greater 
part  of  five  years  with  the  Buick  Motor  Company  of  Flint, 
Mich.,  as  checker  in  their  engineering  department,  and  later 
as  chief  draftsman.  In  the  summer  of  1913  he  was  made  chief 
of  the  engineering  department  of  the  Aluminum  Castings 
Company  (now  the  Aluminum  Manufactures,  Inc.)  in  Buffalo, 
N.  Y.,  of  which  company  his  classmate,  Roger  C.  Adams,  is 
manager.  In  1917,  when  the  company  removed  its  perma- 
nent mold  plant  to  Cleveland,  he  went  there  as  chief  mold 
designer.  During  the  war  his  work  was  the  designing  of  the 
special  molds  for  the  aluminum  piston?  used  in  the  Liberty 
motors  and  other  engines  which  the  Government  required. 
He  had  been  a  steward  in  the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church, 
and  had  taken  an  active  part  in  Sunday  school  work. 

Mr.  Bamberg  had  never  been  in  robust  health,  and  in  1919, 
he  was  forced  to  give  up  work  entirely.  He  went  to  the  Adiron- 
dacks,  hoping  to  regain  his  health,  but  returned  after  about 
six  months  without  having  made  any  improvement.  He  died 
at  his  home  in  Cleveland,  April  i,  1920,  and  was  buried  in 
Evergreen  Cemetery,  New  Haven. 

He  was  married  November  14,  1900,  in  Bridgeport,  Conn., 
to  Charlotte,  daughter  of  Michael  and  Margarita  (Krauter) 


1550  SHEFFIELD    SCIENTIFIC    SCHOOL 

Burghart.  Mrs.  Bamberg  Is  a  graduate  nurse  of  the  Woman's 
Hospital  of  Philadelphia.  She  survives  her  husband  with  one 
son,  Joseph  Henry,  Jr.  A  younger  son  died  in  childhood.  Mr. 
Bamberg  leaves  one  brother. 


Robert  Ezra  Hall,  Ph.B.  1893 

Born  July  lo,  1871,  in  Hartford,  Conn. 
Died  March  16,  1920,  in  East  Haven,  Conn. 

Robert  Ezra  Hall  was  the  only  son  of  Ezra  and  Fannie 
(Pease)  Hall,  and  was  born  July  10,  1 871,  in  Hartford,  Conn. 
His  father,  who  received  the  degree  of  B.A.  at  Wesleyan  in 
1862,  practiced  law  in  Hartford  as  a  member  of  the  firm  of 
Chamberlain  &  Hall  and  had  been  admitted  to  the  bar  of  the 
Supreme  Court  of  the  United  States.  He  was  twice  a  member 
of  the  State  Senate  and  served  one  term  as  a  representative 
in  the  Legislature.  His  parents  were  Gustavus  E.  and  Louise 
(Skinner)  Hall,  and  he  was  a  descendant  of  Dr.  John  Hall,  who 
came  from  Coventry,  England,  in  1630  and  settled  at  Yar- 
mouth, Mass.,  going  from  there  to  Tolland,  Conn.  On  the 
maternal  side  Robert  E.  Hall  traced  his  ancestry  to  John 
Pease,  of  Ipswich,  England,  who  settled  in  Salem,  Mass.,  in 
1634,  in  1 68 1  removing  to  Enfield,  Conn.  His  mother  was  the 
daughter  of  Edwin  Thompson  and  Frances  Elizabeth  (Gilbert) 
Pease.  Her  second  husband.  Dr.  William  Porter,  was  a  brother 
of  Frank  C.  Porter,  who  holds  degrees  from  Beloit  and  Yale, 
and  who  is  a  professor  in  the  Yale  Divinity  School.  Lyman  E. 
Porter,  '16,  and  William  Quincy  Porter,  '19,  are  sons  of  Pro- 
fessor Porter. 

Robert  E.  Hall  was  prepared  for  Yale  at  the  Collins  Street 
Classical  School  and  the  Reed  Preparatory  School  in  Hartford. 
He  took  the  select  course  in  the  Sheffield  Scientific  School. 

Upon  graduating  he  entered  the  oflice  of  the  comptroller  of 
the  New  York,  New  Haven  &  Hartford  Railroad  in  New 
Haven,  where  he  remained  for  eleven  years.  On  May  i,  1903, 
he  became  associated  with  the  Chatfield  Paper  Company,  a 
wholesale  paper  and  twine  house  in  New  Haven,  but  was 
forced  to  resign  in  1913  because  of  ill  health.  His  home  was  in 
East  Haven,  Conn.,  and  since  his  retirement  he  had  devoted 


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his  time  to  town  affairs,  especially  in  relation  to  school  mat- 
ters. He  had  served  as  secretary  of  the  School  Board  since 
1907,  and  in  191 6,  his  great  interest  in  educational  work 
having  attracted  the  attention  of  the  State  Board  of  Educa- 
tion, he  was  assigned  to  work  with  this  board  in  a  much  broader 
field,  as  a  special  agent.  From  1909  to  191 2  he  was  town  audi- 
tor, and  during  the  next  five  years  he  served  as  registrar  of 
voters.  During  the  recent  war  Mr.  Hall  acted  as  chairman  of 
the  Liberty  Loan  drive  and  a  War  Savings  committee  and  as  a 
member  of  the  local  Council  of  Defense. 

He  died  March  16,  1920,  at  his  home  in  East  Haven  and 
was  buried  in  Greenlawn  Cemetery.  He  suffered  a  nervous 
breakdown  in  May,  191 1,  and  from  that  time  his  health  was 
impaired.  He  was  taken  seriously  ill  on  March  6,  1920, 
pneumonia  with  complications  developing  and  causing  his 
death. 

Mr.  Hall  was  married  April  10,  1897,  in  New  Haven,  to 
Celina  Morgan  Selleck,  a  graduate  of  the  New  Britain  Normal 
School  and  a  daughter  of  George  Booth  and  Emmeline 
Catherine  (Clark)  Selleck.  She  survives  him  with  their  two 
daughters,  Margaret  Elizabeth,  a  member  of  the  Class  of 
1924  at  Vassar  College,  and  Barbara  Selleck.  Howard  C. 
Selleck,  1921,  is  a  nephew  of  Mrs.  Hall. 


John  Richard  North,  Ph.B.  1895 

Born  December  i,  1874,  in  New  Haven,  Conn. 
Died  March  26,  1920,  in  Richmond,  Va. 

John  Richard  North  was  born  in  New  Haven,  Conn., 
December  i,  1874,  his  parents  being  John  Curtis  and  Jessie 
Glenn  (Brinkerhoff)  North.  He  was  a  descendant  of  Thomas 
North,  son  of  John  North,  who  came  from  England  in  the  ship 
Susan  and  Ellen  in  1635  ^^<^  settled  at  Farmington,  Conn. 
His  paternal  grandparents  were  John  Goodrich  and  Elizabeth 
(Dickinson)  North.  Jessie  Brinkerhoff  North  is  a  daughter  of 
Richard  and  L.  Harriet  (Passman)  Brinkerhoff.  She  traced  her 
ancestry  to  Joris  Dircksen  Brinkerhoff,  an  emigrant  to  this 
country  from  Holland  in  1638,  who  was  a  settler  at  New 
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He  entered  Yale  from  the  Hopkins  Grammar  School  in  New 
Haven,  and  took  the  course  in  electrical  engineering  in  the 
Sheffield  Scientific  School. 

Immediately  after  graduation  he  entered  the  office  of 
North's  Insurance  Agency,  his  father's  firm,  and  remained 
there  until  March,  1902,  when  he  was  appointed  a  special 
agent  for  the  Atlas  Assurance  Company  of  London,  with  head- 
quarters in  New  York  City.  He  traveled  for  this  company 
until  January,  1904,  and  then-  returned  to  New  Haven  to 
resume  his  connection  with  North's  Insurance  Agency,  with 
which  he  was  associated  during  the  rest  of  his  life.  He  was 
president  of  the  Connecticut  Association  of  Insurance  Agents 
at  the  time  of  his  death,  having  previously  served  for  several 
years  as  secretary  and  treasurer,  and  was  a  member  of  the 
New  Haven  Chamber  of  Commerce.  His  home  had  been  at 
North  Haven  since  1901,  and  he  had  served  for  a  number  of 
years  as  secretary  of  the  local  Board  of  Education  and  as 
vice-president  of  the  North  Haven  Republican  Club.  He  was 
a  member  of  the  North  Haven  Congregational  Church,  and 
for  a  long  time  had  been  choir  director  and  superintendent  of 
the  Sunday  school.  As  a  Sunday  school  worker  he  had  a 
wonderful  influence  among  young  people,  and  was  much 
sought  after  as  a  speaker  at  conventions.  He  was  officially 
connected  with  the  state  and  county  Sunday  school  organiza- 
tions for  many  years.  He  had  remarkable  ability  as  an  or- 
ganizer in  both  church  and  secular  associations.  He  was  a 
member  of  the  Mayflower  Society  of  North  Haven  and  at  one 
time  held  the  office  of  president.  He  was  active  in  Masonic 
circles,  having  been  past  master  of  Corinthian  Lodge  No.  103. 
His  last  Masonic  work,  only  two  weeks  before  his  death,  was 
to  raise  his  oldest  son  to  the  degree  of  Master  Mason.  He  was 
chairman  of  the  New  Haven  County  Y.  M.  C.  A.  In  1919  he 
was  elected  treasurer  of  the  Yale  Alumni  Association  of  New 
Haven.  He  was  a  member  of  the  2d  Infantry,  Connecticut 
National  Guard,  enlisting  as  a  Private  in  Company  F  (New 
Haven  Grays)  in  November,  1895.  He  was  advanced  through 
various  grades  to  the  rank  of  Major.  He  went  to  the  Mexican 
border  with  his  regiment  in  191 6.  During  the  World  War  he 
was  appointed  Colonel  of  the  2d  Infantry,  Connecticut  State 


i895  1553 

Guard,  and  district  commander  of  the  2d  Military  District. 
His  connection  with  the  War  Bureau  of  North  Haven  gave  it 
strength  and  efficiency,  and  similar  work  in  New  Haven  was 
met  faithfully.  He  assisted  in  every  war  drive  in  both  towns 
and  conducted  some  of  them. 

Mr.  North  died,  of  pneumonia,  March  26,  1920,  in  Rich- 
mond, Va.,  where  he  had  gone  to  represent  the  Connecticut 
Association  of  Insurance  Agents  at  the  mid-year  meeting  of 
the  National  Association  of  Insurance  Agents.  Interment  was 
in  Evergreen  Cemetery,  New  Haven.  An  impressive  memorial 
service  was  held  in  his  honor  in  Woolsey  Hall,  April  25,  1920. 
The  North  memorial  window,  erected  by  the  Sunday  school  of 
the  North  Haven  Congregational  Church,  was  unveiled  on 
July  II,  1920. 

His  marriage  to  Helen  Margaret  Alden  took  place  in  New 
Haven,  October  22,  1897.  Mrs.  North,  whose  parents  were 
David  A.  and  Helen  E.  (Kidder)  Alden,  was  a  student  at 
Wellesley  from  1894  to  1896.  They  had  seven  children: 
Richard  Alden  (Ph.B.  1920);  John  Alden;  David  Alden; 
Lawrence  Alden,  who  was  born  and  died  in  June,  1906; 
Priscilla  Alden;  Stanley  Alden;  and  Barbara  BrinkerhofF. 
Mr.  North  is  survived  by  his  wife  and  six  children;  his  mother; 
two  brothers,  Herbert  B.  North  (Ph.B.  i90i,M.E.  1908)  and 
Donald  G.  North;  and  a  sister,  the  wife  of  Harry  H.  Read, 
who  graduated  from  the  Scientific  School  in  1901  and  spent 
the  next  three  years  in  the  School  of  Law.  He  was  a  nephew 
of  Erastus  Blakeslee,  '63,  Stanley  P.  Warren,  '69,  and  Samuel 
T.  Dutton,  '73. 


George  William  Lane  Woodruff,  Ph.B.  1895 

Born  May  12,  1874,  in  New  York  City 
Died  February  15,  1920,  in  New  York  City 

George  William  Lane  Woodruff  was  born  in  New  York 
City,  May  12,  1874,  the  son  of  Morris  Woodruff  (B.A.  i860, 
honorary  M.A.  1874),  who  was  a  partner  in  the  tea  import- 
ing house  of  George  W.  Lane  &  Company,  and  Juliette 
Augusta    (Lane)    Woodruff.   His   grandparents   were   Lewis 


1554  SHEFFIELD    SCIENTIFIC    SCHOOL 

Bartholomew  Woodruff,  LL.D.  (B.A.  1830),  who  served  as 
judge  of  the  Superior  Court  of  New  York  City,  the  Court  of 
Appeals  of  New  York  State,  and  the  U.  S.  Circuit  Court,  and 
Harriette  Burnet  (Hornblower)  Woodruff,  daughter  of  Chief 
Justice  Joseph  C.  Hornblower  of  New  Jersey.  His  great-grand- 
parents were  General  Morris  Woodruff,  of  Litchfield,  Conn., 
and  Candace  (Catlin)  Woodruff,  and  he  was  a  lineal  descend- 
ant in  the  sixth  generation  of  Nathaniel  Woodruff,  one  of  the 
first  settlers  and  proprietors  of  the  town  of  Litchfield,  whose 
grandfather,  Matthew  Woodruff,  was  one  of  the  original 
proprietors  of  the  town  of  Farmington.  The  Catlins  were 
among  the  earliest  settlers  of  Hartford.  Juliette  Lane  Wood- 
ruff was  the  daughter  of  George  William  and  Ann  Augusta 
(Bulkeley)  Lane,  and  the  granddaughter  of  Nathan  and 
Hannah  (Webb)  Lane,  whose  home  was  near  Peekskill,  N.  Y. 
Her  maternal  grandmother  was  Wealthy  Ann  Burr,  a  cousin 
of  Aaron  Burr  and  of  his  sister,  Betsy  Burr,  who  was  the  wife 
of  Judge  Reeves,  the  head  of  the  old  law  school  in  Litchfield; 
she  married  Archibald  Bulkeley. 

He  was  prepared  for  Yale  under  a  private  tutor.  He  took 
the  course  in  electrical  engineering  in  the  Sheffield  Scientific 
School. 

After  graduation  he  entered  the  Columbia  School  of  Mines 
and,  by  doing  two  years'  work  in  one,  completed  the  course  in 
1896,  when  he  was  given  the  degree  of  Electrical  Engineer. 
From  November,  1896,  to  January  i,  1897,  he  was  employed 
in  the  electrical  repair  shops  of  A.  K.  Warren  &  Company  in 
New  York  City.  Upon  the  death  of  his  brother,  Morris  Wood- 
ruff, '93,  in  December,  1897,  he  became  a  partner  in  his 
father's  firm,  in  which  connection  he  continued  until  January 
I,  1909.  In  191 1  he  became  a  partner  in  a  firm  organized  to  do 
business  under  the  name  of  The  Vermeer  Company,  with  the 
object  of  reproducing,  in  colored  prints,  the  paintings  of  the 
Metropolitan  Museum  of  Art,  as  well  as  those  of  other  mu- 
seums and  collections  in  this  country  and  abroad.  During 
1917-18  Mr.  Woodruff  worked  for  the  Government  as  a 
junior  inspector  of  radio  apparatus  in  one  of  the  plants  of  the 
Western  Electric  Company.  He  was  a  member  of  the  loth 
Company,  '7th  Infantry,  New  York  National  Guard,   from 


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1895-1896  1555 

1896  to  1 9 10,  and  at  the  time  when  he  received  his  discharge 
ranked  as  Senior  Corporal.  He  belonged  to  the  Sons  of  the 
Revolution  and  shortly  before  his  death  was  elected  to  mem- 
bership in  the  Order  of  the  Cincinnati. 

He  died  in  New  York  City,  February  15,  1920,  of  influenza- 
pneumonia,  after  an  illness  of  only  three  days.  Interment  was 
in  the  family  mausoleum  at  Woodlawn  Cemetery. 

Mr.  Woodruff  was  unmarried.  He  is  survived  by  two  sisters, 
Harriette  Burnet  Woodruff  and  Elinor  Lane  Woodruff  (Mrs. 
Thomas  M.  Cleland).  He  was  a  nephew  of  Charles  H.  Wood- 
ruff, '58,  and  a  cousin  of  Lewis  B.  Woodruff,  '90,  Frederick  S. 
Woodruff,  '92,  Charles  H.  Woodruff,  Jr.,  ^^-'96,  and  Edward 
S.  Woodruff,  '99. 


Stewart  Cortlandt  Alger,  Ph.B.  1896 

Born  December  i,  1872,  in  Flushing,  N.  Y. 
Died  October  5,  1919,  in  Forest  Hill,  N.  J. 

Stewart  Cortlandt  Alger,  whose  parents  were  Clarence 
Edward  and  Carrie  Alger,  was  born  in  Flushing,  N.  Y., 
December  i,  1872.  His  father,  who  was  in  the  cutlery  business, 
was  the  son  of  Daniel  and  Delia  Alger,  and  a  descendant  of 
Cyrus  Alger,  who  came  to  America  from  England  in  the 
seventeenth  century  and  settled  in  New  England. 

He  received  his  preparatory  training  at  the  Taft  School, 
Pelham  Manor,  N.  Y.,  and  took  the  select  course  in  the  Shef- 
field Scientific  School. 

After  graduation  he  became  secretary  to  Mr.  A.  deBauf  of 
New  York  City.  At  one  time  he  was  in  the  laundry  business. 
He  was  a  member  of  the  Fourth  Presbyterian  Church  in 
New  York  City.  His  death,  which  was  due  to  Bright's  disease, 
occurred  at  Forest  Hill,  N.  J.,  October  5,  191 9.  He  was  buried 
in  the  Moravian  Cemetery. 

Mr.  Alger  was  married  July  14,  1896,  in  New  York  City,  to 
Josephine,  daughter  of  David  B.  and  Ellen  Fearshall,  who 
survives  him  with  a  daughter,  Marjorie  Fearshall  (Alger) 
DuBois. 


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Charles  Henry  Berry,  Ph.B.  1897 

Born  March  6,  1 876,  in  South  Norwalk,  Conn. 
Died  July  15,  1919,  in  Somerville,  N.  J. 

Charles  Henry  Berry,  son  of  Charles  Henry  Berry,  a  hat 
manufacturer,  and  Cornelia  Wyman  (Blondel)  Berry,  was 
born  in  South  Norwalk,  Conn.,  March  6,  1876.  He  was  fitted 
for  college  at  the  Hopkins  Grammar  School  in  New  Haven. 
His  course  in  the  Sheffield  Scientific  School  was  that  in  civil 
engineering. 

After  graduation  he  was  employed  as  an  engineer  with  the 
Third  Avenue  Railway  Company  in  New  York  City  and  with 
the  Guanica  Centrale,  at  first  at  Santa  Rita,  Porto  Rico,  and 
later  in  Cuba.  For  a  time  after  giving  up  his  connection  with 
the  latter  company  he  was  resiednt  engineer  for  the  Atlantic 
Avenue  improvements  of  the  Long  Island  Railroad,  and  was 
subsequently  connected  with  the  New  York,  New  Haven  & 
Hartford  Railroad.  During  the  last  six  years  of  his  life,  with 
the  exception  of  the  period  of  the  war,  when  he  was  employed 
by  the  Calco  Chemical  Company  on  work  for  the  Govern- 
ment, he  was  connected  with  the  Cott-a-lap  Company  of 
Somerville,  N.  J.,  as  superintendent.  He  was  a  member  and 
vestryman  of  the  Somerville  Episcopal  Church. 

He  died  July  15,  1919,  in  the  Somerset  Hospital  in  Somer- 
ville, following  an  operation  for  intestinal  trouble.  The  re- 
mains were  cremated. 

Mr.  Berry  was  married  September  12,  1906,  in  Brooklyn, 
N.  Y.,  to  Evelyn  Munroe,  daughter  of  Arthur  and  Galetsa 
(\yood)  Pierce.  She  survives  him  with  their  three  children, 
Genevieve  G.,  George  L.,  and  Harry  R. 


Duncan  Douglas,  Ph.B.  1897  ' 

Born  August  7,  1875,  in  Albany,  N.  Y. 
Died  January  21,  1920,  in  Albany,  N.  Y. 

Duncan  Douglas  was  born  in  Albany,  N.  Y.,  August  7, 
1875.  H^s  father,  Charles  Henry  Douglas,  was  engaged  in  the 
manufacture  of  knit  goods  at  Cohoes,  N.  Y.,  as  secretary  of 
the  Root  Manufacturing  Company.  He  was  the  son  of  John 


1897  1557 

Duncan  Douglas,  who  came  to  America  from  Edinburgh, 
Scotland,  in  1815  and  settled  in  New  York,  and  Catherine 
Jane  (Miller)  Douglas,  and  a  descendant  of  CorneHus  Doug- 
las. Duncan  Douglas'  mother  was  Sarah  Martha  (Root) 
Douglas,  daughter  of  Josiah  Goodrich  Root,  president  of  the 
Root  Manufacturing  Company,  and  Martha  (Mead)  Root. 
Through  her  he  traced  his  ancestry  to  John  Root,  who  came 
to  this  country  in  1640  and  settled  at  Farmington,  Conn. 

He  took  the  select  course  in  the  Sheffield  Scientific  School, 
having  received  his  preparatory  training  at  the  Albany  High 
School. 

He  entered  the  Albany  Law  School  after  graduating  from 
Yale  and  received  the  degree  of  LL.B.  from  that  institution  in 
1 90 1.  Since  that  time  he  had  been  engaged  in  the  practice  of 
his  profession  in  Albany.  Shortly  after  taking  his  law  degree  he 
was  made  clerk  in  the  office  of  the  corporation  counsel.  He 
was  a  member  of  All  Saints'  Cathedral.  He  had  traveled 
extensively  both  in  this  country  and  abroad. 

Mr.  Douglas  died  at  his  home  in  Albany,  January  21,  1920, 
and  was  buried  in  the  Rural  Cemetery. 

He  was  unmarried,  and  is  survived  by  three  brothers, — 
Charles  H.  Douglas,  president  of  the  Root  Manufacturing 
Company,  Kenneth  R.  Douglas,  ^^-'97  S.,  and  Dr.  Malcolm 
Douglas,  '00, — and  a  sister,  Mrs.  Charles  H.  Wilson.  George 
Douglass,  '64,  is  his  uncle. 


John  Arthur  Hall,  Ph.B.  1897 

Born  September  16,  1877,  i"  Pittsburgh,  Pa. 
Died  October  i,  1919,  in  Long  Branch,  N.  J. 

John  Arthur  Hall  was  born  in  Pittsburgh,  Pa.,  September 
16,  1877,  ^^^  son  of  Elisha  and  Mary  (Hayden)  Hall,  both  of 
whom  were  born  in  England.  His  father,  who  was  engaged  in 
model  making  in  New  Haven,  Conn.,  was  the  son  of  Solomon 
and  Mary  (Finnemore)  Hall,  of  Staffordshire. 

He  entered  the  Sheffield  Scientific  School  from  the  Hillhouse 
High  School  in  New  Haven  and  took  the  course  in  chemistry. 
He  played  on  the  Freshman  Football  Team  and  was  a  mem- 


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ber  of  the  University  Hockey  Team  during  Junior  and  Senior 
years.  He  spent  the  year  of  1897-98  in  graduate  work  at  Yale, 
and  in  the  fall  of  1 897  played  right  end  on  the  University  Foot- 
ball Team.  He  was  the  All-American  right  end  for  that  year. 
In  1898  he  coached  the  Carlisle  Indian  Football  Team  and 
in  1899  and  1900  assisted  the  head  coach  of  the  Football 
Team  of  the  U.  S.  Naval  Academy. 

From  1898  to  1902  he  was  a  chemist  for  the  Carnegie 
Steel  Company  in  Pittsburgh,  and  he  was  subsequently  super- 
intendent of  the  Alice  Furnaces  of  the  Tennessee  Coal,  Iron 
&  Railroad  Company  at  Birmingham,  Ala.  He  later  held  a 
position  as  chemical  engineer  for  the  Edison  Portland  Cement 
Company  at  Stewardsville,  N.  J.,  and  in  1913  was  connected 
with  the  Ransome  Concrete  Machine  Company  at  Dunellen, 
N.  J.  He  was  afterwards  located  in  New  York  City  as  a 
manufacturers'  agent,  and  in  191 8  became  engaged  in  busi- 
ness in  Elizabeth,  N.  J.,  under  the  name  of  the  Hall  Machine 
Company,  general  machinists.  He  served  on  the  Mexican 
border  in  1916  as  Battalion  Sergeant  Major  of  the  2d  Battal- 
ion, 2d  Infantry,  Connecticut  National  Guard,  receiving  his 
discharge  in  November,  1916. 

Mr.  Hall's  death  occurred  October  i,  1919,  in  a  hospital  at 
Long  Branch,  N.  J.,  from  injuries  received  in  an  automobile 
accident  which  had  occurred  earlier  in  the  day  at  Keansburg, 
when  his  automobile  was  struck  on  a  grade  crossing  by  a  train. 
Mrs.  Hall  and  her  mother  were  instantly  killed  in  the  accident. 
He  and  his  wife  were  buried  in  Evergreen  Cemetery,  New 
Haven.  At  the  time  of  his  death  Mr.  Hall  was  returning  from 
his  summer  home  at  Atlantic  Highlands,  N.  J.,  to  his  winter 
home  at  Sewaren,  N.  J. 

He  was  married  November  18,  191 5,  in  Bridgeport,  Conn., 
to  Anna,  daughter  of  Joseph  and  Anna  M.  (Green)  Franklin. 
They  had  no  children.  Mr.  Hall  is  survived  by  a  brother, 
George  E.  Hall  (LL.B.  1894),  and  two  sisters,  Mary  Hayden 
(Hall)  Wooster  and  Agnes  Lucy  Hall.  Lieut.  Stanton  H. 
Wooster,  U.S.N.,  a  non-graduate  member  of  the  Class  of 
191 5  S.,  who  completed  his  course  at  Annapolis  in  191 7,  is  a 
nephew. 


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Clarence  Hoyt  Stilson,  Ph.B.  1897 

Born  April  25,  1876,  in  Paris,  France 
Died  December  18,  1919,  in  Short  Beach,  Conn. 

Clarence  Hoyt  Stilson  was  born  in  Paris,  France,  April  25, 
1876,  the  son  of  Clarence  Hoyt  Stilson  (Ph.B.  1875),  ^"  archi- 
tect, and  Martha  P.  (Osborn)  Stilson.  He  was  the  Class  Boy 
of  1875  ^-  ^^  was  a  grandson  of  Hiram  Hoyt  and  Laura  A. 
(Bostwick)  Stilson,  and  a  descendant  of  John  Bostwick,  of 
Cheshire,  England,  who  settled  at  New  Milford,  Conn.,  in 
1709.  His  mother  is  a  daughter  of  Minott  Augur  Osborn, 
owner  and  manager  of  the  New  Haven  Evening  Register^  and 
Catharine  Sophia  (Gilbert)  Osborn.  Through  her  he  traced  his 
ancestry  to  Thomas  Osborn,  one  of  the  original  settlers  of 
New  Haven;  William  Gilbert,  who  came  from  England  in  the 
ship  Mary  and  John  in  1630;  and  Robert  Augur,  a  member  of 
a  Huguenot  family  who  settled  in  New  Haven  in  1640. 

His  preparatory  training  was  received  at  the  Hillhouse 
High  School  in  New  Haven.  He  took  the  electrical  engineering 
course  in  the  Scientific  School,  received  honorable  mention  for 
excellence  in  physics  in  Freshman  year,  and  was  graduated 
with  honors. 

He  was  with  the  Connecticut  Electrical  Company  of  New 
Haven  during  1897-98,  and  then  spent  six  years  in  the  employ 
of  the  Westinghouse  Electric  &  Manufacturing  Company  of 
Pittsburgh,  Pa.  Since  1904  he  had  been  associated  with  the 
Scovill  Manufacturing  Company  of  Waterbury,  Conn.,  dur- 
ing the  first  part  of  the  time  holding  the  position  of  assistant 
to  the  superintendent,  and  after  1913  that  of  manager  of  the 
cost  and  estimating  department.  He  was  a  member  of  the 
Episcopal  Church.  He  was  the  author  of  a  booklet,  entitled 
"After  Graduation — What  Then,"  which  was  published  a  few 
years  before  his  death.  Several  of  his  articles  on  cost  systems 
and  factory  organization  were  published  in  System,  Factory , 
and  the  Iron  Age. 

He  died  at  his  home  at  Short  Beach,  Conn.,  December  18, 
19 19,  of  cancer  of  the  stomach.  His  death  followed  a  short 
illness.  His  body  was  cremated  at  the  Springfield  (Mass.) 
Crematory. 


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• 

Mr.  StUson  was  married  May  7,  1902,  In  Clinton,  Conn.,  to 
Cornelia,  daughter  of  John  and  Cornelia  Anderson.  She  sur- 
vives him  with  their  two  children,  Mary  Easter  and  Clarence 
Hoyt,  and  he  also  leaves  his  mother,  Mrs.  Frank  Elwood 
Brown,  and  two  brothers,  Minott  Osborn  Stilson  and  Alec  Y. 
Stilson.  Among  his  Yale  relatives  are  Samuel  A.  York,  '6;^, 
Norris  G.  Osborn,  '80,  Samuel  A.  York,  '90  and  '92  L.,  Innis 
G.  Osborn,  ex- 04.  L.,  Palmer  York,  '05,  Minott  A.  Osborn, 
'07,  and  Gardner  Osborn,  '15. 


Walter  Eraser  Gibson,  Ph.B.  1898 

Born  September  20,  1876,  in  Buffalo,  N.  Y. 
Died  December  20,  191 9,  near  Snyder,  N.  Y. 

Walter  Eraser  Gibson  was  born  September  20,  1876,  in 
Buffalo,  N.  Y.  His  father,  Thomas  Morton  Gibson,  vice-presi- 
dent of  the  Adam,  Meldrum  &  x^nderson  Company,  a  depart- 
ment store  of  that  city,  was  born  in  Kilmarnock,  Scotland,  the 
son  of  John  and  Sarah  (Eraser)  Gibson.  His  mother,  Lavancha 
T.  (Stannard)  Gibson,  belongs  to  one  of  the  pioneer  families  of 
Buffalo.  Her  parents  were  Walter  and  Lavancha  (Sharp) 
Stannard,  and  she  is  a  descendant  of  Joseph  Stannard,  one  of 
the  original  proprietors  of  Haddam,  Conn.  One  of  Walter 
Gibson's  colonial  ancestors  was  killed  in  the  Sudbury  fight  in 
1676.  Several  ancestors  served  in  the  Revolution,  one  being 
Capt.  Josiah  Putnam.  His  great-grandfather,  Asa  Stannard, 
was  a  Captain  in  the  War  of  18 12  at  the  time  Buffalo  was 
burned. 

He  attended  the  Central  High  School  and  the  Nichols 
School  in  Buffalo  before  entering  the  Sheffield  Scientific 
School,  where  he  took  the  electrical  engineering  course. 

He  traveled  for  a  year  after  graduation,  and  then  worked 
for  a  time  in  the  freight  department  of  the  Lake  Shore  Rail- 
road at  Buffalo.  In  1900  he  became  connected  with  the  Adam, 
Meldrum  &  Anderson  Company.  He  served  in  various  capaci- 
ties, and  for  a  number  of  years  before  his  death  was  assistant 
superintendent,  a  member  of  the  board  of  directors,  and  a 
managing  partner  of  the  company.  He  entered  the  74th 
Infantry,  New  York  National  Guard,  as  a  Eirst  Lieutenant  in 
March,  1906.  A  year  later,  when  the  regiment  was  increased 


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from  eight  to  twelve  companies,  he  organized  Company  M, 
in  which  he  served  as  Captain  until  191 6,  when  he  was  pro- 
moted to  Major,  the  regiment  being  on  the  Texas  border  at 
the  time.  He  left  Buffalo  for  active  duty  with  the  74th  Infan- 
try (later  the  55th  Pioneer  Infantry)  when  the  United  States 
entered  the  World  War.  Early  in  191 8  he  was  transferred  to 
be  Adjutant  General  of  the  2d  Provisional  Brigade  at  Camp 
Wadsworth,  Spartanburg,  S.  C,  and  was  subsequently  as- 
signed to  the  command  of  the  Anti-Aircraft  Machine  Gun 
Battalion,  which  was  being  formed  at  Kelly  Field,  Texas,  when 
the  armistice  was  signed.  He  returned  to  Buffalo  In  the  spring 
of  1919,  and  resumed  his  duties  with  the  Adam,  Meldrum  & 
Anderson  Company.  He  had  been  a  member  of  the  military 
staffs  of  Governors  Dix  and  Whitman,  and  was  active  in  the 
formation  of  the  American  Legion  in  Buffalo.  He  had  been 
active  in  Masonic  circles,  and  in  191 5  was  admitted  to  the 
thirty-third  degree.  He  belonged  to  the  Episcopal  Church. 
He  had  traveled  extensively  in  this  country  and  had  made 
several  trips  abroad. 

He  was  instantly  killed  in  an  automobile  accident  near 
Snyder,  N.  Y.,  December  20,  191 9.  Interment  was  in  Forest 
Lawn  Cemetery  in  Buffalo. 

Mr.  Gibson  was  unmarried.  His  parents  and  a  sister,  Edla 
Stannard  Gibson,  survive  him. 


William  Munn  Ames,  Ph.B.  1899 

Born  September  5,  1878,  in  Southington,  Conn. 
Died  May  14,  1919,  in  Minneapolis,  Minn. 

William  Munn  Ames  was  of  Scotch  and  English  descent, 
and  was  born  September  5,  1878,  in  Southington,  Conn., 
where  his  father,  William  Langdon  Ames,  was  engaged  in  the 
contracting  business  with  the  Peck,  Stow  &  Wilcox  Company. 
The  latter  served  with  the  Union  Army  during  the  Civil  War, 
and  was  a  member  of  the  State  Legislature  in  1896-97.  His 
parents  were  Amon  L.  and  Rosanna  (Hart)  Ames,  and  he  is  a 
descendant  of  John  Ames,  of  Rocky  Hill,  Conn.  He  married 
Laura  Ann,  daughter  of  Charles  E.  Munn,  a  teacher  and  at 
one  time  a  member  of  the  Connecticut  Legislature,  and  Eliza 
(Clark)  Munn,  who  was  of  English  parentage. 


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Their  son,  William  M.  Ames,  prepared  for  Yale  at  the  high 
school  in  his  native  town.  He  took  the  select  course  in  the 
Sheffield  Scientific  School,  and  received  honors  in  political 
science  and  history  in  his  Senior  year. 

Shortly  after  graduation  he  went  to  St.  Paul,  Minn.,  and 
entered  the  general  freight  office  of  the  Chicago,  St.  Paul, 
Minneapolis  &  Omaha  Railroad  as  a  clerk.  In  1901  he  was 
appointed  contracting  freight  agent  in  St.  Paul  for  the  Chicago 
Great  Western  Railroad.  He  remained  in  this  connection  until 
the  fall  of  1902,  when  he  resigned  to  enter  business  for  himself. 
Early  in  1903  he  formed  a  partnership  with  his  brother,  Joseph 
C.  Ames,  to  engage  in  a  general  mercantile  business  at  Butler, 
Minn.  In  1905  they  sold  their  business  in  that  town  and  re- 
moved to  Bruno,  Minn.,  where,  in  addition  to  continuing  in 
business  as  merchants,  they  became  engaged  in  manufactur- 
ing lumber.  The  partnership  was  dissolved  in  191 2,  and  from 
that  time  until  his  death  Mr.  Ames  was  cashier  of  the  Lewis 
(Wis.)  State  Bank.  He  had  held  various  town  and  school 
offices. 

He  died  May  14,  1919,  in  Minneapolis,  Minn.,  after  an 
operation  for  exophthalmic  goitre.  Interment  was  in  Concord, 
Minn. 

Mr.  Ames  was  married  June  10,  1908,  at  Red  Wing,  Minn., 
to  Jennie  S.,  daughter  of  Thomas  Elbridge  and  Adelia  (Berdell) 
Comstock,  who  survives  him  with  three  sons,  William 
Comstock,  Charles  Robert,  and  Joseph  Edward.  He  also 
leaves  his  father,  a  brother,  and  a  sister.  Relatives  who  have 
attended  Yale  include  his  uncle,  Marcus  D.  Munn,  '81  S., 
and  his  cousins,  Frederick  E.  Stow,  '93  S.,  Arthur  M.  Drum- 
mond,  *94  S.,  and  Reuben  C.  Twichell,  '00. 


Frederick  William  Renshav^,  Ph.B.  1900 

Born  February  26,  1880,  in  Chicago,  III. 
Died  February  i,  1920,  in  Evanston,  111. 

Frederick  William  Renshaw,  son  of  William  F.  and  Delia 
(Reeme)  Renshaw,  was  born  in  Chicago,  111.,  February  26, 
1880.  His  paternal  grandparents  were  Joseph  Beresford  and 
Jane  (Wilson)  Renshaw,  who  came  to  Philadelphia  from  Eng- 
land in  1847.  His  mother  is  the  daughter  of  Dr.  E.  W.  Reeme 


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and  Lucy  (Tennant)  Reeme.  The  Reemes  came  to  America 
from  Holland,  while  the  Tennant  ancestry  is  English. 

He  studied  at  the  Harvard  Preparatory  School  in  Chicago 
before  entering  Yale.  He  took  the  course  in  civil  engineering 
in  the  Sheffield  Scientific  School. 

He  had  been  engaged  in  business  in  Chicago  since  gradua- 
tion. For  ten  years  he  was  vice-president  and  secretary  of  the 
Kirby  Equipment  Company,  and  from  1910  until  his  death 
he  was  president  of  the  Globe  Seamless  Steel  Tubes  Company, 
whose  headquarters  are  in  Milwaukee. 

He  died  at  his  home  in  Evanston,  111.,  February  i,  1920,  of 
pneumonia,  following  influenza.  Interment  was  in  the  family 
mausoleum  at  Rose  Hill  Cemetery. 

Mr.  Renshaw  was  married  February  25,  1902,  at  Bay  City, 
Mich.,  to  Edith  Wayne,  daughter  of  Hiram  W.  and  Clara 
(Patterson)  McCormick.  Four  children  were  born  of  this 
marriage:  Joseph  McCormick,  who  died  in  infancy;  Edith 
Jane,  now  studying  at  Miss  Ely's  School,  Greenwich,  Conn.; 
William  Beresford;  and  Reeme.  Mrs.  Renshaw  and  the  three 
children  reside  at  1304  Judson  Avenue,  Evanston. 

Allen  Edgar  Smith,  Ph.B.  1901 

Born  January  29,  1880,  in  Hartford,  Conn. 
Died  November  23,  1919,  in  Hartford,  Conn. 

Allen  Edgar  Smith  was  the  son  of  Edgar  Leroy  and  Mary 
(Sisson)  Smith,  and  was  born  in  Hartford,  Conn.,  January  29, 
1880.  His  paternal  grandparents  were  Marcus  and  Deborah 
(Webb)  Smith,  and  he  was  a  lineal  descendant  of  Isaac  Robin- 
son, who  came  to  America  from  England  and  settled  at  Plym- 
outh, Mass.,  in  1631.  His  mother  was  the  daughter  of  Allen 
M.  and  Abby  (Fosdick)  Sisson,  and  through  her  he  traced  his 
ancestry  to  John  Plumme,  who  came  to  this  country  from 
Essex,  England,  about  1650  and  settled  in  Hartford. 

He  was  prepared  for  college  at  the  Hartford  Public  High 
School  and  took  the  sanitary  engineering  course  in  the  Scien- 
tific School.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Apollo  Banjo  Club  in 
Freshman  year  and  of  the  University  Banjo  Club  in  Junior 
year. 

For  a  time  after  graduation  he  held  the  position  of  cashier  in 


1564  SHEFFIELD    SCIENTIFIC    SCHOOL 

the  Hartford  office  of  the  Hartford  &  New  York  Transporta- 
tion Company,  and  he  was  afterwards  until  his  death  con- 
nected with  the  home  office  of  the  National  Fire  Insurance 
Company  of  Hartford.  He  was  a  member  of  St.  John's  Episco- 
pal Church. 

He  died  November  23,  19 19,  in  Hartford,  from  complica- 
tions resulting  from  influenza.  Interment  was  in  Cedar  Hill 
Cemetery  in  that  city. 

Mr.  Smith  was  not  married.  A  sister,  Edna  Corning  Smith, 
survives  him. 

Frederick  Warner  Laubin,  Ph.B.  1902 

Born  February  10,  1 881,  in  Thomaston,  Conn. 
Died  January  10,  1914,  in  Seattle,  Wash. 

Frederick  Warner  Laubin  was  born  February  10,  1881,  in 
Thomaston,  Conn.,  the  son  of  Charles  W.  Laubin,  at  one  time 
a  judge  in  that  town,  and  Helen  (Warner)  Laubin  (now  Mrs. 
Abbott).  His  father's  parents  were  George  and  Catherine 
Laubin,  and  his  mother  is  the  daughter  of  Frederick  Elile  and 
Sarah  Ruth  (Lum)  Warner.  His  paternal  ancestors  were 
German  people  who  settled  in  Hartford,  Conn. 

He  was  fitted  for  Yale  at  the  Booth  Preparatory  School  in 
New  Haven.  He  took  the  mechanical  engineering  course  in 
the  Sheffield  Scientific  School. 

He  spent  a  short  time  in  New  York  City  after  graduation, 
and  then  went  to  Seattle,  Wash.,  where  he  was  engaged  in 
engineering  during  the  remainder  of  his  life.  He  was  a  member 
of  the  Congregational  Church. 

His  death,  which  was  the  result  of  an  accident,  occurred  in 
Seattle,  January  10,  1914.  Burial  was  in  Seattle.  Mr.  Laubin 
is  survived  by  his  mother,  who  resides  in  New  York  City. 

Richmond  Levering,  Ph.B.  1902 

Born  June  15,  1881,  in  Lafayette,  Ind. 
Died  January  28,  1920,  in  New  York  City 

Richmond  Levering,  son  of  Mortimer  and  Julia  Richmond 
(Henderson)  Levering,  was  born  in  Lafayette,  Ind.,  June 
15,  1 88 1.  His  father,  who  graduated  from  Aliens  College  with 
the  degree  of  B.A.  in  1872,  was  engaged  in  business  in  Lafay- 


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ette  as  a  banker  and  dealer  in  livestock;  he  was  born  in  Phila- 
delphia, Pa.,  and  died  in  Cincinnati,  Ohio.  Richmond  Lever- 
ing's  paternal  grandparents  were  WiUiam  H.  and  Irene 
Levering,  and  he  was  a  descendant  of  Rosier  Levering,  who 
came  to  this  country  from  France  in  1639  ^^^  settled  at  Phila- 
delphia. Through  his  mother,  who  was  the  daughter  of  Albert 
and  Lorana  (Richmond)  Henderson,  he  traced  his  ancestry 
to  Col.  Robert  Orr  and  John  Henderson  Quaker,  both  natives 
of  Scotland  who  came  to  America  in  1730  and  settled  in  the 
Pendleton  district  of  South  Carolina. 

He  received  his  preparation  for  college  at  Phillips  Academy, 
Andover,  Mass.,  and  took  the  select  course  in  the  Sheffield 
Scientific  School.  He  was  a  member  of  the  University  Crew  in 
Senior  year. 

After  graduation  he  was  engaged  for  a  short  time  in  banking, 
and  since  then  had  been  in  the  petroleum  and  natural  gas 
business.  In  1905  he  was  president  of  the  Indian  Asphalt 
Company  of  Chicago,  111.,  and  later  he  was  successively  presi- 
dent of  the  Indian  Refining  Company,  the  Bridgeport  Oil 
Company,  and  the  Arkansas  City  Oil  &  Gas  Company.  He 
organized  many  oil  properties  in  Texas  and  Mexico,  two  of  the 
leading  concerns  which  he  promoted  being  the  Metropolitan 
Petroleum  Corporation  and  the  Island  Oil  &  Transport  Cor- 
poration. At  the  time  of  his  death  he  was  president  of  Rich- 
mond Levering  &  Company,  Inc.,  promoters  and  developers 
of  oil  interests  in  New  York  City,  which  company  he  had 
organized  in  1914.  He  was  also  a  director  of  several  oil  com- 
panies, and  had  interests  in  Cuba,  Panama,  and  Bolivia.  He 
had  traveled  extensively  in  Europe  and  America,  and  his 
boat,  the  Heather,  won  the  James  Gordon  Bennett  Cup  in 
the  motor  boat  race  between  New  York  and  Bermuda.  In 
1908  he  founded  the  summer  residence  colony  of  Devon  on 
Gardner's  Bay,  near  Amagansett,  Long  Island,  and  made  it 
his  summer  home.  He  acted  as  sergeant-at-arms  at  the  Repub- 
lican National  Convention  in  1903,  and  was  mayor  of  Fayette, 
Ky.,  in  1905.  He  belonged  to  St.  Thomas'  Episcopal  Church 
in  New  York  City.  During  the  war  he  was  chief  of  the  Secret 
Service  Division  of  the  American  Protective  League  in  New 
York  and  served  as  special  representative  of  the  Department 
of  Justice  in  Latin-American  countries.  He  also  served  as  chief 


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engineer  of  the  Mechanical  Section,  with  the  rank  of  Major,  at 
the  American  University  Experiment  Station  in  Washington, 
and  as  executive  officer  of  the  Research  Division  of  the  Chem- 
ical Warfare  Service.  At  the  close  of  the  war  he  was  on  detail  to 
the  Aviation  Section  of  the  Naval  Bureau  of  Ordnance,  and 
was  also  acting  as  consulting  engineer  for  the  Navy  in  the  prep- 
aration of  reports  to  the  Senate  on  questions  of  fuel  oil  supply 
and  oil  specifications.  He  was  the  designer  of  the  oil  sea- 
loading  system  used  on  the  coast  of  Mexico.  He  was  president 
of  Chemical  Warfare  Post  No.  103  of  the  American  Legion 
and  chairman  of  the  New  York  membership  drive  committee. 

He  died  in  New  York  City,  January  28, 1920,  of  pneumonia. 
Interment  was  in  Springvale  Cemetery  in  his  native  town. 

Major  Levering  had  a  discriminating  taste  In  etchings  and 
prints  and  had  assembled  a  choice  collection  of  them.  His 
library  contained  a  great  variety  of  works  on  technical  sub- 
jects for  use  In  his  profession  as  an  oil  engineer,  as  well  as 
books  on  general  subjects  In  fine  bindings  and  best  editions. 
He  had  always  been  generous  In  his  giving,  in  helping  those 
who  needed  assistance,  and  in  donating  to  public  and  private 
institutions.  The  Richmond  Levering  Library  at  Amagansett 
is  a  worthy  monument  to  his  generosity. 

He  was  married  November  8,  1905,  in  Mamaroneck,  N.  Y., 
to  Laura,  daughter  of  William  Milo  Barnum,  '77,  and  Anne 
Theresa  (Phelps)  Barnum.  He  was  married  a  second  time  on 
March  11,  191 5,  In  Philadelphia,  Pa.,  to  Helen  Jean,  daughter 
of  Sidney  Powell  Allen.  His  three  children, — Richmond,  Jr., 
aged  thirteen,  Walter  Barnum,  aged  eleven,  and  Nancy,  aged 
nine, — survive  him.  The  late  Ernest  W.  Levering,  '06  S.,  was  a 
second  cousin. 

George  Philip  Henry,  Ph.B.  1903 

Born  October  20,  1 881,  in  Chicago,  111. 
Died  July  2,  1919,  in  Daytona,  Fla. 

George  Philip  Henry  was  born  In  Chicago,  111.,  October  20, 
1 88 1,  the  son  of  George  Washington  and  Florence  (Chrisman) 
Henry,  and  a  grandson  of  George  Washington  and  Sarah 
(Macey)  Henry.  His  father  was  a  lumber  merchant  In  Chicago 
for  several  years,  but  at  the  time  of  his  death  was  president 


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of  the  Henry  Oil  Company,  petroleum  producers  in  West 
Virginia  and  Ohio.  He  was  a  descendant  of  Robert  Henry,  who 
came  to  America  from  Campbeltown,  Argyleshire,  Scotland,  in 
1740,  took  the  degrees  of  B.A.  and  M.A.  at  Princeton  in  1751 
and  1754,  respectively,  was  ordained  by  the  Presbytery  of  New 
York  in  1753,  and  installed  as  pastor  of  two  Presbyterian 
churches  in  Virginia  in  1755.  His  great-grandfather  was 
WiUiam  Henry,  who  fought  in  the  Revolutionary  War  as  a 
Private,  was  General  of  Militia  in  Kentucky,  and,  when  quite 
advanced  in  years,  had  a  command  as  Major  General  in  the 
War  of  1 812.  Florence  Chrisman  Henry  is  the  daughter  of 
Philip  and  Eleanor  (Hoult)  Chrisman.  Her  great-grandparents 
were  pioneer  settlers  in  Kentucky  and  Virginia. 

He  was  prepared  for  college  at  the  Harvard  School  in 
Chicago  and  the  Taft  School,  Watertown,  Conn.  He  took  the 
select  course  in  the  Sheffield  Scientific  School,  and  was  a 
member  of  the  Water  Polo  and  Swimming  teams  in  his  Senior 
year. 

After  graduation  he  traveled  in  Mexico  and  abroad.  For 
several  years  he  was  engaged  in  cattle  raising  in  Illinois.  He 
was  the  owner  of  "The  Woods"  herd  of  registered  Herefords, 
which  had  to  its  credit  many  prizes  won  in  the  show  yards  of 
the  country,  not  the  least  of  which  was  the  grand  champion- 
ship of  one  international  show  at  Chicago.  The  judges  at  the 
St.  Louis  World's  Fair  of  1904  awarded  Mr.  Henry  a  diploma 
as  the  breeder  of  a  prize-winning  Hereford.  After  disposing  of 
his  herd  and  farm,  Mr.  Henry  was  interested  in  a  manufactur- 
ing business  in  Chicago,  but  in  January,  1909,  he  went  to 
Brinson,  Ga.,  where  he  became  engaged  in  cattle  raising  with 
the  Graham  &  Henry  Cattle  Company.  In  December,  191 2, 
he  moved  to  his  Cedar  Hill  Plantation  near  Riceboro,  Ga., 
where  he  remained  until  April,  191 8,  when  he  moved  to  Day- 
tona,  Fla.  At  the  time  of  his  death  he  was  a  dealer  in  Interna- 
tional motor  trucks  and  Dodge  Brothers  motor  cars  at 
Daytona. 

His  death,  which  was  due  to  heart  failure,  occurred  in  that 
town  July  2,  19 1 9.  Burial  was  in  Graceland  Cemetery, 
Chicago. 

He  was  married  August  21,  1909,  in  Chicago,  to  Elsie 
Gray,  daughter  of  Charles  H.  and  Kittie  (Glover)  Chambers. 


1568  SHEFFIELD    SCIENTIFIC    SCHOOL 

She  died  August  10,  1915.  On  July  10,  1918,  Mr.  Henry  was 
married  in  Daytona,  to  Gertrude  Charlotte,  daughter  of 
Charles  F.  B.  and  Gertrude  Mary  (JoUiffe)  Wall,  who  sur- 
vives him.  He  also  leaves  his  mother  and  two  of  his  three 
children  by  his  first  marriage,  Bonnie  Marguerite  and  Florence 
Chrisman.  His  only  son,  George  Philip,  Jr.,  died  in  infancy. 


Birdseye  Blakeman  Pierpont,  Ph.B.  1904 

Born  January  23,  1883,  in  Rockford,  111. 
Died  January  22,  1920,  in  Chicago,  111. 

Birdseye  Blakeman  Pierpont,  son  of  Theron  Gaylord 
Pierpont,  a  farmer,  and  Mary  (Blakeman)  Pierpont,  was 
born  in  Rockford,  111.,  January  2,3,  1883.  His  paternal  grand- 
parents were  Guy  and  Jerusha  (Gaylord)  Pierpont,  and  he  was 
a  direct  descendant  of  John  Pierpont  (1619-1682),  who  came 
from  London  to  Boston  in  1640.  The  latter's  son.  Rev.  James 
Pierpont,  graduated  from  Harvard  in  1679,  ^^^  ^^^  thirty 
years  pastor  of  the  First  Congregational  Church  in  New 
Haven,  and  was  one  of  the  founders  of  Yale  College,  of  which 
three  of  his  descendants,  Timothy  Dwight  (B.A.  1769), 
Theodore  Dwight  Woolsey  (B.A.  1820),  and  Timothy  Dwight 
(B.A.  1849),  have  been  president.  One  of  his  daughters  mar- 
ried Rev.  Jonathan  Edwards  (B.A.  1720).  Mary  Blakeman 
Pierpont  was  the  daughter  of  Benjamin  and  Caroline  (Fair- 
child)  Blakeman.  Her  first  American  ancestor  was  Rev.  Adam 
Blakeman,  who  came  to  this  country  from  StaflFordshire, 
England,  in  1639,  and  was  an  early  settler  in  Stratford,  Conn. 

He  received  his  preparatory  training  at  the  high  school  in 
Rockford,  and  took  the  forestry  course  in  the  Sheffield 
Scientific  School. 

For  the  greater  part  of  the  first  four  years  after  graduation 
he  was  connected  with  the  Winnebago  National  Bank  of 
Rockford,  after  which  he  was  a  bookkeeper  for  several  local 
firms.  In  October,  1909,  he  went  to  Arizona  with  his  parents 
on  account  of  his  mother's  health  and  while  there  he  had  a 
position  in  the  auditing  department  of  the  Southern  Pacific 
Railroad.  He  removed  to  southern  California  with  his  family 
•in  April,  1910.  He  lived  in  Los  Angeles,  LaJoUa,  and  San 


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Diego,  and  for  a  short  time  was  employed  in  the  San  Diego 
Savings  Bank.  Upon  the  death  of  his  mother  in  August,  1910, 
he  returned  to  Rockford,  where  he  took  up  surveying  and 
spent  some  time  in  developing  and  improving  his  father's 
farm  on  the  outskirts  of  the  town.  In  the  winter  of  1911-12  he 
took  an  extended  trip  to  Panama,  Costa  Rica,  and  Jamaica. 
In  the  summer  and  fall  of  1916  he  was  stationed  at  Fort  Sam 
Houston,  San  Antonio,  Texas,  with  Company  K,  3d  Illinois 
Infantry.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Rockford  Congregational 
Church. 

He  died  of  pulmonary  tuberculosis,  January  22,  1920,  in  the 
Chicago  Fresh  Air  Hospital,  and  he  was  buried  in  the  West 
Side  Cemetery  in  his  native  town.  The  last  two  years  of  his 
life  were  spent  in  sanitariums. 

He  was  unmarried.  He  is  survived  by  his  father  and  a  twin 
sister,  Eleanor  Pierpont. 


Martin  Sullivan  Baldwin,  Ph.B.  1905 

Born  July  18,  1883,  in  Montclair,  N.  J. 
Died  April  18,  1919,  in  New  York  City 

Martin  Sullivan  Baldwin  was  the  son  of  William  Delavan 
Baldwin,  president  of  the  Otis  Elevator  Company  from  1898 
to  1919,  and  now  its  chairman,  and  Helen  Runyon  (Sullivan) 
Baldwin.  He  was  born  in  Montclair,  N.  J.,  July  18,  1883.  He 
was  the  grandson  of  Lovewell  Hurd  and  Sarah  Jane  (Munson) 
Baldwin,  and  a  descendant  of  Sylvester  Baldwin,  who  came 
to  this  country  from  England  in  1638  and  settled  at  Milford, 
^Conn.  Through  his  mother,  whose  parents  were  Nahum  and 
Sarah  M.  (Runyon)  Sullivan,  he  traced  his  ancestry  to  Arthur 
Bull  Sullivan,  who  came  to  America  from  Waterford,  Ireland, 
and  settled  in  New  Jersey. 

He  was  prepared  for  college  at  the  Riverview  Military 
Academy,  Poughkeepsie,  N.  Y.,  and  at  the  Manor  School, 
Stamford,  Conn.  He  took  the  select  course  in  the  Sheffield 
Scientific  School,  and  was  a  member  of  the  Class  Day  Com- 
mittee. 

He  spent  the  summer  of  1905  in  Europe,  returning  to  New 
Haven  in  September  and  remaining  there  until  November, 


1570  SHEFFIELD    SCIENTIFIC    SCHOOL 

when  he  received  his  degree.  In  January,  1906,  he  went  to 
Worcester,  Mass.,  where  he  worked  in  the  shops  of  the  Otis 
Plunger  Elevator  Company  for  six  months.  He  was  then  on 
the  road  for  two  months  erecting  elevators  for  the  company. 
For  a  few  months  in  1906  he  was  with  the  Sultan  Motor 
Company  of  Springfield,  Mass.  From  January  to  June,  1907, 
he  was  in  Chicago,  and  since  that  time  he  had  been  located  in 
New  York  City.  At  the  time  of  his  death  he  was  assistant  to 
the  vice-president  of  the  Otis  Elevator  Company. 

Mr.  Baldwin  died  April  18,  1919,  in  New  York  City,  from 
influenza.  Interment  was  in  Greenwood  Cemetery,  Brooklyn. 

He  was  married  November  12,  1908,  in  Brooklyn,  to  Hazel 
Talmage,  daughter  of  Warren  and  Jessie  (Talmage)  Smith, 
who  survives  him.  They  had  one  daughter.  Hazel  Delavan, 
who  died  April  19, 1919.  Besides  his  wife  he  is  survived  by  his 
parents,  a  sister,  Mrs.  George  W.  Vanderhoef,  Jr.,  and  three 
brothers,  Delavan  M.  Baldwin,  ex-o^  S.,  Runyon  Baldwin, 
and  Roland  D.  Baldwin. 


Henry  Fay  Grant,  Ph.B.  1905 

Born  July  16,  1882,  in  Franklin,  Pa. 
Died  April  i,  1920,  in  Franklin,  Pa. 

Henry  Fay  Grant  was  born  in  Franklin,  Pa.,  July  16,  1882, 
the  son  of  Joseph  Wadsworth  Grant  (died  May  30,  191 1), 
who  was  formerly  engaged  in  the  oil  and  gas  business,  and 
Myra  Bryan  (Fay)  Grant,  daughter  of  Henry  Tudor  and 
Maryett  (Sanford)  Fay.  He  was  a  direct  descendant  of  Mat- 
thew Grant,  who  came  to  this  country  from  England  in  1630 
and  settled  at  Dorchester,  Mass.  General  U.  S.  Grant  be- 
longed to  the  same  branch  of  the  family.  Henry  Grant's  mother 
traces  her  ancestry  to  John  Fay,  who  came  from  England  with 
his  parents  in  1656  and  was  an  early  settler  in  Marlboro,  Mass. 
Through  another  maternal  ancestor,  Mary  (Paige)  Fay,  wife 
of  Daniel  Fay,  he  was  directly  descended  from  Elder  WiUiam 
Brewster  of  the  Mayflower  company. 

He  attended  the  public  schools  of  his  native  town  until  the 
age  of  sixteen,  and  then  went  to  California  to  live  with  an 
uncle.  He  attended  the  Los  Angeles  Military  Academy  and 


1905  I57I 

the  Harvard  School  in  Los  Angeles,  being  president  of  the 
first  class  that  graduated  from  the  latter  institution.  Entering 
Yale  with  the  Class  of  1904  S.,  he  took  the  select  course.  In 
his  first  year  he  was  a  member  of  the  Freshman  and  Apollo 
Glee  clubs,  and  in  Junior  and  Senior  years  he  sang  on  the 
University  Glee  Club.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Senior 
Promenade  Committee. 

At  the  conclusion  of  his  college  course  he  took  charge  of  his 
father's  business  for  six  months  during  the  latter's  absence 
in  Europe.  The  next  year  he  was  elected  secretary  and  assist- 
ant treasurer  of  the  Franklin  Natural  Gas  Company  and  secre- 
tary of  the  Franklin  Pipe  Company.  In  1909  he  bought  the 
Nursery  Oil  Company's  lease  and  an  eighth  interest  in  his 
father's  holdings,  and  in  191 2  he  purchased  the  Henry  F. 
James  lease  and  other  properties  producing  Franklin  heavy 
oil.  He  was  made  a  director  of  the  First  National  Bank 
of  Franklin  •  in  191 1,  to  fill  the  vacancy  caused  by  his 
father's  death,  and  was  subsequently  elected  vice-presi- 
dent. In  August,  191 2,  he  resigned  his  position  with  the  gas 
company,  and  thereafter  devoted  his  time  to  his  own  business 
interests.  In  February,  1914,  he  organized  the  Foco  Oil  Com- 
pany, a  producing  and  refining  concern,  with  a  large  acreage  of 
heavy  oil  territory  and  a  refinery  in  Sugarcreek  Township. 
Mr.  Grant  was  also  president  of  the  Venange  Sand  Company 
and  the  Franklin  Core,  Rod  &  Gagger  Company.  He  was  a 
member  of  the  First  Church  of  Christ  Scientist  in  Franklin. 

He  died  in  that  town  April  i,  1920,  and  was  buried  in  the 
local  cemetery. 

His  first  marriage  took  place  in  Steubenville,  Ohio,  June  20, 
1907,  to  Marie,  daughter  of  Dohrman  James  and  Mary 
(Donaldson)  Sinclair.  Her  death  occurred  March  11,  1917.  On 
June  26,  191 8,  he  was  married  in  Los  Angeles,  to  Mary  Cor- 
nelia, daughter  of  William  Henry  and  Katharine  (French) 
Burnham.  She  survives  him  with  a  son  by  his  first  marriage, 
Dohrman  Sinclair,  and  he  also  leaves  his  mother,  a  sister, 
Mrs.  E.  S.  Pohl,  of  Redlands,  Calif.,  and  two  brothers,  Edwin 
J.  Grant  (Ph.B.  1899),  of  Los  Angeles,  and  Denison  W.  Grant, 
who  lives  in  Franklin. 


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Frank  Lemuel  Baxter,  Ph.B.  1907 

Born  January  3,  1886,  in  Quincy,  Mass. 
Died  August  26,  191 9,  in  South  Harpswell,  Maine 

Frank  Lemuel  Baxter,  whose  parents  were  Edwin  Warner 
Baxter,  a  leather  merchant,  and  Elizabeth  (Hoyt)  Baxter, 
was  born  in  Quincy,  Mass.,  January  3, 1886.  He  was  descended 
from  Gregory  Baxter,  who  came  to  America  in  Governor 
Winthrop's  fleet  in  1630  and  settled  at  Quincy  Point.  His 
mother  was  the  daughter  of  Joel  W.  and  Salina  (Bates)  Hoyt, 
and  a  descendant  of  Samuel  Hoyt,  who  settled  at  Dorchester, 
Mass.,  in  1638. 

He  entered  Yale  from  the  Boston  Latin  School,  and  took 
the  select  course  in  the  Sheffield  Scientific  School. 

In  the  fall  of  1907  he  began  working  for  the  General  Elec- 
tric Company,  and  after  spending  a  year  at  their  Lynn  (Mass.) 
plant,  was  transferred  to  the  East  Boston  lamp  factory  as 
assistant  to  the  superintendent.  He  held  this  position  for  two 
years,  and  in  April,  1910,  was  transferred  to  the  sales  depart- 
ment at  Harrison,  N.  J.,  where  he  remained  until  June,  1913, 
with  the  exception  of  an  interval  of  about  four  months,  during 
which  he  was  connected  with  the  Buff"alo  branch  of  the  com- 
pany. At  the  time  of  his  death  he  was  president  of  the  Bridge- 
Baxter  Company,  dealers  in  leather  goods  in  Boston.  He 
attended  the  Plattsburg  Training  Camp  in  the  summer  of 
I9i7,and  was  later  stationed  at  Camp  Devens,  Massachusetts, 
as  a  Corporal  in  the  Headquarters  Company  of  the  301st 
Infantry.  He  was  serving  in  this  capacity  when  he  went 
abroad,  but  was  subsequently  transferred  to  the  28th  Divi- 
sion as  a  Corporal  in  the  Headquarters  Company  of  the  1 1  ith 
Infantry.  He  remained  with  the  division  until  after  the  armi- 
stice, and  was  slightly  gassed  in  the  Argonne.  His  discharge 
from  the  Army  was  received  in  July,  191 9,  and  shortly  after- 
wards he  went  to  South  Harpswell,  Maine,  where  his  family 
had  had  a  summer  home  for  many  years.  He  was  drowned 
there  on  August  26.  His  body  was  taken  to  Newton,  Mass., 
for  burial. 

Mr.  Baxter  was  unmarried.  Two  sisters,  Clara  and  Helen 
Baxter,  survive  him. 


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1573 


Pierrepont  Bigelow,  Ph.B.  1910 

Born  August  20,  1888,  in  New  Haven,  Conn. 
Died  January  27,  1920,  in  New  Haven,  Conn. 

Pierrepont  Bigelow  was  born  in  New  Haven,  Conn.,  August 
20,  1888,  the  son  of  Frank  Lewis  Bigelow  (Ph.B.  1881)  and 
Anna  Louise  (Lewis)  Bigelow.  His  father,  who  was  for  many 
years  president  of  The  Bigelow  Company,  manufacturers  of 
boilers,  was  the  son  of  Hobart  Baldwin  Bigelow,  at  one  time 
mayor  of  New  Haven  and  for  two  years  governor  of  Connecti- 
cut, and  Eleanor  Swift  (Lewis)  Bigelow.  He  was  a  grandson  of 
Levi  L.  and  Belinda  (Pierpont)  Bigelow,  and  a  descendant  of 
John  Bigelow,  who  came  from  England  about  1650  and  settled 
at  Watertown,  Mass.  Anna  Lewis  Bigelow's  parents  were  Rob- 
ert Hunting  and  Louise  (Shepherd)  Lewis,  and  she  is  descended 
from  Benjamin  Lewis,  who  was  an  early  settler  in  Stratford, 
Conn.,  having  come  to  America  from  England  in  1675. 

He  was  prepared  for  Yale  at  The  Hill  School,  Pottstown, 
Pa.,  and  entered  with  the  Class  of  1909  S.  His  course  was  that 
in  mechanical  engineering.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Fresh- 
man and  Apollo  Glee  clubs. 

Mr.  Bigelow  was  connected  with  The  Bigelow  Company 
from  graduation  until  his  death.  He  served  two  years  in  the 
various  departments  of  the  shops  and  office,  was  elected  a 
director  of  the  company  in  191 1,  became  assistant  treasurer  in 
1913,  and  was  made  treasurer  in  1917.  He  was  a  junior  mem- 
ber of  the  American  Society  of  Mechanical  Engineers  and  a 
member  of  the  Yale  Engineering  Association.  He  belonged  to 
the  Church  of  the  Redeemer  (Congregational)  in  New  Haven. 

He  died  at  his  home  in  that  city,  January  27,  1920,  from 
malignant  pneumonia,  and  was  buried  in  Evergreen 
Cemetery. 

He  was  married  October  6,  1914,  in  New  Haven,  to  Eliza- 
beth Sperry,  daughter  of  William  and  Flora  (Ackley)  McAfee, 
and  sister  of  William  A.  McAfee,  '11.  Mrs.  Bigelow  studied  in 
the  Yale  School  of  Music  from  1905  to  1908.  She  survives  her 
husband  with  their  only  child,  Elizabeth  Pierrepont.  He  also 
leaves  his  mother  and  a  sister,  Louise,  the  wife  of  Dr.  Donald 
W.  Porter,  '08. 


1574  SHEFFIELD    SCIENTIFIC    SCHOOL 

George  Alpin  Chisholm,  Ph.B.  191 1 

Born  December  2,  1887,  in  North  Attleboro,  Mass. 
Died  January  20,  1920,  in  North  Attleboro,  Mass. 

George  Alpin  Chisholm  was  born  December  2,  1887,  in 
North  Attleboro,  Mass.,  the  son  of  Alpin  Chisholm,  head  of 
the  Bugbee  &  Niles  Company,  gold  manufacturers,  and  Anna 
(Meader)  Chisholm.  He  attended  Phillips  Academy,  Exeter, 
N.  H.,  before  coming  to  Yale,  and  took  the  mechanical  en- 
gineering course  in  the  Sheffield  Scientific  School.  He  was  a 
member  of  the  Track  and  Relay  teams  in  Freshman  year,  and 
won  his  "Y"  in  Junior  year.  He  was  the  intercollegiate  cham- 
pion high  hurdler  at  the  university  track  meet  held  in  England 
in  1 9 10,  and  was  a  member  of  the  American  team  in  the 
Olympic  games  in  Sweden  in  191 2.  He  was  vice-president  of 
the  Class  in  his  Senior  year  and  at  the  time  of  his  death  held 
the  office  of  president. 

For  thirteen  months  after  taking  his  degree  he  was  con- 
nected with  the  Bugbee  &  Niles  Company  as  a  traveling  sales- 
man. He  then  went  to  Canada  and  worked  for  the  Nova  Scotia 
Steel  Company  in  New  Glasgow  for  a  year  and  a  half,  holding 
successively  the  positions  of  time  clerk,  night  superintendent, 
and  works  order  clerk.  He  was  later  engaged  in  the  automobile 
garage  business  in  New  Haven  for  a  short  time,  but  since  191 5 
had  been  associated  with  the  Bugbee  &  Niles  Company. 
Upon  his  father's  death  in  191 9  he  was  made  manager  of  the 
company's  jewelry  manufacturing  plant,  and  held  this  posi- 
tion until  his  death,  which  occurred  January  20,  1920,  from 
pneumonia,  at  his  home  in  North  Attleboro.  Interment  was  in 
Mount  Hope  Cemetery  in  that  town.  He  was  a  member  of 
Grace  Episcopal  Church. 

Mr.  Chisholm  was  married  June  28,  1913,  in  New  Glasgow, 
Nova  Scotia,  to  Katherine  Thatcher,  daughter  of  Charles  F. 
and  Caroline  (Thatcher)  Loring,  who  survives  him  with  two 
children,  Barbara  Loring  and  William  Oliver.  His  mother, 
two  sisters,  and  a  brother  are  also  living. 


1911-1914  1575 

Vincent  Leo  Ahern,  Ph.B.  1912 

Born  July  3,  1888,  in  Lawrence,  Mass. 
Died  February  15,  1920,  in  Lawrence,  Mass. 

Vincent  Leo  Ahern  was  born  July  3,  1888,  in  Lawrence, 
Mass.,  where  his  father,  Andrew  Broderick  Ahern,  is  engaged 
in  the  grocery  business.  The  latter,  whose  parents  were  John 
and  Nora  (Broderick)  Ahern,  was  born  on  Castle  Island, 
County  Kerry,  Ireland,  and  came  to  this  country  in  1866.  He 
married  Maria,  daughter  of  Daniel  and  Katherine  (Williams) 
Fitzpatrick,  of  Kanturk,  County  Cork. 

Their  son,  Vincent  L.  Ahern,  graduated  from  the  Lawrence 
High  School  in  1907  and  then  spent  two  years  as  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Class  of  191 1  at  the  Massachusetts  Institute  of 
Technology.  He  joined  the  Sheffield  Class  of  191 2  in  his  Junior 
year,  and  took  the  course  in  sanitary  engineering. 

During  191 2-13  he  was  employed  as  a  civil  engineer  in  the 
maintenance  department  of  the  Pittsburgh  division  of  the 
Pittsburgh,  Cincinnati,  Chicago  &  St.  Louis  Railway  Com- 
pany. In  1914  he  entered  the  Forest  Service  as  a  surveyor  and 
worked  in  Washington,  D.  C,  Clayton,  Ga.,  and  the  White 
Mountains.  From  191 5  until  his  death  he  was  a  teacher  of 
mechanical  drawing  in  the  day  and  night  high  schools  of 
Lawrence.  He  was  a  member  of  the  American  Chemical  Soci- 
ety and  a  communicant  of  St.  Mary's  Roman  Catholic  Church 
in  Lawrence. 

He  died  at  his  home  in  that  city,  February  15,  1920,  his 
death  being  due  to  pneumonia.  Interment  was  in  St.  Mary's 
Cemetery. 

He  was  not  married.  He  is  survived  by  his  parents,  two 
sisters,  Nonie  M.  and  Kathryn  F.  Ahern,  and  a  brother, 
Augustine  B.  Ahern. 

Walter  L.  Anderson,  Ph.B.  1914 

Born  November  5,  1890,  in  Northford,  Conn. 
Died  April  6,  1920,  in  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 

Walter  L.  Anderson,  son  of  Charles  Peter  Anderson,  a 
native  of  Vermland,  Sweden,  who  came  to  this  country  in 
1872  and  became  engaged  in  the  tailoring  business  in  New 
York  City,  and  Augusta  Petronella  (Norberg)  Anderson,  was 


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born  in  Northford,  Conn.,  November  5,  1890.  His  paternal 
grandparents  were  Carl  and  Anna  (Gullstrom)  Anderson,  and 
his  mother  is  the  daughter  of  Sven  P.  and  Petronella  (Nelson) 
Norberg,  of  Engelholm,  Sweden. 

He  spent  three  years  at  the  New  Haven  High  School  and 
also  studied  with  a  private  tutor  before  entering  Yale.  He 
took  the  course  in  mechanical  engineering  in  the  Sheffield 
Scientific  School. 

After  graduation  he  entered  the  employ  of  the  mechanical 
testing  department  of  the  New  York,  New  Haven  &  Hartford 
Railroad,  being  located  first  at  New  Haven,  and  later  in 
Boston  and  Pittsburgh.  In  the  spring  of  1917  he  resigned  this 
position  to  serve  on  the  engineering  staff  of  Richard  T.  Dana 
(Ph.B.  1896)  and  Halbert  P.  Gillette  in  New  York,  and  as- 
sisted in  the  compiling  of  their  "Handbook  of  Mechanical 
and  Electrical  Cost  Data."  Upon  the  completion  of  his  work 
on  this  volume,  he  became  appraisal  engineer  for  the  Niles- 
Bement-Pond  Company  (machine  tools)  of  New  York  City, 
where  he  was  employed  at  the  time  of  his  death.  He  was  a 
member  of  the  Protestant  Episcopal  Church  and  a  communi- 
cant of  St.  James'  Church  in  New  Haven. 

He  died  in  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.,  April  6,  1920,  from  a  weakness 
of  the  heart  contracted  when  a  child  through  repeated  attacks 
of  rheumatic  fever.  Interment  was  in  Evergreen  Cemetery, 
New  Haven. 

Mr.  Anderson  was  married  June  21, 19 19,  in  New  Haven,  to 
Marguerite,  daughter  of  Walter  Henry  Tilton,  a  non-graduate 
member  of  the  Class  of  1894  S.,  and  Clara  L.  (Parmelee) 
Tilton.  She  survives  him  with  a  son,  Walter  Henry,  born 
November  22,  1920.  He  also  leaves  his  parents,  a  brother,  and 
four  sisters. 

George  Beach  Blackall,  Ph.B.  1914 

Born  May  21,  1893,  in  New  York  City- 
Died  November  22,  1919,  in  Boston,  Mass. 

George  Beach  Blackall  was  born  in  New  York  City,  May 
21, 1893,  the  son  of  Frederick  Steele  and  Bertha  Gates  (Brown) 
Blackall.  His  father,  who  is  vice-president  and  general  manager 
of  The  Taft-Pierce  Manufacturing  Company,  is  the  son  of 


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Thomas  Edwin  and  Sarah  (Steele)  Blackall,  and  a  descendant 
of  Benjamin  Blackall,  who  came  to  this  country  from  Oxford, 
England,  in  1719  and  settled  in  Albany,  N.  Y.  Through  his 
mother,  who  is  the  daughter  of  Henry  Bascom  and  Adele 
(Gates)  Brown,  his  ancestry  is  traced  to  John  Brown,  a 
native  of  Londonderry,  Ireland,  and  an  early  settler  in  Lon- 
donderry (now  Hookset),  N.  H. 

He  was  fitted  for  college  at  the  Abbott  School,  Farmington, 
Maine,  and  at  Phillips  Academy,  Andover,  Mass.  He  took  the 
select  course  in  the  Sheffield  Scientific  School,  and  was  a 
contributor  to  the  News. 

After  graduation  he  became  associated  with  the  Packard 
Motor  Car  Company  of  Detroit  as  a  special  engineering 
apprentice  in  the  foundry,  forge,  and  machine  divisions. 
After  serving  for  a  while  as  foreman  in  the  Packard  truck 
division,  he  was  employed  by  the  Willys  Overland  Company 
to  assist  in  the  planning  for  and  supervision  of  the  manufac- 
ture of  aeronautical  engines.  He  was  in  overseas  service  for  two 
years  as  a  First  Lieutenant  in  the  Quartermaster  Corps.  His 
final  detail  was  that  of  instructor  at  the  A.  E.  F.  University 
at  Beaune,  France.  He  received  his  discharge  from  the  Army 
in  France  on  June  9,  191 9,  and  then  accompanied  his  father  to 
England.  He  was  taken  ill  on  September  3  when  boarding  the 
steamer  at  Southampton,  en  route  for  this  country,  and  died, 
of  heart  trouble  and  nervous  prostration,  at  the  Massachusetts 
General  Hospital  in  Boston,  November  22,  191 9.  He  was  a 
member  of  the  Congregational  Church  at  Farmington,  Maine. 

He  was  unmarried.  He  is  survived  by  bis  parents,  a  sister, 
and  a  brother,  Frederick  S.  Blackall,  Jr.,  '18.  Charles  S.  Brown, 
'83  S.,  is  an  uncle,  and  Stuart  C.  Merwin,  '08  S.,  a  cousin. 


Henry  Bartholomew  Daily,  Ph.B.  1914 

Born  May  11,  1892,  in  New  Haven,  Conn. 
Died  September  10,  1919,  in  New  Haven,  Conn 

Henry  Bartholomew  Daily,  son  of  Bartholomew  Daily,  a 
member  of  the  New  Haven  police  force,  and  Jane  (McCarthy) 
Daily,  was  born  in  New  Haven,  May  11,  1892.  His  father  is  a 
native  of  Ireland. 


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He  was  prepared  for  Yale  at  the  New  Haven  High  School 
and  worked  for  a  year  before  entering  the  Sheffield  Scientific 
School,  where  he  took  the  select  course.  He  was  a  member  of 
the  Freshman  and  University  Debating  associations  and  of 
the  Yale  Civil  Government  Club.  In  Junior  year  he  received 
honors  in  history,  anthropology,  and  physical  geography. 

After  graduation  he  attended  the  Yale  School  of  Law  for 
three  years,  and  during  the  two  years  before  his  death  he  was 
associated  with  the  law  firm  of  FitzGerald  &  Walsh  (David  E. 
FitzGerald,  '95  L.,  and  Walter  J.  Walsh,  '97  L.) ,  of  New  Haven, 
having  previously  been  engaged  in  independent  practice  for  a 
short  time.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Roman  Catholic  Church. 

He  died  September  10,  1919,  in  New  Haven,  from  diabetes, 
after  an  illness  of  three  months.  Interment  was  in  St.  Law- 
rence Cemetery. 

He  was  unmarried.  Surviving  him  are  his  parents  and  two 
brothers,  Walter  J.  Daily,  ^^-'16  S.,  and  John  Daily,  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Class  of  1922  at  Holy  Cross  College.  Robert  K. 
Gustafson,  '12  S.,  is  a  cousin. 


Wallace  Bruce  Chambers,  Ph.B.  1915 

Born  November  2,  1892,  in  Hamden,  N.  Y. 
Died  January  31,  1920,  in  New  York  City 

Wallace  Bruce  Chambers  was  born  in  Hamden,  N.  Y., 
November  2,  1892,  the  son  of  James  Archibald  Chambers, 
treasurer  of  the  Walton  (N.  Y.)  Home  Telephone  Company, 
and  Mary  Ann  (Kent)  Chambers.  His  paternal  grandparents 
were  James  and  Elizabeth  (LaMonte)  Chambers,  and  he  was 
a  descendant  of  James  Chambers,  who  came  to  this  country 
from  Scotland  in  1828  and  settled  at  Hamden.  His  mother, 
who  is  the  daughter  of  Henry  and  Isabel  (Amos)  Kent,  traces 
her  ancestry  to  Henry  Kent,  who  came  from  Scotland  to 
Delhi,  N.  Y.,  in  1837. 

His  preparation  for  college  was  received  at  the  high  school 
in  Walton,  and  he  took  the  forestry  course  in  the  Sheffield 
Scientific  School.  He  was  a  contributor  to  the  News^  and  a 
member  of  the  Byers  Hall  Student  Committee. 

Soon  after  graduation  he  became  associated  with  the  In- 


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ternational  Cable  Company  in  New  York  City  as  assistant 
manager,  and,  with  the  exception  of  two  years  spent  in  the 
Army,  held  this  position  until  his  death.  He  was  commissioned 
a  Second  Lieutenant  in  the  Signal  Corps  on  November  13, 

1 91 7,  and  was  called  into  active  service  for  duty  in  France  a 
week  later.  He  was  promoted  to  a  First  Lieutenancy  July  2, 

191 8,  He  spent  eighteen  months  in  important  code  work  over- 
seas, returning  to  this  country  in  May,  1919.  He  was  then 
assigned  to  the  office  of  the  Chief  Signal  Officer  in  Washing- 
ton, D.  C.  He  received  his  discharge  from  service  October  25, 

1919,  and  returned  to  his  former  position  in  New  York,  where 
his  death  occurred,  January  31,  1920,  from  pneumonia.  He 
h.ad  suffered  from  influenza  and  chronic  bronchitis  while 
abroad  as  a  result  of  exposure,  and  this  may  have  contributed 
to  the  cause  of  his  death.  His  body  was  taken  to  his  native 
town  for  burial  in  Riverview  Cemetery. 

He  was  unmarried.  He  is  survived  by  his  parents,  two 
sisters,  and  three  brothers.  He  was  a  member  of  the  United 
Presbyterian  Church  in  DeLancey,  N.  Y. 

Kenneth  Boit  Haines,  Ph.B.  1915 

Born  September  8,  1892,  in  New  Haven,  Conn. 
Died  February  25,  1920,  in  Buffalo,  N.  Y. 

Kenneth  Boit  Haines,  whose  parents  were  George  Albert 
Haines,  treasurer  of  the  Gamble-Desmond  Company  of  New 
Haven,  Conn.,  and  Grace  (Lincoln)  Haines,  was  born  in  New 
Haven,  September  8,  1892.  His  paternal  grandparents  were 
John  Haines,  who  fought  in  the  Civil  War,  and  Sarah  Haines, 
also  of  New  Haven.  Through  his  mother,  who  is  the  daughter 
of  William  Henry  and  Harriet  (Boit)  Lincoln,  he  traced  his 
ancestry  to  Thomas  Lincoln  and  Annis  Lane,  who  came  to 
America  from  England  in  1635  ^"^  settled  in  Hingham,  Mass. 
Another  ancestor  was  Captain  Barbour  of  the  Revolutionary 
Army,  who  had  held  office  under  the  colonial  government. 
He  was  also  connected  with  the  following  Massachusetts 
families, — the  Lanes,  Winslows,  Pages,  Reeds,  and  Fearings, 
and  was  related  to  Rev.  L  Sumner  Lincoln  (B.A.  1822), 
Samuel  F.  B.  Morse,  '07,  and  Sumner  Lincoln,  Brigadier 
General,  U.S.A.,  retired. 


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Before  entering  Yale  he  studied  at  the  Stevens  Preparatory- 
School  and  with  Malcolm  Booth,  '79  S.,  in  New  Haven.  His 
course  in  the  Scientific  School  was  that  in  electrical  engineer- 
ing. He  was  a  member  of  the  Yale  Branch  of  the  American 
Institute  of  Electrical  Engineers. 

After  graduation  he  entered  the  rate  department  of  the 
Westinghouse  Electric  &  Manufacturing  Company  at  East 
Pittsburgh,  Pa.  He  served  on  the  Mexican  border  for  seven 
months  in  1916-17  as  a  Sergeant  (First  Class)  in  the  Radio 
Company  of  the  Pennsylvania  Signal  Corps.  On  July  15, 
191 7,  he  was  again  called  into  service,  and  underwent  train- 
ing with  Company  A,  103d  Field  Battalion,  Signal  Corps, 
28th  Division,  at  Camp  Hancock,  Augusta,  Ga.,  where  he 
was  given  a  commission  as  a  First  Lieutenant  on  October 
31,  1917.  He  served  overseas  with  the  117th  Field  Signal 
Battalion  for  twenty-one  months,  being  promoted  to  the  rank 
of  Captain  on  May  2,  191 9.  He  was  discharged  from  service 
August  18,  1 91 9,  and  at  the  time  of  his  death  was  connected 
with  the  Pierce  Arrow  Motor  Car  Company  of  Buffalo,  N.  Y., 
as  production  engineer. 

He  died  very  suddenly,  of  pneumonia,  February  25,  1920, 
in  Buffalo,  and  was  buried  with  military  honors  in  Forest 
Lawn  Cemetery  in  that  city. 

He  was  unmarried,  and  is  survived  by  his  mother,  Mrs.  W. 
Y.  Whitley  Rabb,  of  535  Norwood  Avenue,  Buffalo. 


Arthur  McAleenan,  Jr.,  Ph.B.  1915 

Born  October  15,  1894,  in  New  York  City 
Died  May  15,  1920,  in  New  York  City 

Arthur  McAleenan,  Jr.,  was  born  October  15,  1894,  in  New 
York  City,  where  his  father,  Arthur  McAleenan,  a  graduate  of 
Fordham  University  in  1884,  is  engaged  in  business  as  a  loan 
broker.  The  latter's  parents  were  Henry  McAleenan,  who 
came  to  New  York  from  Ireland  in  1840,  and  Anna  McAlee- 
nan. His  wife  is  Teresa  Rita  (Doyle)  McAleenan,  daughter  of 
James  Doyle,  a  native  of  Ireland,  who  came  to  New  York  in 
1 85 1,  and  Teresa  A.  Doyle. 

Arthur  McAleenan,  Jr.,  received  his  preparatory  training 


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at  the  Berkeley  School  in  New  York  City.  He  took  the  select 
course  in  the  Sheffield  Scientific  School,  and  was  given  one- 
year  honors  for  excellence  in  the  studies  of  Senior  year.  He 
played  on  the  Class  Baseball  Team,  and  was  a  member  of  the 
University  Swimming  Team  during  his  entire  course.  After 
his  death  he  was  awarded  a  major  "  Y."  He  was  the  intercolle- 
giate diving  champion  for  three  years,  the  national  diving 
champion  for  four  years,  the  metropolitan  diving  champion 
for  four  years,  and  the  Canadian  champion  for  one  year,  and 
was  a  member  of  the  American  swimming  team  which  com- 
peted in  the  Olympic  games  at  Stockholm  in  191 2. 

Upon  graduating  from  Yale  he  went  into  business  with  his 
father  as  a  loan  broker  in  New  York  City.  He  enlisted  in  May, 
191 7,  and,  after  training  at  the  U.  S.  School  of  Military 
Aeronautics  at  Cornell  University,  was  commissioned  a  First 
Lieutenant  in  the  Air  Service,  being  assigned  to  Ellington 
Field,  Texas,  where  he  later  served  as  an  instructor.  He  was 
given  his  discharge  on  January  5,  1920,  and  resumed  his 
former  business  connection.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Roman 
Catholic  Church. 

He  died  in  the  Roosevelt  Hospital,  New  York  City,  May 
15,  1920,  from  injuries  received  in  an  automobile  accident  a 
few  days  before.  Interment  was  in  Calvary  Cemetery,  Long 
Island  City,  N.  Y.  Mr.  McAleenan  had  expected  to  go  to 
Belgium  that  summer  to  take  part  in  the  Olympic  games. 

He  was  unmarried.  He  is  survived  by  his  parents,  a  sister, 
and  two  brothers,  one  of  whom,  Kenneth  McAleenan,  is  a 
member  of  the  Class  of  1920  S.  J.  Austin  McAleenan,  Jr., 
'21  S.,  is  a  cousin. 


Thomas  Stack  Parker,  Ph.B.  1916 

Born  July  14,  1896,  in  New  Haven,  Conn. 
Died  February  i,  1920,  in  New  York  City 

Thomas  Stack  Parker  was  born  in  New  Haven,  Conn., 
July  14,  1896,  the  son  of  John  Glynn  Parker,  secretary  of  the 
New  York,  New  Haven  &  Hartford  Railroad  from  1891  until 
his  death  in  19 10,  and  Helen  (Stack)  Parker.  His  father  was 
the  son  of  Michael  Weeks  Parker,  a  native  of  Ireland,  who 


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settled  at  Boston,  Mass.,  in  1857,  and  Mary  (Glynn)  Parker. 
His  maternal  grandfather,  John  Pitt  Stack,  came  to  this 
country  from  Ireland  in  1850  and  afterwards  lived  in  Middle- 
town,  Conn.  Mr.  Stack,  who  was  a  music  teacher,  had  served 
in  the  English  Army,  and  he  enlisted  in  the  U.  S.  Army  for 
service  during  the  Civil  War.  His  wife  was  Catherine  (Griffith) 
Stack. 

Thomas  S.  Parker  attended  Phillips  Academy,  Exeter, 
N.  H.,  and  the  Hopkins  Grammar  School  in  New  Haven 
before  entering  Yale.  His  course  in  the  Scientific  School  was 
that  in  mechanical  engineering. 

He  worked  in  the  laboratory  of  the  New  Haven  Road  for  a 
time  after  graduation,  but  in  July,  1917,  entered  the  Platts- 
burg  Officers'  Training  Camp.  He  was  commissioned  a  Second 
Lieutenant  of  Field  Artillery  the  following  November,  and 
was  stationed  at  Camp  Devens  and  Camp  Mills  until  going 
abroad  in  the  spring  of  191 8.  He  was  subsequently  detailed  to 
the  Air  Service  as  an  aerial  observer  and  attached  to  the  i68th 
Aero  Squadron,  with  which  he  returned  to  America  on  July 
7,  1919.  He  was  granted  his  discharge  on  July  15,  and  was 
afterwards  connected  with  Miller,  Franklin,  Basset  &  Com- 
pany, consulting  industrial  and  production  engineers  of  New 
York  City.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Roman  Catholic  Church. 

His  death,  which  was  due  to  pneumonia,  occurred  in  New 
York  on  February  i,  1920.  Burial  was  in  St.  Lawrence  Ceme- 
tery, New  Haven. 

Mr.  Parker  was  unmarried.  His  mother  survives  him.  He 
was  a  first  cousin  of  William  V.  Griffin  (LL.B.  1908,  B.A. 
1912).^ 


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Jesse  Sarkis  Matossian,  M.A.  1905 

Born  in  Aintab,  Turkey 
Died  in  1 916  in  Deir-i-Zor,  Turkey 

Jesse  Sarkis  Matossian  was  born  at  Aintab,  Turkey,  the  son 
of  Sarkis  Matossian,  whose  death  occurred  in  191 9.  Before 
coming  to  America  he  attended  the  schools  of  the  Evangelical 
Community  (Kaiyajuk  Church)  and  Central  Turkey  College 
in  that  city,  graduating  from  the  latter  institution  in  1897.  He 
later  studied  at  the  Bridgewater  (Conn.)  Normal  School  and 
in  the  Yale  Graduate  School,  where  he  specialized  in  psychol- 
ogy and  education.  He  received  the  degree  of  M.A.  at  Yale  in 
1905. 

After  completing  his  graduate  work  at  Yale,  he  accepted 
an  appointment  as  an  assistant  professor  at  Central  Turkey 
College.  He  was  subsequently  promoted  to  a  full  professor- 
ship. At  first  his  main  courses  were  in  psychology  and  educa- 
tion, but  he  gave  a  great  deal  of  attention  to  the  teaching  of 
English  in  the  college,  bringing  it  to  a  higher  degree  of  perfec- 
tion. In  1909  he  became  professor  of  biology.  He  made  the 
studies  of  this  department  very  attractive  through  emphasis 
given  to  laboratory  work.  At  the  time  of  the  Armenian  depor- 
tations in  191 5  he  had  just  completed  a  year's  leave  spent  in 
study  along  educational  lines,  and  was  to  have  taken  charge 
of  the  work  in  educational  and  child  psychology  in  the  newly 
organized  course  in  education.  Professor  Matossian  was 
deported  by  the  Turkish  government  in  company  with  several 
other  college  professors.  After  being  detained  at  the  nearest 
railway  station  for  several  weeks,  under  promise  of  transpor- 
tation, he  was  allowed  to  return  to  Aintab  for  a  brief  visit, 
and  then  deported  to  Bab  (near  Aleppo)  and  from  there  with 
his  father-in-law's  family  to  Deir-i-Zor.  There  he  contracted 
typhus,  from  which  he  died.  He  was  buried  at  Deir-i-Zor.  His 
father-in-law  was  imprisoned,  and  his  wife  and  son  Zaven 
(born  in  1914)  were  driven  out  of  the  town  with  the  other 

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Armenians.  The  child  died  from  starvation,  and  Mrs.  Matos- 
sian,  after  many  terrible  experiences,  eventually  returned  to 
Aintab.  She  was,  before  her  marriage,  which  took  place  in 
Aintab  in  191 1,  Behiyeh  Karamanougian,  daughter  of 
Garouch  Karamanougian,  a  leading  merchant  in  Aintab.  She 
graduated  from  the  Aintab  Girls'  Seminary  and  the  Marash 
Central  Turkey  College  for  Girls.  Professor  Matossian  had 
been  active  in  the  work  of  the  Kaiyajuk  Evangelical  Church 
in  Aintab,  in  which  he  taught  a  large  Bible  class  of  young 
men  and  was  a  leading  member  of  standing  committees  and 
a  deacon. 

Frederick  Raymond  Hunt,  M.A.  1908 

Born  December  5,  1883,  in  Columbia,  Conn. 
Died  February  10,  1920,  in  Emporia,  Kans. 

Frederick  Raymond  Hunt  was  born  in  Columbia,  Conn., 
December  5,  1883,  the  son  of  Frederick  Alfred  Hunt,  a  farmer, 
and  Jennie  Cynthia  (Holbrook)  Hunt.  His  paternal  grand- 
parents were  Dwight  and  Marianne  (Holbrook)  Hunt,  and  he 
was  a  direct  descendant  of  Ebenezer  Hunt,  who  came  from 
England  in  the  early  part  of  the  seventeenth  century  and 
settled  at  Lebanon  Crank,  Conn.  Through  his  mother,  the 
daughter  of  Justin  and  Mary  (Clarke)  Holbrook,  his  ancestry 
was  traced  to  William  Clarke,  the  founder  of  Lebanon  Crank. 

He  received  his  preparatory  training  at  the  Windham 
(Conn.)  High  School,  and  graduated  from  Williams  College 
with  the  degree  of  B.A.  in  1905,  having  completed  the  course 
in  three  years.  In  his  Junior  year  at  Williams  he  was  given 
honors  in  the  classics  and  awarded  the  Delano  Greek  Prize. 
He  studied  classics  in  the  Yale  Graduate  School  during  1905- 
06,  and  was  granted  his  Master's  degree  in  1908,  while  serving 
as  instructor  in  German  and  Greek  at  Lafayette  College.  This 
position  he  held  until  19 10,  when  he  went  to  Fall  River,  Mass., 
to  accept  the  position  of  instructor  in  ancient  and  modern 
languages  in  the  B.  M.  C.  Durfee  High  School.  In  the  fall  of 
191 1  he  became  head  of  the  department  of  Latin  and  Greek 
in  the  College  of  Emporia  at  Emporia,  Kans.,  where  he  also 
taught  Romance  languages.  In  191 8  he  was  elected  head  of 
the  department  of  history  and  political  science  and  held  this 


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position  until  his  death,  having  given  up  his  work  in  the 
classics.  Professor  Hunt  had  served  on  the  Literary  and  Col- 
lege Paper  Committee,  as  well  as  on  the  Catalogue,  Attend- 
ance, and  Curriculum  committees,  and  during  the  last  two 
years  of  his  life  was  chairman  of  the  Social  Committee.  He 
was  a  member  of  the  Classical  Society  of  Kansas  and  the 
Missouri  Valley,  the  Classical  Society  of  the  Middle,  Western, 
and  Southern  States,  and  the  Classical  Association  of  the 
Middle  West.  He  was  active  in  the  work  of  the  First  Congre- 
gational Church  of  Emporia,  of  which  he  was  a  member,  had 
taught  in  the  Sunday  school  for  a  number  of  years,  and  the 
year  before  his  death  he  conducted  a  students*  class,  one  of 
the  most  important  and  active  classes  in  the  church.  He  had 
given  lectures  in  the  West  on  the  League  of  Nations. 

He  died  February  10,  1920,  at  his  home  in  Emporia,  from 
pneumonia  and  acute  nephritis,  following  an  illness  of  ten 
days.  Two  years  before  his  death  he  had  suffered  from  an 
attack  of  scarlet  fever  and  had  never  fully  recovered  his 
strength.  Interment  was  in  Columbia,  Conn. 

He  was  married  June  18,  1907,  in  New  London,  Conn.,  to 
Mabel  Frances,  daughter  of  Francis  Howard  and  Laura  M. 
(Harvey)  Holmes,  who  survives  him  with  their  two  sons, 
Frederick  Raymond,  Jr.,  and  Francis  Howard.  He  also  leaves 
his  parents  and  a  brother,  Clayton  Edward  Hunt  (B.S.  Brown 
University  1907). 

Arthur  Wells  Smith,  M.A.  1908 

Born  January  4,  1875,  ^"  Bartlett,  Ohio 
Died  February  11,  1917,  in  Los  Angeles,  Calif. 

Arthur  Wells  Smith  was  the  son  of  Clarence  C.  Smith,  a 
farmer  and  merchant,  and  Sarah  Ann  (Buchanan)  Smith, 
and  was  born  January  4,  1875,  ^^  Bartlett,  Washington 
County,  Ohio.  His  paternal  ancestors  have  lived  in  Genesee 
County,  N.  Y.,  since  1777.  Alexander  Buchanan,  his  mother's 
earliest  ancestor  in  this  country,  also  settled  in  New  York 
state  in  that  year,  having  come  to  America  from  Scotland. 
His  father  is  the  son  of  James  Ward  and  Alvira  (Goddard) 
Smith,  and  his  mother's  parents  were  Walter  M,  and  Mary 
Eliza  (Waltster)  Buchanan. 


1586  GRADUATE    SCHOOL 

He  received  his  preparatory  training  at  the  high  school  in 
Waterford,  Ohio,  and  graduated  from  the  National  Normal 
University  at  Lebanon,  Ohio,  with  the  degree  of  B.A.  in  1905. 
In  1906,  after  teaching  for  a  year,  he  entered  the  Yale  Gradu- 
ate School,  where  he  spent  two  years  studying  biology  and 
chemistry.  He  was  given  the  degree  of  M.A.  in  1908,  and  then 
became  an  instructor  at  the  University  of  Colorado  at  Boulder. 
While  there  he  wrote  a  book  on  the  sciences  which  was 
adopted  for  use  in  the  university.  In  1909  he  took  charge  of 
the  science  department  at  the  Union  High  School  in  Whittier, 
Calif.,  resigning  four  years  later  to  accept  a  similar  position 
at  the  Compton  High  School.  He  gave  up  teaching  in  191 5 
on  account  of  his  health,  and  for  a  time  devoted  his  attention 
to  the  care  of  a  small  nursery  of  citrus  stock  near  Yorba 
Linda,  Calif.  He  also  began  the  study  of  medicine  at  the 
University  of  Southern  California,  and  would  have  received 
the  degree  of  M.D.  in  June,  1917,  had  he  lived.  While  attend- 
ing college  in  Lebanon  he  was  a  member  of  the  Ohio  National 
Guard. 

Mr.  Smith  died  February  11,  191 7,  in  Los  Angeles,  from 
tuberculosis.  Interment  was  in  Lakeside  Cemetery,  Caiion 
City,  Colo. 

He  was  unmarried.  His  parents,  two  brothers,  and  a  sister 
survive  him. 

Edna  Louise  Ferry,  M.S.  191 3 

Born  August  13,  1883,  in  New  Haven,  Conn. 
Died  October  7,  191 9,  in  New  Haven,  Conn. 

Edna  Louise  Ferry  was  born  in  New  Haven,  Conn.,  August 
13,  1883,  the  daughter  of  Charles  Addison  Ferry  (Ph.B.  1871, 
C.E.  1 891)  and  Rosella  Elmira  (Briggs)  Ferry.  Her  father, 
who  is  a  civil  engineer,  designed  the  Yale  Bowl.  Her  paternal 
grandparents  were  Addison  Ferry,  a  car  builder  living  in 
Granby  and  Springfield,  Mass.,  and  Margaret  (White) 
Ferry,  who  was  of  Pilgrim  ancestry.  Her  father's  first  Ameri- 
can ancestor  was  Charles  Ferry,  who  came  from  England  in 
1660  and  settled  at  Springfield.  Through  her  mother,  who  was 
the  daughter  of  William  Alexander  and  Sarah  Maria  (Bald- 


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win)  Briggs,  she  traced  her  ancestry  to  John  Briggs,  who  was 
an  early  settler  in  North  Kingston,  R.  I. 

She  received  her  preparatory  training  at  the  New  Haven 
High  School  and  was  graduated  from  Mount  Holyoke  Col- 
lege with  the  degree  of  B.A.  in  1905.  She  was  a  charter  mem- 
ber of  the  Mount  Holyoke  chapter  of  Phi  Beta  Kappa.  From 
1905  to  1907  she  was  an  assistant  in  the  chemical  department 
at  Mount  Holyoke  and  then  entered  the  Yale  Graduate 
School,  where  she  specialized  in  physiological  chemistry  for 
two  years.  During  the  summer  vacations  of  1908  and  1909 
she  served  as  analytical  chemist  on  the  "poison  squad"  con- 
ducted under  the  auspices  of  the  Sheffield  Scientific  School 
for  the  Government  in  the  investigation  of  the  physiological 
effects  of  chemicals  used  for  preserving  food.  She  received  the 
degree  of  M.S.  in  1913,  being  the  first  woman  to  receive  that 
degree  from  Yale.  On  completing  her  course  at  the  University 
she  entered  the  research  laboratories  of  the  Connecticut 
Agricultural  Experiment  Station  in  New  Haven,  where  she 
served  as  an  assistant  in  charge  of  experimental  work  until 
her  death.  She  had  obtained  wide  recognition  among  students 
of  nutrition,  and  was  considered  one  of  the  most  promising  of 
the  younger  women  engaged  in  the  field  of  biological  work. 
She  had  collaborated  in  numerous  contributions  to  scientific 
journals  and  had  taken  a  prominent  part  in  making  known  to 
the  producers  as  well  as  to  the  consumers  of  milk  its  high 
nutritive  value.  She  was  a  member  of  Plymouth  Congrega- 
tional Church,  New  Haven,  belonged  to  its  choir,  and  was 
active  in  its  social  life.  She  had  unusual  talent  as  a  pianist. 
She  was  a  member  of  the  Association  of  Collegiate  Alumnae 
and  active  in  the  work  of  the  New  Haven  chapter.  She  was 
also  a  member  of  the  New  Haven  Civic  Federation. 

She  died  October  7,  19 19,  at  her  home  in  New  Haven,  from 
an  internal  abscess,  and  was  buried  in  the  Fair  Haven  Union 
Cemetery. 

She  is  survived  by  her  father  and  one  sister,  Ruth  Margaret 
Ferry,  who  was  graduated  at  Mount  Holyoke  College  in  1921. 
Her  mother  died  in  1917.  She  was  a  niece  of  Lyman  S.  Ferry 
(Ph.B.  1876)  and  Waldo  C.  Briggs  (Ph.B.  1892). 


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William  Henry  Sirdevan,  E.M.  1912 

Born  December  28,  1886,  in  Olean,  N.  Y. 
Died  February  15,  1920,  in  Oakland,  Calif. 

William  Henry  Sirdevan  was  born  December  28,  1886,  in 
Olean,  N.  Y.,  the  son  of  M.  A.  Sirdevan.  He  attended  the 
schools  of  his  native  town,  and  in  1909  was  graduated  from 
Leland  Stanford  Junior  University  with  the  B.A.  degree.  He 
spent  the  following  year  with  the  Wild  Goose  Mining  & 
Trading  Company  at  Nome,  Alaska,  and  then  became  a 
graduate  student  at  Yale,  where  he  received  the  degree  of 
E.M.  in  1912. 

He  was  engaged  in  operating  work  in  Mexico  for  Spurr  & 
Cox,  Inc.,  during  191 1-12,  and  then  joined  the  examining  and 
operating  staffs  of  the  Tonopah  Mining  Company  of  Nevada. 
He  spent  much  time  in  Mexico,  Nicaragua,  and  Colombia, 
his  last  work  for  the  company  being  done  in  connection  with 
the  development  of  the  Rosita  mine  in  Nicaragua.  He  became 
chief  mine  engineer  on  the  staff  of  the  United  Verde  Copper 
Company  at  Jerome,  Ariz.,  in  191 8,  and  held  this  position 
until  his  death.  While  at  Jerome  he  collaborated  in  an  article 
on  "Mining  Methods  and  Costs  at  the  United  Verde,"  sub- 
mitted for  publication  by  the  American  Institute  of  Mining 
and  Metallurgical  Engineers,  of  which  he  was  a  member.  He 
belonged  to  the  Olean  Catholic  Church. 

He  died  February  15,  1920,  in  Oakland,  Calif.,  from  pneu- 
monia, and  was  buried  at  Inglewood,  Calif. 

He  was  married  September  23,  191 6,  in  Los  Angeles,  Calif., 
to  Meta,  daughter  of  C.  F.  Smith.  He  is  survived  by  his  wife 
and  two  daughters,  Elizabeth  Frances  and  Joanne. 


Edmund  Morris  Hyde,  Ph.D.  1882 

Born  October  g,  1852,  in  Burlington,  N.  J. 
Died  June  16,  1920,  in  Orlando,  Fla. 

Edmund  Morris  Hyde  was  born  October  9,  1 852,  in  Burling- 
ton, N.  J.,  the  son  of  Rev.  Marcus  Ferris  Hyde,  D.D.,  and 
Anna  Margaretta  (Morris)  Hyde.  His  father  was  born  in 
Oxford,  Conn.,  in  181 8,  graduated  from  Trinity  College,  Hart- 


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E.M.    I912-PH.D.   1882  1589 

ford,  in  1839,  was  ordained  to  the  Episcopal  ministry  in  1849, 
and  for  thirty-two  years  served  as  professor  of  ancient  lan- 
guages at  Burlington  College.  His  mother  was  the  daughter  of 
Edmund  and  Mary  Pearson  (Jenks)  Morris,  and  a  descend- 
ant of  Anthony  Morris,  who  came  to  America  from  London, 
England,  in  1682,  and  settled  at  Burlington,  afterwards 
removing  to  Philadelphia. 

His  early  education  was  received  at  the  school  of  John 
Gummere  in  Burlington.  He  was  graduated  from  Trinity 
College  with  the  degree  of  B.A.  in  1873.  From  September, 
1877,  to  June,  1 88 1,  and  again  during  the  year  1886-87,  he 
taught  Latin  and  Greek  at  the  Cheshire  (Conn.)  Military 
Academy.  In  1879  he  entered  the  Yale  Graduate  School,  and 
in  1882  was  granted  the  degree  of  Ph.D.  He  taught  Latin, 
Greek,  and  English  literature  at  the  Pennsylvania  Military 
Academy  at  Chester,  Pa.,  from  1881  to  1884,  ^^^  ^^om  1887 
to  1889  was  professor  of  the  Latin  language  and  literature  and 
instructor  in  French  at  Ursinus  College.  During  the  next  ten 
years  he  held  a  professorship  of  Latin  at  Lehigh  University, 
and  then  spent  a  year  at  Ursinus  as  dean  of  the  college  and 
professor  of  Latin.  In  December,  1902,  after  a  few  months' 
service  as  a  teacher  at  the  Cathedral  School,  Garden  City, 
Long  Island,  he  became  an  instructor  in  Greek  and  German 
at  the  Shattuck  School  at  Faribault,  Minn.,  leaving  there  in 
June,  1906,  to  begin  the  development  of  an  orange  plantation 
at  Avon  Park,  Fla.  He  was  superintendent  of  schools  at 
Tampa,  Fla.,  from  1907  to  1910,  and  from  1910  until  1918 
he  served  as  professor  of  ancient  languages  at  Rollins  College, 
Winter  Park,  Fla.,  then  becoming  professor  emeritus. 

He  had  made  numerous  visits  abroad,  and  spent  several 
years  in  Europe,  attending  lectures  at  Berlin  and  Leipsic,  and 
studying  archaeology  in  Italy.  During  his  life  at  Lehigh  he 
compiled  and  made  a  large  collection  of  lantern  slides  illustra- 
tive of  classical  archaeology.  He  frequently  lectured  with 
much  acceptance  on  his  specialty.  He  left  in  manuscript  form 
a  History  of  Classical  Philology.  He  received  the  degree  of 
L.H.D.  from  Ursinus  College  in  1895.  ^^  the  time  of  his  death 
he  was  a  member  of  the  Winter  Park  Episcopal  Church.  In 
the  various  places  where  he  had  lived  he  had  been  an  active 
layman  in  the  local  Episcopal  Church  and  usually  a  singer  or 


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organist  in  the  choir.  At  Cheshire  his  musical  work  was  part 
of  his  school  service. 

Dr.  Hyde  died  June  16,  1920,  in  a  sanitarium  at  Orlando, 
Fla.  His  death  was  due  to  apoplexy  and  followed  a  lingering 
illness.  Interment  was  in  St.  Mary's  churchyard,  Burlington. 

He  was  unmarried. 


Charles  Davidson,  Ph.D.  1892 

Born  July  29,  1852,  in  Streetsboro,  Ohio 
Died  November  24,  191 9,  in  Claremont,  Calif. 

Charles  Davidson  was  the  son  of  David  Botsford  and 
Jeannette  P.  (Parker)  Davidson,  and  was  born  July  29,  1852, 
in  Streetsboro,  Ohio.  His  father  was  of  Scotch  ancestry,  the 
son  of  Treat  and  Mehitable  (Botsford)  Davidson,  and  was 
descended  from  James  Davidson,  who  lived  at  Milford,  Conn., 
early  in  its  history.  David  B.  Davidson  was  a  graduate  of 
Yale  College  in  1841  and  of  the  Yale  Divinity  School  in  1845; 
he  was  licensed  to  preach  by  the  Litchfield  Association  in 
1844,  and  in  1846  went  west  as  a  home  missionary;  he  was  in 
active  service  in  Michigan,  Ohio,  and  Iowa  for  more  than 
twenty  years,  and  then  retired  from  the  ministry  and  for  some 
years  lived  on  his  farm  near  Grinnell,  Iowa;  later,  he  removed 
to  Aurora,  Nebr.,  where  two  of  his  sons  lived,  and  died  there 
in  1886. 

Charles  Davidson  received  his  early  education  in  country 
schools  in  Iowa  and  at  Grinnell  Academy.  He  was  given  the 
degree  of  B.A.  by  Iowa  (now  Grinnell)  College  in  1875  ^"^ 
that  of  M.A.  in  1878;  was  a  graduate  student  in  Latin,  French, 
Gothic,  Sanskrit,  and  comparative  philology  at  Yale  during 
1876-77;  was  a  special  student  with  Dr.  Albert  S.  Cook  at 
the  University  of  California  from  1887  to  1890;  and  was  en- 
gaged in  special  research  with  Dr.  Cook  at  Yale  during 
1891-92,  receiving  the  degree  of  Ph.D.  in  the  latter  year.  His 
doctor's  thesis,  "Studies  in  the  English  Mystery  Plays," 
was  published  in  1892  by  the  authority  of  Yale  University  and 
widely  distributed. 

His  work  as  an  educator  began  when  he  was  sixteen  and 
continued  almost  without  interruption  until  his  death.  This 


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service  was  given  in  nine  states,  and  was  so  distributed  that 
he  gained  an  intimate  acquaintance  with  the  various  educa- 
tional activities  of  the  northern  states.  At  sixteen  he  taught 
the  district  school  in  an  upper  room  of  his  father's  house  in 
Chester,  Iowa,  As  an  undergraduate  he  taught  classes  in  the 
college  preparatory  school.  He  graduated  from  Grinnell  in 
1875,  ^^^  the  following  winter  taught  a  country  school  and 
began  the  study  of  Sanskrit.  During  1878-79  he  taught  lan- 
guages in  Mitchell  Seminary,  Iowa.  In  1879  ^^  went  with  his 
wife  to  Minneapolis,  where  he  founded  Minneapolis  Academy, 
of  which  he  was  principal  for  five  years.  He  was  superintendent 
of  the  public  schools  of  Dalles  City,  Ore.,  from  1884  to  1886, 
and  master  in  English  at  the  Belmont  (Calif.)  School  from 
1886  to  1893.  He  then  spent  a  year  as  assistant  professor  of 
English  at  the  University  of  Indiana,  resigning  to  become 
associate  professor  of  English  at  Adelbert  College,  Western 
Reserve  University,  where  he  remained  for  two  years.  He 
was  visiting  professor  in  English  linguistics  and  literature  at 
the  University  of  Chicago  for  the  summer  session  of  1895, 
and  in  1896  was  calfed  to  the  responsible  position  of  English 
inspector  of  the  University  of  the  State  of  New  York.  In  this 
capacity,  it  was  his  duty  to  reorganize  and  advance  the  teach- 
ing of  English  in  the  high  schools  of  the  state.  This  task  occu- 
pied eight  years  (i 896-1904),  and  was  eminently  successful. 
In  1906  Dr.  Davidson  was  called  to  the  University  of  Maine 
as  professor  of  education.  He  held  the  position  until  191 1,  and 
during  this  period  organized  the  department  of  education 
and  established  university  courses  for  the  training  of  high 
school  teachers  in  special  subjects,  courses  in  school  adminis- 
tration, and  methods  for  superintendents  and  principals.  He 
retired  from  teaching  in  191 1,  and  in  191 2  went  to  live  in 
Claremont,  Calif.  He  was  a  member  of  the  cooperating  faculty 
of  Pomona  College  in  1918-19. 

Dr.  Davidson  was  the  author  of  "Miracle-plays,  Mysteries 
and  Moralities,"  "Phonology  of  the  Stressed  Vowels  in  Beo- 
wulf," "The  Play  of  the  Weavers  of  Coventry,"  "English  in 
the  Secondary  School,"  "The  Aims  and  Organization  of 
Instruction  in  Composition,"  "Leaves  from  an  English  In- 
spector's Note-Book,"  "The  Necessary  Equipment  of  Teach- 
ers of  English,"  "English  Composition  in  the  Grades,"  "Eng- 


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lish  a  Factor  in  the  Training  of  a  Business  Man,"  "A  Guide  to 
English  Syntax,"  "Motor  Work  and  Formal  Studies  in  the 
Primary  Grades,"  and  "Active  Citizenship,"  as  well  as  of  the 
English  Syllabus  in  the  Academic  Syllabus  of  19CXD  for  the 
secondary  schools  of  New  York  state,  together  with  various 
reviews,  monographs,  and  papers  on  education  and  the  teach- 
ing of  English.  A  number  of  manuscripts  were  left  by  him  to 
be  published  after  his  death.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Modern 
Language  Association  and  Phi  Beta  Kappa  (Founders' 
Chapter,  Grinnell  College). 

He  died  November  2,4,  1919,  at  his  home  in  Claremont,  of 
heart  disease,  and  was  buried  in  Oak  Park  Cemetery. 

He  was  married  August  2,1,  1878,  to  Hannah  Amelia, 
daughter  of  Spencer  Williams  Noyes,  of  Abingdon,  Mass., 
and  Independence,  Iowa,  and  Mary  (Packard)  Noyes.  Mrs. 
Davidson  received  the  degrees  of  B.A.  and  M.A.  at  Grinnell 
in  1878  and  1881,  respectively,  and  has  since  studied  in  the 
graduate  departments  of  the  Universities  of  California, 
Minnesota,  and  Chicago.  She  is  an  editor  and  author,  and  has 
held  the  position  of  lecturer  on  literary  art  in  fiction  and  the 
drama  at  Wellesley  and  Mount  Holyoke.  In  addition  to  his 
wife.  Dr.  Davidson  is  survived  by  a  brother,  John  R.  David- 
son, four  nephews,  sons  of  a  younger  brother,  and  the  children 
and  grandchildren  of  an  older  half  brother.  His  only  child, 
Enid  Amelia,  died  in  infancy. 


Morihiro  Ichihara,  Ph.D.  1892 

Born  April  5,  1858,  in  Miyaji,  Higo,  Japan 
Died  October  4,  191 5,  in  Seoul,  Korea 

Morihiro  Ichihara  was  born  April  5,  1858,  at  Miyaji,  Aso 
Prefecture,  Province  of  Higo,  Japan,  the  eldest  son  of  Naohichi 
and  Mio-ko  Murakami.  He  was  later  adopted  into  the  Ichihara 
family.  His  paternal  grandfather  was  Kiheida  Ichihara. 

He  graduated  from  the  Kumamoto  Foreign  Language 
School  in  1876,  and  then  entered  the  department  of  politics  at 
Doshisha  College  in  Kyoto.  In  1879  ^^  graduated  from  the 
Kyoto  Theological  Seminary,  and  from  1886  until  1889  he  was 
principal  of  the  Toka  School  at  Sendai.  He  was  a  student  in 


1 892-1900  1593 

the  Yale  Graduate  School  during  the  next  three  years,  receiv- 
ing the  degree  of  Ph.D.  in  1892. 

On  his  return  to  Japan  he  was  appointed  chief  professor  in 
the  political  department  at  Doshisha  College,  and  held  this 
position  until  1895,  when  he  resigned  to  enter  the  service  of 
the  Bank  of  Japan.  He  occupied  at  first  the  post  of  acting 
chief  of  the  State  Treasury  Bureau  and  then  that  of  manager 
of  the  Nagoya  Bank.  In  1901  he  became  connected  with  the 
First  Bank  and  accepted  the  position  of  manager  of  its 
Yokohama  branch.  About  this  time  he  went  abroad  in  com- 
pany with  Baron  Shibusawa  to  investigate  business  matters. 
In  1903  he  was  elected  mayor  of  Yokohama,  but  resigned 
this  office  in  1906,  and  resumed  his  connection  with  the  First 
Bank,  becoming  one  of  its  directors,  as  well  as  general  manager 
of  its  branches  in  Korea.  He  was  appointed  president  of  the 
Bank  of  Chosen  at  Seoul  upon  its  formation  in  1909,  and  con- 
tinued in  this  position  until  his  death.  He  was  a  member  of  the 
Yukidonosaka  Church  in  Tokio. 

His  death,  which  was  due  chiefly  to  liver  trouble,  occurred 
at  his  home  in  Seoul,  October  4,  191 5.  Interment  was  in  the 
Zoshigaya  Cemetery  in  Togotama  Prefecture,  Tokio-fu. 

He  was  married  in  Kyoto  in  1882,  to  Kane,  second  daughter 
of  Yoshiyuki  and  Ko-ko  Yeba,  of  Gummaken.  She  survives 
him  with  three  sons,  Hiroshi  Ichihara,  Seiji  Eba,  and  Naohiko 
Ichihara,  and  two  daughters,  Tsugie  Kubota  and  Mitsuko 
Mori.  His  mother  survived  him,  but  died  January  17,  1917, 
at  the  age  of  ninety-two. 

Louise  Preston  Dodge,  Ph.D.  1900 

Born  August  18,  1869,  in  Salem,  Mass. 
Died  January  11,  1920,  in  Keene,  N.  H. 

Louise  Preston  Dodge  was  born  August  18,  1869,  in  Salem, 
Mass.,  the  daughter  of  Francis  and  Mary  P.  (Preston)  Dodge, 
and  the  granddaughter  of  Ebenezer  and  Joanna  (Appleton) 
Dodge.  She  was  a  lineal  descendant  of  William  Dodge,  who 
came  with  his  family  to  Salem  from  Somersetshire,  England, 
in  1629,  and  of  Samuel  Preston,  who  also  settled  in  Salem 
early  in  the  seventeenth  century.  Her  maternal  grandparents 
were  Samuel  and  Lydia  (Waters)  Preston, 


1594  GRADUATE    SCHOOL 

Her  early  education  was  received  at  Miss  Ireland's  School 
in  Boston  and  abroad.  She  returned  from  Europe  in  1893,  and 
during  the  year  1894-95  taught  Latin  in  a  preparatory  school 
at  Palo  Alto,  Calif.  From  1895  to  1898  she  was  connected  with 
the  department  of  Latin  at  Leland  Stanford  Junior  Univer- 
sity, at  first  as  instructor  and  later  as  assistant  professor.  In 
1898  she  was  admitted  to  the  Yale  Graduate  School  as  a 
candidate  for  the  degree  of  Doctor  of  Philosophy.  She  was  a 
University  Fellow  in  1 899-1 900,  and  received  her  degree  in 
1900. 

Upon  leaving  Yale  she  taught  Latin  and  French  in  the 
Stamford  (Conn.)  High  School  and  the  Norwich  (Conn.) 
Free  Academy.  During  1903-04  she  was  professor  of  Italian 
and  an  English  reader  at  Bryn  Mawr  College,  and  from  1904 
to  1908  she  was  one  of  the  principals  of  the  Davison-Dodge 
School  at  Louisville,  Ky.  She  became  head  of  the  Latin  and 
French  departments  at  Lebanon  Valley  College  in  1909,  re- 
maining there  for  two  years,  and  from  191 1  to  19 13  was  head 
of  the  department  of  Romance  languages  at  Converse  College. 
The  next  year  she  spent  at  Putnam  Hall,  Poughkeepsie,  N.  Y., 
as  teacher  of  Latin  and  French.  From  1914  to  1917  she  was 
head  of  the  department  of  Latin  and  French  and  professor  of 
Latin  in  Winona  College,  after  which  she  spent  a  year  teaching 
at  Mrs.  Lyman's  School  in  Cleveland.  In  191 8-19  she  was  dean 
of  Lewisburg  Seminary  and  in  1919-1920  teacher  of  Latin  and 
French  in  Miss  Thurston's  School,  Pittsburgh,  Pa.  She  was 
the  author  of  "A  Question  of  Identity,"  published  in  1887, 
and  in  connection  with  her  aunt,  Harriet  Waters  Preston,  had 
contributed  articles  on  classical  subjects  to  the  Atlantic 
Monthly  during  the  period  from  1887  to  1897.  She  was  the 
collaborator  with  her  aunt  in  the  book,  "Private  Life  of  the 
Romans,"  published  in  1893. 

Miss  Dodge  died  January  11,  1920,  in  Keene,  N.  H.,  and 
was  buried  in  Danvers,  Mass.  She  is  survived  by  her  step- 
mother, who  lives  in  Danvers,  and  a  cousin.  Miss  Alice  W. 
Dodge,  of  Hamilton,  Mass. 


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Hubert  Gibson  Shearin,  Ph.D.  1902 

Born  May  5,  1878,  near  Danville,  Ky. 
Died  August  11,  1919,  in  Eagle  Rock  City,  Calif. 

Hubert  Gibson  Shearin,  whose  parents  were  Henry  Harper 
Shearin,  a  minister  of  the  Christian  Church,  and  Georgia 
Anna  (Gibson)  Shearin,  was  born  May  5,  1878,  near  Danville, 
Boyle  County,  Ky.  His  father  was  the  son  of  Henry  and  Susan 
(Harper)  Shearin,  and  a  descendant  in  the  fourth  generation 
of  Aaron  Shearin,  whose  ancestors  came  to  America  from 
England  in  the  seventeenth  century  and  settled  in  Virginia. 
His  mother,  who  was  the  daughter  of  John  Lewis  and  Mary 
Jane  (Hunn)  Gibson,  was  descended  from  Jonathan  Gibson, 
whose  grandfather  probably  settled  in  Virginia  in  early 
colonial  days. 

He  attended  the  Centre  College  Preparatory  School  at 
Danville,  and  graduated  from  Centre  College  with  the  degree 
of  B.A.  in  1897,  being  the  valedictorian  of  his  class.  During 
1897-98  he  taught  at  the  Abingdon  (Va.)  Male  Academy, 
and  then  spent  a  year  studying  at  Oxford  and  Heidelberg, 
and  in  Paris.  He  began  his  graduate  work  at  Yale  in  1899,  and 
took  his  Ph.D.  in  1902.  He  held  a  University  Fellowship  dur- 
ing 1900-01  and  the  Class  of  1890  Fellowship  the  next  year, 
and  was  a  teacher  in  the  Hillhouse  High  School  in  1901.  From 
1902  to  1905  he  was  a  professor  of  English  at  Ripon  College. 
He  then  became  connected  with  Transylvania  University  at 
Lexington,  Ky.,  where  he  remained  until  1914.  He  served 
for  four  years  as  professor  of  the  English  language  and  litera- 
ture, and  thereafter  as  dean  and  professor  of  English  philology. 
Since  1914  Dr.  Shearin  had  been  head  of  the  department  of 
English  at  Occidental  College  in  Los  Angeles,  Calif.  He  had 
served  on  the  executive  committee  of  the  Philological  Associa- 
tion of  the  Pacific  Coast,  and  had  been  a  member  of  the 
Modern  Language  Association  of  America,  the  American 
Dialect  Society,  the  American  Folk  Lore  Society,  the  Ken- 
tucky Folk  Lore  Society,  the  Wisconsin  Academy  of  Sciences, 
Arts  and  Letters,  the  Kentucky  State  Educational  Association, 
the  English  Concordance  Society,  and  Sigma  Xi.  He  belonged 
to  the  Christian  Church.  He  was  the  author  of  "Expression 


159^  GRADUATE    SCHOOL 

of  Purpose  in  Old  English  Prose,"  1903;  'The  That-Clause  in 
the  Authorised  Version  of  the  Bible,"  1910;  *'A  Syllabus  of 
Kentucky  Folk  Songs,"  191 1;  and  "Outlines  of  Old  English," 
published  after  his  death.  He  had  frequently  contributed 
articles  to  magazines  and  reviews,  and  was  a  collaborator  on 
"The  Wordsworth  Concordance,"  1910,  and  "The  Encyclo- 
pedia of  Southern  Literature,"  1910. 

He  died  August  11,  1919,  at  Eagle  Rock  City,  Calif.,  from 
heart  trouble.  Cremation  took  place  at  Forest  Lawn  Cemetery, 
Glendale,   Calif. 

Dr.  Shearin  was  married  September  2,  1903,  in  Bridgeport, 
Conn.,  to  Ruth  Marguerite,  daughter  of  George  and  Mary 
(Collins)  Bene.  She  survives  him  with  two  children,  Henry 
Harper  and  Edith  Whitney. 


Elizabeth  Hatch  Palmer,  Ph.D.  1905 

Born  October  18,  1865,  in  Ipswich,  Mass. 
Died  May  18,  1920,  in  Wellesley,  Mass. 

Elizabeth  Hatch  Palmer  was  born  in  Ipswich,  Mass., 
October  18,  1865,  the  daughter  of  Dr.  Charles  Palmer  and 
Hannah  (Hatch)  Palmer.  Her  father,  who  graduated  from 
Jefferson  Medical  College  in  1 848  and  who  served  as  an  Acting 
Assistant  Surgeon  of  U.  S  Volunteers  in  1862,  received  the 
honorary  degree  of  M.A.  at  Dartmouth  in  1877.  He  was  the 
son  of  William  and  Maria  (Kimball)  Palmer,  and  a  lineal 
descendant  of  William  Palmer,  who  came  to  America  from 
England  in  1636  and  settled  at  Hampton,  N.  H.  Hannah 
Hatch  Palmer  was  the  daughter  of  Joseph  E.  and  Mary 
(Smith)  Hatch,  and  a  descendant  of  Samuel  Hatch,  who 
settled  at  Wells,  Maine,  in  1670. 

Elizabeth  Hatch  Palmer  was  fitted  for  college  at  the  Ips- 
wich High  School,  received  the  degree  of  B.A.  from  Wellesley 
in  1887,  and  spent  the  following  year  in  graduate  study  there. 
From  1890  to  1900  she  taught  at  Wheaton  Seminary  (now 
Wheaton  College),  Norton,  Mass.  She  had  been  a  member  of 
the  Vassar  College  faculty  since  1900.  She  served  as  an  in- 
structor in  Greek  for  two  years,  was  appointed  to  an  in- 
structorship  in  Latin  in  1902,  and  became  an  associate  pro- 


1 902-1909  1597 

fessor  of  Latin  in  1905.  In  1904  she  entered  the  Yale  Graduate 
School  as  a  University  Fellow,  and  was  given  the  degree  of 
Doctor  of  Philosophy  in  1905.  Dr.  Hatch  took  an  especial 
interest  in  the  study  of  the  coinage  of  Greece  and  Rome, 
and  was  the  first  to  offer  a  definite  course  in  this  subject  at 
Vassar.  She  was  constantly  adding  to  her  collection  of  ancient 
coins,  had  published  an  article  on  the  use  of  coins  in  classical 
teaching,  and  had  lectured  before  the  American  Numismatic 
Society  on  "Early  Roman  Coinage."  During  her  term  of 
service  at  Vassar  she  spent  a  year  at  the  American  School  of 
Classical  Studies  in  Rome. 

Her  death  occurred,  from  arterio-sclerosis,  May  18,  1920, 
in  Wellesley,  Mass.  She  was  buried  in  her  native  town. 


Leonard  Merritt  Liddle,  Ph.D.  1909 

Born  September  11,  1885,  in  Mount  Vernon,  Iowa 
Died  February  21,  1920,  in  Pittsburgh,  Pa. 

Leonard  Merritt  Liddle  was  born  in  Mount  Vernon,  Iowa, 
September  11,  1885,  the  son  of  Stockwell  Liddle,  a  merchant, 
and  Belle  (Watts)  Liddle.  His  paternal  grandparents  were 
John  and  Catharine  (Merritt)  Liddle.  The  latter  was  a  grand- 
daughter of  Theophilus  Munson  (B.A.  1768),  a  member  of 
the  Munson  family  who  have  been  resident  in  this  country 
for  ten  generations,  were  among  the  pioneer  settlers  of  New 
Haven,  Conn.,  and  who  gave  land  to  the  Yale  School  of 
Medicine.  Another  ancestor  of  Leonard  M.  Liddle  was  Mark 
Liddle,  who  came  to  America  in  1794  from  Edinburgh  and 
settled  in  Salem,  N.  Y.  His  mother  is  the  daughter  of  Henry 
and  Lavina  (Burrows)  Watts. 

He  received  his  preparatory  training  at  the  Cornell  (Iowa) 
College  Academy,  and  was  graduated  at  Cornell  College  with 
the  degree  of  B.S.  in  1906.  After  serving  as  principal  of  the 
Delhi  (Iowa)  public  school  during  the  year  1906-07,  he  en- 
tered the  Yale  Graduate  School,  and  received  the  degree  of 
Ph.D.  in  1909.  During  his  second  year  he  was  a  Graduate 
Scholar  and  also  took  courses  in  organic  chemistry  in  the 
Sheffield  Scientific  School.  His  graduate  minor  was  in  physio- 
logical chemistry  and  he  maintained  a  lifelong  interest  in  bio- 


1598  GRADUATE    SCHOOL 

chemical  subjects.  During  the  summer  of  1908  he  was  the 
expert  analyst  of  the  Referee  Board  "poison  squad"  stationed 
at  New  Haven,  and  immediately  after  receiving  his  doctorate 
in  June,  1909,  he  joined  the  research  staff  of  the  Connecticut 
Agricultural  Experiment  Station.  He  spent  one  year  there  and 
then  went  to  Grinnell  College  as  instructor  in  chemistry. 
Three  years  later  he  accepted  an  Industrial  Fellowship  at 
the  Mellon  Institute  of  Industrial  Research.  He  afterwards 
became  professor  of  organic  chemistry  at  the  University  of 
Pittsburgh,  and  at  the  time  of  his  death  was  at  the  head  of 
the  biochemistry  department  of  the  Medical  College  there, 
but  had  done  no  teaching  for  two  years.  His  work,  which  was 
entirely  research  in  character,  for  the  firm  of  Fries  &  Fries, 
manufacturing  chemists,  was  done  at  the  Mellon  Institute, 
with  visits  to  plants  for  process  installation.  He  was  a  member 
of  the  American  Chemical  Society,  and  the  author  of  many 
scientific  papers  published  in  the  American  Journal  of  Physiol- 
ogy^ the  American  Chemical 'Journal^  the  Journal  oj  the  Ameri- 
can Chemical  Society^  and  the  Journal  of  Industrial  and  Engi- 
neering Chemistry. 

He  died  February  21,  1920,  at  his  home  in  Pittsburgh,  from 
pneumonia,  and  was  buried  in  the  Homewood  Cemetery  in 
that  city. 

He  was  married  June  30,  191 6,  in  Pittsburgh,  to  Eda, 
daughter  of  Edward  P.  and  Evaline  (Morton)  Keary,  who 
survives  him  with  their  two  children,  Jane  and  Leonard 
Merritt,  3d.  In  addition  to  his  wife  and  children  he  is  survived 
by  his  parents  and  a  brother,  John  Watts  Liddle,  of  New 
York  City. 

Maelynette  Aldrich,  Ph.D.  1916 

Born  January  30,  1891,  in  Salina,  Kans. 
*  Died  February  11,  1920,  in  Abingdon,  Va. 

Maelynette  Aldrich  was  the  daughter  of  John  Wesley 
Aldrich,  a  salesman,  whose  parents  were  Obed  and  Melintha 
(Potter)  Aldrich,  and  was  born  in  Salina,  Kans.,  January  30, 
1 891.  She  was  descended  from  George  Aldrich,  who  came  to 
this  country  from  Derbyshire,  England,  in  1631  with  a  party 
sent  by  the  White  Company  and  settled  first  in  Dorchester 


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and,  in  1635,  in  Braintree,  Mass.  One  of  his  descendants, 
Benjamin  Aldrich,  although  a  Quaker  by  faith,  served  in  the 
Revolutionary  War.  He  was  the  great-grandfather  of  Maely- 
nette  Aldrich.  Her  mother  is  Emma  Franklin  (Couse)  Aldrich, 
daughter  of  Albert  and  Mary  (Franklin)  Couse,  of  Cambridge, 
England. 

She  had  inherited  a  taste  for  scholarship,  and  from  her 
fifteenth  year  had  studied  a  diversity  of  subjects,  the  list  of 
languages  alone  comprising  Latin,  Greek,  Spanish,  German, 
French,  Old  English,  and  Sanskrit.  She  attended  the  Grammar 
School  and  Kansas  Wesleyan  University  in  her  native  town 
and  then  entered  the  Kansas  State  University  as  a  Junior. 
She  was  elected  a  member  of  Phi  Beta  Kappa,  and  received 
the  degree  of  B.A.  in  191 2,  being  awarded  a  Greek  Fellowship. 
She  received  her  Master's  degree  from  Kansas  State  Univer- 
sity in  1913,  and  in  the  fall  of  that  year  entered  the  Yale 
Graduate  School.  She  held  the  Currier  Fellowship  from  19 14 
to  191 6,  and  was  given  the  degree  of  Ph.D.  in  the  latter  year. 

After  leaving  Yale  she  traveled,  visiting  historic  and  other 
parts  of  the  United  States,  accompanied  by  her  mother.  She 
then  taught  Latin  and  Greek  for  a  year  at  Ewing  College  in 
Ewing,  111.  In  1919  she  became  head  of  the  department  of 
mathematics  at  Martha  Washington  College,  Abingdon,  Va. 
She  was  a  member  of  the  Mathematical  Association  of 
America. 

She  died  February  22,  1920,  at  Abingdon,  after  a  brief 
attack  of  influenza.  Burial  was  in  Oak  Lawn  Cemetery, 
Dwight,  111.  Dr.  Aldrich  is  survived  by  her  mother.  Her. 
father  died  in  her  infancy. 


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Lucy  Bell  Woodward,  Mus.B.  191 3 

Born  June  23,  1878,  at  Warehouse  Point,  Conn. 
Died  January  12,  1920,  in  Hartford,  Conn. 

Lucy  Bell  Woodward  was  born  June  23,  1878,  at  Warehouse 
Point,  Conn.,  the  daughter  of  Charles  Emmons  and  Nellie 
Eunice  (Smith)  Woodward,  whose  deaths  occurred  in  1900 
and  1 916,  respectively.  Her  mother  was  the  daughter  of 
Hiram  and  Lucy  Bell  Smith,  and  a  descendant  of  Governor 
William  Bradford  of  Plymouth  Colony,  whose  second  wife 
was  Alice,  daughter  of  Alexander  Carpenter  and  widow  of 
Edward  Southworth.  Ancestors  on  both  sides  of  the  family 
served  in  the  Revolutionary  War. 

She  attended  a  girls'  school  at  Windsor,  Conn.,  and  gradu- 
ated from  the  Milwaukee  Academy  of  Music,  where  she  re- 
ceived instruction  under  Professor  Lessing,  a  graduate  of  the 
Leipsic  Conservatory.  She  was  a  student  in  the  Yale  School  of 
Music  from  1908  to  1917,  receiving  the  degree  of  Bachelor  of 
Music  in  1913. 

She  died  in  the  Hartford  (Conn.)  Hospital,  January  12, 
1920,  of  diabetes  mellitus.  Interment  was  at  Warehouse  Point. 
The  only  surviving  member  of  her  family  is  a  brother,  E.  H. 
Woodward,  of  Woodcliff-on-Hudson,  N.  J. 


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Luther  Clarke  Cox,  M.D.  1856 

Born  October  4,  1835,  '"  ^g:w  Haven,  Conn. 
Died  May  10,  191 2,  in  San  Francisco,  Calif. 

Luther  Clarke  Cox  was  born  in  New  Haven,  Conn.,  October 
4,  1835,  ^^^  son  of  Christopher  Christian  and  Amanda  (North- 
rop) Cox.  His  father,  who  graduated  from  Yale  College  in 
1835  ^"^  f^o"^  Washington  Medical  College  in  Maryland  in 
1838  and  who  received  the  honorary  degree  of  LL.D.  at 
Trinity  College  in  1867,  served  for  a  number  of  years  as  pro- 
fessor of  medical  jurisprudence  and  hygiene  at  the  George- 
town Medical  College.  In  1861  he  held  a  commission  as  a 
Brigade  Surgeon,  the  following  year  was  surgeon  general  of 
Maryland,  in  1864  was  lieutenant  governor  of  that  state,  and 
in  1868  U.  S.  commissioner  of  pensions.  His  parents  were  Rev. 
Luther  J.  Cox  and  Maria  C.  (Keener)  Cox,  The  Cox  family 
dates  back  to  the  first  settlement  of  Maryland  under  Lord 
Baltimore.  Amanda  Northrop  Cox  was  the  daughter  of  Clark 
and  Anna  (Smith)  Northrop,  of  New  Haven. 

He  was  a  student  at  Eastern  Maryland  Academy  prior  to 
1853,  when  he  began  a  course  of  medical  lectures  at  the  Na- 
tional Medical  College  in  Washington,  D.  C.  He  entered  the 
Yale  School  of  Medicine  in  1854  and  was  given  the  degree  of 
M.D.  two  years  later. 

From  1856  to  1858  he  was  on  the  medical  staff  of  Black- 
well's  Island,  N.  Y.,  after  which  he  practiced  medicine  and 
farmed  in  Maryland.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Medical  Pen- 
sion Board  in  Washington,  D.  C,  from  1872  to  1876,  but  in 
1877  nioved  to  the  Santa  Maria  valley  in  California,  where  he 
practiced  for  some  years.  In  1890,  after  traveling  for  a  few 
years,  he  became  engaged  in  practice  as  a  physician  and  sur- 
geon in  San  Francisco.  He  had  contributed  reports  to  medical 
journals  and  had  delivered  numerous  lectures  and  addresses 
before  literary  organizations.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Protes- 
tant Episcopal  Church. 

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His  death,  which  was  due  to  Bright's  disease,  occurred 
May  lo,  191 2,  in  San  Francisco.  His  body  was  taken  to  Easton, 
Md.,  for  burial. 

He  was  married  November  19,  i860,  in  Baltimore,  Md.,  to 
Mary  Hindman  Perry,  daughter  of  George  Neuse.  There 
were  four  daughters  by  the  marriage:  Mary  Rogers  (Mrs. 
Robert  Fletcher);  Annie  Amanda;  Alice  Neuse;  and  Claribel, 
who  married  Lieut.  Commander  F.  H.  Schofield,  U.S.N. 


William  Chester  Minor,  M.D.  1863 

Born  June  21,  1835,  in  the  East  Indies 
Died  March  26,  1920,  in  Hartford,  Conn. 

William  Chester  Minor  was  born  in  the  East  Indies  June 
21,  1835.  H^  became  a  student  in  the  Yale  School  of  Medicine 
in  1 861,  and  was  graduated  in  1863. 

He  was  an  assistant  in  anatomy  at  Yale  from  1862  to  1864 
and  the  next  year  held  an  appointment  as  demonstrator  in 
anatomy.  On  February  28,  1866,  he  became  an  Assistant 
Surgeon  in  the  U.  S.  Army,  was  brevetted  Captain  on  Septem- 
ber 28  of  the  same  year,  and  was  promoted  to  Captain  (Assist- 
ant Surgeon)  on  M^y  30,  1869.  He  was  retired  from  service  on 
December  15,  1870,  with  the  rank  of  Captain.  In  the  summer 
of  1 87 1  he  went  to  England  to  sketch  and  travel  and  the 
following  year  took  lodgings  in  London.  About  this  time  he 
was  found  to  be  mentally  deranged  and  in  April,  1872,  was 
committed  to  the  asylum  at  Broadmoor,  England,  where  he 
remained  for  twenty-five  years  or  more,  gradually  recovering 
his  mental  balance,  and  devoting  his  time  to  scholarly  pur- 
suits. While  there  he  contributed  many  quotations,  bearing 
mostly  on  the  analysis  and  history  of  words,  to  the  "New 
English  Dictionary,"  edited  by  Sir  James  Murray,  which  was 
then  being  compiled.  His  work  for  the  dictionary  extended 
from  about  a  year  after  his  confinement  until  shortly  before 
he  returned  to  this  country.  He  was  an  inmate  of  the  Govern- 
ment Hospital  for  the  Insane  in  Washington,  D.  C,  for  a  time, 
and  was  then  transferred  to  the  Hartford  (Conn.)  Retreat, 


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where  the  remainder  of  his  life  was  spent  and  where  his  death 
occurred  on  March  26,  1920. 

He  was  married  many  years  ago.  A  brother,  Alfred  Minor, 
also  a  Civil  War  veteran,  was  a  resident  of  New  Haven  until 
his  death  in  1915. 


David  Crary,  Jr.,  M.D.  1869 

Born  April  26,  1842,  in  Hartford,  Conn. 
Died  July  9,  1919,  in  Hartford,  Conn. 

David  Crary,  Jr.,  was  born  in  Hartford,  Conn.,  April  26, 
1842,  the  son  of  Dr.  David  Crary  and  Susan  (Harris)  Crary. 
His  father,  the  son  of  Elias  Crary,  a  soldier  in  the  Revolu- 
tionary War,  and  Elizabeth  (Palmer)  Crary,  received  the 
degree  of  M.D.  from  the  Medical  College  at  Castleton,  Vt., 
in  1834,  and  practiced  his  profession  in  Hartford  for  fifty 
years.  Peter  Crary,  the  immigrant  ancestor,  settled  at  New 
London,  Conn.,  as  early  as  1663.  His  wife  was  Christobel, 
daughter  of  John  Gallup. 

He  was  educated  in  the  public  schools  of  Hartford  and 
spent  three  years  in  Rutland,  Vt.,  and  one  year  in  Hartford, 
as  a  drug  clerk.  He  began  the  study  of  medicine  with  his 
father  and  was  a  student  in  the  Yale  School  of  Medicine  from 
1867  to  1869. 

He  afterwards  practiced  in  Hartford,  being  associated  with 
his  father  until  the  latter's  retirement  in  1885.  He  served  as 
physician  to  the  Hartford  County  Jail  from  1875  ^^til  July, 
1910.  He  was  a  member  of  the  American  Medical  Association, 
the  Connecticut  State  Medical  Society,  the  Hartford  County 
Medical  Society,  and  the  Hartford  City  Medical  Society. 
He  had  made  several  trips  abroad. 

He  died  July  9,  191 9,  at  his  home  in  Hartford,  having  been 
in  poor  health  for  five  years.  Interment  was  in  the  Cedar  Hill 
Cemetery. 

His  marriage  to  Mrs.  Flora  Wheeler  McCallan  took  place 
in  New  York  City  August  8,  19 14.  She  survives  him  and 
he  also  leaves  a  brother,  Frank  Crary,  and  a  half  brother. 


Edwin^Crary. 


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Wallace  Harlow  Dean,  M.D.  1877 

Born  May  24,  1853,  in  Canaan,  Conn. 
Died  April  10,  1920,  in  Springfield,  Mass. 

Wallace  Harlow  Dean  was  born  in  Canaan,  Conn.,  May 
24,  1853.  He  was  the  son  of  Harlow  Dean,  a  farmer,  who  lived 
in  Ohio  (where  he  was  a  Captain  of  Militia)  and  in  Canaan 
and  Hartland,  Conn.  His  paternal  grandfather,  who  came 
from  Germany,  served  in  the  Revolutionary  War;  he  married 
Sarah  Bartis,  of  Litchfield,  Conn.,  who  was  of  English  descent. 
His  mother,  Mary  (Church)  Dean,  daughter  of  Jonathan 
Church,  of  Winsted,  Conn.,  who  fought  in  the  War  of  1812, 
was  the  granddaughter  of  John  Church,  a  Revolutionary 
soldier,  and  a  descendant  of  Richard  Church,  who  came  to 
Hartford  with  Thomas  Hooker  in  1636.  His  maternal  grand- 
mother was  Lucy  (Bates)  Church,  daughter  of  Elder  Jonathan 
Bates,  of  Hartland,  a  descendant  of  James  Bates,  who  came 
from  Dorchester,  England,  in  1635,  ^^^  settled  at  Hingham, 
Mass. 

He  attended  public  schools  in  Connecticut  and  Wesleyan 
Academy  in  Wilbraham,  Mass.,  and  received  his  final  prep- 
aration for  Yale  under  Dr.  Bidwell,  of  Winsted,  entering  the 
School  of  Medicine  in  1875.  ^^  worked  his  way  while  complet- 
ing his  course  by  teaching  singing  schools,  giving  concerts, 
and  doing  farm  work. 

After  his  graduation  in  1877  he  began  the  practice  of  his 
profession  in  Blandford,  Mass.  He  remained  there  until  1895, 
when  he  removed  to  Springfield,  Mass.,  where  he  soon  had  a 
large  and  growing  practice.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Massa- 
chusetts and  Hampden  County  Medical  societies,  and  served 
as  president  of  the  latter  organization  in  1894.  He  had  con- 
tributed at  various  times  to  medical  journals. 

Devotion  to  his  work  led  him  to  abandon  his  plan  for  a 
winter  visit  to  Florida  in  1920.  He  overworked  during  the 
influenza  epidemic  of  that  year,  and  after  an  illness  of  two 
and  a  half  weeks,  due  to  pneumonia,  died  on  April  10.  His 
death  occurred  in  Springfield.  Interment  was  in  Forest  View 
Cemetery  in  Winsted.  Dr.  Dean's  will  disposed  of  ^8o,cx30  in 
public  bequests,  $60,000  being  given  for  the  advantage  of 


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Blandford  and  $20,000  going  to  charitable  institutions  in 
Springfield — $10,000  for  the  Old  Men's  Home  and  $10,000 
to  the  Good  Will  Home. 

He  was  unmarried.  He  is  survived  by  a  sister,  Miss  Calista 
A.  Dean,  of  West  Hartland,  Conn.,  and  a  brother,  Amos  W. 
Dean,  of  New  Hartford,  Conn.  Frederick  L.  Emmons,  '97, 
is  a  nephew. 


James  Conquest  Barker,  M.D.  1879 

Born  December  25,  1852,  in  New  York  City- 
Died  June  16,  1920,  in  New  Milford,  Conn. 

James  Conquest  Barker  was  born  in  New  York  City, 
December  25,  1852,  the  son  of  James  Barker,  a  hotel  keeper, 
and  Mary  Eliza  (Pendleton)  Barker,  and  the  grandson  of 
James  Barker.  He  studied  at  the  Cheshire  (Conn.)  Academy 
before  entering  the  Yale  School  of  Medicine  in  1875. 

He  received  his  degree  in  1879,  ^^^  remained  in  New  Haven 
for  two  additional  years.  He  had  practiced  in  New  Milford, 
Conn.,  since  1881,  serving  for  twenty-five  years  as  health 
officer.  He  was  a  member  of  St.  John's  Church  in  New  Milford. 

He  died  June  16,  1920,  at  his  home  in  that  town,  from  a 
ruptured  aneurysm  of  the  abdominal  aorta.  Burial  was  in 
Walnut  Grove  Cemetery,  Meriden,  Conn. 

Dr.  Barker  was  married  in  New  Haven,  July  13,  1879,  ^° 
Lydia  Adelaide,  daughter  of  George  and  Lydia  (Fife)  Dewitt. 
She  survives  him  with  three  children:  Julie  P.,  who  was 
married  on  May  17,  191 5,  to  Gifford  B.  Noble;  Genevieve, 
whose  marriage  to  Samuel  J.  Goldberg  (M.D.  1907)  took  place 
on  September  22,  1909;  and  Creighton  (M.D.  Dartmouth 
1913),  now  a  practicing  physician  in  New  Haven.  He  also 
leaves  two  sisters,  Mrs.  Charles  H.  Smith,  of  San  Diego, 
Calif.,  and  Mrs.  F.  A.  Babcock,  of  Buffalo,  N.  Y.,  and  a 
•brother,  William  VanD.  Barker,  of  Hartford,  Conn. 


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John  Edward  West  Thompson,  M.D.  1883 

Born  December  i6,  i860,  in  Brooklyn,  N.  Y, 
Died  October  6,  1918,  in  Bridgeport,  Conn. 

John  Edward  West  Thompson  was  born  in  Brooklyn,  N.  Y., 
December  16,  i860,  the  son  of  Edward  James  and  Matilda 
Frances  (White)  Thompson,  both  of  whom  were  natives  of 
Haiti.  When  he  was  about  ten  years  of  age  his  parents  moved 
to  Providence,  R.  I.  He  received  his  preparatory  training  at 
the  Weston  (Conn.)  Military  Institute  and  at  Lawrence 
Academy,  Groton,  Mass.  He  became  a  student  in  the  Yale 
School  of  Medicine  in  October,  1880,  graduating  in  1883. 

He  then  went  with  his  wife  to  Paris  and  continued  his 
medical  studies  there  for  a  year,  also  doing  graduate  work  in 
England,  Scotland,  and  Ireland.  He  began  the  practice  of  his 
profession  in  New  York  City  in  1884.  The  next  year  he  was 
appointed  by  President  Cleveland  minister  resident  to  the 
Republic  of  Haiti,  and  charge  d'affaires  to  the  Republic  of 
San  Domingo.  He  was  considered  a  fine  French  scholar  and 
was  thoroughly  informed  on  subjects  of  international  law. 
He  received  the  degree  of  M.D.  from  the  University  of  Haiti 
in  1887.  He  was  in  the  diplomatic  service  until  1890,  when  he 
resumed  the  practice  of  medicine  in  New  York  City,  where 
he  served  for  several  years,  beginning  in  1895,  ^^  ^  medical 
inspector  of  the  Department  of  Health.  He  had  subsequently 
practiced  at  Mount  Hope,  N.  Y.,  Atlanta,  Ga.,  and  Bridge- 
port, Conn.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Roman  Catholic  Church. 

He  died  October  6,  191 8,  in  St.  Vincent's  Hospital,  Bridge- 
port. He  had  been  stabbed  in  the  heart  as  he  was  about  to 
enter  his  office,  and  his  death  was  almost  immediate.  He  was 
buried  in  Mountain  Grove  Cemetery,  Bridgeport.  His  wife, 
Mary  C.  Thompson,  survives  him. 

Charles  Henry  Brockett,  M.D.  1886 

Born  in  1862 
Died  May  16,  1919,  in  New  Haven,  Conn. 

Charles  Henry  Brockett  was  born  in  1862.  He  entered  the 
Yale  School  of  Medicine  in  1882,  and  received  his  degree 
four  years  later.  He  had  practiced  in  New  Haven,  Conn.,  for 


1 883-1903  1607 

many  years,  and  was  at  one  time  physician  to  the  Springside 
Home. 

He  died  May  16,  1919,  at  the  New  Haven  Hospital,  as  the 
result  of  a  shock  suffered  about  a  week  before.  Burial  was  in 
Evergreen  Cemetery,  New  Haven. 

Dr.  Brockett  is  survived  by  his  wife,  Josephine  I.  Brockett, 
and  a  son,  Harry  C.  Brockett. 

Treby  Williams  Lyon,  M.D,  1903 

Born  June  6,  1881,  in  New  London,  Conn. 
Died  June  14,  1920,  in  New  Haven,  Conn. 

Treby  Williams  Lyon  was  the  son  of  Charles  H.  Lyon,  a 
retail  grocer,  and  Addie  E.  (Williams)  Lyon,  and  was  born  in 
New  London,  Conn.,  June  6,  1881.  He  was  a  grandson  of  John 
and  Ellen  U.  (Rogers)  Lyon,  and  a  direct  descendant  of  Wil- 
liam Lyon,  who  came  to  Roxbury,  Mass.,  from  England  in 
1635  ^^  ^1^^  ^g^  °^  fourteen.  Several  ancestors  served  in  the 
Revolution. 

He  received  his  early  education  in  New  London,  and  began 
his  course  in  the  Yale  School  of  Medicine  in  1898. 

After  taking  his  degree  in  1903,  he  spent  some  two  years  in 
graduate  work  in  New  York  City  and  in  practice  in  Elizabeth, 
N.  J.,  and  then  returned  to  New  Haven,  where  he  followed  his 
profession  until  his  death,  with  the  exception  of  two  years 
(19 13-15)  spent  in  special  work  in  rectal  surgery  in  New  York 
City  under  the  direction  of  Dr.  Jerome  Lynch.  He  served  as  a 
clinical  assistant  in  medicine  at  Yale  from  1910  to  1913,  and 
again  from  1915  to  191 9.  When  the  New  Haven  Board  of 
Health  opened  to  the  public  a  clinic  for  the  treatment  of 
tuberculosis  in  1919  he  was  placed  in  charge  of  the  work  and 
continued  in  this  connection  until  his  death.  During  the  World 
War  he  was  a  member  of  the  Volunteer  Medical  Service 
Corps,  and  served  on  Draft  Board  No.  6.  He  was  a  Fellow  of 
the  American  Medical  Association,  a  member  of  St.  Paul's 
Church  (Protestant  Episcopal)  in  New  Haven,  and  a  director 
of  the  Brotherhood  of  St.  Andrew. 

He  died  at  his  home  in  New  Haven,  June  14,  1920,  and  was 
buried  in  Evergreen  Cemetery. 

Dr.  Lyon  was  unmarried.  His  parents  and  a  brother,  C. 
Tyler  Lyon  (Ph.B.  1906),  survive  him. 


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James  Bernard  Dinnan,  M.D.  1904 

Born  April  2,  1881,  in  New  Haven,  Conn. 
Died  October  3,  1919,  in  Meriden,  Conn. 

James  Bernard  Dinnan,  the  son  of  John  J.  Dinnan,  an  elec- 
trician, and  Alice  (Reilly)  Dinnan,  was  born  in  New  Haven, 
Conn.,  April  2,  1881.  He  received  his  early  education  at  the 
Hillhouse  High  School  in  New  Haven  and  under  a  private 
tutor,  and  entered  the  Yale  School  of  Medicine  in  1900, 
graduating  in  1904. 

During  the  next  two  years  he  was  an  interne  in  the  City 
Hospital  in  New  York  City,  and  from  1906  until  his  death 
he  practiced  his  profession  in  Meriden,  Conn.  He  had  been 
superintendent  of  the  State  Tuberculosis  Sanatorium  at 
Meriden  since  its  establishment  in  19 10.  During  the  recent 
war  he  served  on  the  local  Medical  Advisory  Board.  He  was  a 
member  of  St.  Joseph's  Church  in  Meriden. 

He  died  October  3,  1919,  at  his  home  in  that  city,  from 
pneumonia,  following  an  attack  of  typhoid  fever.  He  was 
taken  ill  at  Crescent  Beach,  East  Lyme,  Conn.,  where  he  had 
been  supervising  the  construction  of  the  new  Children's  Sea- 
side Sanatorium.  Interment  was  in  Sacred  Heart  Cemetery, 
Meriden. 

He  was  married  June  29,  1909,  in  that  city,  to  Dorothy 
Elizabeth,  daughter  of  John  and  Mary  (Terry)  Tracy.  Her 
death  occurred  August  7,  1920.  Three  children,  Mary  Alice, 
Dorothy  Elizabeth,  and  John  Joseph,  survive.  Dr.  Dinnan 
also  leaves  three  sisters,  Mrs.  Charles  Kerr,  of  New  Haven, 
and  Mrs.  John  Lucey  and  Mrs.  Frank  Althen,  both  of  Wil- 
mington, Del. 


George  James  Schuele,  M.D.  1908 

Born  February  6,  1878,  in  Quincy,  111. 
Died  July  10,  1919,  in  Bridgeport,  Conn. 

George  James  Schuele  was  born  in  Quincy,  111.,  February 
6,  1878,  the  son  of  Joseph  and  Annie  (Stumpf)  Schuele.  His 
father,  whose  parents  were  Barney  and  Katy  (Fuchs)  Schuele, 
came  to  America  from  Baden,  Germany,  in  1867,  lived  for  a 


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time  in  St.  Louis,  Mo.,  and  Quincy,  111.,  and  finally  settled  in 
Chicago.  His  mother  was  the  daughter  of  John  Stumpf. 

His  early  education  was  received  at  the  Northwest  Division 
High  School  in  Chicago,  and  before  entering  Yale  he  was  em- 
ployed as  a  baker.  He  was  a  student  in  the  Yale  School  of 
Medicine  from  1903  to  1905,  and  again  from  1906  to  1908. 

In  1909  he  received  an  appointment  by  competitive  exami- 
nation as  interne  at  the  Newark  (N.  J.)  City  Hospital,  and 
began  his  duties  there  on  March  i.  He  spent  the  following 
year  as  an  interne  at  the  Belleville  (N.J.)  Contagious  Hospital, 
and  the  next  year  held  a  similar  position  in  the  German 
Hospital  in  New  York  City.  He  began  the  practice  of  medicine 
in  Bridgeport,  Conn.,  in  191 2,  and  with  the  exception  of  time 
spent  in  military  service  was  located  there  until  his  death.  He 
served  as  an  assistant  on  local  Draft  Board  No.  4  from  August 
4,  1 91 7,  until  the  following  May.  He  was  commissioned  a 
First  Lieutenant  in  the  Medical  Reserve  Corps  on  May  4, 
191 8,  entered  active  service  on  June  i,  and  was  assigned  to 
duty  as  Acting  Regimental  Surgeon  of  the  5th  Regiment  at 
the  Field  Artillery  Replacement  Depot,  Camp  Jackson, 
South  Carolina.  On  January  i,  1 919,  he  was  appointed  Assist- 
ant Camp  Sanitary  Inspector  there  and  served  in  this  capacity 
until  mustered  out  of  service  on  April  22,  1919.  He  was  a 
member  of  St.  Paul's  Church  in  Bridgeport  and  of  the  city, 
county,  and  state  medical  associations. 

He  died  July  10,  191 9,  at  the  Galen  Hospital,  Bridgeport, 
following  an  operation  for  appendicitis.  Interment  was  in 
In  Memoriam  Cemetery,  Wallingford,  Conn. 

He  was  married  January 4, 191 1, in  Wallingford,  to  Florence 
Evelyn,  daughter  of  W.  J.  and  Sarah  Hodgetts,  who  survives 
him  with  an  adopted  son,  George  James,  Jr.  Besides  his  wife 
and  child  he  leaves  several  brothers  and  sisters.  His  youngest 
brother,  Emil  Schuele,  was  in  the  Army  from  May,  191 8,  until 
September,  191 9. 


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SCHOOL  OF  LAW 
William  Clayton  Page,  LL.B.  i860 

Died  January  25,  1919,  at  National  Soldiers'  Home,  Tenn. 

William  Clayton  Page  entered  the  Yale  School  of  Law  in 
1859,  and  was  given  the  degree  of  Bachelor  of  Laws  the  follow- 
ing year.  He  was  at  that  time  a  resident  of  East  Haven,  Conn. 

He  enlisted  in  Company  H,  12th  New  York  Infantry,  on 
May  30,  1862,  and  was  mustered  out  December  3,  1862,  to 
date  October  8,  1862,  during  which  period  he  held  the  rank  of 
Sergeant.  He  had  been  captured  and  paroled  at  Harper's 
Ferry,  September  5,  1862,  and  was  ill  in  a  New  York  hospital 
from  October  i  until  receiving  his  discharge.  On  January  16, 
1863,  he  joined  Company  B,  5th  New  York  Cavalry,  with 
which  he  served  until  June  29,  1865,  holding  the  ranks  of 
Private  and  Hospital  Steward.  He  was  captured  at  Brandy 
Station  October  11, 1863,  was  confined  at  Richmond,  Va.,  until 
February,  1864,  and  then  sent  to  Anderson ville,  Ga.,  where  he 
remained  until  the  following  November,  when  he  was  paroled. 
He  enlisted  in  the  Marine  Corps  November  10,  1865,  and  was 
discharged  for  disability  at  Pensacola,  Fla.,  November  19, 
1868.  The  remainder  of  his  life  was  spent  at  soldiers'  homes 
in  various  parts  of  the  country,  including  those  in  Bath,  N.  Y., 
Milwaukee  County,  Wis.,  Grant  County,  Ind.,  Hampton, 
Va.,  and  Dayton,  Ohio.  His  death  occurred  January  25,  191 9, 
at  the  National  Soldiers'  Home  in  Tennessee. 

He  was  unmarried. 

Austin  Nichols  Botsford,  LL.B.  1864 

Born  April  23,  1842,  in  Newtown,  Conn. 
Died  November  24,  1919,  in  Des  Moines,  Iowa 

Austin  Nichols  Botsford  was  the  son  of  Austin  N.  Botsford, 
a  farmer,  and  Volucia  B.  (Glover)  Botsford,  and  was  born 
April  23,  1842,  in  Newtown,  Conn.  His  father's  parents  were 
Philo  and  Hannah  (Nichols)  Botsford,  and  his  mother  was  the 
daughter  of  James  and  Anna  (Glover)  Glover.  He  traced  his 

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ancestry  to  Henry  Botsford,  who  came  to  America  from 
Leicestershire,  England,  in  1636  and  settled  at  Milford,  Conn., 
and  to  Henry  Glover,  who  settled  at  Boston  in  1636,  having 
come  to  this  country  from  England,  and  later  removed  to 
New  Haven,  Conn. 

He  received  his  early  education  in  New  Britain,  Conn.,  and 
Poughkeepsie,  N.  Y.,  and  took  up  the  study  of  law  at  Yale  in 
the  spring  of  1863. 

During  1864-65  he  practiced  in  St.  Charles,  111.,  but  then 
removed  to  Fort  Dodge,  Iowa,  his  home  during  the  rest  of  his 
life.  For  some  time  he  was  in  partnership  with  Capt.  J.  A.  O. 
Yeoman,  and  from  1890  to  1900  he  was  senior  member  of  the 
law  firm  of  Botsford,  Healy  &  Healy.  In  recent  years  his  pro- 
fessional work  had  been  almost  entirely  that  of  advisor  and 
counselor.  At  the  time  of  his  death  he  was  dean  of  the  Fort 
Dodge  Bar  Association.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Episcopal 
Church,  and  had  served  as  a  vestryman. 

Mr.  Botsford  died,  of  uraemic  poisoning,  at  a  hospital  in 
Des  Moines,  Iowa,  November  24,  1919. 

His  first  marriage  took  place  at  Fort  Dodge,  December  17, 
1867,  to  Mary  Scott,  whose  death  occurred  July  29,  1887. 
They  had  three  sons:  Geis,  Scott,  and  Richard  (M.D.  Univer- 
sity of  Vermont  1898).  Mr.  Botsford  was  married  November 
29,  1899,  in  Como,  111.,  to  Jessie  L.,  daughter  of  James  and 
Asenath  (Lamont)  Hopkins,  who  survives  him.  His  son  Rich- 
ard and  a  sister  are  also  living.  Carl  E.  Botsford,  '84,  is  a 
nephew. 

Charles  Frederick  Bollmann,  LL.B.  1873 

Born  April  19,  1847,  ^^  Parey,  Prussia 
Died  June  3,  1920,  in  New  Haven,  Conn. 

Charles  Frederick  Bollmann  was  born  April  19,  1S47,  ^^ 
Parey  on  the  Elbe,  Prussia,  the  son  of  Johann  Friedrich 
Bollmann,  a  rentier,  and  Caroline  Elizabeth  (Draeger)  Boll- 
mann, and  the  grandson  of  Joachim  and  Elizabeth  (Reuter) 
Bollmann.  Both  parents  were  born  and  died  in  Parey.  His 
mother  died  in  1856  and  his  father  later  married  Caroline 
Louise  Palm,  also  a  native  of  Parey,  who  died  in  1872. 

He  was  educated  at  public  schools  at  Parey,  the  Victoria 
Gymnasium  in  Burg,  and  the  Real  Schule  in  Magdeburg.  He 


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came  to  the  United  States  in  April,  1864,  and  lived  with  his 
guardian,  Heinrich  Sinterness,  in  New  York  City  until  the 
following  August,  when  he  ran  away  and  joined  the  Union 
Army.  He  served  in  Company  B,  ist  Connecticut  Volunteer 
Cavalry,  until  mustered  out  on  August  2,  1865,  taking  part 
in  several  battles.  After  the  war  he  worked  for  a  time  in 
Chicago  and  was  later  a  teacher  of  music  and  languages  at  the 
Russell  School  in  New  Haven.  He  entered  the  Yale  School 
of  Law  in  1871  and  was  graduated  in  1873.  During  his  Senior 
year  he  was  librarian  of  the  School. 

He  was  admitted  to  the  Connecticut  Bar  in  1873  and  opened 
an  office  for  the  practice  of  his  profession  in  New  Haven.  In 
1 88 1  he  was  appointed  a  member  of  the  Board  of  Police  Com- 
missioners and  was  elected  president  of  that  body,  serving 
until  1885.  During  1882-83  he  was  city  coroner,  and  for  the 
next  two  years  he  served  as  county  coroner,  being  the  first 
coroner  for  New  Haven  County.  He  framed  the  present 
coroner  law  for  New  Haven.  He  served  as  chief  of  police  in 
New  Haven  from  1885  to  1 89 1 ,  and  was  president  of  the  Board 
of  State  Prison  Directors  from  1893  to  1896.  Since  1 891  he 
had  devoted  himself  to  the  practice  of  his  profession,  acting 
chiefly  as  a  probate  court  lawyer.  He  was  a  member  of  the 
Lutheran  Church. 

He  died  June  3,  1920,  at  his  home  in  New  Haven,  from 
angina  pectoris,  and  was  buried  in  Evergreen  Cemetery. 

He  was  married  June  21, 1877,  in  New  Haven,  to  Hattie  A., 
daughter  of  Charles  and  Caroline  (Maeder)  Katsch,  who 
survives  him  with  a  daughter,  Clara  Sophia  Anna  (Mrs.  Milo 
Wilcox),  and  two  sons,  Carl  Frederick  (LL.B.  1901)  and  Frank 
Edward  (LL.B.  1905).  Two  other  children  died  in  infancy. 
Besides  his  wife  and  children  he  leaves  two  brothers  and  a 
sister. 

John  Thomas  McGraw,  LL.B.  1876 

Born  January  12,  1856,  in  Grafton,  W.  Va. 
Died  April  29,  1920,  near  Baltimore,  Md. 

John  Thomas  McGraw  was  born  in  Grafton,  W.  Va.,  Janu- 
ary 12,  1856.  Before  entering  the  Yale  School  of  Law  in  1875 
he  attended  St.  Vincent's  College,  Wheeling,  W.  Va. 
.   Shortly  after  taking  his  law  degree,  he  was  admitted  to  the 


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West  Virginia  Bar  and  began  practice  in  Grafton.  He  was 
elected  prosecuting  attorney  for  Taylor  County  in  1880  and 
served  in  that  capacity  until  1885,  when  he  was  appointed  by 
President  Cleveland  collector  of  internal  revenue  for  the  dis- 
trict of  West  Virginia.  He  held  that  office  for  four  years. 
During  Cleveland's  second  administration  he  was  the  Gov- 
ernment distributing  agent  for  West  Virginia,  disbursing  funds 
appropriated  for  public  buildings  of  the  state,  and  was  aide- 
de-camp,  with  the  rank  of  Colonel,  on  the  staff  of  Governor 
Jackson.  He  was  at  one  time  chairman  of  the  Congressional 
Executive  Committee  of  the  2d  district  of  West  Virginia,  and 
for  many  years  had  been  a  member  of  the  Democratic  State 
and  National  Executive  committees.  He  was  a  delegate-at- 
large  from  West  Virginia  to  the  National  Democratic  Con- 
vention in  1896;  was  the  Democratic  candidate  for  Congress 
from  the  2d  district  of  West  Virginia  in  1898;  and  was  a  candi- 
date for  the  U.  S.  Senate  in  1899.  After  Nathan  B.  Scott  was 
declared  elected  by  one  vote,  he  contested  the  seat,  but  the 
contest  was  decided  against  him.  He  had  large  coal,  timber, 
and  railroad  interests  in  his  native  state.  Mount  St.  Mary's 
College  had  conferred  the  degree  of  LL.D.  upon  him. 

He  died  from  heart  disease,  near  Baltimore,  Md.,  April  29, 
1920,  while  on  a  train  en  route  from  New  York  to  his  home  in 
Grafton. 

He  was  married  many  years  ago.  A  son,  John  T.  McGraw, 
Jr.,  who  was  a  non-graduate  member  of  the  Class  of  191 1, 
died  June  25,  191 1.  John  McGraw  Warder,  ex-ii  S.,  is  a 
nephew. 

Sterne  Wheeler,  LL.B.  1877 

Born  February  27,  1856,  in  Naugatuck,  Conn. 
Died  December  4,  191 1,  in  Saugatuck,  Conn. 

Sterne  Wheeler  was  born  February  27,  1856,  in  Naugatuck, 
Conn.,  the  son  of  Elonzo  Seth  and  Caroline  (Smi^h)  Wheeler. 
His  father,  whose  parents  were  Samuel  and  Oria  (Hinman) 
Wheeler,  was  engaged  in  business  as  a  button  manufacturer 
in  Saugatuck.  He  was  descended  from  Moses  Wheeler,  who 
came  from  England  in  the  seventeenth  century  and  settled 
at  Stratford,  Conn.  Caroline  Smith  Wheeler  was  a  daughter 
of  Anson  and  Sarah  (Burton)  Smith,  and  a  descendant  of 


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Anthony  Smith,  who  served  in  the  Revolutionary  Army,  and 
of  George  Smith,  whose  wife  was  a  daughter  of  Captain 
Lamberton  of  the  ''phantom  ship."  The  family  settled  in  West 
Haven,  Conn.,  in  1639. 

He  entered  the  Yale  School  of  Law  in  1875,  having  pre- 
viously studied  at  General  Jarvis*  Military  Academy  in 
Weston,  Conn. 

In  1877  he  entered  a  law  office  in  New  York  City,  but 
shortly  afterwards  went  to  Minneapolis,  Minn.,  and  became 
engaged  in  the  insurance  business.  From  1880  until  his  death 
he  was  eng;aged  in  manufacturing  in  Saugatuck.  He  was  a 
member  of  the  Westport  Episcopal  Church  and  of  the  Sons 
of  the  American  Revolution. 

He  died,  of  cerebro  spinal  meningitis,  in  Saugatuck,  Decem- 
ber 4,  191 1,  and  was  buried  in  Willow  Brook  Cemetery, 
Westport. 

Mr.  Wheeler  was  married  in  Westport,  October  25,  1882, 
to  Elsie  E.,  daughter  of  Thomas  R.  and  Elizabeth  Clark  Lees. 
His  wife  survives  him  with  a  daughter,  Kate  R.  (Wheeler) 
Piatt,  and  a  son,  John  H.,  and  he  also  leaves  a  sister,  Mrs. 
John  Hazleton,  of  Saugatuck. 


Edwin  Archer  Randolph,  LL.B.  1880 

Born  January  19,  1850,  in  Richmond,  Va. 
Died  December  24,  191 9,  in  Danville,  Va. 

Edwin  Archer  Randolph  was  born  in  Richmond,  Va., 
January  19,  1850,  the  son  of  James  Randolph,  a  farmer,  and 
Rabecca  (Archer)  Randolph.  He  was  of  English  descent.  His 
paternal  grandparents  were  Edmund  and  Kate  (Archer) 
Randolph,  and  his  mother  was  the  daughter  of  Robert  and 
Sallie  (Dixon)  Archer. 

He  received  his  preparatory  training  at  the  Wayland  Sem- 
inary in  Washington,  D.  C.  He  entered  the  Yale  School  of 
Law  in  1878,  and  was  graduated  two  years  later.  He  was 
actively  engaged  in  the  practice  of  his  profession  in  Richmond, 
from  1880  until  1905.  From  1881  until  1883  he  was  a  member 


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of  the  Richmond  Common  Council,  and  during  the  next 
three  years  he  served  on  the  Board  of  Aldermen.  He  was 
commissioner  for  the  State  of  Virginia  at  the  World's  Exposi- 
tion in  New  Orleans  in  1884  and  1885.  He  was  the  author  of 
the  "Life  of  John  Jasper,"  and  for  two  years  edited  the  Rich- 
mond Planet.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Berean  Baptist  Church 
in  Washington. 

He  died  December  24,  1919,  in  Danville,  Va.,  from  the 
grippe.   Interment  was  in  Evergreen  Cemetery  in  Richmond. 

He  was  married  December  14,  1893,  in  Richmond,  to 
Virginia  Ollie,  daughter  of  John  Crawford.  They  had  no 
children.  He  leaves  three  brothers  and  three  sisters. 


Harry  HInman  Wadsworth,  LL.B.  1881 

Born  February  12,  1857,  in  Farmington,  Conn. 
Died  July  24,  191 5,  in  Battle  Creek,  Mich. 

Harry  Hinman  Wadsworth  was  born  in  F'armington,  Conn., 
February  12,  1857,  the  son  of  Winthrop  Manna  Wadsworth, 
a  farmer,  and  Lucy  Ann  (Ward)  Wadsworth.  His  father  was 
first  selectman  of  Farmington  for  twenty-eight  successive 
years;  was  president  of  the  Farmington  Savings  Bank;  served 
three  terms  in  the  State  Legislature;  and  was  president  of  the 
Union  Agricultural  Society  and  vice-president  of  the  Connect- 
icut Agricultural  Society  for  many  years.  He  was  a  son  of 
Thomas  Hart  and  Elizabeth  (Rowe)  Wadsworth,  and  a  lineal 
descendant  of  William  Wadsworth^  who  came  from  York- 
shire, England,  in  1632  and  settled  in  Cambridge,  Mass.,  and 
later  in  Hartford,  Conn.  John  Wadsworth,  a  son  of  William 
Wadsworth,  was  an  early  settler  (1641)  of  Farmington,  and 
a  brother  of  Capt.  Joseph  Wadsworth,  who  hid  the  charter  in 
the  Charter  Oak.  Lucy  Ward  Wadsworth  was  the  daughter  of 
Comfort  and  Plumea  (Shepard)  Ward.  Her  ancestors  were 
early  settlers  in  Granby,  Mass.,  having  come  to  America  from 
England. 

He  worked  on  his  father's  farm  in  Farmington  for  fifteen 
years,  and  then  attended  school  in  Milwalikee,  Wis.  He  en- 


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tered  the  Yale  School  of  Law  in  1879,  graduated  In  1881, 
returned  for  a  year's  graduate  study,  and  received  the  degree 
ofLL.M.  ini882. 

He  was  admitted  to  the  bar  of  Connecticut  in  1882,  and 
began  the  practice  of  his  profession  in  his  native  town,  re- 
moving to  Minneapolis,  Minn.,  in  1883.  On  September  7, 
1883,  he  formed  a  partnership  with  his  brother,  Frank  H. 
Wadsworth  (LL.B.  1883),  under  the  name  of  Wadsworth  & 
Wadsworth,  and  was  engaged  in  active  practice  as  the  senior 
member  of  the  firm  until  his  death.  The  firm  was  the  oldest 
law  firm  in  Minneapolis,  making  a  specialty  of  titles  and  real 
estate  law,  commercial  and  banking  laws,  and  the  settlement 
of  estates.  Mr.  Wadsworth  spent  nearly  a  year  preparing  the 
way  and  perfecting  the  title  to  the  Farmington  Water  Com- 
pany's reservoir  system.  In  perfecting  the  title  to  the  Island 
Park  addition  to  Minneapolis  and  to  Government  Lot  No.  2, 
north  of  the  same,  he  traveled  from  Massachusetts  to  Cali- 
fornia, and  also  to  Ireland,  England,  and  France,  in  search  of 
the  real  owners  of  the  fee.  It  is  one  of  the  most  involved  and 
complicated  legal  titles  in  the  state  of  Minnesota,  and  was  in 
litigation  eight  years.  Some  of  the  cases  were  in  the  Federal 
courts,  and  all  terminated  in  favor  of  the  firm  of  Wadsworth 
&  Wadsworth.  Mr.  Wadsworth  was  twice  elected  president 
of  the  Union  League. 

He  died,  of  Bright's  disease,  July  24,  191 5,  at  Battle  Creek, 
Mich.,  where  he  had  gone  for  treatment  a  few  days  before. 
His  body  was  cremated  and  the  ashes  interred  in  Lakewood 
Cemetery,  Minneapolis. 

His  wife,  Mary  L.  Wadsworth,  survives  him,  and  he  also 
leaves  three  brothers,  Adrian  R.  Wadsworth,  '80  S.,  Frank  H. 
Wadsworth,  '83  L.,  and  Frederick  A.  Wadsworth,  of  Minne- 
apolis. He  was  a  nephew  of  Adrian  R.  Wadsworth  (B.A.  1837) 
and  an  uncle  of  Adrian  R.  Wadsworth,  Jr.,  *i6  S. 


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James  Cooney,  Jr.,  LL.B.  1883 

Born  January  3,  1851,  in  Ellington,  Conn. 
Died  November  14,  1918,  in  Los  Angeles,  Calif. 

James  Cooney,  Jr.,  was  born  at  Ellington,  Conn.,  January 
3,  1 85 1,  his  parents  being  James  and  Jane  (Fields)  Cooney. 
He  received  his  preparatory  training  at  a  high  school  in 
Boston,  Mass.,  and  elsewhere,  and  entered  the  Yale  School  of 
Law  in  1882. 

He  began  the  practice  of  law  in  Boston  in  1884,  and  re- 
mained there  until  1900,  when  he  was  obliged  to  remove  to  a 
milder  climate  on  account  of  asthma.  Since  that  time  he  had 
resided  in  southern  California.  He  had  been  secretary  and 
attorney  of  the  Mexican  Telephone  Company.  Mr.  Cooney 
was  a  member  of  the  Protestant  Episcopal  Church.  He  served 
for  a  short  time  in  the  Connecticut  National  Guard,  and 
had  been  a  member  of  the  Massachusetts  Rifle  Association. 
He  was  the  author  of  numerous  verses  and  also  of  articles  on 
field  sports  which  were  published  in  Field  and  Stream  and 
Shooting  and  Fishing. 

He  died,  of  influenza,  November  14,  1918,  in  Los  Angeles, 
Calif.,  and  was  buried  in  Inglewood  Park  Cemetery  in  that 
city. 

Mr.  Cooney  was  unmarried. 


Richard  Carlisle  Tefft,  LL.B.  1883 

Born  November  8,  1 860,  in  Plattsburg,  N.  Y. 
Died  June  17,  1919,  at  Cleverdale,  N.  Y. 

Richard  Carlisle  Tefft  was  born  in  Plattsburg,  N.  Y., 
November  8,  i860,  the  son  of  Otis  Augustus  Tefft,  a  manu- 
facturer, and  Mary  (Carlisle)  Tefft.  His  father  was  for  years 
a  trustee  of  the  public  schools  in  Plattsburg  and  a  supervisor 
of  the  town  of  Black  Brook,  N.  Y.  Richard  C.  Tefft's  paternal 
grandparents  Were  Joseph  and  Chloe  (Heath)  Tefft,  and  he 
was  eighth  in  descent  from  John  Tefft,  who  came  to  America 
early  in  the  seventeenth  century  and  lived  in  Boston,  Mass., 


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Portsmouth  (Kingston),  and  Richmond,  R.  I.  Through  his 
mother,  who  was  the  daughter  of  John  and  Lucina  (Baker) 
Carlisle,  he  was  fifth  in  line  from  William  Carlisle,  who  came 
from  Paisley,  Scotland,  at  the  close  of  the  American  Revolu- 
tion and  settled  in  Hebron,  N.  Y. 

When  he  was  twelve  years  old  he  removed  with  his  parents 
to  Hudson  Falls  (then  Sandy  Hill),  N.  Y.,  and  for  the  re- 
mainder of  his  life  was  a  resident  of  that  place.  He  graduated 
from  the  Glens  Falls  (N.  Y.)  Academy,  and  was  in  the  law 
office  of  Hughes  &  Northup  at  Sandy  Hill  from  1877  to  1879. 
The  next  two  years  were  spent  in  study  and  travel,  the  latter 
on  account  of  poor  health.  He  entered  the  Yale  School  of  Law 
ini88i. 

Directly  after  his  graduation  in  1883  and  his  admission  to 
the  Connecticut  Bar,  he  returned  to  his  home  and  was  again 
in  the  office  of  Hughes  &  Northup  until  September,  when  he 
gave  up  the  practice  of  law  to  please  his  father  and  entered 
the  Sandy  Hill  Iron  and  Brass  Works.  He  became  secretary 
of  the  company  in  1897,  was  made  a  director  in  1900,  and 
became  president  in  1907,  holding  this  office  until  his  death. 
He  served  several  years  as  vice-president  of  the  Sandy  Hill 
National  Bank,  until  ill  health  compelled  his  resignation.  He 
continued  as  a  director  of  the  bank,  however,  until  his  death. 
He  had  also  been  a  director  of  the  Sandy  Hill  Power  Com- 
pany, the  Imperial  Wall  Paper  Company,  and  the  Hibbard 
Gas  Engine  Company.  He  was  a  member  of  the  First  Baptist 
Church  of  Hudson  Falls,  for  many  years  serving  on  its  board 
of  trustees,  and  was  an  earnest  worker  in  the  Bible  school, 
where  he  helped  to  organize  and  for  along  time  was  the  teacher 
of  the  men's  Baracca  class.  Later  he  formed  the  teacher's 
training  class,  which  he  taught  until  he  was  made  superin- 
tendent of  the  school.  He  continued  in  this  office  for  seven 
years,  and  when  he  was  compelled  to  resign  on  account  of  ill 
health  he  was  presented  with  a  loving  cup  by  the  school. 
He  was  a  member  of  the  Baptist  Home  Mission  Society, 
and  gave  generously  to  missions.  He  was  a  member  of  the 
New  York  State  Historical  Association,  and  for  the  last  four 
years  of  his  life  had  been  a  trustee  of  Keuka  College. 

About  three  years  before  his  death  he  suff"ered  a  nervous 


1883  i6i9 

collapse  from  which  he  never  completely  recovered.  He  died 
June  17,  1 919,  after  an  illness  of  five  days  due  to  acute  ne- 
phritis. His  death  occurred  at  his  summer  home,  "The  Knoll," 
at  Cleverdale-on-Lake  George,  N.  Y.  Interment  was  in  the 
Union  Cemetery,  Hudson  Falls. 

He  was  married  June  27,  1888,  in  Hudson  Falls,  N.  Y.,  to 
Mary  Louise,  daughter  of  Louis  and  Matilda  (Caton)  Luther, 
who  survives  him  with  a  son,  Richard  Carlisle,  Jr.  (B.A.  1916, 
M.D.  Harvard  1920),  and  a  daughter,  Ruth  Marcella,  who 
received  the  degree  of  B.A.  at  Wells  College  in  1920. 


Sain  Welty,  LL.B.  1883 

Born  January  19,  1853,  near  Somerset,  Ohio 
Died  April  14,  1920,  in  Bloomington,  111. 

Sain  Welty  was  born  January  19,  1853,  on  a  farm  near 
Somerset,  Ohio,  the  son  of  Emanuel  and  Sarah  Ann  (Sain) 
Welty.  His  paternal  grandfather  was  Peter  Welty,  a  descend- 
ant of  Peter  Welty  and  Madelene  Bixlow,  of  Westmoreland 
County,  Pa.  Through  his  mother,  who  was  the  daughter  of 
PhiUip  and  Catherine  (Coffman)  Sain,'he  was  of  Scotch-Irish 
and  German  descent,  his  first  American  ancestor  on  his 
mother's  side  being  Elizabeth  Coffman,  who  came  to  this 
country  from  England,  and  afterwards  lived  at  Woodstock, 
Va. 

When  he  was  less  than  a  year  old  his  parents  moved  to  a 
farm  near  Washburn,  Marshall  County,  111.,  and  his  early 
education  was  received  in  the  country  schools  near  his  home. 
For  a  time  he  taught  school  in  Marshall  County,  and  then 
entered  the  Illinois  Wesleyan  University,  from  which  he  was 
graduated  in  1881  with  the  degree  of  B.A.  From  1881  to  1883 
he  attended  the  Yale  School  of  Law,  receiving  the  degree  of 
LL.B.  magna  cum  laude  in  1883.  He  was  given  honors  in 
Junior  year  and  was  awarded  the  Marshall  Jewell  Prize  for 
the  best  examination  at  the  end  of  Senior  year. 

He  was  admitted  to  the  Connecticut  Bar  in  1883  and  to  the 
Illinois  Bar  in  1884,  and  had  since  practiced  his  profession  in 


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Bloomington,  111.  He  was  in  the  law  office  of  Fifer  &  Phillips 
for  a  time,  but  in  December,  1884,  formed  a  partnership  with 
John  A.  Sterling  (Illinois  Wesleyan  1881),  of  LeRoy,  111.  In 
1903  Mr.  Sterling  was  elected  to  Congress  and  continued  as  a 
member  of  that  body  until  his  death  in  191 8.  William  W. 
Whitmore,  a  graduate  of  Illinois  Wesleyan  in  1894,  who 
received  his  law  degree  in  1895,  was  added  to  the  firm  in 
1903,  it  being  known  as  Welty,  Sterling  &  Whitmore.  This 
partnership  existed  until  191 5,  when  Mr.  Welty  was  elected 
judge  of  the  17th  Judicial  Circuit,  State  of  Illinois,  which 
office  he  held  at  the  time  of  his  death.  He  was  city  attorney  of 
Bloomington  from  1889  to  1892  and  master  in  chancery  of 
McLean  County  from  1897  to  1901.  During  the  late  war  he 
served  as  chairman  of  the  Legal  Advisory  Board  for  Exemp- 
tion Board  No.  1  for  McLean  County.  He  was  a  member  of 
the  Illinois  State  Bar  Association,  and  served  for  several  years 
as  president  of  the  McLean  County  Bar  Association.  He  had 
been  a  trustee  of  the  Illinois  Wesleyan  University  since  1889, 
and  served  as  president  of  the  board  for  six  years.  He  taught 
a  law  class  in  that  university  from  191 6  to  1920,  and  helped 
foster  the  institution  in  many  ways.  He  received  the  degree 
of  M.A.  there  in  1885  and  that  of  LL.D.  in  1904.  He  was  a 
member  of  the  First  Methodist  Episcopal  Church  of  Bloom- 
ington, had  served  as  one  of  its  trustees  for  thirty  years,  and 
was  for  a  long  time  superintendent  of  the  Sunday  school,  in 
which  he  taught  a  class  of  men.  Judge  Welty  was  an  active 
worker  in  the  Republican  party.  He  was  deeply  interested 
in  all  philanthropic  enterprises,  giving  largely  of  his  time  and 
money  in  their  service.  He  had  been  vice-president  and  pres- 
ident of  the  Bloomington  Country  Club. 

Upon  becoming  circuit  judge  he  started  a  movement  which 
resulted  in  a  thorough  revision  of  the  rules  of  practice  in  the 
circuit.  He  was  a  great  student  of  the  law,  and  never  heard  a 
case  without  an  independent  investigation  of  authorities, 
acting  as  counselor  to  the  attorneys,  as  well  as  judge.  As  a 
result  he  was  never  required  to  grant  a  new  trial  through 
errors,  and  ninety  per  cent  of  his  decisions  were  affirmed  in 
the  higher  courts.  The  last  judicial  act  of  his  life  was  presiding 
over  a  criminal  case  which  had  been  transferred  from  another 


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district  for  retrial.  Anxiety  and  over  work  in  this  case  were 
contributory  causes  of  his  death,  which  occurred  at  his  home 
in  Bloomington,  April  14,  1920,  of  angina  pectoris,  after  an 
illness  of  two  weeks.  Interment  was  in  the  Park  Hill  Cemetery 
in  Bloomington. 

He  was  married  August  12,  1879,  ^"  LaRose,  111.,  to  Ger- 
trude, daughter  of  Jonas  L.  and  Elizabeth  (Fetter)  Ball,  who 
survives  him.  They  had  one  child,  Elizabeth  Ball,  who  grad- 
uated from  Illinois  Wesleyan  University  in  1901  and  from 
Wellesley  College  in  1904,  and  who  was  married  December 
19,  1906,  to  Louie  Forman  (M.A.  Illinois  Wesleyan  19 10). 
She  also  survives. 


Charles  Henry  Hayden,  LL.B.  1887 

Born  February  a6,  1853,  in  Torrington,  Conn. 
Died  June  4,  1919,  in  New  Haven,  Conn. 

Charles  Henry  Hayden  was  born  February  26,  1853,  in 
Torrington,  Conn.,  the  son  of  Tullius  Cicero  and  Susan  C. 
(Chidsey)  Hayden.  His  father,  a  brick  manufacturer  and 
farmer,  was  the  son  of  Cicero  Hayden,  of  Torringford  Society, 
town  of  Torrington.  He  belonged  to  the  Windsor  branch  of 
Haydens.  His  mother  was  the  daughter  of  Edward  and  Asenith 
(Curtis)  Chidsey,  the  latter  being  a  daughter  of  General 
Leifelet  Curtis  of  the  Revolutionary  Army. 

Mr.  Hayden  studied  at  Wesleyan  Academy,  Wilbraham, 
Mass.  He  taught  school  in  Litchfield  and  Hartford  counties, 
and  had  a  real  estate  office  in  Winsted,  Conn.,  for  eight  years 
previous  to  entering  the  Yale  School  of  Law.  While  in  the 
real  estate  business  he  took  up  the  study  of  law.  He  entered 
the  Senior  Class  at  Yale  in  1886  and  graduated  the  year 
following.  He  received  the  degree  of  LL.M.  from  Yale  in  1888. 

Mr.  Hayden  had  since  practiced  law  in  New  Haven,  devot- 
ing most  of  his  attention  to  divorce  matters.  He  was  a  Re- 
publican and  for  a  number  of  years  was  justice  of  the  peace. 
In  1880  he  joined  the  Steele  Guards  in  Winsted,  but  was 
obliged  to  resign  on  account  of  illness.  He  was  a  member  of 
St.  Paul's  Church  in  New  Haven. 


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He  died  June  4,  191 9,  at  his  home  in  New  Haven,  after 
an  illness  of  several  months.  Interment  was  in  Oak  Grove 
Cemetery. 

He  was  married  in  New  Haven,  April  12,  1890,  to  Julia 
Augusta,  a  daughter  of  Henry  A.  Duntze.  Her  death  oc- 
curred December  28,  1891.  They  had  no  children.  His  only 
surviving  relative  is  a  niece. 

Lyman  Twining  Tingier,  LL.B.  1888 

Born  June  9,  1862,  in  Webster,  Mass. 
Died  April  3,  1920,  in  Rockville,  Conn. 

Lyman  Twining  Tingier  was  born  in  Webster,  Mass.,  June 
9,  1862,  the  son  of  Seymour  Allen  Tingier  (born  Tinker)  and 
Sarah  (Twining)  Tingier.  The  family  name  of  Tinker  became 
Tingier  in  1857.  Lyman. T.  Tingier  was  a  direct  descendant, 
through  his  paternal  grandmother,  Laura  (Steele)  Tinker,  of 
Governor  William  Bradford  of  Plymouth  Colony.  His 
paternal  grandfather  was  Edward  Lay  Tinker.  His  father, 
who  graduated  from  Williams  College  in  1855  and  afterwards 
practiced  law  in  Webster  and  at  Thompson,  Conn.,  was  also 
descended  from  John  Tinker,  who  came  to  America  from  Eng- 
land about  1637  and  settled  at  Windsor,  Conn.,  later  remov- 
ing to  New  London.  Sarah  Twining  Tingier  was  the  daughter 
of  Lyman  and  Pauline  (Shepard)  Twining,  and  a  descendant 
of  William  Twining,  who  came  from  Wales  or  England  in 
1637  and  settled  in  Yarmouth,  Mass. 

He  received  his  early  education  at  the  high  school  in  his 
native  town  and  at  Nichols  Academy,  Dudley,  Mass.  Before 
beginning  the  study  of  law  at  Yale  in  1886,  he  traveled  ex- 
tensively through  the  West,  spending  several  months  in 
California. 

He  was  admitted  to  the  Connecticut  Bar  at  New  Haven 
shortly  after  taking  his  degree  in  1888,  and  since  1889  had 
practiced  in  Rockville,  Conn.  He  served  as  judge  of  probate 
for  the  Rockville  Probate  District  from  1890  to  1895,  was 
judge  of  the  City  Court  from  1899  to  1903,  and  for  more  than 
twenty-seven  years  acted  as  clerk  of  the  Superior  Court  of 
Tolland  County.  He  represented  the  town  of  Vernon  in  the 
General  Assembly  in   1909  and   191 1,  being  minority  floor 


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leader  during  the  latter  session.  He  had  served  as  an  alderman, 
was  mayor  of  Rockville  from  191 1  to  1913,  and  was  elected 
lieutenant  governor  of  Connecticut  in  191 2.  In  1914  he  was 
the  unsuccessful  candidate  for  governor.  He  was  a  director  of 
the  Rockville  Savings  Bank  and  a  regular  attendant  of  the 
Union  Congregational  Church,  although  not  a  member. 

His  death  occurred  at  his  home  in  Rockville,  April  3,  1920, 
from  Bright's  disease,  after  an  illness  of  four  years.  Interment 
was  in  Grove  Hill  Cemetery. 

He  was  married  November  16,  1893,  in  Rockville,  to 
Charlotte,  daughter  of  Nelson  Dwight  and  Isabelle  (Brown) 
Skinner,  who  survives  him.  Their  only  child,  Allen  Seymour, 
died  in  childhood.  Besides  his  wife,  Mr.  Tingier  is  survived  by 
a  sister,  Sarah  Pauline  Pierce,  of  Los  Angeles.  He  was  a 
distant  cousin  of  President  Arthur  Twining  Hadley,  '76. 


Nathaniel  Wheeler  Bishop,  LL.B.  1890 

Born  July  16,  1865,  in  Bridgeport,  Conn. 
Died  April  4,  1920,  in  Bridgeport,  Conn. 

Nathaniel  Wheeler  Bishop,  who  was  born  July  16,  1865,  in 
Bridgeport,  Conn.,  was  the  son  of  William  Darius  Bishop 
(B.A.  1849)  ^^^  Julia  Ann  (Tomlinson)  Bishop.  The  Bishop 
family  were  for  many  years  residents  of  Stamford,  Conn., 
Rev.  John  Bishop  having  gone  there  from  Boston  about  1644, 
as  the  second  pastor  of  the  Stamford  Church.  One  of  his 
descendants  was  Alfred  Bishop,  the  grandfather  of  Nathaniel 
Wheeler  Bishop;  he  lived  for  a  time  in  New  Jersey,  but  re- 
turned to  Connecticut  in  1836,  and  settled  in  Bridgeport. 
He  was  a  successful  contractor,  and  built  the  Morris  Canal  in 
New  Jersey,  and  the  Housatonic  and  Naugatuck  railroads  in 
Connecticut.  His  wife  was  Mary  (Ferris)  Bishop.  His  son, 
William  D.  Bishop,  was  president  of  the  New  York,  New 
Haven  &  Hartford  Railroad  from  1866  to  1879,  and  from  that 
time  until  his  death  in  1904  was  vice-president  and  a  director 
of  the  road.  He  had  also  been  president  of  the  Naugatuck 
Railway  Company,  was  a  member  of  Congress  from  1859  to 
1 861,  U.  S.  Commissioner  of  Patents  for  a  year,  a  member  of 
the  Connecticut  State  Senate  in  1866,  1877,  and  1878,  and  a 


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member  of  the  Connecticut  House  of  Representatives  in 
1 87 1.  On  his  mother's  side,  Nathaniel  Wheeler  Bishop  traced 
his  descent  from  Thomas  Tomlinson,  who  took  the  freeman's 
oath  in  New  Haven,  Conn.,  in  1644.  He  removed  to  Milford, 
Conn.,  in  1652,  and  later  settled  in  Stratford,  Conn.  Another 
ancestor  was  Capt.  Gideon  Tomlinson,  eighth  governor  of 
Connecticut.  Julia  Tomlinson  Bishop's  parents  were  Russell 
and  Martha  Maria  (Hitchcock)  Tomlinson. 

Mr.  Bishop  was  fitted  for  college  at  the  Greylock  Institute, 
South  Williamstown,  Mass.,  and  entered  Yale  with  the  College 
Class  of  1889.  He  was  president  of  the  Class  Navy  and  cap- 
tain of  the  Class  Crew  in  the  fall  of  Freshman  year.  He  left 
the  Class  that  year,  was  a  member  of  the  Class  of  1889  ^^ 
Williams  College  for  a  time,  and  then  studied  law  in  the  office 
of  Daniel  Davenport  of  Bridgeport.  From  1887  to  1890  he 
was  a  student  in  the  Yale  School  of  Law,  where  he  received 
the  degree  of  LL.B.  in  1890. 

He  was  admitted  to  the  Connecticut  Bar  that  year,  and  en- 
tered the  office  of  Bristol,  Stoddard  &  Bristol  in  New  Haven. 
In  1 891  he  removed  to  Bridgeport,  and  for  about  a  year  was 
associated  in  practice  with  the  late  Charles  Sherwood  (B.A. 
1872).  Two  years  later  he  became  a  partner  in  the  firm  of 
Chamberlain,  Bishop  &  Hull.  He  finally  gave  up  the  law  to 
become  secretary  and  manager  of  the  American  Ordnance 
Company  (now  the  American  and  British  Manufacturing 
Company).  In  1898,  following  the  outbreak  of  the  Spanish- 
American  War,  he  entered  the  Navy,  and  received  the  com- 
mission of  Lieutenant  (j.g.)  in  the  Third  Division  of  the  Naval 
Battalion  of  Bridgeport,  with  which  he  served  on  the  Elfrieda 
in  New  York  Harbor,  guarding  the  mine  fields.  On  his  return 
to  Bridgeport,  he  became  secretary  of  the  Bridgeport  Steam- 
boat Company,  of  which  he  remained  an  officer  until  the 
company  was  absorbed  by  the  New  York,  New  Haven  & 
Hartford  Railroad  Company.  He  was  then  made  vice-presi- 
dent of  the  B.  D.  Pierce,  Jr.,  Company,  contractors  of  Bridge- 
port, and  later  became  president  of  the  Iron  Ledge  Quarry 
Company,  which  had  taken  over  the  business  of  the  former 
corporation,  and  he  was  actively  engaged  in  its  reorganization 
when  the  World  War  broke  out.  He  was  immediately  called 
to  the  colors,  being  then  a  Senior  Lieutenant  in  the  Naval 


1 890-1 895  1625 

Reserve.  He  was  at  first  detailed  to  the  post  of  commandant 
at  the  naval  base  at  Black  Rock,  on  the  outskirts  of  Bridge- 
port, where  he  had  charge  of  the  training  of  several  hundred 
reservists.  Later  he  was  transferred  to  the  port  of  embarka- 
tion at  Hoboken,  N.  J.,  where  he  worked  steadily  in  an  effort 
to  keep  the  Hnes  of  communication  for  troops  and  supplies 
open  between  this  country  and  European  ports.  In  191 8  he 
obtained  an  indefinite  leave  of  absence  on  his  own  request, 
because  of  ill  health  from  overstrain,  and  since  then  had  been 
endeavoring  to  regain  his  health,  spending  some  time  in  the 
South.  While  suffering  from  melancholia,  he  inflicted  wounds 
on  himself  from  which  he  died  at  the  Bridgeport  Hospital, 
April  4,  1920.  Burial  was  in  Mountain  Grove  Cemetery. 

Mr.  Bishop  was  a  director  of  the  Connecticut  National 
Bank  of  Bridgeport,  the  Bridgeport  Housing  Company,  the 
Morris  Plan  Company,  the  Bridgeport  Gas  Light  Company, 
the  Bridgeport  Hydraulic  Company,  and  the  Choate  School. 
He  had  also  been  vice-president  of  the  Connecticut  Trap 
Rock  Quarries  Company  of  New  Haven.  He  was  a  member  of 
the  Bridgeport  Board  of  Education,  and  had  always  taken  an 
active  part  in  public  affairs.  For  two  years  he  served  as  naval 
aide  on  the  governor's  staff.  He  was  a  member  of  the  First 
Presbyterian  Church  in  Bridgeport. 

He  was  married  October  31,  1889,  in  that  city,  to  Annie 
Lucetta,  daughter  of  Dr.  L  DeVer  Warner  and  Lucetta 
(Greenman)  Warner,  who  survives  him  with  three  sons, 
Warner,  ex-iS,  Alfred,  '20,  and  Nathaniel.  He  also  leaves  a 
sister,  Mary  Ferris,  and  a  brother,  Henry  A.  Bishop,  ^^^•-'84. 
Two  other  brothers  were  Russell  T.  Bishop,  ex-'yg  M.,  and 
William  D.  Bishop,  '80.  William  D.  Bishop,  '11,  and  Julian  T. 
Bishop,  '14,  are  nephews. 

Charles  Thomas  Coyle,  LL.B.  1895 

Born  July  31,  1864,  in  New  Haven,  Conn. 
Died  December  12,  1919,  in  New  Haven,  Conn. 

Charles  Thomas  Coyle  was  born  in  New  Haven,  Conn., 
July  31,  1864,  the  son  of  John  and  Mary  (Coyle)  Coyle.  His 
father,  who  was  engaged  in  the  real  estate  business,  was  the 
son  of  John  Coyle,  who  came  from  Ireland  to  New  Haven  in 


1626  SCHOOL    OF    LAW 

1840,  and  Margaret  (Blake)  Coyle.  His  mother  was  the  daugh- 
ter of  Philip  and  Jane  Coyle,  and  a  descendant  of  Charles 
Coyle,  of  New  York. 

He  received  his  early  education  in  the  public  schools  of 
New  Haven,  and  entered  the  Yale  School  of  Law  in  1893, 
having  previously  been  engaged  in  the  insurance  business  in 
New  Haven. 

After  his  admission  to  the  bar  in  1895  ^^  became  engaged 
in  the  practice  of  law  with  James  B.  Martin  (LL.B.  1892), 
under  the  firm  name  of  Martin  &  Coyle.  Upon  the  election 
of  his  partner  to  the  office  of  mayor  in  1907,  he  gave  up  his 
law  work  to  engage  in  the  real  estate  business.  He  purchased 
a  large  tract  of  land  near  the  foot  of  East  Rock,  and  in  a  few 
years  developed  that  property  into  one  of  the  finest  residential 
sections  of  the  city.  He  developed  Cold  Spring  and  Everit 
streets,  and  nearly  one  hundred  houses  in  the  neighborhood. 
He  took  a  great  interest  in  politics,  served  as  a  member  of  the 
Board  of  Compensation  for  fourteen  years,  and  was  one  of 
the  presidential  electors  for  President  Wilson.  He  was  a 
member  of  St.  Joseph's  Roman  Catholic  Church  in  New 
Haven. 

He  died  December  12,  191 9,  at  his  home  in  that  city,  from 
heart  disease.  Interment  was  in  St.  Lawrence  Cemetery. 

He  was  married  June  14,  1890,  in  Bristol,  Conn.,  to  Mary 
L.,  daughter  of  James  and  Bessie  (Monaghan)  Missett,  who 
survives  him  with  their  two  children:  Frank  J.  Coyle,  an 
attorney  of  New  York  City,  and  Mary  Louise.  Besides  his 
wife  and  children  he  leaves  a  sister,  Mary,  the  wife  of  John 
Melia,  of  New  Haven. 

James  Thomas  Meskill,  LL.B.  1897 

Born  July  10,  1874,  in  New  Britain,  Conn. 
Died  January  7,  1920,  in  New  Britain,  Conn. 

James  Thomas  Meskill  was  born  in  New  Britain,  Conn., 
July  10,  1874,  the  son  of  Matthew  Meskill,  a  mechanic,  and 
Catherine  (McMahon)  Meskill.  His  father  was  born  in  County 
Clare,  Ireland,  the  son  of  James  and  Catherine  (Carmondy) 
Meskill,  and  came  to  this  country  in  1862. 
.  He  graduated  from  the  New  Britain  High  School  in  1894, 


1 895-1 897  1627 

and  during  the  following  year  was  employed  in  a  clerical 
capacity  by  the  North  &  Judd  Manufacturing  Company  of 
New  Britain.  In  1895  ^^  entered  the  Yale  School  of  Law. 
During  the  vacations  he  studied  in  the  office  of  William  F. 
Deleney. 

Upon  completing  his  course  at  the  Law  School  he  became 
associated  with  James  Roche  and  John  Walsh  under  the 
firm  name  of  Walsh,  Roche  &  Meskill.  Later  he  opened  an 
office  for  himself,  and  from  1909  to  191 1  he  was  senior  mem- 
ber of  the  law  firm  of  Meskill  &  Watrous.  In  191 2  he  again 
became  associated  with  Judge  Walsh  in  the  firm  of  Walsh, 
Meskill  &  Roche,  of  which  Henry  P.  Roche  (LL.B.  191 2)  was 
the  third  member.  Since  the  death  of  Judge  Walsh  in  June, 
1919,  he  had  practiced  alone.  He  was  assistant  attorney  for 
the  city  of  New  Britain  during  1898-99;  served  as  park  com- 
missioner from  1903  to  1906;  was  assistant  judge  of  the  City 
and  Police  Court  from  July  i,  1907,  to  August  i,  1909;  and 
judge  of  the  court  from  1909  until  his  death.  No  decision  ren- 
dered by  him  in  either  a  criminal  or  civil  suit  had  ever  been 
reversed  by  a  higher  court,  and  at  the  time  of  his  death  he 
had  been  prominently  mentioned  for  appointment  as  judge  of 
the  Hartford  County  Court  of  Common  Pleas.  He  was  a  mem- 
ber of  St.  Joseph's  Roman  Catholic  Church,  New  Britain. 

He  died  at  his  home,  January  7,  1920,  from  heart  disease, 
and  was  buried  in  St.  Mary's  Cemetery. 

He  was  not  married.  He  is  survived  by  two  brothers  and 
three  sisters. 

William  Rick,  LL.B.  1897 

Born  July  28,  1875,  in  Bethel,  Pa. 
Died  November  20,  1916,  in  Reading,  Pa. 

William  Rick  was  born  July  28,  1875,  ^"  Bethel,  Pa.,  the 
son  of  Garrick  Melrich  Fisher  Rick,  a  retired  merchant,  and 
Sarah  Ann  (Beyerle)  Rick.  He  received  the  degrees  of  B.A. 
and  M.A.  at  Muhlenberg  College,  Allentown,  Pa.,  in  1893 
and  1895,  respectively.  He  then  studied  law  and  was  admitted 
to  the  Pennsylvania  Bar.  He  spent  the  year  of  1896-97  in  the 
Yale  School  of  Law. 

He  became  engaged  in  practice  in  Reading,  Pa.,  in  1897, 


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and  continued  there  until  his  death.*He  was  a  member  of  the 
First  Presbyterian  Church,  and  served  as  mayor  of  the  city 
in  1908.  His  death,  which  was  due  to  heart  disease,  occurred 
in  Reading,  November  20,  191 6.  Interment  was  in  the  Charles 
Evans  Cemetery. 

Mr.  Rick  was  married  April  20,  1899,  in  Lewisburg,  Pa., 
to  Carrie,  daughter  of  Abner  N.  and  Margaret  (Murray) 
Lawshe.  She  survives  him  with  a  daughter,  Margaret  L. 
Rick. 

Martin  Jerome  Cohan,  LL.B.  1904 

Born  December  5,  1878,  in  Allegheny,  Pa. 
Died  July  29,  191 2,  in  Crafton,  Pa. 

Martin  Jerome  Cohan  was  born  in  Allegheny,  Pa.,  Decem- 
ber, 5,  1878,  the  eldest  son  of  Michael  and  Mary  Eleanor 
(Loftus)  Cohan.  His  father,  who  was  engaged  in  the  stove 
manufacturing  business,  was  the  son  of  Patrick  and  Honorah 
(Mahan)  Cohan,  of  Connaught,  Ireland.  His  mother  was  the 
daughter  of  John  and  Sabina  (Monaghan)  Loftus,  and  was 
born  at  Maysville,  Ky.  Her  father,  who  died  at  the  outbreak 
of  the  Civil  War  in  1861,  was  one  of  the  pioneer  contractors 
in  the  construction  of  viaducts  in  Kentucky,  Ohio,  and  Vir- 
ginia. 

He  received  his  preparatory  training  at  St.  Peter's  Paro- 
chial School  in  Allegheny  and  at  Duquesne  College  in  Pitts- 
burgh, and  for  a  time  did  newspaper  work  in  Pittsburgh. 
For  two  years  immediately  before  entering  Yale,  he  was  a 
teacher  in  the  night  class  of  the  First  Ward  Public  School  in 
that  city.  In  his  Junior  year  at  Yale  he  was  admitted  to  prac- 
tice in  the  courts  at  New  Haven.  In  January,  1905,  after 
receiving  his  degree,  he  was  admitted  to  practice  in  the  Su- 
preme Court  of  Pennsylvania,  and  practiced  in  Pittsburgh 
until  his  death  in  191 2.  Shortly  before  his  death  he  had  formed 
a  partnership  with  his  brother,  the  late  John  Aloysius  Cohan 
(LL.B.  1907).  He  was  a  member  of  St.  Philip's  Roman  Catho- 
lic Church  of  Crafton,  a  suburb  of  Pittsburgh. 

He  died  suddenly,  of  heart  trouble,  at  his  home  in  Crafton, 
on  July  29, 191 2.  Burial  was  in  Calvary  Cemetery,  Pittsburgh. 

He  is  survived  by  five  sisters  and  a  brother:  Miss  Catherine 


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G.  Cohan  and  Francis  B.  Cohan  (LL.B.  Duquesne  1914), 
both  of  Pittsburgh,  Mrs.  William  Gosser  Lininger,  of  New 
York  City,  Mrs.  J.  Dom  Hulsman,  of  Crafton,  Mrs.  James  V. 
Ferry,  of  Atlantic  City,  N.  J.,  and  Mrs.  Alfred  T.  Geisler,  of 
Cincinnati.  A  biography  of  his  brother,  John  A.  Cohan, 
appears  on  another  page  of  this  volume. 

Howard  Birney  Snow,  LL.B.  1904 

Born  August  5,  1881,  in  Waterbury,  Conn. 
Died  February  ai,  191 9,  in  Waterbury,  Conn. 

Howard  Birney  Snow,  son  of  Charles  Henry  and  Agnes 
(Birney)  Snow,  was  born  in  Waterbury,  Conn.,  August  5, 
1 88 1.  His  father,  who  was  a  foreman  for  the  American  Brass 
Company,  was  the  son  of  Ebenezer  and  Ursula  (Kemp) 
Snow.  His  mother's  parents  were  William  and  Mary  Birney. 

He  went  to  Butte,  Mont.,  with  his  family  at  an  early  age, 
and  attended  the  high  school  there,  but  in  1897  returned  to 
Waterbury  and  entered  the  local  high  school.  Before  entering 
the  Yale  School  of  Law  in  1901,  he  was  for  a  time  employed 
by  the  Waterbury  Watch  Company. 

Since  his  admission  to  the  bar  in  1904  he  had  practiced  law 
in  Waterbury.  He  was  for  a  time  in  the  office  of  Judge  Gillette, 
but  since  the  latter's  death  had  conducted  an  independent 
practice.  In  1909  he  became  deputy  judge  of  the  City  Court, 
and  served  in  that  capacity  until  191 2.  He  attended  the 
Plattsburg  Military  Camp  in  the  summer  of  1916.  In  191 8 
he  became  the  legal  member  of  the  District  Draft  Board. 
Throughout  the  war  he  served  as  a  four-minute  man,  and  was 
untiring  in  his  efforts  to  help  in  the  various  causes  supported 
by  the  organization.  His  death  on  February  21,  1919,  came 
very  suddenly  while  he  was  attending  a  dinner  of  the  Four- 
Minute  Men's  Association.  It  was  caused  by  a  cerebral 
hemorrhage,  and  was  in  all  probability  due  to  excess  mental 
and  nervous  strain  entailed  by  the  extra  war  work.  He  was 
buried  in  Riverside  Cemetery,  Waterbury. 

Mr.  Snow  was  a  member  of  St.  John's  Church  and  later  of 
All  Souls'  Chapel,  Waterbury,  in  both  of  which  he  had  served 
as  a  vestryman.  He  was  married  June  27, 191 1,  in  Washington, 
Conn.,  to  Alice  M.,  daughter  of  Rev.  Theodore  Mount  Peck, 


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a  graduate  of  Trinity  College  in  1880  and  of  the  Berkeley 
Divinity  School  in  1883,  and  Anna  Elisabeth  (Abbott)  Peck. 
Mrs.  Snow  attended  Smith  College  for  three  years.  She  sur- 
vives her  husband  with  four  children,  Nancy  Merriman, 
Richard  Birney,  Theodore,  and  Jeanne. 

Michael  Herbert,  LL.B.  1905 

Born  November  17,  1881,  in  Colchester,  Conn. 
Died  March  2,  1920,  in  Shelton,  Conn. 

Michael  Herbert  was  born  in  Colchester,  Conn.,  November 
17,  1 88 1.  His  parents  were  John  Herbert,  a  boot  maker,  who 
came  to  Colchester  from  Ireland  in  1870,  and  Ellen  (Crannell) 
Herbert,  daughter  of  Michael  and  Catherine  (MacDermot) 
Crannell.  His  paternal  grandparents  were  William  and  Ann 
(Murphy)  Herbert.  The  Crannells  came  to  Manchester, N.  H., 
from  Athlone,  Ireland,  in  1859. 

After  completing  his  course  at  the  New  Haven  High  School, 
he  was  employed  for  a  time  in  a  shoe  store  in  New  Haven. 
He  entered  the  Yale  School  of  Law  in  1902. 

He  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  July,  1905,  and  during  the 
next  three  years  was  connected  with  the  Lawyers  Title 
Guarantee  &  Trust  Company  of  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.  His  death 
occurred  at  a  sanitarium  in  Shelton,  Conn.,  March  2,  1920, 
after  an  illness  of  two  years  due  to  tuberculosis.  Burial  was  in 
St.  Lawrence  Cemetery,  New  Haven.  He  was  a  member  of 
St.  Patrick's  Roman  Catholic  Church  in  that  city. 

Mr.  Herbert  was  unmarried.  Surviving  him  are  his  father, 
a  brother,  William  Herbert,  and  two  sisters,  Catherine  H. 
(Mrs.  Henry  F.  Bradley)  and  Ellen  C.  Herbert. 

John  Aloysius  Cohan,  LL.B.  1907 

Born  January  26,  1880,  in  Allegheny,  Pa. 
Died  November  11,  1917,  in  Crafton,  Pa. 

John  Aloysius  Cohan  was  the  son  of  Michael  Cohan,  a 
stove  manufacturer,  and  Mary  Eleanor  (Loftus)  Cohan,  and 
was  born  in  Allegheny,  Pa.,  January  26,  1880.  His  paternal 
grandparents  were  Patrick  and  Honorah  (Mahan)  Cohan,  of 


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Connaught,  Ireland.  His  mother  was  born  at  Maysville,  Ky. 
Her  father,  John  Loftus,  whose  death  occurred  in  1 861,  was 
one  of  the  pioneer  contractors  in  the  construction  of  bridges 
in  Kentucky,  Ohio,  and  Virginia;  her  mother's  maiden  name 
was  Sabina  Monaghan. 

He  entered  the  Yale  School  of  Law  in  1904,  having  pre- 
viously attended  the  First  Ward  Public  School,  Allegheny, 
and  Duquesne  College  in  Pittsburgh.  He  practiced  law  in  New 
Haven  for  a  short  time  before  his  graduation  in  1907,  and  in 
his  Senior  year  was  president  of  the  Yale  Kent  Club.  After 
receiving  his  degree  he  was  admitted  to  the  Supreme  Court  of 
Ohio,  and  practiced  in  Cleveland  until  the  death  of  his  brother, 
Martin  Jerome  Cohan  (LL.B.  1904), in  1912,  when  he  returned 
to  Pittsburgh.  He  practiced  at  the  Allegheny  County  Bar 
until  he  w^s  taken  ill  in  May,  191 6.  He  died,  after  a  lingering 
illness,  November  11,  19 17,  at  his  home  in  Crafton,  near 
Pittsburgh.  He  was  buried  in  Calvary  Cemetery,  Pittsburgh. 
He  belonged  to  St.  Philip's  Roman  Catholic  Church  of  Crafton. 

Surviving  him  are  five  sisters  and  a  brother.  Their  names 
are  given  in  the  biographical  sketch  of  Martin  J.  Cohan  which 
appears  on  page  1628  of  this  volume. 

Charles  William  Evarts,  LL.B.  1907 

Born  April  16,  1875,  in  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 
Died  January  15,  1920,  in  New  Haven,  Conn. 

Charles  William  Evarts  was  born  in  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.,  April 
16,  1875,  ^^^  SO"  °^  Ernest  Evarts,  a  manufacturer,  and 
Augusta  Evarts.  His  early  education  was  received  in  the  New 
Haven  public  schools  and  under  a  private  tutor.  Before  tak- 
ing up  the  study  of  law  at  Yale  in  1904,  he  was  employed  by 
Peck  Brothers,  a  manufacturing  concern.  He  was  a  member 
of  the  University  Glee  Club. 

Upon  being  admitted  to  the  bar  he  formed  a  partnership 
with  Judge  Charles  G.  Root  (LL.B.  1877),  of  New  Haven  and 
Waterbury,  under  the  firm  name  of  Root  &  Evarts,  and  con- 
tinued in  this  connection  until  his  death.  He  served  as  a 
member  of  the  lower  house  of  the  Connecticut  Legislature  in 
191 1,  being  chairman  of  the  Committee  on  Incorporations, 
and  was  a  member  of  the  State  Senate  in  1913.  At  the  time  of 


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his  death  he  was  senator-elect  from  the  14th  District.  His 
home  was  at  Devon  (Milford),  Conn.,  and  he  had  been  for 
some  time  chairman  of  the  Milford  Republican  Town  Com- 
mittee. He  was  for  several  years  previous  to  his  death  health 
officer  of  New  Haven  County  and  president  of  the  Connecti- 
cut Public  Health  Association.  He  had  taken  an  active  part 
in  the  support  of  the  Union  Church  at  Devon,  of  which  he 
was  a  member  and  choirmaster.  He  had  also  sung  at  United 
Church  in  New  Haven  and  at  other  churches.  He  belonged  to 
the  Governor's  Foot  Guard,  and  was  secretary  and  treasurer 
of  his  class  in  the  School  of  Law. 

He  was  overcome  by  smoke  at  a  fire  in  the  Chamber  of 
Commerce  Building  in  New  Haven  on  January  15,  1920,  and 
died  a  few  minutes  after  reaching  Grace  Hospital.  Interment 
was  in  Milford. 

He  was  married  July  18,  1907,  in  Milford,  to  Mabel  Frances 
Chapin  Root.  She  is  the  daughter  of  his  law  partner,  Charles 
George  Root,  and  Caroline  (Chapin)  Root.  She  survives  him 
with  two  children,  Ruth  Caroline  and  Josephine  Augusta. 
His  mother,  two  brothers,  and  a  sister  are  also  living. 


Edward  John  Kenealy,  LL.B.  191 1 

Born  June  5,  1880,  in  Stamford,  Conn. 
Died  September  18,  191 9,  in  Stamford,  Conn. 

Edward  John  Kenealy  was  born  in  Stamford,  Conn.,  June 
5,  1880,  the  son  of  Michael  and  Elizabeth  Kenealy.  His 
father,  who  was  for  many  years  a  member  of  the  law  firm  of 
Brandegee  &  Kenealy  (later  Brandegee,  Kenealy  &  Brennan), 
of  New  London,  served  several  terms  in  the  Connecticut 
House  of  Representatives,  of  which  he  was  speaker  in  1905. 
His  parents  were  John  and  Johanna  (Fitzgerald)  Kenealy. 

He  attended  the  Stamford  High  School,  and  subsequently 
spent  some  years  in  the  West.  He  saw  service  during  the 
Spanish-American  War.  He  was  a  student  in  the  Yale  School 
of  Law  from  1908  to  191 1. 

He  began  the  practice  of  law  in  Stamford,  where  he  was  for 
a  time  associated  with  Judge  John  A.  Walsh  (B.A.  1898,  LL.B. 
Ne^y  York  Law  School  1900)  under  the  firm  name  of  Walsh  & 


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Kenealy.  Later  he  was  a  member  of  his  father's  firm  (Kenealy 
&  Kenealy)  In  Stamford,  his  brother  Matthew  being  also  in 
the  firm.  He  had  served  as  deputy  collector  of  customs, 
assistant  clerk  of  the  Connecticut  House,  and  clerk  of  the 
Connecticut  Senate.  He  died  suddenly,  September  18,  191 9, 
at  his  home  in  Stamford,  from  heart  disease. 

He  was  not  married.  He  is  survived  by  his  brother,  Matthew 
Henry  Kenealy  (LL.B.  1910),  and  a  sister,  Elizabeth.  His 
mother's  death  preceded  his  by  about  three  weeks. 


Francis  Wager  Smith,  LL.B.  191 1 

Born  November  20,  1887,  in  Lansingburg,  N.  Y. 
Died  January  21,  1920,  in  Wheaton,  111. 

Francis  Wager  Smith,  son  of  Otis  Smith,  a  merchant,  and 
Pamela  M.  (Wager)  Smith,  was  born  in  Lansingburg,  N.  Y., 
November  20,  1887.  His  paternal  grandparents  were  Leonard 
and  Emeline  (Derrick)  Smith.  Through  his  mother,  who  is 
the  daughter  of  M.  Francis  and  Marietta  (St.  John)  Wager, 
he  traced  his  ancestry  to  Matthias  St.  John,  who  came  to 
America  from  England  about  1631  and  settled  in  Dorchester, 
Mass. 

His  early  education  was  received  in  the  Lansingburg 
Academy  and  the  Bennington  (Vt.)  High  School,  from  which 
he  graduated  in  1908.  He  entered  the  Yale  School  of  Law  that 
year  and  received  the  degree  of  LL.B.  in  191 1. 

During  1911-12  he  had  charge  of  the  Cortland  (N.  Y.) 
office  of  the  Syracuse  Journal^  and  then  entered  the  New  York 
State  College  for  Teachers,  where  he  received  the  degree  of 
B.S.  in  1914.  He  spent  the  next  year  in  graduate  work  at  the 
same  institution,  and  during  191 5-16  he  was  principal  of  the 
schools  of  Garrison,  Iowa.  In  191 7  he  received  the  degree  of 
M.A.  from  the  University  of  Iowa.  Since  that  time  he  had 
been  professor  of  history  and  social  sciences  at  Wheaton  Col- 
lege, Wheaton,  111.,  and  had  also  served  as  secretary  of  the 
institution.  On  May  5,  1917,  he  was  commissioned  a  Captain 
of  Rifantry  in  the  Officers'  Reserve  Corps,  but  on  reporting  for 
duty  at  Fort  Snelling  was  rejected  on  account  of  physical 
disability.  During  the  summer  of  191 8  he  was  faculty  rep- 


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resentative  from  Wheaton  College  in  the  S.  A.  T.  C.  at 
Fort  Sheridan,  and  later  was  war  aims  instructor  in  the 
S.  A.  T.  C.  at  Wheaton.  He  was  a  member  of  the  State  His- 
torical Society  of  Iowa,  the  American  Historical  Association, 
the  American  Sociological  Society,  and  the  First  Presbyterian 
Church  in  Wheaton. 

He  died  January  21,  1920,  at  his  home  in  Wheaton,  from 
pneumonia.  Burial  was  in  Oakwood  Cemetery  in  North 
Troy,  N.  Y. 

He  was  married  November  10,  1910,  in  New  Haven,  Conn., 
to  Marie  Emilie,  daughter  of  John  C.  and  Emilie  H.  (Skibbe) 
Theiss.  She  survives  him  with  their  two  sons,  Leonard  Theiss 
and  Francis  Wager,  Jr.  His  mother  is  also  living. 

Donald  Waddill  Young,  LL.B.  191 3 

Born  March  4,  18 89,' in  Las  Cruces,  N.  Mex. 
Died  August  21,  1919,  in  Las  Cruces,  N.  Mex. 

Donald  Waddill  Young  was  born  in  Las  Cruces,  N.  Mex., 
March  4,  1889,  the  son  of  Richard  Leon  Young,  a  lawyer, 
and  Susan  Cornelia  (Leedy)  Young.  His  father  is  the  son  of 
William  Yates  and  Matilda  (Benson)  Young,  and  his  mother's 
parents  were  Josiah  and  Margaret  (Doran)  Leedy. 

He  attended  New  Mexico  State  College  for  four  years, 
graduating  from  that  institution  with  the  degree  of  B.S. 
in  1910.  He  then  entered  the  Yale  School  of  Law  and  received 
the  degree  of  LL.B.  in  1913.  He  was  awarded  the  third  Mun- 
son  Prize  in  his  third  year. 

He  was  admitted  to  the  bar  of  New  Mexico  June  26,  1913, 
and  from  that  time  until  his  death  was  associated  with  his 
father  in  practice  in  Las  Cruces.  The  firm  was  known  as 
Young  &  Young.  During  the  war  Mr.  Young  served  as  deputy 
fuel  administrator  for  New  Mexico,  having  his  office  at 
Albuquerque.  He  was  treasurer  of  the  Yale  Alumni  Associa- 
tion of  New  Mexico  for  several  years.  He  was  a  member  of 
the  Las  Cruces  Methodist  Church. 

He  died  August  21,  1919,  at  his  home  in  Las  Cruces,  from  a 
cerebral  hemorrhage  caused  by  a  fall.  Interment  was  in  the 
Masonic  Cemetery  in  Las  Cruces. 

He  was  unmarried.  He  is  survived  by  his  parents. 


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George  Freeman  Turner,  LL.B.  191 5 

Born  June  17,  1882,  in  Scituate,  Mass. 
Died  November  2,  191 8,  in  New  York  City 

George  Freeman  Turner  was  born  in  Scituate,  Mass.,  June 
17,  1882,  the  son  of  James  Nathaniel  Turner,  a  farmer,  and 
Elizabeth  (Cottle)  Turner.  Through  his  father,  whose  parents 
were  Nathaniel  and  Mary  (Ellms)  Turner,  he  traced  his  descent 
to  Humphrey  Turner,  who  came  to  Scituate  from  Kent, 
England,  in  1622.  His  mother  was  the  daughter  of  Charles 
and  Mary  (Norton)  Cottle,  and  a  descendant  of  the  Cottles 
and  Nortons,  who  were  the  first  settlers  of  Martha's  Vine- 
yard, Mass. 

He  received  his  preparatory  training  in  his  native  town,  and 
graduated  from  Boston  University  with  the  degree  of  B.A.  in 
1903.  He  then  became  engaged  in  teaching,  and  had  served  as 
principal  of  schools  in  Colorado  and  at  Sterling,  Pepperell, 
and  South  Hadley,  Mass.  In  191 2  he  entered  the  Yale  School 
of  Law.  He  received  first-year  honors  and  was  given  the  degree 
of  LL.B.  in  1915. 

He  then  served  for  a  time  as  an  indictment  clerk  in  the 
office  of  the  district  attorney  of  New  York  City,  later  becom- 
ing an  assistant  district  attorney  for  the  county  and  city  of 
New  York.  He  subsequently  entered  the  offices  of  Frank  E. 
Carstarphen  and  William  Harmon  Black,  former  acting  U.  S. 
attorney  and  acting  district  attorney  of  New  York  County, 
respectively,  and  continued  in  this  connection  until  his  death. 
He  was  a  member  of  the  Unitarian  Church  in  Sterling,  Mass. 
While  attending  Yale  he  resided  at  Short  Beach,  Conn.,  and 
taught  a  class  of  young  men  in  the  Sunday  school  there. 

He  died,  of  influenza,  at  his  home  in  New  York  City, 
November  2,  191 8.  His  body  was  taken  to  Sterling  for  burial 
in  Oak  Hill  Cemetery. 

He  was  married  April  3,  1907,  in  Sterling,  to  Martha  Louise, 
daughter  of  James  and  Maria  (Foster)  Sibley,  who  survives 
him  with  their  only  child,  Ruby.  He  also  leaves  two  brothers, 
James  West  Turner,  of  Scituate,  and  Charles  Cottle  Turner, 
of  Miami,  Fla. 


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Lawrence  Kirby  Fulton,  LL.M.  1907 

Born  August  8,  1882,  in  Uniontown,  Kans. 
Died  October  i,  191 8,  in  Cambrai,  France 

Lawrence  Kirby  Fulton,  whose  parents  were  Andrew  L. 
Fulton,  M.D.,  and  Frona  (Kirby)  Fulton,  was  born  August  8, 
1882,  in  Uniontown,  Kans,,  his  mother's  native  town.  His 
paternal  grandparents  were  Samuel  and  Jean  (McDermid) 
Fulton,  of  Southwold,  Canada.  He  received  the  degree  of 
LL.B.  from  the  Kansas  City  School  of  Law  in  1906,  having 
attended  school  at  St.  Thomas,  Ontario,  before  entering  that 
institution.  He  became  a  graduate  student  in  the  Yale  School 
of  Law  in  1906,  and  was  given  the  degree  of  LL.M.  the  follow- 
ing year. 

He  then  began  the  practice  of  law  in  Kansas  City,  Mo.  He 
was  for  several  years  in  the  office  of  Lathrop,  Morrow,  Fox  & 
Moore,  was  later  associated  with  Mr.  L.  C.  Boyle,  and  sub- 
sequently practiced  alone.  In  1914,  at  the  outbreak  of  the 
World  War,  he  went  to  Canada  and  enlisted  as  a  Private  in 
the  1 5  th  Canadian  Cavalry.  He  served  in  France  for  four  years, 
and  was  killed  in  action  at  Cambrai,  October  i,  1918.  He  was 
buried  in  the  British  Cemetery  at  Sancourt. 

Mr.  Fulton  was  unmarried.  He  is  survived  by  an  aunt,  Mrs. 
John  Risdon,  of  Toronto. 


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Augustine  Barnum,  B.D.  1873 

Born  April  12,  1848,  in  Franklin,  Mich. 
Died  April  21,  1919,  in  Chicago,  111. 

Augustine  Barnum  was  born  in  Franklin,  Mich.,  April  12, 
1848.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Senior  class  at  Oberlin  College 
during  1 869-1 870,  and  after  taking  his  B.A.  degree  spent  three 
years  in  the  Yale  Divinity  School.  He  received  the  degree  of 
B.D.  at  Yale  in  1873. 

He  was  ordained  at  Candor,  N.  Y.,  June  14,  1876,  and 
served  a  pastorate  of  two  years  there.  He  remained  in  the 
ministry  until  1883,  and  was  then  for  a  time  on  the  editorial 
staff  of  the  New  York  Mail  and  Express.  Since  about  1888 
he  had  been  engaged  in  the  mortgage  loan  and  real  estate  busi- 
ness in  Chicago,  and  had  also  given  some  attention  to  literary 
work.  Mr.  Barnum's  death  occurred,  from  influenza,  at  the 
Englewood  Hospital  in  Chicago,  April  21,  191 9. 

He  was  not  married. 


William  Dexter  Mossman,  B.D.  1876 

Born  August  31,  1842,  in  Chicopee,  Mass. 
Died  October  13,  1919,  in  Madison,  Conn. 

William  Dexter  Mossman  was  the  son  of  Dexter  Fay  and 
Louisa  Augusta  (Evans)  Mossman,  and  was  born  August  31, 
1842,  in  Chicopeej  Mass.  His  father,  who  was  connected  with 
the  Ames  Works  in  that  city,  served  during  the  Civil  War  as 
inspector  of  arms  at  the  Springfield  Arsenal.  He  was  the  son 
of  Silas  and  Betsey  (Goodale)  Mossman,  and  a  descendant  of 
James  Mossman,  who  came  to  this  country  from  England 
about  1650,  and  of  Silas  Mossman,  who  with  his  three  brothers 
served  in  the  War  of  the  Revolution.  Other  ancestors  on  the 
paternal  side  were  Abner  Goodale,  Eliakim  Howe,  and  Jona- 
than Hemenway.  His  maternal  grandfather  was  William  A. 

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Evans,  and  through  his  great-grandmother,  Persis  Whitney, 
he  traced  his  ancestry  to  John  Whitney,  who  came  to  America 
from  London  in  May,  1635,  ^"^  settled  in  Watertown,  Mass. 

On  September  6,  1862,  he  enlisted  in  Company  D,  46th 
Regiment,  Massachusetts  Volunteers,  for  nine  months' 
service,  during  which  he  participated  in  several  battles.  He 
was  eventually  sent  to  the  hospital  and  offered  his  discharge, 
which,  however,  was  not  accepted  until  he  was  mustered  out 
with  his  regiment.  During  1864-65  he  was  in  the  service  of  the 
U.  S.  Sanitary  Commission  at  Washington  and  in  Virginia 
as  a  relief  agent.  He  was  then  appointed  chief  clerk  of  the 
Commission  at  Grant's  headquarters  at  City  Point,  Va., 
where  he  remained  until  the  end  of  the  war.  He  was  fitted  for 
college  at  the  Chicopee  High  School  and  under  Josiah  Clark 
(B.A.  1833),  of  Northampton,  Mass.,  and  graduated  from 
Amherst  in  1870  with  the  degree  of  B.A.  He  was  a  member  of 
Phi  Beta  Kappa  at  Amherst.  He  then  spent  two  years  in 
Scranton,  Pa.,  serving  as  city  missionary  during  1870-71  and 
afterwards  as  general  secretary  of  the  Y.  M.  C.  A.  In  1872  he 
entered  the  Yale  Divinity  School,  but  was  called  home  in 
November,  1873,  by  the  death  of  his  father.  He  returned  to 
Yale  for  the  spring  term  of  1874,  and  during  this  period  had 
charge  of  Warburton  Chapel  in  Hartford.  He  spent  the  next 
year  in  western  New  York  and  in  Canada  with  his  mother, 
whose  health  was  very  poor,  but  resumed  his  theological  stud- 
ies at  Yale  in  the  fall  of  1 875,  and  was  given  his  degree  in  1 876. 

He  held  the  professorship  of  Latin  and  natural  science  at 
Biddle  University,  Charlotte,  N.  C,  during  1876-77.  He  was 
ordained  to  the  Presbyterian  ministry  while  living  in  Charlotte 
and  served  churches  at  Good  Hope  and  Hopewell,  S.  C,  and 
elsewhere  until  returning  to  New  Haven  in  1877,  when  he 
was  transferred  to  the  Congregational  ministry.  He  served  as 
general  superintendent  and  missionary  pastor  of  the  New 
Haven  City  Missionary  Association  from  that  time  until  191 5, 
when  he  retired  from  active  service  and  was  made  pastor 
emeritus.  For  many  years  he  conducted  the  mission  at  the 
corner  of  State  and  Court  streets,  and  it  was  largely  due  to 
his  efforts  that  funds  were  raised  for  the  present  home  of  the 
mission  on  Orange  Street.  He  was  many  times  consulted,  and 
helped  in  the  organization  of  missions  and  other  philanthropic 


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movements  in  various  parts  of  the  country.  He  was  instru- 
mental in  starting  the  Associated  Charities  in  New  Haven, 
which  was  the  first  organization  of  its  kind  incorporated  in 
America  and  which  was  an  original  idea  with  Mr.  Mossman. 
He  was  at  the  head  of  the  organization  for  eight  years,  in 
addition  to  carrying  on  his  work  at  the  mission.  He  had  also 
been  active  in  the  work  of  the  Society  for  the  Prevention  of 
Crime,  the  New  Haven  Register  Fresh  Air  Fund,  the  Yale 
Hope  Mission,  and  the  Welcome  Hall  Mission,  and  did  much 
to  suppress  immoral  plays  and  for  the  cause  of  prohibition. 
He  had  always  retained  his  membership  in  the  Church  of 
Christ  in  Yale  University.  He  had  had  calls  to  churches  in 
Minneapolis  and  St.  Paul,  Minn.,  and  elsewhere,  and  had 
been  offered  the  superintendency  of  the  New  Haven  Hospital. 
He  was  for  several  years  chaplain  of  Admiral  Foote  Post, 
G.  A.  R.,  of  New  Haven. 

Mr.  Mossman  died  October  13,  1919,  at  his  summer  home 
in  Madison,  Conn.,  from  a  complication  of  troubles,  indirectly 
due  to  an  accident  in  February,  191 8,  when  his  hip  was  broken. 
Interment  was  in  Evergreen  Cemetery,  New  Haven. 

He  was  married  August  3,  1875,  ^^  Gambier,  Ohio,  to 
Josephine,  daughter  of  Dr.  Warren  Watrous,  of  Mount  Ster- 
ling, Ky.,  and  Eunice  Calkins  (Lewis)  Watrous.  She  survives 
him  with  a  daughter,  Grace.  Another  daughter,  Marian 
Watrous  (B.A.  Vassar  1901),  died  in  1910,  and  a  third,  Eva 
Eunice  (Mrs.  Louis  D.  Stanton),  in  May,  1921. 


Edwin  Munsell  Bliss,  B.D.  1877 

Born  September  12,  1848,  in  Erzerum,  Turkey- 
Died  August  6,  1919,  in  Washington,  D.  C. 

Edwin  Munsell  Bliss  was  born  September  12,  1848,  in 
Erzerum,  Turkey,  the  son  of  Rev.  Isaac  Grout  Bliss,  D.D. 
(B.A.  Amherst  1844),  and  Eunice  (Day)  Bliss,  daughter  of 
Aaron  Day.  His  father,  who  was  a  student  in  the  Yale  Divin- 
ity School  from  1845  ^^  1847,  served  as  a  missionary  of  the 
American  Board  in  Turkey,  and  later  was  the  agent  of  the 
American  Bible  Society  for  the  Levant  for  over  thirty  years. 
He  was  the  son  of  Harvey  and  Abigail  (Grout)  Bliss. 


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His  early  education  was  received  at  Robert  College  in 
Constantinople,  and  at  the  high  school  in  Springfield,  Mass. 
He  graduated  from  Amherst  College  with  the  degree  of  B.A. 
in  1 871  and  entered  the  Yale  Divinity  School  in  the  fall  of 
that  year.  He  returned  fo  the  Orient  a  year  later,  and  be- 
came an  assistant  in  the  work  of  the  Bible  Society,  traveling 
extensively  in  its  interests  in  Turkey  and  Persia.  In  1875  ^^ 
came  back  to  the  United  States  and  spent  two  more  years  at 
Yale.  He  received  the  degree  of  B.D.  in  1877. 

He  had  been  ordained  at  New  Haven  on  May  18,  1877, 
and  until  1888  he  served  as  an  agent  for  the  American  Bible 
Society  at  Constantinople,  supervising  the  distribution  of  the 
Scriptures  in  various  languages  through  the  whole  of  the 
Turkish  Empire,  Greece,  Persia,  southern  Russia,  and  north- 
ern Africa.  He  returned  to  the  United  States  in  1888  and  for 
the  next  two  years  was  engaged  in  editing  the  Encyclopedia 
of  Missions.  He  became  an  associate  editor  of  the  Independent 
in  1 891  and  held  that  position  for  ten  years,  at  the  same  time 
doing  editorial  writing  for  Harper  s  Weekly  and  the  New  York 
Times.  He  was  field  secretary  for  the  American  Tract  Society 
in  New  England  from  1902  to  1904,  and  served  as  general 
secretary  of  the  Foreign  Missions  Industrial  Association  in 
1905.  He  had  much  to  do  with  the  arrangements  for  the 
Ecumenical  Conference  on  Foreign  Missions  in  New  York 
City  in  1900,  and  was  chairman  of  its  committee  on  publicity. 
He  was  an  acknowledged  authority  on  complex  Eastern  ques- 
tions. Since  1907  he  had  been  connected  with  the  Bureau  of 
the  Census  in  Washington,  as  an  expert  on  religious  bodies. 
Amherst  College  conferred  the  degree  of  D.D.  upon  him  in 
1896.  During  the  World  War  Dr.  Bliss  was  a  member  of  the 
general  committee  on  chaplains  of  the  Federal  Council  of 
Churches,  and  chairman  of  the  Congregational  committee 
on  chaplains.  He  was  the  author  of  "The  Turk  in  Armenia, 
Crete  and  Greece,"  "A  Concise  History  of  Missions,"  ''The 
Missionary  Enterprise,"  and  other  works.  In  19 10  he  edited 
the  census  report  on  religious  bodies,  and  in  1913  that  on 
benevolent  institutions.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Mount 
Pleasant  Congregational  Church  in  Washington. 

He  died  in  that  city,  August  6,  191 9,  of  paralysis  of  the 
intestines.  Interment  was  in  Woodlawn  Cemetery,  New  York. 


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He  was  married  June  5,  1879,  in  Urumia,  Persia,  to  Marie 
Louise,  daughter  of  Alexander  J.  Henderson,  who  died  Decem- 
ber 12,  1897.  ^is  second  marriage  took  place  November  8, 
1900,  in  Brockton,  Mass.,  to  Ella  Theodora,  daughter  of 
Joseph  A.  and  Maria  (McComb)  Crosby,  who  survives  him. 
He  had  one  daughter,  Elizabeth  Laboree  (Mrs.  Irving  D. 
Tunison).  Dr.  Bliss  leaves  three  brothers:  William  G.  Bliss, 
Dr.  Charles  L.  Bliss,  and  Sylvester  S.  Bliss. 


Lewis  Williams,  B.D.  1878 

Born  March  15,  1837,  in  Llanelltyd,  North  Wales 
Died  September  4,  1919,  in  Utica,  N.  Y. 

Lewis  Williams  was  born  at  Llanelltyd,  near  Dollgelly, 
Merionethshire,  North  Wales,  March  15,  1837,  the  son  of 
Robert  and  Eleanor  (Lewis)  Williams.  He  came  to  America 
with  his  parents  when  he  was  five  years  old.  His  father  be- 
came engaged  in  farming  near  Lyons  Falls,  N.  Y.,  and  he 
attended  the  public  schools  of  that  town  until  he  was  sixteen 
and  then  studied  at  the  Lowville  (N.  Y.)  Academy,  the  Whites- 
town  (N.  Y.)  Seminary,  and  Eastman's  Business  College 
at  Oswego.  He  taught  school  for  several  terms  in  Lewis 
County  and  was  for  a  time  instructor  in  bookkeeping  and 
penmanship  in  the  Lowville  Academy.  He  later  became  en- 
gaged in  surveying.  On  the  outbreak  of  the  Civil  War  he  tried 
to  enlist,  but  was  rejected  because  of  defective  eyesight. 

He  was  a  student  in  the  Yale  Divinity  School  from  1863  to 
1866,  and  during  part  of  this  time  attended  lectures  in  the 
Sheffield  Scientific  School.  He  supplied  the  pulpit  of  the  Con- 
gregational Church  at  New  Preston,  Conn.,  during  the  fall  of 
1865  and  the  spring  of  1866,  and  the  following  autumn  be- 
came pastor  of  the  church,  where  he  remained  until  April  i, 
1869.  He  was  ordained  July  11,  1867.  From  1869  to  1877  he 
was  in  charge  of  the  Presbyterian  churches  at  Lyons  Falls 
and  Turin,  N.  Y.  During  this  period  he  continued  his  theologi- 
cal studies  privately,  and  in  1878  took  the  examinations  of  the 
Yale  Divinity  School  for  the  degree  of  B.D.,  which  he  then 
received.  He  became  pastor  of  the  Port  Leyden  (N.  Y.) 
Congregational   Church   in    1877,   and   continued   there   for 

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twenty  years,  his  home  afterwards  being  in  Utica,  N.  Y.  He 
declined  to  accept  any  calls  to  permanent  pastorates,  but 
frequently  supplied  churches  in  the  vicinity  of  Utica.  Since 
1 901  he  had  acted  as  stated  supply  for  the  Bethel  Church  at 
North  Remsen,  N.  Y.  During  his  pastorate  at  Port  Leyden 
the  church  was  extensively  remodeled  and  successfully 
financed.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Black  River  and  St.  Law- 
rence Association  of  Congregational  Churches  and  of  the 
Utica  Ministers  Association.  He  was  the  author  of  an  historical 
essay  entitled,  "Welsh  People  and  Churches,"  and  had  fre- 
quently addressed  teachers'  associations  and  graduating 
classes.  He  had  often  been  called  upon  to  preach  in  Welsh. 
He  visited  the  Pacific  Coast  in  1889,  and  afterwards  lectured 
on  California.  He  traveled  through  Egypt  and  Palestine  in 
1902,  also  paying  a  visit  to  his  former  home  in  Wales,  and 
later  gave  many  lectures  on  the  Holy  Land.  At  the  time  of  his 
death  he  was  a  member  of  Plymouth  Congregational  Church 
in  Utica.  He  had  served  for  a  number  of  years  as  secretary  of 
the  Class  of  1878  D. 

Mr.  WilHams  died  September  4,  191 9,  at  his  home  in  Utica. 
His  death,  which  followed  an  illness  of  only  two  weeks,  came 
as  the  result  of  a  general  breakdown  due  to  old  age.  He  was 
buried  in  the  family  plot  in  the  Turin  Cemetery. 

He  was  married  October  31,  1865,  in  Adrian,  Mich.,  to 
Mary  Jane,  daughter  of  Hannah  (Culver)  Price.  She  died 
February  4, 1917.  Adaughter,  Augusta  M.,  now  Mrs.  Frederick 
Joseph  DeLaFleur,  survives.  Mr.  Williams  also  leaves  three 
grandchildren. 

Milan  Church  Ayres,  B.D.  1879 

Born  May  17,  1850,  in  Lewiston,  III. 
Died  May  21,  1920,  in  Washington,  D.  C. 

Milan  Church  Ayres  was  born  in  Lewiston,  111.,  May  17, 
1850,  the  son  of  Rev.  Lorenzo  Dow  Ayres,  a  Baptist  minister, 
and  Lucy  (Trowbridge)  Ayres.  His  paternal  grandfather 
was  James  Ayres,  and  he  was  a  descendant  of  Robert  Ayars, 
who  came  from  England  about  1680  and  settled  in  New 
Jersey.  His  mother  was  the  daughter  of  Daniel  H.  Trowbridge, 
of  New  York. 


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His  early  education  was  received  at  Independence,  111.  In 
1864,  although  only  fourteen  years  of  age,  he  volunteered  as  a 
soldier  in  the  Union  Army,  and  served  during  the  fall  of  that 
year  in  the  series  of  operations  in  which  General  Pleasanton 
defeated  the  Confederate  general,  Sterling  Price.  He  was  a 
student  in  the  Kansas  State  Agricultural  College  from  1864 
to  1866,  and  during  1867-68  taught  in  the  Wetmore  (Kans.) 
Institute.  He  taught  in  various  towns  in  that  state  during  the 
next  four  years,  and  from  1872  to  1876  was  a  home  missionary 
at  Hamlin,  Kans.,  where  his  ordination  took  place  on  May  30, 
1874.  He  was  graduated  from  the  National  School  of  Elocution 
and  Oratory  in  Philadelphia,  Pa.,  in  1876.  In  the  fall  of  that 
year  he  entered  the  Yale  Divinity  School,  which  he  attended 
for  three  years,  receiving  the  degree  of  B.D.  in  1879. 

The  following  year  he  spent  as  pastor  of  the  Congrega- 
tional Church  in  Niantic,  Conn.,  and  during  1880-81  he  was 
engaged  in  graduate  work  in  the  Yale  Divinity  School.  He 
was  pastor  of  the  Southington  (Conn.)  Congregational 
Church  from  1880  to  1884,  and  then  gave  up  preaching  and 
was  a  journalist  and  stenographic  law  reporter  in  Boston 
until  1890.  He  was  editor-in-chief  of  the  Boston  Daily  Ad- 
vertiser from  1890  to  1903,  and  later  was  engaged  in  occa- 
sional journalistic  work  and  lecturing,  residing  in  Newton 
Highlands,  Mass.  He  was  one  of  the  founders  of  the  Twentieth 
Century  Club  of  Boston.  In  December,  191 2,  he  moved  to 
Escalon,  Calif.,  where  he  had  bought  a  tract  of  land  and 
resided  there  until  the  summer  of  1913,  when  he  returned  to 
the  East.  He  spent  the  next  four  years  in  New  York  City  and 
then  removed  to  Washington,  D.  C,  his  home  until  his  death. 
He  was  the  author  of  "Phillips  Brooks  in  Boston"  (with  an 
introduction  by  President  Tucker  of  Dartmouth),  1893,  and 
also  of  numerous  reviews,  biographical  articles,  etc.,  in 
various  magazines  and  journals.  He  was  one  of  the  Old  South 
Church  historical  lecturers  for  1901.  He  was  a  member  of  the 
First  Congregational  Church  in  Washington. 

He  died  May  21,  1920,  in  the  Walter  Reed  Hospital  in  that 
city,  from  hardening  of  the  arteries,  with  complications. 
Burial  was  in  Glenwood  Cemetery,  Washington. 

He  was  married  December  24,  1 871,  in  Wetmore,  Kans.,  to 
Georgiana  Gall,  of  Montreal,  Quebec.  Mrs.  Ayres,  who  spent 


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several  years  in  the  Yale  School  of  the  Fine  Arts,  is  the  daugh- 
ter of  John  Mings  and  Julia  (Garth)  Gall.  She  is  now  residing 
in  New  York  City.  Six  children  are  also  living:  Milan  Valen- 
tine (B.S.  Massachusetts  Institute  of  Technology  1898),  a 
Major  on  the  General  Staff  of  the  U.  S.  Army;  Leonard 
Porter,  who  received  the  degrees  of  Ph.B.,  M.A.,  and  Ph.D. 
from  Boston  University  in  1902,  1909,  and  1910,  respectively, 
and  who  served  during  the  World  War  as  a  Colonel  on  the 
General  Staff,  receiving  the  Distinguished  Service  Medal, 
and  who  is  now  director  of  the  departments  of  education  and 
statistics  of  the  Russell  Sage  Foundation;  Delania  (Mrs. 
Francis  Drake);  Lucy  T.;  Irene,  the  wife  of  Charles  L.  Olds; 
and  May  (Mrs.  W.  Randolph  Burgess),  who  graduated  from 
Simmons  College  with  the  degree  of  B.S.  in  191 1,  and  later 
took  her  Ph.D.  at  Columbia.  Another  daughter,  Ida,  died  in 
January,  1909. 


William  Beardsley  Hubbard,  B.D.  1881 

Born  November  18,  1852,  in  Lamoille,  111. 
Died  December  4,  1919,  in  Centerbrook,  Conn. 

William  Beardsley  Hubbard  was  the  son  of  Rev.  George 
Boardman  Hubbard  (B.A.  1842)  and  Jane  (Beardsley) 
Hubbard,  and  was  born  in  Lamoille,  111.,  November  18,  1852. 
His  father,  whose  parents  were  Ezra  Stiles  Hubbard,  a  banker 
of  New  Haven,  Conn.,  and  Eliza  (Church)  Hubbard,  held 
pastorates  in  Illinois  and  Wisconsin  for  fifty  years.  He  was 
descended  from  Rev.  William  Hubbard,  who  came  to  America 
from  England  with  his  father,  William  Hubbard,  in  1630; 
graduated  at  Harvard  in  1642;  was  pastor  of  the  Congrega- 
tional Church  in  Ipswich,  Mass.;  and  served  as  president /?ro 
tern  of  Harvard  during  1684-85.  His  grandson.  Rev.  John 
Hubbard,  was  graduated  from  Harvard  in  1695,  while  his 
great-grandson,  John  Hubbard,  was  granted  the  honorary 
degree  of  M.A.  by  Yale  in  1730.  The  latter  had  four  sons  who 
attended  Yale,  two  being  graduated  in  1744  and  the  others  in 
1748  and  1759,  respectively.  Jane  Beardsley  Hubbard  was  the 
daughter  of  Rev.  William  Beardsley  and  Bethia  (VanValken- 
burgh)  Beardsley,  and  a  descendant  of  William  Beardsley, 


I879-I88I  1645 

who  came  to  this  country  from  England  in  1635  ^^^  settled 
at  Stratfield,  Conn. 

William  B.  Hubbard  attended  Whipple  Academy  at  Jack- 
sonville, 111.,  and  then  entered  Beloit  College,  where  he  re- 
ceived the  degrees  of  B.A.  and  M.A.  in  1876  and  1881,  respec- 
tively. He  began  his  theological  course  at  Yale  in  1877  and  was 
graduated  four  years  later. 

He  was  ordained  to  the  Congregational  ministry  in  Center 
Church,  New  Haven,  May  15,  1881,  and  then  went  West  as 
a  member  of  the  Yale  Dakota  Band.  He  served  as  acting 
pastor  at  Chamberlain,  S.  Dak.,  for  six  years,  being  installed 
as  pastor  on  May  25,  1887,  and  continuing  in  that  connection 
until  June  i,  1892.  His  later  pastorates  were  at  Armour, 
S.  Dak.  (1894-98),  Webster,  S.  Dak.  (i 898-1902),  Sherburn, 
Minn.  (1902-07),  and  Centerbrook,  Conn.,  where  he  was 
located  from  1907  until  his  death.  He  was  secretary  of  the 
General  Association  of  Congregational  Churches  of  South 
Dakota  from  1884  until  1902,  and  acted  as  secretary  of  Yank- 
ton College  during  1892-93.  He  was  a  member  of  the  execu- 
tive board  of  the  South  Dakota  Home  Missionary  Society, 
served  for  a  number  of  years  as  assistant  secretary  of  the  Na- 
tional Council  of  Congregational  Churches,  was  at  one  time 
secretary,  and  later  president,  of  the  South  Dakota  Sunday 
School  Association,  and  was  a  member  of  the  International 
Sunday  School  Association.  From  1913  until  his  death  he 
served  as  registrar  of  the  Middlesex  Association  of  Ministers 
and  Churches.  He  was  also  secretary  of  the  Middlesex  Minis- 
terial Association  and  a  member  of  the  executive  boards  of 
the  Connecticut  and  Middlesex  County  Sunday  School 
associations. 

He  died  December  4,  19 19,  in  Centerbrook,  from  pneu- 
monia, after  an  illness  of  four  days.  Burial  was  in  the  local 
cemetery. 

Mr.  Hubbard  was  married  September  4,  1882,  in  Meriden, 
Conn.,  to  Mary  Ella,  daughter  of  Edmund  and  Betsy  (Hub- 
bard) Tuttle.  She  survives  him  with  three  children:  Bethia 
Lydia,  a  graduate  of  Beloit  College  in  1906;  Mary  Pierpont 
(Beloit  1910),  who  was  married  November  i,  1915,  to  Rev. 
J.  Franklin  Candy  (B.A.  Beloit  191 1,  B.D.  Yale  1915);  and 
John  Tuttle  (Beloit  191 2),  who  served  with  the  American 


1646  DIVINITY    SCHOOL 

Expeditionary  Forces  as  a  First  Lieutenant  in  the  312th 
Infantry.  Another  son,  George  Chester  (B.A.  1913),  died 
October  12,  191 8,  while  in  military  service.  Mr.  Hubbard 
was  a  nephew  of  Joseph  S.  Hubbard  (B.A.  1843)  ^^^  ^  cousin 
of  George  H.  Hubbard,  '81,  Norman  S.  Hubbard,  '16,  and 
Theodore  V.  Hubbard,  '18. 

Donald  MacDougall,  B.D.  1882 

Born  August  4,  1852,  in  Lochmaddy,  Scotland 
Died  March  31,  1920,  in  New  York  City 

Donald  MacDougall  was  born  at  Lochmaddy,  Scotland, 
August  4,  1852,  the  son  of  Donald  and  Mary  (MacDonald) 
MacDougall.  His  early  education  was  received  in  the  district 
and  government  schools,  and  later  he  was  a  student  at  Har- 
ley  House,  East  End  Institute,  London,  and  at  Cliff  College, 
Derbyshire.  He  came  to  America  in  1880,  and  on  April  13, 
1 88 1,  after  studying  for  a  time  at  the  Princeton  Theological 
Seminary,  was  licensed  to  preach  by  the  Presbytery  of  New 
Brunswick.  He  attended  the  Yale  Divinity  School  during 
1881-82. 

He  was  ordained  to  the  Presbyterian  ministry  at  Plattsburg, 
N.  Y.,  in  February,  1883,  and  became  stated  supply  of  the 
churches  at  Black  Brook  and  Ausable  Forks,  N.  Y.  During 
the  following  year  he  took  advanced  studies  at  Union  Theolog- 
ical Seminary  in  New  York  City,  and  in  1885  was  sent  by  the 
Presbyterian  Board  of  Home  Missions  to  organize  churches 
in  New  England.  On  April  23,  1886,  he  was  installed  pastor 
of  the  Taunton  (Mass.)  Presbyterian  Church,  where  he  re- 
mained until  1893,  after  which  he  served  a  pastorate  of  two 
years  in  New  Bedford.  He  then  traveled  for  two  years  in 
Scotland,  Australia,  and  New  Zealand.  While  in  New  Zealand 
he  was  engaged  in  evangelistic  work,  and  from  1898  to  1901 
he  conducted  evangelistic  services  in  Chicago,  Philadelphia, 
and  New  York  City.  In  1901  he  began  the  publication  of  T'he 
Caledonian,  a  monthly  magazine  devoted  to  the  interests  of 
Scots  in  America,  and  was  its  editor  until  his  death.  He  was 
a  member  of  the  New  York  Presbytery,  and  for  some  time  he 
had  conducted  once  a  month  a  service  in  Gaelic  at  the  Second 
Presbyterian  Church  in  New  York  City. 


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Mr.  MacDougall  died  March  31,  1920,  at  his  home  in 
New  York  City,  from  heart  disease,  and  was  buried  in  Wood- 
lawn  Cemetery. 

He  was  married  December  16,  1886,  in  Taunton,  to 
Harriet  Daniels  Blake,  by  whom  he  had  one  daughter,  Esther 
Blake.  Mrs.  MacDougall  died  November  28,  1897,  and  on 
June  3,  1903,  he  was  married  at  Ashtabula,  Ohio,  to  Ruth 
Gage,  daughter  of  Abner  D.  and  Anna  (Claflin)  Strong,  who 
survives  him.  His  daughter  is  also  living. 


John  Henry  Albert,  B.D.  1883 

Born  December  4,  1848,  in  Clearfield  County,  Pa. 
Died  February  19,  1919,  in  Faribault,  Minn. 

John  Henry  Albert  was  born  in  Clearfield  County,  Pa., 
December  4,  1848,  the  son  of  Daniel  and  Barbara  (Kephart) 
Albert,  whose  parents  were  Henry  and  Sarah  Kephart.  His 
early  education  was  received  at  schools  in  Pennsylvania,  and 
in  1877  he  was  graduated  from  Western  College  (Iowa)  with 
the  degree  of  B.A.  He  entered  the  Yale  Divinity  School  three 
years  later. 

He  was  ordained  to  the  ministry  of  the  United  Brethren  at 
Lisbon,  Iowa,  on  October  26,  1883,  and  was  pastor  of  a  church 
at  Green  Mountain,  Iowa,  from  that  time  until  1886.  He  held 
the  pastorate  of  the  Stillwater  (Minn.)  Congregational  Church 
during  the  next  three  years,  and  during  1 899-1 900  was  pastor 
of  the  First  Church  at  Sedalia,  Mo.  He  spent  the  next  twelve 
years  as  pastor  of  the  Congregational  Church  in  Faribault, 
Minn.,  and  afterwards  supplied  the  Presbyterian  Church  at 
Punta  Gorda,  Fla.,  until  the  condition  of  his  health  compelled 
him  to  give  up  all  work  of  this  sort. 

He  died,  of  paralysis,  February  19,  1919,  in  Faribault,  and 
was  buried  in  Maple  Lawn  Cemetery  in  that  city. 

Mr.  Albert  was  married  December  25,  1876,  in  Cedar 
County,  Iowa,  to  Ella,  daughter  of  Jesse  Lee  and  Phebe 
Bradshaw.  He  is  survived  by  his  wife,  two  daughters,  and  a 
son.  Rev.  Paul  Albert,  who  served  with  the  Army  of  Occupa- 
tion in  Germany  in  1919. 


1648  DIVINITY    SCHOOL 

George  Hazard  Perry,  B.D.  1886 

Born  October  ii,  1859,  in  Hopkinton,  R.  I. 
Died  September  24,  191 1,  in  Salmon,  Idaho 

George  Hazard  Perry  was  born  in  Hopkinton,  R.  I., 
October  11,  1859,  the  son  of  Dr.  George  Hazard  Perry  and 
Ellen  H.  (Farrand)  Perry.  He  was  a  grandson  of  George 
Hazard  and  Elizabeth  (Wells)  Perry,  and  a  descendant  of 
Edward  Perry,  who  came  to  America  from  England  in  1630 
and  settled  in  Massachusetts,  later  removing  to  Rhode  Island. 
His  mother  is  the  daughter  of  Cyrus  and  Roxy  (Tyler)  Far- 
rand. Her  ancestors  came  to  Vermont  from  England. 

His  early  education  was  received  in  the  public  schools  of 
Manhattan,  Kans.  He  later  studied  at  the  Kansas  State 
Agricultural  College  and  at  Washburn  College,  receiving  the 
degree  of  B.A.  from  the  latter  institution  in  1 883.  His  theologi- 
cal course  covered  a  period  of  three  years. 

He  was  ordained  to  the  Congregational  ministry  on  June 
10,  1886,  and  spent  the  following  year  as  acting  pastor  at 
Chapman,  Kans.  He  was  installed  as  pastor  of  the  church  at 
Capioma,  Kans.,  in  October,  1887,  and  remained  there  for 
two  years,  after  which  he  became  engaged  in  journalistic  work 
in  Manhattan.  He  subsequently  held  the  following  pastor- 
ates: Kiowa,  Kans.  (1890-93),  Goodland,  Kans.  (1893-94), 
Pilgrim  Church,  Pueblo,  Colo.  (1894-95),  Odgen,  Utah 
(1895-97),  and  Pocatello,  Idaho  (1897-1903).  During  the 
next  five  years,  while  developing  his  own  property  near 
Pocatello,  Mr.  Perry  was  engaged  in  civil  engineering.  He 
then  returned  to  the  ministry,  becoming  pastor  of  the  Presby- 
terian Church  at  Salmon,  Idaho,  in  1908.  He  continued  in 
this  connection  until  his  death,  which  occurred,  from  heart 
failure,  following  typhoid  fever,  at  his  home  in  Salmon,  Sep- 
tember 24,  1 911.  His  body  was  taken  to  Pocatello  for  burial 
in  Mountain  View  Cemetery. 

He  was  married  July  22,  1886,  in  Manhattan,  to  Grace  M., 
daughter  of  Roswell  D.  and  Kittie  (Mills)  Parker.  Mrs.  Perry, 
who  is  a  member  of  the  Class  of  1884  at  Washburn  College, 
survives  her  husband,  with  four  children:  Anna  F.  (Perry) 
Smith,  George  Hazard,  Rachel  E.  (Perry)  Clark,  and  Roswell 
Parker.  His  mother  is  also  living. 


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Rikizo  Nakashima,  B.D.  1887 

Born  January  8,  1859,  in  Fukuchiyama,  Japan 
Died  December  21,  191 8,  in  Tokio,  Japan 

Rikizo  Nakashima  was  born  in  Fukuchiyama,  Japan, 
January  8,  1859,  the  son  of  Kan-yemon  and  Husa  (Adachi) 
Nakashima.  His  paternal  grandparents  were  Kan-yemon  and 
Shu  Nakashima. 

After  attending  the  Doshisha  College  in  Kyoto,  he  came  to 
America  for  study.  He  was  enrolled  at  Western  Reserve 
Academy,  Hudson,  Ohio,  for  a  time,  and  graduated  from 
Adelbert  College  with  the  degree  of  B.A.  in  1884.  He  spent 
the  next  five  years  at  Yale,  being  given  the  degree  of  B.D.  in 
1887  and  that  of  Ph.D.  in  1889. 

In  1890  Dr.  Nakashima  was  appointed  a  lecturer  in  psy- 
chology, logic,  and  ethics  at  the  Tokio  Imperial  University. 
Two  years  later  he  became  professor  of  ethics  in  the  Litera- 
ture College  of  the  institution,  continuing  in  this  connection 
until  his  death.  He  was  also  professor  of  commercial  morality 
in  the  Tokio  Higher  Commercial  School  and  the  Tokio  Higher 
Normal  School.  In  1909  he  was  sent  by  the  Japanese  govern- 
ment to  Europe  and  America  to  investigate  educational  con- 
ditions. While  in  America  he  made  a  special  study  of  the 
primary  grades  of  the  public  schools  with  a  view  to  introduc- 
ing new  methods  in  the  schools  of  Japan.  The  honorary  degree 
of  Litt.D.  was  conferred  upon  him  by  the  Japanese  govern- 
ment in  1898. 

He  died  December  21,  191 8,  at  his  home  in  Tokio,  from 
influenza.  Interment  was  in  the  Zoohigaya  Cemetery  in  that 
city. 

Dr.  Nakashima  was  married  August  13,  1892,  in  Tokio,  to 
Koharu,  daughter  of  Tsukane  and  Take  Hara  Ono.  She  sur- 
vives him  with  five  children;  Shinichi,  a  graduate  of  the  Tokio 
Imperial  University  in  1917;  Kanzi;  Shu,  who  married  Noboru 
Takamine;  Ai;  and  Tei. 


[650  DIVINITY    SCHOOL 


Ervin  Llewellyn  Thorpe,  B.D.  1887 

Born  September  2,  1855,  in  Maiden,  111. 
Died  September  5,  1919,  in  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 

Ervin  Llewellyn  Thorpe  was  born  September  2,  1855,  in 
Maiden,  111.,  the  son  of  Eli  O.  Thorpe,  a  merchant,  and 
Ardelia  E.  (Jackson)  Thorpe,  whose  parents  were  William 
and  Ardelia  (Abbott)  Jackson.  He  was  of  English  ancestry. 
His  paternal  ancestors  lived  in  Massachusetts.  The  home  of 
the  Abbotts  was  at  Portageville,  N.  Y. 

He  received  his  early  education  in  the  public  schools  of 
Illinois,  and  subsequently  attended  the  Kansas  State  Agri- 
cultural College  and  Northwestern  University.  He  then 
taught  in  Iowa  for  a  time.  In  1877  he  graduated  from  Baker 
University  with  the  degree  of  B.A.,  and  he  spent  the  following 
year  at  that  institution  as  a  tutor  in  German  and  elocution. 
He  received  the  degree  of  LL.B.  at  the  State  University  of 
Iowa  in  1879,  having  previously  been  engaged  in  practice  at 
Iowa  City.  During  1 879-1 880  he  was  pastor  of  the  Methodist 
Episcopal  Church  at  Garrison,  Iowa,  after  which  he  spent  a 
year  in  similar  work  at  Centre  Point,  Iowa.  He  took  his 
Master's  degree  at  Baker  University  in  1880.  He  was  or- 
dained deacon  at  Waterloo,  Iowa,  September  25,  1881,  and 
made  an  elder  a  year  later.  He  held  a  pastorate  at  Nashua, 
Iowa,  from  1881  to  1883,  and  during  the  next  two  years  was 
vice-president  and  professor  of  elocution  and  belles  lettres  at 
Upper  Iowa  University.  He  came  to  Yale  in  1886,  received 
the  degrees  of  B.D.  and  LL.M.  in  1887,  and  spent  the  follow- 
ing year  in  graduate  work  in  the  Divinity  School. 

He  then  became  a  member  of  the  New  York  East  Confer- 
ence, and  oh  May  i,  1888,  was  installed  pastor  of  the  West 
Haven  (Conn.)  Methodist  Episcopal  Church.  His  subsequent 
pastorates  were  as  follows:  Bayshore,  N.  Y.  (1890);  Hartford, 
Conn.  (1891-95);  Bridgeport,  Conn.  (1896-97);  the  First 
Church, Tokepa,Kans.  (1898);  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.(i 899-1901); 
the  Twenty-seventh  Street  Church,  New  York  City  (i  902-06) ; 
Riverhead,  N.  Y.  (1907^8);  the  Second  Street  Church, 
Brooklyn  (1909-1911);  St.  Andrew's  Church,  New  Haven 


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(191 2-13);  ^^d  Borough  Park  Church,  Brooklyn  (April,  1919, 
until  his  death).  He  received  the  degrees  of  B.D.  and  LL.D. 
from  Iowa  State  University  in  1884;  those  of  M.A.  and  Ph.D. 
from  Syracuse  University  in  1885;  that  of  D.D.  from  Baker 
University;  and  that  of  D.C.L.  from  the  University  of  Chicago 
in  1888. 

He  died  at  his  home  in  Brooklyn,  September  5,  191 9,  and 
was  buried  in  Oak  Grove  Cemetery,  West  Haven,  Conn. 

He  was  married  September  13, 1882,  in  Emporia,  Kans.,  to 
Margaret  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Alexander  and  Isabella 
(Galbraith)  Esdon.  Mrs.  Thorpe  is  a  graduate  of  the  Kansas 
State  Normal  College  in  1880  and  of  the  Hahnemann  Medical 
College  in  1886.  She  survives  her  husband  with  a  daughter, 
Pearl  North  (Ph.B.  Syracuse  1910),  whose  marriage  to  Roselle 
Frank  Woodhull  (E.E.  Syracuse  1909)  took  place  November 
i9>  1913- 

William  Watts  Davidson,  B.D.  1888 

Born  January  9,  1858,  in  Snow  Camp,  N.  C. 
Died  February  4,  1919,  in  Gibsonville,  N.  C. 

William  Watts  Davidson  was  born  at  Snow  Camp,  N.  C, 
January  9,  1858.  He  graduated  from  Yadkin  College  with  the 
degree  of  B.A.  in  1880  and  entered  the  Yale  Divinity  School 
in  1885. 

On  October  2,  1888,  he  was  ordained  to  the  Congregational 
ministry  at  Big  Rapids,  Mich.,  and  was  pastor  of  the  church 
there  until  June,  1889.  The  following  October  he  was  installed 
pastor  of  the  church  at  South  Bend,  Ind.,  and  remained  there 
for  a  year.  From  October,  1890,  to  June,  1 891,  he  took  gradu- 
ate work  in  the  Yale  Divinity  School.  He  held  a  pastorate  at 
Eastport,  Maine,  from  July,  1891,  to  August,  1892,  and  was 
pastor  at  Westchester,  Conn.,  during  the  next  two  years;  at 
Riverton,  Conn.,  during  1895-96,  and  at  Vernon  Center, 
Conn.,  from  August,  1897,  to  April,  1898.  He  later  had  a 
charge  at  Mianus,  Conn.  He  studied  in  the  Yale  Graduate 
School  from  1894  to  1897,  and  received  the  degree  of  M.A.  in 
1898.  His  death  occurred  at  Gibsonville,  N.  C,  February  4, 
1919. 


1652  DIVINITY    SCHOOL 

D.  Melancthon  James,  B.D.  1888 

Born  October  i6,  1855,  in  Ebensburg,  Pa. 
Died  January  8,  1920,  in  New  Haven,  Conn. 

D.  Melancthon  James  was  the  son  of  William  and  Mary 
(Evans)  James,  and  was  born  in  Ebensburg,  Pa.,  October  16, 
1855.  His  father  came  to  America  when  a  boy,  and  set- 
tled in  Pennsylvania;  he  was  later  engaged  in  the  lumber 
business. 

He  attended  the  schools  of  his  native  town,  and  in  1881 
graduated  from  Randolph-Macon  College  with  the  degree  of 
B.A.,  after  which  he  preached  at  Winchester,  Va.,  and  Balti- 
more, Md.  He  entered  the  Yale  Divinity  School  in  1886. 

His  ordination  to  the  .Methodist  ministry  took  place  at 
Leesburg,  Va.,  on  March  13,  1887,  but  he  later  transferred  to 
the  Congregational  Church.  On  September  i,  1888,  he  was 
installed  as  pastor  of  the  Second  Congregational  Church 
(now  Pilgrim  Church)  in  Fair  Haven,  Conn.,  and  remained 
there  until  December  i,  1897,  when  he  removed  to  Hinton, 
W.  Va.  He  was  installed  pastor  of  the  Church  of  the  Pilgrimage 
at  Plymouth,  Mass.,  on  February  12,  1899,  and  continued  in 
this  connection  until  1904,  since  which  time  he  had  resided  in 
Newton,  Mass.  At  the  time  of  his  death  he  was  engaged  in 
the  chemical  business  at  Kaine,  Pa.,  although  retaining  his 
home  in  Newton.  From  1916  to  191 8  he  was  associate  pastor 
of  the  Shawmut  Congregational  Church  in  Boston  and  super- 
intendent of  its  Sunday  school.  He  studied  in  the  Yale  Gradu- 
ate School  during  1888-89,  ^"^  ^^^  ^^^o  taken  a  course  in  the 
School  of  Law. 

He  died  January  8,  1920,  in  New  Haven,  Conn.,  while  on  a 
visit  to  his  son  Donald,  a  member  of  the  Class  of  1922.  His 
death  was  due  to  heart  disease  and  followed  several  years  of 
ill  health  caused  by  hardening  of  the  arteries.  Interment  was 
in  Newton. 

Mr.  James  was  married  June  5,  1888,  in  Baltimore,  to 
Margaret  Virginia,  daughter  of  William  R.  and  Margaret 
(Collins)  Denny,  who  survives  him  with  three  children: 
Helen  Collins,  whose  marriage  to  Richard  deZeng  Pierce,  '16, 


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took  place  March  31,  191 7;  Mary  Marguerite,  who  was 
married  on  August  13,  1917,  to  Everett  Winfred  Lothrop; 
and  Donald  Denny.  Another  son,  William  Melancthon,  was 
born  in  1889  and  died  in  1890. 


John  Harrison  Reid,  B.D.  1890 

Born  March  18,  1861,  in  Arlington,  Vt. 
Died  June  6,  1919,  in  Philadelphia,  Pa. 

John  Harrison  Reid,  whose  parents  were  James  Reid,  an 
engineer,  and  Margaret  (McKnight)  Reid,  was  born  in  Arling- 
ton, Vt.,  March  18,  1861.  His  father  was  the  son  of  James 
and  Jane  (Cummings)  Reid.  A  member  of  the  Reid  family 
came  to  America  from  Scotland  before  the  Revolution  and 
built  what  is  supposed  to  have  been  the  first  grist  mill  in 
Washington  County,  N.  Y.  Margaret  McKnight  Reid  was  the 
daughter  of  George  and  Jane  (Macauley)  McKnight.  The 
McKnights  came  from  the  north  of  Ireland  prior  to  the  Rev- 
olutionary War.  One  of  them  received  the  commission  of 
Colonel  from  Washington.  The  family  lived  originally  in 
Washington  County,  N.  Y. 

He  went  to  school  in  Arlington,  and  then  attended  the 
Centenary  Collegiate  Institute  at  Hackettstown,  N.  J.,  after 
which  he  entered  Lafayette  College,  but  on  account  of  illness 
was  unable  to  complete  his  course  there.  He  studied  in  the 
Hartford  Theological  Seminary  during  1887-88,  entering  the 
Yale  Divinity  School  in  September,  1888. 

He  was  ordained  as  a  Congregational  minister  at  Colorado 
Springs,  Colo.,  August  10,  1890,  and  from  that  time  until 
November,  1891,  held  a  pastorate  at  Telluride,  Colo.  From 
1892  to  1898  he  was  pastor  of  the  Whitefield  Congregational 
Church  in  Newburyport,  Mass.  During  1897  he  studied  at 
the  University  of  Edinburgh  and  at  Oxford,  having  leave  of 
absence  from  his  church.  On  April  26,  1898,  he  was  installed 
as  pastor  of  the  Congregational  Church  at  Bellows  Falls,  Vt., 
with  which  he  was  connected  until  1903.  He  then  became 
engaged  in  newspaper  work  at  W^alden,  N.  Y.  He  remained 
there  until  1910,  and  was  afterwards  located  in  Lebanon,  Pa., 


1654  DIVINITY    SCHOOL 

as  editor  and  publisher  of  the  Lebanon  Evening  Report.  At 
the  time  of  his  death  he  was  a  member  of  the  CarHsle  (Pa.) 
Presbytery  and  he  had  preached  whenever  opportunity 
afforded.  In  1914  he  was  elected  a  vice-president  of  the  Yale 
Alumni  Association  of  Central  Pennsylvania. 

He  died  June  6,  191 9,  in  Philadelphia,  of  shock  following  an 
operation.  Interment  was  in  Evergreen  Cemetery,  Salem, 
N.Y. 

He  was  married  May  10,  1888,  in  Cambridge,  N.  Y.,  to 
Adelaide  Susanna,  daughter  of  William  Dunning  and  Caroline 
(Stillman)  Bishop.  She  survives  him  with  two  children, 
Harold  Bishop,  '10,  and  Marion  Adelaide,  a  graduate  of 
Goucher  College  in  1914.  Two  brothers  and  two  sisters  are 
also  living.  One  of  the  brothers.  Rev.  David  C.  Reid,  gradu- 
ated from  Princeton  in.  1880  and  from  the  Yale  Divinity 
School  in  1884. 


Frederick  Howard  Means,  B.D.  1891 

Born  August  14,  1865,  in  Dorchester,  Mass. 
Died  September  10,  1919,  in  Boston,  Mass. 

Frederick  Howard  Means  was  born  in  Dorchester,  Mass., 
August  14,  1865,  the  son  of  Rev.  James  Howard  Means  and 
Charlotte  Abigail  (Johnson)  Means.  His  father,  who  graduated 
from  Harvard  in  1843  and  from  the  Andover  Theological 
Seminary  in  1847,  served  for  thirty  years  as  pastor  of  the 
Second  Church  in  Dorchester,  Mass.  He  was  for  many  years 
a  trustee  of  Armenia  (now  Euphrates)  College  in  Turkey. 
Williams  College  conferred  the  honorary  degree  of  D.D.  upon 
him  in  1874.  His  parents  were  James  and  Joanna  (Howard) 
Means,  while  his  wife  was  the  daughter  of  Samuel  and  Char- 
lotte Abigail  Johnson. 

He  was  graduated  from  the  Roxbury  Latin  School  in  1884, 
and  received  the  degree  of  B.A.  from  Harvard  in  1888.  He 
then  entered  the  Yale  Divinity  School. 

On  May  2,  1893,  he  was  ordained  to  the  Congregational 
ministry  at  Windham,  Conn.,  where  he  served  a  pastorate  of 
ten  years.  From  1904  to  1908  he  was  active  in  the  work  of 
the  Religious  Education  Association  and  the  Young  People's 


1 890-1 894  1655 

Missionary  Movement.  He  accepted  a  call  to  a  pastorate  at 
Madison,  Maine,  on  January  i,  1908,  and  remained  there 
until  1917.  He  spent  the  next  year  as  New  England  secretary 
of  the  Missionary  Education  Movement,  and  was  afterwards 
until  his  death  a  member  of  the  staff  of  the  home  department 
of  the  American  Board  of  Commissioners  for  Foreign  Mis- 
sions. During  the  latter  part  of  his  life  he  was  a  member  of 
theLeyden  Church  in  Brookline,Mass.  He  had  been  a  direc- 
tor of  the  Johnson  Building  Corporation  and  a  trustee  of 
Atlanta  University.  He  was  a  member  of  the  New  England 
Historic  Genealogical  Society,  and  in  1908  served  on  the 
School  Committee  of  Winchester,  Mass. 

His  death,  which  was  due  to  polycythemia,  occurred  in 
Boston,  September  10,  191 9.  Burial  was  in  Forest  Hill  Ceme- 
tery, Jamaica  Plain. 

Mr.  Means  was  married  May  25,  1893,  in  Winchester,  to 
Helen  Chandler,  daughter  of  Rev.  Joshua  Coit  (B.A.  1853) 
and  Mary  Lyman  (Chandler)  Coit.  She  died  December  25, 
191 2.  Three  sons  survive:  Paul  Howard,  who  took  his  B.A.  at 
Harvard  in  1917  and  then  entered  the  Harvard  Medical 
School;  Gardiner  Coit  (B.A.  Harvard  191 8),  a  member  of  the 
Near  East  Relief  Expedition;  and  Winthrop  Johnson,  Har- 
vard 1921.  Mr.  Means  also  leaves  a  sister,  Miriam  B.  Means, 
and  two  brothers,  James  and  Charles  Johnson  Means. 


Albert  Louis  Grein,  B.D.  1894 

Born  August  16,  1866,  in  Buffalo,  N.  Y. 
Died  September  16,  1917 

Albert  Louis  Grein  was  born  August  16,  1866,  in  Buffalo, 
N.  Y.  He  studied  in  the  preparatory  department  of  Oberlin 
College  from  1886  to  1888  and  during  the  next  three  years 
took  the  regular  college  course  there,  graduating  with  the 
degree  of  Ph.B.  in  1891.  In  the  fall  of  that  year  he  entered  the 
Yale  Divinity  School,  from  which  he  received  the  degree  of 
B.D.  in  1894.  The  same  year  an  M.A.  degree  was  granted  him 
by  Oberlin. 

At  one  time  Mr.  Grein  held  a  pastorate  in  Buffalo.  His 
death  occurred  September  16,  191 7. 


1656  DIVINITY    SCHOOL 

William  Henry  Rowe,  B.D.  1897 

Born  May  3,  1868,  in  Elgin,  111. 
Died  January  20,  191 9,  in  Semur-en-Auxois,  France 

William  Henry  Rowe  was  born  in  Elgin,  111.,  May  3,  1868, 
the  son  of  George  Holland  Rowe,  a  miller,  and  Permelia 
(Helmer)  Rowe.  His  father's  parents  were  Robert  Granger 
and  Emily  (Robinson)  Rowe,  and  he  was  a  descendant  of 
Isaac  Robinson,  who  came  to  America  from  England  in 
1 63 1.  Isaac  Robinson  was  the  son  of  Rev.  John  Robinson,  of 
Leyden,  pastor  of  the  Mayflower  company.  Permelia  Helmer 
Rowe  is  the  daughter  of  William  Henry  and  Geity  (Weaver) 
Helmer. 

He  graduated  from  Beloit  College  with  the  degree  of  B.A. 
in  1894,  having  received  his  preparatory  training  at  the  Elgin 
Academy.  He  obtained  his  Master's  degree  in  1895.  ^^  ^^^ 
a  student  in  the  Yale  Divinity  School  from  1894  to  1897. 

His  first  pastorate  was  at  Deer  River  and  Denmark,  N.  Y., 
where  he  served  for  three  and  a  half  years.  His  ordination  to 
the  Congregational  ministry  occurred  at  Deer  River  on  Octo- 
ber 12,  1897.  He  was  pastor  of  a  church  at  Rodman,  N.  Y., 
from  June,  1901,  to  November,  1907,  and  was  located  at 
Clayton,  N.  Y.,  from  that  time  until  December,  1909.  He 
then  accepted  the  charge  of  the  First  Presbyterian  Church 
at  Citronelle,  Ala.  He  was  given  leave  of  absence  in  October, 
191 8,  to  begin  work  with  the  Y.  M.  C.  A.  in  New  York  City. 
He  served  overseas  as  a  hut  secretary  from  December  7, 
191 8,  until  his  death,  which  occurred,  from  pneumonia, 
January  20,  1919,  at  Semur-en-Auxois,  France.  He  was  buried 
in  the  American  Cemetery  at  Semur.  At  the  time  of  his  death 
he  was  attached  to  the  303d  Engineers. 

Mr.  Rowe  organized  Troop  No.  i  of  the  Boy  Scouts  of 
Citronelle  in  1910,  and  served  as  scout  master  until  he  en- 
tered the  Y.  M.  C.  A.  service  in  191 8.  While  living  at  Clayton, 
he  was  leader  of  the  Boys'  Club  for  two  years. 

He  was  married  September  16,  1897,  in  Oswego,  N.  Y.,  to 
Carrie  Sophia,  daughter  of  Edward  Weeks  and  Sophia  Loretta 
(Thompson)  Robinson.  She  survives  him  with  three  children: 


John  Robinson  (B.A.  Beloit  1919),  Harry  Lawrence,  and 
Gertrude  Carolyn.  An  older  daughter,  Elsie  Helmer,  died  at 
the  age  of  eleven.  Mr.  Rowe's  parents  are  living,  and  he  also 
leaves  five  brothers  and  two  sisters. 


Ary  Nevin  Brubaker,  B.D.  1916 

Born  November  6,  1889,  in  Lebanon,  Pa. 
Died  October  12,  191 8,  in  New  Oxford,  Pa. 

Ary  Nevin  Brubaker  was  born  in  Lebanon,  Pa.,  November 
6,  1889,  the  son  of  Jacob  Brubaker,  a  farmer,  and  Amelia 
(Eberly)  Brubaker.  He  was  of  German  descent.  His  father's 
parents  were  Joel  and  Elizabeth  (Kreider)  Brubaker,  and  his 
mother  is  the  daughter  of  Noah  and  Elizabeth  (Groh)  Eberly. 

He  attended  the  public  schools  of  his  native  town,  the  Mil- 
lersville  (Pa.)  State  Normal  School,  Lebanon  Valley  College, 
and  Ursinus  College,  graduating  from  the  last-named  with 
the  degree  of  B.D.  in  1913.  He  then  spent  two  years  at  the 
Princeton  Theological  Seminary,  and  during  191 5-16  was  a 
student  in  the  Yale  Divinity  School,  at  the  same  time  taking 
courses  in  philosophy  and  education  in  the  Graduate  School. 
He  received  his  B.D.  degree  in  191 6. 

On  June  15,  1916,  he  was  licensed  by  the  Lebanon  Classis  of 
the  Reformed  Church,  two  months  later  being  ordained  by 
the  Carlisle  Classis  and  installed  as  pastor  of  the  Reformed 
Church  at  Landisburg,  Pa.  He  remained  there  until  August  i, 
1 91 8,  and  then  accepted  the  pastorate  of  the  New  Oxford 
(Pa.)  Reformed  Church. 

His  death  occurred,  from  bronchial. pneumonia,  in  New 
Oxford,  October  12,  191 8.  He  was  buried  in  Mount  Annville 
Cemetery,  Annville,  Pa. 

Mr.  Brubaker  was  married  June  29,  191 5,  at  St.  John's, 
New  Brunswick,  to  Sara,  daughter  of  J.  Alfred  and  Nancy 
(Gingrich)  Bowman,  who  survives  him  with  a  daughter,  Sara 
Louise.  He  also  leaves  his  parents  and  a  brother.  Earl  A. 
Brubaker. 


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INDEX 


Jr. 


Graduates  of  the  different  Schools  of  the  University  are  distinguished  from  gradu- 
ates of  Yale  College  by  italic  letters  as  follows:  Art,  art;  Divinity,  d;  Forestry,/; 
Graduate,  <?w,  ma,  ms,  or  dp;  Law,  /  or  ml;  Medicine,  m;  Music,  mus;  Sheffield 
Scientific  School,  s.  This  index  covers  the  Seventh  Printed  Series,  1916-1920. 

Page 

1547 
608 
918 

1569 

733 
1548 

780 

784 
1511 
1516 

798 

1605 

48 

no 
1273 

464 

1637 

45 

433 
1260 

797 
994 
1458 
1476 
1295 
1004 
1500 

1229 

1572 

731 

76 

237 

428 

63 

1084 

768 

781 

1451 


Class 

1905  s 

1872  J 

1868 

1878 

I919 

I918 

1866 

1865 

1858 

1895  s 
1857 
1912  J 
1883*/ 
1888/ 
igi6  dp 
1854 

1896  J 

1913 
1883  i 
1910  J 
1886 
1899  J 
1904 

1893 
1894  s 
1914J 
1882  J 
1914  s 

1904- 

1896  s 

1873 
1839 

1880 
1879^ 


Abbe,  Harry  A. 
Abbott,  Jacob  J. 
Abbott,  James  W. 
Aber,  William  M. 
Achelis,  George  T. 
Adams,  Benjamin  S. 
Adams,  Charles  H. 
Adams,  Elmer  B. 
Adams,  Thatcher  M. 
Adams,  Thatcher  M., 
Adams,  Whittlesey 
Ahern,  Vincent  L. 
Albert,  John  H. 
Alderman,  Allen  C. 
Aldrich,  Maelynette 
Alexander,  Charles  T. 
Alger,  Stewart  C. 
Allen,  Clarence  Emir,  Jr. 
Allen,  John  A. 
Allen,  Lloyd  S. 
Ames,  Henry  Semple 
Ames,  William  M. 
Anderson,  Christopher  M. 
Anderson,  Joseph 
Anderson,  Richard  C. 
Anderson,  Walter  L. 
Andrews,  Horace  E. 
Arnold,  Howard  W. 
Arnold,  Lemuel  H.,  4th 
Arnold,  Percy  W. 
Ashley,  Clarence  D. 
Atwater,  David  F. 
Ayer,  Frank  H. 
Ayres,  Milan  C. 


1 897  Babcock,  Samuel  D. 

1908  s  Babikian,  Loutfi  H. 

1877  s  Backus,  W^illiam  H. 

1858  Bacon,  William  P. 


Page 

Class 

1186 

1893  J 

444 

1867 

894 

1874 

1409 

1905  J 

1514 

1870  J 

1 104 

1893  J 

62 

1916  s 

304 

igiys 

853 

1914 

183 

1868  J 

278 

1891  m 

1575 

1879  ^ 

1647 

1863 

501 

1885 

1598 

1869  m 

548 

1896  J 

1555 

1873^ 

1039 

1862 

452 

1915 

770 

1^00  dp 

116 

1884  w 

1 56 1 

1904 

421 

1894 

401 

1900 

456 

1914/ 

1575 

1906 

1155 

1909 

1231 

1864 

698 

1913J 

1 166 

1907  J 

84 

1868  J 

I 

1870 

370 

1885^ 

1642 

1910 

1867 

683 

1917 

1 196 

1909  J 

1527 

1916  s 

855 

1890 

Baldwin,  Anson 
Baldwin,  Frank  L. 
Baldwin,  Henry 
Baldwin,  Martin  S. 
Ballard,  Charles  T. 
Bamberg,  Joseph  H. 
Banker,  Harold  A. , 
Banks,  Marston  E. 
Barber,  Harold  H. 
Barbour,  Samuel  A. 
Bardwell,  Frank  J. 
Barker,  James  C. 
Barnard,  Frederick  J. 
Barnes,  Jonathan 
Barnett,  John  F. 
Barnett,  John  McG. 
Barnum,  Augustine 
Barnum,  Henry  S. 
Barrel!,  John  W. 
Barrell,  Joseph 
Barry,  Denis  W. 
Barry,  Timothy  F. 
Bartlett,  Alexis  P. 
Bortlett,  Norman  W. 
Bartlett,  Paul  R. 
Barton,  Lester  C. 
Bates,  Harold  S. 
Battershall,  Walton  W. 
Bauch,  Herbert  W. 
Baxter,  Frank  L. 
Beach,  Frederick  C. 
Beach,  Walter  R. 
Beadenkoff,  Thomas  M. 
Bean,  Harold  W. 
Beard,  Henry  B. 
Beardslee,  Sidney  A. 
Beaty,  Edgar  L. 
Beauton,  J.  Emmet 
Beckford,  William  H. 


[669 


ibyo 

INDEX 

Class 

Page 

Class 

Page 

i860 

Beckley,  John  W. 

287 

1866 

Bowen,  Marcellus 

311 

1889  J 

Beckley,  William  B. 

177 

1873 

Boyce,  S.  Leonard 

623 

1883 

Beddall,  Edward  A. 

945 

1897 

Boyle,  McKinley 

684 

1851 

Bedinger,  Everett  W. 

10 

1882  J 

Bozeman,  Nathan  G. 

173 

1873 

Beebe,  William 

341 

1874 

Brady,  John  G. 

920 

1867 

Beecher,  Eugene  F. 

•     Z^Z 

1886 

Bremner,  Samuel  K. 

1437 

1880/ 

Beecher,  William  J. 

219 

1878  J 

Brewster,  Edward  E. 

1532 

1863 

Belin,  Henry,  Jr. 

582 

1885 

Bridgman,  John  C. 

389 

1872  m 

Bellosa,  Frederick 

1274 

1878 

Briggs,  Charles  E. 

648 

1876 

Benner,  Charles 

639 

1911  / 

Briggs,  Jay 

1291 

1913 

Bennett,  Francis  T. 

1041 

1869  J 

Brinley,  Charles  A. 

1132 

1917 

Bennett,  Louis,  Jr. 

1085 

1886  w 

Brockett,  Charles  H. 

1606 

1878 

Benton,  Edwin  A. 

99 

1919 

Brodie,  Clarence  A. 

1119 

1914 

Bergen,  Francis 

432 

1849 

Bronson,  Benjamin  S. 

1326 

1911  / 

Berger,  Ernest 

1290 

1855 

Bronson,  Samuel  L. 

271 

1909  J 

Bernhardi,  John  F. 

194 

1899 

Brooke,  Samuel  P. 

981 

1897  J 

Berry,  Charles  H. 

1556 

I9II  5 

Brooke,  Walter  E. 

1216 

1904  J 

Bettes,  Joseph  M. 

1 184 

1870  J 

Brooks,  Charles  P. 

1 1 36 

1912 

Biddle,  Julian  C. 

712 

1866 

Brooks,  Edward  P. 

604 

1894 

Bigelow,  Albert  A. 

966 

1875 

Brooks,  J.  Wilton 

350 

1881  J 

Bigelow,  Frank  L. 

450 

1887 

Brooks,  Wilson 

951 

1861  m 

Bigelow,  James  A. 

794 

1888 

Brott,  George  0. 

1444 

1910  J 

Bigelow,  Pierrepont 

1573 

1896 

Brown,  Alexander 

404 

1893 

Birdsall,  Ralph 

963 

1894  J 

Brown,  Edward  M. 

755 

1865  m 

Bishop,  Herbert  M. 

1271 

I9I4J 

Brown,  Edwin  H.,  Jr. 

^n'i 

1890/ 

Bishop,  Nathaniel  W. 

1623 

1878  J 

Brown,  Fayette  W. 

447 

1894  m 

Bissell,  Jerome  S. 

799 

1861 

Brown,  Hubert  S. 

288 

1879  J 

Bissell,  Joseph  B. 

1 147 

1865 

Brown,  John  C. 

60 

1853 

Bissell,  William 

1327 

1850 

Brown,  Oliver 

837 

1914J 

Blackall,  George  B. 

1576 

1875  J 

Browning,  Amos  A. 

740 

1890  J 

Blake,  T.  Whitney 

1543 

1916^ 

Brubaker,  A.  Nevin 

1657 

1877^ 

Bliss,  Edwin  M. 

1639 

1900 

Bruce,  Kenneth 

410 

1898^ 

Bliss,  Francis  C. 

241 

1874^ 

Brush,  Edward 

1522 

1903 

Blount,  William  A.,  Jr. 

990 

1876^ 

Bryant,  Samuel  J. 

1298 

1877^/) 

Boals,  John  C. 

201 

1897^ 

Bryson,  James  H. 

467 

1911 

Bogue,  Malcolm 

707 

1852 

Buck,  Edward 

262 

1844 

Boies,  William  E. 

^V-2, 

I9I9 

Buck,  Parker  D. 

1 120 

1873/ 

BoUmann,  Charles  F. 

1611 

1873 

Buck,  William  0. 

914 

1916 

Boltwood,  Lucius  C. 

1068 

1911  S 

Buckingham,  Charles  L. 

1218 

1895  J 

Bookwalter,  John  A. 

459 

1866 

Buckingham,  John 

605 

1850 

Booth,  Albert 

537 

1876^ 

Bugbee,  Rolla  G. 

'^ZZ 

1863 

Booth,  Edward  M. 

584 

I9I5 

Bull,  Ebenezer 

718 

1864/ 

Botsford,  Austin  N. 

1610 

1885  J 

Bullene,  Fred  S. 

ii<;8 

1874 

Bouchet,  Edward  A. 

919 

1895 

Bumstead,  Arthur 

132 

1916  J 

Bourke,  Wilfrid  C. 

1 241 

1863 

Bumstead,  Horace 

1360 

1902 

Bourn,  William  G. 

418 

1893 

Burchard,  Ross 

965 

1918 

Bournique,  Joy  C. 

1 105 

1913/ 

Burgess,  Arthur  W. 

1294 

1917/ 

Bowen,  Joseph  B. 

1268 

1898 

Burnet,  Jacob  B. 

141 

INDEX 


1671 


Class 

Page 

Class 

Page 

1901  / 

Burnham,  Charles  L. 

507 

1893 

Chisholm,  Alvah  S. 

1458 

1887 

Burns,  William  S. 

953 

1911  s 

Chisholm,  George  A. 

1574 

1894 

Burr,  Calvin 

967 

1898 

Chisholm,  Wilson  K. 

1472 

1902     . 

Burrall,  John  B. 

1480 

1877^ 

Chittenden,  E.  Porter 

1299 

1912 

Burrell,  J.  Kirby 

1036 

1865 

Churchill,  Henry 

308 

1903  J 

Burton,  Courtney 

1178 

1882 

Churchill,  William 

1425 

1883 

Burton,  George  L. 

380 

1886^/) 

Clapp,  Edward  B. 

1259 

1865 

Bushnell,  William  B. 

306 

1867 

Clark,  Abel  S. 

609 

1900 

Butler,  Albert  N. 

144 

1868  J 

Clark,  Albert  G. 

1 129 

1895 

Butler,  George  E. 

134 

1856 

Clark,  Isaac 

845 

1863 

Butler,  John  H. 

585 

I9I2 

Clark,  Salter  S.,  Jr. 

1037 

1890  J 

Butler,  William  H. 

1 162 

1876  J 

Clark,  Sidney  W. 

168 

1887 

Clarke,  Francis  C. 

671 

1895 

Cable,  Benjamin  S. 

135 

1907  J 

Clarke,  Talcott  H. 

1191 

igiodp 

Cairnes,  DeLorme  D. 

791 

1857  w 

Clary,  George 

489 

1887 

Caldwell,  Victor  B. 

119 

1873 

Clemmer,  James  A. 

1389 

1891 

Calhoun,  Gouverneur 

126 

I9I0 

Clifford,  Robert  C. 

1030 

1870  J 

Calvert,  Thomas  E. 

443 

1885  J 

Coates,  Arthur  C. 

748 

1885^ 

Campbell,  Clement  C. 

1301 

1868 

Coats,  John 

1382 

1912  s 

Campbell,  Robert  L. 

I22I 

1887 

Cobb,  Sanford  E. 

121 

1914J 

Carey,  James  R.,  Jr. 

^^33 

1887 

Cochrane,  Francis 

122 

1901 

Carleton,  Howard 

411 

1898 

Cogswell,  Henry  B. 

142 

1869 

Carman,  Nelson  G, 

617 

1907/ 

Cohan,  John  A. 

1630 

1859 

Carpenter,  Carlos  C, 

861 

1904/ 

Cohan,  Martin  J. 

1628 

1851 

Carrier,  Augustus  H. 

258 

I88I 

Coleman,  John  C. 

373 

1911 

Carter,  Thomas  W. 

430 

I9I6 

Coleman,  Robert  H. 

107 1 

1905  ma 

Cartwright,  Walter  0. 

1256 

1877 

Colgate,  Richard  M. 

1402 

1872 

Case,  Erastus  E. 

912 

1904 

Colston,  Frederick  C. 

995 

1908 

Case,  Gordon 

1494 

1909 

Condon,  Frank  B. 

1025 

1865 

Caskey,  Taliaferro  F. 

885 

1857 

Cone,  James  B. 

564 

1916 

Cassard,  Daniel  W. 

1070 

1870  J 

Conkling,  Alfred  R. 

736 

1894 

Cassidy,  Patrick  J. 

677 

1900 

Conner,  Norman  G. 

145 

1866 

Caswell,  Edward  A. 

889 

1894 

Ccoke,  Joseph  P. 

968 

1859 

Catlin,  Hasket  D. 

285 

1875  J 

Cooley,  George  R, 

^5^4 

1853 

Catlin,  Lynde  A. 

15 

1883/ 

Cooney,  James,  Jr. 

1617 

1891 

Chadwick,  Ernest 

127 

I87I 

Coonley,  Edgar  D. 

80 

1915J 

Chambers,  W.  Bruce 

1578 

I9I3 

Cooper,  J.  Fenimore,  Jr. 

716 

1878 

Chandler,  Arthur  D. 

931 

1865 

Cooper,  James  W. 

61 

1915 

Chandler,  William  H. 

1057 

1 909  ma 

Copenhaver,  G.  Edward 

484 

1905 

Chapman,  Charles  J. 

lOOI 

1883 

Corwith,  Charles  R. 

109 

1912  J 

Chapman,  William  H. 

1223 

1856  m 

Cox,  Luther  C. 

1 601 

1901 

Chappell,  Harold 

1 48 

1870 

Coy,  Nathan  B. 

901 

1878 

Charlton,  Paul 

361 

1895/ 

Coyle,  Charles  T. 

1625 

1871 

Chase,  Frederick  S. 

329 

1882 

Cragin,  Edwin  B. 

943 

1877 

Chase,  Henry  S. 

646 

1867  w 

Cragin,  George  E. 

204 

1862 

Chase,  James  B. 

874 

1869  m 

Crary,  David,  Jr. 

1603 

1914 

Cheeseman,  Franklin  P. 

1049 

1894 

Crawford,  Charles  F. 

970 

1901 

Cheney,  Thomas  L. 

412 

1894 

Crawford,  George  M. 

971 

1672 

Class 

1911 

1886 

1897  J 

1866  J 

1901 

1880  J 

1871 

1888/ 

1887 

1917 

1878 

1877  J 

1 904  J 

1915 

1852 

1895^ 

1879 
1914J 
1909  s 
1904 
1889 

1871 

1888^ 

1895 

1877 

i860 

1845 

1876 

1896 

1877  m 

1850 

1863 

1861 

i860 

1856 

1909  s 

1911 

1909 

1878 

1885  w 

1864 

1914 

1890 

1908 

1915^ 


Crawford,  John  D. 
Crehore,  William  W. 
Cristy,  James  C. 
Crooke,  Robert  L. 
Crosthwaite,  John  L.,  Jr. 
Crouse,  Charles  M. 
Cuddeback,  Cornelius  E. 
Cundall,  Clarence  E. 
Cunningham,  Joseph  T. 
Cunningham,  Oliver  B. 
Curtis,  George  L. 
Curtis,  H.  Holbrook 
Curtis,  Joseph 
Cushing,  Kirke  W. 
Cutter,  Ephraim 
Cutting,  James  D'W. 

Daggett,  David 
Daily,  Henry  B. 
Dakin,  Robert  E. 
Dangler,  Henry  C. 
Daniels,  John  H. 
Darling,  Thomas  W. 
Darlington,  O'Hara 
Davidson,  Charles 
Davidson,  William  W. 
Davis,  Benjamin 
Davis,  Frederick  W. 
Davis,  Lowndes  H. 
Davis,  Thomas  K. 
Dawes,  Chester  M. 
Dayton,  Estey  F. 
Dean,  Wallace  H. 
Dechert,  Henry  M. 
DeForest,  Henry  C. 
DeForest,  Moulton 
Delafield,  Francis 
Denniston,  James  O. 
Denton,  William  B. 
Devan,  Scoville  T. 
Devereux,  Julian  F. 
Dexter,  Stanley  W. 
Dibble,  Charles  F. 
Dibble,  Orson  G. 
Dickey,  W.  Grant 
Dickinson,  Andrew  G.,  Jr. 
Diehl,  Chandler 
Dietz,  Philip 


INDEX 

Page 

709 

949 
185 

730 
1478 

1535 
908 

502 

673 
1088 

649 
1529 

471 
1059 

263 

460 

3^3 
1577 
1204 

422 
1448 

235 

330 
1590 
1651 
1462 

359 
1350 

833 

353 

137 
1604 

538 

587 

1356 

32 

19 

195 
1504 
1 501 

651 

205 
57 

157 
1452 
1496 
1237 


Class 

Page 

1881 

Dimmick,  J.  Benjamin 

1420 

1874 

Dimock,  George  E. 

1394 

1904  m 

Dinnan,  James  B. 

1608 

icpodp 

Dodge,  Louise  P. 

1593 

1917 

Donahoe,  Henry  T. 

1090 

1876 

Doolittle,  William  S. 

1397 

1856 

Dorrance,  G.  Morris 

1338 

1857 

Doster,  William  E. 

1339 

1 901 

Doudge,  Barton  T. 

414 

1 897  J 

Douglas,  Duncan 

1556 

1880 

Douglas,  John  M. 

657 

1919 

Douglass,  Allan  W. 

1122 

1 896  J 

Downs,  Hubert  C. 

184 

\g\idp 

Drysdale,  Charles  W. 

1262 

1869  J 

DuBois,  A.  Jay 

162 

1857 

Duer,  Edward  L. 

279 

1854 

Dunham,  Austin  C. 

549 

1906 

Dunlap,  John  G. 

1007 

1871  s 

Durand,  W.  Cecil 

"39 

1901  s 

Duren,  Walter 

1 174 

I86I 

Durfee,  Henry  R. 

37 

1863 

Durfee,  Holder  B. 

876 

1900  J 

Dutton,  Henry  F. 

"73 

1873 

Dutton,  Samuel  T. 

916 

1849 

Dwight,  Timothy 

5 

I9I3J 

Dyer,  Samuel  A. 

775 

1918  s 

Dyer,  Truman  D. 

1250 

1889/ 

Fames,  Harris  G. 

219 

1863 

Easton,  Morton  W. 

588 

I86I 

Eaves,  David  W. 

576 

1879 

Eddy,  Newell  A. 

365 

1873  m 

Eden,  John  H. ' 

1275 

1864 

Edic,  John  J. 

880 

1847 

Edmands,  John 

4 

1874  J 

Edwards,  Franklin 

166 

1918 

Edwards,  G.  Lane,  Jr. 

1 106 

1900 

Edwards,  Stanley  W. 

1477 

1863 

Eglin,  Benjamin 

294 

1873 

Elder,  Samuel  J. 

624 

1900 

Ellerbe,  Christopher  P. 

690 

1905  m 

Elmes,  Frank  A. 

207 

1907 

Ely,  Arthur  E. 

425 

1897  J 

Ely,  Franklin  J. 

187 

1897 

Ely,  Richard  F. 

1467 

1908  s 

Emmons,  George  L. 

1 197 

1889  J 

Enfiajian,  Harootune 

1542 

1915 

Ennis,  James  S.,  Jr. 

719 

Class 


1904 

Erwin,  Henry  P. 

1857 

Estilette,  Edmond  D, 

1872  J 

Evans,  William  D. 

1907/ 

Evarts,  Charles  W. 

1897 

Ewell,  John  L. 

1885/ 

Ewen,  Andrew  J. 

I9I5 

Ewing,  George  W.,  Jr. 

1903 

Fairbank,  J.  J.  Mitchell 

1859 

Fairbanks,  Edward  T. 

I9I7 

Fairchild,  Franklin  C. 

i860 

Fairchild,  Horace  L. 

I9I0  J 

Farnham,  Roy  E. 

1918  s 

Farwell,  Alfred  A. 

1880 

Farwell,  Asa  J. 

1878  J 

Farwell,  Granger 

1908 

Faust,  Edward  S. 

1862/ 

Fay,  George  A. 

1874 

Fell,  Walter  P. 

1875  J 

Fenn,  Charles  W, 

1854 

Fenn,  William  H. 

1911  s 

Fennell,  Charles  B. 

I9I0 

Fenton,  Kenneth  L. 

1913  ms 

Ferry,  Edna  L. 

1897 

Fisher,  Lucius  G. 

1899  J 

Fiske,  John  M.,  Jr. 

1873^ 

Fitch,  Frank  S. 

1902 

FitzGerald,  Edward 

1913 

Fitzgerald,  John  J. 

1861 

Fitzhugh,  Robert  H. 

1867 

Flanders,  James  G. 

1878  w 

Fleischner,  Henry 

1879  m 

Flint,  Eli  P. 

1893^ 

Flint,  George  H. 

1882 

Foote,  Carlton  A. 

1871 

Ford,  Isaac  H. 

1898^ 

Forsell,  Knut  E. 

1882 

Foster,  Burnside 

1874 

Foster,  Frank  W. 

i860 

Foster,  William  E. 

1894/ 

Foster,  William  F, 

1916 

Fowler,  Alfred  W. 

1888 

Fowler,  George  B. 

1879 

Fox,  John  M. 

1863 

Francis,  Cyrus  W. 

1914 

Frary,  Donald  P. 

1899  J 

Freeborn,  Charles  J. 

1869 

Freeman,  Henry  V. 

23 

INDEX 


Page 
1488 

134I 
446 

1631 

1468 
808 

1060 

1481 
862 

724 

572 

1209 

1251 

1 145 

1497 
500 

1395 
167 

17 

1218 

428 

1586 

978 

1169 

815 

420 

1042 

1357 

1379 

795 

796 

240 

107 

81 

242 

377 
90 

34 
811 

1513 

124 

1417 

49 
1050 
1 170 
3^3 


1673 


Class 

Page 

1876 

Frew,  William  N. 

91 

1874 

Frissell,  Hollis  B. 

634 

1917 

Frost,  Cleveland  C. 

1091 

1861 

Frost,  Milton 

39 

1917 

Fuller,  Roswell  H. 

1093 

1863 

Fuller,  Thomas  H. 

878 

1907  ml 

Fulton,  Lawrence  K. 

1636 

1901 

Fulton,  Lewis  E. 

691 

i860 

Furbish,  Edward  B. 

573 

1854 

Gale,  Samuel  C. 

268 

1864  m 

Gallagher,  Frank 

202 

1858 

Gallaway,  Robert  M. 

565 

1888 

Gallup,  Asa  0. 

956 

1915 

Gamble,  Robert  H. 

106 1 

1887 

Gardiner,  Robert  A. 

954 

igijs 

Garland,  Henry  B. 

1244 

1904  J 

Garnsey,  Owen  A. 

1185 

1858 

Garrard,  Jeptha 

20 

1866 

Garretson,  Ferdinand  VanD.  890 

1856 

Gay,  Julius 

558 

1870 

Gaylord,  Charles  W. 

904 

1911  s 

Geddes,  Walter  M. 

197 

1893 

Gibbs,  Rufus  M. 

129 

1898  J 

Gibson,  Walter  F. 

1560 

1869 

Gilbert,  James  H. 

897 

i904^;> 

Gilbert,  Ralph  D,      . 

1 261 

1881 

Giltner,  Roscoe  R. 

939 

1863 

Glasgow,  Edward  B. 

51 

1916  s 

Gleason,  Frederic  C. 

482 

1913J 

Glover,  Joseph  A. 

1230 

1876^ 

Gochenauer,  David 

512 

1893^ 

Goddard,  Henry  M. 

520 

1866 

Goodrich,  Edward  E. 

1369 

1916 

Goodwin,  George  W. 

1072 

1910  J 

Gordy,  Sheppard  B. 

1209 

1876^ 

Grannis,  George  H. 

S^3 

1858 

Grant,  Edward  D. 

21 

1905  J 

Grant,  Henry  F. 

1570 

1882 

Graves,  George  H, 

1427 

1908  s 

Graves,  Stanley  H. 

766 

iU6d 

Greeley,  Clarence  DeV. 

239 

1904 

Green,  Douglas  B. 

997 

1894 

Green,  Gervase 

972 

1868 

Greene,  J.  Warren 

317 

1888  J 

Greer,  Howard,  Jr. 

175 

1899  J 

Gregory,  Ward  S. 

468 

1894^ 

Grein,  Albert  L. 

165s 

1674 

INDEX 

Class 

Page 

Class 

Page 

1903  J 

Gribben,  Perry  D. 

760 

1871 

Henlein,  Alfred  F. 

910 

1918 

Grieb,  H.  Norman 

1 107 

1 901 

Henry,  George  G. 

692 

1892 

Griffin,  Francis  H. 

1456 

1903  J 

Henry,  George  P. 

1566 

1873^ 

Griffin,  Henry  L. 

816 

1905/ 

Herbert,  Michael 

1630 

1887  J 

Griggs,  Wilfred  E. 

II59 

1874^ 

Hershey,  S.  Byron 

511 

1893  J 

Gunter,  Gaston 

I165 

1901 

Hetrick,  Harold  S. 

1479 

1868 

Hicks,  Horace  A. 

897 

1911  / 

Haden,  Ralph 

1292 

1917J 

Higginbotham,  J.  Horace 

785 

1863  J 

Hague,  Arnold 

438 

i860 

Higgins,  Lucius  H. 

35 

i860 

Haight,  David  L. 

866 

1868 

Hill,  Beach 

65 

1888 

Haight,  Henry  H. 

1446 

1865 

Hill,  Ebenezer  J. 

600 

I915J 

Haines,  Kenneth  B. 

1579 

1887 

Hill,  George  E. 

393 

1866 

Hale,  Albert  F. 

312 

1859 

Hinckley,  Henry  R. 

569 

i860 

Hale,  William  H. 

867 

1918  J 

Hines,  Edward,  Jr. 

1252 

1883  J 

Hall,  Charles  S. 

748 

1910  J 

Hinkley,  Earl  A. 

1211 

1862 

Hall,  Elliot  C. 

290 

1871 

Hird,  John  W. 

620 

1881/ 

Hall,  Harry  A. 

806 

1903 

Hitchcock,  Charles,  Jr. 

149 

1895  J 

Hall,  James  S. 

756 

1849 

Hittell,  Theodore  H. 

257 

1897  i 

Hall,  John  A. 

1557 

1915J 

Hoadley,  Sheldon  E. 

1238 

1866 

Hall,  Lovell 

606 

1 879  J 

Hoard,  Charles  deV. 

449 

1893  J 

Hall,  Robert  E. 

1550 

1891 

Hodges,  George  W. 

1453 

1 901  / 

Hallen,  Edward  T. 

223 

1911  / 

Hogan,  Francis  J. 

813 

1904/ 

Halpin,  Andrew  C. 

509 

1905/ 

Holden,  William  C. 

509 

1906 

Halsey,  John  R. 

1008 

1884 

HoUiday,  Joseph  G. 

948 

1857 

Hand,  Alfred 

280 

1878 

HoUister,  Howard  C. 

I410 

1861 

Hanford,  Walter 

289 

1896 

Hollister,  John  C. 

139 

1883 

Harkness,  Charles  W. 

109 

1894  J 

Holly,  Henry  H. 

458 

1881 

Harkness,  WilUam  L. 

940 

1848 

Holmes,  Daniel 

836 

1851 

Harlow,  William  T. 

12 

1913 

Hopkins,  Arthur  E. 

1043 

1879/ 

Harmon,  Lloyd  W. 

1282 

1891 

Hopkins,  Louis  L. 

959 

1903 

Harmount,  William  L, 

696 

1864 

Hopkins,  Theodore  W. 

57 

1856 

Harriott,  Alexis  W. 

275 

1876 

Home,  Durbin 

93 

1856 

Harris,  William  J. 

276 

1876^ 

Horner,  John  W. 

234 

1879  J 

Harrison,  Frank  H. 

172 

1850 

Horton,  Benjamin  J. 

9 

1906  J 

Hasbrouck,  Joseph  J. 

764 

1877/ 

Hotchkiss,  Justus  S. 

214 

1893  J 

Haslehurst,  Howard  J. 

456 

1891/ 

Hotchkiss,  Samuel  S. 

502 

1896 

Hatch,  George  B. 

406 

1875 

Hotchkiss,  WiUiam  H. 

922 

1880 

Haviland,  William  T. 

658 

1891  s 

Hotz,  Robert  S. 

1 163 

1882 

Hawkes,  Charles  B. 

108 

1873 

Houghton,  William  A. 

627 

1887/ 

Hayden,  Charles  H. 

1621 

I9I6 

Houpt,  George  K. 

1073 

1887  J 

Hay  den,  James  H. 

1161 

iSjys 

Howard,  Horace  C. 

1144 

1879 

Haynie,  Edwin  C. 

102 

1874 

Howe,  Daniel  R. 

344 

1912/ 

Hayward,  Albert  W. 

1266 

1876 

Howe,  Elmer  P. 

640 

1899  J 

Hazard,  John  G. 

1172 

1871 

Howe,  John  K. 

33^ 

1896 

Heard,  Carlos  C. 

138 

iSSom 

Howland,  Charles  H. 

492 

1908 

Hedrick,  Arly  L. 

1019 

1904 

Howland,  Francis  E. 

699 

1872 

Hemenway,  George  L. 

621 

1913 

Hubbard,  George  C. 

1044 

19I4 

Hemingway,  Harold  L. 

1051 

1881^ 

Hubbard,  William  B. 

1644 

INDEX 


1675 


Class 

Page 

Class 

Page 

1909 

Huff,  Burrell  R. 

1025 

i9og  dp 

Kawanaka,  Kannosuke 

201 

1851 

Hughes,  George  R.  H. 

260 

1899/ 

Keane,  William  C. 

223 

1898  J 

Hulbert,  George  H. 

758 

1897 

Keator,  Harry  M. 

407 

1908  J 

Hulett,  Frank  W. 

767 

1915 

Keep,  Henry  B. 

1064 

1905 

Humphrey, 

1882 

Kellogg,  Frank  A. 

1428 

Alexander  P.,  Jr 

.     702 

1870 

Kelly,  Cassius  W. 

905 

1870  J 

Humphrey,  Henry  C. 

163 

1870 

Kelly,  Robert 

77 

1898  w 

Hungerford,  Henry  E. 

800 

1908  J 

Kelsey,  Alexis  A. 

1198 

1876 

Hunn,  Joseph  S. 

355 

1884  J 

Kelsey,  Duane  J. 

1157 

1901  s 

Hunt,  Edward  W. 

1 174 

1895 

Kendall,  James  M. 

680 

1908  mc 

I  Hunt,  Frederick  R. 

1584 

1893/ 

Kendall,  Ulysses  S. 

221 

1885 

Hunter,  Ernest  H. 

112 

1911  / 

Kenealy,  Edward  J. 

1632 

1857 

Huntington,  Henry  S. 

1343 

1913J 

Kennedy,  William  F. 

1231 

1867/ 

Hurd,  Alva  A. 

1281 

1875 

Kenny,  William  S. 

923 

1907/ 

Hurtt,  Francis  D. 

812 

1865 

Kerr,  James  H. 

886 

1876^ 

Hutchins,  William  T. 

5H 

1916 

Kielland,  Casper.  M. 

1075 

1890 

Hutchinson,  Otis  K. 

125 

1871/ 

Kiernan,  Patrick  F. 

1281 

1882^;) 

Hyde,  Edmund  M. 

1588 

1858 

Kimball,John  E. 

283 

1876 

Hyde,  William  Waldo 

94 

1909  J 

King,  George  R. 

769 

1884 

Hyndman,  William  H. 

1430 

1910 

King,  Robert  B. 

1032 

1896  w 

Kingsbury,  William  S. 

496 

18^2  dp 

1881 

1873 

Ichihara,  Morihiro 
Ide,  George  E. 
Irwin,  Lewis  W. 

1592 

1422 

629 

1907  J 
1871 
1903 
1896 

Kinijey,  Gilmore,  Jr. 
Kinney,  Herbert  E. 
Kinney,  Joseph  N. 
Kip,  Henry  S. 

474 

334 

991 

1464 

i860 

Kip,  William  I. 

868 

1875^ 

Jackson,  William  T. 

229 

1861 

Kitchel,  Harvey  S. 

40 

1895 

Jacobus,  George 

974 

1855 

Kittredge,  George  A. 

552 

1888^ 

James,  D.  Melancthon 

1652 

1871  J 

Klein,  Joseph  F. 

737 

1891  s 

Janeway,  Theodore  C. 

752 

1882 

Knapp,  Howard  H. 

662 

1891/ 

Jarboe,  Paul  R. 

220 

1886 

Knapp,  Wallace  P. 

670 

1883  d 

■Jeffries,  William  E. 

236 

i860 

Knowlton,  Marcus  P. 

574 

1881  s 

Jeme,  Tien  Yow 

1 1 50 

1907 

Kochersperger,  Ralph  D. 

1015 

1894 

Jenkins,  James  S. 

678 

1876  J 

Kohn,  Solomon  S. 

169 

1892 

Jenney,  Isaac  H. 

1457 

1911  s 

Kraetschmar,  Otto  F. 

773 

jgio  s 

Jerome,  Gilbert  N. 

1212 

1915 

Jessup,  W'illiam  H. 

1063 

1876 

Lake,  Edgar  J. 

642 

1871 

Jewell,  George  C. 

333 

I88I 

Lamb,  Benjamin  B. 

661 

1914J 

Johnson,  Albert  E. 

776 

I9II 

Lamb,  Floyd  E. 

710 

1882  J 

Johnson,  Alexander  B. 

746 

1878 

Lamb,  Henry  W. 

932 

1903  m^ 

Johnson,  Hjalmar  P. 

484 

1866 

Lampman,  Lewis 

892 

1898 

Johnson,  Warren  B. 

685 

I9II  J 

Lancashire,  Ammi  W. 

1219 

1907  J 

Jones,  Carleton  B. 

1 193 

1912  ma 

Lane,  Edward  F. 

1257 

1915J 

Jones,  Charles  E. 

778 

1904  w 

Lane,  Fred  P. 

497 

1861 

Jones,  Frederick  R. 

578 

1903 

Lane,  Theodore  T. 

1482 

igii/ 

Jones,  John  P. 

1294 

1916 

Lanpher,  Richard 

434 

1904 

Jones,  Oliver  L. 

700 

1859/ 

Latta,  John 

499 

1866 

Judson,  Frederick  N. 

1371 

1902  s 

Laubin,  Frederick  W. 

1564 

1676 


INDEX 


Class 

Page 

Class 

Page 

1900  J 

Lauder,  George,  Jr. 

188 

1884 

McCalmont,  Samuel  P. 

667 

1893  J 

Lawbaugh,  Elmer  A. 

179 

1876  J 

McClung,  Calvin  M. 

1 143 

i860 

Leach,  Orlando 

869 

1888 

McConkey,  Charles  B. 

1447 

1912  s 

Leahy,  J.  Russell 

1224 

1919 

McCormick, 

1888/ 

Leary,  Daniel  E. 

1284 

Alexander  A.,  Jr. 

1 123 

1912 

Leavenworth,  William  C. 

1506 

1853 

McCormick,  James 

546 

1886 

Leavitt,  Dudley 

392 

1914/ 

McCreery,  Sydney  F. 

1296 

1895 

Lee,  John  A. 

1463 

1905 

McCullough,  Albert  S. 

1489 

1858 

Lee,  Samuel  H. 

858 

1853 

McCully,  Charles  G. 

1328 

1869 

Lee,  William  H.  L. 

899 

1882^ 

MacDougall,  Donald 

1646 

1906 

Leech,  Robinson 

1490 

1878 

McEwan,  James  B. 

100 

1901 

Leidigh,  Paul  J. 

694 

1904 

McFadden,  John  S. 

1000 

1886  J 

Leonard,  Harrie  S. 

1158 

1876/ 

McGraw,  John  T. 

1612 

1888  J 

LeSassier,  Louis 

176 

1917 

McHenry,  John,  Jr. 

1095 

1906  s 

Levering,  Ernest  W. 

1189 

1914J 

MacKenzie,  Roswell  G. 

777 

1902  s 

Levering,  Richmond 

1564 

1909 

McKiernan,  Charles  P. 

154 

1898 

Lewis,  Alexander  L 

1473 

1876 

McKnight,  Everett  J. 

643 

1865  w 

Lewis,  George  F. 

1272 

1896 

McLanahan,  George  X. 

976 

1904  J 

Lewisohn,  Oscar  A. 

761 

1918 

MacLeish,  Kenneth 

1 108 

Itpgdp 

Liddle,  Leonard  M. 

1597 

1896/ 

McMahon,  Patrick  J. 

504 

1909  J 

Lilley,  John  L. 

1205 

1894 

McMillan,  Philip  H. 

1 460 

1894  J 

Lilley,  Mitchell  C. 

180 

1906 

Macmillan,  Thomas  D.   . 

lOIO 

1910/ 

Lincoln,  Ralph  H. 

225 

1918 

MacNaughton,  Leslie  M. 

1 1 10 

1905  J 

Lindeman,  Edward  E. 

I188 

1913 

McNeills,  John  B. 

1045 

1862  m 

Lines,  Jairus  F. 

492 

1915  J 

McNulty,  Frank 

481 

1868 

Linn,  William  A. 

318 

1853 

MacVeagh,  Wayne 

266 

1880 

Linthicum,  Cadwalader  E 

.    372 

1884 

Makuen,  G,  Hudson 

384 

1870  i 

Littleton,  Augustus  W. 

1520 

1918 

Mallory,  Holmes 

iiii 

1894 

Longenecker,  Ralph 

130 

1910 

Malony,  John  C. 

208 

1864 

Loomis,  Francis  E. 

881 

1887^ 

Maltby,  Edward  L. 

454 

1851 

Loomis,  Henry 

541 

1865 

Man,  Edward  A.  S. 

603 

1881^ 

Loos,  Isaac  A. 

1300 

1885 

Mansfield,  Louis  A. 

390 

1904 

Lovejoy,  Allen  P. 

998 

i860 

Marshall,  Henry  G. 

871 

^9^ 

Loveland,  John  W.,  Jr. 

1507 

1911  s 

Martin,  LeRoy 

1220 

1857 

Lovewell,  Joseph  T. 

847 

1865 

Martyn,  Sanford  S. 

1365 

1869  J 

Lowe,  Houston 

1517 

1891 

Marvin,  Arthur 

960 

1877  J 

Luck,  Charles  J. 

1531 

1907 

Mather,  x^masa  S. 

I49I 

1912/ 

Lusk,  Davis  W. 

1267 

1871  J 

Mather,  Thomas  W. 

739 

1 901  s 

Luther,  Chorbajian  M. 

189 

1905  ma  Matossian,  Jesse  S. 

1583 

1876 

Lyon,  George  W.  A. 

1399 

1876 

Maxson,  Louis  W. 

356 

1903  m 

Lyon,  Treby  W. 

1607 

1887 

Maxwell,  Robert 

1443 

1873  ;« 

May,  Calvin  S. 

1276 

1915J 

McAleenan,  Arthur,  Jr. 

1580 

1871 

Mead,  Frederick 

911 

1884 

McAndrew,  George  J. 

383 

1891^ 

Means,  Frederick  H. 

1654 

1912  J 

MacArthur,  John 

1225 

1877/ 

Meeker,  Edward  F. 

216 

1901 

McAuley,  Henry  S. 

415 

1912 

Mendel,  Harry 

1038 

1897 

MacBride,  Thomas 

1469 

1867 

Merriam,  James  F. 

611 

1887  w 

McCabe,  Edward  M. 

493 

1877 

Merrifield,  Webster 

97 

INDEX 


1677 


Class 

1877  Merwin,  Timothy  D. 
1897/  Meskill,  James  T. 
1909  ma  Messick,  Joseph  C. 

1916  Meyer,  Russell  J. 

1 914  Miller,  Edward  C,  Jr. 
1904  Miller,  James  E. 
1900  Miller,  Jesse  W. 

1908  J  Miller,  Winfield  C. 

1877/  Mills,  WiUiam  J.  . 

1873  Minor,  S.  Carrington 

1863  m  Minor,  William  C. 

1900  Minor,  WilHam  E. 
1908  Mohlman,  Albert  J. 
1888  /  Montague,  Robert  V. 
1856  Monteith,  John 

191 5  J  Montgomery,  Frank  G. 
1868  Moore,  Frank 

1908  s  Moorhead,  J.  Upshur 
1 91 8  Morange,  Leonard  S. 
1856  s  Morehouse,  Louis  P. 
191 2  Morgan,  Denison 

1 891  Morison,  Samuel  B. 

1849  Morris,  Edward  D. 

1917  J  Morrison,  John 

1 91 5  Moseley,  James  A.,  Jr. 
1876  <f  Mossman,  William  D. 

1878  Mower,  Thomas  E. 
191 1  /  Mueller,  George  W. 
1894/  Mull,  George  F. 
1855^7  Munger,  Walter  S. 

1 91 6  Munson,  Alexander  McK. 

1909  Murchey,  Karl  E. 
1911/  Murray,  William  G. 

1904  s  Naething,  John  B. 

1887^  Nakashima,  Rikizo 

191 5  Nason,  xAlexis  P. 

1901  Neal,  Harold  C. 

1858  Neide,  Horace 

1879  s  Nelson,  Edward  D. 
1^3  s  Nevin,  Theodore  H. 
1908  J  Newcomb,  William  W. 
1.867  Newlands,  Francis  G. 

1859  Newton,  Homer  G. 
1879  Newton,  Howard  D. 
1903  Nichols,  James  K. 
1886  Nichols,  William  E. 


Page 

Class 

Page 

1404 

1866 

Nicoll,  William  G. 

893 

1626 

1858 

Noble,  Frederick  A. 

567 

200 

1854 

Norris,  William  H. 

^323 

1077 

1895  J 

North,  J.  Richard 

1551 

1052 

1911  s 

Norton,  Edward  H. 

198 

701 

1910 

Noyes,  Garnett  M. 

^^32 

984 

193 

i86o;« 

Oberly,  Aaron  S. 

1270 

217 

1894/ 

O'Connor,  James  E. 

1288 

87 

1894 

O'Day,  Daniel 

131 

1602 

1917 

Offutt,  Jarvis  J. 

1097 

985 

1875  J 

Olmsted,  John  C. 

1525 

704 

1855 

Osborn,  Frederick  W. 

1334 

1285 

1848 

Osborne,  Arthur  D. 

1324 

559 

1915  ma 

Oshima,  Shosaku 

1258 

779 

1919 

Otis,  George  W. 

1 124 

66 

1917 

Overton,  John  W. 

1098 

1199 

1892^ 

Owen,  Richard 

S^9 

1113 
160 

1908  J 

Page,  Allen  S. 

768 

714 

18755 

Page,'  Edward  D. 

1141 

1454 

1860/ 

Page,  WiUiam  C. 

1610 

7 

1886 

Painter,  John  H. 

1439 

1245 

1905  J;) 

Palmer,  Elizabeth  H. 

1596 

1065 

1907 

Palmer,  Howard  E. 

1493 

1637 

1910  J 

Pangburn,  Dwight  B. 

772 

653 

1879  J 

Paramore,  Frederick  W. 

172 

1293 

1882 

Pardee,  William  S. 

663 

222 

1873 

Parker,  Frederick  S. 

343 

792 

1916  s 

Parker,  Thomas  S. 

1581 

722 

1909 

Parks,  Leonard  B. 

704 

155 

1917J 

Parrott,  Edmund  A. 

1247 

813 

1909 

Parry,  Maxwell  0. 

1028 

1868 

Parry,  Samuel 

68 

472 

1913 

Parsons,  Henry  H. 

1509 

1649 

1918 

Patterson,  F.  Stuart 

1114 

1067 

1876 

Patton,  William  H. 

927 

695 

1863 

Payne,  Oliver  H. 

295 

22 

1917J 

Peale,  VanHorn 

1247 

1533 

1892  J 

Pearce,  Richard  F. 

1545 

1 179 

1898/ 

Peck,  Howard  B. 

506 

1200 

1874 

Peck,  John  W. 

636 

613 

1857  w 

Peck,  Ozias  W. 

490 

24 

1867 

Peck,  William  A. 

315 

367 

1864 

Peck,  William  G. 

59 

992 

1866  w? 

Peckham,  Fenner  H. 

202 

1438 

1877 

Peet,  Theodore 

647 

1678 

Class 

IND 
Page 

EX 

Class 

Page 

1858 

Peirce,  Luther  H. 

23 

1912 

Rand,  Gordon  L. 

715 

1 874  J 

Pendleton,  Claudius  V. 

1 140 

1914 

Rand,  Kenneth 

1054 

1887 

Penrose,  Thomas  N. 

•      123 

1880/ 

Randolph,  Edwin  A. 

1614 

I912 

Perkins,  Clarence  L. 

431 

1894  J 

Ranney,  Abram  N. 

181 

1885  J 

Perkins,  Willis  L. 

749 

iSyjs 

Ray,  Nathaniel  C. 

742 

iS86d 

Perry,  George  H. 

1648 

1859 

Raynolds,  Thomas  B. 

1348 

1869  J 

Perry,  Henry  H. 

1134 

1906 

Rayworth,  Joseph  C. 

423 

1876 

Perry,  Winthrop  H. 

1401 

1918 

Read,  Curtis  S. 

II15 

1854 

Pettibone,  Ira  W, 

551 

1877  J 

Read,  Francis  R. 

171 

1885 

Phelps,  Edward  B. 

"3 

1903  J 

Read,  Robert  W. 

1181 

1895 

Phelps,  George  A. 

402 

1910  J 

Reeder,  Harold  W. 

1213 

1906 

Phelps,  John  C. 

ion 

1898 

Reeve,  Howard  D. 

686 

1876 

Phelps,  Myron  H. 

644 

1874 

Reid,  George  D. 

1396 

1908 

Phillips,  James  L. 

1021 

1890^ 

Reid,  John  H. 

1653 

1904  J 

Pierpont,  Birdseye  B. 

1568 

1909  J 

Rend,  Frank  A. 

478 

1866 

Pierson,  Isaac 

1375 

1900  J 

Renshaw,  Frederick  W. 

1562 

1864 

Pierson,  Stephen  C. 

596 

1917 

Richards,  John  F.,  II 

1 100 

1878 

Pigott,  James  P. 

1412 

1897/ 

Rick,  William 

1627 

1882  J 

Pirsson,  Louis  V. 

1538 

1916 

Ricketts,  Langdon  L. 

1078 

1877 

Piatt,  Frank  H.. 

1405 

1872 

Rickly,  Ralph  R. 

913 

1875-^ 

Piatt,  Lester  B. 

230 

1919 

Ripley,  Bryan  H. 

1128 

1879 

Piatt,  Lewis  A. 

934 

1892^ 

Ritchey,  Jefferson  D. 

1302 

1912  J 

Piatt,  Lucian 

1227 

1886 

Roache,  John  F. 

1440 

1885 

Plessner,  David 

1434 

1893/ 

Robb,  Bamford  A. 

1287 

3914  J 

Plimpton,  Chester  H. 

1234 

1868 

Robbins,  Thomas  H. 

320 

1882 

Pollock,  William 

379 

1851/ 

Robert,  Alexander  J. 

210 

1872 

Pomeroy,  H.  Sterling 

338 

iSg4  dp 

Roberts,  Charlotte  F. 

789 

1888 

Pomroy,  Frederic  H. 

395 

1850 

Roberts,  Ellis  H, 

540 

1908 

Porter,  Eliot  H. 

426 

1895  J 

Robinson,  Charles  L.  F. 

461 

1919 

Porter,  Hezekiah  S. 

1 1 26 

1872/ 

Robinson,  Frank  A. 

213 

1867 

Porter,  P.  Brynberg 

64 

1873 

Robson,  James  A. 

88 

1855 

Potter,  Giles 

^33(> 

1912  m 

Rochfort,  Edward  L. 

1279 

1872 

Potter,  Henry  S. 

622 

1896 

Rockwell,  James  D. 

681 

.1919 

Potter,  Stephen 

1 126 

1864  J 

Roffe,  Albert  H. 

161 

1892 

Powell,  Ralph  C. 

962 

1875 

Rogers,  Edward  H. 

352 

:i882^ 

Powelson,  Alfred  P. 

516 

1914 

Rogers,  Henry  T.,  2d 

1055 

n899ar/ 

Pratt,  Bela  L. 

486 

i860  J 

Rogers,  Joseph  A. 

437 

1864 

Pratt,  William  H.  B. 

298 

1875^ 

Root,  Edward  P. 

231 

1887^ 

Prentice,  George  F. 

518 

1916 

Rose,  Philip  L. 

1079 

1856 

Price,  John  T. 

561 

1915J 

Rosenfeld,  Lee  W. 

481 

1903  J 

Prindle,  Harrison 

1 180 

1884 

Ross,  Clinton 

143 1 

1869 

Prudden,  Theodore  P. 

73 

1913 

Rowe,  Eugene  F. 

1046 

1880 

Purington,  William  A. 

659 

1897^ 

Rowe,  William  H. 

1656 

1880 

Purple,  William  R. 

660 

1848 

Rowell,  Joseph 

535 

1903 

Putnam,  James  0. 

1484 

1879 

Rowland,  Henry  L. 

656 

1896 

Rumrill,  Clinton  J. 

682 

1906/ 

Quill,  James  J. 

811 

1914J 

Rush,  Lowell  P. 

479 

1 892  J 

Quinn,  Harry  R. 

455 

1891 

Russell,  Arthur  B. 

1455 

INDEX 


1679 


Class 

Page 

Class 

Page 

1909  J 

Russell,  Donald  G. 

iao6 

1904  J 

Sheldon,  Robert  E.,  Jr. 

473 

1880^ 

Russell,  John  E. 

515 

1877 

Shelton,  Charles  H. 

930 

1869 

Russell,  Talcott  H. 

618 

1863 

Shepard,  Charles  U. 

52 

1872  J 

Russell,  Thomas  H. 

164 

1895 

Shepley,  Arthur  B. 

975 

1909 

Sheppard,  E.  Morrow 

1503 

I914 

Safford,  GeofFrey  L. 

159 

1890 

Sherwood,  John  H. 

125 

1909  w/ 

SancheZj  Proceso  G. 

227 

1906 

ShevUn,  Thomas  L, 

152 

1914J 

Sanford,  Eldon  W. 

1236 

1856/ 

Shiras,  Oliver  P. 

211 

3871  J 

Sanford,  Frederick  L. 

1521 

1907 

Shirk,  John  E. 

"^SZ 

1894 

Saunders,  Charles  W. 

973 

1892  m 

Shlevin,  Hyman  S. 

495 

1 879  J 

Saunders,  George  A. 

743 

xcp-]  s 

Siems,  Chester  P. 

1 194 

1844 

Savage,  George  S.  F. 

3 

i860 

Siglar,  Henry  W. 

576 

1902/ 

Saxe,  Moses  W^ 

1288 

1907 

Simmons,  F.  Ronald 

1016 

1895 

Sayles,  Nelson  W. 

403 

1891 

Simpson,  Hubbard  T. 

398 

1874 

Sayles,  Whipple  0. 

345 

1912  em 

Sirdevan,  William  H, 

1588 

1909  J 

Schall,  James  E.,  Jr. 

195 

1869  J 

Skinner,  Joseph  J. 

1518 

1897  J 

Schenck,  Daniel  D. 

1168 

1861 

SlinglufF,  Fielder  C. 

578 

I913 

Schenck,  Gordon  L. 

1047 

1917 

Slocum,  Russell 

IIOI 

1900  J 

Schley,  Chaloner  B. 

470 

1853 

Smalley,  George  W. 

16 

1908 

Schmidt,  Arnold 

1498 

1901  s 

Smith,  Allen  E. 

1563 

1908  m 

Schuele,  George  J. 

1608 

1912  s 

Smith,  Allen  0. 

774 

1915J 

Schulze,  Herman  F.  B. 

1239 

1908  1n(^ 

\  Smith,  Arthur  W. 

1585 

1886 

Schwab,  John  C. 

117 

1908 

Smith,  Charles  M. 

1022 

1911 

Schwaner,  Stanley  F. 

1035 

1883 

Smith,  Clarence  M. 

946 

1858 

Scott,  Eben  Greenough 

1346 

1911  / 

Smith,  Francis  W. 

^^ZZ 

1889 

Scott,  Edmund  D. 

675 

1881 

Smith,  John  C. 

104 

1894^/) 

Scott,  Mary  A. 

790 

1846 

Smith,  Robert  H! 

255 

1865 

Scranton,  William  W. 

309 

1883 

Smith,  Warren  W. 

1430 

1906 

Scudder,  Philip  J. 

1012 

1894 

Sniffen,  Charles  J. 

678 

1868 

Seagrave,  Francis  E. 

69 

1907/ 

Snow,  George  G. 

224 

1891 

Sears,  John  B. 

397 

1904/ 

Snow,  Howard  B. 

1629 

1861 

Sears,  Lorenzo 

42 

1910/ 

Snow,  McLester  J. 

1289 

1879 

Seeley,  William  G. 

1419 

1897 

Sonnenberg,  Louis  M. 

1470 

1856  J 

Seely,  Henry  M. 

435 

1917J 

Souther,  Arthur  F. 

1249 

i<)i6  dp 

Selbert,  Louis 

1263 

1884 

Souther,  John  L 

385 

1848 

Selden,  Charles 

256 

1863 

Southworth,  George  C.  S. 

589 

1890  J 

Severy,  Ernest  E. 

751 

1870 

Spaulding,  Randall 

327 

1913 

Sew.  11,  Arthur  R. 

717 

1874 

Spaulding,  Wayland 

637 

1869 

Seward,  Edward  C. 

900 

1878 

Spencer,  Clinton 

654 

1857 

Seymour,  Storrs  0. 

850 

1917 

Spencer,  Dumaresq 

726 

1854 

Shackelford,  John  C. 

843 

1880 

Spencer,  Frank  0. 

938 

1881  J 

Shanley,  Bernard  J. 

452 

1867 

Spencer,  James  M. 

1381 

1909 

Sharp,  William 

1029 

1879  J 

Spencer,  T.  Henry 

1149 

1878 

Shaw,  Charles  H. 

lOI 

1909 

Spitzer,  Roland  A. 

156 

1917  ; 

Shear,  Charles  R. 

1248 

1873 

Sprague,  Frank  E. 

1391 

\cpidp 

Shearin,  Hubert  G. 

1595 

1852 

Sprague,  Homer  B. 

542 

1898 

Sheehan,  Francis  W. 

408 

1907  J 

Sprott,  RadclifF  E. 

476 

1894  J 

Sheffield,  George 

181 

1883 

Sproul,  Frank  P. 

381 

i68o 


INDEX 


Class 

Page 

Class 

Page 

1906 

Squire,  William  L. 

1014 

1901 

Thompson,  Edwin  P. 

416 

1914 

Stafford,  Oliver  M.,  Jr. 

1056 

1883  w 

Thompson,  John  E.  W. 

1606 

1861 

Stanton,  Charles  T. 

44 

1885  J 

Thorne,  William  V.  S. 

1540 

1855 

Stanton,  Lewis  E. 

273 

1887^ 

Thorpe,  Ervin  L. 

1650 

1880  J 

Starkweather,  Henry 

745 

1896  J 

Thrall,  Frederick  C. 

465 

1871 

Starling,  Lyne 

337 

1851 

Thurston,  John  R. 

26a 

i860 

Starr,  Pierre  S. 

1352 

1911  / 

Tierney,  Harold  E. 

226 

1909  J 

Stearns,  Burt 

1208 

1915J 

Tiesing,  Paul  E.  M. 

199 

1862 

Stebbins,  Henry  H. 

580 

1 864  J 

Tiffany,  Henry  D. 

440 

1888 

Stein,  Leo 

674 

1902^ 

Timm,  John  A. 

520 

1884 

Stein,  Sydney 

668 

1888/ 

Tingier,  Lyman  L. 

1621 

1856 

Steinman,  Andrew  J. 

563 

1885/ 

Tod,  John  G. 

808 

1895  J 

Stephenson,  Charles  S. 

757 

1884 

Tomlinson,  Joseph 

387 

1864 

Sterling,  John  W. 

883 

1884 

Tompkins,  Ray 

669 

1854 

Stevens,  Alexander  H. 

270 

1906 

Tooker,  Lewis  H. 

424 

1885^ 

Stevens,  Frederic  L. 

238 

1875 

Torrence,  George  P. 

924 

1915 

Stillman,  J.  Frederick,  Jr. 

721 

1899 

Torrey,  William  J. 

98* 

1897  J 

Stilson,  Clarence  H. 

1559 

1914J 

Towle,  Prescott  K. 

480 

1915  J 

Stilwell,  Thomas  V. 

1240 

1885 

Townsend,  Joseph  H. 

"5 

1863 

Stimson,  Lewis  A. 

592 

1871 

Townsend,  William 

1387 

1898 

Stocker,  Frank  R. 

687 

1900 

Tracy,  William  E. 

14& 

1908 

Stoddard,  Ralph  F. 

1023 

1918 

Treadwell,  Alvin  H. 

1117 

1888  w 

Stowe,  William  H. 

206 

1 901 

Tredway,  Edward  E. 

69^ 

1873 

Strong,  Henry  A. 

630 

1881J 

Trumbull,  J.  Heyward 

1154 

1876 

Strong,  William  T. 

928 

1878 

Trumbull,  John 

141J 

1888 

Strunz,  Henry 

396 

1902  J 

Trumbull,  John  F. 

1 175 

1897 

Stuart,  Walter  H. 

1471 

1878 

Tucker,  James  R. 

93J 

1916  J 

Sturtevant,  Albert  D. 

782 

1917J 

Turner,  Frank  B. 

786 

1878/ 

Suffren,  Charles  C. 

802 

1915/ 

Turner,  George  F. 

1635 

1855  m 

Sumner,  Edwin  G. 

792 

1880/ 

Tuttle,  Ezra  A. 

804 

1905  mc 

I  Swartz,  Wayne 

787 

1881 

Tuttle,  Henry  N. 

942 

1918  J 

Sweeny,  J.  Sarsiield 

1253 

1907  J 

Tuttle,  Morris  E. 

477 

1859 

Twichell,  Joseph  H. 

864 

1865 

Taintor,  Charles  N. 

1367 

1859  J 

Twining,  S.  Douglas 

72g 

1859 

Tatum,  Joseph  T. 

1349 

1855 

Tyler,  Charles  M. 

553 

1862 

Taylor,  John  P. 

47 

1895 

Tyler,  Fred  S. 

13^ 

1878 

Taylor,  William  Henry 

1414 

1876/ 

Tyler,  George  A. 

214 

1883/ 

Tefft,  Richard  C. 

1617 

1851 

Temple,  David  P. 

14 

1912  J 

Underbill,  John  W. 

1228 

1895  J 

Terry,  James 

463 

i()ioma  Underwood,  Charles  E. 

787 

1871 

Thacher,  Thomas 

1385 

1910  J 

Upson,  Warren  W. 

1214 

1869 

Thayer,  John  R. 

325 

1869 

Thomas,  Aaron  S. 

74 

1910  J 

Valentine,  Dudley  B. 

1215 

1863 

Thomas,  Frederick  F. 

296 

1873 

VanBuren,  James  H. 

632 

1904  J 

Thomas,  John  H. 

762 

1895  J 

Vandergrift, 

1886  J 

Thomas,  John  M. 

750 

Theophilus  T 

758 

1875^ 

Thompson,  Albert  H. 

232 

i860 

Vandyne,  Charles  H. 

36 

/ 


INDEX 


1681 


Class 

Page 

Class 

Page 

1864 

VanGelder,  James  H. 

300 

1877/ 

Wheeler,  Sterne 

1613 

1869  J 

VanRensselaer,  Robert  S. 

"35 

1853 

White,  Andrew  D. 

840 

1868 

Varick,  J.  Leonard 

321 

1908  s 

White,  Bishop 

1203 

2868 

Viele,  Sheldon  T. 

70 

1864 

White,  Oliver  S. 

301 

1870 

Vincent,  Frank 

79 

i860 

White,  Thomas  H. 

1353 

1905 

White,  William  W. 

1002 

1881/ 

Wadsworth,  Harry  H. 

1615 

i886 

Whitmore,  John 

144I 

1878 

Wager,  Ambrose  L. 

655 

1902  J 

Whitney,  Frederic  E. 

1177 

1877^ 

Waite,  Foster  R. 

817 

1853 

Whiton,  James  M. 

1330 

1884 

Walker,  Charles  M. 

1432 

1873 

Whittaker,  WiUiam  H. 

89 

1908  J 

Walker,  John  M. 

1201 

1864 

Whittelsey,  Charles  M. 

302 

1891  J 

Walker,  William  E. 

1164 

1918 

Wicks,  Glenn  D. 

1118 

1889 

Wallace,  Frederic  W. 

1449 

1869  J 

Wight,  Willard  W. 

441 

1881 

Wallace,  George  M. 

105 

1897/ 

Wilder,  Arthur  A. 

505 

1897 

Wallace,  M.  Lester 

979 

1910 

Wilkirson,  Roy  L. 

1034 

1917 

Wallace,  W.  Noble 

1 102 

i860 

Willcox,  Lemuel  T. 

287 

1863 

Wallis,  Hamilton 

55 

1916  J 

Willey,  Charles  W. 

1243 

1866 

Walworth,  Arthur  C. 

1377 

1877 

Williams,  Arthur 

1407 

1898 

Ward,  Arthur  G. 

980 

1898 

Williams,  Arthur  C. 

689 

1878  J 

Ward,  Ebin  J. 

1 147 

1858 

Williams,  Charles  H. 

860 

1880 

Ward,  Edwin  C. 

103 

1862 

Williams,  Charles  P. 

292 

1903  J 

Ward,  Frank  A. 

1183 

1910 

Williams,  Earl  T. 

706 

1899 

Warner,  Horace  B. 

143 

1856 

Williams,  Edward  F. 

846 

1916  J 

Warner,  Julian  C. 

1242 

i860 

Williams,  Edwin  S. 

872 

1910J 

Warner,  Winfred  C. 

196 

1882 

Williams,  Henry  L. 

665 

1904 

Warren,  Bronson  M. 

151 

1868  i 

Williams,  Henry  S. 

1 130 

1881 

Warren,  Everett 

375 

1889 

Williams,  Howard  H. 

958 

1870 

Warren,  Henry  P. 

906 

1906  s 

Williams,  Hubert  C. 

1190 

1865 

Warren,  Henry  W. 

887 

1878^ 

Williams,  Lewis 

164I 

1868 

Washburn,  Henry  L. 

1384 

1864 

Williams,  Moseley  H. 

598 

1874 

Washburn,  William  N. 

347 

1880  w 

Williston,  Samuel  W. 

1277 

1911 

Waters,  James  W. 

711 

I9I6 

Wilson,  Alexander  D. 

108 1 

1870  J 

Watson,  John  George 

1138 

1879 

Wilson,  Mardon  D. 

936 

1902 

Wear,  Arthur  Y. 

988 

I90I 

Wilson,  Robert  B. 

986 

1908 

Webb,  H.  Walter 

1024 

1859 

Winn,  Henry 

26 

1895/ 

Webb,  Howard  C. 

503 

1905 

Winslow,  Kenelm 

1003 

1859 

Weinberger,  John  S. 

571 

1897 

Winter,  Clarence 

140 

1901 

Welch,  George  A. 

417 

I9I8  J 

Winter,  Wallace  C,  Jr. 

1254 

1886/ 

Wells,  E.  Livingston 

1283 

1874 

Witherbee,  Frank  S. 

348 

1883/ 

Welty,  Sain 

1619 

I87I 

Wood,  Cortlandt 

83 

1903 

Wenner,  George  U. 

i486 

1857 

Wood,  E.  Morgan 

852 

1879 

Wentworth,  John  T. 

368 

1892^ 

Wood,  Walter  A. 

178 

1906  J 

Werzburg,  Sylvester  B. 

765 

1876 

Woodman,  Francis  J. 

358 

1916  J 

West,  John  P. 

783 

1880/ 

Woodruff,  Charles  E. 

805 

1853 

Weston,  Theodore 

838 

1892 

Woodruff,  Frederick  S. 

399 

1885 

Weston,  Theodore  W. 

1435 

1895  J 

Woodruff,  George  W.  L. 

1553 

1857 

Wheeler,  Arthur  M. 

851 

19 1 3  mus  Woodward,  Lucy  B. 

1600 

i68a 


INDEX 


Class 

Page 

Class 

Page 

1855 

Woodward,  P.  Henry 

556 

1901 

Wyler,  Jesse  S. 

987 

1892/ 

Wooster,  Rollin  C. 

809 

i860 

Worthington,  Lewis  N. 

1354 

1899 

Yergason,  Henry  B.  B. 

1474 

1859 

Wright,  Arthur  W. 

28 

1913/ 

Young,  Donald  W. 

1634 

I9i2;w«j  Wright,  Clara  (Holman) 

1265 

1876 

Young,  Herbert  S. 

96 

1873 

Wright,  Frank  H. 

1392 

1916 

Young,  R.  Stanley 

1083 

1868 

Wright,  Henry  P. 

615 

1907  J 

Young,  Ralph  W. 

192 

1907 

Wright,  Thomas  G. 

I017 

1863 

Young,  Thomas 

595 

188 1  J 

Wright,  Willis  B. 

1536 

1859 

Yundt,  Edwin  H. 

31 

1902  J 

Wright-Clark,  John  J. 

191 

LD 
632A 
A3 
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